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Surepath Pap Smear With Ascus Reflex To Hpv
Pap smear results came back as inflamed ascus- dr says it's inflamed normal cells. Hpv is negative. Had this happen again in 2012. What does it mean?
Probably normal: A SCUS stands for atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance. That means the cells look funny. If the HPV is negative and it remains negative this is just an outlier under the microscope. If the HPV is positive you will need a biopsy. If The atypia persist you also will get a biopsy even if the HPV is negative. So at this point the HPV test is the most important predictor of whether you havso at this point the HPV test is the most important predictor of whether you have human papilloma virus infection ...Read more
Surepath Pap (Definition)
Surepath Pap is also known as Surepath Pap smear. Surepath pap smears are a liquid based technology to perform pap smears instead of using a glass slide in the office. The advantage is that they are usually easier to read and the liquid can be used for hpv testing ...Read more
I had a slightly ASCUS Pap smear results with negative for HPV and STDs. Gyno said inflammation from sex. Should I be concerned? Follow up soon.
No to worry: This is not anything worth worrying about right now. You should follow your Gyn's instructions. Did he ask you for a 6 month or one year follow up exam. You could do either and be OK. It takes many years for anything serious to develop on your cervix. ...Read more
Abnormal pap smear result, chart online says A in "Flag" category w/ HSIL. With title "Pap IG, CT-Ng, rfx HPV ASCU what does this mean? Do I have HPV?
Follow up on this!: It is not entirely clear what this line means but let me break it down for you a bit. HSIL stands for high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion. This is one step before cervical cancer and if that's what the pap said, you need a colposcopy and cervical biopsy. CT usually means chlamydia was negative. rfx HPV means reflex HPV in the event that the pap is ASCUS. HPV is positive for most HSIL. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
My first pap smears results back as abnormal, ascus +reactive endocervical cells, HPV neg, im 17 weeks pregnant, what does this mean?
Abn pap in pregnancy: It is necessary to call your doctor about an appointment concerning your pap smear and if any treatment is necessary. ...Read more
Recently had a pap smear it was normal. But was tested for HPV and came back positive. Why would i be tested for HPV I am under 30 w/ norm pap?
You are right: In 2001, hpv dna testing was approved for asc-us triage, the reflex testing of pap tests interpreted as asc-us. In 2003, hpv dna testing received expanded labeling to be used as a co-test with the pap in women over the age of 30. Although hpv testing is not a replacement for cytology, it does provide important adjunctive information that can be useful in managing patients. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Are abnormal pap smear and HPV the same thing?
Almost: Iy is estimated that over 98% of abnormal paps are caused by hpv and over 99% of cervical cancers are caused by hpv. The pap smear is looking at the cervical cells, hpv is the virus that can infect and affect those cells. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
2010 pap smear abnormal. Colpscopy showed mild hpv. 2 normal pap smears since. Did another pap smear 4 weeks ago. If it is abnormal what is treatmen?
Pap: If there is no moderate or severe dysplasia, the most reasonable approach would be to repeat the pap again in about six months. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Does pap smear test for warts n hpv?
Usually: Usually the virus is not looked for unless your pap is abnormal. If it is abnormal, the lab I use will do what is called reflex testing for the presence or absence of the hpv virus. If your pap is normal, at his time, there is no recommended treatment for simply having the presence of the virus so unless there are visible lesions or an abnormal pap there is no further action necessary. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I've been tested for HPV with my pap smear annually for the past 3 yrs.This year my HPV test was positive. Does this mean I have always had HPV and just now showing up or did i just recently get hpv?
No just acquired: Hpv infection that causes genital papillomas , and in some cases carcinoma of cervix , you got it now , did not have it before, get it eradicated , it is difficult but not impossible, speak to your gyn doctor first. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
If my pap smear showed HPV how long could it have been there?
Since your first: Intercourse. About 25% of the population has hpv and you could have acquired it with your first intercourse or any time after that. ...Read more
Hpv (Definition)
HPV stands for Human Pappiloma Virus which is a group of Viruses that are responsible to cause Cancer of Cevix in women and Cancer of Anus and mouth in both sexes.It usully transmitted by Sexual intercourse,vaginal,anal and oral sex It is ...Read more
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A pap smear (cervical smear) is a text looking at the cells from the canal and outside of the cervix to see if any abnormalities (especially ...Read more
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Man o' man, Obama and his minions are sounding more and more like Robespierre everyday! I think the Democrats should change the name of their party to the Committee on Public Safety, if you know what I mean. WINK!
"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday. "That's going to be very, very powerful," Waters said. "That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it's never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They're going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can't get around it. And he's [President Obama] been very smart. It's very powerful what he's leaving in place." – Maxine Waters
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Journalists have experience with being labeled. People call, e-mail or comment on stories, leaving nasty personal messages, often anonymous, because we've written something they don't like.
Instead of asking us why we wrote what we did, they make assumptions about us — we're stupid liberals, dumb conservatives, idiots, "lamestream" media, etc. — and tell us how wrong we are. Sometimes letter writers do the same thing in responding to other letter writers.
There's a constant effort to label those we disagree with or who are different from us.
I was thinking about all of this as I took my daughter to see Immaculee Ilibagiza, who was in Kalamazoo recently to speak about forgiveness in association with the upcoming exhibit on race which will be in town for several months beginning this fall.
Immaculee Ilibagiza is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. A Tutsi, she hid in a bathroom with seven other women for 91 days as the Hutus ransacked the country killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994, including most of her family.
The one thing that continually sticks in my mind about the Rwandan genocide is how the Tutsis were dehumanized by radio personalities in the months before the massacre began.
As Ilibagiza explained it, the origination of the terms Hutu and Tutsi were mostly as class designations. If you had cows, you were a Tutsi; if you didn't have cows, you were a Hutu. If you got cows again, you were a Tutsi, she said.
The colonial powers who came to control the homeland of the Hutus and Tutsis, decided to codify the differences. They measured the height of every adult and also the width of the space between their eyes. People above a certain height and who had a certain amount of space between their eyes became Tutsis. Those who were shorter became Hutus. These designations sometimes split brothers and sisters. Everyone received identification cards, but Hutus and Tutsis continued to intermarry, live together in villages and neighborhoods and work together.
The divisions, however, gave the colonial powers a way to keep people under control. By pitting the two groups against each other, the colonial power could keep the groups from uniting.
"Every war, every genocide results from propaganda designed to divide people," Ilibagiza said.
After the colonial powers departed from Africa, these divisions continued to fester. In 1994, the Hutus controlled the government of Rwanda, but they had been embroiled in a civil war with the Tutsis over control of the northern part of the small country.
The government controlled the radio stations and radio personalities began referring to the Tutsis as snakes, cockroaches and tall trees. Ilibagiza, who was a college student at the time, said the radio personalities would sound like they were drunk and call for more whiskey and then make comments about killing Tutsis.
On April 6, 1994, the Hutus assassinated their own president and then blamed his death on the Tutsis. The massacre began and lasted for 100 days. It is estimated that 20 percent of the nation's inhabitants were killed, somewhere between 200,000 and 1 million people.
This killing rampage was made possible because of the constant public dehumanization of the Tutsis. A similar dehumanization made it possible for the Germans to kills millions of Jews during World War II.
When we generalize or stereotype people, Ilibagiza said, we make it easier to dehumanize them. "When we call someone stupid we are minimizing them to make it easy to hurt them," she added.
In her lilting French accent, this tall, slender woman described the pain and fear she felt standing in that small bathroom for three months. She probably had more reason than anyone to hate and dehumanize the people who killed her brothers, parents, friends and other family members.
Yet, she didn't. Instead, she stood in that bathroom and had a long conversation with God. Wanting to know how this awful thing could have happened, she asked God, "why?" His response, "I told you to love one another and you don't do it."
It sounds so simple, doesn't it? Just love one another. If anyone had a reason not to follow that simple precept, it would certainly be a survivor of a genocide.
Yet, she not only believes in minimizing our differences, she has taken it a step further and has forgiven those who killed her family. She said she was able to do that because she remembered Jesus' words from the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Perhaps we know not what we do when we attack and label those who are different from us. Maybe we think we're just making a point that needs to be made or we're afraid of their ideas, looks, religion, skin color, etc.
But imagine what the world could be like if we listened more and labeled less.
Joyce Pines is the Kalamazoo Gazette public editor. She can be reached at 269-388-2736 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Dave Chesney
The seniors in my Software Engineering class this year learned a lot about computer programming, but they also achieved something that wasn't in the syllabus. They made a difference in one young person's life. They designed apps aimed at enabling a 13-year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy to achieve her dream of playing games with her classmates.
