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Previously thought to be a strained meniscus that could keep him out for up to three weeks, Robert Griffin's injury status has taken a turn for the worse. Baylor released a press release on Sunday announcing that Griffin will be forced to sit out the rest of the season due to an isolated tear to his ACL in his right knee.
The initial injury happened during the first quarter of Baylor's 68-13 win over Northwestern State. Believing the injury to be less serious than it was, Griffin returned to the game during the next drive and finished out the half.
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Up 41-10, former starter Blake Szymanski took over for the Bears after halftime and likewise went down with an injury to his right shoulder on a 17 yard run late in the third quarter. X-rays turned out negative, but MRI tests revealed a contusion to Szymanski's right shoulder. As it stands, Baylor's new starting quarterback is listed as "day-to-day" by the Baylor training staff.
What Griffin has meant to the Bears so far
More so than anything else, Robert Griffin gave Bears fans hope. After the debacle that was the Kevin Steele era of Baylor football (one conference win in 36 games), Guy Morris took a less-than-talented Bears team and engineered an upset win over No. 16 Texas A&M in 2004 and a 5-6 record (Baylor's best since 1995) in 2005.
What he didn't have, though, was a ringer.
Enter Art Briles - and by association, Robert Griffin. As an under-recruited four star prospect coming in, Griffin followed Briles from Houston and gained national attention after graduating early and earning Track & Field All-American honors by finishing third nationally in the 400-meter hurdles.
Over 2,000 passing yards, 800 rushing yards, and 28 total touchdowns later, the 2008 Big 12 Freshman of the Year was crowned and because of it, Baylor football received more national buzz than they had in the last decade.
A smart decision-maker through the air - shown by his NCAA record 209 passes without an interception to start a career - and simply electric on the ground, Robert Griffin brought a dynamic to the Baylor program that Bears fans hadn't seen in decades, but more so than anything else - he brought them hope.
Where do they go from here
Unlike many of the top programs in the Big 12, coming into the 2009 season Baylor had the luxury of having one of the most experienced backup quarterbacks in the conference. Senior Blake Szymanski was the team's full time starter in 2007 before losing his job to Kirby Freeman and eventually Robert Griffin the following season. In his one year as a starter, Szymanski passed for more than 2,800 yards and 22 touchdowns with three games of over 400 yards. All three are school records.
The Bears finished the season 3-7 in 2007 with him as the starting quarterback, but this is a different team and he's a different player. When he came in for Griffin in the second half of Saturday's game against Northwestern State, Szymanski completed 3-5 passes for 58 yards and a score, and led the Bears on two scoring drives in the two series that he was in the game for.
What could make a very bad situation even worse is that Szymanski's status for next week's game against Kent State is still up in the air. After coming in the game in relief of Griffin, he left the game with an injury as well after hurting his shoulder diving towards the end zone.
If Szymanski isn't able to play for the Bears, then they will likely turn to true freshman Nick Florence. Florence was asked to greyshirt during the 2008 season, so he did spend the entire spring and fall practicing with the team. The 6-1, 180lb freshman was a Rivals three star recruit from South Garland high school in Garland, Tx and the 22nd ranked dual-threat quarterback.
Regardless of whom the quarterback is, the talent around him will still be better than it has been in previous years. The offense will rely on the trio of talented running backs Jay Finley, Jared Salubi, and Terrance Ganaway. Finley missed Saturday's game with an injury of his own, but he isn't expected to miss many more games, if any at all. In his place Salubi ran for 131 on seven carries including a 76 yard touchdown run, and Ganaway scored three times on the ground as well.
The silver lining in this situation is that the Bears don't have to play a conference opponent next week. Baylor has a home games against Kent State before having to travel to Norman, Oklahoma October tenth. Baylor will be able to use the next week to bring their new quarterback up to speed, or if Szymanski's injury keeps him out a couple weeks, then the Bears will have a game against a team that they will be favored in while waiting for him to recover.


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Psychology is the study of human and animal behaviour, ranging from the factors involved in social interactions among groups of people and the firing of individual cells in the nervous system to moral development in children. A psychologist might assess and treat mental or behavioural problems, research psychological processes through observation and experimentation, or act as a consultant to corporations to improve employee motivation and productivity. You can complete either a Bachelor of Sciences or Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
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On Monday, I posted about the completion of our backyard landscaping project. You can see that post HERE. What I forgot to do in my haste and excitement was to announce that I'd be sponsoring a give-away to celebrate this momentous occasion! The give-away is being sponsored by Hometalk, an online site that I discovered and joined in June. Hometalk's site is filled with lots of inspiration for home improvement and decorating ideas. We can always use a little more of that, can't we?
I've been sharing our backyard transformation on Hometalk over the course of the past month. I've also been browsing some of the site's many categories and have gotten a lot of good information from professionals and regular people just like you and I. In addition to sharing on Hometalk, I recently won a $50 gift card from the site in a give-away sponsored by Janet @The Empty Nest. Thanks, once again, Janet!
So to help spread the word about Hometalk, I'm offering you an opportunity to win a $50 gift card to Lowe's. And if there are 500 entries to the give-away, Hometalk will increase the prize amount to $100. These folks at Hometalk are a friendly and generous bunch, let me tell ya!
Let me start by giving you some information about Hometalk. I've taken the following information from their website.
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The Sikorsky MH-60G/HH-60G Pave Hawk is a twin turboshaft engine helicopter in service with the United States Air Force. It is a derivative of the UH-60 Black Hawk and the US Air Force PAVE electronic systems program. The HH/MH-60 is a member of the Sikorsky S-70 family.
The MH-60G Pave Hawk's primary mission is insertion and recovery of special operations personnel, while the HH-60G Pave Hawk's core mission is recovery of personnel under stressful conditions, including search and rescue. Both versions conduct day or night operations into hostile environments. Because of its versatility, the HH-60G may also perform peace-time operations. Such tasks include civil search and rescue, emergency aeromedical evacuation (MEDEVAC), disaster relief, international aid, counter-drug activities and NASA space shuttle support.
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Sonata11 (34009) 2011-08-04 8:58
Hello Eleu,
Wonderful shot, great colors, sharpness, superb clarity. An amazing POV. Great composition and framing. I like it.
All the best,
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Ola Eleu ,
Belo plano deste heli em pleno ar , os detalhes das hélices ficaram muito bons , boa luz , parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo
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Hello Eleu,
An another excellent presentation of a vehicle with the details well collected, an ideal framing nad the Sikorsky which arise very well in the blue of the BG.
Best regards,
ikeharel (85000) 2011-08-05 1:32
Great machine, to enrich your collection, eleu.
As always, grand view on fine details and colors.
