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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's and women's basketball programs hosted the 2011 Tip-Off Luncheon on Thursday at the Holiday Inn-Emerald Beach. Supporters of Islanders Athletics were on hand to hear head coaches Willis Wilson and Robert Robinson speak and to dine with the coaching staffs from both teams.
Coach Wilson talked to the crowd about how he saw those in the audience as a part of the Islanders Basketball program.
"I want to talk a little bit about the culture that we're building in our basketball program. You all are here because you're part of that culture. We want to build a team and build a program that's representative of you and this city in the best way we can."
For Robinson, the focus of the day's events was the new energy and attitude that his team has shown so far this preseason.
"I had no problem deciding how I was going to start this today, so let me begin by saying thank goodness last season is over. It was really rough for me last year – you all understand that. But that part of it is gone and I can't tell you how excited I am about this group this year."
The Islanders men will host Incarnate Word in an exhibition on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the American Bank Center before starting the regular season on Friday, Nov. 11, at Oklahoma State. The women tip off 2011-12 at the Dugan Wellness Center with a game against Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m.
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Once a month, the students from Amy Miller's second-grade class at Don Riggio School visit Atria Bayside Landing to read to residents. On Tuesday, residents who are former teachers taught what they used to teach to the second-graders. The students were taught such subjects as art, Spanish, French, music and speech. Above, Cayatana Gutierrez teaches the students Spanish.
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GYPSUM - While one might of expected that Battle Mountain volleyball would start singing Handel's "Hallelujah" Chorus, the Huskies reacted more with relief after finally defeating Eagle Valley for the first time since 2008.
Put it in the books. Battle Mountain snapped a nine-game skid - seven in the regular season and two losses in district play - against the Devils with a 23-25, 25-14, 25-14, 25-9 Saturday in Gypsum.
Huskies senior Lindsey Huttrer joked after the game that they had tried so many different routines to get ready for the Devils that "it made us a little bit mental about it."
However, Battle Mountain's collective head was clear Saturday.
"Definitely throughout the match, we pushed extremely hard," Huttrer said. "The whole bench and on the floor, we knew we could do it because we had our game on and our heads on. Coming out here today, we were focused and ready to go."
And spot-on serving from Mackenzie Ellison helped.
"I think when Mac got that 10-serve streak, I thought, 'OK, this is working,'" senior Kelsey Belmm said.
"Really nice," Huskies coach Jason Fitzgerald said. "This game carries a lot of valley pressure between the kids knowing each other and the history of the two schools. It's a big win for us. We worked really hard this week in practice together to stay sharp. We same to have a problem getting that Game 1 under our belts, but we rebounded well. I'm proud of the defensive effort we put in tonight."
The Devils tipped the Huskies to death in the first meeting, and the latter adjusted accordingly. After a rocky first game, the Huskies played their power style and got comfortable.
"We scored points in the first set and nothing in the final three," said Devils coach Shawn Weatherred, who team fell to 3-10 overall and 3-8 in the 4A Slope. "Battle Mountain played well. Give them credit. They played lights out. They played as good as I thought they could play the whole season."
And don't look now, but Battle Mountain (8-6, 5-4) has won five straight games. The Huskies are at Coal Ridge Tuesday and host Delta at 6 p.m. on Thursday and hope to keep the momentum rolling.
Class 4A volleyball has a new postseason format this season. Districts are out and 36 teams make regionals. The "primary seeding consideration," according to the CHSAA Volleyball Bulletin is the MaxPreps Freeman Rankings. Said standings had Battle Mountain ranked 39th before this week's pair of wins.
A reasonable assumption is that if the Huskies keep winning, they'll move up.
"We're just going to stay with one match at a time and one minute of defense at a time," Fitzgerald said. "We've got big matches with Delta, Palisade and Steamboat still. We have a lot of league to go to put ourselves in position. I'm trying to put (regionals) on the back-burner."
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I have a Pioneer Blu Ray and a Panasonic Plasma. Both devices work perfectly when I do not have libmediainfo installed. When I do have it installed, they both complain that they are unable to play my videos. The videos in question are DivX format, natively supported by both players. I am using PMS 1.50.1.
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Bruins: 6-6-1, 10th in Eastern Conference | Wings: 5-4-3, 11th in Western Conference
Thanks for your well wishes over the weekend. Here I thought you were all heartless vagabonds who lust for the forbidden and are consumed by mindless greed, but in actuality you are pretty cool.
Bruins blog of choice: The Big Bad Bruins.
(September 10th, Phil Kessel farewell post) "Hi! I'm an oft-injured winger that is asking for a whole bunch of money...even though I've really only had one good year. I'm also an extreme defensive liability. Did I mention that I'll sprain a knee if you look at me cross-eyed?
Likes: hockey shorts that show my taint, ProActiv Solution, and money, Money, MONEY!!
Dislikes: when people say that I look like the result of a drunken hook-up between Skeletor and a burn victim."
The Bruins have remarkably rotated wins and losses every game this year. Not only did they lose their last game, but they were shut out. So recent history tells us that the Wings are going to give up 13 goals and a piano covered in swine flu vomit will fall on Nick Lidstrom's head.
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For his exhibition, Speed of Light Machine, 2011, Ephraim Russell transforms the DCCA gallery wall into what could be considered the world's lowest-resolution TV monitor. Approximately 700 fiber optic strands are connected to a computer terminal that plays digital videos off of the ubiquitously popular website, YouTube. Unlike a new TV that delivers crisp, high definition images, Russell's giant "monitor" depicts indecipherable images made up of abstract patterns of light. Re-signifying the traditional white gallery wall as an older-model box TV, the artist initiates a playful critique of art institutions, technology, and entertainment in our everyday lives. As an artist, Russell resists the global push for progress and insatiable desire for "high-tech" gadgets and instead presents us with a dysfunctional art object—a "low-tech" symbol of obsolescence and frustration. As a sculpture, the work can also be considered emblematic of the artists' ironic nostalgia for the Sci-Fi B movie genre. Yet, while science fiction films often portray time as one of a host of fantastic travel options for the future, Russell's Speed of Light Machine ultimately transports us back down to Earth, where he would seemingly suggest we might be hitting a wall of illumination derived from a high-speed web connection.
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Hello, I am Becky Carlberg, gardening enthusiast from Southeast Oklahoma. I have degrees in Biology from Eastern Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma State University. Teaching, research work, and competing in art shows then followed. I earned my Master�s Degree in Plant Pathology from OSU and continued graduate work on a Doctorate of Botany at the University of Oklahoma.
With my family, we twice had an opportunity to live in Europe. We were in England for five years and then later in Germany for seven years. It was an excellent education for our sons. I returned to gardening, writing and art, became a Master Gardener, as well as an Oklahoma certified Master Naturalist. I am the gardener in charge of the Shawnee Japanese Peace Garden, a member of the Deep Fork Audubon Society, and now call my five acre Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Oklahoma Wildscape outside Shawnee home.
