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Cal Aims for Second Straight Pac-10 Win Vs. Washington State
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Release:  01/11/2011

Jan. 11, 2011

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California (8-7, 1-2) vs. Washington State (12-4, 2-2)
Date: Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011
Time: 7:30 p.m. PT
Location: Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, Calif.
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Radio: KNEW 910 / XM 193

Fresh off its first Pac-10 victory of the season, the Bears return home after playing on the road the past two weeks to face Washington State on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Haas Pavilion. The Golden Bears defeated Arizona State last Saturday, while the Cougars swept both of their games last week.

Cal (8-7, 1-2) got a career-high 21 points from junior guard Jorge Gutierrez and 17 from freshman Allen Crabbe in the Bears' 65-61 win at Arizona State. It was the second straight game that Crabbe tied his personal high of 17. He also notched eight rebounds, second only to senior center Markhuri Sanders-Frison's 11, which was part of his fourth career double-double (13 points). Sanders-Frison now has three double-doubles in his last five games played, and has hit double figures in his last five games, as well.

Junior forward Harper Kamp is currently second in the Pac-10 in free throw shooting at 85.7 percent (54-63). Kamp paced Cal in scoring against Hartford on Dec. 28 with 19 points and nine rebounds before his team high 16 at Stanford on Jan. 2. He is the team's leading scorer at 13.1 and second in rebounds (5.6). After scoring 10 points at ASU in front of numerous friends and family, Kamp has now reached double figures in scoring the last four games.

A team that will pride itself on its defense all year, the Bears' defense is holding opposing offenses to shoot just over 40 percent from the field at 40.8 that ranks fifth in the conference. Five opponents have shot under 40.0 percent and nine teams have scored less than 70 points against the Bears. Cal also boasts 86 steals on the campaign, led by Gutierrez's 22, after he secured four against Arizona and three at Arizona State. Crabbe is second on that list with 13.

Cal has also been successful in the rebounding department. In the Bears' loss to then-No. 14 San Diego State on Dec. 8, the Bears outrebounded the Aztecs by 10 (38-28). Against No. 3 Kansas, Cal was outrebounded by only one (40-39). Sanders-Frison currently leads the team on the boards at 8.2 rpg. The Bears' rebounding margin of +4.6 ranks third in the conference.

Facing four nonconference opponents currently in the AP Top 20, Cal currently boasts a strength of schedule ranking of No. 4. Earlier this season, the Bears faced No. 3 Kansas, No. 6 San Diego State, No. 9 Notre Dame (which was not ranked when the teams met) and No. 19 Temple. Cal defeated Temple, 57-50, on Nov. 26, in the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla.

While Thursday night's game will not be televised, Cal fans can still watch the game through All-Access on Fans can access the video content by clicking here.

Probable Starters

POS     NO      NAME                    HT      WT      YR      PPG     RPG
F       22      Harper Kamp             6-8     245     Jr.     13.1    5.6
Led Cal in scoring at Stanford with 16
C       10      Markhuri Sanders-Frison 6-7     265     Sr.     8.2     10.0
Earned his fourth double-double at Arizona State
G       2       Jorge Gutierrez         6-3     195     Jr.     12.9    4.0 (APG)
Notched a career-high 21 points at Arizona State
G       23      Allen Crabbe            6-6     205     Fr.     9.5     5.5
Posted a season-high 17 points three times, including Arizona and ASU
G       12      Brandon Smith           5-11    185     So.     4.3     1.8
Recorded personal-best 15 points against Hartford in first career start

Washington State Scouting Report

A Look at Washington State
Washington State has started conference play with a record of 2-2 (12-4 overall). After dropping both games in Los Angles to begin Pac-10 play, the Cougars rebounded with a pair of victories against the Oregon schools last weekend. Klay Thompson is averaging 22.3 ppg and 5.2 rpg.
Cal-Washington State Series History
Cal leads the all-time series against the Cougars, 72-45, and the Bears have won the past four meetings and the last five out of six. When these teams met at Haas last year, Jorge Gutierrez scored 15 points and notched six assists, four steals and four rebounds.
Washington State Head Coach Ken Bone
Ken Bone continues his second season as head coach of the Cougars. In his first year at the helm for WSU, Bone led the Cougars to a 16-15 overall mark and 6-12 Pac-10 record, while Thompson earned All-Pac-10 First Team honors.
Probable Starters

Pos     No      Name            Ht      Wt      Yr      Ppg     Rpg
F       23      DeAngelo Casto  6-8     255     Jr.     9.8     6.0
F       31      Abe Lodwick     6-7     208     Jr.     3.1     4.2
G       0       Marcus Capers   6-4     185     Jr.     6.9     5.1
G       1       Klay Thompson   6-6     202     Jr.     22.3    5.2
G       3       Reggie Moore    6-1     180     So.     8.6     3.1
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Golden Bear Notes

Bears Earn First Conference Win of Season at ASU
Led by Jorge Gutierrez's personal-best 21 points, Cal earned its first conference win of the season against Arizona State. Allen Crabbe tied his career high for the second straight game with 17 points, and he also chipped in eight rebounds. Markhuri Sanders-Frison posted his fourth career double-double and his third in the last five games that he's played in. After building a 15-point first-half lead, ASU cut it to eight at the half, and eventually tied the game, but the Sun Devils never led once. Up by three with a minute left, Cal held off four straight three-point attempts by ASU, eventually grabbing the rebound and holding on for the win.

Montgomery Reaches 600 wins
Mike Montgomery earned his 600th career NCAA Division I head coaching victory with Cal's win over Hartford on Dec. 28. He became the seventh active head coach to record 600 Division I victories. With the victory over UC Davis on Dec. 1, Mike Montgomery reached 50 wins at Cal in 74 games -- faster than any coach at Cal since Nibs Price won 50 of his first 60 games from 1924-25 through the start of the 1928-29 season.

Cal Sports Stingy Defense
Entering this season without a lot of size on the roster, Cal has held its own on defense The Bears have held five opponents to shoot under 40 percent, and have held nine opponents to score less than 70 points. Jorge Gutierrez paces the Bears with 22 steals, while Allen Crabbe is second with 13. The Jan. 2 loss at Stanford marked just the second time this season that Cal allowed its opponent to score 80 points (Southern Miss. 80). Stanford's 57.4 field goal percentage was also the first time the Bears allowed any of its opponents to shoot better than 50.0 percent. On the season, Cal's defense is holding opposing offenses to shoot just over 40 percent from the field at 40.8, which ranks fifth in the conference. On Dec. 18, Cal Poly shot 29.4 percent against the Bears and 14.3 percent from three-point distance.

Gutierrez Leads the Way for the Bears
Jorge Gutierrez has reached double figures in 12 of the 15 games this season, after recording just four double-figure scoring performances last season. He paced the Bears with a new career high of 21 points at Arizona State last Saturday. Ever the tough defender, Gutierrez's 22 steals, part of the team's 86, leads the team. He set a new season high with four at Arizona last Thursday, and also chipped in three at ASU. He is second on the team in scoring at 12.9 ppg, and set previous career highs in scoring in the first two games of the season (18 vs. Cal State Northridge and 20 vs. New Mexico). Taking over as the team's primary point guard, Gutierrez has recorded a personal-best eight assists three times this season. He posted 19 points against San Diego State on Dec. 8, and shot 9-for-9 from the free throw line. In his last four games, Gutierrez has shot 17-for-24 from the free throw line. His apg of 4.0 is currently fifth in the Pac-10.

