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After 27 years of witnessing significant legal proceedings, courtroom sketch artist William Hennessy said he now considers himself a journalist as well.
Next tonight, a unique take on some of the most important legal skirmishes of our times. It comes from courtroom sketch artist William Hennessy. His new book is called "All Rise." It focuses on events he's covered for the NewsHour and other broadcasters over his 27-year career.
WILLIAM HENNESSY, courtroom sketch artist: I decided to write this book for a number of reasons, but one of them is also because I put a lot into my work. There's a lot more to it, and a three-second airing in an evening news piece doesn't always do it justice.
I understand my role very well. Ideally, my clients would have a camera in there, in their minds. I don't necessarily agree, but I do understand what they want from me, and so I provide them with the visuals they need to tell the story, and not just the visuals that you expect, but I try to delve deeper. I look for the details. I look for something that'll give it more. I find myself as much a journalist, in that regard, looking for that special angle on the visual that will help them that much more.
You get your proper vantage point and capture the critical characters — obviously, the defendant and the lawyers involved, and the judge, and their interactions — and at critical moments, you start another sketch, and it's sort of dictated by the events that occur in front of you.
Some of the most incredible cases I've covered, the most memorable are not necessarily, you know, big headline grabbers, but just — the human drama involved, the courtroom and the events that take place in there are sometimes the most compelling things, and it's hard to stay focused and not get caught up in the emotion of it.
One I'll never forget was a father whose son was kidnapped out of his bedroom as he slept. And his emotion, which affects me even as I talk about it, that he wasn't there for his son, that it happened right, you know, near him.
One of the things that's critical is to always be at the ready. I had an escapee who came barreling down an escalator with court security in hot pursuit. He was very close to the door, and a woman stepped out of the crowd, and put out her leg and tripped him. And that became the story of the day more than the case that we even came to cover.
This particular case — sketch was a very powerful development, just prior to the case beginning, where the brother of a defendant collapsed, actually had a heart attack, and I quickly sketched that. And you could see the emotion and just the turmoil of the events as they occurred in front of me.
Drawing in the Supreme Court is very different from a regular courtroom. They're a panel of nine justices. It's a very awe-inspiring event, even after 27 years of doing it. To some degree, it's predictable, but you're always prepared, as usual, with — prepared for what's unexpected.
The Bush v. Gore argument was not unlike most of the arguments I've covered. The attorneys at the podium discussed the matter with the justices, and that's what I documented from that case. When we went to the press room after the argument that I sort of was struck by the contrast between that organized, august hall and the debate over the issues, and the sort of chaos that ensued in the press room as they waited for the decision, and talked on the phone, and tried to figure out how the story was going to play out and how the case was going to be resolved.
About 10 years ago, as I overlooked the U.S. Senate during the impeachment of President Clinton, and I — just looking down on this chamber and the whole events taking place in front of me, I really felt like this has been an amazing ride. I really need to write all this stuff down.
The C-SPAN cameras weren't covering certain parts of it that really were very compelling in telling the story, and that was the negotiations between the senators and the two parties over how this vote was going to go and how the whole proceeding was going to take place.
And examples of that are depicted here on the outside edge here where these senators were sort of in each other's face arguing. Here we had two of Clinton's lead attorneys, David Kendall and Charles Ruff, discussing strategy. Here are the two sides even, where we had Daschle and Trent Lott debating, discussing.
I certainly came into this as an artist, but I think I've had a unique opportunity to learn journalism from the people who actually — who I worked with, both the photojournalists and the written journalists. They've helped me understand my purpose and my responsibility in, you know, telling the story accurately and truthfully, honestly, and responsibly as you can.
A Donald Trump-produced reality dating show with previousThe Apprenticevillain Omarosa as its focus doesn't seem like a place where you'd find a Christian rapper as a contestant.
Then again, it's probably the exact reason one was added to the cast. We're talking about it here, aren't we?
