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McCowan guilty: Jurors say he killed ex-girlfriend Amanda Bach
By James D. Wolf Jr. Post-Tribune correspondent February 26, 2013 1:26PM
Dustin McCowan is escorted out of the Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso after a jury found him guilty in the death of his 19 year-old ex-girlfriend Amanda Bach late Tuesday Feb. 27, 2013. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
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VALPARAISO — When the jury read it's verdict of guilty about 11 p.m. Tuesday, 20-year-old Dustin McCowan held his head down, while relatives of his victim held their linked hands up together.
Bill Bach, the father of the murder victim, 19-year-old daughter Amanda Bach, held up a photo of his daughter as the jury returned its verdict.
Sandra Bach, the victim's mother, carried the photo over her head as Bach's family left before the McCowan family, all under the watchful eyes of 12 Porter County Sheriff's Police Officers, Sheriff David Lain, a Porter County corrections officer and a Porter County Court Security officer.
McCowan himself kept his head down.
His father, Joseph Elliot McCowan, simply said, "I've got nothing to say to you."
McCowan faces 45 to 65 years in prison when Porter Superior Judge William Alexa sentences him at 2 p.m. March 28.
He's convicted of shooting Bach in the neck early on Sept. 16, 2011, after she visited him at his Union Township home on Sept. 15.
Bach, of Portage, was his ex-girlfriend, and he'd been upset about a pregnancy scare after they broke up, and she had begun dating his best friend.
In a news conference after the verdict, Sandra Bach said of the jury's decision, "It doesn't bring her back, but it is justice."
Bill Bach said the jury asked a lot of insightful questions that the prosecution couldn't — 95 by Alexa's count — and that helped.
"We never lost faith in them," he said.
Bill and Sandra Bach, who sat through the entire trial, said they kept strength in the face of brutal photos and evidence by keeping their daughter in mind.
"She was brutally murdered," Bill Bach said.
"By a coward," Sandra Bach finished.
They both said they hope McCowan gets the maximum sentence allowed by law.
Defense attorneys John Vouga and Nick Barnes plan to appeal.
"We will continue to fight for Dustin McCowan as long as we can," said Barnes, who was shocked by the jury's decision.
Vouga said, "I'm not sure how many grounds there are for correction of errors, but they're numerous."
The defense attorneys tried to get the trial moved out of county or get a jury from outside Porter County due to publicity.
"The length of deliberation showed they thought about this. We knew we had an uphill battle with a Porter County jury," Vouga said.
Barnes said, "We're obviously very disappointed with the verdict. We don't think the prosecution was able to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt."
The prosecution built its case on circumstantial evidence, Barnes said in his closing arguments Tuesday.
"They don't know where Amanda was killed," he told the jury.
Although the prosecution showed Bach was killed with a .38 caliber bullet, they never found the gun.
McCowan's father had a .38 Smith and Wesson he kept under the couch, and it turned up missing sometime between the Monday before the shooting and Sept. 19, 2011.
Barnes said the investigators and prosecution wouldn't have known about the missing gun if Elliot McCowan hadn't told them about it, and the prosecution never investigated the 14 people who had access to it.
Deputy Prosecutor Cheryl Polarek, in her closing arguments to the jury, said McCowan's father and stepmother told police about the missing gun only while they were in the Porter County Sheriff's Department being questioned.
Both sides agreed that McCowan was the last to see Bach, who visited his home.
McCowan told police she was there from 11 p.m. Sept. 15 to 1:30 a.m. Sept. 16, and a neighbor, Linda Phillips, said she heard voices outside her window for about 20 minutes after 1 a.m.
She said she heard a gentle male voice repeating, "Amanda, get up," and a female stating, "I can't believe this is happening."
When Bach's father knocked on doors for information, Phillips asked if her name was "Amanda," and the father went white, Polarek said.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Matt Frost said, "You can't hallucinate the name of a girl in your head."
Cell phone records became a point of contention.
The prosecution said records showed McCowan to the north, in Wheeler, where police found Bach's abandoned car early Sept. 16, while the defense's expert said phone plots on a map triangulated on the McCowan household.
The defense also argued through the trial that the prosecution lacked any DNA, fingerprint or hair evidence that directly connected McCowan to Bach's body.
Frost said that even when scientists tested the DNA off McCowan's shirt and cellphone, they could only state "he is a potential major contributor."
"Real life is not like a 'C.S.I.' program," Frost said. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Another continuing defense point was that the prosecution did not collect DNA or fingerprints from other possible suspects, even to exclude possible suspects.
Polarek said McCowan was the only likely suspect, but the defense in the first week of the trial tried to cast doubt on the Wheeler man who found Bach's body off the Canadian National tracks, 300 feet from McCowan's home.
"The case for Nick Prochno murdering Amanda Bach is stronger than the one for Dustin McCowan," Barnes said in his closing arguments.
Barnes referred to witnesses — including McCowan's mother, Jamie Tome — who saw an SUV with round lights similar to Prochno's Nissan Xterra in various places, including near the tracks where Bachs' body was found.
He also said Prochno led police away from a vacant house and to the body where no one else was looking, and it took 10 minutes.
However, Frost said the prosecution could accuse Prochno — whose fiancée suggested he help out — without evidence, and it was "character assassination, innuendo and, frankly, bullcrap."
The prosecution checked his alibi, the police were done searching and officers were walking along the tracks with him and suggested he check the path that led to Bach, Frost said.


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tallman1 Posts: 1,874As Elroy says, it is important to change the timing belt when it is due. It is just a regular maintenance item. You are talking a major repair bill if it breaks. Most folks also change the water pump at the same time since everything is already apart and it doesn't add that much more to the cost.
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milo57 Posts: 16Within the past two weeks I've test driven 3 different 4 cylinder '08 cars: an Accord Coupe, an Altima Coupe, and a TSX with 5 speed auto.
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fjpthree Posts: 2Recently traded my 03 Accord for the new TSX. The Accord was a V6 with 150,000 miles on it. (Received $8000 on a trade.) There TSX is just a blast to drive and the difference in power is only noticable when you want to act crazy. Co-worker has the new 08 Accord (4 cylinder). She drove my TSX and stated the TSX "felt" faster.
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gyusher Posts: 67. I wonder how the heavier '09 TSX would fare against the Accord 4 cylinder?
I can't answer that but I can speak to the 4 cyl Accord.
I bought an 08 EX-L 4 cyl coupe 3 weeks ago now. With right at 1K on the clock I can tell you she doesn't even feel like the same car. Much more fun to drive now after she has 'loosened' up a bit.
