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A dangerous truth confronted John Dimitri Negroponte as he prepared to take over as U.S. ambassador to Honduras late in 1981.
The military in Honduras -- the country from which the Reagan administration had decided to run the battle for democracy in Central America -- was kidnapping and murdering its own citizens.
"GOH [Government of Honduras] security forces have begun to resort to extralegal tactics -- disappearances and, apparently, physical eliminations ` to control a perceived subversive threat," Negroponte was told in a secret briefing book prepared by the embassy staff.
The assertion was true, and there was worse to come.
Time and again during his tour of duty in Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was confronted with evidence that a Honduran army intelligence unit, trained by the CIA, was stalking, kidnapping, torturing and killing suspected subversives.
A 14-month investigation by The Sun, which included interviews with U.S. and Honduran officials who could not have spoken freely at the time, shows that Negroponte learned from numerous sources about the crimes of the unit called Battalion 316.
The Honduran press was full of reports about military abuses, including hundreds of newspaper stories in 1982 alone. There were also direct pleas from Honduran officials to U.S. officials, including Negroponte.
A disgruntled former Honduran intelligence chief publicly denounced Battalion 316. Relatives of the battalion's victims demonstrated in the streets and appealed to U.S. officials for intervention, including once in an open letter to President Reagan's presidential envoy to Central America.
Rick Chidester, then a junior political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, told The Sun that he compiled substantial evidence of abuses by the Honduran military in 1982, but was ordered to delete most of it from the annual human rights report prepared for the State Department to deliver to Congress.
Those reports consistently misled Congress and the public.
"There are no political prisoners in Honduras," the State Department asserted falsely in its 1983 human rights report.
The reports to Congress were carefully crafted to convey the impression that the Honduran government and military were committed to democratic ideals.
It was important not to confront Congress with evidence that the military was trampling on civil liberties and murdering dissidents. The truth could have triggered congressional action under the Foreign Assistance Act, which generally prohibits military aid to any government that "engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights."
A comparison of the annual human rights reports prepared while Negroponte was ambassador with the facts as they were then known shows that Congress was deliberately misled.
Assertion: "Student, worker, peasant, and other interest groups have full freedom to organize and hold frequent public demonstrations without interference. ... Trade unions are not hindered by the government."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982
Fact: Highly publicized abductions of students and union leaders that year included:
Saul Godinez, elementary school teacher and union activist, abducted July 22, 1982; Eduardo Lanza, medical student and general secretary of the Honduran Federation of University Students, kidnapped Aug. 1, 1982; German Perez Aleman, leader of an airport maintenance workers union, abducted Aug. 18, 1982; Hector Hernandez, president of a textile workers union, abducted Dec. 24, 1982.
All are still missing and presumed dead.
Assertion: "Legal guarantees exist against arbitrary arrest or imprisonment, and against torture or degrading treatment. Habeas corpus is guaranteed by the Constitution, and Honduran law provides for arraignment within 24 hours of arrest. This appears to be the standard practice."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982
Fact: "The court got so many petitions of habeas corpus. But whenever we sent them to the police, the police would say they did not have the prisoners," Rumaldo Iries Calix, a justice of the Supreme Court in 1982, said in an interview with The Sun. "They had moved the prisoners to some secret jail. It was like a game to them."
The experience of Zenaida Velasquez was typical. Her brother, Manfredo, a 35-year-old graduate student, teacher and political activist, was abducted by Battalion 316 on Sept. 12, 1981, and has not been seen since.
Zenaida Velasquez filed habeas corpus petitions on her brother's behalf on Sept. 17, 1981, Feb. 6, 1982, and July 4, 1983, asking that he be brought before a court and his detention justified.
"It didn't do any good at all," she said.
Assertion: "There have been reports in the press and by local sources of the use of torture by local police forces during interrogation. Honduran officials assert that it is a common practice for persons held in connection with politically motivated crimes to allege that they were tortured during the investigation and interrogation process."
"The Honduran armed forces chief, Gustavo Alvarez, recently issued a public statement denying that the government used torture and specifically stated that torture was not to be used on prisoners."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982
Fact: Alvarez had made it clear to Ambassador Negroponte's predecessor, Jack Binns, that he intended to use Argentine-style, "extra-legal" means to eliminate suspected subversives. Battalion 316 was created largely for this purpose.
According to Florencio Caballero, a former sergeant in Battalion 316, Alvarez demanded torture as "the quickest way to get information."
