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McALESTER — A McAlester police officer caught on tape firing a Taser gun at a handcuffed woman at point blank range- was a victim been in more than twice the number of assault and battery cases than his fellow officers.
In a June 24 video, officer Taylor Sterling is seen firing the Taser at point blank range at a handcuffed Nakina Williams after she spit at him.
The investigation continues on the case, according to McAlester Police Chief Jim Lyles.
Lyles said the District 18 District Attorney is working with the Oklahoma State Bureau of investigation on the matter and he will share the information once it becomes available.
"I know the DA is having the OSBI look at it," Lyles said Friday.
According to court records, there were 112 cases involving assault and battery on a police/peace officer filed in Pittsburg County District Court from November 1, 2000, to July 15, 2012.
Of those, 98 cases involved 69 different officers, an average of 1.4 times during the reported time frame.
According to court records, Taylor has been involved in 14 cases. That's 10 times more than the average Pittsburg County Law enforcement officer.
According court documents, in a June 24th incident McAlester police officers Taylor and Roy Rogers arrested Williams for alleged public intoxication. She was taken by the officers to the booking desk at the Pittsburg County Criminal Justice Center.
After officers escorted Williams into the booking area, she engaged in a verbal exchange with officer Sterling as other officers stood by. She then appeared to spit at Taylor. That's when Taylor pulled out his taser gun and, at a point blank range, shots Williams in the left breast, according to court documents and video footage.
Williams was charged and pleaded guilty to felony assault on a police officer, spitting on an officer, and misdemeanor public intoxication.
However this isn't the first time officer Taylor has allegedly been assaulted, according to court records.
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Clemson's ACC Title Further Proof How Far Boston College Football Has Fallen
The Hokies lost big to Clemson again.
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The Hokies look for their fifth ACC title since joining the conference in 2004 Saturday against Clemson.
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---- — CEDAR RAPIDS — Going into Class 5A regionals Monday, Whitney Dostal was in the midst of what had already been an uber-successful season brimming with accomplishments. But at regionals, the junior linkster's season reached its apex, as Dostal posted the top individual round of 82.
"At this point, it's absolutely the highlight," Ottumwa girls golf coach Stephanie Mishler said about Dostal's regional performance. "She just played consistent from start to finish and handled trouble when she got into it really well."
Dostal's sterling outing coupled with a solid round from senior Darby Patritto, who tied for fourth with an 87, spurred the Bulldogs to a second place finish overall and a collective score of 362 strokes.
"Having two girls [Dostal and Patritto both finished in the top five at regionals last year] in the top five for the second year in a row speaks volume about the Ottumwa High Schools girls golf program," Mishler said
The Bulldogs finished only three strokes behind first place West Des Moines Valley, which finished with a score of 359 strokes. If a team places in the top two at regionals, then every golfer on that team qualifies.
Ottumwa's strong finish was buoyed by its upperclassmen. Aside from Dostal and Patritto, junior Abbie Budan also turned in a solid outing, as she shot a 90.
"It's really encouraging to have those upperclassmen who come through in key situations," Mishler said.
M.J. Kimin of Cedar Rapids Washington claimed runner-up status with an 83. Burlington finished well behind Ottumwa in third place with a score of 388 strokes.
Rounding things out for Ottumwa was Bailey Palmer, who shot a 103, Hannah Lien, who carded a 105 and Shea Collett, who finished with a 115.
The Bulldogs will compete at the Class 5A State Golf Meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 28-29 at the Lake Panorama Golf Course in Panora.
Class 5A Iowa Girls Golf Regionals
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Team scoring — 1. Dowling 359, 2. Ottumwa 362, 3. Burlington 388, 4. Iowa City West 404, T5. Cedar Rapids Prairie, Muscatine 406. 7. Marshalltown 411, 8. Cedar Rapids Washington 412, 9. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 415, 10. Cedar Rapids Jefferson 533.
Medalist — 1. Whitney Dostal (OTT) 82
Runner-up — M.J. Kimin (Cedar Rapids Washington) 83.
Ottumwa Individuals — 1. Whitney Dostal 82, T4. Darby Patritto 87, Abbie Budan 90, Bailey Palmer 103, Hannah Lien 105, Shea Collett 115.


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But The Daily Star's stern, imperious human resources director is one tough cookie, and there was no arguing with what she had just ordered me to do.
