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Pennsylvania voter poll: Kasich climbs into dead heat with Trump
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has come from nowhere in the polls to make Pennsylvania's presidential race for the Republican nomination a toss-up between him and billionaire businessman Donald Trump, a survey released Thursday showed.
"People are starting to hear my message," said Kasich, a McKees Rocks native, in a phone interview with the Tribune-Review while campaigning in Wisconsin.
The Franklin & Marshall College poll said Trump is supported by 33 percent of Pennsylvania's registered Republicans, followed by Kasich at 30 percent and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at 20 percent. The poll's margin of error for Republican voters is plus or minus 5.4 percentage points, making the April 26 primary race too close to predict.
The poll showed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is widening her lead in the Democratic presidential race. Former congressman Joe Sestak leads in the Democrats' four-way race to challenge U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley.
By wide margins, Pennsylvanians continue to think the state is "off on the wrong track" and that the government and its politicians are the state's biggest problems, the poll showed.
Kasich's biggest problem has been getting noticed in a crowded GOP field that once included 17 candidates.
As recently as January, just 3 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans supported Kasich, placing him in a distant seventh place, the poll showed. By February, he moved into third place with support from 15 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans.
"There is no doubt this is a huge rise," said pollster G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin & Marshall's Center for Politics and Public Affairs, which conducted the poll of 828 registered voters.
"Given the nature of the Republican vote in this state, which is more conservative to moderate, I'm not surprised," Madonna said.
Kasich leads by at least 10 percentage points among slightly liberal and moderate Republicans and voters who have a college degree. Those who earn at least $75,000 a year also lean toward Kasich, the poll showed.
Southeast Pennsylvania is a stronghold for Kasich. The region has a large contingent of moderate Republicans who, as a group, tend to be more liberal on social issues such as gun rights, gay marriage and abortion, Madonna said. Kasich also has a slight lead in his native Allegheny County.
"I'm hoping I can carry McKees Rocks," Kasich joked.
Trump leads by at least 10 percentage points in several demographic groups, including Republicans who have some college education or less, earn less than $35,000 a year, are up to age 54 and are non-white. Trump's campaign did not return a message.
"Those (findings) look like they came from the exit polls from other industrial states" that have already held primary contests, such as Ohio, Michigan and Massachusetts, Kasich said.
Pennsylvania has 71 delegates at stake, but the primary winner does not collect all of them. A complicated process allocates the delegates.
Mathematically, it's impossible for Kasich to win enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination before the Republican National Convention in July in Cleveland. He's won 143 so far, compared with Trump's 739 and Cruz's 465. Cruz would need to win 83 percent of the remaining delegates to overtake the front-running Trump before the convention, while Trump needs to win 54 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination.
The nominee needs 1,237 delegates.
Kasich is banking on a contested convention in which multiple ballots of the GOP delegates are needed to determine a nominee.
The last time a nominee in either party was decided after multiple ballots was in 1952, when Adlai Stevenson received the Democratic nomination. He went on to lose to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"We have to pick up some more delegates and go into the convention with some momentum" to make a strong case to delegates, Kasich said. He didn't say how many delegates that might require. To date, he's won only Ohio, a state he represented for nine terms in Congress and now serves as governor.
Kasich pointed to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday that showed he would defeat Democrats Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a November race, while Trump and Cruz both would lose to the Democrats.
"What's the point if you win the party's nomination and then get crushed in November? I think I can pull the crossover votes that (Trump and Cruz) can't," Kasich said.
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BAGHDAD The fate of Iraq's security forces, and their ability to bring peace to the country, may rest in the hands of a 38-year-old female Iraqi rocket scientist.
Bassima al-Jaidri spent most of her career struggling within Iraq's male-dominated society and is now one of the country's most powerful officials, in charge of a committee that determines, among other things, who can join the police and army.
She has also been a target of unusually harsh criticism by some senior U.S. military officials. They accuse al-Jaidri, a Shiite, of abusing her power to keep Sunnis out of the security forces, making her a major obstacle to reconciliation between the two religious sects.
Al-Jaidri shrugs off the accusations and counters that Iraqis, not Americans, control Iraq's destiny.
"I have had a long struggle with men," she replies with a smile. "I can handle the American officers."
The confrontation illustrates the challenges facing the United States as it pressures Iraq's Shiite-dominated government to bring Sunnis into positions of power and take control of its own security before planned U.S. troop reductions in the months ahead. Al-Jaidri's personal story also is emblematic of the lasting sectarian scars that often make peace so elusive here.
In a rare interview, al-Jaidri spoke without emotion about how her aunt and uncle were trampled to death in 2005 when a Shiite religious procession in Baghdad got word of an imminent attack by a Sunni suicide bomber. The resulting stampede killed more than 1,000 Shiite worshipers.
Under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated government, al-Jaidri says, she was denied the career she had earned with her three graduate degrees in statistics, missile targeting and radar systems.
She took a job as a civilian in Saddam's officer corps but was never allowed to work on the missiles whose trajectories she had mastered. The patriarchal military assumed her unequal to the task because she was a woman and deemed her untrustworthy because she was a Shiite.
"The officers fought me every step of the way," recalls al-Jaidri, who never married. "I had the most advanced degrees and knew more than all of them, but they didn't even give me a desk to sit at."
Much has changed since the United States ousted Saddam and a Shiite-dominated government came to power. Today, al-Jaidri's office is a spacious chamber in the former headquarters of Saddam's internal security service. It has marble floors and 20-foot-high ceilings, and is bedecked with chandeliers, leather couches and a large oak desk. Leather armchairs surround a polished conference table with pyramids of chocolate truffles.
Last year, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tapped al-Jaidri to head Iraq's Implementation and Follow-up Committee for National Reconciliation, which is spearheading efforts to mend sectarian ties.
Since then, some U.S. generals say, al-Jaidri is doing to Sunnis what they once did to her by systematically excluding them from the Iraqi security forces.
"She is one of our significant impediments to reconciliation," says Brig. Gen. David Phillips, who is in charge of the U.S. effort to train Iraqi police. He says al-Jaidri "should be one of the banned leaders in Iraq" because of her refusal to allow Sunnis to enter the army.
Phillips described a recent incident in which a Shiite Iraqi army general, Adnan Thabit, submitted a list of recruits that was 45% Sunni. Al-Jaidri stripped the list of all the Sunni names, Phillips said. Thabit was later stripped of his command.
