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Check out these high-quality iPhone 5 3D renders
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cell Phones, Design, Rumors
We've had a bunch of leaked images of the purported next-generation iPhone (iPhone 5? iPhone 2012? The new iPhone?), and if the rumors are true, then these 3D renders that were created using the leaked images, should tell the tale of what the device will actually look like--and we think it looks fantastic. The black iPhone gets blacker, with a dark frame, while the white model maintains the chrome frame and aluminum colored back. Get a look at more of the images in our gallery. If you want the 3D model for yourself to play with in your favorite 3D program, you can grab it from Martin Hajek for $50.
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Apple introduces unified library for iPhoto and Aperture
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Software
Apple has introduced a new unified photo library that is compatible with both iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3 or later. This means that users can now open, view, and edit the same images using either iPhoto or Aperture, and can freely go back and forth between the two apps, something we had been wishing would happen for quite a while. Apple has listed a number of advantages that the new unified photo library provides:
- There's no need to import, export, or reprocess photos as you move from one app to the other.
- If you use Faces, Places, have created albums, Smart Albums, or shared photos to Facebook or Flickr, these automatically work across both apps.
- Slideshows created in one app can be played back in the other.
- Because iPhoto and Aperture now share a common imaging system, when you adjust images using any tools in Aperture, you'll see the changes when you open the same library in iPhoto and vice versa.
- If you're new to the tools available in Aperture, you can maintain your photo library in iPhoto and open Aperture only when you want to try your hand at retouching, for example, making selective corrections with brushes. All edits are non-destructive, so you can remove them at any time.
- If you've collected more than one iPhoto library over the years, you can now open your iPhoto libraries in Aperture and merge them into a consolidated master library. You can then access your merged library in iPhoto.
iPhoto 9.3 was released yesterday.
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iPhoto 9.2 released with iCloud, Photo Stream support
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Software
Apple just released iPhoto 9.2, which brings Photo Stream support as its main new feature, but also include some other fixes and enhancements as well:
iPhoto 9.2 supports compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5. This update also addresses minor stability, performance and compatibility issues, including:
- Left and right swipe gestures can now be used to navigate between photos in Magnify (1-up) view
- Previously imported photos are now displayed in a separate section of the Import window
- Book/calendar themes and card categories can now be selected using a pop-up menu in the carousel view
- Resolves an issue that could cause some pages of books to print incorrectly
- Rebuilding a library now correctly preserves saved slideshows and books
- The update is recommended for all users of iPhoto '11.
Olympus PEN E-P1 Digital Camera
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cameras
Olympus never does anything simply but you always know they will be innovative. Their E-P1 combines the simplicity of a point and shoot and the optics of an SLR. It has the A/V quality of an HD camcorder and high-end audio recording. The cam features a 12.3-mexapixel interchangeable lens system with a virtual imaging studio inside. The silver and black Olympus PEN E-P1 is available for pre-order starting at $799.99.
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PHOTTY GL15-BK Digital Frame
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Portable Audio / Video
Annoy everyone with the latest family photos with the PHOTTY GL15-BK Digital Frame. The 38 x 55 x 10mm frame has a tiny 1.5-inch LCD with 128x128 pixels that can display JPEG, BMP and AVI files. Expected to make a Japan debut in July, the frame can hold up to 150 images of 5kb apiece. No information is yet available on its price, but we expect one small enough for showing off of the kidlets.
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Fotopedia Collaborative Photo Encyclopedia
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cameras, Internet
Cross Flickr and Wikipedia and you get Fotopedia. Users are encouraged to create or edit pages, add their own photos from their PCs or other image sites and include a Google map and Wikipedia information. Included are the categories of geography and travel, nature, transportation, sports, people and history, art and popular culture. So far the site has over 150,000 images that can be made into slide shows for the curious.
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DoInk Simplified Animation
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Internet
Enjoy, discuss and create animation. That is the description that DoInk uses to describe their super-easy online drawing tool that needs only Java to work. Similar to Paint, drag and drop others' single shots or animation or come up with your own and share it. The online app also leaves ghosts to help animate and can layer clone individual frames that are adjustable. When completed, you can email it, put it on your blog or social network for others to appreciate.
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Google My Location and Voice Now on Blackberry
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cell Phones, Google, Handhelds
Blackberry users can now search with Google Mobile by My Location and Voice. Tell it you want a hamburger and it will tell you where the closest restaurants are. It will store your location for faster and more relevant results. The application gives quick access to local and Internet news and images. You can test run it on your Blackberry by going to Google. The app will work with Blackberrys running on O/S 4.1+ and with Search by voice on O/S 4.2 and above, and they are working on a version for the Storm.
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Easy Dials It, One Handed Contact
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Productivity, $1.99, Free Apps
Easy Dials It was conceived by Riverturn as the answer to dialing one-handed. You can flip through full screen images of contacts and merely double tap to dial up a number. Tilt your iPhone's screen and you can automatically scroll through the list or add an image. Also available is the Easy Dials It Lite that only keeps two of your contacts. Both are available at the App Store for $1.99 and $0.00 respectively.
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Explay Colibri Compact Mobile Module
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Tiny, tiny, tiny. Explay's Colibri module is a compact mobile projector that can handle VGA, WVGA or SVGA resolutions. The device is all of 24 x 28.6 x 7mm and draws 1.3W power. It will be placed in Explay's OiO which features 2.5 hrs of usage and pictures from 7 to 70-inches. The projector can be placed from 20 to 200cm away from either a flat or curved surface, thanks to its "Always Focus" technology.
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New and returning students moving into the University of Colorado Boulder residence halls can choose which day to move in Aug. 18-21, will swipe Buff OneCards instead of filling out a form to check in and will be able to take advantage of "Quick Drop Stations."
"We take pride in doing our best to provide a warm welcome and a helping hand for our new and returning students," said John Fox, associate director of Residence Life. "This year we decided to make some changes in order to make the process as smooth as possible."
One of those changes is to provide iPads to staff checking in residents so that students can swipe their Buff OneCard instead of filling out a paper card. Another is to allow students to move in early for a daily room-and-board rate of $53.15, starting Monday, Aug. 18, at 9 a.m., according to Maria Hoffman, assistant director of Residence Life. The daily rate applies until the 2014-15 academic year contract starts, which is on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 9 a.m. Students can request to arrive early at https://housing.colorado.edu/news/early-arrival-request.
On the first day of move-in, Aug. 18, and on Aug. 21, the day the majority of students move in, "Quick Drop Stations" will be designated around the residence halls. Students will check in with a photo ID at the Quick Drop Station closest to their residence hall where volunteers will help unload vehicles and direct drivers to extended-term parking lots.
"To allow everyone the opportunity to get close to their residence halls and move their items in more conveniently, we are asking families to park in the extended-term lots after unloading students' belongings," said Hoffman. "Parking and Transportation Services personnel will be on hand to direct traffic."
An overview of the move-in process and maps indicating where to check in, where to park while dropping off belongings and where to park after unloading are available on the housing website at https://housing.colorado.edu/news/2014-move-campus-maps.
Volunteers from a variety of campus groups will be stationed near all of the residence halls to help students and their families move belongings into the halls as quickly as possible. Volunteers from the Residence Hall Association's Stampede Leadership program, returning residence hall students and students from several student groups will wear black hats with "BUFF Welcome Squad" on them, identifying them as move-in staff. The volunteers will be available to assist new students primarily on specified move-in dates, including Monday, Aug. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Thursday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Volunteer groups at move-in also will include the CU football team, the Men's Lacrosse Club, CU Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council and the Young Life organization.
Some students will be moving into the newly renovated and reopened Baker Hall. Baker was closed for renovation during the 2013-14 school year and includes a number of sustainability features to improve water efficiency, save energy and reduce carbon emissions.
Orientation and social activities for new residence hall students will be held the evenings of Aug. 19 and 20. On Aug. 21, all first-year residence hall students will be required to attend a hall meeting with other students from their floors to get acquainted and learn about policies, services, the roommate agreement and other activities planned for the week.
Katie Theiler, Housing and Dining, 720-541-3950
Malinda Miller-Huey, CU-Boulder media relations, 303-492-3115

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Conditions weren't optimal but it's good enough (Kinda wet, first throws of the day, stiff muscles etc). What am I doing wrong?
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JR wrote:The left leg is worst of both worlds in the drives. Not the Feldy type of kick to the right counteracting the force of the elbow chop and wrist snap or staying on the ground pushing forward adding power until the rip at the very least. Now the leg acts like an anchor slowing your rotation and not adding to the weight shift.
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A TOP horse racing commentator and author is galloping to the aid of a £70,000 appeal for a memorial to horses killed in the First World War.
Brough Scott, former face of Channel 4 Racing, will give a talk on his grandafther's wartime mount, Warrio,r at the latest event for the Romsey War Horse Project, which aims to erect a statue in the town in tribute to the 120,000 horses and mules trained for the front at the Remount Camp on Pauncefoot Hill.
