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1. Understand and plan how to legally and effectively express
personal views on the IU campus.

2. Articulate how student expression rights could be different in
different types of higher education institutions (public/private or
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This course provides a general overview of issues related to street gangs in
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Required Readings:	Jah, Y. and Keyah, S. (1995).  Uprising - Crips and
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				Klein, M. (1995).  The American Street Gang.
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Find out which part of the series did PC prefer?

SRK's fans may be divided over choosing the better Don, but Priyanka has no doubts in her mind.

Even though her role in Don 2 was not as powerful as it ought to have been, PC seems to be satisfied with the way the movie has turned out for her.

When asked in a recent interview to pick her favorite Don…Priyanka said, "Don 2 is definitely better than Don 1".

At the box-office Don 2 has come as a sigh of relief for PC, whose ambitious Vishal Bhardwaj film, Saat Khoon Maaf sank without a trace. So even if she did not have to do much in terms of acting, Priyanka's song-and-dance routine in the music videos and her stunts in Don 2 have helped her keep her glam-image intact.

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GREAT news for Hugh Laurie fans – a third season of House has been ordered by Fox after continuing to secure more viewers during its acclaimed second season.

The show, which features Laurie as a brilliant but grumpy doctor, recently moved to a new slot after American Idol and is the only show to have held 70% of Idol’s audience.

Indeed, it had been averaging 14.1 million viewers before being moved – but those figures have leapt up.

Laurie has been a phenomenal success in the role, winning a Golden Globe earlier this year and picking up an Emmy award last year. He has also become something of a sex symbol.

His former TV partner, Stephen Fry, is delighted with his chum’s success, announcing “hooray for Hugh” at a recent press conference for his latest film, V For Vendetta.

Ironically, Fry was to have appeared in an episode of the second season but due to other commitments could not make the trip to America.

But he commented that House has shown there is nothing that Laurie can’t do when he sets his mind to it, adding that he is a terrific actor.

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While Hugh Laurie’s fortunes continue to rise, those of former Friends favourite Matt LeBlanc continue to fall.

His spin-off show, Joey, has reportedly been put on hold in the US, fuelling speculation that it will be axed.

TV network NBC has temporarily pulled the comedy from its line-up after just four million viewers tuned in during one of March’s shows (2006).

The timeslot is now being filled by Most Outrageous Moments and Joey is on hold, possibly until the summer.

Joey had already been moved around on the schedule, shifting from the prime time Thursday slot to Tuesday nights at 8pm.

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One Indiana child, a 13-year old boy from Gary, was beaten to death by his father after a hellish life.

"The child was beaten, confined and denied food and water off and on for approximately two years prior to death,'' according to the Indiana Department of Child Services' annual report of child abuse deaths. "The child lived the entire last year of life continuously confined in a dog cage."

Another, a four-year-old boy battered by his mother's boyfriend, suffered a fractured spine and lacerated aorta, the main blood vessel from the heart.

"The child bled to death from his injuries and may have been saved if the child had received immediate medical care," the report said.

And a 29-day-old infant, who died from abusive head trauma inflicted by the mother, had "skull and rib fractures, burns on the chest and chin, healed scars on the face and was severely dehydrated," the report said.

These and other horror stories make up the Annual Child Fatality Report by the Indiana Department of Child Services, which reports that such deaths soared in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011.

The report is a study of the state's scandalous state of child protection.

Forty Indiana children died from abuse or neglect in that 12-month period, a shocking increase from the 25 abuse and neglect deaths reported the previous year.

The brief accounts of each child abuse or neglect death are as chilling as they are heartbreaking.

The state's new director of child services, Mary Beth Bonaventura, termed the findings "devastating."

They are. Along with deeply disturbing and not wholly unexpected.

Indiana's child services have been eviscerated by budget cuts of more than $100 million under the administration of former Gov. Mitch Daniels.

The agency underwent major management turmoil and the departure of the previous director amid allegations he got involved in a case of a relative involved in a custody fight.

It has restructured a disastrous single hotline for abuse and neglect reports launched in 2010 supposedly designed to improve efficiency but one that critics said left callers on hold for lengthy waits. Critics said it also resulted in delays of having social workers investigate cases and caused many valid reports of suspected abuse to be "screened out" and therefore not investigated.

As the Associated Press noted Tuesday, the number of child abuse deaths surged after the hotline was implemented. Under fire from lawmakers, the state just last month changed procedures to forward all hotline complaints to local offices to review.

Indiana lawmakers, spurred by the growing string of such horror stories in the Hoosier state, are working on more changes to attempt to fix Indiana's broken child welfare system.

The legislature recently passed Senate Bill 125, a measure sponsored by Sen. John Broden, a South Bend Democrat, to create an independent commission to provide more outside oversight of children's services in Indiana.

The bill has cleared both chambers of the Indiana legislature and is now on the way to Gov. Mike Pence, who should sign the bill as part of his pledge when he took office this year to make child protection his highest priority.

And Indiana lawmakers are proposing to restore $30 million to $40 million of the child services budget cut under the former administration.

As previously noted in Courier-Journal editorials, Gov. Daniels left office on the false claim that his administration had improved child protection.

"Child protection in Indiana has never been better than today," he told the Indianapolis Star near the end of his term in late 2012.

The latest child abuse report rips away any illusions Hoosiers should have about the state of child welfare in Indiana.

The 40 deaths listed occurred or were discovered during the final fiscal year of the Daniels' administration.

We say "discovered" because the body of the boy confined to a dog cage was secretly buried, not found for two years.

Also, the body a three-year-old boy suffocated in an "exorcism" in which he was held down while his mother poured vinegar and oil into his mouth remained hidden and undiscovered in a plastic storage bin for a year.

But from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, too many children suffered ghastly deaths.

The report is an unflinching account of those deaths. It must shock Indiana officials into action.

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Right of Abode : The Solution

The following is a paper on "Right of Abode: The Solution" tabled at the Legislative Council House Committee special meeting today (Tuesday):

This paper informs Members that the Chief Executive has decided to seek the Central Authorities' assistance in requesting the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) through the State Council to interpret Articles 22(4) and 24(2)(3) of the Basic Law in accordance with the true legislative intent of the BL, so as confirm the true legislative intent of the relevant provisions.

2. The CFA gave a judgment on the right of abode (ROA) of Mainland persons on 29 January 1999. The CFA's interpretation of the relevant provisions of the BL was as follows:

(1) BL 24(2)(3) gives ROA to children born of a Hong Kong permanent resident regardless of whether that parent became a permanent resident before or after the child's birth.

(2) Children born out of wedlock may derive their ROA from their natural father as well as their natural mother.

(3) The restrictions on entry into Hong Kong imposed by BL 22(4) on "people from other parts of China" do not apply to persons who have ROA under BL 24(2). As a result, the stipulation in the Immigration Ordinance requiring a Certificate of Entitlement to be affixed to a One Way Permit was held to be inconsistent with the Basic Law.

3. At the Legislative Council (LegCo) meeting on 28 April this year, the Government reported to the Council the interim findings of a survey being conducted by the Census and Statistics Department. The number of people who are immediately eligible for entry into Hong Kong and the number of people who will acquire ROA after their parents have completed seven years' residence in Hong Kong in the coming ten years were announced. At the special meeting of the LegCo House Committee on 6 May, the Government further reported that the admission of this enormous number of additional eligible persons within ten years would create a very huge pressure on Hong Kong. Hong Kong's social resources could hardly meet the immediate needs of this large group of immigrants for education, housing, medical and health, social welfare, etc, thereby triggering severe social problems.