Yes indeed, 30-year-old Christian “worship-hop” artist Eddy Puyol, who raps under the name Rawsrvnt (pronounced raw servant), is one of 12 eligible bachelors looking to win Omarosa's heart in The Ultimate Merger,which begins airing Thursday on TV One Network.
The show also will feature 90's platinum R&B artist Al B. Sure and Akon protégé Ray Lavender.
Puyol was approached by the show's producers, who searched the Internet and contacted Christian hip-hop media outlet Rapzilla.com to suggest possible participants.
After initial hesitation, Puyol began to view the show as an opportunity to present a more accurate image of what it means to be a follower of Jesus than the one he believes is portrayed in mass media.
Houstonian and gospel rap pioneer Delbert “Lil Raskull” Harris has known Puyol for several years and was one of the peers he turned to for guidance when deciding whether to participate in the show.
Puyol said he became excited by the show's premise because he would get to demonstrate relationships both between himself, Omarosa and the other male contestants.
“Honestly, Christians have a hard time with this. I thought it would be cool to show what a real one looks like and how he approaches dating,” Puyol said.
Understandably, the debate about the authenticity of “reality” shows in general and the often salacious nature of its dating subgenre in particular have raised a few eyebrows within Puyol's Christian rap community.
“It's a bad move for two reasons,” said Joseph E. Banks of Ellenwood, Ga. “One, if he doesn't have a genuine interest in Omarosa, it's deceitful. Two, it's just not wise. We know how shows like this are edited and presented in our culture.
Puyol said he respects such views, but stresses the importance of Christians being involved in activities outside of the global church for the purposes of evangelism.
“If we don't get in the mix, then we alienate the very people we're trying to impact,” Puyol said.
Find Jason Bellini's blog, Jesus Musik, at houstonbelief.com.
Riviera Beach, Fla. — Attorney Edwin Ferguson said he has been interested in educating the community about their rights as they relate to police encounters for some time. The Oct. 18 shooting death of Corey Jones, the 31-year old drummer killed at the hands of an undercover cop driving an unmarked vehicle, has given Ferguson a sense of urgency regarding the issue. Jones was shot and killed by Officer Nouman Raja after the church musician encountered car problems and was waiting for a tow truck on the side of the road in Palm Beach Gardens.
The Ferguson Firm and Riviera Beach Councilman Cecil Thomas are co-sponsoring a forum to provide the community with information on their rights should they encounter a law enforcement official. Ferguson acknowledged that even when young black men encounter the police and do what is considered “the right things,” there is no guarantee that they will leave the encounter alive.
Still, he asserts, “The more you know, the likelihood of something going wrong decreases.” The firm is hosting the event, he said, to “educate the community as to what their rights are. We hope that it limits the unfortunate tragedies such as Corey Jones, Eric Garner in New York,” and some of the other tragedies where black men have been killed at the hands of the police.
He added, “This needs to be rectified and needs to be addressed immediately. The community wants answers and they want this to stop.” He expects the community to remain involved until there are answers. “Marching and things of that nature are the first volley from community,” he said.
A Christian priest has been shot dead on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, where religious tensions are high after the execution of three Catholic militants.
The Rev Irianto Kongkoli was shot in the head while shopping in Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi province.
Relations between Christians and Muslims in Central Sulawesi have been fraught since the execution of the three militants last month.
They were found guilty of inciting attacks against Muslims in 2000.
It was part of a wave of religious violence between 1999 and 2001 that left more than 1,000 people dead.
The Rev Kongkoli was buying construction materials at a shop when he was targeted, a spokesman for the provincial government's information bureau said.
"He had finished bargaining for some tiles when someone called him back into the store. When he entered, two shots were fired at the back of his head," Jethan Towakit told Reuters news agency.
Central Sulawesi governor Bandjela Paliudju told reporters he believed the killing may have been linked to last month's executions.
"He was an outspoken priest who many times led Christian protests against the executions," Mr Paliudju said.