Brough has a family connection with the town as his grandfather, General Jack Seely, Secretary of State for War from June, 1912 to March, 1914, officially opened Romsey War Memorial Park in 1921 and it is the park which will be the site of the life-size bronze resin statue of a horse and trooper.
Brough, a former jockey, has written his grandfather's biography – Galloper Jack: The Remarkable Story of the Man who Rode a Real War Horse, which was published in 2012 – and also penned the foreword to the 2011 reprint of General Seely's book Warrior: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse.
During the war, General Seely commanded the Canadian cavalry, who dubbed Warrior the "horse that the Germans can't kill" after many narrow escapes before the enemy guns.
Warrior carried the general through the battles of Ypres and the Somme and he said of his faithful charger: "Warrior was my passport wherever I went. As I rode along, whether it were the rest billets, in reserve, approaching the line, or in the midst of battle, men would say, not 'Here comes the General', but 'Here's old Warrior'."
Warrior was born in 1908 on the Isle of Wight and lived until 1941. When he died, his obituary appeared in the Evening Standard.
Brough's talk, Warrior's War, takes place at the Crosfield Hall on Friday, March 7 at 7pm (doors open at 6.15pm). Tickets cost £8, in advance from Romsey Tourist Information Office and £10 on the night.
Event organiser, Sarah Saunders-Davies, said: "I am thrilled he's coming to talk about his famous grandfather and his equally famous horse. Brough will be signing and selling copies of his book at the talk and there will also be a raffle drawn at the end of the evening."
Opened in 1915, the remount camp, which included a veterinary hospital,was home to more than 2,100 men who trained the animals for the battlefield.
Test Valley-based sculptor, Amy Goodman, has been commissioned to make the memorial which the War Horse project hope to unveil in 2015 to mark the centenary of the remount camp.


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Chuck Knight listened to his fellow Viper Militia defendants as they took turns discussing a plea agreement offered by government prosecutors. The 12 alleged conspirators and 11 of their attorneys sat crammed into a small room on the sixth floor of the Federal Building. They hardly fit around the room's table, and the humidity in the room had risen noticeably.
Rick Walker said he was dying.
Walker, the former leader of the militia, had fared worst in the four months since the group's arrest made national headlines. A diabetic, Walker had already suffered one heart attack and alarming weight loss during his incarceration.
And unless the rest of them joined him in accepting the government's offer of a plea agreement, Walker told them, he would never survive a prison sentence he expected to be very long.
As each defendant in turn spoke, there was little discussion of the evidence in the case. Beginning with the defendants facing the most serious charges, each militia member agreed that taking the government's offer beat the severe penalties they would face if found guilty in a trial.
Some hesitated. Chris Floyd, at 21 the youngest member of the militia and one of the least involved, complained that he couldn't resign himself to a prison stay. He couldn't afford to spend a year or more away from his young family, he told them.
Floyd then stepped out of the room with his attorney and returned a few moments later.
"Yeah, I'll do it," he said, agreeing with the rest.
Others left the room momentarily to consult their lawyers, but eventually, 11 agreed to take the government's offer.
It was Chuck Knight's turn to speak.
If Knight went along with the rest, he would plead guilty to a crime he does not believe he committed and spend two years in prison. If he balked, however, and elected to go to trial, he would ruin the deal for the rest of them. And if he were found guilty in that trial--which is what his attorney had told him was likely--he would face up to seven years in prison. Others could spend decades locked up.
Most important, Knight knew that his fiancee and fellow defendant Donna Williams supported the plea agreement. And if he ruined it for her, he was afraid he would lose her forever.
Suffering an acute bout of loyalty, Knight agreed to accept the government's plea agreement.
But in the days following that meeting, while under house arrest, Knight would wrestle with his conscience.
He was confined, when he wasn't working, to a modest north Phoenix house owned by a friend; he'd stayed at the house since being released from custody on July 13. Seven of the defendants remained in jail while awaiting trial, but Knight and four others had been freed, at least temporarily.
Knight's comfortable surroundings belied the truth: He couldn't leave the house without notifying court workers. Under one of his boots, he wore an ankle device that he couldn't remove. It allowed police to track him if he attempted to flee.
But he didn't want to flee. He only wanted to see Williams, his fiancee, and discuss his doubts about accepting the government's offer.
His release orders, however, prohibited him from contacting her. He couldn't contact any of the other defendants, or members of any militia, and he could not possess weapons. He could, however, entertain visitors and friends, who would, over the next few days, urge him to reconsider his decision to accept the plea agreement.
His dilemma was overwhelming. Should he be a good soldier and take his punishment to ease his fellow Vipers' lots? Or should he stick up for himself, to the detriment of his comrades, including his future wife? Something had to give.
Something gave on December 2, when U.S. Magistrate Barry Silverman altered the terms of release and agreed to let Knight and Williams have contact. Beginning that night, the two of them would spend every allowable hour with each other.
Knight learned that Williams was resolute--she had decided to take the government's offer and spend no more than 18 months in prison. But she made it clear to Knight that whatever he decided to do, it wouldn't affect their relationship.
Still, Knight wavered, swayed by his attorney Tom Hoidal, who pressed him to accept the plea bargain. Even if he didn't intend to break the law, he was told, the prosecution could show that the letter of the law had been violated. Accepting the plea, Knight was told, would save him years in prison.
But Knight was convinced that his role in the Vipers' activities had been harmless. He had never handled explosives, never fired an automatic weapon, never advocated hurting anyone or destroying anything. To the contrary, he had spoken out against such acts.
He knew he had done nothing that warranted his going to prison--and he felt certain a jury would agree.
On December 6, Knight read the actual wording of the proposed plea agreement. It shocked him. For the first time, the full import of admitting guilt became clear.
Four days later, he told his attorney he couldn't sign the document.
News that Knight planned to fight the government's charges rather than plead guilty--thereby jeopardizing the other defendants' opportunity to accept the deal--spread quickly among the defendants and their families. Angry parents and other family members called Knight to berate him, telling him that he was sending his friends to their doom.
The next day, Rick Walker suffered another heart attack. And then, on December 19, two of the defendants appeared in court to enter guilty pleas on their own. Gary Bauer and Randy Nelson, who face some of the most serious charges, didn't wait for the government to make another offer. Three others, Henry Oberturf, Walter Sanville and Scott Shero, pleaded guilty December 27. Donna Williams was to enter her plea December 31.
Knight remains determined to fight the government's charges. He may be joined by one other. Chris Floyd reportedly has changed his mind and has refused to sign the plea agreement as well. While the others admit guilt and accept sentences as short as a year and as long as 10 years, Knight and Floyd alone will roll the dice and attempt to prove that they are innocent of wrongdoing.
A trial is scheduled for January 28.
Six months ago, mug shots of Chuck Knight and his 11 fellow defendants adorned newspapers and the network news as the federal government bragged that it had foiled a nefarious plot to blow up several Phoenix buildings.
"They all looked ordinary," read a July 15 headline in Newsweek, "but harbored an obsession with guns--and possibly terror. The Feds may have busted them just in time."
President Bill Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and U.S. Attorney Janet Napolitano all hailed the arrest of the Viper Militia as a victory against domestic terrorism--a victory the government hungered for in the wake of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing.
Almost immediately, however, questions arose about the government's claim that it had intervened in the nick of time to thwart a massive terrorist attack. None of the indictments leveled at the defendants accused the group of planning to blow up Phoenix buildings--an allegation which had figured so prominently in press accounts and statements by Clinton and the others. Instead, most of the counts involve technical firearms and explosives charges. Several of them could have been avoided, for example, simply with the purchase of $250 tax stamps, which make it legal to own the machine guns some Vipers possessed.
Some pundits--Nightline's among the first--wondered if the press hadn't been duped by a government which had overstated its case for political reasons.
A federal judge appeared to confirm that conclusion when he determined that six of the defendants presented so little threat they should be released pending trial (one returned to custody voluntarily when he could not get his old job back).
During July detention hearings, the government presented evidence that two agents had infiltrated the militia after receiving a complaint from a hunter in November 1995. The agents had surreptitiously taped--both audio and video--every meeting and outing held by the Vipers since January 1996.
In one videotape made by the Vipers themselves, shown in court and on television, camouflage-wearing members of the militia set off explosions in the desert while hollering things like, "Wow! Wow! It's a fucking mushroom cloud!" Members also fire unregistered automatic weapons. However, Knight and several other Vipers, the government admitted, handled neither explosives nor machine guns.
Defense attorneys denounced the government's tactics and its informants, who they suggested had encouraged and perhaps entrapped the militia members.
In recent weeks, however, as the national press has lost interest in the Viper case and stories about it locally have slowed to a trickle, those tough-talking defense attorneys seem to have changed tack. Eagerness to take on U.S. attorneys and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and its agents has been replaced with an aversion to going to trial.
