The Other Victims in the Foreclosure Crisis: Pets

More real estate professionals report finding pets left behind in abandoned homes from home owners who had been evicted from their properties due to foreclosure. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals had estimated in 2009 ? the most recent statistic ? that up to a million animals would be left behind in foreclosed homes, shelters, or outdoors from the foreclosure mess.

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The animals often are left behind without food or water, suffering a slow death of starvation and dehydration ? unless they happen to be found in time by a real estate professional surveying the property.?

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Some real estate professionals are reaching out to help the forgotten pets. For example, Cheryl Lang, president of Integrated Mortgage Solutions in Houston, formed a nonprofit group, No Paws Left Behind, a network of those in the real estate industry. Her group has rescued at least 1,000 animals nationwide since it started in 2008.?

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Source: ?Foreclosure Pets Often Left Starving in Abandoned Homes,? Asbury Park Press (Oct. 26, 2011)

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Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012, challenges Nokia to a twist contest

Flexible displays? Samsung's got 'em, too. A few days after Nokia showed off its Kinetic Device prototype under the blue lights of Nokia World, Samsung made mention of its own plans to unleash some bendy mobile devices on the world. A spokesperson for the company was scarce on details, but noted that the flexible displays are targeted for 2012. The technology, which was showcased at this year's CES, will initially be incorporated into handsets, with tablets following down the road.

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No anthrax vaccine testing on children ? for now

It will be a while longer before the government decides whether to test the anthrax vaccine in children.

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A government advisory board said Friday that ethical issues need to be resolved ? but if that is accomplished the vaccine could be tested in children to be sure it's safe and to learn the proper dose in case it's needed in a terrorist attack.

Because of concerns that terrorists might use the potentially deadly bacteria, the government has stockpiled the vaccine, which has been widely tested on adults but never on children.

The question is whether to do tests now so that doctors would know if children's immune systems respond to the shots well enough to signal protection.

Bioethicist Art Caplan says this is a non-issue because even if the government recommended the vaccine test, parents aren't likely to line up for the opportunity.

"Unless the government is willing to scare the living daylights out of parents, few will bring their kids in to act as subjects in a study," said Caplan, chair of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and contributor to msnbc.com.

And if no testing happens -- and anthrax is used against us, Caplan argues, parents in affected areas likely will take the risk of vaccinating their kids anyway, even if there are some safety issues.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Former Mr. Jelly Belly tries for sweet comeback

He's the Willie Wonka of this small suburban town east of Los Angeles, the rotund man in the T-shirt and shorts who joyfully takes just about anybody who walks through the door on a tour of his tiny candy factory.

But David Klein was once much more.

The confectioner, who these days makes a comfortable living selling various chewy, crunchy concoctions with funny names like Candy Barf and Zombie Heart (the latter squirts strawberry-flavored "blood" when you bite into it), was once at the center of a sweet-tooth revolution.

He was Mr. Jelly Belly.

In 1976 Klein launched the gourmet jelly bean craze when he improbably envisioned that people would be willing to pay 10 or 20 times more for jelly beans if they simply tasted better, came in scores of natural flavors and had a clever name.

Then, with only $800 in hand, he somehow talked a small, family-run candy company in the San Francisco Bay area into going into business with him.

The result was the Jelly Belly, a precociously flavorful little gob of sugar, syrup and corn starch that quickly became the favored treat of millions, including President Ronald Reagan.

And Klein, a one-time nut distributor who had begun selling his creation in just one candy store, was the gourmet bean's mascot.

Decked out in a Jelly Belly-bejeweled top hat and a matching white cowboy suit, he was everywhere in the late 1970s.

He was photographed for People magazine sitting in a bathtub filled with Jelly Bellys, some stuck to his hairy chest, others lodged between his toes. He dropped by TV programs like "The Mike Douglas Show" to trade quips with the host and cajole the celebrity guests into sampling his new flavors.

Then, for reasons Klein still has trouble coming to terms with, he and his partner sold their interest in the Jelly Belly name in 1980 for $4.8 million. He collected his half of the money in monthly installments over 20 years, and he faded into obscurity.

"I went from hero to zero in about 60 seconds," the usually upbeat candy maker says morosely when the subject is raised. "I was Mr. Jelly Belly for four years. And then ...," his voice trails off.

While Jelly Bellys were being passed around the table at Reagan administration Cabinet meetings and carried into outer space by astronauts in the 1980s, Klein was trying in vain to come up with another big thing.

