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My Friend, Karl Rove
When it comes to the Tigers, I've realized that the best approach is the approach taken by thousands of animal lovers and jilted lovers the world over:
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back it's yours forever. If not, it was never meant to be."
Now, I love Tigers baseball. I mean, I don't want to marry it or anything but the feelings I had watching Maggs hit that homerun against the A's in 2006 to send the Tigers to the World Series, well, they were some pretty strong feelings. It's like how I felt watching Cecil Fielder back in the day and how I felt a couple weeks ago when my brother and I got to watch the Tigers pile on the Orioles for six runs in the first inning. And it's because of this love that I had to release the Tigers to their destiny this past week. It's not for me to decide their fate but there's nothing I can do to help either. So, I set them free.
However, it seems that some people have taken umbrage with this decision and called me out in public. To this I can only say: Mr. Lung, I denounce and reject your most recent post. Especially its typically red state divisive tactics of preying on the fear people have when it comes to immigration. I didn't realize the Mssrs. Renteria and Cabrera spoke like some two-bit villian from an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. But, leave it to the Karl Rove inspired politicking of a red state fan to base an argument on stereotypes and America's misguided fear of immigrants. I know I've mentioned it before, but Major League Baseball would be a very sad sport these days without the new levels of talent brought to the league by our friends from the south. And even if Sheff doesn't like it, they're here to stay. So, lets try to keep this debate on the up-and-up and leave behind the caricatures, eh? It's what Tupac would want us to do.
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Don't worry, I released the Blue Jays about a month ago. This week will be the 'matchup of mediocrity' at Comerica Park. I'm just going for the beer and nachos. jk
Hey man, I still don't think it's cool to "release" your team, but it's your choice. If you do cease to be a Tigers fan, you should join us in the wonderful world of Yankees baseball. If you lose, which will inevitably happen, you can yell, "Only ______ (always more than 16) more championships to go, and you will have gotten us!"


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The Tomah community has the opportunity to make sure kids in need stay warm this winter.
The Parenting Place is teaming up with Lighthouse Assembly of God church to hold a Coats for Kids drive.
For the next three weeks, residents will be able to drop off winter items at a number of places in and around Tomah. They are looking for things like coats, boots, hats, and scarfs for kid and their parents.
Last year, more than 2,400 items were given away to people in need. "It's amazing to see the kids come in and all excited to pick out their own coat, or their boots, and then just matching them up, it's so nice to see the smiles that the children have and then the parents leaving going, 'ok good, check that off my list,'" said Julee Katona from the Parenting Place.
The collection runs through October 14th. The clothing will be distributed October 18th from 4-6 p.m. and the 19th from 10-Noon at Lighthouse Assembly of God on Highway 16 in Tomah.
All of the items are free and will be given away on a first come, first served basis.

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A Florida detective wants to exhume the bodies of two Kansas murderers who were featured in the iconic true crime book "In Cold Blood."
Sarasota County sheriff's detective Kimberly McGath says she believes there is evidence linking Perry Smith and Richard Hickock to the 1959 killings of a family of four in a rural community south of Sarasota.
Smith and Hickock were convicted in Kansas of murdering Herb Clutter, his wife and two of their children, also in 1959. The murders were the subject of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood."
McGath says the Walker family's killer left behind his DNA on a preserved piece of clothing. If Smith and Hickock are exhumed, the DNA can be compared.
Smith and Hickock visited Florida after the Kansas mass murders.
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A Merritt Island homeowner trying to beautify his property in his neighborhood by planting trees has run afoul of the homeowner's association. They fined him $5,000 because the trees were too short.
Man fined $5,000 by home owners association for trees that are too short
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Why finding women at Davos will be harder this year
Women delegates will be even tougher to find at Davos this year, even though the World Economic Forum is maintaining its quota system to ensure a higher percentage of female representation.
Only 16% of delegates at the summit next week will be women, compared with 17% last year.
Since 2011, many of the major corporations attending the summit have been obliged to ensure that at least one out of their five delegates is a woman. The quota applies to the WEF's "strategic partners" – 100 companies who pay an increased membership fee to the organisation and are permitted to send five senior employees to Davos. This select group of companies includes many of the largest international investment banks.
Despite the quota, female representation at the annual gathering of business and political leaders from around the world has barely budged since 2011. Many say the lack of progress at the gathering of the world's private and public sector leaders embodies the slow progress made by women in breaking through the corporate glass ceiling.
From 2001 to 2005, women represented between 9% and 15% of all attendees at Davos. This rose to between 15% and 17% from 2006 to 2010. It reached 18% in 2012, but fell to 17% last year.
Saadia Zahidi, head of gender parity and human capital at the WEF, says the low percentage of female representation at Davos reflects the dearth of women in senior leadership positions both in the private and in the public sector.
Zahidi said: "It goes beyond the meeting because this is a reflection of what is happening in the world. It is not just about three or four days of the year. This is about global leadership as a whole and there the numbers are very very low."
Women held only 16.9% of corporate board seats in Fortune 500 companies in 2013, according to non-profit organisation Catalyst. And only 14.6% of executive officer positions were held by women—the fourth consecutive year of no growth.
Jacki Zehner, women's rights activist and first female trader to be made a partner at Goldman Sachs, said: "At what point is this going to be a serious enough issue for there to be a commitment by leaders to actually change the numbers. Certain companies have done a great job, but a vast majority of companies pay a lip service to women in leadership positions rather than take actual steps."
In an effort to promote gender equality in the business sector, the European Parliament in November voted overwhelmingly in favour of a quota of 40% on female non-executive directors for listed companies by 2020.
But quotas remain a controversial approach to tackling gender disparity.
Helena Morrissey CBE, chief executive of Newton Investment Management and founder of The 30% Club, said: "I don't think quotas are the answer to better diversity at Davos, quotas suggest tokenism. If being at Davos is related to having achieved a certain level of seniority in business, finance, politics or economics there is obviously a smaller pool of women than men; if it relates to having something interesting to contribute there are plenty of women who would qualify on merit."
The 30% club is an organisation that promotes gender diversity in UK corporate boards and aims to have 30% of women on boards of FTSE 100 companies by 2015.
Below is a list of the women delegates from the largest investment banks who will be attending Davos this year:
•Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Anne M. Finucane, global strategy and marketing officer Bank of America Corporation
•Barclays: Wendy Lucas-Bull, chairman Barclays Africa Group, and Maria Ramos, chief executive officer Barclays Africa Group
•Citi: Julie Monaco, managing director, global head of public sector and correspondent banking
•Deutsche Bank: Susan Skerritt, managing director, head of global transaction banking Americas
•Goldman Sachs: Dina H. Powell, president of Goldman Sachs Foundation and global head of corporate engagement
•HSBC: Naina Lal Kidwai, group general manager and country head HSBC India
•JP Morgan: Mary Erdoes, chief executive officer of asset management
•Morgan Stanley: Ruth Porat, chief financial officer
•RBS: Alison Rose, head of markets and international banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Nomura and UBS did not provide comment in time for publication, while Credit Suisse declined to provide guidance on the female executive in its delegation.
