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Screwed by the Brew Crew…
Personally, I can not take it anymore. The Pirates have dropped 16 in a row to the boys from Milwaukee. It's getting old; it's getting ridiculous. With the 7-4 come from behind victory the brewers showed once again that they own the Pirates.
Ryan Braun did not get the start in this game and I was pretty excited that their slugger was Missing In Action from the starting lineup. Little did I know he would come back to bite me in the butt. In the 8th inning who else but Braun steps up to the plate and delievers a bloop single that scores two runs and tied the game at 3. Whats more dissapointing is that the ball should have very easily been caught. It floated up in the air for what seemed like forever. When it left his bat I was pumped up for a routine fly ball and an inning ending putout. However, Brandon Moss had other plans as he slowed up and played the ball on a hop. Now I'm no major league rightfielder any mean. Heck, I couldn't even play for my high school team but I'll tell you what in little league, I hustled. I wanted to catch everything when I patrolled the outfield. Seeing Moss play the ball way to conservatively makes me question his motivation, drive and also his talent.
What was worse about that sequence of events was seeing the sheepish grin run across Braun's face.
He was a bit too jolly for my liking. He did'nt hit a home run or even get good wood on the ball to solidfy a good hit. Just by sure luck was he able to tie the game.
Now the girls of Wisconsin and sports writers across America will gush over his "clutch" performance and steady hands that helped win the game for the Brewers.
What makes matters worse is what he said after the game.
"Unbelievable game," said Braun, "I was not anticipating playing, that's for sure. It's kind of a crazy day, something I've never experienced before."
Blah, blah, blah come on man get over yourself. To make matters worse apparently Braun has never been hit by a pitch either. In last weeks series against the Buccos, Braun didn't have enough kleenex to dry his tears after he was beaned by a pitch from Jeff Karstens.
Braun wasn't too happy about the beaning and went on a tirade after the game.
"It's rare for major league pitchers to miss by that much with the fastball," Braun said. "We play them about 17 more times. Tell Mr. Selig, we'll see what happens. It'll be interesting." I think Bud has better things to worrsy about man. While if I was Karstens I'd love to send a message to hot head Mc. Gee up there but he is a major league pitcher and he does know better. Braun didn't stop there with the whining, also saying "that kid should know better." Referring to Karstens.
Now according to pirates.com, Karstens was born on 9/24/1982 making him 26 years old. Braun on the other hand was born on 11/17/1983. Just a tad younger than Jeff. By calling Karstens a "kid" was a belt-lining blow to a fellow major league collegue. He made himself look like like spoiled, frat boy "kid."
If you haven't been able to tell I have lost a lot of respect for the Brewers organization. I've kind of admired the franchise over the past few years. I've been to Miller Park, it is fantastic. The structure is beautiful and the atmosphere is grand. The current and vintage logo is cool with its bold striking royal blue color. And the players themselves are fun. The orgainzation produced and developed their own young talent and groomed them into premier ballplayers. When a piece or two was needed they go out and add a fixture that is solid and contributes to the team. I've supported them in their playoff run and idolized their model of a small market team. Even one of my favorite baseball movies "Mr. 3000" starring the late Bernie Mac is a Milwaukee item.
However, the cocky attitude, untucking of the shirts and overall bad mouthing of the Pirates shows the lack of class and respect this team has for a fellow MLB club.
But in the end it is up to the Bucs to right their own ship. It is a pivital game tonight. Ian Snell takes the mound looking to avoid a 17th straight loss to the Brew Crew. Its historically fitting because the Pirates are also on the brink of their 17 straight losing season. A win tonight would be a nice turnaround as the Bucs would end the Crew streak and reach the .500 plateau once again. Who knows maybe it will even avoid the losing season streak come September, but once again. WHO KNOWS.
Taking a page out of Pedro Martinez's book-We just have to tip our hats and call the Brewers our daddy.
PHOTO CREDIT: Braun-AP Photos
Mr. 3000-filmhobbit.com
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"Tell Mr. Selig, we'll see what happens." Is he serious? That punk needs a fastball right in the chops.Russhttp://wight4256.mlblogs.com
Sounds like you have quite a beef with Ryan Braun, but to say you have lost respect for the Brewers and that they don't respect the Pirates is a bit blown out of proportion. Braun's ego is a bit out of control and maybe he did whine a bit about being hit, but he was pissed. How would you feel being beaned in the back with a fastball? Plus I did watch that series and there were a lot of guys getting beaned (on both sides) and it did start to get out of control and I thin k the umpires handled it appropriately.
Right on my man, couldn't have said it all better myself. As for this carpe diem kid, look, we all understand that a guy will be mad right after getting hit by a high fastball, that's completely understandable, we're not mad about that. We're angry because Braun STILL has not let this thing go. He talked about it for the next 3 days and you can tell he's still thinking about it when he acts like a little school boy got his first hit in little league after dropping a bloop single in to tie the game, a hit that never would've fallen if not for the situation (Brandon Moss playing on the track). Screw Ryan Braun.
first off, don't call me a kid (nothing personal, just pointing it out)
yeah braun shouldn't have gone on about it, i agree with that. i'm not going to say one way or the other, but you have to consider the possibility that he was beaned intentionally. if that is the case, then that's pretty classless also. i live in milwaukee and haven't ehard anything about this subject in quite some time. you guys are talking about braun not getting over it, but you're the ones still talking about it.
your guy whacked our sausage with a bat, our guy threw a fit over a bean ball. so i guess it's even and it's time for everyone to move on.
personally, i wish the pirates the best of luck throughout the season and would like to see them get over the hump of a winning season. i'd like to see some more parity in baseball
The Crew untuck their shirts after the game because Bill Hall's dad, who was a blue collar worker of some sort, used to come home after a long day's work, untuck his shirt, and relax on the couch. It signifies that. The Pirates are the laughing stock of the league. Last in attendance, worst unis, lost 17 straight to a team with the smallest market in baseball; they don't deserve to step on the same field with the Brewers.
And don't be naive, Braun was beamed intentionally, and when you're one of the best players in the game I don't care if he calls Jamie Moyer "kid".
This blog is awful, very fitting for the pirates.
The shirt untucking thing actually came from Mike Cameron for the reason stated. It isn't done to show disrespect to the other team. It shows a hard day of work after a win (something that seems to happen a lot against the pirates). Which is probably why you have a problem with it. Although the Cubs have started mocking it after wins against the Brewers which I think is pretty comical.
I do feel bad that the Pirates aren't better then they are and that no one goes to the games. I'm a huge fan of Roberto Clemente and the "We are family" days. I think the park is beautiful with the RC bridge in the background. Trust me, I rather have a 17 game winning streak against the Cubs then the Pirates.
The bucs pitcher decks our pitcher 2X in the same at bat before the Braun bean. Braun pointed to the dugout and told the ump he was angey about his pitcher being decked at the plate. 17 loses to the brewers, sounds like sour grapes. Dont get me wrong, I love all aspects of baseball, even the bean ball; what goes around….I'm looking forward to kicking the bucs butts all throughout this season. As for the no respect comment….my guess is that you have lost respect for the team you grew up with (the bucs) and are just venting your frustration. The Brewers own you!!!:)….and have more class than you will ever achieve in your little life.
You can't be more right. Ryan Braun is a showboating loser. It's disgusting to see him clapping and waving his hands and jawing off at the pitcher after meaningless home runs when the Brewers already have a comfortable lead.


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Sports: Goalie Goodness, Heuvelton Victory
The great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt once famously said 'You must start well and end well.'
Matt Anthony, the goalie for the Thousand Islands Privateers, has the first half down cold. So far this season he has a goals against average of 2.90 and a 12-6 overall record.