He brought out a version of sugar-free salt water taffy. He tried to hit it big with sour licorice until more well-heeled competitors squeezed him out. He pioneered gross-out candy with a chocolate bar shaped to look like ? well ? you get the idea. It never caught on.

Through it all, he moped about his and his late partner's decision to sell their 50-50 interest in Jelly Belly to the Herman Goelitz Candy Company, which renamed itself the Jelly Belly Candy Company.

"It caused a lot of pain in the family," says his son, Bert Klein, who produced the documentary "Candyman: The David Klein Story." So much so that his son, a veteran Hollywood film animator, says that as a child he stopped telling people his father had ever been Mr. Jelly Belly. It was too painful and most people didn't believe him anyway.

Now, with another holiday candy season upon us, Klein is back and hoping, at age 65, to regain the mojo that once made him the talk of the candy world.

His company, Can You Imagine That!, is working with Leaf Brands in developing a new treat called Farts. (Yes, you read that right.)

Leaf, which created Milk Duds, plans to have Farts in stores by Christmas, and when it does Klein predicts they will make people forget all about Nerds, a similar looking but crunchier candy.

Then there is Dave's Signature Beyond Gourmet jelly beans. They will mark Klein's return to the candy bean business with such exotic flavors as ginger, jalapeno and bacon. He's predicting they will also make people wonder what they ever saw in Jelly Belly, a company with which his relations have grown increasingly acrimonious over the years.

Klein has long maintained that Jelly Belly's chairman, Herman G. Rowland Sr., bullied him into selling out at a rock-bottom price so he could have the Jelly Belly empire all to himself. It's an allegation Rowland emphatically denies.

"I loved Dave," Rowland said recently from his office in Fairfield, before quickly adding he wanted to make sure his listener had heard him correctly: He had said "loved," not "love."

Still, Rowland chuckles often when he recalls the heady, early days of Jelly Belly and the promotional schemes Klein would come up with.

He acknowledges it was Klein's idea to call the candy Jelly Belly, a name Rowland didn't think much of at the time. He thought even less of the portly Klein's decision to be photographed naked in a bathtub full of jelly beans.

"When I saw that thing, I went, 'Oh my God, this is the end of Jelly Belly. No one will ever want to eat one,'" he recalls with a laugh. "Well, I was wrong."

He only pressed to buy Klein out, he says, after learning he had given his late partner half of his Jelly Belly distribution business and his partner in turn had trademarked the product's name. He realized then, Rowland said, that if he didn't buy Jelly Belly the name could be taken to any other candy maker.

Meanwhile, Jelly Belly had become so popular that the small company Rowland's great-grandfather had founded in 1869 was struggling to keep up with production while spending money to expand so it could make more Jelly Bellys, which it sold only through Klein.

"Now maybe he doesn't know these things or maybe he doesn't remember them," Rowland said. "But I protected his a-- completely."

Klein, for his part, says he does understand.

But then he thinks again of those days when he'd put on his Mr. Jelly Belly costume and go on television. And he becomes wistful and wishes he'd never relinquished the name. If he hadn't he figures he'd still be Mr. Jelly Belly.

"Col. Sanders created a product and when he sold it he was still Col. Sanders," Klein says earnestly. "His picture was still on the buckets and everything."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45095190/ns/business-small_business/

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NYC cops pleading not guilty in corruption probe

New York City Police Dept. officers fill the hallway outside the Bronx state Supreme Court room, in the Bronx borough of New York, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, as they wait for the arraignment of 16 fellow officers, and five others, charging the officers abused their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

New York City Police Dept. officers fill the hallway outside the Bronx state Supreme Court room, in the Bronx borough of New York, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, as they wait for the arraignment of 16 fellow officers, and five others, charging the officers abused their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A black NYPD police van delivers some of 17 police officers indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal in New York from Bronx Central Booking to Bronx Supreme Court Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Thirteen police officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant are facing charges, some of which allege the officers abused their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets. (AP Photo/David Karp)

A black NYPD police van delivers some of 17 police officers indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal in New York from Bronx Central Booking to Bronx Supreme Court Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Thirteen police officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant are facing charges, some of which allege the officers abused their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets. (AP Photo/David Karp)

(AP) ? New York City police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to a range of corruption charges in a sweeping probe touched off by an investigation into whether a Bronx officer had ties to a drug dealer.

In total, 16 officers were arraigned in a packed courtroom. The halls were swarmed with people, and hundreds of officers carrying signs stood outside the courthouse and applauded as the accused officers walked through.