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Put on your best "garden party" attire and make a hat for Derby Day to be held Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m. at Bright Meadows Farm Vineyard and Winery located at 1181 Nathalie Road in Nathalie.
According to co-owner Shirley Archer, the idea for Derby Day came from a love she and her husband, Boyd, share for the atmosphere and the races held at the Kentucky Derby and springtime.
"I love the hats, the races and just the atmosphere. It's all just so exciting," said Archer.
Prizes will be presented to the male and female with the best Derby hat and garden party attire, she said, although they haven't decided exactly what those prizes will be at this time but probably will consist of wine baskets.
Souvenir glasses will be given to those attending for wine tastings, and five wineries will be onsite including Tomahawk Mill Vineyard and Winery from Chatham, San Soucy Vineyards of Brookneal, Brooks Mill Winery of Wirtz, Devault Family Vineyard of Concord, and of course, Bright Meadows Farm Vineyard and Winery. All wineries are members of the Southern Virginia Wine Trail.
Cost for wine tasting is $20, and cost for designated drivers is $5.
Food will be on site and provided by The Lamplighter Restaurant, and Archer said the restaurant will be creating a special dessert just for the event.
Jewelry and craft vendors also will be on site.
"The Lamplighter will be making a bourbon pecan dessert especially for the event, and it will be named The First Saturday in May. They usually serve these type of things at the derby in Kentucky," said Archer.
Hugh Vaughan who began his career in South Boston when he was only 14 years old will provide music. Vaughan primarily plays R&B and blues.
For those wishing to catch a glimpse of the Kentucky Derby, they can watch it live on the big screen TV in the tasting room.
"It's our first festival here, and we're really excited. It's part of our effort to bring the wineries home. We spend most of the spring and summer on the road, that's just how we roll," said Archer.
The Archer's hope to make Derby Day an annual event, and depending on the success of this year's event, they plan to donate half of next year's proceeds to a charity of their choice.
The event is a rain or shine event, and tickets can be purchased in advance from the Visitors Center, the Pack House and online at www.brightmeadowsfarm.com or at the winery at 1181 Nathalie Road, Nathalie.
"We want to bring it home. Halifax County is beautiful, and we'd like to share it," Archer concluded.


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Today's public service professionals address and solve the critical issues confronting contemporary society. Working in the government, nonprofit and private sectors, they are the stewards of our democratic way of life. They have the courage to make tough decisions regarding the allocation of resources while ensuring social equity. Public service professionals plan and implement innovative, efficient, and effective strategies affecting a broad range of constituencies ranging from the most vulnerable populations to those most affluent. They protect our natural resources, build our cities, and lead our communities.
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Qualcomm Achieves Significant Cost Savings and Improved Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Qualcomm is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. The firm provides many of the innovative solutions and breakthroughs that enable its global customers to drive the convergence of mobile communications and consumer electronics. The company's many digital wireless communications products and services have helped connect millions of people more closely to information, entertainment, and each other. Founded in San Diego, CA in 1985, Qualcomm is a Fortune 500 firm with more than 20,000 workers in nearly 172 locations worldwide. Qualcomm is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance and has been recognized by Fortune as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" and by ComputerWorld as one of the "100 Best Places to Work for in IT."
Qualcomm realized in the early 2000s that without virtualization, it would not be able to build IT capacity quickly enough to respond to its vast growth. Qualcomm also understood that virtualization would reduce the cost of its expansion, as it would cut the datacenter footprint required as well as cooling and heating costs.
Qualcomm had prior success with Red Hat as it used Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run a diverse set of applications and workloads, file-serving and database workloads, and customer-service applications--most of which were Java-based. In the first five years since deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Qualcomm experienced a 600 percent growth with its servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Qualcomm also had a large Windows population, and a substantial number of proprietary UNIX machines running Solaris. "We were especially interested in using virtualization for our remote sites, as it would be easy to deploy multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single piece of hardware," said Micheal Waltz, the lead engineer on the project, who worked in Qualcomm's UNIX/Linux Engineering Group and oversaw the provisioning and management of UNIX and Linux systems.
"This would allow us to cut costs and better control and operate virtual operating system instances, even for VMs located on the other side of the world." For the Linux-based applications and workloads, the UNIX/Linux Engineering Group was keen to deploy an open source-based virtualization platform due to both the cost saving advantages as well as the inherent advantages of deploying Linux virtual machines on a Linux-based hypervisor host. The group was also looking for ways to more efficiently and quickly respond to the requests from the development groups for new Linux servers.