Matt was the Federal Hockey League's goalie of the month, and was called up briefly to the American Hockey League's Syracuse Crunch earlier this month.
To hear from Matt, click on the picture. Also, we have video highlights of Heuvelton's non-league wsin over Belleville-Henderson Wednesday afternoon at Jefferson Community College. (They're right after the interview with Matt.)

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By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
West Texas athletes may not have swine flu, but mounting concern about the illness may keep them from competing in state finals.
The University Interscholastic League, the governing body of Texas high school athletics, announced Wednesday that all athletic events are postponed until May 11.
The order is an attempt to mitigate the possible spread of swine flu.
There are 16 cases and one death reported in Texas according to the Centers for Disease Control Web site (www.cdc.gov). No New Mexico cases were confirmed, according to the Web Site.
"The health and safety of our student activity participants is of the utmost importance," UIL executive director Charles Breithaupt said in a statement. "Taking every possible precaution to prevent the further spreading of this disease is an important contribution to the welfare of our great state, and altering the schedule of our events is a way to keep our participants safe."
The decision delays golf, softball and baseball playoffs, indefinitely postpones the May 7 academic state meet and wipes out regional track meets.
Under normal circumstances, athletes qualify for state finals by finishing first or second in their regional meet.
Now, Farwell Athletic Director Larry Gregory said, athletes with the top four marks heading into regionals will go to state.
An extra day of competition will be added to the meet, scheduled for May 14-16.
To second-year Bovina track coach Eric Montemayor, it feels like rules are being changed in the ninth inning.
"The competition wasn't there" in some area meet events, Montemayor said, and some of his athletes slowed down with big leads in their respective events because:
• They were trying to save energy for other events, and
• They were under the belief their area meet marks wouldn't matter.
"We tell these kids just get into the top four, just get into regionals," Montemayor said. "We were in the mindset to get in the top four, and not worry about our fastest time."
That's why Oscar Rodriguez slowed down in the quarter mile, Montemayor said, and that's why Jesus Rocha slowed down in the 800-meter dash.
Now, neither will qualify for those events — a big blow to Rocha, as he was seventh in last year's state finals and was the only athlete returning from that final heat.
"I think there would be an asterisk by the state meet this year," Montemayor said. "In my opinion, you don't have the best kids out there. Everything revolves around that regional meet, and they don't peak until that."
Rodriguez is slated to compete in the 200-meter dash, and Yesenia Guevara will compete in the long jump.
While Gregory acknowledges the UIL probably didn't have many good options, going on times and distances at area meets poses the risk of an uneven playing field.
"Weather conditions could have been different," Gregory said. "You could have had hand timers versus automatic timing. There are so many different things."
Bovina Athletic Director Dale Fullerton said he's heard rumors of legal action, but nothing concrete, and it's been tough to get a hold of the UIL for clarification because "it's been busy every time we called."
And then there's Muleshoe's end of the spectrum. The decision means that only two athletes, cousins Lane and Wes Wood, are going in the pole vault through persistence and/or luck.
Athletic Director David Wood said both vaulted at 12 feet at their district meet, which was enough to win the event. Rain hit, David Wood said, and both decided to go for personal highs for fun the following day when the meet resumed.
Wes Wood hit a 14-6, and Lane Wood hit 14-0, both personal highs — and a stroke of luck, because had they settled for the win, 12 feet wouldn't have qualified them for state.
Muleshoe's other tracksters, meanwhile, aren't happy, David Wood said, and understandably so.
"They wanted to compete and win it," he said. "But right now, their times aren't fast enough. Some of them are peaking at the right time, and now they don't get to go to this meet."
"It's abrupt and final. It's hard on them. They've been working out for two weeks. It's like someone pulled the rug out from under them."
The decision also delays the softball team's playoff game, David Wood said.
The decision was based on the recommendation of the Texas Department of Health Services and in consultation with the Texas Education Agency, the UIL said.
"My responsibility is to make sure the kids remain healthy," said Gregory, who is also the school superintendent. "The health and safety of our kids should be the main thing (but) I imagine holy hell's breaking loose at Austin."


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A doctored photograph of the Russian patriarch, left, which has since been removed from his official website to be replaced by the original photo showing his watch, right.
The Russian Orthodox Church apologized on Thursday for doctoring a photograph of Patriarch Kirill to remove what bloggers said was a luxury wristwatch following accusations that he lives a lavish lifestyle.
The church responded after bloggers said a 2009 photo of the Patriarch on its website showed the reflection of a Breguet watch worth about $30,000 in the polished surface of a table where his arms rested during talks.
The Church made no reference to a watch in a statement, but said a "rude violation of our internal ethics" had been made and removed the doctored 2009 photo from its Website, replacing it on Thursday with a version showing a watch on his wrist.
"Employees of the press service's photo-editing desk made a silly mistake while working with the photo archives," the statement said, promising they would be punished.
"We apologize to all the users of the website for the technical mistake," it said. "One of the basic principles of our work is the fundamental rejection of the use of photo editing programs to alter images."
The Church issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was under attack from "anti-Russian forces" that wanted to erode its authority because of its backing for Putin, whose 12-year rule of Russia as prime minister and president was described by the patriarch as a miracle of God.
"They have completely lost their minds in the Russian Orthodox Church," wrote blogger Vadim Petrichenko, a blogger who posted the doctored photo on his Facebook page on Wednesday, according to The Telegraph.
Bloggers have since then stepped up accusations that Kirill leads an opulent lifestyle that is unbecoming of his status as head of the Church, and pro-opposition media outlets have questioned an alleged role in dealings around duty-free alcohol and tobacco imports in the 1990s.
A journalist who met Kirill to discuss the allegations told Vesti FM radio that the Patriarch had acknowledged receiving a luxury watch as a gift but that he had not worn it. Kirill was quoted as saying photos of him wearing it were a "collage."
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UW-Madison professor nets highest jazz honor
An 83-year-old music professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has played bass with Bruce Springsteen and classical conductor Igor Stravinsky has been awarded the nation's highest honor in jazz.
The Wisconsin State Journal reported Friday that Richard Davis won a 2014 Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"It feels good to be honored amongst your peers," Davis told the newspaper. "I've known about these awards for years because I know most of the people who received them. It's almost like a club."
Davis is a Chicago native who has been a professor in Madison since 1977. He arrived after spending 23 years in New York City establishing himself as one of the world's premier bass players. Down Beat International Critics Poll named him best bassist from 1967 to 1974.
Other honorees this year were Keith Jarrett, Anthony Braxton and Jamey Aebersold.
The NEA said in a statement that Davis and the other award recipients were chosen for their "lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz."
Davis credited his teacher, Walter Dyett at DuSable High School in Chicago, for infecting him with a lifelong passion for jazz and performance.
Davis's career as a studio and performing musician spans six decades. He's released a dozen albums of his own, earned recognition as a top jazz bassist worldwide and performed all over the world.
The award comes with a $25,000 prize.
Davis continues to teach and has no plans to stop.
"It's difficult to think of not teaching," he said. "I teach with the attitude of a family and that works very well."
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Home List of Titles The paradox of public science and global business: CSIRO, commercialisation and the national system of innovation in Australia
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- This article describes three case studies of the commercialisation of early-stage technologies involving CSIRO; extended-wear contact lenses, biostable biocompatible polymers for medical implant devices, and biodegradable biocompatible polymers for medical implant devices. The case studies extend the portfolio of detailed, highly contextualised studies of innovation in the Australian context. They also provide a window into CSIRO, commercialisation pathways and the national system of innovation in Australia. In particular, they highlight the paradox of public science and global business in the Australian context. The paradox is that global business depends upon public science for innovation more than ever, but makes it increasingly difficult for countries to capture the benefits of public science. It adds major complexity to the successful realisation of a more commercial approach by Australia's public research organisations such as CSIRO, and the capture of benefits from the national system of innovation.
