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Thanks to the reset button, the Augusta GreenJackets return to Lake Olmstead Stadium today with a second chance at proving their worth in the South Atlantic League.
The team's mediocre 32-37 record in the first half of the season – 14 1/2 games out of first place and better than only one of the Southern Division's six other teams – was wiped away last week when the league reset the records to 0-0 after the all-star break. The team with the best second-half mark earns a spot in the postseason, and manager Lipso Nava said he thinks his group of prospects are up to the challenge.
"I think the potential is there," he said. "It's just a matter of having the right attitude and maintaining adjustments and learning how to play the game in a better way."
The most obvious potential centers around the team's starting pitching, including a pair of 19-year-old right-handers who have shown promise over the past month. Kyle Crick, the 49th overall pick in last year's draft, and Clayton Blackburn, a 16th-round pick, struggled early in the season but hope to use what they learned in their first taste of full-season, professional baseball.
The two pitchers have spent their time in Augusta working with pitching coach Mike Caldwell, a big league veteran of 14 years with the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers.
"They've been very receptive," Caldwell said of his pitchers. "I think in the last four or five weeks I've seen a noticeable difference in quite a few of them on some little nuances of the game that they weren't paying much attention to and didn't think were really important earlier."
Crick walked 14 batters in 15 innings over the first month of the season, then saw his ERA jump to 5.18 after a pair of rocky outings in May.
Blackburn didn't get a win until his seventh start. He gave up seven earned runs May 3 before being pulled in the second inning of a start in Kannapolis, Md., and saw his ERA balloon to 5.85.
But the two prospects have shown short memories in bouncing back from the shaky starts.
Crick was named the league's pitcher of the week in June. He entered the all-star break on a streak of 12 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run.
Blackburn took a no-hitter into the seventh inning in Lexington, Ky., May 29 then won his next two starts. He finished the first half having allowed just one run over his last 23 innings.
"I'm pleased with both of them," Caldwell said. "I think Blackburn has made some physical improvements, and I think Crick has made some maturity improvements."
The two pitchers might look the same in a program – both skipped the chance to play college ball after wrapping up high school careers in Texas – but the similarities end on the mound.
Crick's fastball has touched 98 mph this season and often overpowers his minor league competition.
Blackburn doesn't have the speed but has used his command and off-speed arsenal to fool hitters. He struck out five times as many batters as he walked in the first half and his walks per nine innings ratio (1.82) and strikeouts per nine innings (10.16) at the all-star break both ranked among the top five in the league.
"I think Blackburn's a little bit ahead of (Crick) mature-wise," Caldwell said. "I just think Blackburn maybe had to learn how to pitch a little bit when he was younger. His velocity has increased and he really knows how to pitch."
Though their pitching styles might be different, both Blackburn and Crick said they compete with each other on the mound.
Blackburn got the start Thursday when the second portion of the schedule opened in Savannah and earned a win after six innings.
Crick followed with a Saturday start that also got him a win after allowing just two hits over six scoreless innings.
Both pitching prospects will be on the mound at least once this week when the team returns to Lake Olmstead Stadium for a nine-game homestand starting today.


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IA - Lillian Demaris, 31, Mason City, 1952
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Demaris, Lillian -1952-profile on Porchlight
The old photos in these cases always haunt me for some reason.
Her profile leaves so many so many questions. Did she have a job? Was she married? Children?
It did state that she was classified as disabled, but that could mean so many things (physically, mentally?) The answer to that question would really help with finding out what could have happened. Did she leave intentionally to start a new life like so many seemed to due in those days? Did someone take advantage of her vulnerability due to a disability?
She must have family still alive today who wonders where she could be. It sounds as if there wasn't an intensive search, as I could not find much on her.
I'm not much of a researcher. I can only go as far a the typical Google search. I'm always so impressed with the amazing research that many of the members here are able to do. I hope someone is able to uncover some of the many questions to this case.
I can't even find a birth record for her or a 1930's census entry. Anyone find any record of her at all? TIA
If someone else is curious to try to find this woman I did find an interesting entry (user entry) on a genealogy board.
More surnames to work with:
Requesting any assistance for the location or information on Lillian E. Huff. Lillian has been missing since 1952 from Mason City, IA. She left behind 3 daughters ages 6, 4 and 2. Lillian married several times, Patrick OBrien, Shorty Thompson, Charles "Chuck" Jackson, Tom Demaris. Her last husband died in a construction accident in MN. Lillian lived in Killeen, TX for a while in the 1950's. She worked with a traveling carnival as a food vendor. Lillian would be 83 yrs old, as of 2004. It is believed that she is still living and living in a nursing home. Her daughters are still searching for her. Lillian's parents were Lee Ollie Huff and Lillian E. Stewart. She was born in Nebraska and then moved to Mason City, IA when she was a child. She married and lived in Mason City, IA where she had her 3 daughters. ANY information about her would be greatly appreciated.
(Note: there are some indications that she may have gone by the name Eileen. Her mother being also named Lillian she is Id'ed in a census form as Eileen).
Sounds like she possibly left on her own accord? If so I wonder why? As a mother it seems impossible to leave 3 young children, there must have been a good reason if she did leave on her own. Possibly the disability mentioned on the Charley page.
Was she thought to be working with the traveling carnival as a food vendor after the disappearance or before?
The Ancestry post was dated 2004, I wonder if anyone ever answered? Possibly a nursing home employee? I wonder if anyone can get ahold of one of the children she left behind. Maybe they can give clues to her state of mind before she disappeared.
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momtolil, I wonder where it is she disappeared from after reading that old entry on ancestry.
