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Square Mountains
From backyards to backstreets, evolution marches on.
A towering grey mountain reaches up to the dazzling blue sky, almost as of balanced on its toes. Its sides are sheer, and drop away sharply to the ground, hundreds of feet below.
Embedded in its sides are countless little nooks and crannies, large enough to make a nest or resting spot and a strategic vantage point from where to survey all the goings-on below. Or, with a sweeping spread of wings, perhaps even stage a swooping vertical ambush on passing food.
This is the kind of place where peregrine falcons like to live. Large, open expanses of sky, abundance of pigeons and other prey below, and a high perch from which to observe it all. And this is where they have lived, from time immemorial.
Of course, times are changing. In the days of old, all mountains were tall, rounded and undulating. Today, they're increasingly becoming sharp and square, but that doesn't matter much, because height is the distinguishing factor.
And what could be higher than the Empire State Building?
Most people don't think of cities as part of "nature". If they want to see nature, they'll go to the countryside (assuming they don't tune in to Discovery Channel).
And indeed, the typical city, with concrete sidewalks, tarmacked roads, and perhaps a lone tree standing here and there, isn't exactly what you would describe as "natural". This is the human heartland: a place designed by humans, for humans, and fine-tuned to serve human needs perfectly. Nature is kept safely inside parks and zoos, and isn't allowed to interfere with the rest of the city. There's no place for both at once.
But do humans always have to be separated from the rest of "nature"? Evidently not.
In Japan, humans and wildlife have coexisted for hundreds of years in what is known as "satoyama". This is the in-between place where farmland meets forest, and it has been around so long that humans' paddy-planting cycle has become a part of the ecosystem. When humans divert the stream to flood their fields, in preparation for planting, that's when catfish come to burrow in the freshly turned soil and lay their eggs in moist plough-valleys. Dragonflies flit above the water, dipping in once in a while to lay their eggs — some of which will fall prey to the catfish, while others survive to set off the cycle once again.
It's not just a one-way system: humans rely on satoyama too. For example, the ponds offer a much-needed nesting place for ducks during their long winter migrations — some of them leave, refreshed, while a few others form tasty meals for the humans. Frogs, fish, insects; they've all come to rely on the annual human activities, just as humans have come to rely on them. So has the paddy, of course.
These days, satoyama is slowly getting swallowed up by expanding cities. Luckily, it isn't the only kind of place wildlife can adapt to.
A row of white strips crosses the road, going from one side of it to the other. But you can hardly see it for the noisy machines crowding around on top: Honda's, Suzuki's, Mazda's and Subaru's, in all manner of shapes and colours, all working together to form the great Nutcracker.
The Nutcracker takes some getting used to, but it's really quite convenient. No more tiring flights high into the air; no more chasing your nut as it plummets to the ground and hoping it cracks first time so you don't have to start over.
Using the Nutcracker doesn't require so much corvial labour, though it does call for finesse. You can place your nuts near kerbs, speedbumps, and pretty much anywhere else the coloured machines tend to slow down. The best place, however, is at a zebra crossing. Wait till the lights turn red, bringing all activity to a standstill. Place your nuts along the empty tarmac, and wait for the traffic to resume again.
Next time it stops, just hop in and collect your freshly cracked nuts.
This trick was invented by the crows of Kadan driving school in Sendai, where a maze of traffic-cones and slow-driving cars makes the perfect nut-cracking setup. Now, the tradition has rapidly spread all over the city.
Cities are, generally speaking, not great for biodiversity. Shrubs and trees make way for junction-boxes and lamp-posts; rich topsoil is replaced with expensive concrete, and local grass with imported lawns. Animals and insects have no ecosystem to support them. Those which don't move on their own are chased off by angry humans. Most species depend on a whole network of other species to help them survive, and that network cannot be maintained by just a few trees growing from under the concrete.
But those species that do manage to stick around, often adapt themselves to city life. Sometimes they like it so much, they don't want to leave. And those veterans who've lived in cities for hundreds of generations, they actually evolve to work with the city. Their genetic makeup adjusts to match, on the road to a possible new species.
While that hasn't happened yet, one can already see the changes if one looks close enough. Cliff swallows that nest on the highway bridges of Nebraska, USA, have shorter wings than cliff swallows living in open foothills and valleys, because shorter wings are better suited to quickly flying out of oncoming traffic.
When Charles Darwin went to the Galápagos islands, he noticed how finches evolved different beaks on different islands, to make best use of the available food.
In places where seeds were large and tough, finches evolved thick sturdy beaks to crack them open. Meanwhile, small-seeded islands had finches with smaller beaks, all the better to daintily pick up a meal. The cactus finches had a dual-purpose longer beak, allowing it to suck pollen and nectar during the flowering season and seeds the rest of the time; the warbler-finches, on the other hand, had short, pointed beaks for picking up insects — though not so short as the woodpecker finch which (you guessed it) picked insects out of wood.
Today, the dandelion finds itself in an archipelago just like the Galápagos — except the islands are separate by not water but concrete. And like its island-dwelling relatives, the dandelion's seeding habits are changing to match.
The dandelion has two kinds of seeds: heavy ones that fall right to the ground, and light ones that drift around on the wind exploring for new places to settle. This gives the dandelion the best of both worlds: the heavy seeds will definitely find good soil, since it's the same one that their parent plant used; and if there are more potential growing places around, one of the light flying explorers is sure to find them.
On an island, things are different. If a seed flies too far, it'll fall off the island into the empty sea — not a good place to grow at all. That's why island plants tend to have heavier seeds which don't fly too far: they can still drift around, but not so much that they stray from the land.
That's why the dandelion's island-dwelling relative, the Hypocoeris radicata or "cat's ear", has only one kind of seed: the heavy one that falls right to the ground. And now, dandelions trapped on concrete islands have learnt to put out heavier seeds too.
Rural areas tend to have only local species, and they vary widely from place to place. Cities are more cosmopolitan.
Look into any city, whether it's Toronto or Tokyo, and you'll probably encounter much the same set of creatures: house mice, silverfish, cockroaches, rats, and, of course, the common pigeon. Planes, ships, trains, cars and trucks are constantly moving between cities — carrying around things like seeds, humans and mice, some of whom stay behind to spread and grow.
