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Case #: 003972-25K-2012
Case Description: Monica Drum Homicide
Investigative Agency: Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department
Investigating Officer(s): Det. S. Murphy, Det. E. Parker
Preliminary Analysis of Evidence Recovered from the Ledford Property, New Sarpy, LA
After obtaining a search warrant for David Ledford house, police recovered a hunter green work shirt made by Dickies. Fiber samples taken from the shirt were compared to the fibers recovered from the crime scene and found to be microscopically similar (both were 65% Fortrel polyester/35%). Thin layer chromatography (normal phase silica, 5% methanol/chloroform) of the fiber dyes of each sample also gave similar chromatograms:
A final basis of comparison was infrared spectrometry of the fibers, which also suggested that the two samples are similar.
Conclusion: The fibers of the shirt of David Ledford can be included as a possible match to the fibers taken from the crime scene.
Soil samples taken around the Ledford property had similar mineralogy and contained the same type pollen grains in the crime scene sample. Visual inspection of the Ledford property by palynologist Dr. Melvin McCoy also confirmed the presence of bald cypress trees, palmettos and water oaks. Dr. McCoy also noted that microscopically the extent and ratio of each pollen type of the crime scene sample was similar to samples taken from the Ledford property.
During the search, investigators noted the presence of several animal hides, two of which were subsequently taken to the crime lab for examination. The hair from one of these hides was shown microscopically to originate from a swamp rabbit. The hair of second hide was identified as the gray squirrel.
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Helen, the daughter of Andrew and Agnes (Helvig) Paneck, was born March 25, 1926, in Marble Township near Canby, Minn. She was united in marriage to Ira Emmons on Oct. 8, 1946, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Canby. Helen lived in Pequot Lakes for 10 years, next to daughter Barb, before moving back to live in Starbuck for the rest of her life, entering the Minnewaska Lutheran Home in Starbuck in August of 2013.
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Saint Saviour - Woman Scorned (Evokateur Remix)
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Saint Saviour released her first single on October 11 after having spent the last year recording and touring the world with GA, during which Andy Cato described her as "the performer of her generation". Already compared to everyone from Mariah Callas and Antony Hegarty to Karen O and Patti Smith, the singer is writing music that few could reasonably be expected to deliver, but as a former vocal coach and sought after session singer who practiced 10 hours a day at her piano, Saint Saviour is keen to push the limits, both technically and physically.
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- An airline's kid-free zones spark debate among travelers
- Many says parents are not properly disciplining their kids
- Some parents say there's only so much they can do to control an unruly child
Kids on a plane: Nothing incites readers like talk of other people's precious angels wreaking havoc in a sealed metal tube.
AirAsia X's launch this week of kid-free zones on select flights brought our commenters out in force with strong ideas about modern parenting, or a lack thereof.
A commenter with the name DigDug2010 loves the idea of child-free flights: "I will happily pay $50-$100 more each way if I was assured I would not be seated within five rows ahead or behind of some little hyper brat who isn't controlled by his useless parents. In fact, airlines should all offer flights that are totally 'child free.'
"If pets can survive in the cargo hold, so can ill-behaved kids," DigDug2010 wrote.
Commenters who identify themselves as parents are a little less zealous in their approval of the airline's move.
"I have a kid, and I say go for it, too. Hell, I might use it myself when not traveling with the rugrat. What I don't like is parenting advice from people who probably can't raise a goldfish. There's no such thing as 'making' a child behave. There is only 'trying,'" andy b wrote.
GrayGhost60, a parent of grown kids, says "a tap on the diaper," or a little spank, was once the consequence of acting up but now parents try to reason with a toddler. The commenter, andy b, acknowledges a huge "disconnect between 'new age' parenting tactics and actual scientific reality."
"Some parents seem to think that a child who doesn't know why a square peg won't fit in a round hole will somehow magically acquire advanced verbal/critical reasoning skills whenever it's convenient," he wrote.
Readers seem to give babies a bit more latitude than toddlers and older kids, conceding that air pressure may affect these tykes' ears.
But CNN commenters kicked around kids who kick seats:
"Nowadays, most parents refuse to discipline their kids (I'm not talking about infants, but 4-10 yr olds). They think the rest of us think the little monsters are as cute as they do. There is no reason for an 8-year-old to be running the aisles, screaming and kicking the seat," wrote kate683.
Some see AirAsia's move to offer kid-free zones as insensitive to families while overlooking other common complaints about fellow passengers.
"We were all kids and most of us have kids. You can deal with it. What about the fat people? The smelly people? The guy who turns his light on when it is dark so you can't sleep? The person who reclines their seat in coach? We all have issues with each other," wrote Arnie.
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We're told people came from all over -- one family touring the mansion even came all the way from Canada.
The decades-old mansion attracts people every year, but this year event organizers tell us was their busiest yet. "We have been very busy today. I know last year we had a little over 500 visitors and I think this year's going to top last year," hostess Teresa Hubble said.
Here's an interesting fact about the mansion: we're told construction started in the spring of 1948 and it was finished fall of 1950, but we're told the staircase and the portico date back to pre-Civil War times.


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{and the realization that every new piece becomes my favorite}.
Mostly, I took these photographs here for lack of a better place to shoot, but this table up on the roof with city in the background became so ultimately Brooklyn that I rather love the continuation of the story. These tables are made from the wood that people here have ripped from their houses, torn from these buildings, and here it is, that wood which was discarded as useless just the other day is now turned into this.
I always feel like a crazy person every time I'm caught red handed hauling old wood to or from my car. I know darn well that I'm only one in a hundred of us splinter-crazed-Brooklynites who dumpster dive, yet sometimes, I just wish I could have a cloak of invisibility to aid me in my self-embarrassment, so I could be left at peace, with no on-lookers, no judgers, no gawkers, no people dubiously asking me questions or telling me to be careful of rusty nails or splinters {you think?}. Maybe then with no one around to give me odd stares I could finally feel that what I'm doing is not, entirely, off-the-charts-insane. It is insanity, yeah I know that. But it's justified insanity. At least, once you see the finished product it is. Up until that moment though, I just look like a dusty pack-rat of the oddest sort.
Oh well! The wood speaks for itself, and is rather more confident than I. It says I deserve to be a coffee table goddammit, and not rotting in the landfill! What smart wood it is. What smart wood.


