Finding Relief From Back Pain With Alexander Technique

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Luke Ford

NPR reports:

Research suggests an alternative therapy called Alexander Technique may be an effective way to treat back pain.

Rodriguez first tried massage, chiropractic, and powerful pain killers. But finding a remedy for back pain can be a lot like a guessing game.

He says it was only through Alexander Technique lessons that he trained his body to move in a way that eased his aching back. Alexander Technique is a series of posture lessons, devised by a 19th century Australian actor named F.M. Alexander who had troubles with chronic laryngitis whenever he performed.

“It’s a feeling of working with yourself from the inside out,” says Rodriguez. “If you know you’re twisting a certain way and using too much force, it’s easy enough to know, Let that go.”

In particular, Joe now holds himself differently during his solos because of Alexander Technique.

“I know that I can just sort of be on my sits bones, instead of a funny arch with my stomach pushed out or my back arched in some strange way,” says Rodriguez.

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The New York Times Starts Its Paywall

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Luke Ford

I’ve used the NYTimes.com as my home page since I got my first real computer in July 1997.

Today I switched my home page to DrudgeReport.com.

I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal online until 2002. Other than that, I can’t imagine paying for news online when there are so many free choices available.

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This Week’s Torah Portion Is Parashat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Luke Ford

I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.

This week’s we study Parashat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59).

Watch the videos.

* After a woman has a baby girl, she is tame (impure) for two weeks but only for one week after a baby boy. Are all male-female differences in the Torah anti-woman? Does the Torah look down on the birth of girls? Do Jews?

* Seven days after a boy so she can attend the bris.

* How long do married folks wait to get it on again after the wife gives birth? Does it ever feel tight again after she’s been all ripped up in there? Once a woman gives birth, does her husband get as much love?

* Clothing and houses can not get sick. Chapter 13 is not a medicinal chapter. This is ritual, not pathology. The scale disease is not leprosy, in fact it is no known skin disease.

* The Torah puts the community before the individual. Folks with scale disease are removed from the community until they’re cured.

* So are these cures for skin diseases? Do you think they might work today?

* The only bodily emissions that pollute are semen and menstrual blood. Making a poo is not impure.

* What are the best ways to avoid wet dreams? Is it true that every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good, every sperm is needed in your neighborhood? Let the pagans waste theirs on the dusty soil, God will make them pay for each sperm that can’t be found.

* The entire corpus of rituals is out in the open so the priest can never say, slip me some gold or sleep with me and then I’ll cleanse you. Spiritual seekers don’t have to sleep with me to get my awesome insights. All of the details of my life and thought are on my blog. Clergy who’ve done terrible things to kids have said to them, this is how you will come closer to God. It is a good line and it kills me I can’t use it (on adults).

* What are the conjugal obligations of Torah scholars such as ourselves to our future wives?

* It’s rare in the Torah that it says this is a law for all time. One example is with Yom Kippur. Perhaps many of the laws were just meant to be temporary. Perhaps the Reform are right?

Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, ching-chong ling-long!

Here is a list of questions that I hope you and Rabbs will think about answering on your show. Possibly this will not fit into your venue, which I completely understand. However, i would find your answers interesting, and I think other listeners would find your answers interesting as well.

