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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(B) Suppression of internal inconsistencies.
1. Might Irving then have had reasons to authenticate the document on internal grounds?
2. The main piece of evidence Irving cited to support his change of mind was that the figures for the physical damage overlapped with those in other documents, as indeed they do.90 But even in arguing for it's authenticity Irving himself had outlined the disturbing contradiction, which pointed to its pedigree as a forgery:
It seems hardly possible that somebody not in an official position in the Dresden A.R.P [Air Raid Precaution] organisation could have forged his statistics so consistently well as in this report; and conversely it is remarkable that not one of the report's figures is known to be wrong, apart from the death-roll statistic, of course.91
3. A number of further facts spoke for the document being propaganda. In early March 1945 an unsparing report on the attack on Dresden appeared in the Nazi weekly Das Reich in which it was stated that the allied intention to force the German population into capitulation through mass murder was now manifest.92 At the same time as the fake TB 47 was circulating in unusual numbers in Dresden in March 1945, a 'top secret' version of the same was circulating in Berlin. As R.H.S Crossman had written retrospectively in 1963, presumably referring to TB 47: 'In his secret propaganda, Dr. Goebbels did even better [than in his public propaganda] by leaking to the neutral press a fictitious top-secret estimate that the casualties had probably reached 250,000.'93 The figures cited therein made an appearance in Nazi foreign broadcasts in the final weeks of the war, and it would seem to have been circulated to offices where it was sure that the figures would be leaked to the foreign neutral press before the war was over.94
4. As hoped, the figures hit a real vein of revulsion in the neutral press during the final phase of the war, especially Swiss and Swedish newspapers. They duly dwelt on the extent of the destruction, the apparently immense death roll, and questioned the military sense of the action. Previous to TB 47 the neutral press had merely guessed at how many might have been killed. The Dagens Nyheter of 16 February 1945 had reported 'several tens of thousands' dead and the Svenska Morgonbladet of 17 February 1945 that 'Currently 100,000 dead are talked of.'95 Following the deliberate leaking of TB 47 the Svenska Dagbladet of 25 February 1945 wrote:
No one knows with certainty how many people lost their lives because thousands of corpses remain buried under the rubble and will long stay there. But according to information compiled a few days after the destruction the figure is closer to 200,000 than 100,000.96
5. The propaganda effect was therefore twofold: to shock the world and to shock the German people. Thus the Allies were portrayed as monsters in a believable way whilst at the same time the German population was goaded on to vain efforts at final resistance. This also explains how an inflated number so resolutely remained in the minds of the Dresden population and higher Nazi officials for long after the war.
6. But the contradictions in the report were more numerous and profound than just this. A number of facts should have alerted the common-sense reader that the document was a clumsy forgery.
7. A close examination quickly reveals a number of serious problems of plausibility and authenticity, quite apart from the distinct lack of official stamps or a signature. The document started off, 'In order to be able to counter wild rumours, there follows a brief statement from the concluding statement of the Police President of Dresden' and closed: 'As the rumours far exceed the reality, open use can be made of the actual figures. The casualties and the damage are grave enough.'97 This is the key sentence. It indeed appears true that rumours did circulate at the time of around 200,000 dead. But what rumours could be so outlandish as to 'far exceed the reality' of 250,000 dead? With a figure of 202,040 dead the sentence is nonsense.
8. Even if the attack on Dresden can be considered the worst of the war, the number of deaths would still have remained in some proportion to the extent of the physical destruction. In raids that had cost Hamburg 3.3% of its population, 48% of dwellings became uninhabitable; in Kobe the destruction of over 50% of its dwellings went with the death of 1% of its population. Even allowing for the unique circumstances in Dresden, a figure of 250,000 dead would mean that 20-30% of the population was killed, a figure so grossly out of proportion to other comparable attacks as to raise eyebrows, even if the population was inflated by refugees.98
9. Then again, how is it imaginable that 200,000 bodies could have been recovered from out of the ruins in less than a month? It would have required a veritable army of people to undertake such work and hundreds of sorely needed vehicles to transport the bodies. The effort actually undertaken to recover bodies was considerable, but there is no evidence that it reached the levels required to remove this number.
10. Thirdly, TB 47 gives a figure of 68,650 dead having been incinerated on the Dresden Altmarkt This refers to the decision by the Dresden authorities two weeks after the attack to burn some of the corpses dug from the rubble to avoid the spread of typhus. Common sense should have made Irving pause for thought before swallowing this. After all, it was he who brought the gruesome photos of the cremations on the Altmarkt to light in the first place.99 He himself gave prominence to the cremations and talked of 'scores' of police helping in the last-ditch attempt to identify the bodies.100 The Altmarkt, which everyone agrees was the only place where bodies were burned, is 100m by 125m large, a market place half taken up by a huge water tank clearly visible in photos. It would have taken weeks and an army of men and materials to burn such a vast number of corpses. As Irving points out, gallons of gasoline were needed for each pyre at a time when it was 'sorely needed' by the military.101 None of Irving's sources or anybody else's even hinted at an undertaking of such vast dimensions. In the pre-publication publicity, Irving had indeed spoken of 'the mass cremations of the tens of thousands of victims behind police cordons.'102 By the time it came in to print, it was apparent that this was a contradiction that Irving was unable to solve. Bewilderingly for his readers, Irving reproduced TB 47, including its figure of 68,650 cremated, but elsewhere in the book he put the figure of those burned on the Altmarkt at only 9,000.103 At no point did Irving seek to explain this contradiction.
11. Fourthly, and quite basically, how does he explain the incongruity of the 250,000 figure with Voigt's 135,000, on which he also placed considerable weight? Voigt had given his minimum figure of 40,000, recorded according to Voigt at the very end of the war. At no point in the revised account of 1966 did Irving attempt to reconcile the figures.
12. Despite these problems, Irving learned from his original publisher, William Kimber, in May 1965, that Corgi were to publish the paperback edition of The Destruction of Dresden. Irving requested that 'one sensational document' be inserted as an index.104 None of the further correspondence with Corgi has been Discovered and neither was it reproduced in his microfilmed records, but at some later date Irving sent Corgi 21 pages of amendments that he wanted inserted into the original Kimber text, much of them concerning TB 47.105
13. When TB 47 appeared in print in the 1966 English edition of his book what additional evidence had Irving managed to garner to allow him to so confidently reject the opinion that the document was a fake and to resolve the document's flawed nature?
90. Corgi 1966, p. 226; DJ 35, Irving, 'Die Totenziffern von Dresden,' readers letter to Die Welt, 12 February 1965, p. 10.
91. DJ 12, Draft, 'Two Questions on Dresden' for the Sunday Telegraph, February 1965, 15pp, p. 13.
92. Rolf-Dieter Müller and Gerd R. Ueberschär, Kriegsende 1945: Die Zerstörung des Deutschen Reiches (Frankfurt a. M., 1994), p. 39.
93. DJ 12, R.H.S. Crossmann, 'Apocalypse at Dresden,' Esquire, November 1963, pp. 149-154, p. 152.
94. Weidauer, pp. 111-12.
95. Documents 66 and 67 in Klöss (ed.), Der Luftkrieg über Deutschland 1939-1945, pp. 260-62.
96. Document 69, in ibid., p. 265.
97. Doc. 164, Order of the Day, 22 March 1945, p. 4; Corgi edn. 1966, pp. 259-60, appendix IV.
98. R.A.C. Parker, Struggle for Survival. The History of the Second World War (Oxford/New York, 1989), p. 167.
99. Doc. 155, Irving to Dieter Struss, 28 November 1964.
100. Corgi edn., 1966, pp. 221-2; Focal Point edn., pp. 234-6.
101. Focal Point edn., p. 235.
102. DJ 12, Draft, 'Two Questions on Dresden' for the Sunday Telegraph, February 1965, 15pp, p. 5.
103. Corgi edn., 1966, pp. 222 and 260.
104. DJ 12, Irving to Corgi Books, 25 May 1965.
105. DJ 12, 'Required Alterations in the Dresden Book,' undated, 21 pp.
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WILLIAMSPORT (AP) — Renovations are under way on a property in Williamsport that has been an eyesore for more than a decade.