I wonder if she was in (Killeen) Texas as the last place known and was reported missing to Iowa authorities? Wish we could confirm that.
It is very possible she did leave of her own accord. We might be able to track her then. She may already be deceased given her advanced age.
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All of that helping with the investigation of my grandmother's dissapearance Thank You to caring so much abut a stranger. I don't have much information, but what I do have I will gladly share.
your right she was Eileen, at least to family. The reason that she wasn't reported missing in 1952 was because her mother didn't want the girls taken away from her.
The day Eileen went missing she promised my Oldest Aunt that the two of them would go out for dinner to celebrate her sixth birthday. She never came home, her car was found abandoned outside the carnival where she was working in Mason City Iowa.
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If you would like more information about Lillian Eileen DeMaris just contact me and I will see what else my mother ( her youngest) remembers from Eileen's siblings.
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More information on Lillian Eileen DeMaris
Lillian Eileen was born in 1921 in Nebraska, she was the second born child of Lee Ollie Huff ( deceased 1940 Mason City) and Lillian Edith Stewart Huff ( deceased 1982 ? Mason city) her obit said at the time that Eileen was in Orlando Florida. There was a woman there at the time going by Lillian Eileen Huff but when my aunts and my mother called her she said she married into the name. My mother and her sisters tried to track her through her social security number but no luck, they are still under the impression that she was using her mothers s.s. number and that great grandma knew where she was. If you look at the comments on Iowa cold case files there seems to be an opinion that maybe it was a sexual predator active at the time.
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I have got a little more information on Grandma Eileen. Her last known husband was not "Tom" DeMaris. Somewhere along the line the information got confused. Her last known husband was Allen DeMaris, he was decapitated in an accident along with his son in Missouri ( where they were living) not Killeen Texas. Evidently she couldn't believe he was gone until she saw his body.
The authorities believe she couldn't deal with Allen's death so she left.
I hope they find out what happened to her soon.ALL EVIL NEEDS TO SUCCEED IS FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO DO NOTHING!!!!
Is there a reason, other than the husband's death, that LE thought she left of her own accord? It is odd to me that her car was abandoned by the carnival.
I think anything is possible at this point, but we have other cases of people disappearing from carnivals and in many of them, people suspect carnival workers because it is a very transient job - meaning, they can get away with crime easy because they're only there a few days.
Everything is MOO and I am always willing to be wrong!
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We need fresh eyes in the case - please visit us in Evelyn's thread!
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October 2013 marked 60 years since Evelyn Hartley's violent kidnapping while babysitting.
We need fresh eyes in the case - please visit us in Evelyn's thread!
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Taiwan companies focus on innovative, high -quality FPD technology at CeBIT 2004
This year's spotlight is on flat panel displays (FPDs), especially LCD technology for TV sets, computer monitors, notebooks, PDAs and mobile phones.
Over 700 IT companies from Taiwan will attend this year's CeBIT. After Germany, Taiwan boasts the largest number of exhibitors. This year's spotlight is on flat panel displays (FPDs), especially LCD (liquid crystal display) technology for TV sets, computer monitors, notebooks, PDAs and mobile phones, and on PDP (plasma display panel) technology used with TV sets and information systems.
"The products underscore progress and expertise," explains Y.C. Chao, President of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). "FPDs are a major growth market. LCD and PDP technologies and applications guarantee innovative, quality products," "INNOVALUE" represents our ability to innovate for the global market.
Forty -one exhibitors will occupy Hall 24, Stand B 24, C23, C24, D23 and B32/1 at the Taiwan pavilions. TAITRA will occupy exhibition stand C24 -5. The Taiwan Trade Service Center will introduce buyers and customers to Taiwan manufacturers and help international companies to source goods and services from Taiwan.
TAITRA is sponsoring two events: a "Taiwan FPD: Laying the Groundwork for a Brighter, Clearer Tomorrow" Press Conference on 19 March (15:00 - 17:00), and a "Seeing Things Better with Taiwan FPD" New Product Launch on 21 March (16:00 - 18:15).
The press conference hosted by Mr. Konrad Chen, Director of the Taiwan Trade Center D�sseldorf, will present products and offer views on the FPD market.
C.E. Wang, President of DisplaySearch Taiwan, will discuss Taiwan FPD market development. After only five years of development, Taiwan's TFT LCD industry gained a 38% global share. Future product development will stress display and device integration in addition to speed and capacity. The INNOVALUE from Taiwan FPD and IT industries will play new roles in navigating the future.
Mr. Miin Wu, Chairman of Magic Pixel Inc., will discuss Taiwan's efforts to develop semiconductor component solutions, support applications for flat panels, and the advancement of design technology in Taiwan.
Dr. L.Y.Chen, Director of LCD TV Head Division / Marketing and Sales Division of Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. will share an LCD maker's view of LCD TVs. Mr. Frank Wu, Sector Executive of TECO Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. will discuss the characteristics of TECO's LCD TVs. Mr. Y.Y. Wang, Senior General Manager of Display Business Unit, Tatung Co. will give a "Tatung Plasma Display Product Introduction."
Dr. Wei -Jen Hu, Representative, Taipei Representative Office, Federal Republic of Germany, and Dr. Karl -Ernst Brauner, Director General, External Economic Policy, Federal Republic of Germany will preside over the New Product Launch on Sunday (21 March).
Mr. Konrad Chen, Director of the Taiwan Trade Center D�sseldorf, will briefly discuss the strengths of Taiwan`s FPD industry and the business alliance services provided by TAITRA.
Cynthia Chyn, Deputy Managing Director of the Market Intelligence Center, Institute for Information Industry, will provide future growth projections for major display application markets, as well as prospects for panel supply and demand. Supply Chain dynamics will be addressed, along with a competitive analysis of the major East Asian panel suppliers as they meet a new wave of growth.
