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Jeffery A. Signs, 41, of Bellevue, was cited Wednesday with operating a vehicle while intoxicated for an incident Feb. 29.
Carolina E. Potteiger, 43, of Fremont, was charged with criminal damage Monday.
Chevella M. Gomez-Robinson, 24, of Fremont, was charged with assault and criminal damage Monday.
A man went to the station Tuesday afternoon to report his mother assaulted him.
A person reported Wednesday morning a window was broken out of a vehicle in the area of Harrison and North Washington streets. Items were taken.
Fostoria reports
A 900-block South Union Street woman reported Tuesday evening her husband assaulted her. The man and woman separated for the night.
A man reported Wednesday morning his vehicle was vandalized in the 1000 block of Park Avenue.
An 800-block South Main Street man reported Wednesday someone kicked in his garage door. He was unsure if items were missing.
A 900-block North Union Street woman reported Wednesday afternoon someone entered her garage and took a ladder.
Tiffin fire
Firefighters were called to 167 Main St. Tuesday evening for an unintentional smoke detector activation.
Fostoria fire
Firefighters were called to Sandusky and Caples streets Wednesday morning for a single-vehicle accident. They assisted the police department and AEP with a power pole that was involved in the accident.
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Rita M. Schultz, Fostoria.
Fern M. Martin, Fostoria.
Mary L. Schwab, Fostoria.
Barbara A. Herrig, Fostoria.
Thomas A. Kramer, New Riegel.
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Kevin Christopher Tiell and Melissa Rae Jones, Tiffin.
Larry Scott Drown and Karen Louise Drown, Republic.
Brian Edmund Lonsway Jr. and Amanda Diane Heldman, Tiffin.
Gregory Thomas Clancy Bishop and Kaitlyn Sue Ranker, Fredericksburg, Va.
Brian Richard Treft and Debra Ann Zimmerman, Tiffin.
Jason Lorenzo Moore and Briana Danielle Benfer, Tiffin.


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Setting out on life's greatest journey together is an exciting moment, and there is no better way to start out than in the African wilderness. These selected Kruger Park honeymoon packages each offer something different. You can choose between sheer opulence, closeness to nature or tranquil seclusion. To add to the occasion you can indulge in spa treatments, champagne baths or fireside romance.
3 day - Classic Kruger Honeymoon For honeymooners who lead an active life, enjoy the outdoors and have a genuine inquisitiveness about nature, here is a 3 day romantic Kruger Park package that has it all. Besides the game drives, you can get out on an exciting walking safari with your safari guide, who will introduce you to the more intricate side of life in the bush.
3 day - Classic Self-drive Honeymoon If living in the wilds is not your style, this 3 day Kruger Park honeymoon package offers country estate living and pampering spa treatments. Submerge yourself in sheer ecstasy with a rose milk bath for two, surrounded by candles and nature or indulge in champagne and Belgian chocolates. Feed the soul and ignite your passion.
3 day - Premier Kruger Honeymoon Experience the ultimate in pleasure with this 3 day Kruger National Park honeymoon package. Your accommodation will be a premier safari lodge, where you are assured of having seclusion and tranquility, complete privacy, exceptional hospitality and service. Enjoy your romantic stay to the fullest and create lifelong memories.
3 day - Deluxe Kruger Wedding This is a romantic package with a difference. Enjoy a wedding and then also spend your honeymoon here. Discover the source of an ancient African love story and celebrate your new life in the place where love began. 5 star pampering, artistic splendour and primal South African bush add up to a romantic encounter in Kruger Park.
4 day - Take A Moment Getaway - Looking to get away from it all? Escape the crowds and relax in the bush. Pamper yourself at a spectacular bush spa. Enjoy afternoon siestas and see wildlife gather at the waterhole while you lounge poolside. Experience guided game drives followed by refreshing sundowners and dinner in a choice of venues accompanied by fine wines from the wine cellar. Fall asleep to the tranquil sounds of the bush.


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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Jan. 2, 2014
Soprano Julia Bullock, first prize winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, will be the fifth performer in the 2013-2014 Saint Vincent College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25 in the Robert S. Carey Student Center Performing Arts Center. She will be accompanied by pianist Renate Rohlfing. Her program will feature a wide range of styles and periods that will showcase her remarkably beautiful voice and include works by Luciano Berio, Anton Rubenstein, Gioacchino Rossini and Olivier Messiaen. It will also include works by contemporary composers such as the Premier of David Hertzberg's "Ablutions of Oblivion" by David Hertzber. In addition, she will sing "Hommage à Joséphine Baker," a set of songs arranged by Jeremy Siskind, which is especially noteworthy because both Baker and Bullock are originally from St. Louis. Soprano Julia Bullock has been acclaimed for singing "with a vivid presence, total dramatic involvement, a full, very beautiful voice and charisma" (NewYorkArts.net). Her 2013-2014 season includes debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York's Merkin Hall and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, the title role in Henry Purcell's The Indian Queen, directed by Peter Sellars at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Perm Opera and Ballet House in Russia, a Broadway Classics concert at Carnegie Hall, the title role in Massenet's Cendrillon with the Juilliard Opera, and appearances at the Falany Performing Arts Center, Saint Vincent College, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the Marlboro Music Festival. She recently made her San Francisco Symphony debut in West Side Story in Concert, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; an album of the concert will be released in 2014. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "the evening's most remarkable showstopper Julia Bullock appeared out of nowhere to deliver a full-voiced stunningly paced account of 'Somewhere' –- for just a moment, it seemed as though nothing Bernstein ever wrote was quite as magical as that one song." Tickets may be purchased online at http://concertseries.stvincent.edu, by calling 724 805-2565, or at the door on concert evenings. Flex passes and group rates are also available. Admission is $25 for adults and $15 for non-Saint Vincent students. A dinner concert package, A Classic Evening at Saint Vincent, is offered for $50 per person and includes an outstanding dinner with wine and a concert ticket. Advance reservations by Jan. 24 are required. Continuing this season is a complimentary shuttle service between the parking areas and the performing arts center. Check in with the campus welcome booth for parking instructions. Parking is free. Remaining concerts in the series include the Manhattan Piano Trio, Saturday, Feb. 22; Mayuko Kamio, violin, Saturday, March 29; and Kinan Azmeh's City Band, Saturday, April 26. Further details are available by contacting the Concert Series Box Office, 724-805-2565 or http://concertseries.stvincent.edu.
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Meanwhile, you can vote for the best lyricists ever here.
Words: Emily Mackay, Matt Wilkinson, Barry Nicolson, Mark Beaumont, Laura Snapes, Dan Martin, Sam Wolfson, Martin Robinson, Jaimie Hodgson
23Thom Yorke
While Thom Yorke's angst poetry was hardly shoddy as far back as 'Creep', the project he started on 'The Bends' was upgraded to a literary heavyweight with the band's epochal third LP 'OK Computer'. On it, Yorke spoke for a generation unsure of the future and baffled by the present, his great skill being to embed human emotions within an eerily detached view of the world.