Harper Kamp: Picking Up Where He Left Off
After redshirting last season due to a nagging knee injury, Harper Kamp has jumped into the fire as one of the Bears' most reliable players this season. Kamp posted a career-best 25 points against New Mexico on Nov. 20, and secured his second 20-point outing against Southern Miss. on Dec. 12. He also had a career day at Iowa State on Dec. 4, recording his first career double-double (14 points, 10 rebounds). The 10 boards were a new career high for Kamp, and he also tied his personal best in assists (5) and set a new career best in blocks (3). He paced Cal in scoring against Hartford, posting 19 points (shooting 6-for-7) with nine rebounds. Kamp is first on the team in scoring (13.1) and second in rebounding (5.6). After making his first 10 free throws this season, he has made 54 of his 63 tries (.857) from the charity stripe, including a perfect 7-for-7 effort against Hartford, which is second in the Pac-10 right now. He just missed a double-double at Arizona State last Saturday, tallying 10 points and nine boards.

Sanders-Frison Racking up the Double-Doubles
Despite battling lingering foot injuries, Markhuri Sanders-Frison has been a force for the Bears. He has four double-doubles to his credit this season, including recording three double-doubles over his last five games. During that stretch, he's averaging 12.8 points and 9.4 rebounds. He posted 10 points and 12 rebounds against Kansas on Dec. 22 and 15 points and 10 rebounds against Cal Poly on Dec. 18. He earned his most recent double-double at ASU (13 points, 11 rebounds). He has led Cal in rebounding 10 of the 14 games he has played in this season. Sanders-Frison is also pacing the Bears on the boards at 8.2 rpg on the season that ranks third in the conference. He posted double figures in scoring three consecutive games earlier this season, including a 12-point effort at Iowa State on Dec. 4. He got his senior season off to a great start with his first career double-double against Cal State Northridge on Nov. 16, tallying a personal-best 15 points and tied his then-career high in rebounds with 10. On the season, Sanders-Frison is shooting .600 from the field that ranks third among the Pac-10 leaders. In his first four games this season, Sanders-Frison made just nine of his 24 attempts. His 10.0 ppg stands third on the team.

Allen Crabbe: Raising His Game
Allen Crabbe has been coming on strong in recent games, showing more aggressiveness on the court. He tallied a season-high 17 points with nine rebounds against Hartford on Dec. 28. He tied that scoring mark at Arizona, notching 15 of those points in the first half. He repeated that 17-point performance last Sunday at Arizona State. He made seven treys over the Arizona trip. In his last four games, Crabbe is 13-of-28 (.464) from three-point distance. Crabbe was also one of the Bears' solid contributors against Kansas on Dec. 22, finishing with 11 points, six rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals. Earlier this season, he earned his first collegiate double-double against Notre Dame on Nov. 26 when he notched 10 points and 10 rebounds. Crabbe is averaging 9.5 ppg and third on the team in rebounding at 5.5 rpg. He has also been good on 22 of his 27 tries from the free throw line. His eight blocks are tied for second on the team, while his 13 steals also rank second on the squad. Last Thursday at Arizona, Crabbe also paced the Bears on the boards with seven, and he tallied eight against the Sun Devils.

Bears on the Boards
In Cal's loss to then-No. 14 San Diego State on Dec. 8, the Bears outrebounded the Aztecs by 10 (38-28). On Dec. 22 against No. 3 Kansas, Cal was outrebounded by only one (40-39). In three of their last four games, the Bears outrebounded Hartford by 13, Stanford by four and Arizona State by 16. A big reason for the strong play on the glass comes from Markhuri Sanders-Frison, the team's leading rebounder at 8.2 rpg. He has hit his personal high of 12 rebounds twice this season (San Diego State, Kansas), and racked up 11 boards at ASU last weekend. Harper Kamp is second on the team in rebounds at 5.6 rpg. He notched a career-high of 10 at Iowa State on Dec. 4. Allen Crabbe is currently averaging 5.5 rpg after posting a team-best seven rebounds at Arizona. He followed that performance with eight boards in the next game at ASU. Cal has outrebounded 10 of its 15 opponents this season and has a rebounding margin of +4.6 which currently ranks third in the Pac-10.

Smith Logs Solid Minutes
Brandon Smith has been a solid contributor off the bench, taking the departed Gary Franklin's spot in the starting lineup. Smith has totaled at least 20 minutes of playing time in nine games this season, including 29 against Hartford, which resulted in him posting a personal-best 15 points in his first collegiate start. He is second on the team in assists with 45.He notched a game-high five assists at Arizona. Smith had a solid night against New Mexico on Nov. 20, registering a career high of seven assists. On the defensive end, Smith, who is regarded as one of the finest defenders in De La Salle High School history, came up with a big steal in the final minutes at Arizona when the game appeared to be over to give Cal a last-second chance to tie or win the game. Last Saturday at Arizona State, Smith played 34 minutes, second only to Allen Crabbe, and boasted a team-high four assists.

Solomon Helps Swat Shots Away
Another key factor off the bench for Cal, Richard Solomon has collected 11 steals on the year, and is currently averaging 4.7 ppg and 4.3 rpg after earning a double-double against Hartford (personal-high 10 points, 10 rebounds) on Dec. 28. Solomon is also tied for second on the team in blocks with eight. He notched three blocks in his season-high night against Hartford. Solomon isn't afraid to take his chances from three-point distance, as well, connecting on two of his seven tries. Last Thursday at Arizona, Solomon registered nine points, but more importantly, he went 4-for-5 from the free throw line, and was good on all four of his tries in the final two minutes of the contest to keep Cal in the game after both Harper Kamp and Markhuri Sanders-Frison got into foul trouble and eventually fouled out.

Bears Boast High Strength of Schedule
Cal has definitely endured some growing pains with such a young team this season, but the competition has been pretty tough, as well. Cal has played three teams in the top 20 (No. 3 Kansas, No. 6 San Diego State, No. 19 Temple). The Bears defeated the Owls, 57-50, as part of the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla., back in November. Another team Cal played in the Old Spice Classic, Notre Dame, is currently sporting a record of 14-2 and an AP ranking of nine. The Fight Irish were not ranked when they faced the Bears. These four highly-ranked opponents have helped the Bears earn a strength of schedule ranking of No.4. On Sunday, Cal will face No. 17 Washington.

Cal's Freshman Class Ranked in the Top 20
Cal's freshman class this season was ranked No. 17 by and No. 24 by ESPN. Leading the way is guard Allen Crabbe out of Price HS in Los Angeles, who was named the 2010 California Gatorade Player of the Year and Parade All-American. Two other newcomers join the squad from the Los Angeles area - freshman forward Richard Solomon and Justin Cobbs, a sophomore transfer from Minnesota who attended Bishop Montgomery HS. Solomon was a high school teammate of Crabbe's and was rated the No. 20 power forward in the nation by One of the Bears' later signings, Emerson Murray from Vancouver, British Columbia, played on the Canadian Junior National team this past summer and was regarded by Hoopstars Canada as the second-best backcourt prospect in Canada. Alex Rossi is a natural shooter who is also known for his defensive abilities.