Dr. L.Y. Chen of Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., Frank Wu of TECO Electric and Machinery and Y.Y. Wang of Tatung will present the latest LCDs, LCD TVs, and PDPs.
For further information about companies from Taiwan at CeBIT 2004 or TAITRA please visit the TAITRA stand in Hall 24, Stand C24 -5. You can also visit TAITRA on the internet at www.taiwantrade.org.tw.
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BISHKEK, 2 July 2013 – At the National Conference on Reducing Child Vulnerability to Disasters in Kyrgyzstan, the outcomes of the Nationwide School and Pre-School Safety Assessment will be presented.
According to the Assessment findings, over 1 million children, 90 per cent of all children enrolled into preschools and schools, attend structurally unsafe educational institutions in the Kyrgyz Republic; nearly nine out of ten preschools and schools fail to meet the standards for structural integrity and facility and utility maintenance.
These buildings and structures require immediate structural and non-structural changes. Some of them need improved or new safety structural engineering features, and also extensive repairs. In some cases, it is recommended to relocate schools and kindergartens to an area where they are not at immediate threat from natural disasters. Others require being demolished and new, safe buildings and structures constructed.
The Assessment gives two main recommendations:
The Assessment has been the first attempt of its kind covering the whole country, namely, over fifty-five hundred buildings and facilities. It has been carried out through the efforts of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Education and Science, State Agency on Local Self-Governance and Inter-Ethnic Relations and State Agency on Architecture, Construction and Communal Services, with the technical assistance of UNICEF with the funds made available by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of USAID.
Besides the Assessment outcomes, participants will be presented a specially developed information system. It will make it possible for those interested to get access to information on each and every school or pre-school institutions in a user-friendly GIS-map format. At present, the system is being monitored by the Central Asian Institute of Applied Geoscience.
The Conference will also look into practical issues. The participants will discuss the draft Action Plan aimed at the improved (pre)school retrofitting and reconstruction and identify the next steps. One of them will be identify extensive technical and financial support needed to make the plan a reality. Without this, children will continue to learn in buildings and facilities that are structurally unsafe and thus highly susceptible to strong earthquakes and other disasters.


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LAKIN — William Faulker once wrote, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past." For Lakin Hospital, its past has never really gone away, though some might argue it has been forgotten.
Founded by an act of the West Virginia Legislature in 1919, Lakin Hospital opened its doors on Feb. 1, 1926, with a purpose of, "the reception and treatment of blacks suffering from mental and nervous disorders." The hospital, then named the 'Lakin State Hospital for the Colored Insane,' served patients from across the state. Although the institution's original name reflected the era of segregation, it was a nontraditional facility with an all black staff, including administrators, and was one of what is believed to be only two all black mental health facilities east of the Mississippi River.
Larry Moore, of Mason, served as a social worker at Lakin from the late 1960s until 2004 and became not only an employee but historical advocate for the facility.
Moore described Lakin's beginnings as unique, explaining, "At a time when the vast majority of psychiatric care for black Americans was markedly substandard, Lakin seems to have been a serious attempt to accomplish the 'equal' portion of the 'separate but equal' doctrine. 'Care' in most other settings consisted of minimal service in inadequate facilities by white staff who were often highly prejudiced."
In 1951, a then 18-year old Edith Ross, currently of Point Pleasant, left her home in Fayette County, to find a job and ended up at Lakin Hospital as a psychiatric aide. Edith wasn't just thrown into her job caring for patients — she received six months of training, earning a salary of $90 a month which included meals. In spite of, or because of, local housing being practically nonexistent for blacks, all employees lived on the hospital grounds. Before employee dormitories were built in 1952, Edith's room was just off of the patients' ward, and at the time, she might awaken to find a patient walking the halls outside her room which she laughs about now but back then found a little unsettling.
"You got used to it," she laughed. "Course, it scared you to death sometimes."
In 1952, male and female dormitories were built to house employees, including staff, administrators and doctors. With employees living on the grounds, Edith said if a coworker needed help with patients there was always someone around to do so which also meant employees technically worked 24 hours, many of those hours without pay.
For all practical purposes, the patients had nowhere to go but Lakin, as did the staff. So, both made the best of their situations and coexisted. Edith said when she first arrived, many patients helped maintain the hospital by cleaning the buildings and working in the laundry.
"If it hadn't been for the patients, that hospital would've never made it," Edith said. "The patients cleaned that place up like a hotel."
Patients also worked on Lakin's farm which not only raised dairy cows, hogs and chickens, but grew vegetables used in the hospital's cannery. At one time, Lakin had its own store and post office as well as beautician and barber services, shoe repair, a seamstress, minister, auto shop, pharmacy, medical lab and ambulance services. So, in essence, Lakin was its own self-sufficient city, and staff and patients didn't have to go into town — because they were their own town.
This picture of self-sufficiency contradicts stereotypes of what living in a psychiatric hospital in the 1950s might've been like with images of patients locked away in padded rooms. Edith disagrees with these images being applied to what life was like at Lakin.
"We had some patients who were locked down to a point. There was just some where there wasn't any hope for them," Edith said. "But, a lot of the patients had a lot going for them."
As for those "rumors" about the hospital, Moore said, "I won't go into some of the wild and weird rumors about cages, shackles, etc., other than to state, without reserve, that they were/are totally unfounded."