1) If you had the money and could live any place in the world you wished to, where would you live? What kind of housing would you live in at this location?
2) If you could sleep with any actress in her prime who has been on the silver screen in the last 50 years, who would it be? (I think I would have to go with Grace Kelly.)
3) If you could work in any profession or role that exists, what kind of profession would it be?
4) a) Luke, if you had not come down with chronic fatigue syndrome, what do you think you would be doing by now?
b) Rabbs, when you chose between medication that would alleviate your condition and Judaism, what do you think would have happened had you chosen to alleviate your condition?
5) Does either one of you feel that there was a girl in your past who qualifies for “the one who got away?” .. the girl you look back on and feel she was the one you should have married and did not?
6) When you look into your past, do you ever see something that looms in your mind as a conspicuous mistake or misjudgment, and if you had not taken the road you did, your life would have been very different?
7) When you look back, is there some opportunity that you didn’t follow up on and now believe that it may have been your big chance that slipped through your fingers?
8) If you could change one major national policy in the US, what would it be, and what would you change it to?
9) If you could completely do away with and dismiss a personal characteristic that you find does not serve you and yet you cannot shake it, what would that characteristic be?
10) If there were a couple of Jewish thinkers of the last 50 years that you could have had conversations with and enjoyed being friends with and learned from, who would those thinkers be? Likewise, who would be two non-Jewish thinkers of the last 50 years that you that you could have had conversations with and enjoyed being friends with and learned from?

If you don’t wish to include the questions, then just kick them out. If for whatever reason some questions have to to do with things you don’t want to go into, find and dandy. These are the kinds of things I sometimes ask myself, and I imagine your viewer would be curious about your thoughts on these matters.

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The Rise Of The Muslim Brotherhood

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Luke Ford

From DennisPrager.com:

Friday, March 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110325 -01 They Never Stop
Prager H1: In Wisconsin, the public service unions, having lost the electoral and legislative battles, have turned to the courts. They are working to unseat a conservative Wisconsin judge. If they succeed, they may still win. The Left never stops. We can’t… Protests are raging in a very unlikely place – Syria. Could Assad, a thug who is the son of a thug, really be in trouble? One can hope… In Egypt, freedom-loving, Facebook/Twitter revolutionaries have been muscled out of by the Muslim Brotherhood. That didn’t take long. What do you say now, Mr. Friedman?

Friday, March 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110325 -02 Happiness Hour: Saying No to Yourself
Prager H2: To be happy, one has to learn to say “no” to yourself. This applies to virtually every part of life.

Friday, March 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110325 -03 Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: Husbands staying fit for their wives; The history of Blacks in the Democratic Party; U.S. involvement in humanitarian conflicts; and Dennis’s favorite book.

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Rabbi Sues for Bloggers’ Info; Modern Orthodox Oppose Evacuation Orders

Posted on March 24, 2011 by TheJewishChannel

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How To Spot The Orthodox From Birth

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Luke Ford

We’re talking FFBs (Frum From Birth).

Heshy Fried writes about how he spots FFBs in the San Francisco Bay Area:

They come into shul late and immediately daven mincha without a siddur or saying ashrei first.

They go through a whole shabbos lunch without touching their napkin, let alone placing it on their lap right after washing.

If entering shul during kedusha, they stop right in their tracks rather than walking to their seat

They mutter ya’ale vayavo out loud to remind everyone around them to say it

They jump for joy at the sight of moscato diasti in a blue bottle (especially in the Bay where everyone is into wine and it’s hard to eat a table with cruddy stuff)

They say something non-politically correct out loud (BT’s are hush-hush about stuff like eating non-organically grown rice)

They serve soda at their meals.

They call junk food – nosh!

They are talking during shul, learning during laining and always looking at whoever comes in. (they are bored)

They are comfortable enough to pace back forth in the back of the shul during davening (such a hocker thing to do)

They say things like “our minhag is”

They don’t have PhD’s (it seems like everyone else does)

They don’t eat vegetables – beyond potatoes (unless they are modern orthodox or something).

They serve cake at the main meal and call it kugel.

They never say chavorai when benching with a mezumen. (it’s very un-PC not to include the ladies you know)

They clop the bimah when something extra needs to be said (In some of the BT filled shuls no one does it)

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Should Dennis Prager Run For President?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Luke Ford

Dennis says he’s already written 150,000 of his next book (the case for America). “And I write tersely.”

The Chevy Volt has sold 928 cars and the Nissan Leaf 173. “More people have bought my entire Bible commentary series than have bought these cars. They should subsidize my Bible commentary series. Would do a lot more good for humanity than the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt.”

