Joseph Campione Turns Himself In As Cancer Patient's Donation ...

A suburban Chicago man turned himself in Thursday after surveillance video showing him snatch a donation jar intended to benefit a local woman battling cancer went public.

Joseph Campione, 44, of Palos Heights, was charged with felony theft after surrendering himself at the Crestwood, Ill. police station, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Just before Dec. 5 on Dec. 5, Campione allegedly entered a Shop Mart convenience store at 13650 Cicero Ave. In the surveillance video released by police, the man can be seen making a purchase and, when the store clerk turns away from the counter, grabbing the donation jar and leaving the store immediately.

The jar contained money donated to help Kelly Stawicki, a 28-year-old Alsip, Ill. woman with stage 3 colon cancer, pay her medical bills. Stawicki is uninsured and has racked up tens of thousands of dollars worth of bills as she undergoes treatments.

CBS Chicago reports that an anonymous donor stepped forward when the story went public and donated $10,000 to Stawicki to help with her mounting medical expenses.

According to CBS, Campione has a criminal record dating back to 1993, including a retail theft conviction in 1994 and other charges of obstructing justice, deceptive practice and theft which were all ultimately dropped.

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Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore to be among Occupy Rose Parade demonstrators

December 22, 2011

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Occupy protesters are planning their own show at the end of the Rose Parade.

Occupy forces from the around the nation are expected to converge on the Rose Parade, being held Jan. 2, for the protest.

"We have people coming from Seattle, Portland, Oakland and New York," said Pete Thottam, an Occupy spokesman.

Pasadena police and Tournament of Roses officials have been negotiating with Occupy representatives for several weeks on a plan that they hope will prevent any disruptions to the parade. Pasadena officials will allow the Occupy group to march the route at the end of the parade, after all the floats have passed.

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-- Richard Winton and Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times

Photo: Volunteers decorate their floats at the Rose Bowl float barn in Pasadena on Saturday, December 10, 2011. There will be 44 floats that will be participating at the Rose Bowl Parade. Credit: Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff photographer

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EV Energy Partners reports closing of Barnett Shale acquisitions

EV Energy Partners, L.P., along with certain institutional partnerships managed by EnerVest, Ltd., has closed both previously announced Barnett Shale acquisitions from two unrelated companies. EVEP acquired an approximate 31.5 percent interest in the combined assets for an adjusted purchase price of $345.6 million, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The acquisitions were funded with borrowings under its revolving credit facility. The estimated proved reserves for these acquisitions as of Jan. 1, 2012 at SEC prices, net to EVEP, are 364.2 Bcfe.

The purchase price and estimated proved reserves were reduced from those contained in EVEP's Nov. 3, 2011 acquisition announcement because certain of the properties were not acquired, primarily due to remaining closing conditions for those properties. These property interests will be acquired if and when such remaining closing conditions are satisfied.

In conjunction with these acquisitions, EVEP has increased the borrowing base under its credit facility to $800 million. Debt currently outstanding under the facility, after funding of these acquisitions, is $660 million.

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Who?s afraid of Ron Paul? Apparently, Auburn University

Peter Bonilla joined FIRE as a Program Associate in 2008 and became Assistant Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program in 2011. As Assistant Director he manages FIRE's significant caseload, writes frequently for FIRE's blog, The Torch, and has lectured to student groups and at student conferences around the country. Since January 2011, Peter has also been a contributor for the political commentary website PolicyMic, covering issues in American higher education. Prior to joining FIRE, Peter was the literary manager of Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre Company, one of the country's top theatres for the development and production of new politically and socially-themed plays. He is also a past recipient of a fellowship in playwriting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and his first play was produced to critical acclaim in Arizona in September 2011. In 2009, Peter was a contestant on the television game show Jeopardy! His undergraduate degree, with a double major in theater arts and economics, is from the University of Pennsylvania.

When someone complained about a student?s Ron Paul poster in his dorm room window this fall, Auburn University in Alabama had the opportunity to take a principled stand for free speech. Of course, since we?re dealing with a university, you can probably guess that it instead chose to double down on an unwise, needlessly restrictive, and unfairly enforced policy at odds with the spirit of the First Amendment.

