On the one hand trading a body part to get time
knocked off of ones sentence is a novel idea. After
all many of the people that are locked up abuse
their bodies anyway with alcohol and drugs. On
the other hand though many would be more than
willing to give up a body part for their freedom and
most would be doing it out of duress. So the ethics come
into play and then what about future medical expenses
for those that give up say a kidney and down the road
the remaining kidney goes bad. These are just a couple
of obstacles that have to be overcome before this law
sees the light of reality. What do you think? I'd like to
hear from you.
Prison inmates in South Carolina could get up to six months shaved off their sentences if they donated a kidney or their bone marrow, under a proposed bill before the state Senate. "We have a lot of people dying as they wait for organs, so I thought about the prison population," said state Sen. Ralph Anderson, the bill's main sponsor. "I believe we have to do something to motivate them. If they get some good time off, if they get out early, that's motivation."
The proposal was approved Thursday by the Senate Corrections and Penology Subcommittee. But it is almost certain to prompt fierce opposition from legal experts and prisoner rights advocates about whether inmates are able to make such a decision freely."For a prisoner to actually have a benefit for giving up an organ violates every ethical value I'm aware of," said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and chairman of the Institute of Medicine's committee on human subject research in prisoners.
"It's grossly unethical, if not unlawful," he said. The institute is part of the National Academy of Sciences.Legislators said they would not debate the measure until they established whether exchanging prison time for body parts violates federal law. Under current law, it is illegal to exchange an organ for "valuable consideration." Lawmakers are attempting to determine whether a reduced sentence constitutes a consideration.
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Friday, March 9, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Cubans Are Left Stuck
It looks as if everything socially the Bush administration
touches turns to do-do. Now it seems that the prez has
extended an open invitation to a certain group of Cuban
nationals that have excepted the offer. Now a large
number of them are stuck in Columbia waiting while
U.S. officials figure out their what to do next. Why
wasn't the details of this invitition worked out befor-
hand or was this some ploy by the administration?
Well for what ever reason I'd like to here from you
on this.
Family practitioner Alberto Hernandez suffers anxiety attacks. Dentist Norah Garcia is prone to bouts of uncontrollable sobbing. General practitioner Cesar Fernandez, 31, has high blood pressure.
They are among the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, surgeons and dentists dispatched from their Cuban homeland as medical missionaries to some of the world's poorest countries, in the process earning hard currency for the communist regime. But instead of providing much-needed healthcare, they have been caught up in a wider struggle between leftist Latin American leaders and the Bush administration.
Last summer, the administration announced that any Cuban medical professional sent abroad was eligible for political asylum. Frustrated with their efforts in a program that took them to Venezuela's barrios, or hoping to start a new life in the United States, dozens of Cuban healthcare professionals sneaked across the Colombian border.
Now they're holed up in Colombia, unable to work, while U.S. authorities mull whether to accept them as political refugees.
"We don't know why it's taking so long. We hope the United States government hurries up and makes up its mind," said Ariel Perez, a general practitioner who shares a small apartment with Garcia and another Cuban dentist in southern Bogota.
The approval process would take one to two months, they were told. But several Cubans here say the process has dragged on for half a year.
"All our hopes and dreams are wrapped up in [Bush's] decree," said Garcia, a 46-year-old from Havana whose husband made it to Florida on a raft three years ago. "The uncertainty is the worst, not knowing what will happen while we sit here and do nothing."
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security, which is handling the applications, declined to comment on the process. But government officials who asked for anonymity said it could take a long time if applicants lacked key documentation such as passports and medical licenses.
Colombia has welcomed the Cuban defectors with less than open arms. Most have been denied visas or work permits while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security processes the applications. Colombia, though a close U.S. ally in the region, has no desire to encourage the deserters, analysts say. Bogota is also reluctant to offend Cuba or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for whom the presence of Cuban doctors is an important policy and public relations initiative of his "21st century socialism."
