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Los Angeles Police Commission Votes to Scrutinize Some Officers' Finances

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The civilian Los Angeles Police Commission voted unanimously today to require gang and narcotics officers to disclose personal financial information.

Police union officials have filed suit seeking an injunction on the disclosure policy.

Union officials told the Torrance, Calif.-based Daily Breeze Wednesday that some 500 officers would quit or transfer to other units if the city requires them to disclose their finances as mandated by the federal consent decree.

The proposal would require all gang and narcotics officers under the rank of lieutenant to provide detailed information on their finances, including property, past-due credit cards, outside income, stocks, bonds, bank accounts, and bank accounts shared with other family members.

"No other law enforcement agency in the country forces its officers to share this kind of information," police union President Tim Sands said Wednesday in a prepared statement. "This financial disclosure plan is an unnecessary and ill-conceived intrusion into the private lives of LAPD officers, their spouses, and their children."

Under the proposal, the disclosure would apply immediately to all newly assigned gang and narcotics officers. Disclosure requirements would be phased in over two years for officers currently working gang and narcotics assignments.

The consent decree was born of the Rampart corruption scandal, which involved gang officers. The consent decree has increased scrutiny of LAPD gang and narcotic officers to the point that many are frustrated with the increased paperwork.

Under the consent decree, gang officers are prohibited from using secret informants and the officers are required to work in uniform.

The police union told the Daily Breeze that corrupt officers would find ways to circumvent the disclosure such as hiding funds in other family members' accounts.

"I am puzzled by this," Robert Stern of the nonprofit Center for Governmental Studies told the paper. "Usually (financial disclosure) is meant to prevent conflicts, not corruption. I always say that the ones who want to be corrupt will be corrupt and won't disclose."

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coxgregg @ 12/20/2007 8:01 PM

Just another way for the cops to be scrutinized while the bad guys go on their merry way.......

cforbis @ 12/21/2007 7:11 AM

I have always had problems with the "civilian" oversite boards. These boards usually are only staffed with those people with an axe to grind or a political agenda and don't ,for the most part ,even know about the inner workings of police work. We are given the powers to deprive people of their most sacred God given right. Freedom. How long now before every arrest must be scrutinized by those who don't have a clue about police work on the streets and would not volunteer to sacrafice, and do what we do every day to keep them safe. I wonder how many of these people would volunteer their financial history for us to scrutinize.

posapres @ 12/21/2007 10:01 AM

Why single out just those units and the rank and file? If this commission truly believes that financial disclosure is a great way to fight corruption then their recommendation should apply to ALL city employees and ALL board and commission members (including themselves.)

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Glasius When I entered law enforcement in the mid- 1970s, the best personal police flashlight was the largest you could get your hands on. The reason was two-fold: the larger the light, the more batteries it held and, therefore, the more light it provided. Second, the larger the light, the better weapon it made.

Having a five Dcell light in your hand on a traffic stop gone bad was very comforting, and, at that time, striking a suspect with a flashlight was considered fair game, ahem, I mean a judicious use of force.

I do admit hitting someone in the head with a flashlight can be scary. I once struck a suspect in the head with a four-cell metal flashlight as he was kicking the sides and windshield out of a car that he did not own.

Repeated warnings to “cease and desist” went unheeded, so I felt I needed to get his attention. One swift blow to the head stopped him instantly, and I mean instantly. There was so much blood, I was convinced I killed him. As he was taken off in the ambulance, I remember thinking, “What have I done? I’ve gone and killed this man over a car!” Fortunately, he did not die, and the last time I saw him, he called me “sir.”

Sadly, the personal flashlight has fallen from favor as an impact weapon as other, more practical tools have been developed. But that does not mean you no longer can use the flashlight as a fighting implement. The development of smaller but brighter handheld lights has improved by leaps and bounds over the last two decades. A number of companies have developed extremely bright, handheld, white-light systems that can blind an opponent. The ability to overwhelm an adversary without hitting them is a huge step forward in judicious use of force. It also requires little, if any, paperwork—something every street cop greatly appreciates.

The downside: These small, intense white lights have a limited burn period because the bulb or batteries expire reasonably fast during continuous use. Additionally, the bulbs can prove fragile, popping when dropped on the ground or mounted on the end of a long gun that’s fired repeatedly.

Then came light-emitting diodes (LEDs). These electronic marvels do not create light like a conventional bulb, and have proved long lasting and extremely durable. Modern LEDs can achieve a level of brightness the human eye cannot look into without suffering momentary blindness. Thus, the LED has become a very viable light-source option for tactical lights.

In the fall of 2004, I learned of a new light by Blackhawk Industries. Initially, I didn’t pay much attention to it. After all, several companies already make top quality white and LED handheld lights, so I doubted Blackhawk could improve these tools. Boy, was I wrong!

Called the Gladius by Blackhawk’s Night-Ops Division, this new LED fighting light was designed and developed by retired Navy SEAL Ken Good. Good, a well-known trainer on the military and lawenforcement training circuit, has specialized in the reducedlight fighting environment for quite a few years. While a bit larger than a number of other handheld LED lights, the Gladius does more than any other light currently available.

Weighing just over 6.5 ounces, the Gladius is made from what appears to be some type of metal alloy with a hard coating. It’s available in black, grey, coyote-tan and OD green. It measures a hair over 6" long with a 1"-wide body. The bezel measures 1.25" wide, and the Gladius takes two lithium batteries. The rear of the light, just forward of the activation switch, has a four-prong protrusion attached so you can use the light with the popular syringeflashlight shooting technique. An adjustable lanyard allows you to drop the light from your support hand to complete a two-hand shooting grip on a handgun while not losing the light. The reflector and lens were specially designed to enhance the LED’s light output.

