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Tonight is Metallica night at AT&T Park. Nothing else matters

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    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 21: Singer James Hetfield of Metallica yells out "Let's Play Ball' before the San Francisco Giants take on the St. Louis Cardinals in Game Six of the National League Championship Series at AT&T Park on October 21, 2012 in San Francisco, California. It's Metallica Night at the ballpark tonight.

    Black and orange -- but mostly black.

    It's Metallica Night at the San Francisco Giants tonight -- which means metal.

    And the arch-rival Los Angeles Dodgers. And a special edition "METALLICA GIANTS HAT!"

    As well as "Metallica entertainment features throughout the game," according to the Giants.

    First pitch is 7:15 p.m., but beforehand, the band -- which started here in the Bay Area -- is scheduled to "be on-hand" for the National Anthem.

    The game will be aired on NBC Bay Area.

    Part of the proceeds from the game will be donated to the Bill Graham Foundation.

    Tickets for the metal fest at the ballpark are still available as of this writing. Tickets start at $69 for standing-room only. The ticket package includes a ticket to the game, as well as a collector's-edition hat.

    Los Angeles will send pitching ace Clayton Kershaw (3-2, 1.73 ERA) to the hill. It is his first start since taking bereavement leave following the unexpected death of his father this week.

    The Giants are sending Barry Zito to the mound for his fourth start of the season. Zito has pitched seven scoreless innings in each of the first three.

    Below is a video of pitcher Barry Zito jamming with the band.


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Predators Beat Blackhawks 7-5

Ben Smith, Marian Hossa, Matt Carey, Jeremy Morin and Andrew Shaw each scored a goal for Chicago

    The Chicago Blackhawks certainly draw plenty of their own fans with them when playing in Nashville.

    Simply playing the defending Stanley Cup champs definitely brings out the best in the Predators this season.

    Patric Hornqvist scored the go-ahead goal with 58.2 seconds left and Shea Weber added an empty-netter as the Nashville Predators rallied with five goals in the third period to beat the Blackhawks 7-5 Saturday night in their home finale.

    The teams combined to score seven goals in a wild and furious final period. Chicago was up 3-2 going into the third, and Nashville finally put the Blackhawks away with the two goals inside the final minute. Nashville, which also scored seven goals while beating Chicago earlier this season, took the season series 4-1 before an arena about half full of Blackhawks fans.

    "I felt that gave us some motivation to let them come and then go home sad," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said of the latest win. "That was my goal."

    Hornqvist also had an assist. Craig Smith had a goal and an assist. Paul Gaustad, Ryan Ellis, Matt Cullen and Colin Wilson also scored a goal apiece as 12 of 18 Nashville skaters got at least a point.

    Ben Smith, Marian Hossa, Matt Carey, Jeremy Morin and Andrew Shaw each scored a goal for Chicago, which finished the season third in the Central Division. The Blackhawks now must wait to see if they are playing either Colorado or St. Louis when the playoffs start. Both teams play Sunday.

    "It's going to be interesting," Hossa said. "It'll come down to the last game to decide who we're going to play."

    The Predators were eliminated from the postseason for a second straight year with a shootout loss Tuesday night at Dallas, but they now are 8-1-2 over their last 11 games. They certainly didn't quit when they had the chance down 2-0 in the first period or trailing going into the third.

    "It's obviously a good sign," Weber said. "There's no quit in this locker room. A lot of character. We knew guys weren't going to quit. It's tough to be out of the postseason, but there is still a lot to play for."

    Nashville scored the first two goals of the third as Cullen scored off a rebound at 4:03 followed by Wilson scoring off a rebound of Weber's shot at 7:05. That gave Nashville its first lead of the night at 4-3.

    It didn't last long as Morin scored 55 seconds later with a helping hand from Nashville defenseman Roman Josi who was trying to poke it away from the post only to knock it over the line tying it up at 4.

    Gaustad put Nashville up 5-4 with 2:55 left only to see Shaw tie it up yet again with a slap shot with 1:35 remaining.

    Hornqvist put Nashville ahead to stay when he tipped in a shot by Wilson. With goalie Antti Raanta pulled, Weber sealed the win with his 22nd goal this season.

    "Obviously, there are four months until the next home game, but I think it was great for our fans to see what we are all about," Hornqvist said. "When we are playing good, we can beat any team in the league and obviously it will give us some confidence for next year too."

    The Blackhawks' faithful did their best to turn this game into a near home game with so much red sitting in the stands, taking advantage of the short flight from Chicago. They turned out even though Chicago was already locked into third in the Central Division, and coach Joel Quenneville scratched defenseman Duncan Keith for a second straight game. Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews remained out with injuries waiting for the playoffs.

    Hossa did not play after the first period after getting his 30th goal this season, which Quenneville discussed with him Saturday morning.

    "It was a perfect ending for him," Quenneville said. "He had a nice year for us."

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West Seventh Booming With or Without In-n-Out

Businesses say fast-food chain will only help, not hurt

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    Fort Worth’s West Seventh Street has been a little busier this week thanks to a new tenant, In-n-Out Burger. But the fast food chain across from the West Seventh Development isn’t something businesses say they need, not that it will hurt.

    At Fred’s Texas Café, the lunchtime crowds have been busy for years and the opening of a rival burger fast food joint down the street.

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    The West Seventh area of Fort Worth is just a busy as ever. (Published Friday, Aug. 12, 2011)

    “It’s made us even busier,” said cook William Massey. “It brings in more traffic, more people know about us now. It’s not going to hurt us, they’re fast food and we’re a real café.”

    Most business owners in the development believe the burger restaurant will only improve upon their business success.

    “Now we’re seeing it (the development) fill in with foot traffic and night traffic especially Friday or Saturday night,” Sweet Sammie’s owner Kelly Close said. “It’s really starting to pick up.”

    The developers of the West Seventh Development say the area doesn’t need In-N-Out to succeed, but it just adds to the area and may draw new people to visit the development.

    Kirk Williams, Senior Vice President of Cypress Equities, says part of the success has to do with all of the apartments being occupied and about 85 percent of office space being leased. On top of that, the area has become a destination.

    “I think the real magic is created by the retail, the real magic is created by the entertainment, restaurant component,” Williams said. “There’s a reason why the residential people want to be down here along with the office.”

    Phase One has been such a success that a Phase Three is in the works, once Phase Two is completed by October 1.

    “As a matter of fact we’re already leasing units in the second phase of the residential,” Williams said.

    There have been a few places that haven’t survived their run in West Seventh , most notably Delaney’s. But Williams says that happens in the restaurant business and new tenants are being signed and added.

    And while the California fast food chain has added a whole lot of traffic, even those having some issues with it are finding a silver lining.

