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Prescription drug spending skyrocketing
The seemingly insatiable and growing demand for prescription drugs, especially from aging baby boomers determined to remain healthy and active, is driving the rise in prescription spending as much as the industry's much-publicized and criticized price increases, according to data released this week.
Business Briefs
Commissioner of Education Charlie Crist recently honored Educational Community Credit Union with his Commissioner's Business Recognition Award for its efforts with St. Johns County schools.
Are you financially fit?
With responsibility for financial education, health care and retirement shifting more and more from employers to their employees, good money management skills are more essential than ever. We need the skills and knowledge to build appropriate financial plans to drive our career and lifestyle goals. It's not enough to earn money, you have to know how to make the most of what you have.
Motley Fool
Q: I'm interested in purchasing small amounts of stock as gifts for grandchildren instead of the customary throwaway gifts. Where I can find a list of companies that sell small shares directly to individuals? -- Kay Montgomery, Mobile, Ala.
Mortgage rates rise as economy rallies
DALLAS -- The early rebound in the U.S. economy is putting a bite on homebuyers with an increase in mortgage rates. Home loan costs have gone up only slightly from recent near-record lows, but the rise has already been enough to panic some home buyers and put an end to many mortgage refinancings.
Coke reportedly developing vanilla version
ATLANTA (AP) -- Coca-Cola is reportedly developing a vanilla-flavored version of its best-selling flagship cola, extending the company's wide palette of flavorings from Cherry Coke and Diet Coke with lemon.
Fromajardis serenade Thursday
Honors have been announced for the 2002 Easter Festival parade. Winner of the Pappy Schilling Overall Grand Award, the highest award given in the parade went to the Confederate States Army Living History Unit. That group also earned first place in the historic category.
Festival Time
An Every Woman's Arts and Crafts Festival is planned April 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the St. Augustine Pier beach pavilion.
Britney T-shirts available
Q. My granddaughter is a big Britney Spears fan. She's been begging for a new T-shirt with Britney's handprint on it, but we haven't been able to find anything like that at the mall. Can you help?
Neighbors: FSDB benefit set for Saturday
Father Rene Robert invites you to the annual Spring Hoe Down and Chuckwagon Supper at the Cathedral Parish Center, 259 St. George St. starting at 6 p.m. Saturday, to support his ministry at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind.
Revival begins today
A revival featuring missionary to the deaf Joe Kotvas will continue today through Sunday at Heritage Baptist Church of the Deaf, 1480 Wildwood Drive.
Self Help
Self Help is a list of weekly/daily meetings. These meetings encourage a health and happier you. Meetings include AA, NA and support groups of various types.
Duplicate spring series continues
Many of the St. Augustine Duplicate Bridge Club's seasonal northern members, fondly referred to by the locals as "snowbirds" have or are in the process of leaving St. Augustine to return to their summer homes. They will be sorely missed.
Fabric stores are a vanishing breed
Fabric stores aren't what they used to be. You used to be able to go in and quickly locate the pattern books, fabrics sorted according to type, a helpful employee (even knowledgeable), and walk out knowing you had spent an enjoyable hour in the store.I can't honestly say that is the case today.
People, celebrities: Fashion designer is on the mend
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fashion designer Donna Karan is doing some mending of her own after breaking her knee while helicopter skiing.
Horoscopes for Thursday, April 4, 2002.
People, Celebrities; Newhart awarded Twain prize
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TV and film comedian Bob Newhart has been awarded the fifth annual Mark Twain prize given by the Kennedy Center for American humor.
Anglers come together to share knowledge, techniques
No better time than the present to correct a recent error, and at the same time endorse what I expect to be an interesting seminar.
Hints from Heloise
Dear Heloise: Poor eyesight in old age has led me to find an easier way to thread a needle other than using a threader.
Try this delicious black-walnut cake
Ernest Adams of Columbia, Md., writes that for years he has been seeking a recipe for Black-Walnut Cake like the one his grandmother made. "I am retired, and my daughter Suzanne said she would make it for me."
Here are some tips on getting children interested in their food
Approximately 50 nutrients are needed in our daily diet for our body to maintain health+. As I've stated before, no one food contains all of these required nutrients.
Can mental activity help fend off Alzheimer's?
Read this story and feel the burn. To stay fit, one line of thinking goes, the body may need just as much exercise above the neck as it does below.
Eating right: to sleep, perchance to eat less?
Is a healthy eating plan still leaving you hungry? Then consider evaluating your sleeping patterns.
Dog breeders, humane groups scrap over proposed new puppy rules
WASHINGTON -- Hardly a whimper was heard when the Senate approved a Puppy Protection Act specifying how often dogs can be bred and how their puppies are to be treated. Happy puppies make better dogs, said backers of the rules.
Rumsfeld: Iran giving al-Qaida safe passage
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al-Qaida terrorists fleeing Afghanistan have been allowed safe passage through Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday, criticizing Tehran for a second straight day as a supporter of global terrorists.
Poll: Americans doubt benefits of tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After receiving 86 million tax rebate checks worth almost $40 billion in the past year, Americans still have doubts about who gains, an Associated Press poll says. In fact, four in five think cuts generally benefit someone else.
Likeliest Arafat successors lying low
WASHINGTON -- The latest Mideast violence threatens anew Yasser Arafat's position as Palestinian leader, raising the question of who would be next. The answer is complicated by the fact that his likeliest successors are lying low.
National Briefs
SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. president and chief operating officer Rick Belluzzo said Wednesday he was stepping down after just over a year in the position.
Anthrax source still cloaked in anonymity
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, federal investigators had identified suspects, a motive and even a mastermind -- Osama Bin Laden.
Despite push for tax e-filing, paper returns still the rule
WASHINGTON -- Despite heavy electronic-filing promotion by the IRS and makers of tax software, most of this year's income tax returns will still be stamped and mailed the old-fashioned way.
White House says suspect's capture a blow to al-Qaida
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Tuesday celebrated the U.S. capture of top al-Qaida leader Abu Zubaydah as a "very serious blow" to the terrorist network and said Americans are still threatened.
Firefighter killed Sept. 11 lives on in girl through marrow donation
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Chantyl Peterson bursts through the front door, greets her mother and slings her school books onto the floor. She's a healthy seventh-grader who loves horseback riding and playing the flute.
Bush touts education initiative
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- President Bush unveiled a new initiative to expand the nation's early childhood education system Tuesday, saying teachers of pre-kindergarten youngsters need more training and higher salaries.
National Briefs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Orders to U.S. factories dipped 0.1 percent in February as weaker demand for computers and cars eclipsed gains for household appliances and industrial machinery.
Children's sexuality book causes furor
NEW YORK (AP) -- A month before its publication, a provocative book about children's sexuality is being denounced by conservatives as evil and prompting angry calls for action against the University of Minnesota Press.
Towns battle for right to leave arsenic in the water
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In this desert metropolis, where it is glaringly apparent that well water brings life, most townspeople refuse to believe that the arsenic in it can also bring death.
Cardinal plays close to the vest for welfare of victims
LOS ANGELES -- Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, in his first interview since the priest-abuse scandal broke, said Tuesday his refusal to give details about priests dismissed from the Los Angeles Archdiocese was based on requests from police and victims.
Pizza delivery turns into A1A accident
Paul Bayer had just finished delivering a pizza Tuesday afternoon and was on his way back to Papa Johns at 3920 State Road A1A South when a blue Ford Excursion slammed into the front of his Lincoln Mark VII.
Area gasoline storage tanks undergoing tests
Underground gasoline storage tanks in St. Johns County are being tested by the state for possible leakage.
Information from the city of St. Augustine's financial report was incorrect in a story in The St. Augustine Record on March 26.
Police Beat: Woman arrested on aggravated assault, criminal mischief charges
A 40-year-old St. Johns County woman was arrested Monday after she began arguing with a friend and pointed a gun at her.