The people doing the renovations are not exactly your typical contractors.
Nathan Scott, Alex Eckerd and Michael Leventhal are sophomores at Penn College, studying Building Construction Technology, and they are the property's new owners.
The owner of red brick building could either pay costly code violation fines or sell. He sold to the students, who say the renovations will help them learn their craft and improve the neighborhood.
The students hope to finish renovations by March and put the building up for sale.
Mayor Gabe Campana said it's great to see young people taking the initiative and bringing their classwork into the community.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Were the Founding Fathers liberal or conservative, Christian or non-Christian? Was there a grand moral cause behind the Civil War or was there truth in the pro-Confederate portrayals which have shaped recent history? What were the economic results of the New Deal, Reaganomics and changes in income tax rates?
Gain insights while discussing these questions and more with history instructor Taylor Tiraterra on Friday, March 8 at Sierra College, Tahoe-Truckee. "The Use of Icons of American History in Modern America," part of the Sierra College Insights program, is designed for community members eager to connect with others in an intellectual setting that fosters conversation and respects diverse opinions.
"Having just come off of another major presidential election, one of the most common debates in American politics is how our history has shaped our political scene," said Tiraterra, the evening's guest facilitator. "We will try to sort out fact from spin in the ways that modern media use American history."
Tiraterra, a well-liked educator on the Tahoe-Truckee campus, has a Master's degree with an emphasis in American History from Sacramento State. He prides himself on having an appreciation for differing viewpoints of historical events.
To reserve a seat for the March 8 presentation, call 530-550-2290 with your name, number in your party and phone number. Space is limited and is available by reservation.
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SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Montreal, QC, CAN
DRAFTED: CGY: 2002-90 overall
- Recorded a goal and an assist vs. EDM, Mar. 26
- Scored his first goal as a Coyote at BUF, Mar. 6
- Made his Coyotes debut at BOS, Mar. 5
- Acquired in a trade with Calgary, Mar. 4
2008-09 Season highs:
Goals: 2 - Feb. 14 at PHX
Assists: 2 - 7 times
Points: 3 - 3 times
Shots: 7 - Jan. 17 vs. PHX*
Plus/minus: +4 - Feb. 9 vs. MTL*
TOI: 24:11 - Mar. 30 vs. DAL
* with CGY
Led the team in short handed goals (2), finished 3rd in game winning goals (4), 6th in scoring (36) and goals (14), and T-7th in assists (22) …registered six multi-point games … had a team high +2 and registered his first multi-goal performance of the season, including the game tying and game winning goals on Oct.12 @ DAL 3-2 W (OT) ... scored the Flames first short handed goal of the year on Oct.13 CGY 7 @ NSH 4 ... scored the game winning goal and added an assist on Oct.30 NSH 1 @ CGY 5 ... had his first NHL career fight (vs. Smid) on Feb.9 EDM 1 @ CGY 4 ... scored the game winner while shorthanded on Mar.10 STL 3 @ CGY 7 ... registered a pair of assists for the first time this season on Apr.1 CGY 3 @ EDM 2 … PLAYOFFS: played in all seven playoff games registering four penalty minutes and averaging 7:38 of ice time.
2006-07: Played in his third season in the NHL setting new career highs in goals (20), assists (26), and points (46) … had 8 MP games … tied for 5th in NHL shorthanded goals (4) … had a career high six game point streak from Oct.12-28 (3g, 5a) … scored two goals, including his 4th short handed goal of the season on Jan.2 vs. VAN (L 3-2), and was named the games 1st star ... registered the game winning goal (5th of the season) and one assist on Jan.20 @ EDM (W 4-0), and was named the games 3rd star ... scored a season high two goals on Feb.15 vs. COL (L 7-5) ... played his 200th career game on Mar.6 @ STL (W 4-2) … scored his 20th goal of the season on Mar.15 @ DAL (L 4-2) ... scored his 100th career point on Mar.25 vs. CHI (W 3-2) … scored the games first goal on the power play on Apr.17 vs. DET (W 3-2), and was named as the games 1st star … PLAYOFFS: played in all six games vs. DET posting two points (1g, 1a) and averaged 15:19 of ice-time… 2005-06: Played in his second season in the NHL scoring 26 points (6g, 20a) in 55 games while also playing one game with Omaha (AHL) … led the Flames with two SH goals … posting six points (1g, 5a) on the PP and two SH goals … Flames were 5-1-0 when scoring … posted three MP games – Flames were 2-0-1 … assisted the GW goal on Apr. 7 vs.
MIN ... scored a SH/penalty shot goal (his 1st career penalty shot) and added a PP assist on Mar. 31 vs. COL ... assisted the GW goal on Mar. 13 vs. COL ... scored the GW goal on Feb. 6 at SJ ... scored in the shoot-out on Jan. 20 at STL ... posted two assists on Jan. 23 at EDM ... assisted the GW goal in his 100th NHL career game on Jan. 19 vs. MTL ... assisted the GW goal on Jan. 14 at MIN ...scored the GW goal on Jan. 2 vs. CHI ... scored a SH goal on Dec. 31 vs. EDM ... recorded two assists on Oct. 13 vs. DAL ...posted
an assist on Oct. 9 at DET … averaged 14:08 of ice-time … missed 24 games due to injury … played one game with Omaha while on a conditioning assignment on Dec. 14 vs. Milwaukee scoring one goal and adding an assist … PLAYOFFS: played in all seven games vs. ANA posting two assists and averaged 15:50 of ice-time … assisted the opening goal in GM1 vs. ANA on Apr. 21 … posted SH assist on the opening goal in GM5 vs. ANA on Apr. 29 … 2004-05 - played in nine games with Lowell of the AHL posting three goals and one assist while adding nine PIMs … scored one SH goal on the season … missed the majority of the season recovering from an injury suffered during the second round of the 2004 NHL playoffs … PLAYOFFS: made his AHL post season debut appearing in all 11 games with Lowell … posted three assists in the playoffs … 2003-04 - made his NHL debut playing in 79 games with the Flames posting 29 points (16g, 13a) with four GW goals, two SH goals and three PP goals … finished T-7th on the team in points (29), 6th in goals … posted 12 points (5g, 7a) at home and 17 (11g, 6a) on the road … posted six (3g, 3a) points on the PP and scored two SH goals … Flames were 9-1-1-1 when scoring a goal … notched six MP games (team was a perfect 6-0-0-0 during these games) …scored two goals (including the GW goal) on Apr. 2 at LA ... scored the GW goal on Mar. 18 vs. CLB ... scored two goals on Jan. 13 vs. NSH ... posted two assists on Dec. 23 vs. EDM ... scored the GW/SH goal on Dec. 19 at CLB ... recorded two assists on Dec 18 vs. BOS ... scored his first career hat-trick with an EV, PP and SH goal while also adding an assist on Nov. 12 at CHI ... switched to #18 from #49 on Nov. 1 ... scored his first NHL career goal (Roloson) and MP game (1g, 1a) on Oct. 21 at MIN ... posted his first NHL career point/assist with a PP assist on Oct. 11 vs. SJ ... played in his first NHL career game on Oct. 9 at VAN … averaged 14:26 of ice time … played in the 2004 YoungStars on the Western Conference Team … PLAYOFFS: made his NHL playoff debut appearing in 13 games … scored four points (1g, 3a) in the seven games in Round 1 vs. VAN ... scored the GW goal (his 1st NHL career playoff goal) in Game 2 at VAN on Apr. 9 ... posted a PP assist in his first NHL playoff game on Apr. 7 at VAN … posted two assists in six games vs. DET ... averaged 14:46 minutes of ice-time during the playoffs … missed the final 13 playoff games due to an injury suffered in Game 6 vs. DET … 2002-03 - appeared in his first professional season posting 46 points (25g, 21a) and 41 penalty minutes with Saint John (AHL) … finished third on the team in points (46), second in goals (25), tied for fourth in assists (21), second in PP goals (7), first in GW goals (5), tied for second in SH goals (1) and fourth in shots (177) … scored GW goals on Oct. 25 vs. Hamilton, Nov. 12 at Albany, Nov. 27 at St. John's, Mar. 19 at Hamilton and Apr. 6 at Portland … posted three assists on Jan. 15 at St. John's (tied for first on team for most assists in a game in 2002-03) … recorded ten MP games including four, three point games: Nov. 12 at Albany (1g, 2a), Nov. 22 at Manitoba (2g, 1a), Nov. 23 at Manitoba (2g, 1a) and Jan. 15 at St. John's (3a) … posted five multiple games and
three multiple assist games … missed only four games during season when participating in the Sweden Games with Team Canada … re-entered the 2002 NHL Entry Draft - originally EDM's 7th choice, 215th overall, in the 2000 Entry Draft.