Some may say the Gladius is almost too complicated, but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s easy to operate and learn. It took me about 10 minutes to read the supplied handbook that comes with the light, and another 10 to learn how to use the rotary tail switch to obtain the various operation modes. To tell you the truth, I doubt I will ever use some of the features, but I’m comforted knowing they’re there.

I first saw the Gladius while instructing at the Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) in southern Ohio ( www.tdiohio.com). The staff was training a number of military personnel in reducedlight operations. Jeremy Decker, a veteran Ohio police officer and staff instructor at TDI, came across one of the first Gladius lights to hit the shelf at a local police supply. Having heard about the light and understanding its capabilities, Jeremy bought one and brought it with him for the class. While performing a number of room search and clearing exercises in TDI’s twostory tactical house, Jeremy used the momentary and strobe light settings on his Gladius to great effect. While in strobe mode, he was able to move from point to point in a room without his opponents charting where he had gone! I was the recipient of the strobe effect on several occasions, and I couldn’t see Jeremy until he was standing next to me—too late to defend myself if he wanted to do me harm. At that point, I knew that I had to have a Gladius of my own.

The Gladius is not inexpensive (currently running around $200–$220), but then neither is your life. Each one of us has to decide which piece of equipment will enhance our performance and ability to prevail on the street. I’ve chosen the Gladius, and it’s with me at all times. You may want to give it serious consideration.

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George Galloway has attacked Westminster's politicians as complacent and narcissistic in an uncompromising comment piece for, three weeks after his by-election victory in Bradford West.

The Respect MP used the article to hit out against the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat consensus on issues like Afghanistan and spending cuts.

He claimed that the French presidential campaign and upcoming general election in Greece would reflect the nature of his victory against the "grim orthodoxy" of "slashing the state... and appeasing the money markets".

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Every season Queensland events planner Kristy of Imbue Weddings puts together a Style Story to showcase her new products. Today we get to share her Winter style collaboration- full of beautiful details you can transform to your own wedding, Kristy’s new story is perfect for my favorite season of the year!

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The booming 20-year-old vocal powerhouse from Westlake, La., was revealed Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent contest, leaving bluesy 21-year-old crooner Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga., and sassy 16-year-old budding diva Jessica Sanchez of San Diego to compete for the show’s record deal grand prize on next week’s finale.

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Chinatown Entrepreneurs and Police Professionalism

During the early postwar period, business leaders did not press their professionalization campaign any further than was necessary for cutting off payola to City Hall and consolidating their power over the SFRA. San Francisco’s managerial growth proponents railed against the corrupt connections Robinson’s administration maintained with the SFPD leadership, but the police reformers rarely explained how an independent, professional police chief would set policies serving the citizenry’s shared values. This imprecision carried political benefits for professionalism advocates. By allowing various groups of San Franciscans to independently imagine how professionalized police reforms might serve their needs, the downtown reformers gathered a wide range of constituencies under their clean-government banner.

In Chinatown a new generation of Chinese-American businessmen joined the police professionalism movement in a broader campaign for full citizenship rights. Chinatown’s young entrepreneurs hoped that once managerial growth advocates achieved power, they would use professionalism’s emphasis on consolidated, color-blind police authority to grant Chinese Americans honest and equal law enforcement.

During the machine-politics era, the SFPD’s approach to Chinatown diverged further from the principles of police professionalism than its policies in any other area of the city. The department had created the Chinatown detail sometime around 1878 in response to neighborhood tong wars, but large-scale Chinatown gang violence had long since abated. Still, after World War II, the fifteen-member detail remained the SFPD’s only police presence in the neighborhood. An archetype for the core principles and practices of machine-era policing, the Chinatown detail was race conscious, free from day-to-day over-sight, disconnected from the residents it policed, and an integral component of the machine’s payola networks.

The Chinatown detail operated without any formal physical or functional connections to the regular police. Although the neighborhood was mere blocks from the SFPD’s Central Station, the Chinatown detail did not operate out of this district station. Instead, the detail was based in a small, secret Chinatown hideout. The office had a private phone line, but the desk was rarely staffed, so the detail maintained little daily contact with the Hall of Justice. At the same time, official SFPD policy forbade Bureau of Special Services inspectors or Central Station patrol officers from stepping foot into the neighborhood. Chinatown was thus the only residential neighborhood in the entire city not supervised by a district station and the Hall of Justice’s Inspectors Bureau.

The detail’s operational autonomy reflected the SFPD leadership’s bigoted attitudes toward Chinese Americans. The high brass articulated that prejudice when explaining why they allowed the Chinatown detail to forgo standard blue uniforms for stylish suits that made the officers look like “movie detectives.” One official suggested that Chinatown residents were too backward to associate blue uniforms with anything other than the “tyrannical officials of the courts of China.” Another SFPD leader stressed neighborhood insularity and criminality, warning, “In Chinatown the uniform tips your hand. That star shines up very nicely. They can see you coming blocks away… In many cases, such as gambling houses, a lookout or ‘look-see’ is posted outside. Police wearing a uniform would have a hard time gaining evidence.”

SFPD leaders further evinced their dim views toward Chinatown residents by discouraging dialogue between the Chinatown detail and Chinese Americans. During the 1940s and early 1950s, the police force did not require members of the Chinatown detail to possess any facility in Chinese languages and did not include any Chinese-American officers. (The SFPD as a whole did not employ a Chinese-American patrolman until 1964.) Moreover, the department made it impossible for neighborhood residents to contact officers by phone. In the days before two-way radios, San Franciscans living outside of Chinatown called a central communications hub, which then contacted the appropriate district station to arrange an officer response. Chinatown residents could not reach police in this manner because their detail was not attached to a station. The SFPD expected Chinatown residents to stand and wait for the detail to pass by the intersection of Washington and Grant streets or to leave a message at Red’s Bar at the corner of Jackson Street and Beckett Alley. These old-world arrangements enhanced the squad’s cachet with the nation’s true crime magazines, but the Chinese Chamber of Commerce complained that merchants often could not locate police when robberies occurred.