From DennisPrager.com:

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 01 Kinetic Military Action
Prager H1: We’re not waging war against Colonel Kaddaffi; we’re engaged in a “kinetic military action.”… Dennis talks to London-based columnist, Melanie Phillips. She’s now under investigation by UK police for calling the Palestinians who murdered a family in Israel “savages.”… Detroit is emptying out…

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 02 Corn Is the New DDT
Prager H2: The price of corn has skyrocketed because so much of the harvest goes to making biofuel. People in the Third World are going hungry so liberals can feel good about themselves… The Chevy Volt may be going the way of the Edsel… Dennis talks to Robert Royal, president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His new book is The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West… Dennis considers the upside down moral nature of the Left.

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 03 Words that Count
Prager H3: Frank Luntz, renown pollster and Fox News analyst, returns to the show to talk about his new book is Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary… Frank thinks Dennis should run for President.

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Rent-A-Friend

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Luke Ford

David Deutsch emails: “I had a great idea in shul today–you should rent yourself out as a “long-time Jewish friend” for celebrities who get in hot water after anti-semitic remarks. “According to long-time friend Luke Ford, Sheen is far from antisemitic–‘If Charlie’s an antisemite, he certainly did a good job of hiding it at at all our shabbos dinners together…””

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Fundraising Scandal

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Luke Ford

Report here.

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Beit Din Of Beverly Hills Award Vacated By Los Angeles Superior Court

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Luke Ford

On July 21, 2005, the Los Angeles Superior Court vacated the award of the Bet Din of Beverly Hills (the psak of R. Gavriel Cohen).

The dispute is within a family over the ownership of the synagogue Yad Avraham (12426 Burbank Blvd., Valley Village, CA 91607).

Around 2004, Rabbi David Addato went to the Bet Din of Beverly Hills and claimed the shul Yad Avraham was his. The Bet Din by a vote of two rabbis to one ruled against him.

The dissenting rabbi, Moshe Benzaquen, sided with David Addato and made a declaration that helped to cause the Los Angeles Superior Court to vacate the Bet Din of Beverly Hills ruling in July of 2005. R. David Addato’s side accused the Bet Din of Beverly Hills of corruption.

R. Gavriel Cohen tells me this accusation has no basis in fact and it is an old and tired accusation brought frequently against Battei Din (Jewish law courts) when they rule against you.

“We had no benefit from the ruling,” says R. Gavriel Cohen. “We were asked a question and we poskened (ruled).”

Rabbi David Addato declined to comment to me on the case.

It is rare that a dissenting Orthodox rabbi on a Beit Din will assist in taking a case to a secular court.

In a dispute such as this, each side gets to choose a dayan (rabbi judge) and then agree on a neutral third judge (dayan). When two of the three rabbis agree on a ruling, that is the psak (ruling) and normally, the dissenting rabbi does not even tell his side that he ruled for them and disagreed with the majority ruling. Normally the dissenting rabbi just says, “This is the psak.”

To then make a declaration for a secular court to vacate a bet din ruling is unusual.

I hear this July 2005 motion alleging corruption on the part of the Bet Din is a great read but I don’t have a copy of it and there is no electronic copy of the filings available online.

It’s not every day you hear about bet din awards vacated for allegations of corruption.

Now the case has a hearing on April 28 in LA Superior Court Glendale. Apparently the court in Glendale wants to make sure that the case goes to arbitration. There’s a motion to the court to appoint a neutral arbitrator.

The Israel Father’s Rights Advocacy Council (Gadi Pickholz) emails:

Your comment re corrupt or incompetent bet din is unfair and inaccurate.

Over 32% of rulings of the Bet Din in Israel are overturned on appeal (almost identical percentages to the secular courts). There is one tribunal in Jerusalem, now disbanded, in which they ruled all decisions in all cases over a certain period of time may be appealed and restarted, and the three dayanim involved banned from any further judicial roles.