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July 3, 2012 —
The question of whether board members in the Town of Liberty acted improperly when they changed the zoning from residential to industrial commercial will be settled by a judge. The land in question is about 39 acres, comprised of four parcels that are now a heavily forested mountain that sits on the border between the Town of Liberty and the Village of Liberty on Route 17.
Ben Weitzman and Son want to operate a junkyard or an automobile recycling operation on the site but, until December 2011, the land was zoned for residential use. The board, at the time, said that it had mistakenly changed the zoning to residential some months earlier, and it passed a local law to "correct an error."
Four neighbors of the property filed an Article 78 lawsuit asking the court to overturn the local law because it was improperly done. The lawsuit points out that several maps showing the re-zoning process going back to 2007 all indicate the proposals for the parcels to be changed to residential, which would match almost all of the surrounding property, with the exception of one small industrial commercial lot, which was grandfathered to allow an existing asphalt plant to continue to operate.
The zoning update process dragged on for years, and the town board voted to formally adopt a town-wide zoning update in early 2011, which included changing the parcel in question to residential. The lawsuit by the residents says the vote that changed the zoning of the property was in line with the intent of the comprehensive plan that was jointly developed by the town and the village, which envisioned attracting industrial activity to a different part of the town, below the village, but which would still have ready access to Route 17.
The lawsuit says that state law provides for a zoning amendment but does not provide for a "correction." By not treating the change as a zoning amendment, the town was able to avoid going through a State Environmental Quality Review process and environmental assessment.
Additionally, the Sullivan County planning department recommended that the town treat the matter as a zoning amendment and not a correction, saying, "This will allow the public input to revolve around the zoning map change." The suit says the town did not react properly to that recommendation.
The response from the town, on the other hand, says that the suit should be thrown out because there are three property owners who were impacted by the change from industrial commercial to residential and back again, who were not included in the lawsuit as they should have been.
There were several responses to that: one was that two of the owners had indicated that they did not want a junkyard on the site, and another was that the owners in question did nothing to prevent the change of zoning when it was first proposed in 2007.
Now, it's up to Judge Christopher Cahill to decide where the case will go from here.
According to some, the most important problem with this location is that it would be extremely disturbing to the hundreds of town and village residents who live in very close proximity to the area in question. Noise, dust and traffic will greatly increase, and as a result property values will decrease.
Jeffrey Cohen is one of the four property owners bringing the suit. He said he has a number of concerns with the planned junkyard. The property is very steep, and the project would involve moving large amounts of earth down the mountain that sits beneath the 20 acres he owns, which would detract from the value of his and his neighbor's property.
Additionally, the creation of several acres of impervious surfaces is likely to result in significant runoff complications.
Cohen's view is that it would be best for everyone involved to locate the junkyard in the industrial commercial zone south of the village where it would not interfere with residential zoning, and where the community had planned for those sorts of businesses to be located.


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IHC's Whalen, South Jeff's Smith Sign To Play Division I
There were two scholarship signings Tuesday in two different sports and at two different schools, resulting in two more local athletes heading to Division I.
IHC's Jude Whalen signed to play lacrosse with Drexel University and at South Jefferson, Daniel Smith signed to go to University of Buffalo on a wrestling scholarship.
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Okay, so I have OS and was told to nurse, then pump to drain the breast (b/c I had plugged ducts). But I have been reading on here that nursing then pumping can cause me to produce more milk (which I don't need). I also will be returing to work (I only work PT and will be gone for 4-5 hrs each evening)......so now I need to know when do I pump so he can have a bottle while I am at work w/o causing my supply to become worse. My son is 4 weeks old and I don't return to work until he is 7 weeks.
Also, I am going to do block feeding for 3 hrs on one breast, but I don't want more plugged ducts, so is it okay to pump the other side just to relieve the engorgment, so my ducts don't clog? Someone said to pump and try to pump less and less each time, so I eventually don't need to pump at all (is this true)?
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Barre Partnership: Looking toward the Heritage Festival
The snow from this years long winter is almost gone and signs of spring are starting to appear. That means that summer is right around the corner, and summer brings with it Barres signature event, the Barre Heritage Festival. The festival, presented by The Barre Partnership, has in recent years consistently welcomed more than 15,000 community members and visitors from around the region to join us in celebrating the Barre areas community, culture, history and the arts.
The Barre Heritage Festivals roots go back to 1970 with an event at Thunder Road featuring an historical pageant commemorating Barres history performed by a cast of several hundred local citizens of all ages. The nine-day event was produced by committees of local volunteers, including the Ladies Sunbonnets & Dresses Committee and the Brothers of the Brush. It featured music and food from around the world, downtown window displays by each of Barres ethnic groups, stories and games for children, outdoor cafes, a parade and much more.
The first actual festival as we know it today, the Barre Ethnic Heritage Festival in 1978, was considered a huge success, drawing 5,000 people to the Granite City to celebrate the rich history of the many ethnic groups who settled in Barre. The festival fostered a renewed interest in Barres world-famous granite industry that had attracted granite workers from across Europe to settle here. It was a home-grown event that included music and dance performances and the food of the Scottish, Irish, Italian, French Canadian, Spanish and Middle Eastern communities. There was a parade with music by the St Andrews Society Scottish Bagpipes and Drums, floats showcasing the heritage of Barres ethnic groups, children on decorated bicycles, and the gigantic birds of Bread and Puppet Theater with founder Peter Schumann as Uncle Sam on his mile-high stilts.
By 1982, the festival reached its peak, when a crowd of 30,000 came to Barre to enjoy the festival. Organized by 19 ethnic committees, there were 21 window displays, 11 bands in the parade, and dozens of performances at the gazebo in City Hall Park and in Depot Square, plus an Italian tent, the Quartier Francais, the German bierstube with music by the Schnicklefritz Band, and the Polish Karchma on West Street where the Victor Krzanowski Polish Orchestra entertained. The Festival was held jointly with perennial summertime events such as the Barre Rotary Club Breakfast, the Paletteers Art Show in City Hall Park, the Friends of the Aldrich Library Book Sale and exhibit of sculpture by Frank Gaylord, the Congregational Church Strawberry Festival, the Barre Jaycees games in City Hall Park and Soap Box Derby.
In recent years and under the leadership of Mollie Lannen, the event has taken on a fresh flavor of its own. The past few summers have brought forth a renewed interest and pride in the communitys unique cultural history and heritage, and with it, a new name for its signature event: The Barre Heritage Festival.
This years festival kicks off on Wednesday, July 23, with a concert in Currier Park, part of the Summer Concerts in Currier Park series, and an installment of the Authors at the Aldrich series and the opening of the Paletteers Art Show at the Aldrich Public Library.
On Thursday evening, July 24, the Old Labor Hall will host La Soirée Sucrée Sweet Evening in honor of the late Chet Briggs who was instrumental in the establishment of the Barre Ethnic Heritage Festival. The benefit for the Barre Heritage Festival and the Old Labor Hall will feature French-Canadian fiddling and dancing and a French dessert competition. And up at Thunder Road The Times Argus will be sponsoring The Times Argus Mid-Season Championship.
Friday evening, July 25, the Barre Ethnic Heritage Food Tent, presented by the Granite City Grocery, will present a smorgasbord of ethnic cuisine on the lawn of the Aldrich Public Library. Across the street in City Hall Park the Festival Main Stage will feature local and regional performers from a variety of genres.