Having already established a strong relationship with Red Hat due to its extensive use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the UNIX Engineering Group team decided to begin deploying physical servers running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Xen-based virtualization technology with Red Hat Cluster Suite. Although this allowed Qualcomm to create a standard virtualization platform for Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications, the combination was difficult to manage and was not meeting the full needs of the team.
Qualcomm started its evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with the first beta of the solution, beginning in July 2009. Instead of utilizing Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization utilizes the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology for the hypervisor virtualization host. It also features a centralized enterprise class management system to efficiently manage clusters of host servers.
By the time that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was formally released in November 2009, Qualcomm had completed its evaluation and testing and proceeded to move the product into production within a few weeks. The transition from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Xen to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization based on KVM was straightforward. Although initially deploying it on just eight physical servers, the enterprise found that it immediately gained traction and today has more than 40 physical machines in six clusters running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, powering more than 400 VMs and growing rapidly.
The virtualized workload profiles include: database, web content management and services, application stacks, monitoring, encryption, development, and production.
The six Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization clusters currently in service utilize the Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM hypervisor on each of the eight two-socket six-core hosts that are deployed within each cluster. Each host server is configured with 72GB of RAM with 2TB of shared disk (SAN and 10g NFS). The networking infrastructure is 10GB Ethernet and network bonding is used for redundancy and storage.
The first of the two Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization cluster workload profiles are heavy, Java-based develop and test workloads that are deployed at an average density of about 50 VMs per cluster. The second Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization cluster workload profile is the 'AutoLinux,' a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM self-service provisioning portal used by development groups. This workload profile is deployed at an average density of 400 VMs per Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization cluster.
AutoLinux is powered by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and includes an internally developed web front-end that allows a development engineer to deploy and renew Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based virtual servers. This self-provisioning portal has resulted in the systems group processing significantly fewer requests. The VM lifespan is limited by default (up to 90 days), but can be renewed for a longer duration if necessary. This enforced VM life-span management has resulted in minimal virtual server sprawl that could easily occur in self-provisioning environments. This project was initiated by Qualcomm, which later engaged Red Hat Consulting to help with migration to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization REST-API for scripting automation.
Cost savings
Qualcomm immediately began to reduce costs after deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. "Instead of having to deploy a large number of physical machines, we can get a large number of virtual machines on a single server and manage them from a single Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager console," said Waltz. "This gives us much better space utilization as well as savings on power and cooling. As a result, we get a significantly higher return on investment."
Additionally, the overall density available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables Qualcomm to save a significant amount of money. This is largely because most operating system licenses for VMs are available on a per-server basis. The higher number of VMs that can be supported on a host result in a lower per-VM license cost.
Qualcomm has also been able to reduce costs for the existing virtualization environment by moving all Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. By segregating its VMs so that Windows VM instances are only deployed on host servers with a Windows Datacenter license and Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM instances are deployed on host servers with an unlimited Red Hat Enterprise Linux license, the company gets the most out of its subscriptions and licenses for unlimited VMs. "We see a clear ROI from our use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, not only for the hardware costs, but also from the manpower it takes from spinning up a cluster and getting VMs deployed and managed," said Waltz.
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Additionally, because of the hardware abstraction made possible through the hypervisor, Qualcomm was not locked into continuing to purchase the same hardware year after year. "We can upgrade and easily migrate the virtual machines over to the new hardware at any point, improving performance, scalability, and reliability as new hardware becomes available," said Waltz.
Qualcomm was also able to achieve higher storage density with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. "In the past, a key bottleneck was the SAN storage," said Waltz. "Not just because of performance, but because it was so expensive. Our ability to support growth had always been limited because of this." Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has delivered an outstanding storage density with an average of 3,500 percent in storage overcommit. "And Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization achieved this much-higher storage density without sacrificing performance."
Moving to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has delivered significant enhancements, and performance has improved steadily over time. The average number of VMs per host is 4.8:1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Xen, and 5.8:1 for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization helps you squeeze as much as you possibly can out of a piece of hardware," said Waltz.
