10.06.2007

Third Party Disaster Watch: Dear Pro-Lifers: THAT'S WHY WE HAVE PRIMARIES!

Third Party Disaster Watch: Dear Pro-Lifers: THAT'S WHY WE HAVE PRIMARIES!

These ideas floating about for a third party pro-life candidate if
Rudy Guliani wins the republican nomination are self destructive and
unprincipled. If you really want a pro-life candidate now is the the
time to ensure he's on the ticket. By giving him the nomination.

With as many as 6 supreme court justice appointment possible over the
next 8 years, a democratic president, and a democratic congress, the
far right risks losing the abortion battle permanently. This is
particularly strange as the most important strategic asset in the
pro-life battle, judicial appointments, will likely have a
historically high turnover in the next 8 years and all the Republican
candidates have promised to deliver the appropriate judicial style.
Strategically subverting the Republican candidate and handing the
Presidency to a Democrat and risking Democratic control of all three
branches of government is beyond foolish. It's so obtuse that the
claim of voting on "principal: seems dishonest.

It's time to grow up. Running a third party pro-life candidate is by
far and away most damage you could do to the unborn.


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Conservatives Consider 3rd-Party Run

By RACHEL ZOLL – 5 days ago

Some of the nation's most politically influential conservative Christians, alarmed by the prospect of a Republican presidential nominee who supports abortion rights, are considering backing a third-party candidate.

More than 40 Christian conservatives attended a meeting Saturday in Salt Lake City to discuss the possibility, and planned more gatherings on how they should move forward, according to Richard A. Viguerie, the direct-mail expert and longtime conservative activist.



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Frankly, I hope that the members of this group follow through on their threat. Not necessarily because it would result in the election of a Democrat, which it incidentally might.

No, my interest in seeing the Religious Right shorn of its influence and power is entirely spiritual, not political.

For nearly three decades now, beginning with the formation of the Moral Majority by Jerry Fallwell in 1979, Religious Right politicos have presumed to speak, if not for all Christians, then for all who label themselves evangelicals. (Although a Lutheran, I classify myself as an evangelical because as the root word, evangel, implies, I believe in the Good News that all who turn from sin and believe in Jesus Christ will live with God forever.)


I've heard this rational in a few places and I think it's wrong.  First, I don't think it will purge the Republican party of the religious right's influence.  In fact it will strengthen, as if a third party stunt results in the election of Hillary Clinton, the lesson will be clear:  appease the religious right or face electoral disaster!   Secondly, it's not worth enduring Hillary Clinton generally.  It's just not. 


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Indeed, a new poll out from Rasmussen today says that more than a quarter -- 27% -- of Republicans would vote for such a pro-life third-party challenger. What's particularly interesting about this poll is that it offers GOPers this choice while explicitly naming Hillary and Rudy as the major party nominees -- suggesting that even the specter of a victorious Hillary wouldn't dissuade many Republicans from going third party.



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"No, I think a third party only helps elect Hillary [Clinton]," the ordained Baptist minister and staunch conservative told The Washington Post on Thursday. "I don't see that being a good strategy for those who really care about pushing a pro-family, pro-life agenda."





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Saturday, October 6, 2007

The Associated Press: Texas-OU Different This Year

Texas-OU Different This Year

By JAIME ARON – 2 hours ago

DALLAS (AP) — The old stadium will still be half orange and half crimson, with Bevo on one side and the Sooner Schooner on the other.

The State Fair of Texas will still be roaring all outside, with fans from both sides slipping out for a beer and a corny dog at halftime.

And the winning team will still get to take home the Golden Hat trophy.

Yet something is different about this year's Texas-Oklahoma game. Make that a lot of things, a lot of important things — and they all trace to last Saturday, when both teams were upset.

With Oklahoma stumbling against Colorado and Texas getting stomped at home by Kansas State, the stakes for Saturday's matchup of Red River rivals have been adjusted. No longer a probable top-10 matchup between teams jockeying for a spot in the national championship chase, it's now a battle between clubs trying to avoid being buried in the conference race.

"Everybody sees the big picture and everybody has the same goal in mind," OU receiver Malcolm Kelly said. "Both teams."



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More than 65,000 football fans are filling the Cotton Bowl at Fair Park in Dallas today to watch the Texas Longhorns take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Rivalry. The winner will move to a 1-1 record in the Big 12, have bragging rights over their rival, and will posses the Golden Hat trophy for the next year.

The Sooners are ranked 10th in the nation and are favored going into today's game with 19th ranked UT. But Longhorn Head Coach Mack Brown says his team is ready. "Our kids have had a lot of energy this week," Coach Brown said. "Our guys have been really resilient after a loss, so they'll come back and play hard."

Both UT and OU have agreed to hold the game at the Cotton Bowl through 2015. The facility is undergoing a $50 million renovation.

After the game, listen to Longhorn Gameday with Jeff Ward, Ed Clements, and Geoff Ketchum on Newsradio 590 KLBJ.





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Visitors coming in to Dallas for Texas-OU game will face traffic

By Pegasus News wire

Football fans heading north to Dallas to the Texas-Oklahoma football game should plan for extra travel time this weekend due to heavy traffic and construction on Interstate 35 north of Hillsboro.

A four-mile work zone in Hill County will have lane reductions in place for northbound traffic, providing only one lane in each direction at the I-35 east/west split north of Hillsboro.




Why Texas-OU Matters: It's an anchor tenant for Cotton Bowl, Dallas | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Editorials

Today is what all the fuss was about.

Well-meaning but misguided people who conflated the Cotton Bowl game with the Cotton Bowl stadium missed the point about spending tens of millions in city bond money to fix an aging, open-air football facility.

We wish our friends at the AT&T Cotton Bowl – the New Year's Day game – all the success in the world at their new domed home in Arlington, but a shopping mall can survive the loss of a Banana Republic. If Macy's leaves, the mall closes.

And Texas-OU – for its irresistible combination of tradition and economic impact – is Macy's for the stadium at Fair Park.






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KXAN.com - News, Weather, Sports - Austin, TX | Avoid Texas-OU Game Traffic With Alternate Routes

housands of people are hitting the roads Friday to see the Texas-Oklahoma game.

If you're headed to the game, or if you have to drive north on Interstate 35 for any reason this weekend, take some alternate routes.

Besides the usual heavy traffic, fans are going to run into a major snag about an hour south of Dallas.

Once you reach Hillsboro, northbound traffic will be reduced near the I-35 split. That will last about four miles.












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Saturday, October 6, 2007

A Death in the Family: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

A Death in the Family

Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice.

by Christopher Hitchens November 2007

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10.05.2007

A Stitch in Haste Hillary Romney Clinton?

Hillary Romney Clinton?
George Will, on Mitt "Null Set" Romney's soulless "et tu" abandonment of Larry Craig:
If Romney fails to translate his intelligence and accomplishments into the Republican nomination, one reason will be the suspicion that there is something synthetic and excessively calculating about every move in his increasingly embarrassing courtship of those who are called "values voters."
That is exactly right. It would also be exactly right to say much the same about Hillary Clinton.

Clinton has been running for president since December 2000, and every step of the way she too has been "synthetic and excessively calculating." From carpetbagging her way into New York State to preposterously being assigned to the Armed Services Committee and beyond — her every move has been determined by a singular goal: to be elected president.


Romney, Clinton health care plans similar-experts | Reuters

BOSTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - When it comes to health care, Republican Mitt Romney loves to take swipes at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

He calls Clinton's plan, which would require every American to have health insurance, "European-style socialized medicine" and derides it as inspired by "European bureaucracies."

Romney is quick to remind supporters of the U.S. senator from New York's dramatic 1993 failure to reform U.S. health care, which many Americans felt overstepped the role of first lady.


Romney reports raising $10 million, loaning campaign $8.5 million - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Boston Globe - Political Intelligence

Romney reports raising $10 million, loaning campaign $8.5 million

Mitt Romney raised $10 million during the summer for his presidential bid, but also put in another $8.5 million of his own money, his campaign announced this morning.

The Swamp: Giuliani rips Clinton's savings bond plan

Giuliani rips Clinton's savings bond plan

by Craig Gordon

Rudy Giuliani this morning blasted Hillary Clinton's idea for a $5,000 savings bond for every newborn as a $20 billion "socialist idea" and mocked the notion of sending a "Hillary bond" to children of billionaires and illegal immigrants alike.



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WASHINGTON—According to a press release, labor and liberal groups are asking Rep. Robin Hayes to vote against President Bush's veto of a children's health insurance bill.

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WASHINGTON—According to a press release, labor and liberal groups are asking Rep. Robin Hayes to vote against President Bush's veto of a children's health insurance bill.
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A Deeper Look At Blackwater, Bob Orr Examines The Workings Of The Controversial Security Company - CBS News

(CBS) Blackwater's version of coming attractions is shown in an action-packed promotional tape that makes it clear Blackwater has the guns and grit to tackle the toughest problems.