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Hi Eleu
A stunning piece of machinery and there is a nice sense of movement from the rotors too. This is simply fantastic, a great aeriel photograph perfectly composed image with fabulous detail and excellent exposure, sharp and the light on the underneath and canopy is excellent. Stunnig contrast against blue sky. Excellent capture Elue.
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The DFL majority leader of the Minnesota Senate is suggesting the Legislature could take some time off later this month until the state budget picture becomes clearer.
Lawmakers are waiting to learn more about Minnesota's share of anticipated federal health care money before they resolve the remaining state budget deficit.
Senator Larry Pogemiller told reporters Friday that he's open to a recess until those budget calculations are figured out.
"I don't think there's a reason to have people sitting around here looking for opportunities to create mischief if we could be doing something productive," Pogemiller said.
Republican Senate Minority Leader David Senjem said he'd prefer using the expected downtime to begin work on next year's projected budget deficit.
Legislators were already planning shorter weeks later this month to accommodate DFL and Republican state political conventions.


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Everton defender Seamus Coleman has been handed his first senior call-up by Ireland.
The 21-year-old has been drafted into Giovanni Trapattoni's squad for the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Russia and Slovakia after Stephen Kelly and Darren O'Dea were forced with withdraw because of injury.
Fulham's Kelly is out with a calf problem while O'Dea, on loan at Ipswich from Celtic, has pulled out with a knee injury.
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CROSSTIMBER CREEK. Crosstimber Creek rises near Oak Dale in northeastern Hopkins County (at 33°17' N, 95°32' W) and runs southeast ten miles to its mouth on White Oak Creek, four miles north of Saltillo in eastern Hopkins County (at 33°15' N, 95°21' W). The stream, intermittent in its upper reaches, traverses generally flat terrain with local shallow depressions and clay loam and sandy loam soils that support water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses.
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The director and screenwriter of Oscar nominated Best Picture "Zero Dark Thirty" have dodged a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into where they obtained information for the gripping movie.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been dogged by reports suggesting they were given access to classified files as they researched the film, which stars Jessica Chastain as a CIA agent leading America's hunt for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, ever since the hard-hitting project hit cinemas last year.
The rumours sparked a high-level investigation led by former U.S. presidential candidate Senator John McCain, which has now been closed down, according to Reuters.
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NYFW Daily Debrief: Carolina Herrera
Consider this the ultimate ponytail.
That's right: like peanut butter and jelly or Frank and Claire Underwood, we're at it again. This season, we've hooked up with Tresemme (the official hair sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week—you fancy, huh), the inimitable, iconic Orlando Pita and Something Navy's Arielle Nachmani to bring you behind-the-scenes breakdowns of each show's hair looks. Get your blowdryers ready, set... we're off!
Guys, you know you're onto something when each woman walks out of your show uttering the same line, "I want every. single. piece." Woman being the key word here, because at this point we all know that Herrera's clothes are not for girls. And while NYFW's standard seems to be swaying towards the genderless, sometimes super femme-y details, like glittery tasseled embellishments worthy of an Instagram slo-mo video and floor-length gowns that melt into the catwalk are just the antidote we need.
"Our collection this season was based on the light patterns of the sun on water that lead to these beautiful wave shapes and blurred prints," says Herrera. She worked in a narrowly defined color palette for her Fall 2015 collection; take for example the opening number on Karlie Kloss (so. much. yes.) in silvery blues, and the closing look, a navy gown worn by catwalk crooner Jourdan Dunn; in between, waves of red broke through the 50 shades of blue. And some major props are in order for those fur-trimmed scarves.
We'd be remiss not to mention the hair. In keeping with the watery theme, models looked as if they just walked out of the shower with super sleek ponytails re-imagined by master hair guru Orlando Pita, who bound them with silver leather.
"Our wrapped version at Carolina Herrera is an easy update to bring a little more drama to an evening look. The tight shape highlights the nape of your neck in a way that is subtly sexy," he explained. Our post-Soul Cycle hair style of choice has never looked so sophisticated.
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The Goddess rises from the sea, trailing watery treasures in her wake as she reached for the sky. She represents Creativity and Transformation.
Components:sterling silver pendant, freshwater pearls, blue lace agate
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Linda this is beautiful, the pendant is so lovely and your colors are so pretty with her!! She and the colors fit the title to a T!!! Love it!
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Lovely Goddess pendant! I like the combination of the pearls with the blue lace agate! Perfect title for a wonderful necklace!
Very pretty Linda! Love the pendant!
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Linda, that pendant is perfect for your lovely necklace design! Great colors!
This is really nice, and it does look as she is reaching up to the sky.
Gorgeous – love the colors you used and the goddess pendant is so pretty.
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Those who crave martyrdom in the name of their Islamist cause relish nothing more than death while fighting the dictatorship-minded military government currently ruling Egypt. And the military government obliged them today as police, backed by troops, killed at least 150 but probably a lot more as they tried to rid the streets of supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi.
Reports from Cairo indicate that the respected interim vice president, Mohammed El Baradei, has resigned in protest over the military leadership's actions. A new state of emergency has been imposed on the Arab world's most populous country. The White House has issued a strong condemnation.
What a tremendously bad choice, given the many options to defuse the situation that the military created when it launched a coup against Egypt's democratically elected president. The military leadership clearly disregarded the warning by Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham that there was no other way to construe the takeover than to call it a coup. The implication was that if the military leadership continued down this path, the United States would have no choice but to cut more than $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt.
"Our main message in Cairo was simple and straightforward: Democracy is the only viable path to lasting stability, national reconciliation, sustainable economic growth and the return of investment and tourism in Egypt," the two senators wrote in The Washington Post. "And democracy means more than elections. It means democratic governance: an inclusive political process in which all Egyptians are free and able to participate, so long as they do so nonviolently; the protection of basic human rights through the rule of law and the constitution; and a state that defends and fosters a vibrant civil society."
Renewing the state of emergency was a particularly inflammatory path for the military to take. Under President Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, and that of his predecessors, Egypt remained in a state of emergency almost continuously from 1958 onward. Emergency law empowered the dictatorship to imprison political opponents and engage in a harsh crackdown against anyone who questioned military rule. Corruption flourished. The entire impetus behind the pro-democracy movement was to get rid of Egypt's oppressive rule-by-decree governing legacy.
By choosing the violent path to dislodge pro-Morsi demonstrators, the military only adds fuel to the fire. Any non-violent political tendency among the Islamists is now likely to be drowned out by radicals who have long been itching for a fight. But now, even Morsi's harshest critics in the pro-democracy movement face the equal potential for oppression if they dare criticize the military's tactics. By empowering the military and welcoming Morsi's ouster, his political opponents in the pro-democracy movement may have sealed their own fate for the indefinite future.