    “Even though some of our streets are blocked we have all of this recognition,” said Edgar Miller, manager of Fort Worth Camera. “People come in and say ‘I didn’t know there was a camera store here.’ We’ve been here nine years, so there’s definitely a plus to it.”


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Google Buys Zagat, Now Officially a Media Company

    Google bought an international media company known for respected restaurant and hotel reviews, likely in an effort to overshadow Yelp and other competitors, Google announced today.

    Google bought Zagat, which calls itself a "pioneer in user-generated content,"  for an undisclosed amount -- although previous reports say that Zagat explored selling the business in 2008 and the company was valued around $200 million. That's $300 million less than the price Google offered for Yelp in 2009 -- and the startup walked away.

    Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of local, maps and location services, could hardly contain her excitement in the Official Google Blog post and her Twitter account, even issuing a haiku tweet: "“Delightful deal done; Zagat and Google now one; foodies have more fun!” and "Welcome, Zagat! A perfect 30 :)" on Google+ (30 is a perfect score in a Zagat review.) From the Google blog:

    With Zagat, we gain a world-class team that has more experience in consumer based-surveys, recommendations and reviews than anyone else in the industry. Founded by Tim and Nina Zagat more than 32 years ago, Zagat has established a trusted and well-loved brand the world over, operating in 13 categories and more than 100 cities. The Zagats have demonstrated their ability to innovate and to do so with tremendous insight. Their surveys may be one of the earliest forms of UGC (user-generated content)—gathering restaurant recommendations from friends, computing and distributing ratings before the Internet as we know it today even existed.

    Interestingly, Mayer later describes its listings as "democratized, authentic and comprehensive," which makes us wonder who out there has undemocratic, inauthentic and spotty reviews? Oh, we get it, you're referring to Yelp! The online review startup that helped spur on the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation against Google by saying that Google was burying Yelp's reviews.

    While this is likely a strike against Yelp, the acquisition signals a new era for Google -- it is now acquiring original content and apparently workers (at least co-owners Nina and Tim Zagat.) Could it be much further away from buying a news or media service that gathers original content?


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Chimpanzees are capable of making spears to hunt other primates and have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat, scientists announced Thursday.

The researchers based their findings on observations of omnivorous chimps that dwell in savannahs similar to those from which humanity's ancestors are thought to have emerged.

"It is not adult males, but young chimpanzees, including adolescent females, who are exhibiting this behavior," Jill Pruetz, a primatologist at Iowa State University, told LiveScience.

"This has important implications for how we think about the evolution of tool use in our own species," Pruetz added. "We have tended to emphasize the role of adult males in hunting, and this research supports the assertion that we should not ignore females and other individuals."

Earlier this month, scientists reported that chimpanzees used stone tools as early as 4,300 years ago, suggesting that they learned to make and use the tools on their own, rather than copying humans.

Spear-hunting stuns researcher
The scientists investigated the Fongoli community of savannah-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in southeastern Senegal. The researchers saw 10 chimps fashioning spearlike tools to forcibly jab at nocturnal primates known as lesser bushbabies (Galago senegalensis), which sleep inside hollow branches or tree trunks during the day. After their attacks, the chimps sniffed or licked their weapons, as if to see whether they shed blood.

"I was flabbergasted," Pruetz said.

Previously, researchers had spotted one chimpanzee using tools to flush out mammalian prey, specifically employing a branch to rouse a squirrel. However, Pruetz and her colleague, Cambridge biological anthropologist Paco Bertolani, saw something far more complex. The chimps routinely broke off branches, trimmed them of twigs, leaves and bark and sharpened the tips of their spears with their teeth.

There was just one successful attempt in 22 recorded instances of the chimpanzee hunts with their spears. "Still, this involves significantly less energy than in chasing down monkeys, so it is not surprising that it evolved," Pruetz said.

The red colobus monkeys, which are the chimp's favored prey, are absent in the relatively dry savannahs where the chimps live, as is much prey, Pruetz said. This may have spurred efforts to catch meat by other means. Females and juveniles may especially be drawn to hunting "perhaps to exploit niches that adult males haven't, using innovation and creativity to get around competition," Pruetz said.

Every waking hour spent with chimps
It took four years for the chimpanzees to become comfortable enough with the scientists to allow them to follow the chimps around and observe behaviors such as hunting.

"The greatest difficulty initially was finding them," Pruetz recalled. Unlike chimpanzees that dwell in tropical forests, whose home ranges are usually just roughly 4 square miles large, savannah-dwelling chimpanzee home ranges are 25 square miles or more.

"Nowadays, we basically stay with them all day until they go to sleep, and we come back before they wake up, to never let them out of our sight," Pruetz said. "It can take 30 minutes to two hours to walk back to camp after they go to sleep around 6 or 7 p.m., and we have to be back when they wake up around 6 a.m., so it can be exhausting. We're looking into getting a motorcycle."

Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the research, Pruetz said, is the growing human population in the area, "which threatens to disturb the chimpanzees' habitat and may eventually result in either forcing them from the area or into extinction."

Pruetz and Bertolani detailed their findings online Feb. 22 in the journal Current Biology.

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By Herb Weisbaum ConsumerMan contributor
updated 8/17/2010 11:35:48 AM ET 2010-08-17T15:35:48

“Isn’t it time you started to enjoy retirement your way?” asks actor Henry Winkler in the television commercial for a San Diego reverse mortgage company. “It’s a government insured loan that turns your home’s equity into tax-free cash that you can use for anything.”

Reverse mortgages have gone mainstream – no longer sold as something for seniors who are house rich and cash poor and need money to make ends meet. Today, they’re marketed as a way for homeowners 62 or older to crack open a giant piggy bank.

The pitch is working. The market for reverse mortgages has more than doubled from 2005 to 2008. Last year, more than 100,000 seniors took out these loans. Some consumer advocates think that’s a dangerous trend.

Beware of
cross selling

“While reverse mortgages can be a valuable last resort for some seniors under specific conditions, they are being advertised in a way that can lead to real trouble – urging seniors to use the equity in their home like an ATM or credit card,” explains Andrea Rock, a senior editor with Consumer Reports. “That’s a recipe for disaster.”

The truth is reverse mortgages are costly and complicated. Clearly, they’re a godsend to some seniors who have no other way to pay their bills. But they can be a nightmare for people who don’t understand how they work.

“We are asking the industry to admit there are downsides to these loans and these downsides can lead to a lot of horrible situations for a lot of very good and decent people,” says Prescott Cole, a senior staff attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.

Five years ago, Richard and Patricia Hickerson of Thousand Oaks, Calif., took out a reverse mortgage. At the time, their home was worth $530,000. They received a payment of $81,000, paid about $22,000 in fees and the bank put a lien on the property for $470,000.