4. Findings from the opinion polls conducted in the past few weeks show that the public is very concerned about these unbearable consequences. We have decided to inform the LegCo at the soonest possible of the option we have taken to deal with the ROA issue concerning Mainland residents born of Hong Kong residents.

5. In view of the problems arising from the CFA judgment, we have considered the following four options:

(1) All the persons who are eligible for ROA by virtue of the CFA judgment to be allowed to come to Hong Kong for settlement;

(2) A new ruling to be delivered by CFA through new cases;

(3) NPC to amend the Basic Law; and

(4) NPCSC to interpret the relevant provisions of the Basic Law.

Option 1: Absorbing all the additional eligible persons

6. This option means that we have to absorb all the Mainland residents who have ROA by virtue of the CFA ruling, but as clearly indicated in the assessment announced on 6 May, this would create an unbearable burden for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Even if, as critics have suggested, some of the eligible persons will not come to Hong Kong, and that there might be discrepancy in the statistical estimates, the total number of additional persons eligible for ROA will still be enormous. Even if we use longer time to admit them, the only difference lies in the impact on the quality of services and the extent of difficulties the various government departments have in providing the additional services. Irrespective of whether the rate of admission is a fast or slow one, the rate of unemployment would eventually soar because of over-supply in the labour market. The problem of environmental pollution would aggravate as well. Hence, unless the people of Hong Kong are all willing to accept a much lower standard of living, it will be impossible for Hong Kong to withstand the repercussion brought about by the entry of the first generation in full.

7. Even if the public are willing to pay this price and accept a lower standard of living, it might not be possible for us to regulate the rate of admission of all the eligible persons, keeping them waiting for longer time before entry into Hong Kong to claim their ROA. This is because the CFA has clearly ruled that we must not unreasonably delay the processing of ROA applications. If these persons have to wait for a longer time, it is possible that many of them will take the Government to courts to demand for an early processing of their applications.

Option 2: Further CFA decision

8. We have considered inviting the CFA to reconsider its decision when the relevant material issues are raised in a future case that comes before it. The advantage of this approach is that any change in the interpretation of the Basic Law would be achieved by judicial action in Hong Kong.

9. However, there is no guarantee that an appropriate case will emerge shortly. Even such a case does emerge, it would take a long time to reach the CFA and this would offer no quick solution to the problem. Moreover, we could not be sure that the CFA would reach a different conclusion on the relevant issues. If it did, the CFA might be criticized as having yielded to political pressure instead of making a rational judicial decision. This would damage its credibility.

10. Legal analysis indicates that the chance of the CFA reversing its judgment is slim. Under common law principles, there must be stability in case precedents. Unless there are changes in the circumstances or in legal viewpoints over a long period of time, the CFA will not easily reverse any of its previous decisions. The House of Lords in Britain has unanimously ruled that even if it considered that a previous judgment had been wrongly decided, this did not constitute sufficient grounds for reversion. If the CFA in Hong Kong adopts this principle, it could not possibly change its judgment made on 29 January within just a few months.

11. We must stress that by reversion we mean the CFA reverses its previous decision in a similar case in the future. We are not asking the CFA to reverse its original judgment when there is no case before it. Such an approach is without legal basis, nor is it acceptable.

Option 3: Amending the Basic Law

12. An alternative is to amend the Basic Law. The basis for the amendment would be that the CFA judgment has correctly reflected the true legislative intent of BL 22(4) and 24(2)(3), but having considered the impact of the CFA judgment on society, an amendment will be made. The measure of redressing the deficiency of law through legislative amendment is more acceptable to common law jurisdictions. There have also been precedents in Hong Kong, a common law jurisdiction, to repudiate a court judgment by means of legislative amendment. Besides, amendment to the Basic Law may help us resume effective control over the entry of Mainland residents into Hong Kong for settlement and resolve the population crisis caused by the CFA judgment.

13. However, this option has the following disadvantages:-

(i) The authority to amend the Basic Law is vested in the NPC which holds its meeting only once a year in March. Hence, the people of Hong Kong have to decide whether they would accept delaying resolving the problem through amendment until next March. Prior to this, many Mainland residents will have exercised or obtained ROA under the CFA ruling. Meanwhile, more and more ROA claimants in the Mainland may attempt to enter Hong Kong illegally or by other means and ask for the permission to stay. Such a prolonged period would have a severe impact on Hong Kong.

(ii) The CFA ruling made on 29 January has become part of the laws of Hong Kong. Before NPC amends the Basic Law, the HKSAR Government has the responsibility to enforce the CFA's ruling. We must not depart from it from now till next March, and assume that NPC will definitely amend the Basic Law. Any departure would have adverse effects on the rule of law of Hong Kong.

(iii) Some critics have pointed out that amendment of BL 22(4) and BL 24(2)(3) is not guaranteed because BL 159(4) provides that no amendment to the Basic Law shall contravene the established basic policies of the People's Republic of China regarding Hong Kong. Since BL 22(4) and BL 24(2)(3) find their origin in section XIV of Annex I to the Joint Declaration (JD) concerning the elaboration of such basic policies, if the two provisions have already reflected the Central Government's basic policies on SAR, it may not be possible to amend the Basic Law as such a move would mean contravention of these basic policies.

(iv) We need to consider carefully whether amendment of the Basic Law should be made retrospective. Generally speaking, amended legislation will take effect after the legislative amendments are passed. If we revoke the rights of people who are entitled to ROA under the CFA judgment, the Government will be criticised for acting wrongly in not paying compensation now that it has accepted the CFA judgment as correct.

(v) The Basic Law is a constitutional document. Decisions should not be taken lightly to amend it for individual cases. It should be kept intact as far as possible. In fact, the Basic Law has only come into force for less than two years. We should actively explore the feasibility of other options before considering amending it.

Option 4 : Interpretation of the Basic Law by NPCSC

14. The fourth option is to seek NPCSC's interpretation of the BL. Under BL 158(1), the power to interpret the Basic Law is vested in the NPCSC. This provision reflects that, under Article 67 (4) of the PRC Constitution, the NPCSC has the constitutional power to interpret laws. While the NPCSC, under BL 158 (2) and (3), grants the SAR courts the power of final adjudication and the judicial power to interpret relevant provisions of the BL, the ultimate power to interpret the Basic Law is vested in the NPCSC.

15. We must point out that legislative interpretation is not equivalent to amendment. Legislative interpretation must be faithful to the true legislative intent. It can expound the express or implied meaning of the law only within the bounds of the legislative principle of the law in question; it cannot make any expansionist or restrictive interpretation which changes the true legislative intent, for otherwise it would be tantamount to legislative amendment.

16. As regards the true legislative intent of BL 22(4) and BL 24(2)(3), BL 24(2)(1), (2)(2) and (2)(3) find their origin in the JD. Section XIV of Annex I to the JD sets out the categories of persons who would have the ROA in the HKSAR. It is clearly stipulated therein that, amongst others, they include all Chinese nationals who were born or who have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong before or after the establishment of the HKSAR for a continuous period of seven years or more, and persons of Chinese nationality born outside Hong Kong of such Chinese nationals. Subsequently, the Joint Liaison Group reached an agreement in 1993 in respect of BL 24(2)(3). It was agreed between both parties that that provision should be interpreted as "A person of Chinese nationality born outside Hong Kong shall have the right of abode in HKSAR, if at the time of his or her birth, whether before or after the establishment of the HKSAR, one of his or her parents is a Chinese national who has ROA in Hong Kong." At its fourth plenary session held in August 1996, the Preparatory Committee (PC) made a resolution to put forth its views on the implementation of paragraph 2 of Article 24 for the HKSAR Government's reference in the making of detailed rules to implement those provisions (see Annex). The said resolution was also specifically referred to by the PC's Chairman Qian Qichen in his working report of the PC presented at the Eighth NPC at its 5th session on 10 March 1997. The resolution was approved at that NPC meeting.