The same applies to microorganisms too. Look into an empty hotel bathroom, and you're likely to find the orange Aureobasidium pullulans fungus, which has spread as people move their toiletries from one bathroom to another. Today, hotels will harbour A. pullulans almost as surely as AirBnB's will have a café round the corner.
That said, city creatures can be very individualistic. Have you even been bitten by a mosquito? I'm guessing you have, since they're so common everywhere. But the London Underground has got its own unique species. They don't hibernate in the winter like others, since the metro tunnels are warmed by humans and engines all year round. Crowded trains also provide a good source of nutrition for young mosquitoes, which mothers-to-be make use of in a neat instance of "human resource development".
Genetic studies have shown that the Underground has not one but three subspecies of mosquito: one from the Central line, one living in the Bakerloo line, and a third which lives on the line to Victoria.
City life is not for everyone. You have to adapt to the loud background noise, raising your songs to a higher pitch if you want to be heard. You need to learn to navigate and deal with new objects, and be prepared to dodge out of their way very, very fast.
But cities also provide opportunity. If you can make it, there's a steady supply of nutrition in dustbins, garbage-dumps, and sometimes just kitchen windows. Plants can utilise rare nutrients in the soil, if they manage to separate them from all the toxins.
When a city comes up, it destroys a lot of creatures, and only a few come to take their place. With support systems gone, humans have to rely on machines to keep things going: machines which other animals make use of too, but humans can't survive without.
Which begs the question: will humans ever adapt to life in the city?
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Former Wigan defender Reece James has put pen to paper on a one-year deal at Sunderland, confirmed by the club website.
Reece James arrives at Sunderland following a three-year spell with Wigan, he has helped the club win two Sky Bet League One titles.
The 24-year-old managed to make 28 appearances for Wigan during the 2017-18 campaign, as Paul Cook's side beat rivals Blackburn Rovers to the League One title and completed an instant return to the Sky Bet Championship.
This is Jack Ross' sixth player he's brought to the Stadium of Light, joining Alim Ozturk, Jon McLaughlin, Chris Maguire, Tom Flanagan and also Dylan McGeouch, the highly-sought after midfielder arrives at the Stadium of Light following the expiration of his contract with Hibernian.
This is a shrewd piece of business as the left-back has real quality and is proven to be a real asset in League One.
James began his career with Rossendale United and enjoyed spells with Blackburn and Preston North End before signing for Manchester United in July 2012.
Sunderland manager Jack Ross said: "Reece played a big part in Wigan's promotion last year and he has good pedigree from his time with Manchester United earlier in his career.


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What will President Biden do with the Sentencing Commission
Sentencing Guru Douglas Berman writes about it here. From his conclusion:
Diverse nominees to the Commission should help ensure this agency pursues an ambitious reform agenda. But President Biden should also expressly request the Commission conduct a comprehensive assessment of the entire federal sentencing system—and perhaps even our whole nation's many sentencing systems—with a particular focus on modern mass incarceration and mass punishment. The American Law Institute's recent revision of the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions wisely recommends that sentencing commissions regularly "perform an omnibus review of the sentencing system," which should include "a comparative review of the experiences of other jurisdictions with similar sentencing and corrections systems." An across-the-board review of the federal sentencing system is long overdue, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission has the staff and resources needed to conduct a systematic, evidence-based nationwide analysis in order to identify those modern sentencing systems and practices that best advance public safety and equitable justice while minimizing the number of persons subject to penal custody and supervision.
Calls for reviving and reorienting the work of the U.S. Sentencing Commission are coming from many quarters: a task force of the Council on Criminal Justice has stressed the need to "reinvigorate the U.S. Sentencing Commission," for example, and the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on Criminal Justice Reform recommended that the Commission be tasked "with conducting a comprehensive review" of federal sentencing law and practices. But even with a chorus of voices and strong political will for significant sentencing reforms, President Biden must prioritize making appointments that can enable the U.S. Sentencing Commission to effectively lead the way.
What will the new SDFLA U.S. Attorney do about prosecutorial misconduct?
That's a question that should be asked of all potential candidates for U.S. Attorney. In SDNY, for example, the office has dismissed cases where there is misconduct, even after a conviction (unlike here). From the WaPo:
Federal prosecutors in New York acknowledged telling a "flat lie" to a criminal defendant's legal team while trying to downplay their mishandling of evidence in the botched trial of a businessman accused of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The embarrassing revelations about what many consider the U.S.' top criminal investigating office were contained in a dozens of private text messages, transcripts, and correspondence unsealed Monday, over the objection of prosecutors, at the request of The Associated Press.
The release of the records followed a ruling last week in which U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan urged the Justice Department to open an internal probe into possible misconduct by prosecutors in the terrorism and international narcotics unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
While Judge Nathan found no evidence that prosecutors intentionally withheld evidence from lawyers representing an Iranian banker, Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, she said they made a "deliberate attempt to obscure" the truth and attempted to "bury" a key document that might have helped the defense.
The mistakes were serious enough that even after winning a conviction, prosecutors dropped all charges against Sadr.
The whole article is worth a read as it details incredible, but not uncommon, misconduct. The New York judge was upset with the government and urged OPR to investigate. We know what OPR will do. But at least SDNY dismissed after the jury verdict of guilt. That's not true in other officers or especially here, where there is a long line of misconduct cases, which the office tries to defend even after misconduct is exposed. It will be interesting to see if that changes under the new administration.
So, hopeful U.S. Attorney candidates -- feel free to email me your plan to address prosecutorial misconduct and I will post your answer in full.
In the meantime, we still need judges to check prosecutors when they cross the line.
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Jayne Weintraub for Yahweh Ben Yahweh
Today's episode of For The Defense is a doozy. Cutting off ears, death angels, and a Temple of Love. Another day at the office in Miami's Justice Building where Jayne Weintraub defended Yahweh Ben Yahweh who some called a cult-leader and others called a savior. You can check it out on Apple, Spotify and Google, All other platforms can be accessed on our website.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, center.
Previous episodes this Season include :
Alan Dershowitz (O.J. Simpson): Dersh discusses the trial of the century and other fascinating legal topics with his former student. Listen here.
Jose Baez (Casey Anthony): Jose Baez has become known as one of the go-to trial lawyers, and it was the Casey Anthony case that thrust him onto the national stage. Listen here.