"For example, one customer was running a simulation on a single piece of hardware on a bare metal Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation," said Waltz. "He then put Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on it and ran it as a singlenode cluster. Using the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization KVM hypervisor, he was able to run four VMs on the same hardware. And by splitting up the simulation among the VMs, he actually saw better overall throughput and faster results than he had with a single operating system."
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Niagara Gazette — LOCKPORT — A move by a prominent local chef and restauranteur to withdraw his plea of guilty to the sexual abuse of a teenager has failed.
In a brief comment from the bench, accompanied by a written decision given to the lawyers in the case, Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas rejected the request from Filippo Inglima to back out of a deal he agreed to with Niagara County prosecutors because he claimed he did not understand that the conviction, along with his expected guilty plea in a federal drug conspiracy case, could lead to his deportation.
"You can see by the decision," Farkas said. "that I'm not granting your request. We'll move to sentencing."
Inglima will return to court Sept. 3 and could face up to a year in jail.
Defense attorney Andrew LoTempio had argued that both Farkas and a federal magistrate judge were "obligated to advise (Inglima) of the (deportation) consequences" of pleading guilty to the sex crime.
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Today I want to ride around in an El Camino and listen to 8 track tapes.Minneapolis area - 1997 K2500 regular cab long bed + 8.5' Western Unimount plow + modified transmission + 2nd battery + modified camper charge circuit + 1971 Cayo camper -and- 2004 4x4 Suburban 2500 8.1 + Maxbrake controller + 2nd battery + modified trailer charge circuit + Reese receiver, pulls 30' Airstream trailer
They did bring it back. It's called the HSV Maloo. HSV stands for Holden Special Vehicles and it's the performance division of GM Holden Ltd in Australia.
Here's the HSV Maloo R8:
Feel free to import one from Aussieland if you want one badly enough. You're also welcome to put an 8-track player in it if you insist on 8-tracks.
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I never much liked El Caminos ... but I'd definitely drive a Maloo.
I will even take the non HSV version. as long as it has a LS based engine under the bonnet lol. I always looked forward to my Australia port visits so I could drool over all the "forbidden fruit" we cant get here stateside. lol
Haha, unfortunately having been in a "real" El Camino the way us old folks remember them, that holden is butt ugly.....
My grandfather and uncle worked for GM in Michigan at Fisher body and I learned how to drive at 15 years old with a permit in 18 inches of snow in a "real" El Camino.
I learned allot really quick.... That holden looks more like a large version of that Isuzu or something that I cannot place the name of which I would not be caught dead in.
And for some odd reason, I don't think the engine in that Maloo is going to have the same grumble and power when idleing or pressing the gas as the big block carbed v8 did in a "real" El Camino...
There is a joke in the gaming community: "But can it play Crysis" or "But can it play Crysis 2?" (Crysis is a computer game that will put your computer to the test to play at the best quality settings).
So my next question here is, The "real" El Camino can carry a 4ft x 8ft sheet of plywood in its bed, Can the Maloo do the same?
An educated guess from the looks of it is "No" so it is basically a small show off car..... not much utility value at all.
Here is information on the Z Series Special Edition (They offer a 6.0L V8:
- SS 6.0 litre Generation IV Alloy V8 engine and 6-speed manual transmission
- Optional 6.0 litre Generation IV Alloy V8 engine with Active Fuel Management (AFM) and 6-speed automatic transmission
- Bio-ethanol compatibility+
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- 6 Airbags
- Touch-screen Holden-iQ System
- Dual-zone climate control
- Satellite Navigation with full colour mapping and live traffic updates
- Enhanced Bluetooth®
- USB/Auxiliary input for compatible iPod® and MP3 devices
- Rear view camera with Rear Park Assist
- Embroidered SS leather appointed sport seats
- Sports profile leather wrap steering wheel with illuminated controls
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So maybe it will be comparable to an old school EL Camino
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@nakranij, the HSV Maloo is a hopped up performance vehicle -- not made for work. The donor model from which it is derived is called the Commodore UTE. The donor can supposedly take full sheets of plywood -- something many of the modern stateside trucks can't do with their 5.5' long beds. In that context the Maloo is still comparable, by the way, since it's unfair to hold it to standards that 'country Cadillacs' with 5.5' beds can't meet.
But still, if you want one for work you buy the base, S, or SS model of the UTE. I seem to recall that only the SS UTE has a V8 in it; the others have a V6.