The North Carolina-based private security firm makes millions training police swat teams and military sharpshooters with courses like "Tactical Pistol II," "Extreme Officer Survival" and "Helicopter Sniper."

But it's the war in Iraq that has been Blackwater's biggest bonanza, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.

Since 2003, U.S. taxpayers have paid Blackwater more than $1 billion in protection money - most of it to guard diplomats, ambassadors, and dignitaries in Iraq.


The Inevitability of Musharraf? - TIME

Has there ever been an election campaign with so many anti-climaxes? A surprise ruling by Pakistan's Supreme Court today on President General Pervez Musharraf's eligibility to run for a second term technically threatens his bid to stay in power and has many Pakistanis scratching their head over what is going on in their country's power politics. The last few months have been rocked by controversy over Musharraf's eligibiity even as he feuded angrily with the judicial branch of government. Today's ruling appears to be another round of that tit-for-tat — though tempered by another long-running drama, Musharraf's budding alliance with his old nemesis, the exiled Benazir Bhutto.



Britney Spears gets one last chance from irate judge

The fed-up judge in the Britney Spears custody battle is turning the screws on the scandalized singer for defying his demand that she clean up her act.

She's already lost full custody of her little boys to her ex-hubby, and now the judge is even threatening to take away visitation rights if her erratic behavior continues.

"The court expressly indicates that a missed test, refusal to submit to a test or failure to respond to the testing agency's call ... shall be deemed ... a failed test," Judge Scott Gordon wrote in documents released yesterday.

The ruling gives the child services monitor who is to supervise Spears' visits with Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2, the power to pull the plug "immediately" if she does anything crazy.

It also puts hard numbers on the amount of therapy Spears must complete by her next court date, Oct. 26 - or else.



A Battle Foreshadowing a Larger Health Care War - New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — The debate now raging here over the children's health insurance program offers a cautionary lesson to Democrats running for president. It shows how hard it will be to persuade many Republicans to sign on to their vision of universal coverage.

If Democrats and Republicans had so much difficulty agreeing on a plan to cover 10 million children, most of them from low-income families, how can they ever agree on legislation to guarantee insurance for 250 million or 300 million people?

Many of the questions that provoked fierce argument in the battle over the child health bill would be even more divisive in a debate over universal coverage: Should the government subsidize insurance for middle-income people? How much government involvement is too much? How much should the government spend, and who should foot the bill?

In vetoing a $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Wednesday, President Bush said the bill would improperly allow higher-income families to benefit from assistance meant to help poor children.


Craig's Reversal Dismays Many Back Home in Idaho - New York Times

MIDVALE, Idaho, Oct. 5 — Dismissing the wishes of the bigwigs in Washington often scores points for politicians here in the reluctant stretch of the Republic known as the state of Idaho.

Then there is the unresignation of Senator Larry E. Craig.

"A lot of Republicans in Idaho think they need to sit down on a good shrink's couch right now," said Tracy Lotz, a former vice chairman of the state Republican Party. "We're in shock."

Unaccustomed to political relevance, Idaho has endured more than a month of political parody. And that was before Mr. Craig provided new material on Thursday by saying he would stay in office after all, notwithstanding a court ruling forbidding him to withdraw his guilty plea in a restroom sex sting.


Bush Defends Interrogations, Saying Methods Aren't Torture - New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — President Bush, reacting to a Congressional uproar over the disclosure of secret Justice Department legal opinions permitting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, defended the methods on Friday, declaring, "This government does not torture people."

The remarks, Mr. Bush's first public comments on the memorandums, came at a hastily arranged Oval Office appearance before reporters. It was billed as a talk on the economy, but after heralding new job statistics, Mr. Bush shifted course to a subject he does not often publicly discuss: a once-secret Central Intelligence Agency program to detain and interrogate high-profile terror suspects.



DailyTech - Kim Jong-il: Internet Expert

Kim Jong-il claims to be the world's Internet expert; Al Gore jealous

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun this week in the North Korean city of Kaesong. This meeting is only the second ever meeting between North and South Korean leaders.

One topic of conversation during the meeting put forth by Roh was a request that South Korean companies operating in an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed the use of the Internet.

The response from the Dear Leader, according to Yahoo! News , was, "I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired."








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Canadian Soldiers Come to Aid of Indians In Victory Against the Yankees | Cleveland Leader

It looked like the Cleveland Indians were destined to lose due to bad luck and missed opportunities against the New York Yankees this evening at Jacobs Field. The Tribe had to call out a secret weapon that has been part of Indians baseball throughout the decades: The "Canadian Soldiers" (or Mayfly's) who fly off Lake Erie in late September and early October each year. The combination of a rattled Joba Chamberlain, Grady Sizemore's speed, and the pesky insects were enough to give the Indians a tie game against the Yankees who looked assured of the victory after 8 and half innings of play.

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When the Indians rescued Lofton from Texas before the trade deadline, they were looking for offense from an outfielder other than Grady Sizemore. Manager Eric Wedge initially tried Lofton at the leadoff spot, then dropped him to seventh and shifted Sizemore back to the top. That combination ultimately helped the Indians take off.







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Campbell recalls 72,000 cans of soup

Campbell recalls 72,000 cans of soup

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Campbell Soup Co. on Thursday announced a voluntary recall of more than 72,000 cans of a variety of its Chunky soup because they may contain pieces of hard plastic that present a choking hazard and could cause injury if swallowed.

The recall involves 18.8-ounce cans of Campbell's Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits. No other products are affected by the recall, the company said.

Campbell said three consumers have reported minor injuries in and around their mouths.

The recalled soups were shipped to 24 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.


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Fans of Campbell's Chunky Soup like it because it's full of big tasty lumps of food -- more satisfying than a thin broth, good for beefy football players, etc. But there is such a thing as a Chunky Soup that's too chunky. For example, one that contains pieces of hard plastic on which consumers can potentially choke to death.

That's why Campbell's is voluntarily recalling 72,000 cans of its Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar and Bacon Bits . A few people have had minor mouth injuries due to plastic in the cans, and Campbell's doesn't want anyone else to get hurt. Or to sue them. Nice to see market forces and tort law principles in action keeping customers safe.

P.S. Consumers would probably be even safer if they exercised a little self-discipline and avoided buying soups that contain baked potatoes and bacon bits. But I'm not one to talk. My cupboards contain Nutella and Fluff.






Campbell's, Pep Boys involved in recalls - New Mexico Business Weekly:

Campbell Soup Co. has recalled 72,300 cans of soup that may have pieces of hard plastic inside and China-made electric scooters sold at Pep Boys stores have been recalled by their importer, Razor USA.

Campbell (NYSE:CPB) of Camden, N.J., announced its voluntary recall of 18.8 ounce Campbell's Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits soup late Thursday. The company said the plastic could be a choking hazard. The cans were shipped to 24 states.

On Friday the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Razor of Cerritos, Calif., had voluntarily recalled about 20,000 electric scooters because of fears welding work could cause the handlebars to fall off. The $190 to $230 scooters were sold in Pep Boys (NYSE:PBY) stores and on the Internet from January through October of last year, the commission said.

"Consumers should stop using the product immediately and contact Razor USA to obtain a free repair kit," the commission said. Razor has a Web page, www.razor.com/recall , addressing the situation.

Pep Boys, based in Philadelphia, has five stores in the Albuquerque metro area.


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Campbell Soup Company has voluntarily recalled a limited quantity of 18.8 ounce cans of "Campbell's Chunky" Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits soup with the following individual code on the bottom of the can:

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The product contains pieces of hard plastic that present a choking hazard and may cause injury if swallowed. No other "Campbell's" soup products are affected. If you have an 18.8 ounce can of "Campbell's Chunky" Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits soup with the date code listed above, please return the can to the store of purchase for a full refund. For more information, please contact Campbell at 888-453-3868.





Campbell Soup Recall Due To Plastic Inside | Huliq

Food and baby products have been in recall very frequently recently. Every day one opens the internet or TV there is one kind of recall. Now it's Campbell, which announced Campbell soup recall due to hard plastic inside the soup cans. I don't know where these products are made, but I am worried about the low quality products (that are designed to increase profitability) that hit the US consumer markets.


Campbell Soup Recall Due To Plastic Inside | Huliq

Consumers who have purchased the "Campbell's Chunky" Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits with the can code JUL 08 2009 07097 should not eat this product. Consumers are encouraged to return the product to the store where they purchased it for an exchange or full refund. Consumers also can contact Campbell at 888-453-3868. - Source: Campbell Soup Company



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Step 1. Assign a responsible person in your company to oversee the entire recall activities.

Step 2. Gather info about the product you want to recall such as bar code, description, size, manufacturing date or import date.

Step 3. Track the customers who received your defective product, inform them immediately stop sellingor using it. Depending on the problem, a product can be repaired, disposed, or returned to your company.

Step 4. Inform the public about your recall, no matter how small your business is. Don't just rely on your customer service and learn to use all your employees to spread the word as soon as possible. Get in touch with the media to help you out.