Auburn undergrad Eric Philips probably thought he wasn?t doing anything particularly noteworthy when he hung a banner supporting Representative Ron Paul?s presidential candidacy in his residence hall window. ?Tis the eve of election season, after all. On November 7, however, Philips?s hall director ordered him to remove the banner from his window ? an order with which Philips complied. A housing administrator explained to Philips Auburn?s policy (new this year) on window postings, which states that ?Hanging or displaying items such as flags, banners, decals, or signs out of or obstructing residence hall windows is prohibited.?

One might describe this policy as restrictive and unnecessary, but at least it?s fair. Everyone gets silenced equally, right? Yet FIRE has photos (provided by Philips) which convincingly show that Auburn generally made little effort to enforce this policy. And why would it? It?s a pointless policy that almost seems intended to annoy students. Hanging signs in dorm room windows is standard fare on college campuses across America.

But in this case it?s difficult not to come to the conclusion that Philips was discriminated against because someone who didn?t like Ron Paul complained about it. After all, why else would Philips?s banner be targeted while numerous others remained unmolested?

The First Amendment, by which Auburn is bound by virtue of its funding through tax dollars, does not exist only to protect speech we find harmless or inoffensive. Far from it. As the Supreme Court noted in Termineillo v. Chicago (1949), ?[A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.? Auburn?s selective enforcement of its policy has the effect of discriminating against student expression on the basis of its viewpoint ? an outcome plainly unconstitutional at a public university like Auburn.

My organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), explained this to Auburn in a letter sent to its president, Jay Gogue. We also told them of the example set by the University of Texas at Austin when it was embroiled in a similar controversy during the 2008 election cycle. At UT, two students faced possible expulsion for placing political posters on their residence hall doors and windows. While this technically violated then-UT policy, the outcry against UT?s action ? spurred on by national media as well as UT?s University Democrats and College Republicans ? caused the university to quickly change course. UT President William Powers Jr. suspended the policy and formed a committee of students, faculty, and staff members to review it. Powers later accepted the committee?s recommendation that the suspension of the policy be made permanent.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/whos-afraid-of-ron-paul-apparently-auburn-university/

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UDR Announces $154 Million Joint Venture Acquisition in Washington, D.C. (BIZ)

UDR Announces $154 Million Joint Venture Acquisition in Washington, D.C.

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UDR, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust, announced today that its joint venture with Kuwait Finance House (?KFH?) has acquired 1301 Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C. for $154 million. The 292-home luxury apartment community is located in the Logan Circle neighborhood near the 14th Street Corridor and less than a mile from the White House.

1301 Thomas Circle, a ten-story building constructed in 2006, is located just minutes from the Mt. Vernon Square and McPherson Metro Stations. Additionally, it is just a short walk from two of the Company?s other operating communities, Andover House and View 14, as well as its development project, 2400 14th Street. Following the close of this transaction, the Company will own, or have an ownership interest in, 21 communities consisting of 5,934 apartment homes in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. market.

Community amenities include a rooftop pool and outdoor kitchen, fitness center, clubhouse, private courtyard, business center, 24-hour concierge and a 256-space parking garage. Condominium-quality finishes include high-end appliances, granite countertops, maple cabinetry, large bay windows, nine-foot ceilings and stacked full-size washer/dryers. The community?s studio, one- and two- bedroom apartment homes average 852 square feet, are 94% occupied and have an average income per occupied home of $2,740 per month.

The acquisition is being funded through a five-year, 2.99%, $90 million interest-only loan from Fannie Mae, a 70% equity contribution by KFH of $44.8 million and a 30% equity contribution by the Company of $19.2 million. The Company has the opportunity for enhanced returns on the acquisition through fees and promotes earned through the joint venture with KFH.

Since its formation in 2009, the joint venture has invested $281 million in metropolitan Washington, D.C. through the acquisition of three operating communities containing 660 homes. Following the acquisition of 1301 Thomas Circle, there will be approximately $169 million of remaining investment capacity under the terms of the joint venture agreement.