With age, his lyrics have more grace and clarity, yet he's still most effective with his teeth out. Perhaps his most powerful lyric is sparse 'Harrowdown Hill' on debut solo album 'The Eraser', written from the point of view of Dr David Kelly, the government weapons adviser who committed suicide over his involvement in events leading to the invasion of Iraq.DM
Key lyric: "Don't walk the plank like I did/You will be dispensed with/When you become inconvenient" ('Harrowdown Hill', from 'The Eraser', 2006)
22 Bill Callahan
As Smog, Bill Callahan's lyrics were a bleak cloud, expressing perverse desires in an uncomfortably close, scathing monotone – fantasising about your lover standing before the mourning congregation to eulogise about how you had sex in "the very graveyard where my body now rests" on 'Dress Sexy At My Funeral'. Yet by making the decision to write under his own name three years ago, Callahan too was reborn, shedding both the old moniker and grievous atmosphere that went alongside it. "I used to be sorta blind/Now I can sorta see", he sings on 'Rococo Zephyr' from 'Sometimes…', dabbling in newfangled happiness, without forsaking his trademark skepticism. LS
Key lyric: So bury me in wood and I will splinter/Bury me in stone and I will quake/Bury me in water and I will geyser/Bury me in fire and I'm gonna phoenix…" ('Say Valley Maker', from 'A River Ain't Too Much To Love', 2005)
21Stuart Murdoch
B&S' verbose, rapier-witted frontman has spent much of his life on the fringe. He started writing when he was isolated in his Ayrshire bedroom with chronic fatigue syndrome for seven years, before a faith healer cured him and formented a fascination with Christianity. On recent outings Murdoch has come out from behind his characters a bit more and addressed some directly personal issues, first through songs such as the heart-wrenching 'I'm A Cuckoo' (which detailed his break-up with former band member Isobel Campbell) and then with last year's semi-autobiographical side-project God Help The Girl. The comparisons with Morrissey are obvious. But while Stephen Patrick snarls, Stuart Murdoch celebrates. BN
Key lyric: "Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange/Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay" ('Expectations', from 'Tigermilk', 1996)
20Wild Beasts
Like Jamie T – but really not– flapping a foppish fan around the masked balls of the Regency period, Wild Beasts utilise similar techniques but in a more classical, baroque manner: billowing out rhymes like powder tumbling from a three-foot wig, eschewing coherence in favour of expressionist imagery.
Theirs is stuff where double-meaning abounds: "This is a booty call/My boot up your arsehole/This is a Freudian slip/My slipper in your bits" goes 'The Fun Powder Plot', having already confounded us with "For the yippee-less swing/For the tot-less cot/For the mock, for the shock/For the fun powder plot". Wild Beasts are masters of the Byronic turn of phrase. MB
Key lyric: "They passed me round them like a piece of meat/His hairy hands/His falling fists/His dancing cock/Down by his knees" ('Two Dancers (i)', from 'Two Dancers', 2009)
19Nick Cave
"Big-Jesus-soul-mates-trash-can" was the kind of thing Old Nick used to write back when he was a beatnik-junkie-vampire in The Birthday Party, and although he's now more likely to be acclaimed at the Hay Festival Of Literature than in Berlin squats, he's pretty much stood by that statement.
Yet after the hymn-like precision of songs on the PJ Harvey blubbering-over 'The Boatman's Call' ("Stars have their moment and then they die"), he was lauded as a great master of the sorrowful love song, feted by The Guardian, analysed on the South Bank Show, respected. It was sickening. So what did Cavey do? Well, start Grinderman, a band with songs less about careful craft in a Brighton study and more about the spontaneous spraying of middle-aged spunk in a wall of feedback. "He drank panther piss, and fucked the girls you're married to" he sang, like Ron Burgundy on cider-and-black.
For, despite the awards, the books, the highbrow acclaim, Old Nick knows that while perfect poem lyrics are lovely, when it comes to rock'n'roll there's no match for just screaming about how fucking randy you are. MR
Key lyric: "I sent her every type of flower/I played the guitar by the hour/ I patted her revolting little Chihuahua/But still she just didn't want to" ('No Pussy Blues', from 'Grinderman', 2007)
18Stephin Merritt
No other lyricist alive has Merritt's knack for twisting the comic mournful. When he's not playing the dry master storyteller (the ecstatic domestic murder in 'Yeah! Oh Yeah!'; the LA serial killer in 'California Girls') or writing this generation's most lyrical tear-jerkers ('The Book Of Love', 'Kissing Things'), he's penning heartbreaking truths. From 'Busby Berkeley Dreams': "I should have forgotten you long ago/But you're in every song I know". Hey, that's love and music, encapsulated in 14 words! MB
Key lyric: "The book of love is long and boring/No-one can lift the damn thing" ('The Book Of Love', from '69 Love Songs', 1999)
17Laura Marling
What makes young Marling's lyrics so powerful is that their subject-matter, whether the joy of sharing a snowy night or the cold chill of rejection, are powerful and personal. As her songwriting skills have developed, so have the complexity of her emotions.
On her most recent album 'I Speak Because I Can', Marling's songwriting has taken another leap, reinvigorated by the imagery of English folk and the subtlety of small moments exaggerated to big statements.
Underneath a richer, more reflective use of language lies those same raw emotions that make Marling's work touching as well as authentic. SW
Key lyric: "I roll over and shake him tightly/And whisper/If they want you, then they're going to have come fight me" ('Night Terror', from 'Alas I Cannot Swim', 2008)
16PJ Harvey
It seems like law that any successful female lyric writer must be likened to PJ Harvey. But how many would dare pen a song about infanticide, as PJ did with 'Down By The Water'? Critics have tried to label her a feminist, and with songs like 'Sheela-na-gig' you can see why. Named after disturbing medieval carvings of women, it perverts '60s girl group lyrics that "wash that man right out of my hair ".
But she's not really a feminist – Polly rarely judges, and often inhabits male as well as female bodies, a notable example being 2007's piano-heavy 'White Chalk'.
Any musician worth their salt – whatever gender – should strive for comparison to such an individual lyricist. LS
Key lyric: "It's hard to walk in the dress, it's not easy/I'm spilling over like a heavy loaded fruit taree" ('Dress', from 'Dry', 1992)
15Stephen Malkmus
Malkmus is the kind of songwriter who deserves to have dissertations dedicated to decoding his songs – where Rush singer Geddy Lee is a reference point and homophones like "career!"/ "Korea!" make sketchy meanings slip away even further.
Many have tried – and failed – to interpret his non-sequiturs, both in his time as Pavement's frontman and his solo career with The Jicks. Now his main band are returning, a new generation will do the same. LS
Key lyric: "Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses/They're insane/ I hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains" ('You Are A Light', from 'Terror Twilight', 1999)
14James Mercer
Mercer's unique, warped outlook gave life to The Shins and, more recently, Broken Bells with Danger Mouse. Yet you'd be hard-pushed to find any clues about what he's like as a person from his words.
True, he harbours an obsession with the fragility of life, but he ties this up with abrasive words that sour any notion of straightforwardness. It's this ability to conjure up numerous alternate meanings that's made him an undeniable master of powerful lyrics. Film-maker Zach Braff liked his work so much he wrote his debut feature Garden State around it. MW
Key lyric: "Turn me back into the pet I was when we met/I was happier then with no mindset" ('New Slang', from 'Oh, Inverted World', 2001)


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The Curve family is mourning the loss of one of its most beloved members.
Robert Gordon "Bo" Forney, 21, a batboy for the team since 2008, died suddenly Monday. The fun-loving character endeared himself to the franchise's employees and players alike with his easy-going nature and ability to take a joke.
Asked what Forney brought to the clubhouse, former Curve pitcher Victor Black didn't hesitate.
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"Joy," Black said. "Man, he brought so much joy. He was a great guy to be around. He'd come in and hang out with us at dinner after games, and he was just always happy. The joy we got from his company was plentiful. All-around good character."
Forney's bond with the team was rare. Batboys typically don't form close relationships with players; in fact, of the five different minor league teams Black has played on, he said Forney was the only one whose name he knew.
But from early on, Black said, he knew Forney was different.
Forney would saddle up beside his locker in the clubhouse before games, chit-chatting with Black and whoever else's ear he could bend about their lives or anything else going on.
"It wasn't like he was closer to one person," former Curve manager P.J. Forbes said. "He matriculated around and all the guys enjoyed his personality, talking to him and giving him a hard time. He was just a happy-go-lucky guy that, when you knew he came through the door, would have a smile on his face."
Forney frequently was at the center of clubhouse pranks, both as the instigator and as the instigated. Former Curve catcher Tony Sanchez remembered a number of gags, including when players soaked Forney's batboy uniform. Another time, players tied his shoelaces together while Forney was standing in the dugout waiting to retrieve bats. If he took too long, Sanchez said he and his teammates would teasingly heckle him to move quicker.