My name is Linda Workman Smith. The first step of my gardening journey began in the hills northwest of Van Buren, Arkansas, where my parents�both from farming families�raised seven children.
This is not to say that I�ve always had a love for gardening although over the years I�ve managed to keep my hands in the dirt. In 2000, my husband�s employment brought us to Shawnee where we settled on two acres west of town. Being unemployed for the first time in many years�and planning to stay that way�I started gardening on a small scale.
I have been a member of the Multi-County Master Gardener Association for several years and thoroughly enjoy being in the organization. I now have many flower beds and I�ve expanded my gardens to include lots of vegetable varieties, several fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and grapes. Every year I try to plant something different. I don�t grow a lot of any one thing, but a little bit of lots of things!
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Is it cold enough for you this May? Think of all those past Mays where you were sweating in shorts and t-shirts, complaining about the heat and humidity. Ha, not now! (OK, there are probably some folks still running around in shorts and t-shirts today. They looked at the calendar, not the thermometer).
Tom Terry wrote a cool article about the May Salvia (Salvia nemorosa 'Mainacht') in the May Day edition of the Shawnee News-Star. Some May Salvia plants are also blooming at the Shawnee Mall, a place my husband and I walked around last night while watching this brief electrical storm as it drifted northward. Earlier during the day, the radar showed the advancing cold front as it entered Oklahoma, visible due to dust and insects collecting at the leading edge. Storms were in the southwest. Our house received 0.13 inches of rain from that brief evening t-storm.
All my tender plants are again lined up on the front porch, awaiting entry into the house later this afternoon before freezing temperatures hit tonight. I have two big grow boxes into which the tomatoes and peppers were planted. One has wheels (really great) and one doesn't (really heavy). Both are now on the porch, along with the citrus trees, avocadoes, and other bewildered plants. I moved inside two Pentas plants last night. They are very sensitive to cold below 40 degrees F. I am still formulating a plan for the okra and marigolds out in the raised bed. If the plants survive tonight and tomorrow morning, it may be clear sailing into warmer temperatures.
The wild things continue to perk along, regardless of weather. False Dandelions (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) are cheerfully expanding their bright yellow flowers. The false dandelion is larger and in a different genus than the lawn dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), but both these happy plants are edible. Young leaves go into a salad, and older leaves or roots can be boiled. Dandelion is derived from French and mean's "lion's tooth" in reference to the jagged edges of the flower petals. Pyrrhopappus is Latin for "fire fluff", and these wildflowers are now fired up and expanding out along the roads.
Spreading Chervil (Chaerophyllum texanum) is another road and ditch plant that has blossomed into large sections of small, delicate white flowers arranged in umbels. What is an umbel? It is a group of flowers all originating from a common point with stems all the same length, giving the impression of a broad half cup perched on supporting stem with leaves below. The carrot family, represented by the carrot, parsley, parsnip, caraway, Queen Anne's Lace and poison hemlock, amongst others, is known for its umbel floral displays. A very diverse family of over 3,700 species.
You can't see the inflorescence (flowers) yet, but Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) is alive and well, located by their large leaves unfurling as the plant elevates itself high above ground level. These plants tolerate a range of habitats, and their sizeable leaves contain oxalic acid. You can eat young leaves, especially if you like greens with a bite, but rinse and boil first. Please avoid older leaves.
I have saved the best for last. The tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americana) are now becoming active. Usually only a pest, no real damage is done unless the female moths lay eggs on very young trees and the caterpillars demolish all the newly minted leaves. Another species can cause trouble in the forests.
The tent "worms" are interesting. They hatch and begin spinning their silk tents in crotches and branch angles of trees where the web will get morning sun. The caterpillars' enzymes do not function efficiently at temperatures below 60 degrees F. They are geared only to eat young leaves and lay down pheromone trails to food much like ants do. The caterpillars range up to 2 inches long and are black with one white stipe down the back with blue circles to either side. Tufts of hair sprout above the legs. After 7 to 8 weeks, each larva will spin its cocoon, and will undergo metamorphosis during the next 2 weeks. It then emerges in the form of a small rusty brown moth with white bands on the outer wings. This transition from caterpillar to moth is truly amazing.
The female moth takes wing, her body already full of eggs, looking for a mate. After a brief intimate encounter, she lays her eggs around a stem and dies, all within 24 hours. Whoa. The foot-loose, fancy-free males may last up to one week before going on to moth-land. Talk about mortality put into perspective. Not reserved just for the end of life experience, though.
Tent caterpillars are part of the food chain for cardinals, robins, wild turkeys, blue jays, hornets, squirrels, 5-lined skinks, bats, frogs, turtles and fish, if unfortunate to drop into water from their branch silk network. Humans, like my dad, may turn into pyromaniacs and attempt to burn out the caterpillars in their tents. Actually, my father seemed quite happy when he had his super-charged magic wand, the blazing torch, at the end of his hand, ready to do battle with whatever needed to be eradicated.
If you are not in the mood to help perpetuate the survival of wildlife, and are intimidated by using fire, then place a bucket 1/4th full of water next to the trunk of the occupied tree. It may attract the caterpillars and they drown. Feel bad yet? Some people put a ring of tar or Vaseline around the tree trunk to prevent initial conquest. I would not use Vaseline and fire at the same time.
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While the Grammys ceremony was taking place on Sunday night, a five-time winner was instead gracing the stage in Beaver Creek. Victor Wooten, best known as the virtuoso bassist of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and his band were performing at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in support of his two latest albums. Those albums, "Words and Tones" and "Sword and Stone," were simultaneously released last fall. The former is complete with vocals while the latter is an instrumental effort. The albums share a lot of the same tracks, yet are reordered and presented in a unique manner with new interpretations. Examine the album titles against each other and you can see his subtle use of wordplay hints at the same notion."Love is my favorite word," said Wooten during a visit to the Radio Free Minturn studio before the show. Throughout the show, Wooten stated the importance of loving one another while we are fortunate enough to be alive together. The losses of Wooten's mother and brother lead to the writing of the closing number, "Heaven," in which all nine musicians on stage sang individual homage to those they have lost.There were far more upbeat moments throughout the night. Wooten's band, maxing out at nine members at times, was energetic and having fun. "That's impossible!" Wooten declared as bandmate Steven Bailey, also the chair of the bass department at the Berklee School of Music, worked out a solo on a six-string fretless bass. The band was seriously heavy on the low end and at times had four bass guitars in a single arrangement. All the band members are multi-instrumentalists and switched up their tools throughout the night. Vocalist Chrystal Peterson even propped her petite frame behind one of the two drum kits on stage.Most of the setlist comprised songs from the new albums. Stevie Wonder's "Tell Me Something Good" surfaced and made for a nice cover to change the pace. The highlights of the show were Wooten's jaw dropping solo during "Brooklyn," his beautiful rendition of "Amazing Grace," and the funked-out dance party that was the encore. Wooten's band took Aretha Franklin's "The House that Jack Built" and sandwiched The Jackson 5, Herbie Hancock and Sly & the Family Stone inside of it.Wooten made clear that he sees life is all about balance. When I asked Victor about his extensive use of the yin-yang symbol, (he has an album by that name, he plays guitars designed around it, and wore a patch with the symbol), he said, "It's a symbol I first liked back in my martial arts training as a kid. Later it became more meaningful to me. Everything has an opposite to create balance and meaning. You can't have light without dark, you can't have a flower without dirt, and you can't have good without bad." His career requires tremendous balance these days as well. Between the Flecktones, his solo project, recording, touring, writing books, teaching at his music and nature camps, and being a family man, it's amazing that the man is so full of energy. Even after the show closed, he was in the lobby of the Vilar signing autographs and talking with every last person who wished to see him.Bob Bloczynski is a DJ for 107.9 Radio Free Minturn. His funk and soul radio show, "Get Up and Get Down with Bobby B," airs Tuesday mornings from 7 to 9 a.m. Send comments about this column to email@example.com.