Blood Center has critical shortage
The Blood Center of St. Johns has a critical shortage of several types of blood. Blood bank spokeswoman Sandy Janson said Tuesday the blood center is in critical need of O-positive, B-positive, A-positive, and O-negative units. She said there are a few units of O-positive on the shelves and the blood center is working "urgently" to transport blood in from centers.
Police Beat: Man arrested on crack possession charge
A 38-year-old St. Johns County man was arrested on charges of possession of crack cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia Tuesday night.
Today in History
Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2002. There are 272 days left in the year.
Publix may open store on C.R. 210
A 44,271-square-foot Publix is planned for a development on County Road 210 west of Interstate 95. Pending St. Johns County approval, the supermarket will anchor the 75,000-square-foot Village at St. Johns Forest Shopping Center, a project principal said Wednesday.
County sees new connections to Duval
Eventually, St. Johns County motorists will see quicker and easier access to Jacksonville and points north. A preview of proposed road projects across the Duval County line Tuesday showed the St. Johns Board of County Commissioners the scope of those projects.
County blood bank to serve children around the world
Needy children in countries throughout the world will receive packets of donated blood shipped from St. Augustine, the Blood Center of the St. Johns announced Wednesday.
Senior Pro-Am
PGA Senior Tour player Hale Irwin chips onto the ninth green of The King and the Bear during the Wachovia Securties Pro-Am tournament Wednesday.
A Sultan's celebration
Melanie LaJoie leads the A Magi dancers during the opening of the Sultan's Pavilion at the Casa Monica Hotel Wednesday. The poolside wedding and special events pavilion, which can host up to 100 guests, is a $250,000 addition built above the hotel's main dining room.
Jaguars, Senior Players tee it up
Current Jacksonville Jaguars Mark Brunell and Pete Mitchell, and former player Dave Widell teamed up with golfers Gary Player, Jim Colbert and Andy North Tuesday to raise money for various charities.
Today in History
Today is Thursday, April 4, the 94th day of 2002. There are 271 days left in the year.
Guard plans to phase out airport, seaport protection
MIAMI -- A new wave of Florida National Guard soldiers has moved into the state's airport's and seaports to protect against terrorists. But they won't be there long.
Damon Earl Bailey
Damon Earl Bailey, 61, of Apopka, died March 28, 2002, at Orlando. He was a former resident of St. Augustine and a native of Ocilla, Ga. He retired from Hudson Transit Authority, Jersey City, N.J.
Mary Joanne Funderberk
Mary Joanne Funderberk, 57, of St. Augustine, died March 31, 2002 at Flagler Hospital. She had resided here since 1984. She was a former church clerk and church organist and was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Ruth Custer Hughes
Ruth Custer Hughes, 87, died April 2, 2002, at Flagler Hospital. She was born in Bainbridge, Ga., and lived in Calhoun, Ga., for 40 years before moving to St. Augustine seven years ago. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1937. A teacher and journalist, she was married to John Wesley Hughes (deceased), past publisher of the Calhoun Times and Gordon County News, Calhoun, Ga.
Jessie Arminda Reynolds
Jessie Arminda Reynolds, 89, of Elkton, died April 2, 2002, at St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville. She was born in Anderson County, S.C., and had resided in St. Augustine since 1930. She was the wife of the late Willie Reynolds.
Mary Alice Golden-Downey
Mary Alice Golden-Downey, 63, of St. Augustine, passed away March 30, 2002 at her home, after a long illness. She was born in Corbin, Ky., and had resided in St. Augustine since 1971. She was a member of the Pentecostal Revival Church.
Louise C. Fahrney
Louise C. Fahrney, 85, of Winchester, Va., formerly of St. Augustine, died March 30, 2002, at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando. She was a native of St. Petersburg and a 1934 graduate of St. Pete High School. She received her Associate degree from St. Petersburg Junior College, her Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Florida Southern, and her Master's degree from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. She taught third grade at North Ward Elementary in St. Petersburg for nine years before moving to Ft. Myers in 1955, where she taught at Tice Elementary School for three years. She was elementary supervisor for Lee County in Ft. Myers as well as being the Ft. Myers coordinator of Exceptional Child Programs. She was principal of Alta Vista Elementary School in Sarasota for eight years and was formerly with the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Education for Exceptional Students in Tallahassee, for nine years. She served as a consultant for university training programs before going to Flagler College in St. Augustine in 1976 as professor of Exceptional Child Education until her retirement in 1988. She was recipient of the Flagler College Student Government Award for the 1987-88 Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. After retirement, she moved to Indianapolis, Ind., from 1988 to 1996 and from there moved to Winchester, Va., where she was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Winchester.
Christina Lunette Harris
Christina Lunette Harris, 28, of Columbus, Ga., died March 27, 2002, at home. She was a native of Fort Jackson, S.C. She was a certified nursing assistant. She was a member of the Methodist church.
Joseph Ransom Clisby
Joseph Ransom Clisby, 89, of Blands Knob, N.C., died April 1, 2002, in a Spruce Pine hospital. He lived in St. Augustine at one time. He was the son of the late Joseph Ward and Louise Logan Clisby. Retired from Clisby and Company in Macon, Ga., he was a former member of the Macon Rotary Club. He graduated from Mercy University in Macon, was a member of Phi Delta Theta and was of the Episcopal faith.
Mary E. Hall
Mary E. Hall, 71, of Bunnell, died March 28, 2002, at Ormond Memorial Hospital Peninsula, Ormond Beach. She was a native of Neoga, Fla., and she had resided in Bunnell for 50 years.
What others say
This editorial appeared in Sunday's Los Angeles Times:
Reformer's pipe dream
WASHINGTON -- A day before President Bush signed the new campaign finance reform bill in the solitude of his office, figuratively holding his nose as he did so, a coalition of state reform groups asked him to promise them something.
Letter: Growth ruining Anastasia Island
The re-flapping about the Bridge of Lions' safety is like griping about the sturdiness of the statehouse or county building, etc., which houses our decision/policy makers. It's the policy and direction we take as a community that matters much more than the roof they vote under.
Letter: Two bridges seems like a good idea
Editor: The suggestion for a two lane span parallel to the existing Bridge of Lions by Robert McKercher in your March 23 edition is an excellent one. Clone the appearance of existing span with all the added safety features that the Coast Guard and FL DOT want.
Letter: Thanks to honest people
Editor: I would like to thank the honest person who found my wallet on St George Street and took it to Footprints. And to the Footprints employee who called to let me know it was there.
Letter: Bring back neighbors on Tuesdays
This is likely the shortest letter I've ever written to the editor. Getting a general opinion from/about, issues/concerns in our communities as I ride around town on my Rolls Royce varies. However most often than not I'm in accord with my neighbors, not just home-folk in Lincolnville they are home-folk from various communities.
Today's boom cars are acoustic terrorism
A crew in Phoenix has been customizing "the Beast," a Ford Bronco with a car stereo designed to pump out a whopping 175 decibels, reports Wired magazine. The Bronco's 48,000-watt system would be eight times louder than a 747 jet.
Letter: Too many chiefs, not enough working
Editor: I just finished reading Bud Markels write up. Bud you still call the shots like they are. We just need more people like you. I have found about 410 counties are alike. Too many chiefs and not enough working. Too many county trucks and cars. Too many people doing nothing.
Letter: It's time to rethink the Bridge of Lions
Twice last week, like many weeks in the past, stuck behind a stalled, sometimes double line of traffic that extended from the span of the Bridge of Lions, down Bay Street (Avenida Menendez) to a point north of the city gate on Castillo Drive, I had time to think about the new bridge to be built in St. Augustine.
Letter: College's performance was a joy
Editor: I just wanted to recognize the performance of Flagler College students and staff for their work, talent and professional presentation of "My Fair Lady". It was a joy that is not often available in this community.