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During a competition, the Fallen One inside Dinn is captured by Haia, forcing Layfon to take action. It will be up to Dalsiena to find a way to separate Dinn from the spirit possessing him.
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Using XSL Formatting Objects
Table of Contents
The World Wide Web Consortium's specification for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) comes in two parts:
- XSLT, a language for transforming XML documents, and
- XSL Formatting Objects (XSL FO), an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.
XSLT is easy to learn and use. With only a modest investment of time, developers can convert an XML file to an HTML file that users can display in their browsers. This explains why developers are greeting XSLT with great enthusiasm. XML.com's column "Transforming XML" is a great place to get started working with XSLT.
XSL Formatting Objects is itself an XML-based markup language that lets you specify in great detail the pagination, layout, and styling information that will be applied to your content. The XSL FO markup is quite complex. It is also verbose; virtually the only practical way to produce an XSL FO file is to use XSLT to produce a source document. Finally, once you have this XSL FO file, you need some way to render it to an output medium. There are few tools available to do this final step. For these reasons, XML FO has not caught on as quickly as XSLT.
Rather than explain XSL FO in its entirety, this article will give you enough information to use the major features of XSL FO. Our case study will be a short review handbook of Spanish that will be printed as an insert for a Spanish language learning CD-ROM. We'll use the Apache Software Foundation's FOP tool to convert the FO file to a PDF file.
Since the XSL FO file will be an XML document, it must begin with the standard XML processing instruction and the FO root element.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <fo:root>
The structure of the remainder of the document is:
- The layout master set, which consists of
- Descriptions of the kinds of pages that can occur in the document.
- Sequences in which those page formats can occur.
- The pages and their content.
Page Layouts
After the FO document's beginning <fo:root> tag, we have to describe what kinds of pages our document can have. Our document will have three kinds of pages shown in the diagram below. To accommodate the stapling area, the cover page and right-hand pages will have more margin space at the left. The content pages will also have a region for a header and footer.
Let's start out by specifying the page widths and heights and margins. The units below are all in centimeters, but you may use any of the CSS units, such as px (pixel), pt (point), em, in, mm, etc. Each of these specifications is called a simple-page-master and must be given a master-name so you can refer to it later.
<fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="cover" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm" margin-left="1cm" margin-right="0.5cm"> </fo:simple-page-master> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="leftPage" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-left="0.5cm" margin-right="1cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm"> </fo:simple-page-master> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="rightPage" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-left="1cm" margin-right="0.5cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm"> </fo:simple-page-master> <!-- more info will go here --> </fo:layout-master-set>
The margins are areas which will not contain any printed output.
The Content Area
All of the printing occurs within the dotted lines in the diagram above. This is the page content area (officially called the page-reference-area), which can be divided into five regions as shown below.
Before continuing, we have to take a side trip to explain some terminology. When we set margins, we use words like top, bottom, left, and right. because everyone agrees which edge of a piece of paper is the top edge, left edge, etc. We will use different words when we talk about the content area, because not all languages are written left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
FO considers a page to be made up of two classes of elements: block elements (such as paragraphs) which begin on a new line, and inline elements (such as bold, italic) which don't. You can think of FO's block-progress-direction as the order in which paragraphs are placed on a page. The before-edge precedes a paragraph, the after-edge follows it.
The inline-progress-direction is the order in which characters are placed within a line. The start-edge precedes a line, and the end-edge follows it.
For Hebrew, as shown below, the start- and end- edges are the opposite of those used for English. (Arabic is written similarly.)
Japanese is sometimes written as shown below. The picture is from the XSL specification.
The advantage of using this new vocabulary is that it is language-independent. If you want a heading to be at the opposite side of the page from normal text, you set its text-align="end" so it appears like
An interesting heading
Headings set like the one above are unusual, and thus more likely to catch a reader's attention.
If the document is later translated to Arabic or Japanese, you will be assured that the heading will still appear at the corresponding "opposite side" of the text. There will be no need to go through your document reversing left and right or switching them with top and bottom.
Specifying Region Dimensions
The cover page doesn't need a header or footer, so we need only specify information for the region-body by adding the information shown in bold below.
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="cover" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm" margin-left="1cm" margin-right="0.5cm"> <fo:region-body margin-top="3cm" /> </fo:simple-page-master>
The left and right pages will have a header and footer, so we must specify the extent of the region-before and region-after.
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="leftPage" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-left="0.5cm" margin-right="1cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm"> <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-body margin-top="1.1cm" margin-bottom="1.1cm" /> </fo:simple-page-master> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="rightPage" page-height="12cm" page-width="12cm" margin-left="1cm" margin-right="0.5cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="0.5cm"> <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-body margin-top="1.1cm" margin-bottom="1.1cm" /> </fo:simple-page-master>
Important: The margins you set for the region-body must be greater than or equal to the extents of the the region-before and region-after (and the region-start and region-end if you use them - FOP does not currently support them.). If you do something like this:
<fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-body margin-top="0.20cm" margin-bottom="0.20cm" />
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The Other Poe
Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, née Rosalie Poe, was the estranged sister of Edgar Allan Poe. Rosalie, born approximately December 1810 in Norfolk, Virginia, was the last of Elizabeth Arnold Poe's children (Mabbott 520). There is debate who her father is, because David Poe, Eliza's husband, had abandoned the family around the time Rosalie would have been conceived. There is speculation that John Howard Payne, a prominent fellow actor of the time, was Rosalie's father; however these rumors remain as such—merely rumors. There is evidence that Eliza and Payne were both acting on the same stage around this time (Bloomfield). There is even compromising evidence which fell into the hands of John Allan, Edgar Poe's "foster" father, who then wrote to Henry Poe, Edgar and Rosalie's older brother, in a November 1824 letter explaining Rosalie only being a half sister to the Poe brothers:
God may yet bless him [i.e. young Edgar] & you & that Success may crown all your endeavors & between you your poor Sister Rosalie may not suffer. At least She is half your Sister & God forbid my dear Henry that We should visit upon the living the Errors & frailties of the dead (Velella).
It is also speculated Joseph Gallego of Richmond was Rosalie's father, or at least had a deep connection with her, as he bequeathed her $2000 in his will, the remaining $8000 going to the Mackenzie family (World of Poe).
After Eliza Poe's death in 1811, the Poe children were separated and Rosalie was taken into the care of William Mackenzie and his wife of Richmond. She was not formally adopted, and it is speculated whether the family accepted her warmly or treated her poorly. Growing up, Rosalie was described as being degenerative, dull, backwards, and never progressing beyond the developmental age of twelve:
Edgar developed into a brilliant youth, as much noted for physical beauty, strength and activity, as for intellect and genius. Rosalie, as though some mysterious blight had fallen upon her, gradually drooped and faded into a languid, dull and uninteresting girlhood — apathetic in disposition and weak in body and mind…Her figure, naturally delicate and well-formed, drooped as lacking strength for its own support, her hands generally hanging listlessly at her side. Her eyes, dark gray, like those wonderful spiritual ones of her brother, were weak, dull and expressive only of utter vacuity. She was accustomed to sit for long intervals gazing upon vacancy, and when aroused, would answer to an inquiry: ' I wasn't thinking at all; I was asleep with my eyes open.'…She looked indeed as she often said that she felt, "but half alive…" (Weiss).