Perhaps one of the darker periods at Lakin occurred not only at Lakin but across the country when the lobotomy era emerged in psychiatric facilities. In West Virginia, the lobotomy era is said to have dawned in 1948 and continued though the mid-1950s. Some records indicate Dr. Walter Freeman, who pioneered the transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy, performed about 150 lobotomies on patients at Lakin during this era.
The "ice pick" lobotomy involved sedating the patient with shock treatments, drawing the upper eyelid away from the eyeball, exposing the tear duct, then driving the sharp point of an ice pick through the orbital bone plate into the frontal lobe of the brain. The pick was then moved around, disconnecting the nerve fibers in the brain's frontal lobe which determines who a person is — i.e., their personality.
Edith worked with Freeman who she described as a "cold" man.
"He'd do one and move on, saying 'next, next' and they'd roll them in and roll them out," Edith remembers, saying she suspects he did around 70 of the procedures in one day.
Edith said lobotomies were only performed on Lakin patients where there was "no hope." She added she did see some improve from the procedure in a time before psychotropic drugs, allowing patients to be returned to their families, some for better, some for worse.
"Some left and never came back, some did," Edith remembered, saying she remembered two that died from the procedure.
Described as a "zealot" by some, Freeman's life and work at state mental hospitals in West Virginia will be featured in a documentary airing this fall and produced by Ark Media, Brooklyn, N.Y. for PBS' nationally broadcast program, "The American Experience."
Kate Walker, associate producer for Ark Media, said of Lakin's role in the documentary, "We use Lakin as an example of a hospital where Freeman frequently visited, operated and taught the lobotomy procedure. Hospitals across the country were facing some of the same problems and challenges in caring for their patients that the staff was facing at Lakin. Because we found someone who had actually observed Freeman operate at Lakin and who was willing to share his story, we chose to develop this example."
As for what she's learned from this uniquely American experience, Walker emphasized, "What I am taking away from the experience of working on this film is our absolute need to care for every aspect of human society; however, it is tremendously difficult to put oneself in another person's shoes, whether today's shoes or the shoes of someone sixty years ago. We can't exactly know what someone is thinking, nor can we assume. The best thing we can do is listen with as open a mind as possible."
As it did when it first opened, changing minds is a challenge Lakin Hospital faces even now.
"People still consider us a mental health facility even though we've tried to dispel that," said Brenda Shuler, acting chief executive officer for Lakin Hospital who began with the facility in 1969 as a typist.
Annette Hill, program director for the hospital agreed, saying she still receives calls requesting beds on an alcohol treatment ward that no longer exists and hasn't existed for some time. The facility began making the transition from psychiatric to nursing care in the late 1970s, achieving its intermediate care facility status in 1984 which means it could provide nursing care to adults.
Despite their differences, perhaps one of the few resemblances the latest incarnation as Lakin Hospital has to its predecessor is there are still no "typical clients" on the grounds. Shuler said the facility serves residents with Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injuries and strokes. Patients range from the young to elderly. The facility has 136 beds, prepares 340 meals a day and processes approximately 1,700 pounds of laundry a day. Like its predecessor, the facility offers a variety of services, including an in-house barber and beautician, vision, dental and podiatry care and pastoral services among others.
Another similarity includes the fact the hospital is still a state agency with its budget derived from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. However, perhaps the biggest similarity between the past and present Lakin Hospital, is the human element.
"We are very proud of our facility and protective of our residents," Shuler added.
Pride in the current incarnation of Lakin Hospital begs the question about the existence of pride in its past which Moore embraces.
"I do find it frustrating that political correctness has led to many years of efforts to deny the history and legacy of Lakin, as if cleaning historical references." Moore said. "Such as removal of the historical marker which became broken and was 'taken for repair' at some point after we declined to remove it and has never been replaced, will change the fact that racial prejudice and discrimination did actually exist in West Virginia, and was a factor in every aspect of the lives of West Virginia residents, just as it was in the rest of the United States of America."
As for Edith, she retired from Lakin Hospital in 1988 after she'd seen everything from lobotomies, to the introduction and benefits of psychotropic drugs, to patients being rezoned to other counties, to integration of a staff and resident population that went from predominately black to white, to psychiatric services phased out along with the adolescent care unit where she was a supervisor.
Edith briefly left Lakin from 1972 to 1976 when she remarried, and when asked why she returned or better yet, why she stayed, she said, "Lakin was like family."
These days, that statement is taken literally with Edith's daughter Phyllis Penn having worked as Lakin Hospital's switchboard operator for 38 years now. Penn, a second generation employee, has been at the facility longer than her mother.
However, if you have plans on driving to Lakin to see the historic hospital you'll have to look at little further into history books because the current Lakin Hospital operates in a building erected in 1974. The original hospital, known as Building A, and its corresponding Building B which was built in 1927, are now gone.
One of the hospital's oldest existing buildings is the Office Building which remains on the grounds though it is only used for storage by the nearby Lakin Correctional Facility for Woman. The Office Building, erected around the late-1950's is said to have housed not only offices but been a place for major and minor surgery and private pay patients. The Dietary Building which sits behind the Office Building was erected in 1958 and is still in use.
Usefulness in talking about Lakin's past is apparent to both Edith and Moore.
Moore added, "The Lakin school and hospital buildings, and the historical markers for them, are gone. I regret they were not preserved as reminders of where we were, what we tried, and how far we have come, as we look to where we need to go from here."
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Pictured: Willie Frazer wears Abu Hamza outfit for Union Flag protest court case
Loyalist campaigner Willie Frazer has appeared at court in Belfast dressed up as radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza in a protest at charges he faces.
Mr Frazer, who revealed to the Belfast Telegraph earlier this month that he would dress as the radical Muslim cleric, appeared at Belfast Laganside Courts wearing wearing a flowing black robe, skullcap and fake beard and had attached a clothes-hanger hook to one of his hands.