Letter: Reader enjoyed county fair
Editor: Visited the St. Johns County Fair, accompanied with four adults and a child, I must say that Drew Enterprises did a great job with the fun and rides. The County Extension Agriculture put on a fine booth for the young ones with Fowl and Animals.
Rebuilding nations
In Afghanistan American strength and skill will win every military engagement. But those victories will be worth little in the long run if they are not followed up by a successful nation-building effort. This will undoubtedly be lengthy, costly and difficult, but given the stakes in Afghanistan, we must succeed in this larger mission or face what could ultimately be a failure, no matter how well the military campaign goes.
Legends on Tap
Find out what time, who's playing/leading when and discover helpful hints on parking.
Terps savor title, look to future
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Wearing a net from Maryland's first-ever NCAA title around his neck, Juan Dixon had a hard time containing himself as he spoke to 5,000 cheering fans.
Senators nip Hurricanes, 4-3
OTTAWA -- Sami Salo had a goal and an assist to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 win Tuesday night over the Carolina Hurricanes, clinching a playoff berth.
Jaguars sign receiver and safety
JACKSONVILLE -- The Jacksonville Jaguars signed wide receiver Larry Shannon and safety Fred White on Wednesday and waived offensive tackle Shaun Rose.
Nicklaus withdraws from Legends
Jack Nicklaus, the most dominant player at Augusta National with six green jackets won over 23 years, withdrew Tuesday from the Masters because of lingering back problems.
UF officially names Peck women's coach
GAINESVILLE -- Make no mistake, Florida hired Carolyn Peck away from the Orlando Miracle to out-recruit Southeastern Conference rivals, beat Tennessee and win a national title.
Bonds away
LOS ANGELES -- At this rate, Barry Bonds will break his own home-run record this year.
Pirates Poke Mets; Wells blanks Orioles
NEW YORK -- Pokey Reese drove in three runs, two after an error by Gold Glove second baseman Roberto Alomar, and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Mets 5-3 on Wednesday.
Source: Peck new UF women's coach
The University of Florida has hired Carolyn Peck as its new women's basketball coach, a source told the Florida Times-Union.
Maddux gets cortisone shot, could start Sunday
ATLANTA -- Braves ace Greg Maddux, who couldn't start on opening day due to an inflamed nerve in his lower back, received a cortisone shot for the injury Wednesday and hopes to start Sunday against the New York Mets.
Rain, runs quiet Flagler on diamond
Two runs in the first and a healthy dose of rain washed away the Flagler College baseball team.
Texans to make Carr first pick
HOUSTON -- The Houston Texans know the ultimate success for most NFL teams lies at quarterback.
LPGA a victim of Tiger's success
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- There is nothing wrong with the LPGA Tour that cannot be fixed. Just get Tiger Woods to retire.
Jordan done for the season
WASHINGTON -- Michael Jordan will miss the rest of the season because of nagging problems with his knee.
Jackets' D-fense move on
Justin Drake and Jamond Davis were more than just teammates in the middle of St. Augustine's dominant defense in 2001. "Jamond was like my brother," Drake said. And pondering the prospect of opposing each other in the first game of their college football careers, darned if they don't kid one another like brothers.
Hall Marked
With two majors each and a host of Ryder Cup experience between them, Ben Crenshaw and Tony Jacklin are often linked together. The newly elected players met the media on Wednesday at The King & Bear as the Legends of Golf week churned on.
Hornets sink Heat; Nets beat Lakers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Jamal Mashburn claims the Miami Heat are just another team to him. The Charlotte Hornets think otherwise.
Bad day for MJ as Lakers crush Wizards
WASHINGTON -- It's a good thing Michael Jordan was wearing No. 23. Phil Jackson might not have recognized him otherwise.
Golf Glance
An overview of current golf events. Also a helpful guide listing websites of interest to golfers.
'Rookies' Rule
Two rookies walked away with titles Tuesday afternoon at The King & Bear at the World Golf Village.
Yellow Jackets capture conference weightlifting meet
St. Augustine's weightlifting team continued their successful season Wednesday, winning the Star Conference weightlifting meet in dominating fashion.
Daughter says Billy Graham has gone deaf
JACKSONVILLE (AP) -- Evangelist Billy Graham has lost his hearing, the preacher's daughter said Wednesday.
Scientists predict intense hurricane season
ORLANDO -- Because the tropical Atlantic has fallen into a new era of intense hurricane activity, the upcoming season should be an active one, last well into October and pose a serious threat to the United States, government scientists warned on Tuesday.
Panhandle island worst in the nation for drowning
PENSACOLA BEACH (AP) -- A mother called to her 10-year-old son to get out of the roiling Gulf of Mexico surf where he had been playing with a body board, but he yelled back, "I can't get in."
Man flees into Tampa terminal after gun spotted
TAMPA (AP) -- A Tampa International Airport terminal was evacuated for three hours Tuesday when a security official thought he saw a pistol in a carryon bag and a passenger grabbed the luggage and sprinted away.
Florida man claims his father shot MLK
GAINESVILLE -- A new story about the slaying of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. implicates a former St. Augustine resident. The Rev. Ronald D. Wilson said his own father, Henry Clay "Raul" Wilson, shot King in 1968. Wilson and his father were born and raised in St. Augustine.
Priest resigns over abuse allegations
BOYNTON BEACH (AP) -- A priest at a Roman Catholic seminary has resigned over allegations that he sexually abused a teen-ager in New York in the 1970s.
FEMA director Allbaugh warns against hurricane 'hazard amnesia'
ORLANDO -- No hurricanes have struck America in more than two years, prompting the nation's top emergency official to issue a warning Wednesday that people are suffering from "hazard amnesia." Meanwhile, a hurricane expert offered a mixed forecast for the upcoming tropical weather season.
House passes education overhaul while Senate tinkers
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Local boards that oversee Florida's public universities would get more independence and third-graders who don't master reading skills would not move to the next grade under sweeping education legislation the House passed Tuesday.
State House, Senate get ready to negotiate school code rewrite
TALLAHASSEE -- The Senate moved a couple of steps closer to the House on the mammoth school code rewrite bill Wednesday, leaving the issue of school board pay as the major sticking point to a compromise.
State Briefs
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Danny Rolling's death sentences should be overturned because they were recommended by a biased jury in the same town where he killed five students, his lawyer told the state Supreme Court.
Many U.S. citizens share plight of Ramallah's civilians under control of Israeli military
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Trapped in their homes by shelling and gunfire, they're running short of food and water, soothing their fearful children and -- in at least one case -- dying in a hail of gunfire.
Pakistan leader promises support for Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The president of Pakistan came to Afghanistan for the first time Tuesday and pledged "brotherly" support for a war-ravaged neighbor. His Afghan counterpart promised to consider freeing young Pakistanis who rushed to the defense of the old Taliban regime.
Israeli forces battle gunmen in Nablus
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Israeli tanks rolled into the West Bank's largest city, Nablus, on Wednesday and other troops laid siege to a refugee camp in Jenin, battling Palestinians who barricaded entrances and fought back with bombs and guns.
World Briefs
LONDON (AP) -- U.S. crude prices have jumped by 36 percent since the beginning of February, and motorists are likely to see higher prices at the pump as the peak summer driving season approaches, energy analysts said Wednesday.
Sharon proposes one-way ticket into exile for Arafat
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, responding to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's offer of permanent exile, said Tuesday he would rather die than leave the West Bank.
U.N. trial of the accused leader of the Rwandan genocide begins
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) -- The trial of four former Rwandan army officials charged with masterminding the 1994 massacre of more than 500,000 people opened Tuesday with U.N. prosecutors accusing them of unleashing "a legion of ferocious demons" on the victims.
Leisure activities return to Afghanistan
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- There wasn't a shred of red carpet or kernel of popcorn at the first movie premiere in the new Afghanistan. But that didn't stop the buzz.