For several years, I have collaborated with doctors at the University of Michigan Health Systems to identify disabilities that show the potential of being addressable in some way by assistive technologies. Then, in each course, my students take on the real-world challenge of helping children with those disabilities live better. It's inspiring for the students and, potentially, good for society.
In preparation for the fall semester, 2014, we're doing things a bit differently. We're going to be using IBM's Watson as our primary tool for building applications. So, instead of identifying a disability and then finding technologies that can help overcome it, we're starting with the technology and finding ways to use it.
This is part of a program that IBM announced today aimed at teaching students all around the United States about cognitive computing—a new generation of technologies that promises to benefit businesses, individuals and society. Faculty members at seven universities will be teaching their students how to use Watson. In addition to Michigan, they include Carnegie Mellon University, The Ohio State University, New York University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Texas in Austin.
All of the courses are designed to be hands on and project based, like mine at Michigan. Each class will get access to version of Watson delivered as a cloud service. Classmates will split up into teams, identify uses for Watson, develop apps and also write business plans—as if they're entrepreneurs creating startups. Think of it as Silicon Valley in the classroom.
I'm planning on going a step further and actually helping students to launch their own companies after they graduate using the resources available at the University of Michigan.
Watson represents a new departure for computing and for society. Cognitive machines are capable of learning, reasoning and interacting with people in ways that are more natural to us. I'm just beginning to learn what Watson can do, but I understand that it's being adapted to assist people in a variety of situations—from physicians making treatment decisions to people shopping for camping equipment online. I believe that Watson's ability to help people navigate through complexities has great potential for people with disabilities. It we can match it up with the right challenge, then magic can happen.
Students love the idea. My fall semester course was oversubscribed almost immediately. Seventy students are signed up and there are another 50 or so on the waiting list.
I always set high expectations for my students. At a minimum, I want them to have experiences and learn things that will stick with them for the rest of their lives. At a maximum, I hope that we'll come up with something new that can have—and does have—a profound impact on people's lives. That's my hope with Watson.
To learn more about the new era of computing, read Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Systems.
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Unemployment rates were lower in 333 out of 387 metropolitan areas in January than than a year earlier, including in the Providence metro, where the rate fell to 6.2 percent from 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. more
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When companies of any size experience significant growth, there are always bumps in the road. For West Warwick's AstroNova, formerly known as Astro-Med Inc., one of those bumps came in the form of employee accident reports. "For years and … more
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So it will be Qatar and not the United States who host the 2022 World Cup finals – a decision from FIFA's executive committee that left many fans in the U.S. angry, dismayed and a little confused.
Reuters Soccer Blog
FIFA's World Cup decision day — live
We'll be following all the presentations and the vote itself as FIFA's executive committee decides on the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
FIFA battens down the hatches as allegations mount
The chill winds of corruption allegations swirling once again around FIFA's Zurich HQ have got world soccer's bosses busy battening down the hatches in the forlorn hope that, if ignored, they will all just blow away.
A not so happy birthday for Maradona
Diego Maradona is spending his 50th birthday on Saturday far from the two things that have dominated his life — soccer and being constantly in the public eye.
Paul the Octopus will predict no more…
It is with great sadness that we report the death of the world's foremost psychic cephalopod.
Calling time on extra-time
FIFA president Sepp Blatter is well known for coming up with some odd ideas and this latest seems as strange as any.
Spain suffer Argentine embarrassment but write them off at your peril
Trying to read anything into Spain's 4-1 defeat in Argentina is tough considering it was a friendly. Did the world champions take it too lightly? Was Del Bosque right to field Pepe Reina in goal with fringe players Nacho Monreal, Alvaro Arbeloa and Carlos Marchena in the back four for a match that was never going to be that 'friendly'?
Capello faces tough task to change England's "mentality problem"
Watching a repeat on Saturday of a TV comedy show first shown early in 2010 offered a stark reminder of how quickly and deeply Fabio Capello's stock has fallen in the eyes of the average England fan.
By the way…the European season has started
Nevermind Iker Casillas hoisting the World Cup, it doesn't seem five minutes since Javier Zanetti had the European Cup on his head while sporting that crazed grin back in May.
What's behind Spain's run of sporting success?
Spanish sports fans have never had it so good.
The Iberian nation is celebrating its latest triumphs after a month of success that local media have called a golden age.


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Two plays that cost Tigers on Tuesday
Yes, you can look at a few other reasons why the Tigers lost on Tuesday, including an 0-for-9 performance with runners in scoring position that allowed them to squander leadoff baserunners. Even so, after Miguel Cabrera's two-run homer tied it, the game turned in Cleveland's favor on two plays.
The first was Travis Hafner's triple and the pursuit both center fielder Austin Jackson and left fielder Quintin Berry gave to it. Both went after the ball as if they had a chance to catch it. Neither peeled off to back up the other. While Jackson did pull up around the warning track, Berry continued into the wall, slowing up in time to avoid a major collision but still running into it as the ball hit to his right.
"It looked like, to me, Jackson thought Berry was going to catch it," Leyland said.
Berry thought he was going to catch it.
"I didn't think it was going to get all the way to the wall," Berry said. "It's one of those things where you've got a guy battling on the mound for you. You try to battle for him and give him everything you possibly can. We both went after it and neither one of us was backing up. I probably should've pulled up, tried to play it off the wall, but when you think you can get it, you try to go get it."
Said Leyland: "With those two guys, normally one of the two will catch that ball, I believe."
It looked like that effort, and the lack of a backup as the ball got by Jackson, allowed Hafner the time he needed to take third base. So instead of a runner on second and one out, the Indians had Hafner on third, leading to Lou Marson pinch-running and Aaron Cunningham looking to bunt.
The Tigers saw it coming, obviously. The question was in which count.
"I thought he might wait to see if he got the count in his favor," Leyland said, "but it was a great call by Manny [Acta]. He didn't wait, he got it down and they got the run in. And obviously, that was the run that beat us."
The bunt came on a 1-1 pitch from Doug Fister.
"It was a great call," Leyland said. "We certainly were aware that it was a possibility, obviously. The combinations were pretty much set up for it. It's a right-handed hitter, and all the rest of them are left-handed hitters. We didn't pitch out, but I knew every time somebody was going to squeeze, I'd be a miracle man. Were we suspicious of it? Absolutely, but we didn't pull the trigger on a pitchout. Give them credit."
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crappy way to loose but give Cleveland credit, for how many runners we had on base we should of put up more runs, Ubaldo pitched a good game for them and so did Fister we just didnt score runs for him. I dont think we have won a game in Cleveland this year so hopefully tonight that ends. This will be overlooked but have to give Miggy credit with another straight away HR to save us. He does it so much now people are starting to get used to it but he is a "super star" (JL) in many ways. I wish we could get some of Fielders power consistently with runners on, that will win games. Good luck Mad Max tonight! Go Tigers
The best lineup from saturday on:
Austin Jackson, CF
Andy Dirks, LF
Miguel Cabrera, 3B
Prince fielder, 1B
Delmon Young, DH
Brennan Boesch, RF
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Omar Infante, 2B
Alex Avila, C
Austin Jackson, CF
Omar Infante, 2B
Miguel Cabrera, 3B
Prince fielder, 1B
Delmon Young, DH
Brennan Boesch, RF
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Andy Dirks, LF
Gerald Laird, C
I like those lineups. JL needs to stop thinking of Alex as an offensive contributor and go from there. Anything we get from Avila will be extra. It is what it is, not what JL wishes it is.
Miguel Cabrera. 31 HR to tie. 98 to go ahead. Career. Almost half of HR with Tigers to tie or give advantage.
Last night , when he failed with two on bases , he was trying to hit the ball thru the middle. He said in an interview that in those situations he looks for the grounder in the middle
Ryan Field interviewed Prince last night. This is not verbatim but from my memory of it.
Ryan: "There was a play…….." and he goes on to describe some play in great detail, then points the microphone at Prince.
Prince: "Yeah, that's what happened."
BIggy's interviews are great. Doesn't say anything.
Sounds to me like even austin jackson believes quinton berry can make every catch. Now if they can communicate that and familarize themselves with how each other handle balls hit in the gap then we will be unstoppable.
That ball was hit to the perfect spot, hitting the wall exactly equidistant between Jackson and Berry. Normally one guy calls it and the other peels off to back up, but that probably wasn't possible here. More bad luck than anything, I think.