He was asked to remove the hook prior to entering the building and later removed the Hamza costume before entering the courtroom for an update on his case.
An eye-patch completed his efforts to resemble the fiery Hamza, distinctive by his missing eye and prosthetic limb.
Frazer donned the costume to hit out at being charged under legislation he says was brought in to deal with Islamic hate preachers.
The 53-year-old, from Markethill, Co Armagh, is charged with encouraging offences by an address to union flag demonstrators in January.
He is also accused of three counts of taking part in an un-notified public procession, obstructing traffic in a public place, and possession of a prohibited weapon, namely a Taser stun-gun.
Prosecutors today confirmed that the case against him is to proceed summarily, rather than by indictment to the Crown Court.
Frazer's lawyers were given one week to state whether he will contest the charges.
Union flag protest leader Jamie Bryson supported Mr Frazer in his protest by appearing outside court wearing a wig and tape over his mouth. Mr Bryson's costume is believed to be an attempt to mimic rock singer Jon Bon Jovi.
Releasing Mr Frazer on continuing bail, District Judge Fiona Bagnall said she wanted to be told how long the case will take if not guilty pleas are entered.
It was also confirmed his bail conditions are to be varied to enable him to attend a parade in Belfast this weekend.
Flanked by supporters outside the court, he explained his reasons for dressing as Hamza, the radical one-handed cleric deported from Britain to face terrorist-related charges in the US.
Frazer hit out at being charged under the Serious Crime Act 2007.
"This law was brought in to deal with extreme creatures of hate, Muslim creatures who look to behead British soldiers, and I get charged with it."
Accusing the police of being "politically controlled" by Sinn Fein, he claimed: "This is the start of a campaign to try and pull, the Protestant people down.
"But the IRA couldn't do it and (Chief Constable) Matt Baggott won't do it.
"If I have to go to jail I will go to jail." ends
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph last week, Frazer said the court proceedings were "a farce", and claimed he was considering turning up to court next week dressed in Muslim regalia.
"It's so ridiculous that I might as well go as a Muslim," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
"That law was brought in to deal with Muslim extremists in the UK, and the first person to be charged with it is myself – a man who has never had a parking ticket in his life.
"The whole thing is a mockery so I may as well go along with it. I am seriously considering it.
"The only way to get through to these people is to send a message that we're not going to sit back and take it from them."
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State horseshoes: Evansville's Janet Larson is a champion again
For the second time in 11 years, Evansville's Janet Larson has brought home the highest award that Minnesota horseshoe pitchers can achieve - a state championship.
Larson, whose first title came in 2008, claimed the 2012 Women's A state championship recently at the Minnesota Gopher State Horseshoe Pitchers Association tournament in Genola. She earned runner-up honors in both 2010 and 2011.
"The championship classes have eight pitchers; four are automatically seeded and the next four come out of the Open class to earn a spot," said Larson, who was seeded No. 2 this year. "I've been in 11 state tournaments and made it to the championship six years."
The championship classes pitch 40-point cancellation games instead of a certain number of shoes. Only one player is able to score during any particular inning, with one player's ringer having the ability to cancel a ringer by an opponent. The game continues until one person reaches 40 points.
"The ladies ended up in a four-way tie in round robin," said Larson, who was seeded No. 2. "We had to do a stepladder playoff round, where the bottom two played each other, and the winner played the person in the No. 2 position, and the winner of that game played the top seed."
Larson finished the tournament with a total of 281 points and 187 ringers out of 332 shoes for a total average of 56.33.
Larson wasn't the only Alexandria Horseshoe League player entered in the state tournament. Her husband, Al, who has pitched 15 years at state, earned a third place finish in the Men's A division.
"Al was seeded No. 4 in the championship class and finished third," she said. "Dale Lipovsky, who was first, had his 29th win in the Open class.
"Al has made it into the championship eight times out of the 15. This was his third third place finish; the best he's done."
And the family connection is not done, Larson's grandchildren, Devon and Tyler Stone, are the fourth generation of pitchers in the family. They also competed in the Minnesota State Tournament, which holds open classes with players being grouped according to ringer percentages. Devon finished second in the Junior B division and Tyler third in the Cadet division.
The Larsons normally compete at the World Championships as well, but a family conflict left them out of this year's competition.
"Next year, the World Horseshoe Tournament is in St. George, Utah, and we plan on attending," said Larson.
ELDERS E - 1. Byron Foss, Alexandria, 33.64 ringer average; went 4-1 with 220 points and 103 ringers out of 250 shoes for a 41.20 average.
MEN'S F - 4. Tim Bayerl, Alexandria, 29.12 average; 304 points, 119 ringers, 34.00 avg.
JUNIOR C - 4. Kendra Swenson, Garfield, 3.21 average; 35 points, 5 ringers, 200 shoes, 2.50 average.
MEN'S B - 5. Gary Boots, Barrett, 46.15 average; 227 points, 132 ringers, 350 shoes, 37.71 avg. 7. Jerry Werk, Herman (from the Alexandria Horseshoe League), 45.76 average; 208 points, 133 ringers, 38.00 percent.
ELDERS B - 7. Phil Swenson, Alexandria, 47.90 average; 132 points, 113 ringers, 280 shoes, 40.36 avg.
MEN'S L - 6. Bruce Swenson, Garfield, 2.64 average; 66 points, 7 ringers, 250 shoes, 2.80 avg.
ALAN LARSON - THIRD - 266 points, 190 ringers, 348 shoes, 54.60 avg.