His aversion to that strategy has led Chuck Knight to tell his story.
He relaxes on a Sunday after a grueling week repairing air conditioners. For 16 years, he's operated his own business, and it means long hours, trial or no trial.
Knight's look is Western: he wears boots, jeans and a black leather vest over a light blue shirt. He is muscular and has enormous hands. A rim of reddish stubble accentuates his jaw line. When he talks, his sentences usually emerge wrapped in slightly raspy laughter. He is courteous.
Knight, 47, is a man of faith who easily slips into expressions of his love for religion and the church. But it's clear that Knight is most often evangelizing himself. And enjoying it.
Even as he considers options which could send him to prison for several years, he's irrepressibly optimistic. Only occasionally, when the full weight of his predicament hits him, his face flushes and furrows and he fights his emotions.
Sitting quietly across the room is Knight's friend, the Reverend James Taylor, an African-American pastor who created a stir when he showed up at the federal courthouse to accept Knight from custody July 13. People were astonished to see a black man appear on behalf of a militia member, Taylor relates with a laugh.
Taylor's a soft-spoken man, not tall, but with the build of a linebacker, and he patiently listens to Knight explain how he's gotten into this fix.
"I guess it was about two years ago now," Chuck Knight begins, "an elder at my church invited me to go to a meeting at the Libertarian party headquarters discussing the Constitution and other information. At the time, it sounded pretty radical to me, all the black helicopters and that kind of nonsense. I guess this is when that stuff was just starting.
"This was at the time of Waco. And everyone was outraged that these people could be machine-gunned from the air and then burned, and the government was taking a 'Well, the heck with you' posture. That's how a lot of these groups got started. They were people who were interested in Waco and they got together to talk about it, and they got angrier and angrier and angrier.
"I listened to them talk about that kind of stuff, and after several meetings of that, I found it very interesting--they had literature from the John Birch Society and other conservative think tanks."
One of the leaders of the group wore a badge and referred to himself as the brigadier general of the Arizona Militia. It makes Knight chuckle now, the silliness of it. He admits that the talk would descend into lunacy at times, with rampant tales of black helicopters and Russian tanks on American soil. Some members, he says, attempted to clamp down on the rumor mongering. Knight tried to avoid squabbles with the loonier members over worldwide conspiracies.
"I'm just an air-conditioning guy; what do I know?" he says.
Besides, he notes, he was beginning to become more interested in the group for other reasons. Namely, a newer member by the name of Donna Williams.
"I don't think she liked me very much at first. She's very strong and very smart. I don't know, I think she intimidated me."
Gradually, he developed a friendship with Williams, who ran a concrete shop called Ancient Stone.
He also became more active in a splinter discussion group.
Although it was little more than a club for discussing politics, Knight admits that the splinter group thought of itself as a "militia." When one of the more paranoid members was asked to leave, the group changed focus, obsessing less about the "new world order" and turning more to discussions on basic preparedness and survivalism. Membership dwindled from 50 to about 15, half of whom were senior citizens.
"It moved at a snail's pace," Knight says. Then, during 1995, a few participants became interested in firearms.
"There were a group of people starting to do military basic training. . . . and I mean basic training, just learning how to shoot with weapons they already owned, and not even wearing those weapons as sidearms. Two or three people were asked to leave the group because they had worn sidearms and they were a bunch of Nazis. The group was that hard-nosed about it.
"Later on, the group split up because the people who wanted to go out and do the military training and [the others] had fallen on a difference of opinion. The military group was getting far too independent."
At this time, Knight says, he considered himself a member of the political, rather than military, cadre. He did go out one night with a handgun to see what the military types were doing, and it spooked him--the others seemed reckless.
Meanwhile, Knight and Williams "were just barely starting to like each other. We had a lot of differences. . . . But we were beginning to enjoy each other's company."
Increasingly, he became unhappy with the organization. In the meantime, two men, Randy Nelson and Rick Walker, briefly attended the group's meetings, and told Knight about another set that they belonged to, a group more interested in camping and target shooting than gabbing about politics. Knight asked Williams if she wanted to check out Nelson and Walker's bunch.
Not long after, they abandoned the splinter group. But Knight says that as far as he knows, the military wing--the ones that made even him, a Viper Militia member, nervous--is still doing night maneuvers with weapons in a river bottom near 107th Avenue and Jomax Road.
By Arizona standards, Chuck Knight's weapons cache and his activities were hardly unusual. Knight owned two rifles, two shotguns and a pistol, all legally registered, and he practiced with them in preparation for a future event in which, like the minutemen of Concord, he would be called on in an instant to defend his neighborhood.
It's difficult for Knight and his peers in the so-called "patriot movement" to understand that many Americans find this behavior utterly insane.
With foreign enemies losing their menace, however, groups such as the rabidly anticommunist John Birch Society have turned inward, focusing on domestic enemies--namely, the federal government. Estimates of the patriot movement put the numbers of men and women nationwide preparing on some level for an apocalyptic showdown with government agents in the tens of the thousands.
It's a small faction that has generated a disproportionate amount of press, nearly all of it accusatory. Militia members who claim to harbor mainstream ideas complain that they've been lumped in with extremist groups with racist agendas.
In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, many militias reportedly disbanded as a wave of anti-militia feeling swept the country. In its wake, the militia movement leaves a discontented rabble--Pat Buchanan's peasants with pitchforks--who can't understand why the rest of the country doesn't see them in the light of the Founding Fathers.
Chuck Knight is one of them. And he, like many others, came to the patriot movement with little experience in political activism.
He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1949--he laughs at the notion of starting life "inside the beltway"--to a father working on Lyndon Johnson's staff. He grew up in Kansas City in what he describes as a lower-middle-class neighborhood of mixed race. "I played in a rock 'n' roll band. I was one of three white guys and three black guys in a band in Kansas City. . . . We played a lot of military bases."
Knight first married in 1969 and joined the Army in January 1970, spending the bulk of his military career at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, until his discharge in January 1973. He divorced and moved to Arizona that summer. He pursued a college degree while working as a security guard, and entertained the thought of becoming a police officer. Instead, he chose to serve part-time as a reserve military policeman until 1988.
Knight entered refrigeration school in Phoenix in 1981. Since then, he's operated his own business, Knight Air Conditioning.
"My kids and I would go to parks and I'd go around handing out my business cards and say, 'Hi, my name is Chuck Knight and I do air conditioning, and I'm trying to start my company up. Would you give me a call? I'll treat you right.' And, honest to goodness, it grew from that into a pretty good-size little company. I had three trucks at one point."
Knight today has one truck, four children (ranging in age from 25 to 16), two stepchildren and four ex-wives.
Knight says his youngest child has taken some ribbing. "The 16-year-old in school has had comments, saying, 'Your dad is a terrorist.' My kids know it's nonsense. My kids are tough, and they know I'm an honest guy."
In 1988, Chuck Knight joined Northwest Christian Church, and became a deacon. At the time, he says, his political interests were relatively dormant.
"I voted. I was conservative. Basically, I just thought less government is better government."
Five years later, a church elder invited him to the political discussion group. But by November 1995, he was ready to try out a new outfit, one he was told about by men named Randy Nelson and Rick Walker.
Knight says that when he and Williams joined Nelson and Walker's friends in that initial camp outing, the group didn't have a name.
"This looked like an opportunity to go out and play around in the woods with a group of people I could learn to camp with," he says, remembering that about 10 people, dressed in camouflage, set up camp in a remote part of Tonto National Forest.
Some of them were interested in more than building a campfire.
"They had taken out some junk that they were going to blow up in the desert," Knight says, sounding no more concerned than if they had planned to pitch a tent.
"They had taken out this green glop . . . they mixed it up there. And they did three or four ridiculous explosions. They just went 'Poof!' and green goo went everywhere. Rick Walker had green smut all over his butt. And there were little green flecks of crud on the trees. It was just ridiculous. They basically went 'Whoosh!' And [Walker] said, 'Well, let's try something different.' So they tried all these different things and they finally got something that made a little more noise.
"Nobody had a particular role. Rick Walker was formulating stuff to go bang. Everybody else was just doing what other people do in the forest every day."
Knight says Walker and Gary Bauer showed the most interest in the explosives.
"Not me; I'm as timid around that stuff as can be. I am scared unreasonably by explosives. A firecracker blew up in my hand when I was a kid, and I've been spooked ever since. I mean, it was all I could do to throw a grenade in the Army, and I only threw the one in practice.
"Anyway, I thought, that's all fine and well if these guys want to do that stuff. I mean, it was fun to watch."
Knight and Williams went home after only an hour and a half. Not because of the explosions, he says, but because they didn't want to stay overnight and, since they were still married to other people, didn't want rumors starting about them.