Golden Bear Notes
Max Zhang, Cal's 7-3 center who would have been a junior this season, recently signed with a professional team in China, ending his collegiate career ... Gary Franklin, a former freshman guard on this season's team, decided to transfer and left the team on Jan. 5 ... Harper Kamp played chess competitively as a child ... Brandon Smith, a graduate of De La Salle High School, has been to four different continents, including working for an outreach program for schools and orphanages in India ... Emerson Murray comes from a family with a history of competing in track and field. His father is a long time track and field coach, and his sister was a member of the Canadian National Track and Field team and competed at Hawaii ... The lone signee this fall for the Bears was 6-9, 210-forward Davis Kravish out of Lee's Summit, Mo ... Cal's Pac-10 title last season was the Bears' first since 1960 ... Cal was 24-11 overall and 13-5 in the conference in 2009-10 ... Mike Montgomery won 46 games in his first two seasons in Berkeley, breaking the school record of 39 set by Lou Campanelli in 1986 and '87.
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YES: A “YES” vote on this measure means: The existing formula that establishes a minimum funding level for K–12 schools and community colleges would be replaced with separate formulas for each system. Community college fees would be reduced from $20 per unit to $15 per unit, and various changes would be made to the state-level community college governing board.

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Arduino Invention #2

The Arduino is connected to two continuous rotation servos that are programmed to draw based on randoms. Starting from a zero point, each motor simply goes up toward the spool and back down, then pauses for a random increment, that is different for each motor.

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Brunch at Sprout- It really is THAT good.

Last week I had the opportunity to shoot a segment for NBC with Top Chef season 3 runner up and All-Star Dale Levitzski at his restaurant Sprout.  It was so fun.  Dale is totally cool and sweet, not to mention, he’s an awesome chef.

I just don’t understand how he comes up with such complex dishes, in terms of the number of components, that come together with such harmony.  Really, most people just mess things up with more components, making a dish muddled, awkward and unappealing to the pallate.  But he says he only has to do a couple of trial runs to get them to come out the way he wants it.  I feel like it would take me 10 tries to be able to balance so many ingredients just right.

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I chose Sprout to do a segment on after we had brunch there a couple of weeks back.  We were totally blown away by our delicious food as well as the cocktails which were just as interesting and tasty!  I felt really lucky that he agreed to do it with me.  I AM kinda fingerling (that’s ‘small’) potatoes compared to what he’s done in the past.  Such a nice guy…

Anyway, here’s what we had:

Me:   The Rabbit Hash.
I’m not going to go into detail because hopefully you got the point from the video.  It’s sooo good.  Actually, what they didn’t show (but do have on video) was me taking a bite of the one we made together and accidentally dropping an F-bomb because it was so good.  Now that’s good TV right there:).

Him:  Steak & Eggs:

Clearly this is not your ordinary steak and eggs.  The steak is actually dipped in a hush puppy and crab batter then fried.  It has a sunny side up egg resting on top of it, along with a fresh herb and cucumber salad.  Beneath all of it is a delicious little potato salad.  Like I said, there’s a lot going on but it all works so well together.

Here’s a picture after we cut into it.  The batter is pretty thick and you can kind of see the crab meat on the top.  You could really get the flavor from the sweet corn batter, plus the crab, plus the steak.  It’s wonderful.

Dale told me that he hates getting bored with food.  He doesn’t want to eat something that’s going to taste the same way all the way through.  That’s why he cooks the way he does.  He wants you to get the the end of your dish and still be discovering new flavor combinations within it.  He wants the first bite to be different from the last and each in between.  See why I like him so much?

The cocktails, too, are so interesting.  There’s one called the Curious Jorge that consists of Tequilla, iced coffee, horchata (Mexican rice milk) and a bruleed banana.  What?  Yeah, that’s what I said.  I didn’t get a chance to taste it but I most certainly will on my next visit.  The other crazy one that I can’t even conceptualize as far as a flavor profile is the Rumaki Fizz.  Bacon infused vodka, pineapple, honey soy reduction and ginger beer.  Hmmmm….  Maybe somebody else should order that one so I can have a sip:).

The service is great, too.  Very friendly and very educated.  I mean, the staff kind of has to be super educated about the menu since there’s no way he’s going to get all of that info onto paper.  They’ll basically describe every dish in complete detail if you ask them too.

The space is also nice.  They recently add a sort of indoor patio that has lots of windows and natural light.  Hopefully they’ll be able to open those windows soon!  It’s definitely a hip but welcoming little place.

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Service: 10
Ambiance: 10
Overall impression:10
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Clearly, yes!  I love its guts!  Anyone wanna join me for dinner?

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    Originally posted in the old review system on 07/02/2009 by lovecamping

    We visited the park for a couple years before becoming seasonals. The grounds are beautiful. Doug and Jamie have done a superb job at revamping the campground with new buildings and large pool. Weekenders are treated with care and respect, seasonals - not so much. We love Jamie - she is sweet, caring, and fair. Doug, however, is unpredictable, temperamental, and, basically, a bully. We feel like we have to walk on eggshells around Doug. We and many others in the park (and many more that have left unhappy) are treated unfairly and told conflicting stories all the time by Doug regarding rules, lot sizes, lot assignments, etc.

    Rules only apply to some campers and (as the new contract states) rules may be changed anytime Doug feels like it. We paid deposits and signed contracts in October without the Rules page (we were told they had not changed). December rolls around and new contracts come in the mail asking everyone to resign, even if we signed in October, with new rules and new additional fees.

    There are many, many personal stories of mistreatment at this park under the current ownership - just ask various seasonals for the real story behind the happy face and white picket fence.

    I'm so sad that such a beautiful place has become such an uncomfortable place to be for us and for many, many other seasonals. :(

    If the owner's attitude toward seasonals changed for the better and treated us with respect and as his loyal CUSTOMERS (as he should), he'd regain our respect and he'd have a waiting list for seasonal camping. Instead of always having to replace dissatisfied seasonals that leave, he'd really be rolling in the dough.


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Two Big Wins for Unions at the SCC

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Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a pair of big wins to Canadian unions. Both judgments relate to public sector unions, but may have important implications for labour law more generally. In both cases, the Court has undermined its own precedent.

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What’s “New” and What to Do About it? Supreme Court Sets High Bar to Appellate Courts Exercising Discretion to Raise New Issues

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In R. v. Mian, the Supreme Court provided extensive comment on when an “appellate court can disrupt the adversarial system and raise a ground of appeal on its own” initiative.

The Court established a new test for the exercise of appellate courts’ discretion to raise a new issue on appeal. Appellate court judges will now ask themselves three questions when deciding whether to raise a new issue: 1) is the issue actually “new”?; 2) would failing to raise the issue “risk an injustice”?; and 3) can the new issue be raised in a way that will be fair to … Continue Reading

US Supreme Court Clarifies Law on Warrantless Cell Phone Searches. Will the Supreme Court of Canada Follow?

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Lower courts in both Canada and the US have been deeply divided on the application of their respective Supreme Courts’ precedents on whether the police need a warrant to search the contents of a smart/cell phone seized during a lawful arrest.  On June 25, 2014, the US Supreme Court unanimously settled US law in Riley v. California, No. 13-132.  The court found that privacy interests at stake outweigh any legitimate governmental interest, absent any “exigent circumstances”.