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Vy Higginsen introduces the Gospel for Teens section of the Mama Foundation for the Arts, an organization she founded in 1998. The program is a way to teach teenagers the art of gospel music. "We want them to know who they are and where they come from musically," she explains, as the choir begins to hum behind her. "I make one promise to our young teens: When they make a commitment to the Mama Foundation and Gospel for Teens program, they would be seen and they would be heard." And with that, the choir lets rip into a blazing rendition of Stevie Wonder's Living for the City with some serious energy and somewhat unthinkably perfect harmonies. From here, it's foot-tapping and some serious chair-dancing all the way to the end of the session.


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DALLAS -- The nation's organic milk producers have stumbled into a problem that most companies only dream about: Their product is too popular.
As diet-conscious consumers step up their purchases of healthier foods, organic milk suppliers are grappling with the first shortages since organic products made their way out of natural-food stores and into mainstream supermarkets.
Some stores have been getting only 70 percent to 80 percent of their regular orders.
"There is a tight supply for organic milk," said Caragh McLaughlin, senior brand manager for Horizon Organic, a unit of Dean Foods, the nation's largest dairy producer. "Last summer demand started moving up. And over the winter it's gone crazy. ... And part of that was unanticipated by any of us."
The shortage has begun to ease after peaking in January and February, experts say, as spring gives cows access to more grass and organic feed. But the industry is still debating how to boost capacity while remaining true to the organic philosophy.
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About 70 percent of the chain's milk sales are organic, he said.
Organic milk represents a fast-growing -- and trend-defying -- segment of the $10.2 billion milk market, where conventional milk sales have been flat or declined recent years.
Organic sales at health-food and conventional stores grew more than 15 percent last year to $834 million, according to AC Nielsen LabelTrends, which tracks consumer spending in natural food and conventional stores.
Still, it remains a niche product at mainstream grocers such as Albertson's, where spokesman Walt Rubel estimated organics' share at 2 percent of milk sales.
Many consumers are drawn to organic milk in part because of what it lacks: organic cows must be free of any bovine growth hormones and most antibiotics. Also their feed and the land used to grow that feed must be free of any synthetic herbicide, fungicide, pesticide or petroleum-based fertilizer for at least three years.
Other consumers buy organic to support small family farms, a large component of the organic dairy industry.
Although their ranks are still small, increasing numbers of dairy farmers are being drawn to organic because of the increased consumer demand and the higher premium shoppers are willing to pay for organic milk.
At a Kroger store in Garland, Texas, a half-gallon carton of Horizon 2 percent milk sold recently for $2.47, nearly 50 cents more than the store brand's 2 percent milk, which sold for $1.99.
Horizon has signed up 95 farms to make the three-year transition from traditional farming to organic. Ten of those farms will begin supplying milk to Horizon in the next few months, a spokeswoman said.
In April, the Organic Valley Family of Farms, the nation's largest cooperative of organic farmers, announced the launch of "Texas Pastures," which it described as the first organic milk to be both produced and bottled in Texas.
The milk will come from three organic dairy farms in the Sulphur Springs, Texas, region and will be bottled at Southwest Dairies in Tyler, Texas.
The farms in the Texas group range from 40 cows to about 240. That's small by traditional dairy farming standards but mid-sized in the organic world. The cooperative says its cows are mostly grass-fed at pasture, as opposed to eating trucked-in organic feed.
The seemingly arcane question of grass vs. feed ultimately could have a big impact on organic milk supplies over the next several years.
Federal rules require that organic dairy cows be given "access to pasture." But they do not specify what "access" means.
Prodded earlier this year by a nonprofit farm-policy group, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to follow an advisory group's recommendation that could require cows certified as organic to spend more time grazing.
That kind of change could limit organic-milk supplies until more farms get their pasture access up to standard.
"Whenever there are changes that have to be made to your farm plan, it generally affects output," said Katherine DiMatteo, executive director of the Organic Trade Association, an industry trade group.
She said it could take five years for supply and demand to balance out, depending on several factors including pricing, availability of feed, and any changes or clarifications that might be approved.
In the meantime, she said, consumers could see tight supplies again next year, if demand continues to rise and retailers -- sticking with this year's game plan -- decline to boost prices.
"It was anticipated that organic milk would grow rapidly and that's a good thing," said DiMatteo. "What was not anticipated was that the supply chain was not going to be able to keep up."
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PISGAH, Alabama - A switched license plate on a stolen pickup truck led to the arrest of a Pisgah man on a receiving stolen property charge, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
Willie Edward Westmoreland, 48, of Pisgah was arrested Friday night on a charge of first-degree receiving stolen property, the news release said.
Sgt. Marty May of the sheriff's office stopped a red 2007 GMC Canyon on Alabama 71 in Pisgah Friday night because of a switched tag on the truck, the release said. Before stopping the truck driven by Westmoreland, May determined that the truck had been reported stolen in Fort Payne in July, the release said.
Westmoreland is in the Jackson County Jail with bond set at $5,000.


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Next, we checked out some standard-def video, and the results were less impressive. The Soyo DYLT032D has two component-video inputs, and while the 480i-only jack evinced proper 2:3 pull-down detection, the other did not, resulting in moving, jagged lines and other artifacts in film-based sources. Other sources, such as the waving American flag from the HQV test disc, produced more jagged edges, which the Soyo was incapable of smoothing out. We also found the need to increase the brightness control into the 70 percent range to avoid turning skin tones and other sensitive areas too red. Doing so washed out all of the colors, making them seem less vivid, and black areas appeared even lighter.