17. The option of interpretation by NPCSC has the following advantages:

(i) It could smoothen the implementation of the BL, making it possible that the true legislative intent of the Basic Law can be reflected in the Immigration Ordinance of the HKSAR.

(ii) The NPCSC will be able to consider our request for clarifying the true legislative intent of the relevant BL provisions at its coming meeting in June. The following pressing problems call for swift actions to tackle them -

(a) Since the CFA gave its judgment, nearly 1 800 Mainland residents who claim to have ROA have already registered themselves formally with the Immigration Department. They include Two-way Permit holders for sight-seeing or visiting relatives, transitees and even illegal immigrants. As a tourist and international trade centre, Hong Kong cannot persistently rely on the Mainland to tighten the control over the issue of Two-way Permits to Mainland residents who have parents in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Mainland residents may under their law apply for entry into Hong Kong for visiting relatives. In addition, it is impossible for the law enforcement agencies of both Hong Kong and the Mainland to deploy on a long-term basis a large number of additional staff to curb the influx of illegal immigrants that might be triggered by the judgment of CFA.

(b) The number of eligible persons is actually increasing on a daily basis because every day there are persons becoming permanent residents by ordinarily residing in Hong Kong for a continuous period of seven years. Their children in the Mainland will then immediately become eligible for ROA. The pressure on population will be increasingly severe if the problem cannot be solved speedily.

(c) As the CFA has stated explicitly that the Director of Immigration should not cause any unreasonable delay in the processing of C of E applications, new litigation accusing the Government of unreasonable delay in processing the applications might arise if the problem is not solved speedily. This in turn will lead to more serious consequences.

(iii) After NPCSC's interpretation of the Basic Law, effective exit control over the entry of Mainland residents for settlement can be resumed.

18. However, NPCSC's interpretation of the Basic Law may be regarded by common law jurisdictions and some people in Hong Kong as undermining the rule of law and CFA's power of final adjudication, as well as interference with the judicial independence and jeopardizing Hong Kong's autonomy. These perceptions may attract negative criticisms on NPCSC's interpretation and the HKSAR Government.

The Proposal

19. After careful consideration of the pros and cons of the above options, the SAR Government takes a view that the problems should be resolved by an interpretation of the BL. This approach offers the most resolute, prompt and conclusive solution to the present problems. It is also conducive to maintaining the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and is in our long term and overall interests. We consider it unjustified to criticize an interpretation of the Basic Law as undermining the rule of law and judicial independence of Hong Kong. The reasons are listed below in paragraphs 20-26.

20. The Basic Law is a national law. Under the Mainland system, the ultimate power to interpret statutes is vested in the NPCSC. Since the NPC enacts statutes, its Standing Committee knows best what the true legislative intent was and is the most authoritative body to interpret the law.

21. During the process of drafting the BL, one of the problems was to combine the two distinctly different systems of legislative interpretation practised in the Mainland and Hong Kong. Consequently, the following approach was adopted:

- The Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong shall enjoy the power of final adjudication.

- While the power to interpret the BL is vested in the NPCSC, the Committee for the BL should be consulted before interpretation is made.

- The NPCSC shall authorize the courts of Hong Kong to interpret the provisions of the BL in adjudicating cases, but in certain cases, the courts shall seek an interpretation from the NPCSC.

22. Given this constitutional background, would an interpretation of right of abode issues under the BL in fact undermine the rule of law? The CFA stated clearly on 26 February that it could not question the authority of the NPCSC to make an interpretation under the Basic Law, which would have to be followed by the SAR courts. In other words, an NPCSC interpretation of the Basic Law is part of our new constitutional order. This is entirely consistent with the rule of law.

23. As to the worries in respect of undermining the power of final adjudication of the CFA, we consider that under BL 158(3), the HKSAR courts, in applying relevant provisions of the BL, "shall follow the interpretation of the Standing Committee. However, judgments previously rendered shall not be affected". The NPCSC interpretation would change only the principles that are to be applied to claims for ROA by other persons that are pending or are made in the future, and the interpretation would have to be followed by the SAR courts in disposing of those cases.

24. As regards the views that the independence of the judiciary would be undermined, we have to point out that judges have responsibilities to adjudicate cases in accordance with law without outside interference. We must point out that the CFA was free from interference in adjudicating the ROA cases. The purpose of us seeking NPCSC interpretation is simply to clarify the true legislative intent of the BL 22(4) and 24(2)(3), not to overturn the CFA judgment. In the future, our judges will still decide cases in accordance with law, without fear or favour. By then, the NPCSC interpretation can only serve as a legal basis on which the CFA must rely in considering cases concerning BL 24(2). There is no question of an NPCSC interpretation interfereing with the independence of the judiciary.

25. There are also worries that Hong Kong's autonomy will be affected. All along, the Central Authorities take a position that since the CFA judgment arose in Hong Kong, the best way out would be for the HKSAR to resolve the problem on its own. If the HKSAR Government requests for assistance, the Central Authorities are willing to provide the assistance. The dramatic increase in the number of eligible persons has posed an unbearable burden on the HKSAR. Against this background and that the Chief Executive shall be accountable to the Central People's Government and the HKSAR in accordance with the BL, the decision to resolve this difficult issue by requesting the State Council to seek an NPCSC interpretation of the BL does not entail the question of the Central Authorities interfering with Hong Kong's autonomy. Additionally, the power of interpretation of the BL is vested in the NPCSC under BL 158(1) while the CFA has the power of final adjudication under BL 158(2) and 158(3). It follows that an interpretation by the NPCSC would reflect the respective role given to the CFA and the NPCSC by the BL. This does not lead to deprivation of the legal power of Hong Kong, nor is our autonomy reduced as a result.

26. Some have argued that if the NPCSC could interpret the BL in respect of ROA, it could do the same in respect of other provisions that are within the limits of Hong Kong's autonomy. This argument entirely loses sight of the fact that under the BL, the NPCSC has the power of final interpretation of any BL provisions. We are aware that some quarters in our community perceive badly an NPCSC interpretation and give adverse comments accordingly. But the power of NPCSC to interpret BL is expressly provided for in the BL. As a matter of fact, the current problems are very unusual, and relate to one of the most fundamental issues of any community, i.e. who should have the right to join the community as a permanent resident. Since the Government has the responsibility to provide basic services and facilities to our permanent residents, this issue has a direct bearing on the commitment of our resources and our future development for the whole community. In the face of this difficult problem, the interests of the entire community will be undermined if the Government does not resolve it quickly. It is under such exceptional circumstances that we seek NPCSC interpretation. What we are seeking from NPCSC is its explanation of the true legislative intent of BL 22(4) and BL 24(2)(3). All these point to a fact that there is no question of us taking it lightly the request for NPCSC exercizing its interpretation power. Although the NPCSC is vested with the power to interpret law under Article 67(4) of the PRC constitution, the NPCSC has exercised the power of interpretation sparingly. It has done so on only eight occasions since 1950s, one occasion being the making of the "Explanations of Some Questions by the NPCSC concerning the Implementation of the Nationality Law of the PRC in the HKSAR" in May 1996. Some of the provisions in that Explanation are in effect supplementary provisions to the Nationality Law made to cater for the implementation of the Law in Hong Kong, taking into account Hong Kong's historical background and actual situation. This NPCSC interpretation of the Nationality Law has resolved a fundamental issue of the community and was widely welcomed.