Although machine politicians gave negligible consideration to crime fighting in Chinatown, they did value the neighborhood as a well of graft. Postwar observers estimated that under the Chinatown detail’s watch, the neighborhood gambling industry generated six to seven million dollars in proceeds a year. Wide-eyed machine officials looking to tap into these proceeds jostled with one another for influence over Chinatown detail appointments.

It took Mayor Elmer Robinson nearly his entire first term to gain full control over the Chinatown detail. Shortly before he took office in 1948, the previous administration’s Police Commission tried to curtail the incoming mayor’s access to payola by abolishing the detail. Robinson had no trouble reactivating the squad, but he then found himself wrestling with his police chief, Michael Mitchell. Police details comprised short-term appointments set by the officers’ immediate supervisor, not the mayor’s Police Commission. The Chinatown detail officially reported to the police chief, and thus as soon as Mitchell became chief, he assigned a Chinatown detail leader loyal to himself. Indignant, Robinson attempted to replace Mitchell’s pick with his own police ally, but the chief went to the press and exposed Robinson’s meddling. Noting that authority over Chinatown appointments had “always been a sore spot,” Mitchell charged that Chinatown residents were “in league with the mayor” to “relax” Mitchell’s supposed demand that the neighborhood “stay closed.”

Officer Leo Osuna, a member of the Chinatown squad, overlooks a street in Chinatown. Chinatown squad members wore well-tailored suits rather than the SFPD’s standard blue uniforms. This sartorial choice allowed squad members to strike photogenic poses, but Chinese-American business leaders complained that the suits made it harder for neighborhood residents and visiting tourists to find and communicate with police. August 18, 1955. (Reprinted with permission, Bancroft Library, BANC PIC 2006.029: 138946.0208.)

Ultimately, Mitchell and Robinson established a truce in which detail officers under Mitchell and members of the Bureau of Special Services answering to Robinson’s Police Commission allegedly both exacted concessions from Chinatown gamblers. When Chief Mitchell retired at the end of 1950, Mayor Robinson streamlined the lines of loyalty. His new police chief took power announcing only a single transfer: a Robinson-approved officer at the head of the Chinatown detail.

Since the opening decades of the twentieth century, Chinatown’s entrepreneurs had hoped to earn more equal government services in housing, law enforcement, and host of other areas by reforming their neighborhood’s reputation. San Francisco’s traditional leadership conceived of family men as ideal citizens, but, as Nayan Shah has shown, these same city officials regarded Chinatown as “an immoral and disease-infested slum” occupied by working-class bachelors and female prostitutes. Through the first half of the century, Shah illustrates, Chinatown business owners attempted to overcome this impediment to integration by remaking their neighborhood’s image as a “family society of independent family households.”

Following World War II, Chinatown entrepreneurs found that their public relations efforts were being stymied by mainstream press reports on Chinatown gambling. These articles referred to illegal gaming as both an active Chinatown tradition and a threat (via roving lottery ticket sellers) to the rest of the city. When H. L. Wong, president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, later explained his motivation for developing the family-oriented Chinese New Year Festival, he emphasized his desire to rid the neighborhood of its gambling reputation. “I always saw the newspaper headlines ‘Chinatown Gambling Raid’ the pre–Chinese New Year Festival days,” Wong recalled. “I always grumbled, ‘What’s the matter with them? There are so many good things about Chinese and our Chinatown. Why do they play up this gambling?’ ”
These business leaders recognized that wiping away Chinatown’s gambling reputation and securing a family-oriented image for their neighborhood was not simply a project of reforming Chinatown residents and culture. The mission also required that Chinese Americans help clean up the white government in City Hall. Chinese-American spokespersons who wished to decouple Chinatown and gambling in the mainstream’s perception understood that “Chinatown Gambling Raid” headlines persisted because the SFPD refused to professionalize its policing of the neighborhood.

This public relations problem was worsening during the late 1940s as a new generation of local politicians curried downtown support with campaigns against police payola. Repeatedly, these reform efforts against police venality implicated Chinatown. In 1950, for instance, San Francisco district attorney Thomas Lynch took on the machine by recording testimony accusing Chinatown detail officers and Mayor Robinson’s Chinatown campaign organizer of receiving monthly extortion payments amounting to $35,000 from Chinatown gambling operations. That same year Sacramento legislators pursuing a similar clean-government agenda accused members of the Bureau of Special Services—which operated under the influence of the Police Commission and thus the mayor—of collecting Chinatown payoffs as well. One informant for this state inquiry claimed that Inspector George “Paddy” Wafer spent so much time inside a Chinatown gambling house that other customers mistook the detective for the establishment’s owner.

Chinatown’s business elites groused over the negative press, and they saw in police professionalism an opportunity to establish themselves as partners with managerial growth proponents. Young entrepreneurs and professionals in the neighborhood fumed over the fact that “of all the many racial groups in San Francisco the Chinese alone require a special police squad.” However, neighborhood spokespersons did not want to ruffle the feathers of those city officials empowered to abolish the detail with charges of race-conscious discrimination.