She, despite these reported developmental hindrances, earned a living by teaching writing for nine years (Sova). It should be noted that the Poe children's nurse, at the time of Eliza's failing health, explained she would dip bread soaked in gin and give it to the children, as well as occasionally give them other liquors. Although this was not uncommon at the time, because alcohol was used as a method for quieting upset children, it may explain Rosalie's stunted developmental process and intellectual growth. It is rumored that Laudanum also was given to the young children (Weiss).
As the youngest sibling of the three Poe children, Rosalie looked up to her older brother Edgar, greatly admiring him and often boasting about his works and his talent, despite the two not being close. she attended her brother's readings and lectures, and it is said she was disruptive and even sat upon his lap while he gave a reading of "The Raven":
Once, when he was reciting 'The Raven' by popular demand at a gathering, Rosalie came up and sat on his lap at a point in the poem that pretty much equated her presence there with the birds above the 'chamber door.' The guests loved it. Poe was tolerant and quipped that he'd take her along next time to act out the part of the raven (Bloomfield).
According to Thomas Ollive Mabbott in Complete Poems, allegedly she dressed in an unfashionable manner and embarrassed the older Poe (521). If there were any similarities between the two, it was their shared fondness of flowers (Weiss).
After the Civil War and her brother Edgar's death, the effects were devastating on the Mackenzie family and caused them to split, leaving Rosalie to fend for herself. Rosalie's "foster" mother had passed in 1865, and John Hamilton Mackenzie, Rosalie's "foster" brother, had lost Rosalie's $2000 inheritance (Semtner 112). In the last years of her life, Rosalie wandered the streets and often forged her brother's signature for autographs which she attempted to sell. She also attempted to sell furniture, claiming the pieces were "Poe artifacts" (World of Poe). Rosalie thrived solely on the charity of others, having been rejected by her cousin Neilson in Baltimore (Weiss). She had been unable to provide the money required to take out letters of administration to receive her brother Edgar's inheritance, so she did not received what was supposed to be left to her (Mabbott 571). She was admitted to Epiphany Church Home in Washington D.C. and died there July 21st, 1874; she was 68. It is said she died due to inflammation of the stomach (World of Poe). It is also speculated she passed from "debility," or physical weakness (Mabbott 520). Something notable about her death is that her tombstone marks her year of birth as 1812, one year after her mother's death (World of Poe). This date was allegedly taken from the date of her christening, which would imply she was christened in 1812 (Mabbott 520).
The tragic story of Rosalie Poe is one to note when embarking on Poe studies. It must be mentioned she once stated the following in regard to writing, "I often feel as if I could write poetry. I have it all in my head, but somehow can't get it clear enough to write down" (Weiss). There is certainly a possibility Rosalie might have been a successful writer, much like her brother Edgar, and certainly like their older brother Henry who, too, possessed the creative talent. Had she been given greater fortune in life, Rosalie's strange, sad, and upsetting story may have turned out differently. It seems, however, each Poe child was touched with the curse of poverty and despair.
You can view historical objects and artifacts pertaining to Rosalie Poe and the Mackenzie family at the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, as well as in the Manuscripts Collection: Edgar Allan Poe collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.


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More than 30 students at Marquette University can now boast authority on J.R.R. Tolkien.
The school offered a course on the fantasy writer for the first time this fall as part of the university's celebration of the 75th anniversary of "The Hobbit" being published. And it wrapped up just before the movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was released Friday.
The class filled up fast, mostly with seniors who had priority. It looked at Tolkien as a whole, not just at the popular "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit."
English professor Tim Machan says the class has been the best in his 27 years at Marquette for student preparation and enthusiasm.
The class was so well-received the school, which has many of Tolkien's drafts and manuscripts, is considering more.


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June 11, 2013 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — Even though he arrived 20 minutes late, Thomas Murphy Jr. got a warm welcome Thursday evening from Upper Delaware Council (UDC) chair Jeffrey Dexter, who said, "We've been waiting 30 years for you."
The UDC has long awaited a spokesman to answer questions about New York City's handling of the upstream dams that control flows in the Delaware River, and Murphy serves as Chief of Reservoir Release Policy Development of the New York City (NYC) Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply.
Murphy came with a presentation about the city's system, including 19 reservoirs in a 2,000 square-mile watershed, which when full impounds 580 billion gallons of water and provides 1.1 billion gallons to nine million people daily.
A difference in philosophies about the watershed was evident early, as Murphy displayed maps showing where "our" water is located.
Deerpark UDC representative John Dean, quickly interjected. "No, it's our water."
There was no immediate debate about the contradiction, but the issue was paramount in the question-and-answer session after his slideshow, which stretched Murphy's program to over an hour.
Use of the Delaware River water is determined by a 1954 Supreme Court decision and subsequent management agreements among the so-called Decree Parties (Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and the City of New York). The original decision entitled New York City to draw up to 800 million gallons per day (mgd) of water for its needs, and mandated in addition that enough water be released to maintain minimum flows at Montague, NJ. Unanimous consent is required to make changes in water release policies, but there have been a number of changes since the original decree. A comprehensive explanation of them can be found at water.usgs.gov/osw/odrm/releases.html.
In his presentation, Murphy revealed that NYC's actual water demand in recent years has fallen substantially, having peaked in the 1970s at around 700 mgd, to levels similar to the record drought of the 1960s, crediting conservation measures.
Murphy said the city's primary goal is to ensure that the reservoirs are 100% full by June 1 of each year. Water not drawn by New York City or used to maintain the Montague target, termed the Excess Release Quantity (ERQ) or Interim Excess Release Quantity (IERQ) "is not ours" he said, and is available for downstream uses. But as noted, there must be unanimous agreement among the decree parties regarding such uses.
Hancock representative Fred Peckham asked about flood control. He noted that the difference in discharge amounts during a flood greatly impacts flood damage. "A 10-foot difference in the level can make a $100 million difference in damages." The 10% void that the most recent flow management regime aims for during certain times of the year has been a helpful buffer during storms in this respect. However, Murphy noted that though the reservoirs can help in a single storm, in back-to-back storms, "it's really hard to deal with two."
At the other end of the spectrum, in drought situations an increase in directed releases may be required in order to meet the Montague flow target. But no set flow target exists above Montague, and if high flows from the Lackawaxen and Neversink rivers are meeting the Montague requirement, Delaware levels upstream of Lackawaxen can drop precipitously because NYC reservoir releases aren't being made.
Noting that withheld NYC releases can leave the upper river nearly dry, Peckham objected.
Murphy confirmed that the city did not have to release water in such instances. Changes to this policy require unanimous agreement of the decree parties, he added.
The recent rejection of a proposal by Peter Kolesar and Jim Serio to manage thermal stress on the upper river, supported by the UDC, was a hot topic for public comment. When the river runs low and accordingly warmer, Bart Larmouth of the Upper Delaware Club said he fields 100 phone calls daily from angry anglers and non-anglers alike.