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bvdj84 Posts: 1,721Yep, I totally agree with you on a car being broken- in, its almost like night and day difference.
But imagine driving a 2000 sunfire, 4cyl, it certainly was slow, you really had to push down on it to move, we cannot complain about ours, it feels like a race car compared to that, I drove my friends, and was suprised on how slow it really was, I could only imagine being on the interstate with luggage or people in the car, it could possibly struggle to stay with the rest. In fact, I think it really would.
So newer 4cyl, are so much more powerful, not all, but most are now.
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pencil lead is constantly breaking
I read the reviews before I bought this but based on the incredibly high quality Levenger has on it's products, I trusted that this issue was resolved. The pencil is virtually useless. No matter what lead I try, it is constantly breaking while I write. I have never had this issue with other pencils. Levenger - how can you help me with this?
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Poor design - lead constantly breaking
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May 7, 2012
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You will see my earlier review wherin I criticized the newer version of the pencil for the constant beaking of the lead because of the elimination of a "support sleeve" that the early pencils had. Levenger, true to their response, they contacted me immediately to see how to resolve my problem. They sent me a brand new pencil with some tip modifications that seem to have completely resolved the "lead breakage" problem. I am completely satisfied with the product and especially pleased with their attitude and commitment to excellence. By the way, my replacement came with my name engraved just like the original...good work folks!
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The American Legion Post 165, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4800, Mississippi Delta Purple Heart Chapter 806, and the Patriot Guard will present a Veteran's Day Ceremony at the Bolivar County Courthouse in Cleveland at 11 a.m. on Monday, November 11, 2013. The public is urged to attend.
Old Glory
No one ever pays attention –
If they did, perhaps they'd laugh
When that funny old custodian
Runs the banner up the staff.
Standing stiffly to attention isn't
easy anymore –
He's become rather feeble, and his
aging back is sore.
But at daybreak, every morning, he
is there to raise the flag, and The
Stars and Stripes to him was always
more than just a rag.
He is proud to fly the colors, every time
he has the chance,
For he wasn't always old; and once
he went to war in France.
Then his son, who joined the Navy
back in 1944,
Died a mile off Okinawa trying hard
to get ashore.
And the other son – the youngest –
never voted- never will –
Perished halfway to the summit of a
North Korean hill.
Then the grandson he had raised to
be a strong and honest man,
Underwent a siege at Khe Sanh
where he fell, but never ran.
Priceless treasures need defending,
and at times a man must fight;
And that weary old custodian finds
his flag a precious sight.
He will never be forgetting all the
sacrifice and pain,
And he knows that were he able he
would go enlist again.
There's a might sense of pride that
none around him ever see,
When his shaking hands have hauled
Old Glory up there in the breeze.
Vernon R. Harris
Veteran, USMC


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Conducted by the ITF Technical Committee:
Grand Masters Marano, Bos and Lan, all 9th degree black belts.
The ITF International Instructors Course is a two day training seminar open to red belts and above. The new format means 4th dans and above receive an extra morning training with the Grand Masters - not to be missed. This is not just for instructors - it is a training course covering all aspects of ITF Taekwon-Do valuable for all members red belt and above, all ages.
The venue for the IIC is the huge AMI Netball Centre in Auckland. This venue provides a huge floor space that can be divided for smaller groups, plus a full time canteen facility and plenty of parking. A list of accommodation options near the venue will be published here soon.
Overseas ITF members are most welcome to attend the IIC. There are no longer dan gradings held at IICs in New Zealand below 7th dan level.
Organising Committee: Master Paul McPhail, Master Mahesh Bhana, Mrs Natasha Iotua


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Fields | A new place to play in Little Haiti
Miami | A cultural renaissance in Miami's La Petite Haiti (Little Haiti), the most populous Haitian neighborhood outside the Caribbean nation, continues as a community complex and soccer park conceived 10 years ago come to fruition.
A series of soccer games on 3 May will conclude two days of inaugural events, including an art exhibition at the 15-acre site at Northeast Second Avenue and 59th Street (see Laura Morales, "Soccer Park, Cultural Center Near Opening," Miami Herald, Feb 4). The Little Haiti Soccer Park offers a full-size pitch with covered grandstand, practice field and floodlights to begin compensating for the lack of open space in the zone of shops and restaurants that has been a focus for the Haitian diaspora since the late 1950s.
Architect, caricaturist and painter Alfred Bendiner's (1899–1964) main sporting interests were gridiron and baseball, according to niece Julie Pool. Yet Bendiner "also enjoyed the circus and any joyous event which came his way … as long as he had a pen or pencil and something to draw on whether it be paper, a linen napkin, a paper bag or whatever." He also used a personalized memo pad, shown above, for a series of undated watercolors of Haitian footballers. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection. Published with permission of the Alfred Bendiner Foundation.)
Bounded roughly by Interstate 95 and the Florida East Coast Railway and stretching more than 30 blocks along Northeast Second Avenue north of downtown, the neighborhood's population is estimated at 33,000. Close to a quarter-million Haitians live in South Florida, the legacy of emigration that dates to the rule of François Duvalier and that continued, beginning in 1972, with first arrival of refugees by boat. As many as 100,000 made this harrowing passage without documentation.
Little Haiti, in a former agricultural area once known as Lemon City, offers a French and kreyòl blend—the city's undisputed destination for gros savon (soap) and beurre chaud (bread) as well as slices of Haitian cultural life such as the bookstore Libreri Mapou, the workshops of artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and a 24-hour Haitian-owned radio station, Radio Méga 1020 AM.
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, the Haitian national team, given an ongoing rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, set up permanent base in the area. They practiced in a South Florida park.
The island nation's cultural ties to football are fierce, a narrative encompassing the deeds of Joe Gaetjens, who scored for the United States versus England at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, and the late Emmanuel Sanon, who scored twice when Haiti competed in 1974 as the first World Cup qualifier from the Caribbean. Haitians greeted the Brazilian national team as liberators when the Seleção bested the home side 6–0 in a Port-au-Prince friendly in 2004. Brazilian troops have taken a leading role in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) that began that year.
The feeling in Little Haiti is that the park is long overdue and will struggle to accommodate pent-up demand. In fact, the facility that opens in May has been criticized for insufficient seating. Jan Mapou, owner of Libreri Mapou and co-chair of the cultural center committee, said community leaders have pushed for greater capacity. "When there is a game" featuring a local Haitian team, Mapou says, "Haitians come out by the thousands. Having a field for 750 is a joke."