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“The digital and Internet age meets the law of search and seizure” as the SCC clarifies the law on search warrants and computers in R v. Vu

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The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a unanimous judgment in R. v. Vu, 2013 SCC 60, in which it ruled that authorities must obtain specific authorization in a search warrant in order to search computers located on premises covered by the warrant. In this case, the police collected incriminating evidence against Mr. Thanh Long Vu from two laptops and a cellular phone on the basis of a search warrant that did not specify that the police had authority to search these devices.… Continue Reading

Vancouver Student Protesters “Stripped” of Class Proceeding

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The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently upheld the denial of certification of a proposed class action involving routine strip searches at a Vancouver city jail. Thorburn v. British Columbia (Public Safety and Solicitor General) illustrates the difficulty of certification in cases that require an individual inquiry into the facts and circumstances unique to each class member.

On April 1, 2003, Vancouver students Elise Thorburn and Christopher Jacob were arrested on charges of mischief for peacefully protesting outside the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver. Thorburn and Jacob were taken to a city jail (the “Jail”) where they received a pat-down search … Continue Reading

Freedom of Expression Trumps Privacy Rights as the SCC brings the Charter hammer down on Alberta’s privacy statute

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In Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 [“United Food”], the Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously decided that Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act [“PIPA”] unjustifiably limits a union’s right to freedom of expression in the context of a lawful strike. The judgment, delivered by Cromwell and Abella JJ. concluded that:

[37] PIPA imposes restrictions on a union’s ability to communicate and persuade the public of its cause, impairing its ability to use one of its most effective bargaining strategies in the course of a lawful strike. In our

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Earlier this week, the Prime Minister surprised many Supreme Court-watchers by nominating the Honourable Marc Nadon to replace Justice Fish at the Supreme Court of Canada. Given this recent appointment, the Canadian Appeals Monitor has taken a look at Nadon J.’s jurisprudential legacy to date and identified key cases which illustrate his judicial leanings, especially as it applies to Canadian businesses and professions. The Canadian Appeals Monitor has also looked at some of the cases that Nadon has argued to get better insights into what kind of judge he is likely to be in the Supreme Court.

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Close, But Not Too Close to Call: Ted Opitz’s Narrow Victories in the Federal Election and the Supreme Court

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On May 2, 2011, Canadians voted in the 41st federal election. Voters in the riding of Etobicoke Centre elected Ted Opitz to represent them in Parliament. The race was hotly contested. So too was the result.

A judicial recount showed that Mr. Opitz won by a plurality of just 26 votes. Boris Wrzesnewskyj, the runner-up, applied to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice under s. 524(1)(b) of the Canada Elections Act (the “Act”) to annul the election based on “irregularities … that affected the result of the election”.

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BCCA Asked to Review Advance Costs Made Against Private Litigants in Charter Litigation

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In Dish Network L.L.C. v. Rex, the Supreme Court of British Columbia took the rare step of ordering advance costs in a constitutional challenge. More surprisingly, the court ordered three private litigants to pay 50% of those costs. This case is now headed to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.

Mr. Rex sold satellite receivers to Canadian residents and, using false U.S. addresses, arranged subscriptions for them from American signal providers. Two American providers and one Canadian provider sued Mr. Rex under the Radiocommunication Act and at common law. In his defence, Mr. Rex alleged that aspects of

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DRGs Underpay for Stem Cell Therapy

SAN ANTONIO--Although the literature suggests that peripheral blood stem cell support for hematologic salvage after high-dose chemotherapy is somewhat less expensive than autologous bone marrow transplant (ABMT), the difference is nowhere near the $80,000 disparity found in diagnostic-related group (DRG)-based reimbursement, Philip Bierman, MD, said at a lymphoma symposium sponsored by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

The DRG allowance for a stem cell transplant for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients is $9,880, compared with more than $89,000 for ABMT, said Dr. Bierman, associate professor of medicine, University of Nebraska. But reports in the literature suggest a difference of only a few thousand dollars, he said.

Since DRG-based reimbursement is used primarily by Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, only a small percentage of transplants are affected, he said, and he doesn't believe that physicians or hospitals have allowed the payment difference to influence clinical decision making. Furthermore, he said, the problem may be resolved next year when the government reviews the issue.

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Chemotherapy for Resectable and Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Chemotherapy for Resectable and Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Although a relatively uncommon disease, pancreatic adenocarcinoma has had a major impact on public health (much greater than incidence rates would suggest) because of associated high morbidity and mortality rates.[1] Drs. Berlin and Rothenberg have written a comprehensive synopsis of the state of conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiation therapy for surgically resected and advanced pancreatic cancer. They provide the historical precedents for the treatment algorithms that have traditionally governed clinical management of the disease. We will highlight several points from their article, including (1) combination chemotherapy in advanced disease, (2) treatment controversies surrounding locally advanced disease, and (3) limitations of available data with regard to adjuvant therapy.

The Hope of Future Strategies

Berlin and Rothenberg discuss emerging strategies such as the use of gemcitabine (Gemzar)-based combinations and protracted-dose infusion gemcitabine. The latter is an example of a rationally designed tactic aimed at increasing the therapeutic index of gemcitabine by promoting higher levels of intracellular triphosphate, the active metabolite of gemcitabine. It remains to be seen whether this approach will prove to be superior to single-agent gemcitabine and whether metered-dose infusion gemcitabine can be combined with other active agents, the limiting factor being hematologic toxicity.

The gemcitabine-based combinations of perhaps most interest include those with irinotecan (CPT-11, Camptosar),[2] docetaxel (Taxotere),[3] cisplatin (Platinol), and fluorouracil (5-FU).[4,5] Although, to date, multiple phase II trials have demonstrated improved response rates and median survivals compared to historical controls, no combination has proven to be superior to single-agent gemcitabine in a randomized comparison. Several ongoing trials in North America and Europe have been designed to help clarify the relative efficacy of these combinations. It is possible that among selected patient groups (including those with good performance status), combination therapy will prove to be superior to single-agent gemcitabine. In addition, as pointed out by the authors, the ultimate goal of improved therapies for metastatic disease is to move them forward into the adjuvant setting, where modest responses may lead to meaningful gains in survival.

With regard to locally advanced, unresectable, nonmetastatic disease, the authors discuss the issue of how best to treat this patient population. In short, we currently do not know what the optimal strategy should be. Clinical trials in inoperable pancreatic cancer have increasingly incorporated both locally advanced patients and patients with overt metastatic disease in the same study, while stratifying for disease stage. The omission of irradiation in locally advanced patients is controversial, but the true effect of radiation therapy, in the absence of a significant pain syndrome, is currently unknown.

For patients with borderline resectable/unresectable disease, the combination of chemotherapy and radiation remains experimental, ie, an effort to facilitate surgical resection. The number of patients whose disease is truly unresectable but becomes resectable by virtue of chemoradiation is considered to be anecdotal, the interpretation depending on how resectability is defined.

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Postby JamesOwnzSam11 » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:33 am

I was holding out a slight hope that we would get a white Christmas...well, looks like we're in store for another wet Christmas.

Finished it up for good today, got it done for a good amount I'd figure ( 6 people bought for.)