Spokespersons found a color-blind language of protest in growth-oriented police professionalism. In 1949, for instance, the president of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce responded to a gambling raid conducted by state agents with the careful suggestion that the SFPD could provide white tourists visiting their neighborhood with a better sense of security if it replaced the Chinatown detail with recognizable uniformed police. During the mid-1950s, Dai-Ming Lee, an editor and English-language columnist for the Chinese World, insisted that it was the detail’s autonomous nature—the fact that it was “supreme unto itself ”—that led to its “abuse of authority.” The “plain-clothes sinecures in the Chinatown detail,” Lee stormed, were an anachronism from “the dim, distant past.” Lee noted that two studies—including an “efficiency survey” sponsored by downtown-friendly politicians on the Board of Supervisors—had recommended abolition of the Chinatown detail, and he suggested that Mayor Robinson’s refusal to accept modern management principles stifled broad-based economic growth. “In spite of its lack of advocates,” Lee wrote, “the Chinatown squad continues in existence. We wonder what unseen power makes this possible and what benefits accrue thereby, and to whom. Some day these facts may be revealed, and if and when they are, they should make interesting reading.”

Lee’s insinuations of police corruption and improper management captured the attention of the city’s mainstream press. The same day Lee levied this oblique accusation in the Chinese World, the afternoon-printed San Francisco Examiner included Lee’s quote in its own call for the detail’s elimination.

The San Francisco Chronicle and Police Professionalism

Chinatown’s young entrepreneurs championed police professionalism on the assumption that a professionalized police chief would initiate top-down reforms serving the color-blind interests of the city’s families. However, the professionalism campaign’s vague approach to law enforcement strategies also enabled it to attract constituencies less invested in the city’s traditional family values. During the early 1950s, a collection of young, white San Francisco Chronicle journalists who frequently reveled in the city’s bawdy reputation emerged as the local professionalism campaign’s most public proponents.

The Chronicle entered the 1950s as a third-place afterthought among the city’s four major newspapers. In terms of both circulation and political influence, the San Francisco Examiner towered over the local media landscape. Proclaiming itself the “Monarch of the Dailies,” the Examiner attracted the favor of select politicians by boosting the officials’ public image and supplying them with information critical for the policy-making process. As the political scientist Frederick Wirt explained, passing a single policy item through San Francisco’s convoluted government (the city maintained 65 separate elective offices and 29 boards and commissions) often required local politicians to broker deals with an array of boards, commissions, and departments. Politicians could maximize their powers of persuasion in these negotiations if they understood the interests motivating each of these government bodies. Local journalists, Wirt observed, often possessed just this sort of knowledge, and political elites thus respected reporters as important policy-making allies.

The Examiner used its dominant circulation and news-gathering abilities to win influence in City Hall, then employed that leverage to affect appointments within the SFPD. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, for instance, the mayor’s Police Commission always appointed the chief of police nominated by Bill Wren, the Examiner’s managing editor. In a self-reinforcing fashion, the newspaper then used the loyalty of police officers, who gave the Examiner scoops on newsworthy crimes, to expand its news-gathering prowess over its competitors. “The good old Ex,” a Chronicle editor later grumbled, “owned, body and soul, the police department and the mayor’s office.”

During the early 1950s, a small cluster of ambitious journalists and editors at the San Francisco Chronicle saw an opportunity to challenge the Examiner’s favored position by advocating police professionalism. This campaign took off in earnest in 1952 when the Chronicle’s owners promoted Scott Newhall to the editor’s chair. Newhall had joined the newspaper in 1935 as a photographer and quickly climbed his way into the supervisorial ranks. Between 1952 and 1970, Newhall oversaw the Chronicle’s day-to-day operations and controlled the newspaper’s editorial voice. In a spectacular run, the Chronicle gained ground on the Examiner until it surpassed it in circulation by 1960.

Newhall cut into the Examiner’s sales and political clout with two inter-related strategies. First, the young editor attracted San Francisco readers by developing a reporting style that he felt reflected the readership’s culture. Describing the Chronicle’s editorial approach during the late 1960s, two media scholars wrote, “It is unlikely that there is another group of newspaper executives anywhere in the country—with the possible exception of those running the New York Times—that is so conscious of its audience, and of the effect of its newspaper on that audience.” Monopolizing and unleashing the Bay Area’s best writing talents (including, for most of this period, Herb Caen, the dean of local columnists), Newhall encouraged his writers to convey their own reactions to events in their stories. This approach produced what one Chronicle editor described as a “cult of personality” within the newspaper’s pages.

Newhall undercut the Examiner’s power from a second direction by exposing corruption within the SFPD and advocating for police professionalism via exposés on the “Blue Gang” atop the police force. Newhall hoped these reforms would “liberate the mayor and the police department” from the Examiner’s machinations. The scandal reports also served Newhall’s first goal of projecting his vision of the city’s culture. In the newspaper’s various corruption investigations, the Chronicle repeatedly characterized police payola, rather than the criminal activities permitted by the payoffs, as the true threat to the city’s welfare. The newspaper often portrayed the exposed underworld operations as exciting sources of entertainment. In 1953 the Chronicle series “Tenderloin: The Secret City” spent a week and a half railing against police extortion while introducing its readership to the city’s red-light district with amused winks and nods. Each report came with a boxed glossary defining catchy underworld terms and phrases such as three striper and drop the junk. Like the Chinatown entrepreneurs, the Chronicle hoped to use police professionalism against the city’s traditional machine. But while Chinatown’s entrepreneurs assumed that centralized policing would reinforce the traditional leadership’s avowed mores, some of the Chronicle’s professionalization advocates appeared unconcerned by the prospect of more relaxed cultural codes.

