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NEW YORK - Amy Winehouse's father says he has a hard time enjoying her breakthrough "Back to Black" album because the songs are about her ex-husband.
Mitch Winehouse blames Blake Fielder-Civil for leading her into drug abuse, and he details her long decline in a new memoir, "Amy, My Daughter." His views on the British singer's ex-husband have been stated before and are well known.
Amy Winehouse, whose "Back to Black" disc sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and won a Grammy Award for album of the year in 2008, died of accidental alcohol poisoning in July. The British singer was 27.
Mitch Winehouse, a former taxi driver and aspiring singer, writes in the memoir that it recently occurred to him that one of the biggest-selling albums of the 21st century is all about Fielder-Civil, whom he disparages. He prefers his daughter's jazzy first album, "Frank," which wasn't released outside England until af...
His memoir is scheduled to come out June 26. The Associated Press bought a copy on Monday.
Winehouse recalls his daughter as a girl writing into a notebook phrases that later turned up in songs and his pride as her singing talent became evident. But most of the book is about a seemingly endless cycle of attempted recoveries and relapses as she battled drugs and alcohol.
Winehouse also says that his daughter suffered from stage fright throughout her career. She had breast enlargement surgery more than a year before her death and considered plastic surgery on her nose.
Amy Winehouse's strong will may have helped her during her career, but it didn't help with substance abuse, her father writes.
"Long before Amy was an addict, no one could tell her what to do," he writes. "Once she became an addict, her stubbornness just got worse. There were times when she wanted to be clean, but the times when she didn't outnumbered them."
He writes that he could never understand why she was so in love with Fielder-Civil, a music industry hanger-on. The book details his numerous run-ins with Fielder-Civil and his family.
"It wasn't as if he brought much good into her life, or so it seemed to me," he writes.
Amy Winehouse married Fielder-Civil in 2007. They divorced in 2009.
Some friends believed that Winehouse grew to dislike singing the songs on "Back to Black" because they reminded her of her ex-husband and that was one reason she drank so much before she performed. Tape of a drunken Winehouse stumbling through a set months before she died became a great embarrassment to her after it sp...
Alcohol was trouble because it was freely available and she could drink wherever she liked, mostly without public criticism, writes her father, who worried "her illness might end up killing us both."
A 32-year-old woman died Friday night after she was hit by a car in Oxnard.
A 32-year-old Oxnard woman died after she was hit by a vehicle in Oxnard, police said Saturday.
The crash took place at 9:25 p.m. Friday near Robert Avenue and Oxnard Boulevard.
Through an investigation, authorities said they learned a 67-year-old Santa Paula woman was driving north on Oxnard Boulevard in a Chevrolet pickup when it hit the victim, who was crossing the street.
The victim suffered serious injuries and was taken to Ventura County Medical Center, where she later died as a result of her injuries.
Akiko Mitsui (94) passed away peacefully on September 5, 2016 in Mar Vista, California.
She is survived by her family: daughter Janet Mitsui Brown (Roger); son Jeff Mitsui (Kathy); grandsons Kelvin Mitsui (Page), Jon Mitsui, Marcus Mitsui; granddaughters Mika Mitsui, Tani Mitsui Brown; sisters Betty Masuda and Millie Okai. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 1, at 12:00 p.m. in Green Hills Memorial Park, 27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275; (310) 831-0311.
I firmly believe that e-mail marked the beginning of a communication breakdown in our society. Sure, we talk all the time about how e-mail magically connects almost everyone on Earth, but when e-mail is used to avoid an in-person conversation, that's where it gets problematic. Some people now hide behind e-mail to thre...
MINNEAPOLIS – A 47-year-old Minnesota man accused of urinating in his co-worker’s beverage on multiple occasions now faces charges, according to authorities.
Conrrado Cruz Perez allegedly polluted the woman’s water bottle after she turned down his romantic advances, according to the Pioneer Press. Perez has been charged with two counts of adulterating a substance with bodily fluids.
According to a Ramsey County court document, the 42-year-old woman called police in October, saying a baker at the Perkins Family Restaurant where she worked was harassing her.
She also told authorities that, for several months, the water she kept in a bottle at work had tasted like urine, according to WCCO.
The woman told investigators she started noticing the foul flavor after she told Perez she only wanted to remain friends, documents say. Since that day, she said that she detected the urine taste roughly 15 times.
According to WCCO, Perez initially denied being involved, but later admitted to relieving himself in the bottle after investigators told him they might perform DNA tests. Perez, however, said he only did it because there were so many orders piling up and he was too busy to go to the restroom. He added that he was going...
