marv's Blog

as was asked earlier, who is this local mother jamie tisch?

i was walking past the property which is just west of the 101 at the sunset exit.  an impressive builiding for our future leaders (joke, but you know what every high school is said to be).  anyway, the football field and track are very impressive.  set below the level of sunset blvd, the space conceiveably could be part of a rain water retention area during one of the hundred year floods...although the level of the 101 is lower than the field at the new high school at Van Ness and Sunset opposite KTLA main gate.   The palm trees planted on the grounds are quite impressive too!   I feel there was some brilliance in the design of this high school.  I miss the zigzag sculpture which was on the roof of the ch 11 studios!  whom do we send to create a package?  tony valdez seems right.  maybe mark thompson can give his comments for a portion.  is jillian ready to go look at the site?  certainly there are engineers who have fond memories of the old lot !  we can also comment about the former CBS studios on sunset at gower.  and did ABC move from the space on prospect ?  what was at the present KCET lot?

Nicholas, 48, served as CEO and president from Broadcom's inception until he resigned in 2003.  the guy is a smart dude who knows about electronic circuit boards and integrated circuits.  he is my age. 

I feel this is another example of govt employees getting a scent of excitement.  the fraud accounting statements i view as serious crime if true.   the drugs charges are not cool in my view.

Indicted on Thursday, June 5  on fraud, conspiracy and drug charges -- including allegations he spiked the drinks of technology executives and customer representatives with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse for ecstasy, cocaine and methamphetamine. charges were contained in two indictments unsealed by federal authorities.

One indictment  details the drug accusations and the other charges Nicholas with violations related to improperly accounting for backdating stock options while he led the computer and cell phone chip maker.

That indictment also names Broadcom's former chief financial officer, William J. Ruehle, who faces conspiracy, securities fraud and other charges. He is not charged with drug violations.

Fisk called his wife to tell her he was stuck in traffic. She soon called back to tell him he was in the middle of the hunt for a bank robber. Police were getting information from a GPS device in the packet of stolen money and set up a roadblock.

Within minutes, Fisk saw a man walking with several police officers. The man - an FBI agent - was carrying a hand-held GPS tracking device.

Police - uniformed and plainclothes in cruisers and cars, and on motorcycles and bicycles - were watching occupants of the vehicles as the GPS tracking device was walked through the stopped cars.

Many of the officers had their hands on their holstered guns.

Fisk watched as police looked through the windows into his van, checked other cars, had people open doors and trunks and even had one man get out of his work truck, handcuff him and search his lunchbox before letting him go.

Court documents said Kenneth Maples told the teller: "This is a robbery. I want $10,000 to $15,000." Police reports did not mention whether he carried or showed a weapon.

He was given a bag containing $7,000 - and a Global Positioning System transmitter. Fisk was impressed by the GPS device.

"It was very precise," he said. "They knew (the suspect's vehicle) was in front because they kept hovering around the first 40 cars or so.

"They kept saying: 'The guy's here. I know he's here.' "

A minute or so later, the crowd of police went farther behind Fisk's van - and away from the suspect's truck - had a short discussion and then swarmed the pickup to arrest the two suspects.

"He was pretty calm," Fisk said of Kenneth Maples. "They took him to the median, and he sat there with resignation."

The couple is due in court today to answer to the charges.

that GPS transmitter ultimately led police directly to a white Ford pickup with the couple in it. Police found the stolen money in the Maples' truck.

i do not  grasp the humorous context of any of the chatter about steve being old.  whether it is steve saying he was living when the Wright Bros flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk, or  someone else making a silly comment about his being whatever, the intended humor does not flow well into my home.  It might seem funny on your set but it lacks an element of being funny. 

another dead celebrity.  i met merv once in the beverly hilton.  friendly guy, warm handshake, focused attention, sweet fella.  i asked him whether having the contestant on jeopardy phrase the answer in form of a question was a waste of time--there is nothing particularly difficult about identifying the subject to "answer".  i estimated that five additional questions could be placed in each program if the contestant merely gave a response.  i suggested he replace Vanna White on wheel of fortune.  he smiled whent i told him Jillian would be more popular!  Then he asked me which blond haired woman with bangs looks like a Q-Tip?  His answer was "all of them."  Next he said "What are a woman's four favorite animals? A mink in the closet, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bedroom, and a Jackass to pay for it all !"  I will always remember when i met the other Marv-- a funny guy!

pasadena-- pit bulls get loose.  attack civilians.  police arrive and use shot gun to kill one dog, injure another.  time has come to euthanize all pit bull canines.  end the problem immediately.  no long discourse needed on this subject.  crisis exists.