Scope and Effect of the Interpretation

27. Against the above background, the Chief Executive has decided to request the State Council to ask NPCSC to interpret the relevant provisions of the BL so as to -

(a) clarify whether the views on BL 24(2), endorsed by the Preparatory Committee of the HKSAR of the NPC at its fourth plenary session held on 10 August 1996, has reflected the true legislative intent of the BL correctly and whether they have legal effect. This will provide a solid legal basis for the HKSAR courts in hearing future cases concerning BL 24(2).

(b) clarify whether "people from other parts of China" under BL22(4) should be interpreted as people from various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government (excluding Taiwan province and Macao SAR), including children in the Mainland born of Hong Kong permanent residents. This clarification will help restore the effective One-way Permit quota arrangement which Mainland residents are currently subject to for settlement in Hong Kong.

(c) concerning "persons of Chinese nationality born outside Hong Kong " under BL 24(2)(3), clarify whether at the time of their birth, both or either of their parents should have acquired the status of Hong Kong permanent residents under BL24(2)(1) or 24(2)(2). The clarification is crucial because the majority of the enormous additional population eligible for ROA in Hong Kong were born at a time when neither of their parents had acquired the status of Hong Kong permanent residents.

(d) clarify whether the NPCSC interpretation will be effective from the day on which the Basic Law came into force, without affecting those who are eligible for ROA in the HKSAR by virtue of the CFA judgment of 29 January.

28. We will not seek an interpretation in respect of the ROA eligibility of children born out of wedlock. This is because the existing legislation of both the Mainland and HKSAR have already given children born within wedlock and out of wedlock equal status. Besides, in handling the issue of C and E, all the judges of the Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal and Court of Final Appeal have unanimously ruled that excluding children born out of wedlock from acquiring ROA through their fathers' permanent resident status not only is unreasonable but also contravenes the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

29. It can therefore be seen that in seeking NPCSC's interpretation, we only intend to clarify the true legislative intent of the Basic Law, rather than taking away the rights conferred on by the judgment of 29 January.

30. Under BL158(3), after NPCSC has given an interpretation of the BL, the HKSAR courts must follow it. If anyone not satisfied with the NPCSC interpretation lodges an appeal, the CFA, in adjudicating the case, should follow the NPCSC interpretation under BL 158(3). The CFA clarified on 26 February 1999 that the power of interpretation of the Basic Law was vested in NPCSC under BL158. It also accepted the binding effect of the NPCSC interpretation. In this way the interpretation could be fully implemented.

31. The Chief Executive decides to enlist the assistance of the State Council in seeking an interpretation of BL22(4) and 24(2)(3) by the NPCSC in its June meeting. Before giving an interpretation of the Basic Law in accordance with the power of interpretation and the procedures provided for under BL158, the NPCSC will consult the Committee for the Basic Law of the HKSAR, before considering and deciding on the HKSAR's request. We are of the view that it is lawful and reasonable for the NPC to interpret the Basic Law, and beneficial to maintaining Hong Kong's stability and overall interests.

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On July 18, 2013, Detroit became the nation's largest public sector bankruptcy. Before the motor city filed, just over 60 cities, counties, towns and villages had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 9, the procedure used by municipalities in courts since the mid-1950s. Detroit's bankruptcy filing came with the approval of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. In a press conference the following day, Snyder said, "Now's our opportunity to stop 60 years of decline. How long had this been going on and people were kicking the can down the road and not doing something? We're doing something."

The bankruptcy was filed by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr whose job it is to find a way to resolve Detroit's financial situation, which includes an estimated $18 million in total outstanding liabilities. Orr was appointed emergency financial manager by Gov. Snyder, an appointment opposed by Detroit residents in a November 2012 referendum. In the press conference with Snyder, Orr said that Detroit needs to cut its debt to restore services. "Does anybody think it's OK to have 40-year-old trees growing through the roofs of dilapidated houses," he said. Part of Orr's plan, to reorganize the city and cut the debt down to $2 billion, would mean that retirees, bond holders and investors would receive only 17% of what they are owed.

Lights Out in Motor City

Once the country's fourth-largest city and the world's automobile capital, Detroit has gone from a city of 1.8 million in 1950 to 700,000 people in 2013. Tens of thousands of buildings, including the historic Michigan Central Station, have been abandoned and lots vacated. Streets have gone unlit.

Detroit residents got fired up about the bankruptcy filing, which meant pension cuts for city workers and bonds worth only pennies on the dollar. A bankruptcy filing also put the city's assets at risk, including the hockey arena and city zoo, which could be sold off.

Detroiters Get Fired Up

The Detroit Fire Fighters Association released a group statement that said it was "very disappointed" over the city's bankruptcy filing. The group added, "We are working with other Detroit employees to form a unified coalition to address the financial concerns of Detroit. Fire Fighters will continue to protect and serve during this difficult time, regardless of the economic challenges."

Detroit resident Katherine Mingle wasn't surprised when the city filed for bankruptcy. "Since Rick Snyder was elected, he has implemented a number of policies that seem to center on the financial solvency of Michigan. Passing laws like the Right to Work legislation are particularly offensive to me as someone who takes pride in the accomplishments of the labor movement. As an educator, I have taught social studies to kids with an earnest love for the American ideals of democracy and civic involvement. It becomes really hard to instill those values when our elected officials in city government are being usurped by emergency managers."

Mingle added that the media's handling of the bankruptcy filing didn't help. "Worst of all, it is another story for the national media to exploit what is seen as the decay of this great city. It's rare these days to find the media reporting on the positive things going on here," she said.

Detroit Hustles Harder

In fact, the bankruptcy and situation in Detroit presents a unique opportunity for the city to reinvent itself. As Mingle explains, "There is a lot going on here in terms of community organization, development, arts and culture. And it is fueled by the masses of young people moving to the city for cheap rent and the opportunity to build things. The residents I know are motivated, collaborative and proud. I don't know that people would be so fiercely determined to make positive changes if things weren't as bad as they are now."

In January 2013, city leaders presented a 347-page plan called "Detroit Future City." The plan included turning vacated lands into parks, landscapes and commercial sections. Many point to the downtown area along Woodward Avenue as a guide. Thousands of people, a lot of them young, have moved into that area, which includes a new gourmet coffee shop, a faux beach, bushes landscaped in the shape of dogs, and music playing along the street.

Other U.S. cities such as Pittsburgh and Boston redeveloped after a period of depopulation, although neither one of those cities faced the extreme financial situation that Detroit is in now. However, Mingle says Detroit is up for the challenge, "There's a slogan you see around town a lot. 'Detroit Hustles Harder.' I like it because it's true. We work hard and we work together. Maybe it's only because one person can't do it alone here. But the point is, Detroiters are not giving up. Bankruptcy is just another hurdle. And we are climbing it."

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by Dilip Krishnan on Jul 23, 2009 |

In a recent article, William Vambenepe, compares four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see the practical value of REST in IT/Cloud management.

Intrestingly, As someone who was involved with the creation of the WS-* stack, principles of REST feel natural to William

In opposition to WS-*. On the other hand, as someone who started writing web apps when the state of the art was a CGI Perl script, who loves on-the-wire protocols […], who is happy to deal with raw XML […] who appreciates the semantic web, and who values models over protocols the REST principles are very natural to me.