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- - How long did it take for you to trust your puppy? (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/general-puppy-stuff/196485-how-long-did-take-you-trust-your-puppy.html)
How long did it take for you to trust your puppy?
For those with puppies past the age of 6 months or even those of you who own adult dogs and remember the puppy days.. how long did it take for you to trust your puppy? In terms of potty training, biting and chewing things, getting into trouble, etc. How old were they when they were able to have free roam of the house without much problem.
I cannot wait for that day. I feel it will never come sometimes. My pup is 16 weeks old today and while her chewing and eating random things on the ground like leaves and barks are a lot less than before, I still need an eagle eye on her. indoors she still has accidents and bites and eats things around the house. All of her accidents have happened right under my nose while tethered to me on a leash. Her squatting down takes less time than for my reaction time to kick in and me standing up and running over to her to stop her. But I always catch her in the act 100% of the time.
The other issue is crying and separation anxiety. It's funny because she didn't cry much at all when I got her but it's gotten worse instead of better. She was crate trained in the garage and she didn't cry that much where now she is indoors and older and she is crying even more. I believe before she was crying as a puppy because she was in a new environment and alone. Now it has turned into separation anxiety as it occurs whenever I leave the room or if she sees me leave through the front door. It will occur when I leave even when other family members are next to her as she spends the most time with me. I'll play with her and then crate her and she'll cry, yelp, whimper. I know what to do and it's being addressed but geez, it's been over a week and she still does it. Just wondering how long it took everyone before they can comfortably trust their puppy. If she's not crate trained, she is always tethered to me on a leash. She will naturally follow me whereever I go anyway.
Around what age should I expect a little more peace and quiet? I hope this isnt replaced with worse behavior at the adolescent stages haha
LOL peace and Quiet? you shoulda got a fish! jk jk , Mine is 6 months and we are still working with some issues. We have a set of jingle bells attached to the back door that I make Hero ring in order for me to open the door. This took abotu 2-3 days and now if he wants to go out, he jingles. If we dont answer those jingles and there is an accident, it is our fault not his.
As for the whining in the crate, I think they all do that! One of the easiest ways to stop or at leaset reduce it is completely covering the crate with a blanket. That normally settles Hero down. Also when it comes time to open the crate, he starts jumping whining and going nuts for me to open it. I stop and turn my back to him. He sits and waits quietly for me to open it, if not ill turn again!
We keep a lead on him when he is out of the crate but we only grab it when he chases the cats, is counter surfing (new problem) ot is getting to rough with the kids. He is allowed out of the crate most of the day and we play all the time but if he grabs food out of the babies hands or off the coffee table, I got to scoop him up. We are working on reducing this problem where he steals whatever is edible thing from the kids. The other day stole a lollipop from the baby stick and all gone. Hero is pretty good, if I say his name or stand up he stops doing whatever he was cuz he knows he is wrong. As far as him chewing everything, your in the land shark stage where he is teething and going to lose all those puppy teeth. I suggest some KONG balls, lush and rubber, some stuffing free animals, try giving him an ice cube! feels good on those teeth and he will chase the cube which is fairly funny. Or you can put a few cubes in his water and watch him bob for them which can also be funny.
Are you in any type of formal training such as puppy kindegarten, basic obedience or anything like that? If not I would DEF suggest that as well!!
We're def going to take a formal training class next month when she will be 5 mo old. She knows a good amount now and due to her drive I have good focus from her when we play tug Michael Ellis style. The problem I have with her is the whining and crying of course and general naughtiness. I was wondering when they get a bit more trust worthy. haha
He still cries now and again. Mostly it is because he thinks if he hears us, than he shouldn't be in the crate. our problem is if our 5 year old is having a before bed snack and places it on the coffee table for more than about 4 seconds, its gone! 2 nights ago, whole cup cake vanished!
For us the teething stopped about 5 months old but he still will grab at my hand a tiny bit here and there, we are working on the mouthing issue still but all in all about 5-5.5 months he was done. We skipped tug while teething but teething started around 3 months for us. Your pup probably has already started and you have just yet to notice.
Try the blanket completely covering the crate trick, it does wonders for most people. as far as trustworthy.. they are GSDs are they every REALLY 100% trustworthy hahahahha
How is your dog doing on the leash for walks?
I would just like to add that when I was seriously crate training Enzo I always made sure he was put in the crate tired! We would play with the flirt pole, walks, fetch, visit the neighbor's dog, basic commands ect ect. So that pretty much crate means time to settle and sleep. Now the only time he makes noise is if he has to go out to potty and that is very very rarely(we always take him out before he's crated and once he gets out).
And we're over the biting phase now. Sometimes he'll softly mouth husband or myself but it is nothing like 3-4 month phase.
Anyways, what you could try to do which really worked for us is to teach your pup "bring-toy". Because when they get mouthy all they really want to do is to play! And I mean that's all they know how to play with(their mouth and paws) so we must teach them.
So if Enzo starts to mouth us and we ARE willing to play with him we will say "bring alligator" (he is getting really good at picking the specific toy -neat trick in its own!) and he'll search around like ahh okay where is it and bring it to us and we'll throw it or tug or whatnot. If he didn't bring me a toy then I would just get up and walk away -teaching him that is not how you play with us.
One thing though and I've thought about this maybe too much! lol. You may have to watch out for them getting too pushy with bringing you a toy and wanting to play all the time. But so far Enzo hasn't been pushy about it and if we don't feel like playing we'll say "all-done"(what we say end of obedience training session or tug session ect) and then ignore. I think he gets it because then he'll start playing by himself with it or go chew on an antler or something. I guess it depends on the dog. It has just worked really well for us! No peace and quiet but I didn't get him for peace and quiet! :wild:
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I trusted my female unsupervised in the house by about 5-6 months old. The only room I kept blocked off was my bedroom but that was because I knew I was getting a second puppy and didn't want to give access only to take it away again when he arrived.
I don't use a crate but they are kept outside when I'm not home and inside when I'm home, I have a dog door though so they can choose to be in or out when i'm here.
That's not to say she wasn't causing damage at 6 months... but she kept that for outside - chewing the outdoor furniture, destroying my plants and digging holes.
Neither of my dogs have ever touched it but i have an extension cord that runs down the wall in my lounge room (where they usually sleep) so i make sure to turn the power off each night when i go to bed... not sure if I'll ever risk not doing that.