Seating has been added along an adjacent practice field to boost that number, but Mapou says that planners again may have underestimated the passion for Haiti's national game. In addition to games in the Haitian amateur league and school competitions, the field could host sides visiting from Haiti itself.
One episode of the FIFA-commissioned series Football's Hidden Story focuses on the development of Haiti's U17 side.
The limited scope of the grandstand reflects the gradual retrenchment that has seen the project shrink from what would have been, at 60 acres, the most expensive taxpayer-funded park project in Miami history. The reduction has resulted from years of wrangling among politicians, businesses and activists that tested how much the city would push to claim patchwork parcels dotted with warehouses, trailers parks and empty lots. Business owners, in particular, objected to acquisition of land that would have forced them to relocate.
But grassroots leaders felt Little Haiti had been fighting long for political credibility, to little effect. "The overwhelming feeling in Little Haiti is that they want a park and they want it now," Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele Jr. told the Miami Herald in 2002. "I will be damned if we will let Haitians be treated like manure in the city of Miami."
The scaled-back park concept still has not satisfied some businesses. At the most recent community meeting on the project, a sportswear manufacturer whose warehouse abuts the park worried that the site would become a "dog, vagrant and prostitute haven" and asked for a dedicated police mini-station.
Urban anthropologist David Brown, who leads cultural tours of Miami neighborhoods and has written a Little Haiti history, said the soccer park would serve an immediate purpose as a place of socialization. "There hasn't been a gathering spot," he says. "It doesn't matter if it's over soccer or over culture. Both are important social gathering places for Haitian people. They will gather and they will socialize."
One of the community pioneers whom Brown profiles in his work is Claire Nassar, the "mother" of Little Haiti who arrived in 1965. At that time, she recalls postal workers asking if the "Haiti" on her envelopes should be spelled "Tahiti," indicating locals' lack of familiarity with Caribbean geography and the newcomers in their midst.
Often entering the American news stream in a negative light—as the result of political instability and violence in the homeland or via the offensive appellation of earlier times, "boat people"—Haitians have succeeded in making a cultural imprint through such positive exemplars. Watching over part of the new park, near the Charles Harrison Pawley–designed Caribbean Marketplace that recalls the market buildings of Port-au-Prince, will be a replica of the iconic Albert Mangones statue depicting Neg Mawon, Creole for "Black Maroon." The original, commissioned in recognition of the 13-year slave rebellion against France that in 1804 constituted the world's first free black republic, gleams in Port-au-Prince—a striking figure, legs apart, machete in right hand, ankle chain broken, blowing heavenward on a conch shell to call an assembly.
The park plan also encompasses a theater, exhibition space and—another holdover from Haitian life—three dominoes shelters.
But, through the resizing and seemingly never-ending negotiations, the soccer field has remained a centerpiece.
"Just as in the United States you have football, we in Haiti have soccer," says Mapou. "Everywhere, in every street, there are people playing soccer. It is our national game."
- A side visiting from Haiti will inaugurate the new soccer park at 1 p.m. on May 3, when it will be christened Manno Sanon Park, according to Marleine Bastien, a community leader and executive director of Haitian Women of Miami. The adjoining community center likely will bear the name of former city commissioner Teele, integral to pushing for the facility before his suicide in 2005 (Michael Vasquez, "Teele's Name Likely to Grace Center," Miami Herald, Apr 25). He "always identified himself with with the people on the bottom," said City Commissioner Angel Gonzalez at a meeting on Apr 24. The park opening corresponds with the city's Haitian Roots Parade and Festival, part of Haitian Heritage Month.
- Sanon, known as "Manno," died from pancreatic cancer Feb 21 in Orlando. He was 56. His goals at the 1974 World Cup—including one past Italian legend Dino Zoff, momentarily to give Haiti a 1–0 lead in the 46th minute—lent pride to expatriate Haitians. "When Manno scored that goal, there was an eruption of joy," Herntz Phanord, who watched the game at a New York cinema, told the Miami Herald. Sanon's strike ended Zoff's record run of 1,143 minutes without conceding. Sanon also scored against Argentina in Haiti's final group-stage match.


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The agreement returns KOA to Boulder Highway, where the company opened the first Las Vegas KOA in 1971. KOA most recently operated the campground adjacent to the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino, which is being developed for an alternate use.
"KOA offers the best in outdoor hospitality, and we are interested in providing campers a premier place to stay in Las Vegas," said KOA President Pat Hittmeier. "Sam's Town is a beautiful facility with top-tier services run by a great group of people. The partnership is a winning combination."
With nearly 500 spaces across two parks, Las Vegas KOA at Sam's Town will offer both 30 and 50-amp full-hook-up sites, spacious pull-through sites, and extended stay opportunities. The park is fully landscaped, offering shade trees, grass and designated pet areas. Campground amenities include two pools with hot tubs, laundry and shower facilities, cable and WiFi, and a communal BBQ area.
Opened in 1979, Sam's Town is one of the largest and most established gaming resorts on the Boulder Strip. In addition to a 133,000-square-foot casino, the property offers a wide array of unique amenities, including:
- Award-winning restaurants like Billy Bob's Steakhouse
- Willy and Jose's Cantina and the Firelight Buffet
- Live entertainment nightly at Roxy's Lounge
- 18-screen movie theater
- 56-lane bowling center
- Shepler's Western Store
- Mystic Falls Park, home of the Sunset Stampede Laser Light Show
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It is truly remarkable how much economic news is out there. You can get reports on just about anything these days.
The problem is that most people don't know what to do with this information. It seems the news is coming in so fast and in such large amounts, we are having trouble sorting through it and putting it in perspective.
Take last week's announcement that inflation fell to 1.7 percent (2.3 percent if you include food and fuel). The average American might look at that and think, "Whew, my paycheck should go a lot further this week than last."
I, unfortunately, have a different view. When I combine that news with the fact that 1) the government's most recent bailout, "The Twist," is ending in June, 2) The Fed is meeting this week and 3) jobless claims have moved back to 386,000, I begin to brace myself for another round of potential bailouts.
I believe this would be round four or five, but who's counting?
Maybe I should be happy that we are going to be rescued again. Maybe this means the stock market could go back up, and all would be better.
Unfortunately, I don't feel that way. When I look at what has happened to our citizens' wealth during the last five years, I get a feeling that maybe this is not working.