2007 – won a gold medal with Team Canada at the IIHF World Championships, finished amongst the top scorers in the tournament in goals (6) – 3rd, points (12) – 4th, and was named as one of Canada's "Top Three Players" as selected by the coaches... 2002 –posted one assist in four games with Team Canada at the Sweden Games.


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A large sign bearing a white "X" on bright red background was recently placed in the front window of the former Wine Shop at 162 Front St.-a warning to protect any firefighters who may respond to that location.
A similar warning placard has been erected on the rear portion of the former Kardex building at 900 Greene St.
"It's designed to warn first responders that the interior of a vacated building may be dangerous and only exterior firefighting should be done unless there's some type of life hazard inside," explained Marietta Fire Chief C.W. Durham.
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SAM SHAWVER The Marietta Times
Judy and Mick Kerry of North Canton stroll past the former Wine Shop at 162 Front St. in Marietta Tuesday. The large "X" sign in the window is mandated by Ohio's Fire Code to warn firefighters or other first responders that the vacant building has structural problems and should not be entered in the event of a fire unless a life-threatening issue exists.
He said the signage is now mandated by the Ohio Fire Code to help alert firefighters to potentially dangerous vacant buildings, and the fire department works with property owners to have any structural problems corrected.
According to the Washington County Auditor's Office, the former Wine Shop property owner is officially listed as Cathco Inc., while the Kardex facilities are owned by Promanco Inc. of Marietta.
"There are structural problems in both buildings, but the signs are mainly for us as firefighters," said inspector Richard Stewart with the Marietta Fire Department.
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Warning placards required
The Ohio Fire Code now requires that placards bearing a white "X" on a red background be placed at the entrances to vacant commercial buildings that have structural deficiencies and are unsafe for firefighters to enter.
Firefighters who encounter the signs are to fight any fire from the exterior of the building only, unless a life-threatening issue exists inside the structure.
The placards have currently been placed on two buildings within the Marietta city limits, including a back portion of the former Kardex facility at 900 Greene St., and on the former Wine Shop building at 162 Front St.
Source: Marietta Fire Department.
He said the signs do not prohibit anyone from going inside to repair the buildings, but the signs let first responders know the building is vacant and that it may be unsafe to enter during a working fire.
Stewart, who is the fire inspector for the city's commercial properties, said if he determines there may be a hazardous structural issue in a building he notifies the county building permit office who contacts the property owner.
Once advised of the problem the owner has a structural engineer look at the area of concern, and if he or she determines there is a structural hazard the fire department has the property owner place a warning sign at the building entrances.
Stewart said after the corrections are made and verified by the county building department, the signs are removed.
He said the signs at the former Kardex property have been placed on an old wooden section behind the main building.
Jocelyn Adelsperger, administrator at Promanco, said the company is currently applying for financial assistance in testing to determine whether the former Kardex property meets Brownfield revitalization standards through the Clean Ohio Brownfield Revitalization Fund program.
"We're working to get Brownfield testing before making renovations, and to see if there's anything that needs to be done to the property to obtain Brownfield status," she said. "Right now we don't know that there are any issues, but because of the age of the property and its use as a former industrial site the testing has to be done."
She said once the study is completed Promanco will decide what to do with the vacated portion of the property on which the warning signs have been affixed.
Marietta's city council recently passed a resolution supporting the company's application to the Clean Ohio Brownfield Revitalization Fund.
Roger Anderson, who's purchasing the Wine Shop property on land contract from Cathco Inc., said work is underway to address facility's structural issues.
"(W)e are in the process of removing debris from the building and making plans for preserving the structural integrity of the building, but it will require extensive work," Anderson said in an email.
City councilman Roger Kalter, D-1st Ward, who chairs council's planning, zoning, annexation and housing committee, said placing the warning placards on buildings with structural deficiencies is a good way to protect firefighters, but other people who may live in buildings next door also have to be protected.
He noted many downtown buildings share a common wall, so fire can easily spread from a vacant building to an occupied facility next door.
"I really appreciate what the fire department is trying to do," Kalter said. "It all boils down to basic safety and preservation of property values."
He noted city council is currently working to adopt the 2012 version of the International Property Management Code and provide enforcement for issues that can lead to unsafe buildings in the city.
"Owners of those properties should either fix it or sell it," Kalter said.
He said other Ohio cities, like Sandusky and Cambridge, charge owners of vacant properties an annual fee-$400 in Sandusky, and $200 in Cambridge-if their vacated properties remain empty from year to year.


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I would love a video of the Oteil appearance... Mike reminded me why he's my favorite... I Love Him!
Mike Gordon,
Saturday, 04/16/2011
Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL
Set 1: Sound, Can't Stand Still, Babylon Baby, Jones, The Walls of Time[1] > Black Tambourine[1] > Down to the Nightclub[1] > Susskind Hotel[1] > Black Tambourine[1], I Miss My Mind, Horizon Line, Just a Rose > Mound
Encore: Sugar Shack
[1] Oteil Burbridge on a second bass.
Notes: This single-set performance was part of the Wanee Music Festival that also included Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers Band, Ween and Galactic, among many others. Oteil Burbridge performed on a second bass for "The Walls of Time" through (the second) "Black Tambourine."
Musicians: Mike Gordon, Scott Murawski, Craig Myers, Tom Cleary, Todd Isler, Oteil Burbridge (Guest)
Fun show, great festival, amazing stage set back in a forest of spanish moss. Another cool note from the day was Mike watching Ween from the side of the stage as they closed with Roses Are Free.


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Saturday, April 6, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta State combined for an even-par 576 Saturday and grabbed a two-stroke lead over Texas in the first two rounds of the Insperity Augusta State Invitational at Forest Hills Golf Club.
The Jaguars, who are seeking their third tournament title of the season, are five shots in front of Georgia and seven shots clear of Clemson and South Carolina who are tied for fourth
In the first round Saturday morning, the Jags fired their lowest round of the season in relation to par with a 5-under 283. Sparked by a pair of season-low, 4-under 68's from senior Derek Chang and sophomore Robin Petersson, ASU grabbed a three-stroke lead over South Carolina. Tennessee and Clemson were third and fourth after the first round, while Georgia, Baylor and Virginia Tech were all tied for fifth. Texas bounced back with the afternoon's best score, a 6-under 282, and tallied eight birdies over its last four holes to pull ahead of Georgia.
"Having home-course advantage is huge, said ASU head coach Kevin McPherson. "These guys have played this course over 100 times and knowing how the golf course is going to be set up tomorrow will be a big advantage for us. There are some really good teams that are here, but on this course I feel like we're the best team in the field."
Four players are tied for the individual lead. Augusta State's Derek Chang and Robin Petersson, South Carolina freshman Matt NeSmith and Central Florida's Greg Eason all registered two-round totals of 4-under 140. Petersson and South Carolina freshman Matt NeSmith each rolled in 10 birdies over their 36 holes on the day. NeSmith fired a 5-under 67, the low round of the morning, and added a 1-over 73 in the afternoon. Petersson birdied two holes down the stretch for an even-par 72 in the afternoon.
"I felt good and very relaxed. I played this tournament last year so I know what it is with all the fans out there and I was just thinking like it was a practice round," said Petersson, a sophomore from Landskrona, Sweden. "I've played Forest Hills so many times that I was fortunate enough to make some long putts today."
A senior from Alpharetta, Ga., Chang carded eight birdies on the day, including three over his final six holes to battle back for an even-par 72 in the afternoon round.