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I dated a girl that had an El Camino. Her father and her completely restored the body and interior. They dropped a 350 in it. That thing was quick. I would love to have one. I do not see very many around anymore. I guess that the salt got to them all.
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I know up where i live a friend of mine owns 2 El Caminos, one a 1969 the other a 1983. But the 83 just has the **** brown color that i just think should be a different color, with a 305 in it and true dual exhaust with 2 12 inch glass packs i think. Also that euro elcamino just does not look right. I think the only el caminos there are are the old american ones.1994 GMC Yukon, 2 door, Victory Red
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Police believe they have solved a number of recent thefts of copper pipes and condensers from air-conditioning units on the rooftops of commercial properties in Joplin with the arrest of a suspect over the weekend.
Lt. Darren Gallup of the Joplin Police Department said Samuel D. Shira, 41, of Joplin, was caught in the act of dismantling air conditioners on the roof of a business in the North Point Shopping Center between Seventh and Fourth streets off Range Line Road.
Gallup said an officer on patrol about 4 a.m. Saturday noticed a truck parked behind the shopping center that had been observed in the vicinity of a previous theft. Shira was stopped returning to the truck a short time later. He is accused of dismantling rooftop units belonging to Office Max, Party City and Ross Dress for Less.
The Jasper County prosecutor's office has filed single felony counts of theft and property damage against Shira. Other charges may be brought as the investigation into his alleged involvement in a spate of recent thefts of piping and condensers from air-conditioning units continues, police said.
Shira allegedly admitted to four similar thefts in recent months from KODE-TV's old station at 1928 W. Junge Blvd., from Hyspeco at 2011 W. Fourth St. and from AT&T's maintenance garage at 1012 W. Fourth St. But the extent of the thefts may not end there, police said.
"We have up to 19 we think he may be responsible for," Gallup said. "But those seven we know for sure."
He said the suspect has been cutting pipes and removing condensers from the units because of their copper content and then selling the copper at various metal recycling businesses in the Joplin area. The thefts the suspect has acknowledged date back as far as Sept. 17 and entail estimated property loss and damage in excess of $235,000, he said.
"The victims will have to replace those units," Gallup said. "They cost $10,000 to $15,000 apiece, some up to $20,000."
SAMUEL SHIRA remained in custody Tuesday at the Joplin City Jail, charged with stealing copper from air-conditioning units on the roofs of commercial properties in the city. His bond is set at $10,000.


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It's possible if a developer gets its way.
Atlanta Land Group is interested in coaxing residents along Barton Way and Blackmon Drive to sell their land to make way for new commercial development, according to a letter acquired by the Medlock Area Neighborhood Association.
The developers met with residents from those streets at Scott Boulevard Baptist Church, which will be part of the proposed sale, according to the association's second post about the development meeting.
From MANA's post on the development:
Most of the questions revolved around how likely this was to actually happen. There was definitely a mix of reactions from "This is about my home, not just money" to "It is all about money." I did not notice any real negativity towards the idea of this deal happening, only concern that homeowners can remain whole and skepticism that this will be successful. A few homeowners at the meeting have been through this before, and expressed concern over the inevitable conflicts such a deal, successful or not, brings to the neighborhood.
Read the full post for more details, and expect forthcoming coverage from Patch.
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It's an amazing thing, but it's an effort by the company to help customers in areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, said Lowe's spokeswoman Jaclyn Pardini.
"Food is a critical need. We wanted people who have suffered through the hurricane to have a good holiday dinner," Pardini said.
The Lowe's giveaway translates into 22,000 meals - which will feed up to 136,000 people - they'll be handing out, free of charge. Each meal includes a fresh roasted turkey or ham, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet corn and rolls. Dessert is also included: Table Talk Pies of Worcester, Mass., donated more than 43,000 pies to be included in meals.
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| October 23, 2002
DALLAS (SMU) -- The Meadows Symphony Orchestra at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, led by conductor Paul Phillips, will present a musical "Tour of the World" at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in Caruth Auditorium of the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus. Parking is available at Hillcrest and Binkley and in the parking garage beneath the Meadows Museum. Tickets are $12 adults, $9 seniors and $6 SMU students/faculty/staff. For ticket information, call 214-768-2787.
