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Monday, January 3, 2011
Columbia University Professor Charged with Incest with His Daughter
Political science professor David Epstein, 46, was charged Thursday with having a sexual relationship with his daughter, 24.
He was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with one count of incest in the third degree at an arraignment hearing on Thursday. According to police, the relationship appears to have been consensual.
Epstein declined to comment when reached on his cell phone Thursday evening.
His wife, Sharyn O’Halloran, chair of the executive committee of the University Senate and a tenured professor, also declined to comment when reached by phone.
According to a University spokesman, Epstein is now on administrative leave and is no longer teaching students.
His defense attorney, Matthew Galluzzo, said the public should remember that Epstein has not yet been convicted.
“David is a respected member of the Columbia University and national academic communities, and we think he deserves privacy and respect while the investigators are investigating. We are asking people to remember that these allegations are nothing more than allegations,” he said.
Galluzzo said Epstein is no longer in custody and a trial date has not yet been set.
“We’re asking his friends in the Columbia community to support him and give him the benefit of the doubt,” he said.
An update on Epstein’s Facebook account says he is no longer listed as married.
Epstein and O’Halloran have co-authored numerous publications on American politics since meeting as postdoctoral students at Stanford University in the 1980s.
Epstein is currently teaching a lecture class called “Scope and Methods,” as well as a class titled “Research Topics and Game Theory.”
Raahi Sheth, CC ’11, an economics and political science major—who had an Epstein as a major adviser—said he was surprised to hear of the allegations, since Epstein has always been helpful.
“He’d always been fairly jovial,” he said. “He seemed to be a very nice guy.”
Couple's late son was secret sperm donor for lesbian aunt's partner
A 15-year old boy secretly donated sperm to his aunt's lesbian partner so they could have children, his parents have discovered. Charlie Lowden's parents Charles and Lynn are now coming to terms with the fact that the two children they considered to be their nephew and niece are actually their biological grandchildren. They only discovered the family secret last December after Charlie, 20, died following a routine hernia operation. After his death it emerged that several years previously he offered to donate sperm - unofficially - to his aunt Sarah Ashman, now 40, who is his mother's younger sister, and her partner Claire, now 30.
He knew they had wanted to have a baby, but Claire had suffered a miscarriage after becoming pregnant by another donor. Claire Ashman, a beautician from Choppington in Northumberland,England subsequently gave birth to a boy, Carlton, now five. Three years later they asked him to donate again, which he did, resulting in Sarah, who is now two. The lesbian couple agreed to keep Charlie's true identity as the father under wraps. However, his death forced his aunt to confess the situation to her sister.
Mrs Lowden, 52, said: "When our Charles died we were broken hearted. We thought we had nothing left of him. But there is. I just wish that we had known about all of this before he died so that Charlie could know we had accepted it." She continued: "When Charlie died, Sarah said I had no idea how special he had been to her – but now I do." Despite Carlton being "the spitting double" of his father, Mrs Lowden said she remained "quite oblivious" to the truth. Even though Charlie used to grab the boy, hold him up to the mirror and laugh, "Who’s the daddy? I’m the daddy", Mrs Lowden still did not realise what he was saying.
The couple had wanted to call the boy Charles, but he refused, so they chose Carlton as a cipher name instead. Sarah Ashman, who entered a civil partnership with Claire last year after 13 years together, said: "Charles was very special to me. He was great. When he died, it was our secret. But I had to tell Lynn. I couldn’t go through life not telling her because they are her grandchildren." Mrs Lowden described knowing Carlton was her grandson as "just like having our Charlie back. We’ve got the next best thing to him and it’s not a secret anymore," she said. "I’m absolutely delighted. He did it for a reason and he has left a legacy."
VIDEO: Base jumper escapes police by hurling himself off California’s Bixby Bridge
Steve Jester is filmed walking along the Bixby Bridge on California Highway One, 120 miles south of San Francisco, before dangling his parachute off the edge of the 85-metre(260 ft.) high structure.
A police patrol car arrives with an officer calmly walking over to the 46-year-old who is now standing on top of the bridge barrier.
The police officer politely and calmly asks the Jester, who appears to be under the influence of some sort of mind-altering substance, to get off the barrier but he resists and jumps.
As he leaps from the bridge, the Jester performs an acrobatic mid-air flip before gliding towards the beach and making a textbook landing.
The amazing clip has been viewed more than 160,000 times since it was uploaded to Youtube on December 13.
One viewer, going by the name bialicki, said: “Dude is totally awesome, and crazy! but as we all know it; takes crazy for people like us to do stuff like that!”
