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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Vinny Guadagnino to Guest Star on 90210
Jersey Shore‘s Vinny Guadagnino has signed on to guest star in an episode of the CW's 90210, and incredibly, the reality star will not be playing himself!
Yes, this is like a real acting role.
Tells you a lot about 90210, but hey, good for him. Guadagnino will reportedly play a "celebrity" involved in a high-stakes poker game with Liam (Matt Lanter).
Vinny shows off his serious side.
Look for Vinny to appear during November sweeps. You know, when shows bring out the really big guns in an attempt to pull in ratings and big ad money.
A little GTL and PFC can only help.
[Photo: WENN.com]
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/09/vinny-guadagnino-to-guest-star-on-90210/
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Houston Boomers are Finding Resources to Cope with ...
Houston Baby Boomers are a dynamic part of the approximately 25 percent of their population expected to spend at least some of their retirement years residing with loved ones in a multi-generational household.? The following video is designed to help Boomers and their loved ones determine if an intergenerational lifestyle is the right living arrangement for their family.
Seven Questions Every Family Should Consider:
1.? Are you prepared for the additional stresses on you, your spouse and your children?
2.? Do other members of your family agree to the proposed living arrangement?
3.? Do you have a shared-care arrangement with siblings or other members of your family?
4.? Have you considered the possible wear and tear that caregiving can have on your own health?
5.? Are you prepared for the emotional stresses that long-term caregiving can have on you and your family?
6.? Have you estimated the financial costs?
7.? Can you continue with your career while juggling additional caregiving responsibilities?
As this video explores, the pros and cons of multi-generational living are varied according to family circumstances.? Please take a moment to review the many facets of intergnerational living and discuss the changes with your own family.
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Scorched Earth: The past, present and future of human influences on wildfires
ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2011) ? Fires have continuously occurred on Earth for at least the last 400 million years. But since the 1970s, the frequency of wildfires has increased at least four-fold, and the total size of burn areas has increased at least six-fold in the western United States alone. Steadily rising, the U.S.'s bill for fighting wildfires now totals $1.5 billion per year.
How much of the increases in the frequency and size of fires are due to human activities? No one knows for sure. But a paper in this week's issue of the Journal of Biogeography puts the role of fire in natural ecosystems into context and provides support for efforts to plan for future risks from wildfires.
Produced by an international team of researchers, the paper presents a new framework for considering wildfires based on Earth's pre-human fire history, ways that humans have historically used and managed fire and ways that they currently do so. "We need to look into the past to understand our current and future relationship with fire activity," says Jennifer Balch of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
This research emphasizes the importance of understanding the relative influences of climate, human ignition sources and cultural practices in particular environments in order to design sustainable fire management practices that protect human health, property and ecosystems.
This research was partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Decision to remove woman from airplane disputed
DETROIT?? An airlines that reported suspicious behavior by two men aboard a flight from Denver on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks said authorities in Detroit removed them and a female passenger without consulting the pilots or crew.
However, airport police and the Transportation Safety Administration said authorities responded after getting an in-flight alert from Frontier that three passengers were engaged in suspicious activity.
The crew on Frontier Airlines flight 623 followed security protocols on Sunday, spokesman Peter Kowalchuk said in an email Wednesday to The Associated Press.
The crew "responded to concerns expressed by passengers on their aircraft about the suspicious activity of two gentlemen . and only two gentlemen," Kowalchuk said. "After that, what happened was out of the control of the Frontier crew or anyone at Frontier Airlines, for that matter.
"When they arrived and boarded the aircraft, the authorities did not consult any member of the crew . not the pilots, not the flight attendants . before taking action and removing the two men and a third person, Ms. Hebshi."
Shoshana Hebshi told the AP that she was forced off the plane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated.
But a spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates Detroit Metropolitan Airport, said it was notified by the crew that there were three people possibly engaged in suspicious activity.
"When law enforcement boarded the aircraft, the only way they possibly could have known which individuals to pursue would have been by the direction given to them from the flight crew," Scott Wintner told the AP Wednesday in an email.
"Our officers were not onboard, and our officers were not the individuals who identified or reported to us the potential threat," Wintner said.
TSA spokesman Jim Fotenos said that during the flight, Frontier reported that three people were involved in suspicious activity.
Hebshi described herself as half-Arab and half-Jewish with a dark complexion and believes she was targeted because of her Middle Eastern appearance. She spoke Wednesday with the American Civil Liberties Union.