Teenager near Rochester, NY crashes her car killing  herself and four passengers. A california state law which will make it illegal to use a handheld phone while driving was passed yet does not take effect until next summer!  the law requires phones used while driving to be hands free.  the base fine is merely $20 and $50 for subsequent offense  when it goes into effect until July 1st,2008. At that point, California will be the 4th state (and 5th area, counting D.C.) to implement the ban; 35 other states are also considering it. CHP officers have begun to pull over cell phone-using drivers to warn them about the upcoming law.

Regarding the accident in NY, the five women killed photographed very nicely for their high school yearbook; each graduated this year,  each was a very beautiful woman.  The driver, Bailey Goodman, was violating the restrictions on her license.  She was seventeen having only a junior driver's license which made it illegal to be driving at the time the crash or to be carrying so many young passengers.

The five teenagers died when the sport utility vehicle Goodman was driving collided head-on with a tractor-trailer about 10 p.m. Junior drivers cannot drive after 9 p.m. without a parent, guardian or someone performing parental duties, unless they're going to work or school. They also cannot carry more than two passengers under 21 unless they're members of the immediate family.

It is possible that the fiery, head-on collision with a tractor trailer may have been caused by a distracted driver sending text messages. Cell phone records show a text message was sent from the phone belonging to the driver  at 10:05:52. A reply was sent to her phone at 10:06:29. Thirty-eight seconds later, someone called 911 to report the accident that killed Bailey and her friends.   Cell phone records indicate the phone was in use. Maybe someone else  was the one doing the text messages.

The federal case against Gregory L. Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., a San Jose, Calif., data-storage networking firm, is likely to be watched by executives, lawyers and scores of other corporations caught up in the options scandal. It is expected to provide the first indication whether a jury considers backdating options a serious crime.

One issue in the case is the question of criminal intent. Specifically, whether Mr. Reyes knew Brocade had to expense stock options that were "in the money" at the time they were granted, as accounting rules specified.

Brocade didn't expense the options, and the company later acknowledged its mistake by restating its earnings to account for them.

Mr. Reyes, who faces the prospect of years in prison and millions of dollars in fines if convicted, is accused of defrauding shareholders between 2000 and 2004 by routinely altering the grant dates of stock options awarded to recruit and retain employees, and of falsifying documents to cover up the scheme.

Opening arguments in the case are scheduled for Monday.

Prosecutors are expected to maintain that Mr. Reyes understood the rules, and was involved in retroactively picking favorable option-grant dates and then altering board meeting minutes, and personnel and financial records to cover up the backdating from Brocade's auditors.

The government intends to introduce internal emails to bolster its case, including at least one they believe shows Mr. Reyes understood the implications of backdating, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Michael N. Levy, a defense lawyer at McKee Nelson LLP in Washington, who isn't involved in the case, said proving criminal intent in a corporate-fraud case can be difficult. "You don't usually have executives saying, 'I am going to knowingly violate the law and defraud people.' So you have to prove intent to defraud by using circumstantial evidence, and circumstantial evidence by definition is always subject to more than one interpretation."