The Soyo DYLT032D also did something we'd never seen before. Seemingly at random, it would clip detail in bright areas, which resulted in lots of flat white fields where there should've been some darker zones and details. Oddly, the set didn't always do this, and we saw it on only the HD-capable component-video input with standard-def 480i material. When we switched our DVD player from 480p and back to 480i, the clipping went away for some reason, and the TV's menu settings didn't change.
When we tested the Soyo with high-def resolutions, we noticed that both 1080i and 720p, via component video and DVI, measured an impressive 0 percent overscan. In other words, the picture was reproduced all the way out to its edge. In contrast, most TVs crop the outer edges a percentage point or three so that you don't see any of the interference that's often visible at the extremes of the picture. Thanks to the Soyo's zoom, we were able to crop out as much of the picture as we wanted to remove any such interference.
Via HDMI, the Soyo exaggerated the edges of objects, so the jackets of the hosts on SportsCenter, for example, were surrounded by fine white borders against the black background. Normally, such edge enhancement can be reduced using the sharpness control, but for whatever reason, the DVI input doesn't allow control over sharpness. Overall, details with high-def sources appeared solid with 720p sources, although 1080i sources looked softer than on the ViewSonic via DVI. Since the Soyo didn't lose much--if any--detail when fed 720p HD sources via component video, we recommend you connect your HD source to this set via component video, which has a sharpness control that can be turned all the way down to reduce (but not eliminate) edge enhancement.
In sum, the Soyo DYLT032D won't blow anybody away with its image quality, even when compared to other inexpensive LCDs, such as the aforementioned ViewSonic and Westinghouse. It also offers fewer features than either one, and its wide cabinet will be a turnoff for a lot of people. On the other hand, if you want to zoom in on the smallest parts of the picture, the Soyo DYLT032D is the best game in town. If not, go for another budget set.
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Original iPhone officially classed as "obsolete" by Apple in June
The original iPhone. The smartphone that reshaped the industry in a way that nothing else did before, or has done since. It transformed smartphones from being fiddly, overcomplicated devices with resistive touch screens and too many buttons in to simple, thumb-able devices that anyone could use. I am proud to say I own one, but, sadly it is soon to receive "obsolete" status at Apple retail stores across the globe. (Kindly dubbed "vintage" in California.)
Apart from signalling the end of an era, it means that anyone with any of the devices listed won't be able to get them repaired if they go faulty as parts will be non-existent. So, if you have an original iPhone, now would be a good time to put it in its box and leave it there. I know that's what I'll be doing with mine.
If you want to find out more about products with vintage status, hit Apple's support site.
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STYLE: Belgian-style saison; also known as farmhouse ales because they originally were brewed during the cooler months and stored until summer, when the farmworkers would drink it. Because they are typically bottle-conditioned ales (ales that undergo a secondary fermentation in the bottle), they often have higher levels of carbonation.
THE PITCH: This complex saison is refreshing and beautifully balanced. Dry hopping enhances the hop aroma, and inclusion of Brettanomyces — a wild yeast strain — in the mix of yeasts lends an earthy character. The ale was aged for three months in the bottle, and the brewery says it will take on even more "Brett" character if you cellar it. It's hard to imagine this delicious beer tasting any better than it does right now. It's perfect for summer and even a special occasion.
FUN FACT: Brettanomyces is a yeast that lives on fruit skins. It was a common presence in beers before modern sanitation practices were developed. Skilled brewmasters introduce it to certain styles of beer to produce tart or sour notes and to lend complexity. The yeast is also used in winemaking.
SERVE IT: Delicious on its own and with food. The brewery recommends pairing it with a cave-aged Gruyère, English Stilton, fois gras or portobello mushroom dishes.
GET SOME: Supplies are limited and going fast; sold in 750 ml. bottles for about $16 at Total Wine, Whole Foods Market on Park Lane, Choice Beverage in Plano and Lone Star Beverage in Carrollton.
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Director Keith Gordon had an interesting answer when asked to identify the genre of his new Paramount Classics film, The Singing Detective. "Let's see," he said. "It's a comedy, a drama, a surrealistic lip-sync rock-and-roll musical, an exercise in expressionism, an absurdist film-noir, and a naturalistic character study. You can't really leave any of those out in adequately describing the movie. It's the genre of experimenting with genres."
Fans of the late writer Dennis Potter, best-known for his acclaimed trilogy of BBC/PBS miniseries (Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective, Lipstick on My Collar) might recognize the idiosyncratic style that Gordon describes. The publicists at Paramount will have their work cut out for them in communicating what this film has to offer to those unfamiliar with Potter's unique dramatic universe.
Gordon, whose credits include Back to School, Christine, and Dressed To Kill, spoke with BSW by phone from New York, where he was promoting the film. He's an affable and upbeat gentleman with an obvious sense of enthusiasm for his work. His experience behind the camera dates back to Static, a film he produced and wrote in 1985. His first directing gig was The Chocolate War, in 1988. "In realistic terms," he noted, "you could say I've made a career shift. I still enjoy acting very much. Occasionally people will ask me to do a scene in their movie or a reading of their play. I tried for a while to do both and found there simply wasn't enough time or energy to put together independent films while chasing auditions. The door to acting isn't closed for me; I'm just not chasing it down right now."
Gordon said his journey in landing this directing job took 9 or 10 years, as the film went from creative team to creative team and studio to studio. "I first read the script in about 1993, and thought it was brilliant," he said. "Potter wrote the screen adaptation of his own miniseries. I was a longtime fan of his. Since the early 1980s, I thought he was one of the bravest writers of the second half of the 20th century. I loved the script but never could seem to get in the door during the various deals when they were planning to make a $70 million movie out of it. I'd call my agents, and they'd say, Oh, now, Barry Levinson's doing it with Jack Nicholson or Paul Mazursky's doing it with Dustin Hoffman. I never really gave up hope, and then Mel Gibson bought the rights two years ago and was smart enough to know that the way to get the thing made was to drop a zero off the budget and do it more as an independent feature.