Pakistan arrests more suspected al-Qaida
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Police raided more suspected al-Qaida hide-outs, arresting 16 people in an ongoing crackdown against Osama bin Laden's terror network in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
Iraq increases payments to families of Palestinian bombers to $25,000
NABLUS, West Bank -- Saddam Hussein has increased money for the relatives of suicide bombers from $10,000 to $25,000, drawing sharp criticism from Washington. But Palestinians say the bombers are driven by a priceless thirst for revenge, religious zeal and dreams of glory -- not greed.
Argentina talks of reclaiming Falkland Islands
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- As thousands of war veterans looked on, President Eduardo Duhalde insisted Tuesday that Argentina would one day reclaim the Falkland Islands through diplomacy -- not by waging war.
Battles rage as Israel seizes control of Bethlehem
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israel seized control of Bethlehem and another West Bank town Tuesday in a day of wild fighting that left at least 13 Palestinians dead. Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, where tradition says Jesus was born, and Israeli tanks and helicopters pounded the headquarters of a Palestinian security chief.
Russians wonder about rewards of partnership with United States
MOSCOW (AP) -- Ahead of a Russian-U.S. summit next month, Russians increasingly are asking what rewards they have reaped from joining the U.S.-led anti-terrorist coalition and where President Vladimir Putin's pro-Western policy is leading the nation.
Serbians pledge to extradite war crimes suspects
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Feeling the pressure of punitive U.S. sanctions, Serbian government officials said Tuesday the first arrests and extraditions of top war crimes suspects sought by the U.N. tribunal for Kosovo might come within the next 48 hours.
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That is a good point. It would be interesting to look at all the specific measures China is taking and the ones it could take but isn't, and to see whether they point to other motivations besides emissions reduction, such as energy security (e.g. reduced reliance on the Straits of Malacca) and economic gains (e.g. "green jobs"). In particular, are there any measures we could look at that could only be motivated by emissions reduction, and that would not contribute much to energy security and/or economic gains? Maybe more stringent emissions regulations, and more stringent enforcement of such regulations? Maybe mandatory installation of equipment in industries or residences that filter and/or capture noxious gases (though this, conceivably, might be tainted by an economic motivation to create jobs for the makers and installers of such equipment, assuming they are Chinese)? Any others? If we can identify a list of such "purely for emissions reduction" measures, then we can then look into whether the Chinese government is acting on these.
Bernard: China is quickly becoming one of the most polluted countries on earth
I think those photographs (which are amazing and disturbing) are similar to Obama's remarks about China's "moving" on renewable energy: it doesn't prove the point, but it illustrates it vividly.
Bernard: and there is very little motivation for the plutocrats to really harness the issue: it would only cut into their profit.
Which is why China's government has been so aggressive in mandating renewable energy initiatives. (I assume China's government counts as part of China's "überclass".) But then again, as noted above, these initiatives may not be motivated by the desire to avoid harm caused by carbon emissions (e.g. massive health crisis, rising sea levels, etc.) but rather in order to increase energy security and to gain economic benefits.
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Baseball officials uncovered the scheme as Cabrera prepared his case to challenge the test. Cabrera dropped his grievance and Major League Baseball announced a 50-game suspension Wednesday.
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Ramon Ramirez to undergo tests on Monday
NEW YORK -- Doctors will examine reliever Ramon Ramirez on Monday, and a decision will be made on his status after the tests. The Mets were expected to move Ramirez to the disabled list on Sunday, but manager Terry Collins said no move has been made yet.
Ramirez strained his right hamstring while running from the bullpen to the mound to celebrate Johan Santana's no-hitter on Friday.
Reliever Pedro Beato is eligible to return from the 60-day disabled list, but he will not be recalled until he makes a few more rehab starts. Collins said there is no room for him on the 40-man roster at this point.
"There's too many other things right now," Collins said of Beato's return. "He pitched very well yesterday. His velocity was better than it has been. I think his arm strength is coming back, but he needs a few more outings."


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Melbourne rain rescues India
Torrential Melbourne rain rescued India on day two of the second Test after Australia moved into a commanding position.
Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting put on an unbroken 135 for the sixth wicket as Australia moved from their overnight score of 138 for three to 332 for five.
Just 45 overs were bowled during the day with thundershowers wiping out the entire final session after 90 minutes were lost earlier in the afternoon.
Gilchrist was unbeaten on 77, while Ponting was on 59 as the Indians struggled to keep runs in check on a wicket that flattened out after the first day.
As on the first day the Indians took two early wickets, with Venkatesh Prasad reducing Australia from 123 for three to 197 for five.
The overnight pair of Michael Slater and captain Steve Waugh added 54 runs in the first hour.
Slater was within nine runs of his 14th Test century when he pulled Prasad down Javagal Srinath's throat at long leg.
Five deliveries later, Prasad forced Waugh to edge a catch to wicketkeeper Mannava Prasad.
The bowler's delight was short-lived, and not just because of the efforts of Ponting and Gilchrist.
His aggressive celebration at Slater's dismissal led Sri Lankan match referee Ranjan Madugalle to call the bowler and Indian coach Kapil Dev for a hearing after the day's play.
Australia 1st innings
G Blewett b Srinath 2
Extras: (b1, lb8, w1, nb12) 22
Total (for five wickets) 332
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-28, 3-123, 4-192, 5-197
Bowling: Srinath 22-4-101-2, Agarkar 22-6-64-1, V. Prasad 24-6-88-2, Ganguly 2-0-10-0, Kumble 23-3-60-0
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Season 10 American Idol alum, Casey Abrams will release his debut album through Concord Music Group on June 26th.
Idol judge, Randy Jackson is listed as one of the executive producers of the self-titled album that was recorded in London with multiple producers, including Martin Terefe, who has worked with Jason Mraz and KT Tunstall, Rune Westberg, who worked on records from alums Daughtry and Adam Lambert and Steve Jordan (John Mayer and Herbie Hancock).
Two singles, "Get Out," and "Simple Life," are set for release on Tuesday, June 5.
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Eddie Murphy named as father of Komodo dragon
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Pop star Prince, owner of the Internet announced today that the web must be shut down for a few minutes tonight while technicians back the whole thing up on his hard-drive.
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Loud Music Heard Heard As Shuttle Lands
Loud Hip Hop bass lines were heard as the Space Shuttle rolled to a stop. Also the pilot's seat was moved back as far as it would go and was tilted way back. When the doors were opened there was the smell of burnt rope on board.
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Reporters yesterday say that nannies are continuing to be hired by airlines during the Christmas season to look after children flying alone and left behind in airports while busy parents are flagging down cabs and carrying Christmas gifts to loved on...
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Palm Strike
Health and Stamina 1
Big Boot
Uppercut Attack
Cold Rage-2
Way of the Fist-3
Kiss of the Dragon
Master Thief-2
Health and Stamina 2
Optimal Maintenance-3
Health and Stamina 3
Cold Rage-1
Body Blows-3
Weapon Durability-3
Burning Fists-3
Touch of Destruction
These were listed in the order I acquired them. Simply put, I chose damage whenever possible along with anything that involves crit chance.
What I will most likely aim for:
Lightning Moves-3
Infinite Rage-3
Long Hands-3
Zen Time
Like a Rock
Touch of Death
What a Kicker-3*
Uppercut Attack Upgrade-3
Military Training-3*
Marathon Runner
Master Thief-1
Deeper Pockets-1
Things I avoided and why:
Godspeed-Since it drops you out of normal fury, you are far more effective just using your bo staff. If you play co-op exclusively with good friends I could maybe see this as a possibility. Otherwise, skip it.
Kill All, Know All-xp is already easy enough to come by.
Go Green-with the other two rage enhancements, you will already be building it 55% faster(if you maxed your H2H skill)
Charge-Big Boot...nuff said.
Sapper-I have yet to encounter a situation where this was necessary. With a little situational awareness, you can avoid things that go boom.
Life Insurance-Really...because cash is so hard to find.
Weapons Proficiency-While good in theory, what happens when all your skills are capped? Then its just 3 wasted points.