Step 5. If you have a website, create a "Recall Safety Information" in your homepage and make sure it is very conspicuous to your readers. Maintain this information even after the actual recall. There might be some customers who don't know about this yet.

Step 6. Assist your customers for any refund, repair or replacement caused by the recall. Prepare your team to deal with angry customers and ask them to be more patient.

Step 7. Be prepared to spend additional money for the recall to be effective. This is the price for being lax on your quality inspection


Carmona has grown into a top starter for Indians -- Newsday.com

CLEVELAND - A little more than a year ago, the Indians thought so much of young righthander Fausto Carmona that they traded Bob Wickman and made Carmona their closer. The Indians weren't going anywhere, team brass figured, so why not give the then-22-year-old a shot, especially when he had been effective as a setup man?

Three ghastly blown saves in a row later, two in Boston and one in Detroit, and Carmona was back in Triple-A Buffalo - as a starter.

When they put their 2007 team together in spring training, the Indians hoped Carmona would compete for a rotation spot. But no biggie if he didn't.


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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2007

:: PRINT AT HOME KIT ::
Arrive at the park in style with your own copies of the HSB07 map, schedule, and artist bios! Simply download these PDF files and print them out at home before sauntering down to the park.

HSB 2007 Map
HSB 2007 Schedule
HSB 2007 Bios


You will need a PDF viewer such as Acrobat Reader to view and print these files.
FRIDAY The morning is a special educational program featuring The Abrams Brothers and PMW for local schools (and the general public) as part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days. The afternoon features very special guests Augie March, Buddy Miller, T Bone Burnett & Friends (John Mellencamp, Neko Case, & Doyle Bramhall II), and Jeff Tweedy.

On Friday, October 5th, students from San Francisco middle schools will attend a special concert at opening day of the "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival" an amazing concert for 4,000 middle school students. SF Connect Volunteers will chaperone the students and work with teachers to make the field trip go smoothly. It's a wonderful opportunity to help students enjoy a unique cultural experience! Click here for more info.

Click here for a detailed schedule with stages and set times.
SATURDAY Alison Brown Quartet w/ Special Guest Joe Craven, Allison Moorer, Austin Lounge Lizards, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones feat. Victor Lemonte Wooten, Future Man & Jeff Coffin, Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, Blanche, Boz Scaggs & The Blue Velvet Band (feat. Buddy Miller, Jon Cleary, Ricky Fataar, Dennis Crouch & Greg Leisz), Chris Smither, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, Dan Reeder, Fionn Regan, The Flatlanders feat. Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Gillian Welch, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, James McMurtry, Jimmy LaFave, John Prine, Julay Brooks & Richard Brandenburg w/ The Cash Magnets, Keller Williams, The Knitters, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Los Lobos, Michelle Shocked, New Lost City Ramblers, Nick Lowe, The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby w/ Kentucky Thunder, Robert Earl Keen, Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers, Shana Morrison & Caledonia, Steve Earle, the subdudes, T Bone Burnett, Teddy Thompson, The Whoreshoes

Click here for a detailed schedule with stages and set times.
SUNDAY Bill Callahan, Bill Kirchen & The Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, Charlie Louvin, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, David Grisman Bluegrass Experience w/ special guest Curly Seckler, The Del McCoury Band, Doc Watson w/ David Holt & Richard Watson, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Hacienda Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Heartless Bastards, Hot Buttered Rum, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Jim Lauderdale, Jody Stecher & Bill Evans / The Secret Life of Banjos, Jorma Kaukonen, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Marley's Ghost, Mekons, Moonalice, Mother Hips, Ned Sublette, Pete Wernick & Flexigrass, Poor Man's Whiskey, Railroad Earth, Red Wine, The Sadies, Songwriter Circle (w/ Chris Smither, David Olney, Ray Wylie Hubbard & Steve Young), Steep Canyon Rangers, The Wronglers

Click here for a detailed schedule with stages and set times.
INFORMATION

Since this is a FREE EVENT (NO TICKETS NEEDED), we do not have the manpower to answer all of your questions.

For info on volunteering, email volunteer@hardlystrictlybluegrass.com.
For general questions, email questions@hardlystrictlybluegrass.com.

Please help us keep the Park clean-- please pack out with you what you bring in for the festival!

On Friday, October 5th, students from San Francisco middle schools will attend a special concert at opening day of the "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival" an amazing concert for 4,000 middle school students. SF Connect Volunteers will chaperone the students and work with teachers to make the field trip go smoothly. It's a wonderful opportunity to help students enjoy a unique cultural experience! Click here for more info.


Here is a list of the most frequently asked questions:

Q: When/where is it again?
When: Fri, Oct 5th (10:30am - Noon & 2:15pm - 7pm) & Sat Oct 6th - Sun Oct 7th, 2006 (11am - 7pm).
Where: Speedway, Lindley & Marx meadows in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA. Read below for a map.
Q: Who is playing?
This year's detailed schedule is available here. You may also download the HSB 2007 Schedule and the HSB 2007 Bios (both PDF files).
Q: Camping?
Sorry, there is no camping allowed.
Q: What is the schedule?
Stage and set times are available through the schedule link above.
Q: What are we allowed to bring?
Coolers, blankets, and short-back chairs are all allowed. There will also be vendors on-site selling food and non-alcoholic beverages. PLEASE respect the park and pick up and take everything with you that you bring in. There will be a sweep of the park by waste management each evening (which means no saving spaces for the following day).
Q: Dogs?
Dogs are allowed as per park rules (on leash, etc.)
Q: Hotels in area?
Please call the Chamber of Commerce, use a travel site such as Orbitz or Yahoo Travel, or contact the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau for assistance. Visitors can book rooms directly on www.sfvisitor.org or request assistance from the Visitor Information Center - 415-391-2000 (tollfree at 888-782-9673 (STAY-N-SF)).
Q: Transportation?
This year the park service is NOT running their shuttle service. We advise you to take other means of transportation (carpool, bike, rollerskate, bus, etc) as there are many street closures. See the map below for a visual on what streets will be closed. Click here for SF Muni transit maps and here for a public transportation route finder.
Q: Will bike parking be available?
Yes. Please see the map (below) for location of Bike Parking.
Q: What time are we allowed in?
10AM entry to the meadows.
Q: Restroom facilities?
There will be port-a-potties on site.
Q: Disabled accessibility?
Yes, there will be a special section reserved.
Q: Merchandise?
We will be selling T-shirts and CDs of some of the artists.
Q: Map?
Click here for a PDF map of this year's HSB at Golden Gate Park.
FRIDAY ARTISTS
SATURDAY ARTISTS
SUNDAY ARTISTS
INFORMATION
Previous years: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 site by chime interactive






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FREE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL IN ITS SEVENTH YEAR AT GOLDEN GATE PARK
Article Launched: 10/02/2007 01:32:38 AM PDT

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Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder - performing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass ... (Erick Anderson)
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When asked what makes the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival special, Ricky Skaggs doesn't hesitate.

"Warren Hellman makes it special."

Each October since 2001, the San Francisco-based investment banker and amateur banjo player has taken over Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park for one weekend to throw a blowout party for music lovers on his dime.

What began in 2001 as the one-day, two-stage Strictly Bluegrass Festival now covers three days on five stages. And the festival's musical scope has expanded along with its size, prompting the addition of the word "Hardly" in 2003.

Past years have seen visits from such superstars as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello.

"That's one of the things I love about this festival," says Skaggs, 52, who will be playing in his fifth consecutive festival this year. "You're going to hear hard-core, in-your-face bluegrass when we come out there, but then Elvis Costello can come on."





San Francisco Bay Guardian : Article : Smokin' grass

San Francisco's biggest - and likely best - free outdoor music festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass , returns for year seven, boasting such performers as Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, T Bone Burnett and friends like John Mellencamp, Los Lobos, Gillian Welch, the Knitters, Nick Lowe, Boz Scaggs and the Blue Velvet Band, the Flatlanders, Teddy Thompson, Hazel Dickens, the Mother Hips, Heartless Bastards, Steve Earle - the list goes on. Check out some of our favorites:

Bill Callaghan

Emmylou Harris

Charlie Louvin

The Mekons

John Prine

The Sadies






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U.S. track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to federal investigators and taking the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

The substance gained infamy in 2003 when it was detected in a number of athletes that year. A number of baseball players also admitted to taking the substance.

The sports Web site Brushback.com has this essay on the drug and how it affected professional sports. 


Marion Jones: A world-class cheat - Independent Online Edition > More Sports

Marion Jones: A world-class cheat

She was the star of the 2000 Olympics. But Marion Jones's impending disgrace for steroid use marks a spectacular fall from grace that poses fundamental questions about her sport.

By Mike Rowbottom, Athletics Correspondent

Published: 06 October 2007

Now that Marion Jones has finally admitted that she has cheated the world of athletics throughout her career, the sad truth emerges. She has cheated herself too.