Forward Looking Statements

Certain statements made in this press release may constitute ?forward-looking statements.? Words such as ?expects,? ?intends,? ?believes,? ?anticipates,? ?plans,? ?likely,? ?will,? ?seeks,? ?estimates? and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements, by their nature, involve estimates, projections, goals, forecasts and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in a forward-looking statement, due to a number of factors, which include, but are not limited to, unfavorable changes in the apartment market, changing economic conditions, the impact of inflation/deflation on rental rates and property operating expenses, expectations concerning availability of capital and the stabilization of the capital markets, the impact of competition and competitive pricing, acquisitions, developments and redevelopments not achieving anticipated results, delays in completing developments, redevelopments and lease-ups on schedule, expectations on job growth, home affordability and demand/supply ratio for multifamily housing, expectations concerning development and redevelopment activities, expectations on occupancy levels, expectations concerning the Vitruvian ParkSM development, expectations concerning the joint venture with MetLife, expectations that automation will help grow net operating income, expectations on annualized net operating income and other risk factors discussed in documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements and such risks, uncertainties and other factors speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statement contained herein, to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto, or any other change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except to the extent otherwise required under the U.S. securities laws.

This release and these forward-looking statements include UDR?s analysis and conclusions and reflect UDR?s judgment as of the date of these materials. UDR assumes no obligation to revise or update to reflect future events or circumstances.

About UDR, Inc.

UDR, Inc. (NYSE:UDR), an S&P 400 company, is a leading multifamily real estate investment trust with a demonstrated performance history of delivering superior and dependable returns by successfully managing, buying, selling, developing and redeveloping attractive real estate properties in targeted U.S. markets. As of September 30, 2011, UDR owned or had an ownership position in 62,037 apartment homes including 2,255 homes under development. For over 39 years, UDR has delivered long-term value to shareholders, the best standard of service to residents, and the highest quality experience for associates. Additional information can be found on the Company's website at www.udr.com.

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Pilot told of icing before NJ crash that killed 5 (AP)

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. ? After a normal takeoff and a routine conversation with air traffic controllers about potential icing conditions, a small plane carrying two investment bankers and three others to Georgia headed off into the skies over New Jersey on Tuesday morning.

Minutes later, the high-performance Socata TBM-700 turboprop had spun out of control and crashed in a fireball on a busy highway, killing all five people aboard and narrowly avoiding dozens of cars and trucks speeding by.

Federal investigators were to resume searching the area for wreckage Wednesday morning. The debris was scattered over at least a half-mile, with one section found lodged in a tree a quarter-mile away. The crash closed both sides of busy Interstate 287 for hours on Tuesday.

The New York investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. said two of its managing directors, Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, and Rakesh Chawla, 36, as well as Buckalew's wife and two children, were on the plane. Buckalew was the registered owner of the single-engine plane and had a pilot's license.

National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday the plane wasn't required to have a black box, which would have recorded flight data, but they said investigators would be searching for other memory devices, including GPS, collision avoidance systems or any device with a recordable chip that might yield more information.

The NTSB didn't say what role icing may have played in the crash. But an audio recording available online of the pilot speaking to air traffic controllers in the minutes before the crash offered some early clues.

The pilot was told to maintain an altitude of 10,000 feet as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey as a controller warned him about the conditions in the clouds above ? specifically accumulations of ice particles known as rime.

"There are reports of moderate rime. ... If it gets worse let me know and when center takes your handoff I'll climb you and maybe get you higher," one controller said.

The pilot responded: "We'll let you know what happens when we get in there. And, yeah, if we could go straight through it, that's no problem for us."

Seconds later, another controller is heard telling a different pilot about reports of severe icing at 14,000 feet.

Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain. The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings. In extreme cases, a plane can lose so much lift that it falls out of the sky.

Several eyewitnesses to Tuesday's crash described an out-of-control descent.

Will Keyser, who works in maintenance at the Spring Brook Country Club in Morristown, is used to hearing small planes fly over en route to nearby Morristown Memorial Airport. He was near the 13th hole Tuesday when he heard a loud plane overhead.

