the latest on conrad Murray case
David Walgren, the L.A. County Deputy District Attorney who put away Dr. Conrad Murray ... has thrown his hat in the ring to become an L.A. County Superior Court judge.
Walgren -- who is considered one of the best prosecutors in L.A. County -- has submitted an application to the Governor's office.
Sources connected with the process tell TMZ ... Walgren's application is being taken "very seriously."
If you place a bet that Governor Jerry Brown will send Walgren shopping for a black robe, your money is probably safe
Walgren -- who is considered one of the best prosecutors in L.A. County -- has submitted an application to the Governor's office.
Sources connected with the process tell TMZ ... Walgren's application is being taken "very seriously."
If you place a bet that Governor Jerry Brown will send Walgren shopping for a black robe, your money is probably safe
Titanic survivor's lost tale resurfaces
A survivor’s account of the sinking of the Titanic has been rediscovered after having been lost for decades and will be published next month ahead of the 100th anniversary of the disaster.
John B. “Jack” Thayer, who boarded the ship at age 17 with his parents, printed his recollections of the catastrophe as a family record in 1940 and made just 500 copies.
The tome was recently unearthed by Lorin Stein, editor of the Paris Review, who recalled a family tie he had to the Titanic after Luke Pontifell, who runs handmade-book publisher Thornwillow Press, said he wished he could track down documents from the ship.
“Suddenly, I half-remembered that a distant cousin of mine had written an eyewitness account and had given my great-grandfather a copy,” Stein said. “My mother found the book in my grandfather’s library when he died.”
Click for the complete story from the New York Post
John B. “Jack” Thayer, who boarded the ship at age 17 with his parents, printed his recollections of the catastrophe as a family record in 1940 and made just 500 copies.
The tome was recently unearthed by Lorin Stein, editor of the Paris Review, who recalled a family tie he had to the Titanic after Luke Pontifell, who runs handmade-book publisher Thornwillow Press, said he wished he could track down documents from the ship.
“Suddenly, I half-remembered that a distant cousin of mine had written an eyewitness account and had given my great-grandfather a copy,” Stein said. “My mother found the book in my grandfather’s library when he died.”
Click for the complete story from the New York Post
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Report: US government spent at least $945M on advertising in 2010
Federal agencies spent at least $945 million on contracts for advertising services in fiscal year 2010, and that sum doesn't include all public communications expenditures in the agencies reviewed or even all of the executive branch, a congressional report out last week shows.
Congressional Research Service reported that the calculation was incomplete since the total sum may never be fully known.
"It is unclear how much the executive branch, let alone the federal government as a whole, spends on communications each year," the CRS report found.
Of that total that was calculable, more than $545 million was spent by the Defense Department, much of it on ads to attract recruits, CRS noted.
Congressional Research Service reported that the calculation was incomplete since the total sum may never be fully known.
"It is unclear how much the executive branch, let alone the federal government as a whole, spends on communications each year," the CRS report found.
Of that total that was calculable, more than $545 million was spent by the Defense Department, much of it on ads to attract recruits, CRS noted.