"The danger now is that extremist and reactionary forces, some in the Egyptian state and some among Morsi's supporters in the streets, want to drag the country down a dark path of violence, oppression and revenge. This is doomed to failure for both sides; it would make all of Egypt's problems infinitely worse and ultimately threaten the national security interests of the United States and our allies ...," McCain and Graham wrote. "Repeating the worst mistakes of the past now will only condemn Egypt to a future of protracted instability and stagnation, while creating a new generation of radical recruits for terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda."


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- 1985 Degree "Laurea" in Chemistry - 1986-88 Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Diane Robins at the Biology Department of Columbia University in New York. Research: hormonal regulation of gene expression using as model system the Slp gene of mouse. - 1989 Ricercatore of Molecular Biology at Dip. di Biologia della Università "Tor Vergata" Research: transcriptional and translational regulation of ribosomal protein genes; analysis of cis- and trans-acting element involved in the translational control of TOP mRNAs - 1995-96 Visiting scientist for six months in the laboratory of Dr. George Thomas at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Research: translational control in in vitro systems. - 2000-today Professore Associato of Molecular Biology at Dip. di Biologia della Università "Tor Vergata". Research: cis and trans-acting elements involved in the translational control of TOP mRNAs. Molecular analysis of Blackfan-Diamond anemia
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Contrattazione e produttività programmata: una proposta di politica economica
Il declino della produttivita' e della competitivita' dell'Italia ha radici lontane, che con l'Euro si sono acuite ma di cui l'Euro non tiene responsabilità . Esse sono radicate in fattori strutturali, dal lato della domanda, della distribuzione e dell'innovazione, che hanno posto in crisi la legge Kaldor-Verdon in Italia più che in altri paesi dell'Europa. Solo intervenendo su questi fattori e' possibile uscire dal tunnel. La proposta della produttivita' programmata inserita in una politica nazionale ma soprattutto europea di crescita e non di rigore e austerita', rilanciando la funzione distributiva e di sostegno della domanda che svolge la dinamica salariale, costituisce un indispensabile di cambio di rotta per la politica economica e sindacale. The decline of the Italian productivity and competitiveness is rooted in long-term weaknesses which have been deteriorated with the Euro to which anyway responsibility cannot be attributed . The weaknesses are rooted in structural factors, concerning the demand side of the economy, the income distribution among social classes and generations, the innovation policies; all these factors have contributed to the crisis of the Kaldor-Verdon law in Italy more than in other European countries. Only acting with policies focused on these factors it will be feasible to find the way out of the tunnel. The proposal of bargained productivity within a national policy, and even more important a European policy, addressed to growth instead of rigour and austerity, and supported by the distribution and demand role played by wage dynamics, represents the necessary change in the route of economic policy and trade union policy.
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From the Archives: On the Fifth of November
At the Age of Seventeen
Hardly had the pious James come down from the north
to assume the rule of the people of Albion who had sprung
from ancient Trojan blood; hardly had the treaty
joined together the English and Scottish crowns and scepters,
with the king, in peace and wealth and happiness, taking his place
on the new throne, secure from foes, open or secret,
when the terrible tyrant, the father of Furies, the wandering exile
from Olympus' majestic heights who rules Acheron's flood
chanced to rove about the immense orb of the earth
to tally up his faithful slaves and companions in evil
who, when they are buried, will take their place in his realm.
Hovering here in mid-air, he rouses terrible tempests
and scatters among like-minded friends the seeds of hatred.
He appeals to the pride of nations that think they cannot be conquered
to wage war against others that labor under the same
dangerous misconception. Where the olive of peace thrives,
he creates confusion that leads to tumult and mortal combat.
Whoever devotes himself to decency and to virtue
he beguiles with deceptions, corrupting their temptingly innocent hearts.
He knows how to lay his snares and spread his treacherous nets
that entangle unwary men whom he delights to capture
and whom he follows as silent as any Caspian tiger
relentlessly stalking its trembling prey through pathless wastes
on a moonless night ill-lit by the furtive twinkle of stars.
With such destructive intent does the underworld god Summanus,
girt with whirling smoke and flickers of blue-white flame,
appear to overwhelm the cities and towns of men.
He sees the famous beetling cliffs with their skirts of foam,
and the land the sea-god loves enough so that his son
who ruled here bestowed his name upon it–Albion.
Summanus saw the fertile and peaceful fields that Ceres
had blessed and, what was worse, a people who gave their thanks
and praise to the one true god. This provoked him sorely
to sighs and groans with eruptions of Tartarean flames and brimstone,
sulfurous and lurid, like those of the monster Typhoeus
whom Jove consigned beneath Mount Aetna that belches forth
from its noisome mouth expressions of burning hatred and rage.
His eyes are aglow with sinister flashes and from his jaws
there comes the sounds of his gnashing teeth that sound like weapons,
lance meeting iron armor or sword smashing on shield.
"This," he said, "is as dreadful as anything I have yet seen
as I have wandered the world. This nation alone rejects me
and spurns my powerful yoke and all my machinations.
If my efforts can accomplish what I now have in mind,
they shall not long defy me without paying the cost
that I shall impose on them who will know my vengeance."
Thus he spoke and on pitch-black wings he soared through the air,
and wherever he flew there were mighty headwinds that came before him,
accumulations of thick black clouds and flashes of lightning.
He passed over the peaks of the snowy Alps and reached
Italy where, on the left, the stormy Apennines lie,
the land of the ancient Sabines, and opposite, on the right,
Tuscany, notorious for sorcerers and magi.
He passed the Tiber that flows through Rome to kiss the sea
and descended to Romulus' city where, in the fading twilight,
he beheld the man who wears the triple-crown on a litter
carried about in streets on the shoulders of burly men
and bearing their bread-made gods. Before him were kings on their knees
and an endless line of mendicant friars carrying tapers.
All of them blind fools, thus dragging out their lives
in Cimmerian darkness! They entered their temple, bright with torches,
for it was St. Peter's Day. Thunders of songs and chants
rose to resound in the domes in a Bacchic enthusiasm
that once used to fill the air of Boeotian Mount Aracynthus
while the River Asopus trembled and from far away Mount Cithaeron
returned an echoing answer from one of its hollow cliffs.
When the solemn pomp of these rites came at last to an end,
it was time for Night to depart from Erebus' embrace
and urge her steeds headlong across the bowl of the sky—
Typhlos (blind), fierce Melanchaetes (having black hair),
Siope (silence), and long-maned Phryx (one who shudders).