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Alsace Lorraine

Dark One

by Joe Tacopino

14 June 2007

Alsace Lorraine plays music that’s pretty, but not in the way you’d expect. Pretty like the girl you took out on a date who couldn’t hold a two-minute conversation—looks good on the outside, but ultimately lacks substance. The band’s 2001 debut, Through Small Windows, was a delicate display of windswept dream pop. The release was pleasant, but, at times, closely resembled vapid elevator music. Dark One, the band’s sophomore effort, is a bit more defined and engaging, and this may be due to the contribution of the group’s new vocalist, Isol.

The Argentinean chanteuse, who conjures up Astrud Gilberto, is singing for the first time in English and has an adorably insufficient grasp of the language. Her presence, alongside Paul Francke’s elegant melodies, provides a crisp aspect to the characteristically vacant songs. She also contributed to the songwriting for the tracks she sings on, making the Francke/Isol duo the new face of Alsace Lorraine.

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Conspicuously absent on this effort are the vocals of Caitlin Brice. Brice, whose whispery, frail voice pervaded throughout Windows, takes a backseat—providing harmonies on one song. Not that I want to over-emphasize the lineup change, but when Francke’s monotone delivery enters in “Dulce at Decorum” you get an unwanted glimpse into the utter mediocrity of their previous effort. Likewise on “One Day, Far Off, if the World Forgot”, where Francke endlessly laments the “faint androgynerds” and dulled “record grooves”—I shudder at such a world. He makes a brief attempt at Britpop with the upbeat “Claire”, before offering yet another lyrical and stylistic downer, “Burden Down”.

It’s the tracks with Isol that really give the listener something to hold on to. Her soft vocals and fledgling ESL skills shine brightly on the opening track “As We Fight” (although I’m not sure she wrote the line “Home Skillet, does she calm your dad?”). The song is one of the few unmistakably poppy songs amongst a sea of sad and somber ballads. “Call for Papers” shows the dream pop duo alternating verses and harmonizing the chorus; the contrast is a welcome addition to the tepid atmosphere which permeates throughout Francke’s compositions.

The album really makes an imprint with “The Tall Grass”—Isol’s most delightful and enticing ballad. The song exemplifies the fruitful marriage of Isol’s delicate voice with Francke’s atmospheric tunes. However, “The Tall Grass” is a brief 2:11, quickly giving way to Francke’s dreary voice with “Lost Province”—a song that had me grasping for my iPod to search for the Argentinean accent once again. “Go from My Window” provides a steady beat to Isol’s voice, and “No Stars” has the two wispy vocalists combing once again to lambaste the modeling business (why not?). Among the other 15 tracks are remixes of “Tall Grass” and “Call for Papers” which, for the sake of brevity, could have been scrapped (the originals are fine enough). And then there’s Francke’s sole acoustic lament, “The Gravel Road”, sandwiched between the two remixes. “It saw you wake before the sunrise / You thought you left without a sound”, Franke explains in an eerily stalker-like deadpan.

Alsace Lorraine plays the kind of music you badly want to like. It’s pretty, somber, sincere, and coherent. Paul Francke’s sparse, light, atmospheric arrangements are pleasant, but it really takes Isol, the Argentinean songstress, to breathe some life into this band. And it will be interesting to see how this collaboration will develop over time. I sincerely hope they continue to make music together, because without Isol’s voice I am anxious to stop the elevator and get out at the next floor.

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Wayne Rooney And Coleen McLoughlin Marry In Italy

Wayne And Coleen Are Wed!

Wayne Rooney married his childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin today in a ceremony at the Villa Durazzo on the Italian Riviera.

Most details are being kept under wraps as the 22 year olds have an exclusive magazine deal, but the Mayor of Portafino has confirmed that they were wed this morning. Lovely Coleen's a bona fide footballer's wife now!

Wayne and Coleen were spotted earlier this week at the town hall where they declared their intention to wed, as is required by Italian law.

I'm so happy for them – they've been together for six years, having met when they were twelve and beginning to date at sixteen. Big congrats to the happy couple!

All important clothing update: Reports are emerging that Coleen wore a strapless white dress and pearls and Wayne wore a hazel coloured suit with an open necked shirt.

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The Cannes Film Festival is wrapping up this weekend, but stars like Nicole Kidman [1], Stacy Keibler, and Tilda Swinton are still showing their faces at photocalls. These more casual events are a feast for the eyes — and not just for the beautiful fashion choices [2] the celebrities make. Their hair and makeup are typically fresh, pretty, and (most importantly) easy to replicate at home. Click through to see all of the best photocall looks straight from Cannes.

Tilda Swinton looked beautiful at the premiere of Only Lovers Left Alive with dewy skin and her signature pompadour.

Marion Cotillard was positively glowing at the premiere of The Immigrant. Her coiled topknot, pink shadow, and rosy lip hue gave off a serious ballerina vibe.

Stacy Keibler was spotted at the Stella Artois Suite at Cannes with loose, beachy waves and a bright pink lipstick.

Kat Graham showed off her blond locks and bright red lipstick during a visit to the Stella Artois Suite at Cannes.

A gorgeous rope braid was actress Carly Steel's look du jour at the Stella Artois Suite at Cannes.

Kerry Bishé's crimson curls and neutral makeup shone during the photocall for Max Rose.

Zoe Saldana [3] was glowing at the photocall for Blood Ties. Her bright pink lipstick and tousled hair were effortlessly sexy.

Styling her brown crop in loose waves, Marion Cotillard opted for a neutral makeup look at the photocall for Blood Ties.

At the Inside Llewyn Davis photocall, Carey Mulligan [4] glowed with thin black eyeliner and a swipe of peach lipstick across her lips.

The back of Carey's head displayed a cluster of knots, forming into a twisted, structured bun.