Three months ago, Brig. Gen. Jim Huggins, who oversees the Iraqi police for the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division south of Baghdad, sent 3,000 names of potential police recruits to al-Jaidri's office for approval.
The recruits came from the predominantly Sunni band of farming villages south of Baghdad where al-Qaeda held sway until recently. The 3,000 recruits were among the more than 80,000 mostly Sunni Iraqis who have turned on al-Qaeda and the insurgency during the past year, part of the "Awakening" movement that President Bush credits with a dramatic nationwide decline in violence.
Huggins says he heard nothing from al-Jaidri's office until December, when 400 names were approved. They were all Shiites, even though the list had been heavily weighted with Sunnis.
"That's a blatant example that someone is still looking at this thing with a sectarian eye," Huggins says. He says he is frustrated with al-Jaidri because "I want to see more progress, and she's part of the reason it's moving at a snail's pace."
Huggins warned that unless more Sunnis are incorporated into security forces soon, the former insurgents could once again turn on the Iraqi government and U.S. forces, only this time with more arms and better organization.
"If these (Awakening members) aren't pulled into the security forces, then we have to wonder if we're just arming the next Sunni resistance," he says.
Al-Jaidri insists Phillips, Huggins and others portray her unfairly. She accuses the United States of bringing unvetted people — including al-Qaeda sympathizers and insurgents — into the security forces.
"The Americans just want the fast solution, but we want to build a government that is clean of the sectarian violence, the militias and al-Qaeda," she says. "The fast and easy solutions will only bring us further chaos."
Still, she expresses little sympathy for the Sunnis, whom she broadly paints as al-Qaeda sympathizers. "The Sunnis decided to take orders from al-Qaeda and were excluded from politics in Iraq. That's not our fault," says al-Jaidri, who was elected to Iraq's first postwar parliament as an ally of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, with whom she later split.
Al-Jaidri says she is ultimately accountable only to al-Maliki. "I have a message to the U.S. government: I don't work for the U.S. I work for the Iraqi government," she says.
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GOLDEN, a village and post-town, in the parish of RELICKMURRY, barony of CLANWILLIAM, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 3½ miles (W.) from Cashel (to which it has a sub-post-office), and 82 (S.) from Dublin, on the road from Cashel to Tipperary; containing 114 houses and 648 inhabitants. It is a neat and improving village, situated in what is called "the Golden Vale," and is divided into two parts by the river Suir, over which is a stone bridge, on which King William signed the charter of Cashel; and near it is an old circular stone tower. Here are flour and oatmeal-mills, and a constabulary police station; fairs are held on May 18th, Aug. 26th, Oct. 26th, and Dec. 15th, and petty sessions once a fortnight. The parochial church was erected here in 1808, and a tower was added by aid of a loan of £700 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1812. There is also a large R. C. chapel. -See RELICKMURRY.
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Japan's SoftBank has said it expects to complete its takeover of Sprint on July 10 just days after US regulatory authorities cleared the deal as well as Sprint's related acquisition of Clearwire shares it does not already own.
SoftBank (Tokyo, Japan) is set to pay $21.6 billion for a 78% stake in Sprint (Overland Park, KS, USA), the third-biggest operator in the US, as it looks to capitalize on soaring demand for mobile broadband services.
Sprint, meanwhile, hopes the deal will enable it to compete more effectively against leading operators AT&T (Dallas, TX, USA) and Verizon Wireless (New York City, NY, USA), which are becoming increasingly dominant players.
The deal could also help Sprint to keep ahead of T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA, USA), which recently merged with number-five player MetroPCS (Richardson, TX, USA) to speed up its deployment of superfast mobile broadband services based on LTE technology.
The fact that SoftBank's acquisition does not entail any in-market consolidation or reduction in competition was largely responsible for persuading the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve the deal.
"After thorough review, the Commission has found that the proposed SoftBank-Sprint-Clearwire transactions would serve the public interest," said acting FCC chair Mignon Clyburn. " The increased investment in Sprint's and Clearwire's networks is likely to accelerate deployment of mobile broadband services and enhance competition in the mobile marketplace, promoting customer choice, innovation and lower prices."
Full ownership of Clearwire – also approved by the FCC – will put Sprint in control of valuable spectrum for use with its mobile broadband services, and help the operator achieve its target of launching LTE-Advanced technology – allowing it to provide even faster services – later this year.
"Just two years ago, the wireless industry was at the doorstep of duopoly, but with these transformative transactions, we are one step closer to a stronger Sprint which will better serve consumers, challenge the market share leaders and drive innovation in the American economy," said Dan Hesse, Sprint's chief executive.
SoftBank had been forced to raise its initial offer of $20 billion for 70% of Sprint after Dish Networks, a satellite TV company, mounted its own bid for the operator, and was also forced to provide assurances to the FCC that it will stop buying equipment from Huawei, a Chinese manufacturer that authorities see as a potential security risk.
This week, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said it was downgrading SoftBank on account on the large amount of debt associated with the Sprint takeover, arguing that competition in the US market likely to remain intense over the next two or three years.
"SoftBank's investment in Sprint will bring innovation and increased customer focus, which will enable us to begin creating a true competitor in a market dominated by two companies," said Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's chairman and chief executive, in a statement released after the FCC blessed the deal. "We look forward to leveraging the significant talent and resources of the new Sprint to bring innovation and better service to US consumers."


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The remaining works include minor internal and external works, road works at the exit from the north quay berths, completion of berth no. 3 and the installation of the link spans.
The terminal building is expected to be completed and inaugurated within a few weeks.
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With the beautiful scenery, Longtan Deer Farm is a national corporation that integrate feeding deer, trading and touring together. With its advantaged geographic location and convenient transportation, it covers an area of 380 hectares. Longtan Mountain Deer Farm has an amount of over 1000 deer stock on hand with an annual production of deer antler of about 750 kg.
The deer farm service department mainly sells the antler series production that is produced by this factory branded as "Longtan Mountain", Such as: the antler of the spotted deer, three forks deer antler, beheaded deer antler; different specs antler pieces, deer antler powder, deer heart, common red ginseng; different kinds of ginseng pieces, frog oil, Changbai Mountain never old grass; glossy ganoderma series of cordial wine and cosmetics. The products are famous for "reputation, excellence, newness, specialty, purity and low price".
The "Sanbao Garden" provides an admirable "northeast Sanbao" for tourists from home and abroad. You can enjoy the leaves, stem, flower and fruits of the ginseng; and some rare animals such as: reindeer, mink, fox and pheasant, etc.