"My short game was really good today, but I really didn't it that well and wasn't ever that comfortable with my swing out there," Chang said. "Inside 100 yards and inside the greens I was able to save a lot of shots. I just have to take my mind off it and try to get some sleep for tomorrow. That's really all you can do. These 36-hole days are pretty grueling mentally, and rest is really the key."
Petersson (68-72) and Chang (68-72) are pacing ASU, while Alex Wennstam booked a pair of 2-over 74's and is tied for 28th alongside teammate Cody Shafer (73-75). Freshman Maverick Antcliff (74-76) is tied for 38th at 6-over 150.
Sunday's tournament schedule features an 8:30 a.m., start off the No. 1 tee, with play at the 10th tee getting underway on the 10th tee at 8:35 a.m., on the par-72, 7,142-yard Forest Hills layout.
ASU will be paired with Texas and Georgia in the final groups off of the first tee. Antcliff will lead off for ASU at 10:10, followed by Shafer at 10:20, Wennstam at 10:30 and Chang at 10:40, with Petersson anchoring the lineup at 10:50.
The two-day, 54-hole event once again features one of the top fields of any men's intercollegiate tournament in the country. Of the 15 teams in the field, 13 are ranked in the top 50, including the fourth-ranked team and defending IASI champion Texas. The 2013 tournament will mark the 35th edition of the event and the ninth year of Insperity (formerly Administaff) serving as title sponsor of the tourney.
The field includes ASU, No. 40 Baylor, No. 39 Central Florida, No. 28 Clemson, No. 47 Coastal Carolina, No. 14 Georgia, No. 25 Houston, No. 24 Illinois, Purdue, No. 16 SMU, No. 35 South Carolina, No. 23 Tennessee, No. 4 Texas, No. 3 USC Aiken and No. 37 Virginia Tech.
The Longhorns edged Augusta State in a two-hole playoff in 2012 to capture the team title. Texas and ASU both fired a 26-under 838, the third-lowest total in tournament history. TCU freshman Julien Brun bested Dylan Fritelli of Texas by a single stroke to earn medalist honors. ASU has won eight of the last 15 team titles and Jaguars have won two of the last four individual crowns.
Live scoring (every three holes) will be available each day at www.golfstat.com. For more information on the tourney, visit the tournament central page at www.jaguarsroar.com/sports/mgolf/2012-13/insperity/index.
The event is free and open to the public. Concessions in the Forest Hill Grill are available for spectators.
Augusta State Golf fans can subscribe to the email listserve by clicking here. Fans can follow ASU Athletics at www.jaguarsroar.com and receive short updates on Facebook at ASU_Jaguars and on Twitter at @asu_jaguars.
Insperity Augusta State Invitational
Forest Hills Golf Club -- Augusta, Ga.
Par 72 -- 7,143 yards
Saturday-Sunday, April 6-7, 2013
Team Results
2. Texas.......................................................... 296.... 282.... 578..... +2
3. Georgia...................................................... 295.... 285.... 580..... +4
4. Clemson.................................................... 292.... 291.... 583..... +7
South Carolina.......................................... 286.... 297.... 583..... +7
6. Virginia Tech............................................. 295.... 289.... 584..... +8
7. Houston..................................................... 301.... 287.... 588... +12
Tennessee.................................................. 291.... 297.... 588... +12
9. Coastal Carolina....................................... 297.... 295.... 592... +16
10. Purdue....................................................... 298.... 925.... 593... +17
12. Baylor........................................................ 295.... 305.... 600... +24
13. Illinois........................................................ 304.... 297.... 601... +25
14. USC Aiken................................................. 307.... 296.... 603... +27
Augusta State Individual Results
t1. Derek Chang............................................ 68....... 72.... 140........ -4
t1. Robin Petersson....................................... 68....... 72.... 140........ -4
t28. Alex Wennstam........................................ 74....... 74.... 148..... +4
t28. Cody Shafer.............................................. 73....... 75.... 148..... +4
t38. Maverick Antcliff...................................... 74....... 76.... 150..... +6
Top 10 Individual Results
Matt NeSmith, South Carolina................ 67....... 73.... 140........ -4
Greg Eason, UCF...................................... 70....... 70.... 140........ -4
5. T.J. Mitchell, Georgia............................... 74....... 67.... 141........ -3
Oliver Goss, Tennessee........................... 69....... 72.... 141........ -3
7. Miller Capps, Clemson............................ 69....... 73.... 142........ -2
Mikey Moyers, Virginia Tech.................. 73....... 69.... 142........ -2
Brandon Stone, Texas.............................. 74....... 68.... 142........ -2
Justin Cho, Purdue................................... 73....... 69.... 142........ -2


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Senator to host community feasts
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 4:27 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 4:27 p.m.
State Sen. Troy Brown will host the first of two Community Holiday Feasts on Dec. 9 at St. Luke Catholic Church Reception Center, 1100 Bourbon St., Thibodaux.
The second is scheduled for Dec. 16 at the Napoleonville Community Center, 4770 La. 1.
Dinners will be served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Guests are invited to stay and dine with the senator or take their meals to go.
Brown and his team of community volunteers will be a serving a festive holiday meal with turkey, ham and all the trimmings.
Brown said the dinner is a gesture of thanks and appreciation to the people of District 2.
"Please come out and join me in celebrating the joy of the holiday season," he said. "We as a community embody the love and compassion that exemplifies the spirit of Christmas."
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The U.S. Department of Energy mentioned Southern Oregon University in an episode of its ongoing video series "Clean Energy in Our Community."
The video highlights SOU's investments in renewable energy and sustainability were mentioned and commended by department officials.
"Southern Oregon University is a leading example of how local institutions and communities can help lead the way in making sure that America wins the global clean energy race, while creating good local jobs and protecting the environment," U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said in a prepared statement.
SOU officials said they hope to become carbon-neutral by 2050. They are currently utilizing a 56-kilowatt solar array that produces more than 70,000 kilowatt hours of energy annually.
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FRESHMAN (2013): Utilized a redshirt season in 2013.
PREP SCHOOL: 14-5-1 ... reached the title game of the Midwest Prep Invitational Tournament at Lake Forest Academy ... named to the All-County team ... 9 goals sophomore year, varsity soccer ... played developmental academy soccer junior and senior year for Shattuck-St. Mary's (SSM) u16 & u18 teams respectfully ... leading goal scorer junior year for u16s ... selected for Region II team (2011, 2010) ... Disney Showcase Interregional All-Star with Region II team (2010) (Captain) ... named MVP for a game at Interregional event in Costa Rica ... selected for Regional pool (2011, 2010, 2009) ... selected for Ohio North State Team (2011, 2010, 2009) ... All-County for Western Reserve Academy (2010) ... US National Training Center Attendee (Cleveland, Ohio).
PERSONAL: Son of Cristoph and Constance ... has one sister, Maureen ... plans on playing professional soccer in the future ... member of the French Club and 3 v 3 Basketball Club ... honors in 3rd and 4rth marking period during sophomore year at Western Reserve Academy ... honors in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd term of junior year at Shattuck-St. Mary's ... AP U.S. History ... AP French ... AP Language & Composition ... AP Modern European History ... offered attendence at GYLC (Global Young Leaders Conference) ... outside of soccer he enjoys hip-hop music, hanging out and playing sports.
International Experience: Played against four youth teams in Costa Rica: Heredia, Saprissa, Alejeula, and Brujas ... Trials: "Birmingham City", "SK Rapids Vienna", and "VFL Osnabruck"
WHY I CHOSE SANTA CLARA: I chose Santa Clara because of its rich tradition in soccer as well as its notorious academics. In other words, both of these facts about Santa Clara will benefit me in my future. Since my goal is to become a professional soccer player, I wanted a university which I knew could help me get there through its own excellent athletic program. Also, in the case that my goal does not manifest, I have an institution which not only will prepare me with excellent education, but also is known to provide its students with jobs right after they graduate more than most university's around the country.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KKCO It's one of Colorado's favorite past-times. Officials say people sometimes camp out at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife office in Grand Junction to try and get a license. Aside from being at the right place at the right time, there are several things you can do to maximize your chances of being one of the lucky ones.
"It's been a passion since early on," says Norm Kinney, who has been hunting for over 50 years. Kinney enjoys the "tranquility of getting out in the wild, the companionship of my compadres; it's just a nice time of the year to be out and experience the wilderness," says Kinney.