In one highly publicized case of torture and intimidation, human rights attorney Rene Velasquez (no relation to Manfredo) was arrested on June 1, 1982, in front of his law office in Tegucigalpa and taken to a secret jail where he was kept for four days.
"They undressed me, they tied my hands and they put a rubber mask over my face," he said. "They put something on me to attract flies, because those were my companions for four days.
"I was beaten a lot," Rene Velasquez said. "They hit me in the ribs and stomach. ... I could barely endure the pain."
Assertion: "Access to prisoners is generally not a problem for relatives, attorneys, consular officers or international humanitarian organizations."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982
Fact: Not only were they denied access, dozens of relatives of the "disappeared" told The Sun, but police would not even tell them if or where their relatives were being held.
Fidelina Perez and Natalia Mendez visited every police station in Tegucigalpa after finding out that their sons, who were student leaders, had been arrested on a bus as it crossed the border from Nicaragua on Jan. 24, 1982.
Their sons have not been seen since and are presumed dead.
"[The police] all said they had no information. They had not seen them," Perez said. "The police told us to go and look for them in Cuba or Nicaragua."
Said Mendez: "They told us, why did we keep looking for them when they were already dead?"
Assertion: "Sanctity of the home is guaranteed by the Constitution and generally observed."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982.
Fact: Raids of homes without warrants were common in Honduras. The military stormed neighborhoods in search of Communist safe houses.
"They would burst into homes of people who were completely innocent and search for evidence," said Honduran journalist Noe Leyva. "Sometimes if they found Marxist books or pamphlets, they would arrest the resident without any warrant. It was ridiculous."
Leyva, now an editor at the Honduran newspaper El Tiempo, reported on human rights abuses for that newspaper in the early 1980s.
In July 1982, Oscar Reyes, a prominent journalist, was seized from his home along with his wife in an illegal raid. Upon their release from prison, the Reyeses found their home ransacked.
Assertion: "In rare cases in which members of the security forces have been accused of murder, the government has brought the perpetrators to justice."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1983
Fact: "I don't recall one case of that," said Edmundo Orellana, the Honduran attorney general.
Rumaldo Iries Calix, the former Honduran Supreme Court justice, said charges sometimes would be brought against low-level officers, but that the cases were always dismissed.
"No judge dared to convict a military official," Iries said. "There was so much repression against anyone who opposed the military."
Assertion: "There are no political prisoners in Honduras. Individuals are prosecuted not for their political beliefs but rather for criminal acts defined in the penal code."
-- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1983
Fact: Orellana, who is investigating the disappearances of Battalion 316's victims, shakes his head in amazement at that assertion.
"This is totally untrue," he said. "There were political prisoners, and the disappeared are the proof. They followed, arrested and executed people who just thought differently."
One senator who was serving at the time as a member of the Senate intelligence committee describes what difference it might have made if the human rights reporting had been more truthful.
"I think its extremely important that the State Department be right on human rights, said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. "If we told the truth about Honduras and the whole Central American policy, ... billions of American tax dollars would have been saved, a large number of lives would have been saved, and the governments would have moved toward democracy quicker."
Negroponte, now U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, has declined repeated requests by telephone and in writing since July for interviews about this report. However, on Thursday, after publication of three parts of The Sun's series, he issued a written statement:
"Under my leadership, the embassy worked to promote the restoration and consolidation of democracy in Honduras, including the advancement of human rights."
He added, "At no time during my tenure in Honduras did the embassy condone or conceal human rights violations. To the contrary, the embassy and the State Department cooperated with the government of Honduras to help remedy recognized deficiencies in the administration of justice."
Negroponte's arrival in Honduras coincided with the Reagan administration's decision to reduce the emphasis that the Carter administration had put on rights issues in dealings with allies.
The new policy had been made clear to Negroponte's predecessor, Ambassador Binns, a Carter appointee, after he repeatedly warned of human rights abuses by the Honduran military.
In a June 1981 cable obtained by The Sun, Binns reported:
"I am deeply concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned assassinations of political and criminal targets, which clearly indicate [Government of Honduras] repression has built up a head of steam much faster than we had anticipated."
The reaction was swift and unexpected. Binns was summoned to Washington by Thomas O. Enders, the new assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
"I was told to stop human rights reporting except in back channel. The fear was that if it came into the State Department, it will leak," Binns recalled. "They wanted to keep assistance flowing. Increased violations by the Honduran military would prejudice that."