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Companion reports published simultaneously on August 24 by Greenpeace and Center for Public Integrity (CPI) are dishonest and deceptive in several key respects, omit critical information, and should be regarded with skepticism by objective readers and news organizations. There is a coordinated campaign against Koch that has been underway for some time, and these two reports are part and parcel of that effort. Both organizations have deep financial and ideological ties to partisan organizations, and have previously attacked Koch. Their August 24 reports are driven by that same agenda.
Here are the facts:
- Koch companies place safety, the environment and compliance before profit. This is a longstanding and explicit organizational policy. That means that unless safety and compliance can be ensured, we will not operate. We accept the great responsibilities that are an inherent part of working with chemicals and we are wholly committed to providing a safe, secure and healthy environment for our employees, our neighbors, our contractors and our customers. Indeed, no one understands the critical importance of operating safe facilities more than our employees, since they and their families live in these same communities.
- We take appropriate precautions, in compliance with laws and regulations, and in cooperation with government authorities, to adequately anticipate and address vulnerabilities. Koch's commitment to safety and security is well documented and our operations are regarded among the best in our industries, as evidenced by the 386 safety awards and 28 environmental awards received by Koch companies just since President Obama took office. (Click here for a full listing of safety and environmental awards received since 2009.) Many of the awards were for the safe handling and processing of chemicals by various Koch companies.
- Contrary to the CPI/Greenpeace distortion that we resisted regulation, Koch supported the bipartisan Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Standards (CFATS) that was enacted four years ago. We regarded CFATS as the most feasible and productive measure being proposed and, what's more, we advocated for its reauthorization in 2011. We joined with a long list of others in doing so. We have long urged that consistent and predictable science-based standards are the best way to safeguard sensitive manufacturing plants. We have worked cooperatively with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to establish standards and regulations that will provide for safe operations, as well as regulatory and policy certainty, in order to build on the success of the current CFATS model in strengthening the safety and security of chemical facilities.
- Among the other specifics that are grossly inaccurate and irresponsible in the reports were descriptions of INVISTA's environmental performance, including the false claim that INVISTA was responsible for noncompliance at plants acquired by Koch in 2004. The fact is that, shortly after Koch took ownership of these manufacturing facilities from its prior owner in 2004, INVISTA discovered significant and widespread environmental noncompliance that existed prior to INVISTA's purchase, which the prior owner had not disclosed to INVISTA or the regulators. This fact was substantiated by Dave Ryan, a spokesperson for the EPA in Washington, who said: "It is fair to say the overwhelming majority of the more than 680 environmental violations… began or occurred when [the previous owner] owned the plants." INVISTA moved quickly to investigate and disclose these violations to regulators and to systematically correct them to protect employees, the public, and the environment. INVISTA already has corrected or resolved the vast majority of the noncompliance issues. What's more, INVISTA has earned an excellent reputation for environmental stewardship because of these and other actions it has undertaken. EPA's own April 2009 press release (also omitted by CPI/Greenpeace) stated, "INVISTA is making a clean start in a settlement that achieves significant environmental benefits, and we encourage other new owners to do the same . . . EPA's experience with INVISTA guided the development of a national interim audit policy for new owners – announced in August 2008 – designed to encourage other new owners to make a "clean start" at their recently acquired facilities."
Greenpeace's allegations concerning INVISTA 's LaPorte facility are false. Greenpeace's attack also demonstrates it has no real understanding of how a plant is operated. This is not surprising since
- Greenpeace is a fringe environmental activist group that opposes industry and is made up of individuals who generally lack practical knowledge or experience working in a chemical plant.
- INVISTA does NOT, as Greenpeace alleges, maintain an on-site storage facility of formaldehyde at our LaPorte site. While formaldehyde is used as a raw material in the manufacturing process at INVISTA's LaPorte site, it is transported to the site through a closed system pipeline and consumed as needed to produce intermediate chemicals that are ultimately used in the manufacture of products benefiting consumers such as LYCRA® spandex.
- To protect employees, the environment, and the community, INVISTA adheres to applicable state and federal formaldehyde standards and regulations.
- INVISTA's LaPorte site uses rigorous process safety management controls, practices and procedures to ensure the safe management of formaldehyde and to prevent exposure. The site follows strict OSHA protocol to prevent worker exposures and conducts routine monitoring using standards and procedures prescribed by OSHA.
- Greenpeace also references data based on an EPA Risk Management Plan report which manufacturers like INVISTA are required to submit that must contain a description of a "worst case scenario," as defined by EPA, which is a highly unlikely scenario that must be identified without reference to the mitigation measures that are employed by the site. Of course, INVISTA is a responsible operator that employ layers of protection to protect our employees and neighbors, as well as manage and reduce risk.
- The Greenpeace allegation suggesting that "INVISTA operates four dangerous facilities, the most dangerous of which is the INVISTA Intermediates Plant in LaPorte, TX" is alarmist, misleading, and inaccurate. In addition, INVISTA is in no way "endangering" the community as Greenpeace irresponsibly alleges.
- Contrary to the Greenpeace mischaracterizations and inaccurate allegations, INVISTA's LaPorte site has recently been recognized for its outstanding safety practices with the following awards:
- 2011 Merit Award, Zero Injury Rate, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
- Safety Achievement Award, One Year without Injury, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
- Caring for Texas Award, Safety and Community Outreach, Texas Chemical Council 2010
- Caring for Texas Award, Texas Chemical Council
- While Greenpeace is generally dismissive of these awards, the awards are from reputable organizations with extensive knowledge of industry and best safety practices-knowledge Greenpeace lacks.
All these substantive points have been made publicly and are easily verified – and yet were hidden from readers in the CPI/Greenpeace reports. Greenpeace's radical agenda is widely known and it is highly irresponsible for it to use national security as a cover to advance their extreme policy preferences.
For its part, CPI receives heavy funding from George Soros' Open Society Foundations, a group that is both bankrolling and taking part in politically driven attacks on Koch Industries. The author of the CPI report has long been a political opinion columnist who has consistently advocated views hostile to free-market principles and policy. (See here, here, here, and, here.) We asked CPI last March how they justify these serious conflicts of interest and they have never replied.
The truth is that the Koch companies strive to protect the environment, operate safely, with integrity, and in compliance with all laws and regulations.


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Hawaiian Chicken Wings
Recipe by Kana K.
From Sam Choy's "Island Flavors" The Macadamia nut crust keeps the chicken moist and adds a rich nutty flavor. You can also use the crust for fish.