Today at age 82, Mrs. Hickerson is a widow suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Her daughter, Sandy Jolley, tells me her mom should be in a care facility. But the family can’t afford that and they can’t touch the equity in the home, because that belongs to the reverse mortgage company.

“This has devastated our family,” Jolley says. “My parents did not need this loan. They had money. They were talked into this by the reverse mortgage salesman.”

Lenders claim their critics don’t understand how these loans work. Peter Bell, president of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, says most people who’ve taken out a reverse mortgage are glad they did.

“They feel it had a positive impact on their life and in the same circumstances they would do it again and they would recommend it to other people,” he says.

The devil is in the details
Ask any senior to tell you what they know about a reverse mortgage. Chances are they’ll run down the list of benefits they’ve seen and heard in advertisements.

They know they can get a lump sum of cash. They know they can use that money for anything. And they believe they can stay in their house as long as they’re alive. What they don’t always understand is that they must keep the house in good shape and pay the property taxes and insurance – or the lender could foreclose on them.

Many lenders recently reduced or eliminated some of the upfront costs associated with taking out a reverse mortgage. That makes these loans even more appealing. But origination fees are not the problem. It’s the interest – compound interest. Take out a $100,000 loan at 6 percent and in 10 years you owe $181,000.

“These loans are designed to wipe you out,” says attorney Prescott Cole. “By the time the loan is due, nobody can pay it back.”

A marketplace ripe for abuse
Some salespeople convince reverse mortgage customers to do things that are not in their best interest. That’s what happened to Betty and Arthur Banks of Pomona, Calif. In 2005, they took out a reverse mortgage and got $38,000.

The broker told the couple they could get a bigger payout if Betty took her name off the title. That was a big mistake. Two years ago, Arthur passed away. Because Betty’s name was not on the title, the loan was due upon his death, not hers. With interest added, the loan had ballooned to $272,000. Betty couldn’t possibly pay that much, so the house is now in foreclosure.

“It’s crazy,” says daughter Gwen Hicks. “My mom is totally stressed out. She doesn’t know what’s going to happen to her.”

Will this be the next financial fiasco?
Consumer advocates believe we are headed toward another mortgage meltdown. Many of the players from the subprime disaster have now moved into the reverse mortgage market.

Last fall, the National Consumer Law Center issued “Subprime Revisited,” an extensive report on reverse mortgages. NCLC attorney Tara Twomey, who wrote the report, says the problems in the reverse mortgage industry are “eerily similar” to those that drove the subprime boom and led to its bust.

Twomey says they include “a complex loan product and potentially vulnerable group of borrowers and aggressive – and at times outright deceptive – marketing.”

Attorney Prescott Cole sees disaster down the road. Based on sales and life expectancy, he estimates that starting in 10 years about 100,000 homes with reverse mortgages will be returned to the lenders each year. What happens to other family members who might be living in there? They’re out. There’s also no inheritance for the heirs, a harsh reality that may be overlooked when the loan is originated.

The bottom line
The financial reform bill President Obama signed into law on Wednesday creates a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The law specifically instructs the new agency to study the reverse mortgage industry and decide if new regulations are needed. They are.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), a member of the Special Committee on Aging, would like to see rules that prohibit misleading advertisements and require clear disclosures about the cost and terms. Sen. McCaskill also wants a set of standards that determine when a reserve mortgage is suitable for a senior. And she’d like to see a restriction on cross-selling of annuities and long-term care insurance with the money obtained via a reverse mortgage.

In my mind, these are all reasonable regulations that would reduce the abuses and fraud that can take place. The industry opposes these rules. I wonder why?

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An international mission will chart the saltiness of the ocean — from outer space.

An Argentine-built spacecraft carrying instruments from the United States and other nations is set to launch Friday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along the central California coast aboard a Delta 2 rocket. (Liftoff was originally set for Thursday but was postponed to give the launch team more time to review an inconsistency in the Delta's flight profile for wind conditions.)

The craft will circle 408 miles above the Earth and will use a NASA-built instrument to map weekly changes in the levels of brine in the sea. NASA's Aquarius instrument is so sensitive that it can detect changes down to a dash of salt in a gallon of water.

Nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface is covered by water, which contains about 3.5 percent salt. Though the amount of salt in the world's oceans remains mostly unchanged, the brine concentration in the topmost layer varies around the globe.

Understanding how brackish the sea surface is will help researchers better predict future climate change and short-term climate phenomena such as El Nino and its alter ego La Nina, which can have profound effects on weather around the world.

A fleet of Earth-orbiting satellites routinely provides updates on sea surface temperatures, sea level changes and ocean winds. But measurements of dissolved salts in the ocean so far have been limited, sporadically measured by ships and buoys.

"There are vast tracts of the ocean where salinity has never been collected — ever," NASA's Eric Lindstrom said at a pre-launch news conference.

The $287 million Aquarius — Latin for water-bearer and named after the constellation — is designed to measure microwave energy emitted by the ocean, giving scientists an idea of the saltiness. To prevent interference from radio, radar and other noise, another instrument will doublecheck the data and correct for any wrong readings.

Aquarius is expected to provide scientists with monthly maps depicting ocean salt variations over its three-year mission.

The project is a joint venture between NASA and Argentina's space agency CONAE. Other participating countries include Brazil, Canada, France and Italy, which will collect environmental data.

It's not the first to do ocean remote sensing of salt levels. Once in orbit, the spacecraft will join a dual-purpose European satellite that has been collecting data on ocean salt and soil moisture since 2009. Unlike the European mission, the new project is dedicated to the ocean and uses different technology to make measurements. It's not unusual to have several overlapping Earth-observing satellites.

Scientists from both missions plan to combine data and compare results, said Gary Lagerloef of the Seattle-based nonprofit Earth & Space Research.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a former priest who received money to leave the ministry following allegations of sexual abuse say that payment and others were a form of charity meant to help men transition to a new life following the priesthood.

The archdiocese acknowledged paying suspected pedophile clergy after an abuse victims' group produced a court document Wednesday that mentioned a 2003 proposal to pay $20,000 to "unassignable priests" who agree to leave the ministry. The document from the archdiocese's bankruptcy proceedings includes minutes from a 2003 meeting of its Finance Council, which included then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now a cardinal and head of the New York archdiocese.

Council members discussed how the church should handle sexual abuse complaints, a possible budget deficit and how to cut costs. The $20,000 payments were among the options mentioned.

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests characterizes the payments as a payoff to priests who molested children.

"This was a signing bonus for signing papers that would be sent to the Vatican," SNAP Midwest director Peter Isely said. "They needed to have been fired. You don't pay someone who has committed a criminal act. You fire them. Period."