The tour begins in Austria with Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner" KV 385. Written in Vienna, the work helped establish that city as one of the leading music capitals of Europe. The next piece is Questings (Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra) by American composer and SMU faculty member Simon Sargon, with guest soloist Greg Hustis, principal horn with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The second half of the concert features Trittico Botticelliano by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. Closing the concert will be Dragon and Phoenix from the Heaven Earth Mankind Symphony by Chinese composer Tan Dun, who wrote the score to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The Meadows Symphony Orchestra is comprised of gifted students from many parts of the United States and a number of countries around the world. The orchestra includes students in undergraduate, graduate and artist certificate programs in the Division of Music at the Meadows School. Many of the performers are active as international soloists and are prizewinners at international music competitions.
Paul Phillips is professor of music, chair of the department of conducting and ensembles, and music director of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra at the Meadows School. He formerly served as assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and as music director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Phillips earned both a master's and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and studied conducting with James Rives-Jones, Erich Leinsdorf and others. He has accompanied such well-known soloists as Itzhak Perlman and James Galway, and has recorded for Novisse, Grenadilla and Centaur Records.
The 2002-2003 season sponsor of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra is The Dallas Morning News. The Meadows School of the Arts Division of Music is also sponsored by WRR 101.1 FM.


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Poor little Sally has had a very difficult life but she has found a wonderful screened & approved forever home up in the Newport, VT area near the Canadian border. Sally is a medium sized red-tick coonhound (English Coonhound) weighing in at about 40 pounds. Here is a link to her petfinder page:
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This course is an introduction to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. Although some attention is devoted to the historical moment in which he produced his plays, the primary focus is on Shakespeare's language and theater. Filmed versions of the plays will be used to supplement textual analysis.
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The Chitauri are Loki's Army in The Avengers. They are very loosely based on the extraterrestrial race of the same name from Mark Millar's The Ultimates.
The Avengers
The Chitauri are a powerful, technologically-advanced race of extraterrestrial cyborg-like creatures, and they serve Thanos. They were trapped for eons in the dead space between dimensions. The Chitauri have waited, planning and building for the day their ruler would lead them back into the world of light and life. When the Mad Titan allies himself with the exiled Asgardian Loki Laufeyson, the Chitauri are granted to him as his personal army to conquer Earth and gain the Tesseract.
Once gained the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D., Loki is able to open a portal to the Chitauri's world, thanks to the help of a brainwashed Erik Selvig. The Chitauri immediately start to wreak havoc and destruction on New York, destroying buildings and attacking civilians in the streets. They quickly established superiority in the city before any significant military force can respond. Soon after their arrival, The Avengers appear, and a major battle begins.
Not expecting such a resistance, the Chitauri are initially overwhelmed, but soon their numbers increase so much from the portal that the superheroes find some difficulties in containing them. Captain America takes command of the Avengers as well as the local police forces, and thanks to his command, the Avengers' powers are properly used as well as displayed while they face the menace. Hawkeye positions himself on top of a building and takes out several Chitauri flyers, Thor bottlenecks the Chitauri's advance using lightning storms, the Hulk smashes Levithians, Iron Man focuses on establishing general air superiority, and Captain America and Black Widow fight off numerous Chitauri infantry on the bridge. SWAT teams and patrol officers also fall back and hold Thirty Ninth Street against a Chitauri platoon, stalling the Chitauri advance and allowing civilians to escape.
Eventually, the World Security Council decides to blow up Manhattan with a tactical nuclear weapon in order to contain the Chitauri's invasion at the cost of the civilians' lives as collateral damage there, much to Nick Fury's chargin. Despite Fury's attempts to stop it, a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. harrier under orders from the Security Council launches off the carrier and fires a small nuclear missile at the city. Iron Man chooses to bravely intercept the missile and dispose of it. Stark manages to intercept the missile and throw it through the portal, where it blows up Chitauri's fleet, including their Mother Ship, without sacrificing Manhattan to do so. This evidently cuts the link off from the aliens' collective minds and kills all the Chitauri in the immediate vicinity on the other side of the portal. Later, news channels confirm the invasion as genuinely extraterrrestrial.
Iron Man 3
The Chitauri were referred to as aliens and glimpsed in Tony's nightmare.
A Chitauri helmet was sezied by S.H.I.E.L.D. after the deaths of three people including two firefighters that were involved in helping at the Battle of New York. The cause of the anomalies is discovered to be an alien virus found on the helmet salvaged from the Battle of New York that turns the unwitting victims into electrostatic bombs.