Top Review by ImPat
Delicious flavour - I scaled recipe for 2 serves (10 wings) though used 9 V wings (already had tip cut off) which weighed just under 1K (2lb) but had to use double the amount of flour, egg and crumb mixture to coat them all and then I put on an oil sprayed wire rack (after refrigerating for an hour) and then gave the wings a light spray with the oil and baked at 175C fan forced for 45 minutes and end result was crunchy and very flavoursome wings, thank you Kana Kahuna, made for Name that Ingredient tag game.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 20 chicken wings
- 1 cup macadamia nuts, finely chopped
- 3⁄4 cup fine dry breadcrumb (Japanese Panko)
- 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
For the Marinade
- 1⁄2 cup light soy sauce
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon mirin (sweet rice wine)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic clove
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger
Directions See How It's Made
- Marinade: Combine ingredients.
- Marinate chicken for 1 hour, turning occasionally, then drain.
- Combine nuts and bread crumbs.
- Dredge chicken in flour, dip in beaten eggs then coat with nut mixture and chill for at least 1/2 hour.
- In a heavy skillet, heat oil and butter and sauté chicken over medium heat for 6-8 minutes turning once, adding more oil if necessary.
- Garnish and serve.


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The Murder of
Rebecca Houlden
Over the years I've collected countless ghost stories from all over central Illinois. In every case I make an effort to tie the ghostly events to an event or events in the past. This story, I believe, may have some bearing on the ghostly encounters reported in one particular little graveyard. If I'm mistaken then we are left are left to scratch our heads in wonder. The ghosts come later, for now I'd like to tell you about a murder…
The headline in the Athens Cyclone screamed…
CHARLES HOULDEN, WHO MURDERED HIS HELPLESS WIFE IN COLD BLOOD ON THE 22ND DAY OF MARCH, 1884 TENDERED A ROPE BY 12 Good and Lawful Men and True, After a Fair and Impartial Trial
On the 22nd of March, 1884 Charles Houlden, a resident of rural Menard County, intimated to a neighbor that had he killed his wife, Rebecca, long ago, "he would have been better satisfied and that something startling would occur in that vicinity, some day."
That evening something startling indeed occurred on the Houlden farm. It is an event that remains unparalleled in its cruelty and consequences in the history of Menard County.
Charles Houlden was born in England in 1836 and migrated to America with his sister in youth. He eventually settled in the Rock Creek precinct of Menard where he adopted the life of a farmer. He was described as, "an ordinary average Englishman and a widower" in the Athens Cyclone of 1885. A man of rather heavy build, 5'7", and 140 pounds; His sharp chin and nose gave him Romanesque features. His sunken, gray eyes were framed by "iron gray hair, whiskers and mustache."
Rebecca Hines was a neighbor of Houlden. Not long before her third husband, Samuel Hines, had died; leaving the widow with three children and an 80 acre farm to tend to by herself. Houlden, seeking the land more than the companionship of a wife, began a courtship of Rebecca, which led to their marriage not long after.
The couple began to argue almost immediately. They fought; it seems, over control of the farm. Their home, the newspaper noted, quickly became a place of, "disputes, quarrels and bickerings." The fights were violent and often came to blows. The Houldens quickly became the source of much gossip in the neighborhood. Eventually, it was said, Charles had agreed to buy Rebecca out and give her a divorce.
A murder trial was being held in nearby Petersburg about this time. It was a distraction to many who attended the trial as a form of entertainment. On March 22 Charles Houlden spent the day at the courthouse, leaving as the trial went to the jury.
Later that evening a Houlden neighbor, Joseph Sutton, met Charles on a lane near his farm. Sutton had stayed at the courthouse to the reading of the jury and Houlden enquired as to the outcome, "Not guilty," said Sutton.
"Anybody can come clear if they have the money," was Houlden's reply. Sutton continued home and Houlden went inside for supper with his wife, her daughter and her thirteen-year-old son, Oscar.
During the meal Rebecca noticed something odd about the way her husband was looking at her, "Charley, what are you looking at me for?" she asked.
Without a word Houlden pushed away from the table and went to the door where, just outside, he had earlier placed an axe. In a frenzied rush, he lunged at his terrified wife who only had time to scream before the axe descended toward her head. The quick-thinking boy, Oscar, threw himself at his step-father and managed to hit his arm, deflecting the killing blow to his mother. Rebecca received a glancing blow that immediately left a bruise. The daughter, meanwhile, ran from the cabin for help.
By now, the crazed Charles was blinded with rage and again raised the axe. Oscar again managed to grab Houlden's arm but not before the weapon made contact just above Rebecca's left eye, leaving an ugly gash. Oscar grabbed the axe and tossed it out the door into the night.
Houlden jumped astride his fallen wife, crushing her to the floor with his full weight. As she begged for mercy for herself and her children, Houlden drew a dull knife from his pocket and began systematically sawing away at his wife's throat.
Blood sprayed across his arms and chest, seeming to spur Houlden to more savagery. As his mother lay dying at the hands of her husband, young Oscar struggled with the killer in an attempt to wrest the knife from his bloody hands.
Finally, Charles began savagely waving the knife at the unarmed boy, who had no choice but to back away to spare his own life. Houlden stood and, believing his wife dead, began to leave the scene but then he noticed Rebecca rise to her hands and knees and begin crawling toward her son. Though badly wounded, the woman was still alive!
Houlden howled in fury and, again, jumped on the woman. Seizing her hair tightly in one hand, he wretched her head back, exposing her already brutalized neck and renewed his efforts.
Soon his grisly task was accomplished and he fled into the darkness beyond the cabin. Rebecca, "fell with her head hanging over the front doorstep a bleeding corpse." A short time later the daughter returned with an older brother and found young Oscar in a state of shock, sitting beside the lifeless form of their mother.
Arrested shortly after the killing, Charles Houlden was locked in the Menard County jail in Petersburg and charged with the murder of his wife. He was held there until his trial commenced in March of the next year.
Edward Lansing and N.W. Branson acted for his defense, while an imposing team of lawyers represented the People. The defense attorneys entered a plea of insanity and the trial began.
After both sides rested, the case went to the jury on March 11. It was late in the day, nearly 5:00 p.m., but it took only 15 minutes for them reach a verdict of guilty of willful, deliberate murder. Two hours later, they reached a unanimous decision that Charles Houlden was to "be hanged by the neck until he is dead."
The execution was set for May 15, 1885 and Charles Houlden was returned to the jail to await his date with death. He was to be Menard County's first, and as it turned out, last, public execution.