Highland Supervisor and Trout Unlimited chapter President Andrew Boyar noted that no reasons had been given for the rejection of the proposal, which had been based on scientific algorithms. When Murphy claimed that procedures were already in place to deal with thermal stress episodes, Boyar said, "Even when there is plenty of water, we have to pound on doors to get any response." Last year, out of four requests by the PA Fish and Boat Commission for thermal relief, only one received a response.
Sherri Resti of Friends of the Upper Delaware River pointed out that the entire recreation industry is impacted. "It's not just fisheries, people are hiking, camping and spending money here."
While he said that NYC has participated in special programs outside the formal agreement, Murphy said, "the city has never thought there is enough water to thermally maintain the main stem. We've made that clear more than once."
Tusten's Susan Sullivan looked for a straight answer. "Then you're not responsible for the health of the main stem?"
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Connie Naylor
Connie Naylor, 58, Dysart, died Wednesday at Altoona Regional as a result of an automobile accident.
She was born in Dysart, daughter of the late William "Duke" and Margaret (Vochinsky) Naylor.
Surviving are two sons: Jody Gibbons (Angel Farabaugh) of Emeigh and Jed Gibbons (Erica Sunderland) of Northern Cambria; four grandchildren: Brennan and Bryce Gibbons and David and Chelsea Farabaugh; a sister, Cathy Vinglish (Brian) of Dysart; as well as several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Alan.
Connie retired after 29 years of service from Laurel Crest Manor, Ebensburg, and was currently working at the Women's Help Center, Johnstown. She organized the National Day of Prayer at the Cambria County Courthouse and was a member of the Crossroads Alliance Church, Ebensburg.
Connie was a devout Christian. She enjoyed hunting with her sons and shopping.
Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 9 until the 10 a.m. funeral service Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Gibbons Funeral Home, Ashville, the Rev. Kevin Stock officiating. Committal will be at St. Thomas Cemetery, Ashville.


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Tis the way forward. The way A level results are getting better and better, we can safely leave the issue of spent fuel processing in the high-achievers hands as eventually they, or their children or their children's children will eventually be clever enough to develop a solution.
Or, if you read up on thorium MSR as I suggested, the waste products are only unstable for about 150 years with ten time less waste than a conventional LW reactor for the same or greater energy output, with a far more abundant fuel in a reactor which can't go critical.
Sadly the view that all fission reactors are bad is prevalent though. Even though its demonstrably wrong.
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Summer is a Time to Celebrate Great Food and Local Markets!
That's right! You've been waiting for it all year, and it's finally here! August is National Goat Cheese Month! Not a fan of goat cheese? How about blueberries? July was National Blueberry Month, but unfortunately, I was out of the country and couldn't fully appreciate it in France. Now that I'm back and Compete.com data for July is live, I wanted to take a look and see if other people


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Peanuts are a unique commodity and should probably be treated as such in new farm legislation. At a recent gathering in Panama City, Fla., growers were told of some of these possible options.
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"We took a model from other commodities, slapped it on peanuts, and expected it to work," says Tiffany Arthur, an economist with the Farm Service Agency's Economic and Policy Analysis Staff. "Peanuts are a different commodity, and maybe we need a more unique program for peanuts."
When the marketing loan concept was first introduced, says Arthur, the intent was to provide farmers with a portion of their expected revenue up front at harvest for the purpose of repaying creditors.
"Farmers then have nine months to market their crops and repay loans, allowing them to time their sales to capture higher revenues, rather than selling at harvest, when prices are usually lowest. But peanut option contracts circumvent this process," she says.
Most farmers contract peanuts prior to planting or harvest, making the loan irrelevant to them, and shellers use the marketing loan in their stead, says Arthur.
"Base prices of option contracts are set equal to the loan repayment rate. Shellers pay less for peanuts when the loan repayment rate decreases (a marketing loan gain), with farmer price unaffected," she says.
Peanut shellers, says Arthur, heavily influence planting decisions, determine whether or not marketing loans are redeemed, and are typically the eventual buyers of any forfeited peanuts.
They also hold all price information, she adds.
"The result is a program that often puts the interests of shellers at cross-purposes with those of USDA. In the past, this has bred mistrust rather than a search for common ground," says the economist.
In speaking with peanut producers, Arthur says she has found that many factors influence their marketing decisions. One of those is financing, as many banks will not provide financing without evidence of a higher price than the $355 marketing loan.


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A weekend of L's
So the Cardinals completed a 3 game sweep of the Pirates. On Saturday the Cards downed the Bucs 5-3. What looked to be like a strong pitcher's duel turned into a nightmare. The Pirates pulled starter Charlie Morton in the fifth inning. Morton had only given up one run but he looked shaky. Twice he had the bases loaded but he still managed to get out of the pickles. I questioned the decision but I though, maybe, just maybe our bullpen could sustain a close game-WRONG. Chris Bootcheck, recently recalled from Triple A Indianapolis was the first reliever put in. He gave up 3 runs and looked horrible. The Pirates were able to claw back in the 9th with a 2 out 2 run home run by Ronny Cedeno. Cedeno also made a Jack Wilson- esque diving play at shortstop which made the top 5 Web Gems on Baseball Tonight. He has truly been a wizard at the position.
Sunday's game looked promising. The Pirates had a 3-0 lead but the Cardinals chipped away scoring 1 in the 4th and 1 in the 7th. In the 8th inning all hell broke loose. In another questionable decision Matt Capps was called into the game in a completely non save situation. I hate that. Hes a closer, let him close the game. He has underperformed like no other when he comes out early like this. Capps gave up a 2 run home run courtesy of Skip Schumacker. The very next batter was Prince Albert. Capps, whether it was out of frustration or sheer loss of control plunked Pujols dead in the back.
The home plate umpire truly believed it was intentional and tossed Capps from the game. Pujols was a class act about it and didn't charge the mound or have any words to say. He just did his duty and walked on down to first.
The streak has now reached 8 games. The Pittsburgh Pirates have now lost 8 in a row. With a road tripe coming up the Pirates have today off. They will need the rest when they land in Denver for a series against the Rockies. This doesn't help matters much as the Rockies are right in the thick of things and will be scrathcing and clawing for victories.
The weekend wasn't a total wash though. On Saturday night, Skyblast was held after the game and a sold out crowd was ready to hear some great music and watch some great fireworks.
The announced attendance was over 38,000, the largest crowd at PNC Park this season. It was also the 7th largest crowd in the eight year history of PNC Park. Its no secret that all those people were not there to see the Pirates, they were there to see OAR. The crowd was filled with many self proclaimed non-baseball fans. It was hard to see many Pirate jerseys or t-shirts. There were just as many Cardinal clad fans as Pirate fans. Many people were dressed for a club or bar. It wasn't really my type of crowd, just not at a baseball game.
Pittsburgh at night is a beautiful sight….
I love the collaboration of the skyscrappers to form a beautiful downtown skyline. Pittsburgh gets a bad rap for being a rough town and a dump. It really isn't. There are some parts that are underdeveloped and some parts that need sprucing up, but every city has that. Pittsburgh is a gateway for life and revitilization. Outside of Allegheny County there is miles and miles of country land. I know my family in West Virginia thinks the city of Pittsburgh is beautiful. My little cousin looks at some of the buildings and thinks their castles and is just in awe of the architecural masterpieces right there. You add some fireworks to this beautiful city and the result is a picture perfect evening.
