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Plasmonic black metals: Breakthrough in solar energy research?
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Student left in DEA cell to get $4 million from US
SAN DIEGO (AP) ? A 25-year old college student has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the federal government after he was abandoned in a windowless Drug Enforcement Administration cell for more than four days without food or water, his attorneys said Tuesday.
The DEA introduced national detention standards as a result of the ordeal involving Daniel Chong, including daily inspections and a requirement for cameras in cells, said Julia Yoo, one of his lawyers.
Chong said he drank his own urine to stay alive, hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him with gases through the vents, and tried to carve a farewell message to his mother in his arm.
It remained unclear how the situation occurred, and no one has been disciplined, said Eugene Iredale, another attorney for Chong. The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating.
"It sounded like it was an accident ? a really, really bad, horrible accident," Chong said.
Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a San Diego police officer authorized to perform DEA work on a task force. The officer told Chong he would not be charged and said, "Hang tight, we'll come get you in a minute," Iredale said.
The door to the 5-by-10-foot cell did not reopen for 4 1/2 days.
Justice Department spokeswoman Allison Price confirmed the settlement was reached for $4.1 million but declined to answer other questions. The DEA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Detective Gary Hassen, a San Diego police spokesman, referred questions to the DEA.
Since attorney fees are capped at 20 percent of damages and the settlement payment is tax-free, Chong will collect at least $3.2 million, Iredale said. Chong, now an economics student at the University of California, San Diego, said he planned to buy his parents a house.
Chong was a 23-year-old engineering student when he was at a friend's house where the DEA found 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Iredale acknowledged Chong was there to consume marijuana.
Chong and eight other people were taken into custody, but authorities decided against pursing charges against him after questioning.
Chong said he began to hallucinate on the third day in the cell. He urinated on a metal bench so he could have something to drink. He also stacked a blanket, his pants and shoes on a bench and tried to reach an overhead fire sprinkler, futilely swatting at it with his cuffed hands to set it off.
Chong said he accepted the possibility of death. He bit into his eyeglasses to break them and used a shard of glass to try to carve "Sorry Mom" onto his arm so he could leave something for her. He only managed to finish an "S."
Chong said he slid a shoelace under the door and screamed to get attention before five or six people found him covered in his feces in the cell at the DEA's San Diego headquarters.
"All I wanted was my sanity," Chong said. "I wasn't making any sense."
Chong was hospitalized for five days for dehydration, kidney failure, cramps and a perforated esophagus. He lost 15 pounds.
The DEA issued a rare public apology at the time.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, on Tuesday renewed his call for the DEA to explain the incident.
"How did this incident happen? Has there been any disciplinary action against the responsible employees? And has the agency taken major steps to prevent an incident like this from happening again?" he said.
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Caldwell reported from Washington.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/student-left-dea-cell-4-million-us-170408624.html
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Day 2 of hearing on alleged Sandusky cover-up
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Lawyers will regroup for a second day of testimony in a hearing for three former Penn State officials ensnared in the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, a day after a star witness testified that football coach Joe Paterno had been critical of how the university handled it.
Tuesday's hearing in a Harrisburg courtroom is expected to be short, with just two witnesses.
The judge, William Wenner, must decide whether prosecutors showed enough evidence against the ex-school officials to test the charges in a full trial. The charges, including perjury, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of children, stem from allegations that former Penn State president Graham Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley failed to tell police about an allegation against Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, and then tried to hide what they knew.
In Monday's hearing, the star witness, Mike McQueary, testified in a courtroom for the third time since Sandusky's November 2011 arrest that top school officials knew that he had seen Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker room shower.
But the former Penn State assistant coach and quarterback also delivered some unexpected testimony ? that the late Hall of Fame coach Paterno had told him over the years that university administrators "screwed up" in how they responded to McQueary's allegation against Sandusky.
Pressed by defense lawyers about his discussions of the subject, McQueary brought up a specific exchange at football practice in the hours before Paterno's firing on Nov. 9, 2011 ? four days after Sandusky's arrest.
He recalled the head coach saying the school would come down hard on McQueary and try to make him a scapegoat. Paterno also advised McQueary not to trust the administration or then-university counsel Cynthia Baldwin, the former assistant testified.
Make sure to get your own lawyer, he said Paterno told him.
Lawyers for Spanier, Schultz and Curley say the men are innocent. Paterno died in January 2012. He was never charged.