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"They did seem to think that my rights were violated, even in such a sticky situation," Hebshi wrote in an email. "Understandably, security issues are heightened when dealing with airplanes, regardless of what day of the year you choose to fly."
Authorities say fighter jets escorted the flight after its crew reported that two people were spending a long time in a bathroom ? the two men sitting next to Hebshi in the 12th row.
The FBI has said the three didn't know each other. One man felt ill and got up to use the restroom and another man in the same row also left his seat to go to the bathroom. The FBI said they never were inside together.
Hebshi told the AP she didn't notice how many times the men went to the bathroom.
"I really wasn't paying attention," said Hebshi, a freelance writer, editor and stay-at-home mother of twin six-year-old boys who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. "I was minding my own business ? sleeping, reading, playing on my phone."
After landing in Detroit, armed officers boarded the plane and ordered her and the men, whom she described as Indian, to get up, Hebshi said.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said the three passengers were questioned but not arrested before federal authorities determined there was no reason to suspect or hold them. She also said FBI agents who questioned the passengers were not involved in any strip searches.
Political and religious leaders in the U.S. "must step up efforts to address the rising level of anti-Muslim sentiment in our society and speak out forcefully against those who promote or exploit Islamophobia," Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said Wednesday in a statement.
But Kowalchuk defended the actions of the flight 623 crew.
"There was no profiling of any kind by any crew member associated with this incident other than that of unusual and suspicious behavior," he said. "It is unusual for people to spend 10 to 20 minutes in the small lavatories on our Airbus aircraft. When that happens, it raises suspicion. It did in this case, both in the minds of our guests and the flight crew."
The flight was one of two for which fighter jets were scrambled Sunday after crews reported suspicious activity on Sunday, officials said. In both cases, it involved bathroom use. In neither case did authorities find anything to substantiate the suspicions.
On Tuesday, a US Airways flight from New York to Phoenix was diverted to St. Louis after crew became concerned about the activities of three male passengers, all three of whom were Israeli citizens. Investigators determined there was no terrorism involved.
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Associated Press reporter David N. Goodman in Detroit contributed to this story.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44513757/ns/travel-news/
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HP goes display crazy, unveils eight new models, four IPS panels (hands-on)
Update: Our apologies, it's the ZR2440w that won't be shipping till october.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Naming crooks is criminal ? Law Society of England & Wales Chief ...
The incident came to light after the Law Society Chief Executive took part in a joint interview with well known Law Professor John Flood of the University of Westminster on BBC Radio FOUR?s consumer programme ?You and Yours? which discussed the Solicitors From Hell website and its policy of naming & shaming lawyers who fail their clients by allowing consumers to write their own reviews of how they were treated by their solicitors. The interview with Des Hudson & John Flood can be heard in full HERE.
After the interview had taken place, Professor Flood wrote on his web blog in an article dated 22 July 2011 : ?As I came out of the BBC yesterday with Des Hudson, the chief executive of the Law Society, he said Rick Kordowski was a criminal. I reminded Des that the police didn't think so. He wasn't happy.?
The battle by Mr Kordowski to keep the Solicitors From Hell website inline in the face of a coordinated campaign by the legal profession in England & Wales who appear to be out to personally ruin him for his website?s publication of criticisms the legal profession and allowing consumers to write their own views of their poor experiences in the legal world, can be read in more detail on the Solicitors From Hell website HERE and in yesterday?s Independent on Sunday newspaper HERE
Rick Kordowski, writing on his website revealed the Law Society have also demanded he surrender the domain name ?Solicitors From Hell?. He wrote : ?During negotiations, I offered to re-engineer my website to The Law Society?s specifications and parameters at my expense. The Law Society rejected this offer and further added: "A pre-requisite will be that the site in its current form ? with all its content/postings ? is taken down forthwith. You will also need to surrender the domain name [......] If not then there is no point pursuing discussions further and the matter is best left for the High Court. And then sent me a letter of claim insisting that I shut down this site and promise not to do it again. "
Mr Kordowski added : ?Tyranny at work, springs to mind! Why should The Law Society stifle public criticism of allegedly shoddy lawyers? Are the public too stupid even to have the right to criticise, as The Law Society seem to be suggesting??
He continued : ?Lawyers must realise there is a new culture present, one that is less adversarial, one that is focussed on resolution, as the Legal Ombudsman is trying to show. I'm not sure the Law Society has fully grasped this.?
