LOS ANGELES – A shake-up in Katherine Jackson's legal team left her unrepresented during a hearing Thursday to clarify the power two attorneys have over her pop star son's estate, but it didn't stop the judge from issuing orders upholding those powers and adding new ones.
The new authority given the administrators by Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff included not having to seek permission from the judge to make routine decisions on various administrative matters involving the estate of Michael Jackson.
Earlier Thursday, Katherine Jackson replaced her team of probate lawyers with a new attorney, Adam Streisand.
Attorneys for the estate told Beckloff he would not appear because some of Katherine Jackson's former attorneys had not formally relinquished their role in the case.
Streisand said after the hearing he will need to review the case before commenting on Beckloff's ruling or his strategy for the case.
Katherine Jackson is one of the main beneficiaries of her son's estate and has already been named permanent guardian of his three children, who range in ages from 7 to 12.
Her former attorneys repeatedly talked about challenging the adequacy of the estate's administrators, attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain. But Beckloff noted none of those objections have been filed, and he was concerned about frequent delays posed by Katherine Jackson's former attorneys.
"The family came to a a decision that they felt they needed a different perspective and a fresh look at how this case was being approached," Streisand said Thursday. "I answer to nobody but Mrs. Jackson."
Streisand is no stranger to high-profile celebrity estate cases. He has represented clients in the probate cases of Anna Nicole Smith, Ray Charles and Marlon Brando.
Beckloff earlier this month granted Branca and McClain the authority to handle numerous creditors' claims and lawsuits facing the estate. But attorneys for the men and Katherine Jackson couldn't agree on the wording of Beckloff's order, so a hearing was called to clarify it.
The judge allowed the administrators a new set of powers that will allow them to handle routine transactions — such as striking business deals and making additional payments to Katherine Jackson and the children — provided they are uncontested.

TRENTON, N.J. – There are weighty issues in New Jersey's tight race for governor — the highest property taxes in the nation, for one thing. And then there are issues of weight.
Republican challenger Chris Christie's Henry VIII-like girth has become a front-and-center topic of discussion ever since Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine ran a commercial claiming that Christie "threw his weight around" to get out of traffic violations.
The ad, first aired last month, showed a clip of a rotund Christie, his extra pounds rolling beneath his shirt, lumbering out of the back seat of an SUV.
Corzine spokesman Sean Darcy insisted the governor "has no interest in Chris Christie's appearance."
But Corzine, a trim 62-year-old who has been running 5K races around the state to demonstrate his fitness, has not exactly tried to squelch use of the f-word. When asked by a newspaper whether he thought Christie was fat, Corzine touched his bare pate and responded, "Am I bald?"
There is little evidence the commercial is changing many voters' minds, but it has been a sensation online, getting more than 100,000 hits on YouTube — way more than any other ad in the race. And it has clearly changed the conversation on the campaign trail.
Christie, a 47-year-old former federal prosecutor, won't say what he weighs. But he acknowledged he has been struggling since college to lose weight. He said that he has dropped nearly 30 pounds since he started campaigning by working out with a trainer, and that he doesn't have any related health problems.
Of Corzine's commercial, Christie said: "He knows it's really unseemly and nobody really cares about this at the end of the day."
Unflattering photos in campaign ads are not uncommon. But it's rare for politicians to directly criticize their opponents' looks because that can make them appear mean-spirited, said Kerwin Swint, a political science professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the author of "Mudslingers: The 25 Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time."
Corzine, a former Wall Street CEO who is bankrolling his own campaign, has spent much of the race attacking his GOP challenger. He suggested Christie wants to make it harder for women to get mammograms. He criticized him for making a loan to one of his top assistants in the U.S. attorney's office, and for giving no-bid government contracts to lawyers he has worked with.
Christie has accused the governor of being responsible for the state's economic woes and failing to do anything about New Jersey's high taxes. He has also portrayed Corzine as out of touch and a mean campaigner.
For his part, independent candidate Chris Daggett has attacked Corzine as aloof and Christie as hot-tempered.
The "threw-his-weight-around" ad attracted hardly any public criticism during its two-week run, perhaps because New Jersey voters themselves are saying far worse things about the candidates online, with Christie sometimes referred to as "Fatso," and Corzine as "Corslime."
Vicky Cubberley, a crossing guard and dog-walker in Pennsauken who usually votes Democratic but is leaning toward the independent, called the ad "out of line," but added: "I don't like that Christie is attacking Corzine."
Patrick Hurley, a business consultant from Summit, said the ad made him so angry that he requested a Christie sign for his yard.
"The ad was completely, totally inappropriate," said Hurley, a Republican who voted for Corzine four years ago and is leaning toward Christie this time.

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Some of the first Internet-only commercial radio stations emerged in 1995. NetRadio "was one of the Internet's original Webcasters," eventually "streaming more than 100 channels including both music and spoken material." Nonetheless, NetRadio Corporation ceased operations in 2001.

Rhapsody, SomaFM, Live365, MTV, Pandora, RauteMusik.FM, SHOUTcast, and Digitally Imported were among the participants in the Day of Silence. Last.FM and Slacker did not participate, saying that they did not want to punish their listeners for the station's problems. Supporters of the increase in royalty rates, however, point to the fact that CBS recently purchased Last.FM for 280 million dollars, and if internet radio is to build businesses off of the product of recordings, the performers and owners of those recordings should receive fair compensation. They also point to the fact that the rates were flat from 1998 through 2005 (see above), without even being increased to reflect cost-of-living increases.

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