The 31-year-old sprinter and long jumper pleaded guilty in a New York court yesterday to lying to federal agents about taking steroids on the eve of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where she won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals. On the steps of the courthouse she then cheerfully announced her retirement from the sport.

Thus one of the longest and most dismal tales in a sport that has been disfigured by doping all too often in recent years reached its denouement.

Given that she was following in the dubious footsteps of her compatriot Florence Griffith-Joyner in the 100 metres event, Jones was always asked about doping, even when she emerged, fresh-faced and ambitious and articulate, as a double world champion in 1997 at the age of 20.


Marion Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Marion Jones (born October 12 , 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American athlete and drugs cheat. She is the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia . She holds dual citizenship from the USA and Belize (her mother's home country). Jones is a 1997 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Jones admitted to having taken steroids before the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. This may result in the loss of her 3 gold and 2 bronze 2000 Olympic medals. On October 5, 2007, she pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in the BALCO steroid investigation in the U.S. District Court. [1] She announced her retirement the same day. [2]



Tetrahydrogestrinone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tetrahydrogestrinone (often referred to as THG or The Clear) is an anabolic steroid . It has affinity to the androgen receptor and the progesterone receptor, but not to the estrogen receptor. [1] The drug has been considered a "designer drug", closely related to the banned anabolic steroids gestrinone and trenbolone, [1] and was banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the end of 2003.[2]

Structure-activity relationship studies report that the potency of the drug is outstanding, surpassing, on a milligram per milligram basis, every known synthesized or commercial available anabolic steroid at the time of its development. It is a highly potent agonist for the androgen and progesterone receptors, around 10 times more potent than the comparison drugs nandrolone or trenbolone, but with no estrogenic activity. Side effects from prolonged use are likely to include infertility in both men and women, as well as other steroid side effects such as acne and hirsutism. [3]

For a time, THG was considered the drug of choice for safe and "invisible" world record breaking in athletics, being used by several high profile gold medal winners such as the sprinter Marion Jones, who resigned from her athletic career in 2007 after admitting to using THG prior to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she had won three gold medals. [4]

The drug was again made public when the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) was contacted by an anonymous athletics coach, later identified as Trevor Graham, who claimed that several top athletes were using THG and provided the USDA with a syringe containing THG, which the USADA then used to develop a test for the substance. [5]

THG was developed by Patrick Arnold, of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), an American nutritional supplement company. [6] The company manufactured the drug through palladium-charcoal catalyzed hydrogenation from gestrinone, a substance used in gynecology for treatment of endometriosis. [ citation needed]

THG had been distributed to several leading athletes, including many during the BALCO scandal .



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McDonald's attorney says company not responsible for strip search

McDonald's attorney says company not responsible for strip search

By BRETT BARROUQUERE

Associated Press Writer

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. --

McDonald's Corp. is not responsible for the strip search and sexual abuse of a former employee who is seeking more than $200 million in a lawsuit, the attorney for the restaurant chain said Wednesday.

W. R. Patterson, the attorney for the company, told a jury that the restaurant chain was sued because it has deep pockets. Patterson said that Louise Ogborn, the former employee who was searched, did not sue the man who sexually assaulted her or the person who directed the strip search over the phone.

"I think the reason is obvious, McDonald's has money and they want you to give it to them," Patterson said. "That's why they're shooting at McDonald's."

Patterson's comments came in closing arguments in Ogborn's civil lawsuit against McDonald's, a former assistant manager and a current assistant manager.

In her suit, Ogborn claimed the company failed to warn her and other employees about a hoax caller posing as a police officer who had already struck other McDonald's stores and other fast-food restaurants across the country. Ogborn was strip searched on April 9, 2004, in a back office at the McDonald


The Associated Press: Ky. Jury Deciding McDonald's Case

Ogborn was 18 and working at a McDonald's in April 2004 when she was forced to strip after a man called the store, claiming he was investigating a theft. At one point during the 3 1/2-hour search, the assistant manager's boyfriend was left to handle the phone call.

Donna Jean Summers, the assistant manager, was convicted of unlawful imprisonment. Her former fiancee, Walter Nix Jr., is serving a 5-year sentence for sexual abuse and other crimes.

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Oprah Winfrey chooses Garcia Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera' as next book club pick - International Herald Tribune

CHICAGO: TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey has picked "Love in the Time of Cholera," the epic love story by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as her next book club selection.

"If you love love, this book is the best love story ever," Winfrey said on her show Friday.

The novel by the Colombian-born Garcia Marquez was published in 1985 and is set on the Caribbean coast of South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It tells the tale of a woman and two men, and an unrequited love that spans 50 years.

"It is so beautifully written that it really takes you to another place in time and will make you ask yourself how long could you or would you wait for love," Winfrey said.


Love in the Time of Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera , 1985) is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century (roughly 1880 to 1930). The novel, a picaresque tale of unrequited love, deeply explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.

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The Associated Press: Scandal Brewing at Oral Roberts U.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."

Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.

Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay.

She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males."

At a chapel service this week on the 5,300-student campus known for its 60-foot-tall bronze sculpture of praying hands, Roberts said God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."

San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, a member of the ORU board of regents, said the university's executive board "is conducting a full and thorough investigation."


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A hoax most cruel

She was a high school senior who had just turned 18 -- a churchgoing former Girl Scout who hadn't received a single admonition in her four months working at the McDonald's in Mount Washington.

But when a man who called himself "Officer Scott" called the store on April 9, 2004, and said an employee had been accused of stealing a purse, Louise Ogborn became the suspect.

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Meet Joe Black is a 1998 remake of the 1934 film, Death Takes a Holiday , originally having been remade in 1971 under the same name as the original. Meet Joe Black stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. It was directed by Martin Brest.


Meet Joe Black (1998)

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Director:
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Writers (WGA):
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Tagline:
No one can die - while he loves! more
Plot Outline:
A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter. more
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Affection / Vacation / Stylized / Humor / Love more
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Talia Balsam (born March 05, 1960 (1960-03-05) (age 47) in New York City ), the daughter of actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, is an American TV and movie actress .

She has appeared as Anthony LaPaglia's estranged and devious wife on Without a Trace on CBS. Most recently she has appeared in Mad Men (which stars her husband, John Slattery) in the Episode titled Babylon as Roger Sterling's wife Mona. She was married to actor George Clooney from 1989 to 1993. She has been married to actor John Slattery since December 30, 1998.



George Clooney has new $100,000 marriage bet, and new 'Michael Clayton' movie Finditt Press Release

George Clooney's declaration that he will never marry again has been challenged by actress Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman. Clooney declared he would never marry again after his divorce from Talia Balsam, and so far he has been a man of his word.

The bet with Kidman and Pfeiffer went from a 10,000 dollar bet to a 100,000 dollar bet. The way things look now, Clooney could lose the bet. The actor is dating Sarah Larson, and the pair have been spotted everywhere together. Larson has reportedly quit her job to travel with Clooney.

 

"I bet him he would get married and he keeps inflating the bet from 100 dollars to 100,000 dollars," says Pfeiffer. "I still think he will, he's a handsome devil."

 

Clooney's current film, 'Michael Clayton' is being called a success. Clooney plays lawyer Michael Clayton who is a 'janitor' for his client's messy situations. He covers up hit and run accidents, corrupted business deals, and even murder. His character comes to a crossroads in his life after things get complicated with trying to fix a clients case.

 

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Recall puts end to Topps Meat Co. - Sacramento Business Journal:

The recall of more than 21 million pounds of meat has led Topps Meat Co. LLC to go out of business, effective immediately.

Topps, a 67-year old privately held company based in New Jersey, is controlled by Buffalo-based Strategic Investments & Holdings Inc.

The meat recall, the second-largest in history, involved frozen hamburger, which health officials said may be tainted with E. coli.

A product recall began Sept. 25.

California meat eaters were warned Thursday that they should be on the lookout for ground beef recalled by Topps and possibly sold in California retail stores.


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Britney Spears Fans (And Haters) Weigh In On New Video - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News

'Britney, Britney, Britney,' fan Jacqueline Tulian sighs after previewing pole-dancing clip; plus, Spears' LP gets a name.

By Jennifer Vineyard, with additional reporting by Yasmine Richard

Britney Spears must have a list of male fantasies she's trying to run through in her music videos. Naughty schoolgirl, check ("... Baby One More Time"). Flight attendant, check ("Toxic"). And with her latest single, "Gimme More," she's a stripper. The question is, can the pop star still pull it off?

"It really makes you want to strip," Internet celebrity Chris Crocker, a.k.a. the "Leave Britney alone!" guy, said after viewing a sneak peek of a clip for the first single from Spears' November 13 album, which has been given the title Blackout. "I'm really tempted to give everyone in this room a lap dance."