It's been tough playing in that ballpark, but it will turn around as it has before.
Fister nearly made that play on the squeeze.


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"Nightmare on Elm Street" House Threatened
By Margaret Foster | Online Only | July 22, 2010
UPDATE: The Dewey House was demolished in November 2010.
Built in 1895 by local businessman F. L. Dewey, the three-story house Queen Anne Victorian once boasted pocket doors, stained-glass windows, and onion turrets. It became a fraternity house in 1956, and, predictably, its deterioration began.
In 1968, three Theta Chi brothers and their Clarkson University humanities professor, Wes Craven, conceptualized a short horror film set in 18 Elm Street. Craven wrote a screenplay that became the basis for the 1984 movie. When production began, however, the director chose to shoot in California and not inside the house that inspired the film.
By 2006, the house was in such disrepair that Potsdam's code-enforcement department cited the owner, another fraternity. "They were either unwilling or unable to do the repairs necessary, so they just abandoned it," says Marie Regan, town supervisor. Two years later, brothers Kip and Kevin Blanchard, bought the house and stripped out its windows, doors, copper pipes, and other architectural elements, according to Regan. "The building is now a shell," she says. "It really is not in good shape."
Potsdam bought the house from the Blanchards earlier this year as a possible site for new town offices. Regan hopes to move out of the existing 115-year-old town hall, which is under restoration, and move to new offices on the site of 18 Elm Street, but no plans have been finalized.
This month, a contractor is assessing the toxic materials in the house. That report, Regan says, "will determine how or when or if it will be demolished."
So far, more than 7,000 people have joined a Facebook group, "Save the Nightmare on Elm St. House," and 812 people have signed a petition urging Potsdam to restore the structure. Local resident Ryan Meashaw, who wrote the petition about a month ago, believes that a historic preservation society incorporated locally could save 18 Elm Street.
Village Historian Mimi Van Deusen, director of the Potsdam Public Museum, agrees, and is in the process of forming just such a nonprofit society. "We want to get everything done right and not hurry into it," Van Deusen says.
"We'd like to save the house, however it comes about," Meashaw says. "I'm perfectly fine with a [new] town hall, as long as it's in a restored, 1890 Queen Anne building … not some ugly box of a building." At a town board meeting last Tuesday, Meashaw and four other people spoke in favor of preserving the Dewey House. He hopes to raise about $60,000 to buy it from the village.
His efforts notwithstanding, town officials suggest that 18 Elm Street will in all likelihood be razed. "[Meashaw's group] would be better served to raise that money and save two or three buildings that could be saved," Town Supervisor Regan says.
The Dewey House isn't the first—or last—fraternity-owned house threatened in Potsdam, home to Clarkson University. "We have a lot of historic houses that unfortunately been turned into student housing," Meashaw says."There are lots of houses that the [future] preservation society could potentially save in the future."
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Submitted by Eugene24 at: November 18, 2010
I think it should be saved because it looks so nice and it could have so much room for offices. If it does have tie to that movie, Then it should be up for a show for that movie.
Submitted by MissMeggie2804 at: November 17, 2010
But it is finalized! There tearing it down this week! I just saw it on the local news...so sad...so sad....where will Freddy go now? hopefully not to my house :*) (thats a crying smiley face trying to laugh)
Submitted by Joe James at: August 3, 2010
You can say what you will but under the "stewardship" of these fraternities this lovely old home is now an unlivable shell lumber. Thanks for taking such "great care of that house". But please, don't buy any homes in my neighborhood. We prefer to INCREASE our home values.
Submitted by Joe James at: August 3, 2010
Dude get REAL!!! Fraternities are well-known for drinking, carousing, playing and in other words not being real responsible. I have never known a frat house that EVER had a reputation for being responsible, so to suggest that a frat house might might not be very responsible in caring for what is an old historic home is NOT "filtering [the article] with assumptions". IT'S REALITY!!! You need get with the program. We have the VERY same issue with frat houses who abuse big old lovely homes in my neck of the woods! Same issue - different frat house!
Submitted by Michael at: July 30, 2010
While the story has interest I must say how disappointed I was that it was filtered with assumptions and stereotypes about how fraternities may provide for their homes. My fraternity at Kansas State University actually restored a beautiful Tudor style home and each year spent additional weeks stripping paint from woodword, adding traditional flower beds, and maintaining a wonderful environment.
Submitted by Little Dan at: July 25, 2010
"and predictably it's deterioration began"... I'm sad to see that in the article. Theta Chi took great care of that house as do many other Potsdam fraternities that take great pride in maintaining these historic mansions. Go take a look at omicron pi omicron on 14 Leroy street sometime.
Submitted by Brian at: July 24, 2010
Must have been an amazing house at one time.
Submitted by TaxiManSteve at: July 23, 2010
Why not be imaginative and... get this... put the town offices in the Dewey House?... A win-win situation that saves resources and preserves the city's history.


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Other 2013 Rebel Road Trip stops include Houston (Texas), New Orleans, Natchez, Jackson, Atlanta and Memphis. Admission price, ticket and venue information will be announced at a later day.
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MCV is giving readers the chance to receive 1 of 25 double passes to the FIFA Interactive World Cup Finals in Sydney.
The event will be an extravaganza of the hottest FIFA competitors in Australia, the winner of whom will go on to represent our humble country in the world finals (last year our winner came in third place globally), and will be held on 4th April.
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October 24, 2013
Dear editor, Americans recently celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech and it's a disgrace that some used the occasion to promote race-baiting....
Is this letter about race-baiting or is itself just another example of race-baiting? Stand your ground laws seem to make dueling legal once again. They are a disgrace. They were originally written for home protection. Now you can stand your ground anywhere--in a bar, walking down the street, driving down the street. It's a perversion of the original intent.
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Let's face it, "I have a dream" has evolved into "I'm living a nightmare". What a shame. The original message was so beautiful. Now it is picked apart and unevenly applied at the user's convenience.
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The last paragraph is full of wisdom.
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Really? Someone disagrees with the last paragraph of the letter? I'd love to hear THAT explanation.
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The person who wrote this letter clearly keeps their white sheets and torches hung up in his or her basement. For starters, the claim that it was Zimmerman's cries that were heard as his "head was being bashed against the sidewalk" were never substantiated; voice recognition specialists at the trial, had the letter writer done any better than checking FOX News and "internet sources",on which to base their claims, stated that it could not be determined whose voice it was crying out. One expert said it was a "child's voice." Further, as to the letter writer's discussion of the VA African American teens who made violence on a caucasian person and the fact that the President made no mention of them, the letter writer needs to note that those teens were subsequently ARRESTED for the crime they committed, so perhaps the fact that law enforcment did their job in that instance left the President with no NEED to comment on that incident. I am so glad I don't liv
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The fact that the letter writer begins his or her letter citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" before she tears into a racist/white privilege-based rant is itself proof of the bubble that many folks who live in Warren, PA still choose to shroud themselves in. Did he or she even have an education about the civil rights movement? Had the letter writer had the enlightenment such as Dr. King envisioned in his speech, they would not have used his speech as some token preface to their largely unsubstantiated claims around the murder of Trayvon Martin. I am a caucasian who marched with people of every hue demanding "Justice for Trayvon!" and believe that we will never see such justice as long as folks like the one who wrote this letter are around to twist everything to make it the fault of some person of color. Remember, Zimmerman was part Mexican/Hispanic and I know there are more than a handful of haters of that race in rural PA...
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Skip to comments.President Obama signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources
Posted on 03/17/2012 10:44:30 PM PDT by Nachum
On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order's functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the "Act").
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel; - White House
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That, and it smells like we are about to go to war with Iran.
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Well, at least some of the media is reporting this.
Gas prices.
The administration must have set a record on Friday Document Dumps: Solyndra, Obamacare, Gunwalker, and
and executive order allowing for Peacetime Martial Law...sniff sniff- - - smells like war
Yep. Between now and the election, 0bama will be busy pounding as many nails as he can into Uncle Sam's coffin.. Just in case.
Obama won't go to war with Iran, the far left freaks would kick his ass for doing so. Something else must be going on here, preventing future elections from taking place seems more likely.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
Ummm, Why this isn't on Drudge with Flashing Sirens is beyond me....
Time of War. People who wish for a Unitary Executive will get it.
Seems like there is definetly something going on.
[ Obama wont go to war with Iran, the far left freaks would kick his ass for doing so. Something else must be going on here, preventing future elections from taking place seems more likely. ]
Expect to see more "Liberal Wars".