My male is about 13 weeks old so i pull a child barrier across the tv when i go to bed. I expect to be able to stop that with a month or two. He's been going really well in the house. The only thing he chews on was a door mat (which I've moved out of reach) and the cardboard on beer cartons (which i let him do). He's only just started using the dog door to take himself to the toilet at night, not sure why because he was using it throughout daylight hours... maybe its scary at night =) before that he'd whine at the bedroom door to wake me so I'd take him out.
Maybe i've just been lucky but all my dogs have treated inside with respect at a young age.
Getting too pushy and wanting to play all the time is funny as heck to me. Hero will bring me his Kong Ballistic plush frisbee thing and play tug or fetch then he gets sick of it and gets a smaller kong squeeker thing, then always ends with a baseball! I will have to try the get me a specific toy command! The trick my pup abuses is the Jingle Bells to go out. During the day sometimes he just wants to go for a walk or be outside. We don't have a fenced yard so that means someone has to take him and that used to be me only because he was rude on a leash We bought him one of those easy walker harnesses and OH MY GOD!!!! My 5 year old can walk him now! This is awesome because I got him a really sweet collar for christmas (mean old wife won't let me put it on him for pictures before hand) and now the collar won't be making him cough from pulling the leash. He loves walks and now he is manageable on walks! The only problem is when I first put it on him trying to size it was a pain and I think I need a smaller one because he was able to chew part of the front while in the crate. (He no longer wears this in the crate)
Link knew to use his pee pad by day 4. He knew to go outside by about 4 months old, and had one or two accidents after that which I'm sure were just a slip of the mind.
He still wines when I leave him alone in his cage in the morning, but otherwise is quiet. As for his chewing things up that he shouldn't... This is certainly still a problem if he's left unsupervised but otherwise we're ok. His wining and getting into things got significantly better recently, as well as his ability to calm down and self sooth. I had taken a week off work to spend some more time with him, and he's shown significant growth.
He'll be 8 months tomorrow. From day one Link has been the calm attentive type (as far as puppies go), which made his training much easier I think. But don't get me wrong, it's certainly been **** at times!
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The only issue my dog had was potty training and it was really my fault. She was out of the crate at night when she was 4 months. By the time she was almost 7 months she was out of the crate day and night. She never chewed or ate stuff when she was younger. She has tons of toys and other dogs to occupy her time. She also never bit me or any humans, all her bite inhibition was pretty much taught by my other dogs. By the time she was 9 months she finished 3 obedience classes and got her CGC. We are now in agility and in about a year I will redo the CGC with her, maybe look into therapy work with her. The first few months I had to adjust, her energy level was through the roof. I just became very creative with ways to make both her and I happy.
Every dog is different, but this pup earned his trust at about four months -- and that's pretty unusual. I'm surprised by it myself. I have other threads where you can see some of the issues I've had with him -- he's not a perfect dog... but he was potty trained really fast. And for some reason, he just doesn't do the boredom chew thing.
One thing that helps is that he just loves it outside. I think it is one of those "He just does" things. I wish I could tell you what we did that instilled this in him, but I really can't think of anything I did differently with this dog than I did with my last one, who would only stay outside if we did.
Also, we have a sliding glass door leading to the outside, and we bought a doggie door for it that was really a great investment. Yes, it gets a little cold in the winter, but at our house, the sliding glass door is on a sunroom, so it isn't directly on the house, so it isn't so bad.
He can go in and out at will (We have a fenced back yard) and that helps I think. We also keep special bones on hand that he gets whenever we head out and know we are going to be awhile.
The thing that determined it for me was when he was about four months old and he had diarrhea. We were all downstairs (where my wife and my bedroom is) and Ninja woke up, climbed the stairs, went through the living room, sunroom, and outside... where the poor thing had diarrhea. I figured if a dog in that condition is still making it outside to do his business, he wasn't going to mess in the house. He's had full run of the house ever since.
Like I said, though, its just him. I did nothing different with him and my previous GSD -- who would sometimes have accidents in the house for almost a year.
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I have had bees now for two years.
The first year was easy, but now I'm running into the hard stuff.
The weather has been wishy washy so we haven't checked them too closely.
We opened the hives Easter weekend and found one hive with no honey and a large quantity of dead bees plus the queen was dead. The other hive is doing just fine.
We took everything apart, cleaned off the excess comb, and set the hive back up. We decided to order a package of bees from Kelley and are awaiting their arrival.
In the mean time, my husband looked at the hives again today, and the hive we reassembled has bees going in and out and they seem to be fighting each other. Can we put the new bees in this hive.
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Dr. Michael Borowitz is a professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include oncology and pathology. Dr. Borowitz serves as director of the Division of Hematologic Pathology and deputy director of education and clinical affairs in the Department of Pathology. He's co-director of the Genes to Society curriculum at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr. Borowitz is one of the leaders in applying immunologic techniques to diagnose and classify leukemia and lymphoma. He has published numerous articles documenting the importance of these ancillary studies in accurate diagnosis, and has been particularly active in applying sophisticated approaches using the technique of flow cytometry. He has also been a leader in standardizing the practice of flow cytometry as it applies to leukemia and lymphoma, and has worked on developing improved proficiency testing programs and guidelines as well as good laboratory practice.
He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from Duke University. He completed his residency at the Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Borowitz joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1993.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Borowitz was an associate professor of pathology at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Dr. Borowitz is a managing board member of the Institute for Excellence in Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. His work was recognized with a Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013. He is a member of the Society for Hematopathology and the International Society for Analytic Cytology.
- Director, Division of Hematologic Pathology
- Co-Director, Genes to Society
- Deputy Director, Education, Department of Pathology
- Deputy Director, Clinical Affairs, Department of Pathology
- Professor of Pathology
- Professor of Oncology
Departments / Divisions
- Oncology - Hematologic Malignancies
- Pathology - Hematologic Pathology
Centers & Institutes
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Neoplastic Hematopathology & Flow Cytometry
- MD, Duke University School of Medicine (1977)
- Duke University School of Medicine / Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (1981)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Pathology / Anatomic & Clinical Pathology (1981)
Research & Publications
Research Summary
Dr. Borowitz's research focuses on defining the complexity of hematologic neoplasms. He is particularly interested in the immunologic aspects of leukemia and lymphoma, and in the relation of phenotypic variability to clinical and biological heterogeneity in these diseases. He employs routine morphologic techniques and immunocytochemistry in his investigations, but he is particularly interested in flow cytometry. A major focus of his efforts has been in childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia, in conjunction with investigators in the Children's Oncology Group. He is specifically interested in studies of minimal residual disease (MRD) as detected by flow cytometry and its effect on prognosis. He is also interested in developing new clinical applications of flow cytometry, particularly as it applies to blood and bone marrow.