A police investigation is underway. "We need to make sure such killings do not happen again," national police chief Gen Sutanto said.
Fabianus Tibo, Marianus Riwu and Dominggus da Silva were killed by firing squad on 22 September, despite a plea for clemency from the Vatican and concern at the fairness of their trial by human rights groups.
Although the protests and rioting that followed the executions quickly calmed down, there has been sporadic violence since.
Indonesia is home to the world's largest number of Muslims. But in various eastern areas of the country, such as parts of Sulawesi, Christian and Muslim populations are roughly equal.
Malaysia did not request the Swiss government to assist in its investigations into SRC International, said the Office of the Attorney-General of Switzerland (OAG).
"The OAG has not received any Mutual Legal Assistance request from Malaysia related to the 1MDB/SRC case.
"We remain however entirely at the disposal of the Malaysian authorities in case of (a) request," it said in an email to Malaysiakini.
Switzerland's Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) had in October last year issued a fresh MLA request to Malaysia over its investigation into SRC International, a former subsidiary of 1MDB.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Razali Ibrahim on March 23 told Parliament that attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali had written to his counterpart in Switzerland to seek clarification on the matter.
He added that Malaysia was awaiting for a reply.
"This shows that we are not protecting anybody, but unfortunately there are some who choose to exploit the matter," he said.
He said this in a reply to Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo.
Razali said Malaysia's MLA is on the "(bank) accounts of certain individuals there that can help the investigation".
He also assured that investigations are ongoing.
Last week, Swiss AG Michael Lauber said his money-laundering probe into 1MDB is making progress despite Malaysian authorities' refusal to cooperate.
"It's not hopeless, in fact it's the opposite.
"We're still confident we can successfully conclude the process... in particular the open cases against the two banks," he told reporters in Bern.
He was referring to Swiss private banks BSI and Falcon, which have already had to pay out in the case, Reuters reported.
He said the Swiss investigation is assisted by Singapore, Luxembourg and the United States.
The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to seize more than US$1 billion in assets bought on its shores, using funds it believes to have been siphoned from 1MDB.
However, 1MDB has claimed none of its funds had been stolen.
Singapore has also taken action against bankers and banks found breaching laws in managing funds linked to 1MDB.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this report stated that the Swiss attorney-general contradicted Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Razali Ibrahim's statement to Parliament. This is incorrect. Razali clarified that when he mentioned Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA), he was referring to the MLA request by Switzerland and not Malaysia. We apologise for the error.
Microsoft today took the unusual move of releasing a new version of Outlook for the Mac months before the rest of the suite.
Microsoft today took the unusual move of releasing a new version of Outlook for the Mac months before the rest of the Office suite will be ready.
Outlook is the email client bundled with the Windows and OS X editions of Microsoft's Office cash cow.
The debut of Outlook came just days after screenshots leaked to the Internet. And the Outlook-only release was a first for Microsoft, said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft.
"Microsoft likes to say 'It's a journey,'" said Miller of the Redmond, Wash. company's approach to software development. "This looks like it will be a journey, an evolution over the next year or so for Office on the Mac."
Typically Microsoft rolls out a new edition of Office as a complete package, with all-new -- or mostly-new -- applications rather than release bits piecemeal. But the company took a different tack today because of its emphasis on the rent-not-buy subscription model that it's aggressively pushed since January 2013.
Only customers with an active Office 365 subscription can download the refreshed Outlook for OS X. Those subscriptions cost $80 for a four-year deal for college students, between $70 and $100 annually for consumers, and between $99 and $264 per user per year for businesses.
"The new Outlook for Mac is available to Office 365 commercial customers and Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University subscribers," wrote the Office team in a blog post announcing Outlook's availability.
Microsoft said that customers could run the new Outlook alongside the existing Outlook bundled as part of Office for Mac 2011, the four-year-old suite that will drop off the firm's support list in January 2016. Computerworld was able to install, activate and use the new Outlook -- which Microsoft has assigned version number 15 -- with only minor disturbances to an already-in-place Outlook 2011.