Rooney Mara wore an array of gray eye shadows and her hair slicked back into a tight bun at the Ain't Them Bodies Saints photocall.

It was a simple, straight style and natural makeup for Liv Tyler [5], who attended a press conference for Magnum.

To debut her film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence wore her shoulder-length hair in a piecey style with dramatic black eyeliner.

Marion Cotillard attended the Chopard [6] luncheon in Cannes, donning a casual updo and barely there makeup.

Fan Bingbing swept her extralong hair to one side in a unique half-up hairstyle for her appearance at the Chopard [7] luncheon.

Bérénice Bejo's oversize crown braid at the Le Passé photocall was an instant favorite.

Director Sofia Coppola attended the photocall of her film The Bling Ring with her signature lob styled in textured waves.

Emma Watson [8] kept things classic for her photocall for The Bling Ring, opting for a sideswept updo and bold brows.

With tousled waves and blunt bangs, Octavia Spencer shone during the Fruitvale Station photocall.

French actress Audrey Tautou styled her iconic pixie in piecey, textured curls. Bold brows and a mauve lip highlighted her glowing skin.

As a judge at the Cannes Festival this year, Nicole Kidman [9] will be showing plenty of face. For her first photocall, the actress opted for a casual blowout, glowing skin, and a pretty pink lip hue.

At a photocall for The Great Gatsby, actress Elizabeth Debicki swept her hair into a casual low bun. Her gorgeous blue-green eyes were highlighted with glossy shadow and loads of mascara.

At the same photocall, The Great Gatsby star Carey Mulligan [10] also opted for a sweeping low bun. Her makeup, on the other hand, focused on soft-pink lipstick and a thick, inky black line across her upper lids.

Isla Fisher [11] also showed face at the Great Gatsby photocall with her red hair styled in loose waves. She complemented the look with a bright red lipstick shade and bold brows.

Nicole Kidman [12] added some variety to her look for her jury photocall with neutral makeup and a sexy sideswept ponytail.

The ponytail boasted some serious texture in the back and was secured with a sweet black ribbon.

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Is this Etsy Chignon Holder Really Wearable?

Would You Wear This Fancy Metallic Chignon Holder?

Looking around on Etsy, I spotted this fancy Solar Trinity Chignon ($45), which describes itself as a "solar bronze Celtic knot" that "holds up masses of long hair in Renaissance style." My first thought was "oh, pretty", and then "it looks... poke-y." Would you lock your hair up in a fancy design like this, or would you be afraid it would get stuck in there and do some damage?

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This Cannes Party Was Basically a Supermodel Convention!

Chopard hosted the exclusive Backstage Cinema gala at Cannes Film Festival. The most stunning sighting at the party wasn't the exquisite jewels worn by guests. Nope — this fete was filled with supermodels upon supermodels! Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Petra Nemcova, Liu Wen, Eva Herzigova, Arlenis Sosa, and Suki Waterhouse were in attendance. Get the full scoop on all the excitement from the party!

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Flynn Bloom Goes Digging For Gold With Dad

Flynn Bloom was in a playful mood today while out and about in New York City with dad Orlando Bloom. The toddler couldn't keep his hands away his dad's face or nose while sitting on his shoulders, and he also took a turn riding in a backpack. Recently, we've also spotted Flynn out and about with his mom, Miranda Kerr. While Orlando works on his play, Romeo and Juliet, the adorable mother-son duo have popped up for lunch dates and playground outings around the city.

In the November issue of Cosmopolitan, Miranda talked about her family, saying: "Flynn says Mommy works and Daddy plays, because Daddy is in a play . . . so that makes sense. When I saw Orlando on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet, I was blown away. For someone to be able to learn all that and hold the energy to do it every day, six days a week — I have so much respect for him." Meanwhile last night on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, Orlando revealed that he will taking a not-so-family-friendly turn in the upcoming film Zulu — he's going full frontal!

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Nicky Hilton braved the rain on Melrose Avenue in LA wearing a men's-inspired ensemble. She covered up her black top, matching scarf, leggings, and Free People lace-up boots (also worn by Ashley Tisdale) with an eye-catching, double-breasted tweed blazer that she scrunched at the sleeve for added style. In true Nicky fashion, she completed the look with a pair of oversize Ray-Ban sunglasses and silver bangle bracelets. Shop her exact boots and other like items now!

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This post comes from YumSugar Community member Nancyeinhart in the Kitchen Goddess group.

I love bourbon cocktails, but I wanted to try something new.

Inspired by a drink at Zare at Fly Trap, one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco, I mixed up my own Bourbon Crusta, sugar-coated glass and all. It was picturesque and yummy.

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Bourbon Crusta

Bourbon Crusta

1 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz Cointreau orange liqueur
2 tsp maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz lemon juice
1 tbsp superfine sugar
1 lemon wedge

  1. Place the sugar in a saucer. Rub the rim of a wine goblet with a lemon wedge, and dip into the sugar to coat the rim thoroughly; discard lemon.
  2. Peel a spiral of orange peel and place inside the glass, draped over one side. Fill with crushed ice. Combine the bourbon whiskey, Cointreau, maraschino, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, strain into the glass, and serve.
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Whoever Said Motherhood Was All Fun and Games Was Lying

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Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter [1]! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post about the tougher part of motherhood [2].

[3]No one enjoys being a mother all the time.

Before you stop me, take a moment to think about that night last week when your toddler pooped in the tub. Or when your third-grader had what seemed like the umpteenth event during the middle of the school day that required you to drop what you were doing and run over to her classroom. Or that time your teenager totaled the car.

And who can forget the late nights spent breastfeeding until your nipples bled.

