'I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have' - Anthony Weiner statement: http://t.co/VE3pqmX75y
— New York Post (@nypost) July 23, 2013
'I am very sorry to anyone who was on the receiving end of these messages' Another Weiner sext scandal: http://t.co/qvnJpBz5aK #CarlosDanger
— New York Post (@nypost) July 23, 2013
Welcome baby Cambridge! #RoyalBaby pic.twitter.com/702Pb0Ole9
— Eyewitness News (@eyewitnessnyc) July 23, 2013
The #RoyalBaby is ready for his closeup http://t.co/0DtyrabWz9 pic.twitter.com/bGAksER6mN
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 23, 2013
First photos seem to show #RoyalBaby awake and stretching http://t.co/uLRaW6syTw (PA) pic.twitter.com/vHYHfwwcbN
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 23, 2013
I hear Anthony Weiner has a post-scandal problem. Word has it that he's back to his old ways. Sounds like Mayoral campaign has big problem.
— Wayne Allyn Root (@WayneRoot) July 23, 2013
Weiner Sex Scandal II. It will all be going public within hours. No one recovers from two sex scandals. Web site claims to have solid proof.
— Wayne Allyn Root (@WayneRoot) July 23, 2013
Three years after Major League Baseball’s commissioner declared the so-called steroid era “clearly a thing of the past,” the sport faces persistent doping problems similar to those that have crippled cycling and track and field.Also at ESPN, "Braun Suspended For Remainder of Season."
The latest baseball star-turned-culprit: Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger and winner of the National League’s Most Valuable Player award in 2011. Baseball announced Monday that he had been suspended for the remainder of the season — 65 games — for violating its antidoping code.
Braun, 29, failed a drug test in 2011 but avoided punishment on appeal. This time, he was ensnared in Major League Baseball’s sweeping investigation of an anti-aging clinic in South Florida that baseball officials believe distributed performance-enhancing drugs. His punishment raises the specter of suspensions for more than a dozen other players who have been connected to the clinic, including Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees.
Braun, who will forfeit nearly half of his $8.5 million salary, said in a statement issued by the league that he would not contest the suspension — though he did not explicitly confess to doping.
“As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect,” Braun’s statement said. “I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions. This situation has taken a toll on me and my entire family, and it has been a distraction to my teammates and the Brewers’ organization.”
Baseball was forced to acknowledge a pervasive doping problem when George J. Mitchell, a former majority leader of the Senate, conducted an extensive investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport. His report, published in 2007, exposed rampant use of drugs by major leaguers.
In the wake of that report, Commissioner Bud Selig strengthened baseball’s drug-testing program, created an investigative arm to pursue doping offenses and heralded a new, clean era for the sport.
Since then, about a dozen major league players have been suspended for positive tests and others have been linked to doping, indicating that baseball, like many sports in which athletes are enticed to gain a competitive edge, is having trouble removing drugs from the game. Braun’s hitting prowess enabled him to earn a contract with the Brewers that runs through 2020 and totals more than $145 million.
NOGALES, Ariz. — Lizbeth Mateo paid her tuition Sunday for Santa Clara Law School, where classes begin next month. On Monday, she paused to send the school an email.And they call these idiots "DREAMERS."
"I'm letting them know I may not make it in time," she said.
The reason for her delay: an unorthodox — and risky — protest at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mateo, 29, who was brought into the United States illegally at age 10, voluntarily flew back across the border recently in a protest aimed at recognizing the thousands of people deported from the United States over the last five years as the Obama administration has struggled to adopt a long-range program for overhauling immigration laws.
The protest Monday focused on the U.S. border station in Nogales. Mateo and two other young immigrants who had been brought into the U.S. as children asked to be admitted legally across the border they had surreptitiously traversed so many years ago and had spent much of their lives trying to avoid.
The immigration debate has focused on how a sweeping bill now in Congress might affect an estimated 11 million people who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas. Lost in the debate, Mateo and other protesters say, are those already expelled from the country. Deportations have increased from just under 300,000 in 2007 to nearly 400,000 in 2011, according to federal statistics.
"We should not forget the people who have been deported," she said.
Monday's action quickly grew as about 30 others spontaneously joined the petitioners at the border, taking activists by surprise. Organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, the immigrants planned to ask for humanitarian parole, which would allow them into the country, or, failing that, asylum.
As part of the planned protest, the trio was joined by six other immigrants who had returned to Mexico more than a year ago. The nine were questioned and transferred to a holding facility in Florence, Ariz. Activists in contact with the attorney for the youths said that they were denied humanitarian parole and that immigration officials would consider their request for asylum while holding them in Florence.
Immigration officials declined to comment on Monday's events and had said previously that people hoping to enter the country had to meet standard immigration requirements.
A warning to Los Angeles Mission College to correct a number of academic and administrative deficiencies didn't come as a great surprise to Daniel Campos.Continue reading.
The former student body president had long been frustrated with campus infighting, perceptions of cultural insensitivity and inadequate counseling and other student services.