I'll bet Obama is steaming pissed off mad that the whole Kony Hoax was exposed.
Expect more of these "Bushfire Wars" as a way to sell that Obama get's us involved in wars to help the poor people in countries and , cough cough, Soros's portfolio..
It may not be Iran, but I will imagine we c9uld very well invade some podunk country somewhere in the name of "Social Justice" sometime late this summer. MARK MY WORDS.
Oh I think that they are setting up for some military action against Iran. They are moving battle groups into position and moving equipment over there. From what I have heard, the attack on Iran is almost a done-deal.
As far as co-opting elections, maybe. Both could be true.
I think Ive heard many times in the media how war time brings the country together and a President always gets re-elected during war time, so your theory might be right. If Obama feels like he is going to lose the election he might go to war with Iran, and he will have the media cheering him on, if not Iran, then Syria or some other country.
This election season is going to be very very scary. The progressive movement does NOT want to lose this election, for them, its their ONE chance to turn this country into their European Utopia, they know if they lose the chances of them having this opportunity again is slim to none.
Is it ever going to stop! So if you have your own well...garden....car ....he can say who gets what if he determines so? Like in the case of Marshall law or something a ruther.? Doens't anything have to go thru congress anymore??????? We ought to let all members of congress go home and stop paying them for having no representation.
And Panetta said just a few days ago that the US would get approval from the UN and "let" Congress know if military action was taken. Very odd.
I hope you're wrong....that's our boys out there in those God forsaken places! But then we knew he'd stall off Israel until the election....B*stards playing politics on the backs of our kids!
Yep. I hope I am wrong too.
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Something is cooking that's for sure, and when it involves Obama and his cronies it can NEVER be good. So what's the excuse they are going to use to invade Iran, intelligence? They are about to attack Israel? Obama will stop at nothing to ensure he gets re-elected, he wants to pull a Chavez and be President for Life
Onyx..just so you don't miss this thread.
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Sick about this....ya know we hope what we call Bo's going to do doesn't happen....and then it does. It's getting harder to "hope" this is going to stop.....even with an election.
Yep. Between now and the election, 0bama will be busy pounding as many nails as he can into Uncle Sams coffin.. Just in case.
And if he loses, he will do as much damage as he can between Nov. 6 and Jan. 20.
Thank you. I will retunr the favor.
I knew Obama was a dictator before he was even elected, I saw he was capable of this when I first set eyes on him, when I told people they thought I was nuts to even suggest it, but look at where we are now, its actually happening..people are wondering why Homeland Security wants 450 million rounds of ammunition, NOT the military, but Homeland Security..what the hell is going on?
Chavez is on his way out very soon, unless Satan crawls out of hell and heals the Communist.
Here is the post from Sat AM, it contains the EO. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860231/posts
I thought the same thing too when I saw that first speech of his at the rat convention - figured he was BIG trouble. But the reality is so much worse than I ever imagined and he's only getting started. First he had to soften us up with no jobs, private industry struggling due to his policies and rising prices we can't afford. Almost half of us are dependents already - how hard would it be to intimidate at least half of those who aren't yet dependent - especially if they're hungry.
People call Obama stupid but he is not. He is evil and I believe he is following a plan decades in the making to gut the USA.
This move smells and my gut tells me we have an ambush ahead.
This is a factor
"Something wicked this way comes".. He is an 0bamanation!
Between Iraq and Afghanistan, I get the feeling that the public has already had its bellyful of war. Committing to another one won't make Bamsy any more popular than he currently is. He might get a fleeting bounce out of it. Not much more.
Yes, some country that can't fight back.
He wants his rally 'round the flag moment just in time for the election.
and perhaps the 0 is following the advice of the General he put in charge at CIA?
War with Iran??
War within the U.S. between those who take and those who earn?
War with illegals?
Or war on haves vs. the have nots?
War on marxist posers?
Just what are we talking here?
I really despise this quack that sits in the wh.
Isn't this the way it's supposed to be? One person ultimately responsible.
Step by step, closer to a dictatorship. And the useful idiots are too busy with their "personal affairs" to see what is happening. What did they think he meant when he said "We are five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America."
I know all President's have these - to make things "legal" in the event....but does this one differ from previous documents?
Does O's go further to limit our freedoms?
I am Surprised he didnt include that the only resource for News in the event of such an Emergency will be MSNBC,on the Rachel Maddow Show
Most of his far left freaks don't understand how little he cares for them - they are expendable. It is folks like Obama who have killed the most people in wars and "cleansings". It's not so much a question of whether he will start a shooting war, it's a question of who the real targets are.
Must have missed it. When did he say that one?
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While VVN Music is dedicated and reports on veteran artists who have been recording for 25 years or more, we occasionally write about newer artists of special merit who actively promote the sounds of an earlier era.
Charleston, South Carolina's The Explorers Club released their second album, Grand Hotel, back on February 14. An amazing amalgamation of sounds reminiscent of the 60's and early-70's, it is one of the most enjoyable and creative albums we've heard this year (see our review here).
We had the chance to talk with group founder Jason Brewer about Grand Hotel, the group's first album, Freedom Wind, and the influences that make the group's sound so unique.
VVN Music (VVN): I understand that the album was a long time in the making. About three years?
We started working on the record in 2009. Had we not run into the financial issue we would have released the record sometime in 2010 as opposed to finishing it in 2011.
VVN: When I reviewed the album, I was just so impressed with the number of different sounds. I know that a lot of people write about the Beach Boys influence but I hear so many other artists that seem to have shaped your sound. When you're writing, is it a conscious decision to say you are going towards this sound or another sound or is it just something that flows out of your writing style?
JB: Probably 50/50. I think part of it is the music that has really influenced me and has been a part of my whole life. Rock and roll to me is Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, whatever. AM radio era. That's just because I used to listen to a station that played all those classic records when I was a child. My neighbor had a bunch of those 45s, vinyl, 8-tracks, all that stuff. That was just what is was to me because that's what I was surrounded with.
I mean, I tried to keep up with current stuff in the mid-to-late 80's when I was a child but I was just gravitated toward the older sound. It's kind of weird but that's just what rock and roll is to me and the kind of music I wanted to play. I just thought that anything else was not as authentic.
When I'm writing stuff I think "well, is this going to be as good as a Grass Roots song or is this going to be something that Frank Sinatra could sing? If I could go back in time and jam with the Turtles, would they be into what I'm doing?" I think that's part of how I think and I also think it just naturally happens that way. When I first started playing guitar around the age of 11, I just got this book that was all Beatles. I guess that's just how I'm programmed.
VVN: When I've been talking to people about the album, I always try to tell them that, while the sound has its roots in the 60's, this is all original music and it's really great originals. I think that everyone that listens to the album is going to hear something a little different. I look at a song like It's You and I hear the New Colony Six but, when you were writing, it might have been something else.
How did you get Mark Linett involved in the album?
JB: Our manager had contacted a few different people to mix the record because we had an original mix by an engineer we recorded with and it was just too lacking. It was too sterile. It didn't have the depth of sound that was needed. Linett responded almost right away saying "this is really great. I can take this to the place where it needs to go."
VVN: You mentioned that your background and influences were sounds of the 60's and 70's. What about the rest of the guys in the group? Do they have a similar background?
JB: For me, it was definitely the early rock and roll of the 50's, 60's and early 70's. The rest of the guys in the band may have been partially into it but they were really intrigued by the sound. They loved exploring that kind of sound. There are some guys in the band who really love Motown. Others like hippie rock of the late-60's like Traffic or the Grateful Dead. Then there's other guys in the band who like straight up rock like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. There's others who like lounge, exotica, adult contemporary...the Bacharach kind of stuff.
Music was so diverse during that era and there were so many different flavors. It was being played by musicians who were trained in schools and grew up around very limited rock and roll. The Beatles were really influenced by Elvis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. They were influenced by the first wave of rock and roll. They didn't have thirty or forty years of variations of rock music on which to draw. So it's interesting to look at how people our age, late-20's and early-30's, have so many different things that we can be influenced by from "rock and roll music." That's why each guy in the band has so many different things to pull their influences from.
This isn't the original lineup of the band. We lost a couple of members over the course of making this record. I would say this group, this time around, I was able to not only seek out my friends but to seek out other musicians that I knew to achieve this sound.
VVN: It's great that you have people who are interested in seeking out and understanding so many sounds. When Dick Clark recently passed away, one of the things I like to acknowledge was how he was able to mix so many genres in his work. It wasn't unusual for Kiss to be on the first half of his show and Tammy Wynette on the second. You just don't get that kind of thinking in radio anymore.