Given his background in IT resource management, he examines the RESTful principles in this field and how the various IT/Cloud management vendors employ these principles in their API design.

For a while now I have been wondering if I am missing something important about REST and its applicability to IT management or if it’s mostly a matter of “just pick one protocol and focus on the model” (as well as simply avoiding the various drawbacks of the alternative methods, which is a valid reason but not an intrinsic benefit of REST).

He starts out with a little history about Amazon EC2 …

When it came out a few years ago, the Amazon EC2 API, with its equivalent SOAP and plain-HTTP alternatives, did nothing to move me from the view that it’s just a matter of picking a protocol and being consistent. They give you the choice of plain HTTP versus SOAP, but it’s just a matter of tweaking how the messages are serialized (URL parameters versus a SOAP message in the input; whether or not there is a SOAP wrapper in the output).

Fast forward to 2009 and many people have now created and published RESTful APIs for Cloud computing. APIs that are backed by real implementations and that explicitly claim RESTfulness (unlike Amazon). Plus, their authors have great credentials in datacenter automation and/or REST design. First came GoGrid, then the Sun Cloud API and recently Rackspace. So now we have concrete specifications to analyze to understand what REST means for resource management.

… and goes on to discus details about GoGrid API, Rackspace “Cloud Servers” API, and the Sun Cloud API. He concludes, without going into a detailed comparison of the features that the various cloud vendors are very similar in their offerings

Overall, they are pretty similar in many dimensions. They let you do similar things (create server instances based on images, destroy them, assign IPs to them…). Some features differ: GoGrid supports more load balancing features, Rackspace gives you control of backup schedules, Sun gives you clusters (a way to achieve the kind of manage-as-group features inherent in the EC2 API), etc.

He concludes that Suns’ and Rackspaces’ API’s the most RESTFul and consequently the ones he would find most enjoyable to develop against. The full article can be found at his blog. What are your experiences with developing against the API’s of these cloud vendors? Especially using Microsoft’s Windows Azure, which is conspicuously missing vendor from Williams’s analysis.

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A 15 year-old schoolboy with a taste for BitTorrent went to trial yesterday after downloading and sharing 24 Hollywood movies. The case, however, has a worrying twist. Rather than being hunted down online by an anti-piracy company, the teenager was turned over to the police by the head teacher at his school. The prosecutor says he had no choice but to take action.

In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student’s computer.

During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive. The 15-year-old boy in question had obtained them from two Swedish torrent sites – tankafetast.se and tankaner.se.

Ultimately the school’s head teacher learned of the IT technicians’ discovery but rather than deal with the issue in-house, she chose to drastically escalate the matter – by calling in the police. Now, five months after the alleged offenses, the boy is on trial in Sweden.

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The official launch of Nehalem is a watershed event, but what's next?

So Intel finally got it together and released Nehalem today. It's one hell of a CPU, that's for sure. Frankly, if the performance increases present in the Nehalem CPU had been widely known prior to today, nobody would have bought Harpertown-based servers. They're effectively orphans as of right now for general server computing needs. The world moves on.

But as I said in the feature I wrote for today's launch, where does CPU development go from here? The punch Nehalem packs is essentially AMD's Opteron blueprint writ large with the substantial addition of DDR3 RAM. They took the NUMA architecture found in the Opteron and made it faster. But you can only use that particular potion once.

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There's no mistaking the fact that AMD has to step up to the plate here. It needs to deliver a Nehalem-killer -- and pretty quickly. Not only does it need to meet or beat the performance numbers put up by Intel, but the company must equal them in core development and really hammer the six- and eight-core chips that can compete core-for-core with the Nehalem's performance. I honestly have no concrete idea if AMD can pull that off. To be honest, I was fairly surprised that Intel was able to produce such a powerhouse at this point in time, and AMD doesn't have the deep pockets that Intel does.

Predictions for processors

So what's next for processors beyond Nehalem? More cores per die, more integration with previously outboard components, and more transistors. 32nm will rule the day, but when is the next time we'll see a huge performance boost in a single release like this? If Nick Knupffer is right and this is the biggest step Intel's made since the Pentium Pro, then will it be another 14 years before we make another leap of this kind? I doubt it. I think it'll all happen much quicker than that.

Perhaps we'll finally see the demise of the general-purpose CPU, and advances in CPU development will follow specific use cases and result in purpose-built servers that are task-specific. This would seem to be the model that Sun's following with the SPARC, foregoing single-thread performance for multiple threads per core and multiple cores per CPU. In a smaller way, AMD and Intel are beating that drum too, but not quite as hard.

It really all comes down to software -- if developers aren't busy trying to properly thread their code, they're going to get left in the dust.

But all that remains to be seen. I've read estimates that claim somewhere on the order of 40 percent of installed servers are still single-core. Especially with the world-wide economy on shaky ground, it'll take some time before those boxes are mothballed. And they'll be replaced by virtualization frameworks, no doubt about that -- virtualization frameworks running on four-, six-, and eight-core CPUs.

Today is a good day for Intel, a good day for IT, and a good day for technology in general. As long as we can hold off the approaching Thunderdome, the next few years should be even better.

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This collection of articles - taken from newspapers - relates to a number of ongoing miscarriages of justice and to issues which directly affect the criminal justice system in Great Britain. The articles have been gathered here for reference.