Saturdays festivities will begin in the morning with the annual Rotary Breakfast and Library Book Sale on the lawn of the Aldrich Public Library, and a classic car show and Lions Club Tow Down on Elm Street. Throughout the day visitors can enjoy a variety of food and other vendors, the Kids Zone for the little ones, street performers, a Fiddlers Contest, exhibits at Studio Place Arts, the second annual bathtub race, and the Annual Heritage Festival Parade. The day-long celebration ends with a spectacular fireworks display just up from City Hall Park.
An exciting new addition to this years Festival will be the Chet Briggs Heritage Stage. Sue Higby of Studio Place Arts, Mark Hudson of the Vermont Historical Society and Karen Lane of Aldrich Public Library are donating their time and expertise to develop the Heritage Stage. Free live music and performances will include Italian, Celtic, Folk, Scottish and more.
The Barre Heritage Festival is a huge but rewarding undertaking that depends on individual and business donations and sponsorships. It is also highly dependent on local volunteers to do everything from serving on a planning committee to reaching out to potential sponsors to putting up posters.
For information on sponsorship and vendor opportunities and applications, visit the festival website at www.barreheritagefestival.org, or email the organizers at email@example.com. Donations can be mailed to Barre Heritage Festival, P.O. Box 554, Barre, VT 05641.
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October 27, 2011 —
PLEASE NOTE: This event was postponed due to a snowstorm. It has been rescheduled to Sunday, November 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Tusten Library in Narrowsburg.
NARROWSBURG, NY — "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty," wrote Henry David Thoreau. "Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it," he urged in 1849 in "Civil Disobedience."
More than a century-and-a-half later, four regional women will take on the topic of civil disobedience by sharing accounts of their personal experiences for the purpose of fostering discussion.
The role played by civil disobedience in the past, as well as the role it is increasingly playing today as activists take to the streets in the growing "Occupy" movement, will be addressed at the event on October 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Tusten branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library on Bridge Street in Narrowsburg.
Virginia Kennedy, mother, teacher and long-time resident of Pike County, PA, was arrested in Washington, DC with 64 others on the first day of a peaceful protest of the controversial Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. Her August 20 arrest—one of over 1,200 during the two-week action to raise public awareness of the danger of the pending pipeline approval—brings the issue of confronting power and injustice through nonviolent civil disobedience home to the Upper Delaware community.
Virginia will be joined by her 17-year-old daughter Marygrace as they recount the experience in vivid detail and reflect on the questions it raises.
In addition to the Kennedys, longtime community organizer and activist Beverly Sterner and renowned children's author and illustrator Vera B. Williams will share their experiences of nonviolent civil disobedience as both strategy and philosophy.
The public is invited to share personal accounts of civil disobedience and offer information about local opportunities for activism. Youth are especially encouraged to attend and harvest the wisdom of experience from an older generation.
"It's personally and culturally positive to have this conversation about encouraging more people to be active and involved and to not be afraid to step up," said Virginia. "I never give up on the power of people to make radical change and the people are on the move now. The unrest is palpable. This agitation that people are feeling is disturbing, but also filled with possibility."
The event is sponsored by the Crones Club—a group of elder women of the Upper Delaware region dedicated to sharing resources and wisdom to enrich the community.
The Crones Club was founded last year by Sterner, to bring together the vibrant, sensitive and wise community of inspiring elder women who have completed the Maiden and Mother stages of their lives and have entered the rich and satisfying Crone phase. The group aims to share knowledge, resources, experiences, lessons learned and more, according to Sterner, who 10 years ago launched the Upper Delaware Community Network, an online tool connecting people interested in sustaining community in the region.
"Once again, I feel hope that we can change the world—one community at a time—as we come together to listen, connect and make our voices heard. If we are to live the good life and fight the good fight to the end," said Sterner, "we need each other for support, nourishment and inspiration."
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Editorial: Let the critics rantJune 02,2014
President Obama must have known hed take a great deal of political heat for his decision to swap five Taliban prisoners for the lone American prisoner of war held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But he must also have recognized that the most vociferous criticism would come from those who are relentlessly and reflexively critical of almost every aspect of his presidency.
This presidents political foes seldom miss an opportunity to depict him and his administration as inept, misguided and generally unworthy of their respect.
The American people in general, however, may be more inclined to see the positive side of the swap that frees 28-year-old Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after nearly five years in captivity.
Yes, they may recognize that the five Taliban fighters who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, might some day be part of a military threat to America interests in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
After all, they have been linked to Taliban activities that killed American and allied troops. Also, theyve apparently been part of the horrible warfare being waged by Sunnis on their Muslim rivals, the Shia, and are believed responsible for many killings in that sprawling conflict.
So, true, these five Taliban wholl be detained under tight security in Qatar for a year under terms of the agreement that released them do not appear to be deserving of sympathy from any Americans. It is therefore not surprising, nor unfair, that Obamas critics would point this out in their negative assessments of the transaction.
But think about Sgt. Bergdahl and his family, and try to imagine what it would be like if he was your son or brother.
In fact, Bergdahls father had been extremely critical of the president for, as he saw it, not doing more to bring about his sons freedom. Robert Bergdahl went so far as to attempt to contact the Taliban on his own and he made frequent trips to Washington to plead his case directly to both the State Department and the Department of Defense.
In 2012, addressing a crowd of about 100,000 attending a Memorial Day event in Washington, the sergeants father had delivered an anguished plea on behalf of his son.
After Obama called him to tell him of the prisoner exchange, the elder Bergdahl and his wife expressed their familys great pleasure at the news and they were only too happy to join the president in the White House rose garden to celebrate the news.
We were so joyful and relieved when President Obama called us today to give us the news that Bowe is finally coming home! they said, speaking as surely any parents would under these circumstances. We cannot wait to wrap our arms around our only son.
The story behind their sons capture is a murky one and has been subjected to considerable scrutiny and speculation, including disputed accounts made public by WikiLeaks. When American forces launched an intense search for their missing colleague, the Taliban was overheard (through intercepted communications) speculating that Bergdahl must be a big shot.
Afghanistan tribal leaders who had contacts with the Taliban reported that Bergdahls freedom could be arranged. The proposed deal: The United States would release of 15 of its Taliban prisoners, hand over an unspecified amount of money to the Taliban, and the American sergeant, who was believed to be in declining health, would be free. That deal was rejected in Washington.
The deal finally agreed upon brings an American soldier home after five painful years in captivity.
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The church was packed with 200 children and their parents, celebrating the pre-Christmas program with the Compassion child cevelopment center. When the host announced the opening of the program, the room burst with clapping.
Laboni was there with her sister Sraboni. Everything around Laboni was entirely new for her. She belongs to a Christian family, but in their lives Christmas is just like every other regular day. There has been nothing very special about Christmas except going to church in the morning.
But after Laboni and her sister got registered at the child development center, everything around her has been changing in a positive way. The meaning of Christmas has also changed.
Laboni looked at the ceiling of the room, wonderfully decorated with colored paper and balloons. She never saw such decorations at their village on top of a small hill. There also was a well-decorated Christmas tree on the front stage.
Under the tree there were several packets wrapped in bright paper that were drawing her attention. Everything around her was a surprise. She comes to the student center every day and has her classes and meal together with her friends. They have lots of fun each day, but today was very different than the other activity days.
A week ago, Laboni heard from her development center teacher that all of them would receive gifts at the pre-Christmas program. The day before the pre-Christmas program, each of the children of the Compassion student center including Laboni and her friends received a new dress and a pair of new sandals as Christmas gifts.