JB: That's the challenge with this record. I bet there are tons of folks out there just like you and me who love this kind of music and would totally just go for it but the problem is that radio and television and whatever else says "No, this doesn't fit our format." I'm talking people of all ages. Anybody could get into this music because it's positive and happy and interesting. It's very musical.
We've just had a hard time with the band. You could find a radio person who just loves the record because it reminds them of a lot of the records they grew up listening to but the problem is, they can't play it or they'll get fired.
VVN: College radio still has some stations that tend to be a bit more free form. Have you found any college stations on which you can get airplay?
JB: You get some of the specialized channels through Sirius and some college radio that plays it. Very selective, non-commercial AAA stations, too. It's been across the board but there just hasn't been that wide reach, that one wide moment.
For us, there are a lot of guys out there who are doing power pop records or traditional rock records that aren't getting a lot of play either. We want to bring this music to everybody. We don't want to be just a footnote. I'm not saying we want to be rock stars but we want to make a career out of what we are doing.
We really feel we have something that is missing from the music marketplace right now. It's a frustration but it's also an interesting selling point. We're basically having to recruit people two ears at a time.
VVN: I don't want to make a complete comparison here, but you think of a person like Brian Setzer who had about three years of great success but he's carried on for another 25 with both rockabilly and the Brian Setzer Orchestra. The market is out there, but it is getting that first big break.
JB: It's interesting. On our first album, we had some television series use a couple of songs and that was really great. It's just that there was never any follow through from that. It was just like it went out into space and just hung there.
Some people's philosophy that we've worked with in the industry has been that things will happen if people are into it and my rebuttal has been "I think people will be into it but how do we expose them to it?" It's just a very interesting kind of catch-22 in a way. We've done this really quality, fun record that's trying to put a little creativity in there and its just very difficult to get it to the people.
VVN: The musicianship is amazing on the album. People who really like music, not just the music of the 60's and 70's but people who understand and love music should really admire the musicianship.
JB: Some of the guys in our band are just total musicians' musicians. I'm a writer and I wish I could be be like them. Some of our players just blow me away. They're just some of the coolest, best playing you've seen. I was really lucky to get to work with these guys.
There are some guys that aren't in the band that are on the record that I got to play with, too. It was like taking a masterclass and I was honored that they were able to play the songs that I wrote.
VVN: You did mention that you had gone through some personnel changes between the first and second album. Do you think you are in good shape now as far as a core group?
JB: This is the best group of musicians that I've ever worked with on a regular basis. These guys are top notch, they're good people, they're great players and it's a good thing that, when we go to perform, I have these other five guys that are totally helping me get where I need to go. It's my treat that I get to write the music but it's also my treat that I get to hear these guys play and perform it. That's any songwriter's dream, in a way, to have the kind of people that you want to work with as opposed to the kind of people you get stuck with.
VVN: It's great to have multi-instrumentalists in the group, but you also have, what, three singers that can take leads depending on the song.
JB: Really, we have five of the six of us that can sing the lead. That's the thing. I like to write songs for other singers. I'm not always writing a song for me to sing. I try to understand the quality and ability of the other singers and try and mold what I'm doing to cater to them. Our keyboard player Paul has this great soulful, rough-around-the-edges voice. He doesn't have a full lead on the new record but he sings the bridge in a few spots and takes over the lead in other stuff and he's a great harmony singer, so I can say "this kind of song right here is perfect for Paul to sing."
Then, our bass player, Wally, who has a real pure, high, tenor voice (he sings Run, Run, Run), I can say "well, the range of this and the flow just totally caters to his voice." It's awsome. I love being able to play music with these guys who have all these different qualities that we can bring together into a really unique sound.
VVN: ...and the flexibility has to be amazing.
JB: Oh, yeah. We can go from tropical, basso-nova straight into slushy, southern boogie. We can kind of go anywhere.
JB: You know, that one didn't take very long. Basically, what we did was I recorded the song Forever, which ended up being the first track on that record, as just a fun little thing. I had a friend named Troy [Stains], who writes with me, and we wrote a whole bunch of different types of songs but we chose to record Forever and it was me, my friend Troy and a drummer. I figured "well, this will be interesting" so we recorded it and it ended up sounding really great. I played it for a few of my friends in Charleston and they thought we should start a band.
Based on the success and having a little internet buzz, we got offers from record companies which led to us making "the best Beach Boys record they hadn't made yet." We didn't really want to be a Beach Boys sounding band but we stuck with a sound to try to be consistent.
Grand Hotel is probably much more representative in approach. Not necessarily in the sound because I don't ever want to have one specific sound, but in approach where it is a mash-up of different kinds of classic pop sounds. That's much more the intent of how The Explorers Club is going to be from this point forward. Freedom Wind was certainly an exercise in one aspect of what we want to do and Grand Hotel is much more of an opening the doors a little bit.
VVN: Leading up to Grand Hotel, you released three EPs with early versions of songs from the album along with a number of covers. Are there any plans for re-releasing any of that as I know they're not available anymore.
JB: I don't really know. We have a fairly large repertoire of cover tunes from doing private events. One thing we've actually thought of doing was a web series of just live videos in our little practice studio of us playing cover tunes. Just as kind of a fan, fun thing.
As far as those EPs go, we'd like to collect them all and put them on either vinyl or digital. A friend of ours has a cassette label, which actually we did release Grand Hotel on, and I think it would be really great to collect all the EPs on cassette which would come with a digital download.
VVN: I've seen a number of your videos on YouTube of covers like Eleanor and it would be great to have a bit more professionally recorded version of that versus, say, a cellphone.
JB: Right, and that's what we want to do. We have a couple of HD cameras we can get our hands on and we're going to try and shoot a bunch of covers for a web series. Maybe do them two at a time where we do a Grand Hotel song and a cover.
VVN: So, what do you see as coming up next. You obviously have a road to go on for promoting Grand Hotel.
JB: The goal is that we are trying to get some more high profile dates this year and, I'm hoping, by the end of the year I'm in the studio working on the next one.
VVN: You mentioned that some of the people in the group are into other genres of music. Any thought of working other sounds in?
JB: I think the biggest things I've been into lately has been the Rascals record Once Upon a Dream. I love Buffalo Springfield then, at the opposite end of that spectrum, I love Motown and Smokey Robinson and the Impressions.
I don't know. I think its always going to be lots of harmonies, interesting, organic instrumentations and good songs. I think that's really the bottom line. We may want to do a really Carolina beach song like, say, Backfield in Motion, something that sounds like that, or we may want to go to For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield or Rock and Roll Woman. That's my favorite Buffalo Springfield song.
I think we just want to do all the different stuff that we love and do it really well.
From the album Grand Hotel, here is the first single, Run, Run, Run:


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Supersilent: 9
Still, what the trio would do for its follow-up recording was anyone's guess. Clearly the group could continue on in the same general direction, but despite over a decade behind it, Supersilent constantly searches for new approaches, new means of expression. When German radio journalist Michael Engelbrecht mentioned, at Punkt 2009, that the next Supersilent disc would find its three members on nothing more than Hammond organs, it was difficult to know whether it was a joke or not.
It wasn't. With next to no information and its four long tracks titled numerically as always"9.1" through "9.4"9 finds Henriksen, Storløkken and Sten exploring the vaster reaches of the venerable Hammond organ, taking it places that no band has gone before. Of course, this is Supersilent, so sound processing, both real-time and in post-production, are de rigueur. Even with the near-infinite possibilities afforded by the instruments' multiple stops, the trio creates soundscapes its inventor, Laurens Hammond, could never have envisaged.
If 8 (Rune Grammofon, 2007) contained some of Supersilent's most beautiful music, then 9 surely contains some of its darkest. Four tracks, ranging from 11 to 14 minutes, explore blended sounds, pulses and jagged noise, yet the sum total is something out of a deep, dark nightmare, even though there are brief moments of respite. Less sonically denseat least, most of the timethe group has also achieved a longtime goal: complete anonymity, where the music speaks for itself, with no titles to define it and no information on the CD to describe it. In the past, at least, it was possible to discern specific players with their primary instruments, but here Supersilent truly becomes that most faceless of bands, one where the only way to know who is doing what would be in performanceand, even then, it won't always be clear.