Ron Sullivan (Aaron Hernandez): All hope was lost for Aaron Hernandez after he lost his first murder trial. Enter Harvard Law Professor Ron Sullivan who represented Hernandez at murder trial #2 and won against all odds. Listen here.
Rob Cary (Sen. Ted Stevens): You would think that prosecutors would be on their best behavior in a case against a sitting U.S. Senator and one of Alaska's founding fathers, but it took Rob Cary to uncover jaw-dropping and far-reaching prosecutorial misconduct. Listen here.
Coming up on For the Defense:
Abbe Lowell (John Edwards): The future was bright for Vice-Presidential nominee and Presidential candidate John Edwards until he was indicted in federal court for a cover up involving an extra-marital affair. He needed Abbe Lowell's trial skills to keep him out a prison cell.
David Gerger (Deepwater Horizon): Someone needed to pay for the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history, and David Gerger made sure the government did not scapegoat his client Robert Kaluza.
Michael Tigar (Terry Nichols): Who would represent one of the most-hated criminal defendants of all time, accused of blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma City? None other than the dean of the criminal defense bar, Michael Tigar.
It's not too late to catch up on Season 1 if you missed it (which included the following lawyers: Donna Rotunno, Roy Black, Tom Mesereau, Marty Weinberg, H.T. Smith, F. Lee Bailey, and Hank Asbill).
To receive Florida CLE credit for Season 1, email me at dmarkus@markuslaw.com (Season 2 was recently approved for CLE and we will send the code at the end of the season.).
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RIP Bobby Lee Cook
It's always sad to say goodbye to great trial lawyers. And Cook was one of the best From ACJ:
Bobby Lee Cook, one of the premier trial lawyers in America and perhaps Georgia's most famous attorney, died Friday at his mountain home in Cloudland. He was 94....the stories of Cook's ingenuity, antics and legal prowess abound. Many have been repeated so many times over the years, lawyers take them as gospel although some are hard to completely verify. Like the time Cook was defending a man accused of murder and the state's star witness testified he was certain Cook's client had fired exactly two shots. Expecting this testimony, Cook stationed a friend outside the courthouse and had him fire off six rounds. When asked how many shots had just been fired, the state's witness couldn't say for sure. Cook's client walked. Or the time in a moonshine case where Cook was cross-examining the local sheriff. When Cook accused the sheriff of not arresting another moonshiner because he'd been accepting bribes from him, the sheriff threw a Coke bottle at Cook, narrowly missing him. Cook dragged the sheriff down from the witness stand and began pummeling him. After a few moments, the trial judge told Cook to let the sheriff get up off the floor, saying, 'I think he's had enough.' The jury acquitted Cook's client in that case, too.
Rubio backs Markenzie Lapointe for U.S. Attorney
The Herald article is titled: "Rubio backs Haitian-American lawyer for Miami U.S. Attorney. But candidate field is growing." The intro:
Although the Republican Party lost the presidency and the power to pick U.S. attorneys, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio still can wield considerable influence over the selection of the next top federal prosecutor in South Florida.
In a key move, sources close to Rubio say, the senator has privately signaled support for a Haitian-American lawyer considered the Biden administration's front-runner — Markenzy Lapointe, a Black Miami lawyer and Marine veteran who once worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office.
But Lapointe isn't the only candidate to emerge. There are at least four others interested in the job — all also qualified and with a history of practicing law in both the public and private sectors. Among them are former South Florida federal prosecutors Jacqueline Arango, Andres Rivero and David Buckner, along with Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg.
Readers of the blog knew of this slate when it was posted here on the blog first back on December 11, 2020.
Should courts be having in person hearings?
Forget about trials for a moment, which are postponed until May. Here's an email from Paul Petruzzi that just went around about a state court probation violation hearing:
So, many of you know I share space with Jerry Cariglio. Our office also has staff and a lawyer with health conditions that place them at greater risk for serious complications were they to contract Covid. As an office, we have all been very careful to avoid exposing ourselves and then the rest of the office. Over Jerry's objection, Judge Fernandez decided to conduct a PVH in person rather than waiting for things to become more safe. The hearing started yesterday and was to resume today. It won't resume today because the bailiff tested positive for Covid. In the meantime, Jerry had very close contact with the bailiff for several hours yesterday and now has had contact with half the people in our office suite.
I encourage the judicial powers that be in state court to rethink their current plans.
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"Just Let People Have Cellphones in Prison"
That's the title of this great piece by Hannah Riley at Slate. And of course we should let folks have their phones, especially during the pandemic lockdown in prisons where they can't leave their rooms for most of the day. From the conclusion (and I recommend checking out prison TikTok):
It's not all grim, though. A scroll through prison TikTok will reveal everything from how to MacGyver loose electrical wires to boil water to recipes for "prison pizza"—and then there are, of course, the TikTok dances. People are risking retaliation to show that they too have joy, in the midst of darkness.
The desire to punish is a deeply human one, but we should know by now that policies based on revenge never end well, especially when we know that those policies actually result in more harm. Access to cellphones—that is, access to love, connection, transparency, and a window to the outside world—is one simple but vital step to reduce those harms. Those who believe incarceration should be maximally harsh and devoid of joy or connection must reckon with reality: The more we isolate and torture people in cages, the less safe we all become.
Season 2, Episode 4: Rob Cary for Sen. Ted Stevens
It's prosecutorial misconduct on this week's episode of For The Defense. The podcast features Rob Cary of Williams & Connolly, who represented Sen. Ted Stevens in his federal trial in which there was widespread prosecutorial misconduct. You can check it out on Apple, Spotify and Google, All other platforms can be accessed on our website.
From left are Sen. Stevens, his lawyers Rob Cary and Brendan Sullivan, prosecutor Joseph Bottini, Judge Emmet Sullivan and government witness Bill Allen.
Sen. Stevens and Rob Cary
Jayne Weintraub (Yahweh Ben Yahweh): Cutting off ears, death angels, and a Temple of Love. Another day at the office in Miami's Justice Building where Jayne Weintraub defended who some called a cult-leader and others called a savior.
To receive Florida CLE credit for Season 1, email me at dmarkus@markuslaw.com (we have applied for Season 2).
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Thank you! --David
Latest trial order from Chief Judge Moore (spoiler... trials continued till May)
The order is below. Although trials are technically continued until May, it's going to be longer than that. There is a pilot civil jury trial scheduled for May now (as reported earlier), but juror summons go out about 8-10 weeks in advance. So assuming that May pilot trial goes well and the Court decides to open things up again, we are looking at July before we get back in earnest.