According to the Federal Reserve, our median net worth (the difference between our assets and liabilities), dropped 39 percent from 2007 to 2010. Our income did not fare much better. According to the Fed's survey of consumer finance during that same period, our median value of real (inflation adjusted) family income before taxes fell 7.7 percent.
All of this occurred during an unprecedented campaign of spending by our government designed to fix our economy and help us get back on our feet.
So I am not excited about falling inflation; in fact, it scares me. I don't think our debt load can be pushed much further. I think that if we were better informed, our government might not be so trigger-happy with the checkbook next time. And maybe we could start reducing this debt instead of adding to it.
Joe Wirbick is president of Lancaster financial services firm Sequinox and specializes in retirement planning and distribution. This allows him to concentrate on developing strategies that help address the unique issues that confront retirees and those approaching retirement.


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First came the beloved and long-running originals, Fred's and its trusty sidekick, The Tasting Room. Next was the new Fred's, which was pretty good but didn't last long. Now Libby's Café + Bar holds pride of place in the block opposite Morton's Market in Sarasota's Southside Village, and the good times have returned.
The tables dressed in white linens are back on the sidewalk, the breeze of conversation wafts from back-to-back bars, and chef Fran Casciato, late of Miami, is cooking from a menu considerably more ambitious than either of its predecessors. Service is warm and attentive, as is the greeting at the door. All the ingredients are in place. All Libby's needs now is staying power.
The menu is thoughtfully divided into small plates both hot and cold and larger main events, giving you a choice: Stop in on the way home for a salad and an uptown burger with Parmesan fries or gather your tribe and settle in for multiple courses. We opted for the latter and were happy we did.
Once seated at our table by the open French doors, where we were more or less instantly offered aperitifs and our glasses were filled with refreshing cucumber-scented "house water," we commenced to exclaim. Oh, wow, deviled eggs with caviar! Yellowfin tartare! Organic tomato bisque with eggplant! Truffled wild mushroom torte! And we hadn't even gotten off the starters page yet.
We settled down as we sipped our habitual bubbles, moved on to the main events page and then made
some decisions.
I chose to start with those deviled eggs ($10), which were as delicious as good deviled eggs always are. But these were lifted to the realm of inspiration by the addition of sturgeon caviar farmed by the folks at our own Mote Marine. The salty bite of the tiny fish eggs combined with the familiar mellow yolks of hen eggs yielded a serious winner.
Colette started with a salad ($8) that brought together the flavors of butter lettuce worthy of the name, equally buttery Asian pears, lightly candied walnuts and a vinaigrette starring sherried figs. Outstanding. But the note that put this salad over the top was blue cheese beignets fresh from the fryer, a wonderful twist on the sweet doughnut holes that are a must-have at New Orleans' Café du Monde.
The full-blown dinner menu begins with "Simply Grilled" fish, fowl and meats, with or without sauces ranging from truffle aioli to country gravy for an additional $4. More ambitious preps of seafood, steaks and chops follow.
Colette's choice, a mind-boggling 14-ounce Niman Ranch pork T-bone ($25), was the clear winner in this round. The pork steak itself was nothing less than perfect: moist, sweet and bursting with flavor. The caramelized ginger-fig glaze complemented the meat beautifully, but the vegetable-fried rice knocked our socks off. Forget any fried rice you've ever tasted in a Chinese restaurant. This stuff was so intensely fragrant and lively that it rivaled the delectable pork for top billing.
My choice, a roasted swordfish "rollatini" ($26), was the only thing we tasted that may need rethinking. The dish sounded like a dream come true: fresh fish in an eggplant wrapper (thus, rollatini) under a roasted tomato vinaigrette and topped with fried artichoke hearts. Individually, most of the ingredients were first rate. But the flavors and textures fought with one another; only the artichoke fritti emerged unscathed. Then there was that eggplant wrapper, which proved to be a thin, overcooked strip around the edge of the fish that added nothing to the whole. Subtracting that would improve the dish considerably.
But I quibble. I also ate everything on the plate. Let's move on to desserts, which were, to say the least, delightful. Somehow, we resisted the mile-high chocolate cake, which the menu thoughtfully warns is "bigger than your head!" I think we'll share that one next time.
This time, Colette went for a chocolate and peanut butter semifreddo ($8), in which the almost frozen custard was topped with hot fudge and candied peanuts spiked with just enough salt. The custard itself was as light as anyone might hope, but pregnant with vivid flavors.
"This," Colette declared, "is what happens when a Reese's cup goes to heaven."
I chose a wonder, too, mine a warm banana zeppole ($9). The chef again showed himself to be master of the fine art of frying dough. In this case, the light, puffy result was rich with ripe banana, hot from the oil and served with three dipping sauces: hot fudge, caramel apple and strawberry balsamic. Pretty darn heavenly, too.
We decided against espresso, owing to the hour, and instead savored the last of our Rex Hill 2006 pinot noir from Oregon's sublime Willamette Valley ($37). This big, silky beauty is but one among dozens of stellar choices at every price point on a wine list obviously chosen with great care by sommelier James Hazeldine.
Libby's Café + Bar
1917 S. Osprey Ave., Sarasota
Reservations recommended: (941) 487-7300
Hours: lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, dinner from 5 p.m. daily
Cards: AmEx, V, MC, DISC
Handicapped accessible: yes
Parking: on street
Cottage Cuisine
Easy but elegant.
On 13th Street West near 13th Avenue West in Bradenton's still nascent Village of the Arts, look for a brightly painted cottage under a big shade tree and a hand-lettered sign at the curb: EAT HERE. Heed the sign. You have found Ortygia, a hidden treasure.
Chef Gaetano Cannata, who presides over both his kitchen and his cozy dining rooms with cheerful enthusiasm and obvious passion for his culinary roots, might be repairing a chair leg when you pop in for an early lunch. As soon as you walk through the door, however, there will be nothing on his mind but feeding you extremely well at a good price.
We've visited twice recently and were charmed both times. The little house and its herb-scented patio feel instantly like home, provided home comes with a chef whose lively memory overflows with recipes learned from his Sicilian mother and father. This is not fancy cooking, exactly, but it sure is elegant.
Once at lunch and once at dinner we shared full portions of Cannata's housemade patés: a nearly black, very rich mushroom paté alive with capers, olives and a hint of Marsala, and a beautiful fresh chicken paté sweetened with basil and pistachios ($7.50 each, or choose the combo for $7.95). We were dead set on paté for starters this time, but we were sorely tempted, too, by the pepperoni ripiene, which stuffs sweet red bell peppers with provolone and Parmigiano, tomatoes, pine nuts and black currants, and the melanzana farcito, in which whole baby eggplants are stuffed with pecorino, mozzarella and basil before being simmered in tomatoes, basil and garlic. Next time, we promised ourselves, without fail.