The subduer of kings, meanwhile, the proud pontifical heir
to the throne where fiery Phlegethon flows had entered his chamber,
for he does not pass his nights without some concubine,
but sleep had barely closed his eyes when the lord of the shades
appeared in a false form and stood close to his bedside.
His temples were silvered and gray and a white beard hung to his breast;
a garment of ashen hue swept the ground where he walked;
a hood covered his head and concealed his face in its shadow;
and, lest he give himself away, his loins were bound
with a cord of hemp. Slowly in sandaled feet he approached…
so had Francis walked alone in the desert sands
among the haunts of the wild beasts, a sinner who brought
to the dumb creatures pious words of the world's salvation
and thus he had managed to gentle the wolves and the Libyan lions.
In this disguise the crafty deceiver addressed the recumbent pope,
speaking these inveigling words from his hateful lips:
"Are you asleep, my son? Does your fatigue overpower
your body's limbs? You forget your faith as well as your flock!
Even now, as I speak, there are, far to the north,
barbarian people defying your throne and your triple crown!
The quivering Britons scorn the laws of the holy father.
Bestir yourself! Arise from your sloth! Remember how
the emperor adores you! Think of the keys of heaven
you have in your hands that will make those gates fly open!
Break their shameless pride and rebellious spirits and show
how sacrilege fares in the world when you have pronounced your curses.
Avenge the defeat of the Spanish fleet where their flags drifted
slowly down to the tranquil bed of the cruel sea.
Think of the saints and martyrs that Amazon virgin queen
sent to hang on the gallows or to lay their heads on the block.
If you lie there in your soft bed pillows and fail to act
and refuse to encounter the foe while his strength every day increases,
the enemy soon will fill the sea with his ships and soldiers
and plant his haughty standard atop the Aventine hill.
He will smash the holy relics and fling them into the flames
and tread with his infidel feet upon the nape of your neck,
even if kings have been delighted to kiss your feet.
But do not attempt any direct attack which could fail;
rather make use of fraud and guile, bearing in mind
that such actions are right and proper for heretics.
Their king has summoned to council the kingdom's dignitaries
the hereditary peers from everywhere in the land,
and the white-haired sages as well in their fine robes of state.
All these you can blast to ashes with a little well-placed powder
underneath the buildings in which they are all convened.
But before you take such action, you must give fair warning
to whatever souls have remained steadfast in their faith.
These will surely obey your instructions and keep away
and therefore be spared from any harm in the great explosion.
Then, when the nation is seized with panic and in confusion,
let the ruthless Gauls fall upon them or else
the Iberian hordes that are eager to invade and annex their land.
Thus will the spirit return of the age of the faithful Queen Mary
and you will regain your rule over the valiant English.
Fear naught; dread naught; but trust in all the gods and saints
that you parade through the streets on your many festival days!"
So the fiend spoke and then, putting aside his costume,
disappeared forthwith to the joyless realm of Lethe.
The doorman of the celestial hall had driven away
sleep and the nocturnal shapes of pleasant dreams
when rosy-fingered dawn emerged from the eastern gates
to tinge the earth again with a fresh and gentle light,
while weeping dewy tears down on the mountain tops
for the death of her son Memnon before the walls at Troy.
There is a place obscured by the darkness of constant night
where in the vast foundations of ruined buildings lurk
cruel Murder and double-tongued Treachery, the twins
Discord brought forth. Here in their dismal den
among the broken rocks are unburied bones of men
and rotting corpses pierced and gashed by cold steel.
Here sits Guile with his furtive eyes and also Strive
and Calumny with those fangs protruding from his jaw.
And Fury, and Death in a thousand different forms, and Fear
also dwell here, and Horror flying through murky air,
and bodily shapes cry out to punctuate the silence.
The very earth is ashamed, moist as it is with blood.
There, deep in a cave, Murder and Treason sit
where no one dares approach through the hall of jagged rocks,
and there the guilty pair cower, but even so,
Babylon's high priest can command them as he pleases,
for they have been loyal and faithful servants to him for years.
"On the very western edge of the world," he tells the two,
"surrounded by ocean there lives a people whom I detest,
smug on their little island, aloof from the rest of the world.
Go there at once, I command you, and find among the faithful
associates in my plot and aids in its execution.
Then, with infernal power of powder, let them be blown
sky high, the king, the nobles, and the entire accurséd race."
With these words, he fell silent, and the ruthless twins at once
hurried to carry out his orders. The Lord of Heaven
who turns the sphere of the heavens and sends down lightning bolts
from his citadel on high, looked down with a sad smile
at the efforts of this perverse crown that would be in vain
as long as he himself was defending his people's cause.
Somewhere equidistant from Europe and Asia, there stands
high on a mountain the lofty Tower of Fame, where the Titan
goddess dwells. A thousand windows and doors gape wide
and from spacious courtyards within a murmuring crowd mills,
buzzing like so many flies where the milk pails are set out.
At the highest point sits Fame and she perks her numberless ears
with which she gathers whispers of rumors from everywhere.
Not even you, Argus, the unreliable guard
of Io, rolled so many eyes in your savage face.
Fame's eyes never get drowsy but she gazes far and wide
over the landscape below, even into the darkness,
places in which the rays of the sun don't ever shine.
Whatever she sees or hears, her babbling tongue pours out,
utterly disregarding the truth of what she says,
exaggerating or minimizing as it may please her.
Fame, nevertheless, deserves praise in our song
for her one good deed, than which there could not be a better.
I am proud to honor her here, and I do not apologize
for going on at some length—for she was the savior of England.
Capricious goddess, we offer our deepest gratitude.
God, who tempers the motion of stars and planets, hurled
his thunderbolt and, while the earth still trembled, said:
"Are you silent now, O Fame? Or are you unaware
of the evil band of Papists conspiring now against me
and against my people, the Britons? Have you not heard the news
of the terrible murder that they are planning against King James?"
She heard and accepted these commands of the Thunderer God
and even though she was normally speedy, now she hastened
to put on her buzzing wings and clothe her body in plumage.
In her right hand she held a shining brazen trumpet
as she beat the air with her wings and outstripped all the clouds,
and even the winds which she left behind, and the sun's horses.
Through all the English cities and towns she spread her tales–
uncertain, even contradictory, but disturbing,
and growing ever louder—of the men who were plotting together
this treacherous act. She spoke of the deed itself but included
the names of those involved as well as the place and time
that they had settled upon. Young men and pretty maidens,
and worn old men and women were seized with great alarm
at the thought of such a disaster that struck deep in their hearts.
Meanwhile, the Heavenly Father on high was moved to pity
for these, his people, and he thwarted the Papists' plans:
the conspirators were captured and dragged away to justice.