To hunt legally you need a license, and you actually can get a leftover license at an authorized retailer. "People we'll see in here will be from in-town, out-of-town, out of state; so it is a big deal," says Cabela's Grand Junction General Manager Jesse Eckley, who says it's a great day for business. "We'll be prepared with new product. We actually have hunting checklists that we'll be handing folks to make sure they remember what they need in the field, and what they might not have. Hopefully a lot of them will be able to do a one-stop shop while they're in here and get some things taken care of while they're getting their license," explains Eckley.
Sportsman's Warehouse in Grand Junction is also anticipating high sales. "People buy their licenses, and then they go back and buy some of their hunting gear like their clothes; everything they need," says Cally Hunt, a customer service associate with Sportsman's Warehouse in Grand Junction.
Don't forget your Government ID, proof of address, and hunter safety card if you're not verified. "Have at least 3 hunt codes available, and ready to go. If they're not able to get their first choice, at least they'll have two or three other backups, in case they're not able to get the first choice that the want," says Mike Porras, public information officer with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife office, Northwest Region in Grand Junction.
Because for Kinney, and any seasoned hunter, the wait is well worth it. "If you kill something, that's just a bonus; but it's mainly a good activity for a family to participate in and go spend some time out in the woods, and commune with nature a little bit," adds Kinney.
Licenses go on sale at 9 am Tuesday at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife office on Independent Avenue in Grand Junction, and authorized retailers such as Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse. They're available to both residents and non-residents on a first-come first-serve basis.
Leftover licenses are available online beginning at midnight on August 15th. For more information, including mail-in request forms and preference point applications, visit the Colorado Division of Wildlife website at wildlife.state.co.us.


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Andy Serkis on the 'Planet of the Apes' Legacy, Peter Jackson and 'Star Wars'
It's a new world of gods, monsters and apes in Hollywood, and Andy Serkis is at the forefront.
No, you might not see the actor's face in his biggest roles, such as Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" films, but he's comfortable with that — as long as he keeps donning his performance-capture suit for challenging roles such as Caesar, the lead character in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes." The blockbuster sequel to 2011′s "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" opens in theaters Friday.
The actor sat down with Speakeasy for an exclusive Q&A session to talk about how the new "Apes" franchise stacks up with the original series, how working with "Dawn" director Matt Reeves compares to his collaborations with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, and whether he's started work on J.J. Abrams' new "Star Wars" film. Be sure to check back later for clips of a Wall Street Journal video interview with Serkis, too.
Where does Caesar stand among the characters you've played?
Oh he's definitely a very, very important character, in the sense that he's very complex. In many ways, what he represents … this film is very much about empathy … having played him, having played his backstory, and now entering in this film this section of his life, which is becoming very, very conflicted, internally conflicted, having to do deal with so many things. He has a family, a council, a disparate group of apes he's trying to galvanize and keep together, and not throw everything that he's learned from humanity, and to be brought up by a father to be human and believing himself to be human up until he's teenaged … I always approached Caesar, really, as a human mind in an ape's body, and those two things fight constantly. … In this film, the growth of his emotional intelligence, but also his eloquence and his empathy still toward human beings, and also being able to communicate with human beings … it was a real stretch trying to get all of those things across in the early part of the film using sign language and more facial expressions and emotions. But then, translating that into the use of human language, that was always a very tricky challenge.
How many more "Apes" movies do you want to do?
As long as the writing is as great as it was in this one and the one before, I'll keep doing them because I love playing this character. [Director Matt Reeves] was very keen on this movie not to jump too far forward into the future. It isn't necessarily a trilogy, I don't think. We assume it will be because films are made in threes these days. But Matt was always of the opinion that we know what's going to happen; it's not what happens, it's how we get there, that's interesting, and that therefore becomes all about character. So, we'll just have to see how that evolves in the next one. I have to say it's been an extraordinary journey … and I've learned a lot about both myself and apes, of course. But predominantly about humanity.
How do you think these "Apes" films compare to the originals?
The first one was incredibly powerful and actually was very ambitious and was social commentary and entertainment and just brilliant, brilliant sci fi. You know, it's fantastic. And I remember being totally sucked into it, and seeing it in the cinema, and the images of apes on horseback harvesting human beings in nets … obviously the end of the movie with the Statue of Liberty … just the performances and the writing … some of Charlton Heston's lines in the first film were extraordinary. It was so prophetic, really. I always thought it was very important. Obviously they were talking about civil rights, and I think they really had something to say. I think they probably outran themselves, and I think the budgets got smaller on each ensuing production, and so it kinda lost its quality, but I don't think it ever lost that desire to use that metaphor. I thought it was really challenging, and I think these [new films] do the same.
How do these two newer "Apes" films live up to the original series' legacy of social commentary?
I really think this film, building on the last one, is a story for our time. It's incredibly pertinent now, I think. This film is very much about empathy and prejudice and about choices and reaction to how you defend your family or your tribe or your country, and about leadership. I think it's very, very poignant for obvious reasons, with what's going on in the world.
How does working with Matt Reeves compare to working with Peter Jackson?
They both love actors' performances, and they both always support actors' performances with the camera. I would say that Matt is more focused on finding the emotional center of everything to the exclusion of everything else. He's a great filmmaker, don't get me wrong. He is, of course, a brilliant filmmaker. But Peter has that ability to create these incredible tapestries and these very operatic moods, and still make you feel something for the character. I think they are essentially different people, and Matt is much more focused on [finding the scene]. This was borne out by more time spent working out the scenes with other actors on the set to find the scene. He really likes to find the scene, whereas Peter has a very strong idea where he wants to go with a scene before.
Would you say you had more of a hand in developing the character this time?
No, because with [Rupert Wyatt, the director of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"], it was very collaborative. I mean, they're all collaborative directors, all of them, every single one of them loves the process of working with an actor and what they come up with. … And [co-star Keri Russell] would say [Matt] hasn't changed as a director since they worked together all those years ago on "Felicity." She was always saying he hadn't changed at all, he was always about the minutiae of every emotional beat and playing it through on "Felicity." And that's what I think is so successful about this film. It's not afraid to go there. It's dark, it's brutal at times, it's an intelligent approach to the subject matter. It's not trying to hoodwink the audience for a second.
Would you ever want to direct one of these "Apes" movies?
I would love to direct an "Apes" movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career — avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition. (laughs)
Now, you're directing both "Animal Farm" and "The Jungle Book"?
What happened was, we started to evolve the methodology of ["Animal Farm"] at The Imaginarium and write the script. … That's been going on for a year and a half, and we found a way to tell the story for a modern audience, and found a way of creating the characters and the aesthetic and the whole thing, which I think will really play to a contemporary audience. And, as that was being evolved, literally six months ago I was approached by Warner Bros. to direct "The Jungle Book." As soon as I read the script for that, we still had a way to go on the "Animal Farm" script, so we decided to put that on the back boiler for the moment. And this is such an extraordinary script, "Jungle Book," written by Callie Kloves, ["Harry Potter" screenwriter] Steve Kloves' daughter, and Steve's one of the producers. It's a return to Rudyard Kipling. It's very dark, it is the law of the jungle, and it's just an amazing project.
I'd be derelict in my duty as a blogger if I didn't ask about "Star Wars."
Sorry! But have you started working on "Star Wars" yet?
I've started working on it in the capacity of a consultant with The Imaginarium.
Imaginarium is consulting on the performance capture?
Yes, we're the consultants. But I've yet to start shooting my role.
When do you expect to?
Check out a clip of our video interview with Andy Serkis.
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Teen Pregnancies
Published: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 18, 2013 at 11:29 p.m.
In reference to a letter written by Sarah Alice Luffman, R.N., BSN ["Selling Safe Sex," Oct. 20], there were incorrect statistics. According to Florida Charts, Polk County ranks 16th out of Florida's 67 counties for births to girls younger than 18. In 1994, Polk County ranked among the top 10 in the state. However, since that time, there has been a 63 percent decrease in births to girls younger than 18.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Manager
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Disenchanted with both majority parties, more voters are identifying
themselves as independent or unaffiliated and want to support
politicians who believe "people should have a say in this republic," she
Matalin addressed the 2010 Catholic Media Convention, which drew members
of the Catholic Press Association and the Catholic Academy for
Communication Arts Professionals to New Orleans June 2-4.