"He then went to his friend Robert Downey and offered him the lead role," Gordon continued. "Robert had been in jail and hadn't done a movie in a couple of years, and Mel was smart enough to know that it would be a really good role for him and help him make a comeback, so Robert signed on, and they started looking for directors. Robert and I had acted together many years ago and hit it off. They had heard of my interest in it, as well as my experience in making films with tight budgets. So it seemed like a good fit, and they offered it to me. It was this weird experience of chasing something for years and then having it suddenly fall into your lap."
Gibson financed The Singing Detective, so things went smoothly once the cast and director were in place. He plays an eccentric psychiatrist treating the main character, Don Dark (Downey), a hack detective-story writer suffering from psoriatic arthropathy, a crippling disease of the skin and bones. Dark is in the hospital following a severe outbreak, trying to figure out who he is and what brought him to a terrible state of confusion. While lying in the hospital bed under heavy medication, he imagines a new screenplay that's set in 1950s L.A., in which he's a cynical private detective as well as a band singer. In his fantasy a prostitute is murdered, and he's drawn into an intriguing film-noir melodrama. Fiction and reality blur in surrealism, as the delirious Dark remembers his troubled childhood and imagines evil characters all around him.
In Potter fashion, the dark story is periodically interrupted by the characters bursting into 1950s rock-and-roll songs, lip-syncing to the original recordings. Hospital personnel and characters in Dark's imagination all participate in the musical interludes. Movie fans will recall this unique stylization from the 1981 Steve Martin film adaptation of Pennies From Heaven, set in the 1930s Depression and using songs from that period. Potter never liked that adaptation of his work, which he felt focused too much on lavish production numbers, taking them too far from their ironic intentions. He wanted to ensure the film of Detective was closer to his vision, but he died in 1994, leaving his screenplay behind.
Gordon is determined to honor Potter's vision and text, saying the changes he made were minimal. "The biggest change was moving the story from Chicago to L.A. for various production reasons," said Gordon. "We couldn't afford to shoot it there. There was so little that was specific to Chicago that it didn't make a big difference. Now the hoods run toward the desert in the end, not toward a cornfield, which I like because it becomes a sort of Waiting for Godot reference. Potter wanted to include the song "Blueberry Hill," but we couldn't make a deal on the rights, so we used a different one for that slot. The funny thing is that Potter had written in lines about a President George Bush and Baghdad that still apply today. There's some kind of irony in that we've come full circle."
In rethinking a seven-and-a-half-hour miniseries to make a 109-minute movie, Potter tried to keep its essence but at the same time turn it into a somewhat different animal—something more visceral. "In some ways, it's very similar—the basic story and even the beats," said Gordon. "A one-paragraph synopsis of the film would sound almost identical, though many details are different. The original had many more subplots. This version is leaner and more focused. It's more about Dark's emotional arc. The TV show was more a portrait of this man and what he was going though, and the film is more about what's going on inside his head. There's somewhat of a tonal difference. The original was a little bleaker. As Potter got toward the end of his life, he softened as a human being and talked about finding more meaning in his marriage and the world around him. He had more hope. The character of Dark was essentially him. He also had psoriasis and was a writer. I think in a way the screenplay was a way of revisiting his own life and giving it more chance for redemption and retribution. It was almost 15 years between the writing of the two versions."
Now to the hard part: selling it. It's going out on a platform-type release schedule, opening this week in L.A. and New York, then gradually expanding. Even following the success of Moulin Rouge and Chicago, will audiences accept the bizarre convention of characters suddenly breaking into rock songs and the overall surrealistic style? " With material this challenging, you always know you'll get a range of reactions," Gordon opined. "The fun of this is that people will get all sorts of different things from it. They have to appreciate its sense of playfulness. I try not to worry too much that everyone has to love it. I hope it finds the audiences that will embrace it. Those who recognize that the songs are used to comment on pop culture will respond to it—what our pop culture tells us versus the realities of life." Gordon also pointed out that although Hollywood avoided musicals like the plague for years, an audience groomed on MTV and lip-syncing might be more open to musicals of all types. "I think there was more openness to this genre than Hollywood realized for a long time, " he indicated. "People in the industry jump on one bandwagon, then abandon it when a few films in the same genre don't work so well, then jump on again following another hit. You couldn't make sports movies for years, until Rocky came along. At any given time, there are these lists of rules. Somebody breaks one, and then the rules change. Sometimes there's a hunger in audiences for something different. We're hoping The Singing Detective will satisfy that appetite." BSW


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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Squash blossoms
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Perfectly lovely.ReplyDelete
Those are so pretty. Mine are always yellow, what kind of squash?ReplyDelete
Simply beautiful!ReplyDelete
They are so beautiful. I saw Giada De Laurentiis cook with them a few weeks ago. They look like they'd be good to eat too. Are you going to eat your or just look at them?ReplyDelete
Sherri - see most recent post - Cucuzza...ReplyDelete
Hilary - was she using these? interesting. I can't eat them. They are too ethereally lovely. I prefer to look at them. In the morning they are brown. I do eat the zucchini blossoms.
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Android tunes into Google Music, adds free songs, Google+ integration, Artist Hub
Today Google held their special event to officially announce Google Music, which included a ton of mini-announcements. There was literally so much information that it could turn into a dozen posts, but we captured the hightlights in bullet form after the jump. Read on for all the latest details.