Those who purchased Office for Mac 2011 as a perpetual license, the familiar pay-once-use-forever model that still dominates sales, will have to wait months to get their hands on the new Outlook. And they'll have to pay for the privilege.
On the same blog, Microsoft said that it would issue a public beta of "the next version of Office for Mac" in the first half of 2015, and ship the final code in the second half of the year. As per Office 365's premise, subscribers will not be charged for the upgrade -- although they must continue to pay the annual or monthly fees. Non-subscribers will have to pony up an unspecified amount for the new suite.
Microsoft did commit to continuing to offer a perpetual-licensed Office for Mac, at least for the 2015 upgrade. "I actually had fears that Microsoft would make the next [Office for Mac] only as non-perpetual," said Miller. "I'm glad they said they will continue [to offer traditional licenses], and glad that they cleared that up today."
Miller called the new Outlook "sparse," adding that the sudden appearance was "a reflection of the new way of building software" at Microsoft, which has pledged to deliver smaller updates at a faster cadence. That tempo has been particularly true for Office 365, which receives a constant stream of fixes, changes and even new features.
But Miller was also a little leery of the approach, at least from what he saw in today's Outlook 15. "Given the sparse features in OneNote and Outlook on the Mac..., I'm kind of afraid of what the rest of the suite will look like," he tweeted Friday.
In an earlier tweet, Miller said, "The rumor was that Office for Mac would have parity with Windows. What I'm seeing right now is far, far away from that."
Although Microsoft did not say that Outlook 15 remains a work in progress, it's certainly possible, perhaps even likely, that with the time remaining before the appearance of an Office for Mac beta, Microsoft will continue to enhance the application -- updating Office 365 users' copies along the way -- so that it is at feature-parity with the Windows version by the time the final code releases a year from now.
Miller said he expects that's how things would work out. "One of the criticisms has been that Outlook has been stagnant, and that the features that have appeared in OWA [Outlook Web Access] are not getting to Outlook," said Miller. "I see [Outlook for Mac] as the start of a more evolutionary approach where the product evolves over time."
GETTING SOME COLOR: A runner passes through the orange color station at the Color Run 5K in downtown Little Rock this past weekend.
People enjoy food during a Mexican Independence Day celebration Saturday at the River Market pavilions in Little Rock.
Taj Mahal plays this past weekend at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena.
People gathered on Kavanaugh for Harvest Fest in Hillcrest last Saturday. The event featured live music, a cheese dip contest, a fashion show and more.
Following its striking success in 2013, MK Gallery’s spotlight once again falls on talent here in the new city, with the return of MK Calling.
The ‘2015 episode’ will reveal itself tomorrow, showcasing the work of close to 70 artists, musicians and performers from Milton Keynes.
A third of the exhibitors who had input into the 2013 delivery are making a welcome return to the artistic hub.
This show is a significant moment in the gallery’s history too – MK Calling is the last exhibition to be housed in the art space before work begins on the expansion, which will see the area transformed in 2017.
“MK Calling 2015 provides a great opportunity for artists and audiences in Milton Keynes to meet, share ideas, and participate in workshops, training and mentoring,” gallery director Anthony Spira said.
MK Calling continues to September 6.
The establishment of Ombuds for children is a core dimension of the implementation of the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children and the SRSG remains strongly committed to continuing to support states in this endeavor.
“Ombuds reinforce democracy and through their work they break the invisibility surrounding the situation of marginalized children, who are also often those at highest risk of violence”, Santos Pais said.
SRSG Santos Pais praised the work of these institutions in the promotion of law and policy reform to consolidate children's safety and protection – in many countries they play a key role in the enactment of a comprehensive legal ban on all forms of violence against children.
“With the historic adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a new avenue has opened up to accelerate progress in the realization of children’s rights and their protection from violence, leaving no child behind! Independent institutions for children’s rights need to be part of this crucial process, “ said SRSG Santos Pais.
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