She shared her observations on the current political climate in the
country as it heads toward midterm elections.
A former adviser to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney, Matalin is editor-in-chief of Threshold Editions, an imprint of
Simon & Schuster. She also is a CNN contributor and co-hosts a radio
She filled in for her husband, Democratic strategist James Carville, who
was scheduled to speak but had a last-minute conflict. The couple and
their two daughters live in New Orleans.
Matalin was introduced by Father John Carville, retired vicar general of
the Diocese of Baton Rouge and her husband's cousin.
The priest said he's often asked if Matalin and Carville fight all the
time. Their heated debates on political talk shows are legendary.
Carville, a Louisiana native nicknamed the "Ragin' Cajun" for his fiery
temper, made headlines recently for attacking the Obama administration's
response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"They argue almost only on TV," the priest said. "They are very
professional and very careful to stay out of each other's sandbox....They may be a political odd couple, but they share a love for the
political process."
In her remarks, Matalin said the upcoming elections will be historic.
"That's not hyperbole. The last couple of cycles have been historic,"
including the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, she said.
Obama "came into office with astronomically high numbers and his support
was widespread," she said, noting that he benefited from "a very
disgruntled Republican electorate and a weak" opponent in Republican
Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Once Obama was elected, "we felt very aspirational and appreciated that
this country elected a minority president. We felt proud of ourselves
and appreciated his many gifts -- and he has many gifts," Matalin said.
But Obama "in the past year has fallen further and faster" in the polls
than any president before him and has become a polarizing figure,
Matalin said.
Pushback against the president's agenda has been sparked by passage of a
health care reform measure that, according to one poll, 70 percent of
Americans do not like, she said. In her view, voters also feel Obama has
not kept his promise of bipartisanship, more transparency and a change
in the political culture of Washington.
Regarding health reform, lawmakers "felt the least bad option was to
pass it, that it would be seen as an accomplishment and people would
forget about it, and that's not true," Matalin said.
Everyone agrees that some kind of health care reform is needed, she
said, but dislike of the new law has only grown in intensity, she said.
The sentiment that lawmakers in Washington are not listening to their
constituents gave rise to the Tea Party, she said. It was started by
"people who otherwise were never engaged in an active way in politics,
but they started reacting to an agenda being forced on them," she said,
and the feeling that "they were not being heard."
But anti-Obama sentiment is not "necessarily pro-Republican," Matalin
In the upcoming elections, incumbents from both major parties are
vulnerable, she said, adding that many voters are mobilizing around the
role of government.
Data show many Americans think "we have violated the intergenerational
compact that every generation leaves the country better for the next;
for the first time in history we feel like we're not going leave it
better, that we're burdening our children with debt," Matalin said.
"That is the emotion behind the election, not to the benefit of either
party, but to the benefit of the country," she said. "I'm actually proud
Americans are engaged in the debate....I think this is a good thing,
and I am optimistic about the election, not as a party person but as an
As she started her talk, Matalin thanked the Catholic media
professionals for coming to New Orleans, which needs "your presence" and
"your prayers" as it continues to recover from 2005's Hurricane Katrina
while now facing the oil spill disaster.
On a personal note, Matalin, who was raised a Methodist, said she went
through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and became a Catholic
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The Granite Falls Clarkfield and Echo Lions Club is working to help the Salvation Army as they continue to support children year-round.
Although the Salvation Army is most known for their holiday kettles, the work and its dedication to its communities and children extend well beyond disaster response and fundraising.
The Salvation Army continues to support children with back-to-school backpacks and supplies, geared towards supplying kids with what they need for the year and sustaining them for success. Donations that stem from each city are returned to students within the location of each donation's origination.
Local Yellow Medicine County coordinator Kay Bestland said that they are asking the community to donate to help fill up a backpack that will then be given to a needy school child within Yellow Medicine County, for the upcoming school year.
The Salvation Army recognizes that needs have no season. Empowering and encouraging today's kids may mean impacting the numbers of those in need tomorrow.
Donations may be sent to: Citizens Alliance Bank, Salvation Army, P.O. Box 68, Granite Falls, MN 56241.
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Douglas Kuypers is a one-man laser-scanning team. In an ongoing project to develop maintenance plan data for the San Diego International Airport, Kuypers, with the Denver office of Woolpert Inc., used 3-D laser scanning to capture this data in the airport's Terminal 1. Using laser scanning slashed field time from 1400 hours that would have been needed with conventional survey methods to just 235 hours.
Populating a geographical information system (GIS) is time-consuming, especially for something as complicated as an airport terminal. Woolpert's task was to deliver floor and ceiling plans that included all visible plumbing, mechanical, and electrical (PME) features for the airport's terminal buildings.
"Without laser scanning, it would have taken two-thirds of a year to measure the building," said Kevin Stacy, P.S., project manager in Woolpert's surveying/global positioning system group. "And our scan 'team' was just one person, whereas a traditional measurement team would have had two people." That one-man "team" was Kuypers, a professional surveyor who's been involved with laser scanning since Woolpert first started investigating this technology.
Before Kuypers went into the field, there was careful planning. First, the San Diego Airport provided computer-aided drafting (CAD) drawings of the terminal that dated from 1970. Based on the drawings, a preliminary laser-scanning schematic was created.
"We used the drawings to determine how many scans we thought we would need, and laid that out on the plans," said Stacy. Also based on the drawings, a conventional horizontal and vertical control network was designed that would be referenced during scanning. "My group is made up of surveyors, so we attacked it from a traditional survey viewpoint," said Stacy. "We used targets and performed conventional survey traverse and leveling to keep our scans tight."
To cut down the time needed onsite in San Diego for security clearance, Kuypers completed all the paperwork, background checks, and fingerprinting at his hometown Port Columbus (Ohio) International Airport. Once clearance was obtained, the information was transferred to San Diego. This reduced his onsite time for security badges, airport orientation, and pictures to just one day.
Adjusting Work Plans
Once he arrived onsite, Kuypers discovered that the work plan would have to be adjusted to accommodate field conditions that weren't reflected in the data provided for planning. "I found that scanning would have to be executed in two shifts," he said. "We had previously thought I could work just during the day, but it turned out I would also have to work at night, to keep pedestrians out of the scan scene in order to cut down the time needed to process the scan data." General public areas were scanned between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., while airline offices, store areas, and restaurants were scanned between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Because the survey work had to be done in an operating airport terminal, it was important to minimize the impact on the traveling public. Laser scanning is ideal for this. In many instances, scenes can be scanned even as pedestrians or vehicles continue passing through—the unneeded data is simply removed in post-processing, as was done with the airport's offices, stores, and restaurants.
But too great a volume of traffic through the scan scene can make this approach impractical—hence Kuypers' decision to carry out the majority of scanning at night, when traffic was light or nonexistent. (In fact all scanning was done at night, with two exceptions: areas where Kuypers needed an escort were scanned during the day shift when personnel were available, and lease areas—newsstands, coffee, food service, and the like—were scanned during their normal operating hours.) Traditional surveying also could have been done at night, but would have required a two-person crew, and would have required personnel to be onsite longer.
Kuypers adds that the floor plan provided by the airport was, not surprisingly, out of date; some wide-open spaces had been converted to smaller offices in the years since the plans were drawn. He also found that extra coordination would be needed to gain access to lease spaces and storage spaces.
But the unexpected conditions were not a problem. "Doug is a registered surveyor-he's our eyes and ears—so he can remain flexible," said Stacy. "We felt it was best to have someone with crew-chief experience who's a registered surveyor, who would attack the job from that professional standpoint."


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Sunday, December 30, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. – The University of South Carolina Aiken men's basketball team had its program-record 20-game regular-season home winning streak come to an end in an 88-84 non-conference loss to King on Sunday afternoon at the Convocation Center.
The loss was the first at home during the regular-season for the Pacers since narrowly falling 66-64 to Georgia College on Feb. 12, 2011. USC Aiken's 20-game home regular-season winning streak commenced next with the Pacers garnering a 54-53 win over Lander on Feb. 23, 2011.