The Bronx officer, Jose Ramos, pleaded not guilty to drug and other charges. An internal affairs lieutenant pleaded not guilty to charges she leaked information to union officials about the probe. The rest of the officers pleaded not guilty to charges including official misconduct and obstructing governmental authority after prosecutors said they abused their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets.

The case evolved from a 2009 internal affairs probe of Ramos, who owned a barber shop and was suspected of allowing a friend to deal drugs out of it. Prosecutors said he also transported drugs in uniform.

"He sold his shield, he violated his oath," Assistant District Attorney Omer Wiceyk said.

Wiceyk said Ramos was recorded as saying he "stopped caring about the law a long time ago."

Ramos' attorney, John Sandleitner, said the charges were ridiculous. "If he had done any of these things that they say, they would've arrested him two months ago. Or two years ago," he said. "Why did they let him go to work, then?"

While listening to Ramos' phone, investigators caught calls from people seeing if Ramos could fix tickets for them. The conversations led to more wiretaps that produced evidence of additional officers having similar conversations.

Internal affairs lieutenant Jennara Cobb, who pleaded not guilty to charges of divulging a wiretap, was accused of meeting with union officials about the probe. As a result, word spread through the department's most powerful union and delegates started to alter the way they fixed tickets, prosecutor Jonathan Ortiz said.

"The investigation was significantly compromised because of her actions," he said.

Her attorney, Philip Karasyk, said she denied the charges and had been unfairly singled out. She was released on bail.

"That wiretap was leaking like a sieve," he said.

Many of those arrested include high level members of the union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the department's most powerful with 22,000 members.

"This has been laid on the shoulders of police officers, but when the dust settles and we have our day in court, it will be clear that this is part of the NYPD at all levels," union President Patrick Lynch said through a spokesman.

Among those charged were Bronx union delegates Officers Joseph Anthony, 46; Michael Hernandez, 35; and Brian McGuckin, 44. Officer Virgilio Bencosme, 33, and Officer Luis R. Rodriguez, 43, both of the 40th Precinct; Officer Christopher Scott, 41, of the 48th Precinct; Officer Jaime Payan, 37, of the 46th Precinct; Officer Eugene P. O'Reilly, 39, of the 45th Precinct; Officer Christopher Manzi, 41, of the 41st Precinct; and Jason Cenizal, 39, a former delegate from the 42nd Precinct.

Ramos' supervisor, Jacob G. Solorzano, 41, was charged with misconduct. Sgt. Marc Manara, 39, Officer Ruben Peralta, 45, Jeffrey Regan, 37 and Officer Christopher Scott, 41, of the 48th Precinct were all charged with covering up an assault for a an acquaintance. Some of the charges also overlap to include ticket fixing.

The case doesn't appear to rise to the level of the more notorious corruption scandals in the nation's largest police department. But in terms of the number of officers facing criminal or internal administrative charges, the probe represents the largest crackdown on police accused of misconduct in recent memory. Dozens of other officers may face internal charges.

Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought conspiracy and other charges against five current and three former officers alleging they were part of a gun-running ring. In two other recent unrelated federal cases, one officer was charged with arresting a black man without cause and using a racial slur to describe the suspect, and another with using a law enforcement database to try to trump up charges against an innocent man.

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Smithsonian hosts 'The Black List' portraits in DC (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a show opening Friday, along with other leading black figures who may be lesser known.

"The Black List" features 50 large-scale photographs from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in a project that also included a 2008 HBO film.

After a conversation with his friend, the writer Toni Morrison, Greenfield-Sanders began thinking of all the successful black figures he knows ? and how so many were unknown. He and collaborator Elvis Mitchell scribbled down 200 names on napkins over lunch.

"I've done the art world, I've done the music world, I've done the porn world, I've done politics ? I've done all these different worlds, and it's all about accomplishment," Greenfield-Sanders, who is white, told The Associated Press. "I thought it would be interesting: As a white guy, could I do this?"

Morrison, whose portrait is in the exhibit, and others encouraged him to pursue the idea.

His theme came from the historical term, "blacklist," referring to a marginalized group. Greenfield-Sanders wanted to turn the phrase into a roll call of distinction to show the broad range of achievements of African Americans.

The project began in 2006 before most people had heard of the man who would become the first black president. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was on Greenfield-Sanders' wish list, but he said his chances of photographing Obama became less and less as the 2008 campaign drew closer.

Between 2007 and 2009, Mitchell and Greenfield-Sanders arranged 50 interviews ranging from Laurence Fishburne and Tyler Perry to businessman Richard Parsons, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Gap fashion designer Patrick Robinson. Beyond celebrities, the project includes influential but lesser-known figures, such as playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and urban environmentalist Majora Carter.