And Forbes said if something was missing in the clubhouse, Forney was fingered as the culprit.
No matter the joke, Forney laughed.
"We know Bo didn't do it and Bo knew he didn't do it, but it was everybody's chance to give Bo affection and a shoutout," Forbes said.
Forney's laugh is something Black remembers the most. Toward the end of last season, Black and the batboys went to a state park for dinner. Black and Forney went to dinner together a number of times, but this time, they had another guest.
"A squirrel started creeping on us to get food," Black said. "The squirrel wouldn't come over. Something happened where one of us said something, and Bo just cracked up for about 15 minutes."
News of Forney's death stretched to Bradenton, Fla., where current Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jared Hughes was sitting around the clubhouse with Tony Watson and Duke Welker when Phil Irwin told the trio what happened.
That contingent was among a group of about 15 to 20 former Curve players who knew Forney and expressed sadness.
"You go through some places and you don't get to know everybody, but Bo was one of those guys who would go out of his way to talk to you," said Hughes, who added he just watched a video on his computer last week of Forney cracking up as he took cuts in the batting cages. "We all felt like Bo was a teammate. We all loved him."
Funeral arrangements for Forney are pending. A full obituary will appear in Thursday's Mirror.
"Heaven gained an unbelievable angel," Sanchez said. "I know he's up there smiling."


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Because they lost power to the water cooling system, they needed to vent the pressure that's building up inside.My suspicion is that as the temperature inside the reactor was rising, some of the metal cans that surround the fuel may have burst and at high temperature, that fuel cladding can react with water to produce zirconium oxide and hydrogen.That hydrogen then will be part of the gases that need to be vented. That hydrogen then mixes with the surrounding air. Hydrogen and oxygen can then recombine explosively. So it seems while the explosion wasn't directly connected with the nuclear processes, it was indirectly connected, because the hydrogen was only present because of what was going on in the reactor core.
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Adelaide requested cupcakes many, many times for her birthday, and so I - spotting a gluten-free mix at the market - was inspired by and made these ones in miniature. They turned out far better than I expected, yummy, light and moist. No one could even tell that they were gluten-free, and, oh my was it ever nice for me to eat a cupcake once again!
After mixing up and baking the cupcakes, Adelaide and I were inspired and so we decided to make some little cupcake flags together. She art directed (barked orders at) me for the colours and patterns, I cut them out, she glue-sticked them, and we folded them over the sticks together. She's getting quite good with her little fingers - soon I'll be able to really put her to work for me!
Addie and I would like to share our cupcake flags, so that of you wish you can make some of your own. Here is a .pdf file for you to download and print out. They are quite simple and only require cutting, toothpicks, a gluestick, and little bit of time to make.
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From the template: These little cupcake flags are simple but they can make homemade cupcakes even nicer. They are perfect for a child's birthday, shower, picnics, or any other occasion. I used these flags for mini-cupcakes, but if you wish you can scale them to any size. You can also use a flag as a template to cut and make flags from other papers, such as recycled wrapping paper, wallpaper, magazines, maps, or security envelopes. Or maybe even scraps of cute fabrics!
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Never been to a top swimming event? Then you are missing some great action. Learn more below about becoming a voice in the crowd.
There are loads of great aquatics competitions each year; exciting national and international battles fought by Olympians, Paralympians and world champions.
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British Gas Diving Championships
Plymouth Life Centre
20 - 22 February 2015
The best British divers compete in this event each year as they battle it out to secure their spot on the British team.
Line-up yet to be announced.
Ticket details yet to be announced
British Para-Swimming International Meet
Tollcross International Swimming Centre
26 - 29 March 2015
The British Para-Swimming International Meet heads to Glasgow for the second consecutive season with a host of international para-swimming stars expected to compete at Tollcross for the last time before the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in the same venue.
Line-up yet to be announced.
Ticket details yet to be announced
British Swimming Championships
London Aquatics Centre
14 - 18 April 2015
The British Swimming Championships will be the first major swimming event at London Aquatics Centre since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with GB's top swimmers set to battle it out for the British titles as well as selection spots for the summer international teams.
Line-up yet to be announced.
Ticket details yet to be announced
ASA National Age Group Water Polo Championships
Manchester Aquatics Centre
25 - 26 April 2015
The top junior water polo teams in the country clash in the U17 and U19 finals in Manchester with the women's and men's titles being decided in each age group.
Qualifiers and preliminaries yet to be played.
Ticket details yet to be announced
IPC World Championships
Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow
13 - 19 July 2015
Britain's top Paralympic swimmers clash with their main rivals from across the globe a year out from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Ellie Simmonds, Steph Millward, Josef Craig, Amy Marren, Jon Fox, Ollie Hynd and all Great Britain's top disability swimmers.
Tickets available on Ticketmaster - click here.
ASA National Open Water Championships
Rother Valley Country Park
2 - 3 August 2015
The top age group and youth open water swimmers battle it out for the national title at the picturesque Rother Valley in one of the ASA's best events.
Line-up yet to be announced.
Tickets details yet to be announced.
LEN European Aquatics Championships
London Aquatics Centre
The finest swimmers, divers, water polo players and synchronised swimmers converge on London for the first time since the London 2012 Olympic Games as they finalise their preparation for Rio 2016.


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Small is beautiful: from spring through to autumn, the Filzbach sports runs and tracks provide access to a wonderful walking area with trails and hikes that extend right up to Alpine altitude. The Habergschwänd mountain restaurant is located next to the mountain station at 1,280m above sea level.
A handful of walks run from all round the Mürtschen and Fronalp massif to Walsaweg (from Mollis to Sargans), and then continue right into the mysterious Mürtschen and Murg valley. The ground rope garden and fun with kick scooters also enjoy widespread popularity. The Schabzig High Altitude Trail leads through pristine, unique natural landscapes with an incomparable view of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sardona Tectonic Arena as well as the Glarus region. Whether you just want to enjoy nature or are looking for fun and excitement, this region with its modern leisure facilities including a high wire garden and a downhill scooter run is well worth a trip.
A 7km sledding track that runs from a height of 1,280 metres above sea level down to the valley station in Filzbach is maintained in the lower section of the skiing region. At the foot of the Fronalp massif, the small Schilt/Mulleren skiing area offers its pistes for all to enjoy. Both areas also lend themselves to an abundance of snowshoe and winter walks.


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Over at the LRC blog, a reader writes in to say how Grand Theft Auto 4, currently the best selling video game on the market, contains dialog that compares unions to the mafia. At one point the main character is told: "union's just another word for mafia."
Ultimately the pop culture video game comparison of union bosses to mafia dons is more than mere tongue-and-cheek.
As currently constituted, with their many compulsory unionism special privileges, some union officials run what could be compared to a classic mafia enterprise: the protection racket.
Wikipedia defines a protection racket as follows:
an extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coerces other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase "protection" services against various external threats.
In the case of unions, union bosses frequently paint employers to be exploitive and then demand that workers pay money in exchange for "representation." At the same time, in forced-dues states, employees are threatened with the loss of their job if they refuse to pay for the so-called "representation," whether or not the employees want it.
And for another example of how compulsory unionism leads to union officials' involvement in organized crime, watch this video:


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—REVLIMID Recognized for 'Special Therapeutic Development'—
North Hollywood, CA - September 25, 2008 - The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) today noted REVLIMID® was granted the Prix Galien USA 2008 Award for Special Therapeutic Development, and congratulated Celgene and all of the researchers, patients and physicians who helped in the drug's development. REVLIMID is an oral cancer drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma. The Prix Galien Award, considered to be the highest accolade for pharmaceutical research and development, was presented during a ceremony in New York City on September 24.
Susie Novis, president and co-founder of the IMF said, "REVLIMID, along with the other novel therapies, signals an era where incurable cancers will be transformed into chronic, manageable diseases. Myeloma patients are well aware of the contributions this drug has made to improving outcomes, and we are pleased that the esteemed Prix Galien awards committee has recognized that same value."