One-Handed Durability-You use H2H weapons.
Life Drain-Again, good in theory but you are better off healing 15% every crit instead of 25% every 3 out of 100 swings.
Strong Legs-This belongs on Xian. You should have no need of jumping.
* I do have a couple questions though. Hopefully anyone who took these skills can provide an answer. With What a Kicker, does it also boost the elemental damage of Big Boot, or just the base damage? Also, with Military Training, do you find it triggers alot, and if so how much does it heal you?
Thanks for the read. If you have questions or suggestions, feel free.
P4nd4360xD 4 years ago#2
Military training occurred only once for me but I think I got back like 40%. I just got the skill for getting health for every critical.
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vigorm0rtis 4 years ago#3
Are you sure one-handed durability doesn't apply to H2H weapons?
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magemaximus 4 years ago#4
so it's not possible to max out every skill in every tree
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Go green is amazing.
Optimal maintenance is not a good choice, Sapper is the only thing worth it in that section.
Also charge is great for adding another power move when you want to mix up combos. Also it locks on.
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xxshagalatorxx 4 years ago#6
What ability do you have to unlock to be able to stomp on the heads of zombies on the ground? When i first started i chose the automatic combat selection at the begging of the game and I was able to do it from the start. But i started a new game from scratch and i went custom this time and i can't figure out what move it is. I can jump on zombies from above but i cant smash their heads in on the ground
I know how to spell and how to type in complete sentences, but I am lazy so the majority of the time I don't. Deal.
xxshagalatorxx posted...
What ability do you have to unlock to be able to stomp on the heads of zombies on the ground? When i first started i chose the automatic combat selection at the begging of the game and I was able to do it from the start. But i started a new game from scratch and i went custom this time and i can't figure out what move it is. I can jump on zombies from above but i cant smash their heads in on the ground
The second main perk in the middle skill tree. That is what does it for all the characters as far as I know.
vigorm0rtis posted...
Are you sure one-handed durability doesn't apply to H2H weapons?
It does actually, so he might want to rethink that. LOL
Reapercreep (Topic Creator)4 years ago#9
Lerp85 posted...
vigorm0rtis posted...Are you sure one-handed durability doesn't apply to H2H weapons?
If that is true, explain to me why there are two different classifications of weapons? Weapon Durability specifically states H2H weapon durability, while One Handed Weapon Durability again specifically states its for one handed weapons. Considering his damage modifies and special moves only work for H2H weapons, are you saying that OHWD crosses weapons classes and covers H2H weapons as well?
Reapercreep (Topic Creator)4 years ago#10
XeonFlu posted...
Go green is amazing.
Again, as I said before, with Infinite Rage and Burning Fists, I am building fury ridiculously fast as it is. I see no reason to spend 3 points into a skill that recycles fury. Its a personal choice, but I'd rather sink them into something combat oriented rather than relying on my fury constantly.
Sapper is useless as explosives can be avoided entirely. The only time I've ever died to explosives is when I throw a Deo-Bomb at my feet to use the checkpoint dupe. As long as you can listen for suiciders, don't take cover behind gas drums, and kill grenadiers from a distance you will never need it. Unfortunately, that tier of skills requires picking the best of the worst as there is really nothing great to choose from. But since you cannot drop-throw dupe H2H weapons, I chose reduced repair cost and just top off my weapons every time I reach a bench.
And why would I invest skills in a second sprint-activated attack, when my class-specific one also comes with a skill that boosts kick damage by 75%? Thats like choosing a bb gun when I've got a shotgun available as well.
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- No, no; they shut the gates and shut down the mill. The bosses just left the mill—except they had a watchman, you know, to watch it. But there was no activity at the mill; they didn't attempt to open it up, except that one time they brought that truckload. They couldn't run it with that one truckload; they were on a flatbedded truck standing up like a bunch of cattle, but they couldn't have operated it with that.
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In TV soundbites, he is taut-faced and frenetic as he sputters and raves about the evils of the U.S. government. But late last week, from a cubicle at the Dallas County jail, Richard McLaren, the self-proclaimed leader of the Republic of Texas separatist movement, seemed surprisingly docile, relaxed, even convivial.
"He's a nice man, Mr. McLaren," said Lt. Shirley Natt, the deputy sheriff who led him to the barred cubicle for an interview. "He hasn't given us any trouble."
Perhaps all the fight and hubris were taken out of the 44-year-old McLaren last November after he received a 99-year sentence for his role in a conspiracy to kidnap two of his Fort Davis neighbors and hold them hostage until the release of two jailed Republic of Texas members. Perhaps it's the realization that his cause is lost, or the knowledge that no matter what the outcome of his federal bank-fraud trial in Dallas, which is entering its fourth week, he may very well die in prison.
Seeming anything but his crazed public persona, McLaren showed his ability to dazzle a listener. His gray eyes danced when he talked, and his raspy voice was easy on the ears. He waxed philosophical about his predicament--as if he were Nelson Mandela in his martyr phase, still cruelly confined as a political prisoner.
"I don't like being in jail. But that's just part of what I have to do," McLaren said. "I think of everything I left behind. I lived in the most beautiful place in the world. But it's part of what I was meant to do."
Only once during the 90-minute interview did McLaren grow agitated. All of a sudden, he cut off his words, a blank expression veiling his otherwise obliging demeanor for nearly a minute. Then he nervously rubbed his hands on his bright orange jumpsuit, seemingly wanting to speak. Only he couldn't--not yet, anyway--deeply disturbed by the question that he believed may hold the key to his defense: Who really is Arthur Griesacker?
A self-proclaimed legal expert who has traveled around the country offering his expertise on banking law, Griesacker could play a critical role as a witness in McLaren's case. The Texas separatist's lawyer, Tom Mills, has alleged in court that Griesacker is a government informant who possibly entrapped McLaren; his wife, Evelyn; and their seven co-defendants in the bank-fraud trial. Mills told the court he "has reason to believe that Griesacker was and is an individual cooperating with federal law enforcement...although he might not have been signed up as an official 'confidential informant,' he is acting as one de facto."
Mills' theory might just be a desperate ploy to distract the jury from a particularly strong government case. But if Mills is right, the hypocrisy seems particularly brazen: a government informant inciting anti-government activity. And what better fuel for the militia movement's conspiratorial fires?
Back in the county jail, Griesacker's name finally provoked a measured response from McLaren. "I've met sane people. I've met crazy people. But there is something unearthly about Arthur Griesacker," he said. "That's my only word for it. Unearthly. To this day, I haven't figured him out. I don't know where his basis for reality is."
McLaren isn't the only one who gets nervous when Griesacker's name comes up. Organizations as diverse as the Anti-Defamation League, the criminal investigation bureau of the New York State Banking Department, and the Republic of Texas have issued warnings about Griesacker. In April 1996, the ADL put him on its list of anti-government activists. Later that year, the New York banking agency sent out a notice instructing banks to contact law-enforcement authorities if Griesacker "attempts to issue or present any negotiable instruments." The ROT crowd posted a "wanted" poster for Griesacker on the Internet and announced they'd revoked his credentials as an ambassador.
To the ROT members, Griesacker is a traitor, a coward, a snitch. To others, such as the District Attorney's Office in Shawnee, Kansas, Griesacker prompts concern because he's surfaced among far-right-wing groups in Kansas, Montana, Missouri, Louisiana, and Texas--anti-government hot spots where activists have hatched plots to gum up the local banking and legal systems with various forms of funny money. These schemes have already cost businesses and financial institutions hundreds of thousands of dollars. But Griesacker--whom no one seems to know much about--has always managed to escape prosecution.
A mystery man, Griesacker has fueled some wild conspiracy theories. Mills, in his opening statements in the trial, even mentioned Griesacker as a possible John Doe #3 in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Commenting on Griesacker's alleged involvement in various misdeeds, Mike Uhl, the assistant U.S. attorney leading the prosecution of McLaren and his co-defendants, says, "I expect Mills to allege at some point that Griesacker was at the Grassy Knoll and in the Oval Office with Clinton and Monica Lewinsky."