Over the past five years, Dr. Borowitz's lab has studied samples of more than 2,000 patients enrolled in Children's Oncology Group trials from more than 100 institutions, and has demonstrated that nearly 30 percent of them harbor MRD at the end of induction therapy. MRD at the end of induction therapy was shown to correlate with early marrow response as assessed by day 7 marrow morphology, thereby validating the assumption that this is an additional means to assess response to therapy. MRD correlates with other risk factors, including age, white count and cytogenetic abnormalities, but any subgroup of patients defined by traditional risk factors can be divided into MRD-positive and MRD-negative groups; some good-risk groups have paradoxically high levels of MRD at end induction, suggesting that the pattern of response to therapy may be dependent on specific genetic abnormalities. Data on the correlation of MRD with patient outcome are still maturing.
Core Facility: Neoplastic Hematopathology & Flow Cytometry
Selected Publications
- Horton TM, Sposto R, Brown P, Reynolds CP, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Raetz EA, Carroll WL, Arceci RJ, Borowitz MJ, Gaynon PS, Gore L, Jeha S, Maurer BJ, Siegel SE, Biondi A, Kearns PR, Narendran A, Silverman LB, Smith MA, Zwaan CM, Whitlock JA; ALLNA 2008 Conference. "Toxicity assessment of molecularly targeted drugs incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy regimens for pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL): review from an international consensus conference." Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Jul 1;54(7):872-8. doi: 10.1002/pbc.22414.
- Gutierrez A, Sanda T, Ma W, Zhang J, Grebliunaite R, Dahlberg S, Neuberg D, Protopopov A, Winter SS, Larson RS, Borowitz MJ, Silverman LB, Chin L, Hunger SP, Jamieson C, Sallan SE, Look AT. "Inactivation of LEF1 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia." Blood. 2010 Apr 8;115(14):2845-51. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-07-234377. Epub 2010 Feb 1.
- Borowitz MJ, Craig FE, Digiuseppe JA, Illingworth AJ, Rosse W, Sutherland DR, Wittwer CT, Richards SJ; Clinical Cytometry Society. "Guidelines for the diagnosis and monitoring of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and related disorders by flow cytometry." Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2010 Jul;78(4):211-30. doi: 10.1002/cyto.b.20525.
- Gutierrez A, Dahlberg SE, Neuberg DS, Zhang J, Grebliunaite R, Sanda T, Protopopov A, Tosello V, Kutok J, Larson RS, Borowitz MJ, Loh ML, Ferrando AA, Winter SS, Mullighan CG, Silverman LB, Chin L, Hunger SP, Sallan SE, Look AT. "Absence of biallelic TCRgamma deletion predicts early treatment failure in pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia." J Clin Oncol. 2010 Aug 20;28(24):3816-23. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.3390. Epub 2010 Jul 19.
- Harvey RC, Mullighan CG, Wang X, Dobbin KK, Davidson GS, Bedrick EJ, Chen IM, Atlas SR, Kang H, Ar K, Wilson CS, Wharton W, Murphy M, Devidas M, Carroll AJ, Borowitz MJ, Bowman WP, Downing JR, Relling M, Yang J, Bhojwani D, Carroll WL, Camitta B, Reaman GH, Smith M, Hunger SP, Willman CL. "Identification of novel cluster groups in pediatric high-risk B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with gene expression profiling: correlation with genome-wide DNA copy number alterations, clinical characteristics, and outcome." Blood. 2010 Dec 2;116(23):4874-84. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-08-239681. Epub 2010 Aug 10.
Borowitz MJ, Pullen DJ, Shuster JJ, Viswanatha D, Montgomery K, Willman CL, Camitta B. (2003) Minimal residual disease detection in childhood precursorB-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Relation to other risk factors. A Childrens Oncology Group Study Leukemia 17:1566-1572
Weir EG, Cowan K, LeBeau P, Borowitz MJ. (1999) A limited antibody panel can distinguish B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia from normal B-precursors with four color flow cytometry: implications for residual disease detection. Leukemia 13:558-567.
Nicol TL, Silberman M, Rosenthal DL, Borowitz MJ. (2000) The accuracy of combined cytopathologic and flow cytometric analysis of fine-needleaspirates of lymph nodes. Am J Clin Pathol; 114:18-28.
Brodsky RA, Mukhina GL, Li S, Nelson KL, Chiurazzi PL, Buckley JT, Borowitz MJ. (2000) Improved detection and characterization of paroxysmalnocturnal hemoglobinuria using fluorescent aerolysin. AM J Clin Pathol 114:459-466.
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Graduate Program Affiliation
Genes to Society
Courses and Syllabi
Course Co-director, Hematology/Oncology
Activities & Honors
- The Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2013
- International Society for Analytic Cytology
- Society for Hematopathology
Professional Activities
- Abeloff Committee, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Chair, National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
Subcommittee on Flow Cytometry
- Chair, Institute for Excellence in Education
Leadership and Mentoring Award Committee
- Co-organizer, North American Consensus Conference on Flow Cytometry in Leukemia and Lymphoma
- Executive Board, Clinical Cytometry Division, 1995 - 1996
- Executive Committee, Society for Hematopathology, 1992 - 1996


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I was also out and 2 of the 3 hives at one yard look GREAT. (I just popped the tops) The third I'm not sure of. I tapped the boxes and some bees came to the top, but not that many. It could be that they're all in the lower box, but I'd think that they'd be coming out and at least a good amt. of them would be on top. I didn't take them apart because I didn't have my suit and there's sugar on top. Also If the main cluster is in the middle of the boxes I don't want to kill a queen this time of year taking the boxes apart.


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Apartment near Notre Dame (G05482 8D)
Size65 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Internet/WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Towels
- Dishwasher
Accommodation summary
|Rue de la Huchette, 75005 Paris, France
|Property type
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
This apartment of 65 square meters with air conditioning is a 2 bedroom duplex which is Huchette street in the 5th district of Paris within walking distance of the Place Saint Michel and Notre Dame.
It is located in a secure building with a door code entry on 4th floor (with elevator from the first floor).