Jester was later charged with resisting a police officer, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, trespassing and possession of marijuana while driving.
JOKE: Matzoh Ball Soup
Israeli leader Ehud Olmert comes to Washington for meetings with George W. For the State Dinner, Laura Bush decides to bring in a special Kosher Chef and have a truly Jewish meal prepared in honor of their guest.
At the dinner that night, the first course is served and it is Matzoh Ball Soup. George W. looks at this and, after learning what it is called, he tells an aide that he can’t eat such a gross and strange-looking brew.
The aide says that Mr. Olmert will be insulted if he doesn’t at least taste it. Not wanting to cause any trouble (after all he ate a sheep’s eye in honor of his Arab guests), George W. gingerly lowers his spoon into the bowl and retrieves a piece of matzoh ball and some broth. He hesitates, swallows, and a grin appears on his face. He finds he really likes it, digs right in, and finishes the whole bowl.
“That was delicious,” George W. says to Olmert. “Do the Jews eat any other part of the matzoh, or just the balls?”
JOKE: the Zebra's Question
A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates.. As he enters, he asks St. Peter, 'I have a question that's haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?'
St. Peter said, 'That's a question only God can answer.'
So the zebra went off in search of God.
When he found Him, the zebra asked, 'God, please - I must know Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?'
God simply replied 'You are what you are.'
The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him, 'Well, did God straighten out your query for you?'
The zebra looked puzzled.. 'No sir, God simply said 'You are what you are.''
St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, 'Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes..'
The zebra asked St. Peter, 'How do you know that for certain?'
'Because,' said St. Peter, 'If you were black with white stripes, God would have said, 'You is what you is..'
WARNING: If you laugh at this, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rev Wright and Obama will be comin after yo white ass!!!
Suicide jumper saved by pile of trash bags
The snowstorm that mangled New York saved the life of one Manhattan man.
A troubled Hell's Kitchen resident jumped from his ninth-floor apartment window yesterday -- but survived because he landed atop a mountain of trash bags that had been piling up since the Dec. 26 blizzard, cops said.
"Maybe it was lucky we had this snow and they hadn't cleared the garbage," said Katharina Capatos, the aunt of the victim, Vangelis "Angelo" Kapatos.
It was about the only good news from a torturous postblizzard week marked by a lackluster response to the storm, which included a catastrophic breakdown of snow-plowing that kept ambulances from getting patients to hospitals.
Kapatos, 26, of 325 W. 45th St., jumped just after noon, landing on his back on garbage bags heaped high outside the 10-story building, authorities said.
He left no note and no one was home when he fell.
Kapatos was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition, and was in surgery hours later.
His aunt, who spells her last name differently, said he'd been released from Bellevue's psych ward last Wednesday after spending about a month there following a nervous breakdown.
"I think he's lonely. I think he has manic depression," Capatos said.
She also said a dispute with his landlord -- who she said wants to evict him from the $572-a-month, rent-stabilized unit that technically belongs to his parents -- had been weighing on her nephew.
His next eviction hearing in Housing Court had been set for tomorrow.
"I want to live, but what is going to happen to me?" Capatos, 64, recalled him asking her recently.
Kapatos' lawyer, Charles Small, received a frantic voicemail and e-mail from him Friday asking him to "reassure me that everything will be well."
"I told him that there's nothing to worry about, that his landlord has no case," Small said he responded by e-mail.
But "I have no idea" if he got the message, Small said.
Neighbors described Kapatos, who moved from Greece with his family when he was 3, as quiet and withdrawn.
"He kept to himself . . . always had his headphones on," said one building resident who asked not to be identified.
Kapatos' miraculous survival was the silver lining in a storm cloud of bad news stemming from the blizzard.
Drunk ship captain dies in pond fall
A Brittish ship's captain who was jailed for ploughing his 680-ton dredger into a historic pier when drunk has died after falling into a pond.
The body of Andrew Bartlett, 44, was found on a path by dog walkers. Some of his belongings were still in the water nearby. Police think he pulled himself out but then collapsed. It is believed Mr Bartlett had visited several pubs earlier in the night.
A neighbor, in Portsmouth, Hants, said: "His death is so sad, our hearts go out to his family - especially his two children. He was a good man and never had an unkind word for anyone."
Mr Bartlett caused $450,000 of damage to the 124-year-old Hythe Pier near Southampton docks when he went to sea after downing six pints in 2003. A judge sentenced him to eight months' jail.
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