The core of McQueary's testimony is that he saw Sandusky and a boy engaged in a sex act in the locker room shower in 2001 and within days reported it to Paterno, Curley and Schultz.
However, Curley and Schultz have said McQueary never reported that the encounter was sexual in nature, while Spanier has said Curley and Schultz never told him about any sort of sex abuse. They said they believed Sandusky and the boy were engaged in nothing more than horseplay.
Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of sexually abusing 10 boys. He maintains his innocence.
Much of the testimony Monday revolved around prosecutors trying to show that Penn State officials should have known to report Sandusky to police in 2001 after police investigated complaints in 1998 that he had been showering with boys in university locker rooms.
Lawyers for the defendants tried to show they never tried to hide evidence, destroyed evidence or asked school employees to lie.
McQueary last year sued the university, claiming defamation and misrepresentation and seeking millions of dollars in damages. His contract with the school wasn't renewed after the 2011 season.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/day-2-hearing-alleged-sandusky-cover-110500557.html
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Twitter CEO Commits NCAA Violation by Using Twitter
In 1985, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in?computer and communication sciences. Since his micro blogging site really took off, Costolo has been used by the university to hopefully convince high school talents to commit to the Wolverines. The NCAA is cool with that, but what they aren't OK with is Costolo actually contacting the recruits in any way, shape or form. And yes, Twitter is included, which makes this message a possible violation.?
Even if Costolo does something as seemingly harmless as welcoming?2014 quarterback recruit Wilton Speight and 2015 recruit?George Campbell to the Wolverines, it's still a no-no. Call it crazy, silly, whatever, it's a rule. Luckily, Michigan spokesman Dave Ablauf informed For The Win?that the??potential minor violation" will be handled "as appropriate." Key word: minor. So, there shouldn't be much of a penalty coming down the pipeline. ?
If the CEO of Twitter is making mistakes on social media, none of us are safe. ?
RELATED: The 100 Biggest Twitter Fails in Sports History
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Source: http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/07/dick-costolo-commits-ncaa-violation-on-twitter
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
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Freeman & Associates Contracting, a Raleigh construction firm, has agreed to pay four workers $20,000 in back wages after U.S. Department of Labor investigators determined the workers were improperly classified as independent contractors.
The department?s Wage and Hour Division concluded the company paid the workers straight time when they worked more than 40 hours in a week.
Making the case wasn?t a stretch for the investigators. The employees had previously been classified as employees.
They found Freeman & Associates suddenly reclassified them with the clear intent of avoiding overtime pay. The move also affected the workers? eligibility for FMLA leave, minimum wages and unemployment insurance.
More bad news for the company: IRS and North Carolina officials are now trying to determine if Freeman & Associates owes back taxes and penalties.
Note: Reclassifying employees while keeping them in the same jobs is boneheaded. The DOL, IRS and the many other interested parties will investigate to determine if the newly independent contractors are truly independent.
Employers rarely win those kinds of cases.
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California universities under fire over response to sexual assault allegations
USC's provost, Elizabeth Garrett, said the university does not tolerate sexual misconduct in any form. Photo: Philip Channing/University of Southern California
Tucker Reed, a student at the University of Southern California, had been dating her boyfriend for several weeks before they got drunk and had sex for the first time on 3 December, 2010.
If not quite in love, they were serious about each other, and it should have been the consummation of their relationship. Instead, according to Reed, it was rape, and the beginning of a nightmare. "I said no. But my humanity didn't matter to him."
Los Angeles prosecutors decided not to pursue the case, and three years later the facts of that night remain disputed, but the aftermath now affects not just Reed but her ex-boyfriend, USC and other universities across the United States.
The 23-year-old, who said she has felt traumatised and suicidal, named her alleged rapist in a blog and posted photographs of him, triggering debate over the ethics of outing someone who has not been charged with or convicted of a crime.
Reed, the daughter of bestselling authors, also accused USC of failing to properly investigate the alleged assault and supply proper help, amounting to what felt like a second rape. She mobilised other students with similar stories. That has prompted a federal investigation, it emerged last week, into whether USC violated Title IX, a federal gender equality law.
Reed's campaign also helped galvanise similar complaints at other universities, including Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College and UC Berkeley, which now face scrutiny over allegedly hostile environments for women on campus.
It was a wake-up call, she told the Guardian, to victims' often silent suffering: "They are broken and bleeding and trying to heal. Many of them wouldn't even have attempted to seek justice because they know they wouldn't receive it."