The Prix Galien Award recognizes the technical, scientific and clinical research skills necessary to develop innovative medicines. Prix Galien is considered by many to be the pharmaceutical industry's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The recognition of REVLIMID was one of 6 pharmaceutical awards presented by Prix Galien this year and is the only one in the field of multiple myeloma.
David Girard, IMF Executive Director, added, "As the award criteria state, REVLIMID is a prime example of 'pharmaceutical science that improves the human condition,' and offers life-changing benefits to myeloma patients and the medical community."
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow that affects production of blood cells. It affects an estimated 750,000 people worldwide, and in industrialized countries it is being diagnosed in growing numbers and in increasingly younger people.
Prix Galien was first established in 1970 by French pharmacist Roland Mehl and was inaugurated in the United States in September 2007. The Prix Galien USA awards committee comprises 11 individuals including Nobel Laureates, founders of major biotech companies and editors of world-renowned biology journals.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION The International Myeloma Foundation is the oldest and largest myeloma organization, reaching more than 185,000 members in 113 countries worldwide. A 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients and their families, the IMF focuses in four key areas: research, education, support and advocacy. To date, the IMF has conducted more than 200 educational seminars worldwide, maintains a world-renowned hotline, and operates Bank on a Cure®, a unique gene bank to advance myeloma research. The IMF was rated as the number one resource for patients in an independent survey by the Target Research Group. The IMF can be reached at (800) 452-CURE, or out of the United States at +1-818-487-7455. More information is available at www.myeloma.org.
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The canvas works really well – gives the throw pillow stability and shape. I used the cheap flannel this time. Usually I prefer wool, but the cheap stuff works really well for this project. (And, knowing these pillows will probably end up serving as a path over 'hot lava' or elements of various couch forts, I'll panic less knowing that these pillows weren't that costly.) I would also suggest HeatNBond on the heavier side. I used a light-weight one and it took some effort to get it to work with the heavier felt and canvas.
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CalliDecember 17, 2009 at 11:00 pm
So cute Amy, I think I need to make one or two for me. It may not happen until January… but it looks so fun and easy, I can't wait to make a pillow.
Kim WalusDecember 17, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Love those pillows. I just wish I had time to make them. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
amberDecember 17, 2009 at 11:02 pm
way cute, I love them
MollyDecember 18, 2009 at 12:11 am
Darling pillows !! But I am going to have to add them to my list for next year, which I probably will start working on Dec. 26th !! Thanks for sharing
Sew Create It - JaneDecember 18, 2009 at 5:02 am
Cute pillow and great tutorial! :o)
Aunt SpicyDecember 18, 2009 at 5:30 am
props on the airplane engineering!

oh and the pillow tutorial is great as well 🙂
LauraDecember 18, 2009 at 9:12 am
I'm filing this away for next year. Thanks for sharing, you ubertalented lady, you!
IsaDecember 18, 2009 at 9:40 am
Lovely pillows!
Thank you for sharing
SherriDecember 18, 2009 at 10:08 am
So cute…all of them! Oh, and love the airplane sculpture too!
AlisaDecember 18, 2009 at 11:23 am
I love the snowflake pillow. What kind of felt did you use?
angelaDecember 18, 2009 at 11:33 am
Awesome Duplo airplane! And I love those pillows, too. The red and white are such a striking combo.
TerresaDecember 18, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Working with felt is fun and forgiving; it makes all sorts of crafts seem possible, even to someone who breaks a needle in my sewing machine pretty much every time I sew something.

Love the tutorials, keep 'em coming!
V and Co.December 18, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Petit ElefantDecember 18, 2009 at 9:40 pm
For the record, I love the airplane sculpture, nice work.

The pillows are AWESOME, the look like something straight out of a West Elm catalog.
Blogless meDecember 19, 2009 at 3:58 am
Lovely work – makes me want to make a pillow or two – just don't tell my husband 😉 I was also wondering what type of felt you use.
Congratulations to the young constructor – well done sweetheart!
Have a joyful and cosy Christmas!
leraDecember 20, 2009 at 10:18 am
Cute pillows, Amy.
Nanette Merrill and daughtersDecember 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Oh I so understand the 3 year old wanting to be part of things. Sweet. The pillows are all lovely. I especially like them grouped together with the vintage kids pillow.
KristenDecember 4, 2010 at 12:23 am
YAY!! So cute, I can't wait to make one for my sister for X-mas, thanks for re-posting it.
And as we speak my son and his 2 BFF's are hanging out in the living room with LEGOs everywhere. What boy doesn't love them?
NimaDecember 17, 2012 at 9:42 am
lovely pillows. I would love to invite you for the christmas pillow linky party in my blog. Please do come and join the party with your lovely pillow
withajoyfulheartDecember 7, 2013 at 6:56 am
Visiting over from your 60 degree triangle star pillow…love this, simple yet makes a statement. What a great design!
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#2. Slimer, The Real Ghostbusters
For a long time, it was mandatory for all cartoons about crime fighters, adventurers, rock bands and ghost hunters to have a pet mascot with a speech impediment. The Real Ghostbusters good-naturedly tried to adhere to that rule while paying homage to the original movie. The trouble was, they weren't really spoiled for choice in terms of characters. The only real options were that party pooper ghost that reads books, the spirit of a dead fat man or the monster-dog that lives in Dana Barrett's fridge.
Children will be so torn over which one they love the most.
Regardless of which supernatural being they chose, there would always be the weird underlying issue of a ghost helping the living to eradicate other ghosts. It's like if Sacagawea's entire contribution to American history was helping settlers subjugate Native Americans.
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Cracked has mentioned before the horrifying implications behind the work of the Ghostbusters. Upon discovering that life exists after death, the three scientists respond by trapping that life in a tiny box, presumably for eternity. Equating it to a prison doesn't even do it justice. The holding center for all the spirits is more like an internment camp for the supernatural, and helping to cram all the ghosts into a box, ensuring them an eternity of misery, is the lovable Slimer. That is, when he's not busy eating a bunch of cheeseburgers!
Slimer is the only connection between worlds. He is the only ghost who can explain to the Ghostbusters that what they're doing is wrong. In fact, he's the only ghost who can even open his mouth in their presence without fear of it being violated by a thick proton stream. Yet he does nothing. Worse than nothing, he helps round up all the spirits and lock them away in exchange for hoagies. Every single ghost in existence must despise that duplicitous fat asshole.
#1. Gizmo, Gremlins
If you could isolate the most adorable characteristics from every pet imaginable, surgically remove those features and then sew them all onto one superpet, you would have a Mogwai. For anyone who's horrified by that prospect, prepare to be adorified by one driving a remote control car.
Gizmo is the original Mogwai in the movie and also the accidental source of all Gremlins that overrun a town. But like any responsible protagonist, Gizmo does what he can to clean up the mess by killing off the Gremlins. There's just one problem ...
The Ultimate Betrayal
Each one of those Gremlins is just the adult version of a Mogwai, and what's more, they are all the offspring of Gizmo. From a purely biological standpoint, Mogwais are creatures that reproduce asexually when exposed to water, and they live through two stages of life separated by a metamorphosis. Just like a caterpillar building a chrysalis and becoming a butterfly, the Mogwai encloses itself in a cocoon after gorging on food and grows into a Gremlin. Gizmo is essentially a Gremlin stuck in the larva state who refuses to take the necessary step (eating after midnight) to grow up. Not only does he hate the adult version of his species, but he actively helps the humans execute them.
Gizmo is like a worse version of Hellboy because he doesn't have the long history with a person to explain his loyalty to humanity. Gizmo is only Billy's pet for a few days before turning his back on the entire Gremlin species in favor of his owner. Then Gizmo murders his children in an effort to stop the proliferation of his own race.