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An old video blog the boss produced some years back now- the Diary of a Bushcraft Instructor here
An old video blog the boss produced some years back now- the Diary of a Bushcraft Instructor here
"A great day of escaping from the usual and a great sense of achievement - especially starting a fire without matches or a lighter!! I never felt pressured into doing anything and always felt as if the instructors were only too willing to make our day as enjoyable as possible. The Instructors ..."– Jon Sheaf
"A great weekend, vastly knowledgable instructors who were able to get the message across in an entertaining but thorough manner. Good spread of subjects and fantastic instructors who ooze knowledge and enthusiasm, what more could you ask for."– Jon
"Hey all Just a quick thanks to the 'Woodlands ways crew' for a fantastic weekend felling trees etc, I'd learnt more in the first 2 hrs than I had in the previous thirty years...Jason and Dan really know their stuff! "– Jason Plume
"One of the most enjoyable weekends spent in the woods. A big Thanks to Martyn and Ruth for their knowledge and for putting up with the jokes! I feel that everybody should at sometime in their life experience this weekend, just to see how much fun it can be! "– Neil Toon
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Having a few friends or colleagues join in on the blogging process not only makes it easier to come up with new content, but adds different viewpoints and flavor to your topics. If you are ready to add a new blogger to your site, the process is pretty simple. With a few clicks and guidelines on setting up new accounts, you can soon be on your way to adding a new user.
NOTE: Only blog administrators can add and manage users on a blog. The permission role that you give to a new blogger is very important as the various roles have the ability to not only add but to delete information from your blog. If you are not sure of the different roles and what they mean, read the post about defining user roles.
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Overdoses highlight local drug problem
Narcotics a struggle on both sides of river
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PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg police and emergency response crews have been dealing with a number of drug overdoses over the last month....
These overdoses are exactly why WV could use and needs an MMJ law. Proof Positive that other states have enacted such laws and drug abuse over all goes down. Over doses are cut over half. Contact your state reps let them know you are concerned and would like them to look at sponsoring the bill proposed by MIKE MANYPENNY to help reduce these drug overdoses.
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It is always sad to lose members of our family and friends and communities and congregations. time to legalize drugs and let all the idiots overdose and get it over with so we can move on. Why should my already strained tax dollars pay for more reform and rehab programs that are already failing? WAH junky wants a fix, life is so rough for them...
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NobodySpecial Your attitude isn't all bad but the reduction of harm has showed in legalizing drugs or atleast decriminalizing the has resulted in less over-dose deaths. Now that is in Portugal but think about it. Every state with MMJ has reduced numbers of overdose deaths as-well. We have tthe data that proves people either wake up use less harsh drugs or smaller amounts and don't O.D. Also a reduction in crime like breaking and entering, and armed robberies reduce as-well. It's worth it to decriminalize in my opinion. Not for it to allow all addicts to O.D. and die off but either contain their addiction or seek help if they wish it.
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Hindsight...correct on all counts...also..if legal...the tax $ made from the sale of legal drugs and the $ saved from law enforcement, judicial system, and prisons could be used to pay for treatment facilities for people who are addicts.
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The ****** is something that has been around for a really long time.I don't condone it by any means. The bath salts and meth are the ones I have serious issues with. I can't figure out why people would put that stuff in there bodies. The drug issues around here are keeping people that need help from getting the help we need.
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Why would the Astrix out my post when they use the word several times.
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Valid question
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"×3OH!3 [cнallenge]" by ladylokii
Categories: Original Stories, Anime & Manga, Books, Cartoons & Comics, Gaming, Movies & TV, Miscellaneous, Sherlock (BBC)
Characters: Original Character(s), Other, Reader, Various, You, DI Lestrade, Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Description: Being a pretty big fan of 3OH!3, I'm setting a challenge of a series of ficlets/one-shots based on various songs by them.
-You can choose characters of whatever you like from whatever series, film, game you want - you can also create original characters and use those if you'd like! Whatever you feel comfortable writing.
-The fics must be reader insert - let's make it fun for readers, too eh?
-Each piece of writing for each song must be at least 100 words.
-You can use the songs in any order and you must use at least 5 of them.
-Each song you choose can have a different pairing/series/genre etc. Mix it up :')
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-Holler 'til You Pass Out
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-Dragon Backpack
-I'm Not Comin' to Your Party Girl
-Don't Trust Me
-I'm Not Your Boyfriend, Baby
-I Can Do It Alone
-Still Around
-Colorado Sunrise
-I Can Do Anything
-My First Kiss
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-We Are Young
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Sometimes even the best-funded plans of politicians go awry.
An arrest, an affair, an unexpectedly hot microphone -- all can consign a campaign to oblivion, with loads of cash still in the war chest. But even without blunders, a political exit can leave candidates confronting a question they never wanted to ponder:
What happens to the campaign money that's left over?
Congressman Pete Stark -- unseated by a fellow Democrat -- faces this what-to-do-with-the-leftovers decision for the first time in 40 years. His campaign had about $217,000 banked as of Oct. 17 -- the most recent campaign filings show -- and raised at least about $89,000 more before Election Day. And Proposition 38 -- the tax-hike measure bankrolled by Molly Munger -- had about $1.27 million in the bank as of Oct. 20 for a campaign that petered out long before.
A Proposition 38 spokesman said any remaining money will be put toward "a continuation of efforts to increase school funding," while Stark's campaign manager said there's still a lot of final accounting to be done before any decisions are made.