The campaign is gaining momentum. Occidental College has hired two former sex crimes prosecutors to review its handling of sex abuse allegations following complaints earlier this year.
USC is now in the spotlight because of a federal investigation by the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), launched on June 26 after a formal complaint from Reed and others detailing 16 cases.
The OCR decided to investigate three of those 16. Some media reports inaccurately said it was probing more than 100 cases.
The provost, Elizabeth Garrett, defended the institution in a letter to faculty and staff on Friday, which said the university did not tolerate sexual misconduct in any form:
"There are not 100 students who have complained to the federal government about the process, as some have claimed. Instead, a student alleged that USC had not responded appropriately in 16 cases; the OCR accepted three of those cases for further investigation".
The OCR had dismissed the charge that there was a "hostile environment" at USC, she added. "It determined there was not sufficient evidence to pursue that claim, but it agreed to look into our grievance procedures, as well as the three specific cases. Our process is always open to review and improvement, and we will collaborate fully with the OCR and look forward to suggestions it might have."
Reed, speaking from her family home in Oregon, said the university had failed her and many others. In a survey of 200 students almost half ? 47% ? said they had experienced some sort of sexual violence and found the school's security, medical and psychiatric services to be inadequate, she said.
Its policies were fine; the problem was implementation, with some administrators unable or unwilling to respond effectively to claims of harassment, stalking and assault, she said. As a result few reported abuse. "The likelihood of getting justice for it is so slim you just don't go there."
Some critics on social media have accused Reed of distorting her own case, which police dropped citing lack of evidence, and seeking a vendetta against her ex. She continued dating him for two years after the alleged assault, which she reported in late 2012 after they broke up.
She had stayed in the relationship, she said, because although traumatised by the alleged assault she was in denial that it was rape, a common reaction when the assailant is known to the victim. Friends witnessed her distress the day after the alleged rape, she said. Plus she had subsequently secretly recorded her boyfriend confessing. "I took control over what happened to me," she said.
Reed is pursuing a civil claim against her ex. He is counter-suing for libel. She rejected suggestions she had ruined his life. "This person's actions, decisions, maybe ruined his life."
Two years younger than Reed, he graduated this year. Reed, who missed many classes after going public, is due to return in September for her final year.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/usc-response-rape-allegations-california
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'Trailblazer' former Rep. Lindy Boggs of Louisiana dead at 97
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Former Democratic Representative from Louisana Lindy Claiborne Boggs attends the Distinguished Service Award ceremony at the Capitol May 10, 2006 in Washington, DC.
By Associated Press
Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97.
Boggs, who later served three years as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration, died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Md., according to her daughter, ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts.
Boggs' years in Congress started with a special election in 1973 to finish the term of her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., whose plane disappeared over Alaska six months earlier. Between them, they served a half-century in the House.
"It didn't occur to us that anybody else would do it," Roberts said in explaining why her mother was the natural pick for the congressional seat. Her parents, who had met in college, were "political partners for decades," she said, with Lindy Boggs running her husband's political campaigns and becoming a player on the Washington political scene.
Roberts called her mother "a trailblazer for women and the disadvantaged."
When Boggs announced her retirement in 1990, she was the only white representing a black-majority district in Congress. "I am proud to have played a small role in opening doors for blacks and women," she said at the time.
As family tragedy brought her in to Congress, so did it usher her out. At the time of her July 1990 announcement, her daughter Barbara Boggs Sigmund, mayor of Princeton, N.J., was dying of cancer. Sigmund died that October.
Her son, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., is a leading Washington lawyer and lobbyist.
The elder Boggs was first elected to Congress in 1940, two years after the couple married. Both were also active in local reform groups.
Lindy Boggs was more than the typical congressional wife. She ran several of her husband's political campaigns and helped him in his Washington and New Orleans offices.
"Early on, Hale established with politicians at home that I was his direct representative and that they could say anything to me that they could say to him. Whatever decisions I made, they would be his final decisions," she said in 1976.
Breaking with most Southern whites, Lindy Boggs saw civil rights as an inseparable part of the political reform movement of the 1940s and '50s.
"You couldn't want to reverse the injustices of the political system and not include the blacks and the poor. It was just obvious," she said in 1990.
She worked for the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and 1968, Head Start and other programs to help minorities, the poor and women.
After she entered Congress, Boggs used her seat on the House Appropriations Committee to steer money to New Orleans and the rest of the state. As a member of the House Banking and Currency Committee, she used typical steely grace to include women in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.