Honors and incense were offered as signs of gratitude
for the nation's having been spared. At all the crossroads, fires
of celebration burned, and young men and women danced,
and no day more than the Fifth of November sees such rejoicing.
|John Milton (1608-1674) was a graduate of Christ College, Cambridge. On the Fifth of November was origionally written in Latin; the above is a new translation. Milton also wrote poems in English: "Lycidas," "Paradise Lost," "Sampson Agonistes," and others.
David R. Slavitt's recent books include George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me, "a kind of memoir of my flicker-picker" days at Newsweek," and a translation of Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. His translations of The Latin Elegies of Giovanni Boccaccio and Dante's La Vita Nuova will appear later this year.
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Windows Store apps using C++, C#, or Visual Basic are event-driven and all UI components share the same thread. Event-driven means that your code executes when an event occurs. After your app completes the work that is in response to an event, it sits idle, waiting for the next event to occur. The framework code for UI (running layout, processing input, firing events, and so on) and an app's code for UI all are executed on the same thread. Only one piece of code can execute at a time, so if your app code takes too long to run, the framework can't run layout or notify an app of other events that fired. In other words, the responsiveness of your app is directly related to the availability of the UI thread to process work. The less work you are doing on the UI thread, the more responsive your program will be to user input.
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To help keep your app responsive, the platform provides asynchronous versions of many of its APIs. An asynchronous API ensures that your active execution thread never blocks for a significant amount of time. When you call an API from the UI thread, use the asynchronous version if it's available. For more info about programming with async patterns, see Asynchronous programming or Quickstart: Calling asynchronous APIs.
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In general, it is a good practice to write event handlers so that they finish quickly, but there are many legitimate cases where a non-trivial amount of work needs to be performed. If your code takes a perceivable amount of time to execute, then we recommend that you schedule the work on a background thread.
You can schedule work asynchronously by using the await operator in C#, the Await operator in Visual Basic, or delegates in C++. But this doesn't guarantee that the work you schedule will run on a background thread. Many of the Windows RuntimeAPIs schedule work in the background thread for you, but if you call your app code by using only await or a delegate, you run that delegate or method on the UI thread. You have to explicitly say when you want to run your app code on a background thread. In C#C# and Visual Basic you can accomplish this by passing code to Task.Run. The example shows how you might schedule work on a background thread.
An example of work that can be performed on a background thread is the calculating of computer AI in a game. Typically, the code that calculates the computer's next move takes a lot of time to execute. If this code is executed on the main thread, the app can't respond to additional interactions from the user until the code finishes executing. Instead, you can schedule that logic to execute on a background thread and then return to the UI thread after the computation is complete. Here's an example.
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Once I year on vacation I visit a stand known for its home-made ice cream. Since I am now seriously watching carbs and sugar, I'm wondering if I'd be better off with a small serving of regular ice cream, sugar-free ice cream, or fruit-based sorbet (no sugar-free offered).
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Shouse to be recognized at the annual Salute to Leaders ceremony
The annual Clermont 20/20 salute to leaders banquet and awards ceremony will be held March 8, and final selections have been made as to who is being recognized for their work in the county this year.
Cindy Jenkins, director of Clermont 20/20, said that a county resident is picked every year to represent the townships, the City of Milford, and a number of other categories for their work in the community.
"Each year, we reach out to all of the townships and the city of Milford," said Jenkins. "They know more than anyone who in their community is really doing good things. We also have nine county awards, and parks and recreation is one of those. The nomination process begins in November, and we pull together a review committee that consists of at least one person from areas like education, health, human services, civics, parks and recreation and that way, we have some inside knowledge too."
This year, Ron Shouse will be accepting the award for the parks and recreation category. Shouse is an employee of the Clermont County department of parks and recreation and is well-known for his efforts in promoting both the efforts of that department and other historic efforts, such as the Grassy Run Historical Arts Committee.
Jenkins said that it was not Shouse's employment in parks and recreation that earned him the honor, but his work going above and beyond that marked him for the award.
"That's sort of a coincidence," said Jenkins. "We're usually cautious about awarding someone if the work they are doing is part of their job. For Ron, it goes far beyond what would be expected of him as an employee. This is more of a personal passion for him. That was a major factor. Anyone can be nominated, but it's not totally unusual that anyone who works in that field can be nominated. We just look at it very carefully."
As for Shouse, he said he was surprised to be so named.
"I'm quite surprised, humbled I guess," said Shouse. "What can you say? I was shocked, because I don't do the things I do for awards. I do it because I enjoy doing those things. It's making someone else's life better. Awards are wonderful, and I appreciate it, but I do this every day."
The awards banquet became a tradition after its first occurrence in 1994. Jenkins said that a lot of effort is put into finding the right people to honor each year. Nominations are made by the public, and Jenkins said that every effort is made to make sure the person chosen is the right person for the honor.
"This is all about the person being nominated," said Jenkins. "A lot of time goes into this, to select that one person who emerges as a real leader. He's very heavily involved, but the scope of his involvement and work goes beyond his job. These aren't things required in his job description. These are things he has a true passion for and gives of himself. That put him over the top."
Shouse follows the director of the Clermont County department of parks and recreation in receiving the award.
"It's an honor, because I follow up the park district director, Chris Clingman," said Shouse. "I feel special because he got it last year for the things he's done for the parks and county residents. It's definitely a humbling experience. I'm grateful that people do see what we do to make people's life a little better."
The awards roughly follow an outline created by Clermont 20/20 when it was formed to identify key areas of Clermont County life.
"When Clermont 20/20 was started, there were certain critical issue areas identified in this county," said Jenkins. "These were areas needed for this to be healthy, well-rounded community. Those areas were economic development, health and human services, safety and justice, parks and recreation, the civic community and education as well as government and infrastructure. Those are the elements that drove the way those county awards were framed. If these are critical issues here, the people who have a critical impact on them are the unsung heroes. They will have the impact on life in Clermont County."
To learn more or to register for a seat at the banquet, go online at www.clermont2020.org.


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Actor B.J. Novak has written his first book, a collection of short stories called One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (Knopf).
The collection is Novak's first project since The Office went off the air. Novak not only starred in the NBC comedy, but he also wrote and produced episodes. Novak workshopped the stories at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He read the stories to live audiences to get a sense of what was working and what needed to work.
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Results from a survey of Marana Police Department employees administered by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and delivered to Marana two days before the town's police chief announced his retirement Feb. 15 were overwhelmingly critical of the chief and the department's administration in general.
The DPS survey, delivered to the town Feb. 13 and released Feb. 28, was requested by Marana officials in response to a series of articles published in the Northwest EXPLORER last year. The survey conducted in November found officers and civilian employees were generally satisfied with their jobs, but they roundly assailed the leadership of former Chief David R. Smith and upper-echelon supervisors in the department.