A type of severance pay
The archdiocese says similar payments were made to men leaving the priesthood long before allegations of sexual abuse surfaced in the Catholic church. Archdiocese spokeswoman Julie Wolf said the payments were a type of severance pay.

"In a sense, it was a sense of charity to help those men transition from the clergy state to the lay state," Wolf said. The church has a responsibility not only to victims of clergy abuse, but to those accused of abuse, she said.

"The church is not giving this money, saying it's acceptable," Wolf said. "It's our calling as Christians to be forgiving."

It made sense at the height of the clergy sex abuse scandal to "move these men out of the priesthood as quickly as possible" and the money helped the men with the transition, Jerry Topczewski, chief of staff to Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki, said in a letter sent to church members Thursday. But the archdiocese has since ended the payments, he said.

Since the payments have now stopped, said Isely, the SNAP Midwest director, "Is this not a clear admission that they were wrong in the first place?"

"And isn't it time for Cardinal Dolan and his successor, Jerome Listecki, to acknowledge the deep moral wrong of taking Catholic charitable funds and funneling them to priest child molesters?" Isely said in a statement Thursday.

Wolf said she thought the last payments were made two or three years ago, based on archdiocese correspondence. The archdiocese paid out $90,000 to accused priests in the fiscal year that ended in June 2010, according to a letter Listecki sent members that year. It said nine remaining clerics who had been restricted from the ministry because of substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor would be notified that financial assistance was ending.

Listecki also said any future reports of sexual abuse would be referred to civil authorities if the accused was still alive and the priest would be immediately removed from ministry.

'Charity payment'
Jerome A. Wagner said he accepted $20,000 from the Milwaukee archdiocese "because it was time to move on" after he was accused of assaulting a minor. He was never criminally charged and declined to comment on the allegations, but the archdiocese has acknowledged the accusations against him.

"I viewed it as a charity payment on their part to help me get along," Wagner said. "I just viewed it as help for me to readjust to a new way of life."

Wagner said he initiated the process to leave the church with the Vatican and was told by the archdiocese he would receive $10,000 at the beginning of the process and $10,000 when it was over.

Wagner used the money to attend a mortuary school in Illinois. He graduated in 2004 and is a licensed funeral home director in Fond du Lac, the same community where he left the priesthood in 2002.

Because the process of leaving the priesthood can take several years, Wolf said, the payments to accused priests are meant to quickly move them out of the ministry and save costs because a priest's salary alone can be about $55,000 a year. She did not know whether other archdioceses offered similar severances.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops didn't immediately respond to a message left Thursday asking about payments in other archdioceses.

Criticism over payments
The Milwaukee archdiocese acknowledged in 2006 that it gave $10,000 to former priest Franklyn Becker to help pay his health insurance until he became eligible for Medicare.

Dolan, who was archbishop when the payment was made, has denied allegations it was a payoff. Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the New York archdiocese, said Thursday that "the cardinal has read and supports the statements that came out of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee" and would have no further comment on the issue.

Charles W. Linneman, 44, of Sugar Grove, Ill., is among those who think the payments were inappropriate. He is one of the former parishioners who have sued Becker, claiming they were abused by him. The Associated Press does not usually name victims in sexual abuse cases, but Linneman agreed to be identified.

He said the payment to Becker was the archdiocese's way of keeping the abuse quiet.

"It was just a quick way to wash their hands of him," Linneman said. "They kept him on for all those decades. It was very easy to get rid of him."

Dolan asked then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, to defrock Becker in 2003, about two weeks after Becker was arrested in California in connection to a sexual assault there in the 1970s. Becker was removed from the priesthood in 2004.

Linneman said he was an altar boy when he met Becker at St. Joseph's Parish in Lyons in 1980 and was abused by him when he visited Becker following the priest's move to Milwaukee. Becker did not return a call seeking comment.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Volcanic eruptions, even small and moderate ones, might counter some of the effects of global warming, new research suggests.

The planet didn't heat up as much as scientists expected it to from 2000 to 2010 (though it was still the warmest decade on record ), and a new study finds that chemical compounds spewed during modest eruptions around the globe could be behind the trend.

When sulfur dioxide emitted by a volcano rises up to the stratospheric aerosol layer of the atmosphere, it undergoes chemical reactions, forming particles that reflect sunlight back into space instead of letting it get to the surface of the planet. This has a cooling effect on Earth that can help mitigate the impacts of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses.

Scientists observed an increase in these sun-scattering aerosols in the atmosphere from 2000 to 2010. Some studies suggested that emissions from rapidly developing countries in Asia could be largely to blame — India and China, for example, are thought to have ramped up their sulfur dioxide output by about 60 percent over the decade through coal burning. But other studies pointed to volcanoes, which are also an important source of sulfur dioxide.

The authors of the new study used computer simulations to see which changes in the stratospheric aerosol layer could be attributed to coal burning in Asia and worldwide volcanic emissions from 2000 to 2010. The results suggested that moderate volcanic eruptions were behind the increases of aerosols in the atmosphere.

"This new study indicates it is emissions from small to moderate volcanoes that have been slowing the warming of the planet," Ryan Neely, who led the research as part of his doctoral thesis at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement.

The findings imply scientists should pay more attention to these types of eruptions when studying changes in Earth's climate, said study researcher Brian Toon, a professor at CU-Boulder, though he cautioned that in the long run, volcanoes won't be able to counterbalance global warming.

"Overall these eruptions are not going to counter the greenhouse effect," Toon said in a statement. "Emissions of volcanic gases go up and down, helping to cool or heat the planet, while greenhouse gas emissions from human activity just continue to go up."

Toon added that larger volcanoes can have a much bigger effect. For example, Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines that erupted in 1991, ejected so much sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere that the planet cooled by 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.55 degrees Celsius) and stayed slightly cooler for more than two years.

The new research was detailed online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Fall 2014

Best Fashion Week Gossip from the Weekend

    In case you missed it, Courtney Love played in a gas station for Alexander Wang, top models are still missing from the runways, and Tim Gunn's kicking off a new show this week -- though he somewhat wasn't invited to Ohne Titel, and seemed a little perturbed by it!

    - Courtney Love sang at Alexander Wang's after-party, which was in a Mobile gas station on 15th Street. Top THAT, Marc Jacobs! [The Thread]

    - Some of the most anticipated models are strangely missing from the runways this season -- most notably Lara Stone, who dominated the couture runways in Paris. [Fashionologie]

    - Jason Wu might be going the Alexander Wang route and branching into accessories ... [The Cut]

    - Tim Gunn's kicking off a new show with Dr. Oz this Thursday, and is really excited about Ohne Titel's continued success since the desingers were his students ... except that he wasn't invited to their runway show, which led to a very awkward moment when we told him. [The Thread]

    - Rachel McAdams' front row appearances next to Vogue staffers (including one Anna Wintour) has set tongues wagging about a potential Vogue cover. [Fashionologie]

    - One poor model decided last-minute at Erin Fetherson that she just couldn't bear to bare it all in a mesh top. [The Cut]


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Saks Reports $98.8M Loss

The company also issued a downbeat sales forecast

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    A man emerges from Saks Fifth Avenue November 18, 2008 in New York City. Saks Inc.