Meanwhile, a hunter happened to approach the camp, and was turned away by a sentry. That hunter contacted the state Department of Game and Fish.
That campout would be the last outdoor gathering the group held which was not under government surveillance.
Knight and Williams began attending the group's in-town meetings as well. "I liked that it was a group of guys who were going out shooting and were doing it safely," Knight says.
"I had learned how to shoot in the Army, and I felt comfortable with it. I wasn't going to hurt anyone else doing it. I knew the safety; I knew how to handle it. It was nice to be with a group of adults, doing things. And it all seemed harmless."
In January, Knight and Williams were sworn into the group, which by then had a name.
"I think what happened was Rick Walker saw the coiled snake on the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag, and this was when there was a lot of publicity going on about the new Dodge Viper. And he thought viper, snake, don't tread on me--hey, that's cool, let's do that. To the best of my knowledge there was nothing else."
Contrary to what they were dubbed by the press, Knight says the members always referred to themselves as Viper Team.
"At that point, I don't think we wanted to call ourselves a militia. In my mind, at least, we weren't [a militia]. We were a rifle team. We were going to go out and get competent at shooting rifles, and there were some guys in there that liked to blow up dirt. So let them indulge themselves and have a good time doing it and then we'll get serious about the rifle team."
One member, Randy Nelson, was a certified firearms instructor. Walker, meanwhile, had many NRA shooting ribbons and liked to shoot one of Knight's favorite weapons, an M1 rifle. The prospect of training with such skilled shooters, Knight says, was the primary reason he joined.
Knight and Williams attended Viper Team meetings and outings regularly until their arrest July 1.
Knight describes the January meeting, which he says was typical: "We'd sit around and talk about where we wanted to go camping, and the guys that were into the explosives would talk about what they would try to make a bigger bang. Gary was working on a dummy grenade deal so he could launch it with a rifle--which is all perfectly legal. He was making those with PVC and copper, I think. They were talking about that kind of stuff. And about training with some inert grenades. None of which I thought would ever happen.
"It was all talk. There was no money. That was the point, there was no money. The money we had collected for dues we were using for camping gear, field jackets and boots for people who couldn't afford to buy good boots. Sleeping cots. Our total budget at the time we were arrested [about $500] was almost as high as it had ever been."
On the other hand, he admits, "I don't think there's any hedging the fact that it was a militia group. We didn't call ourselves a militia group because it made no sense at all to say, 'Hey, look at me.'"
But then he mentions that Rick Walker was calling attention to the group. "He thought of Viper Team as his own personal Praetorian Guard. He's very loud, a lot of braggadocio, a lot of high-volume stuff. There were a lot of occasions when his loud words caused embarrassment," Knight says. Walker's talk alienated the group from other Arizona militias, who were attempting to upgrade their image after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Knight also acknowledges that, in a theme common to other militia groups, there was a sense that Viper Team needed to prepare for an upheaval which would require their military and survivalist skills.
"I thought it would be like the disaster in Florida, when a hurricane hit and it took the government four days to get people fresh water. That kind of thing: natural disaster, earthquake, L.A.-style riots. Anything along those lines," Knight says.
He concedes the group did discuss apocalyptic scenarios in which blue-helmeted U.N. troops invade U.S. cities to promote the new world order. But Knight insists that he considered such an event "very unlikely." His real attraction to the group, he says, was more recreational than ideological.
"I figured I could live with the guys blowing up dirt. Didn't bother me. I figured that I'd never touch it. And I never did. I never fired an automatic weapon. I figured I'd never transport any of that stuff. And I never did.
"I figured, very naively, that if I didn't and something ever happened, as far as them being careless or stupid, I would be out. Donna and I both wouldn't touch any of that stuff. However, having said that, if the group had ever decided, if one of the leaders had said that we had to go destroy property, unless and until invasion had occurred and the American public was on our side--and this was said--unless that had occurred, V Team was never going to do anything."
And, Knight claims, contrary to the government's original allegations, the Viper Team was increasingly heading away from the explosives and toward simply becoming a rifle team.
"We were getting away from all of that stuff. The only reason at all that there were explosives at the last outing was because [government informant] Drew Nolan said he hadn't had a chance to play with that stuff. And he wanted the opportunity to play with some explosives. That's right off the evidence tapes."
Nolan was an employee of the Phoenix gun mart Shooter's World who had turned informant for the government. He also paved the way for another member to join the militia in December 1995: a man who called himself Jay Wells. Wells was actually a state Department of Game and Fish agent working undercover on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Knight charges that both men encouraged the Vipers to go further with their activities, to the point of suggesting criminal behavior the others would not agree to.
He says, "The only reason explosives were included in the last outing was so Drew 'Frenchy' Nolan could experience it. And as for the craters, Jay 'Doc' Wells--the other government plant--had them bury the explosive to produce a bigger hole."
Nolan had told them that he had a Klan background and had been in a motorcycle gang.
"I figured a lot of people had made those kind of mistakes," Knight says to explain why he didn't protest a former Klansman joining the group. Knight claims there wasn't racist talk in the Viper Team, and Nolan didn't offer any. "They knew better," he says.
Wells suggested that the Vipers consider robbing a bank and using the money to purchase more supplies. "Absolutely not, I'm not going to do that kind of stuff," Knight says he answered. Government witness Steven Ott confirmed Knight's objection during detention hearings.
"Jay wanted us to have a formula. He wanted us to write down what we would do in various scenarios. I said no. Jay was leading the group. He would start the conversations. He was so skilled at it, he'd get into a subject, get us going, and then just sit back."
Every Viper meeting since the January swear-in of Knight and Williams is on either audio or video tape, Knight says. He's seen and heard most of it. He says much of what he hears himself saying in meetings is stream-of-consciousness rambling.
"Most of the stuff I said was relatively mild. I don't advocate killing. I don't advocate bombing. I don't advocate the destruction of anything."
It seems likely that Knight's fate will depend more on a jury's interpretation of what he says on the tapes than on what he's done.
He's concerned that prosecutors will use some of his statements out of context. For instance, Knight has a habit of referring to his air-conditioning tools as "implements of death and destruction." It's a phrase he's used countless times. In one Viper meeting, however, he applied the phrase to militia equipment, saying, "With our capacity for death and destruction, we have to be careful what we do." Knight says the statement was intended as a precaution about proper handling of firearms, but he assumes the government will cast it in a more sinister light.
During another gathering, Knight warns the group to be "tremendously careful" and on guard for government infiltrators.
Knight says the tapes contain a passage in which government agent Jay Wells asks what would happen if, in the event of civil war, the Vipers discovered that one of their members is a spy.
Knight asks, "We still have a termination policy if someone turns us?"
When another member says, "Yes," Wells points out that the group is talking about a capital offense. Wells then attempts to further define a scenario in which deadly force would be justified. Would an oil embargo be a serious enough crisis? Wells asks.
Knight responds, "We aren't going to be doing any of this shit. It's just not going to happen. What's going for us is taking the moral high ground."
Randy Nelson says, "That doesn't feed your family."
Knight replies, "Planning does . . . but planning ahead to do something like that [killing or committing robbery] is wrong. If it comes to that [civil war], we'll plan then."
Knight says he also is nervous about a remark he made after an explosion. "I said, 'Man, that would have torn the tread off a tank.' And [prosecutors are] taking that to mean 'Oh, yeah, an ATF tank?'"
Knight says he has no idea what it would take to do that kind of damage, and that the government is blowing such statements out of proportion.
The defense attorneys, too, have seen and listened to the tapes.
"I guess they feel there are enough politically incorrect things said to where they're afraid the prosecution can make it really nasty," Knight says.
"Plus the fact that we said we knew it was a conspiracy. Yeah, that's on the tapes. [Defendant Dave Belliveau] was very careful to explain the antiterrorism bill and the conspiracy statutes and all that stuff to us. And I said at one point, 'Well, yeah, if one of us goes down, we should all hang together because we'd most assuredly hang separately.'"
Knight says under the language of the antiterrorism bill, parts of which have since become law, it seemed obvious to the group that the Vipers would be considered a conspiracy.
At the time, he explains, discussing whether the militia was a conspiracy was a way to criticize what they felt was a dumb law. But in the hands of government prosecutors--and out of its original context--that discussion becomes a damning admission.
Knight says defense attorneys have told the defendants that the second key piece of damaging evidence is the use of their dues to purchase supplies for explosives.
All 12 defendants face a common charge (for Knight, Chris Floyd and three others, it is the only charge): That they conspired to construct a "destructive device."
Knight is asked if he knew his dues were being used to purchase such supplies. "Yes," he answers.
Knight admits that the $25 he paid in dues was put into a kitty that reached about $500. Along with many other supplies purchased from that kitty, the "explosives guys," as Knight refers to them, used some of the money to buy blasting caps, small charges normally used by miners to set off explosions.
"The group as a whole tolerated the explosives for the camaraderie of the group, so we could all stay together."