Some of the specific comments from the employees returned with the survey accused Smith of sexual harassment, racism, favoritism, vindictiveness and blamed him for the department's plunging morale.
The responses from 46 of the department's 74 employees who filled out the survey mirrored findings in the EXPLORER series published in August and an "employee satisfaction" survey administered by the town of Marana released in 2000.
Smith and Marana Town Manager Mike Hein dismissed the 2000 survey as being rigged by a handful of disgruntled em-ployees. Hein and other town officials also repeatedly criticized the newspaper's 18-month investigation of problems in the MPD as being based on "anonymous sources and innuendo."
Hein said the results of the DPS survey and an accompanying DPS review that found 28 procedural problems with MPD's investigation of a death of a Tucson man at a Marana nightclub in 2000 were unrelated to Smith's decision to retire.
Smith has not responded to requests for comment.
Just hours after officially replacing Smith, newly appointed Police Chief Richard Vidaurri held a department-wide meeting with MPD employees Feb. 28 at the Sunflower community center in Continental Ranch.
Vidaurri said bound copies of the 67-page survey and five-page review of the death investigation were distributed to all MPD employees at the meeting, in which he encouraged the employees "to put the past behind them."
"We discussed the findings and I told them we would start meetings with individual units one-on-one next week on how to improve things. My administration will have open communications," Vidaurri said. "They applauded after my discussion, so I'm going to take that as an indication they're receptive to the plan."
In addition to meeting with employees, Vidaurri also requested the Marana Town Council formally place an item on the agenda for its March 4 meeting to discuss the survey results. The meeting was scheduled to take place after the EXPLORER's deadline.
The survey, mailed to all MPD employees during the week of Nov. 25, asked 79 questions concerning work environment, job satisfaction, supervision and agency administration.
Slightly more than 62 percent of employees returned the anonymous survey response forms to DPS. In an interview in January, Vidaurri, who was then a lieutenant overseeing the department's community policing efforts, and Sgt. Bill Derfus, an MPD public information officer, expressed concern that not all of the employees had received the survey forms.
"We were running around at the last minute trying to make sure everybody got the form," Derfus said.
An overview of the survey results written by employees in the research and planning division of the DPS found "a department where people like the work they do and get a sense of personal accomplishment from it. They believe individuals in their work unit cooperate to get the job done. More than eight in 10 feel they have the ability to protect and serve the public, and almost as many (77.8 percent) say supervisors have trust and confidence in their ability to do the job well."
However, the overview also indicated employees felt unsupported, unappreciated and voiced a strong dissatisfaction with the management of the department.
"Their candid responses show many areas for improvement. Less than half of the employees are satisfied with their involvement in decisions that affect their work, with the training they receive, or with the recognition they get for doing a good job.
"In addition, there appears to be overall dissatisfaction with the agency management. Employees were asked to rate the performance of mid-level and department management, and their negative ratings outweighed positive ratings on every question except one in those key areas," the report said.
An area of the survey dealing with communication within the department received some of the most lopsided responses.
In the most negative rating, 84.8 percent of the employees disagreed or strongly disagreed when asked if they "hear more from the department management when things go right than when things go wrong."
Only 21.7 percent of the employees felt the Chief's office "effectively communicates information" to the employees, and only 17.4 percent felt that the "views and concerns of everyone are listened to and receive an appropriate response."
The survey described responses critiquing the department's management as presenting "a major opportunity for improvement."
For each of the seven questions directly related to the department's top management, the majority of the employees ranked upper management's performance as low or very low.
Nearly eight out of 10 of the employees said top managers do not recognize and reward good behavior and about seven in 10 employees said managers do not recognize the value of the department's employees.
The most scathing criticism of Smith and the department's administration came in the section of the survey that allowed written comments. The DPS noted that more than half the employees chose to provide comment, and the individual responses ranged from a few sentences to more than six typewritten pages.
Although four of the 24 separate responses summarized could be construed as supporting Smith and his administration, the balance of opinion was strident in its criticism of department management.
The survey and a department reorganization that promoted Vidaurri from sergeant to lieutenant was prompted by EXPLORER stories published in August that detailed allegations of dishonesty, favoritism, belligerency and vindictiveness on the part of Smith raised by former and current police department employees. The employees claimed Smith's management of the department has resulted in plummeting morale, an exodus of veteran officers and supervisors, and a rash of police misconduct that threaten the MPD's ability to protect the community.
Hein responded with a memo to the Marana Town Council Aug. 13 in which he dismissed the stories as "innuendo and complaints garnered from access to disgruntled employees" but called for an outside agency to "review the morale in the police department and a review of some of the specific allegations raised."
Marana Mayor Bobby Sutton, Jr. and Town Attorney Dan Hochuli met with DPS officials Sept. 10 and requested the survey and review of the death investigation. They also asked for a review of management practices in the MPD, but DPS officials said a recent certification the Marana department received was sufficient proof of sound policies and procedures.
One employee responding to the survey was critical of the newspaper's investigation.
"The tabloid reporters trying to drive a wedge between MPD employees should remember that employees are ignoring what you print, do not believe a word you say, and will continue to put forth the extra effort needed to succeed," the employee wrote.
Another response claimed the newspaper was on target.
"Employees feel like we work in center for battered employees … dig deeper and find out what is going on," one employee urged the DPS. "The NW Explorer was on the right track. We are filling out this survey because we care about the agency and feel citizen's need to know what's going on."
The survey of Marana Police Department employees administered by the Arizona Department of Public Safety in November contained written comments from 24 employees. While most of the individual comments were critical of former MPD Chief David R. Smith and the overall management of the department, at least four employees provided supportive comments.
According to the report, the major areas of concern, ranked in descending order by the frequency they were mentioned, were:
Favoritism and unfair practices in the area of discipline, promotion, training and starting pay:
"If you are not a favorite, you don't get training. Officers often have to pay for their own training."
"Chief shows favoritism in discipline and promotion decisions. Favoritism seen on numerous occasions."
"Biggest complaint is discipline. Discipline is based on who you are friends with."
"Needed resources and training funds cut to buy chief's job for another year."
"Issues with pay inequities: female officers hired at higher starting pay then males."
"Training, specialty assignments and promotion based on loyalty to the chief, not merit."
Criticism of the chief:
"We are frightened of chief - a racist, sexist sociopath in control of our lives."
"I do not trust the man. I would not go into his office without a tape recorder or someone else with me."
"Problems are because of the chief. Officers are afraid to voice their concerns as we have seen others fired, disciplined or harassed just for asking questions."