With 9, Supersilent goes to a brooding place informedas much by the dissonant landscapes of contemporary organ works by György Ligeti as it is anything in the jazz sphere;, music felt, rather than heard in conventional terms such as melody, harmony and rhythm. All three surface periodically on 9, but only as part of a larger improvised audioscape which, stunningly imaginative, makes clear that Supersilenteven pared down to a trioremains committed to pushing the envelope of sonic exploration forward, even with such seemingly reductionist instrumentation.
Track Listing: 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.4.
Personnel: Arve Henriksen: Hammond organ; Ståle Storløkken: Hammond organ; Helge Sten: Hammond organ.
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MACOMB, Michigan — University of Michigan-Flint hockey coach Don Edwards called it a "high point" for his program. It was also a first.
UM-Flint beat Michigan State, 5-4, yesterday in the first round of the regional playoffs — picking up the first-ever regional win in program history and setting up a 3 p.m. showdown today with No. 4-ranked Davenport at Suburban Ice Arena in Macomb.
"It was definitely a great moment for our program," Edwards said. "Whenever you're able to continually take steps like that and accomplish things for the first time, I think that shows you're moving in the right direction and it's a win we're very proud of."
Edwards' squad jumped out early on MSU, taking a 2-0 lead. The lead narrowed to 3-2 entering the third period before UM-Flint put two more quick goals on the board.
"I think everybody was a little nervous, both our guys and Michigan State," Edwards said. "What helped us was scoring those two quick goals, I think that really calmed things down a lot quicker for us. Obviously it's always better to play with the lead."
Michigan State rallied one more time, scoring back-to-back goals to narrow the gap to 5-4, but UM-Flint was able to hold on for the win. After the win, the program's second over MSU this season, Edwards said his team's confidence is as high as ever going into today's game with the Panthers.
"We're going to have to control that emotion," Edwards said in a phone conversation this morning. "We got to celebrate for one night and now it's time to refocus on the next challenge. It was definitely a high point and another first for us, but now there's the next opportunity."
A win today over Davenport would send UM-Flint to the national tournament in New Jersey, which functions as a round-robin playoff.
Just like with Michigan State, Davenport and UM-Flint are familiar opponents.
"We know they're very fast, very physical and very skilled," Edwards said. "It will certainly take our best effort, but there's no reason we can't be in it at the end. As we showed last night, our guys know if they give they're best effort and are in the game, anything can happen."
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A Staten Island teen's Halloween ended with a "boom" and a trip to jail after he accidentally shot his older cousin in the foot, police allege.
Police say Anthony Mahoney, 16, of Holland Avenue in Mariners Harbor, shot his 22-year-old cousin, Michael Blackman, while the two were playing with a gun outside the Arlington Terrace Apartments complex.
The shooting happened at about 9 p.m., and when police caught up with Mahoney about two hours later, he admitted to firing the shot in a written confession, police allege.
"I saw my cuzzin Mike Blackman in front of 55 Holland. I saw he had a gun. I asked him to see," Mahoney wrote, according to court papers. "I started playing wit him. I hit the trigger. I thought it was going to click but it went boom."
Mahoney then went to Todt Hill, and returned to Mariners Harbor, where police saw him try to dump the gun at the corner of Heusden and Van Pelt streets, court papers allege. The gun, a .38 caliber revolver, still had four live rounds and one spent casing in the chamber, police allege.
Police found out about the shooting after Blackman arrived at Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, a law enforcement source said.
Blackman claimed he was robbed by a "white guy with a gun," and the gun had gone off when the two struggled, the source said.
Mahoney has been charged with first- and second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, and three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Elvira Plunkett, 93, a homemaker and real estate agent who lived in Great Kills, died Friday in Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Dongan Hills, where she had been a resident for about two years.
She grew up Elvira Condon in Brooklyn, and moved to Long Island after her 1938 marriage to the late John Plunkett.
The family lived briefly in Pleasant Plains, before moving to Red Hook in upstate New York, where they lived for many years. About five years ago, Mrs. Plunkett settled in Great Kills.
As a young woman, Mrs. Plunkett worked as a telephone operator, before becoming a homemaker. For many years, she worked as a real estate agent in upstate New York. She enjoyed knitting and made everybody in the family blankets. In Red Hook, she was a member of the Milan Senior Citizens Club.
She enjoyed traveling and spent three months every year in Florida with her husband and extended family.
Her daughter, Janet Dupont, died in 1998.
Her husband of 64 years, John, Sr. died in 2002.
Surviving are her sons, John Jr. and Jerry; a brother, Thomas Condon; five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday from the Harmon South Shore Funeral Home, Pleasant Plains, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills. Arrangements include cremation.


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Sweet Potato Chowder Recipe
- 1 celery rib, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 2 cups cubed fully cooked ham
- 2 tablespoons dried minced onion
- 1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder, seasoned salt, dried oregano and parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon each pepper and crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups milk
- 1. In a large saucepan, saute celery in butter until tender. Stir in broth, water and bouillon. Add potatoes, sweet potato, turkey ham and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Combine flour and milk until smooth; gradually stir into soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Yield: 11 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 161 calories, 5g fat (3g saturated fat), 27mg cholesterol, 891mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 2g fiber), 9g protein.
Reviews for Sweet Potato Chowder
"Love this recipe and so does everyone else that easts it!"
"I have made this soup alot. Friends ask for the recipe. I found that you need to cut the potatoes a little larger and put in at the end, otherwise they become mushy.I cut the crushed red pepper to 1/8 tsp. This is a keeper recipe. Yummy!"
"This was a great recipe to get rid of holiday leftovers. I had a potato medley with 3 different kinds of potatos and left over ham. The creamy sauce that this chowder has is great. A definite comfort food. I think this could have healing power that would rival chicken soup. Its that good."
"This has been a winter staple in our house since it was first published! We always add several more stalks of celery and use fresh onion instead of the dried minced onion. Also, due to a dairy allergy in our family, we now thicken it with rice milk instead of regular milk. It can have a bit of a kick for the kids, so you may want to be careful with the crushed red pepper flakes (we omit depending on which kids will be eating it that night!)"
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Just got mine there now! [2 o'clock Friday!]
Can't wait till Christmas!
(Yep, after all my anger at the thought of not getting it at launch I still can't play it till Chrimbo!)
Woohoo, I finally got it today, thanks to Gamestation.
I collected it a little after 10 AM. Wish I'd known they'd have so many copies of Zelda/Red Steel though, I wouldn't have bothered ordering them off Amazon (they don't come until Monday).
The Wiimote takes some getting used to, but I'm starting to acclimatize to it and it's actually quite neat.
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I never add friend codes.
Originally Posted by AndThen?
Just got mine there now! [2 o'clock Friday!]
Can't wait till Christmas!
(Yep, after all my anger at the thought of not getting it at launch I still can't play it till Chrimbo!)
Congrats to all. I waited out in the cold for 7 hours when they first came out and snagged one. Got an extra Wiimote and Red Steel with it. Went home, went to sleep for four hours, then got up and played it for the rest of the day. Already though, I sold Red Steel, bought and extra Nunchuk and bought Call of Duty 3. Contemplating my next purchase, either Rayman or Monster 4x4
i got a wiiiiiiiii
I have had mine delivered today, still waiting on the extra remote and nunchuck but have the console etc with Red Steel to get going with, also get Wii Play bought for me for Christmas, all looking good, just got to play one player until other controllers arrive.
Your Dad got it for you then or did you go to the launch as well?Originally Posted by LukasJr
I have mine (well my kid's one), also the extra remote and nunchuck.
Finally got mine. Time to change my sig. lol.
Waited 5 hours , so tired. cya in a year when i come out of the wii room.
Damn, no luck. I guess I will have to wait. does anyone know when Europe will get some more Wii's?
Damn not getting mine til Monday/Tuesday, due to the strike with some delivery company. I was surprised with Woolworths though, I was actually gonna get my Wii today if it weren't for the strike Sorry I ever doubted you Woolies


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Moravia, NY -- Millard Fillmore Elementary School has received an art$TART arts-in-education grant of $2,500 for a school/artist partnership.
The grant is administered by Syracuse-based Partners for Arts Education (PAE) and helps students meet New York State learning standards by having teachers partner with local artists or cultural organizations. Together, they use the arts to strengthen classroom learning.
According to a release from the Moravia School District:
"In "Costa Rica: What is Sustainability?" second and fifth grade students will address the question, "What is Sustainability?" through the musical, visual and theater arts of Costa Rica. Working with theater artist Holly Adams and musician/dancer Jorge Cuevas, they will explore the geography, economics, rainforest climate, science and language of Costa Rica, and apply this learning to their own community's eco-system, economics and the issue of sustainability. A culminating school and community-wide Costa Rica Fiesta in May will display the year's work, while providing the entire school a learning experience where they engage in a variety of games and activity booths led by the second and fifth grade students.