Even so, Griesacker could pose some problems for prosecutors during the bank-fraud trial. For four months ending in January 1997, Griesacker, his wife, and their five children lived in a trailer on the campground at Fort Davis, Texas, where the ROT maintained its "embassy." During this time, the government alleges, McLaren and eight other ROT followers hatched a plot to distribute phony financial instruments that defrauded credit card companies and businesses of some $350,000. Prosecutors have alleged that McLaren and his co-defendants conspired to distribute some $1.8 billion in "warrants"--worthless paper documents that resembled cashier's checks.
But Griesacker, who was captured on videotape instructing a packed room of ROT members how to create a financial "clearinghouse" with bank-like functions in order to "monetize" the Republic's assets--i.e., create fake money--is not a defendant in McLaren's case. Indeed, until just two weeks ago, Griesacker had never been arrested on any charges related to bank fraud or anti-government activity, even though dozens of his former associates are facing charges for these offenses. According to an investigator for the Shawnee County district attorney who has tracked Griesacker for three years now, the enigmatic Griesacker, on several occasions, disappeared weeks--sometimes just days--before the federal government swooped down on militant anti-government groups.
In his opening statements on March 5, prosecutor Uhl told the jury that he didn't even know the whereabouts of Griesacker. He'd already told Mills that Griesacker was not, to his knowledge, a government informant. But at the same time, he objected to giving Mills access to the entire FBI file on Griesacker. The prosecutor offered large parts of the file in camera--for the judge's eyes only--arguing that "further disclosure would interfere with enforcement proceedings and disclose investigative techniques," according to a court document.
A little more than a week after Uhl's opening statements in Dallas, a federal grand jury in Wichita, Kansas, issued an indictment of Griesacker, alleging that he'd presented worthless paper to a bank in January 1996 to cover a debt owed by another man. Then on March 20, Secret Service agents, who have jurisdiction in matters related to possible counterfeiting, arrested Griesacker in a small rural community about 30 miles from Medford, Oregon.
Federal marshals delivered Griesacker to Dallas last weekend. He appeared in a hearing Wednesday and delivered a blast of legal doublespeak, referring to the courtroom as an "alleged courtroom" and the ROT members as "alleged defendants." When U.S. District Judge Joe Fish asked if he would testify, Griesacker said he'd do so only if his "sovereign judicial diplomatic immunity" were granted, and if forced by "threat, duress, and coercion."
"I would very seriously doubt that the court wants to hear my testimony anyway or wants the jury to hear it," Griesacker said. "Because if it does, the case is dead."
Griesacker was expected to testify later in the week.
Even if Griesacker claims he's a government informant, Mills concedes he probably won't be able to persuade the judge to instruct jury members to consider the possibility of entrapment when they deliberate. But the defense attorney does believe he will leave the jury with the impression that the government has selectively chosen to prosecute some people--such as McLaren--while leaving others on the street. (When the jury was left with a similar impression at Terry Nichols' trial, it helped his defense.)
But no matter what the jury decides in McLaren's trial, Griesacker's alleged role in the Republic of Texas' funny-money schemes raises puzzling questions. Though Griesacker clearly has criminal exposure in the ROT case--according to a federal source involved in the investigation--how has he managed to stay on the street so long? Has the federal government simply failed to gather enough evidence to prosecute him? Or is there another explanation, as Mills suggests--one that raises suspicions about why the federal government might give Griesacker free rein to spread his anti-government gospel and enable him to defraud banks and businesses without much fear of prosecution?
A court document confirms that, two years ago, some agency issued a warrant for Griesacker's arrest, although a copy of that warrant is no longer part of the public record. It is under seal, according to the U.S. attorney in Wichita, Kansas. Why wasn't Griesacker picked up on that charge? What happened to that investigation?
"After a while coincidence becomes suspect," says Mike Tharp, a West Coast correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, who has covered anti-government groups extensively and met with Griesacker.
Suzanne James, the director of victim services for the District Attorney's Office in Shawnee County, Kansas, has been following Griesacker for three years and believes the U.S. attorney in Wichita has blown earlier opportunities to prosecute him. "The feds have gotten into this mess by being extremely timid in their prosecution," James says. (Jackie Williams, the U.S. attorney in Wichita, responds to such criticism by pointing to the federal indictment handed down on March 11. "That speaks for itself," his spokeswoman told the Dallas Observer.)
Joel Dyer, author of Harvest of Rage, a recently published book about anti-government groups, has also met Griesacker, but says he is a legitimate activist--a true believer.
"Usually the agents are not as smart as Griesacker, and they have polished shoes," Dyer says. "He was too odd to be an agent. He'd go in and out of rages. It would have to have been a really good act."
But Dyer does believe Griesacker still might serve some sort of government purpose. "Griesacker has shown up in a lot of places where others have gone down," Dyer says. "Is it a sting operation if the government leaves someone on the street?"
A look into Griesacker's past turns up some contradictory information. (Prison officials and federal marshals would not allow the Observer to interview Griesacker in Dallas.) Over the years, legal documents have referred to him as Ronald Griesacker, Arthur Laycock, Robert Patrick, Arthur Alexander Augustus, and even just Arthur.
A birth certificate that Griesacker sent to Shawnee County investigator Jake Mauck shows he was born in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on June 14, 1956. A 34-year-old named Ronald Emmet Laycock is listed as his father; Laycock describes his occupation as "minister-teacher."
But Rick McLaren says Griesacker related an entirely different story about his beginnings. "What he told me was his real father's name was Ronald Hawkins, and he was an individual who worked for the Pentagon" and got involved in the "black budget"--a secret budget used during the Cold War to conceal spending on classified military programs.
Griesacker acquired his current surname in 1992. At the time, he was living in St. Mary's, Kansas, the stronghold of a Kansas freemen's movement centered at a formerly Catholic academy and college whose priests had been ex-communicated by the Vatican for espousing such beliefs as the existence of a Jewish world conspiracy and the fabrication of the Holocaust. A court record that Griesacker sent to Mauck shows he was adopted that year by Ignatius Mitchell Cartwright Griesacker--a man in his 60s who supposedly picked up Griesacker while he was hitchhiking. After that encounter, Griesacker changed his name to Ronald Alexander Augustus Griesacker.
According to the version of his life that Griesacker told McLaren and the journalists Dyer and Tharp, he once worked as a corrections officer in the Kansas prison system. He got fired--Griesacker recounted with pride--when he objected to his employer's unacceptable tactics. "He said he got kicked out for standing up for someone [a prisoner]," McLaren says.
Shawnee county investigator Mauck confirms that Griesacker did work as a corrections officer. "But he never got fired," Mauck says. "He got hurt and took some kind of disability."
In his photographs, Griesacker is a dour-faced, unpleasant-looking man. He has a thick neck, bad teeth, and a receding hairline. His highly arched eyebrows are his most prominent feature, giving his face a look of perpetual consternation and intensity.
In person, Griesacker apparently registers a threatening presence. Dyer says that when he first met Griesacker, the activist pulled a gun from a shoulder holster and plopped it on the table between himself and the author. For some five hours, Griesacker's hand rested on the weapon as it pointed ever so slightly to the left of Dyer.
McLaren says Griesacker always carried a gun, toting his AK-47 even when visiting the Texas separatist leader's home. "Mr. Griesacker had a different attitude toward guns," McLaren says. "For me, they were a negative, something we had to have under siege. For him, they were a positive."
McLaren seems fearful of Griesacker. "I never knew what was going to make him come unhinged," he says. "He was not a person you wanted to get drunk around. After a while, I wouldn't have him up to the house anymore."
Although he tells people he only graduated from the eighth grade, Griesacker strikes many as an eccentric genius. "He probably has some super-high intelligence," Dyer says. "He has a photographic memory."