"When (Marana Town Council) members say they want to help, they should do so. Is it cheaper to keep the chief or let him go? Make a decision now. If they let the chief destroy the reputation of the town and MPD, then the voters will take action. Help us. We like the town and what it has to offer. Let us do our job without a hostile work environment."
"Need a chief that will let officers do their jobs, who is positive instead of negative and who doesn't beat employees down."
Criticism of all agency management and lack of leadership:
"Views and concerns of officers are shot down even when valid. I can't go to my supervisor because he doesn't support or back up his officers. Hear from management only when things go wrong. Management is too quick to discipline and does not reward hard work. From chief on down, supervisors lack supervisory skills."
"Public safety sacrificed for public harmony. Supervisors take road of least resistance. Chief makes all decisions."
"Soviet style administration: disinterested leadership stresses party line."
High turnover of personnel:
"Good officers leave because they see the chief as incompetent and embarrassing."
"We lost good officers due to the chief's bad behavior."
"MPD 'brass' have been outdated for sometime. If they don't catch up with the times, many valuable officers will continue to leave."
"Reasons for turnover are not pursued."
"About 15 percent of patrol is seeking employment with other agencies."
"Most experienced officers leave."
Retaliation for speaking out on issues:
"The only thing this survey is going to accomplish is to upset the chief and make him retaliate against employees."
"If we speak up, we lose our jobs."
"Evaluation used as a tool to control and discipline employees who voice concerns about problems."
"Supervisors instructed to write negative entry in personnel file if we express problems or concerns."
"When people speak up, it is used against them."
Employees not valued:
"The chief doesn't care about employees."
"It's the chief's way or the highway. Employees not valued."
"Chief says employees who don't like it can leave. Employees treated as disposable assets."
"Management doesn't try to retain valuable, experienced and knowledgeable employees."
"Good work and good performance are not rewarded or recognized."
"Employees not valued. Told they can leave if they don't like it here."
Lack of training:
"I am assigned to a specialty unit, but have attended only one training class. Am told no more training due to finances. Not enough people assigned to handle criminal investigations"
"Continued training is lacking."
"MPD has not provided me with training - teach myself. Officers with special skills are discouraged from using them."
"Training is inadequate."
"We are told there is no money for training. Have to pay out of pocket to get training."
Low morale:
"Thank you for taking the time to send out the survey. I hope the results will accurately describe the low morale in MPD. Officers are encouraged to do less and less."
"The work environment is not healthy and many are planning lawsuits."
"Because of low morale and favoritism, employees are hard pressed to be motivated."
"Morale at all time low."
"Morale is very low because discipline is not handled fairly."
"Suggestions made to boost morale are not taken seriously or followed through."
Policies not followed:
"MPD doesn't have an 'active shooter plan' even though there have been incidents where students brought guns into Marana schools. MPD does not have a SWAT team to handle an active shooter incident. We do not have an outline of the schools."
"Officers not allowed to serve valid warrants"
"Would it shock them to know how many officers are working without ballistic vests?
"Policies and merit overlooked to expedite racial and gender diversity."
"MPD needs to follow policies without favoritism. Favoritism is blatant and counterproductive"
"Are arrests discouraged to make Marana look like a safer place to live?"
Loss of law enforcement focus creating unproductive officers:
"Officers were fired for writing too many tickets. That is not community policing."
"I'm told not to write too many citations. If I sit in my patrol car and do nothing, I'm told I'm doing a good job."
"Outside customer service is pushed. Internal customer service not practiced by management. The chief pays lip service what will serve him well on his resume."
"Some officers highly discouraged from being productive and proactive… department has lost its true focus as a law enforcement agency… Appears professional on the outside, but internal issues swept under the rug."
"MPD has confused community policing with community relations. Community Oriented Policing is solving problems in conjunction with the community. We are good at being polite, but we don't solve problems or catch the bad guys. It is a mistake to call Adopt a Business and Vacation Watch programs community policing. Cosmetics are not substitute for substance. The community has a right to expect protection from us as well as fiction."
Of the handful of employees who wrote comments supportive of Smith and the MPD administration, some placed blame for discord in the department on a small faction of disgruntled employees.
"Disgruntled employees affect the morale of the department. No matter what changes, they will be unhappy," one employee wrote.
"Chief has done an excellent job concerning the negative, disgruntled, small group of employees who have done their best to destroy this agency and the chief," another MPD employee wrote."
The Arizona Department of Public Safety has identified 28 problems and unresolved questions in the Marana Police Department's investigation of how a patron died struggling with bouncers more than three years ago at a nightclub where the MPD had been paid more than $100,000 a year to work as security.
Westyn Lee Tanawa Hamilton died Jan. 2, 2000 after a violent struggle with five bouncers behind the now defunct New West/Gotham Nightclub, 4385 W. Ina Road.
The Pima County Attorney's Office declined to file any charges in the case after a three month investigation by the MPD.
The report of the DPS findings, released to Marana officials Feb. 13, but not released by the town until Feb. 28, was prompted by a Northwest EXPLORER investigation published in January 2002.
The Northwest EXPLORER also published in August a series of stories about Chief David R. Smith's management of the Marana Police Department. Marana Mayor Bobby Sutton, Jr. and Town Attorney Dan Hochuli met with DPS officials in September and asked the state police to examine allegations raised in the articles.
The Hamilton stories questioned the MPD's conflict of interest in the case and the relationship between Chief Smith and the nightclub, and detailed the accounts of witnesses who claimed Hamilton was beaten.
The DPS provided Marana officials the review of MPD's investigation of Hamilton's death, along with an MPD employee survey that was critical of Smith's administration (see story page 1), just two days before Smith announced his retirement.
Town officials claim the DPS reports had no bearing on Smith's decision to retire. Smith has refused requests for interviews since stepping down Feb. 28.
The five-page DPS review of the Hamilton case noted information from some witnesses -- including a bouncer who claimed he watched from a doorway as the other bouncers brutally beat Hamilton -- was not pursued more thoroughly.
The bouncer, James Conklin, told MPD detectives in a two-hour videotaped interview conducted four days after Hamilton died that he watched the other bouncers "murder" the 23-year-old Tucsonan.
Conklin recanted his story three months later after being contacted by a private investigator working for the nightclub's attorney, Michael Piccarreta, according to records obtained from the Pima County Attorney's Office.
The DPS report characterized Piccarreta's involvement in the case as "unclear."
"On March 21, 2000 MPD detectives received a typewritten letter allegedly from witness James Conklin, who recanted all of his previous statements about the incident," DPS Det. John T. Bottoms wrote in the report. "The letter was sent on March 19, 2000, one day prior to Mr. Piccarreta's office receiving the letter from Mr. Conklin recanting all his previous statements.