Ultimately, Gizmo is a maladaptive, self-hating creature that actively tries to end his progeny. No wonder the other Mogwai hate him so much.
If Mogwai ever build a statue, I think we all know who it will actually commemorate.
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5 Oddly Specific Lies We Believe About Foreigners
For most of human history, we could make up whatever we wanted to about people who lived in different lands or practiced strange faiths. If you lived in 17th century England and wanted to spread a rumor about how Japanese people bathed themselves using live seagulls as soap, it wasn't like anyone could call up Japan and check.
And yet even with the infinite range of bullshit that humanity could invent about outsiders, over the course of history most of the stuff we've come up with has fit into a small number of very specific categories. What's weirder still is that even though we're living in a time when untrue rumors can be debunked by a short smartphone search while we're on the toilet, a lot of us still believe these things. For example, we keep believing that ...
#5. They Are Having Hidden Religious Sex
A guy in the Middle East once told me that on Christmas Eve, Christians in the West attend midnight services that are actually orgies. He said that at midnight in these churches, "all the lights go off" and "you can imagine what happens next." I tried to tell him that the majority of people in the West go to Christmas services with their families, and that most of us can valiantly fight to overcome our lust toward our children and parents even on the blackest of nights. He didn't seem convinced, though, and that's probably because this particular rumor is several times older than America. The idea of a Christian "dark midnight sex service" has been around since Christianity was still a minority religion in the Roman Empire. According to the Roman stories, worshipers would even train a dog to knock over a lamp at a certain time, plunging the church into glorious, incestuous darkness.
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This dog spent most of the afternoon humping a pool float, and he's still the least deviant thing in this ritual.
It isn't just Christianity that is rumored by its enemies to have more poorly lit incest than a Supernatural fan-fic convention. A minority Muslim sect called the Alevi faces widespread discrimination in Turkey to this day, because somehow this completely different religion has picked up the exact same rumor about pitch-black religious orgies. Clearly, something about unfamiliar worship services causes the human mind to make the jump to "They're taking their clothes off and sticking their dicks in each other," because variations of this rumor can be found far outside the Muslim world. In Europe from the 15th century onward, witches were the ones rumored to be having sex at secret nighttime religious gatherings. During the 1980s, Americans of all kinds became convinced that Satanist groups were stripping naked and getting it on in their local woods at night, which sounds like a great way to get your Dark Lord to bless you with Lyme disease.
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#4. They're Not Having Any Normal Sex at All
A while back, I co-wrote an article that attempted to debunk a long-standing myth about Orthodox Jewish couples being required to have sex through a hole in a bed sheet. Since then, many people have insisted that Cracked got that part wrong. Not about Jews, mind you: It was simply that our debunking had targeted the wrong religious group.
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Looking at these corrections, it's clear that any even slightly isolated religion will be targeted by those who've come together to express a simple, eternal human need: the desire to find somebody who fucks bed sheets. The sheet-humping rumor is harder to remove than any weird stain on your Egyptian cotton, despite the fact that if you think about it for 10 seconds, the whole concept is pretty ridiculous. Where do the lady's legs go? Don't the sheets get all tangled and hitched up? Do any of the sheet-fucking religious groups overlap with the midnight-church-fucking ones, and if so, do they bring their sheets to the midnight fuck-service? When the lights go off, have there been occasions where everyone's running around in the dark wearing their sheets, and people mistake each other for ghosts or KKK members?
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Does this make things more or less sexy?
Whatever the answers to these eternal questions, it's clear that a lot of us are invested in the idea that People Who Aren't Us are ridiculously repressed about human sexuality. Take the story of Victorians covering chair legs because the word "leg" reminded them of shameful human parts: It started as a myth written by a British travel writer about Americans, and now Americans cling to it as a way to make fun of prudish Victorian Brits. Medieval chastity belts are even more obviously impractical than dick-sheets: Do we really believe that it was common for women to wear a belt that rubs trapped poop all around her chafed genital area during an era when treatment for a UTI probably consisted of doctors trying to beat the E. coli out of you? And yet the belief endures that every Crusader put his wife in one.
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On the plus side, the smell would probably keep unwanted suitors away.
#3. They're Stealing Our Children
When foreigners and assorted religious minorities are not polluting bedwear or having God-orgies, they're fond of slipping out and stealing a few of our children. The "child-stealing outsider" rumor has been going on probably since the first time we accused the Neanderthal settlement down the road of abducting young Grug and framing a hyena for the crime. History's most popular reputed child stealers are probably the Gypsies, but anyone vaguely unusual will also do. In the Roman Empire, Christians were accused of snatching children, stabbing them up like they were the last piece of bread at a fondue party, and using their blood for religious rituals. When Christianity spread deeper into Europe and became the majority religion, everyone learned from this earlier bullying and avoided spreading any rumors of the sort. Oh wait, no: Some of them accused the Jews of doing the exact same thing.
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It was the Canadians the whole time.
Europeans aren't the only ones who are obsessed with kid-grabbing outsiders, either. China's anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was caused in part by rumors that a Catholic mission was abducting children, mutilating them, and using their body parts to make medicine. In Guatemala in the '90s, after a civil war led to thousands of displaced children and a rise in foreign adoption, a rumor sprung up that foreigners were actually stealing the orphans' organs and exporting them to the U.S., maybe in order to build some sort of weaponized super-Guatemalan out of all the parts. These rumors led to a riot that left an American woman in a coma.
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"It's set the Guatemala 5000 Project back by at least 30 years."
But at least such xenophobic rumors are behind us now, right? Except that in the distant past of October 2013, our stolen-child sense started tingling again when Greek officials discovered a blonde-haired girl living with a Roma couple who seemed too suspiciously swarthy to be her biological parents. Newspapers started sobbing about the trafficking of tow-headed innocents into poverty-stricken Gypsy compounds, and authorities soon raided Roma households in Ireland and seized several unusually blond children from there as well. After a few days, investigators discovered that the Greek girl had been given to the parents to care for by a lighter-haired Roma woman, a completely normal occurrence in a culture that commonly practices informal adoption. The Irish kids' dusky kidnappers also turned out to have an excuse: They were the biological parents. After that, the media stopped caring about those kids and the poverty that was punching them in the face daily, because they were Gypsies all along, so who gives a shit.


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LINDEN – For her sake, it can only be hoped that the first blow to her head killed her instantly.
Or at least, it can be hoped that it knocked her out cold, so she never was consciously aware of the vicious onslaught that followed.
It happened more than 95 years ago, on Nov. 12, 1917, in a wooded area of a farmer's property in the tiny, usually peaceful Genesee County hamlet of Linden, about 40 miles east of Buffalo. It was a horrific murder that remains unsolved to this day, along with the brutal murders of at least four other people who were slain – possibly by a serial killer – in or near Linden.
The case still fascinates and intrigues. The current county judge was still hearing about the case when he was district attorney. And an author who has studied the evidence now says he is almost certain he knows who did it, while others who know the case still are not sure.
Late that chilly November morning, a short young woman, perhaps 25 to 30 years old, was seen walking up a crooked road leading into the woods near the intersection of Route 63 and Bethany-Center Road.
The woman wore a black plush coat. Witnesses saw a man walking with her.
A short while later, the man was seen emerging from the woods. This time, he was alone. The woman never came out alive.
Farmer Frank Hunt, owner of the property, found her body three days later while looking for some kindling wood. When he kicked aside some loose leaves and branches, he spotted a young face – battered beyond belief – looking back at him.
Police photographs of the victim showed a face so gashed and disfigured that it barely looked human. Investigators never identified the victim, and never made any arrests. For lack of a real name, they dubbed the mystery woman "Ruth."
Linden was a pretty, usually quiet community of apple orchards, corn fields and about 100 people within the Town of Bethany, about midway between Batavia and Attica. Residents were frightened and upset.