U.S. News & World Report correspondent Tharp recalls that Griesacker lorded his erudition over others. "He gave a long, convoluted dialogue in which he repeatedly referred to books and documents in common law and invoked the Magna Carta," he says. "He just kept piling books and papers on the desk where I was sitting and said they proved his points."
Griesacker's first recorded involvement in anti-government groups is in 1995, when police records show he was active in the freemen movement in Kansas. He was arrested that year when he failed to produce a driver's license; many people in anti-government circles refuse to carry licenses. "He told me he wouldn't submit to that jurisdiction," Tharp recalls.
From August 1995 through June 1996, Griesacker placed long treatises advocating common-law courts--where laymen, rather than judges and lawyers, make the rules--in a local legal bulletin, the Topeka Metro News. "They were long, rambling proclamations," says Mauck, who began investigating Griesacker around then. "They were threatening to any law-enforcement official who would arrest them. They used Christian Identity terms." (The Christian Identity movement believes that Jews descended from Satan and non-whites represent a separate species.)
Griesacker advertised his supposed banking and legal expertise in other forums. In the December 1995 issue of The American's Bulletin, a Medford, Oregon-based far-right-wing tabloid, he published an essay titled "A Voice of Opposition to Tyranny." In the piece, Griesacker and the others in his group identified themselves as the "Peace officers of the country of Kansas" and announced the establishment of 18 common-law courts in that state. Griesacker, who wrote the essay, stated that he and others, including Robert Riccomini, had attended the school of LeRoy M. Schweitzer. "We have found answers," Griesacker wrote.
LeRoy Schweitzer is a notorious figure in anti-government circles. Until his arrest in March 1996, Schweitzer conducted a school in Jordan, Montana, that as many as 800 people attended, according to press reports. The lessons included such exhortations as "We are to kill all the inhabitants of other races," according to an Anti-Defamation League report. At his school, Schweitzer also offered basic instructions for funny-money schemes, including how to create "certified banker's checks" for fraudulent use.
The story of Griesacker's departure from the Montana freemen's community has become a legend--possibly an apocryphal one--in anti-government circles because his timing was so fortuitous. Without any prior warning, Griesacker supposedly packed up his large family one morning in March 1996 and simply drove away. He told the author Dyer he left because Schweitzer had put a woman in charge. Women holding leadership positions violated Griesacker's so-called "fundamentalist" beliefs, McLaren says.
It just so happens that later the very same day, federal agents moved in and nabbed Schweitzer--prompting an 81-day standoff between law-enforcement officials and the freemen. It ended peacefully, and Schweitzer was later convicted for failing to pay income taxes and answer a summons. Other felony charges are pending against him, including bank fraud.
Back in Kansas, Griesacker appears to have started practicing some of the tactics he learned from Schweitzer. Shawnee County's Suzanne James says she began hearing about Griesacker's involvement in several schemes to send bogus checks to businesses, followed by efforts to get sheriff's departments to prosecute banks for not recognizing them. Others in Griesacker's Kansas group have been prosecuted, including Riccomini, who has been charged with bank fraud. Riccomini's lawyer, Jonathan Phelps, claims Griesacker taught his client everything he knows about financial documents, and he doesn't understand why he wasn't prosecuted as well.
James says her office was preparing to prosecute Griesacker and others when the U.S. attorney in Wichita assumed control of the investigation. When the feds took over, she says, they simply sat on many of the cases. Finally, the U.S. attorney returned the files to her office--with the investigative folders nearly empty--just days before the applicable state statute of limitations had expired. "Griesacker figures in a lot of those cases," investigator Mauck says. (Federal laws applied in the recent indictment of Griesacker.)
In the months following his departure from Montana, Mauck says, Griesacker traveled to Missouri to advise a militia group in that state.
McLaren says that in October 1996, he learned from ROT members in Dallas about Griesacker's expertise in banking laws and his desire to come to Texas. McLaren doesn't recall exactly who called whom, but within 24 hours of hearing about Griesacker, McLaren says he'd struck a deal with the man. He agreed to send Griesacker airline tickets for his family if, in exchange, Griesacker would supply his knowledge and documentation on banking and legal systems. Griesacker immediately drove to Dallas with all his belongings, arriving a day after his wife and kids. "He drove a truck down with three computers and lots of law books and legal documents," McLaren recalls.
Within months of Griesacker's departure from Missouri, members of that group were arrested, Mauck says. "The Missouri state police crunched them," he adds. "I often wondered if Griesacker had a part in that."
The terms of Griesacker's deal with the Texas separatists were kept vague. McLaren says he paid all of the Griesacker family's bills--roughly $1,500 a month. The Griesackers lived in a trailer, and one of their biggest expenses was Arthur Griesacker's phone bill. "He liked to talk," McLaren says. "I started saving $500 a month on the phone bill alone when he left."
Griesacker promised the Texas separatists that he had the documentation--specifically copies of the seals of the United States Supreme Court--to style himself a U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Texas. In the separatists' convoluted reasoning, the ROT could issue all sorts of official "agreements" with the United States if Griesacker could establish that he was its representative.
But it didn't take long for Griesacker's relationship with the ROT to become strained. When Griesacker was videotaped at a 1996 Republic of Texas gathering at a Holiday Inn in Temple, Texas, he was caught bragging about how "I know admiralty law, common law, ecclesiastical law, and the law of necessity." Sitting behind a desk, Griesacker instructs a roomful of Texas separatists on how to establish a financial "clearinghouse" for their independent state.
Griesacker appears intensely focused--all business and no fun. He doesn't even crack a smile as McLaren makes a stab at humor. "The chair recognizes Arthur," McLaren tells the crowd. Then he pauses, smiles, and says, "Gosh, I have so much trouble with your last name."
Griesacker doesn't miss a beat. "The history of banking, I do believe, is quite well known to everyone in this room, and the susceptible [sic] to evils it brings upon a nation. I've studied U.S. history," he adds. "I've studied the banking system. I know what they have done to us."
Then, as he flips proficiently through what he claims are historical documents, Griesacker describes the specific course he believes the separatists should take. He wants the group to set up what he calls a "clearinghouse," rather than a central banking system, for the independent state. But the crowd has trouble grasping the distinction. When, for the third time, a listener asks if he's telling them not to establish a bank, Griesacker grows visibly irritated. He rubs his temples, clasps his hands, and sighs loudly before answering. "Yes, sir," he says. "Table the idea."
McLaren says he grew suspicious of Griesacker shortly after he arrived. It wasn't Griesacker's banking jargon that threw the Texas separatist leader, since McLaren doesn't believe they were doing anything illegal. Instead, Griesacker's religious beliefs--and how fervently he preached them--scared McLaren. "Arthur let his personal prejudices and maybe ego override his common sense," he says. Griesacker didn't approve of the African-American ROT members, he adds. But he wouldn't acknowledge that up front.
"Arthur wouldn't engage truthfully," McLaren says. He adds that "Arthur was fairly fanatical" about the separation of the races.
The Republic of Texas members' suspicions heightened when Griesacker failed to deliver the documents he told them he carried. He never produced the U.S. Supreme Court seal, McLaren says. "We started putting requirements that he had to get the credentials. We were basically saying, 'Shit or get off the brick.'"
When ROT president Archie Lowe suggested demoting Griesacker to legal expert--instead of U.S. ambassador--Griesacker started withholding information from the group, McLaren says.
In January 1997, the rift had widened so far that McLaren believed he needed to cut off Griesacker. He shut off his phone, and shortly afterward, Griesacker left the compound, McLaren says.
After leaving Texas, Griesacker hung out for a while in Towanda, Kansas, with Brad Glover, head of the loosely organized Kansas militia, according to investigator Mauck. "Those guys were as thick as thieves, meeting every day," he says.
Shortly after Griesacker left Towanda, Mauck says, Glover was arrested on charges related to arms possession.