Early on Friday May 15, 1885 people began pouring into the little hamlet of Petersburg; reminding one citizen of a circus day. A crowd, estimated at over 1,000, soon gathered in the yard of the county jail where, inside, Charles Houlden waited to meet his maker.
The hanging was scheduled to occur inside the jail, out of sight from the masses. When exactly Houlden would die had been kept a secret from everyone except for the people "lucky" enough to have tickets to enter the jail to witness the event. At 11:30 a.m., they arrived and were ushered into a small room adjoining the jail to await the summons of Sheriff Michael T. Hargrave.
Houlden had been allowed to select the hour of his death. It was to occur at 12:10 p.m. and shortly before that, Sheriff Hargrave entered the condemned man's cell and read the death warrant. Houlden, dressed in a new black suit, black slippers and new white shirt, listened silently.
The sheriff then led Houlden from his cell into a hallway at the south end of the jail. There a scaffold, an upright on each side running floor to ceiling with a simple cross piece sitting astride, had been erected. A six by six platform with a trapdoor was reached by a short staircase, the walls of the hallway enclosed the device on three sides; reminding one witness of a speaker's platform at a picnic.
Hargrave tied his prisoner's hand behind his back and ushered him up the stairs to the platform where a chair had been placed for Houlden. From this vantage point he could clearly see the dirty rope that hung from the upright and would soon end his life.
Several visiting sheriffs joined Houlden on the platform and sat slightly behind him on a bench provided for their comfort. Hargrave asked Houlden if he had any last words. "No," the prisoner replied.
With that ,the noose was slipped around Charles Houlden's neck. He appeared emotionless as a black sack was then placed over his head to mask the agony of his death from the witnesses.
Sheriff Hargrave sat on the bench behind Houlden as the condemned was placed upon the center of the trapdoor. In Hargrave's hand was the rope that ran to the trigger of the apparatus. The pins that had locked the trap in place were removed and seconds passed…
There was no sound in the tightly packed hallway. Finally, Hargrave pulled the rope and the trapdoor dropped and with it, Charles Houlden. A dramatic newspaper article described him as "dropping with a dull, blood stirring thud, his neck was broken. Aside from drawing his legs up and straighten them down again, there was no further movements of his limbs, or body.
"In the prime of life and in vigorous health, Houlden stoically stood between two worlds [and if consciousness is eternal] experienced the realities of each."
Fifteen minutes later, Charles Houlden, the first --- and last ---- man executed by the county of Menard, was declared dead.
There is no record of where the county buried Charles Houlden. His wife, Rebecca, was buried in a rural cemetery not far from the homestead she and her husband shared. Today, she rests peacefully beneath the grass in this out of the way place which, for discretion's sake, shall remain nameless.
The first burial was made in this ground in 1858. It was a family cemetery then but over the years it has changed ownership and names on several occasions. One researcher, the late Jim Toal, made a record of all the stones in the early 1980's and, using the list created from that research, 45 of the stones he noted are now entirely gone. Although the burial records of this cemetery are intact and appear to be complete, it is possible that the removal or destruction of these stones may play a part in the hauntings that are reported here.
Upon entering the grounds, one is immediately moved by the silence of the place. Surrounded by tall cornfields on one side during several months of the year, the acre and a half or so that make up the cemetery are framed by dense timber on the remaining boundaries. It is not particularly eerie and nothing leaps out that says "Haunted!" but close examination of the grounds offer some suggestions that could explain the strange stories that have been uncovered.
Two areas in particular show evidence of unmarked burials. The southeast corner, where Rebecca Houlden lies, is the most prominent. There are very few stones in this area although sunken ground and strips of concrete remain to show where graves are located.
Could this be why the graveyard is considered to be haunted? Many researchers believe that graves that are purposely, or accidentally unmarked can cause this to occur.
The most common event reported here is that of mysterious balls of light that float among the old gravestones. These lights have been reported for many years and, as the reports are fairly consistent. One account will serve to describe what these witnesses see as they drive along the road at night.
"The graveyard is way down a lane in the woods," Jeni told me. "We were coming home from a basketball game in Athens, my boyfriend lives out there and I was taking him home. I hate driving out there anyway because it's so dark and the roads all twist around. I always worry about hitting an animal or something so I pay extra attention and drive really slow there.
"We came up the hill and Robbie said, 'Hey look at that' and he pointed out the window toward the [old cemetery]'."
What the two teenagers saw appeared to be lights weaving around out amongst the stones. Not sure of what they looking at from a distance, they stopped to get a better look.
Jeni continued: "He thought someone was out there screwing around. These lights were red and there were four or five of them. We sat there for maybe ten minutes before they blinked out and didn't come back."
Robbie became obsessed with what they'd seen that night and often walked to the graveyard from his home. Several attempts were made before he finally saw the lights again.
"One night Robbie called me and said he and his friend and gone over there on their bikes and had seen the lights. They rode down the lane to just before the cemetery then they got off their bikes and sneaked up thinking they were going to surprise somebody."
The boys saw the lights from a closer vantage point than on the previous sighting. They claimed they were independent balls of light zipping around in the cemetery and just inside the tree line to the north. There was, according to Robbie, no sign of another human being on the grounds. After only a few minutes, the boys made a hasty retreat and, upon his return home, Robbie called his girlfriend.
"He did sound kind of scared, out of breath and excited. I believed him when he said he saw these lights," Jeni said. Not long after Robbie witnessed the lights again and, this time Jeni was with him.
"This time we just drove down there and sat at the end of the lane. The lights didn't go away and it was freaky because you could see them in the headlights of the car. They were like these balls that were just flying around. There were only a couple that night and they were still red. It was weird and surreal, not really scary, just strange. When they went out we left."
Until Robbie left for college a year later, Jeni often accompanied him to see if the lights were floating in the cemetery. Only one other time did they witness the event after that second night. The results were similar to their first encounter as they saw the lights only from the road that last time.
Jeni and Robbie are braver than most witnesses who have reported these weird lights. Most people don't dare to travel down the long, dusty road to see what waits at the other end. Are these lights ghosts? Probably not, more than likely they are naturally occurring phenomena that has yet to be explained.
My own theory is that as a ghost gathers the energy that is required to manifest itself it drains the area around it of any electricity it can. This "feeding" often results in the appearance of odd balls of light that are akin to static electricity.