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Cape May Gets an Early Start to the 2015 Season

CAPE MAY, NJ -  Easter weekend brought in one sure sign of the season – “OPEN” signs flying in the stiff sea breezes. Even the horses at the Cape May Carriage Company were stepping out for the first time. For some reason, Easter weekend is that line in the sand when the new summer season […]

Easter in Cape May 2015

CAPE MAY, NJ – The jelly beans will be flowing freely on Easter Sunday, April 5th, on Cape May’s Washington Street Mall.  Get ready for yet another Easter Parade, Cape May style. The town calls it the Easter Fashion Stroll. The registration starts at noon. Fashion strollers start walking along the Washington Street Mall  at […]

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Cape May Point, NJ – The quiet village of Cape May Point took on other worldly peacefulness, blanketed with a half foot of snow Tuesday.  It was the biggest snowfall of the year for the Cape May area. The only other significant storm dumped about two inches of snow in January.  The new snow covered […]

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Cape May, NJ -  If  you had a romantic stroll on the beach in mind this Valentine’s weekend,  you forgot to check in with Mother Nature.  Cape May got walloped with 50 mile per hour wind gusts and the coldest temperatures we’ve had all winter. So much for timing. The area got only about an […]

January 21 Snow 2015

Cape May, NJ – It was nice to see some snow again – two inches on January 21. It wasn’t a lot and it didn’t stick around long. But at least it was something. These are the snowfalls we like – a heavy coating on all the cedars and pines and magnolias. Not so much […]

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Cape May, NJ – Whether it was Little Miss Sunshine, riding in a wagon full of sunflowers… The cutest little pirate, tucked into his own treasure chest… Or a tiny princess, all in blue, checking out the scene, it was hard to say just who was the cutest baby in Cape May’s annual Baby Parade […]

West Cape May Farmers Market 2014

West Cape May, NJ -  Amazing how just a few baskets of beans can signal a shift in the season. It’s summertime. And the West Cape May Farmer’s market is back. Opening day brought out all of those eager for some fresh produce or for an easy dinner. The market is open every Tuesday afternoon […]

Cape May’s Record Breaking March Snow 2014

Cape May, NJ – March 2014 is now the undisputed champion, holding title to the snowiest March on record in Cape May. After yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day snowfall, Cape May has a total of 12 and a half inches of snow for the month, more than any other March on record. Yesterday’s  snowfall also set […]

Cape May March Snow 2014

Cape May, NJ -  March definitely came in like a lion this year, a snowy, icy lion.  Cape May’s roughly four inches of snow did not set any new records, but it was enough to shut down the town for the day. We were expecting much more snow – as much as 8 to 12 […]

Cool Cape May Turns Cold in January 2014

Cape May, NJ – If you thought it was colder than usual in January, you were right. The final temperatures for the month are in. Cape May’s average temperature in January was a measly 30.5 degrees, a whopping five degrees lower than usual. If you want to feel even chillier, consider this: according to the […]


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Paul Ryan on Cuba Policy

Saturday, August 11, 2012
Upon arriving in Congress, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was an unconditional free trader. Thus, Ryan initially opposed sanctions towards practically any country in the world, including Castro's Cuba.

To his credit, Ryan's position has evolved over the years, as he learned of the brutal realities of the Castro brothers. Moreover, Ryan recognized the fact that trade with the Castro's totalitarian regime would be neither free nor fair, as it holds a monopoly over political and economic power. As such, the Cuban people would be denied the benefits of such trade, while their oppressors would unduly benefit.

In 2007, Ryan voted against an amendment to the Farm Bill by U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) that sought to ease financing and other restrictions on trade with the Castro regime.

That same year, he opposed efforts to cut funding for Cuba democracy programs.

Moreover, Ryan publicly withdrew his name from a bill seeking to allow unfettered travel between the U.S. and Cuba.

Since then, Ryan has consistently opposed Congressional efforts to unconditionally lift sanctions towards Cuba.

Dialogue Requires Respect For All Parties

Excerpt from Victor Gaetan's "Heartbreak in Havana" in the National Catholic Register:

Not only did the government ostracize Paya, but, by his account, Church leadership marginalized him, too.

He told the Italian newspaper La Stampa he was disappointed with the Cuban Catholic hierarchy: “In a country like this, the bishops were never meant to appeal to the forces of oppression and abuse who arrest opponents to resolve a crisis like this.”

To me, Paya compared the Cuban situation to Poland: "John Paul II prohibited the Polish Church from negotiating with the communist regime. This is why Solidarity won, and the Catholic Church remained unscathed."

“Here, the Church sees its role as engaged in dialogue with the Castros. From my perspective, dialogue requires respect for all parties, and as long as they jail us for advocating freedom, Christ himself would refuse to speak,” Paya told me.

The last time I talked to Paya by phone, on his 60th birthday last February, he was praying that the much-anticipated visit of Pope Benedict to Cuba would also mark the occasion of the beginning of “reconciliation” of all Cubans. Unfortunately, most regime opponents were forcibly prevented from attending the papal Mass and ceremonies. Paya’s house was surrounded by security police.

In death, Paya’s achievements were extolled by world leaders, from President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and former Polish President Lech Walesa.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution honoring “the life, liberty and leadership” of Oswaldo Paya. It also called on Cuba to allow an impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.

Pope Benedict XVI sent a telegram of condolence, transmitted through Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, which captures the pain of these deaths: “The Holy Father… raises fervent prayers to God for the eternal repose of the deceased and asks him to grant consolation and strength to those who, at this sad time, are weeping for their irreparable loss.”

As his coffin, draped with the Cuban flag, was carried into the overflowing El Salvador de Mundo Church for a funeral Mass offered by Archbishop Jaime Ortega, hundreds of people stood and defiantly chanted, “Libertad” — Liberty.

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A Lady in White and Her 6-Year Old Daughter Arrested

A member of the Cuban pro-democracy movement, the Ladies in White, has just been arrested near Havana, along with her husband and 6-year old daughter.

She is Leydi Coca Quesada.

Coca's home was the scene of a violent mob attack by the Castro regime this week. They mob launched insults, climbed the roof, threw paint inside the house and beat up her father-in-law.

The arrest had been denounced by Ladies in White leader Berta Soler in the Hablalo Sin Miedo website.

Meanwhile, in Holguin, a Cuban intelligence officer, Major Douglas Torres Pupo, slapped Zuleidys Pérez Velázquez, another member of the Ladies in White, across the face and broke her jaw.

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Swede Describes Cuban Interrogations

And there you have it.

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Report: Swede involved in Cuba dissident car crash concerned about fate of Spanish driver

A young Swedish politician who survived a car crash in Cuba that killed dissident Oswaldo Paya and another government opponent has described an intense five-day grilling about why he was in the country and said he is deeply worried about the fate of his Spanish colleague who was charged with vehicular manslaughter.

Aron Modig said in an interview published Friday that he doesn’t remember anything about what led to the crash, recalling only fragments of how the car suddenly swerved off the road and how he regained consciousness in an ambulance. He said he fears for Angel Carromero, who was driving the rental car when it crashed on July 22 and could face up to 10 years in a Cuban jail.

“Nobody knows what’s happening to him there,” he said.

Modig, the 27-year-old head of the youth party of Sweden’s conservative Christian Democrats, returned home on July 31 after what he said were days of high-pressure questioning in a windowless room in Havana by Cuban police.

“The questions are always the same: ‘Why are you here? Who sent you?’ They switched between asking questions and scolding: ‘Don’t come to our country and interfere’,” Modig told the daily Dagens Nyheter in the interview. “In a dictatorship that’s no good, of course I got worried.”

No questions were posed about the accident, he said.

“I went there with good intentions to contribute to a freer Cuba, but was jailed and questioned. Cubans are treated like that every day,” he said.

Modig’s party had initially scheduled a news conference upon his return to Sweden two weeks ago, but canceled it in the last minute, citing the ongoing legal process in Cuba. The interview in Dagens Nyheter is the first he has given since his return; he was not immediately available for more comment.