His next court date is set for March 28.
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At 7 p.m. Wednesday at Sexton Arena in Collegeville, the St. John’s and St. Thomas men’s basketball teams renew their rivalry.
Both teams are contenders for the MIAC title. St. John’s is ranked 15th in the country in NCAA Division III. The Johnnies are 15-3 in the MIAC and 19-4 overall. St. Thomas is ranked sixth in the country. The Tommies are 17-1 in the MIAC and 21-2 overall.
Falkirk defender Will Vaulks has signed a new contract with the Bairns to keep him at the club until the end May 2016.
The Englishman, 20, has helped the Bairns reach the Premiership play-offs this season.
Having started his career at Tranmere Rovers, Vaulks initially joined Falkirk on loan before securing a full transfer last summer.
"Will has been tremendous during the campaign," manager Gary Holt told the Falkirk website.
"To get his signature and commitment at this stage of the season is a real boost for the club and supporters."
It’s hard to begin watching the Netflix movie ‘The Highwaymen’ and not think about the way it will inevitably end — in a famous ambush and a hail of bullets.
For film fans of a certain age, we’ve practically seen the fatal ambush. ‘The Highwaymen’ is haunted by the 1967 film ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ which had at its final scene a torrent of gunfire riddling Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
That film romanticised the criminal duo who killed 13, and their fatal ambush seemed less like a necessary law enforcement action than a gutless slaying. Now, 52 years later, comes the reverse view with ‘The Highwaymen,’ screenwriter John Fusco’s tale of how two handkerchief-wiping, retired Texas Rangers tracked them d...
If Bonnie and Clyde were the heroes of director Arthur Penn’s 1967 film, lawmen Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) and Maney Gault (Woody Harrelson) are the ones here — gruff, taciturn and hard-nosed officers. Director John Lee Hancock is so unwilling to glamorise the young outlaws that he virtually never focuses his camera o...
The film has been gestating so long that it was once going to star Robert Redford and Paul Newman, which raises all kinds of nostalgia issues. (Think about the leads of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ and ‘The Sting’ donning fedoras and dark suits, getting into Depression-era Fords and fighting on the OTHER side o...
Now, when it comes to the end, this film describes the final shoot-out in a very different way than ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’ (Hint, the cops had some honour.) The film often feels in many ways as an attempt to correct history, or at least the previous Dunaway-Beatty-led portrayal of a bumbling Hamer.
The Highwaymen streams on Netflix from March 29.
Video: The Natural Niagara River Strait by Jim Grimaldi, Jay Burney, and Madelyn Burgess.
Photo by the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
Aerial view of the Niagara River Greenway. Photo by the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
The Niagara River, a strait that connects Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is an environmental and cultural treasure of unique ecological character. It is home to more than 700 species of plants, 300 bird species, 100 fish species, and various mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and mussels. It provides essential habitat resource...
The magnificent Niagara River Corridor meets all criteria for designation as an internationally important body of water under the Ramsar Convention. This treaty has designated over 2,000 sites across the world as “Wetlands of International Importance.” Designation leads to increased economic opportunities, tourism, fun...
In January, 2019 the Niagara River Ramsar Binational Steering Committee (“Steering Committee”), working with the University at Buffalo School of Law Environmental Advocacy Clinic, submitted a complete nomination package reflecting the science underlying the nomination, and the support from many organizations and govern...
After more than five years of collaborative efforts between the Steering Committee and the Environmental Advocacy Clinic, the Ramsar nomination package for the Niagara River Corridor has finally been submitted to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
In the year running up to the submission of the nomination package, the Environmental Advocacy Clinic worked jointly with the Steering Committee to complete the Ramsar Information Sheet (“RIS”). The RIS is a document, required by the Ramsar Secretariat for a site to be nominated, that needs to contain all the data whic...
Additionally, the Environmental Advocacy Clinic assisted with the acquisition of endorsements for the Ramsar designation. Written endorsements from each of the landowners in the designation boundaries, the local or state wildlife agency, and a member of Congress representing the geographic area were required for the Ni...
Every year at UB, students have an opportunity to showcase their academic contributions, research, and creative works to students, faculty, and the rest of the UB community at the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence. Students showcase these achievements through a poster that reflects all of their efforts and res...
The law students from the Environmental Advocacy Clinic crafted a poster for the Student Academic Presentation that covered all of the work the clinic had done for the Niagara River Ramsar Designation. This poster not only covered who the clinic’s client was and what the clinic did for them, but it dove into informing ...