It consists of:
* Lounge / dining room facing west, very bright with two large windows equipped with a double sofa bed, 6 chairs, 2 armchairs, dining table, coffee table and wooden floors
* Fully equipped kitchen with fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, dishwasher, toaster, kettle, coffee machine
* A one bedroom with double bed, a bedside table and wooden floors
* A second bedroom with two single beds, an ensuite bathroom (1) and parquet flooring
* Bathroom (1) with a shower, sink and hairdryer available
* A second bathroom with shower, sink and hairdryer available
You will also available WiFi Internet access, cable / satellite, DVD player, a washing machine.
The linen and towels are provided.
In the area:
* Saint Michel metro (line 6)
* Notre Dame
* Sainte Chapelle
* Cluny Museum
Furthemore you can book an other apartment in the same building if you are travelling in a group.
If you arrive early or leave late, you can store your luggage in an automatic locker located nearby: City Locker (Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, Le Marais, Hotel de Ville, Chatelet, Saint-Germain, Saint-Michel, Notre Dame, Opera, Madeleine, Saint-Lazare).
House rulesRegular check-in time is between 2pm and 8pm (after 8pm only self check-in is possible).
For arrival on Sunday/bank holidays, 50 euros will be charged.
An early check-in between 10am and 2pm is available for an extra charge of 50 euros (if the apartment is available).
Regular check out time: before 10 am
For departure on Sunday/bank holidays, 50 euros will be charged
Based on availability and at least with a 24 hours notice, a late check-out between 10am and noon is available for an additional cost of 50 euros.
We will ask you to sign a rental agreement, to respect your obligations and not to smoke in the apartment.
For rentals over 21 days, you will have to pay your consumption of electricity and gas (on meter reading).
The security deposit is equal to the amount of the rent for rentals of less than 21 days (Possibility of taking an imprint bank card with Visa or Mastercard).
For rentals between 21 days and 6 months, we charge one month's rent, and 2 months rent for rentals of more than 6 months.
|Weekly rate for up to 6 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 6 guests
|Maximum nights
|1 year
|Check-in after
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|Check-in before
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|Check-out before
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Reviews of this property
A great, clean location for a Paris visit. We were two couples with two inquisitive boys. From here you can reach most attractions on foot and short return to the apartment for a break. The visit to Disney Park is wonderful due to the Metro and RER nearby. The settlement and accounting including keys worked super easy. Thank you for this beautiful experience.
Eine tolle, saubere Location für eine Parisbesichtigung. Wir waren zwei Ehepaare mit zwei wissbegierigen Jungs. Von hier aus kann man die meisten Sehenswürdigkeiten zu Fuß erreichen und für eine Pause kurz in die Wohnung zurückkehren. Auch die Besichtigung von Disneypark geht auf Grund der Metro und RER Nähe wunderbar. Die Abwicklung und Buchung samt Schlüsselübergabe funktionierte super einfach. Danke für diese schöne Erfahrung.
Great apartment. Very clean and excellent location. Close to metro, easy walking to many sights. Staff was responsive and quick to attend to our needs. Would stay here again! Only thing to consider in the heat of the summer is that with windows open it would be noisy from the street.
We were a group of 6 adults and a 4 yr old and stayed in the apartment for 5 nights.
Plus points- great location, the apartment was on the 4th floor and there was no disturbance from the road below, unless u left all the windows open. Even then not too bad.the apartment was newly refurbished and all the fittings were good.
There is one bedroom with a double bed which is a good size. The second double bed is in the mezzanine level with no doors. The mezzanine level has a ensure but with no toilet.
The sofa bed was of vey good quality and had a proper mattress.towels and fresh sheets were provided. There was internet available.there was good communication from them. An agent named Christian was there to welcome us and went through the fittings with us. My fault was to rush him through it and not get all the details.
Minus points- not a lot really. The lift to the apartment is from the first Floor and can only fit 2 people at a time or one with luggage. Not a real problem. The main problem was that there was only one toilet,As we were the first people to stay there after refurbishment there were a few niggling issues which I am sure they will sort out
Reviews for this host's other properties
Very well situated apartment for 4 to 5. Would happily stay there again on my next trip!
Nice appartment in the city center! Everything is close, a supermarket, ... You can go everywhere on foot because it is right in the center. We had a good stay here.
The apartment is small but cozy and comfortable. The portal and the stairs are a little old, but inside were fine. A quiet and very good location site.
El apartamento es pequeño pero muy acogedor y cómodo. El portal y la escalera están algo viejos, pero en el interior estuvimos muy bien. Un sitio tranquilo y con muy buena localización.
We really liked the apartment. It was located very central so we went to Notre Dame, the Louvre and elsewhere walk. We next several restaurants and a well stocked supermarket where Nicola greeted us warmly.
Nos gusto mucho el apartamento. Estaba situado muy en el centro por lo que fuimos a Notre Dame, el Louvre y otros lugares andando. Teníamos al lado distintos restaurantes y un supermercado bien surtido donde Nicola nos atendió con cariño.
The apartment is well located, about 50 meters from Notre Dame, very clean and spacious. Anecdotally say that missing some cutlery and pans were not good for the hob. Otherwise great.
El apartamento está muy bien ubicado, a unos 50 metros del Notre Dame, muy limpio y espacioso. Como anécdota decir que faltaban algunos cubiertos y las sartenes no servían para la vitroceramica. Por lo demás estupendo.
Dear Sirs,
I am still waiting for a message from our hostess regarding the key conservation and relating to your satisfaction with the state of the apartment after the end of our stay.
Following I will tell you my opinion.
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
ich warte noch auf eine Mitteilung unserer Gastgeberin bezüglich des Schlüsselerhalts und bezüglich Ihrer Zufriedenheit bezüglich des Zustands der Ferienwohnung nach Abschluss unseres Aufenthaltes.
Im Anschluss werde ich Ihnen meine Beurteilung mitteilen.
Well it located. But we got only one set of sheets and small towels for 13 days. The coffee maker did not work with the capsules we buy. We write about all this but nobody answered us. And we did not see anyone on the property at any time
Bien situado. Pero nos dieron sólo un juego de sábanas y unas toallas pequeñas para 13 días. La cafetera no funcionaba con las cápsulas que compramos. Escribimos sobre todo ello pero nadie nos respondió. Y no vimos a nadie de la propiedad en ningún momento
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The History of Hooch with Kings County Distillery

Talking hooch with Kings County Distillery.