USC Aiken was a perfect 14-0 during the regular-season at home in the 2011-12 season. The Pacers entered Sunday's loss to King 5-0 at the Convocation Center in the 2012-13 season.
USC Aiken (6-3) dominated most of the first half in the loss to King (8-1), going ahead by as many as 12 with just over seven minutes to play in the first stanza.
King would battle its way back into the contest the rest of the first half with USC Aiken taking a one-point 45-44 lead into intermission.
USC Aiken started the second half on a 7-0 spurt that saw the Pacers go ahead 51-44 with 17:52 left in the game.
King did not earn its first lead of the second half until there was under 10 minutes to play in the contest.
The two teams would battle back-and-forth over the next few minutes with the game tied 80-80 with 3:19 remaining.
The Pacers would have their chances down the stretch, but King would hold off the USC Aiken charge in claiming the narrow four-point win.
Both teams shot extremely well in the contest with USC Aiken ending its loss shooting 52.5 percent (31-for-59) as a team. The Tornado shot 54.2 percent (26-for-48) as a team in the game.
King connected on 52.2 percent (12-of-23) of its 3-point attempts in the game, while USC Aiken hit 40 percent (10-for-25) of its 3-point attempts as a team.
The Pacers were 12-for-17 (70.6 percent) from the free throw line in the game. King shot 75 percent (24-for-32) as a team from the charity stripe in the contest.
Five Pacers finished in double figures with Ronald Zimmerman (Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley HS) leading the way with 17 points to go along with a career-best six assists.
Jesse Seilern (Innsbruck, Austria/Kapfenberg HS) ended his day with 15 points. He was 5-for-8 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free throw line in the game.
Three Pacers claimed 10 points each in Paul Larsen (Mooresville, N.C./Mercer), DeVontae Wright (Goose Creek, S.C./The Citadel) and Shane Porchea (Decatur, Ga./USC Upstate).
Santoine Butler (Augusta, Ga./Gardner-Webb) led the Pacers with three blocks.
Logan Lyle was the top performer for the Tornado in their win with 22 points. Jason Seymore was right behind with 20 points.
USC Aiken will next hit the road to face off against Peach Belt Conference foe Georgia Southwestern in Americus, Ga. on Thursday, Jan. 3. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.


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A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, being acquitted. At long last there was going to be some kind of closure for the families.
So what's wrong with this picture?
What's wrong is that the evidence against Megrahi was stretched thin to the point of transparency. Indeed, the court verdict might be dubbed Supreme Court II [a reference to the Bush v. Gore decision that put George W. Bush in the White House], another instance of non-judicial factors clouding judicial reasoning.
The three Scottish judges cannot have relished returning to the United Kingdom after finding both defendants innocent of the murder of 270 people, largely from the U.K. and the United States. Not to mention having to face dozens of hysterical victims' family members in the courtroom.
As with any horrendous crime, there's a desire for someone to be punished. That's an especially strong sentiment when a defendant is from an unpopular racial or ethnic group, in this case, a Libyan. The three judges also knew the desires of the White House and Downing Street as to the outcome.
One has to read the entire 26,000-word Opinion of the Court which accompanied the verdict, as well as being very familiar with the history of the case going back to 1988, to appreciate what the judges did.
The Case
The key charge against Megrahi — the sine qua non — is that he caused a suitcase with explosives to be loaded at Malta airport and tagged it so it would pass through Malta, Frankfurt and London airports without an accompanying passenger and without being detected.
That by itself would have been a major feat and so unlikely to happen that any terrorist with any common sense would have found a better way. But aside from anything else, we have this — as to the first step, loading the suitcase at Malta: there is no witness, no video, no document, no fingerprints, no forensic evidence of any kind linking Megrahi — or anyone else — to such an act.
And the court admits it: "The absence of any explanation of the method by which the primary suitcase might have been placed on board KM180 [Air Malta] is a major difficulty for the Crown case."
The case for the suitcase's hypothetical travels must also deal with the fact that, according to Air Malta, all the documented luggage on KM180 was collected by passengers in Frankfurt and did not continue in transit to London, and that two PanAm on-duty officials in Frankfurt testified that no unaccompanied luggage was introduced onto PanAm 103A, the feeder flight to London.
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Moreover, under security requirements in 1988, unaccompanied baggage was subjected to special x-ray examinations, plus — because of a recent event — the security personnel were on the lookout specifically for a bomb secreted in a radio, as was the case with the PanAm 103 bomb.
To counter this evidence, the judges cite some sketchy and confusing notations about the movement of luggage wagons within the Frankfurt airport. The prosecution introduced these records to suggest that some unidentified luggage still might have gone from KM180 to a baggage clearinghouse at the airport and theoretically could have gone from there to PanAm 103A.
But the prosecution never called the official who made the key notations and was responsible for processing the baggage to explain what the sketchy records might mean. Nevertheless, the judges seized on these notations to conclude that "the documentary evidence as a whole therefore clearly gives rise to the inference that an item which came in on KM180 was transferred to and left on PA103A."
Heathrow Security
The prosecution's case encountered more complexities at Heathrow Airport outside London. Again there was no evidence that luggage originating from Malta was loaded onto PanAm 103.
The trial evidence also revealed that Heathrow had lax security around the "baggage build-up area" where luggage for PanAm 103 was stored prior to the flight.
"The build-up area was adjacent to a roadway extensively used by persons within the airport," the judges said. "In December 1988, it was busier than usual because construction work was in progress at the airport."
The bin for the luggage was marked PanAm 103, according to testimony, so it was not a mystery where suitcases in the bin were headed. "There was no security guard outside the shed, so that the placing of items on the conveyor belt was unsupervised," stated the court opinion.
After loading suitcases into the bin, one of the baggage handlers testified that he left the area to have a cup of tea. "On his return, he saw that two cases had been added to the container," including one "brown or maroony-brown hardshell Samsonite-type case," which matched the description of the luggage believed to be carrying the bomb.
Testimony from baggage handlers was conflicting as to how the two bags got there, leaving open the possibility that the fatal bag could have been slipped into the PanAm 103 luggage bin in the poorly supervised environment at Heathrow.
The judges acknowledged that this could have happened, stating: "To achieve that, the person placing the suitcase would have had to avoid being detected, but the evidence indicates that a person in possession of a pass for the airside area would not be likely to be challenged, and there were a very large number of passes issued for Heathrow, a substantial number of which were not accounted for."
The Witness
Requiring some sort of direct and credible testimony linking Megrahi to the bombing, the court placed great — nay, paramount — weight upon the supposed identification of the Libyan by a storekeeper in Malta, as the purchaser of the clothing found in the bomb suitcase.
But this storekeeper had earlier identified several other people as the culprit, including one who was a CIA agent. When he finally identified Megrahi from a photo, it was after Megrahi's photo had been in the world news for years.
Again, the court acknowledged the possible danger inherent in such a verification: "These identifications were criticised inter alia on the ground that photographs of the accused have featured many times over the years in the media and accordingly purported identifications more than 10 years after the event are of little if any value."
There also were major discrepancies between the shopkeeper's original description of the clothes-buyer and Megrahi's actual appearance. The shopkeeper told police that the customer was "six feet or more in height" and "was about 50 years of age." Megrahi was 5'8" tall and was 36 in 1988.
The judges acknowledged that the initial description "would not in a number of respects fit the first accused [Megrahi]" and that "it has to be accepted that there was a substantial discrepancy." Nevertheless, the judges accepted the identification as accurate.
Suspicious Behavior
The Opinion of the Court also placed considerable weight on the suspicious behavior of Megrahi prior to the fatal day, making much of his comings and goings abroad, phone calls to unknown parties for unknown reasons, the use of a pseudonym, etc. The three judges tried to squeeze as much mileage out of these events as they could.
But if Megrahi was indeed a member of Libyan intelligence, we must consider that intelligence agents have been known to act ... well, in mysterious ways, for whatever assignment they're on. The court, however, had no idea what assignment, if any, Megrahi was working on.