But these accounts are but the tiniest fraction of the untold millions still sitting in campaign coffers from coast to coast after the nation's costliest election ever. The law gives candidates and committees considerable leeway as to what they can do, and past experience suggests most of the money will ultimately end up with favored charities, longtime political allies -- or as seed money for the next campaign.
But there are also those, er, special uses. Consider former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, who moved $1.5 million from his Leadership California committee to his legal defense fund -- protecting him from a years-long, ultimately fruitless FBI corruption probe -- in late 2008. That's legal, because the alleged wrongdoing was connected to Perata's time in office. But you might think Perata's biggest donors would have something to say about that.
You would be wrong.
"We continue to have faith in Sen. Perata and we believe that our monies were well-spent," Lance Corcoran, spokesman for Perata's largest contributor, the state prison guards union, said at the time.
Here's a look at what a few other California politicians have done with the leftovers -- and how much money some of them are still sitting on:
Meg Whitman
The billionaire Silicon Valley executive spent a record-shattering $141.5 million out of her own pocket on her unsuccessful 2010 run for governor.
Even after all that spending, the Whitman campaign had about $94,000 in debts at 2010's end; that red ink was quickly erased, however, and replaced with a surplus as the campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars in media refunds for ads that never aired.
Whitman can't recoup any of her personal loss because she made contributions to her campaign, not loans. So in the past year the Whitman committee has donated to the California Latino Water Coalition Foundation ($15,000); the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association ($10,000); and the National World War II Museum ($25,000). And, as of June 30, it still had about $151,000 left.
Joe Canciamilla
Sometimes a politico keeps paying it forward -- to himself -- without even running again.
As he neared his 2006 term limit, the Democratic Assembly member from Pittsburg moved about $292,000 left from his 2004 campaign into a new committee for a 2008 state Senate run. But he dropped out of that primary, closed that committee in mid-2008 and transferred about $322,000 to a new committee for state attorney general in 2010.
At the end of 2009, he closed that committee and transferred about $252,000 to a committee he'd created for a Contra Costa Superior Court seat in 2010, then delayed that run until 2012, and then 2014.
On Oct. 1, he closed the judicial campaign committee and transferred $207,000 to a new committee, to run for Contra Costa County clerk-recorder in 2014.
So, since leaving the Assembly in 2006, Canciamilla -- now 57 -- has voiced interest in four offices but hasn't run for any; he has just given to some allies and paid a few consultants along the way. What's he going to do next? Canciamilla didn't return calls seeking a comment.
Mary Hayashi
Convicted in January for shoplifting clothing from a San Francisco department store, the Democratic Assemblywoman from Castro Valley said in July she believed voters wouldn't hold it against her as she ran for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. This month, she finished third in a field of four candidates. Her campaign had $40,000 remaining as of Oct. 20, although she received at least an additional $7,500 before Election Day.
But Hayashi has almost $367,000 banked -- in a committee opened before her arrest -- for a state Senate bid in 2014; she also has $411,000 left in her 2010 Assembly re-election account. Hayashi's staff didn't return calls and emails seeking a comment, but a Democratic operative who knows her, speaking on condition of anonymity, said she will run for the Senate.
Just FYI: State regulations forbid spending campaign money on clothing.
Bill and Nadia Lockyer
After almost 40 years in elected office and cakewalks in his past few statewide campaigns, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer -- a giant of California Democratic politics and fundraising -- faced a tough year in 2012. He filed for divorce after his wife's drug addiction and extramarital affair ended her political career.
An Assembly member, state Senate president and attorney general before his two terms as treasurer, Lockyer has about $2.3 million banked in a campaign committee to run for state controller in 2014 -- his spokesman says he plans to run -- plus $237,000 left in his 2010 treasurer's campaign account.
Meanwhile, having won her 2010 Alameda County Board of Supervisors race in part thanks to $1.5 million from her husband's campaign fund, Nadia Lockyer resigned in April and now faces methamphetamine and child-endangerment charges.
Yet her supervisor campaign fund still had about $75,000 as of June 30. Unlike Perata, she can't use that cash for her legal bills. The crimes she's accused of had nothing to do with her office.
Mike Duvall
The Republican Assembly member from Yorba Linda resigned abruptly in 2009, right after the public heard a recording of his explicit comments about sexual escapades with two women other than his wife -- including a lobbyist with business before a committee he helped lead. He hadn't realized a microphone in front of him at a committee hearing was on.
His re-election campaign committee kept paying consultants, fundraisers and others through that November, and by early 2010 was doling out money to fellow Republicans' campaigns and charities, including the March of Dimes, a local church, some Masonic Centers and the 4-H Club; finally out of money, it shut down in June 2011.
Duvall is now a Farmers Insurance agent in Yorba Linda.
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
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Several drivers stopped after they saw a person lying in the road, police said.
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's tennis team will host a pair of Southland Conference matches this weekend, playing Texas State on Saturday, and facing off against UT Arlington on Sunday afternoon at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center. Both matches during the weekend will start at 12 p.m.
The tennis program will also be hosting a Campus Kids Day and Youth Registration Event in conjunction with the Corpus Christi Tennis Association before the match on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
The CCTA will have kid-sized courts set up and the youth attendees will be able to play tennis with men's tennis team members, as well as get the Islanders autographs. There will also be face painting and other kid-friendly activities available, in addition to information on youth tennis programs throughout the community during the spring and summer months.
The women's team is currently 10-2 on the year, and improved to 3-1 in Southland Conference play with their last victory. Texas State is 10-3 on the year, but undefeated in conference matches at 5-0.
The Islanders are coming off of a 5-1 win over Southeastern Louisiana, while Texas State fell by a 4-3 score against Houston their last time out.
Freshman Chelsea Horan sports the best individual record for the Islanders with a 10-1 mark in singles play, the only loss coming against nationally ranked Rice. Sandra Burges is 8-2 on the season, while the duo of Burges and Horan is 7-1 in doubles play. Senior Mirna Cicak is the top player for the Islanders, playing to a 10-2 record at No. 1 singles.
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BERKELEY -- Ivan Rabb scored 27 points, blocked 11 shots, grabbed 10 rebounds and handed out five assists as the Bishop O'Dowd High boys basketball team beat host Berkeley 80-74 on Friday, handing the Yellowjackets their first loss of the season.
"There guards were going really aggressively to the basket," Rabb said. "I got a lot of blocked shots and I changed shots. That's my job."
Bishop O'Dowd (8-4, 3-0 West Alameda County Conference-Foothill Division) built a 47-27 lead at halftime but Berkeley (12-1, 2-1) turned up the defensive pressure in the third quarter and climbed back into the game.
"They have really good guards," Rabb said. "They were coming off of screens, hitting 3s. They had big guys inside that were rebounding getting a whole bunch of offensive rebounds. I take that one on the chin, that was my fault. I should have been in there."