New York's Kings County Distillery, founded in 2010, makes handmade moonshine and bourbon out of the 113-year-old Paymaster Building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The distillery is the first of its kind in New York since the roaring 1920s. Using New York grain and old school distilling equipment, Colin Spoelman, a former rooftop moonshiner, and David Haskell, the great-grandson of a Prohibition-era bootlegger (and Deputy Editor at New York Magazine), have created their own distinctive brand of whiskey.
On the cusp of the recent moonshining boom, the distilling duo published a book earlier this year entitled a Guide to Urban Moonshining: How to Make and Drink Whiskey. Bookstores can't keep it on the shelves. And with good reason!
The Guide to Urban Moonshining covers whiskey's history and culture dating back to the 1640s, a list of common day microdistillers and advice on how to build a worthy whiskey collection. The book also provides an easy-to-follow guide for safe home distilling. (Read: You won't be making it in your bathtub and it won't rot your guts.)
We were lucky enough to chat with Colin Spoelman about his book and what he's learned turning the passion project he shared with his friend Haskell into a successful venture.
Playboy.com: How long did it take you to compile all of the history surrounding moonshine and whiskey?
Spoelman: I had been working on the history for a couple of years. Just being a distiller in New York City, I got naturally curious about the history of what was here before, and, in contrast to rural places, it's a well-documented history, albeit forgotten and ignored. Since part of what we do at the distillery is give tours, I wanted to be able to tell the urban story of moonshine, which sounds like an oxymoron, but in fact it's not at all. The moonshiners of Brooklyn were as active as those in Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia. The stories are incredible: they had a reputation for trophy wives, lavish jewelry and fast horses back in the 1870s.
Playboy.com: If you're not familiar with whiskey, what should you start with? Are there particular factors that are more important than others? How long it's aged, the type of barrel and so on?
Spoelman: It's kind of a wild time for whiskey in the sense that price and quality aren't very well correlated. Some of the best whiskey being made in Kentucky is around $20 a bottle and you can spend upwards of $100 on what will be pretty average whiskey. The big mistake is to put too much faith in what is on the bottle, like age, proof and brand names, and commit to liking what you like. People have better palates than they give themselves credit for. Best is to try four to six whiskeys in a blind tasting, which is not only fun, but it gets you where you want to go pretty fast. If people tried everything blind, it would be a very different landscape of whiskey. And cast a wide net: smaller distilleries often offer something different, so if you don't like Kentucky bourbon, or had a bad experience with it in your younger days, it doesn't mean you won't like other whiskey. A lot of commercial brands taste the same and craft spirits offer variety.
Playboy.com: Why do you think it's important for every "gentleman" to know the importance of a good whiskey?
Spoelman: I'm paraphrasing, but the most credible definition I ever heard of a gentleman was from Teddy Roosevelt: a gentleman is as much courteous as he is courageous. Humility is not a trait often associated with whiskey drinkers, but it should be. And I don't know how many times I've had to endure people saying completely false things about whiskey (have you known anyone who insisted that bourbon has to be made in Kentucky?) to give the illusion of being knowledgeable. Whiskey is inherently unpretentious; it was an extension of farming for most of its history, at least in America. It doesn't need to be a show. And to like one whiskey isn't to deride all others. Partisanship isn't intrinsic to whiskey drinking. The best whiskey is the one in front of you, and the gentleman is wise enough to say so.
Playboy.com: While working on the book, what was the most surprising bit of information you came across?
Spoelman: There's a distillery in Indiana that makes about half of the rye brands sold on liquor store shelves. Not that this distillery makes a lot of different whiskies; it makes one whiskey that is bottled as many different brands, or did until only very recently. Templeton, Bulleit Rye, George Dickel Rye, some of High West, some of Willett, Redemption, Smooth Ambler and several others are all made from one generic mash bill on the same stills at the same distillery and then differentiated by subtle differences in aging and dilution. Templeton, for instance, touts a "Prohibition era recipe" and its package suggests that it comes from Iowa, but it is made in bulk in Indiana and is the same liquid as Bulleit Rye, diluted a little more, aged a little less and $15 more per bottle. That people could feel strongly about what was arbitrary at best, and fabricated at worst, made me step back and appreciate when a distiller does everything right. What counts is in the bottle, sure, but integrity is important too.
For more information on the guide and the distillery, go to kingscountydistillery.com.


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Review: 2013 Burton Mystery
There is absolutely nothing written that I can find about the "current" Burton Mystery let alone the 2013 version. I had the chance to pick up this week, and ride hard for two days at Whistler/Blackcomb. The board is so scarce that when I did a search on google the only picture I saw was one I posted a couple of days ago after picking it up. To make a long story short I saw the board at a sample sale and got a deal on it that was too good to pass up in my books. When I saw the current version of the Mystery something about it had such a cool factor to me, but the retail price of $1749 was simply to high, so when I saw a deal I jumped on it. Is the board worth it? To me yes, but dollar for dollar and in terms of "value' probably not.
First some facts:
-The Burton Mystery released this year was made in the new Craig Kelly R&D factory. Only 250 were made, and for 2013 its slated to replace the method board (its a guess and rumor). A quick look at the Burton site (canadian) has the Method priced at $1749, which is the same retail as the Mystery.
-Nothing Has changed from the 250 "prototypes" made this year vs what will be release next season aside from the graphics. That is according to the local Burton rep. Who knows because not even he knows whats used to make the board hence the "Mystery" name.
-Its claimed to be the lightest snowbaord ever made. I have no way of confirming that, but Fck is it ever light. Seriously the only weight I could feel on it was the bindings.
- Its directional and a blend of rocker and camber.
-Per the Burton site:
"Our lightest core ever, Ultrafly introduces an engineered design that revolutionizes the strength-to-weight and performance achievable with a wood core construction. Exclusive to the NEW Mystery, Method, and Vapor™
"The secret to speed is Teflon®—quite possibly earth's slickest substance. Highly durable and low-maintenance, Methlon creates blistering speed that lasts all season. Exclusive to the NEW Mystery and Method."
"NEW Mystery Construction"
NEW Mystery Glass"
Set Up
The board comes in a 155cm and 158, and I bought the 158. Sadly the only bindings I have to put on are the Burton customs, but as soon as they are out next year ill likely be putting on the new Burton Genesis bindings. They were mounted 15+/15-. I used the factory wax and made no mods at all.