How beautiful is that? It is a fantastic show. They use the whole city as a stage and stop at nothing to find a place to let off these colorful pyrotechnics. On the field, a barge in the river, on the Clemente bridge, off the scoreboard, downtown, on top of buildings. With so many different launching locations its really like many shows in one. It truly makes Pittsburgh the ultimate destination for a firweorks show.
I just wish Pittsburgh could be a destination for some good baseball. It seems like I can't do anything to make this team win games, not even my blast from the past look.
Snell jersey and 1979 hat. Its still not enough to get the Pirates to break out of their losing slump. I really like this picture. Should it be my new picture up there in the top right corner? I really like the one I got up there now, not only is it the original it also has Clemnete in it, he's still the driving force behind Pittsburgh baseball. I'd love to know your thoughts-let me know if I should change it!
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Ya know, I'm still scratching my head over how your front office raptured half of your guys out of the clubhouse. The Pirates weren't really THAT far out of it in that tight NL Central race. It also pains me to say this(as a Rnagers/Cowboys/Stars fan), but it would have been kind of cool to see the Pirates take the WS this year and have all 3 Pitt teams be champs.
Re: the profile pic – Clemente freakin rocked, but I dig the '79 cap and the stadium shot, so go with the new pic, IMHO.
I love the backdrop for the fireworks. Use what ya got!
And I really don't get people who dress up to go to a ballgame. It's a ballgame people, not a martini bar or something! Love the '79 cap! That is a really nice pic.🙂
Sorry about the sweep.
& Nah, I'm not really upset about that,
compared to some certain other trades,
its not a big deal at all. http://tribechick.mlblogs.com/
Tough call on the Pujols pitch, I don't think it was intentional. Those are some really cool pictures of the Pittsburgh skyline, it looks really nice.
I like your picture the way it is right now, but that one is pretty cool too.
I feel for you, being swept sucks, hopefully the teams in PA will fair better on the road…
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Matt: Those fireworks are gorgeous! I'm sorry about the losing streak. About the picture for the corner, I like both, but I think the new one of you in the 79 hat is better. In the other one, there are kids by the statue, and that's kind of annoying. But I like both pictures a lot, so whatever🙂
I thought I should tell you: Last night, I went to another Renegades game, and they played the baby Pirates, the State College Spikes! If you are interested, I posted an article on my blog about it. But it's mostly about my experience before the game. Feel free to check it out! -Virginia
And I can also see Tex as MVP. Where would my Yanks be without him? -Virginia
I love Roberto Clemente. As I stated in one of my responses to my latest thread, Roberto was originally drafted by the Dodgers. But in order to change the luck, I vote for the new picture and I love that hat.
I love the fireworks pictures. You know when my girlfirend and I went to Pittsburgh last year, after the game we walked from there to a bar and grill close to the football stadium then to the hotel by the bus station. We did not feel unsafe.
Hmmmmm, I think you look great in both pictures. The new one is really nice. Your pictures of the city and of the fireworks are absolutely breathtaking.
Your management is confusing. Why change almost all the players?? Don't they care about the fans?
Both pictures look cool, I like the first one with the statue in the back the most though.
I love the retro look! You know it's all about superstition…change your pic, change their luck. Hurry! I want to see if it works!
I love both pics, but I'm with Lori. Maybe changing the profile pic would change the Pirates' luck. Couldn't hurt, right? I haven't been to Pittsburgh in a long time, but I've heard nothing but good things about the stadium. I'd love to come and see it.
The Pirates losing 8 straight games? Oh no, Pirates need to play some catch up if they are going to compete in this pennant race. The fireworks show in Pittsburgh looks awesome. and the skyline looks great, just like in New York City.
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I think you make a great point about closers being used in non save situations. It seems not to work out that often. I know managers need to keep guys sharp, though, so it is almost a necessary evil. Unfortunately, it seems lots of closers see their ERAs get blown out of proportion because of these terrible outings. I know Capps is solid, too bad you guys aren't winning enough to get him some save situations. Tough series, man.
Didn't see the game, but glad Pujols wasn't hurt. I remember when Jaosn Hammel hit Edgar Gonzalez in the head, I freaked out a little bit about that. Looks like you took some great pictures!
Being much older then you – I like the retro look! And don't worry about losing streaks! The Red Sox lost seven straight. It happens.
Pittsburgh is a nice city. Maybe the beauty should motivate the Pirates.
PNC Park is a great stadium with an awesome view at night. We had a great time last year taking in a few games. Friendly people, good food ( Manny's Barbeque, and those gigantic samwiches, for got what they are called), it was a wonderfull trip.
Course I still think our stadium is still better but…..😉


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Home List of Titles Role of an immunodominant T cell epitope of the P6 protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in murine protective immunity
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- Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is a common cause of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infection in adults with chronic lung disease. The highly conserved P6 protein of NTHI infection is under evaluation as a vaccine antigen in several animal models. To elucidate the role of cellular immune response to P6 in protective immunity, the goal of this study was to identify and characterize T cell epitope(s) on P6 and to investigate the role of these epitope(s) in eliciting antigen specific antibody responses and in mediating pulmonary clearance of NTHI. We report that T cells from BALB/c immunized with P6 recognize a single, immunodominant region, represented by 15 amino acids (residues 41-55) of the P6 protein. To verify the ability of this epitope to elicit T cell responses to the P6 protein, mice were immunized with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the sequence of dominant peptide. T cells isolated from mice primed in vivo with the peptide responded following in vitro stimulation with either the peptide or with the whole P6 molecule. Substitution of single amino acids and N or C terminal truncations of the dominant peptide resulted in complete abrogation of the response, implicating their importance to the T cell response. Furthermore, mucosal immunization of mice with a chimeric peptide that encompassed the dominant T cell epitope and a putative B cell epitope resulted in enhanced bacterial clearance following pulmonary challenge with NTHI. Collectively, these results establish that, in a mouse model, P6 contains a single immunodominant T cell epitope and this epitope plays an important role in protective immune responses induced by immunization with P6.
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Yankees Lose 3 Straight and Played Badly….AGAIN
Am I being too hard on the Yankees? I mean, they only lost 3 in a row. To answer my own question, I'm not being too hard on them. It's the way they lost. Game 1, ok bad luck, but they still didn't hit the ball. Game 2 was very upseting. No pitching. And yesterday, with the hottest pitcher on the hill, we lost in an embarrassing blowout. Since when do the White Sox actually hit? Since when do the Bronx Bombers fail to bomb? Obviously, since Thursday. It's starting to make me angry. I shouldn't have to throw my shoes at the TV 3 days in a row. Anyway, the Yankees lost 14-4. I don't even want to recall the game, but for the sake of the blog I have to.
Pitching Analysis: A.J. was way off yesterday. He gave up 6 runs in the 2nd inning. Who does that? Just get someone out! I know A.J. can't be good every time out there, but he shouldn't be blown out! I can't even talk about it. He gave up 7 runs on 10 hits and 2 bases loaded walks to the #9 hitter in 4 & 2/3 innings. There is no excuse for that. His command was all off, and he and Posada just were not in sync.