2021-12 Coronavirus Public Emergency - Eighth Order Concerning Jury Trials and Other Proceedings 02-10-21 by David Oscar Markus on Scribd
Mark Lapointe front runner for U.S. Attorney in SDFLA
Jay Weaver covers the story here:
With sweeping turnover in the U.S. justice system under way in the new Biden administration, a Black lawyer has emerged as the leading candidate for the high-profile job of U.S. Attorney in Miami.
If President Joe Biden nominates Markenzy Lapointe, 53, for the influential post, it would be an historic choice in one of the most dynamic federal prosecutor's offices in the nation.
Not only would his nomination be a first in the Southern District of Florida, but it would also signal Biden's nod to the Black vote that helped him defeat Donald Trump in November's presidential election. Lapointe is the only candidate to be interviewed by the White House counsel so far for the U.S. Attorney's job, reflecting the strength of his prospects.
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This is so great.
Prof. Ron Sullivan for Aaron Hernandez
Welcome to Episode 3 of For the Defense, Season 2.
This week, we have Harvard Law Professor Ron Sullivan (pictured below, left) to discuss the Aaron Hernandez trial (available on Apple and all other platforms). Sullivan tried the case with Jose Baez (last week's guest, who discussed the Casey Anthony case -- available on Apple here and other platforms here). Hernandez already had been convicted of murder, and this was his second murder trial where no one gave him a shot. Enter Sullivan and Baez...
Here's a short clip (via Twitter) of Prof. Sullivan discussing the prosecutor's attempt to use Hernandez's tattoos in closing argument:
Two TDs for Gronk in the Super Bowl. Brady's former TE, Aaron Hernandez, had two murder trials. In today's episode of #ForTheDefense, I speak to Prof. Ron Sullivan about the 2nd trial. In this clip, he discusses Aaron's tattoos and their use at trial. https://t.co/HaF2A4rnxY pic.twitter.com/xcDY4kj5dy
— David Oscar Markus (@domarkus) February 8, 2021
In other news, we are going to have a new U.S. Attorney very soon. According to this CNN article, President Biden will be asking all Trump hold-overs to resign, including in the SDFLA. According to the article, there are a few exceptions -- including Michael Sherwin in D.C. who is doing a great job handling the insurrection cases.
Black Lives & Medicine program at the Court (virtually)
To attend, all you need to do is send an email by February 19, 2021, to: FLSD_Program@flsd.uscourts.gov.
"Restoring the Historical Rule of Lenity as a Canon"
Shon Hopwood has this new piece about the Rule of Lenity. It's especially important with all of the white collar cases that charge people who are in a gray area. From the abstract:
In criminal law, the venerated rule of lenity has been frequently, if not consistently, invoked as a canon of interpretation. Where criminal statutes are ambiguous, the rule of lenity generally posits that courts should interpret them narrowly, in favor of the defendant. But the rule is not always reliably used, and questions remain about its application. In this article, I will try to determine how the rule of lenity should apply and whether it should be given the status of a canon.
First, I argue that federal courts should apply the historical rule of lenity (also known as the rule of strict construction of penal statutes) that applied prior to the 1970s, when the Supreme Court significantly weakened the rule. The historical rule requires a judge to consult the text, linguistic canons, and the structure of the statute and then, if reasonable doubts remain, interpret the statute in the defendant's favor. Conceived this way, the historical rule cuts off statutory purpose and legislative history from the analysis, and places a thumb on the scale in favor of interpreting statutory ambiguities narrowly in relation to the severity of the punishment that a statute imposes. As compared to the modern version of the rule of lenity, the historical rule of strict construction better advances democratic accountability, protects individual liberty, furthers the due process principle of fair warning, and aligns with the modified version of textualism practiced by much of the federal judiciary today.
Second, I argue that the historical rule of lenity should be deemed an interpretive canon and given stare decisis effect by all federal courts. If courts consistently applied historical lenity, it would require more clarity from Congress and less guessing from courts, and it would ameliorate some of the worst excesses of the federal criminal justice system, such as overcriminalization and overincarceration.
Pilot civil jury trial set for May in SDFLA
The judges voted yesterday to have a pilot civil jury trial in May. I'm told it was a spirited debate and it passed 10-8. If that goes well, other civil and criminal trials could resume as soon as the summer.
For the pilot trial in May, there are a number of protocols and standards that will have to be met before it can go forward. It will be interesting to see where we will be with the variants and vaccine roll-out at that time.
I posted about the issue a few weeks ago here.
Judge Fay funeral arrangements
Funeral mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on February 9, 2021 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Community Church, 5655 Stadium Pkwy Viera, Florida 32940 and will also be live streaming at https://youtu.be/UvG1-mbN3GE. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rollins College, St. Thomas University, UF Law's Peter T. Fay Jurist-in-Residence Program, Wounded Warriors, or the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
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New guidance for federal prosecutors. Will it matter?
The Acting AG issued new guidance for federal prosecutors "to ensure that prosecutors are able to exercise discretion in pursuing justice." The January 29 memo explains that the Trump era policy of charging the most serious offense and seeking the highest sentence is rescinded. And in its place, the old Obama-era policy on charging and sentencing will take its place. That means that prosecutors will have the discretion to look at the particular case and person, and then decide what the appropriate charge and sentence should be. This is a significant change. Let's see if our federal prosecutors will take the letter and spirit of the change to heart.
Jose Baez on this week's episode of For the Defense
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JOSE BAEZ FOR CASEY ANTHONY
This week, we have Jose Baez on the show to discuss the Casey Anthony case. Jose Baez has become known as one of the go-to trial lawyers, and it was the Casey Anthony case that thrust him onto the national stage. In this clip (posted on Twitter), Jose discusses the first time he started to suspect George Anthony of abusing his daughter, Casey Anthony.
Last week, Season 2 of For the Defense got off to a great start with Alan Dershowitz, who discussed the O.J. Simpson trial as well as lots of other interesting topics. (Here's a clip of Dersh answering whether the prosecution lost the trial or whether the defense won it.)
Each episode is currently available on all podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Google, All other platforms can be accessed on our website.
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How was the Company TOUR IN PARIS born?