"We knew we needed to have some celebrities," Greenfield-Sanders said. "You sell it by having Fishburne and Chris Rock and the other people that draw them in, and then they learn something from these other people."

After filming interviews with each subject, Greenfield-Sanders asked for a portrait sitting. Some gave him all the time he needed. In the case of music mogul Russell Simmons, he had 45 seconds.

Simmons, later a supporter of the project, was "difficult" at first, Greenfield-Sanders said.

"He had his cell phone in his hands throughout the interview," the photographer said. "I'm not going to mince words here."

The Smithsonian exhibit is the first to feature all 50 portraits and will be open through April 2012. A smaller version of "The Black List" has been shown in New York and Los Angeles. Greenfield-Sanders also created "The Latino List," with a similar concept that is on view now at the Brooklyn Museum.

For the Portrait Gallery, the exhibition brings more diverse faces into a museum that once barred living subjects from its collection. Its bylaws had required that anyone in the permanent collection be dead for at least 10 years.

"It tended to be more of a backward look at history, rather than a forward-looking one," said Ann Shumard, curator of photographs. "With the dropping of that prohibition, it has opened us up to addressing contemporary life and the individuals who are making American history as we speak.

"That's a far more diverse and interesting group perhaps than some of the folks ... in the past."

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It's that time again! The semester is ALMOST over (yay!) And I will have a bit more time on my hands. This is where you come in! I'm looking for another role play!

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NBA cancels November games with no deal struck (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? The National Basketball (NBA) canceled another two weeks of the season on Friday and conceded it was now too late to save the entire 82-game season even if owners and players reached an agreement to end to their bitter labor dispute.

After a third straight day of talks between the feuding parties ended in New York without an agreement, NBA Commissioner David Stern, who had already scrapped the pre-season and the first two weeks of the regular season, announced that more games had been lost to the dispute.

"Our games are canceled through the end of the month of November," he told a news conference.

"It's not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now.

"We held out that joint hope together but, in light of the breakdown of talks, there will not be a full NBA season under any circumstances."

Some progress was made by the two sides on salary cap issues over the previous two days of negotiations at a Manhattan hotel but the division of basketball-related income once again proved to be the main stumbling block.

The players had offered to reduce their share from 57 to 53 percent, and lowered that to 52.5 percent last week. On Friday, they said they could drop to 52 but that was not enough for the owners who had formally proposed a 50-50 split.

"Today wasn't the day to try and close this out," NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, told reporters in the hotel lobby.

Billy Hunter, the executive director of the players' union, said: "We made a lot of concessions but this time, unfortunately, it's not enough."

Any chance of a deal being struck appeared very distant last week after three days of marathon talks in New York with a federal mediator had ended in bitter disagreement.

However, negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement picked up steam after reports earlier this week suggested the league was ready to axe two more weeks from the schedule.

THORNY ISSUE

The owners and players initially focused on the structure of the salary cap system in marathon talks on Wednesday and Thursday before switching to the thorny issue of basketball-related income on Friday.

"Until this afternoon, we've had a pretty good several days of give-and-take," Stern said. "A lot of things were re-affirmed, a lot of concessions went back and forth. We made some major progress on length of contract.

"And then we turned to the subject of how to divide basketball-related income (BRI). I summarized the positions ... and said that the NBA owners were willing to go to 50 percent on their percentage split of BRI, in effect a 50-50 split.

"Billy Hunter said that he was not willing to go a penny below 52, that he had been getting many calls from agents and he closed up his book and walked out of the room. And that's where we are."

NBA owners contend the league lost $300 million last season with 22 of 30 teams in the red and initially demanded players cut their share of revenue -- which was 57 percent under the previous agreement -- to 47 percent along with a firm salary cap and shorter contracts.

The players subsequently offered to come down to 52.5 percent but the owners have refused to budge from their proposed 50-50 split.

"Derek and I made it clear that we could not take the 50-50 deal to our membership, not with all the concessions that we granted," Hunter said. "We said we got to have some dollars.

"And so you get there, and then all of a sudden they say, `Well, we also have to have our number'. And you say, `Well wait a minute, you're not negotiating in good faith'."

No further meetings have been scheduled between two sides.

"We share the frustrations of our fans, partners, and those who rely on our game for their livelihoods," NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

"We remain committed to reaching an agreement that's fair for both the teams and the players and allows for the long-term growth of our game."

(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Julian Linden)

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