That's why I take issue with New York Daily News columnist Raakhee Mirchandani, who calls out [4] Chirlane McCray, New York City's first lady, for an interview with New York Magazine [5] in which she admits to not enjoying motherhood.

Related: You're not imagining it — the crowds at Disney are larger than ever! [6]

McCray, who is married to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, tells New York Magazine that she was flummoxed by new motherhood at age 40 and confesses that " . . . the truth is, I could not spend every day with her. I didn't want to do that. I looked for all kinds of reasons not to do it."

Her honesty earned her a brutal headline in the New York Post: "I WAS A BAD MOM!' [7]

Mirchandani says she can't blame McCray for feeling overwhelmed, but that as a new mom herself, she is shocked by McCray's choice of words and that the first lady should not be surprised by the backlash, considering how she talks about motherhood:

"I just got back from maternity leave Monday, and heading back to the Daily News newsroom after six months of full-time mommying was confusing. Like Chirlane, I don't want to spend all day, every day, with my glorious baby girl. As most moms, new and seasoned, would agree — we're more than that. But I'm not 'looking for all kinds of reasons' to avoid my baby either."

What sticks in the columnist's craw, apparently, is that McCary is upset that the media took her statement and ran with it. I happened upon this story while in the car to one of the seemingly endless errands that make up a parent's days and had a chance to listen to Mirchandani opine about McCary's statement and the public reaction to it. During an interview with NPR, she said she was "shocked" by the language used to describe the desperation of new motherhood.

She then went on to make the statement that, yes, she herself was back at work six months after giving birth to her first child, but she never intended to be a "full-time mother" in the first place, so it was A-OK for her to head back to the office and hand off her kid to a babysitter.

Say what? I'm sorry, once you give birth, you're a full-time mom, all the time. You don't cease to have a child the minute you walk out the door. You are a mother 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the end of time once that baby comes out of your body.

And news flash: sometimes it really, really stinks.

This kind of slippery play with language does nothing but further the acrimony between women with children. Labels of all kinds diminish the role we play in our families' lives. I happen to have been a working mom who went to the office, a mom who stayed at home, and a mom who worked in the home with a flexible schedule — and I can promise you that, no matter what I was doing on the days when those labels applied to me, I was a full-time mom every single second.

The same goes for fathers. Leaving for work doesn't negate the relationship they have with their kids.

This silly war of the words has to stop. I am so proud of McCray for saying what so many of us have felt, particularly women who have suffered from postpartum depression. I recall one afternoon when my then-3-year-old peed on the family room floor, and my infant wouldn't stop wailing. I called my husband at work and said, "I can't do this. Come home."

He did, and we were all fine, and I was still a mom, even though in that moment of desperation, I wished with all my heart I was 21 years old and blissfully carefree.

McCray had a rough go at first, she says, and she was honest about it. While I understand Mirchandani's point about not crying foul when the media takes your words and runs with them, she's a rookie mom who might not have had her rock-bottom moment yet. Her time will come, and I hope she's careful about who she expresses that to, because karma is a harsh mistress.

More great reads from BabyCenter:
Mom's touching photos detail her daughter's cancer battle [8]
How to get grandparents more involved [9]
The top three safety concerns for your toddler [10]
Fifty-eight things to think about while rocking your baby to sleep [11]

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While most kids her age are skipping rope on the playground, 10-year-old Courtney Oliver is scrubbing in for surgery. The college graduate is a certified veterinary assistant at the South Bay Veterinary Hospital in Olympia, Washington. And since the animal lover's peers are in elementary school, the law requires Courtney's mom to stay with her while she works.

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Transmission Fluid Blues
I have a somewhat stupid question, but one that none of my friends could answer: After changing the left drive axle on my 1989 five-speed Ford Probe, I pulled the old axle off, and a lot of transmission oil dropped onto the floor. My buddy ran to the store and brought back two liters of Dextron III type A Automatic Transmission Fluid because, at the time, I thought the manual-transmission just needed the proper gearbox oil—not ATF. But the fluid that came out was red and not that heavy—just like ATF. So...I put in the ATF.

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Now my Probe is running OK and shifts smooth, but should I change the fluid and put in something more specific for the gearbox?

A: Ford requires ATF for the manual gearbox in the Probe, and that's not uncommon. The lower-viscosity ATF is better for fuel economy, and is just as good, at least as long as the tranny is designed for it from the start.

However, this being a Ford product, they've specified a Mercon-type fluid, not Dexron, which is GM-spec. The transmission capacity is 3.6 quarts, so you've got about half of the correct fluid on board. The major difference between Dexron and Mercon is the friction characteristics, not the viscosity. One of them—and I forget which—is grabbier. But there aren't any organic-lined clutch packs in your manual gearbox like there are in an automatic box. I' probably wouldn't go through the trouble of changing it.

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Q: I can hear a noisy bearing whenever I push in the clutch on the five-speed manual transmission of my 1999 Isuzu Rodeo SUV. The dealer says that if they disassemble the clutch, there's no doubt that they'll replace most of the worn parts—an expensive repair job, I'd imagine.

Will catastrophic failure result if I just leave things as they are and don't replace this bearing?

A: The noise you are hearing is the throwout bearing, which only contacts the clutch pressure plate when the pedal is depressed. Eventually, it will seize, and then every time you try to shift, the stationary bearing will ride metal-to-metal with the plate. That won't last long, until the pressure plate fails from the heat and friction. You will than be able to depress the clutch pedal without the clutch disengaging the engine from the transmission. This will make driving difficult, if not impossible. Plus, you'll need to replace more parts than now.

I wouldn't try to drive this truck to anyplace further away than twice as far as you're willing to walk.