When McLaren began testifying in his bank-fraud trial on March 25, he launched into a long discourse on Texas history. By 2 p.m., he'd only reached 1845, the year the original Republic of Texas approved a treaty with the United States. But the jury panel seemed surprisingly engaged in the lesson.
At the prosecutor's table, however, boredom prevailed. Thomas Hamilton, an assistant U.S. attorney, appeared to be snoozing with his eyes shut. J.D. Butler, a postal inspector who helped prepare the prosecution's case, was doodling on paper. Steve Scheets, an IRS agent, peered at Butler's scribbles and smiled.
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On the stand earlier that day, the IRS agent had poked fun at the separatists. He told McLaren's wife, Evelyn, when she attempted to document the legitimacy of the ROT government, "I could call myself the grand poobah of the Wizard of Oz, but it doesn't make it a fact."
When Butler testified, Mills, laying the groundwork for his snitch-theory defense, inquired about Griesacker. "Mr. Griesacker was always looked upon as a possible target of this investigation. The evidence at this time wasn't there," Butler told Mills. "All we had was the videotape that he wasn't on very much. He was under investigation for a variety of charges, and at this time we felt like unless we had sufficient evidence, that he would not be included in the indictment."
But for McLaren, his last talk with Griesacker, shortly before he left the Republic of Texas compound, was enough to cement his suspicions about why the government wouldn't prosecute the mystery man. When he told Griesacker it was time to split, McLaren recalls, the itinerant legal expert answered sourly: "That's all right. I've already taken care of it."
McLaren suspects Griesacker was already ratting to the feds about the Republic of Texas. "Whatever it was," McLaren says, "I could tell by the way he said it, he'd done it before.


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RISING numbers of diabetes patients are needing to have their limbs amputated as the country's obesity epidemic grows, figures have revealed.
A total of 683 people underwent NHS Scotland surgery to remove their feet and legs last year, an increase of 32 per cent from two years earlier when 521 had the operation.
The official figures also reveal that 139 people suffering from diabetes or a build-up of fat in the arteries have died in theatre in the last four years.
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The health service has spent almost £230 million in three years on drugs to treat the conditions.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde was the health board with the highest number of amputations in 2013, with 132 treatments. It was followed by Grampian, with 93.
Last year's statistics suggest that nearly 250,000 people, or five per cent of the population, have diabetes.
Dr Jean Turner, executive director of the Scotland Patients Association, described the epidemic highlighted by the figures as a "ticking time bomb" with bad diets, smoking and lack of exercise to blame.
She said: "As the nation gets heavier there is a higher prevalence of diabetes and so more and more people need amputations. The problem is spiralling out of control.
"Some people can't cut their toenails and they have poor circulation. If they get a cut and they have diabetes then they are highly likely to get an infection.
"If more people are losing limbs then this means a much greater cost to the health service, not just the expensive operation, but the prosthesis, cost of a wheelchair and the physiotherapy needed to learn how to walk. They are also much less able to look after themselves."
The former GP highlighted the need to educate youngsters about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle.
"Children need to be taught from a very young age that taking regular exercise and eating a balanced diet is absolutely crucial," she said.
"They need to be able to spot the danger signs of diabetes."
Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high over a prolonged period. Excessive body weight and lack of exercise are often thought to cause Type 2, but the cause of Type 1 is unknown.
Total amputations due to complications from diabetes and peripheral vascular disease have increased by 20 per cent, from 1,062 in 2011 to 1,267 in 2013.
Peripheral vascular disease develops when a build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries restricts blood supply to leg muscles.
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "This is another reminder about just how huge a challenge illnesses linked to lifestyle are becoming.
"Diabetes is one such condition, and we know that in many cases a healthier diet and more active lifestyle could have helped ward it off.
"While the NHS and Scottish Government have to work hard on awareness issues, it also comes down to personal responsibility."
More than 268,154 people were diagnosed with diabetes in 2013, up from 258,570 in 2012.
The Government said it had successfully rolled out a system that identifies diabetes patients at the highest risk of developing foot problems, and expected the number of amputations to fall over the coming years.
Type 2 diabetes sufferer Steve Graham, 75, had a toe and part of his foot amputated in 2002.
Mr Graham, of Aberdeenshire, said there are still mixed messages from the authorities about the need for suffers to take exercise.
"This type of problem is just going to get worse and worse if something isn't done about obesity," he added.


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They started with the 2011 list of Fortune 150 companies, ranked by revenue and omitted the 22 financial companies that were in the list, as financial companies do not report on capital expenditures. For each company, PPI looked into their fiscal 2011 annual filing and identified the top 25 that are investing most into America.
Altogether, the top 25 companies invested about $136 billion in the US during 2011. Energy and telecommunication were the top investors into America last year, which speaks to how strong the industries currently are. Several of the big tech names also make the list.


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S&P 500 (Figure 2)
Commodities joined in the recovery following the 10:00 data. Three solid waves of upside formed on the 5 minute time frame throughout the morning and into mid-afternoon in the indexes as well as in silver, gold, and oil. The 5 minute 20 period moving average was initial resistance and the indexes hugged this zone to create a PhoenixTM buy setup on the 5 minute charts heading into 11:00 a.m. ET. A second correction of similar degree as the first formed between 11:45 a.m. and the 13:00 ET correction period, leading to a third wave of upside that took the market back into price congestion and resistance from the past several trading days (as shown on the 15 minute charts).
When the market has three wave of upside with corrections that are of a comparable length in time, it typically exhausts the trend and makes it more likely that a fourth attempt with fail. We saw this as the indexes attempted slightly higher highs in mid-afternoon, but overall they held the 15 minute resistance and were choppy into the closing bell.


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The world is divided between people who thrill to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and those who, well, don't. I may as well admit being a card-carrying member of the latter group, so judge ensuing comments accordingly.
The former group vastly outnumbers the latter, though, and both the Dallas and Fort Worth symphony orchestras picked the 1937 score as their season finales. As with last week's all-Wagner program, Thursday night's DSO concert pretty well filled the Meyerson Symphony Center.
What's wrong with Carmina? Well, the medieval Latin and German texts, about the joys of drinking and wenching, are arbitrarily chopped up to fit quasi-folk melodies. Rarely having much to do with the words, the music makes much of pounding rhythms and bright orchestral sonorities. Subtlety is not a virtue much valued in our age, though, and who can argue with a box-office boon?
Barely pausing for breath between movements, music director Jaap van Zweden whipped up plenty of excitement and managed a huge dynamic range. The Dallas Symphony Chorus (Joshua Habermann, director) and Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas (Cynthia Nott, director) sang stirringly and, when appropriate, atmospherically.
Soprano Sarah Joy Miller and tenor John Osborn stabbed bravely at punishingly high notes. Liam Bonner supplied a plush baritone that flirted with a wobble.
The concert's first half was to have featured concertmaster Alexander Kerr in the Barber Violin Concerto, but family issues took him out of town. Instead, co-concertmaster Nathan Olson played Mozart's G major Violin Concerto (K. 216) with astonishing technical finesse and natural musicality. If a single 16th note or double stop was out of tune, I missed it.
He might have slowed and reduced the intensity of his vibrato yet further for true stylishness, as the reduced complement of orchestral strings did. But, start to finish, it was a fine and fetching performance.
Before intermission, Olson and DSO board chairman Blaine Nelson brought board member Gert-Jan Kramer onstage to thank him for purchasing and lending the 1692 Stradivarius Kerr plays and the 1715 Guarnerius Olson plays. These are huge contributions to the DSO, and were rightly acknowledged.
It seems a shame the DSO no longer honors retiring members at all last-weekend concerts. But longtime principal flutist Jean Garver was to be honored at the Saturday-night performance.
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Note changes from usual schedule: Repeats at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday at Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St., Dallas. $21 to $161. 214-692-0203, dallassymphony.com.


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