Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Other Commissioner Gordon Dead

Pat Hingle, the character actor who starred as Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman, died late Saturday night. He passed away in his Carolina Beach, North Carolina home after a 2 year-long fight with blood cancer...more...

The Old Commissioner Gordon Passes Away - Cinematical

In 1989, he became Commissioner James Gordon in Tim Burton's Batman, filling the role through all four of the films -- from the great Michael Keaton days, all the way through to the abysmal and embarrassing Batman and Robin. .....more...

Tim Hayward: Leftovers? Gordon Brown makes a hash of it | Life and ...

The prime minister has revealed his favourite dish - rumbledethumps...more...

Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Commissioner Gordon Weds

Dark Knight star Gary Oldman has taken his fourth trip down the aisle. The 50 year-old actor -- who was previously married to Uma Thurman -- wed 31 year-old jazz singer Alexandra Edenborough last week in Santa Barbara, California, .....more...

Democracy Now! | Israeli Professor Under Hamas Rocket Fire, Neve ...

We go to the region to speak with Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the author of Israel's Occupation. [includes rush transcript]..more...

Gordon says developing COT was smart move - Motor Sports ...

Sporting News: Whether through happenstance or through foresight bordering on prescience, NASCAR's development of the Car of Tomorrow was a brilliant move, says four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon...more...

Burton’s Commissioner Gordon Dies | The Movie Blog

I loved Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon in the Tim Burton renditions of Batman. To me he was a wonderful mixture of the original TV show's Commissioner...more...

Pat Hingle, Batman's Commissioner Gordon, Dies

Pat Hingle, Batman's Commissioner Gordon, Dies - The Huffington Post...more...

Jeff Gordon no Longer a Land Baron | Full Throttle

Jeff Gordon has sold most of nearly 2000 acres he owned in the high country above Missouri Heights to a development group headed by the man who created the Dallas National Golf Club in Texas a few years ago...more...

Commissioner Gordon is Dead | /Film

Hingle is probably best known to the /Film community as the actor who played Commissioner James Gordon in Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. According to the AP, Hingle was diagnosed with myelodysplasia in .....more...

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Online revamp for prime minister

Video footage of Gordon Brown is to appear online as part of a revamp of the Downing Street website.

Papers pondering Brown's future

Speculation about the future of Prime Minister Gordon Brown continues in Thursday's newspapers.

Clinton backs 'big-hearted' Brown

Bill Clinton gives his support to Gordon Brown, saying the prime minister has a "big brain and a good heart".

Murder police make plea to woman

Detectives want to speak to a woman who rang officers with information about a fatal shooting.

Brown 'gets fit for fight ahead'

Gordon Brown's reported decision to hire a personal fitness trainer to get him fitter over the summer might pay off when he returns to the political battlefield later this year.

Cabinet 'may go to West Midlands'

Gordon Brown will hold his first cabinet meeting after the summer break outside London - most likely in the West Midlands.

Ex-ministers' challenge to Brown

Former Labour ministers say they will set out a series of new ideas intended to fill what they see as a "policy vacuum" in government.

Ex-ministers 'keep pressure on PM'

Speculation over Prime Minister Gordon Brown's future continues apace in the papers.

Ministers back Brown's leadership

Three cabinet ministers rally to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's defence, insisting he is the right man for the job.

Kick out plotters, Sugar tells PM

Sir Alan Sugar advises Gordon Brown to "kick out" members of the government failing to support his leadership.

Speculation over Brown reshuffle

Downing Street refuses to comment on reports Gordon Brown is planning a cabinet reshuffle in September.

Martha Kearney's week

Martha Kearney wonders if Gordon Brown will send David Miliband to the Home Office?

Papers feast on Labour infighting

David Miliband's Guardian article, and the anger it provoked among Gordon Brown's allies, is widely seen by the papers as a sign of Labour infighting.

Miliband denies 'leadership' bid

Foreign Secretary David Miliband insists he is not "campaigning" for the Labour leadership and says "Gordon will lead us forward".