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Freedom Cannot Be Taken for Granted

By Joel D. Hirst in The Bush Center's Freedom Collection:

Last week I attended an event at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center, hosted by the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance and the International Republican Institute to honor Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died under still-unclear circumstances in a recent car crash, and other dissidents who continue to work for a free and democratic Cuba.

One of the speakers was András Bácsi-Nagy, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Hungary. In his speech, Bácsi-Nagy described his own fight for freedom decades ago from Soviet oppression. In one amazing twist, he told the story of work done and support received from the Cuban Ambassador (before the arrival of Cuba’s communist government, of course) in their fight against the USSR. This reminded me once again that freedom cannot be taken for granted. As with everything worth having, it must be fought for energetically and defended vigorously; and, tragically, it is rarely permanent.

Events like the one at the Capitol remind us of these facts and help place our support for freedom in context. In moments like these, as we commune with Syrians, Venezuelans, Cubans and Hungarians we reaffirm the principle that the fight for freedom is as universal as the freedoms we fight for. They also help us recognize that in this fight we have power and strength. We have strength first and foremost because we are on the side of truth, and sooner or later truth always triumphs. We have power because every time a dictatorship casts its ugly pall across a land we can rest assured that it is transient. We are also stronger because the community of dissidents like Berta Antunez, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Armando Valladares, featured here on the Bush Center’s Freedom Collection, emerge to personal freedom not only to help enshrine liberty at home but also to support others around the world who remain oppressed.

For this reason, we take heart. We use these moments to grieve over those we have lost in this battle: courageous individuals like Oswaldo Paya; Harold Cepero, who had been expelled from college for opposing the regime and died in the crash with Paya; Wilman Villar Mendoza, who was arrested for peacefully demonstrating against human rights abuses and died this year in prison while on a hunger strike; Laura Pollan, founder of the Ladies in White; and unfortunately many others. We also use these events to tell the dictators that they will not find reprieve in their longevity. And finally, we use our communion to reinforce our commitment to each other and the cause, and to take energy from each other as we prepare to charge back into the fray.

Cuban Airline Not Safety Compliant

According to a "U.N. Airline Risk Assessment List," Cuba's national airline, Cubana de Aviacion, is not fully safety compliant.

Cubana de Aviacion was confiscated by the Castro regime in 1959 -- along with everything else on the island.

The report was obtained by Venezuelan journalist Nelson Bocaranda regarding airlines flying in and out of the Andean nation.

Among those fully compliant are the U.S. carriers Delta and American Airlines, Latin America's Copa and AeroMexico, and Europe's Air France and Iberia.

Tourism Remains Key Source of Income

Tourism remains a key source of foreign income for the Castro regime.

So why on earth would some policymakers want to keep fomenting the income of this cruel, totalitarian dictatorship?

And so much for the "theory" that tourists promote democracy.

From AP:

Cuba reports revenues rose 12.8 percent last year in tourism, key source of foreign income

Cuban authorities report that tourism revenues rose 12.8 percent in 2011, returning to levels from three years earlier as the key sector recovers from losses due to the global financial crisis.

In an undated report posted recently on its website, the National Office of Statistics said tourism income was $2.5 billion in 2011, compared with $2.2 billion the previous year.

In all, the island hosted 2.7 million visitors, up 7 percent from 2.5 million in 2010.

Raul Wags the BBC's Havana Correspondent

Yesterday, the BBC's Havana correspondent reported, "Cuba's ban on anti-Castro musicians quietly lifted."

Apparently, the ban has been "lifted" so quietly that not a single Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino or Gloria Estefan song has been played on Cuban radio.

So where did the BBC get this info?

According to the story, "the Communist Party has not authorised any official interviews. But several of Cuba's biggest radio stations have confirmed to the BBC that the ban has been overturned."

In other words, Cuban dictator Raul Castro authorized a whisper campaign for foreign journalists, in order to grab a headline, and promote his so-called "reformist" label.

It's called "Raul Wagging the Media."

But until Celia, Willy or Gloria are actually played on Cuban radio, it's irresponsible to claim that Castro's censorship ban on exiled artists has been lifted.

Dr. Biscet's New Television Program

Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a renowned Cuban pro-democracy leader and former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, has launched a new independent television program entitled "Revealing Cuba."

The new program, produced and distributed by The Lawton Foundation for Human Rights within Cuba, analyzes international and domestic events.

In the first episode (click below to watch), Dr. Biscet interviews Baptist Pastor Mario Felix Lleonart on the subject of religious persecution in Cuba.

It contains English subtitles.

Another Debunked Anti-Sanctions Argument

For years, some argued that sanctions have placed the U.S. at a disadvantage vis-a-vis nations currently doing business with Castro.

So much for that argument.

From Canada's MacLean's Magazine:

Foreign business in Cuba: Beware the dangerous embrace

[A] strange incongruity exists in Cuba today: Havana is bending over backwards to attract foreign currency at the same time it is imprisoning some of its biggest Western investors. For all Cuba’s reforms, this Castro appears to be as intent on maintaining an iron grip on the country as the last one.

Few are more keenly aware of the pitfalls of doing business in the new Cuba as a pair of Canadians sitting in jail in Havana. It has been more than a year since Sarkis Yacoubian, the president of Tri-Star Caribbean, a trading ﬁrm with headquarters in Nova Scotia, was detained in the Cuban capital. And September will be the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Cy Tokmakjian, the president of a trading company based in Concord, Ont. He and Yacoubian have both been imprisoned without charges. Their assets now belong to Cuba. No trial date has been announced.

Both Yacoubian and Tokmakjian ran well-established businesses in Cuba, had years of experience in the country, and multi-million-dollar contracts with several government ministries. Yacoubian imported the presidential fleet of BMWs. Tokmakjian, who’d been in Cuba for more than 20 years and did $80 million in annual business there, had the rights to Hyundai and Suzuki, which are used by the country’s police.

So far, Raúl has scared off more joint ventures than he has attracted, jeopardizing the investment Cuba needs to succeed. Spanish oil giant Repsol quit the country in May. Canada’s Pizza Nova, which had six Cuban locations, packed its bags, as did Telecom Italia. The country’s biggest citrus exporter, BM Group, backed by Israeli investors, is gone. A Chilean who set up one of Cuba’s first joint enterprises, a fruit juice company, fled after being charged with corruption last year. He was convicted in absentia. Shipping investors are pulling out, even as Cuba prepares to open a new terminal on the island’s north coast.

Some Tactics Never Change

By Fabiola Santiago in The Miami Herald:

Cuba’s new piece of Stalinist theater

To see horror, one startled eye is enough.

— Cuban poet Heberto Padilla.

Like many Cubans in Miami, I’ve waited for days to hear from the man we call el sueco, the Swede, the human rights activist who survived the car “accident” in which Cuba’s best-known dissident, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, and a young enthusiastic activist, Harold Cepero, were killed.

But Jens Aron Modig has not said a word in public since he returned to Stockholm, and few are surprised.

The Cuban government split up the two survivors and kept a hostage: the Spaniard driving the car, Angel Carromero, a fellow human-rights activist accused by the Cuban government of vehicular homicide and facing 15 years in prison.

For those of us who have witnessed first-hand accounts of past victims of Cuba’s regime, the Stalinist theater piece that played out in Havana before Modig flew home is reminiscent of another well-known case: the Padilla Affair of 1971.

Heberto Padilla was one of Cuba’s most important poets, a gentle, talented man who translated Keats, Blake and Byron and penned odes to love and country and everything else in life worth writing about.