The founder is passionate about Mehari cars.
As a child, he had the opportunity to take a ride in an orange Mehari.
Since then, his dream was to acquire a Mehari.
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Then, a few years later, in 2009, the car was completely redone in the South West of France.
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Das Dekanat Amberg-Ensdorf gehört zur Region VI – Amberg-Schwandorf des Bistums Regensburg.

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Zum Dekanat Amberg-Ensdorf gehören die nachfolgend aufgeführten Seelsorgeeinheiten (Stand: 2013). Die "führende" Pfarrei, meistens der Sitz des zuständigen Pfarrers und des Pfarramtes, wird zuerst aufgeführt, die an der Pfarreiengemeinschaft beteiligten Pfarreien sind durch Semikolon getrennt, alle zu einer Pfarrei gehörigen Exposituren, Benefizien und Filialen werden direkt nach der jeweiligen Pfarrei, vor dem trennenden Semikolon, aufgezählt. Die Liste ist alphabetisch nach den Ortsnamen der führenden Pfarrei geordnet.

 Pfarrei Hl. Dreifaltigkeit, Amberg, dazugehörig Kuratbenefizium St. Peter und Paul, Paulsdorf
 Pfarrei Hl. Familie, Amberg
 Pfarrei St. Georg, Amberg; Pfarrei St. Barbara, Luitpoldhöhe
 Pfarrei St. Martin, Amberg
 Pfarrei St. Michael, Amberg
 Pfarrei St. Konrad, Ammersricht
 Pfarrei St. Josef, Aschach-Raigering, dazugehörig Filiale St. Johannes der Täufer, Krumbach
 Pfarrei St. Jakob, Ensdorf, dazugehörig Benefizium St. Magdalena, Wolfsbach und Filiale St. Bartholomäus und Wendelin, Thanheim
 Pfarrei St. Georg, Hausen; Pfarrei Mariä Himmelfahrt, Hohenkemnath, dazugehörig Filiale St. Laurentius, Erlheim; Pfarrei St. Vitus, Utzenhofen, dazugehörig Filiale St. Johannes der Täufer, Albertshofen (Velburg), Filiale St. Stephan, Freischweibach, Filiale St. Peter, Ransbach und Filiale St. Nikolaus (Umelsdorf), Umelsdorf
 Pfarrei St. Jakob, Hohenburg; Pfarrei St. Peter, Adertshausen, dazugehörig Filiale Hl. Konrad von Parzham, Mendorferbuch; Pfarrei St. Michael, Allersburg
 Pfarrei St. Antonius Abbas, Kümmersbruck
 Pfarrei Mariä Himmelfahrt, Rieden; Pfarrei St. Michael, Vilshofen
 Pfarrei St. Ägidius, Schmidmühlen
 Pfarrei St. Nikolaus, Theuern, dazugehörig Filiale Hl. Konrad von Parzham, Ebermannsdorf; Pfarrei St. Nikolaus, Pittersberg

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At the very least, you'll want to see my pick, Gallagher's Abu Simbel and her version of funk masters Sun Ra and George Clinton awaiting a blue, fur-lined spaceship. Funky indeed!
O'Grady (in center w/blue boots) addresses students after returning to campus on November 13, commemorating her donation of her archives to Wellesley College.
For all interested in phtography and curating.


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Interview with Scott Berkun on Big Data
What happens when two Carnegie Mellon authors get together?
My friend, fellow author, and CMU alumnus Scott Berkun recently interviewed me about Too Big to Ignore. Here's an excerpt:
Q: How is Big Data, which has now become a trendy term, different from the kind of analytics companies have used for decades?
PS: It's definitely a trendy term. Analytics have been with us for a long time, and they're still essential. Historically, organizations have used only structured, transactional data to drive analytics. Business Intelligence (BI) and key performance indicators (KPIs) were the rage in the mid-1990s and 2000s. They still matter today. The new boss isn't totally different than the new boss.
So, what's different? The types and sources of data behind these metrics. No longer are analytics based solely on structured or transactional data. For example, knowing which customers buy which products remains important. However, there's a new source driving better metrics: unstructured data brought by Web 2.0, mobility, and the cloud. Now companies can determine what consumers are blogging, tweeting, and writing about on review sites. Amazon, Netflix, and scores of companies use unstructured data to increase sales, innovate faster, and find new insights into consumer behavior.
This unstructured information comprises a great deal of what we are calling Big Data. Analytics still matter, but now organizations have the tools to capture, store, access, and analyze new and critical types of information—and do some pretty amazing things.
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This area was platted in February of 1881 for B.F. Sikes as the beginning of the town of Rogers. This building once housed a restaurant and saloon. Because of its close proximity to the depot, business was good. In 1910 it was the Rogers Commission Company, a wholesale fruit and vegetable dealer which had a banana-ripening room and employed four celery cleaners. The northern end housed the German American Realty Company.
From 1954 until 1973, 318 South First Street was owned by the First Baptist Church. In 1973, the church sold the lot and building to the Rogers Boy's Club of America, which occupied the building until 1977. Between 1978 and 1982, Terrace Furniture and Woodworking, owned by T.L. Narbett and his wife K.K., occupied the building. In 1982, the Narbetts sold the property to the Office of Human Concern which operated a thrift store in the building. A fire in the 1980s gutted the building and killed one man, Floyd Junior Ritchey. After rebuilding the store re-opened on April 9, 1986.
By 1996, 318 South First Street had become Top Bridal Outlet, for formal and wedding attire. In 2000 the name was changed to Today's Bride. In July 2006, it became the home of Julie Wait Designs.
Pictured to the right: Rogers Commission Company in 1911, courtesy of the Rogers Historical Museum.
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Изабел Гулар () бразилска је манекенка и фото-модел, рођена 23. октобра 1984. у Сао Паулу (Бразил).
Позната је по раду са компанијом доњег веша Викторијас сикрет, где ради од 2005.
Откривена је док је са мајком куповала намирнице у супермаркету.
Године 2011. године позирала је за специјално издање часописа Спортс илустрејтед посвећено моделима купаћих костима.
Њен брат болује од дијабетеса па даје новац у добротворне сврхе, како би било довољно инсулина за све оболеле у Бразилу.
Такође је амбасадор ДРИ на универзитету у Мајамију.

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Спољашње везе

Рођени 1984.