Problems of, and help for miscarriage of justice victims Prisoners who maintain their innocence Trawling in sexual abuse cases Forensic science In prison
Can lawyers put people before law?
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'Lawyers, who see themselves as being part of the solution to the wrongful conviction of innocent people, are, in reality, part of the problem. By complying with the rules of the system which prevent the exoneration of the innocent they are implicated, whether they like it or not, in the sacrifice of potentially innocent people.'
With the Guantánamo Bay detainees freed the champion of the underdog has struck another high-profile victory. But the radical defence lawyer would far rather the spotlight shone on the plight of terrorist suspects held without trial. By Owen Bowcott, Friday January 14, 2005
Dr Michael Naughton finds a new category of perverse jury verdicts where the innocent face jail for crimes which never occurred
Too many guilty verdicts are made on questionable evidence writes Bob Woffinden in The Times
As the government plans a thorough overhaul of criminal justice, it needs to ask why so many unsafe convictions are overturned, says Bristol University's Dr Michael Naughton
In an article in the Sunday Times to mark the release of his most recent book, Ludovic Kennedy calls for a radical reform of the criminal justice system
Bob Woffinden meets Gisli Gudjonsson, whose pioneering studies changed the face of law
Clare Dyer of the Guardian looks at the case of Angela Cannings - who was recently jailed for the murder of two of her babies
Frances Gibb of The Times looks at the work of the CCRC
The disturbing case of Dr Bill Thompson, a criminologist specialising in child abuse, and a police search for pornography. Why was his home raided when he has legal protection?
An (extensive) article by Bob Woffinden in the New Statesman from 1998
Young, foolish, but not criminal: Sarah Wilson is serving 12 years for importing drugs she didn't know she was carrying. The man who planted them got just eight years ...
Zakaria Erzinglioglu argues for a review of the jury system
A man kills his unfaithful wife and gets two years. A woman kills her violent partner and gets life. Not fair, says Justice For Women, 10 years old tomorrow
Racism and injustice
An article on Satpal Ram from the Daily Express
An article on Satpal Ram from June 2000 by Jeremy Hardy of the Guardian
The prisoner - an article by Simon Hattenstone of the Guardian
Various articles on the review of the criminal law prepared by appeal court judge Sir Robin Auld
An article looking at the dangers of revealing defendants' past convictions to a jury
The case for and against the 'double jeopardy' rule
Jon Robins writing in The Lawyer asks whether it is time to review the powers of the court of appeal
The right of a jury to keep its deliberations secret is sacrosanct. But what happens when it threatens to cause a miscarriage of justice? Clare Dyer of the Guardian reports
Clare Dyer reports about a study on juries and jurors In New Zealand
Bob Woffinden asks if the court of appeal is failing to do its job
An extensive article from Scotland's Sunday Herald looking at a number of Scottish miscarriages of justice
Ludovic Kennedy argues that guilty/not guilty verdicts are outdated - a case should be proven
An article from the New Statesman from December 2000
Bob Woffinden on the role of the court of appeal and the CCRC
A seemingly insignificant case - yet one which reveals a great deal about how the criminal justice system does indeed get things wrong
An article from the Daily Express on happenings in South Wales ...
An article from the Observer calls for an inquiry into happenings in South Wales ...
Articles on the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)
Or out of the frying pan and into the fire ... how a mother and her daughter nearly went on trial for a murder they hadn't committed
A total of seven articles in the wake of the £50,000 compensation award made to Winston Silcott in 1999
A 1997 article about Raphael Rowe by a former writer-in-residence at HMP Gartree
It's not a fair cop ....
Public interest immunity is supposed to protect informants, but is it now being widely used to hide police malpractice?
The DPP admits that the current disclosure system is not working as it should ...
An article by Joel Bennathan in the wake of the quashing of the M25 Three convictions
Articles dealing with an ever-present issue in miscarriages of justice
Problems of, and help for miscarriage of justice victims
Victims of miscarriage of justice receive less assistance on release than the guilty. But that could soon change ...
What becomes of prisoners whose convictions are quashed by the court of appeal ...
An article examing the thorny issue of compensation for the wrongly convicted
An old article from the New Statesman on the problems posed by freedom to victims of a miscarriage of justice
An article on the launch of MOJO, a new organisation which intends to help victims of a miscarriage of justice
Freedom doesn't mean you'll get your life back. An interview with Michael O'Brien on the launch of MOJO
An article dealing with the problems faced by victims of a miscarriage of justice once they are released
"Strange taste of freedom" - an interview with Andrew Evans 18 months after his release
Problems of prisoners who maintain their innocence

John Taft, a wrongly convicted life sentence prisoner, shows that by refusing parole to prisoners maintaining innocence, the Prison Service unfairly penalises the most law-abiding inmates
Dr Michael Naughton shows how the Parole board's own data confirms that prisoners who maintain their innocence are likely not to be granted parole
Penny Lewis of the Independent looks at the problems faced by those protesting their innocence
An article by the investigative journalist Peter Hill in Inside Time highlighting the pressure on certain innocent prisoners to participate in a system which rewards admitting guilt
An article by former prisoner governor David Wilson on prisoners protesting their innocence
One of the problems faced by prisoners maintaining their innocence - the additional punishment for doing so
Prisoners maintaining their innocence at HMP Frankland win the right to challenge the governor's decision not to allow them 'enhanced' status
Trawling in sexual abuse cases
Solicitors drum up childhood abuse cases with adverts in Inside Time and set off police trawl
Bob Woffinden writing in The Times on yet another case of police trawling
Two articles looking at 'Operation Rose', in which Northumbria Police went trawling for victims of sexual abuse
An article on the police practice of 'trawling' for 'abuse victims'
Care staff are being jailed for sex abuse on the evidence of accusers with questionable motives. Bob Woffinden reports
Forensic science
Zakaria Erzinglioglu looks critically at the state of forensic sciences in Britain ...
The debate over fingerprint evidence in the wake of the Shirley McKie case
More tales of woe and confusion regarding supposedly infallible evidence ...
A leading police fingerprint expert resigns in order to testify in court against what he believes is flimsy forensic evidence that has led to unsafe convictions
Zakaria Erzinglioglu outlines his ideas for a reform of the forensic science sector and why these reforms are urgently required ...
A leading forensic scientist claims that experts are often pressurised into lying ...
In prison
Articles on the July 1999 case against the Home Sec on the 'gagging' of journalists who visit prison inmates - and in particular prisoners protesting their innocence
Erwin James, a serving prisoner, reports on the treatment of an innocent man in prison
Auld lags inside .... an article by a serving life prisoner on what the New Year brings

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With burgers, as in life, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The Happy Hound, the Los Gatos landmark that has been serving up hamburgers and hot dogs since the days of bell bottoms and eight tracks, closed for three months earlier this year after an electrical fire. It reopened this month with a new interior but the same classic menu.

The basic hot dog, the Happy Hound ($3.25), is long, skinny and has just the slightest snap when you bite into it. It has a very mild flavor and comes in an unremarkable bun. It's basically a blank canvas for condiments, but because the flavor of the dog is so mild, it can easily get overwhelmed.

The Polish Hound ($4.75) is something else altogether.

Burgers are a big thing at the venerable Happy Hound in Los Gatos.Photo: Jason Bennert
Burgers are a big thing at the venerable Happy Hound in Los Gatos. Photo: Jason Bennert ( Jason Bennert )

It's a Polish sausage that is split lengthwise and grilled, and then placed inside a grilled French roll. The sausage has definite garlic and pepper flavors, and the grilling really brings out its smokiness. The roll is perfectly grilled to give it a crust with a slight crunch when you first bite into it, but it is still soft inside.

The real standout at The Happy Hound is the Happy Burger ($4.99). It is a big burger. They say it's a third of a pound, but it looks and feels like more. It is grilled just perfectly for my taste every time, cooked through but still pink inside. And there's just enough grease dripping onto the wrapper when you bite into it to let you know you're eating a made-to-order burger and not something that's been in a warmer.

It comes with iceberg lettuce, thick slices of tomato and red onion, a couple of pickle slices and special sauce (Thousand Island). I like to add on bacon ($1.35), which The Happy Hound is liberal with, and cheese (95 cents).

Another area where The Happy Hound is quite generous is with its fries. The small order ($1.39) contains enough matchstick fries for my wife and me to share with no fights over who gets the last few. The family size ($6.90) should really be called the soccer team size, because it is 2 pounds of the golden brown, slightly salty fries with the crisp exterior and fluffy interior.

The Happy Hound also shines with their too-thick-for-a-straw milkshakes ($3.24 for a small) made with soft serve ice cream. They do the basics well -- chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, but where they shine is in their other flavors, including boysenberry, root beer, banana, coffee and pumpkin.

Every order at The Happy Hound is made fresh in an open kitchen that's not much bigger than a bathtub. If you can snag one of the precious counter seats, I recommend you settle in and watch the people working performing "pas de deux" around a deep fryer.

The Happy Hound is always busy, with lines often stretching out the door, though the line at the outside window is usually shorter. That leads to the one real problem with the place: parking. There really isn't any.

So you either have to park on busy Los Gatos Boulevard and walk a little way or risk parking in the surrounding neighborhood, which might displease the residents.

But wherever you end up, parking won't matter once you get close to The Happy Hound and get that first whiff of the smoky goodness on their grill.

The Happy Hound

15899 Los Gatos Blvd.,
Los Gatos

Hours: 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Types of food: Burgers and hot dogs.
Average meal price: Around $10 including fries and soda.
Good choices: Happy Burger and the Polish Hound.
Attitude: Very friendly but busy, busy, busy.
Amenities: An outside
walk-up window
Vegetarian options: It's not a vegetarian kind of place, but they do have a salad on the menu.
Drinks: Soft drinks and eight different milkshakes.
Eat in car: Absolutely.
Next-day edibility: Naw.
Who goes there:
Generations of Los Gatos residents
Credit cards: All major ones
Parking: The Hound's Achilles' heel: There's no parking, and the neighbors get cranky if you park in front of their yard.