Rabb was being a tad harsh on himself, considering his triple-double. His 10th rebound, seconds left after Bryan Morris missed a desperation 3-pointer for the Yellowjackets, all but iced the game.
Rabb made 10 of 11 field goals, and even his miss led to a basket when Jake Crudo followed it up.
Adrian Rico scored a game-high 28 points for Berkeley. Asa Allen scored 13 of his 19 points in the second half to help the Yellowjackets rally, although Rabb did block four of Allen's shots during the game. Allen also pulled down nine rebounds.
Shane Farley had 19 for the Dragons and Paris Austin added 12.


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stretchMIND wrote: ok i am just going to come out and say it. There was a huge abundance of good emcees and dj's and b-boys or whatever at scribble. But seriously , its bothering me how commercial it was. Not like, yo man fuck the mainstream, but like kids that really didnt know what was going on were there being like, "hey that guy thats freestlyin' (haha) , isnt funny?!?!! lets boo him". Tons of people were just like, Oh hey RAP MUSIC. LETS GO and trash on everyone putting effort into their acts and battles. I give much thanks for everyone going on with the battles even after all of the people were being rude.
Also nova illa is to ghetto for scribble. He belongs in the streets of mexico selling his virgin body for crack. "I AM TO GHETTO FOR SCRIBBLE, i will just resort to using the n word at the end of each of my verses to prove how carefree and ghetto i am " sorry he is a good artist but when that hippo mc was yelling"kick that ghetto shit!!!!" is just agrovated me.
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Careers in Performance
Performing Artist (Recording Artist/Group)
Performing artists specialize in the performance of music, either original or cover material. Their performing skill defines their marketability. The performing artist may work as a solo act with or without backing musicians, or be packaged as a group.
Read Giancarlo de Trizio's alumni interview.
Vocal/Instrumental Soloist
A vocal/instrumental soloist is similar to a performing artist and may perform in much the same capacity. But this artist may also work as a contracted performer with a group or in a recording situation. For example, an orchestra, church group, or a recording ensemble may hire a soloist. When performing as a contracted soloist, the artist has a responsibility to rehearse and perform the selected music as directed by the group or project leader.
Session Musician
The session musician may be known as a studio musician, a session player, a sideman or woman, a freelance musician, or a backup musician. The main responsibility of the job is to back up the leader of a group in the recording studio, or possibly during a live performance, and play in a style or manner that the leader of the group or the producer desires. In addition to being a good musician, the session musician must be responsible, reliable, and easy to get along with. It is also important to know how to sight-read, be familiar with a number of different styles, and preferably be proficient on more than one instrument. Session musicians are usually hired by a contractor and paid an hourly fee set by the union (AFM). A session musician may work on various types of projects, including television and film scores, records, demos, jingles, and other music industry gigs.
General Business Musician
A general business (GB) musician may work as a freelance artist or perform with a general business group. These groups maintain a widely varying repertoire to allow them to perform in almost any situation, including weddings, bar or bat mitzvahs, private parties, corporate functions, and dance clubs. GB musicians cover material by well-known recording artists in many different styles, and tailor their repertoire to clients' expressed desires. Many general business gigs may be formal dress occasions, so tuxedos and formal dresses are a necessity. The largest amount of work can be found in performances of this type, and pay is generally very good. A general business band may work through one or more booking agencies and/or book themselves.
Orchestra/Group Member
An orchestra/group member plays a supporting role in a musical group as an instrumentalist. A vast knowledge of repertoire, musical skill, reading, and doubling ability are important qualities to develop, especially in the orchestral environment. Also important is the ability to play with a group, and to prepare and know the material before rehearsal. The responsibility of the orchestra/group member is to follow the directions of the group leader or conductor and perform prepared music, in performance and recording situations.
"Be versatile, take as many classes as you can and play with as many people as you can" - Giancarlo de Trizio
Background Vocalist
Background vocalists back up other singers and musicians on recordings, jingles/television commercials, or in live performances. They may work full-time or on a freelance basis, or travel with a performing act, holding responsibility for learning repertoire and attending rehearsals. Background vocalists must be versatile and flexible; those performing on recordings, jingles, or television/radio will need the ability to read music quickly and record it quickly with a minimum of errors. Harmony and improvisation abilities are a plus as well.
Floor Show Band
Floor show bands work in nightclubs, hotels, resorts, cruise ships, cafes, bars, and concert halls putting on show for patrons. They not only perform, they entertain! Show groups may perform many different types of music in their act. Show groups must have pizzazz, and usually involve extensive planning and rehearsal to appear professional at all times. Floor show groups may work in one place for a few days or even weeks before moving on to the next gig, and they travel frequently.
Theatre Musician
A theatre musician is an instrumentalist that plays in the pit orchestra of a music theatre production.
Theatre Performer
A theatre performer is a singer/actor or actress who performs in a music theatre production on stage.
Accompanist/Rehearsal Pianist
The accompanist/rehearsal pianist primarily works with vocalists and/or music theatre groups for rehearsals, live performance, or audition settings.
A cantor is a song leader in a Reformed, Conservative, or Orthodox Jewish Synagogue/Temple Service, or Catholic or Christian Orthodox service. The cantor sings liturgical prayers and leads the worshippers in attendance to sing in a precise and measured "call and answer"-type response to his/her own sung part or line.
Church Musician: Choir Director, Worship Leader, Praise & Worship Band Member, Organist, and Soloist
A musician or vocalist that plays, sings, or conducts during the musical portion of a worship service.
Product Demonstrator
A product demonstrator is a musician that is employed by a music equipment manufacturer to demonstrate the company's product line at trade shows and conferences. Usually, someone with strong playing ability as a musician is selected for this role.


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When I was a kid, I found an old 78 record in our basement that featured Hank Williams singing "Cold, Cold Heart" on one side, and "Dear John" on the other. Those old 78s were nigh indestructible, as were the 45s that came later. I know this because "Dear John" is hanging on my family room wall, right beside my Dean Dillon "Slick Nickel" album and my James Dean poster.
Anyway, I was listening to the radio the other day and heard an introduction for Hank Williams III.
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Starting next year, Bluefield College will be offering master's degrees in education.
The Christian liberal arts institution announced that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges approved the master's offering this week.
Bluefield President David Olive calls the development a "tremendous step" for the college as a school of higher education. The master's degree expansion comes nearly 40 years after Bluefield earned accreditation to offer bachelor's degrees.
Bluefield College's School of Education offers undergraduate programs for teacher licensure in elementary education and for grades up to 12.
Bluefield College to offer master's degree in '13
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A Patient Remembers Compassion, Camaraderie In a Trial That Saved Her Life
A Patient Remembers Compassion, Camaraderie In a Trial That Saved Her Life
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One of the most rewarding aspects of the "Research in Your Backyard" events that I've attended throughout the country is the chance to meet amazing people from all walks of life. One such person is Judy Orem, who I had the pleasure to get to know during an event in the Pacific Northwest last year.