The bullpen stank as well. Bruney gave up a run on 3 hits in 1 & 2/3 innings. Robertson pitched 2/3 an inning of, omg scorless baseball? What a novel idea! Phil Coke was terrible yesterday. Injust 1/3 of an inning, he gave up 6 runs on 3 walks and 4 hits. Disgusting. But Mark Melancon pitched a scorless 2/3 of an inning. Maybe we'll be seeing him late in the games soon. Overall, dreadful, disgusting, upseting pitching. Enough said.
Defensive Analysis: While Bruney was pitching, Jeter made an error on a routine play, and that sent Tim McCarver and the other idiots on Fox into a state of joy. SHUT THE F*** UP! Leave Jeter alone. He made an error! WOW! IT'S SO FUNNY! I hate when they are on Fox. All the commentators do is pick on the Yankees and mention the times they stank. Wait, this is the defense paragraph. The defense was nothing to speak about, it was hard to tell since they were chasing after balls most of the time anyway.
Offensive Analysis: There wasn't any. That's all.
Ok sorry. I'm just so aggrivated. On the bright side, Jerry Hairston had a nice Yankee debut, going 1 for 3 with a walk, RBI and a run. Jeter and Tex both got 2 hits, one of Tex's was a 2-run single. Arod had 3 hits. I don't get why Girardi played Ransom yesterday. He was ridiculously bad. He struck out 3 times in 4 at-bats. I couldn't watch. In total they only got 8 hits. They were horrible with runners in scoring position. With bases loaded and no one out in the 6th, they only managed 1 run. That is not acceptible. Overall, the offense was disgusting.
That's how we all feel, Joe.
Another huniliating loss for the Yankees. Before is seemed like all they were doing was winning, now all they are doing is losing. "L" is the new "W." This has to stop. The lead is now only .5 of a game, and before today is over there probably won't be a lead. They have to win now. That's enough already. If I have to throw my shoe at the screen today, it will be thrown so hard that it'll break the TV, go through the wall, and snap all the trees outside in half. I'm not kidding. (I may be exaggerating a bit, though.) Come on Yankees, win! The fate of my living room depends on it!
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I don't think the Yankees aren't trying too hard, I think the pitching and the defense needs to step it up a notch because the White Sox are hitting them at all corners and angles. My advice to the Yankees is this, hit Mark Burhele hard. CC Sabathia needs to step up his game big time and the defense needs to play better. I think the Yankee offense is good, just their defense.
Cool off the White Sox before they get hot.
Matthew Tang
"L" does seem like the new "W." Very well put! And my living room needs a win too, because I will be throwing sharp objects into every corner if the Yanks lose again today. Utter destruction!
"Instead of crying over the Yankee loss, I got mad. I threw my shoe at the tv, I punched myself in the thigh, I cursed whenever I was alone. If they don't win today, I don't know what I might do. HELP!"
Haha, I was alone except for my brother the entire game, so I was like "@#!@$ #@!@#@@ @#!@#!@#" (translation: BEEEEEEEEEP) on every frustrating situation. I don't know about punching yourself in the thigh, though. That's not healthy. Nor is throwing the shoe at the tv, lol. I may get mad, but I only unleash it on pillows. Two things I never do: I never endanger my technology and I never waste perfectly good food.
-EJ the Kid From NY
I'm praying for all living rooms alike today. They need a day off. First pitch is in mere moments. I'm at the edge of my rolly chair! We need a for-real W this time!
After seeing that comment about Tim McCarver I'm REALLY glad I missed the game… I hate that man with a passion that would make Satan blush. He is TERRIBLE and I hope he… well, I'm sure you can insert any horrible event in there and get the point.
Yes, well, I'm told that I'm a funny guy.
Haha, now now Virginia, would that be ladylike? I understand not wanting someone to curse all the time, but if it's just an occasional thing, it shouldn't be a problem. The problem starts when you start cursing in inappropriate situations…
Our living rooms are safe, Virginia. The Yanks did a great job today knocking Buehrle around and beating the White Sox. Now they can go to Toronto feeling a little better about things. I know I do.
Virginia – I'm finally home from vacation, or "family reunion" as they call it. The Yankees are creating havoc for my Dad and my daughter. I think the losses are getting to them. They even tried a "Let the Yankees Win" dance today – but it didn't work. The Red Sox are catching up quickly…watch out!


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Relive the Montreal Jazz Fest 2014 With WBGO
August 28, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM 2014, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Montreal 2014, Simon Rentner, Tim WIlkins
Montreal lives, breathes, and loves jazz every July, when millions of fans and hundreds of acts take over the city - and so does WBGO, especially host Michael Bourne, who has attended FIJM every year for two decades.
Bourne was in Montreal once again this year with producer Simon Rentner to deliver previews, day-by-day reports and behind-the-scenes interviews with music makers.
Miss something? You can relive Montreal's best moments right here, by clicking on the links below. And just as we did this year, WBGO Travel will take us to Montreal next year, and we hope fans and listeners will join us then as well. So enjoy the very best of FIJM 2014 - and FIJM 2015 - with WBGO!
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Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade's "Panama 500"
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Bourne's Montreal: Dueling Finales
August 28, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2014, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Montreal 2014
When the first Montreal jazz festival played in the streets back in 1979, neighbors nearby complained about the noise. This year's 35th anniversary FIJM ended with a bang. A really loud bang.
Deltron 3030 is a trio of hip-hoppers, each doing something … hippy? hoppy?
Once upon a time, I avoided most pop music. I'd listen to the groups on SNL or Letterman, usually no more than a minute. I'd often DVR those shows, and, if I didn't hear an actual melody or amusing lyrics, I'd quickly fast-forward.
I'm still not a "fan" of the various neo-pop groups that sell millions of records — down-loads, I mean -- but since my revelation listening to Plaster, when Club Soda became my neo-pop road to Damascus, I'm now certainly game to listen. Especially when Laurent Saulnier, FIJM's "VP of the Edge," tells me "you have to hear" whoever he circles on FIJM concert grid for me.
And the festival's finale — L'Evenement Special de Cloture - out on the big (even bigger this year) TD Bank stage — is usually, as Woodkid was to begin the jazzfest, spectacular.
Kid Koala, a local DJ, is one of the three Deltron 3030 hip-hoppers, and with three turntables he "scratched" LP's. He'd lick his fingers, play a record, maybe a voice, but he'd stop and pull the voice backwards, let the record play again, maybe only a quarter spin, create a groove from the shards of music and mechanical noises of a record player, all while licking and stop-starting LP's on the other turntables.
"This is my mother's favorite record," he said with a smile like a naughty child, and he played an easy-listening chorus singing "Moon River," all the while twisting weird counterpoints over and under the song on the other LP's.
Kid Koala was having fun, and so was the multitude on the Place des Spectacles, and so was I.
Then came the rapper, Del the Funkee Homosapien. (Do rappers, I wondered, have to trademark their often silly names? Like circus clowns have to trademark their goofy wigs and noses?)
Almost immediately, for me, the show was over.