Бразилски манекени
Бразилске манекенке
Фото-модели
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> all of the data that goes across a connection.
If you don't parse the data, how can you display it?
documents, but I suspect they are a minority by now.
> are controls. You can't just "map" them to graphics.
I believe the more recent versions of xterm support UTF-8.
> terminal emulator that has a serial or Telnet or Rlogin connection to Unix.
> Windows-based Web browser to read our email.
> not the best way to design a worldwide system of communication.
> Please don't encourage the use of PC code pages on the Internet.


Pallet clamps have been popular options for many customers. For example a banana company has to ripen the bananas whilst in their warehouse. Part of the process is to turn them over 180 degrees when they arrive from docks. Therefore a single pallet is placed into the machine and held at the top table. Simply place your load into the machine and press start. In this case the machine is fully automatic. It completes its 180 degree process , the load has been turned successfully and the machine is holding the changed pallet ready for the next load. Pallet clamps combined with automatic controls has proved very efficeint for this company due to double shifting with 2 forklifts. One delivers the loads to the Pallet Inverter. Another collects after inversion.


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Publius Aelius Hadrian
Emperor of the Romans; b. January 24, A.D. 76 at Rome; d. July 16, 138
Hadrian, PUBLIUS AELIUS, Emperor of the Romans; b. January 24, A.D. 76 at Rome; d. July 16, 138. He married his cousin and ward, Julia Sabina, grand-niece of Trajan. He reigned from 118 to 138, devoted himself to art and science, and possessed notable qualifications as a statesman and soldier. He abandoned Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, countries that his predecessor had hoped to acquire permanently by the conquest of the Parthians, and confined his efforts to developing the Province of Arabia. He strengthened his amicable relations with the Senate by various favors; he remitted arrears of taxes that had been owing to the treasury for fifteen years. The absolute power of the emperor reached limits never attained before. A conspiracy formed against Hadrian's life by distinguished officers during one of his campaigns in Moesia was suppressed by the senators, and the four ringleaders were executed without the emperor's knowledge. In pursuance of his political, scientific, and military interests he travelled over the Roman provinces during his reign, first through those in the North and the North-West, then Spain and Mauretania, and finally the Orient and Greece, thereby assuring the loyalty of thirty legions and raising the discipline and warlike efficiency of the Roman army to a high standard, though his policy was far-sighted and peaceful. He was commemorated on the coinage as the restorer of the provinces. By protecting the boundaries in the valley of the Lower Danube, and by building many fortified places he encouraged the settlement of the province of Dacia by Roman colonists. In Germany he completed the palisaded ditch between the Rhine and the Danube (limes Hadriani). In Britain the legions constructed a fortified wall extending from the mouth of the River Tyne to the Solway Firth (vallum Hadriani) to protect the Roman boundaries from the inroads of the Picts. This has been partially preserved. He desisted from any attempt to subjugate the northern part of the island. Numerous fortresses and military roads were built in Africa and on the Black Sea. He built up the old Thracian colony Uscudama into the flourishing city of Adrianople. A description of the Pontic coasts was written at Hadrian's request by his legate, the historian Flavius Arrianus of Nicomedia, in his "Periplus". Although on his return he had lost some of his popularity at Rome, he made a second tour abroad for several years in 129, and conferred such an abundance of benefits and gifts, particularly on Greece and Athens, that, according to his biographer Spartianus, this city, where a new section called Hadrian's quarter was built at the southeast of the old town, again became the center of Hellenic culture. He completed the Olympieum that Pisistratus had begun, the largest temple in the Graeco-Roman world.
The Greeks set up Hadrian's statue in the temple at Olympia and built the Panhellenium in the new town in honor of Zeus Panhellenius. In the provinces of Asia Hadrian encouraged and aided the construction of aqueducts, bridges, roads, and temples, and the restoration of ruined cities. By this means he sought to relieve economic distress and at the same time to promote his domestic policy. During an inundation of the Nile, while he was travelling through Egypt, his favorite, the beautiful young Antinous, a native of Bithynia, was drowned, in the year 130. The emperor caused him to be deified. In order to prevent the recurrence of insurrections by the Jews, who in their religious schools were cherishing hopes of reviving a Jewish kingdom under the Messias, the emperor ordered the Roman troops in Jerusalem to raze the ruins left standing in that ancient city and to set up a military colony, Aelia Capitolina. It was his wish to eradicate Judaism as such. The Jews revolted in 132 under Simon, whom they called Bar-Cocheba (Son of the Stars). Inside of three years Sextus Julius Severus put down the rising amid terrible destruction and bloodshed. The Jews were forbidden to set foot within the old city. In the year 134 Hadrian returned to Italy. He built a temple to Trajan in Rome, a colossal double temple to Venus and Roma, and the gigantic mausoleum on the right bank of the Tiber, which constitutes the kernel of the castle of Sant' Angelo. At his villa near Tivoli he copied the monuments and landscapes that had made the strongest impressions on him during his travels. In order to unify jurisprudence throughout the entire empire, he ordered the praetor Salvius Julianus to revise and codify systematically the praetorian edicts and the annual supplementary edicts. In the year 131 this "perpetual edict" (edictum per petuum) obtained force of law by virtue of a decree of the senate; the same force was given to the opinions of the jurisconsults in all points wherein they were agreed among themselves, in order that the system of the law might continue to develop. He bestowed the highest administrative offices on men of knightly rank, instead of on freedmen as heretofore, and regulated the succession of these officers. During his absence from Rome he had created an efficient, salaried council, clothed with statutory authority, which was confirmed by the senate, and which had the decision of all current important affairs in the administration of the empire. According to Hadrian's wishes, the Christians were to be punished only for such offenses as came under the common law. Although there was no outspoken statutory toleration of them, they were not persecuted on account of their religion. With the sanction of the senate, he adopted L. Ceionius Commodus Verus and designated him as his successor by having the title of Caesar conferred on him in 136. Because his brother-in-law, L. Julius Ursus Servianus, cherished hopes of the succession for his own youthful grandson, Fuscus Salinator, Hadrian had them both put to death. After the death of Verus (January 1, 138) he adopted the admirable Aurelius Antoninus, who was fifty-two years old, appointed him co-ruler with himself, and prevailed upon him to adopt L. Verus, the son of his own first adopted son. Hadrian died of dropsy on July 16, 138.