In 1968, a panel of judges awarded Cuba’s highest literary prize to Padilla’s book of poetry, Fuera del juego (Out of the Game), an unprecedented work critical of the totalitarian turn of the Cuban Revolution. The state-sponsored Union of Cuban Writers and Artists, which awarded the prize, was forced to issue a statement criticizing the book as counterrevolutionary. Padilla became a pariah, constantly under surveillance. Two years later, after officials learned he was writing a novel that also would be an affront, he was arrested.

Under the duress of interrogation and the threat of imprisonment, he was forced to perform a humiliating act of self-criticism by reading a statement before the union saying he had been wrong for questioning the revolution.

Forty one years later, Carromero’s mea culpa — issued in Havana as the Cuban and international press dutifully captured it and sent it out into the world without much questioning — rings so familiar.

He was driving too fast, the accident was his fault and should not be used for political purposes, Carromero said. Modig was allowed to go home.

As we wait out his eloquent silence, it’s helpful to remember Padilla, who outsmarted his jailers.

The impeccable writer let the grammatical mistakes of the state security official who actually penned his statement stand, and the free world knew that no matter what he said, it was a fake confession.

Padilla, who died in exile in 2000, lived in virtual house arrest until he was allowed to leave Cuba in 1980 at the request of Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The suspected truth behind Padilla’s false mea culpa wasn’t fully known until he and his family were free.

If a book of poetry was that that much of a threat to a totalitarian regime then, imagine the significance now of the real story behind Payá’s death.

We must listen to the silences, question the mea culpas – and wait.

One thing is different: Truth is harder to keep in the shadows for decades. Even dead poets speak long after they’re gone.

Today on "From Washington al Mundo"

Tune in today to "From Washington al Mundo" for a discussion on Israel and Iran's nuclear development with Michael Makovsky, Foreign Policy Director at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

And Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, will discuss her coalition's efforts to end forced abortion and sexual slavery in China. She also led the international effort to free blind activist Chen Guangcheng this year.

You can now listen to "From Washington al Mundo" seven-days a week on Sirius-XM's Cristina Radio (Channel 146) from 4-5 p.m. (EST) and again at midnight (EST).

Imagine Teddy Bears Over Havana

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Does Sweden only support dissidents in Cuba?

Of course not.

Sweden is a leader in the promotion of human rights and democratic movements in repressed societies throughout the world -- from Cuba to Burma.

However, when Swedish youth leader Aron Modig was asked this question at the press conference staged last week by Castro's Ministry of the Interior, he stated affirmatively and even "apologized" for doing so.

That was another one of the lies that Modig, who survived the car crash that killed Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Paya, was forced to tell during the Castro regime's staged "mea culpa."

Otherwise, he'd still be in an interrogation cell.

But we're not sure what's more fascinating -- the fact that such Stalinist theater takes place in the 21st century, or that Castro's foreign echo-chamber regurgitates it as fact.

Particularly when, on the very same week, the following events were transpiring in Europe's last dictatorship, Belarus.

From Bloomberg:

Sweden’s ambassador to Belarus was expelled for “being too supportive of human rights,” Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on his Twitter account.

“Outrageous,” Bildt wrote. “Shows nature of regime.”

The Nordic country has retaliated by ousting two Belorussian diplomats, Bildt said.

Sweden will inform the Belorussian embassy in Stockholm that the new ambassador to Sweden won’t be welcome and that two other representatives will have their credentials revoked, Bildt said Friday in a statement posted on the government’s website.

“The Lukashenko-regime’s expulsion of Sweden’s ambassador to Belarus is a big breach against the norms for relations between states,” Bildt said. “The accusations that the regime has directed at the ambassador are completely baseless. That Sweden is very much engaged to promote democracy and human rights in Belarus is no secret.”

Belorussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko last month fired the border-guard and air-force chiefs after Swedish pilots illegally flew a small airplane from Lithuania to Belarus.

A group of Swedish citizens illegally flew a small plane from Lithuania to Belarus on July 4, dropping teddy-bear toys with signs calling for free speech over the capital, Minsk, Lukashenko said last month, according to a statement on his office’s website. The pilots were able to return to a Lithuanian airport without being intercepted and posted video footage of their flight on the Internet.

Video of Latest Havana Capitol Protest

The independent news agency Hablemos Press has posted the following clip of this week's protest in front of Havana's Capitol building.

According to witnesses, they were applauded during the protest by passers-by, which led to increased police violence against them.

The participants all remain detained.

Quote of the Week

"The changes under Raul Castro are like putting blush on the bodywork of a 1959 Chevrolet, which needs a new motor to work. Everything is being cooked in the same sauce, the [regime's] measures are for temporary survival, for in the long-term they solve nothing."

-- Daniel Benitez, journalist from Cuban state media who recently defected in Mexico, Cafe Fuerte, 8/7/12

MUST-SEE: A Cuban Olympian Calls for "Libertad"

Upon winning the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, Cuba's Mijain Lopez Nunez appears to make the "L" symbol for "Libertad."

It is the symbol for "freedom" that was popularized by deceased Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Paya and Ladies in White leader Laura Pollan, and which recently lined the streets of Havana during Paya's funeral.

Here's Mijain:

Here's a scene from Paya's funeral procession:

Cuba Oil "Expert" Recoils

Monday, August 6, 2012
In May 2011:

Cuban deepwater exploration projects that will begin this year have a high probability of success and may increase the island nation’s oil output by more than 500 percent, said Jorge Pinon, energy fellow at the University of Miami Center for Hemispheric Policy.

“The probability of success in finding hydrocarbons is great,” said Pinon, a former head of BP Plc’s operations in Latin America who recently visited Cuba. The communist nation would own about 60 percent of crude produced from projects resulting from the exploratory wells, he said.

Today, after Castro's second well came up dry:

"A lot of people have been very naive in thinking that an oil-rich Cuba was going to materialize overnight, and that is not the case," said Jorge Pinon, former president of Amoco Oil Latin America and now an energy expert at the University of Texas. "You don't just turn the faucet on overnight."

Another Protest at Havana's Capitolio

According to Hablemos Press, six Cuban pro-democracy activists were arrested yesterday for leading a protest at Havana's Capitol building ("Capitolio").

They carried signs reading:

"Freedom for the Cuban People," "Down With Injustices," "Down With the Dictatorship," "Freedom for Political Prisoners" and "Long Live Human Rights."

Those detained are Lázaro Mendoza García, Jorge González Echendia, Luis Enrique López Torres, José Antonio Pompa López, Ernesto Márquez Herrera and Wilfredo Piloto.

Simultaneously, another protest was held in East Havana by members of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (Federación Latinoamericana de Mujeres Rurales, FLAMUR) and the Republican Youth Impact Movement (Movimiento Impacto Juvenil Republicano).

Among those detained in that protest are Nayllibis Corrales Jiménez, Deysi Ponce, Osniel Valentín, Yosiel Guía Piloto, Fred Calderón, Miguel Ulloa, Rolando Ayala, Yander Ferrer and Miguel López Santos.

Today on "From Washington al Mundo"

Tune in today to "From Washington al Mundo" for a discussion on energy policy in Latin American with Pedro Burelli, former Executive Board Member of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

And Shahriar Etminani of the Iran Democratic Union will discuss the latest on the efforts of that nation's pro-democracy movement.