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touches turns to do-do. Now it seems that the prez has
extended an open invitation to a certain group of Cuban
nationals that have excepted the offer. Now a large
number of them are stuck in Columbia waiting while
U.S. officials figure out their what to do next. Why
wasn't the details of this invitition worked out befor-
hand or was this some ploy by the administration?
Well for what ever reason I'd like to here from you
on this.
Family practitioner Alberto Hernandez suffers anxiety attacks. Dentist Norah Garcia is prone to bouts of uncontrollable sobbing. General practitioner Cesar Fernandez, 31, has high blood pressure.
They are among the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, surgeons and dentists dispatched from their Cuban homeland as medical missionaries to some of the world's poorest countries, in the process earning hard currency for the communist regime. But instead of providing much-needed healthcare, they have been caught up in a wider struggle between leftist Latin American leaders and the Bush administration.
Last summer, the administration announced that any Cuban medical professional sent abroad was eligible for political asylum. Frustrated with their efforts in a program that took them to Venezuela's barrios, or hoping to start a new life in the United States, dozens of Cuban healthcare professionals sneaked across the Colombian border.
Now they're holed up in Colombia, unable to work, while U.S. authorities mull whether to accept them as political refugees.
"We don't know why it's taking so long. We hope the United States government hurries up and makes up its mind," said Ariel Perez, a general practitioner who shares a small apartment with Garcia and another Cuban dentist in southern Bogota.
The approval process would take one to two months, they were told. But several Cubans here say the process has dragged on for half a year.
"All our hopes and dreams are wrapped up in [Bush's] decree," said Garcia, a 46-year-old from Havana whose husband made it to Florida on a raft three years ago. "The uncertainty is the worst, not knowing what will happen while we sit here and do nothing."
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security, which is handling the applications, declined to comment on the process. But government officials who asked for anonymity said it could take a long time if applicants lacked key documentation such as passports and medical licenses.
Colombia has welcomed the Cuban defectors with less than open arms. Most have been denied visas or work permits while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security processes the applications. Colombia, though a close U.S. ally in the region, has no desire to encourage the deserters, analysts say. Bogota is also reluctant to offend Cuba or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for whom the presence of Cuban doctors is an important policy and public relations initiative of his "21st century socialism."
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Hate-Equal Opportunity Style
After reading the article below I had to scratch my
head and ask how and why did this paper allow this
wet behind the ear youngster to write and then they
publish such garbage. Kenneth Eng should not bear
the brunt of this alone. His boss editor Ted Fang
should also be fired, he after all is solely responsible
for what gets printed in the publication.
WHERE DID we go wrong? That was the predictable question raised last week, notably in the ethnic press, after Kenneth Eng wrote a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks." The column, published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper in the waning days of African American History Month, was so astonishingly hateful that activists of all stripes immediately rushed forward to condemn it. AsianWeek Editor Ted Fang issued a lengthy apology and fired Eng, who is in his early 20s and also writes science fiction novels. The small press that published Eng's books announced last week that it was taking them off the market. There was a hastily arranged community forum about strengthening black/Asian relations and improving coverage across color lines. More are surely on the way.
This kind of hand-wringing is to a degree appropriate. It's also inherently limited, a first step that all too often stands as the entire response to ugly racial moments that generally say more about our so-called enlightenment than we like to imagine. Containing the mess, therefore, is critical. From Trent Lott to Michael Richards to Kenneth Eng, our impulse in the wake of black insult is to kick-start big, rhetorical debates about race that tend to divert attention from hard questions about accountability, about who said what and why.
In Eng's case, that's easy. A quick check of his writing reveals an immature, belligerent, insensitive, self-aggrandizing, self-described "Asian supremacist." His previous AsianWeek columns include such subtle titles as "Why I Hate Asians" and "Proof that Whites Inherently Hate Us."Eng comes off as an equal-opportunity hater — he derides religion, calls white folks "Aryan" and once proclaimed that Hitler was "not a coward." But his hatred is stoked by the idea that blacks are exempt from the rules of political correctness, especially when they make derogatory remarks about other groups.