Knight says he still doesn't understand why the explosives were such a big deal when the group had no plans to do anything other than blow up dirt in the desert.
Knight had only heard of--but hadn't seen--the infamous "target tape," made two years earlier by three of the defendants. The indictments suggest that the target tape is the proverbial smoking gun, the government's best evidence the Viper Team planned to blow up buildings. At the July detention hearings, government prosecutors attempted to show the tape, but after a few seconds of it played before a rapt courtroom audience, defense attorneys leapt to their feet and objected. The tape has still not been shown in public.
Knight says, "I didn't see it. To this day, I still haven't seen it. They mentioned it in one of the meetings. They said that Dean [Pleasant], Ellen and Dave [Belliveau] drove around in a car one weekend with a video camera, looking at buildings and narrating how to blow them up. I said, 'That's stupid. Where is that tape?' They said, 'It's been destroyed.' 'Have you seen it destroyed?' 'No, I gave it to [undercover agent] Doc to destroy.'
"They gave it to the ATF guy to get rid of. And the first thing he did was say 'Hey, look, we got probable cause, guys, here it is!' Well, that tape was two years old."
And Knight claims the tape was made for another group, not the Viper Team, which would not be created for another year. At least that's what he remembers from what he's been told about evidence in the case. He's been given voluminous copies of evidence--discovery that the government had to turn over.
"Let me see if I have that tape now. I might," Knight says, and he goes into a bedroom to search through some boxes.
He emerges a few minutes later.
"This is the target tape," he says as he walks to the VCR. Once it begins playing, this is what he hears:
Today's date is May 30, 1994. This is a reconnaissance tape for American patriots. What you are looking at now is the Phoenix, Arizona, Treasury Building, which houses Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms [the bureau has since moved]. You see here the communications array, including microwave. Also seen in this shot: the power transformer, on a telephone pole, leading to the building. Certainly not their only power source, but important and of note.
We will be going around the building. We will be taking note of its structure. We will also be walking up to the building. This is the address: Second Street and Indianola. We are south of Indian School. Today is Memorial Day. The offices are closed.
This is the main entrance to the building. You see there the iron grating, closing off the garage. We are on Second Street, west side of the building. Notice the structure. These pillars support the entire building. Take out these pillars, simultaneously, with explosives . . .
"Oh, my God," Chuck Knight says softly.
. . . and the building will collapse. This is important to note, an important objective to go after. Because if the building is not collapsed, information transfer will take place electronically. Records of local investigations, local suspects and various different operations will be transferred to federal computers back in Washington, D.C. . . .
Here we are on the north side of the building again, moving east, so you can see these mailboxes. If you wanted to put antipersonnel devices in here to harass Treasury employees, this would be an ideal location.
Knight says, "Jesus. God in heaven."
Also on the north side of the building, a water main. If you wanted to burn the building down, or you didn't want anyone to extinguish the fire after an explosion, take this out.
Knight says, "I'm going to throw up."
He shakes his head as future Viper colleague Dean Pleasant continues to narrate the video tour of Phoenix buildings. From the Treasury Building, Pleasant and the Belliveaus make similar assessments of the IRS office, Great American Bank, the U-Haul building (which Pleasant incorrectly identifies as the location of DEA offices), the INS building on Central Avenue (behind which, Pleasant notes, shrubs offer excellent concealment for a sniper), KPNX-TV Channel 12's studios, Phoenix Police Department headquarters, and the Maricopa County court complex.
When the tape ends, there is uneasy silence in the room. Then, in case Knight hasn't grasped the significance of the tape, James Taylor, Knight's pastor, crystallizes the peril it may pose. Taylor shifts in his chair and says, with measured restraint, "This tape would excite a jury."
"Well, yeah, because it's being done so cold," says Knight, referring to the lifeless tone of Pleasant's voice.
"No, because it was done at all," Taylor answers. "If I was sitting on a jury right now, and I heard that, I'd be ticked off. Does that tape still make you want to be so supportive of these people?"
"I think [Pleasant] had the right to be stupid," Knight answers. "I don't think he had the right to do anything about it."
"You think this is the right to be stupid? Or something else?"
"I think he was just bored. Dean Pleasant has a tremendous mind, but he can't focus himself, he can't do anything. I mean, he's unable to support himself. He was working at a doughnut farm, for God's sake, just to keep himself employed. Do I think I owe him anything? No."
"Do you think a jury of your peers will see that as just some guys who are bored?"
"I think it would be up to the defense to make that case. Or it would be up to the defense to make the case that the tape does not affect people two years later. Those people could have all kinds of criminal intent. But two years after the fact nothing has happened, there was no plan, [and government witness] Agent Ott said on the stand the reason they didn't alert anybody [supposed targets] that there was this dangerous group out there was because they knew there was no plan, no one in danger."
Later, Knight expresses regret at watching the tape. He's afraid of what prosecutors might make out of it but knows that his attorney should be able to keep it out of his trial: It was made nearly two years before he joined the group, after all. If it implicates the others, then so be it. He should not have to pay for the mistakes made by other defendants.
And he has reason to believe that his involvement, considered alone, would convince a jury he doesn't deserve prison time. At detention hearings, attorneys grilled government witness Ott about the participation of defendants such as Knight and Donna Williams, who faced none of the illegal weapons charges.
Knight's attorney Thomas Martinez, who has since been replaced by Tom Hoidal: "You didn't see Charles Knight mix, detonate, export . . . do anything illegal?"
ATF group supervisor Ott, testifying on behalf of the government's undercover agents: "Not to my recollection."
Martinez: "Charles Knight didn't use, export, buy, sell, make, teach, store anything on his own?"
Ott: "No."
Martinez: "The affidavit [for the search warrant] says, 'All members participated in making or mixing explosives.' Isn't it a fact that this isn't true?"
Ott: "That's correct."
Although they had been wary of each other at first, Knight and Williams developed a friendship and a curiosity about each other which had become a passionate affair. Knight says that although he had been married several times earlier, Williams was the first woman he had ever loved.
"I am not ashamed. We became the best of friends way before there was a chance of a romantic relationship. Both of our marriages were in failure by that point."
His divorce was final June 20. Williams' divorce decree had been final prior to that date.
Knight is not offended when he is asked how a man of faith can have so many failed marriages.
"That's what it's like to live under the grace of Jesus," he says. "You're allowed to screw up, and if you do, it doesn't mean you're less of a human being. You try to learn from your mistakes and move on instead of being buried by them."
Knight describes Williams as strong-willed and intelligent, someone who challenges him constantly on many different levels. In person, Williams has a striking presence: she's tall, handsome, and has intense eyes. In the militia, she had been called "Valkyrie."
On the morning of July 1, Knight and Williams woke up in his apartment. They dressed and walked outside, and Knight told her he'd see her later that day.
Knight drove to his first air-conditioning repair appointment of the morning, and he'd hardly pulled up his truck when it was cut off by an ATF van.
"Get out of the car! Get out of the car! Get out of the car," a pistol-wielding ATF agent screamed at him again and again.
Luckily, he says, a U.S. marshal with a cooler head took over, and his arrest went smoothly.
Gradually, the defendants realized what a media circus had erupted.
Most of the time during their incarceration, Williams and Knight could not see each other. They had contact only when male and female defendants were brought together at the federal courthouse for detention hearings.
One morning about a week after their arrests, Knight sat in one of the court's holding cells with the nine male Vipers and other inmates. In the next cell, other men were talking loudly. Down the hall, Knight knew, the female defendants, Williams and Ellen Belliveau, sat in a separate cell. He couldn't see them.
"Will everybody shut up a minute?" Knight shouted. The inmates quieted down.
"Donna," he said, "this is going to sound dumb in here, but will you marry me?"
From down the hall came her answer: "Yes, I will."
The inmates in Knight's cell broke into applause and pounded him on the back.
Later, when the defendants walked up a narrow set of stairs while in shackles, Knight got close enough to Williams to speak with her.
"You'll really marry me?" he asked.
"Yes, I really will," she replied.
Once they were released and allowed to contact each other, Knight says he made a proper proposal, on his knees. Williams accepted again.
When they were released from custody on July 13, Knight, Williams and four other freed defendants ran a gauntlet of quote-hungry reporters.
Only Knight spoke, shouting, "The truth will set you free!" as he left the courtroom. It's from Scripture, and Knight says it's his motto. Only after he rejected the government's plea agreement, he says, did he feel he was living up to it.
Knight, whose ex-wife had been awarded the house in the divorce, moved into his friend's house and, after a few weeks, started working again. As a result of the arrest, he's lost three customers out of a list of 400.
"My people know me," he says.
Pastor Warren Stewart is working the room into a fever, quoting Scripture in a booming voice that builds and builds. The African-American Baptist congregation eggs him on, shouting out "Hallelujahs" and "Praise the Lords" that punctuate the sermon in a syncopated rhythm. Stewart pushes on, riffing on the commercialism of the holiday season.