These strange balls of light would be enough to suggest some form of paranormal energy lingers at this cemetery but other reports exist that are both chilling and, to a ghost hunter, worthy of further examination. Consider this account, sent by a young man who is a former employee of Menard County and who, in years passed, mowed the cemeteries for the county:
There are a couple of those old cemeteries out there that creeped us all out but [that one] was one of the worst. We always felt like people were watching us there, like they were in the woods or something. We only saw something weird one time.
We were about half done with the graveyard and about ready to knock off for the day. There was nothing odd about the place that day; I mean feeling-wise, it felt fine. Only then one of the guys stopped the mower and was looking off toward the back of the cemetery.
I looked and there was a guy there, young guy-maybe twenty-and he was walking into the middle like he'd just come out of the woods or something like that. Then he stopped and looked like he was going to go behind a tree or something. The other guy with the mower started up again and kept mowing so I did too. A couple of seconds later I glanced over to where that guy had been and there was no body there. He was gone and there was no way he could have got out of the cemetery from where he was in like two seconds while I looked away!
I got kind of nervous but not too scared really, it was just weird. Then later some of the other guys said they had seen him too but none of us could figure out where he'd gone. He was like David Copperfield; he just disappeared right out of the graveyard!
Could these men have seen a ghost? It certainly is possible. It's also possible someone had simply walked into the cemetery or had been there all along and they had just failed to see him earlier. Whatever the case, another witness made it clear, in no uncertain terms, her belief she witnessed a ghost in the same area!
"My family is buried there," Marie informed me, "some of the earliest to come to the area. I do genealogy and have spent a lot of time in [that graveyard]."
One spring afternoon, Marie and her two young daughters had driven from Chatham to take pictures of the family stones. They had been in the graveyard about 20 minutes when one her little girls told her mother she needed a new roll of film.
Turning to go back to the car, Marie was startled by the presence of a man almost directly behind her, ominously between her family and the car!
"He was a younger man," she said, when pressed she determined around 30, "he had this look on his face like he was amused. I was scared because he had walked up on us so quietly. I said, 'hello' and he didn't respond and then I started to panic. Just a second after that he disappeared right in front of my eyes!"
Marie, now terrified, grabbed her daughters and led them quickly to the car and made her escape, rattled but unharmed. She reported that she has never returned to the scene of her shocking encounter, despite her husband's pleas to take him to the cemetery.
These reports are the only two I've received concerning full-blown apparitions in the graveyard. Many times people have told me about feeling watched (which coincides with the boys' sighting) or of strange, unexplained cold breezes or spots in the grounds, which is another indicator of ghost activity. One couple told me they'd heard whispers as they walked the grounds. They didn't stay long and were unable to offer further details as to what they thought they heard. Another woman told me she heard a woman call her name but could find no one else nearby.
The question I put to you is this: can all these people, without any correspondence with each other, be lying, mistaken or confused? It's possible, of course, but it's hard to imagine all these unconnected people could come to me with reports of ghosts and all of them have randomly selected this little known graveyard. Possible, yes… just not probable, especially when Menard County offers many other, sometimes creepier settings for fictitious ghost encounters.
Nothing in the record points to a specific identity for the mysterious young man that seems to be prowling the grounds but there are certainly many buried here that could fit the description. Is it possible his mortal remains lie buried in one of the many unmarked graves and he's simply seeking some recognition? It might just be that Charles Houlden, a criminal if there ever was one, lies there as well. Thankfully, the man the witnesses described doesn't match the description of that man!
While it probably will never be ascertained exactly what these witnesses are reporting out in this place, it is certainly strange and shows no sign of diminishing.
Spurred by the accounts I was hearing, I took a drive out to this isolated graveyard one afternoon a few years ago. It was a bright, sunny spring afternoon. The only sounds that day were the birds in the surrounding trees and the faint sound of an occasional car far up the road.
I'd visited the spot before on several occasions and had never encountered anything odd here myself. This day, I didn't feel anything strange, no mysterious figures appeared to me. It seemed like any other rural cemetery except these odd stories came flooding over me and I have to admit I proceeded with a small amount of trepidation.
With a video camera set up at the west end of the grounds, I began to make my way through the stones snapping pictures as I went.
As stated, Rebecca Houlden's grave is unmarked. Jeanne Weaver, an active Menard County genealogist/historian had told me she remembered Rebecca's gravestone and it was there when Jim Toal did his research. However, time, or other influences, has left nothing to commemorate the unfortunate woman but an empty field. I passed the afternoon scouring the grounds for hints of forgotten graves. I found much evidence of missing stones but, from a paranormal standpoint, the day was a bust.
Later that night I loaded the pictures from my digital camera into the computer and began to examine them. In one frame, a streak of light, preceded by a white ball of light is clearly seen a little further into the ground ---- quite near the last resting place of the unfortunate Rebecca Houlden.
There was nothing extraordinary about the graveyard that day. No odd EMF readings, nothing to make me think I wasn't alone. Still, that weird picture gives me pause. Is it possible that Rebecca or some other unfortunate soul (or many) still wander the grounds?
Unfortunately, the computer that this photograph was stored on was later destroyed and all attempts to photograph or film an anomaly in this cemetery since have been fruitless. I will continue (and back up my photos) with the hope that something --- or someone --- reveals themselves to me.
Since that day, I've visited the graveyard on several occasions (once I took Marie's husband with me --- he was disappointed). Each time, I wander the grounds I carry Jim Toal's list and quietly read the names from the missing stones with the hope that one of them decides to answer.
Of course, I honestly don't know what I'd do if one did…
© Copyright 2007 by John Winterbauer. All Rights Reserved.


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Jenni Barber, Andrea Burns and Cady Huffman Join THE NANCE; Casting Complete!
Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Jenni Barber, Andrèa Burns and Cady Huffman will join Nathan Lane, Jonny Orsini and Lewis J. Stadlen in its upcoming production of The Nance, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane to be directed by Jack O'Brien. The production will begin previews on Thursday, March 21 and open on Monday, April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45 Street).
A nance, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "an effeminate or homosexual man." In the world of 1930's burlesque, a nance was a wildly popular character, a stereotypically camp homosexual man, usually played by a straight performer. In The Nance, playwright Douglas Carter Beane tells the story of Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane), a headline nance performer in New York burlesque, who also happens to be homosexual. Integrating burlesque sketches into his drama, Beane paints, with humor and pathos, the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930's New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his messy offstage life.
THE NANCE will have sets by John Lee Beatty, costumes by Ann Roth, lighting by Japhy Weideman, sound by Leon Rothenberg, original music and arrangements by Glen Kelly, orchestrations by Larry Blank and choreography by Joey Pizzi.