At dinner, Colette ordered the big production number called timballo di penne ($9.75), because she'd always wanted to taste it and had never before found it on a menu. Ortygia fills the pasta dome that gives the dish its name with meatballs, eggs, mozzarella, provolone, tomato sauce and roasted peppers between pasta layers moist with the Italian white sauce called balsamella and Parmigiano. Whew! You wouldn't think an extravaganza like that could be light, but it was.
The chef persuaded me to sample a daily special he didn't bother to name for me. "It's tuna," he said, "very good." Turns out he is given to understatement. The dish ($16.95), combining chunks of fresh firm fish with peppers, onions and artichoke hearts in a fragrant sauce relying heavily on balsamic vinegar, was celestial. I said so. "My father's recipe," Cannato replied with a very broad smile.
As you can imagine, we were well satisfied, but science demanded we sample at least one dessert. We decided on tiramisu ($4.75), hoping the caffeine in it would wake us up for the drive home. It did, but that's not the half of it. This was tiramisu to wake the gods. Real Italian ladyfingers were liberally soaked in espresso and brandy, teamed with cool zabaglione and triple-cream mascarpone, and the whole delightful confection garnished with shaved dark chocolate. Oh, my. It was so good we ordered a dense slab of chocolate paté on a bed of raspberry chocolate sauce ($4.50) to go and left before we could succumb to further temptation. 'Round midnight, however, you should have heard the exclamations of delight emanating from two chairs at our kitchen table.
1418 13th St. W., Bradenton
Reservations: (941) 741-8646
Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
Cards: V, MC, Discover
Handicapped accessible: yes
Parking: off street
An editor, writer and online publisher, John Bancroft has reviewed restaurants, books, movies and music for many magazines, Web sites and newspapers, most recently for the St. Petersburg Times.


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Cinema | A soccer player's escape from Argentina … into philosophy
Claudio Tamburrini, as portrayed by Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna in Crónica de una fuga (Chronicle of an Escape), makes what fellow prisoners within Mansión Seré see as an extraordinary request. The Almagro goalkeeper who became one of the "disappeared" in Nov 1977 asks for kitchenware with which to eat his meals. Moments later, spoons rattle as they are tossed onto the floor—one small achievement in a bid for human dignity.
Tamburrini, now a philosophy professor at Stockholm University, becomes animated when addressing this point within extra features contained on the Crónica DVD, released in North America on Aug 19. Does his character at this moment merely display an obsessive-compulsive nature? Tamburrini asks fellow prisoner Guillermo Fernández—the architect of their escape—nearly 30 years later. Or, appropriate to the goalkeeper's unique perspective on football and life, does he make a more fundamental existential demand? "I am a human being … give me my cutlery."
Landscape painter Derek Eland in "At the Match" captures the zeal possessing Argentina supporters at the start of the 1978 World Cup final on 25 Jun 1978, in Estadio Monumental. Dutch player Johnny Rep described the atmosphere at the start of the game as kokend (boiling). (© Derek Eland)
Tamburrini's philosophical approach to the physical horrors of 120 days of imprisonment expresses one side of what he calls in an interview a "schizophrenic life" (audio below). Another side, about which he is also passionate, involves football. His father trained him "in a joyful manner" to play. He has maintained, by all appearances, this joy for the sport, persisting at age 53 within a Swedish amateur league; in interviews on the DVD, he demonstrates juggling skills, wears a Boca jersey and remains coy about his support for CA Vélez, although he confesses to staying up to 2 a.m. to watch the matches via satellite.
He titled his memoir Pase libre: La fuga de la Mansión Seré (Free Transfer: The Escape from Mansión Seré), recalling his primary anxiety on being abducted by Argentine military authorities on 23 Nov 1977 that his club would cut him loose. Indeed, Almagro, a second-division side, did relinquish ties with Tamburrini by making him available for "free transfer," akin to purging him from the roster.
Other indignities followed for Tamburrini's family and for other families of los desaparecidos, of whom there were some 30,000, the estimate offered by human rights groups. The military dictatorship governed Argentina between 1976 and 1983, initiating the so-called dirty war. Neighbors and friends shunned Tamburrini's mother after his disappearance, a memory that has remained prominent.
Interview with Tamburrini, from Stockholm, Feb 28. (53:13)
He has encountered officials of Almagro on return visits to Argentina, as well as those who refused to speak with his mother. Again, Tamburrini's views transcend personal experience to integrate the broader context of the period. "I don't even know, actually, to be honest, if what they did was wrong," says Tamburrini, "because what they did was provoked, of course, by fear. And who are we to judge? I don't want to judge. … Why not talk about old times and look forward? That is what life is about." Tellingly, Tamburrini does not criticize the Argentine military in his book; rather, he crafts what he calls a "Sartre-like novel" of existential terror.
On 23 Mar 1978, Tamburrini escaped Mansión Seré, a decrepit detention and torture center in the Morón neighborhood of Buenos Aires, along with Fernández, Daniel Rusomano and Carlos García. The portrayal of the detainees in Tamburrini's book attracted interest from Uruguayan filmmaker Adrián Caetano. In his director's statement, written in 2006 when the film first was released, he says that the essence of the production became the idea of four prisoners, kept in handcuffs, unclothed, in an empty room at what had once been an ornate, French-style country mansion abseiling from the window during a fierce nighttime thunderstorm. "Four young men naked in all senses," Caetano emphasizes, "under the rain, hurt, bruised, scared, running without knowing what would be the end of their imprisonment."
In Caetano's formulation, the prisoners opted for life—a transcendent choice—while Tamburrini says the decision partially reflected a "suicidal attitude" especially on his part and that of the group's leader, Fernández. The other two members of the contingent had to be coerced into leaving. In the film, as Fernández and Tamburrini improvise the liberating escape cord from bed linens, one of the detainees mutters, "This is wrong … you have no right." The inhibitions demonstrate the prison keepers' effectiveness at making inmates accept an unacceptable situation, such that one feels guilt even for contemplating departure.