These were the first gifts Laboni ever received in her eight years of life. She belongs to a village that is predominantly Hindu where there is no culture of exchanging gifts. Laboni has eight other brothers and sisters, and their parents never gave them any gifts. She was amazed by the generosity of the Compassion student center.
She returned home with her elder sister Sraboni who also received the Christmas gifts. Both the sisters were panting as they climbed the hill, and cried out, "Mother! Mother! Come out and see what the Compassion student center has given to us!"
They wanted to show their presents to their mom in the daylight as they don't have electricity in their house. Their mother came out quickly; she thought that one of her daughters was hurt. Because her daughters are very gentle and quiet, they never make much noise without emergency.
But she was surprised, seeing her daughters laughing and holding something. Laboni and Sraboni showed their new dresses and sandals to their mother. Laboni said, "Mother! Our teacher invited you at the pre-Christmas program tomorrow."
Their mother wondered at the generosity of Compassion. That evening Laboni and Sraboni visited all the houses at the neighborhood and showed their gifts to everyone.
Laboni wore her new dress and sandals at the pre-Christmas program. Before the program had started she noticed that many new blankets were arranged at the side of the stage. She was wondering about those colorful blankets.
But her thoughts got interrupted as the host announced her name to come forward to cut the Christmas cake with a few other children. A big Christmas cake was brought in front of them, another new experience for Laboni, who had never seen a pastry cake before.
She tasted some ordinary homemade cakes before but it was nothing like this. The cake was nicely decorated with candles. Laboni and the children blew the candles out and they cut the cake with the Compassion representative and pastor of the church.
Laboni got back to her place where she was sitting. She was getting happier proportionately with the time. Laboni and Sraboni enjoyed the cultural program by the children. After the cultural show, it was the time for distributing the other gifts among the children.
Sraboni and Laboni were busy in talking to each other, when the announcer called Laboni's name to receive her Christmas gift. Laboni was surprised as she thought that her dress and sandals were her Christmas gifts.
She never expect more for this Christmas. She got on the stage and received a green blanket and a nice towel. She couldn't believe her luck. Her elder sister Sraboni also got the same gifts. Her mother was also among the crowds, and was amazed by the love of Compassion student center for her daughters.
After the gift distribution, there came the thanksgiving part. The child development center manager said to the audience,
"Last year we gave sweaters and other accessories to the children as Christmas gifts. This year we are giving each of the children a new dress, sandals, towels and blankets. These blankets will keep them warm at night during this cold season."
Then the Compassion representative told the audience that all these gifts for the children were from the beloved sponsors of Compassion who saved money for these kids. The whole audience stood up and gave a big hand to all the sponsors for their heavenly love.
Then the children prayed together for all the sponsors of Compassion. Laboni was among them, praying for the sponsors. After the program was over, it was time for Laboni and Sraboni to get back home with their mother.
They usually walk home, but that day their mother hired two rickshaws as the blankets were heavy.
They returned home and Laboni went away immediately to speak with her friends. Her mother said,
"This Compassion center helped us by providing rice and lentils during the food crisis period. They are taking care of both of my daughter's studies. Now they are giving them these expensive gifts. I couldn't wish more for my daughters.
You couldn't realize how useful these blankets are for our family. It is very cold here in December. We are ten people in this house, at night we have to share just two warm sheets for protecting us from cold. These blankets will easily cover Laboni and Sraboni and their two elder sisters at night.
They also gave my children two new dresses and sandals. This will be the first time they will wear new clothes on Christmas day. Though I couldn't afford my elder children new dresses but they are also happy that, at least their youngest sisters are having something new. I consider myself very lucky because we have a Compassion student center near our village."
Laboni returned home with all her friends. She showed them all her gifts. She said to me,
"Now we will sleep well at night. I will take my elder sister with me under my blanket and Sraboni will take our other sister. This blanket is so soft Please say thanks to our sponsors who send these gifts for me and Sraboni. I am very happy; this Christmas is the best Christmas of my life. I will wear my new blue dress at the Christmas service. I asked my mother to buy me pink earrings for this dress."
The eight year old girl was sparkling with joy.
Most of these children (especially the children who got registered less than a year ago) don't understand the meaning of gifts as they never received any gift from anybody. The Christmas gifts from you, the sponsors, are teaching the children of the love of Christ.
By giving the joy to these children you are giving presents to the true KING, our Lord Jesus.


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Hi! I am finally stopping pumping (lasted almost eleven months!). How I did it was to just gradually reduce the number of pumps until I was down to two a day and then from there reduce the quantity I pumped at each time. I'd say by the time I was pumping less than two ounces per sitting was about the time I quit altogether. But keep in mind that if I had wanted to pump more, I probably could have gotten a lot more... meaning that I was walking around a little engorged. A couple of days later I pumped about three ounces in the morning just to get comfortable and that was the last of it. That was one week ago this morning.
Question is... I'm still producing and have no idea how long this takes to completely go away. If I squeeze, a little comes out... and I'm starting to get hard knots around the areola as of today.
Should I pump a little bit more or will this resolve itself on its own?


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NEW YORK — Forty-five people were arrested and 16 juveniles rescued in a two-week crackdown on prostitution in the New York-New Jersey area leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl, FBI officials said yesterday.
The FBI said some of those arrested claimed to have traveled to the site because of the game, which drew an estimated 400,000 visitors to the region. The minors rescued ranged in age from 13 to 17 and included high-school students and children reported missing by their families.
Arrests were made and victims recovered in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, FBI spokeswoman Barbara Woodruff said.
The FBI, backed by state and local law-enforcement agencies, had mounted a major crackdown on human trafficking and prostitution ahead of the game, with about 3,000 law-enforcement agents and civilians trained to help spot people who might be the victims of human trafficking.
Some trafficked women reported seeing up to 50 johns a day during the Super Bowl, more than double the usual traffic, said Lori Cohen, director of Sanctuary for Families, which assists victims of human trafficking.
"Many of the men were setting up football parties where they are drinking, watching football and ordering in prostitutes," Cohen said. One woman told her "it was really dangerous. If she was … at a party where the team was losing, the men would get really drunk and really violent."
The latest arrests are in addition to last week's bust of a multimillion-dollar New York criminal operation that sold wealthy clients "party packs" of drugs and prostitutes. About 18 people were arrested in that crackdown, New York state officials said.


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Jack King
MELROSE — The board of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority voted Wednesday to add three more construction efforts to the Ute Water Project, raising the cost of the project by $10 million.
The additions bring the total construction cost of the project to $263 million, said ENMRWA Project Manager Scott Verhines.
The three efforts are:
• a sewer system for the village of Logan, for $6 million.
• a remodeled wastewater treatment system for Tucumcari, for $2 million.
• a proposed "energy recovery project," actually a small hydroelectric plant, near Portales, for $2 million.
Doug Murray, a project manager with the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, said the ISC favors adding the efforts to the Ute Water Project, because the sewer and treatment systems would help protect Ute Lake water from contamination.
Under terms of the federal authorization bill for which the ENMRWA is lobbying the U.S. Congress, the federal government could pay 80 percent of the cost of the sewer and treatment systems. Board members Richard Primrose, of Tucumcari, and Larry Wallin, of Logan, said they were delighted to get help funding the projects.
"Eighty percent (help on the project) is more than we ever thought we'd get," Wallin said.
But, Verhines said getting the money depends on whether the project receives authorization.
"This is potentially a real benefit to Logan and Tucumcari, but nothing's guaranteed," he said. "We don't know when the project will be authorized and we don't know if it will be authorized at 80 percent."