    Saks Inc. reported a loss for the fourth quarter Wednesday as the luxury retailer was forced to slash prices to pull in affluent shoppers who have sharply pulled back on their spending in the recession.

    The company also issued a downbeat sales forecast.

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    [NY] Saks Posts 100M Loss in 4th Quarter
    Saks and Co. posted dismal results in its 4th quarter. This, after announcing major layoffs. (Published Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009)

    The New York-based retailer, which operates Saks Fifth Avenue, said it lost $98.8 million, or 72 cents per share in the quarter ended Jan. 31. That compares with a profit of $39.47 million, or 26 cents per share, a year ago.

    Excluding the after-tax loss from discontinued operations of $15.8 million, Saks recorded a loss of $82.9 million, or 60 cents per share. The charge is associated with the company's announcement in November that it was discontinuing its Club Libby Lu store division. The quarter also included several after-tax items totaling $11.2 million, or 8 cents per share.

    Sales dropped almost 15% to $835.5 million. Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, fell 15.3% in the quarter compared with a 9% gain in the year-ago period. Same-store sales are considered a key indicator of a retailer's health.

    Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters, who typically exclude one-time items, had expected a loss of 30 cents per share on revenue of $859.4 million for the period.

    Luxury retailers like Saks have been among the hardest hit retailers as they were caught by the sudden retreat of shoppers who had been willing to pay $900 for designer shoes and $5,000 for handbags. The sudden reversal of fortunes forced the luxury merchant to slash prices on holiday goods by up to 70% even before the official holiday season began. Meanwhile, Saks has been cutting inventories this year as it responds to a slump in demand.

    Saks said in January that it's eliminating 1,100 jobs and taking other steps to cut costs by about $50 million to $60 million in 2009.

    "Our sales results and operating performances in the fourth quarter reflected deteriorating macroeconomic conditions," Stephen Sadove, chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. "Although our aggressive promotional actions significantly eroded the fourth-quarter gross margin rate, we made meaningful progress in reducing inventory increases and sales."

    Saks predicts that same-store sales for the full fiscal year will decline by low-double digits — it expects a 20% drop in same-store sales for the first half and a decline of anywhere from mid-to high single digits in the second half. Inventory levels are expected to fall in the low- to mid-teen percentage range at the end of the second quarter of 2009 and through the second half of 2009.


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Father Sentenced to 12 Years in DWI Crash That Killed His Baby Girl

Authorities said Jose Escobar had a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit

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    A Long Island man involved in a drunken driving crash that killed his 10-month-old daughter has been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison.

    Jose Escobar of Westbury was sentenced Tuesday in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead. He previously pleaded guilty to charges including manslaughter and aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child.

    Authorities say the 30-year-old man had a blood-alcohol reading three times over the legal limit when he crashed in Brentwood last July.

    His car went airborne on the Long Island Expressway's service road and crashed into the side of a convenience store.

    Escobar's 10-month-old daughter, Helen, later died of her injuries.

    Escobar and his pregnant wife also were injured.

    The mother, who gave birth to a healthy boy after the crash, did not attend the sentencing.


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Venus Williams Ousted from French Open

Nadia Petrova beats No. 2 Seeded Williams 6-4, 6-3

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    So much for the thought that this might be the year Venus Williams would make a strong showing at the French Open.

    So much for the thought that she and her younger sister Serena, the tournament's two top-seeded women, could deliver another all-Williams Grand Slam final.

    Displaying little of the spark or strokes she regularly produces on grass and hard courts, and playing little like someone with the tour's best 2010 winning percentage, Williams stalled on the red clay of Roland Garros yet again Sunday, exiting in the fourth round with a 6-4, 6-3 loss to No. 19 Nadia Petrova.

    "I don't think the conditions are always ideal here. ... You might not be used to it or you might not get a good bounce," said the No. 2-seeded Williams, who began the day 29-4 this season, including 15-2 on clay. "That's just the way this tournament goes."

    For her, anyway. The American's seven major titles all came at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open, and only once has she made it to the semifinals in 14 French Open appearances - back in 2002, when she lost to Serena in the championship match.

    Williams complained about the temperatures in the 50s and swirling winds that reached 15 mph, and wore a long-sleeved top over her much-discussed black lace dress. She didn't exactly heap praise on Petrova, now a win away from reaching her third French Open semifinal.

    "I don't think she did anything super special," Williams said, "but she just played a little bit more consistently."

    Actually, Petrova concurred with that assessment, calling her own play "solid."

    "I came up with the good shots when it was necessary," she said. "That's it. I don't think I've done anything spectacular today."

    Petrova, who was 0-4 previously against Williams, has developed a reputation for having trouble closing out matches. But she derived confidence from two recent victories: against Serena Williams on clay at Madrid this month, and against No. 15 Aravane Rezai in the third round at Roland Garros.

    Petrova will face No. 5 Elena Dementieva in an all-Russian quarterfinal. Dementieva ended the surprising stay of 131st-ranked qualifier Chanelle Scheepers, the first South African woman in the fourth round at Roland Garros since 1997, by winning 6-1, 6-3.

    Williams is still in the women's doubles tournament with her sister, but it seems likely that her participation in this French Open will be remembered more for a sartorial statement than any spectacular strokes.

    Even Petrova weighed in.

    "I must say: The dress that Venus wore - you must have a little guts to do that," she said.

    Williams designed the corset-like outfit that drew so much attention, and said she'll "retire" it after this event. That doesn't mean she won't come up with something else buzz-worthy.

    "Each and every day, on and off the court, on the match court and the practice court, I'm always pushing the envelope," Williams said. "But, you know, I have to wait until next year."

    A familiar refrain for her at Roland Garros.


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California Labor, Desperate, Tries to Bluff GOP

    Funny political bluff story of the week in California: this Contra Costa Times report that labor groups are considering whether to back moderate Republicans in legislative primaries next year. This would supposedly be a way to punish the conservative Republicans who -- as we speak -- are refusing to put Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to extend temporary tax increases on the ballot.

    You might be inclined to laugh at first blush. Wouldn't labor support -- particularly from public employee unions -- thoroughly poison the prospects of the moderate Republican challengers who accepted it?