Tamburrini's character shows such doubts. Given an opportunity to assault one of the guards, as they are absorbed watching an Argentina football match on television in the house kitchen, Tamburrini hesitates. On this occasion, he opts for the relative predictability of house life, before fully internalizing the truth of the saying from one of his fellows that Tamburrini and the others, in the eyes of Argentine society, were dead. "We're disappearing," the inmate tells Tamburrini. "You're disappearing." The solution becomes a decision for unpredictability, a positive choice for escape such that "at the very least you can be sure that your ordeal will soon be over, for instance if the escape does not succeed, if it fails."
To his overseers in Mansión Seré, known in shorthand as "Attila the Hun," or Attila, Tamburrini assumed the identity of a university student, a suspected leftist and footballer. Along with others who lost their outside names within the military's clutch, Tamburrini became "arquero" or "Almagro"; collectively, the imprisoned often were addressed as "girls" or "faggots." Given Caetano's commitment to cinematic truth, the actors appear naked much of the time, bearing the gashes and welts that recall a crucified Christ. From starting out as an abductee with no knowledge of the disappeared or the extent of the military's ambitions of purging Peronists, Tamburrini gained the insight that his existence was under threat. His own dream of becoming a European-based footballer was all but over:
His football dreams would play out in a setting different from what he had envisioned. Naturally, after torture, confinement and months of hiding following escape, resuming football training was not realistic. One of the Attila guards had promised that, after Tamburrini's release, the two would reunite to play football. The guard, Tamburrini observes wryly on supplementary DVD footage, never called.I was very naive, even politically. … I didn't realize the magnitude of the horror that I was going to confront during my captivity. During the first week or the first two or three days I still expected to be released. … I was abducted on a Thursday. Some of the guards told me, "Unfortunately, you have to wait until Monday …" to be released. So I waited very hopefully for Monday to come and then to realize it wasn't that easy. That helped me become a very experienced prisoner, because I was not an experienced prisoner during the first week. I was rather naive. I was thinking about life outside that detention center. That's not good, because you have to realize when you are in that kind of situation that the only life you've got now is the life between those four walls.
Tamburrini's period of hiding, before accepting political asylum in Sweden, was only interrupted during the mass public celebrations during the World Cup finals in Jun 1978. "Did I do the right thing?" Tamburrini asks himself in a 2006 reflection, "The Right to Celebrate." He reveled with thousands following a 6–0 semifinal victory over Peru, a match that Argentina needed to win by at least three goals in order to advance to the final against the Netherlands.
Military leaders seized on the World Cup—"the greatest mass cultural manifestation of the modern era," in Tamburrini's words—to show their legitimacy to a world audience. Junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla welcomed former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the VIP viewing area. Other survivors from among the disappeared recall in documentaries such as Mundial '78, la historia paralela (World Cup 1978: The Parallel Story) that they were forced to ride with captors through the mobs celebrating the 3–1 win over Holland.
Graciela Daleo, in a BBC interview, remembers being escorted in a green Peugeot 504. With others, she was taken to a restaurant, where they sang victory songs with "[t]he guy who had tortured you with electric drills." The perception of such parallel worlds contributes to Daleo's sense of onrushing madness, with the World Cup zeal adding stress:
I don't know, the football thing becomes the dominating thing even in the concentration camp. The torturer who had tortured you when you were kidnapped, if he supported the same club as you did, this terribly mad ghostly bond would be established. Whenever I hear that song by [Joan Manuel] Serrat, "Fiesta," where he sings "the villain and the rich man shake hands, the differences don't matter" … I don't know. I've got an anger that has less to do with a sociological analysis and is more a gut reaction: I hate World Cups because they dissolve the class struggle. In a way, during the World Cup it seems we are all the same. We are not all the same. (175–76)
To recognize the 30th anniversary of Argentina's victory at the 1978 World Cup finals, several human rights groups, including Madres de Plaza de Mayo, staged "La otra final"—for "life and human rights"—at River Plate stadium.
Tamburrini offers another formulation, while respecting the memory of the period that has now been enshrined in projects such as Instituto Espacio para la Memoria, or the National Memory Archives. The observation that footballers are poor narrators of their experience does not apply to him.
He asserts that sports, especially the World Cup and Olympic Games, must be retained by those with good intentions and not surrendered—as nations do via politically motivated boycotts—to the mechanisms of the enemy. Therefore, he marched after the victory over Peru, viewing the Argentina side as a manifestation of the better instincts of a country rife with contradiction. "Who are the intellectuals to tell the poor and disadvantaged in society when to cheer and when to celebrate?" he argues. His feeling, recalled in his essay on celebration many years later, was that citizens of Buenos Aires were reclaiming the freedom of assembly:
On the way to the final, Argentinians gradually felt a newly born courage and regained control over the streets of the country, as they hadn't been able to do since the military coup in 1976. That night, celebrating with all the football fans on the streets, I revived the feeling I had at the moment of my escape, that the regime was far from being unassailable, and that I could leave my hideout, go abroad and announce what I had witnessed to the international community. How many lives were saved when the masses were back on the streets again? Or by a newspaper announcement with the name of [César Luis] Menotti, perhaps the most famous football coach at that moment?
Tamburrini's views are echoed by footballers of the period, such as Leopoldo Luque, who said at 30th-anniversary commemorations of the World Cup triumph that "we were simply players convened to play in the World Cup. I was simply a footballer who wanted to fulfill a dream, to become champions with the national selection." Similarly, Diego Maradona in his autobiography rejects any linkage between the dictatorship and Argentina's subsequent victory at the 1979 World Youth Cup: "Videla and his cronies, who made thirty thousand people disappear, don't deserve anything, least of all to tarnish the memory of the success of a group of kids. … [I]n those days Videla was in charge. And if there is a picture of me shaking hands with him all I can say is: I didn't have a choice."
Football, as with everything else, can be good or bad, Tamburrini says. It is a potentially powerful political weapon yet limited in its capacity to transform the world. Since the 1978 World Cup, he writes, torture endures as a state-sponsored policy, authorized even by the United States.
Having realized his vocation as a philosopher of sport and penal systems through unpredictable mingling of tragedy and a seized opportunity, Tamburrini testifies to the grey areas when making connections between politics and sport. "It hasn't limited possibilities," he says of his encounter with suffering. "It's given me more possibilities."
During the week of Aug 25, survivors of Mansión Seré began presenting in federal court their case against retired Air Force officers charged with overseeing the system of detention and torture in the Morón jurisdiction ("Dos sobrevivientes de la Mansión Seré acusaron a la Fuerza Aérea," Página 12, Aug 26). Argentine military authorities administered more than 300 such clandestine prisons.