When I first really listened and appreciated neo-pop at the festival, I soon could hear when artists were being truly creative — and when wanna-be artists were running in place, repeating what were already cliches, selling the Emperor's New Nonsense.
Del the Funkee Homosapien was not even (properly spelled) funky. He rapped over annoyingly monotonous mechanical beats. Loud -- all the more annoying — footpat-less beats.
He blathered gibberish so quickly and so inarticulately that all I could comprehend was that the gibberish rhymed. At best vaguely rhymed.
And then the third Deltronic, Dan the Automator, dressed in tails, cranked up an entire orchestra, complete with a barrage of cellos — but playing only orchestral groans.
Maybe, and only far-fetchedly maybe, I'd have enjoyed Kid Koala's scratching counterpoints or even amusing noises within Dan the Automator's groaning — but Del the Funkee Homosapien kept on jerking doggerel, and I split.Back to the Gesu I came for the last Jazz dans la nuit concert. Christine Jensen's big band was playing for less than half of the house, but we few were very happy.
Christine's band gathered some of the best players of the Montreal scene, including tenor saxist Andre Leroux and Christine's sister, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.
Playing barefoot, the better to toe pedals for electronic effects, Ingrid looped herself within her solos. Hauntingly. Quietly but palpable.
"Like wind across the water and through the trees," I scribbled as the music transported me. So many of Christine's pieces, including all the music from her album Habitat, were evocative, inspired by scenery and scenes. Streets. Vistas. Journeys.
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Christine Jensen's big band played, for me, a perfect (and tres grande) finale of FIJM 2014.
Je reviendrai a Montreal …
Singer Alexis Cole's "A Kiss In The Night": Listen Now
August 25, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: Interviews, michael bourne
Singer Alexis Cole talks with Michael Bourne about A Kiss In The Night, her new Chesky CD. Cole performs Aug. 26 at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium of the New York Baha'i Center at 53 E. 11th Street in New York to celebrate the CD release at 8 and 9:30 p.m. Enjoy!
Singer Carol Fredette on "No Sad Songs For Me": Listen Now
August 17, 2014. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: Interviews, michael bourne
Singer Carol Fredette talks with Michael Bourne about her album "No Sad Songs For Me." Fredette performs at New York's Kitano on Oct. 2 at 8 and 10 p.m. Enjoy!
Bourne's Montreal: Very Montreal
August 8, 2014. Posted by Michael Bourne.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2014, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Montreal 2014
"What's this group like?" asked one of the folks on the WBGO trip to the festival.
"I don't know," I answered. "I always want to hear up here music I've never heard before."
I've often written that the Montreal jazz festival virtually re-defines jazz. I hear every year musicians incorporate new forms and styles of music into jazz.
I wrote an essay in Montreal a few years ago about an electronic group called Plaster that generated riffs with samples and various whizbangs yet reminded me of the Basie band in the 30's swinging riffs.
Hip-Hop. House. World Beat. Beat Box. And especially electronics have expanded the palette of jazz melodically, harmonically, and certainly rhythmically.
With his group Shadow Theater, Tigran played synthesizers (or whatever little boxes with wires and knobs are called nowadays) to create looping melodies and rhythms, sometimes only an ambience, to play within.
White Horse, the husband and wife team of Luke Doucet and Melissa McLelland, created tapestries of sound criss-crossing technological devices with traditional instruments.
Doucet played guitar and miscellaneous percussion, including hammering on a floor drum sonic booms that echoed this way and that.
McLelland, hugely pregnant in a green cocktail dress, played a Fender bass. Together they "built" songs like a Dublin tapster "building" a pint of Guinness.
BadBadNotGood played the late show at Club Soda — where every night something different was happening.
These kids from Toronto play what someone called "post-rock" -- but the interplay sounded rather like be-bop. Rocking. Bopping. Lively. And fresh. They became instant sensations on the web about a minute ago, and already they've been working with hip-hop stars.
"They're just kids," I said to Laurent Saulnier, the festival's VP of the Edge. "Nerds."
"No," he said, laughing like only he can. "Geeks!"
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Skip to comments.Ten years later, reason why EgyptAir jet crashed unclear
Posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
On Halloween 10 years ago today, EgyptAir Flight 990 nose-dived into the ocean off Nantucket from 33,000 feet, leaving the families of 217 children, grandparents and lovers forever haunted by the question: Why?
You just wish you knew what the reason was. Some things break your heart so much, said Bobbie Bergman of Colorado.
Bergmans sister Paula Barnes, a one-time Marblehead resident, perished with their parents William and Tamsin Barnes and several family friends about 1:52 a.m. on Oct. 31, 1999, a half hour into what was to be a 10-hour passage from New York to Cairo.
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Location: 60 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts
October 31, 1999
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Sounds like the copilot went mad.
Just another terrorist wanting his 70 virgins (who said they would be female virgins anyway?) HOpe they have Viagra in Paradise!
So I'm thinkin some Vegas bookie is looking at the odds that it wasn't some virgin harvesters looking to visit crippling misery on innocents in the name of Allah. 100 to 1......
It is far from unclear to any pilot. The crazy Islamic co-pilot flew it into the ocean.
Toxic jihadosis..
Chilling for me as I was on Egypt Air 990 one week before this flight went down.
Everyone knows exactly why this plane crashed. The presstitutes pretend not to know because the Egyptians refuse to admit that an Islamic pilot crashed the plane deliberately.
PC trumps truth yet again.
Exactly. Even at the time, it was clear to rational people that this was deliberate. The only thing in question--and I'm being generous here--was motive. Giving any latitude for tying oneself in knots to call it the isolated act of a despondent individual expired on Sept. 11, 2001. Continuing the charade 10 years later is laughable.
It also probably created the idea.. If a crazy Muslim would crash a plane into an ocean, why not get some even more crazy Muslims to take over a a plane and crash the plane into a city / building.. TaDa 9/11 plot hatched.