All of these issues and others were cited recently by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges when it put the Sylmar campus on notice that it must make improvements.
"Most students in general are not aware of the impact of accrediting decisions," said Campos, who also served as student trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District. "If the college loses accreditation, I'll lose transfer credits, so I'll need to find a way to line up everything in one year in case that happens."
The warning issued to Mission is the mildest of the possible penalties. The college will remain accredited pending a follow-up report due by March 2014.
But in a raft of actions earlier this month, the panel made the rare decision to revoke accreditation from City College of San Francisco in July 2014 (the college is appealing) and issued warnings to Los Angeles Valley, Orange Coast and six other campuses. Sanctions were removed from West Los Angeles and Harbor colleges and seven other campuses.
Of California's 112 community colleges, one, College of the Sequoias in the Central Valley town of Visalia, is operating under the most serious penalty — "show cause" — meaning the college is substantially out of compliance with requirements and must correct deficiencies to remain accredited. Five other colleges are on probationary status, and 13 have been given warnings.
Lightning strikes behind the London Eye, which is coloured red, white and blue to mark the #RoyalBaby's birth (PA) pic.twitter.com/p0EtptQcyA
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 23, 2013
Earth, as seen from 900 million miles away: http://t.co/s3hJRfLeCh pic.twitter.com/moEii9asnA via @deborahnetburn
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 23, 2013
Tara Dowdell? Who is this black grievance stooge. She does not speak for me. For shame. #TrayvonMartin
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 23, 2013
Love your show, @SeanHannity. But this Tara Dowdell lady is a leftist hack. #TrayvonMartin
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 23, 2013
TIMES FRONT PAGE: Welcome to the world #skypapers #RoyalBabyBoy pic.twitter.com/TmIYTYpH2T
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 22, 2013
Royal baby: the newspaper front pages - in pictures http://t.co/FGfGWwqZR8
— GuardianUS (@GuardianUS) July 23, 2013
STAR FRONT: It's a boy! #skypapers #RoyalBaby pic.twitter.com/loeNQsDFzT
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 22, 2013
Page 3 today Well... 13! pic.twitter.com/volW4F6uvj
— Rosie Jones (@rosieofthejones) July 23, 2013
Can women have sex like men? NYT says so in an article everyone is talking about. Up next on radio: Dr. Wendy James. http://t.co/i1JqqysMbf
— Andrea Tantaros (@AndreaTantaros) July 18, 2013
With organizers of yesterday's statewide anti-police brutality demonstration in Anaheim failing to publicly disclose where exactly it would end up after its City Hall kickoff, a sense of ambiguity lingered in the air. This was especially the case with regards to the question if there was going to be an attempt to take the Harbor Boulevard bridge into Disneyland and show the Mouse up.There's still more at the link.
With this in mind, friend of the Weekly Duane Roberts and I spent much of the day photographically documenting the positioning of police 'assets' throughout central Anaheim to see what they were up to. First up? Finding the command post!
Back on July 29, 2012, a highly visible, highly militarized police presence was made known to all who dared protest the weekend following a night of riots in the city. The staging ground for all of APD's 'assets' was the public parking lot north of Glover Stadium. When "tone setters" beckoned and the fatal officer-involved shooting of Manuel Angel Diaz was ruled justified this March, Anaheim police took to the same location during the first city council meeting after the fact preparing for any possible civil disturbance.
This time around? Not so much! Well before the 1 p.m. scheduled start of the protest, the homeless of La Palma Park weren't cleared out and the lot was empty. (Although we would later discover tons of cops parked and eating at the nearby Carl's Jr.!) Unlike last year's demonstration, the police presence was not so easily visible and this was the first sign of that. Roberts, who methodically publishes the Anaheim Investigator Blog, had an idea.
After checking out the Anaheim Police Department's headquarters on Harbor, vehicles began deploying from the back. We tailed some patrol units to see if they would lead us in the right direction. They turned left onto South Street and were followed by a fleet of motorcycle cops who led us right to the command post at Central Yard. "There it is!" Roberts said lighting up like a damn Christmas tree!
More obscured from the public view with high walls, a whole lot of cops could still be seen. Parked at the command post were horses, trailers, an Anaheim SWAT vehicle, armored vehicles and numerous patrol cars--both marked and unmarked. Interim Chief Raul Quezada and his staff were congregating in an alley open to both Vermont Avenue and South Street. Should there be any impromptu attempt by protestors to take Harbor en route to Disneyland, police positioning could easily 'kettle' them, pinching like crab claws from both sides. As the prescient, fish-eyed Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars warned, "It's a trap!"
Back at City Hall, the assembly of protestors numbered at about 500 hundred at its peak. The large parking structure behind it was closed off for supposed "maintenance." Spotted among the crowd was James Armendaris, Manager for OC Human Relations' Police Community Reconciliation Program, snapping photos before the march headed down Broadway Avenue towards Harbor. The gathering eventually stopped in front of APD headquarters as speaker after speaker rallied for hours from atop a stage truck. Once again, Roberts and I took off to see if police assets had already been re-positioned from their command post.