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Cal graduate Alex Morgan was named U.S. Soccer's female athlete of the year Monday while Santa Clara junior Julie Johnston was honored as young female athlete of the year.

Morgan, a rising star on the U.S. national team after helping lead the United States to a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, won the award in her first time on the ballot. She led the Americans with 28 goals, which was third-best all-time in a calendar year behind Abby Wambach (31 in 2004) and Michelle Akers (39 in 1991).

Morgan, 23, also has a team-leading 19 assists in 2012, the fourth-most in a single year. She still has three matches left on the Americans' fan tribute tour. Morgan is a candidate for FIFA's top individual award that will be announced Jan. 7.

Johnston edged her under-20 World Cup teammates Kealia Ohai of North Carolina and Illinois midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo. Johnston started all six games on the backline and earned the Bronze Ball as the tournament's third-best player, a rarity for a defender. She returned to California after the World Cup to lead Santa Clara with eight goals and five assists in 14 appearances.

Johnston is the second Broncos player in three years to win the award. Goalkeeper Bianca Henninger of Los Gatos won in 2010.

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If you are on the same page as the Mayans, the end of the world is near.

At least that's how some people have interpreted the fact that when the Mesoamerican civilization conceived their Long Count calendar more than 5,000 years ago, it happens to end on Dec. 21, 2012.

On the other hand, some people think the end of the Maya calendar simply refers to the coming of a major global or physical transformation to start the "new era."

Whichever your belief, don't find yourself stuck in a recliner at home when the big day comes. Instead, you could take advantage of one of the many hotels that are marking the date with special Mayan-themed deals and packages.

Several hotels across the country, including Hotel Maya in Long Beach, are offering events to help guests check off those Bucket List items.

The chic Long Beach waterfront hotel, which already embraces the Mayan culture with its name, will host a free daylong party titled "End of the World" beginning at 9 a.m. Friday.

The hotel, located at 700 Queensway Drive near the Queen Mary, will also be concluding its yearlong "The Year to Go Mayan" sweepstakes that offers guests a chance to win free weekend stays as well as a grand prize trip to the heart of Maya country in Yucatan, Mexico.

The party will offer raffle experiences including skydiving, paddle-boarding and sailing lesson certificates, among others to be drawn throughout the day.

In addition, a henna tattoo artist will provide free tattoos. A photo booth featuring locations around the world will provide guests with free photos of where they most want to spend their last days.

Hotel Maya's "End of the World" celebration will also feature authentic Mayan entertainment, Latin-inspired food and an authentic Mayan Chocolate Station, along with a variety of Latin appetizers, guacamole specials, house-made chips and salsas, and apocalyptic-themed drink specials including Mayan Mimosas, Bloody Marias and more. There will also be live Latin music.

An official Mayan end of the world toast will be held at 3:11 p.m. to observe the official time the Mayans prophesied that the world would end.

"Now's the time to fulfill those lifelong dreams and Hotel Maya is poised to help make it happen," said Hotel Maya General Manager Kristi Allen in a press release. "Our theme all year long has been to `live your life to the fullest' and we want to continue to promote that as the world will surely go on."

Hotel Maya is also offering guests the "End of the World Party" hotel package, when checking in Friday, that includes a waterfront room for two, breakfast for two -- if the world is still around Saturday, of course -- and complimentary two-hour bike rentals, parking and Internet. This "Live Your Life To The Fullest" package starts at $169 per night.

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KLAMATH -- Leaving his teenage drug abuse behind in Oregon, Dustin Weber was seeking a new beginning along California's rugged far northern coast, happy to be in the land of his mother's heritage, the Yurok Tribe.

Yet before Weber could get a proper start, the 25-year-old was swept out to sea at the mouth of the Klamath River by a tsunami surge generated thousands of miles away by the earthquake off Japan's coast. Rescuers were unable to reach him Friday and called off their efforts; he is presumed dead, though his body has not been found.

His would be the first death of a person on the West Coast by a tsunami since 1964, when 11 people in nearby Crescent City died from the surge created by an earthquake in Alaska.

"His life was always challenged with drug issues and being Indian," said his mother, Lori Davis, of Bend, Ore., after searching miles of beach with family members and friends for her son's body.

"One of the things we fight most is drugs and alcohol. He's been clean and sober for a long time. I just feel like, you know, finally he was so happy. He has never been this happy in a long time," she said. "There have been so many times he was so close to death from other issues in his life. You know, it just doesn't make sense to me."

Dustin was born in Bend, and his parents separated when he was 5. He lived with his father, who works for a grocery chain. His mother remarried, then divorced again.

Blaise Butcher and Shawn Wilcox were friends with Dustin since they were little kids, building forts, fishing, snowboarding, and riding dirt bikes. "He liked music, sports cars, motorcycles, car shows," said Butcher. "He liked everything from hip hop and rap to a little bit of classical music."

Bend was hit hard by the Great Recession. Home to a ski resort, dozens of golf courses, fly fishing in the Deschutes River and spectacular views of the snowcapped Cascade Range, it grew from a little timber town to a four-season resort area when people had money to buy second homes. The wood products mill that once sustained it with blue-collar jobs became a shopping center catering to people with money to burn. When the mortgage money dried up, so did the Bend economy.

But Dustin was a hard worker, and when other people lost their jobs, he kept his on a landscaping crew, said Wilcox.

Over the years, there were car wrecks that should have taken Dustin's life. But he survived them all.

"I think there were three where he just completely cheated death," said Butcher.

After a bad crash in 2008, Dustin started cleaning up his life, attending meetings and staying sober, said Butcher.

Last Christmas, Davis told her son that his grandmother wanted to give him her old house in Klamath, a rural community about 20 miles south of Crescent City. The house is high on the bluff called Requa, with a view of the Pacific and the mouth of the Klamath River.

"I sort of feel it's my fault," she said of her son's death. "I just wish I'd never told him about (the house) in the beginning."

But Dustin was thrilled.

"He was so happy to come down here to start a new life," his mother said. "He got clean and sober. He finished all his community service. Everything he had to do. He had a chance to have his own house. His grandmother -- my mother -- was going to give him her sister's house. He just beamed when he found out he could have that opportunity. He started working so hard to make that happen."

Two weeks ago, Jon Weber drove his son to Klamath and stayed a few days helping him fix up the house, then returned home.

Dustin posted on Facebook a picture of the view from his new home.

"He was a great kid," the father said. "My son flirted with death a couple times and got around it. This time he didn't see it coming. There was a sneaker wave that came down the shoreline. Some friends of his were down there taking pictures. I think he was expecting the wave to come out of the ocean, but it didn't. It came down the shoreline."

They were on the north side of the river, on a little spit of sand where the Yurok people for thousands of years have used carved wooden hooks to snatch lamprey, a jawless fish that looks like an eel, from the water. A rock formation that looks like a woman with a basket on her back overlooks the site.

The official warnings had said the tsunami would hit around 7:30 a.m., and Dustin thought the danger had passed, not understanding that the surges would get bigger and go on for hours, his mother said. Someone brought a camera to take pictures. Dustin was skipping rocks into the river.

"He was not looking in the direction it was coming from, but they saw it coming," his mother said. "They tried to run down there and save him. One of the guys almost had him by the shirt. They couldn't save him.