Spears doesn't actually attempt lap dances in the "Gimme More" video — she's mostly dancing near a pole and stripping just a little, with a director's-cut version revealing nearly bare breasts with star-shaped pasties. Though Spears shows more focus than in her VMA performance, her efforts to reclaim sex-symbol status got mixed reviews from fans who got a sneak peek in Santa Monica, California.

"She's taking off her clothes, that's pretty much it," Jacqueline Tulian said. "It's not surprising."


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Daily Travel Deal Blog | Los Angeles Times Travel » Blog Archive » Travel book Eat, Pray, Love on Oprah this Friday

I can't remember the last time a travel book has been so widely accepted by the mainstream. Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (2006) just might be the most popular travel book since Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods (1999). Or, has she surpassed those sales too? Catch Liz Gilbert on Oprah this Friday as the two women discuss her journey through Italy, India and Indonesia to reclaim her life after leaving a broken marriage.

Elizabeth answers questions like, "Were you ever worried that taking a year off to travel around the world was a selfish act?" on her website.

If you haven't read this best-seller, catch up on World Hum or Bookslut. The Los Angeles Times said, "Gilbert's wry, unfettered account of her extraordinary journey makes even the most cynical reader dare to dream of someday finding God deep within a meditation cave in India, or perhaps over a transcendent slice of pizza ."


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Building Biotechnology But Not Via Biotech Companies


By Cynthia Robbins-Roth

BioWorld Today Columnist

Driven by concerns over the funding abyss blocking early stage research projects, I have been exploring new ways to support biotech innovation from its earliest stages into that Promised Land of "proof of concept" (somewhere outside of Hoboken).

I quickly realized:

1. There is a plethora (I just love that word!) of methods being tested across the globe, forced by a funding drought.

2. Nobody has found the perfect solution. But everyone is pretty sure that major structural change is required.

Michael Milken was right. Back in 1991 at the Oxford Partners/E&Y Biotech Venture Conference, we heard Milken lambaste biotech for failing to pay attention to lessons to be learned from the rise and fall of the telecom and hard drive sectors. He emphasized that while our science is way cool, sooner or later market forces come to bear on all of us.

As biotech itself becomes a mature sector after 30 years, it still follows the same pattern - build a company around new technology, raise lots of capital, build management and facilities, try to go public, then try to survive being public.

We needed lots of companies in the early days because there was no existing corporate infrastructure willing to take a chance on developing products from our new science. That certainly is not the case today - for most new technologies, there are plenty of corporate homes for in-licensing and development.

Many folks still really want to start companies for many reasons, both personal and financial. But the broader marketplace is resisting the classic model based on funding unproven science.

The industry continues to believe that biotech deserves a special place in the sun, demanding that other sectors (like the venture industry) change their business model or change government regulations to keep that protected status.

But that just isn't true. Time to get over it. We don't have an inherent value that overcomes market forces and reality. So, what to do? How do we keep tapping the innovation and generating important products without using the old model?

Challenges Of Academic Spinouts

Major academic institutions in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Europe, and the Pacific Rim all chimed in with the same basic dilemma: Our professors all want their own companies, our universities want financial return from patents, and governments want a fast route to economic development via local company formation.

It is impossible to give them what they want - formation of lots of sustainable operating businesses. Most of the tech transfer folks I interviewed agreed that it is a big mistake to keep forming companies out of university labs.

Let's face it, an overwhelming percentage of life science inventions from academic labs tend to be individual projects rather than a critical mass that could support a company. Political pressures from inventors, universities, and governments keep pushing the system toward company formation, and often around a single lab.

Those inventions reach the tech transfer office early in the development process - if you're lucky, there is an actual molecule that can be synthesized and has been tested at least once in animals. Some inventions are even earlier, such as a concept based on in vitro systems, or an interesting target without much information on how it works in a living organism.

The early stage of gestation drives the concern about the venture community's risk reduction via investment in clinical-stage compounds. Everyone understands that someone has to fund the proof of concept work to reach an IND filing, but few have volunteered to be that someone.

You Build It, They Don't Come

Most universities outside of the West Coast and East Coast biotech corridors have great science but lack the other two critical ingredients to support biotech company growth past the seed stage: smart money and experienced management.

Many university groups internationally have access to some level of seed funding, via government grants, angel investors or in-house seed funds. The catch is getting beyond that early money, which often maxes out at around $1 million. Many regions, even those in the U.S. outside the two corridors, just don't have local funds and can't easily attract top-tier funds with industry experience. That lack of deep pockets is behind the phenomenon of $7 million initial public offerings and public companies with market caps below $50 million.

Most of the tech transfer folks I spoke with faced a big challenge in the "people" issues of spinouts. The personality that is successful in an academic science career can make grown investors cry. Most academic scientists live in a world where the other top researchers in their field - those people investors would want to see on a scientific advisory board - are seen as competition, not collaborators. Sharing the glory is a tough concept.

Even harder to accept is the idea that the brainpower already put into play might be worth significantly less than 90 percent of a company built to commercialize the invention.

A dangerous ailment suffered by early stage companies is "Founderitis," when scientific founders are in serious conflict with the business management and early investors. Everyone in the industry has stories about the demise of companies with great science - we could keep a miniseries going for an entire season based on these alone!

To be fair, many founders find themselves saddled with sub-standard boards of directors loaded with investors who are not able to help and support the company sufficiently. Conflict of interest at the board level is common, and doesn't lend itself to great management.

The lack of management with relevant experience makes it tough to convince investors that the company will be able to fully exploit its technical edge. There are few examples of successfully importing experienced management into backwater, technology-rich regions.

Everyone got very excited when Spiro Rombotis took his years of big pharma and biotech expertise to Dundee, Scotland, to head up Cyclacel. The steady movement of product candidates through Cyclacel's pipeline and the invigorated entrepreneurial activity in Dundee is encouraging.

Sadly, there aren't many "Spiros" showing up in Australia, Canada, or even Texas. That might change - one positive side effect of the mega-mergers in big pharma is the availability of lots of folks with years of industry experience around the globe.

A bigger problem - getting research-based deals funded. The current down market for early stage biotech funding is different. Even startups in the golden corridors of the U.S. are having a tough time getting VCs to pony up. Nobody can figure out how to generate clinical data with the $1 million pre-money valuation placed on most early stage deals.

BioWorld reports that dollars invested to date in 2005 show an increasing abandonment of research-stage deals for deals with in-licensed drug candidates in clinical testing. Two of the 12 Series A deals funded in first-half 2005 had ongoing Phase I trials, three of the 13 Series B had Phase II trials. Of the 28 higher-round deals, 12 had Phase I/II trials and two were in Phase III.

Darwinism has caught up with us all. It's time to stop trying to build that classic California model start-up and to think in a more creative way about how to move that early technology into a form ready for commercial development - maybe without ever forming a stand-alone company.

The Next Evolutionary Stage: Virtual, Global

Okay, so we have agreement that universities and local governments should stop trying to emulate the old California biotech start-up model. Heck, California can't even do that anymore! So what can we do?

I found a range of approaches bringing promising preclinical research into an environment in which experienced drug development folks could take a crack at testing its potential to become an IND candidate. The most interesting: tough-minded seed funds, innovative service providers with a venture component, and global networks to build virtual development teams.

These teams all had years of industry experience in drug development and regulatory affairs - the bulk of the activity needed to prod a promising compound to show its commercial value (or lack thereof). Setting rigorous milestones and re-evaluating projects on those milestones is a recurring theme. The need to kill projects in a timely fashion is as crucial as recognizing success.

All stressed the need to understand the difference between projects and companies - and saw potential valuable return in both scenarios. Their extensive international networks were positioned to support the development and eventual commercialization of successful candidate compounds, without the need to build expensive infrastructure in advance.

While the bulk of the biotech community is beating its head on the wall, bemoaning the "current" bad financing environment, a subpopulation of innovators is creating new models for the new world.

Wednesday, I'll list some of my favorite firms and detail their biotech business models in a special section of BioWorld Today.

Ambert Alert Information

Ambert Alert Information

Jessica's Law

The Jessica Lunsford Act - Jessica's Law

  1. Increase the penalty for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child to life in prison or a split sentence of a mandatory minimum 25-year prison term, followed by lifetime supervision with electronic monitoring.
  2. Increase, from 20 to 30 years, the period of time before a sexual predator is allowed to petition to have the sexual predator designation removed.
  3. Increase sexual predator/offender registration and reporting requirements.
  4. Sexual predators who murder their victims now qualify for the death penalty in capital cases.
  5. Designate failing to re-register as a sexual offender/predator or harboring or assisting a sexual predator/offender a third degree felony.
  6. Require those already convicted of sex crimes to have electronic monitoring for the remainder of their probation.
  7. Require all county misdemeanor probation officials to search the sexual offender registry when a new offender is assigned to them.