"There was no documentation explaining if additional follow up investigation had been conducted to verify the validity of this document with Mr. Conklin or why he recanted all his previous statements."
The review conducted by members of the DPS's Major Crimes Investigative Unit, also noted that Piccarreta sent police reports to the county attorney that listed Conklin as a suspect, investigative lead or witness in unrelated criminal cases.
The report said MPD allowed the attorney to sit in on interviews with the bouncers and question them when he was not representing them.
"By allowing Mr. Piccarreta to participate in the interviews, it granted him access to information and evidence prior to legal discovery by the prosecution," the report said.
The DPS also noted Piccarreta had asked for and received additional drug testing of Hamilton's body, and provided investigative leads to the MPD that the department acted on "unilaterally."
Piccarreta said he did nothing improper and was acting as legal counsel for the corporation that operated the New West/Gotham. He maintains his actions in the case were done with the full knowledge of the MPD.
"Had anyone from the DPS talked to me they might've understood why I had any involvement in the investigation," Piccarreta said. "Basically, I was representing the company and we were cooperating fully with the Marana Police Department, including providing them with information. What they chose to do with the information and any requests that we made, is up to the police department."
The report also noted another witness, a patron who said she watched the bouncers "put the decedent in a 'choke hold' in what she described as 'excessive force.'" The witness did not receive any follow-up questioning from MPD investigators, the DPS found.
Lt. Tim Chung, who heads the DPS division that conducted the review, declined to comment on the report, citing an agreement with Marana that only town officials would comment on the findings.
Chung said in an interview in November that the DPS would restrict its review to the investigative procedures used by the MPD and would not look at the conflict of interest and other allegations raised in the EXPLORER articles because Marana officials had not asked him to.
The bulk of the findings in the report documented problems with procedural matters in the MPD investigation, including only scant indication police secured the crime scene, failing to create diagrams, and poor photographic documentation.
Newly appointed MPD Chief Richard Vidaurri said he would be meeting with members of the department's Criminal Investigations Unit to discuss the DPS review.
"We'll be taking a look at it to see if in any of the instances the DPS misinterpreted information or if we just dropped the ball," Vidaurri said. "We're prepared to take a hard look at it."
Hamilton's mother, Toni, has been working since her son's death for legislation requiring bouncers to be trained and licensed the same way conventional security guards already are under Arizona law. She has repeatedly questioned the quality of MPD's investigation.
"It's just what I've been waiting for," she said after being advised of the DPS report. "We don't know what the future holds, but I'm still hoping for the day my son can have the justice he's so worthy of."
Toni Hamilton and other members of her family filed a wrongful death suit against the New West/Gotham owners and settled for a reported $1 million in 2000.
Rick Unklesbay, chief criminal deputy for the county attorney's office, had not seen the DPS report when contacted by a reporter March 3, but said his office would consider reopening the case if new evidence came to light.
"If law enforcement brings us back a case with new evidence - or any outside agency or the victim's family asks us to look at it, we're always open to reconsidering the case if there's new material," Unklesbay said.
The Northwest EXPLORER series found Piccarreta had not crossed any legal or ethical lines in the case, but instead focused on why the MPD had allowed his extensive involvement in the investigation, and examined the circumstances surrounding Conklin's subsequent recantation.
Conklin has consistently refused requests for interviews.
MPD officers and an investigator close to the case interviewed for the Northwest EXPLORER series said Smith was meeting privately with the bar's owners and Piccarreta during the criminal investigation.
The officers, including one of the four homicide detectives assigned to the case, said they suspect Smith "leaked" information about the criminal investigation to the New West owners and Piccarreta.
One of the detectives said the Marana investigators were being "pressured' by Smith for information at the same time Smith was meeting with Piccarreta, and one detective frequently tried to conceal the case file from Smith by taking it home at night.
The MPD officers requested anonymity because of fear of losing their jobs. Smith declined to comment on the allegations shortly before the series was published.
In an interview in 2001, Piccarreta said he couldn't recall when or how many times he met with Smith, or exactly what was discussed. The attorney also declined to examine his files that he said he believed would contain the information, or allow the Northwest EXPLORER to examine the files or time records.
However, Piccarreta did say his actions on behalf of the New West/Gotham were always "appropriate."
"I never received any leaked information from anyone in this investigation … there was nothing inappropriate done, I thought, by the detectives or anyone in the Marana Police Department," Piccarreta said last year.
An autopsy found 52 cuts, bruises, and abrasions on Hamilton's body and two minor internal injuries to his neck and head, but determined Hamilton died from restraint asphyxia, a little understood phenomenon in which a restrained person's heart quits beating and their breathing ceases.
The bouncers involved with the struggle with Hamilton claimed they simply pinned Hamilton to the ground to control him after he struck a bouncer in the head while being ejected from the club for fighting.
One of the MPD investigators told the Northwest EXPLORER that the bouncers' version of events was doubtful.
"Look, Hamilton was no angel, not by a long shot," the investigator who worked the Hamilton case said.
"He went in there and he was acting like an a------, getting into a fight, fighting with the bouncers. But do I think that the bouncers were just simply trying to gently restrain him? No. He fired off on that employee and they kicked his ass.
"But who are you going to charge in that? Answer me that. Out of all those guys involved in it, how do you prove that this is the person that's responsible for Hamilton's death?"
Town officials had ordered an end to the MPD off duty work at the bar just days before Hamilton died. All of the MPD detectives who conducted the criminal investigation had worked as off-duty security at the bar alongside the bouncers they were now investigating.
The bar was shut down by state liquor regulators in January of last year after being cited for repeated acts of violence and other liquor law violations. MPD had provided off-duty security for the nightclub from mid-1997 until late December of 1999.
Smith's involvement with the bar between 1998 and 2000 included refusing to act on a 79-page MPD Office of Professional Standards report that concluded the off-duty work was a conflict of interest; defending the nightclub before the Marana Town Council and in a letter to administrators of the state's liquor licensing agency; sending high-ranking police officials to help coordinate the club's security and making security recommendations himself; and assigning additional officers to patrol the bar after Marana administrators ordered an end to most of the off duty work.
Smith's daughter was also given a job at the nightclub, and Smith allegedly removed his chief's insignia and worked off duty security for pay at the bar more than 20 times, according to records obtained for the series.


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Judy, 54, said the Czech-born former world number one was "great fun to have around" and habitually called her "Granny".
She said Lendl gave her the nickname after she had her hair dyed silver. In fact, he is only six months younger than her.
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Judy said: "It's very sad and I'm still in mourning a little bit. I think we'll all really miss Mr Lendl - we used to call him Mr Lendl and he used to call me Granny.
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