Graciela Daleo, "Disappeared," trans. Marcela Mora y Araujo, in Perfect Pitch, vol. 3: Men and Women, ed. Simon Kuper and Marcela Mora y Araujo (London: Headline, 1998), 168–77; Alfonso Daniels, "Argentina's Dirty War: The Museum of Horrors," Daily Telegraph, 17 May 08; Eddie de Oliveira, " 'All I Knew about Sweden Was Olof Palme,' " The Local: Sweden's News in English, 17 Jan 07; Miguel Frías, "Recuerdos de una época de terror," Clarín, 17 Dec 05; James N. Green, "Facing the Past: Archives, Torturers, and the Legacies of Dictatorship," Hemisphere: A Magazine of the Americas (Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University) 15 (summer 2005): 23–25; Diego Armando Maradona, Maradona: The Autobiography of Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star, with Daniel Arcucci and Ernesto Cherquis Bialo, trans. Marcela Mora y Araujo (2000; New York: Skyhorse, 2007); Claudio Tamburrini, "The Right to Celebrate," idrottsforum.org, 6 Jun 06.


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Overall, I enjoyed this article in the June 2009 issue of 'Illinois Issues' and I would be interested in reading a follow-up article. Longitudinal trend analysis has long been a topic of interest amongst the institutions of higher education, especially in the field of institutional research/institutional studies (see the web site: www.airweb.org ). The public universities in Illinois have long had information systems that linked faculty appointment and financial data to course enrollment, course enrollment to student demographics and faculty appointment data to their assigned activities; the existence of these information systems has been mandated by the state of Illinois' Unit Cost Study, a performance monitoring tool of the Illinois Board of Higher Education ( www.ibhe.state.il.us ). The Unit Cost Study is used to answer the annual question of how efficient the public universities have been in educating the students, that is, what is the cost of instruction per semester credit hour.
As for me, I am a retired programmer/analyst who served SSU/UIS for many long years; I often provided software support for the institutional studies office at SSU/UIS.


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This publication from 2009, titled Pacific Perspectives, looks at crises and perspectives in the Pacific region.
This e-book brings together chapters that explore various aspects of trade and financial integration in Asia and the Pacific, the reasons for the lack of it, and potential benefits of strengthening such integration. The book focuses on the exploration of challenges and opportunities that exist in intraregional trade in goods, integration in services trade, availability of trade finance as well as inflows of portfolio investments.
Policymakers in the region are more aware than ever of the economic, social, health and environmental benefits of adequate sanitation. Various efforts have been made to raise the political profile of sanitation, through a United Nations General Assembly resolution (No. 61/192) that declared 2008the International Year of Sanitation, regional high-level sanitation conferences (SACOSAN and EASAN) and close monitoring of the related Millennium Development Goal targets.
In September 1970, Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman ignited a serious controversy with his New York Times article "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits." His main argument is summarised as follows: "there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game …" While one might agree with him that a primary purpose of business is about making a profit without violation of laws and regulations, this argument is unlikely to remai
Family structure, functions and values are experiencing unprecedented changes in Asia and the Pacific. However, there is often an absence of a family perspective in social policymaking in general and in social protection policymaking in particular.
Asia-Pacific Population Journal Volume 23 was released in 2008.
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The primary objective of the APDJ is to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, information and data on all aspects of economic and social development issues and concerns facing the region and to stimulate policy debate and assist in the formulation of policy.
Over the past few years, energy security and sustainable development have moved up the global agenda. There are two main reasons for this: first, the impact of high and often volatile energy prices; second, concerns over environmental sustainability and particularly about the global climate. Both issues are critically important for Asia and the Pacific—a region in which impressive economic growth has boosted the demand for energy and put corresponding strains on the environment.
After the fastest growth in a decade in 2007, the developing economies of the Asia-Pacific region are expected to grow at a slightly slower but still robust 7.7% in 2008. The region's developed economies are expected to grow at 1.6% in 2008, slipping from 2% in 2007. China and India, the region's economic locomotives, are expected to continue growing briskly in 2008, boosting the rest of the region. Commodity- and energy-exporting countries, particularly the Russian Federation, are expected to add to the momentum.
This is the third in a series of regional reports on the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region. It assesses the prospects of reaching the goals and targets, highlighting the potential gaps and indicating how these can be filled. It also looks at the potential for adding value to national initiatives through broader international partnerships through which the United Nations and other international organizations 'deliver as one'.
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Steven Nick, 62, an attorney from Greenville, was transported by Pafford EMS to a secure landing zone before being airlifted directly to University Medical Center in Jackson with serious head trauma.
According to Sgt. Ben Williams, spokesperson for Troop D of the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Nick heading north on U.S. 61 and was attempting to make a left turn on to Miss. Highway 446 in Boyle.
"It appears that Nick turned into the path of another vehicle that was traveling south on U.S. Highway 61," said Williams.
Charles Rogers, 47, of Cleveland was the driver of the other vehicle, a black Jeep Limited.
"Rogers suffered only minor injuries and was taken to Bolivar Medical Center as a precautionary measure," Williams said.
"While Nick was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the accident, the force of the collision threw him into the passenger side window and that is what likely caused the head trauma," continued Williams. "It is likely that without his seatbelt, he wouldn't have survived the collision."
According to Williams, speeding was not a factor in the accident.
"Our initial investigation is that Nick didn't see the vehicle in the south bound lane or he did see it and thought that he had time to make it across," added Williams. "This is always a dangerous situation and we urge drivers across the state to take caution. When in doubt just wait."
The crash took place at approximately 9 a.m.
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Marc Trestman becomes Bears 14th head coach
BY SEAN JENSEN email@example.com January 16, 2013 4:12AM
FILE - In this July 16, 2012 file photo, Montreal Alouettes head coach Mark Trestman speaks to reporters at a news conference in Montreal. The Bears have hired Trestman to replace the fired Lovie Smith, hoping he can get the most out of quarterback Jay Cutler and make Chicago a playoff team on a consistent basis.(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz, File)
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The Bears are counting on Marc Trestman becoming another successful NFL coach who built a reputation in Canada.
At 4:12 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Bears announced an agreeement with Montreal Allouettes head coach Marc Trestman, making him the 14th coach in franchise history.
He'll be introduced at a press conference at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Halas Hall.
Trestman, who turned 57 Tuesday, spent the previous five seasons as the head coach of the Allouettes, leading the CFL club to Grey Cups.