Feel is 5 out of 10
Rider Stats:
6 feet
Boot size 11
I am absolutely not qualified to write a board review of any kind, so you should look at the pics, read the stats and skip everything else I write. I have no business owning this board let alone giving an opinion about it. I have been riding for 1.5 years (skied for 23) BUT I have been up riding 50+ times this season. This is only the 3rd board I've had a chance to ride and the one previous was the Burton Process Flying V which is the entry level board in the same series as the Mystery.
current year or previous design:
Pictures of Whistler the days I was out:
Fresh groomed runs, 3-4 feet of new snow a few days prior.
At the risk of sounding a like I have no idea what im talking about (and I dont) Im going to keep this short and to the point. This board is FUN to ride! I cant say if lighter equals better, and im sure to a point it does, but to another point it has the opposite effect, but I immediately felt more control with the board, and I was making all sorts of transitions with much more ease then I would in the past. I was "feeling" what was under me much more. This is not to say the board is softer which translates whats under my feet, but more the board seemed to communicate well with what was going on below. I have to admit that because of the conditions there was not as much variance in the runs so I cant say if this effect could be negative in some situations, but on machine groomed runs and some slightly ice patches I personally really liked what I was feeling.
Aside from the weight of the board its really a good "all around" board not giving me the feeling that it should be used for one thing, but not another. This could be due to my inexperience, but on the other hand the board is designed for that type of riding, and I have the luxury of riding in some serious deep POW (banff, whistler) and get hit with a bit of everything at my local hills, so ill certainly be able to throw everything at it.
I had Alpine Reply giving me feedback on the day and had a top speed of 67kph (41 miles). Board is certainly faster then my process and my previous DC tone board which is a welcome bonus.
Aside from the price I cant find a negative about the board yet, but I would say thats probably due to the fact I dont know how to review a board, and havent experience enough differences in boards. I'm sure there are a ton of reason why having a light board isnt good for some things, but as someone who just hits the hills to bomb around, and not take things to seriously it certainly adds to the fun.
What else should I write or look out for when im riding it? Any feedback would be great.
Interesting that the graphic is almost exactly the same as the 2010 Flying-V Burton Flying V LTD Snowboard 2010 - Sold Out | Snowboards & Skate Deck Shop | MonsterMarketplace.com ProductWiki: Burton Flying V (2010) - SnowboardsSounds interesting, but $1749 is way out of my league for any board.
I rode the board with some 2013 malavitas in a demo and i was not impressed at my hill. I'm sure if I was riding some serious powder it would have been a lot better though.
:eek: that's some good board porn there... What kind of deal did you end up getting anyway? I've been lucky getting my old T6 and current T7 at 50% off each spring.
I got it for 50% off. I have a feeling I'll be liking his board for a long time. I have two others but so far it's just so fun I'd have a hard to going to one of my others. I'm sure we will see more reviews when it becomes more standard in their line up
I may update this review just for shitz as I get a chance to ride the board more. This Thursday I'll be riding pow at sunshine village or lake Louis in banff.
Well i lucked out in Banff yesterday and had 6cm of new snow on top of a great base at Sunshine Village. No rain. To make matters better there were no wait times at any of the lifts. Saaweet.
I am beginning to think my other boards are not longer going to get any hill time...in fact im going to sell my Process tonight. The more I ride this thing the more I love it. It rides like a sports car. Light, tight and FAST! This board is super fast. Its really interesting to test the speed of it against another board with the same shape from the same series and apx the same size (my Process). I'm guessing it has more to do with the teflon type finish on the bottom then the weight of the board, but I could be wrong on both accounts. Im trying to find something about it I dont like and I cant. I guess if pressed I would have to say that because of it responsiveness perhaps it would not be the best choice for a beginner. Im looking forward to hear other peoples thoughts when this comes available, or if people find good deals on the current version.
Out of curiosity im going to weigh it against the Process tonight to see the difference. Both are pretty much the same size (Mystery 1cm bigger), and both are the same shape more or less so it will be interesting.
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Who would have thought that........I hope it continues but that stat will undoubtedly change as we move forward.
Hopefully, losing to the Giants will continue to help drag our opponents records south.
What an "Ibanez event" it would be to sweep the rest of the year (not predicting it, just hoping).
Our passing game is amongst the top of the league. Our running game also moving towards the top.
Our total D is middle of the pack, but with our personnel will surely improve. Still waiting for Perry to load the box and also disguise
some nice blitzes to help out the front 4......plus Canty returns next week.
I'm not sure where we stand in the turnover battle but my gut tells me we are positive there......anyone know?


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Hello, first blog post. Well, I already have a blog. It's a tumblr that I'm fairly proud of, however this is my first blog post for WMZ. I'm quite excited to use this thing, and I really want to be able to meet other people around here. Sadly, I'm beginning to think that there's a lack of people in Melbourne/Victoria/Australia who are accustomed to the art that is…Continue
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Turkish journalists launch solidarity campaign for jailed colleagues
The Free Journalists Association (ÖGC) on Thursday afternoon held a press conference in front of Istanbul's Diyarbakır courthouse to announce a new campaign to show solidarity with their jailed peers. ÖGC co-chairs Nevin Erdemir and Hakkı Boltan read aloud a list of 46 detained journalists whose trials they vowed the organization would follow, relying on volunteer correspondents in 13 provinces of Turkey. The group said it would also make statements every Thursday testifying to their colleagues' innocence.
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By Chris Harris
Thierry Henry intends to savour every minute of his latest Arsenal career.
The French striker did rather well the first time around - scoring a Club record 226 goals in 370 games. And his surprise second stint has an even better strike rate after Henry came off the bench to net the winner against Leeds United in front of an ecstatic Emirates Stadium crowd on Monday.
Henry was 29 when he left Arsenal in 2007 and, although he has some glorious memories from that era, he intends to pay extra attention before he returns to the New York Red Bulls at the end of February.
"I'm just trying to take it all in," said Henry. "That's something that I didn't do enough of when I was playing here before.
"You know how it is, you come here every three days and you don't enjoy it like you should. I know it's not going to last long. I didn't know when I was going to leave before and now I know exactly when I'm going to leave."
Having scored the winner against Leeds, all eyes will be on Henry as he tries to force his way into Arsène Wenger's plans for a string of glamorous fixtures against Manchester United, AC Milan and Tottenham.
"It all depends on what the boss is going to decide - and what we're going to decide actually on how long I am going to stay," said Henry. "Do remember that I am very much a Red Bulls player, too.