Less than five years later, on Oct. 17, 1922, they had reason to be scared again. This time, the victim was someone almost everyone in Linden knew. She was 73-year-old spinster Frances Lenora Kimball, a feisty and outspoken critic of alcohol consumption. The hard-working, deeply religious woman grew apples and sold milk and eggs at her 60-acre home off Linden Road near Skates Hill Road.
A family friend found her body hidden away in the dark cellar of her home. Like "Ruth," her head had been bashed in.
"Fiendish Murder Of Aged Woman Has Elements Of Fearful Mystery," screamed the headline of Batavia's Daily News.
"Wedged into an empty apple bin, lying on her side, terribly disfigured, her brains protruding, her cheek bones broken, the body of the aged woman presented a spectacle to haunt the dreams of the most stone-hearted for many a night to come," the newspaper's crime reporter wrote.
The newspaper called Kimball "the manifest object of the pent-up and deliberate fury of the animal's blows."
An autopsy showed that Kimball had been clobbered about 20 times on the right side of her head with a heavy instrument. Semen was found on her clothing.
So savage was the beating that fragments of her false teeth were founded scattered on the basement floor.
"The peaceful village of Linden has never been stirred to such excitement," The Buffalo Evening News reported. "Villagers today were amazed that such a hideous crime could be committed in their midst."
But for Linden, the worst was yet to come.
A 'maniac' on the loose
Seventeen months passed, with no arrests in the Kimball case. On March 11, 1924, someone killed Thomas Whaley, a 65-year-old railroad worker; his 63-year-old wife, Hattie; and their friend and neighbor, Mabel Morse, 51, whose family ran Linden's only general store. Their bodies were found in the Whaley home on Silver Road near Linden Road.
The killer – called "a maniac" by the Buffalo newspaper – had shot both Whaleys and repeatedly struck Morse in the head. The killer put their bodies in a pile, covered them with old rugs and set the rugs on fire. Neighbors found the bodies after breaking into the house to put out the flames.
Police believed the Whaleys were killed first. They theorized that Morse was killed when she found their bodies after stopping by to get some milk from the Whaleys.
Howard Morse, the victim's son, lived in Buffalo. According to news reports, he received a strange telephone call that night from an unknown person who said, "You will never see your mother again."
"This case is as great a mystery as the Kimball case," remarked Genesee County's district attorney, Albert J. Waterman.
A reward of $7,000 – big money in those days – was posted for information leading to the arrest of the killer. That was in addition to another $1,800 that had been posted during the search for Kimball's killer.
Fear gripped the community, even worse than it had after the other two murders. Linden residents worried that they would become the killer's next targets. A special detachment of state troopers was temporarily assigned to roam Linden on horseback at night, watching for suspicious characters.
In the two weeks after the triple murders, police interviewed just about every one of Linden's adult males, detaining large groups of men for questioning in the county jail.
After news stories accusing police of "bungling" the case, Rochester Police Capt. John McDonald, an expert in major homicide cases, was brought in to head the investigation. Cops theorized that at least some Linden residents knew the killer's identity, but were too scared to come forward.
"We have questioned many people in Linden and several of them appear to be holding something back, in fear of their lives," McDonald said. "It seems impossible that these things happening in this little cluster of houses should be veiled entirely in mystery."
Community gripped by fear
Current Linden resident May Dembowski, 78, has been hearing tales about the murders since she was a little girl. Her late father, Richard Mallison, knew the Whaleys, the Kimballs and the Morses.
People certainly were scared, wondering who would be the next victim. Quite possibly, they were scared enough to keep quiet about what they knew, Dembowski said.
"My father was at the Whaleys' house that night, after they were killed. He always remembered the coroner coming out of the house and saying, 'There's no life in here,' " Dembowski said. "My dad was so scared, he slept in his mom's bed for the next few nights after that."
Her father was in his early teens at the time. He told Dembowski that, about a year after the slayings, he was walking around Attica one day when an older man walked up to him and said, "Tell me what you saw in the murder house!"
That incident, and the murders themselves, haunted Mallison for the rest of his life. He always locked every door and shut every blind in his home.
"If his car was parked in the driveway, and he had to go get something from his car, he would lock up the house when he'd walk out to his car, even for a few seconds," Dembowski said.
Mallison was not the only fearful one in Linden. "Those murders cast a pall on Linden … Quite a few people moved out. Everything about Linden just went to hell," Dembowski said.
"People started buying rifles. People were unnerved," said William F. Brown Jr., a longtime journalist from Batavia and a correspondent for The Buffalo News who wrote his own book on the murders in 1984.
When she was a teenager, teens from nearby communities would ask her what it was like to "live in Murder Town," Dembowski recalled.
Police grilled most of Linden's 58 male residents after the murders at the Whaley house, but to no avail.
"We will not give up the search until the slayer is found," vowed State Police Capt. Winn Robinson.
Robinson made that statement more than 89 years ago, but no arrest has ever been made.
But now, an Attica author and researcher named Rob R. Thompson – with help from a retired FBI agent – has taken an extensive new look at the evidence. He claims to have determined the identity of the killer.
"I'm at least 98 percent certain that the killer was Andrew Michel," Thompson said.
Thompson, a former mental health counselor who has also done paranormal research, said he re-investigated the murders for more than a year for his new book, "The Linden Murders … Solved." He said he read through thousands of pages of police reports on the murders, including the private notes made by investigators who worked on the case. He said Mark E. Safarik, a retired FBI agent who is a former violent crime analyst at the FBI Academy, helped him to analyze the material.
"Everything we looked at kept leading me to one man – Andrew Michel. He is by far the most likely suspect," Thompson said. "I believe he had the motive and the means to commit these murders … I believe he was a psychopath."
According to Thompson, Michel died at age 77 in a Rochester mental institution in 1960. Although media reports indicate that he was questioned by police more than once about the murders, he was never charged with any of them. Thompson said he is not aware of any physical evidence linking Michel to the murders.
At the time of the slayings, Michel lived in Linden near Kimball and the Whaleys. He had worked on local farms, at a steel plant and on the railroad. Shortly after the Whaley and Morse murders, he moved out of Linden to nearby Attica.
Based on his research, Thompson lists a number of reasons for his conclusion that Michel was the killer:
• Michel had reasons to bear grudges against Kimball, the Whaleys and Morse.
• Kimball had reportedly "squealed on" him for illegally making hard cider, and she had appeared as a witness against him in an animal cruelty case. Months before she was killed, she argued with Michel over the drinking habits of her brother, William Kimball.
• According to an investigator's notes, Thomas Whaley in 1923 had identified Michel as a suspect in an arson case. He had also refused to lend Michel money. Hattie Whaley once told a neighbor she suspected that Michel killed Kimball.
• Michel was upset with Morse's family over financial matters. Two weeks before the murders at the Whaley home, Mabel Morse's husband, George Morse, had sent Michel a letter, telling him that he could not have any more credit at the Morse family's general store until he paid up a debt of $160.
• At least some Linden residents felt that Michel had a nasty streak of violence. At age 28, Michel had been fined $25 after he was accused of beating a horse with a piece of wood so violently that one of the horse's eyes had been knocked out. The lead witness against Michel in that case was Frances Kimball.
• While Michel repeatedly told police he had nothing to do with any of the murders, a man named Brad Burroughs told detectives that he once heard Michel make angry threats to kill Kimball, someone from the Morse family and others. "I am going to get them and kill them if it takes 10 or 15 years," Michel allegedly said in about 1916.
• At least two people who had run-ins with Michel, including local Justice of the Peace Maurice Nelon, later were victimized by serious arson fires on their properties. Witnesses, including Thomas Whaley, told police they saw Michel leaving the Nelan fire scene, but he was never charged with any arson.
• According to Thompson, Michel worked clearing wood in the area where the mystery woman's body was found in 1917.
But police never charged Michel with any of the murders. Twelve days after the Whaley-Morse murders, police told the Buffalo newspaper that Michel had been "freed of suspicion" after lengthy questioning.