"It didn't sound quite right," Keyser said, recalling how he and his co-workers all looked up simultaneously. "We kind of lost it in the clouds, it came out of the clouds on the other side of the course, and it didn't look right, it didn't look like the pilot had control."

Keyser said the plane pitched back and forth, and for a moment he thought it was a stunt pilot.

"It was kind of rolling and making circles ? 'cause I've seen air shows before ? so I thought: `Oh, OK;' but then he finally did a nosedive and we realized that was completely wrong."

Greenhill & Co. said Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and the couple's two children, Jackson and Meriwether, were traveling with him.

"The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family," the company said in a written statement.

A resident at Chawla's Manhattan apartment building remembered him as being constantly on the go, leaving early and getting home late. Arthur Yellin said that Chawla and his family were "wonderful people" and that the banker doted on his three children.

Authorities said a dog aboard the plane also was killed.

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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shawn Marsh and Beth DeFalco in Trenton, David Porter in Newark, Christopher Hawley and Cristian Salazar in New York, and Leonard Pallats in Atlanta.

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Reznor's novel approach to `Dragon Tattoo' score (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross started writing music for the American adaptation of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" months before they'd even seen the script.

"We tried some new approaches in terms of handing over lots and lots of music that was composed really from an impressionist point of view, before anything was even shot, so that (director) David (Fincher) and the filmmakers could really weave it into the fabric of the story," Reznor said. "Just see how that works: A new experiment."

It seems to have worked just fine: The composers earned a Golden Globe nomination last week for their original score ? their second consecutive nomination in that category. The pair won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for their score for 2010's "The Social Network."

Reznor, 46, said working with Fincher on "The Social Network" prepared the composers to take a novel approach to the music for "Dragon Tattoo."

"As I learned how the process works on `Social Network,' it struck me that the director could really use access to music while the scenes are being edited together," he said. "Often what they do is reach into a bucket of temp music to kind of get the vibe of what they think it might sound like. I thought, well, if you had a lot of music to start with, that would certainly be a helpful tool while they're putting the broad strokes of the film together."

Reznor and Ross dedicated a year to the project, and much of the music they wrote before shooting began made it into the final film, which opens Wednesday. The film follows a journalist (played by Daniel Craig) who enlists the help of a young computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to investigate a series of decades-old killings. The original Swedish version of the film, based on Stig Larsson's novel, was released in 2009.

Fincher's film is "a fairly unpleasant and uncomfortable viewing experience," Reznor said. "We really wanted to get under the skin of the viewer and contribute to a sense of uneasiness when that was appropriate, and also try to breathe life into the landscape where this takes place, a very frigid Sweden, and act like set dressing really. It's not an obvious score."

He said the composers aimed to create music that "fits right in with the lighting or the set design or the costumes."

"There's nothing I think you're going to leave the theater humming in your head necessarily in terms of score, and that's intentional," Reznor said.

It's a completely new way to think about music for the Nine Inch Nails front man.

"When I'm writing music for myself or for my own projects, I'm hoping that it eats up close to 100 percent of your attention, what's coming into your ears. And working in film and particularly with David, it really is contributing to the overall experience," Reznor said. "It's forcing me to rethink how I compose and what role sound plays and how to contribute and manipulate emotionally what you're experiencing but not in the same way I'm used to doing it, and that makes it exciting for me."

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen can be reached at www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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Syrians protest against Assad after Russia UN move (Reuters)

BEIRUT (Reuters) ? Syrian forces killed 13 people on Friday during widespread protests against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said, a day after Syria's big power ally Russia sharpened its criticism of Damascus in a draft United Nations resolution.

Most of the deaths were in the city of Homs, they said, a hotbed of resistance to a crackdown on nine months of protests which has killed 5,000 people according to the United Nations and provoked Western and Arab League sanctions on Damascus.

State media said there were no deaths or injuries on Friday, despite what they said were attacks by "armed terrorist groups" on security forces. Syria has barred most independent media, making it hard to verify accounts by activists and authorities.