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Saltlick man accused of sexually assaulting girl over more than 2 years
A Fayette County man was arrested on Monday on charges of sexually assaulting a girl over a 2 1⁄2-year period at various locations in Westmoreland County.
Kenneth J. Miller, 39, of 452 Back Creek Road, Saltlick was arraigned before Norvelt District Judge Roger Eckels on charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and statutory sexual assault filed by state police in Greensburg.
Miller was ordered held in the Westmoreland County Prison after failing to post a $100,000 bond set by Eckels.
According to state police Trooper James McKenzie, the assaults began in Donegal Township in June 2007 and continued until 2010. The girl told police that Miller assaulted her at least once a week during the period. She told police the assaults began when she was 10 years old.
In an interview with police last week, Miller allegedly admitted to assaulting the victim, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed by McKenzie.
Miller's preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. March 28 before Eckels.


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Bangkok (AFP) May 13, 2008
The World Health Organisation said Tuesday it had sent body bags to cyclone-hit Myanmar, as experts warned that rotting corpses remain uncollected and pose a major health risk.
The United Nations' health arm said the body bags are among shipments of 30,000 surgical masks and 30,000 gloves that have been sent to the Irrawaddy delta region which was obliterated in the May 2 catastrophe.
A spokeswoman was not able to say immediately how many body bags have been sent. The UN has said it believes about 100,000 people were killed and reports from the disaster zone say most victims remain where they fell.
"Diarrhoea and dysentery cases have been reported, but no cholera cases were confirmed," the WHO said in a statement, amid fears that the decomposing bodies are contaminating rivers and canals where drinking water is being drawn.
"Immediate efforts are focused on ensuring care and treatment to the injured population and preventing communicable diseases such as diarrhoea, other waterborne diseases, acute respiratory infections, measles and dengue."
The sheer scale of the disaster, and the junta's floundering response, has meant there are simply no resources to bury or cremate the bodies of the victims, let alone the corpses of livestock that also foul waterways.
That has created heartbreaking scenes including the bodies of whole families floating in canals, their hands tied together with rope in a vain bid to save them from the onslaught of wind and rain.
In one tragic case, the limp bodies of a group of children were caught in branches by the riverbank, their small arms bound with rope, presumably by parents who believed they would be safer secured together.
After 11 days in the intense tropical heat, reports from the delta say the stench of death and decay from decomposing corpses is now overpowering.
The WHO said that as well as the body bags and other medical supplies that have been dispatched to the delta region, it has also sent eight emergency health kits, each of which can treat 10,000 people for three months.
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He was captured by the Indians in the battle of almeria, and died shortly after of his wounds.
"Your imagination deceives you, my dear almeria," said Ellen, smiling.
Old Abu-l-Hasan was too strong for him, however, and the son was soon compelled to take refuge at almeria.
"Never," said almeria, with a sudden feeling of mortification.
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In the utmost consternation, almeria flew for an explanation to Mrs. Vickars.
At Maria, in the province of almeria, several glass manufactories have existed.
The gratification of almeria's ambition, however, did not complete her happiness.
Majorca and almeria on the coast of Spain may, it is said, be seen on a fine day.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 1 – Houston Baptist came from behind to thwart Southern Utah's hopes for an American Sky Conference golf championship Wednesday, overcoming a five-stroke deficit on the back nine at the par 72, 6,936-yard Dominion Country Club to take a three stroke win over the Thunderbirds.
The Thunderbirds also finished second last year in their final Summit League championship.
SUU had a one-shot lead over the Huskies heading into the day's play and extended it to five shots as the teams made the turn, but HBU's Jeffery Merrell led a charge with four birdies on the back nine to bring the team in at 2-under par on the back and one-over par for the day at 289.
Meanwhile, after making the turn with all five players in the top-20, SUU struggled on the back nine (the more difficult track all week), coming in at 6-over par for that nine and 5-over for the day.
When the dust had settled Houston Baptist won the tournament at 7-over par 871 while SUU finished second at 10-over 874. Utah Valley was another stroke back in third place while Sacramento State finished fourth at 877.
Jake Holt was SUU's low finisher, tied for fifth at 216 after a round of 1-under par 71 on Wednesday, three shots off the pace of medalist Jordan Weir of Sacramento State. Taylor Schone, who shot 68 on Tuesday to boost SUU into the second round lead and was in fourth place entering the day, finished tied for 11th at 219.
John Reid had the Thunderbirds' best round of the day, a 70, to finish 16th at 221, while Tim Leonard finished 18th at 222 after a round of 77 and Sammy Cole was 24th at 225 after a round of 76.
"Give Houston Baptist credit, they played well on the back nine when they needed to and won the tournament," SUU Coach Richard Church said. "We had our problems on the back nine all week and although we played well we didn't play quite well enough."
Northern Colorado finished firth at 880, followed by Hartford (890), and Binghamton (900), while UT Pan American and Cal State Bakersfield were tied in eighth at 909. Weber State finished 10th at 913, followed by North Dakota (937) and Chicago State (1,037).
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The access to the property is via a partially unpaved road of approx. 2,5 km.
Distances: a grocery is 3 km away, Figline Valdarno (railway station) 7 km, Florence 32 km.
At guests' disposal: extensive outdoor equipped areas, irregular-shaped swimming-pool (about 7 x 8 m - open from 01/05 to 30/09) with toilet, playground for children, table-tennis, small football ground). All of the apartments provide a personal equipped outdoor area with barbecue. A small lake offering fishing facilities is on the premises. Internet connection (WI - FI, free of charge) is available.
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The promise of tens of thousands of jobs has U.S. states jockeying to become hosts for testing before drones are introduced alongside civil aviation in U.S. airspace.
A vast network of unmanned aircraft manufacturers, marketeers and promoters that descended on Washington for a conference pressed home a point made in a March report: Growth in civilian drones can create up to 100,000 jobs nationwide.
States that encourage drone testing on their soil stand to gain more jobs than states that remain skeptical about the new technology, drone promoters say.
As excitement over drone-related job prospects grows, the industry has gone to great lengths to separate -- in public consciousness -- civilian craft from the military types that provoked controversy, debate and protests.
Protesters from the Code Pink anti-war group used pink mock-drones to protest outside the venue of a mid-August conference of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
AUVSI is rated the largest lobby group supporting promotion of unmanned aircraft, which it insists shouldn't be called drones.