    The answer is obvious: yes, labor support would be poison. But the unions are seeking to exploit fear and confusion about what may happen when the new "top two" primary rules, approved by voters last year (with the backing of the pictured Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Lt. Gov Abel Maldonado), take effect in the 2012 legislative elections.

    In the top-two primary, candidates of all parties appear on the same ballot together. And the top two vote getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election.

    So the labor plan assumes that in very Republican districts, two Republicans would advance to the general and that labor's support could be decisive.

    Good luck with that. Studies of how top two works in states that have tried it (namely Washington and Louisiana) show that it's exceedingly rare for two candidates of both parties to advance, and still rarer for the moderate to win. And attempts to predict how top two primary would work in California suggest that there would be few if any districts with two Republican nominees. There would more districts that produce two Democratic nominees -- which would offer an opportunity for Republicans or anti-tax groups to hurt labor by intervening in the primary. Of course, the same problem that would defeat this supposed labor strategy -- the taint of getting Republican support would cost more votes than it gains -- would be in play here.

    The reality is: the top two primary won't make our election system more competitive. Stronger medicine (including adding to the number of legislators and electing some through proportional representation) is necessary to get real competition across the state, and right now, that sort of approach is not on the political table.

    And a closing irony: top-two primary will have much greater impact if the other big political reform idea of the past decade, the citizens redistricting commission, fails to create more competitive districts. In fact, top-two primary would work best to promote the election of moderates if the redistricting commission produced heavily partisan (and thus non-competitive) Democratic and Republican seats. It is precisely in a heavily partisan district that one party is most likely to produce two nominees.


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U.S. Auto Sales on the Road to Nowhere

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    MIAMI - DECEMBER 02: MIAMI- NOVEMBER 2: Ford pickups sit on the sales lot at the Metro Ford dealership December 2, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Ford announced that its November sales declined to 123,222 units, from 177,485 a year ago, a 30.6 percent drop. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales plummeted 32 percent in December and Toyota Motor Corp.'s fell 37 percent as car and truck buyers continued to steer clear of showrooms due to the dismal economy.

    Ford's sales for 2008 fell 21 percent from a year earlier, keeping the Dearborn automaker in third place in the U.S. auto sales race, falling behind Japan's Toyota for the second straight year.

    Toyota's 2008 sales fell 16 percent to 2.22 million, compared with Ford's 1.98 million.

    Other automakers are to report U.S. sales for December and the full year later Monday, and analysts expect an industrywide drop of up to 40 percent as consumers remain uncertain about the economy and their jobs.

    Subaru of America Inc. said its U.S. sales crept higher in 2008, poising the Japanese company to be the only major automaker with a yearly sales increase. Subaru's U.S. sales rose by 0.3 percent to 187,699 vehicles from 187,208 in 2007, as consumers snapped up its top-selling Forester and Impreza models.

    Ford said it sold 138,458 light vehicles last month, down from 204,787 in December 2007. But even though its sales were dismal, Ford said it expects to fare better than the industry overall.

    The auto Web site Edmunds.com predicted sales for the full year will total just over 13 million, down 18 percent from 2007 and the lowest level since 1992.

    Poor industry sales continue to mean good deals for consumers, though. Aaron Bragman, automotive marketing research analyst for IHS Global Insight in Troy, Mich., said large incentives such as zero percent financing and rebates will continue well into 2009 as automakers try everything they can to boost sales.

    Full-size truck incentives ran from $7,000 to $8,000 in December, and Bragman expects that to continue all year as the economy fails to improve.

    "You look in the paper and the deals on brand new GM pickups are astonishing," he said. "The discount that you get buys a heck of a lot of gasoline."

    One automaker, Hyundai Motor America, is trying to woo skittish buyers by promising to let them return cars free for up to a year if they lose their jobs and can't make the payments.

    The "Hyundai Assurance Program" applies to customers stricken by misfortune outside of their control, such as losing their job, becoming disabled or losing their drivers license for medical reasons. It covers depreciation up to $7,500.

    Similar bold moves might be necessary throughout the year. Global Insight predicts that U.S. sales will drop from 13 million in 2008 to 10.3 million this year as the economy continues to sputter.

    While that may bring deals for consumers, it's bad news for the automakers. General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC were forced to go to the government for loans to hold off bankruptcy, and Ford says it may need government money if sales don't recover in 2009.

    But Bragman said the sales drops are not unique to the U.S.-based automakers.

    "This is a domestic market problem because we see the same kinds of declines at Toyota and Honda as we see at GM and Ford," he said. "It's not a matter of getting financing. It's a matter of getting shoppers."

    Toyota said it sold 141,949 vehicles in December, down from 224,399 a year earlier.

    Ford said it sold 43,087 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars last month, down 26 percent from December 2007. The company sold 90,418 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury light trucks in December, 34 percent fewer than the same month a year earlier.

    George Pipas, Ford's top sales analyst, predicted that passenger cars will outsell trucks in the U.S. this year for the first time since 2000 as consumers continue to be wary of high gasoline prices.

    Ford said there was a glimmer of hope in its sales figures. Its market share was 14.6 percent, up 0.7 percentage point from December 2007 and the first time since 1997 that the company has seen its share go up three straight months.

    It also sold 195,823 Focus compacts in 2008, the highest total since 2004 and a 13 percent increase from 2007.

    "This is a strong ending to end a very challenging year," Jim Farley, Ford's group vice president for marketing, said in a statement.


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Nady Pushing to Make Squad

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    Manager Bud Black will have some tough decisions to make as opening day approaches.

    The Padres got spanked by Cleveland 12-7 on Wednesday in Goodyear, Arizona but it was a good day for veteran Xavier Nady.

    In the first inning he made a nice play at first base to retire Nick Swisher. In the 4th Nady doubled, and then scored on a double by Alex Dickerson. Nady wasn't done. He also had a solo homer to right field in the top of the sixth inning that tied the score at four.

    This spring Nady is hitting .364, with 8 hits and 3 RBI in 22 at bats. There's an opening on the team for a veteran player to come off the bench now that Mark Kotsay has retired. Wednesday's effort will no doubt improve his chances of making the big league roster.

    Nady has played for 8 major league teams since breaking in with the Padres 14 years ago.