Detailed Legislation:

Federal Legislation Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act S. 1086



New Changes to Current Law: General

Full Integration: Fully integrates Meganís Law and the ìLychner Amendmentsî into the Wetterling Act. Expands Covered Offenses against Children: Adds the ìuse of the Internet to facilitate or commit a crime against a minorî as one that could trigger registration. Tribal Lands: For the first time, the sex offender registration law will cover ìfederally recognized tribal lands.î

New Requirements for Sex Offenders:

Prior to Release: A sex offender will have to register prior to release from prison or supervised release. Current law requires registration after release. [Dodd bill] Bi-annual Registration: Sex offenders will have to re-register twice a year (every three months for a sexually violent predator) ñ not just once. [Dodd bill requires re-registration for all offenders every three months].

Increase of Duration for Periodic Registration: The duration to register for a first-time sex offender increases from 10 years to 20 years and for second offenders and sexually violent offenders for their lifetime. Shortened Time to Comply: Any change of status requiring a registry update (change of address, employment, etc.) must be made three business days after the change occurs ñ not 10 days. [Dodd bill is within 2 business days]

Social Security Number: Social Security numbers will now be a required piece of information that sex offenders must supply to the state registries. However, that information will not be released on state sex offender notification websites. Annual Photographs: The bill adds a mandatory annual update (current law is just once) to the taking of a sex offenderís photograph. The state is required to maintain that information as part of their registry. [Dodd bill]

Tracking Devices: Creates a three-year pilot program to help states and local governments outfit sex offenders with electronic and GPS tracking devices. The program will fund a variety of tracking systems and require the Attorney General to study and report on the efficacy of the various technologies and approaches. New Notification Requirements for those Attending Educational Institutions: Requires an individual to notify police when they enroll or attend (current law is just attend) high schools, vocational/technical institutions or higher education institutions.
[Dodd bill]

New State Requirements:

Searchable Statewide Sex Offender Registry: Requires states, not local governments, to maintain a multi-field, searchable sex offender registry. In-Person Registration Requirement: Requires that a sex offender register / update their registry in person at an office designated by the state twice a year. Tracking of Persons in Prison: Provides funding for law enforcement to purchase programs ñ like JusticeXchange ñ to identify individuals currently in jail.

Civil Commitment: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires state prisons to notify states attorneys whenever ìhigh riskî offenders are about to be released, so that states attorneys can consider petitioning the courts for continued confinement of the offender. The ìcivil commitmentî option is available under the law in many states if an individual is deemed a continuing threat to the public safety. Monitoring of Released Persons: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires states to monitor ìhigh-riskî offenders who are released after serving their full sentence ñ and are otherwise not subject to probation or other supervision ñ for a period of no less than one year.

Missing Child Reporting Requirements: Section 112 (the Prevention and Recovery of Missing Children Act) requires missing child reports to be input within two hours of receipt. Research shows that a two-hour time frame is crucial to the safe recovery of an abducted child. Prohibits law enforcement agencies from removing a missing person entry based on the child turning 18. [Dodd bill]

New Federal Requirements:

National Sex Offender Registry: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires the U.S. Justice Department to create a national sex offender database accessible to the public through the Internet. The public web site would allow users to specify a search radius across state lines.

Immediate Electronic Notification to States of a Sex Offenderís Intent to Relocate: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to send out immediate electronic notification of a sex offenderís intent to move to a new state once the Attorney General is notified by the current domiciliary state of the sex offenderís intent to relocate. Model Sex Offender Registry: Requires the U.S. Attorney General, in consultation with the states, to develop a sex offender registry template that can be used by those states that currently do not have such a registry or have a substandard one.

Strict Liability Crime: Makes failing to register or update registry information as proscribed in the Act a strict liability crime. There is an affirmative defense if failure to update information results from uncontrollable circumstances. Felony: Makes failing to register or updating registry information a federal felony. [Dodd bill] Taxpayer and Social Security Information: Allows for the release of taxpayer and Social Security information to law enforcement, when necessary, in trying to locate the sex offender or to verify information supplied by the sex offender.

Immigration Provision: Makes failing to provide sex offender registration information a deportable offense. Releasing Numbers of Sex Offenders to the Public: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to poll states every three months to assess the total number of sex offenders in their registry and to release that information to the public. Study: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to examine ways for law enforcement to do a better job of actively notifying communities when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood.

Compliance:

  • Bonus Payments: Provides bonus payments to states for complying with this Act sooner than its three-year timeline.
  • Penalties: Provides a 10 percent reduction in Justice Assistance Grants and certain reductions of Sex Offender Management Assistance Program monies for those states that do not comply.

The Childrenís Safety Act of 2005 HR:

  • Improves Sex Offender Registration and Notification Program to ensure that sex offenders register, and keep current, where they reside, work and attend school (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Improves verification systems for sex offender information by requiring monthly verification, sex offender in-person verification every six months, and regular notarized verification mailings ( H.R.1505 ñ Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite) Requires States to have a uniform, public access sex offender registration web site (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Creates Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Web site to search for sex offender information in each community (H. R. 95 ñ Reps.Gillmor and Pomeroy)
  • Expands sex offenders to include juvenile sex offenders (H. R. 2797 - Rep. Green)Requires States to notify each other when sex offender moves from one State to another (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Expands sex offenses covered by registration and notification requirements to include military, tribal, foreign, sex crimes, and increases duration of registration requirements to protect the public (H. R. 1355 ñ Rep. Poe)
  • Expands community notification requirements to include active efforts to inform law enforcement agencies, schools, public housing, social service agencies and volunteer organizations in area where sex offender resides, works or attends school (H. R. 2423- Rep. Foley, and H. R. 1355 ñ Rep. Poe)
  • Creates new criminal penalty of mandatory minimum of 5 years to maximum of 20 years for sex offender who fails to comply with registration requirements Expands law enforcement use of DNA to solve sex crimes (H. R. 2796 ñRep. Green)
  • Prevents and deters violent crimes against children and sexual exploitation of children (H. R. 2318 and H. R. 2388 ñ Rep. Green)
  • Protects foster children from sexual abuse and exploitation ( H.R.3129 - Rep. Delay) Increases criminal penalties against child sexual predators (H. R. ___ - Rep. DeLay, and H. R. 2942, Rep. Graves)

If you want the Jessica Lunsford Act passed in your state, use this as a guideline to create a petition. Get everyone you can involved: local media, business, friends, & family etc. Call your Senators, Governor and make as much noise as you can. Set a date for the petition drive to end but give enough time to get the signatures you need. When your drive is over make an appointment to deliver them to your Governor. Be prepared to rally at your capitol if needed. Remember children do not have a voteñ we have to stop the terrorism on our children.

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No 'Amber Alert' for adults | Rhode Island news | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal

No 'Amber Alert' for adults

07:56 AM EDT on Saturday, September 29, 2007

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer

Four Rhode Island highway billboards began broadcasting electronic messages yesterday, notifying the public that Katherine N. "Katie" Corcoran, of Lincoln, is still missing, and posting a private 24-hour tip line. The Lamar Advertising Company is running those messages for free as a public service, a spokesman said.

Lamar Advertising is donating space and time on its electronic billboards posting information about Katie Corcoran, a 35-year-old woman missing from Lincoln.

The Providence Journal / Bill Murphy

Corcoran's family representatives contacted the Lamar company after learning that under Rhode Island law, Amber Alerts (an early warning system to prevent child kidnappings) do not apply to adults in Rhode Island.

A recent spate of local missing persons has underscored the difficulties faced by law-enforcement agencies, family and friends in such cases, particularly when the missing adult is mentally ill or is otherwise mentally or physically impaired, conditions that add to their vulnerability.

The cases involve Corcoran, 35, who disappeared Sept. 5, after leaving Butler Hospital, where she was receiving treatment for postpartum depression; Marian Edmonds, 53, of Providence, reported missing two weeks ago and said to suffer emotional problems; and Vicky L. Connolly, 33, of Woonsocket, last seen Sept. 6.

In another case, Anthony Smith left the Johnston Police Department foyer on Sept. 11 and was found last Sunday in Connecticut, where he had apparently walked. His case received widespread attention after advocacy groups accused Johnston police of racial bias both in stopping Smith's uncle, who is African-American, on a minor traffic violation and for questioning, then detaining Smith, who was a passenger in the car, after he gave conflicting answers. Family members said Smith is mentally disabled.

State police Maj. Stephen O'Donnell said missing persons reports are evaluated "case by case."

"It's situational. It all depends on the factors and situation presented to us," O'Donnell said. "If someone is missing and there's suspected foul play, we're going to send out our investigators looking. It's different than if you're 18 and you walk away from home," said O'Donnell. Among many other considerations, "always, when you're dealing with adults, it's a question of if they're endangered."

O'Donnell said municipal police departments report missing persons to state police, who enter them into the National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) data base, available to law enforcement agencies nationwide.

O'Donnell said local police also issue missing persons messages and distribute reports and photographs to local media, and call on other departments for mutual aid.

O'Donnell said there are strict criteria for Amber Alerts in Rhode Island. Those include that law enforcement confirm a child has been abducted and believes that the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death.

The Katie Corcoran case illustrates how involved family and friends sometimes become, and the obstacles they face.