"Back channel" messages are unofficial or informal communications, often in code, sent outside the usual distribution system to restrict circulation of information.
Enders confirmed the 1981 meeting with Binns.
"I told him that whereas human rights violations had been the single most important focus of the previous administration's policy in Latin America, the Reagan administration had broader interests," Enders said. "It believed that the most effective way to overcome civil conflicts and human rights violations was to promote democratically elected governments and that should be his point of focus."
There was nothing rare or vague about the evidence of military abuses that confronted Negroponte from the time he took over as ambassador in November 1981.
In 1982, his first full year in Honduras, more than 300 articles in the local press included:
An account in February of the discovery of five bodies in a makeshift grave in Las Montanitas, 15 miles outside Tegucigalpa.


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Homeless Man Vows to Share Fortune After Winning $50,000 Lottery Jackpot
A homeless man in Bloomington, Illinois is ready to spread the wealth.
Dennis Mahurin, a homeless man who's been living in a tent since 1978, recently won $50,000 playing the lottery.
Mahurin has no plans to let his newfound fortune change him, but he does hope it will change others:
With all the other homeless people around here, I've already made up my mind. I'm gonna give them each $100."
A woman who works at the convenience store says Mahurin totally deserved to win, adding, "He's a very, very nice guy. He's one of the sweetest people I've ever met. I've been telling everybody, this couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."
Mahurin does have some plans for any money that's left over. He hopes to take a trip to visit his son, get some dental work, maybe set some aside for savings and, of course, buy a new tent.

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Like neuropeptide Y (NPY) and other peptides of the family, this peptide adopts a folded hairpin structure with the terminal segments in close proximity. An intracerebroventricular injection of NPY or [Leu31, Pro34]-NPY (non-Y2 receptor agonist) given during middle cerebral artery occlusion increases the infarct volume and nitric oxide (NO) overproduction in the rat brain.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Jermaine Marshall was trapped, surrounded by giddy fans who rushed the court after witnessing Penn State's unlikely upset of No. 4 Michigan.
It was about the only time that anyone could contain the Nittany Lions' gritty guard down the stretch of the 84-78 win Wednesday night over the Wolverines.
Marshall scored 25 points and hit a key layup with 1:06 left to help Penn State roar back from a 15-point deficit to get its first Big Ten victory in more than a year.
"We have confidence in ourselves," Marshall said. "We believed we were close. It just feels good to earn that win. We definitely earned it."
Penn State (9-18, 1-14) had lost 18 straight regular-season Big Ten games dating to last season. The team's previous conference win came on Feb. 16, 2012, a 69-64 victory over Iowa.
It was Penn State's first win over a top-five team since defeating No. 5 North Carolina 82-74 in the second round of the 2001 NCAA tournament, and the highest-ranked opponent that the Nittany Lions have beaten since moving to the Jordan Center in 1996.
To celebrate, exuberant fans exchanged hugs and high-fives with the Nittany Lions.
Even Michigan coach John Beilein was impressed.
"I think what you saw tonight is why we all love college basketball," he said.
But this loss might hurt Michigan as it jockeys for seeding in the NCAA tournament. Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 19 points for the Wolverines (23-5, 10-5). Trey Burke had 18 points and six assists, but also committed six turnovers.
Michigan was uncharacteristically sloppy with 15 turnovers in the game, six more than its season average.
Penn State pounced on the mistakes.
D.J. Newbill added 17 points for the Nittany Lions, who hit a season-high 10 3-pointers. Marshall scored 19 in the second half, including four 3s that whipped the hometown fans into a frenzy. But it was his twisting drive to the bucket late left that really hurt Michigan.
The ball teetered on the rim before dropping in, causing the Penn State partisans to let out a collective sigh of relief with their team up 81-78.
"It was a chip play that we run. ... Coach put the ball in my hand and he had trust in me," Marshall said. "Fortuantely that layup rode around the rim and went down."
That was not the kind of luck that the Nittany Lions have been used to, ever since leading scorer and point guard Tim Frazier went down with a left Achilles injury four games into the season.
They had to adjust on the fly, with combo guard Newbill sliding over to the point, and Marshall needing to assume more ball-handling duties. Penn State coach Patrick Chambers, a never-say-die cheerleader, convinced his team to keep fighting through the adversity.
"Tonight, it's a relief. All the hard work, practices and shootarounds paid off for us," Newbill said.