Judy Orem, an articulate, thoughtful Oregonian, will be the first to tell you that her participation in a clinical trial of a cancer medicine that saved her life was a fortunate experience. Not all trials turn out as well. Some are more challenging for patients than others. But her treatment during her trial and interaction with her fellow trial patients provide a snapshot into what patients who participate in the clinical testing of new medicines can expect.
Her story begins in 1995 when she was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia. By 1998, she learned that the medication she had been taking was no longer working and her chance of survival with a bone marrow transplant was no better than five percent due to her initial treatment.
She recalls thinking, "no way, no way" and wondered what to do next: "At that point, they gave me six months to live, but said that with massive chemo, I could maybe live two years. I would have been dead probably by 2000 even with the chemotherapy. But that would have been a miserable way to live."
The fact is, it's now 2013 and Judy Orem is still very much alive, aside from a scratchy throat caused by a common cold. She participated in a clinical trial of a new drug and remembers not only the exhilaration of getting better, but also the compassion of her clinician and the camaraderie that developed with her fellow trial patients.
She was convinced to proceed with the unknown of a Phase I clinical trial by her husband and by the instant rapport she developed with Dr. Brian Druker, her clinician.
"He promised me he would do everything he could to keep me alive during the trial," she said. "He really felt for his patients."
To keep them informed, Dr. Druker met monthly with his clinical trial patients over lunch. "We'd ask questions and he would educate us," Orem recalled. "Once, he had a couple of nurses come in to talk about fatigue and he had pharmacologists talk to us about alternative medicines."
Based on her experience, she rejects the charge of some skeptics that patients in clinical trials are guinea pigs: "If I was a guinea pig, I was a live guinea pig. I was treated as a human being with respect and I'm alive."
The bond among the patients in her trial was apparent when a television crew came out to interview them. The reporter let them talk and interact with one another for two hours, though, predictably, they were a tad disappointed when the story aired as a typically short broadcast news segment.
"We sat and we laughed and we cried tears - it was very, very emotional," she said. "We were all a family and Dr. Druker did that for us."
Orem recalled one trial patient who did not make it - she had been very ill. "Was it worth it for her?" she asked. "I think so. She said she had three good months with her grandchildren before she relapsed."
She urges potential trial patients to not be afraid of clinical trials and to thoughtfully explore and discuss the options available to them with their doctors and the trial clinicians. In addition to weighing the risks, and there are risks, "they also have to ask the question, 'If I don't do it, what happens?' she said. "I think people ought to have that choice."


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River, Northport farmers markets open today
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, May 6, 2013 at 11:16 p.m.
The River Market at 1900 Jack Warner Parkway will be open from 7 a.m.-noon and Northport Farmers Market, 4150 Fifth St. in Northport, will be open from 6 a.m.-noon today.
Locally grown produce, beef, pork, flowers, plants and other items will be available.
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The September 11, 2001 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
That morning, 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. Two planes, United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11, crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower. Both towers collapsed within two hours.
The pilot of the third team crashed a plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.
Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Excluding the 19 hijackers, a confirmed 2,973 people died and another 24 remain listed as missing as a result of these attacks.
The following is a timeline surrounding the events of that fateful day:
6:02: Mohammed Atta flies Colgan Air (Portland International Jetport, Portland, Maine to Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts), along with Abdulaziz al-Omari. It is reported that Atta broke into a fight in the parking lot of Portland International Jetport.
Mohammed Atta al-Sayed was named by the FBI as the suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the initial plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
6:45: Atta calls another hijacker to confirm the attacks are on while sitting on Logan International Airport.
7:59: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, takes off from Logan International Airport bound for Los Angeles, California. It is late.
8:13: The last radio communication is made from Flight 11. A recording of what is believed to be Atta's voice says, "Nobody move. Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet". The flight path begins to stray away from the scheduled one and moves southwards. It is also reported that Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off at this time, but it was later found that this did not happen until 8:21.
8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, another fully-fueled Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and nine crew members, departs from Boston Logan airport, also bound for Los Angeles.
8:19: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11 alerts American Airlines of a hijacking in progress.
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8:20: The FAA's Boston Center flight controllers decide that Flight 11 has probably been hijacked. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and six crew, departs from Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia, for Los Angeles.
8:21: Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off but the plane remains on radar screens. (Prior to the 9/11 Commission's report, news organizations reported this time as 8:13 or immediately thereafter.)
8:25: Boston Center flight controllers alert other flight control centers regarding Flight 11; however, NORAD is not yet alerted.
8:37: Flight 175 confirms sighting of hijacked Flight 11 to flight controllers, 10 miles (16 km) to its south.
8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS (Northeast American Defense Sector), the northeast sector of NORAD, of the hijacking of Flight 11. The controller requests military help to intercept the aircraft.
8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, takes off with 37
passengers and seven crew members from Newark International Airport, bound for San Francisco International Airport, following a 40-minute delay due to congested runways. Its flight path initially takes it close to the World Trade Center before moving away westwards.
8:42: The FAA's New York Center requests information about Flight 11 over the radio. Flight 175 responds: "Ah, we heard a suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston, ah, with someone, ah, it sounded like someone keyed the mikes and said ah everyone stay in your seats." New York Center acknowledges and says it will pass the information on. Shortly after Flight 175 is hijacked and also begins to move southwards.
8:46: Two F-15 fighter jets are scrambled from Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, intended to intercept flight 11. Because Flight 11's transponder is off, United States Air Force pilots do not know which direction to travel to meet the plane. NEADS spends the next several minutes watching their radar screens in anticipation of Flight 11 returning a radar contact.
8:46:40: Flight 11 crashes at roughly 490 mph (790 km/h or 425 knots) into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 94 and 98. (Many early accounts gave times between 8:45 and 8:50). The aircraft enters the tower mostly intact. It plows to the building core, severing all three gypsum-encased stairwells, dragging combustibles with it. A massive shock wave travels down to the ground and up again. The combustibles and the remnants of the aircraft are ignited by the burning fuel. Since the building lacks a
traditional full cage frame and depends almost entirely on the strength of a narrow structural core running up the center, the fire at the center of the impact zone is in a position to compromise the integrity of all internal columns. Two home video cameras are known to have recorded the impact. People below the severed stairwells in the north tower start to evacuate; no-one above the impact zone is able to do so.
8:46 to 10:29: At least 100 people (some accounts say as many as 250), primarily in the north tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the upper floors, jump to their deaths. There is some evidence that large central portions of the floor near the impact zone in the north tower collapsed soon after the plane hit, perhaps convincing some people that total collapse was imminent. One person at street level, firefighter Daniel Thomas Suhr, is hit by a jumper and dies. No form of airborne evacuation is attempted as smoke is too dense for a successful landing on the roof of either tower.