AUVSI's annual gathering at the Washington Convention Center brought together about 8,000 participants from 40 different countries. Most delegates said they were focused on generating new business from unmanned technology systems, promoting diverse use on farms, firefighting and law enforcement, security and surveillance.
The industry got a huge boost when the Federal Aviation Administration said last year it would allow drones to join civilian airspace once a regulatory framework was in place.
Up to 10,000 unmanned craft could be flying in U.S. airspace within five years. The FAA wants to ensure that drones keep a safe distance from manned civilian airliners and other piloted aircraft.
More drones are likely to take on duties on farms and orchards, river and coastal areas and law-enforcement from small towns to cities. Private companies are likely to be allowed to fly or rent their own drones, in some cases replacing manned services such as couriers.
There will be jobs galore before that happens, AUVSI says.
By 2015, when commercial drones are set to enter U.S. skies on a comprehensive scale, the first tens of thousands of about 100,000 jobs to be created over 10 years will be there for grabs.
The AUVSI report says the industry will add $13.7 billion to the U.S. economy.
"While there are multiple uses for UAS in the [national airspace system], this research concludes that precision agriculture and public safety are the most promising commercial and civil markets," the report says. "These two markets are thought to comprise approximately 90 percent of the known potential markets for UAS."
The report says tax earnings for the states that host test sites for the drones of the future will exceed $635 billion in 2015-2025 -- the first 11 years following integration.
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The number of 3G customers in Africa is set to grow from 114 million in 2013 to 210 million by the end of 2015, according to a new study from ABI Research.
The market-research company says that mobile growth in Africa remains far more robust than in other regions, with the number of mobile subscribers reaching 863 million at the end of June, up 9.3% on the year-earlier figure.
ABI Research reckons the number of mobile customers will continue to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% between now and 2018, when it will reach 1.25 billion.
"What's more, due to the lower comparative 3G penetration of 13.8% in Africa at the end of 2013, ABI Research forecasts that Africa 3G subscriptions will grow rapidly from 114 million to 210 million by 2015," said Marina Lu, a research associate at ABI Research.
ABI Research is also forecasting a surge in the adoption of 4G LTE services over the next five years.
Although most countries are still extending 3G networks, LTE services have been launched in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria, and the continent was home to about 200,000 LTE subscribers at the end of June.
"Mobile voice revenues are still a key revenue generator for African mobile operators but the growing momentum behind mobile data services is providing a wider stimulus for entrepreneurship, healthcare and, just as crucially, education," said Jake Saunders, a vice president and practice director of core forecasting at ABI Research.
"By the end of 2018, Africa is expected to gain 51.2 million LTE subscriptions, demonstrating a CAGR of 118%," added Saunders.
MTN Nigeria is the fastest-growing African operator, according to the study, as well as the largest, having increased its subscriber base by 10 million between June 2012 and June 2013, to give it 53 million customers in total.
ABI Research attributes its success to the introduction of tariff reductions between July and September last year, making mobile services a lot more affordable for low-income users.
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The superstar cuts a striking figure, even in the U.S. Customs line. Bespoke two-piece suit – hockey players tend to have unique tailoring requirements and the cash to satisfy them – narrow tie, crisp white shirt, black trilby. Urban myth holds that hats went out with JFK; maybe this is the guy to bring them back. When P.K. Subban bumps into a reporter who jokes there's a Mad Men aesthetic happening, there's an instant rejoinder.
"Nah, Mad Men has a P.K. thing going on," he says, grinning, before wandering off to a nearby gate where the Montreal Canadiens' charter will shortly fly out to Tampa Bay to open the playoffs.
A boast, but not really – he's clearly joking. It's a casual remark but hints at self-regard.
There's a danger to reading anything of significance into appearances and run-of-the-mill interactions with famous people, but Subban is a man of layers, contradictions and unknowable depths – in that regard, he is just like everyone else. In almost every other sense, he's different. Not everyone is happy about this.
Subban is indisputably the most electrifying player of these NHL playoffs. Right now he is the de facto face of the league. In a world that prizes its bland, predictable, reflexively humble stars, he's anything but: cocksure, nonconformist, exuberant. He's also black, and the occasional target of racist abuse, which he handled with typical elegance at the start of the second round against Boston.
But the greatest competitors in sport – like Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, three men he says he has studied closely – aren't about off-ice classiness, taking pictures with kids, and playing pretty.
They are ruthless closers who derive a malign joy from sticking it hard to their detractors and rivals.
On the recent evidence, Subban is all that, and possibly more. The 24-year-old (he turns 25 next week), exudes a sense of unwavering confidence.
"He believes in himself, and sometimes that rubs other teams the wrong way. And he's been really good at it. It's been fun to be part of it with him," said teammate Daniel Brière.
When asked where Subban fits on the spectrum of swaggering athletes he has known, the veteran centre laughed and said, "I think you know the answer."
Well, yes: just past the highest end of the scale.
"I think everybody wants to perform on this stage. What sets him apart from what I can see is he wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy with the puck on his tape when the game's on the line, he wants to make the big play," Brière said. "I've always believed that's how it happens – you've got to want it. And it's not always going to work, but every time you want to be the guy to make the difference, and he has that attitude."
Above all else, Subban has an unshakeable belief in who and what he is; look beyond the extravagant talent, showman's timing and outsized personality, and you find the relentlessness of an assassin. And against the hated Bruins, his game has risen to new heights (six points in four games; his three goals against Boston are more than the combined total of his previous 25 games).
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WOLVERLEY'S annual May Day Fair saw this year's village's carnival queen, princess and rosebud chosen.
The event, on Sunday, started with the Green Man coming out of Wolverley Woods as he marked the end of winter and the beginning of summer.d A Maypole Dance was then performed by Wolverley Maypole Dancers, followed by an appearance by the Svartland Vikings.
The "1st Viking queen", Laura Lane was selected as carnival queen. The 22-year-old's interests include Viking re-enactment, painting and jewellery making.
Shelby Smith was chosen as carnival princess. She is 10 and goes to Wolverley Sebright VA Primary School. Her interests include reading and playing with friends.
Lauren Parkinson will be carnival rosebud. The six-year-old goes to Wolverley Sebright VA Primary School and her interests include Wolverley Rainbows Guiding, helping to look after little children and walking her neighbour's dog.
There were stalls to visit during the afternoon at the May fair, as well as archery, face painting, coconut shy and a barbecue, as well as homemade cakes. Music was played by Them Good 'ol Boys and the Svartland Vikings staged battle re-enactments.
This year's Wolverley Carnival takes place on Saturday, July 5.