Eng himself got away with racist stuff for months; he only got caught when he blasted blacks. What this genius missed is that anti-black venom has a particular history in this country and is the bedrock measure of our national principles of fairness and equality. Put another way, blacks are historically the least advantaged group, and their treatment by the more advantaged — i.e., everybody else — is where the rubber of democratic ideals hits the road.
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head and ask how and why did this paper allow this
wet behind the ear youngster to write and then they
publish such garbage. Kenneth Eng should not bear
the brunt of this alone. His boss editor Ted Fang
should also be fired, he after all is solely responsible
for what gets printed in the publication.
WHERE DID we go wrong? That was the predictable question raised last week, notably in the ethnic press, after Kenneth Eng wrote a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks." The column, published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper in the waning days of African American History Month, was so astonishingly hateful that activists of all stripes immediately rushed forward to condemn it. AsianWeek Editor Ted Fang issued a lengthy apology and fired Eng, who is in his early 20s and also writes science fiction novels. The small press that published Eng's books announced last week that it was taking them off the market. There was a hastily arranged community forum about strengthening black/Asian relations and improving coverage across color lines. More are surely on the way.
This kind of hand-wringing is to a degree appropriate. It's also inherently limited, a first step that all too often stands as the entire response to ugly racial moments that generally say more about our so-called enlightenment than we like to imagine. Containing the mess, therefore, is critical. From Trent Lott to Michael Richards to Kenneth Eng, our impulse in the wake of black insult is to kick-start big, rhetorical debates about race that tend to divert attention from hard questions about accountability, about who said what and why.
In Eng's case, that's easy. A quick check of his writing reveals an immature, belligerent, insensitive, self-aggrandizing, self-described "Asian supremacist." His previous AsianWeek columns include such subtle titles as "Why I Hate Asians" and "Proof that Whites Inherently Hate Us."Eng comes off as an equal-opportunity hater — he derides religion, calls white folks "Aryan" and once proclaimed that Hitler was "not a coward." But his hatred is stoked by the idea that blacks are exempt from the rules of political correctness, especially when they make derogatory remarks about other groups.
Eng himself got away with racist stuff for months; he only got caught when he blasted blacks. What this genius missed is that anti-black venom has a particular history in this country and is the bedrock measure of our national principles of fairness and equality. Put another way, blacks are historically the least advantaged group, and their treatment by the more advantaged — i.e., everybody else — is where the rubber of democratic ideals hits the road.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Things continue to heat up in the Democratic race for president.
And caught up in the middle is the black vote. One thing for sure
is that black voters must stay united in order not to dilute the
power of the black vote. How will you vote, any idea? Read on.
Representative John Lewis, whose political career grew out of the civil rights movement, had longed for the day he could vote for someone that he believed could become the nation’s first black president. So when Senator Barack Obama entered the race, he was on the cusp of declaring his support. Until Bill Clinton called.
Now, Mr. Lewis said, he is agonizing over whether to choose Mr. Obama, whom he once described as “the future of the Democratic Party,” or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“One day I lean one way, the next day I lean another way,” said Mr. Lewis, Democrat of Georgia. “Sometimes, you have to have what I call an executive session with yourself, a come-to-Jesus meeting, and somehow, some way we will all have to make a decision.”
In the opening stretch of the 2008 Democratic presidential contest, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama and John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, are embroiled in what party officials believe is one of the most competitive scrambles for black supporters since the Voting Rights Act was passed four decades ago. The chief rivals will be here on Sunday when the Clintons and Mr. Obama commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when hundreds of activists — Mr. Lewis among them — crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
Representative Artur Davis, Democrat of Alabama, invited Mr. Obama to deliver the keynote address at the historic Brown Chapel on Sunday. After Mr. Obama agreed, Mr. Davis said, Mrs. Clinton accepted an invitation to speak at a church just down the street. And two days ago, Mr. Clinton said he would join his wife in Selma, the first time since she formally entered the race that he has been called on to use his clout so directly to give her a hand.
“Her timing speaks for itself,” said Mr. Davis, who supports Mr. Obama.