Michigan's Glenn Robinson III misfired on a 3 with 17 seconds left. Sasa Borovnjak (nine points) had a memorable Senior Night, hitting two foul shots with 15 seconds left to seal the win.
Ross Travis provided the muscle up front with 15 points and 12 boards as Penn State made the clutch plays down the stretch.
"They beat us fair and square, and the last 10 minutes they really outplayed us," Beilein said.
Just another hard night for the league's top teams in the rough-and-tumble Big Ten.
Top-ranked Indiana lost Tuesday at Minnesota to fall to 12-3 in conference play, so Michigan squandered a chance to move into a three-way tie for second with Michigan State and Wisconsin, a game behind the Hoosiers.
"They really tried to shut down Trey. We had some good shots, but not enough good ones," Beilein said. "They slowed us up with their press a little bit, but we couldn't stop them."
Two foul shots by Marshall gave Penn State its first lead since the first half, 76-74, with 3:55 left. The Jordan Center rocked as if it were a Michigan-Penn State football game across the street at Beaver Stadium.
It was all Penn State from there.
Chambers watched as Michigan fumbled away opportunities, like when Burke had a steal from Newbill but lost control.
"The ball finally bounced our way," Chambers said. "Trey Burke strips D.J. at half court and kicks it out of bounds ... that's usually what we do."
All five of Michigan's losses have come on the road in the Big Ten — none worse than Wednesday night's defeat. Michigan finished February with a 3-4 record, heading into a showdown Sunday with the ninth-ranked Spartans in Ann Arbor.
Penn St. upsets No. 4 Michigan 84-78; 1st B10 win
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Jermaine Marshall was trapped, surrounded by giddy fans who rushed the court after witnessing Penn State's unlikely upset of No. 4 Michigan.


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Posted by Rainer Schlipp on February 24, 2004
In Reply to: Break a leg US origin? -- psych approach posted by Mahesh Viswanathan on February 21, 2004
: "good luck" makes you feel as though luck is on your side, so you can do less than you should -- and this in fact is likely to raise your confidence and lower your performance (latter possibly), whereas "break a leg" will help wih the former and suppress the latter type of feeling with its inherent negative connotation.
: : : : : : Hi can you please help me find the meaning ang origin to this phrase .
: : : : : It means "Good luck!"
: : : : : Used by U.S. actors (though it may have originated in England or Germany) to wish each other well just before they go on stage. Actors have a superstition that saying "Good luck" straightforwardly would tempt the gods to subvert the wish by making something bad happen (paraphrased from Eric Partridge, "A Dictionary of Catch Phrases American and British").
: : : : Another theory was suggested by a poster here on Phrase Finder. He said "break a leg" is a wish that the audience will be so excited that they will stomp and break the leg/foot rest on back of the seats.
: : : I thought it was the result of the audience cheering and the actors coming back on stage with the women doing a curtsy consisting of a slight lowering of the body with bending or breaking of the knees.
: : : From the Word Detective with some more detail on ESC's post:
: : : "Eric Partridge explains that he favors the theory that "break a leg" originated as a translation of a similar German catchphrase "Hals- und bienbruch," with which German actors wish their colleagues "a broken neck and a broken leg." The German phrase seems to have begun life among aviators, possibly during World War I, and gradually spread to the German theatre and then to the British and American stages.
: : : Popular folklore down through the ages is full of warnings against wishing your friends good luck. To do so is to tempt evil spirits or demons to do your friend harm. Better to outwit the demons by wishing your friend bad fortune.
: : : One of the more colorful theories about the origins of the phrase is that "break a leg" is a reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, in 1865. In attempting to flee the scene, Booth jumped from Lincoln's box to the stage, breaking his leg. The fact that actors didn't start wishing each other good luck by saying "break a leg" until more than 50 years after Lincoln's assassination makes this an unlikely source."
: :
: : Ooh - you tease!
: : I've seen some little billy-goats sneaking over your bridge whilst you're on here...
Eric Partridge is quite right. The phrase was used (and probably coined) by German fighter
pilots during World War One. Meaning: A broken
leg or a broken collar-bone is the least you
can expect if shot down. But, you will survive
and come home.
The phrase is common enough in the German language and does not specifically applý to actors.
RAF aviators might have picked up the phrase
during the war.


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Dubai ruler pardons Norwegian woman convicted after she reported rape
-- A Norwegian woman who
was sentenced to prison in Dubai after
reporting that she was raped has been given
a pardon and will be heading home soon, she
said Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Marte
Deborah Dalelv seemed relieved and happy
as she confirmed the news -- if still slightly
bewildered by the swift turn of events.