About 200,000 people marched in separate districts of Homs, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, and footage broadcast by Al Jazeera television showed mock gallows where effigies were hanged, including two of Assad and his father, who seized power in Syria four decades ago.

If confirmed, it would be one the biggest turnouts by demonstrators for several weeks.

Russia presented a new, beefed-up draft resolution on the violence to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, offering a chance for the 15-nation panel to overcome deadlock and deliver its first statement of purpose on Assad's crackdown.

The council has been split, with Western countries harshly critical of Syria pitted against Russia, China and non-aligned countries that have avoided blaming Assad for the violence.

France, which has led Western rebukes of Assad, welcomed what it said was Moscow's recognition of the deteriorating situation in Syria, but said Russia was wrong to equate Assad's crackdown with violence perpetrated by his opponents.

Assad has denied that Syrian forces have been ordered to kill demonstrators, blaming armed groups for the bloodshed. He said 1,100 soldiers and police have been killed since the uprising erupted in March, inspired by other unrest in the Arab world that has toppled three autocratic leaders this year.

An armed insurgency has begun to eclipse civilian protests, raising fears Syria could descend into civil war. On Thursday army deserters killed 27 soldiers and security personnel in the southern province of Deraa, an activist group said.

State news agency SANA reported that security forces defused several explosives in Damascus and Hama provinces on Friday.

It is the most serious challenge to the 11-year rule of Assad, 46, whose family is from the minority Alawite sect and has ruled majority Sunni Muslim Syria since 1970.

The United States and European Union have imposed sanctions and called on Assad to step down. Neighboring Turkey has taken similar steps and even the Arab League has declared sanctions against Syria, although it has several times extended a deadline for Syria to approve a formula for ending the crisis.

In the latest sign of the heavy economic price Syria is paying for its repression of dissent, Turkey said on Friday that Damascus would lose more than $100 million a year in transport revenue as Ankara bypasses the turbulent country by opening alternative export routes to the Middle East and Gulf.

"ARAB LEAGUE IS KILLING US"

Arab governments called off a foreign ministers' meeting due to discuss a response on Saturday to Assad's iron fist policy towards unrest, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported.

A source at Arab League headquarters in Cairo gave no reason for the cancellation. A lower-level meeting of its ministerial committee on Syria will go ahead in Qatar on Saturday, the source said. The committee includes the foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan, Oman, Qatar and Algeria.

Friday's protests were held under the slogan of "The Arab League is Killing us," reflecting demonstrators' frustration at what they see as the organization's ineffective response.

At the U.N. Security Council in October, Russia and China vetoed a European draft resolution that threatened sanctions. Russia has circulated its own draft twice but it was criticized by Western nations for blaming the violence equally on the government and opposition.

The draft floated unexpectedly by Russia on Thursday expands and toughens Moscow's previous text, adding a new reference to "disproportionate use of force by Syrian authorities.

Obtained by Reuters, the draft also "urges the Syrian government to put an end to suppression of those exercising their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association."

Reports by Human Rights Watch and a U.N.-backed independent investigation have concluded that Syrian government forces were given "shoot to kill" orders when confronting demonstrators.

STRONGER TEXT

Russia's U.N. Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters that the latest draft resolution "considerably strengthens all aspects of the previous text" and that "clearly the Syrian authorities are singled out in a number of instances."

He said Russia did not believe both sides in Syria were equally responsible for violence, but acknowledged the text called on all parties to halt violence and contained no threat of sanctions, which he said Moscow continued to oppose.

Western officials welcomed the move but Paris said the draft "has elements that are not acceptable in their current form."

"For France, it is a positive development that Russia has decided to recognize that the serious deterioration of the situation in Syria merits a Security Council resolution," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told a news briefing.

Calling the council's inaction scandalous, Valero said a resolution should be swiftly adopted to condemn crimes against humanity in Syria and back a credible political solution.

U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Ankara that the Russian draft showed the international community was increasingly coming together to "say to Syria and to the Assad regime that we can no longer tolerate the kind of killings that have gone on...(and) that Assad needs to step down."

(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Ece Toksabay and Missy Ryan in Ankara, Tom Pfeiffer in Cairo; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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