8:49:34: The first news and radio organizations report an explosion or incident at the World Trade Center. CNN breaks into a commercial at 8:49. CNN headlines first read 'World Trade Center disaster.' Carol Lin, who was the first anchor to break the news of the attacks, said: "Yeah. This just in. You're looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed
into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center." Later, Sean Murtagh, CNN vice-president of finance, in an on-air phone call, said from his office in the CNN New York bureau that a large passenger commercial jet hit the World Trade Center. Murtagh was the first network employee on the air. The first email bulletins of breaking news from CNN and MSNBC report "fire at tower of World Trade Center". Both CNN and MSNBC's websites receive such heavy
traffic, that many servers collapse. BBC News' website is active and shows a picture of the North Tower on fire. Minutes later, email news bulletins revise the reports of fire to a plane crash.
8:50: NEADS is notified that a plane has struck the World Trade Center as they continue to locate the flight on radar.
8:53: The F-15s at Otis Air Force Base are airborne. Still lacking an intercept vector to Flight 11 (and not aware that it has already been crashed), they are sent to military controlled airspace off Long Island and ordered to remain in a holding pattern until between 9:09 and 9:13.
8:55 (approx.): Announcements are made by officials in the
still-undamaged south tower of the World Trade Center that the building is 'secure', and that people may return to their offices, over the building-wide PA system. Some do not hear it; others ignore it and evacuate anyway; others congregate in common areas like the 78th floor sky lobby.
9:03:13: Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph (950 km/h) into the south side of the south tower, banked between floors 78 and 84. By this time, several media organizations are covering the first plane crash; millions see the impact live. Parts of the plane leave the building at its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away. A massive evacuation begins in the south tower below its impact zone. One of the stairwells in the south tower remains unblocked above the impact, but filled with smoke. This led many people to mistakenly go upwards towards the roof for a rooftop rescue that never came. CNN's headline now reads 'Second plane crashes into World Trade Center'.
Under attack.
9:03: President George W. Bush enters a classroom of Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, as part of a scheduled visit to promote education and the Bush administration education policies. Bush is aware that an aircraft has struck one of the World Trade Center towers. He and the staff with him assume that it is a small general aviation aircraft and elect to continue his schedule.
9:03: FAA's New York Center notifies NORAD (NEADS) of the hijacking of Flight 175.
9:04 (approximately): The FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center stops all departures from airports in its jurisdiction (New England and eastern New York State).
9:06: The FAA bans takeoffs of all flights bound to or through the airspace of New York Center from airports in that Center and the three adjacent Centers - Boston, Cleveland, and Washington. This is referred to as a First Tier ground stop and covers the Northeast from North Carolina north and as far west as eastern Michigan.
9:06: After brief introductions to the Booker elementary students, President Bush is about to begin reading with the students when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to the president, "A second plane hit the other tower, and America's under attack." The president stated later that he decided to continue the lesson rather than alarm the students.
9:08: The FAA bans all takeoffs nationwide for flights going to or through New York Center airspace. ABC reports later that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the New York-area airports, asked the FAA for permission to close down the New York Center airspace.
9:13: The F-15 fighters from Otis Air Force base leave military airspace near Long Island, bound for Manhattan.
9:16: President Bush leaves the classroom he has been in since 9:03, and is whisked to another, commandeered by the secret service. It contains a telephone, television showing the news coverage, and several senior staff members. Bush accumulates information and prepares brief remarks.
9:20: CNN's headline makes reference to foul play for the first time: 'AP: FBI investigating report of plane hijacking'.
9:22: CNN headline: 'AP: Plane was hijacked before crashed'.
9:24: The FAA notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector about the suspected hijacking of Flight 77. The FAA and NORAD establish an open line to discuss Flight 77, and shortly thereafter Flight 93.
9:25: The Otis-based F-15s establish an air patrol over Manhattan.
9:26: The FAA bans takeoffs of all civilian aircraft regardless of destination - a national groundstop (the first such grounding in American history). All military bases in the United States are ordered to increase its threat conditions to Delta status.
9:28: Hijackers storm the cockpit on Flight 93 and take over the flight. The entry of the hijackers is overheard by flight controllers at Cleveland.
9:29: President Bush makes his first public statements about the attacks, in front of an audience of about 200 teachers and students at the elementary school. He states that he will be going back to Washington, that "we've had a national tragedy", and leads a moment of silence. After the speech, he is bound for Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and Air Force One.
9:35: Flight 93 reverses direction and starts flying eastwards.
9:37:46: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon and starts a violent fire. The section of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices. All 64 persons on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel.
Fire at the Pentagon.
9:39: CNN posts 'Report of fire at Pentagon', its first reference to the incident at the Pentagon.
9:45: United States airspace is shut down. No civilian aircraft are allowed to take off, and all aircraft in flight are ordered to land at the nearest airport as soon as practical. All international flights headed for the U.S. are redirected to Canada. Transport Canada, the Canadian transportation agency, follows the American lead and closes down their airspace. The FAA announces that civilian flights are suspended until at least noon September 12, while Transport Canada gives similar orders, but until further notice, to take in diverted U.S.-bound international flights, launching the agency's "Operation Yellow Ribbon." The groundings last until September 14. Military and medical flights continue. This is the fourth time all commercial flights in the U.S. have been stopped, and the first time a suspension was unplanned. All previous suspensions were military-related (Sky Shield I-III), from 1960 to 1962. Many newspapers (including The New York Times) mistakenly print that this is the first time flights have been suspended. This was also the first time commercial flights in Canada have been stopped.
9:45: The White House and the Capitol are evacuated and closed.
9:50 (approximately): The Associated Press reports that Flight 11 was apparently hijacked after departure from Boston's Logan Airport. Within an hour this is confirmed for both Flight 11 and Flight 175.
9:57: President Bush leaves Sarasota, Florida, on Air Force One. The plane reaches cruising altitude and circles for approximately 40 minutes while the destination of the plane is discussed.
9:59:04: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 55 minutes, and 51 seconds after the impact of Flight 175. Its destruction is viewed and heard by a vast television and radio audience. As the roar of the collapse goes silent, tremendous gray-white clouds of pulverized concrete and gypsum rush through the streets. Most observers think a new explosion or impact has produced
smoke and debris that now obscures the south tower. When the wind finally clears the immediate space, it is plain to see that there is no tower.
10:03: United Airlines Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The exact time is subject to some dispute — a report on seismographic data readings by Won-Young Kim and Gerald R. Baum puts the time of impact at 10:06:05.
Aerial photo taken April 27, 2004 of the area of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA.