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  • Date: 8/28/02
  • Title: Harper's Magazine Editor Lewis Lapham Discusses Smoking Inside His Office Behind a Glass Door
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    Lauer in live remote interview with Harper's Magazine Editor Lewis Lapham from inside his New York City, New York office while smoking a cigarette. Lapham says "Probably about two packs, maybe. Well, I think the laws are intolerant and repressive and unnecessary, however, they are the laws, so therefore, I have a glass door. That's right. And they can still do that. If they see that I'm smoking inside, they don't have to come into the office. If they choose to come into the office, then that's their decision. Well, that's the point of the door. So therefore, they're not exposed to it, so they are safe. No, because I have one of those machines that purifies the air, and I also can keep the window open. So as far as I am concerned, the atmosphere is all but antiseptic outside the door. They're delighted. Several of my editors themselves smoke. So they have no objection, and the ones that don't are protected. It is $21 a year. Very briefly. Once I thought about it, maybe 40 years ago. I appreciate the offer. I admire Ralph. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to have to sell out my principles or my belief in individual freedom for money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that Ralph objects to when it's done by Washington lobbyists and crooked politicians, and I wouldn't want to sell out the conviction or the principle for money, and I think Ralph would approve of that even though I admire him. I could lose readers, Ralph. I could lose readers. I mean, for the number of readers I gain because I don't smoke, I could lose readers who, perhaps, subscribe because I do. I could try it (quitting) for, maybe, a couple of days. I'm not sure I could try it for a couple of weeks. We can try that. I'll start trying today, Matt. I mean, I'll see how far I get. I'll start with a high heart, great expectation and pure will. But I don't know how far I'm going to get. I don't think so, Ralph. I mean, I would quote back to them Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who once said that the fresh air innocence were very good if you didn't take too much of them and that most of the worthwhile achievements in life have taken place in bad air. I mean, I associate smoke with metropolitan, urban civilization." In interview Lapham's friend consumer advocate Ralph Nader in Washington DC says "Well, he's certainly minimizing the exposure of second-hand smoke to his colleagues, but when they go into his little office for his sagacious advice, for--he's chief editor, they're going to be imbibing this smoke. And there's certainly a lot of studies that show that second-hand smoke causes lung cancer. It causes a far larger number of heart diseases that becomes fatal. It exposes children to aggravation of their asthma and respiratory diseases. So it is a serious problem. But I want to put Lou Lapham, who's the editor of this great magazine, Harper's, in a conflict-of-interest situation. I want him to choose between enriching the tobacco companies and impairing his lungs and his cardiovascular system, which have no say in the matter, on the one hand and the enlargement of his readers for Harper's on the other. And so I'm offering 1,000 subscriptions to Harper's magazine if he will stop smoking for two years. And I'm asking subscribers and other people around the country who love this excellent magazine, Harper's, to add their number of subscriptions so we can keep forcing him to choose between his magazine and his impairment of his health. Matt, you see what happens when nicotine takes over a reasonable mind? It isn't a matter of money. Harper's doesn't make any money. It's a matter of more and more readers for the poetry and articles and features in Harper's magazine, which is what Lou is all about. And, you know, I want people to really join this. This could be a real paradigm in the numbers. And people to submit gift subscriptions, five, 10, 15. The phone number for Harper's is 420-5744 in New York City. This idea, Matt, worked with the editor of The Progressive years ago, who was a chronic smoker. But scientists and health professionals aside, Lou, if Aristotle, Confucius, Ibn Khaldun (ph), Mother Teresa and Thomas Jefferson urged you to stop smoking, wouldn't you? Let's hear from you Harper readers to save Lou from his nicotine."

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Orange Line Collision Injures Three

No customers were on the trains

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    Metro officials are investigating a two train collision on the Orange Line this morning that injured three Metro workers.

    A six-car train was pulling into the West Falls Church Metro rail yard at 4:27 a.m. when it struck the back of a parked train inside the rail yard. According to Metro, the driver of the train, who has been a Metro employee since May 2007 and a train operator since Nov. 2008, was finishing his shift when the accident happened.

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    Three workers were hurt in the rear-end collision. (Published Monday, Nov. 30, 2009)

    Two employees were on board the parked train, cleaning it to get it ready for service, when it was hit. Those employees and the operator driving the six-car train were hurt during the accident and taken to a nearby hospital. All three were treated for minor, non life-threatening injuries and released.

    No customers were on board the trains.

    Two cars were derailed in the accident and all of the train cars suffered some damage. The two derailed cars were damaged beyond repair, according to Metro. The transit agency added that an estimate of the damages has yet to be determined.

    The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the accident, which called the crash-worthiness of Metro cars into question yet again. Both derailed cars Series 1000 cars, among the oldest in Metro's fleet. The NTSB recommended the replacement of that series of cars years ago.

    Metro Board member Michael Brown said the transit agency simply doesn't have the money replace all the older cars.

    A Statement has been issued Union President jackie Jeter saying:
    "I am deeply troubled by the accident at West Falls Church Station," said Jackie Jeter, the transit workers union president in a statement. "On behalf of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, I extend thoughts and prayers to the operators for a speedy recovery.

    "Sunday's accident is the fourth involving Metrorail workers since the fatal June 22 crash. Clearly worker and rider safety is a problem that continues to go unresolved."

    The crash is the latest accident in a series for Metro. The June 22 crash that killed nine on the Red Line, a worker killed by a gravel spreader in August and another track repairman killed when he was hit by a train in September have kept the transit agency under the glare of the spotlight.

    Metro also had trouble on the Red Line this morning. There was also a train malfunction at Wheaton. It has been resolved, but is still causing delays on the way to Shady Grove.

    There was also a mechanical problem at Dupont Circle at the Q St. entrance. Like last weekend, all entrance escalators were out of service. That issue has been resolved as well.

    Metro said it has contacted the Tri-State Oversight Committee and the National Transportation Safety Board about Sunday's accident on the Orange Line.


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Get a Life! Er, Death…

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    Online games like "World of Warcraft" have spurred services designed let gamers know when one of their cyber pals has died.

    Some people seem to live online – which is causing unforeseen complications when they really die.

    Two Internet-based pay services have popped up to let online gamers know when one of their cyber pals has passed on to a place without broadband, and a third is on the way.

    The macabre sites almost seem like a necessity in an age where social circles can revolve around games like the 10-million-player “World of Warcraft,” which are commonly played among people who have never met, yet are considered integral parts of one another’s lives.

    A service known as Deathswitch will automatically send out virtual death notices and key information like passwords to email addresses specified by the customer if he or she doesn’t check in within a defined period. The aptly named Slightly Morbid allows the deceased’s loved ones to log in and deliver the bad news.

    Another service, called Legacy Locker, is set to debut next month. It’s similar to Slightly Morbid, but will require a death certificate before any notifications are made.

    The services are a creepy sign of changing social mores as more of our lives are led online, often in the company of strangers.

    But even for the non-gamers, the services are a reminder to assemble an array of vital passwords and important computer documents in a safe place, like a real will – or just plan to live to forever.

    Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992.


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Tichbon, Strahl on Ross Asset liquidators committee

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Bruce Tichbon, who set up the support group for investors in the failed Ross Asset Management, and former commercial lawyer John Strahl are among those named to a liquidation committee set to meet this month.