A detective noted that the right-handed Michel had only one finger on his right hand because of a buzz saw accident that occurred in his youth. That one finger was "twice the size of an ordinary finger" and would not fit into the trigger guard of the type of handgun allegedly used to shoot the Whaleys, the detective remarked.
"I still believe he shot them, with his left hand," Thompson said. "They were shot from very close range, so you didn't need to be an expert shot."
Long dead, Michel cannot defend himself against these allegations. According to a court document cited by Thompson, a petition was filed in Wyoming County Court in 1958, asking a judge to declare him mentally incompetent. Two years later, he died in a Rochester mental hospital. The News was unsuccessful in repeated efforts to track down any living relatives of Michel.
No conclusive answers
Jeff Donahue is the museum director of the Holland Land Claim Museum in Batavia, where some artifacts from the Linden murders probe – including locks of hair from the mystery woman "Ruth" and telephone wires that were cut at the Kimball house – are kept. Brown is the veteran newsman who wrote his book on the Linden murders in 1984. Both Donahue and Brown feel Thompson is making a real stretch by pronouncing that Michel was the killer.
"I don't think it's fair. You're accusing someone who has no chance to defend himself," Brown said. "I don't think it was Andrew Michel, although it is possible. I spent six months looking at thousands of pages of testimony from that case, and I could not come up with any conclusive answers."
Donahue thinks it is just as possible that the murders were committed by "a transient" – someone who occasionally passed through Linden, perhaps hopping rides on freight trains. Police did question several "vagrants," but never charged any of them.
Others have suggested that the murders were committed by a deranged person who lived at the old Genesee County Poor House, a spooky-looking building that housed the poor, the elderly and some mental patients who could not fend for themselves. Closed since the 1970s, the poor house is not far from the murder scenes. It is now called the Rolling Hills Asylum. Some believe it is haunted. It has been featured on several "ghost hunter" television shows.
In Thompson's view there were two other unsolved murders in Genesee County, not far from Linden, that could have been the work of the same killer.
Workers digging in a gravel pit in Oakfield in late October 1929 uncovered a human skull, and then a skeleton. A coroner's examination showed that the victim had been a young man of about 20. He had been beaten about the head by "a powerful assailant, apparently in extreme rage." The body was never identified, the killer never arrested.
In late May 1934, someone used a blunt instrument to kill one-armed farmer Benjamin Phillips, 76. Phillips was beaten about the head. The killer set fire to his body and his bedroom. Phillips lived in the Town of Alexander, close to Attica, where Michel then lived. No arrest was ever made.
Genesee County Judge Robert C. Noonan worked in the DA's office from 1980 until 1996. He spent the last nine years of that tenure as the county's district attorney. For a time, he became fascinated with the Linden murders, and he sometimes gave speeches about the murders.
Noonan today calls the murders "the ancient skeleton in the closet of Genesee County."
"There was still a lot of interest about it when I was DA," Noonan said in an interview for this story. "I had people tell me, 'My father told me who the killer was, but I can't tell you.' I was curious about it, but I concluded that the killer was long gone by the time I was in office … I never came to any conclusion on who the murderer was."
"It's probably the most notorious series of unsolved crimes ever in Genesee County," Thompson said.
Brown, who is in his 80s, said people who live in and around Linden will probably always wonder about the case.
"I don't think it'll ever be solved," Brown said. "The State Police have told me that a murder case is never closed. But I think this one is closed."
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The View added a guy to the gab on Monday: 2-month, 2-days-old Taylor Thomas Hasselbeck, whose mother, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, returned to the ABC daytime show with her baby in her arms.
"I thought I'd bring a little testosterone to the table today," said Hasselbeck, as Taylor alternated between being wide-eyed in his new environment and crying like a baby for co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd (Barbara Walters was said to be on assignment).
"He's huge," she admitted. "He's almost like 12 pounds, I think. He's just constantly on me. I call myself the Dairy Queen."
Hasselbeck also said that Taylor bites her boobs, which, she also admitted, "are huge."
Having announced her pregnancy in April, Hasselbeck, 30, began her maternity leave on Oct. 23.
Taylor was born Nov. 9, 2007. Dad is Hasselbeck's husband, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.
The couple also have another child, Grace, 2, whom her mother described on Monday's View as "such a good big sister."
As for Hasselbeck's very fit shape, Shepherd said, "You don't even look like you were pregnant."
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6 Reasons You Really Can't Believe Anything You Read Online
Everyone knows that the media can be and is manipulated. The problem is that people assume that there's some guy like Robert De Niro's character in Wag the Dog behind the curtain. They think, If we can just catch that guy.
The problem is that guy doesn't really exist. Like with most kinds of negligence, corruption or racket, the problem is much more systemic than it is overt. In fact when you pull back the curtain, what you find is that the usually the media is the one manipulating itself.
Media manipulation isn't new, by the way; people have been complaining about bias and lies in the media since there was a media to complain about. The Internet just found brand new reasons the media is totally fucked. Reasons like ...
#6. Page Views, Page Views, Page Views
There's basically one way to make money in online publishing: advertising. Advertising is almost exclusively sold by the page view (and even when it's not--that's what you're actually buying).
This is the metric that blogs live and die by -- whether they're trying to make money or show growth to investors or possible acquirers. It's also how bloggers themselves are paid. The only problem is you've got to get millions and millions to make much of a profit.
Take Business Insider. They have a simple rule of thumb: Each blogger must produce enough page views to cover their salary three times over for the site to be able to pay overhead, sales, hosting, and so forth. In other words, if your salary at Business Insider is $50K a year (to live in New York, no less), you have to produce close to 2 MILLION page views a month or you're fired. That's slightly better than when Weblogs Inc used to pay bloggers at sites like Slashfood $4 per post, but it's still a fucking grind.
And leads to having to make some hard lifestyle sacrifices.
A few months ago, the Washington Post announced it was hiring a blogger. The job? Just a measly 12 posts a day. Other sites, like Gawker, don't play the volume game but give bonuses for hitting page view quotas. And they have a big flat screen TV in the office that ranks the writers and their articles by traffic. It's basically the same message: Hit your marks or get out.
Even Cracked, which is a pretty cool website that values quality, is subject to this mentality to some degree. You can bet if this article does seven page views, that's going to change whether I get asked back.
Is that going to warp what people write? Well, the next time you see a 16-page slideshow of celebrity underboob, you have your answer.
[Editorial Note: Hey, Ryan, we'll support you whether you get seven or 7 million page views, because we respect our writers here, but, anyway, is that "Celebrity Underboob" thing your idea? We'd love to have it for the site.]
The future?
#5. Conflicts of Interest
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In 2011, a guy named Michael Arrington decided to start a venture capital fund to invest in Silicon Valley startups and tech companies. It's crowded space with a lot of smart people who have made a lot of money over the years. But Michael was convinced he had an advantage on all of them. That advantage? He's the founder and editor of a little blog called TechCrunch, which is basically the single most important and influential blog in the entire industry.
Some might call raising $27 million to invest in the companies you write about (as well as getting insider information about them as a journalist) a glaring and totally unethical conflict of interest. On the other hand, Jay Gould would have probably found the hustle delightful.
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Anyway, basically every blog you read -- particularly those in the technology and financial space -- is similarly conflicted. Take the somewhat new blog PandoDaily, which covers startups and technology. Their investors? Guys like Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh and Chris Dixon. To clue you in on who they are, they are the owners and investors of sites like PayPal, Zappos, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare -- or, you know, the exact companies PandoDaily writes about every day. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, just dropped $5 million of capital into Business Insider, which writes about Amazon constantly.
Of course, the real conflict of interest online is much more subtle but pernicious. If bloggers are paid by the view, then they have a financial decision to make each time they write and publish: Do I stick with the boring facts or do I spice things up? Will facts drive more clicks (more money) than an EXCITING and INCENDIARY or OTHERWISE UNDERBOOB-FILLED title?
In other words, every blog post is a conflict of interest.