It will be the first time Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama share the same campaign turf, and curiosity was building Saturday evening as hundreds gathered in the historic district for the weekend festival. Aides to Mrs. Clinton dismissed suggestions that they were following Mr. Obama, but members of Congress traveling to Selma said they were encouraged by her allies to attend her speech, not his.
Mr. Obama also adjusted his schedule, a spokesman said, postponing a fund-raiser in Boston on Sunday evening after learning that the Clintons would be attending the daylong series of events here.
Mr. Edwards declined an invitation. He plans to be in California on Sunday to deliver a speech — about Selma and civil rights — at the University of California, Berkeley.
Black voters are a crucial component of the Democratic electorate. In 2004, despite intensive efforts by President Bush to break the Democratic dominance, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts won about 89 percent of the black vote.
In contested primaries, particularly in South Carolina, black support could be vital to the Democratic nominee. About 50 percent of the primary voters in South Carolina are black, and the state is fourth in line on the nominating calendar. Alabama, where about 60 percent of the primary voters are black, is making plans to move its contest to Feb. 2. And at least 16 states are considering voting on Feb. 5, including Florida, California, Illinois, New York and Texas, all states where black voters could hold considerable sway.
But the weekend appearances also offer a window into a broader struggle among the candidates to define themselves to the country and to associate themselves with the legacy of the civil rights movement in a way that could help them appeal not only to blacks but also to white Democratic voters who are proud of their party’s role in that struggle.
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And caught up in the middle is the black vote. One thing for sure
is that black voters must stay united in order not to dilute the
power of the black vote. How will you vote, any idea? Read on.
Representative John Lewis, whose political career grew out of the civil rights movement, had longed for the day he could vote for someone that he believed could become the nation’s first black president. So when Senator Barack Obama entered the race, he was on the cusp of declaring his support. Until Bill Clinton called.
Now, Mr. Lewis said, he is agonizing over whether to choose Mr. Obama, whom he once described as “the future of the Democratic Party,” or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“One day I lean one way, the next day I lean another way,” said Mr. Lewis, Democrat of Georgia. “Sometimes, you have to have what I call an executive session with yourself, a come-to-Jesus meeting, and somehow, some way we will all have to make a decision.”
In the opening stretch of the 2008 Democratic presidential contest, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama and John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, are embroiled in what party officials believe is one of the most competitive scrambles for black supporters since the Voting Rights Act was passed four decades ago. The chief rivals will be here on Sunday when the Clintons and Mr. Obama commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when hundreds of activists — Mr. Lewis among them — crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
Representative Artur Davis, Democrat of Alabama, invited Mr. Obama to deliver the keynote address at the historic Brown Chapel on Sunday. After Mr. Obama agreed, Mr. Davis said, Mrs. Clinton accepted an invitation to speak at a church just down the street. And two days ago, Mr. Clinton said he would join his wife in Selma, the first time since she formally entered the race that he has been called on to use his clout so directly to give her a hand.
“Her timing speaks for itself,” said Mr. Davis, who supports Mr. Obama.
It will be the first time Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama share the same campaign turf, and curiosity was building Saturday evening as hundreds gathered in the historic district for the weekend festival. Aides to Mrs. Clinton dismissed suggestions that they were following Mr. Obama, but members of Congress traveling to Selma said they were encouraged by her allies to attend her speech, not his.
Mr. Obama also adjusted his schedule, a spokesman said, postponing a fund-raiser in Boston on Sunday evening after learning that the Clintons would be attending the daylong series of events here.
Mr. Edwards declined an invitation. He plans to be in California on Sunday to deliver a speech — about Selma and civil rights — at the University of California, Berkeley.
Black voters are a crucial component of the Democratic electorate. In 2004, despite intensive efforts by President Bush to break the Democratic dominance, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts won about 89 percent of the black vote.
In contested primaries, particularly in South Carolina, black support could be vital to the Democratic nominee. About 50 percent of the primary voters in South Carolina are black, and the state is fourth in line on the nominating calendar. Alabama, where about 60 percent of the primary voters are black, is making plans to move its contest to Feb. 2. And at least 16 states are considering voting on Feb. 5, including Florida, California, Illinois, New York and Texas, all states where black voters could hold considerable sway.