He said board members probably will know by the end of the year if the Ute Water Project will get federal authorization this Congressional session.
Verhines also said the federal money would not pay expenses retroactively, meaning if parts of the two systems already have been paid for when the Ute Water Project is authorized the federal money would not reimburse the towns for those parts.
Wallin and Primrose said their towns will continue to work on their projects and look for funding, while waiting to see if the project funds will be available.
"Whichever is the best deal at that time," Wallin said.
Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega said the energy recover project could collect energy from project water, then sell that energy to help defray project costs. But, he added that board members need to research whether there is a market for the power.
Clovis Mayor David Lansford said he believes power wholesalers, such as Xcel or PNM, are required to by energy generated by alternative sources.
In other business, Verhines reported on a trip to Washington to discuss the authorization legislation with members of New Mexico's Congressional delegation. He said he has given a draft of the proposed legislation to each board member. The board will hold a special meeting March 31 to discuss members' comments, before the draft is sent back to Washington.
Verhines asked that a delegation from the ENMRWA attend a meeting in Santa Fe on Friday of the state Finance Authority Board, when the board will consider ratifying $2 million already approved by the state Water Trust Board for the authority. He said it is particularly important that representatives from Clovis attend the meeting, because Clovis will be the fiscal agent for the money.
Representatives from Union, Harding, Quay, Curry and Roosevelt counties met in Melrose after the ENMRWA meeting in the first step toward developing a regional water plan for the northeastern part of the state.


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Zimmerman Baseball Field
North Central College's baseball facility, Zimmerman Baseball Field, which includes Alumni Field, was dedicated in 1999. The home of Cardinal baseball resembles a professional minor league facility, with permanent seating for 750 fans and a fully enclosed and wireless press box. The facility has hosted the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer state tournament and Major League Baseball's RBI World Series and Area Code tryouts.
The building is located at 467 S Brainard Street.
- 400 Foot Fence at Center Field
- 330 Foot Fence at Left and Right Field
- Capacity of 750
- Full Stadium Seating
- Indoor Press Box
- Covered, In Ground Dugouts
- Natural Turf and Grass


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Page Fitness Offers 'Turkey-Busting' Workouts To Help Food Pantry
Want to burn excess holiday calories and help out a local food pantry at the same time?
Page Fitness in Watertown is having free turkey-busting workouts to benefit the Depauville Food Bank.
You just need to bring a canned food item for each workout you attend.
The workouts are from 45 minutes to an hour each and will be at the fitness club:
- November 21 at 6 a.m.
- November 23 at 9 a.m.
-November 24 at 11 a.m.
Call 315-786-8032 for information or to register. You can also visit their website at www.pagefitness.com.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
My Brickwall Ancestor: John Blanton
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Debbie, I don't have any suggestions for you in your search for John's parents, but I'm sure Miriam or one of the others who are knowledgeable about research can help. Your post has given me a push to do a post about my "brickwall ancestor". I had not read Miriam's article and will now do that.ReplyDelete
I wanted to thank you for being one of the first again to "follow" my blog, Cemeteries with Texas Ties.
Excellent article! You have given me the push to write about my "Mystery" grandpa. My cemetery blogs are not the place, but I'm beginning a new family stories blog soon that will be. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I wish I could help you like you have been helping me, but the earliest I can get my folks back in the U.S. is around 1844 and I am not familiar with records before that! You are inspiring me though...maybe all the good genealogy karma you are giving off will bring you luck :-)ReplyDelete
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Are you descended from the Blantons in Rutherford, NC? I have a John Blanton who was my ggg-grandfather, but he doesn't match yours. He lived in NC all his life (1785-1847). His father was Burwell Blanton, the Rev War soldier. Perhaps we have a connection somewhere? :-)
Elizabeth, thanks for your comment. We don't have any information which links our John back to Rutherford County; however, DNA tests indicate that both families probably connect back to Thomas and Jane of VA.ReplyDelete
You can see our DNA test results at our Blanton Family Historians' website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blantonroots/historians/home.htm
I could not find an email address for you on your blog, please email me for further information.
My father was Melburn James Blanton. He was born 3-14-1912 in TX and died 1/31/2001 in Red Bluff, CA. . His father was Lee Ander Blanton DOB 4/8/1878 DOD 1/31/1967. His mother was Nancy Bivens (9/3/1884 Texas – 4/2/1934 Phoenix, AZ). Lee Ander Blanton's parents were Daniel Butler Blanton of Texas and Mary Jose (sic Jane) Hastings of Texas who died in Kern county California in 1932 & 1931 and are buried at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield. Their children were: Robert Jake, Ellen C., Marshall M., William P., James Virgil, Cassie A., Lee Ander, Daniel Edward, Julia Ann, and Lula Belle. Daniel Butler Blanton was one of 9 children of Jacob Blanton & Jane McAnear of Red River County, Texas. I am told Jacob Blanton is the son of John Blanton who died 1840 in Red River County, Texas (spouse unknown). Children of John Blanton: Jacob Blanton born 3/25/1806 in Morgan County, AL; , Benjamin Blanton; Elisha Blanton d June 1842; John Blanton (wife Susannah Snow).ReplyDelete
Lee Ander Blanton: Spouse Nancy Bivens. Children: Lonnie Blanton, Melburn James Blanton (Spouse: Gloria Diaz Blanton, Children: James Lonnie Blanton, Christine Nancy Blanton, Carolyn Blanton, and JoAnne Blanton), Nadine Blanton (Spouse: Byron Tufts, child: Steven Tufts), and Ervin Blanton
I have been told Jacob's father was John Blanton, John Blanton's son Benjamin, and John Blanton's son Elijah! I am told that DNA definately links Jacob to the John Blanton line, but I can find no evidence. I have likewise not been able to trace John Blanton's parents.
Good to meet all of you, and thank you Debbie for all your info.
Christine Blanton-Newman
Please leave your name and email or a way to get in touch with you if we have common surnames; or if you don't want to put your email address in the comments, please email me privately. Thank you!


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Skip to comments.Mary Pinchot Meyer Book Suggests JFK Did LSD, Assassinated by CIA (along w/ mistress)
Posted on 04/28/2012 6:14:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Mary Pinchot Meyer Book Suggests JFK Did LSD, Assassinated by CIA
By Brittney R. Villalva, Christian Post Reporter
April 23, 2012|9:22 am
The most recent book to come out concerning former president John F. Kennedy revolves mostly around his mistress, Mary Pinchot. The new conspiracy theory suggests that JFK and his mistress were both murdered by the CIA.
Mary Pinchot was shot and killed execution style on Oct. 12, 1964 in broad daylight. The man originally suspected of killing her was eventually released due to eyewitness testimony, and the murder has since remained unsolved.
In his new book titled "Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace," author Peter Janney has suggested that both JFK and his mistress were murdered in attempt to secure foreign power.
(Excerpt) Read more at global.christianpost.com ...
assasinated by CIA? who's doing the LSD? It's like to the gays, everyone's gay. To those who do LSD...
Wow— just another of so many conspiracy twists to the JFK assassination. I used to think some were valid but now it seems that Oswald the Castro supporter and marxist just had an evil thought and opportunity to do the dirty deed himself on JFK.
The dog that didn't bark... RFK, in the one position in the US government who could have found out anything there was to find out, apparently couldn't wait to get the body out of the examiner's room and into the ground. And he certainly didn't spend the remaining 4 1/2 years of life acting like someone who was afraid of a government conspiracy against him.
An awful lot of murders, even of the upper crust and their cronies, are simply meaningless and totally devoid of any redeeming virtue.