The seven-member committee cannot make binding demands on liquidators John Fisk and David Bridgman of PWC but the pair are obliged to have regard for its views.

Assets of the Ross group of companies remain frozen pending the outcome of the committee's meeting on February 25 after a High Court ruling earlier this month.

Messrs Fisk and Bridgman were initially installed as receivers and managers of the RAM companies that Mr Fisk has described as having the hallmarks of a ponzi scheme. Some 1720 investor accounts show investments totalling $449.6 million, though the liquidators have only been able to identify $10.5 million of assets.

Mr Tichbon and Mr Strahl, formerly a partner at DLA Phillips Fox, are joined by Jason Fullerton-Smith, chief financial officer of Kordia NZ, energy planner Tom Halliburton, management consultant Peter MacDonald, IT contractor Barrington Prince and property valuer Arthur Stewart.

The committee is made up of Ross group creditors to represent those people owed by the fund manager and was chosen by a vote.

The various funds were frozen after a Financial Markets Authority Investigation, and the Serious Fraud Office is also inquiring into the case.

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Regretably, this one will quietly slip into the mists of time. There's not enough in the kitty to interest the liquidators in conducting a drag-em-out discovery investigation. Unless there is an open public examination of Ross by the liquidators the investors will never know what went wrong, and, how they can avoid making the same mistake again.

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This committe is a total w__k. No power and PWC will do exactly as they please.

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Correct. The only way to enforce a Liquidator's duties is to go to the High Court, more costs, more legal fees more time wasted while you wait for a Court date....

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The FMA should take this case over using its powers in the legislation that it is in the public interest that the case be investigated. Otherwise we will see many more Ross cases especially as Kiwisaver funds are disgorged to the over 65s looking to chase a per more percentage income than the bank offers.

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Bishop Paprocki mines canon law for guidance on what to call the Holy Father after Feb. 28 and how to define his landmark decision to step down.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — After Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign, a debate quickly ensued about the proper terminology for describing the Pope’s stunning decision: Had he “abdicated,” resigned or “renounced” his office?  And what would he be called after he took up his new life of prayer and study?

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., a canon lawyer, has entered the discussion, offering the fruit of his analysis regarding the proper canonical term for the Pope’s decision and the likely title and name he will use after his resignation.

Such matters are not entirely settled because of the singular nature of this landmark decision: “A Pope has not left office alive for almost 600 years,” acknowledged Bishop Paprocki in a statement that offered his “canonical reflections on terminology.”

The remarks were sent to a canon-law listserve, and the bishop subsequently agreed to allow the Register to publish his reflections.

“What seems to have been overlooked so far in these discussions is that the word 'pope' does not appear in the Code of Canon Law,” wrote the bishop.

Instead, Canon 331, which defines the office held by the pope, provides “several titles for the office held by a pope: 'Bishop of Rome,' 'Successor of St. Peter,' 'Head of the College of Bishops,' 'Vicar of Christ' and 'Pastor of the Universal Church.' Other canons give us the title most commonly used for the Petrine office throughout the Code: ‘Roman Pontiff.’”

No surprise, then, wrote the bishop, that “Benedict did not use the word ‘Pope’ anywhere in his spoken announcement or letter of resignation.”

In his letter, Pope Benedict announced that he would step down from “the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter, entrusted to me by the cardinals on April 19, 2005, in such a way, that as from Feb. 28, 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of St. Peter, will be vacant and a conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff …”

The Pope signed his letter of resignation “BENEDICTUS PP. XVI,” and Bishop Paprocki noted that it “simply means that he is the sixteenth pope by the name ‘Benedict.’ That is a historical fact that will never change.”

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Bishop Paprocki then suggested that Catholics should view the word “pope” as “an honorific, even a term of endearment (‘papa’ in Italian). It is not the title of an ecclesiastical office.”

Thus, just as Catholics continue to call a priest “Father,” even though “he has resigned from the office of pastor,” so Italians probably “will continue to call Pope Benedict Papa Benedetto even after he leaves office as the Bishop of Rome,” predicted the bishop, who lived in Rome for three and a half years while studying canon law.

“I don’t think people will have a hard time wrapping their minds around having a pope who is no longer the Roman pontiff, bishop of Rome, etc. Certainly, in direct address, one would never address him as anything but ‘Your Holiness.’”

That said, Bishop Paprocki added that it “would be best to know what Pope Benedict himself wants to be called after Feb. 28, and I hope he will tell us.”

While some experts have said that the Pope should be called “Cardinal Ratzinger” after he formally resigns, Bishop Paprocki did not think term seemed “correct.”

“If he had resigned before reaching the age of 80, after which a cardinal may no longer vote in a papal conclave, I do not think he would have, should have or could have donned a red cassock and entered the conclave in the Sistine Chapel to vote for his successor.

“Instead, at 8pm Rome time on Feb. 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI will have a new identity to which we will have to become accustomed: His Holiness, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, former Roman/supreme pontiff, bishop emeritus of Rome.”

Then there’s the problem of how to describe the Pope’s decision to resign from the Petrine office.

“The official English translation of the Code of Canon Law translates renuntiatio in Canon 332, §2 as 'resignation.' ('If it happens that the Roman pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested, but not that it be accepted by anyone.')"

Accordingly, Bishop Paprocki pointed to “resign” as “a more accurate translation in this context than ‘renounce’ and certainly not ‘abdicate’ (a term used by royalty when a monarch steps down from the throne).”

To those who find it “odd” that Pope Benedict resigned without actually “submitting that resignation to anyone,” Bishop Paprocki noted that the canon offers the following guidance on a “valid” resignation: The decision must be “made freely and properly manifested, but not that it be accepted by anyone.”

But what to make of the fact that Pope Benedict himself used the term “renounce” in his Feb. 10 statement marking his unexpected decision?

Bishop Paprocki suggested that “‘renounce’ is a literal but not necessarily accurate translation of renuntiatio in this context.”

“Since the Pope wrote and spoke in Latin, it is a question of translation. Parallel passages in canon law regarding bishops and pastors stepping down from office use the word renuntiatio, but we never speak of a bishop sending in his letter of ‘renunciation’ when he turns 75 or a pastor ‘renouncing’ his office.”

Thus, in his view, “‘resignation’ is the proper translation of renuntiatio in this context.”

Bishop Paprocki said that his “humble” contribution to the debate provoked by Pope Benedict’s landmark decision may well be challenged by “more learned experts.” Indeed, the subject “could all become moot if the Holy Father tells us clearly his wishes.”

For now, the Springfield bishop will be praying “for Pope Benedict XVI during this time of transition and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the election of his successor.”

 Joan Frawley Desmond is the Register’s senior editor.

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