Michael Akkaoui, president and CEO of Tanury Industries in Lincoln, where Corcoran's husband works, is acting as a family spokesman, and along with Tom Tanury is leading the volunteer search for Corcoran.

To date that has included actual searching, distribution of thousands of "missing" posters; establishment of a 24-hour tip line; telephone and e-mail campaigns; checking on potential leads; and hiring a private detective.

But Akkaoui said they hit a roadblock when the state police turned down their request for an Amber Alert.

"Their response was that it's really reserved just for children, and they didn't feel they had the ability to use it for adults. We understand their reservations," he said, "but it certainly would have been a great assistance to us."

Yesterday, the owner of Lamar billboards stepped in and volunteered to post electronic messages, for free, which Akkaoui said "was kind of our way of getting around it." The electronic messages are being shown once a minute at four billboards, on Routes 146, 10, 195 and 95.

State Rep. Edith Ajello said she and state Sen. Rhoda Perry have twice introduced legislation — unsuccessfully — to add persons with Alzheimer's disease to the Amber Alert criteria. They intend to reintroduce the bill, she said.

"The opposition really came from the police and the Department of Transportation," which she said expressed concerns that posting missing adults would overburden the Amber Alert system.

"I think what these stories are pointing out is there's a somewhat larger group of people that could be helped with this," particularly mentally impaired people, Ajello said. "... The immediacy of highway signs, as opposed to TV and print, could be really helpful. ... You could be doing an Amber Alert at the same time you're warning of congestion or an accident ahead."

Akkaoui credited Lincoln and Newport police (where a woman believed to be Corcoran was sighted in several locations more than a week ago) for their painstaking efforts. But he said, "As hard as the authorities try, and we appreciate everything that they've done, there doesn't seem to be one central coherent location where strategic plans are made for finding someone."

"If it was a criminal, yes. If it was an adolescent, yes. If it was a kidnap, yes. But when it's a missing adult, there doesn't seem to be a program you can reach out to and say, 'Here's a coordinator.' Or 'Here's a contact.' "

Several resources include the National Center for Missing Adults ( www.theyaremissed.org ) created in 2000 as a national clearinghouse for missing adults in the United States, as well as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill ( www.nami.org), whose Web site offers guidelines for families of missing mentally ill persons.

The Corcoran family and friends are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her return. People with information can call a 24-hour tip line at (401) 439-7988; or Lincoln Police at (401) 333-1111.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Vicky L. Connolly, of Woonsocket, is asked to call Woonsocket detectives at (401) 766-1212.

Anyone with information on Marian Edmonds is asked to call Providence detectives at (401) 243-6406.

kziner@projo.com

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Project Safekids - Education / Information

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Project Safekids - Cyber Bullying

Cyber Bullying

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats

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Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats - An Overview

Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress

Cyber Bully imageCyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress provides in-depth insight and practical strategies for school administrators, counselors/psychologists, resource officers, education technology directors, teachers, and others to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats.

Cyberbullying is being cruel to others by sending or posting harmful material or engaging in other forms of social cruelty using the Internet or other digital technologies. Cyberthreats are either direct threats or distressing material that raises concerns that a young person may be considering committing an act of violence against others or self.

As young people embrace the Internet and other digital communication technologies, cyberbullying and cyberthreats are emerging as challenging issues for schools to address. The impact of cyberbullying on the well-being of students and the school climate can be significant.

CyberbullyNOT: Stop Online Social Cruelty

Cyberbullying is being cruel to others by sending or posting harmful material using the Internet or a cell phone.

Types of Cyberbullying

  • Flaming: Angry, rude arguments.
  • Harassment: Repeatedly sending offensive messages.
  • DenigrationSomeone online by spreading rumors or posting false information
  • Outing and Trickery: disseminating intimate private information or tricking someone into disclosing private information, which is then disseminated.
  • Impersonation: pretending to be someone else and posting material to damage that personís reputation. Exclusion - intentional exclusion from an online group.
  • Cyberstalking: creating fear by sending offensive messages and other harmful online activities.

How, Who, and Why

Cyberbullying may occur via personal web sites, blogs, email, discussion groups, message boards, chat, instant messaging, or text/image cell phones. A cyberbully may be a person whom the target knows or an online stranger. A cyberbully may be anonymous and may enlist the aid of others, including online ìfriends.î Cyberbullying may be a continuation of, or in retaliation for, in-school bullying. It may be related to fights about relationships or be based on hate or bias. Some teens think cyberbullying is entertaining ñ a fun game.

Teens may not be concerned about the consequences of harmful online behavior because: They think they are invisible or can take steps to become invisible, so they think they canít be punished. There is no tangible feedback about the harm they cause, so it seems like a game to them. Harmful online social norms support cyberbullying: ìI have a free speech right to post whatever I want, regardless of the harm I cause.

The Harm

Cyberbullying can cause great emotional harm to the target. Online communications can be very cruel and vicious. Cyberbullying can be happening 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. Teens are reluctant to tell adults ñ for fear of overreaction, restriction from online activities, and possible retaliation by the cyberbully. There are emerging reports of youth suicide and violence related to cyberbullying.

Responsible Management of Childrenís Internet Use

  • Parents have a moral and legal obligation to ensure their children engage in safe and responsible behavior online!
  • Keep the computer in a public place and supervise its use.
  • Find out what public online sites/communities your child uses and periodically review what your child is posting. Emphasize that these sites/communities are public and that your child should never post personal contact information, intimate personal information, or provocative sexually oriented material. (Your child may argue that you are invading his/her privacy. These are PUBLIC places!)
  • Tell your child that you will investigate his/her private online communications if you have reason to believe that he/she has engaged in unsafe or irresponsible behavior. You can install monitoring software to do this.
  • Make joint Internet use management agreements with the parents of your childís friends ñ addressing the time they can spend online, approved activities, and a mutual parental agreement to monitor and report.

Prevent Your Child from Being a Cyberbully

Make it clear that all Internet use must be in accord with family values of kindness and respect for others and any violation of this expectation will result in monitoring of all online activities using Internet use monitoring software. If your child is being bullied at school, work with the school to stop the bullying and make sure your child knows that he/she should not to retaliate online.

Preventing Your Child from Becoming a Target of Cyberbullying

  • Frequently discuss the concerns of public disclosure of intimate personal information and the value of modesty.
  • Visit and discuss the values demonstrated by others in your childís favorite online communities.
  • Insist that the school intervene effectively to address any in-school bullying.
  • Seek to ìbully-proofî your child by reinforcing your childís unique individual strengths and fostering healthy friendships with teens you can trust to be kind.

Warning Signs that Your Child Might be the Target

  • Expression of sadness or anger during or after Internet use.
  • Withdrawal from friends and activities, school avoidance, and decline of grades, signs of depression and sadness.
  • Pay close attention if your child is being bullied at school or having any other difficulties with peers. These are the teens that are most often targeted by cyberbullies.

Action Steps and Options to Respond to Cyberbullying

  • Save the evidence.
  • Identify the cyberbully(s). Ask your ISP for help.
  • Clearly tell the cyberbully to stop.
  • Ignore the cyberbully by leaving the online environment and/or blocking communications.
  • File a complaint with the Internet or cell phone company.
  • Seek assistance from the school, if the cyberbully also attends the same school. (But because of free speech protections, if the cyberbullying is occurring totally off-campus, your school may only be able to provide informal assistance, not formal discipline.)
  • Send the cyberbullyís parents a certified letter that includes the evidence of cyberbullying.
  • Demand that the actions stop and harmful material be removed.
  • Contact an attorney to send a letter or file a lawsuit against the parents based on defamation, invasion of privacy, or intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  • Call the police, if the cyberbullying involves threats of violence, coercion, intimidation based on hate or bias, and any form of sexual exploitation.

Reporting other concerns...

  • If you have suspicions your child is involved with an online sexual predator, call the police. Do not talk to your child, he/she could warn the predator.
  • If you see any online threats of school-related violence, call both the school and the police.
  • If you see any material that raises concerns a child is emotionally distressed and may be contemplating suicide, self-harm, or other violence, contact the counselor of the school the child attends.

An Excellent Guide for Parents & Educators is:

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats

Order online at http://cyberbully.org
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
P.O. Box 51373, Eugene, OR 97405
541-485-0580 • Email: info@csriu.org

Nancy E. Willard, Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. Additional resources are available at http://cyberbully.org. © 2006 CSRIU. Reprinted with permission.

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Project Safekids - Jessica's Law

Jessica's Law

The Jessica Lunsford Act - Jessica's Law

  1. Increase the penalty for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child to life in prison or a split sentence of a mandatory minimum 25-year prison term, followed by lifetime supervision with electronic monitoring.
  2. Increase, from 20 to 30 years, the period of time before a sexual predator is allowed to petition to have the sexual predator designation removed.
  3. Increase sexual predator/offender registration and reporting requirements.
  4. Sexual predators who murder their victims now qualify for the death penalty in capital cases.
  5. Designate failing to re-register as a sexual offender/predator or harboring or assisting a sexual predator/offender a third degree felony.
  6. Require those already convicted of sex crimes to have electronic monitoring for the remainder of their probation.
  7. Require all county misdemeanor probation officials to search the sexual offender registry when a new offender is assigned to them.