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Fifteen months ago, a clicking sound started coming from the engine compartment of my 2001 Toyota Corolla—from what would be the bell housing in a non-transaxle type engine, I determined. At the dealership, the answer I got was that for some reason the torque converter bolts had come out and cracked the flex plate. They replaced the flex plate and re-bolted the torque converter. Now the click has returned, and Toyota tells me—even before they open it up—that it's a bad torque converter, and proceeds to replace the same two parts.

Are the flex plate and torque converter the only parts that could cause the problem? The dealership says that my car was in an accident sometime in the past; I think they're just priming me for when the thing falls off again....

A: Could be a couple of things:

The engine and tranny aren't concentric or square. The flexplate is bolted to the crank, and the torque converter rides on splines on the tranny input shaft. If they're out line, the flexplate will flex too much, and eventually crack.

Could also be a crank that's not square on the end, making the flexplate wobble. Or potentially a bent input shaft or converter.

A good mechanic can check everything for runout before it all goes together, but it'll take a couple of hours once the tranny is out.

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An angular front and glass doors lend visual interest to this classic Krenov design.

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From the April 2012 issue, #196

Through the early stages of my woodworking, when I was sweating away evenings in a Mississippi basement trying to learn the craft using a $99 table saw and an $18 block plane, I devoured the books of James Krenov. They represented an artistic, if idealized, approach to a hands-on craft that appealed to an angst-filled editor and writer in his 20s. Even if I wasn’t up to the tasks, I knew my aim. Then life took over. After editing, writing and running a furniture business for a number of years, I still looked at the Krenov books from time to time, but my tastes and styles slowly became my own. When I started this job, however, I was inspired to revisit Krenov and the designs that kept me wide-eyed in earlier days. I’m glad I did.

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AdventureAdventure (editor - Arthur S. Hoffman)

We regard it as vitally important that the illusion should be kept up. We want the reader to leave his own world and to live entirely in the world of the story. For this reason we dislike too pronounced mannerisms of style, too unusual names for characters, misstatements in local color, improbability in plot details. We also wish that the author would avoid the obtrusion of his own personality into the story, too much surface cleverness, the specific call upon the reader to philosophize (thus making him think, rather than keeping him in the receptive mood), a too cynical or sophisticated attitude on the author's part.

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The American Boy (editor - Walter P. McGuire)

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The Atlantic Monthly (editor - Ellery Sedgwick)

My selection is made according to the whim of one individual.

Detective Story MagazineDetective Story Magazine (editor - F.E. Blackwell)

[The puzzle story] is the easiest type of detective story to write, and, as is quite obvious, it is written backwards. We mean by that, an author first evolves an ingenious method of killing some one, or of removing some one, and then builds about this a story, leaving the disclosure of the method of killing or removal to the end of the story.

We think a far better way to do this story, and a way that interests more people, is to have the motive the predominating feature. The method by which, we will say, a young woman disappears, either through her own efforts or through the efforts of others, is interesting enough in its way, but that which interests the public generally, and her friends in particular, is now how she disppeared, so much as why.

It is, perhaps, needless to add that in a crime story the author must be fair to his readers - that is, he must not explain the mystery by introducing a reason for the commission of the crime of which the reader has not been made aware.

[Interesting in a couple ways - first, like the American Boy, this still seems like good advice for those writing in this particular genre. Second, the discussion of 'fairness' in crime writing predates the famous oath of the Detection Club by nine years.]

Mystery Magazine (editor - Luis Senarens)

A slight touch of comedy is permissable, but dramatic climaxes are the rule. Long drawn descriptions tire. Large numbers of characters confuse, and too much dialogue is irksome. These [stories] must be distinctly, as their name implies, detective stories, and they must cater to girls as well as to men.

[The only non-romance genre magazine to admit to a female readership.]

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As a matter of fact, it is easier to say what we do not want than we we do want - here are some of the constant rejections:

  • First and last, nothing that is risque.
  • Fillers in which the mysterious he, she or it turns out to be a cat, dog or baby.
  • Stories in which the husband, wife or fiance fails to recognize wife, husband or fiancee masquerading in any guise.
  • Stories in which the mysterious man whom husband suspects turns out to be the brother, or the unknown lady whom wife suspects turns out to be the sister.
  • Stories in which the denouement explains that the entire plot is merely a rehersal for the movies or a play.
  • Stories in which the supposed farmer's daughter turns out to be a famous movie star.
  • Stories in which the starving heroine is persuaded to play the part of an imaginary wife in order that the rich relative will leave his money to the nephew whome he wanted to see marry before passing on.
  • Stories in which a will demands that two people who hate each other marry and they do fall in love with one another.
  • Stories in which all complications are explained by the unknown existence of a twin.
  • War stories.
  • Suicide stories. [Who submits a saucy suicide story?!]

We realize that this list is quite incomplete, but we hope that it will act as a suggestion to would be Parisienne and Saucy Stories contributors that they consider very carefully before submitting a story, whether the plot answer our first requisite: novelty.

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World’s 100 Largest Yachts 2006 #83: Virginian

#83: VIRGINIAN—204'2"

The mahogany-paneled saloon with a working fireplace is the perfect place to relax aboard Virginian. If her walls could talk, imagine the tales they’d tell; people ranging from Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor (the Sixth Duke of Westminster) to John Kluge (founder of Metromedia) and even the late Malcolm Forbes (who needs no explanation) have wined and dined aboard.

Y: 1990; B: Feadship/Royal Van Lent Shipyard, Holland; N: De Voogt Naval Architects; H: Steel; E: 2/1,630-hp MANs

World’s 100 Largest Yachts 2006: Index/List

This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.