This is in a statistical pool of more than 7 million citizens.

What occurs in the States is not a true bet din process, particularly the bizarre insistence on no right to appeal, generally a prerequisite demand. That is simply shtetl vestiges still at play in the 21 century.

Logic dictates that 30+% of the rulings are wrong– higher, as the dayanim in most cases are not professional jurists and have constant community and congregational conflicts of interest — the entire structure of the RCA Bet Din of America is invalid under both Halacha and Israeli civil law, in but one example.

The morass of the bet din system in the USA continues only because the population tolerates it, either out of ignorance or fear. But never confuse that with actual bet din and a proper judicial system.

Case Number: EC038554
YAD AVRAHAM VS. DAVID ADDATO, ET AL

Filing Date: 02/24/2004
Case Type: Quiet Title (General Jurisdiction)
Status: Dismissed – Binding Arbitration 02/25/2005

Future Hearings
04/28/2011 at 08:30 am in department NCGD at 600 East Broadway, Glendale, CA 91206
Post-Arbitration Status Conference

Documents Filed | Proceeding Information
Parties

ADDATO DAVID – Defendant and Cross-Complainant

ADDATO RUTH – Defendant

AVRAHAM YAD – Plaintiff and Cross-Defendant

LAW OFFICES OF LEON SMALL – Associated Counsel

LAW OFFICES OFJOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY – Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

N.P. FINANCIAL CORPORATION – Defendant

SCHREIBER & SCHREIBER INC. – Attorney for Plaintiff

SHEPPARD BRIAN J. – Mediator-Immediate Former

WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE CORPORATION – Defendant

Case Information | Party Information | Proceeding Information
Documents Filed (Filing dates listed in descending order)

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12/08/2004

01/05/2011 Miscellaneous-Other (STATUS CONFERENCE REPORT ON TRIAL IN JUDGE MATZ’S COURT )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

12/17/2009 Second Amended Complaint
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

12/08/2009 Reply Brief (RE: MOTION FOR COURT ORDER APPOINTING A NEURTRAL ARBITRATOR & ORDERING THE COMPLETION OF ARBITRATION )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

11/30/2009 Opposition (TO PLT’S MOTION FOR COURT ORDER APPOINTING A NEURTRAL ARBITRATOR DECL. OF JOSEPH Y AVRAHAMY )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

11/12/2009 Motion for an Order (APPOINTING A NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR ORDERING THE COMPLETION OF ARBITRATION )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

10/14/2009 Miscellaneous-Other (DEFENDANTS & CROSS-COMPLAINANTS’ REPLY TO PLAINTIFF’S STATEMENT AND DECLARATIONS RE: OSC RE: DISM. FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE ARBITRATN; DECLARATION OF RABBI DAVID RUE AND JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY IN SUPPORT)
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

10/14/2009 Objection (EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS RE: OSC RE: DISMISSAL FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE ARBITRATION )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

10/13/2009 Declaration (AND STATEMENT RE: OSC RE: DISMISSL FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE ARBITRATN )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/21/2006 Miscellaneous-Other (DEFENDANTS AND CROSS-COMPLAINANTS’ BRIEF-IN REPLY TO PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO EXPUNGE )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

07/17/2006 Opposition (TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO EXPUNGE LIS PENDENS; DECLARATIONS OF EDWIN C. SCHREIBER; KADURI PERETZ AND MOTI HARRARI IN SUPPORT OF THE OPPOSITION )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/17/2006 Objection (TO DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

06/29/2006 Notice of Motion (AND MOTION TO EXPUNGE NOTICE OF PENDING ACTION RECORDED BY PLAINTIFF ON MARCH 19, 2004; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT THEREOF; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY)
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

09/02/2005 Reply to Opposition (TO MOTION TO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD; DECLARATION OF MORDECHAI GAL )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

09/01/2005 Miscellaneous-Other (REPLY BRIEF RE: PETITION TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION AWARD AND FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT; )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