"They tried to yell for him, but the ocean was too loud."

On Saturday, Dustin's mother, father, an uncle and friends walked miles of beach looking for his body.

"I'm really sorry we haven't found his body yet," said his mother. "I'm still thinking there may be a chance he's found alive. I know there's no chance of that. But as a mother, I want to hope there still is a chance."


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SAN MATEO — The San Mateo Union High School District Board of Trustees neglected its duties, was fiscally careless and allowed thousands of dollars in public money to be wasted, according to a San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury report released Wednesday.

This was one of three disparaging reports from the grand jury this year on the district. The two prior reports covered the district's problems with fiscal mismanagement and construction contracting procedures.

Among alleged problems listed in the 37-page report are a lack of documentation for back overtime pay, inaccuracies and false certifications in state grant applications, improper transferring of district funds and approval of financing with excessive interest and fees.

Superintendent Samuel Johnson, Jr., who is retiring at the end of the month, said the district and its legal counsel are in the process of reviewing the report.

"We need some time to absorb this report," he said.

Trustee Marcia Cohn-Lyle also said she needed more time to review the report as well before commenting on specific issues.

"There were a lot of recommendations made, and we will try to follow through with them," she said.

One of the problems described in the report could cost the district millions in penalties from the state, according the grand jury.

It says in April 2001, the district had inaccuracies and false certifications in a grant application for state bond money to pay for construction at Aragon, Burlingame, Hillsdale and Mills high schools.

In order to receive state bond funding, a school district must certify to the State Office of Public School Construction that it has entered into binding contracts for 50 percent of the work shown in the plans. According to the grand jury, the district's former chief business officer told the state in applications that it had entered into the required contracts. But later audits by the state board revealed this was false information.

Now the district may have to forfeit state funds, pay penalties exceeding $2.8 million and $100 hourly charges for reexamining previous applications, and lose the right to self-certify future applications.

The grand jury recommended the district create better policies for applying for grants so things like thisdon't happen in the future.

The report also outlined problems the grand jury found with documentation supporting more than $88,000 in back overtime pay for the former executive assistant, who continues to do contracting work for the district.

According to the report, the district's counsel told the trustees that they had to pay back overtime to the executive assistant as long as it could be documented. This would include daily records of hours worked. However, the grand jury said it was not given this documentation after numerous requests.

The jury recommended the district ask its attorney about the legality of the agreement with the assistant, which was made when Tom Mohr was superintendent, as well as a review of the overtime payments to determine their adequacy.

Furthermore, they suggested the district review its compliance with labor laws pertaining to relationships with administrative employees, and establish better policies for consultant agreements.

Craig Childress, president of the San Mateo Union Teachers Association, said he found this information about the consultant "unnerving."

It speaks to the action and nefarious activity that's gone on in the district," he said. "It's troubling to think that something like that can go on and be presented to the board as something legitimate."

Another problem focused on in the report involved the district's accounting practices. In 2006, after the San Mateo High gym suffered water damage, the district transferred $1 million from its building fund to the general fund to pay for the damage. This is legal as long as the money is paid back to its original fund. But the grand jury could find no evidence that the money was ever returned to the fund.

Trustees interviewed by the grand jury were unaware of these interfund transfers, and district staff said they appeared as line items in the budget approved by the board.

The grand jury recommended the district repay the money to the building fund and ensure that all future interfund transfers are properly authorized by the board. Furthermore, it suggested the board establish better policies for issues related to interfund loans.

The report went on to criticize the board for taking out loans for construction that resulted in excessive interest and fees. Furthermore, it states that the superintendent and chief business officer erroneously certified the district's financial situation so they could receive these loans.

In light of these problems, the grand jury recommended the board receive more education in school district finance and accounting.

Superintendent Johnson said a majority of the board members have received finance training, and the district's staff does advise them on issues.

The grand jury report says if the board had not made all of these financial mistakes, it might have been able to pay the salaries of the 16 teachers and 36 classified staff who were laid off last fall.

Childress agrees that the teachers are not the source of the district's financial woes. The district and teachers spent months bumping heads over medical benefits in their contract. They finally came to an agreement last month essentially giving the teachers the health care package they demanded.

"In a nutshell, it's really validating our position that the teachers' health care cost is not what's draining the district financially," he said.

Staff writer T.S. Mills-Faraudo covers education. She can be reached at (650)348-4338 or


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OTTAWA - Now that they've had the weekend to digest it, members of Parliament may have questions today about the Harper government's massive budget implementation bill.

The 359-page omnibus bill introduced Friday proposes changes to everything from Canada's food and rail safety regimes to the Judges Act and the National Defence Act.

Critics say it contains little to create jobs, as the Conservatives tout, but plenty of other things that they say should not be included in a budget document.

Here are some other happenings in and around Ottawa today:

— NDP communities and infrastructure critic Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet will announce her party’s priorities for spending on infrastructure, and point out some of the challenges facing municipalities;

— The Carleton University Centre for European Studies will hold a workshop on the Ukraine and whether European Union policies for its neighbours are effective;

— The NDP's Canada Post critic Alexandre Boulerice and Denis Lemelin, President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, will talk about recent cuts to Canada Post services and expected hikes to stamp prices.

— The Senate national security and defence committee hears witnesses on how the Canada Border Services Agency determines admissibility to Canada and how it removes people deemed to be inadmissible;

— Fisheries Minister Gail Shea and department officials appear at a Commons committee to discuss her department's spending estimates;

— Auditor general Michael Ferguson and assistant auditor general Lyn Sachs will also talk about their spending estimates at the Commons public accounts committee;

— Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions president Linda Silas and CUPE president Paul Moist discuss the expiry of the 2004 Health Accord and the risk to national medicare;

— And Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife Sharon will host an evening in honour of Robert Lepage, the laureate of the Tenth Glenn Gould Prize.

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Sam Amick reporting that Neil Olshey offered Hibbert the max deal tonight. Obviously Pacers will match but wow. Dude only made an all star team last year because Horford was out and Pacers had a great improvement. 15.5 ppg, 10.5 rpg is not max money and he hasn't really improved as a pro. Statistically over 4 seasons he's actually regressed.
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Men's Lacrosse: Bowdoin defests Endicott 9-6

BEVERLY, Mass. - The Bowdoin College men's lacrosse team extended their win streak to three games as Billy Bergner scored four times in a 9-6 win over Endicott on Saturday afternoon. The Polar Bears move over .500, improving to 6-5, while the Gulls fall to 8-6.

Bergner added an assist to his four-goal afternoon to lead all scorers. Russell Halliday had a goal and three helpers while Adam Tracy had a pair of goals and one assist. Chris Williamson made 13 saves in the win for Bowdoin. Jonathan Prentice had two goals for Endicott.

Trailing 1-0 heading into the second quarter, Bowdoin rattled off three straight tallies in a span of 2:33. Berger took a feed from Halliday for the first score and then returned the favor to Halliday just 1:30 later. Adam Tracy took a pass from Halliday to give Bowdoin a 3-1 advantage. After an Endicott two-goal spurt, Bowdoin regained the lead with scores from Tracy and Bergner to carry a 5-3 edge into the break.

After the teams traded third-period scores, Berger put the game away in the fourth quarter with goals at 12:14 and 5:38 to give the Polar Bears a commanding 8-4 lead. Owen Smith put the game on ice with a late insurance goal for Bowdoin.

Bowdoin looks for its fourth straight win on Wednesday evening with a NESCAC game against Bates scheduled for 7:00 p.m.