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Mexico records 500% increase in Omicron cases in five days
Mexico News, Spotlight
According to data from the global initiative for the sequencing of the virus Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), in Mexico, the number of people infected with the Omicron variant has already risen to 254. To these data are added the 30 cases that were recently reported by the government of the state of Nuevo León.
It should be noted that, on December 25, the platform that collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 42 cases with the new variant of COVID-19 were registered in the country, of which 30 were found in Mexico City (CDMX), eight in the State of Mexico (Edomex), three in Tamaulipas and one in the border state of Sinaloa.
The cases reported by GISAID soared by 500% in just five days. According to the platform in charge of collecting clinical and epidemiological data, of the 254 infections with Ómicron, 159 are in the capital and 35 in Edomex; while Quintana Roo and Yucatán have 18 and 13 cases, respectively.
The other states in which cases with the new variant of the coronavirus disease have been registered are Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Puebla, Sinaloa, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Baja California and Guerrero, as indicated by GISAID. However, the Guerrero government ruled out the existence of Ómicron records in the entity.
"The Guerrero Health Secretariat (SSG) reports that until this Thursday, December 30, there are no records of the new variant of Ómicron of SARS CoV-2. Since the morning, communication was established with the Federal Health Secretariat, specifically with the General Directorate of Epidemiology, which responded that so far there is no official result regarding the case," the Guerrero health authorities pointed out in a statement.
The Ministry of Health (SSa) issued its Daily Technical Report on the advance of the coronavirus in Mexico. In Mexico until the information cut-off at 5:00 p.m. 8,024 new infections of COVID-19 were registered in the last 24 hours and 153 deaths in the last day.
The country presented a considerable increase in infections in the last week of December 2021. For this Thursday, December 30, it again registered one of the highest numbers of daily infections of the year. The last time a figure of such magnitude was registered was on September 29 when 8,828 infections were reported.
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HomeNewsReliance JioPhone becomes first feature phone to get this Google feature
Reliance JioPhone becomes first feature phone to get this Google feature
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The feature is specially built for India.
Reliance JioPhone is getting a special version of Google Assistant, making it the first feature phone to come loaded with company's virtual assistant. The feature is specially built for India and the personal assistant is available in both Hindi and English languages.
This will bring an intuitive voice-based user interface along with a set of data services on the JioPhone. Interestingly, JioPhone already has an Ai-based voice assistant, which makes it easier to interact with the feature phone. Through the voice assistant, one can make calls, browse the internet and listen to music and more. It also supports the Hindi language for giving the voice command.
The Google Assistant will also help to perform certain tasks like help make phone calls, text, play music and videos, navigate and search the internet, and access other apps and services.
To recall, On July 21, Reliance unveiled the JioPhone feature phone for the Indian consumers. The 4G-enabled feature phone is said to cost you Rs Zero. However, one has to pay Rs 1,500 has a security deposit, which will be 100 percent refundable after three years.
The company will provide free voice calls, unlimited data and Jio apps for Rs 153 per month with Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan plans to JioPhone customers. The device will also come with Jio Media Cable that will allow users to connect their JioPhone with TV (not only Smart TVs but also CRT TVs) to watch live TV. The company has priced the TV pack for Rs 309 per month. Further, there two sachets, one with Rs 24 for two days and Rs 54 plan for a week. Users will enjoy the same benefits as the monthly recharge of Rs 153.
Coming to the specifications, the JioPhone features a 2.4-inch QVGA display with a screen resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The phone will be powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor which will either Spreadtrum SPRD 9820A or QC8905 along with Mali 400 GPU. The phone is backed by a 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, which is expandable up to 128GB via microSD card.
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Designer Drugs, What are They?
Illegal and medical drugs are well cataloged all around the world. In Canada, the Canadian Food and Drug Act and Regulation decides what can or cannot be sold in Canada. It also decides which drugs require a prescription and which are sold over the counter along with their use and distribution within our borders.
But some people find ways to counter these laws by creating new chemical substances resembling categorized drugs. Since the chemical structure is different they do not fall under existing laws and cannot be classified as illegal drugs. In many countries these can be sold without legal ramification since they are not part of the list of controlled substances. In the US reports of "Bath salts" and "Krokodil" were publicized a few years back. Synthetic cannabis has also made an appearance in the designer drug world. Called "synthetic marijuana," "herbal incense," or "herbal smoking blends" also known as K2, Spice, Black Mamba, Bombay Blue, Krypton to name a few.
The ingredients and potency of designer drugs vary a lot. Because they are made illegally in underground labs it is difficult or nearly impossible to know what is in them or what effect they will have on people. They have been known to have dangerous side effects. Some designer drugs can be much stronger than the drugs they resemble, this increases the chance of overdose. Also, small errors in their production could result in something very different and deadlier than what was sought after in the first place.
There have been instances where controlled substances such as heroin and Oxy's have been altered chemically in British Columbia. Though each on their own are controlled substance in Canada, once they get chemically reworked they create a new drug and not enforceable by law, a designer drug.
The whole reason behind creating designer drugs is to somehow find a way to avoid the existing drug laws and regulations on controlled substances. In some cases the chemist will take an existing compound of cocaine and break it down to reconstruct it with new and different chemicals that give (hopefully) the same or similar effect. When these drugs are confiscated and brought to trial in a court of law, they will be found to not exist in the controlled substance act and therefore not actionable; of course this takes a good defense attorney.


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U.S. Tech Investor Coatue Is Planning to Set Up an Office in Europe
By Sam Shead, CNBC • Published October 6, 2021 • Updated on October 6, 2021 at 12:43 am
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The New York-headquartered company is one of the biggest tech investors in the world and it's been pumping billions of dollars into fast-growing companies that it believes will get even bigger.
Notable investments from the firm — founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont and Thomas Laffont — include TikTok parent-company ByteDance, Snap and Spotify.
The anticipated arrival of Coatue in Europe comes less than a year after renowned Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia opened a new office in London.
LONDON — U.S. hedge fund Coatue Management is planning to set up a new office in Europe as part of an effort to capitalize on the continent's growing tech industry.
The news was first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed to CNBC by a Coatue spokesperson.
"We currently have offices in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong, and we're excited to add an office in Europe at some point in the near future," Coatue Ventures Chairman Dan Rose told CNBC.