"This is the sixth art$TART grant Millard Fillmore Elementary has received. This year 22 Central New York schools applied for the grants, and total funding of over $36,000 was granted to seventeen schools in seven counties.
"Millard Fillmore Elementary has developed a relationship with Holly Adams over several years of successful partnerships. Teacher Bruce Beem-Miller, who has worked with Adams in two partnerships, said, "I found the interdisciplinary approach to teaching to be so much more effective. . . Holly Adams energized the student body, and gave them confidence and a sense of community."


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KENT, OHIO -- The past 12 months have been stellar ones for Kent State athletics.
Golden Flashes baseball advanced to the College World Series, golf finished tied for fifth in the nation, wrestling was ranked at No. 13 in the nation, men's basketball topped 20 wins for the 13th time in the last 14 seasons, and the football team is going to a bowl game for the first time in 40 years.
Those teams not only carried the Kent State brand into the national spotlight, but they helped athletic director Joel Nielsen generate over $3.5-million in fundraising for Kent football and baseball alone, most of it over the past 12 months. Fundraising for the other programs remains high as well.
While Nielsen is only into his third year as Kent's athletic director, he has quickly realized the keys to most of the on-field success have been fundraising and relatively consistent coaching, with much of it led by alums or former assistants steeped in Kent's formula for success. Of those five sports four -- golf, wrestling, baseball and now football, are led by KSU alums. "And Rob (Senderoff, basketball coach) has seven or eight years of experience here," Nielsen said.
Here, Nielsen looks at the building blocks of some of Kent's more successful teams:
Football The No. 25-ranked Golden Flashes sit with an 11-2 record and Mid-American Conference East Division title, and Nielson has collected $2.5-million through fundraising and received an almost immediate return, as Kent goes to its first bowl game in 40 years Saturday at the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala.
Prior to hiring former coach Darrell Hazell in 2010, KSU football coaching salaries not only ranked last in the MAC, but last in the country among Football Bowl Subdivision teams. When Nielsen hired Hazell he bumped the coaching salary to $300,000, and now with the hiring of Kent alum Paul Haynes -- after Hazell left for the Purdue job -- Nielsen bumped it again to $375,000 with at least $75,000 more available in incentives.
"When we arrived, we talked a lot about what it would take to have football success," Nielsen said. "One of the things we looked at was that we were poorly resourced in football, primarily with our people. President (Lester) Lefton gave us the green light to go out there and talk to football donors, talk to people who wanted to see football be successful. We had about 20 people step up that first year, some significantly. That allowed us to pay some competitive salaries.
"We decided, instead of investing in bricks and mortar, we would invest in people. And as you see now, we returned that investment fairly quickly with the success we had this season. Now we're starting to see that continue on and perpetuate itself. Those who came on early, are even giving more, and those who had not come on board before are now joining us, financially.
"We aren't that far behind everyone else, facility-wise. But we think our people will out-do our facilities. They will out-recruit our facilities."
Wrestling Kent ranked No. 13 in the nation following the 2012 regular season.
"Coach Jim Andrassy has built an outstanding program here and it gets lost sometimes in the success of our other teams," Nielsen said of the Kent alum. "He's built a consistent Top 25 program here with multiple qualifiers each and every year."
"Wrestling has done a great job of fundraising, even before I got here. They have, I believe, the largest endowment of all of our programs. Certain sports are like that. . . . Wrestlers support wrestlers. They understand that's not only key to keeping that sport afloat, but to also being successful."
Golf Kent finished in the Top 5 in 2012.
"Golf, like wrestling, was ahead of the curve fundraising wise, primarily because of coach Herb Paige," Nielsen said of yet another Kent alum. "Years ago Herb understood how important that would be to the development of his program. He took it upon himself. . . . Herb was fundraising years before any of us even thought about fundraising.
"You see the results now in the facilities he has developed -- the practice and learning center. Our ability to sustain an ACC/SEC-type program . . . takes a lot of money. Our men's and women's programs get on a plane and travel all over the country. That is unlike most of our peers. That's unlike most Big Ten schools.
"Out of that, we get a team capable of a Top 5 finish, and this points to Herb's recruiting and his ability to go into Canada and right now have, I believe, at one point last year three of the top five ranked amateur players from Canada were on the Kent State roster. And he has done that for years."
Baseball Baseball is another sport where the fundraising is high, $1-million since last June, coming off Kent's first ever College World Series appearance. This has allowed Nielsen to give coach Scott Stricklin, another Kent alum, a six-year contract extension at $300,000 per year, with additions still coming by spring to Schoonover Stadium, including lights for night games.
"Just knowing how difficult it is to get into that Final Eight for Omaha," Nielsen began. "Let's face it, for a program like ours, that will basically play the entire way on the road, you've got to have some luck. It was probably one of the most rewarding experiences I have had in this business. . . .
"We were fortunate a few years ago (2005) in baseball to have the Steve Schoonover Family come on board (financially, $1.5 million), then Olga Mural (2006, $1-million)." Nielsen said. "When they stepped up with their contributions to essentially redo our entire park, and add an artificial turf surface, the clubhouse, the stands, you started to see the success that began in 1992, that we were able to sustain, and now go to another level. . . . Overall, those are resources that are available to us that very few in our conference have."
Basketball On the positive side, men's basketball won at least 20 games for the 13th time in 14 years in 2012, coming off MAC Championships won in 2011 and 2010, and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2008. But unlike the other sports, where donors are available to make big contributions, basketball has not been the same.
"Lately, in basketball, people have used (seat licenses) to raise money in basketball. That's the culture of basketball, to raise money with seats, not donors," Nielsen said.
So where other programs are bringing in millions, Nielsen admitted it took "three or four donors" to come up with the roughly $100,000 last summer to redo the combined men's and women's basketball offices. This is combined with the fact Kent basketball has been successful for so long, it is the underground foundation that has become easy to overlook.
"It's hard to win 20 games, much less in the fashion we've done it the last 13 of 14 years," Nielsen said. "But a lot of times I catch myself forgetting about basketball, because it doesn't jump off the page anymore.
"And it should jump off the page, so that is something we have to address, because it is so unfair to that team and that program which has carried the torch for this place for so many years. The coals are still hot with Rob and our basketball program. We have to stoke the embers there."


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ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — Debate on county-appointed employee contracts continued Tuesday at the commission work session even as Commission Chairman Frank Burt called for swift action to name a new director for the county's Emergency Management Agency.
Personnel Director Andrea Rider told commissioners that some 10 people had applied for the job following the controversial withdrawal of Karen Blackwood, the top applicant of some 71 in a national search this spring.
Blackwood declined the local job after signing a contract. 2 days later and before the document's effective date, Blackwood said the 6-month initial $97,000 annual salary contract followed by yearly renewals did not offer her family enough security to make the move.
When Commissioner Tucker Dorsey asked how the current applicants were solicited, Rider said "by word of mouth, basically. We are no longer posting the vacancy."
Burt urged commissioners to look at the list and narrow choices to 3 for an interview session by next week. Commissioner Bob James said an interview date of July 21 would be better.
Burt said he had talked with a Robertsdale native who was a retired U.S. Army 2-star general "with lots of talents, according to him." Burt said the man was happy with a salary near $85,000 and the annual contract term that many applicants had found problematic.
"I've talked with several," said Commissioner Charles "Skip" Gruber, "and the contract length is still the big problem. Now we are down to offering a 4-month contract to start with. That's ridiculous."
Commissioners had agreed to offer a preliminary contract for 6 months to Blackwood timed to renew when other appointed employee contracts are set for re-approval in December. Anyone hired in August would sign a 4-month contract under the current terms.
Burt countered that County Attorney David Conner confirmed that even if the commission offers a 4-month contract, it would remain valid through the end of the current commissioners' terms unless 3 voted to end it.
"If we had a 2-2 vote in December, they would still keep the contract right up to the end of our term," Burt said. "It would really be no different than it was before."
Burt said the advantage to the one-year term would be that it forced commissioners to review the performance of contract employees annually.
"By statute we are supposed to review annually," Burt said. "For the last couple of years, some I didn't even review at all for my own personal reasons."
If contracts have expiration date, don't they expire?
Burt said recently that he favored the one-year term to coincide with the annual review process.