Character traits
The Chitauri are a warrior race, a hybrid between organic beings and machines. They're controlled by a Mother Ship which never shows up on the battlefield, instead preferring to stay in the Chitauri's own dimension, far away from the conflict. Other than being minions to Loki, the Chitauri are never really elaborated upon, but it is known that they have superhuman physical abilities, as they are seen several times climbing up buildings. However, they still seem to be no more durable than an average human, and are seen being dispatched by a variety of weapons including bullets, blunt objects, and explosives. Notably, they seem to like getting into close combat when possible.
It is not known to what degree the Chitauri are sentient, and to what degree they are just bio-mechanical drones of Thanos. Their cybernetic enhancements, as well as the fact that they're vitally linked to the mother ship, seems to imply that they are little more than slaves. One is seen fumbling with a grenade and getting scared when it goes off in his face, meaning that they are able to react to and perceive danger like sentient beings. When the first Leviathan to come through the wormhole is destroyed by The Avengers, the Chitauri react with, what seems like, rage. They also appear to scream in pain when they die, and bleed when hurt. They are as frail as humans, much like their comic book counterparts.
It's heavily implied by The Other that the Chitauri's military intelligence gravely underestimated the human forces, even discounting the presence of The Avengers.
Weaponry and Vehicles
The service rifle of the Chitauri is a long, thin weapon with a bayonet on the end. These weapons seem to be plasma based and are fired semi-automatically. The weapon is simple to operate, and humans (namely Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton) have been seen using it without much trouble. Chitauri infantry also appear to be equipped with armor, but not in vital spots. This leaves them vulnerable to bullets, arrows, and other ranged weaponry. They also employ an arm cannon similar to a grenade launcher (dubbed Item 47 by S.H.I.E.L.D.)
The main aircraft employed by the Chitauri is a small, flying chariot-like vehicle crewed by a single Chitauri warrior hooked up to the craft via a neural interface, with room for three passengers. On the front of the vehicle is a plasma cannon operated by the driver. These cannons have modest fire power, capable of destroying cars in single shots injuring the Hulk, and doing noticeable damage to Iron Man. While these craft are fairly fast, it is shown that human aircraft (such as the one piloted by Clint Barton) can take out several of them easily. They also move slowly enough to be tagged by Clint Barton using his signature bow.
Their troop transports take the form of the Leviathans, very large serpent-like creatures. These Leviathans can carry hundreds of Chitauri infantry, and are quite durable. However, they do not have any weaponry aside from simply ramming their target, and are shown to be vulnerable to large amounts of explosives, electricity, or kinetic force.
- Thanos - Master
- The Other - Leader/ Ally
- Loki Laufeyson - Field Commander
- Leviathan - Vessels
- The Avengers - Enemies
- S.H.I.E.L.D. - Enemies
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (3 films)
- The Avengers
- Item 47 (Mentioned only)
- Iron Man 3 (Mentioned only)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (1 TV series)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Behind the scenes
- Joss Whedon revealed that he chose to include the Chitauri over Skrulls or Kree because this particular race didn't have any wide background story and they could be used even for a small part.
- Though the Chitauri share the same name as the extraterrestrials from Mark Millar's The Ultimates, there is little resemblance between the two versions. In the comic book, the Chitauri are never shown in their true form, leaving the reader to use their imagination as to what these aliens look like. Throughout The Avengers, these Chitauri appear as tall, grey-skinned reptilian creatures. The Chitauri tended to eat humans to take their form; these savage tendencies are not included in the film. The Chitauri of the Ultimate Comics universe are shape-shifters who have been manipulating mankind for centuries, including putting the Nazi Party in power of Germany in the 1930s. Captain America encountered these aliens several times in World War II, including the mission which left him frozen in the ocean, and then fought them with the Ultimates in 2002. In the comics, they are led by a member of their own species taking the form of a Nazi Commandant named Herr Kleiser, and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe they are led by Loki Laufeyson, gifted to him by The Other and Thanos.
- Like their comic book incarnations, they are devoted to subjugating humanity and are a scientifically advanced culture.
- A new iteration of the Chitauri, inspired by their portrayal in the movie, will appear in the mainstream Earth-616 continuity as enemies of the new Nova.