But the weekend appearances also offer a window into a broader struggle among the candidates to define themselves to the country and to associate themselves with the legacy of the civil rights movement in a way that could help them appeal not only to blacks but also to white Democratic voters who are proud of their party’s role in that struggle.
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Monday, March 5, 2007
Double Standards-The American Way!
There is a new scandal brewing on “American Idol,” the Fox Network’s hit TV competition that is no stranger to incidents, which have led to the dismissal of one or two contestants.
The latest involves 20-year-old contestant Antonella Barba who has been the subject of much speculation after pictures surfaced on the Internet showing a woman, purportedly Barba, lying on her back covered in rose petals, posing in her underwear, sitting on a toilet and performing oral sex on a man.
And while such may have caused scandal in the past for the show, interestingly, the pornographic web photos are apparently of no concern this time around.
That’s right; Barba has not been released from the show. A spokesman for the Fox Network only had to say that the show does not comment on contestant’s personal lives and even infamous judge Simon Cowell only reprimanded Barba’s so-called friends for leaking the photos. Yet and still, Barba’s alleged photos are not really the scandal.
However, TV fans might recall four years ago, on season 2 of the show, when Franchelle “Frenchie” Davis was disqualified from the show for appearing topless in photos on the Internet. Scandalous!
The show has been quite quiet about the Barba brouhaha as well as Barba herself, but Davis had a few things to say.
“I had stopped watching ‘American Idol’,” Davis admitted, “and I’ve tried to avoid even speaking about or thinking about what happened four years ago. But I couldn’t help but overhear what was happening with Antonella. I couldn’t help but notice the manner in which she was dealt with was the complete opposite of how I was dealt with.”
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The latest involves 20-year-old contestant Antonella Barba who has been the subject of much speculation after pictures surfaced on the Internet showing a woman, purportedly Barba, lying on her back covered in rose petals, posing in her underwear, sitting on a toilet and performing oral sex on a man.
And while such may have caused scandal in the past for the show, interestingly, the pornographic web photos are apparently of no concern this time around.
That’s right; Barba has not been released from the show. A spokesman for the Fox Network only had to say that the show does not comment on contestant’s personal lives and even infamous judge Simon Cowell only reprimanded Barba’s so-called friends for leaking the photos. Yet and still, Barba’s alleged photos are not really the scandal.
However, TV fans might recall four years ago, on season 2 of the show, when Franchelle “Frenchie” Davis was disqualified from the show for appearing topless in photos on the Internet. Scandalous!
The show has been quite quiet about the Barba brouhaha as well as Barba herself, but Davis had a few things to say.
“I had stopped watching ‘American Idol’,” Davis admitted, “and I’ve tried to avoid even speaking about or thinking about what happened four years ago. But I couldn’t help but overhear what was happening with Antonella. I couldn’t help but notice the manner in which she was dealt with was the complete opposite of how I was dealt with.”
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Friday, March 2, 2007
Coming To A Jail Near You!
Otis the town drunk in Andy of Mayberry would
have loved doing his time in southern California
jails. Yeah if one can afford to pay for it then you
might want to consider this route the next time you
do time. Low risk offenders get such amenities as
cell phones, laptops and contact visits. But is this
the way justice should be served up? Let me hear
your take on this plush way of doing time. Otis did
have one advantage these current inmates won't
have-access to the cell keys.
It is not the Mayberry jail, where justice is tempered with Southern hospitality, but for George Jaramillo it is the next best thing.The former Orange County assistant sheriff will rent a cramped cell at Fullerton City Jail to serve his one-year sentence for lying to a grand jury and unauthorized use of a county helicopter, police and district attorney officials said Thursday.Jaramillo, 46, has until April to begin serving his term at a private or municipal jail of his choice after pleading no contest in January to two felonies.