"I ran into a room where there was a copying machine, wrote in 'sex and marital status' on the bill, and made 47 copies," she said. "When I took it back into the subcommittee meeting, I told them I was sure it was just an oversight on their part."
Boggs changed the way politics operated, former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., once said.
"I've seen it time after time," Johnston said. "On difficult issues, powerful men and women are going toe to toe, sometimes civilly, sometimes acrimoniously. Lindy Boggs will come into the room. The debate will change. By the time she leaves the room, she usually has what she came to get."
As the first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention, in 1976, she decreed that she would be addressed as "Madam Chairwoman," rather than "Madam Chairman" or "Madam Chairperson."
"I'm a woman," she said. And, "Why should it be neuter?"
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, one of the hardest-hit facilities was Lindy Boggs Medical Center, a historic hospital named in her honor the previous year.
Her Bourbon Street home also was damaged and The Washington Post reported in February 2006 that she was living in a hotel nearby.
"There are worlds of friends I miss," she told the newspaper. "The culture is not there."
Corinne Claiborne was born March 13, 1916, on a plantation near New Orleans, a descendant of William C.C. Claiborne, the state's first elected governor. She attended Sophie Newcomb College, affiliated with Tulane University, and met her future husband when both were editors of the Tulane student paper. She taught school between graduation in 1935 and their marriage in 1938.
As part of a group of well-connected women called the Independent Women's Organization, she took to the street in a "Broom Brigade" in 1945, sweeping the streets to publicize the need to sweep out graft and corruption.
In her first election for Congress, in March 1973, she had to overcome prejudice against her gender and privileged background.
Said her Republican opponent, Robert E. Lee: "I've covered this district by foot, by car, by air. This is something that takes a strong, healthy man. ... A socialite is not going to do this district any good in Congress."
Her constituents disagreed, giving her at least 60 percent of the vote in every election from then on.
Her Vatican posting was from 1997 to early 2001, and she said her goals were to work with the Vatican on promoting democracy, tolerance, religious freedom, peace and human rights.
In 2000, she announced that she would resign after President Bill Clinton left office, no matter which party won. "It's been an honor and a privilege and a wonderful opportunity to be in this position, but it's also extremely exhausting," she said at the time.
Shortly before Pope John Paul II died in 2005, she joined those praying for him. "I have a thousand wonderful memories of him," Boggs said. "I have been very, very fond of this pope for a very long time."
In addition to her children, Boggs is survived by eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
St. Louis Church to hold final Mass on Aug. 29
AUBURN ? Local Catholics will celebrate Mass one final time in the 98-year-old St. Louis Church.
The event is scheduled for Aug. 29, four months after the grand brick structure was closed due to structural concerns, particularly at its front entrance on Third Street.
Details of the Mass and other events surrounding the church closure are not yet final, said the Rev. Robert Lariviere, pastor of Auburn's Immaculate Heart of Mary parish.
A committee has been formed and is working on the event, he said.
It will be sad for many families who have grown up in the church, Lariviere said.
The church has towered over the New Auburn neighborhood for nearly a century. However, an analysis last fall found structural problems.
The parish committee and the statewide Roman Catholic diocese estimated repairs would cost more than $1 million.
Issues included large cracks down a tower, cracks in a concrete overhang and a deteriorating stone crown on the roof. Earlier this year, three of the church's four spires were removed due to structural worries.
Finally, when a crack appeared near the front doors, the parish closed the church.
The parish?s Finance and Pastoral Councils have recommended that the church be deconsecrated and torn down at a cost of around $120,000.
No formal decision has yet been made.
Roland Miller, Auburn's director of economic development, has held out hope that the church might be saved.
"We're hopeful that we're going to be able to attract some private party interest who, perhaps, could help the diocese avoid a large cost in demolition," Miller said on July 1.
Losing the building would be a huge loss for the city, said Al Manoian, the city's economic development assistant. Future generations may not forgive people who let it happen, he said.
"They look back and they say to the previous generation, 'How could you have done that?'" Manoian said. "I do that to my mother's generation."
He compared demolition of the building to the loss of civic and mercantile buildings ? mills, business blocks and railroad stations ? to the loss of churches.
In January 2011, crews demolished the field stone United Baptist Church on Main Street in Lewiston. The city's oldest Catholic church, St. Joseph's, is due to be razed by its new owners, Central Maine Health Care. The space is to be used for parking.
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