08/29/2005 Miscellaneous-Other (DEFENDANTS’ MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION AWARD )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

08/29/2005 Declaration (OF RABBI YAACOV SAFRANOVITZ )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

08/29/2005 Opposition (TO PETITION TO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

08/29/2005 Declaration (OF MORDECHAI HARARRI )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

08/29/2005 Request for Judicial Notice (IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO PETITION TO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD AND NOTICE OF LODGING OF TRANSCRIPT )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

08/11/2005 Declaration (SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF RABBI DAVID ADATTO, WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, IN FURTHER SUPPORT OF EX PARTE APPLICATION )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

08/10/2005 ExParte Application (TO PRHIBIT IMPLEMENTATION OF ARBITRATION AWARD PENDING RESOLUTION ON MOTION TO VACATE; CERTIFICATE OF NOTICE; MEMORANDUM OF LAW; DECLARATIONS OF RABBI DAVID ADATTO AND LEON SMALL IN)
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

08/06/2005 Miscellaneous-Other (EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS AND REQUEST TO STRIKE CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE DECLARATIONS OF JOSEPH AVRAHAMY; MORDECHAI GA; AND RABBI MOSHE BENZAQUEN FILED IN SUPPORT OF PETITION TO VACATE ARB.)
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/21/2005 Petition (TO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

07/21/2005 Notice (OF PETITION AND PETITION TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION AWARD AND FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT; DECLARATION OF EDWIN C. SCHREIBER IN SUPPORT THEREOF )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/21/2005 Petition (TO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD; MEMORANDUM OF LAW; DECLARATIONS OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY AND RABBI MOSHE BENZAQUEN IN SUPPORT THEREOF; )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

07/20/2005 Association of Counsel
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

01/04/2005 Notice
Filed by Clerk

12/13/2004 Reply to Opposition (TO MOTIONS TO COMPEL DISCOVERY; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

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TOP 12/08/2004

12/08/2004 Opposition (TO MOTIONS TO COMPEL RESPONSES TO INTERROGATORIES, REQUESTS FOR ADMISSIONS AND DOCUMENT REQUEST; DECLARATION OF EDWIN C. SCHREIBER )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

11/24/2004 Motion to Compel (RESPONSES TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY; REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

11/24/2004 Motion to Compel (RESPONSES TO FORM INTERROGATORIES; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY; REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

11/24/2004 Motion to Compel (RESPONSES TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORIES; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY; REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

11/24/2004 Motion to Compel (RESPONSES TO REQUEST FOR ADMISSIONS; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES; DECLARATION OF JOSEPH Y. AVRAHAMY; REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS; )
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

11/19/2004 Notice (OF TRIAL DATE, FSC AND MSC DATES )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

11/15/2004 Answer to Cross-Complaint (BY CROSS DEFENDANTS, YAD AVRAHAM, A CALIFORNIA NON-PROFIT CORPORATION AND MORDECHAI HARARRI )
Filed by Atty for Plaintiff and Cross-Deft

10/20/2004 Statement-Agreement (Partial) (FIRST )
Filed by Mediator

08/16/2004 Answer (OF DEFENDANTS, DAVID ADATTO AND RUTH ADATTO )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

08/16/2004 Cross-Compl fld- No Summons Issued
Filed by Atty for Defendant and Cross-Compl

07/27/2004 Notice-Mediation Hrg Date
Filed by Mediator

07/19/2004 Notice-Assignment-Mediator
Filed by ADR Clerk

07/19/2004 Second Amended Complaint (NO SUMMONS ISSUED )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/09/2004 Statement-Case Management
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

07/08/2004 Statement-Case Management
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

06/23/2004 Demurrer (TO COMPLAINT; POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

05/27/2004 Summons Filed
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

05/27/2004 First Amended Complaint (SUMMONS ISSUED )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

05/26/2004 Proof of Service (OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