The 9/11 Commission argued "the seismic data on which [Kim and Baum based their] estimate are far too weak in signal-to-noise ratio and far too speculative in terms of signal source to be used as a means of contradicting the impact time [of 10:03]established by the very accurate combination of FDR, CVR, ATC, radar, and impact site data sets."Black box recordings, radar analysis, satellite data and at least one telephone call indicate 10:03:11. Later reports indicate that passengers had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes on cell phones and at least three were planning on resisting the hijackers; the resistance was confirmed by Flight 93's cockpit voice recording, on which the hijackers are heard making their decision to down the plane before the passengers succeed in breaching the cockpit door. The 9/11 Commission believed that Flight 93's target was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C. Reports stated an eyewitness saw a white plane resembling a fighter jet circling the site minutes after the crash. These reports have limited credibility, although fighter jets had been scrambled to defend the Washington D.C. region earlier. These jets stayed within the immediate D.C. area.
10:10: Part of the Pentagon collapses.
10:13: Thousands are involved in an evacuation of the United Nations complex in New York.
10:15 (approximately): The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is reported to take responsibility for the crashes, but this is denied by a senior officer of the group soon after.
10:28:31: The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses from the top down, as if being peeled apart. Probably due to the destruction of the gypsum-encased stairwells on the impact floors (most skyscraper stairwells are encased in reinforced concrete), no one above the impact zone in the north tower survives. The Marriott Hotel, located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed. The second collapse is also viewed live on television and heard on radio. The north tower collapses 1 hour 41 minutes 51 seconds after the impact of Flight 11.
10:35 (approximately): Police are reportedly alerted about a bomb in a car outside the State Department in Washington, D.C.. Later reports claim that nothing happened at the State Department.
10:35: Air Force One, carrying the president, turns for Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana.
10:39: Another hijacked jumbo jet is claimed to be headed for Washington, D.C. F-15s are scrambled and patrol the airspace above Washington, D.C. while other fighter jets sweep the airspace above New York City. They have orders, first issued by Vice President Cheney and later confirmed by President Bush, to shoot down any potentially dangerous planes that do not comply with orders given
to them via radio.
10:45: CNN reports that a mass evacuation of Washington D.C. and New York has been started. A few minutes later, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani orders an evacuation of lower Manhattan.
10:50: Five stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire.
10:53: New York's primary elections are canceled.
11:00: Transport Canada halts all aircraft departures until further notice, except for police, military, and humanitarian flights, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon. The operation was well underway as international flights headed for the U.S. had already started to land at Canadian airports, beginning at CFB Goose Bay. Fourteen other airports follow, including Halifax, Lester B. Pearson in Toronto, Montréal-Dorval, and Vancouver.
11:15 (approximately): Reports that the F-15s over Washington had shot something down. There was no confirmation of these reports.
11:16: American Airlines confirms the loss of its two aircraft.
11:26: United Airlines confirms the loss of Flight 93 and states that it is "deeply concerned" about Flight 175.
11:53: United Airlines confirms the loss of its two aircraft.
11:55: The border between the U.S. and Mexico is on highest alert, but is not closed.
12:00 (approximately): President Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana. Many assume he will be on his way back to Washington, D.C. after this layover. Bush makes a brief and informal initial statement to the effect that terrorism on U.S. soil will not be tolerated, said that "freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended". He also said that the "United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts".
12:02: The Taliban government of Afghanistan denounces the attacks.
12:04: LAX, the intended destination of Flights 11, 77 and 175, is shut down.
12:15: San Francisco International Airport, the intended destination of Flight 93, is shut down.
12:15 (approximately): The airspace over the 48 contiguous United States is clear of all commercial and private flights.
1:00 (approximately): At the Pentagon, fire crews are still fighting fires. The early response to the attack had been coordinated from the National Military Command Center, but that had to be evacuated when it began to fill with smoke.
1:04: President Bush puts the U.S. military on high alert worldwide (known as Threat Condition Delta). He speaks from Barksdale Air Force Base and leaves for Strategic Air Command bunker in Nebraska. Later in the day several commentators and journalists, most notably ABC's Peter Jennings, express frustration with Bush's seemingly random movements. After the arrival in Nebraska, Jennings asks the ABC correspondent on the scene exactly where the President is. She answers, "Peter, the President has gone down the rabbit hole".
1:27: Mayor Anthony A. Williams of Washington, D.C., declares a state of emergency; the D.C. National Guard arrives on site.
2:30: Senator John McCain characterizes attack as an "act of war".
2:49: At a press conference New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is asked to estimate the number of casualties at the World Trade Center. He replies, "More than any of us can bear".
4:00: National news outlets report that high officials in the federal intelligence community are stating that Osama bin Laden is suspect number one.
Osama bin Laden (left) is reported later in the day, to be the main suspect in the attacks.
4:25: The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the American Stock Exchange report that they will remain closed Wednesday September 12.
5:20: 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building that had sustained what was originally thought to be light damage in the fall of the twin towers and was earlier reported on fire, collapses. The building contained New York's emergency operations center, operated by the NYC Office of Emergency Management, originally intended to respond to disasters such as the September 11 terrorist attacks.
6:00: Explosions and tracer fire are reported in Kabul, Afghanistan, by CNN and the BBC. The Northern Alliance, involved in a civil war with the Taliban government, is later reported to have attacked Kabul's airport with helicopter gun-ships.
6:00: Iraq announces the attacks are the fruit of "U.S. crimes against humanity" in an official announcement on state television.
6:00: The last of the aircraft headed for the U.S. to land at a Canadian airport lands at Vancouver International, since it was over the Pacific.
6:54: President Bush arrives at the White House. Executive authority through much of the day rested with Vice President Cheney.
7:00: Efforts to locate survivors in the rubble that had been the twin towers continue. Fleets of ambulances are lined up to transport the injured to nearby hospitals, but stand empty. 'Ground Zero' is the exclusive domain of New York City's Fire Department and Police Department, despite volunteer steel and construction workers who stand ready to move large quantities of debris quickly. Relatives and friends of victims or likely victims, many displaying enlarged
photographs of the missing printed on home computer printers, have appeared around New York. The New York Armory at Lexington Avenue and 26th Street and Union Square Park at 14th Street become centers of vigil.
7:30: U.S. Government denies any responsibility for the reported explosions in Kabul.
8:30: President Bush addresses the nation from the White House. Among his phrases: "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts," ; "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve,"; and "The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts...we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them".
President Bush addresses rescue workers at Ground Zero in New York, September 14, 2001: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
As Bush speaks, members of Congress told CNN that during private briefings with senior administration officials, they were told that the administration had enough evidence that it was "confident" that the attacks were the work of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network.
9:00: President Bush meets his full National Security Council, followed roughly half an hour later by a meeting with a smaller group of key advisers. Bush and his advisers have evidence that Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks. CIA Director Tenet says that al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan are essentially one and the same. Bush says, "Tell the Taliban we're finished with them".
10:00: There are reports, later proved wrong, of survivors buried in rubble in New York making cell phone calls.