But the native of St. Louis Park, MN, built his reputation in the NFL working as an assistant for eight different clubs over 15 seasons, including several stints as an offensive coordinator. His most recent NFL stint, though, was in 2003, as the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach of the Miami Dolphins.
Trestman also has worked extensively in preparing young quarterbacks for their rookie NFL season, including Jason Campbell and Jay Cutler.
He's known for running a West Coast offense and emphasizing protecting his quarterback.
"Every quarterback who has played for him has gotten better," former NFL MVP Rich Gannon said. "If you ask me if there's one thing Chicago needs, it's someone to get Jay Cutler back on track. If you look at [Cutler's] footwork and ball-handling, he has major issues.
"Some fundamental things have slipped by the wayside because he hasn't been coached properly. Marc could come in there and get him straightened out."
Ryan Karhut was an offensive lineman who was on the Allouettes when Trestman arrived.
"We heard he had NFL experience, but we weren't too sure about him," Karhut said. "But it was pretty obvious he knew what he was talking about.
"He understands football on a whole other level. It was neat to hear him talk and break things down."
Karhut was on the Allouettes in 2008, when Trestman turned a .500 club into a championship contender. The Allouettes, though, lost in the title game.
The next season, they won their first of two consecutive under Trestman.
"He's a difference maker for all the right reasons," said Karhut, who suffered an injury and wasn't on either Grey Cup championship winning team. "He's all about football, and he cares.
"A lot of people say they care about football, but he truly cares, and it shows every day."
Trestman played quarterback at the University of Minnesota but finished his collegiate career at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He attended law school at the University of Miami, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach.
In 1983, he was named the school's quarterbacks coach and helped direct the Hurricanes to their first-ever National Championship. Under Trestman's tutelage Hurricanes quarterback Bernie Kosar was selected in the first round of the NFL Supplemental Draft by the Cleveland Browns.
In 1985, Trestman got his first NFL coaching job under Bud Grant as the Vikings' running backs coach. In 1988, he reunited with Kosar in Cleveland, helping the Browns to two playoff appearances including the AFC Championship Game in 1989.
In 1990, he rejoined the Vikings as quarterbacks coach, working with Gannon, then he headed to the San Francisco 49ers, where he worked under George Seifert as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
In 1995, the 49ers had the No. 1 scoring offense (28.6 points per game) and passing attack (288.0 yards per game) in the NFL. That season, Jerry Rice broke the NFL record for receiving yards with 1,848, a mark that stood until Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson broke it this season.
"I think Marc is a strong candidate because he has a history of working with veteran [quarterbacks]," Allouettes general manager Jim Popp recently told the Sun-Times. "Marc has as good a chance as any to get the best out of Jay."
Popp projected Cutler could be a top-10 quarterback under Trestman.
Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians and Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell were also brought in for second interviews.


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Further to my earlier thread about changing pickups in my cu24. Another forum member suggested changing the caps. I was wondering If anybody had tried It, to thicken up the tone of the guitar.
Further to my earlier thread about changing pickups in my cu24. Another forum member suggested changing the caps. I was wondering If anybody had tried It, to thicken up the tone of the guitar.
I've done it on my guitars that were wired prior to 2007. I used the RS Guitarworks Paper-in-Oil caps.
I can't hear a lick of difference. What made more of a difference, to me, was moving to the 50's style wiring.
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2.2nf Capacitors and 250K pots were a standard change for me (used to do it to all my guitars) you can definitely tell the difference
You can definately change the tone by changing value but I wouldn't bother spending silly money on them. Just get an Orange Drop in a few different values (Voltage rating doesn't matter) and experiment. They're dirt cheap so as long as your soldering skills are decent it's no biggie.
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Does changing the cap value alter the tone when the volume control is wide open, or just when you roll back?
I can hear the difference switching from 500k to 250k volume and tone pots, they sound very different from one another. IMHO 250s roll off too many highs to be used with humbuckers, but could tame a bright single coil - but it depends what you're going for. On the other hand, I cannot tell the difference between tone caps.
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Cutting them out is my favorite cap change.
Here's a pretty good article on caps:
Note they say the type of cap doesn't make a lick of difference, only the cap value.
It also says the cap only affects the tone when it's rolled back.
I put a cap in my NF3 (2010, PRS added a treble bleed cap in 2012) as I found it was too dark when I rolled the volume back. Now? It's a bit too bright when I roll the volume back (doh). Will buy a bunch of them and do some testing (when I have time).
I love 24 frets: [update] 5 X CU24s, 1 X Carvin DC127s, 1 X Schechter Omen 6
So has anyone incorporated two caps, switchable using the push-pull so that you have one cap when in HB mode and when you pull the coil split pot to go to SC it also switches the cap?..or better yet, a cap and resistors to also change the resistance value of the pot? Maybe just resistors so that when you go to SC the pot acts like a 250K instead of 500?
Would that work?
I have desired my 93 at least four times. I'm not certain what's in there now but the volume cuts too quick with Dragon IIs.
I have a pickup spec sheet from PRS detailing magnets, wire type and winds for their pre 95 pickups. Heavily considering having some original Dragon specs made for this guitar.


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Soapmakers Love Oils!
We soapmakers love our oils, do we not?
Many of us like to try a wide variety of oils and become connoisseurs, learning the color, viscosity, and nutrients found in each of them. Those of us who make other bath and body products, even more so. We want the best oils for a balanced bar of soap, for the perfect consistency of lotion, for massage, and a host of other products. They are, indeed, a mainstay of our businesses or hobbies.
One of my favorite oils for soap and for other body products is sunflower seed oil. When we visited my city's farmers' market this summer, I gazed lovingly at the bottles of golden liquid sunshine offered there and had an interesting discussion with the vendors about how nice it was for soapmaking, as well as for cooking.
Why do I like it so much? One reason is because it has a nice skin feel, being light and not too greasy. It contains tocopherols, vitamin B, and trace minerals. Sunflower oil is a beautiful color and creates an almost-white soap used alone. The imagery of fields of golden sunflowers lifting their face up to the sun is warm and inviting, and cheerful, at the same time. What's not to like? The fact that it is readily available and cost-effective helps, as well.


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Jessi Virtusio's FYI on FMBA blog offers what you need to know about First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park.
Updated: April 13, 2013 3:24PM
Live Nation has announced when tickets will go on sale for the "$20 Best Night Ever" U.S. Summer Tour in August in Tinley Park.
Find out more in the FYI on FMBA article titled "8/30/13: Kid Rock at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre" at blogs.southtownstar.com/fmba.
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