The clinic’s well-orchestrated poster was ultimately recognized for its achievement by the celebration as it received the noteworthy Student Academic Excellence Presentation Award. This award distinguished the Environmental Advocacy Clinic, on the graduate level, for their work on their presentation of the Niagara Rive...
Law students in the Environmental Advocacy Clinic presented a PowerPoint concerning the Niagara River Corridor Ramsar Nomination at the Great Lakes Restoration Conference. The Annual Great Lakes Restoration Conference brings together more than 400 practitioners from the Great Lakes Region in an effort to advance restor...
The Great Lakes Restoration Conference provided the Clinic with a massive audience to inform the area of our efforts and garner support for the Ramsar recognition of the Niagara River Corridor. The PowerPoint presentation itself covered the Ramsar Treaty itself, benefits to the Great Lake Region from a Ramsar designati...
The impact of this presentation cannot be understated. The coalition that attended the Great Lakes Restoration Conference maintains an influential presence in local, state, and federal communities. This presentation provided the clinic with a vital opportunity of informing an influential coalition of our restoration ef...
The Niagara River Corridor Project, a project supported by legal and policy work by law students in the Environmental Law & Policy Clinic together with the Niagara River Greenway Commission and the Niagara Corridor Ramsar Site Steering Committee, held the event World Water Day in Buffalo on March 22, 2016.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed an army veteran and injured his girlfriend last month has surrendered.
Indianapolis police say Michael Lipscomb, 58, turned himself in to police Tuesday. Lipscomb is accused of hitting Sgt. Joseph Nordstrom, 30 and Angie Ruhlig, 36, on Southeastern Avenue on February 24 and then leaving the scene.
Sgt. Nordstrom, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, later died from his injuries.
Nordstrom served in the Army National Guard for 11 years, including a tour in Afghanistan. He was a graduate of Northwest High School.
Nordstrom's girlfriend, Angela Ruhlig, was injured in the hit-and-run crash. She is expected to be OK.
Lipscomb is charged with failure to stop at an accident resulting in death and failure to stop at an accident resulting in serious bodily injury. The Marion County Prosecutor's Office will make final charging decisions in the case.
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HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – Junior Abbie Botz of the Michigan Tech women's basketball team has been selected as the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference North Division Player of the Week, announced Monday by the conference office. Botz powered the Huskies to a pair of GLIAC victories over Northwood University a...
Botz, a forward from Little Chute, Wisconsin, averaged 19.5 points per game and scored a career high 22 points in the 79-54 win over Saginaw Valley State Saturday afternoon. She opened the week with a 17-point performance against Northwood in a 70-40 victory Thursday evening. Botz converted 65.4% of her shots from the ...
In addition to her point totals, Botz matched a career high with 17 rebounds versus Saginaw Valley State, marking her fourth double-double of the season. She opened the week by pulling down seven rebounds on Thursday night against Northwood University. Botz leads the Huskies in both scoring and rebounding this season t...
The Huskies are 16-7 overall and 12-3 in the GLIAC as they get set to travel to Lake Superior State Thursday and then Ferris State Saturday. Thursday's tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. with Saturday's battle slated for 1 p.m. eastern time.
New York state will require internet providers to observe net neutrality or risk losing eligibility for state contracts under an executive order issued Wednesday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The new policy aims to protect consumers by using the state’s lucrative information technology contracts as leverage over internet companies. It’s similar to one enacted through executive order Monday by Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana and comes as states consider how to respond after the Federal Communication...
Attorneys general for 21 states and the District of Columbia also have sued to block the repeal of the federal policy, which had banned companies from interfering with web traffic or speeds to favor certain sites or apps. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, is leading the lawsuit.
“The FCC’s dangerous ruling goes against the core values of our democracy, and New York will do everything in our power to protect net neutrality and the free exchange of ideas,” said Cuomo.
New York state legislators had pushed for the new policy as a simpler alternative to proposals to impose state regulations on internet companies. Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, an Albany Democrat, announced legislation this week that would mandate net neutrality for internet companies doing business with local government...
Messages left with spokespeople for AT&T, Spectrum and Verizon were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Modern adversaries can now integrate cyber operations into military plans. Recent events have shown that rival governments can not only develop cyber-attack plans, but synch them to achieve national goals. The U.S. Department of Defense must begin integrating and normalizing the use of cyber effects. While there are nu...
As a military, the US faces adversaries that have proven their ability to integrate offensive cyber effects from the tactical up to the strategic level. Though multiple methods exist to request and execute Cyber Operations (CO) at the division level, the bigger and more looming problem is the lack of training in utiliz...