The charming Good Day team was there.  The american idol finale was a big event.  Huge ratings demonstrate the unique ability of Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson to garner the attention of the American audience.  Steve Edwards was instinctively sensing the tenor of the arrivals spectac.   David Hasselhoff arrives. Steve with no hesitation hollars out to set a tone.  Steve's genuine upbeat demeanor was appropriate as a public message to Hasselhoff indicating "importance" of the coming interview.  Congrats for Steve being part of the spectac and demonstrating his skill as a talk show host.  Hasselfhoff was cool--he realized the interview was a time to be mellow and rehab the image presented by the video when he dropped his hamburger and said something about his drinking alcohol.  Hasselhoff's daughter is cute and poised.  Steve's method welcoming Hasselfhoff to the interview allowed Hasselhoff to feel comfort.  well done greeting, Steve.   Dorothy was nicely attired.  Jillian looked her usual pretty self. Something is wrong with Paula's brain.  she is almost pathetic at this point.  Is her slurred speech indicative of having had a stroke?  I am  sensitive when i hear anyone using "me" in the subject part of a sentence.  below are some uses of Mi as subject in italian! mi ricordo I remember; mi chiamo my name is; mi dispiace I'm sorry or   I do not like; mi piace I like

 

what upsets me about the video of svelt David is when he picks up the double burger and it falls apart.  the burger looks delicious.  can anyone identify where that burger is sold?   the video reminds me of how much body fat i am carrying.  the alterations tailor at I.Magnin told me twenty years ago, with his french accent, not to try to fight gaining weight as i get older.  he seemed wise.  he said it is a constant struggle to try to stay trim and it is not natural to be thin.  i will carry myself like marlon brando did as i get older wiser and fatter.  where did David's burger come from?

I hope Best Buy takes this one to trial.  Gloria Allred is going to learn that sexually expressive women attract men's attention.  Background of this family will reveal they have a history of promiscuity.  Further, this will be identified as a situation in which the woman deliberately enticed the arousal of the computer tech.  And I assume the 22 year old woman took a shower with the curtain open.

I feel Allred is a nuissance to our society.  Her card was played out a half decade ago.  Time for her to be taken to trial and humiliated by her absurd perceptions of male natural human behavior.

Give the tech credit for being straight. And what did the kid sister do?  she removed a chip from the tech's cell phone?   Sounds like that action might be a Federal violation.

I agree with the report.  I perceive no explanation for anyone smiling or laughing when giving this news story.  (Julia on ch 11 after Good Day).  This is serious and is the primary reason that possession of marijuana is and should be a punishable offense.  One could say he has not experienced psychotic reaction to THC in the brain, but does he know when the psychotic thoughts occur?  Impaired judgement when THC is in the blood is true,  I do not approve of any laughter in regard to this subject.

1992 was not the first time black communities have had riots.  New grocery stores have opened since the riots yet  many other retailers have closed and manufacturing firms that paid middle-class salaries,  have vacated as they have from other cities.
when a  business community is destroyed overnight it does not reestablish if the customer market does not exist.  look at  riots in black neighborhoods in 1967  in many ciites (Detroit, Newark and thirty-eight other cities experienced outbreaks.  Similar riots occurred on the night of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, when over 110 cities erupted.)  there is no reason to complain that no one has rebuilt on lots which now are empty.  the economic incentive does not exist; there is no tenant demand for renting sites to open business. no one sees a financial incentive to locate in those areas.  even  neighborhoods which did not experience riots, but endure changing neighborhood demographics, experience many retail businesses closing.  think about it, if you open a business, whom do you envision as your customers?  do you want to cater to the neighborhood? Latinos are a growing presence in south Los Angeles, an area that was once the center of African American life. Many middle-class black and Latino families have moved out of the area for better schools and safer streets. Those remaining are disproportionately poorer, with fewer job skills.
 yes this is prejudice.  green.  Rep Maxine Waters is wrong when she states that if businesses open, the neighborhood residents would be customers.  Wisdom would simply wait for market economics to encourage retail businesses to locate in south Los Angeles.

 The car is spotted, the chase is on and cops decide to make the situation worse by  using their cop cars to practice physically stopping a  serious danger to the community.   I prefer cops  just follow from a distance when the crime report is "my boyfriend took my car without permission."  Give a cowboy a chance ram his cop car and the cop will damage the fleeing car.  A worse situation is when the cops instigate a high speed chase, rather than follow from a distance, and the fleeing car has an accident.  in our society we have good guys, bad guys, and cops.