Then, with the congregation buzzing, Stewart pauses briefly to catch his breath. "I could stop there," he says with a smile, "but I won't."
It draws an appreciative shout from the crowd, and from the front row, a vote of confidence.
"Listen to this white man! He said, 'Stay with it!'" Stewart shouts, pointing at a worshiper in the front row, one of only a handful of white faces in the crowd of hundreds. "I think we have truly converted him to one of us."
The crowd roars in laughter.
"He's going to have me listening to country music before too long," Stewart jokes. "How long have you been coming, brother Knight?"
"Since I got out," Knight answers.
"This is brother Charles Knight," Stewart explains to the rest of the room. "He got into some trouble, and since then he has come to us and has been coming to our door ever since."
The worshipers erupt in applause.
"He said, 'Stay with it.' Oh, you bet I am," Stewart says as he pushes on.
After the service, Knight accepts the encouragement of other worshipers at the inner-city church, First Institutional Baptist on Jefferson Street.
Knight began to attend the church at the invitation of his friend James Taylor. Taylor told him that the black Baptists would have no trouble accepting someone who had been accused--perhaps wrongly--by overzealous lawmen.
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Abandoned by his friends at Northwest Christian Church, Knight gave Taylor's church a try. His shunning by former friends, he points out, is ironic, since it was members of Northwest Christian who first introduced him to the militia movement.
Today, standing outside First Institutional Baptist, he is especially proud as he introduces members of the congregation to his fiancee, Donna Williams. The two of them look wholly out of place, white folks shaking hands amid a sea of black faces.
The parishioners greet them warmly, not seeming to care that in their midst stand two of the country's most notorious serpents.


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DROITWICH Men were unable to complete a league double over second-placed Newton in the West Midlands Division Two after losing 2-0.
The game started frantically with both sides creating chances but it was Newtown who struck after 10 minutes from a penalty corner.
The hosts doubled their advantage eight minutes later after a shot deflected off a Droitwich stick, which was followed by a third a minute later from a well-worked corner routine.
Droitwich composed themselves and began to move the ball through midfield with Mike Langston and Matthew Darbyshire creating chances for the forwards.
Craig Timmis pulled a goal back and then had another chance smothered by Newtown's keeper.
After the break, Newtown tired and sat back, the game became condensed in the middle.
Spa used the pace to create chances as Darbyshire crossed the ball from wide on the right and Tommy Ross scuffed his effort wide of the left hand post.
Droitwich's pressure continued with several set pieces but could not get the roll of the ball with in the circle and second half ended goaless.
Spa end the current campaign with a match against Pershore (3pm start).
The seconds went goal crazy as they saw off Evesham 11-2.
Spa opened the scoring early with two quick goals in succession from Marcus Clayton. Further goals in the first half from Alex Brewer, Nick Bates, Barry Williams and Lee Wakelam handed them a six goal half-time lead.
In the second half, Wakelam added to his tally, before Evesham got on the score sheet.
Clayton then scored to seal his hat-trick, shortly followed by a further goal from Adam James.
Evesham then gained a second consolation effort before Alex Brewer scored a stunning reverse-stick goal from an acute angle.
Wakelam completed his treble to take his goal tally to 11 for the season. Victory ensures Spa are guaranteed third place in the league, narrowly missing out on promotion despite being the division top scorers with 71 goals.
They end the season at Pershore.
Meanwhile, the Ladies second entertained Harborne in Worcestershire Division One and lost 3-0 to the leaders. The Birmingham side bagged all three of their goals in the first half but Spa rallied after the break.
They will entertain Kings Heath away on Saturday.


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Early Discharge and Outpatients Care in Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome or Acute Myeloid Leukemia Previously Treated With Intensive Chemotherapy
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|Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7) Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22) Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|Procedure: standard follow-up care Other: medical chart review Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Phase 2 Study of Early Discharge and Outpatient Management of Adult Patients Following Intensive Chemotherapy for MDS and Non-APL AML
- Proportion of early deaths among patients who are discharged after completion of induction or salvage chemotherapy [ Time Frame: Up to day 35 ]A one-sided lower exact 95% confidence interval for the proportion of early deaths after discharge will be calculated.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Health services research (early discharge, outpatient care)
Patients are discharged within 72 hours after completion of chemotherapy and undergo standard outpatient care by a RN, PA, or resident/fellow at a local facility or the study center approximately 3 times per week, as clinically indicated for up to 45 days.
Procedure: standard follow-up care
Undergo early discharge and standard outpatient careOther: medical chart review
Undergo early discharge and standard outpatient care
Other Name: chart reviewProcedure: quality-of-life assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: quality of life assessment
Detailed Description:
I. Estimate the early death rate in patients discharged after completion of intensive induction or salvage chemotherapy.
I. Compare the costs incurred by patients discharged early after induction or salvage chemotherapy with similar patients who are discharged only after their blood counts recover.
II. Compare resource utilization (transfusions, etc.) in patients discharged early after induction or salvage chemotherapy with similar patients who are discharged only after blood count recovery.
III. Compare the quality of life in patients discharged early after induction or salvage chemotherapy with similar patients who are discharged only after their blood counts recover.
Patients are discharged within 72 hours after completion of chemotherapy and undergo standard outpatient care by a registered nurse (RN), physician assistant (PA), or resident/fellow at a local facility or the study center approximately 3 times per week, as clinically indicated for up to 45 days.
After completion of study, patients are followed up for 1 month.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML) other than acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with t(15;17)(q22;q12), (promyelocytic leukemia [PML]/retinoic acid receptor [RAR]), or variants according to the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) classification
- Currently undergoing AML-like intensive induction or re-induction chemotherapy, or is planned to start such therapy within 1 week
- Provide signed written informed consent
- Patients can be repeatedly enrolled in this protocol (e.g. for induction and 1st or subsequent salvage therapy)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Drug hypersensitivities or allergies disabling use of prophylactic antimicrobials
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01235572
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Principal Investigator:
|Roland Walter
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Responsible Party:
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01235572 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2012-03028 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
2449.00 ( Other Identifier: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium )
P30CA015704 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|November 4, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 5, 2015
Keywords provided by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center:
Acute myeloid leukemia with multilineage dysplasia following myelodysplastic syndrome
Adult acute eosinophilic leukemia
Adult acute basophilic leukemia
novo myelodysplastic syndromes
Secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
Untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute
Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Myeloproliferative Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017


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As America approaches another Presidential election, let's take a couple steps back from the partisan sniping, unending television ads and biased mainstream media reporting to examine the situation from the perspective of a real world scenario in agriculture. The setting is the boardroom of Liberty Co-op in Iowa, and Barry Soetoro, Liberty's General Manager has just arrived for his performance review with board president Jim Madison.
Madison: Well Barry, as you know it's time for your performance review to determine if you've accomplished what you promised the board and our farmer-owners when you interviewed for this job back in 2008. Granted, you were facing some tough economic headwinds here at Liberty Co-op caused by previous policy to push banks to make farmland loans to new farmers that really couldn't afford it, and when those defaults started, the domino effect on the whole state of Iowa was pretty dramatic. But you came in promising so much hope and change that you were selected to lead this Co-op back to prosperity.
So let's review some of your key objectives and your results: 1) You committed to cut our debt in half by the end of your four year term; 2) You committed to bring us together; the farmer owners, the board and the 50 retail plant managers that make up the operating team. I believe your exact words when accepting the job were "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal"; 3) You committed to reduce the rising cost of custom application; 4) You committed to a new way of doing business, and that your administration would be the most transparent ever; and finally 5) you committed to closing down our foreign operations.
How do you believe you've performed?
Barry: I believe Liberty Co-op and our farmer owners are better off than four years ago. I solved the escalating custom application costs, and everything is scheduled for the foreign shut down. As far as the deficit, it was a much deeper hole than I imagined. And amongst the farmers, I believe a lot of the Iowa State fans/farmers are beginning to see that my U. of Iowa philosophies are sound. All in all, I definitely feel I've earned another four years.
Madison: Barry, I don't see it that way. Let's start with the debt, which under your watch has skyrocketed from $10.6 million to $16 million. A 51% increase! This also represents 70% of our annual gross revenues.
Barry: Wait a minute…. That's not my fault. It's Dubya's fault. He left me with a mess.
Madison: Yes, Dubya made some mistakes, but we hired you to fix it. Not only did you fail to fix it, you made it worse. You failed to lead. You've been operating this Co-op without a budget for three years now! And when your operating team failed to produce a budget, you built your own budget. Your investment priorities, your direction, your financial plan. And your budgets were a joke… you called for an additional $9 million in debt over the next 10 years! And the board, controlled by your Hawkeyes, voted unanimously to reject both of your budgets. What happened to your pledge to go "line by line" through the budget to eliminate waste and balance the budget?