In return for his plea, the Orange County district attorney's office dropped nine other counts and agreed he would not have to serve his term in a county jail. He could have gotten 13 years in state prison if convicted of all charges.Instead, Jaramillo will pay his debt to society in a spartan cell 3 feet from the drunk tank. The tank has no shortage of noisy occupants on weekends, mostly drunks picked up in the city's trendy downtown area. One of his jail chores will include cleaning the drunk tank. Pay to stay can be summer camp compared with state prison. A criminal who can afford to pay for his jail stay enjoys privileges that make his punishment more bearable.For starters, Jaramillo may be able to bring his cellphone and a laptop computer.
A screenwriter who paid to do his brief sentence in Fullerton was able to finish his screenplay on his laptop, said jailer Efren Ragay. Jail officials said Jaramillo will have trusty status, as do all pay-to-stay inmates, and he will be allowed to roam outside the building but not off the unfenced grounds. They are not concerned about him walking away, because that would earn him a transfer to the type of lockup he is trying to avoid. While in custody, he will have to wear an orange smock with the letters "FPD" at all times.
Jaramillo will also be allowed family visits in a patio in front of the police station, where he can enjoy restaurant meals that visitors can bring him. Otherwise it is frozen dinners from the microwave. The cost to be the city's guest is $75 per day. Usually, the entire sum is payable in advance, but because of Jaramillo's longer sentence he will probably be able to pay in installments, said Lt. John Petropulos.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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have loved doing his time in southern California
jails. Yeah if one can afford to pay for it then you
might want to consider this route the next time you
do time. Low risk offenders get such amenities as
cell phones, laptops and contact visits. But is this
the way justice should be served up? Let me hear
your take on this plush way of doing time. Otis did
have one advantage these current inmates won't
have-access to the cell keys.
It is not the Mayberry jail, where justice is tempered with Southern hospitality, but for George Jaramillo it is the next best thing.The former Orange County assistant sheriff will rent a cramped cell at Fullerton City Jail to serve his one-year sentence for lying to a grand jury and unauthorized use of a county helicopter, police and district attorney officials said Thursday.Jaramillo, 46, has until April to begin serving his term at a private or municipal jail of his choice after pleading no contest in January to two felonies.
In return for his plea, the Orange County district attorney's office dropped nine other counts and agreed he would not have to serve his term in a county jail. He could have gotten 13 years in state prison if convicted of all charges.Instead, Jaramillo will pay his debt to society in a spartan cell 3 feet from the drunk tank. The tank has no shortage of noisy occupants on weekends, mostly drunks picked up in the city's trendy downtown area. One of his jail chores will include cleaning the drunk tank. Pay to stay can be summer camp compared with state prison. A criminal who can afford to pay for his jail stay enjoys privileges that make his punishment more bearable.For starters, Jaramillo may be able to bring his cellphone and a laptop computer.
A screenwriter who paid to do his brief sentence in Fullerton was able to finish his screenplay on his laptop, said jailer Efren Ragay. Jail officials said Jaramillo will have trusty status, as do all pay-to-stay inmates, and he will be allowed to roam outside the building but not off the unfenced grounds. They are not concerned about him walking away, because that would earn him a transfer to the type of lockup he is trying to avoid. While in custody, he will have to wear an orange smock with the letters "FPD" at all times.
Jaramillo will also be allowed family visits in a patio in front of the police station, where he can enjoy restaurant meals that visitors can bring him. Otherwise it is frozen dinners from the microwave. The cost to be the city's guest is $75 per day. Usually, the entire sum is payable in advance, but because of Jaramillo's longer sentence he will probably be able to pay in installments, said Lt. John Petropulos.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
It's All About The Money!
Not having a million dollars in the bank as of yet,
I've decided to invest a few dollars weekly in the
California Lottery. And why not cause I'm doing
a civic duty helping out our schools and who knows
maybe the lottery gods will bless me. They have
showed me a little love in the past and I expect
some in the future. Now the lottery is losing
money so what do they do? They want to go out
and hire some high powered consultants to tell them
how to get profits back up. After all the years of running
a lottery you'd think they'd have it down by now.
The answer is quite simple, SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Do that and I'll show you more of mine, It's just that simple.