Harman denies planning leader bid

Harriet Harman denies preparing for a leadership bid as media speculation continues over Gordon Brown's future.

I'm minding the shop, says Harman

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman tells the BBC she is "minding the shop this week" while Gordon Brown is on holiday.

Brown should quit, says Labour MP

Labour MP Gordon Prentice urges Gordon Brown to resign, arguing that the government has "gone a bit rusty".

Gray contests Labour leadership

Former minister Iain Gray becomes the first official candidate for the Scottish Labour leadership.

Is Brown seriously at risk of axe?

The plot thickens.... or does it? Vicky Young examines how secure Gordon Brown is in his position as prime minister.

While the boss is away...

Gordon Brown is on his hols, and his deputy is taking charge in his absence. It's a scenario repeated across the UK as the summer holidays begin in earnest. How to be a good stand-in boss?

Are You Related To These Notable Figures In Women’s Herstory?

Women’s Herstory Month (pronounced “her story”) is celebrated each year in the month of March. The term “herstory” stems back to the late 1960s when women wanted to find separation from the word “history,” and the representation of the pronoun “his.”

Women’s Herstory has changed from a method to describe historical events in the 1960s to a month-long celebration of accomplishments of women. Today, colleges and universities across the United States hold ceremonies, conferences and various events that gather influential female leaders.

In recognition of Women’s Herstory Month, below are some highlights of notable women and their pioneering accomplishments. Consider your family’s genealogy and vital record history. Are you related to any of these famous women?

Betsy Ross (1752 - 1836) – Seamstress who made the first American flag.

Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (1754 - 1832) – Initially she brought water to soldiers on the field during the Revolutionary War; however, when her husband was injured in battle, she took over his gun.

Deborah Sampson (1760 – 1827) – Fought in the Revolutionary War by pretending to be a man.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) – Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a book about the horrors of slavery in the south, which sold 500,000 copies.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902) – Social activist and leader in the women’s rights movement.

Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) – Organizer of the first national women’s rights convention, Lucy Stone is also one of the first women in the United States to earn a college degree, graduating first in her class from Oberlin College in 1847.

Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) – First woman to have her picture on an American coin, she is the founder of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association and a pioneer in the fight for Women’s Rights.

Harriet Tubman (1820 – 1913) – Abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.

Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) – Founder of the American Red Cross and nurse during the Civil War.

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - First woman physician, founder of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and founder of the Women’s Medical College in 1867.

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) – Poet and American literature contributor.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) – Author of “Little Women" and “Little Men." She is also known for her work to get voting rights for women.

Carry Nation (1846 – 1911) – Member of the temperance movement in pre-Prohibition America.

Juliette Gordon Low (1860 – 1927) – Founder of the American Girl Scouts.

“Grandma" Moses (Anna Mary Robertson) (1860 – 1961) – American folk artist and popular American painter who sold her first painting when she was 78 years old.

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) (1864 – 1922) – Conducted an undercover expose in which she faked insanity to uncover and expose conditions in mental hospitals. She is also known for a 72-day record-breaking trip around the world.

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) – Two-time Nobel prize wining scientist famous for her work with her husband on radioactivity, leading to the discovery of radium and polonium.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 - 1957) – Author of the "Little House on the Prairie" series of books.

Mary Francis Winston Newton (1869 - 1959) – The first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) – First person to overcome both blindness and deafness, who then proceeded to graduate from college. She is also known for her work as an author, activist and lecturer.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) – Artist famous for her paintings of flowers.

Clara McBride Hale (1905 - 1992) – Founded Hale House, a home for children with AIDS.

Rachel Carson (1907 – 1964) – Marine biologist and science writer known for her work to help ban DDT, a chemical that was killing millions of birds and fish.

Lucille Ball (1910 - 1989) – Actress and comedy television star.

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005) – Civil rights figure known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.

Coretta Scott King (1927 - 2006) – Civil rights figure known for carrying the fight for civil rights after the assassination of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sandra Day O’Connor (1930 - ) – First woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Barbara Jordan (1936 – 1996) – Politician famous for being the first African American from a southern state to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the first African American to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.

Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) – First woman appointed as U.S. Secretary of State.

Wilma Mankiller (1945 - ) – First woman chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Did you see any names that might be part of your family tree? Are you curious to learn more about your family genealogy? Various online services, such as myheritage.com, rootsweb.com and genealogy.com, offer genealogy mapping to help research your family’s history. A related segment to genealogy services is the industry of vital records, which has also undergone advances through technology.

Researching and obtaining a government-issued birth certificate, death certificate, marriage record or divorce record used to involve communicating with a local municipal office. Today, many of these local offices and state vital record agencies have partnered with VitalChek Network, Inc., a government-authorized expediting certificate service with contractual agreements in all 50 states as well as in most major metropolitan areas.

Women’s Herstory Month is a great opportunity to reflect on famous women who have affected our society. In addition, it’s a great opportunity to learn more about your family’s unique genealogy history. With some time and research, you might even discover you are related to one of these famous women.

The Legal Use Of P2P Movie Downloads

The legal use of P2P movie downloads is currently under scrutiny, as the movie companies bare their teeth and growl. However, they are a bit like toothless dogs, who can bark but whose bites are next to useless as a weapon.

At the moment the illegal use of P2P file sharing software to download copyrighted movies outnumbers legal downloads by around 5 to 1. There is very little likelihood of an individual being prosecuted for doing so for personal use, although they are taking more of chance if they are downloading with the intention of selling the pirated movies.

Much has been written about the distinction between legal and illegal downloads, and this distinction is still not fully understood. In fact there is no such thing as an ‘illegal download site’ since peer-to-peer file sharing is not illegal. Hence, the software that allows it is also not illegal. What IS illegal is the use of such software to download movies and music) that is protected by copyright, and that includes just about every commercial movie currently available online.

However, there are many movies that are legal to download because they are now in the public domain. Included among these are: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), Bloodlust (1961), Charade (1963), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), the 1940 Flash Gordon series, Gulliver’s Travels (1939), Hercules (1958) and Sons of Hercules (1963), Two Women (1960), The 39 Steps (1935), Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and McClintock! (1963).

There are thousands more, but you won’t find any current blockbusters among them. However, it is debatable whether or not movies broadcast on TV should be any more illegal to download than to video them. The major problem that the movie companies are facing are illegal downloads of newly released movies by people that mass produce copies and sell them illegally. It is not so much the schoolkids downloading a movie to watch on their computers – although the movie companies will disagree with that.

If P2P file sharing is such a problem to them, why don’t the movie companies get together and offer their own P2P registration system? That way nobody could complain that there was no alternative. This is now happening with music, so why not movies? Or are the movie companies so Neanderthal that they are unable to break into the 21st century? A legal membership site would seem a logical answer, and on payment of a fee you could use the service legally as you currently use file sharing services to download illegally.

It is unlikely that we will see such a thing, however, and even Bittorrent’s negotiations with the big movie makers look like they will take years to finalize, at least to enable you to download and burn a movie onto a DVD they will. You can legally download movies now, but the file disappears from your computer after a while. Who wants to pay good money for that when you can download to a DVD for free?

The movie companies had better get their act together before somebody develops a P2P system that is totally invisible to them. Then they will really be in trouble. In the meantime most download sites do not advocate that you download copyright materials, although it is sometimes difficult to tell if you need a license or not.

Others, on the other hand, falsely state that the use of their sites to download current movies is legal. All file sharing sites are legal – it is the way that some people use them that is not. The legal use of P2P movie downloads can bring thousands of movies back to life that have seen their day, but are wonderful movies nevertheless.

Many of these are now practically unobtainable, except for their existence on the hard drives of true P2P file sharing software users from which everybody in the network can download and legally enjoy them. Sophia Loren was fantastic in the 1960 movie ‘Two Women’, and the Hitchcock 1935 version of The 39 steps with Robert Donat is still considered the definitive and best ever version. Both are legally downloadable free using file sharing software.