Regarding reigning in custom application costs – your solution was requiring all pesticide purchases to be custom applied or pay a fee. Some growers don't want custom application, and they can't believe this Co-op would mandate this tax to cover the costs for those using custom app. Now with more custom app acres than we can handle, our growers won't get to keep their favorite operator, plus you didn't budget to hire more drivers and buy more sprayers. Brilliant.
And this custom app. situation was a perfect example of your disregard for transparency and unwillingness or inability to bring people together. The Cyclone fans had some great ideas, but you rammed your Hawkeye ideology down the throats of our farmers. Your plan has some good elements, but the process, the loss of individual freedom and the ultimate financial cost to Liberty Co-op will be your legacy.
Ultimately, you've failed to lead. I've never seen our farmers, and this Co-op so divided. You and David Axlegrease have intentionally taken this approach to secure another four years as the GM. You've divided this Co-op based on race, gender, financial success, and faith trying to sway Cyclones and independent farmers to vote Hawkeye.
I guess we should have done a better background check. We knew it was a risk hiring a new GM that had never even run a retail location, but we hired you to restore this Co-op believing you would build upon the foundation of Hawkeyes Clinton and JFK. But it's now clear your foundation lies with Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky.
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James Norwood insists Forest Green have a winning mentality
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9:00am Saturday 1st February 2014
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Forest Green's leading marksman James Norwood believes improving confidence is set to give him and his team-mates a winning mentality ahead of the trip to Woking on Saturday (3pm), writes Richard Joyce.
After back-to-back victories over Hyde and Chester, the 23-year-old feels he is a part of a Rovers side who are heading in the right direction at the right time of the season, ahead of this weekend's visit to Kingfield.
He said: "We are always confident of winning games because we have the quality in the squad to be able to do that. We are winning games now and picking up points so every game we go unbeaten it is going to be a lot tougher for people to come play us at home and we'll be confident going away as well.
"All we can do is win games. Obviously it is a complete contrast from last year when we were trying to stay in the play-offs.
"We are just trying to build something at the moment. If we are fortunate to reach the play-offs this year then that's brilliant but if we can take good form into next season, then we stand a much better chance."
Last season saw Norwood notch 15 times in front of goal and he has already found the back of the net 12 times this season, making him the fifth highest scorer in the division heading into the weekend.
He added: "I've got a cooler head on me now – you can tell by my disciplinary record as well. I've always backed myself to score goals and it is just a matter of it happening now."
Bad weather has had an unwanted impact on playing surfaces up and down the Conference Premier. However going into this weekend's tie at Kingfield, Norwood doesn't feel it is a problem which could hamper this current Rovers side.
"We always used to be better on a nice flat pitch but the way we are playing now I think we can play on any pitch.
"We've got a great attitude within the squad, willing runners, the two big lads up top who put their bodies on the line week in week out, so I don't think the pitch affects us too much anymore because we have a certain style of play and it has been successful so far."
Saturday's trip to Surrey will be the first time this season Rovers have come up against Woking.
However it will mark the 13th visit to Kingfield in Conference fixtures alone, which means FGR have faced no other team more often than Saturday's opposition in 16 years as a Football Conference member.
With the Cards currently hovering above the Conference Premier drop zone, Ady Pennock will know Woking will be battling hard for the three points. If Rovers manage to win on Saturday it will match the November run which saw them pick up three consecutive wins over Dartford, Nuneaton and Lincoln.
Dale Bennett is available for selection, but Yan Klukowski and Aarran Racine remain sidelined.
Chris Stokes continues to miss out after a reaction to his hamstring problem, while Matty Taylor, who scored in the 2-1 win against Cardiff City U21s, has gone on loan to league rivals Chester.
Magno Vieria will be pushing for a start after scoring at Cardiff in the mid-week friendly.
Jared Hodgkiss is expected to continue at right back after the 27-year-old returned from injury last weekend.
Goalkeeper Matt Bulman has been released by the club, which will bring young keepers Adam McHugh and Paul White into consideration for a spot on the bench.
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Planning your menu for Valentine's Day? Nutrition experts say don't limit yourself to traditional aphrodisiacs like oysters.
It's long been thought that certain foods may have the power to put you in the mood for love. Carolyn Snyder is a registered dietitian at Cleveland Clinic. She said although it's tough to tell if any true aphrodisiacs exist, some foods are better than others at promoting blood flow and stimulating our senses, like hot chili peppers.
"Hot chilies, hot peppers, hot nights, so if you have the chilies that is going to fire up the romantic evening by increasing the circulation, but increasing blood flow, and by exciting those nerves," said Snyder.
Snyder said hot peppers are packed with capsaicin, a chemical known to release endorphins and create a feeling of happiness. Chilies can also increase heart rate and stimulate nerve endings.
Fresh ginger root may also get your circulatory system flowing. It also contains libido-lifting vitamin C, zinc, and magnesium.
Almonds provide a natural energy boost, and the scent may be particularly appealing to women.
Finally, Snyder said there is a reason many of us like to give our Valentine chocolate.
"It's giving you a serotonin high. So, when you have the chocolate you begin to feel a little more amorous than maybe you would do without the chocolate," said Snyder.
But even on Valentine's Day, calories count. Snyder said don't overdo it, an ounce or two at a time is sufficient.
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NASHVILLE � Abby Wambach simply laughs when asked about playing her 200th game for the U.S. women's national team. The 2012 FIFA Player of the Year is far too busy playing to dwell on her accomplishments.
NASHVILLE � Abby Wambach simply laughs when asked about playing her 200th game for the U.S. women�s national team. The 2012 FIFA Player of the Year is far too busy playing to dwell on her accomplishments.
�Hopefully I�ll think about those more when I retire,� Wambach said Tuesday.
�I�m not really big on personal accolades and awards. It�s just not my style. So for me, it�s another game. It�s exciting, I guess. I don�t know. It�s hard to explain because I don�t really put that much value on that kind of stuff. I put value on wins. I put value on championships.�
With 152 goals, the 33-year-old foreard enters Wednesday�s exhibition against Scotland six from the world record set by Mia Hamm from 1987-04. Only seven Americans have appeared in more international matches.
Midfielder Shannon Boxx called it a huge accomplishment.
�We don�t have that many players that have been able to get to that level,� American midfielder Shannon Boxx said. �I think it�s her day tomorrow, and we can hopefully celebrate it with her. Hopefully, she�ll get a goal to continue her strength and her power.�
Kristine Lilly tops the U.S. list with 352 appearances. Defender Christie Rampone was set for her 278th on Wednesday night, while the others include Hamm (275), Julie Foudy (272), Joy Fawcett (239), Tiffeny Milbrett (204) and Kate Markgraf (201).
�She�s an amazing, amazing player and an amazing person,� defender Ali Krieger said. �Great role model for this team, and she�s our leader. She�s one of the best forwards in the world, obviously the best player this past year in the world, and we�re lucky to have her. She�s going strong, and I hope that we win for her and this team and that she scores a few goals just to make it 10 times better.�
Wambach credits being the youngest of seven for understanding the approach needed to play within a team and great coaches over the years believing in her for allowing her to reach 200 caps in her career.
�There�s so many great players in this country, and a lot of it does kind of fall down to a coach�s opinion for better or for worse,� Wambach said. �I�ve had really great coaches that really believed in me and put me on the field and gave me the responsibility of scoring goals for this team for a lot of years. That�s a responsibility I take very seriously. Two hundred, 100, whatever we�re talking about, if we�re winning that game, that�s the most important thing for me.�
The forward talked with reporters before practice at LP Field, home to the NFL�s Tennessee Titans. She then poised for photos with a boy thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation before bringing him onto the field to kick around a soccer ball with herself and then other teammates during warm-ups.
Wambach doesn�t sound as if she�s thinking of retirement anytime soon either. The Americans are busy learning the philosophy of new coach Tom Sermanni, the Scot who spent the last eight years as Australia�s national team coach. He opened with a 4-1 Saturday over his native country.
The national team will be heading to Portugal after Sermanni chooses his roster for the Algarve Cup. More than 12,000 tickets have been sold for Wednesday, giving the U.S. a chance to top the Tennessee record of 13,081 who saw the U.S. women beat Sweden 3-1 in Chattanooga in 1997.
�It�s an exciting time to be on this team,� Wambach said. �Obviously, I�m in the latter parts of my years, but I�m excited to see what�s ahead for this team.�
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Topic: Omega 3 and Cisplatin
Docosahexanoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils, has been shown to reduce the size of tumours and enhance the positive effects of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, while limiting its harmful side effects. The rat experiments described in Cell Division provide some additional support for the health benefits often ascribed to omega-3 acids.
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Illustrator speaks to students
November 23, 2012
Jared Manninen, a local author and illustrator, recently visited Zephyr Cove Elementary School to talk with a fifth-grade class.