Any conspiracy theory the gets push in to the main stream be it JFK to 911 will always push the truth from the lefts or lefts allies guilt and push the blame on the right or right allies
This was to set up a chain of events to insure that their man Romney would be installed as president in the future.
It is all documented in a book that authorities are trying to cover up. Terrible.
I know it sound crazy, but after a few hits of acid it all becomes so clear.
International Bankers had no choice if they wanted to keep their power...
I have no clue about who killed JFK, but I have a good rationale for *why* they wanted JFK dead. Here's the logic:
1) Among his other medical problems kept secret by his family, he also had Addison's disease, adrenal insufficiency. It is much harder to conceal, because it makes distinct changes to the skin on the upper body and head, unique to the disease. This can be seen in later photos of him. Any doctor of the time familiar with the disease would recognize it at a distance.
2) JFK had been taking natural cortisone for this disease for some years. A terribly expensive drug, a pharmaceutical company finally created a process to make a lot of it much more cheaply. It made a big splash as a "wonder drug", with a multitude of medical uses.
3) The medical community of the time had a mistaken notion that taking large amounts of cortisone could make someone clinically paranoid and mentally imbalanced. Yet it was the only treatment available for Addison's disease.
4) The public became aware of this mistaken notion when a movie came out in the theaters in 1957. Called "Bigger Than Life", it starred James Mason, a big Hollywood star then at the peak of his career. It was about a man who had to take cortisone, and it turned him into a violent madman. Mason's exaggerated performance was described as "chilling".
5) So here is JFK, visible ill, for which the only drug may drive him mad. It is well known that he rebuffed arguments that he should not run for reelection because of his health. And then the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.
The logical conclusion is that the president has the power to start a nuclear war, and the world is close to nuclear war. The president is taking a drug that may make him violently insane.
Do we want a violently insane president who could decide to start a nuclear war without warning?
This seems like pretty good logic.
"He'd been walking from Minnesota I think and all along the way he'd just walk up to people in their yards, or working in a store, and killing them."
Yikes. Got a linky or more info on that? Not that I doubt you, I'm just curious.
"This was to set up a chain of events to insure that their man Romney would be installed as president in the future."
Love Jackie with the purple hair too.
Well at least now I have an iron-clad excuse not to mow the lawn or perform other outside activities. I hope the city code enforcement guys understand.
Can't put my hand on it at the moment but this crazy guy was on foot and was killing people until he got caught in this area ~ (DC Metro).
Thanks for the article. I had not heard of this woman, so I went to Wikipedia for a quick read:
Holy cow, was this woman connected!!!!
And she left behind a diary. She was tied into the CIA, to Kennedy, to the Washington Post. Her murder was not random.
She was a communist and had quite an effect on Kennedy; her husband was Cord Meyer who was a progressive whoi came into the orbit of the CIA after he supposedly realized the infiltration of the UN by communists. Even Joe McCarthy accused him of being a communist, but by then, he was an asset of the CIA.
Her real life must have been the basis of the movie "An Aerican Affair" with Gretchen Mol in 2009. The similariities are more than coincidence.
Fascinating read. The people named in her life are all big names of the fifties,sixties, and beyond.
Wonder what became of the diary? Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post would have known.
Background story rather curious.
She (Meyer) daughter of a "key figure in the Progressive Party who had helped fund the socialist magazine The Masses."
Married a former Marine who became a strong advocate of "world government" and who was elected president of the United World Federalists, the organization he helped to fund.
Yet . . . started working with and joining the CIA in 1951.
Uhmmm . . . CIA recruiting a known progressives (communist) (can't we just call it what it is?) to infiltrate and influence international and domestic media. Yup, that's the ticket, he being a strong "world order" type.
. . . with a wife who is an avowed communist. Later flirting with a Timothy O'Leary.
1954 the Kennedy's bought a house not far from them and they become all good friends. My oh my how we pick those we associate with. All "like minded" eh?
Is there anyone left standing since Ronald Reagan who has the moral fortitude and strength of principals?
But I thought it was a bunch of gay republicans that killed Kennedy.
I have always thought it might be the government because they are so large they could cover it up.
So that must be where JFK learned of the Secret Societies and Progressives plans for the NWO - New World Order.
Listen to this all the way "The speech that got Kennedy Killed" -
He was going to expose them - listen to it all ESPECIALLY at minute marker 2:33. They all pee in the same pot.
And it gets better . . .
Did you read of the man who was accused to murdering Mary?
an african-american who was found not guilty in a court of law.
Who ever really knows the truth about any of this. But the surrounding background is always fascinating
The book was titled "A Very Private Woman" or something along those lines (I don't have the book any longer). I do remember that it seemed that there was more concern for making sure not too much about her life became known than there was for finding out who actually killed her.
E. Howard Hunt implicated Cord Meyer in the JFK Assassination.
In his deathbed deflection Hunt said LBJ was the sponsor, Hunt the author of 42 novels and the career intelligence officer blamed it on the man who caved like a little girl March, 1968, and died of a heart attack in 1973.
Now Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds killed JFK.
I went to New York with Young Americans for Freedom to draft Goldwater, despised Kennedy.
His National Security Action Memorandum 263 of October 12, 1963, withdrew the 16,000 advisors by the end of 1965, but Johnson's NSAM 273 of November 26, 1963, the day after the funeral, re-established the war.
Someone is tripping if they think Kennedy was killed over lysergic acid diethylalamide-25.
When Ahmed Wali Karzai was accused of being a CIA tool and a druglord he was defended by Gerald Posner. And we remain in Afghanistan.
Its official....i did LSD with Jack Kennedy
At the White House pool listening to Link Wray and Duane Eddy and a little Miles and 'Trane while naked interns cavorted in the pool
Jackie was in bed with her customary migraine
Was a good trip....pure Sandoz
Cary Grant dropped in......Lawford too......Coburn couldnt make it
From comments where this picture came from:
The last photograph (the sweater shot at the bottom) is NOT Mary Meyer. It's a still of Gretchen Mol as Catherine Caswell, the Mary Meyer archtype, in the film "An American Affair."
Its official....i did LSD with Jack Kennedy
At the White House pool listening to Link Wray and Duane Eddy and a little Miles and 'Trane while naked interns cavorted in the pool
Jackie was in bed with her customary migraine
Was a good trip....pure Sandoz
Cary Grant dropped in......Lawford too......Coburn couldnt make it
"E. Howard Hunt implicated Cord Meyer in the JFK Assassination"
sounds plausable . . .
Consider Cord Meyer, husband to a lady known to have at least 30 trysts with the president. A woman, many years later on his deathbed profess his undying love.
Cord a former Marine
So now we have one pissed off Marine whose wife he loved very much doing some other guy. Apperently she did many others also.
Now add the following "known" facts
Cord was a new world order guy recruited by the CIA.
He hated his work at the CIA.
And Cord feels betrayed by Jackie for being anti-red and world order guy.
So am thinkin . . . Oswald. also a Marine enlists in 1956 and decides the world hates him and of course he watches the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and decides Castro not a bad guy and JFK should have stayed home and mind his own business.
Somehow he (Oswald) and Cord 2 former Marines and pissed off hook up at the bar and decide they both don't like JFK . . .
and the rest is history
The speech was given 10 days AFTER the Bay of Pigs invasion
I find it so fascinating I have copied in part the following. . . .
John F Kenndy in a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association August 27, 1961
"Our way of life is under attack.
Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security.
If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match."
It's a real toss up between having JFK as a nut case on cortisone or having what we have now.
I'd take the nut case on cortisone because he's just nuts.
Cortisone does not drive people mad. That was a mistaken belief back then. The actual side effects, major and minor, of cortisone (hydrocortisone), are pretty mundane, with the worst psychological effect being "irritability".