There is much more that is known about the case that makes the court verdict and written opinion questionable, although credit must be given the court for its frankness about what it was doing, even while it was doing it.
"We are aware that in relation to certain aspects of the case there are a number of uncertainties and qualifications," the judges wrote. "We are also aware that there is a danger that by selecting parts of the evidence which seem to fit together and ignoring parts which might not fit, it is possible to read into a mass of conflicting evidence a pattern or conclusion which is not really justified."
It is remarkable, given all that the judges concede is questionable or uncertain, that at the end of the day they could still declare to the world that "there is nothing in the evidence which leaves us with any reasonable doubt as to the guilt of [Megrahi]"
Alternate Suspects
There is, moreover, an alternative scenario, laying the blame on Iran and Syria, which is much better documented and makes a lot more sense, logistically, politically, and technically.
Indeed, this was the Original Official Version, delivered with Olympian rectitude by the U.S. government — guaranteed, sworn to, scout's honor, case closed — until the Gulf War came along in 1990 and the support of Iran and Syria was needed.
Washington was anxious as well to achieve the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by groups close to Iran. The scurrying sound of backtracking then became audible in the corridors of the White House.
Suddenly — or so it seemed — in October 1990, there was a New Official Version: It was Libya — the Arab state least supportive of the U.S. build-up to the Gulf War and the sanctions imposed against Iraq — that was behind the bombing after all, declared Washington.
The two Libyans were formally indicted in the U.S. and Scotland on Nov. 14, 1991.
"This was a Libyan government operation from start to finish," declared the State Department spokesman. [NYT, Nov. 15, 1991]
"The Syrians took a bum rap on this," said President George H.W. Bush. [Los Angeles Times, Nov. 15, 1991]
Within the next 20 days, the remaining four American hostages were released along with the most prominent British hostage, Terry Waite.
The First Version
The Original Official Version accused the PFLP-GC, a 1968 breakaway from a component of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of making the bomb and somehow placing it aboard the flight in Frankfurt. The PFLP-GC was led by Ahmed Jabril, one of the world's leading terrorists, and was headquartered in, financed by, and closely supported by, Syria.
According to the Original Official Version, the bombing was done at the behest of Iran as revenge for the U.S. shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, which claimed 290 lives.
The support for this scenario was, and remains, impressive, as the following sample indicates:
In April 1989, the FBI — in response to criticism that it was bungling the investigation — leaked to CBS the news that it had tentatively identified the person who unwittingly carried the bomb aboard. His name was Khalid Jaafar, a 21-year-old Lebanese-American. The report said the bomb had been planted in Jaafar's suitcase by a member of the PFLP-GC, whose name was not revealed. [NYT, April 13, 1989]
In May 1989, the State Department stated that the CIA was "confident" of the Iran-Syria-PFLP-GC account of events. [Washington Post, May 11, 1989]
On Sept. 20, 1989, The Times of London reported that "security officials from Britain, the United States and West Germany are 'totally satisfied' that it was the PFLP-GC" behind the crime.
In December 1989, Scottish investigators announced that they had "hard evidence" of the involvement of the PFLP-GC in the bombing. [NYT, Dec. 16, 1989]
A National Security Agency electronic intercept disclosed that Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Iranian interior minister, had paid Palestinian terrorists $10 million dollars to gain revenge for the downed Iranian airplane. The intercept appears to have occurred in July 1988, shortly after the downing of the Iranian plane.
Israeli intelligence also intercepted a communication between Mohtashemi and the Iranian embassy in Beirut "indicating that Iran paid for the Lockerbie bombing." [The Times, Sept. 20, 1989]
Lingering Doubts
Though the Libyan indictment was handed down in 1991, some official experts on the case continued to have their doubts.
In February 1995, former Scottish Office minister, Alan Stewart, wrote to the British Foreign Secretary and the Lord Advocate, questioning the reliability of evidence which had led to the accusations against the two Libyans.
This move, wrote The Guardian, reflected the concern of the Scottish legal profession, reaching into the Crown Office (Scotland's equivalent of the Attorney General's Office), that the bombing may not have been the work of Libya, but of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians. [The Guardian, Feb. 24, 1995]
Similar doubts have lingered even after the verdict.
"The judges nearly agreed with the defense," according to a news analysis by Donald G. McNeil Jr. in The New York Times. "In their verdict, they tossed out much of the prosecution witnesses' evidence as false or questionable and said the prosecution had failed to prove crucial elements, including the route that the bomb suitcase took."
"It sure does look like they bent over backwards to find a way to convict, and you have to assume the political context of the case influenced them," said Michael P. Scharf, a professor at the New England School of Law. [NYT, Feb. 3, 2001]
We also have the Scottish law professor who masterminded the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands launching his own scathing attack on the judges for finding the defendant guilty on "very, very weak" evidence.
Professor Robert Black described the decision as "astonishing" and warned that the bomber stands a better-than-average chance of being acquitted on appeal. Professor Black, a former judge with 13 years' experience and Scotland's leading expert on criminal procedure and evidence, said that in his view the Crown case had failed to comply with strict Scottish legal rules — tougher than English law — that evidence be corroborated.
Black declared: "I am absolutely astounded, astonished. I was extremely reluctant to believe that any Scottish judge would convict anyone, even a Libyan, on the basis of such evidence." [Electronic Telegraph UK News, Feb. 4, 2001]
So, let's hope that Megrahi is really guilty. It would be a terrible shame if he spends the rest of his life in prison because back in 1990 Washington's geopolitical plans for the Middle East needed a convenient enemy, which just happened to be his country.
William Blum is the author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower and Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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The family says their lives have been like a roller coaster for most of the last year. That is when they got the news that Margaret had cancer.
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EBay's turnaround continues with expansion of marketplace, mobile offerings
EBay's focus on the expansion of its core e-commerce model continued with a rapid-fire series of news Wednesday that included a site redesign, a new mobile app that will offer same-day delivery in the Bay Area, and a local deals offering to challenge Groupon.
The San Jose company's focus on mobile applications and offering more than just peer-to-peer auctions has helped the company's stock reach six-year highs in 2012, but CEO John Donahoe's three-year turnaround plan is still producing new efforts. EBay held an event in New York City on Wednesday in which they showed off a new site design to match their new logo.
EBay's homepage will now be dubbed the "Feed," a reference to popular social-networking lingo, and is heavy on photos and the ability to compile desired objects, in a style many journalists compared with Pinterest. Users will be able to follow specific brands or types of products, and eBay will suggest similar items when they appear.
"Online shopping killed much of the pleasure of shopping ... the emotion, the excitement of discovery," eBay Chief Technology Officer Mark Carges said at Wednesday's announcement, later adding, "When you shop brick-and-mortar, you often window shop. You browse. But until now, online shopping has been about search."
EBay hopes that the redesign will translate well to mobile devices, where users usually seek to search less and click more. Donahue has been focused on mobile for years, and eBay has been able to monetize their mobile efforts very well in the past few years, helping push their revenues and stock price higher.
"We saw the mobile revolution early and we made a big bet across the entire company," Donahoe told The New York Times earlier this year. "We saw that mobile was an important factor for our customers. It was becoming the central control device in their lives. We didn't worry if it cannibalized our existing business, because we knew it was what our customers wanted."
In that vein, eBay also announced a new mobile app called eBay Now, which will allow for same-day delivery of certain items in San Francisco for now, before moving to other parts of the United States. The app, previously in beta testing and now open for general access on iOS, is a challenge to Amazon and Walmart, both of which are reportedly working on delivering online purchases on the same day.
EBay Lifestyle Deals, revealed in an exclusive report by Reuters writer Alistair Barr, is the company's answer to Groupon. While eBay is famous for offering goods to customers, Lifestyle Deals will focus more on services from local vendors -- dog-walking services and yoga classes were used as examples.
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The effort uses New York startup Signpost to find local businesses looking for customers, a microcosm of efforts to lure other retailers to eBay's marketplace as an alternative to Amazon. In the larger spectrum, eBay has signed up Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us GNC and dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers to sell on their sites.
"Sellers have to go to where the buyers are," Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter told Barr this summer, adding "(Retailers) would love to only sell through their own site, but they have to go where the buyers are, and many are on eBay."
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