"The contracts now have an expiration date," Gruber said. "Doesn't that mean it expires?"
Dorsey said the commission really needed a calendar item to bring up reviews and evaluations annually, and not a short-term contract.
"We may need to amend the contract and add or change something," Burt said. He said the yearly renewal would allow for that.
"We just voted to waive our policy on another issue," Dorsey said. "We can do that and give a raise when we want. The point is no one in this room believes they (appointed employees) are safe in December. You are saying if a contract expires and there is a 2-2 vote there is still a contract?"
Burt then said he would pick 3 candidates and send them to Rider to set up interviews. "If it's a 1-man interview, so be it," Burt said.
Burt said the candidates were applying because the commission said on the record "we would keep accepting applications until we were not."
Interim EMA Director Shannon Spivey clearly marked Aug. 16 as her last day serving the agency. She took the job after the abrupt resignation of Melvin Stringfellow who left 6 months after taking the job. He left the job shortly after recommending the termination of Deputy Director Leigh Anne Ryals who had formerly served as director.
A subsequent review by the Alabama EMA found numerous deficiencies in records, planning and training in the department. Most have been addressed, officials said.
Rider said she would be submitting a spreadsheet to commissioners showing which candidates were qualified according to the posted job description. She said few appeared to meet the qualifications listed.
In other action, commissioners:
- Heard a re-enactment of the presentation given by Burt, Dorsey, County Clerk/Treasurer Kim Creech and County Administrator David Brewer to New York bond rating companies last week.
Commissioners agreed last month to pursue securing a bond issue to finance $25 million toward the purchase of the 3,000-acre industrial megasite. County leaders started work on the project more than 3 years ago as an incentive to draw a major manufacturer to north Baldwin. The tract would be development-ready with rail, seaport and interstate access.
Robert Ingram, director of the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance, added a history of the CSX/TVA megasite certification process, saying major industrial development in the automotive industry in recent years has happened at certified megasites. He said Columbus, Miss., hosted the first megasite, and is now working on getting its third megasite certified with successful results, thousands of jobs and billions in industrial development spent there.
- Discussed operating a school at the county's juvenile detention facilities. Commissioners agreed to gather more information and revisit the issue at the next work session.
James said that if the county does undertake the project, he favored going after more of the school system's state allocation for local students who wind up in juvenile custody, and even a portion of the county's 1-percent sales tax for schools.


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The Mission of Yun-nan includes the whole Province of Yun-nan which is situated in the southwestern corner of China. It adjoins Tonkin, Burma, Tibet, and the Chinese provinces of Sz-Chuen, Kwei chou, and Kwang-si. It is mountainous and its climate is like that of France. It has about 18,000,000 inhabitants, mostly Chinese, divided into many different tribes, as Y-jen, Miao-tse, Lo-los, Shans, Lissous. The Mussulman population is 900,000.
In 1658 Yun-nan was entrusted to the first Vicar Apostolic of the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris, Bishop Pallu, who had no means at his disposal to evangelize it. In 1699, Father Leblanc was made vicar Apostolic. He arrived there in 1702 accompanied by Father Danry. They found only four Christians, whom they used as catechists. Father Leblanc settled at Yun-nan-sen, the metropolis of the province, bought a piece of ground, and began building a church. Father Danry by 1706 had baptized more than 1000 Chinese. In that year, Emperor Kang-hsi banished the missionaries and father Danry left China, while Father Leblanc sought concealment in Fokien and Tché-kiang; he died in 1720, shortly after being made Bishop of Troad. Bishop Enjobert de Marillat, Vicar Apostolic of Sz-Chuen, administrated Yun-nan till 1780 when Yun-nan was united to Sz-chuen and Father Gleyo went to Yun-nan, where he established many Christian communities. In 1810, Yun-nan was separated from Sz-Chuen. Mgr. Ponsot became vicar Apostolic and was consecrated titular Bishop of Philomedia (1843-1880). The Catholic population at this time was 4000. There was only one Chinese priest. In 1847 a persecution stopped the progress of evangelization. In 1856 the Catholics numbered 6597. The Treaty of Pekin was not published in Yun-nan until 1865. In 1874 Father Baptifaud was killed at Pien-kio by the rebels. In 1881 Father Terrasse and fourteen Christians were massacred at Chang-yu, and 20 Dec., 1910, Father Mérigot was killed at Tsing-in. The present vicar Apostolic is Mgr. De Gorostarzu, consecrated Bishop of Aila in 1907. He resides at Yun-nan-sen.
In 1889 the mission comprised 1 bishop, 25 European missionaries, 7 Chinese priests, 53 churches or chapels, 1 seminary with 25 students, and 10,221 Catholics. In 1910, there were 2 bishops, 31 European missionaries, 15 Chinese priests, 92 churches or chapels, 1 seminary with 21 students, and 102 schools with 2112 pupils and 12,234 Catholics.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Threats, denunciations and verbal potshots between the National Rifle Association and the leaders of the legislature were common in the decades that Democrats ran the show in the Tennessee Capitol. Turns out Republicans are just as good at running afoul of the powerful gun-rights group.
GOP leaders in Nashville infuriated the NRA this year by refusing to go along with a bill to prevent businesses from banning guns on their property, and now the group is using its deep pockets to try to unseat one of them. Elsewhere, NRA-backed measures also ran into Republican roadblocks in Georgia, Alabama, Idaho and North Carolina this year.
The NRA notes recent successes in the legislatures of Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina, describing the recent setbacks as temporary.
"First of all, the legislative process is rarely quick and is rarely pretty," chief NRA lobbyist Chris W. Cox said in a phone interview. "We certainly take the long view and we're committed to bring this not only to Tennessee but across the country."
The NRA is backing up its words with campaign cash in Tennessee, spending $75,000 in an effort to defeat the No. 3 Republican in the state House, Rep. Debra Maggart of Hendersonville.
The effort includes a billboard that depicts Maggart shoulder to shoulder with Democratic President Barack Obama, who is deeply unpopular in Tennessee.
"Defend Freedom -- Defeat Maggart on August 2," the sign reads, referring to the date of the Republican primary. Early voting began Friday.
The NRA contribution is equal to more than half of Maggart's campaign balance of $147,000, and far exceeds the $10,000 that her challenger, Courtney Rogers, had on hand through the first half of the year. The gun-rights group hasn't supported any Democrats in Tennessee this campaign cycle.
House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick of Chattanooga said the traditional alliance between Republican lawmakers and the NRA has had very little meaning in recent years.
"They're our allies as long as it is in their self-interest -- and I don't think it's in their self-interest anymore," McCormick said. "Now that we're the governing party, they're going to be critical. They're never going to be satisfied."
"They're a fundraising organization, and their business plan is not to make politicians look good, it's to have someone to criticize so they can generate more money," he said.
Supporters dubbed the bill the "safe commute act," but opponents raised property-rights and safety concerns about guns being stored near large businesses, colleges and schools.
Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, called McCormick's claims "laughable."
"This is a self-defense issue for us," he said. "We heard bogus property rights arguments from the business community -- and McCormick and Maggart sided with the business community."
Republican leaders in Tennessee -- including Gov. Bill Haslam -- said they were willing to enact a form of the bill as long as it allowed excluded colleges and gave large businesses the ability to opt out along similar lines as an existing Georgia law.
The NRA refused to budge, and a lobbyist confidently predicted to Tennessee lawmakers early in the legislative session that the Georgia law would be corrected this year. That didn't come to pass, nor did an effort for similar legislation in neighboring Alabama, where the bill died without coming to a vote in the Republican-controlled House.
-- Erik Schelzig, Associated Press


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Cops say a Bronx man subjected two young relatives, a boy and a girl, to years of sexual abuse while they lived on Staten Island's North Shore.
Edwin Nieves, 44, was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges including rape, criminal sexual act -- an offense formerly classified as sodomy -- and sexual conduct against a child.
Police say the abuse began in December 2005, when his alleged victims were 8 and 10 years old and living in Stapleton. The girl is now 11 years old, the boy 12.
The 5-foot, 10-inch, 250-pound Nieves forced both of them to perform numerous sexual acts on him, according to court papers. The most recent abuse occurred against the girl on March 13 of this year, according to police.
A law enforcement source said Nieves made statements to investigators admitting to the sexual acts.
He could face a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if convicted at trial of first-degree rape, the top charge against him.
Nieves, who was arraigned yesterday in Stapleton Criminal Court, was ordered held without bail.
--Contributed by John Annese


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