You can now listen to "From Washington al Mundo" seven-days a week on Sirius-XM's Cristina Radio (Channel 146) from 4-5 p.m. (EST) and again at midnight (EST).

Second Oil Well Comes Up Dry Also

Remember all of the lobbying and sensationalism regarding Castro's supposed oil prospects?

(Which we consistently denounced as a ploy to have sanctions unconditionally lifted).

Cubapetroleo has just announced that its second offshore well, drilled by Malaysia's Petronas and Russia's Gazprom, has come up dry also (or "not commercially feasible").

Earlier year, Spain's Repsol announced that the first well came up dry.

The Scarabeo-9 drilling rig will now finally be handed off to Venezuela's PDVSA before its contract expires and is whisked off to to Brazil.

WSJ: Castro Takes Another Hostage

Sunday, August 5, 2012
By Mary Anastasia O'Grady in The Wall Street Journal:

Cuba Takes Another Foreign Hostage

After Oswaldo Payá's suspicious death in a car accident, the regime arrests the driver, a Spanish rights activist.

Cuba wants to make itself an international travel mecca. But it also needs to keep the Cuban people away from pesky foreigners who could put counterrevolutionary ideas, like the notion of the right to earn a decent living, in their heads.

Last week the military dictatorship demonstrated how it plans to solve this dilemma when it arrested Spaniard Ángel Carromero and charged him with vehicular manslaughter in the car wreck that killed Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero.

There is every reason to believe that the regime is making an example out of Mr. Carromero—a member of the youth wing of the Popular Party in Spain—not because of his driving but because of his politics. Foreigners: be warned.

If human-rights advocates had the technology to create, in a laboratory, the perfect dissident to challenge Cuba's military dictatorship in Havana, they couldn't do better than what God made in Payá. The 60-year-old pacifist was brave, articulate and unwavering in his belief that if Cubans would only drop their fear, they could claim the justice and equality under the law that is their due. A unique combination of intelligence, raw courage and gentle humility made him Castro's worst nightmare.

Payá's death immediately raised speculation in the human-rights community about whether the regime played a role in the crash. If so, it would hardly be news. Thousands of Cubans have been killed since Fidel seized power because they refused to conform. Now that Raúl Castro—who earned a reputation over the years as the "executioner" working for his older brother—has been promoted to dictator, a hit job on Payá, if that's what happened, would be a dog-bites-man tale. But there may be more to this incident.

Also in the car was a Swedish human-rights advocate named Jens Aron Modig, who was unhurt. In the days after the crash, rumors swirled that he'd sent a text message to Europe from the wreckage saying that the car was forced off the road by another vehicle. But neither he nor Mr. Carromero has confirmed that, and no message has been made public. Another plausible theory is that the car was being tailed—not hard to believe—but that the crash was indeed an accident.

More could be learned if Mr. Carromero could speak freely. But from the moment he was taken to the hospital in the city of Bayamo, he has been in police lockdown. He has not been allowed to talk to the Payá family and has only been seen by the public on what looks like hostage videotape. In that tape he uses at least one term that is not common usage in Spain, which suggests the script was written for him.

The Payá family has not pressed charges against the 27-year-old, but if his is found guilty by the regime, he could get one to 10 years. Mr. Modig, who says he doesn't recall what happened, appeared on Cuban television last week with a government minder seated next to him. He "confessed" to helping Mr. Payá in his work by giving him money, and he apologized to the nation. He was allowed to return to Europe last week but canceled a press conference on Friday.

It may be that a government vehicle provoked the crash and that the regime figures that if it holds Mr. Carromero for a few years, memories will dim and by the time he is released and tells the truth no one will care.

But the regime's decision to politicize Payá's death has only further fanned suspicions of foul play. A 1,500-word editorial in the state newspaper Granma last week responded to critics who claim that the government was behind the crash by complaining about Mr. Carromero's affiliation with a party in Spain that has been a harsh critic of Cuban repression.

Granma said that on a tourist visa he had no right to be cavorting with Payá. It also lashed out at Mr. Modig and his ties to Swedish Christian Democrats, who, it said, "rival the ultraconservative North American Tea Party." The editorial went on to list numerous organizations from around the world that have engaged in trying to help dissidents, or what it calls "subversive" activities.

Another enemy operation named in the editorial is the U.S. Agency for International Development. Cuba is already holding a USAID hostage, contractor Alan Gross, who was arrested in 2009 and later sentenced to 15 years in prison for bringing satellite communications equipment into the country. With the taking of what appears to be a second hostage, Raúl, the so-called reformer, is reiterating his hard-line policy.

The Castros fear the increasing audacity of dissidents to speak out, organize and assemble, and they know that contact with the outside world has helped them. They have decided to put an end to it. That purpose is served by locking up Mr. Carromero and holding him incommunicado. "Opening" to tourists never meant allowing them to do dangerous things, like mixing freely with the Cuban people.

Update on Sonia Garro

Sonia Garro is a member of the Ladies in White, who has been unjustly imprisoned since March 18th.

According to Cuban independent journalist Ivan Hernandez Carrillo, she was recently beaten, stripped and confined to a punishment cell without medical attention for 11 days in Havana's Manto Negro Prison.

One of the guards even told her, "I don't care if you die, as all 'worms' should be under ground."

The Castro regime refers to dissidents as "gusanos" ("worms").

Garro's husband, Ramón Muñoz González, husband of Sonia Garro, also remains imprisoned since March 18th. He is being held in the Combinado del Este Prison.

They were both victims of the Castro regime's repressive crackdown undertaken just days before Pope Benedict’s visit to the island.

Others remaining in prison from the Papal visit crackdown are Niurka Luque Álvarez (also a member of the Ladies in White), Jorge Vázquez Chaviano, Dany López de Moya and Bismark Mustelier Galán.

Castro Stands by Assad's Genocide

From AP:

UN General Assembly Denounces Syrian Crackdown

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly denounced Syria's crackdown on dissent Friday in a symbolic effort meant to push the deadlocked Security Council and the world at large into action on stopping the country's civil war.

Before the vote, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reminded the Assembly of the fresh violence in the city of Aleppo and drew comparisons between the failure to act in Syria with the international community's failure to protect people from past genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, and Rwanda.

"The conflict in Syria is a test of everything this organization stands for," Ban said. "I do not want today's United Nations to fail that test."

The vote came after the more powerful Security Council was stopped by a series of Russian and Chinese vetoes on resolutions that would have opened the door to sanctions on Syria.

The General Assembly vote was 133 in support of the resolution and 12 against, with 31 abstaining. Syria's ambassador angrily called the vote "a piece of theater."

Russia and China had objected to those provisions. Both voted "no" Friday, along with Syria, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Myanmar, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.


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Employer Mandate Delay Means Working Californians Will Find Own Health Care

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California’s Insurance Commissioner says the Obama administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act means more people will have to buy their own health insurance in a few months.

The Department of Insurance says the vast majority of California’s large companies already offer their employees health coverage.

But about one and a half million Californians are in companies with 50 or more workers, and no insurance options.

Commissioner Dave Jones says many of these people will have to buy insurance either in or out of the new health marketplaces.

“There is a significant cost to the federal treasury both in California and nationwide, because yes,  a lot of those employees who otherwise would have been getting health insurance through their employer due to the mandate will now be purchasing through either a state exchange or a federal exchange,” says Jones.

Many people getting coverage on the exchange will get subsidies.

The Department of Insurance also says some of the workers in large companies may qualify for Medicaid under the federal health law.

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