#4. It's All About Provoking a Reaction
What's the best way to get page views? It's to write something that other people share on Facebook, on Twitter, on Tumblr, via email, wherever. That's why those big icons are there on every post and video you see. It turns out that as readers, we have certain buttons that make us press those buttons (see what I did there?)
Jonah Berger has done some fascinating studies on what makes articles go viral. It turns out that the No. 1 predictor of an article making the New York Times Most E-Mailed List is how angry it makes the reader. Not that anger is the only thing that works out; basically any extreme emotion will do -- really funny, really arousing, really awesome, really anxious, really afraid. Because think about it: When was the last time you read an article and thought, "Oh OK," and then proceeded to tell everyone in your life about it?
"The Royal Baby's name is STILL George? I HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE!"
Buzzfeed has basically reduced this to a science, as well. They know we love to share nostalgia, and they know we don't like to share sad things. So they produce their listicles accordingly. It's not a coincidence that the tags on the front page of the site are all Internet shorthand for viral emotions: LOL, win, omg, cute, trashy, fail, WTF.
So everything has to be controversial and provocative. Even when it actually isn't (like this fun Gawker headline when Obama did a Reddit AMA: "Obama Grants Interview to Racist Teen Nude Picture Website").
Provoking a reaction has another lucrative benefit for online publishers: It drives comments. The Huffington Post does something like 70 MILLION user comments a year (and, remember, to leave a comment you have to go to a login page and give personal info away). How do sites do it? By baiting you -- by making you so angry or so enthused with agreement that you simply must give them free content and page views by posting your opinion. In other words, that blog post about Trayvon Martin that really moved you? The writer doesn't actually care -- they just cared that you care.
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"I come from the old school. If we believe people are committing a crime, we don't slap their wrist - they serve time for their crime," he said."
Whew!! I had no idea Campana was a "closeted" old-fart!!
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Campana"s philosophy is actually what is wrong with the entire Lycoming County Judicial system.. Punishment, punishment and more punishment as long as the cells are full we can build an empire on punishment. Rehabilitative measures to reduce cost and head count won't work well to to secure a new wanted "unneeded" $40 million facility in which " the punishment will continue,until the morale improves". The current prison system is nothing short of a concentration camp, where by inmates are given zero rehabilitative care. While there is a need for day reporting centers to assist in return to society for inmates, the rehabilitation should begin on day one of any incarceration period regardless of being tried or simply held for trial. In the current system as an untried (Assumed Innocent) individual you are actually more restricted to any rehabilitation, work detail or educational opportunities simply because you don't qualify to be given these choices. You j
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The four men arrested after a deadly shooting at a Winter Springs VFW were officially charged in the case Friday.
Three Warlocks club members, Harold Liddle, David Jakiela and Peter Schlette, were shot and killed in late September.
Victor Amaro, Robert Eckert, David Maloney and Paul Smith were each charged with three counts of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree murder. Amaro was also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.
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BELLEVILLE — A southwestern Illinois judge has approved certain genetic evidence for use in the trial of a man accused in a decades-old killing of a teenager.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports St. Clair County Circuit Judge Zina Cruse has ruled that possible DNA evidence found under the fingernails of 1989 murder victim Nicole Willis is admissible.
An attorney for defendant 52-year-old Carlos Garrett has argued such evidence should be excluded because of admittedly questionable evidence handling in the case by Centreville police.
Prosecutors allege the evidence links Garrett to the death of 16-year-old Willis. Her naked, beaten and strangled body was found in a field near her home.
Garrett's trial now is scheduled to begin May 19. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Moog Inc.'s first-quarter profits slipped by 6 percent, and the Elma-based motion control equipment maker trimmed its earnings forecast for this year as weakness in its industrial markets slowed its sales growth, the company said Friday.
"We're off to a slow start in 2013," said John Scannell, Moog's chief executive officer, in a statement.
"The weakness in the major economies around the world is affecting our industrial business," he said. "On the other had, the aircraft market is strong."
Moog's profits fell to $34.1 million, or 75 cents per share, during the quarter that ended in December, compared with $36.4 million, or 80 cents per share, a year ago. The company's sales rose by 3 percent to $661 million from $601 million.
Earnings in Moog's industrial products business tumbled by 43 percent, and sales fell by 6 percent as the European and Chinese markets for the company's wind energy products weakened significantly.
"Industrial remains the big area of focus for the next couple of quarters," Scannell said in an interview. "The U.S., in the industrial business, has been strong. Asia has kind of stabilized at a lower level, and the weakness we've seen this quarter is coming out of Europe."
That weakness offset strong results from the company's aircraft controls business, where operating profits jumped by 25 percent, and sales grew by 9 percent on solid gains for both military and commercial aircraft equipment.
As a result, Moog trimmed its profit forecast for the fiscal year that ends in September by a little more than 1 percent, saying it now expects to earn about $162.5 million this year, which still would be up 7 percent from last year but less than the 8 percent increase it predicted in November.
The company also lowered its sales forecast by about 1 percent to $2.62 billion, down from its November guidance of $2.65 billion, although that still would be a 6 percent increase from last year.
"We are still projecting growth in both sales and earnings in 2013, despite the headwinds in our industrial markets," Scannell said.
Scannell said the ongoing budget uncertainty in the United States, which includes the possibility of deep spending cuts if a long-term deal can't be reached in the coming weeks to resolve lingering "fiscal cliff" issues, is unlikely to have a major impact on Moog's sales during the current fiscal year because of the longer lead times associated with its product. But it could impact sales next year, although Scannell said company executives are unsure how sequestration would play out.
"It's still a wait-and-see game," he said.
Moog's space and defense controls business also weakened during the quarter, with earnings sliding by 35 percent as sales dipped by 2 percent to $86.5 million as weaker revenues from launch vehicle equipment and NASA offset improvement in its satellite business.
The company's components business had a strong quarter, with earnings rising by 25 percent and sales jumping by 13 percent, largely on the strength of its products for the energy and medical markets.
The company's medical device business remained profitable, with flat earnings and sales during the quarter.
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An "American Idol" winner will take the stage in May at Harper-McNeely Auditorium at Davis & Elkins College. The event is a benefit for the Elkins-Randolph County YMCA....
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At the time of his tragic death on Saturday, the actor was living with daughter Meadow, 15, full time and loving every minute as an involved father.
"He told me recently he was the happiest he'd ever been," close friend Brandon Birtell tells PEOPLE. "It was directly because of the growing relationship with his daughter and the clarity that brought to his life."
In her younger years, Meadow lived in Hawaii with her mother, and Walker's onetime girlfriend, Rebecca Soteros. His own schedule meant constant travel from his California home base, but Walker's little girl was never far from his heart.
"It really affected him that he missed time with her in her early years because he was working," Walker's longtime manager and close friend Matt Luber tells PEOPLE. "It was a struggle for him. [When she moved to California], he wanted to make the most of every single moment with her. He was completely dedicated."
In fact, despite the fact that the free-spirited Walker "liked the freedom of having no roots, she was the only thing he couldn't stand being away from," adds Birtell.
So much so that Meadow and her dad would coordinate schedules to provide for ample father/daughter time together. Shares Britell: "Paul told Meadow he didn't want to take a particular movie because he didn't want to be away from her. [Meadow] asked where it would be shooting and he gave her the dates and said, 'Overseas.' She thought for a minute and said, 'That's during my summer vacation. We can do that.' "
With news of the star's passing, the Fast & Furious 7 actor's cast mates will halt filming the latest movie in the hit franchise.
"Right now, all of us at Universal are dedicated to providing support to Paul's immediate family and our extended Fast & Furious family of cast, crew and filmmakers," Universal said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
"At this time we feel it is our responsibility to shut down production on Fast & Furious 7 for a period of time so we can assess all options available to move forward with the franchise. We are committed to keeping Fast & Furious fans informed, and we will provide further information to them when we have it. Until then, we know they join us in mourning the passing of our dear friend Paul Walker."
For more on Walker's life and tragic death, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
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