OCTOBER 31, 1999 : (EGYPT AIR FLIGHT SENT PLUMMETING INTO THE OCEAN OFF US COAST BY SUICIDAL EGYPTIAN PILOT) A suspected suicidal Muslim pilot was believed to have purposely crashed an Egypt Air Flight into the sea shortly after takeoff from New York on October 31, 1999 killing all 217 on board - "A Short History of World War IIIA Lesson of the Future.," by Sal Rosken, The Partial Observer , 2 March 2003
OCTOBER 31, 1999 : (ATLANTIC OCEAN OFF OF THE US EASTERN SEABOARD : CO-PILOT AL-BATOUTI SENDS EGYPT AIR FLT 990 INTO THE SEA - ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1998 IRAQ LIBERATION ACT BEING SIGNED INTO LAW) Egypt Air flight 990 mysteriously drops into the Atlantic Ocean 30 minutes after takeoff, killing 217. The 767's cockpit voice recorder confirms the co-pilot, Gameel al-Batouti, has complete control when the plane begins to lose altitude. Examination of the flight data-recorder shows that Batouti cut the power and pushed the control yoke forward, sending the 727 into free fall. During the fall, the flight's senior pilot, Captain Ahmad al-Habashi is heard re-entering the cockpit screaming "What's happening? What's happening?". Al-Batouti calmly replies "Tawakkalt ala Allah" ("I rely on God"), and repeats the phrase as many as ten times as the plane crashes into the Atlantic.-— Source : 6 posted on 04/11/2004 2:15:28 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
OCTOBER 1999 : (OFF NEW YORK : EGYPT AIR CRASHES, KILLING 217 PASSENGERS) 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City. - Daniel Pipes
OCTOBER 21, 1999 : (US PREPARED TO WORK WITH TALIBAN?) ".....The United States, which is seeking extradition of international terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan, has said it is prepared to work with the Taliban militia to end terrorist networks in the war-torn country. Assistant secretary of state Karl F Inderfurth has said that Washington would be willing to make arrangements at the border to take charge of Osama Bin Laden to have him tried....." The Times of India, via News Plus 10/21/99 via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
OCTOBER 1999 : (US SUPPORTED THE TALIBAN?) "....Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., ripped into Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth at a House hearing on Wednesday, accusing the State Department of withholding key documents he said would show that the United States had supported the ruling Taliban militia in Afghanistan. Rohrabacher said Republicans had asked Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for Taliban-related documents from the State Department last year [1998], but only a few had been delivered. "The lack of courage and the incomprehensible policies of the Clinton administration (have) created a crisis in Central Asia where there was none," Rohrabacher said at a House International Relations Committee where Inderfurth testified on Wednesday.....Later in the hearing, Rohrabacher shouted at Inderfurth and accused him of using "weasel words" after Inderfurth denied having seen any documents that would indicate the Clinton administration had backed the Taliban, which controls about 90 percent of Afghanistan...." ---------- UPI 10/20/99 Joe Warminsky
Jihad perhaps?
The first news of the crash indicated that flight 990 stopped at Nellis AFB to board about 30 Egyptian army officers who had participated in a joint training exercise. This information was deleted from all subsequent reports. My theory is that jihadists took the aircraft down to send a message to the Egyptian government.
I found an account of the accident that mentions the 33 Egyptian army officers:
Flight 990 was 100% proven to be an intentional act. Just because the Egypt govt. doesn't accept the findings doesn't make it any less so. The govt. of Egypt acted like a man convicted of murder who was dragged from the courtroom screaming "I'm innocent!".
Not only did every piece of evidence(cockpit recordings, black box, etc) point to First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti crashing the plane intentionally, but there not a SINGLE piece of evidence that pointed towards ANY other possible cause. Not one.
Instead of doing the morally right thing and accepting the NTSB findings, the Egyptian govt simply said "no way!" and refused to accept this. They went into a state of chronic denial.
The US, in trying to be "PC" and keep some diplomacy, caved a bit and modified the findings wordings so as to leave a little wiggle room.
A very shameful thing.
To this day, it remains one of the worst mass murders in US history.
I think you're absolutely right.
The fact that you found this thread on your first day at FR is amazing, however ; )
Actually, the NTSB's finding were put in a rather vague language as stated in their 2002 report:
"The NTSB determines that the probable cause of the EgyptAir flight 990 accident is the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs. The reason for the relief first officer's actions was not determined."
This is why the Egyptions refused to accept that the relief first officer dived the plane deliberately.
It was a deliberate act of terrorism which the NTSB failed to defined as such.
The conspiracy obsessed Arabs claimed that it was an act by the CIA to get rid of the 32 Egyptian officers on board!
''The families and friends of those we lost never had the opportunity to bid farewell,'' said the Egyptian ambassador to the United States, Nabil Al Fahmy. ''So little can be said to relieve their pain.''But I just remember thinking it odd that the people who were on that plane were on that plane. Since then, I've once been on a flight into Amman on JordanAir that had half a dozen black hats on it so maybe it wasn't so unusual.
Today, knowing little more about the crash than they did when they arrived in Rhode Island last week, the victims' families sought solace in rituals of faith and symbols of grief. They gathered in a tent near the water at Brenton Point State Park and participated in an interfaith service with Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy members.
from the NY TIMES October 31, 2009.
September 26, 2001
Opschudding in Almere over
islamitische kalender
Van een onzer verslaggevers
ALMERE - Een in Egypte gedrukte kalender met een afbeelding van een neerstortend vliegtuig met New York op de achtergrond, die eind mei - ruim 3 maanden voor de aanslag - bij of in een islamitische school in Almere zou zijn verspreid, heeft voor opschudding bij het gemeentebestuur gezorgd.
De gewraakte kalender.
Burgemeester Hans Ouwerkerk heeft gisteren naar aanleiding van de kalender, waarvan een exemplaar in het bezit kwam van deze krant, de zaak aangemeld bij de Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD).
Deze dienst stelt in een eerste reactie dat er geen direct verband is met de recente aanslagen in de Verenigde Staten. De afbeelding zou refereren aan de neergestorte EgyptAir-Boeing, die op 31 oktober 1999 door de piloot de oceaan ingevlogen werd. Bij deze zelfmoordaktie kwamen de 217 inzittenden om het leven. De laatste woorden van de piloot (Ik steun op Allah - Om te sterven voor Allah) zouden op de kalender aangehaald worden.
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Islamic calendar
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ALMERE - An Egyptian calendar printed with an image of a plane crashing in New York in the background, in late May - more than 3 months before the attack - with or in an Islamic school in Almere would be distributed, has caused a stir at the municipal ensured.
The offending calendar.
Mayor Hans Ouwerkerk yesterday following the calendar, a copy of which came into the possession of this newspaper, the matter reported to the National Security Service (BVD).
This service enables a first response that there is no direct connection with the recent attacks in the United States. The image should refer to the crashed EgyptAir Boeing, on 31 October 1999 by the pilot was flown in the ocean. In this suicidal action came the 217 passengers were killed. The last words of the pilot (I support in Allah - To die for Allah) would be quoted on the calendar.
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Caraballo found guilty on multiple countsSTAFF REPORT | October 02,2013Frank Caraballo was found guilty of murder today by a federal jury that spent two weeks hearing his case in Rutland. At just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, after close to 8 hours of deliberation, jurors returned guilty verdicts on all but one of the counts against Caraballo, 31, of Holyoke, Mass.
Jurors found Caraballo guilty of killing 31-year-old Melissa Barratt of Brattleboro, whose body was found in the woods of Dummerston on July 29, 2011. While jurors found Carabello guilty of causing Barratt's death, they returned a not guilty verdict of actually pulling the trigger of the gun used to execute Barratt.
That partial acquittal will have little effect on the potential sentence that Caraballo faces. Of more significance was the jury's finding that while Caraballo was guilty of distributing cocaine, heroin and crack cocaine from March to July of 2011, they decided there was not evidence to support the government's charge that Caraballo had distributed inexcess of 280 grams of crack cocaine. That determination changes the sentencing potential in the case from a mandatory life sentence to a potential life sentence on that charge alone.
Caraballo also faces potential life sentences on the other three charges that he was convicted of Wednesday.
He was, in total, found guilty of: Conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine; of being a felon in possession of a firearm; of using a firearm in furtherance of drug distribution; and of murdering Barratt.
No sentencing date was set in the case today. However, judge Cristina Reiss gave the defense 20 days to file post-trial motions.
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