04/29/2004 Reply Brief
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

04/26/2004 Opposition (TO DEFENDANT DAVID ADATTO’S DEMURRER )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

04/01/2004 Demurrer (TO COMPLAINT, POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

02/24/2004 Complaint Filed

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TOP 12/08/2004

Case Information | Party Information | Documents Filed
Proceedings Held (Proceeding dates listed in descending order)

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7/23/2004

01/10/2011 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference – Continued

11/29/2010 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference – Continued

10/18/2010 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference – Continued

08/03/2010 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference ((related to EC050431)) – Continued

04/28/2010 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference ((related to EC050431)) – Continued

04/06/2010 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Post-Arbitration Status Conference – Continued

01/08/2010 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Order to Show Cause (Re: Appointment of Arbitrator) – Continued

12/11/2009 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Order to Show Cause (RE: DISMISSAL, FOR FAILURE TOCOMPLETE BINDING ARBITRATION2. MOTON FOR COURT ORDER APPOINTINA NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR & ORDERINGTHE COMPELTION OF ARBIRATION) – Court makes Order

10/15/2009 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Order to Show Cause (Re: Dismissal, for failure tocomplete binding arbitration) – Continued

09/11/2009 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, David S. Milton, Presiding
Non-Appearance (Case Review) – Court makes Order

07/28/2006 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Motion (TO EXPUNGE NOTICE OF PENDINGACTION RECORDED BY PLAINTIFF ONMARCH 19, 2004;) – Denied

09/09/2005 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Civil Petition Hearing (TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION AWARD ANDFOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT; PETITIONTO VACATE ARBITRATION AWARD;) – Court makes Order

08/11/2005 at 09:00 am in Department NCGE, Laura A. Matz, Presiding
Exparte proceeding – Granted

08/10/2005 at 01:30 pm in Department NCGE, Laura A. Matz, Presiding
Exparte proceeding – Continued

03/07/2005 at 09:00 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Court Trial – Long Cause (MSC/FSC: 1-4-05ESTIMATE: 2 DAYSCRASH: 1-28-05) – Hearing prev. advncd and vacated

02/25/2005 at 08:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
CRASH Settlement Conference (MSC/FSC: 1-4-052 DAY COURT TRIAL: 3-7-05) – Arbitration – Binding

01/04/2005 at 08:30 am in Department NCGE, Laura A. Matz, Presiding
Mandatory Settlement Conference – Conf held/Not settled.Trial stands

01/04/2005 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Mandatory Settlement Conference (AND FINAL STATUS CONFERENCE2 DAY COURT TRIAL 1-18-05) – Transferred to Other Department

12/17/2004 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Motion to Compel (RESPONSES TO REQUEST FORPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS; MOTION TOCOMPEL RESPONSES TO REQUEST FORADMISSION; MOTION TO COMPELRESPONSES TO SPECIALINTERROGATORIES; MOTION TO COMPEL) – Court makes Order

11/10/2004 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Post-Mediation Status Conference (MEDIATION TO BE COMPLETED BYOCTOBER 31, 2004) – Trial and Conference Set

10/21/2004 at 10:00 am in Department ADRO, ADR Neutral, Presiding
Closed-ADR (OCTOBER 11, 2004- COURT HOLIDAYBRIAN SHEPPARD – MEDIATOR) – Agreement (Partial

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TOP 7/23/2004

07/23/2004 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Hearing on Demurrer (TO COMPLAINT) – Matter Placed Off Calendar

07/13/2004 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Conference-Case Management – Ordered to Mediation – $0-25,000

05/10/2004 at 08:30 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Order to Show Cause (RE: FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH TRIALCOURT DELAY REDUCTION ACT.) – Matter Placed Off Calendar

05/07/2004 at 09:45 am in Department NCGD, Charles W. Stoll, Presiding
Hearing on Demurrer (TO COMPLAINT) – Court makes Order

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