Manninen spoke about his career path, writing books and illustrating to 26 fifth-graders in Mr. Kixmiller's class. He has been taking time out of his creative schedule to volunteer his time talking with children, according to a press release.
Manninen served in the Marine Corps from 1992-96, then earned a bachelor's degree in technical writing in 1999. He discovered his passion for art while attending college and has continued to paint and draw over the years. In 2010, Manninen forged a new career path by merging his art, design, and writing background into the publishing company Makoto Press. He has since created black-and-white graphic novels and illustrated stories.
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Senate resumes debate on SC's $5.8B spending plan
South Carolina Medicaid patients with AIDS, cancer or mental illness will have to use generic drugs if available under a budget measure the Senate agreed to Tuesday. Full story
South Carolina Medicaid patients with AIDS, cancer or mental illness will have to use generic drugs if available under a budget measure the Senate agreed to Tuesday. Full story
Kansas legislators negotiating over a $14 billion budget saw progress Tuesday toward resolving differences between the House and the Senate, and state funding for arts programs appeared likely to survive their discussions. Full story
The basic checking account is getting a lot more complicated. Banks in the past year have revamped terms to introduce new or hiked fees, change minimum balance requirements and tweak other terms. Full story
As the special session entered its third week Monday, Speaker Mike Chenault raised the potential of the House writing and passing its own version of a capital budget if the impasse with the Senate persisted. Full story
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday pressured lawmakers returning from a two-week vacation to act on his proposed property tax cap and ethics reforms, or else. Full story
The state Senate bucked a national trend of forgoing tax increases early Tuesday and instead passed a two-year, $40.1 billion budget that attempts to tackle the state's deficit with a combination of cuts, labor savings and wide-ranging tax hikes. Full story
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to hold a Senate vote on the Paul Ryan budget. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., joins Morning Joe to discuss his thoughts on the Ryan budget and says that President Obama should offer an alternative vision.
After over a year of scandal and facing a Senate ethics investigation, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) is reported to be resigning. Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun, who broke the story, joins The Rachel Maddow Show.
Legislation that would give same-sex couples the same immigration rights as heterosexual couples is making its way through the Senate. Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald, an American who moved to Brazil to be with his partner, discusses the bill with msnbc's Thomas Roberts.
Chris Hayes, Washington editor of The Nation, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Tea Party media celebrity despite its waning appeal, and the deference given conservatives in the Senate despite the American people giving Democrats the majority.
The House and Senate are taking up a bill that would grant same-sex couples the same immigration rights given to heterosexual couples, including the right to sponsor a partner for U.S. residency. Karin Bogliolo and Judy Rickard discuss their new book, "Torn Apart," and the hard choices their family
A photo taken on October 18, 2010 at the Senate in Paris, shows Eric Woerth, then French Labour minister. Former minister Woerth will be heard on May 4, 2011 by a commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic preparing the case of the alleged sale of state-owned Compiegne racecourse to an acqu
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Bradley Alen Clark, 27, of North Platte, pled not guilty to possession of methamphetamine Monday in Lincoln County District Court.
Defense attorney Leonard Vyhnalek asked for a jury trial. Vyhnalek also asked for a bond reduction, but Deputy County Attorney Jennifer Wellan objected saying that Clark needs to stay in jail. Every time he gets out he commits more crimes. And, during his past escape attempt he even tried to commit a carjacking.
District Judge Richard Birch denied any bond change.
Clarks record is long and includes probation violations, failure to appear, protection order violations, 10 counts of burglary and four counts of theft, as well as forgery, assault, criminal mischief, contempt of court, escape, false reporting, driving under suspension and shoplifting.
The escape charge came after two burglary charges in March 2010. When officers caught him, he threatened to harm himself so he was taken into protective custody at the Great Plains Regional Medical Center, where he pulled a fire alarm and escaped again. He was recaptured a short time later in Centennial Park.
During his arraignment in county court for the recent meth charges, Lincoln County Judge Michael Piccolo asked Clark if he understood his rights.
He quipped, I should, as often as Ive been in here.
Donald Wyman III, 51, of North Platte was sentenced Monday to 52 days in jail for writing bad checks. Prosecutor Jennifer Wellan asked for jail time, citing Wymans extensive arrest record.
Defense attorney Pat Hays asked the court for leniency.
Yes, Mr. Wyman has a long record, but its all for rather minor stuff, Hayes said.
Wyman has paid restitution for the bad checks and District Judge Richard Birch took that into consideration.
Wyman wrote bad checks at ABC Auto for car parts and at Town and Country Western Wear. He served 41 days last year on the charge, then paid the required 10 percent of $5,000 bond and was released.
After the sentence was handed down Monday, he was escorted back to jail.
Wymans record dates back to 1997 and includes dozens of charges, mostly related to harrassment of an ex-girl friend, and also including bad checks and DUIs.
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The North Platte City Council approved the 2012-2013 city budget Thursday that is seven percent higher than last year and will raise utility rates.
The property tax levy remained the same as last year, on a 6-1 vote. The city levy stands at 0.474637, which will add up to $5,884,338.
Councilman Jim Carman cast the only no vote on the levy.
This is the second year in a row weve had the opportunity to lower the property tax levy a little bit, Carman said. Both times we havent done that. We should go back to the drawing board and try to lower it.
No one responded to Carman. Councilman Dan McGuire moved to adopt the levy.
Also, the council approved rate increases for electrical, water and sewer. The electric rate will go up 4.4 percent, water 4.2 percent and sewer 3.3 percent.
The levy will be allocated to: $3.5 million for general expenses; $2 million for debt service, $300,000 for pensions.
The citys taxable property is valued at $1.24 billion a 2.5 percent increase over one year ago, according to the budget.
The budget takes effect on Oct. 1, the first day of the new fiscal year.
Newburn work
At a work session after the meeting, the council heard presentations from four financial institutions seeking consideration to handle the $2.6 million Newburn Fund.
The fund is currently in CDs at very low interest rates and Mayor Marc Kaschke has suggested looking for better investment plans.
Council members Martin Steinbeck, Carman, Judy Pedersen and Jerry Stoll sat in on a financial committee that set the criteria for selecting financial institutions. From 13 institutions that applied, city staff narrowed it to four.
City Administrator Jim Hawks said based on the criteria that were sent down from the committee we tried to narrow it down to those that meet that criteria.
Wells Fargo Bank, First National Bank, Adams Bank and Trust and Bank of The West made presentations to the council.
Council members Dan McGuire, Larry Campbell and Tim Barrett asked how the committee was chosen and why they were not aware it existed. Mayor Kaschke said the committee was formed in June and had been discussed since January.
Campbell expressed concern that none of the institutions are locally owned.
Theres been some concern about the final four, how they were picked and if there was any favoritism, he said.
Barrett suggested that an advisor be used to help with the investment process.
If were going to get serious about this were going to need help he said.
No official action was taken at the work session.
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September Bookstore Sales Fell 8%
Bookstore sales in September fell 8.2%, to $1.39 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Last September was the final month of Borders's going-out-of-business sales. For the first nine months of 2012, bookstore sales were down 1.6%, to $11.64 billion.
Schneider to Head Follett
Mary Lee Schneider, former president of Digital Solutions and chief technology officer at RR Donnelley, will take over as president and CEO of Follett Corp. November 26. She is the first person outside of the Follett family to head the company.
AAUP Picks Berkery
Peter Berkery Jr. has been named the new executive director of the Association of American University Presses. Berkery, who has been v-p and publisher of the U.S. Law division of Oxford University Press, will assume his new position March 1, succeeding longtime AAUP director Peter Givler.
Family Christian Stores Acquired
Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian retail chain, with 280 stores in 36 states, has been acquired from its private equity owners by the chain's management team in partnership with three Atlanta-based investors. The new owners pledge to contribute 100% of Family's profits to Christian ministries serving widows and orphans in the U.S. and abroad.
Lagardère Third Quarter Up
Sales at Lagardère Publishing rose 4% in the third quarter ended September 30, to 626 million euros, due in part to favorable currency fluctuations and a strong performance in the literature category led by the release of J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. The release of Vacancy led to a 7.3% increase in general literature sales in the U.S. (Hachette Book Group), 17% in the U.K., and 12.4% in France.
SCIBA Director Steps Down
Jennifer Bigelow, who was at the helm of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association since 1999, has resigned as executive director effective December 31. No replacement has been named.
Abrams Reorganizes
Abrams has reorganized its adult group management team in a move aimed at more aggressively exploiting the illustrated book publisher's assets in the digital marketplace and expanding internationally. Steve Tager has been named to the new role of senior v-p, chief marketing and business development officer.
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Melville House is hoping to entice readers to its classics series, the Art of the Novella, through a subscription offer that gives readers both print and digital copies. The subscription offer on the series includes three different options—print-only, digital-only, and a combination-—at a mix of price points depending on subscription length.