Check out the story and feel free to offer an opinon. Who
knows maybe we can collect some of those consultant fees.
After three years of record sales, the California Lottery has hit a slump, triggering introspection about how the 22-year-old agency does business.Lottery officials blame a lack of big jackpots in its Mega Millions and SuperLotto Plus games for forcing them to lower their projected revenues this year from $3.6 billion to $3.2 billion. By law, just over a third of lottery income goes to education. Last year, the lottery gave $1.29 billion to schools. This year, because of lower revenues, the lottery expects to give schools $1.13 billion, a loss of $160 million.
"We're seeing a definite trending down in sales," Lottery Director Joan Borucki told the Lottery Commission on Wednesday. Such a midyear correction has not occurred at the lottery in more than a decade. Concerned officials say they have hired marketing consultants to study their "brand image" and suggest improvements.They will examine the Saturday half-hour "Big Spin" television show to see whether it's worth keeping, and survey players and store owners about the games. Another point for review is whether higher payouts on games might boost sales.
When California joined the 11-state Mega Millions game two years ago, lottery officials hailed it as a giant-jackpot draw that would boost sales by half a billion dollars a year. On Wednesday, the Lottery Commission voted to downgrade its Mega Millions sales projections for this fiscal year from $560 million to $355 million. Sales are driven largely by prize size, and for the first half of this fiscal year Mega Millions jackpots were significantly below average. That's because players won smaller jackpots, and jackpots grow each time there is no winner.
The average Mega Millions jackpot in the last fiscal year was $83 million. So far this fiscal year, it is $50 million. However, officials are hoping the rest of the year brings big jackpots like the current $267 million. There could be a winner Friday.
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I've decided to invest a few dollars weekly in the
California Lottery. And why not cause I'm doing
a civic duty helping out our schools and who knows
maybe the lottery gods will bless me. They have
showed me a little love in the past and I expect
some in the future. Now the lottery is losing
money so what do they do? They want to go out
and hire some high powered consultants to tell them
how to get profits back up. After all the years of running
a lottery you'd think they'd have it down by now.
The answer is quite simple, SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Do that and I'll show you more of mine, It's just that simple.
Check out the story and feel free to offer an opinon. Who
knows maybe we can collect some of those consultant fees.
After three years of record sales, the California Lottery has hit a slump, triggering introspection about how the 22-year-old agency does business.Lottery officials blame a lack of big jackpots in its Mega Millions and SuperLotto Plus games for forcing them to lower their projected revenues this year from $3.6 billion to $3.2 billion. By law, just over a third of lottery income goes to education. Last year, the lottery gave $1.29 billion to schools. This year, because of lower revenues, the lottery expects to give schools $1.13 billion, a loss of $160 million.
"We're seeing a definite trending down in sales," Lottery Director Joan Borucki told the Lottery Commission on Wednesday. Such a midyear correction has not occurred at the lottery in more than a decade. Concerned officials say they have hired marketing consultants to study their "brand image" and suggest improvements.They will examine the Saturday half-hour "Big Spin" television show to see whether it's worth keeping, and survey players and store owners about the games. Another point for review is whether higher payouts on games might boost sales.
When California joined the 11-state Mega Millions game two years ago, lottery officials hailed it as a giant-jackpot draw that would boost sales by half a billion dollars a year. On Wednesday, the Lottery Commission voted to downgrade its Mega Millions sales projections for this fiscal year from $560 million to $355 million. Sales are driven largely by prize size, and for the first half of this fiscal year Mega Millions jackpots were significantly below average. That's because players won smaller jackpots, and jackpots grow each time there is no winner.
The average Mega Millions jackpot in the last fiscal year was $83 million. So far this fiscal year, it is $50 million. However, officials are hoping the rest of the year brings big jackpots like the current $267 million. There could be a winner Friday.
This Article Continues Here:
Get your copy of the award winning King:
"From Atlanta to the Mountain top.
"It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
tells the story of the Civil Rights
movement and the life of its
Drum Major for Peace,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program, click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/
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