"But it would be a dream to be part of a team playing in the Champions League or playing against Tottenham. But that goes for every game, the Leeds game, just running along the track to warm up was just crazy.
"Even if I wasn't going to come on, just warming up along the side, the fans were nice before the game and during the game."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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I registered a couple days ago with the name "?honey". Now that I look at it that was a realy bad choice. It does not describe me at all. I am a 70 yr old geiser with a beard and not much sweetness about me. How do I change my user name?
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About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, near Horsham in Sussex, England, into an aristocratic family. His father was Timothy Shelley, a Sussex squire and a member of Parliament.
In 1810, Shelley entered the Oxford University College only to be expelled the next year for publishing a pamphlet entitled "The Necessity of Atheism," which he wrote with Thomas Jefferson Hogg. After his expulsion, Shelley eloped with Harriet Westbrook, the 16-year-old daughter of a London tavern owner. The scandal of his son's marrying such an inappropriate bride under such questionable circumstances caused Shelley's father to withdraw Shelley's inheritance and replace it with a small allowance. Shelley and Harriet spent the next two years traveling throughout England and Ireland, speaking out for their causes; however, they separated soon afterwards. In 1813, Shelley published his first important poem, Queen Mab.
In 1814, Shelley met and eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the daughter of the philosopher and anarchist William Godwin and the deceased feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
After their return to London, Shelley inherited an annual income from his grandfather's will, and Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft.
The Shelleys spent the summer of 1816 with Lord Byron at Lake Geneva, where Shelley composed the "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc." It was during this time that Mary began writing the story that would become her famous Frankenstein.
Shelley published "Ozymandias" in 1818. In the spring of 1821, he wrote Adonais for John Keats, who had died in Rome, and whom he admired. The pastoral elegy was first published in July 1821.
In 1822, the Shelley household moved to the Bay of Lerici in Italy. To welcome his visiting friend Leigh Hunt, he sailed to Leghorn (Livorno). During a storm on the return voyage, his small schooner sank, and Shelley drowned, along with Edward Williams, on July 8, 1822. The bodies washed ashore at Viareggio, where they were burned on the beach. Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron witnessed the cremation. Shelley was later buried in Rome.
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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VMWare or Virtual PC?
For the most part my needs are simple, I just want to be able to install some OS's and play around with them. Nothing intense, I won't be using them heavily. My hope was to have one physical machine that could be my test dummy for different OS's and maybe a little practice attacking stuff (Without constantly reinstalling). In case it matters, it'll mostly be Windows OS's and maybe Ubuntu or something of the sort. I'm also open to the host OS, as I have a lot of options for that as well.
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Even with an extra 50 minutes to think, the president still couldn't come up with something new to say
posted at 4:05 pm on August 8, 2011 by Tina Korbe
The scant 15 or so minutes the president stood at the podium today did little to ameliorate the sense of abandonment that festered this weekend when the president for nearly three full days "bunkered down" after news of the S&P credit downgrade. It certainly didn't help that BHO arrived at that podium more than 48 minutes late. Before he even opened his mouth, Obama's tardiness touched off a Twitterstorm. A small sample of my favorite tweets:
Obama's handlers need to start doing what I do with my late girlfriend: Tell him the presser is at 12. Then, he'll be on time. — @MelissaTweets
How to make Obama more punctual: Invite @AndrewBreitbart to the White House. — @politicalmath
I'm never 41 minutes late getting to a different part of my house. — @rorycooper
It's 1:48, do you know where your president is? — @ShepardSmithFOX
One tweeter hopefully noted that it might not be that the president was late to this speech — it could be that he was early to his 2012 concession speech. Dare we hope?
But the afternoon did not improve after the president appeared on the scene. As Dear Leader spoke, the Dow dropped … and dropped … and dropped.
The president didn't even have the decency to open his remarks with condolences for the families of the Navy SEALs who lost their lives this weekend. Instead, he gave that pride of place to reiterate the rightness of the "solutions" he's been suggesting for the nation's debt and deficit crisis from Day 1.
"We didn't need a credit ratings agency to tell us we need a long-term balanced approach," the president said. "Our challenge is the need to tackle our deficits over the long term. Last week, we agreed to [across-the-board cuts to domestic and defense spending.] There's not much further we can cut in either of those categories. We need to couple those spending cuts with two additional steps — tax reform that will ask those who can afford it to pay their fair share and modest adjustments to health programs like Medicare. … Making these reforms doesn't require any radical steps. It does require common sense and compromise."
The president called the deadlock that characterized the debt ceiling debate "not constructive," essentially inadvertently concurring in S&P's rationale for a downgrade, even as he cast doubt on the credit rating agency's credibility with the most memorable line of the speech.
"I don't care what credit ratings agencies say," Obama said. "We always have been and always will be a AAA country."
That gave rise to another worth-repeating tweet from S.E. Cupp: "Obama sympathy cards are at the printer's: "You'll always be AAA-rated to me, America."
In typical Obama fashion, the president sought as many scapegoats as possible, from the aforementioned deadlock to factors "we can't control" — like earthquakes and … spikes in oil prices? As many observers noted, the latter, at least, we can control to a certain extent.
But the purpose of Obama's speech was not to take responsibility or to present solutions — although he did promise to put forth his recommendations for the future. Who knows when those will come — but, when they do, they'll surely have something to do with the extension of a payroll tax cut, boosts to unemployment insurance benefits and an infrastructure bank — the three policy points the president made sure to mention yet again today.
In fact, it's hard to ascertain just what the purpose of the president's speech actually was. As The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein put it, a shorter Obama would have gone something like this: "This debt downgrade confirms why all my ideas were right all along."
But, somehow, it was still an overall good that the president said something on the national stage today — because the Navy SEALs who were shot down in a helicopter over Afghanistan Saturday deserved every syllable Obama mustered in their honor.
"The reason I'm so hopeful about our future is because of the American people, because of their willingness to shoulder the burdens we face as a nation" Obama transitioned. "There is no one who embodies those qualities I mentioned more than the men and women in our armed forces. This weekend we lost 30 of them … Their loss is a stark reminder of the risks our men and women in uniform take every day. … [Our promise to them should be to leave a legacy of] an America that reflects their courage, their commitment and a sense of common purpose."
Indeed. As to what that common purpose should be? What it has always been: To preserve freedom, even before prosperity.
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