What is Available to Division Planners? The U.S. Army Operating Concept states that a critical component to a strategic victory is being able to present the enemy with multiple, simultaneous dilemmas to contend with.1 Going forward, cyber options present a perfect additional capability to bring into the fight. Cyber El...
At what level? There are a few schools of thought on what command level should conduct cyber operations. The JP 3-12 indicates that CO should be integrated at all levels, and in all military operations. However, usage of offensive cyber operations at the division level requires military units to rethink how they percei...
This is not to say that Army units at all levels should be given carte blanche to cyberattack the adversary. It is a typical practice to limit certain activities to higher echelons. The primary reasoning behind it is to ensure those effects that have much further reaching results are controlled to avoid unnecessary col...
Higher echelons do not typically direct specific tactical actions for maneuver units. It is not practical and higher echelons will not have the sort of tactical situational awareness required for effective decision making. Consequently, senior commands would most benefit by allowing divisions a substantial amount of au...
Division planners can concentrate on specific effects that would have a localized effect in their AO. The assets to perform collateral damage estimates reside at levels higher than the division. It is important to perform due diligence to ensure planned effects do not propagate uncontrolled. Thus, division CEMA personn...
As a combat multiplier, CEMA personnel must look at their job as being inherently joint and thus must always work with the CMT to craft and synch requested effects. Planners must be completely clear when making requests on how their plans will nest with the command’s vision and endstate.6 The common thread of Mission C...
High Priority Target List (HPTL): There is a challenge with providing cyber targets to the Division targeting cycle in that, often times, a valid and lucrative cyber target isn’t on the Commander’s HPTL. It might be the last thing one would think as a valid military target. Some of the best targets for cyber manipulati...
Methodology: Cyber Operations must be fully integrated into the targeting process. The process of bringing cyber effects can work the same way that typical lethal targeting works. That being said, the planning horizons of CO are considerably different.11 The level of target fidelity is often unknown to a requesting uni...
It is possible for a unit below Corps to get wrapped up in the intricacies of fine-grain cyber target development. What is most important for Division CEMA planners is to be aware of what cyber techniques are possible, and develop the planning products to issue a request to Corps and above. Of critical importance is a ...
The next key step will be well crafted Measures of Effectiveness (MoE) and detailed synchronization of effects. Knowledge of programming code and tool development can help with overall formulation of a plan, but it should not be considered a prerequisite. Measurable results gets the commander accustomed to working more...
Shotgun Effect versus Chess Match.12 The design of cyber effects are an important consideration when attempting to plan at the tactical and operational level. There is literally no limit to the methods that a cyber operation can use to achieve results. For the purpose of this article, the left and right limits can be d...
A menu of pre-coordinated effects colloquially named “shotgun effects” refers to effects that have all been prearranged and can be executed rapidly. These effects address a very specific problem set with coordination to use these tools performed well in advance. The tactical order they operate under defines specific ta...
On the opposite end of the spectrum, effects that have a significantly longer term execution cycle and aim at seemingly innocuous vulnerabilities work much like a “chess match”. These effects, are often less defined and work against multiple vulnerabilities. The key to success of this type of attack is its ability to o...
What enemy vulnerabilities does one attack? A trouble spot for CEMA personnel is knowing just what to target and exploit. With a small amount of creative thinking, a planner can utilize the tools available to Division targeteers to plan and execute CO. Simply put, the Division’s targeting process can be fed with cyber ...
Target research. As the Cyber Attack/Defend Methodology has provided, a targeting tool (PMESII crosswalk) that can be modified to suit a cyber targeting approach.13 This method will allow CEMA personnel to cage their efforts, better produce CONOPS and formulate the basis of an effective attack. This also allows other m...
Way Ahead: To become better at integrating and to normalize the use of these techniques, Division CEMA elements must train in their employment. The challenge with training CO is properly replicating effects and ensuring enough of the staff has a grasp of the cyber support plan. It begins with ensuring cyber planning is...
LTC James Montgomery is the Cyber Electro-Magnetic Activities (CEMA) Chief for the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado. In addition to previous assignments within the signals intelligence community, he has had multiple deployments as an Electronic Warfare Officer at the Brigade and Combined Joint Task Force le...
S Army Training and Doctrine Command, “TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1, The U.S. Army Operating Concept,” October 31, 2014, http://www.tradoc.army.mil/tpubs/pams/TP525-3-1.pdf (Accessed March 3, 2016).
S. Department of Defense, “Joint Publication (JP) 3-12, Cyberspace Operations,” February 5, 2013, x. http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_12R.pdf.

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