Not clinical, violent paranoia, as believed at the time, and depicted in the movie. My point was that in that situation, a doctor could tell at a distance that JFK had Addison's disease (because of the appearance of the skin of his face), and the only treatment for Addison's at the time was cortisone. Therefore, that JFK was taking cortisone.
At that time, they (incorrectly) thought that cortisone in the dose needed to treat Addison's would likely make a person a clinical, violent paranoid.
And JFK had a bunch of health problems, yet was adamant that he would not leave office because of them. In fact, that he would run for reelection despite them.
Then the Cuban Missile Crisis happened, and America was terrified of the prospect of nuclear war. A war which JFK could have started any time, at will.
Put it all together. A president driven mad by drugs, with his finger on the nuclear trigger, is intolerable. He had to be removed from office for the good of the country, but will not resign on his own. Unless he is removed, the world could be plunged into a nuclear war.
QED: JFK must die.
As that great social commentator Whitney Houston once said - Crack is whack! I suspect th4e author of this fantasy found their inspiration in the bottom of a crack pipe.
I think the only person JFK was deeply in love with was JFK. He had the moral compass of an amoeba. If he had lived to serve out his first term history would likely not have been so kind. Either the CIA, the mob or the southern power structure assasinated him. Take your pick. He's lucky Jackie didn't kill him.
. The 'now it seems' is first clue to this 'smoke/mirrors' portrayal of Oswald. Closer to 'truth' as a conspiratorial effort, on behalf of rogue CIA; meshed with Castro and Texas politics. (And yes, the anti -communist radical right who at that time, per their geography; were Democrats.
. Stay with your first instincts...As to 'foreign influences' - another interesting twist, perhaps.
Wish those investigating Obama, would get as much attention...
"executive order 11110!!"
Certainly one of the more lunatic theories, seeing as people who buy savings bonds and T bills are the ones lending the government money at interest.
"Dumbass"? No need to share your pet name with the rest of us.
You need to try using your head instead of resting your case.
I didn't ask you how money moved against gold and silver. I simply pointed out one of the stupider assumptions in your previous post. Not to mention that for years the Fed operated with the gold standard in effect, but why spoil your nutty fantasy with facts?
As for the glories of gold and silver, I'm betting you weren't around to witness gold drop from $850 to $250 in the early '80s.
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The fourth State of New York Trout Unlimited (TU) Fish Camp was held from July 17 through July 22. Fourteen teenagers, 11 boys and three girls, were in attendance. At each of these camps a number of TU men and women have been privileged to instruct these youngsters on the arts and mysteries of fishing with a fly rod. It should be noted that this camp would not exist without the time and energy expended by Kurt Nelson of the Al Hazzard Chapter of TU. He seems always able to surmount the countless problems that are involved in an operation of this size. No detail is too small to escape his attention.
This year, five members of the Upper Delaware Chapter of TU were involved in mentoring these youngsters. In the years that I have been assisting in the teaching of the students, I have never met a boy or girl that I would classify as being a brat. They have all been the politest teenagers I have ever met.
Sunday evening, a kind man named Don Tracy allows the students to fish at his pond in Sherman, PA. The pond contains sunfish, largemouth bass, crappie and large channel catfish. Two of these catfish were hooked and landed, each being about three pounds. That is a pretty big fish for your first ever fish hooked and landed on a fly rod.
During the day, the boys and girls are instructed on the intricacies of fly fishing and also basic fly tying. In the evening, they are taken to the West Branch of the Delaware to flyfish. Monday evening we all went to Hale Eddy. Thankfully, the thunderstorms that had been forecast for this area bypassed us. I was a fishing buddy for a young lady from Binghamton, named Danielle. She had never caught a trout before, let alone on a fly. I took her a short distance below the bridge and gave her several of my poorly tied flies. She proceeded to hook and land six trout. She was ecstatic. I was amazed.
A young lady named Sarah was fishing just below us under the tutelage of Karol Sundholm. Sarah landed three trout. I was quite surprised to learn that Sarah was from the town of Katonah. Barb and I had lived in Bedford Hills, which is within walking distance of Katonah, for 35 years. On Wednesday evening I coached Sarah while she fished the West Branch at Starlight, PA. We were able to fish at this location due to the kindness of Dr. Oliver Herz, who allowed the students to access the river from his property. Unfortunately, due to a faulty leader, Sarah did not catch a fish that night. She did have some opportunities to cast to rising fish, but that darned leader did her in.
Support for the fish camp came from several TU chapters, including the Croton Watershed Chapter, which Barb and I had helped to found. The Cortland Company, the Rise Rod Company and the Temple Fork Company have all contributed rods to be used by these students. On their last day, the students will all receive a rod-building kit so that they can put together their very own fly rod. Thus, they will be able to continue to discover the pleasures of fly fishing on their own.
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I am looking for a feeding schedule to send to daycare with my 7 month old. Since my DD started eating solids there has been a lot of confusion with the daycare providers on how to feed her and when. I thought I told them that she will take a 4 oz bottle of BM then food mixed with cereal and BM for breakfast and lunch. The amounts depend on how my DD is feeling. The times between feedings should increase since she is eating food. Well, I guess the teachers need more guidance.
Does anyone have advice on how I should schedule my DD feedings? On the weekends it is usually just breakfast lunch and dinner for food and she nurses on demand.


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Help Wanted: Research in Motion Bulls, Apply Within
Research in Motion (RIMM) bulls continue to trot out the same tired vitriol. Every time RIMM takes another leg down, I expect the tortured few to come to their senses. For whatever reason, they never do.
If RIMM bulls still exist, I have to think they'll have difficulty signing new recruits. TheStreet's Chris Ciaccia nicely summarized the company's Tuesday afternoon "business update."
In a nutshell, RIM reiterated it will no longer provide quantitative financial guidance. It revealed it has hired JPMorgan(JPM) and Royal Bank of Canada (RY) for a strategic and operational review. The company also alerted investors to an anticipated Q1 operating loss. As Ciaccia reported, analysts had expected a profit of 49 cents a share.
I tend to think that the most vocal RIM supporters have not owned shares for very long, if ever. Unless you're independently wealthy, it would have been incredibly difficult to maintain a long position of any meaningful size in the stock over the last year or two, even when hedged with options. For some half-demented reason, RIMM super bulls made it their mission to defend the company regardless of this reality.
For the last year or so, there has been just one reason to open up a fresh long position in this stock. Buyout rumors have fueled practically every bit of upside since last spring. By now, you would think M&A speculators would have given up. When this dog was in the 20s, it was destined for the teens. Now that it has broken through the teens, it's on a clear path to the single digits. Next up: the Mounties will accompany RIM's casket to the plot it hopefully reserved next to fellow Canadian corporate failure, Nortel Networks .
While I reserve the right to be wrong, I highly doubt anybody (in their right mind) is about to step in and save RIM. Any board of directors that approves a buyout of the company would be sent to Bellevue for emergency evaluation.
Put yourself in the shoes of any potential acquirer you can think of. Why in the world would you buy RIM? Why would you do that to your staff and shareholders?
With M&A hopes effectively dashed, RIMM bulls have historically hung their hats on the forthcoming BB10 operating system. While we wait around for that presumably underwhelming release, we're told that RIMM looks good "at these levels" because (insert useless MBA quantitative jargon here).
Here's one of my favorites from a commenter to last week's "Bury RIM" article:
But at this point, not far from liquidation value, the lower RIM goes the better the proposition it becomes. If they start burning cash -- then all bets are off. But unless that happens, you have a nice margin of safety at these levels .