Detailed Legislation:

Federal Legislation Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act S. 1086



New Changes to Current Law: General

Full Integration: Fully integrates Meganís Law and the ìLychner Amendmentsî into the Wetterling Act. Expands Covered Offenses against Children: Adds the ìuse of the Internet to facilitate or commit a crime against a minorî as one that could trigger registration. Tribal Lands: For the first time, the sex offender registration law will cover ìfederally recognized tribal lands.î

New Requirements for Sex Offenders:

Prior to Release: A sex offender will have to register prior to release from prison or supervised release. Current law requires registration after release. [Dodd bill] Bi-annual Registration: Sex offenders will have to re-register twice a year (every three months for a sexually violent predator) ñ not just once. [Dodd bill requires re-registration for all offenders every three months].

Increase of Duration for Periodic Registration: The duration to register for a first-time sex offender increases from 10 years to 20 years and for second offenders and sexually violent offenders for their lifetime. Shortened Time to Comply: Any change of status requiring a registry update (change of address, employment, etc.) must be made three business days after the change occurs ñ not 10 days. [Dodd bill is within 2 business days]

Social Security Number: Social Security numbers will now be a required piece of information that sex offenders must supply to the state registries. However, that information will not be released on state sex offender notification websites. Annual Photographs: The bill adds a mandatory annual update (current law is just once) to the taking of a sex offenderís photograph. The state is required to maintain that information as part of their registry. [Dodd bill]

Tracking Devices: Creates a three-year pilot program to help states and local governments outfit sex offenders with electronic and GPS tracking devices. The program will fund a variety of tracking systems and require the Attorney General to study and report on the efficacy of the various technologies and approaches. New Notification Requirements for those Attending Educational Institutions: Requires an individual to notify police when they enroll or attend (current law is just attend) high schools, vocational/technical institutions or higher education institutions.
[Dodd bill]

New State Requirements:

Searchable Statewide Sex Offender Registry: Requires states, not local governments, to maintain a multi-field, searchable sex offender registry. In-Person Registration Requirement: Requires that a sex offender register / update their registry in person at an office designated by the state twice a year. Tracking of Persons in Prison: Provides funding for law enforcement to purchase programs ñ like JusticeXchange ñ to identify individuals currently in jail.

Civil Commitment: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires state prisons to notify states attorneys whenever ìhigh riskî offenders are about to be released, so that states attorneys can consider petitioning the courts for continued confinement of the offender. The ìcivil commitmentî option is available under the law in many states if an individual is deemed a continuing threat to the public safety. Monitoring of Released Persons: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires states to monitor ìhigh-riskî offenders who are released after serving their full sentence ñ and are otherwise not subject to probation or other supervision ñ for a period of no less than one year.

Missing Child Reporting Requirements: Section 112 (the Prevention and Recovery of Missing Children Act) requires missing child reports to be input within two hours of receipt. Research shows that a two-hour time frame is crucial to the safe recovery of an abducted child. Prohibits law enforcement agencies from removing a missing person entry based on the child turning 18. [Dodd bill]

New Federal Requirements:

National Sex Offender Registry: Title II (the Dru Sjodin Act) requires the U.S. Justice Department to create a national sex offender database accessible to the public through the Internet. The public web site would allow users to specify a search radius across state lines.

Immediate Electronic Notification to States of a Sex Offenderís Intent to Relocate: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to send out immediate electronic notification of a sex offenderís intent to move to a new state once the Attorney General is notified by the current domiciliary state of the sex offenderís intent to relocate. Model Sex Offender Registry: Requires the U.S. Attorney General, in consultation with the states, to develop a sex offender registry template that can be used by those states that currently do not have such a registry or have a substandard one.

Strict Liability Crime: Makes failing to register or update registry information as proscribed in the Act a strict liability crime. There is an affirmative defense if failure to update information results from uncontrollable circumstances. Felony: Makes failing to register or updating registry information a federal felony. [Dodd bill] Taxpayer and Social Security Information: Allows for the release of taxpayer and Social Security information to law enforcement, when necessary, in trying to locate the sex offender or to verify information supplied by the sex offender.

Immigration Provision: Makes failing to provide sex offender registration information a deportable offense. Releasing Numbers of Sex Offenders to the Public: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to poll states every three months to assess the total number of sex offenders in their registry and to release that information to the public. Study: Requires the U.S. Attorney General to examine ways for law enforcement to do a better job of actively notifying communities when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood.

Compliance:

  • Bonus Payments: Provides bonus payments to states for complying with this Act sooner than its three-year timeline.
  • Penalties: Provides a 10 percent reduction in Justice Assistance Grants and certain reductions of Sex Offender Management Assistance Program monies for those states that do not comply.

The Childrenís Safety Act of 2005 HR:

  • Improves Sex Offender Registration and Notification Program to ensure that sex offenders register, and keep current, where they reside, work and attend school (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Improves verification systems for sex offender information by requiring monthly verification, sex offender in-person verification every six months, and regular notarized verification mailings ( H.R.1505 ñ Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite) Requires States to have a uniform, public access sex offender registration web site (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Creates Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Web site to search for sex offender information in each community (H. R. 95 ñ Reps.Gillmor and Pomeroy)
  • Expands sex offenders to include juvenile sex offenders (H. R. 2797 - Rep. Green)Requires States to notify each other when sex offender moves from one State to another (H. R. 2423 ñ Rep. Foley)
  • Expands sex offenses covered by registration and notification requirements to include military, tribal, foreign, sex crimes, and increases duration of registration requirements to protect the public (H. R. 1355 ñ Rep. Poe)
  • Expands community notification requirements to include active efforts to inform law enforcement agencies, schools, public housing, social service agencies and volunteer organizations in area where sex offender resides, works or attends school (H. R. 2423- Rep. Foley, and H. R. 1355 ñ Rep. Poe)
  • Creates new criminal penalty of mandatory minimum of 5 years to maximum of 20 years for sex offender who fails to comply with registration requirements Expands law enforcement use of DNA to solve sex crimes (H. R. 2796 ñRep. Green)
  • Prevents and deters violent crimes against children and sexual exploitation of children (H. R. 2318 and H. R. 2388 ñ Rep. Green)
  • Protects foster children from sexual abuse and exploitation ( H.R.3129 - Rep. Delay) Increases criminal penalties against child sexual predators (H. R. ___ - Rep. DeLay, and H. R. 2942, Rep. Graves)

If you want the Jessica Lunsford Act passed in your state, use this as a guideline to create a petition. Get everyone you can involved: local media, business, friends, & family etc. Call your Senators, Governor and make as much noise as you can. Set a date for the petition drive to end but give enough time to get the signatures you need. When your drive is over make an appointment to deliver them to your Governor. Be prepared to rally at your capitol if needed. Remember children do not have a voteñ we have to stop the terrorism on our children.

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Ambert Alert Information

History of AMBER

What is the AMBER Alert Plan?

The AMBER Alert Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS), formerly called the Emergency Broadcast System, to air a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor.

This is the same concept used during severe weather emergencies. The goal of the AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe return of the child.

Why Was the AMBER Plan Created?

Amber Hagerman imageThe AMBER Alert Plan was created in 1997 as a powerful legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, a bright little girl who was kidnapped and brutally murdered while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. The tragedy shocked and outraged the entire community. Residents contacted radio stations in the Dallas area and suggested they broadcast special "alerts" over the airwaves so that they could help prevent such incidents in the future. In response to the community's concern for the safety of local children, the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers teamed up with local law-enforcement agencies in northern Texas and developed this innovative early warning system to help find abducted children. Statistics show that time is the enemy in child abductions.

How Does the AMBER Alert Plan Work?

Once law enforcement has been notified about an abducted child, they must first determine if the case meets the AMBER Alert Plan's criteria for triggering an alert. Recognizing the importance of local determination of AMBER Alert criteria, while acknowledging the importance of consistency across the country to help ensure a smooth AMBER Alert system, the U.S. Department of Justice recommends the criteria listed below for AMBER Alert programs nationwide.

  • There is reasonable belief by law enforcement that an abduction has occurred
  • The abduction is of a child age 17 years or younger
  • The law-enforcement agency believes that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death
  • There is enough descriptive information about the victim and the abduction for law enforcement to issue an AMBER Alert to assist in the recovery of the child
  • The child's name and other critical data elements, including the Child Abduction flag, have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). If these criteria are met, alert information must be put together for public distribution.This information can include descriptions and pictures of the missing child, the suspected abductor, a suspected vehicle, and any other information available and valuable to identifying the child and suspect.

The information is then faxed to radio stations desig