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"We believe Europe is emerging as an important innovation hub in both the public and private markets, as evidenced by the increase in venture capital activity across the continent," said Rose, who was previously an executive at Facebook and Amazon.
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A source in the venture capital industry told CNBC that Coatue has been struggling to find the right people to hire in Europe, adding that the office is most likely to be in London.
"There's a huge scarcity of talent," the person said, asking to remain anonymous due to the nature of the discussion. Coatue declined to comment on the claim.
Several other big U.S. tech investment firms are also looking to hire people on the ground in Europe, the CNBC source said.
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December 17, 2021 - Out & About by Eric C. Peterson
Happy Golden Globes of Yore
December is here, time for winter coats, shopping for gifts, trimming the tree, hanging the stockings, and switching to the holiday playlist. But for me, there's one thing I love about the season more than any other: Oscar bait.
This is the time of year when film studios roll out the movies they hope will be big awards contenders, hoping voters will happen to see their film right before they cast their ballots. While there are exceptions (Silence of the Lambs was released in February of 1991 and swept the Oscars a full year later), most of the nominees for major categories at the Oscars, Golden Globes, and all the rest are released this time of year.
I have a love/hate relationship with awards shows. I hate it when an actor who has been overlooked too many times in the past wins for a comparatively undeserving performance, essentially robbing another performer of a deserved honor. I hate it when actors are nominated simply because they played a trans person or a person with a disability. I hate it when actors with leading roles are nominated in supporting categories to increase their odds of winning. I hate it every time Glenn Close loses.
But as imperfect as these awards can be, I mostly love them. I love to watch, I love the upsets, I love the pageantry. But mostly I appreciate the fact that the film industry is a business, and the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc. help prestige dramas and art films make money, which assures that movies like that will continue to be made.
Like many gay men who love movies, I have a particular fondness for the Best Actress races. I do love a diva—and sadly, movies which center on the lives of women are rarely contenders for Best Picture (only four Best Picture Oscars have been given to films with female leads so far this century). So I was excited to learn that two films with female leads that are generating Oscar buzz for their stars were being released before December even hit.
The first of these, House of Gucci, has since been savaged by awful (but truly hilarious) reviews, so probably won't take home many trophies come spring. But the marketing for the film couldn't help but highlight all the Oscar winners and nominees in its cast, clearly making a bid for Oscar consideration.
In it, Lady Gaga (an Oscar winner for Best Song in 2019) played Patrizia Regianni, who married into the Gucci family in 1972, and hired an assassin to kill her husband in 1995. It's big, splashy, and campy. The Italian accents range from subtle to Chef Boyardee, and the characters are either awful people or horrendously awful people. It feels as though everyone involved thought they were making The Godfather but ended up a lot closer to 2003's I Love You to Death, which at least wanted to be funny.
It's unlikely that Lady Gaga will find herself on the list of Oscar nominees for Best Actress in 2022 (although you really should listen to the real Patrizia Reggiani speak before believing any bad press about her accent; she sounds just like her). Someone with a much better shot at a nomination is Kristen Stewart for her turn as Princess Diana in Spencer.
Like Gaga, Stewart is playing a real person with an accent not her own (the Oscars love both these things). But Princess Di is a far more beloved, far more famous personality, so the bar was much higher for her—how to expertly play the vocal patterns and mannerisms while still delivering a credible performance, how to recognizably play the icon we all know while simultaneously making her a human being. There were many more ways for Kristen Stewart to fail, but she succeeds miraculously.
Mostly, she benefits from being in a much better movie. Watching these two films back-to-back essentially proves my long-held theory that if you really want to explore the inner life of a character, a film about a single weekend will be much more powerful than one that tries to cram 25 years into a feature running time. Spencer is essentially about the weekend when Diana supposedly decided she would divorce her husband, a relatively small act, but anyone who knows the larger story, beginning with the wedding watched around the world and ending with her tragic death, knows how important this choice was.
If you're looking to tick off some Oscar boxes before the nominations are even announced, I have to recommend Spencer over House of Gucci. However, if you're eager to see Lady Gaga keep up with Al Pacino in the scenery-chewing department, then you'll probably enjoy the latter film, too.
Eric Peterson hosts a podcast about watching old movies with modern eyes. Check out rewindpod.com for more information. His debut novel, Loyalty, Love & Vermouth, was released in November.
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But with high school behind them, new found freedom comes with new responsibilities and new problems. Instead of weapons and self defense classes, she now has jobs and bills. The relation-ship with her best friend was suddenly shifting into new, scary territories. How could she take down bad guys if she couldn't get her own life in order?
A mysterious stranger who pops up in suspicious places and throws off all sorts of bad vibes. His face now starred in her regular nightmares and plagued her thoughts in the day. Was she overre-acting? Or, was this finally the monster she had been waiting for? As the scars of Taryn's past rise up to haunt her, she begins to question herself. With her mission faltering and her friendship off kilter, would life ever be the same again?
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Taryn watched her parents murdered whilst she was still a young girl. She spent the whole summer in therapy trying to deal with what she saw and how she feels. Of course, she can't tell them what really happened, because they don't believe her. After a while, she pretends that she is okay, just so that she can go home. Her friends have always been there for her, and she is beyond thankful for them. But change is a-coming, and Taryn doesn't deal very well with change... This is an emotion-filled book that shows the deep love that friends can have for each other, the support that is given without question. Taryn has to face up to her past, as well as shocks in her present and an uncertain future, but throughout Aiden and Kenzie are there for her. Very well-written, leaving you in no doubt about Taryn's feelings or state of mind. She is witty and sharp, as well as vulnerable. This is a winning combination. With a steady pace building up to the conclusion, this was a great read that I would recommend. Merissa Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!


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Laughter is a wellness program that everyone can afford. George Gilbert shares the importance of humor in business and the benefits of laughter in life. George is an experienced professional public speaker. He started out as a stand-up comedian. At the age of twelve, he performed stand-up comedy at the at the Disneyland Hotel. His show business background gives him a commanding stage presence. Then, he used humor to overcome challenges in his personal and professional life. George segued his comedy into motivational humor. He started Originally Speaking™. He helps businesses and professional organizations to understand the importance of humor. In 2001, George became only the 50th person in the world to be designated an Accredited Speaker by Toastmasters International. George graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a Bachelor's degree in Communications.