Last week, I reported the legal profession?s battle against Rick Kordowski & Solicitors From Hell, here : English, Scots Law Societies ?team up? in legal moves against ?Solicitors from Hell? in bid to stop Legal Ombudsman ?Naming & Shaming? crooked lawyers after an investigation in Scotland turned up discussions at the Law Society of Scotland who were keen to support moves to kill off Solicitors From Hell in a joint attempt with the Law Society of England & Wales to ?scare off? the Legal Ombudsman?s intentions to identify poorly performing solicitors & law firms in published complaints decisions & investigations.
Crucially, consumer group Which? & the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP) both said the court action against Solicitors From Hell would probably not be going ahead if the Legal Ombudsman had already begun naming & shaming law firms who fail their clients. The Legal Ombudsman has held a consultation on naming & shaming solicitors & law firms but has yet to make a decision on going ahead with the policy, which is supported by consumer groups, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) & the UK Government which I reported on in an earlier, article, HERE.
Asked for their comment on allegations the legal action against Solicitors from Hell was part of a plan by the Law Society of England & Wales to prevent the Legal Ombudsman from naming & shaming ?crooked lawyers?, the Which? spokesperson said : ?The action being taken against Solicitors from Hell by the Law Society is partly due, in our view, to the fact that LeO does not yet publish complaints data. We consider it far more sensible that complaints data is published under a clear policy framework by an ombudsman scheme. Given this, we would find it regretful if any legal action were to be brought against the LeO by the legal profession in England & Wales if "naming & shaming" is to be adopted by the LeO as a future policy.?
She continued : ?The courts will decide the fate of the Solicitors From Hell website. However, such websites fill a vacuum that exists because official complaints data about lawyers is not publically available to help consumers identify good quality lawyers. The Panel will continue to push the Legal Ombudsman to name those law firms who regularly provide poor service.?
CRIMINALISING CRITICS : Law Society of Scotland official told journalist : ?Anyone who criticises the legal profession must be a criminal and should be treated like a criminal?.
The sentiments apparently expressed by Mr Hudson who attempts to criminalise Mr Kordowski and critics of the legal profession are startlingly similar to opinions expressed in Scotland by the most senior officials at the Law Society of Scotland, individual solicitors, law firms and the Legal Defence Union, who have all attempted to close down critical websites naming & shaming crooked lawyers who are still working and whose clients are unaware of their poor records as solicitors.
In one of several examples of over-the-top attacks on critics of the legal profession, notes taken by a journalist working for a Scottish newspaper revealed a senior Law Society of Scotland figure made a variety of bitter, hate-fuelled remarks against critics, in one, expressing : ?Anyone who criticises the legal profession must be a criminal and should be treated like a criminal?.
An insider who had knowledge of the Scotland on Sunday story and how it was developing confessed the direct comments from Law Society officials ?were too strong to put into the final version which appeared in the newspaper?. A journalist who was privately briefed by senior Law Society officials including former Chief Executive Douglas Mill who was forced to resign after a well known episode at the Scottish Parliament, described some comments from Law Society officials which are confirmed in notes, as ?highly defamatory?. He went onto say ?I felt I was being set up to write a piece implicating critics of lawyers in the attack.?
Further reports in the media linked the attack on Leslie Cumming to crooked lawyers within the Law Society itself who feared Mr Cumming?s department ?were onto them?, however the hunt for the attacker was scaled down after several years had passed without an arrest.
Later, journalists working on the case discovered spurious statements were provided to Lothian & Borders Police by Law Society officials who were eager to blame outspoken critics of the legal profession in Scotland. The rumour was the Law Society of Scotland wanted the Police to silence those who exposed ?crooked lawyers?. Evidence of these comments & statements have recently been provided to those who were targeted by the Law Society in this way, and journalists looking further into the case have reported a relative of Mr Cumming was a serving officer in Lothian & Borders Police.
Several Scottish newspapers reported earlier this year an individual has since been arrested for the attack on Mr Cumming however no further reporting on the case can be made at this time due to contempt of court laws. The accused is due to face a trial in October 2011.
Given I know what kind of pressure, tricks, threats, and indeed connections the legal profession will be using against ?Solicitors From Hell?, may I extend my best wishes and support to Rick Kordowski for his exemplary effort in bringing the issue & discussion of criticism of the legal profession into the mainstream media and for the continued existence of ?Solicitors From Hell? and the consumers right to exactly document for themselves their experiences, whether good or bad, at the hands of the legal profession throughout the entire UK.
At least in England & Wales, the debate is live, while here in Scotland, there are no moves to name & shame crooked lawyers where all discussion of it appears to be censored by the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.
Source: http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2011/09/naming-crooks-is-criminal-law-society.html
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