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Louisiana state rep. Jeff Thompson sponsored a new law requiring sex offenders to list their status on social media sites.

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(CNN) -- A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal's social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

"I don't want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, 'Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,'" Thompson said Tuesday. "This is another tool for prosecutors."

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics... and his residential address."

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News - Friday, June 22, 2012 Tri-Valley Community Foundation goes mum, hires PR firm Board has met, no word on bankruptcy filing

by Glenn Wohltmann

The foundation is expected to go belly up by the end of the month, according to its board president and CEO Ron Hyde, who, "on advice of counsel," has stopped commenting to the press.

Hyde, who has been the board's chairman for years, stepped in to run the organization after former President Dave Rice was fired in April.

Since then there has been a consistent flow of bad news: A look by the Pleasanton Weekly at the TVCF's tax returns showed a pattern of overspending that began in 2006-07, when it brought in just shy of $1.36 million but spent more than $1.6 million, and a top-heavy organization that spent much more on itself than it did on the charities it was formed to help.

Beyond that, there were promises made that were impossible to keep and salaries that climbed to nearly $418,000 in 2009-10, the same year "other expenses" hit more than $1 million.

The foundation also claimed to support at least one charity that said it never received anything, and made claims that it provided more services than it actually performed for other nonprofits, including fundraising for the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville and the PulsePoint Foundation, which supports a smart phone app to help heart attack victims.

Hyde said last week that he expects the foundation to shut down by the end of the month. Nonetheless the board decided to hire Full Court Press, which offers, among other things, crisis communications aimed at "quieting the rumor mill (and) skillfully deflecting attention when necessary," according to its website.

Full Court Press founder Dan Cohen promised to address questions posed by the Pleasanton Weekly, then responded to specific questions by emailing, "We will share information with you and the public as soon as we are able. ... The board has been meeting and will continue to meet regularly to work on next steps."

Follow-up phone calls and emails to Cohen went unanswered. The Pleasanton Weekly has requested the foundation's most recent tax returns and has asked it to provide access to its records.

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Hooray for us! All that was missing from the 2012 NHL Awards show in Las Vegas was Liberace's jeweled coat.

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LAS VEGAS -- Of course, the only word that applies is "absurd" in trying to explain how and why the NHL's Awards show is now staged in this city every year. Months of struggle and work by still mostly small-town prairie boys ends with a coronation in the most garish, un-hockey place on earth: Las Vegas.

The most self-conscious of all major sports, its players taught to never attract the spotlight to themselves, somehow takes its final bow in a place of outlandish, outsized neon self-promotion.

The place where Liberace flaunted his jeweled coat, where Elvis did karate chops in white bell-bottoms, where Mike Tyson once partially bit off a man's ear -- this is where the painfully shy Evgeni Malkin fumbled through his Hart Trophy acceptance speech as the NHL's most valuable player on Wednesday night at the Wynn casino.

Maybe it's not all that surprising though, really. Hockey people work so hard at staying humble 363 days a year in freezing cold rinks, maybe it's only natural that they'd want to put orange lampshades on their heads and slosh around blazing hot sidewalks with open containers for the other two days.

Much like this year's show -- from the baggy-eyed, flat opening monologue of Matthew Perry to the hysterical Brendan Shanahan impersonator sketches -- this whole Vegas hockey act works and ... doesn't.

First off, what worked:

The hockey writers, most of them from beleaguered print outlets, still get to choose who wins the major trophies, and they got things right with the selection of Malkin as the Hart winner. The Penguins center earned it with a fabulous season for a franchise where he probably is still only the third-most popular center in town behind the owner, Mario Lemieux, and the kid, Sidney Crosby.

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Word-Soul Artist LadyBoss-AmaniShakhete Releases New Music Video "Murder 2012" - Now On YouTube

-- The video can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8krsNIn7Q --

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Pacific Northwest/USA (June 21, 2012) -- There are thousands of music videos, but none quite like "Murder 2012." This new video by Word-Soul Artist LadyBoss-Amanishakhete (A-ma-ni-sha-kete) depicts a message that racism is escalating in the twenty-first century. Underreported in mainstream media, hate groups have tripled in the past three years, are increasingly dangerous and use high profile blacks - such as President Obama and Trayvon Martin - to heighten their hate messaging.

Both Obama and Martin are featured in the video, including Aaron Campbell, an unarmed mentally ill black man who was gunned downed by police in Portland, Oregon. The Aaron Campbell case gained national attention because the police officer, who was fired because of the unjustified shooting, is being reinstated to active duty.

"Times are dangerous for especially people-of-color," warns LadyBoss-Amanishakhete. "There is a clear attack on our civil rights."

Unlike her first album, Epiphany of Lady, which introduced her as an introspective and spiritual artist, in "Murder 2012", LadyBoss is hard-hitting. The soundtrack's powerful mix of symbolic lyrics also demonstrate an artist who remains true to her style - Word-Soul - a vocal sound LadyBoss created and defines as: a balance between spokenword, rap and hip hop with emphasis on a message that is underscored by jammin' music!

Since the release of "Murder 2012", LadyBoss' fans have grown to include people who live in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Israel.

"Music with a message can bring people together," says LadyBoss. "Murder 2012 resonates with people who want hate and discrimination to end."

LadyBoss-Amanishakhete teamed with Portland hip-hop artist Anuff, who composed the music for "Murder 2012". To support this indie artist, music enthusiasts can download the song from cdbaby, whotune.com, Amazon MP3, iTunes and other online retailers. The video is produced by Perception Media in Portland, Oregon.

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Across the country, something is missing from the campaign ads of men and women running for Congress: the word "Congress."

Likewise, "Senate," "senator" and "representative" are making only rare cameos in these campaign ads. The absence is especially pronounced in the case of incumbents who are asking voters to re-elect them in November.

"How do you go from working in a family seed business in Iowa to fighting for Iowans at the highest levels?" a narrator intones in an ad for Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa.

The highest levels of what, exactly? The ad notes that Latham took "Iowa common sense" to Washington and voted against the stimulus package but never exactly spells out that he has served at the highest levels of the U.S. government in Congress since 1995.

There are years when incumbents can tout their experience and legislative achievements as they seek re-election. This is not one those years, as the approval ratings of the gridlocked Congress have begun to approach the popularity of pond scum among an increasingly disenchanted electorate.

The result is that consultants and strategists who run congressional campaigns appear to be employing some artful ad copy to avoid mentioning that their candidates are members of Congress. "They don't use their title. They don't refer to their years of service. They don't show pictures of themselves in committee meetings," said Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan congressional analyst, explaining the incumbent-as-outsider strategy. "They have to acknowledge the anger, the frustration. They've got to run as agents of change," he said.

Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., who is running for the Senate, appeared in a campaign ad earlier this year with his mother, Francie.

"I want to tell you about my son, Rick Berg," she said, seated at a kitchen table next to him. She said that he had grown up on a farm, working cattle, bailing hay and learning the value of a dollar. She vouched for his knowledge of "the North Dakota way."

She declined to mention that he also knows at least something about the Washington way, having served as North Dakota's only member of Congress since 2011.

Campaign officials generally deny that their candidates are ducking the congressional label, and it is hard to deny or obscure membership in that body. But after more than a year of bitter disputes on Capitol Hill a handful of near-government shutdowns, a showdown over raising the nation's legal borrowing limit last summer, the utter failure of a special deficit reduction "supercommittee" it's clear that this year, even the incumbents are running as outsiders who will shake the place up. Although this is not an entirely new strategy, more incumbents may be forced to embrace it, given the political climate.

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