"They told me that I would be pardoned and
that they were going to give me my passport
back, so I got it immediately," she said.
Asked what happens next, Dalelv paused a
moment before replying: "I get to go home."
She added, "We want to make
it as soon as possible."
Dalelv has her passport in her
possession and filed the
paperwork for an exit visa
Monday afternoon. She hopes
to find out Tuesday when she
can leave the country.
A spokeswoman for Norway's
Foreign Ministry, Ragnhild
Imerslund, said Dubai ruler
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum had said Dalelv
was free to travel where she
wants and can remain in Dubai
if she chooses.
The sheikh, who is vice
president of the United Arab Emirates, also
said the 24-year-old had not been and would
not be deported, Imerslund said. She is
expected to travel in a day or two, the
spokeswoman said.
Dalelv, a Qatar-based interior designer, was
on a work trip to Dubai when she reported to
police that she had been raped by a
colleague at the hotel where she was
She was herself then detained and charged
with having unlawful sex, making a false
statement and illegal consumption of alcohol.
A court last week sentenced her to 16
months in prison, prompting outrage in
Dalelv's lawyer, Mahmoud Azab Abu Gareda,
said the sheikh's pardon is "effectively a
royal decree," which wipes the slate clean,
leaving no record of her conviction.
This means the alleged perpetrator, who was
charged with public intoxication and having
sex outside of marriage, also walks free, he
Dalelv has dropped her case against him, so
it will not be pursued further, he said.
Men convicted of raping Swiss tourist in
'Fantastic feeling'
Dalelv said she had not known what to
expect when she went into a meeting
Monday with the Dubai attorney general, her
lawyers and Norway's ambassador to the
United Arab Emirates, Ase Elin Bjerke.
"I just went in with an open mind, and they
said, 'Well, we are pardoning you.' This is
such a good day," Dalelv said.
"Now I get my exit visa, and then I am going
home to see my mum!"
Dalelv gave insight into the pressure she has
been under, saying that she knew what had
happened to her but that she had started to
believe she was "guilty emotionally."
She said it was a "fantastic feeling" to have
her freedom back and be able to leave Dubai,
but at the same time she would miss the
friends she has made.
Bjerke, Norway's envoy, said that her country
had been working on Dalelv's behalf for
several months and that she was very
grateful for the decision to issue a pardon.
Bjerke said the case had resonated on social
media in Norway and elsewhere.
"I think people can see themselves in Marte,"
she said. "She has done what a lot of people
would do when they come and visit Dubai.
You are out with your friends ,and things roll
on that you are not in control of. She is
happy now, and we are happy with her, and
she can return free to Norway."
Norway has a "very good" relationship with
the United Arab Emirates, Bjerke said, adding
that she credited the openness between the
two nations for the outcome of this case.
Islamic laws, traditions
Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Espen
Barth Eide also welcomed news of Dalelv's
"Marte is released! Thanks to everyone who
signed up to help #ReleaseMarte," his
Twitter feed said.
Imerslund said "very constructive" dialogue
between the foreign ministers of Norway and
the UAE, along with international pressure
and interest, led to this outcome in Dalelv's
On Friday, Eide had called his UAE
counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, to protest Dalelv's conviction as
"contrary to fundamental human rights," a
weekend statement from the Norwegian
ministry said.
While Dubai has a reputation as a
cosmopolitan city that boasts Western
influences, where visitors can drink at bars
and restaurants and unmarried couples can
share hotel rooms, the country adheres to
Islamic laws and traditions.
Having sex outside of marriage and public
consumption of alcohol are both violations of
the law in the United Arab Emirates.
Women's rights violations not just a
developing nation issue
Fired from her job
Dalelv no longer has a job with the company
that sent her on the work assignment to
She said that a month after the rape, while
forced to stay in Dubai as the case wound
through the legal system, she was fired by
her employer, Al Mana Interiors.
A representative of Al Mana Interiors, who
declined to be publicly identified, said
Saturday that Dalelv and the Sudanese man
she accused -- who is married with three
children -- were both terminated by Al Mana
Interiors for "drinking alcohol at a staff
conference that resulted in trouble with the
A statement released later the same day by
Al Mana Interiors spokesman Hani El Korek
said that the company was sympathetic
toward Dalelv "during this very difficult
situation" and that her dismissal was not
because of the rape claim.
The statement said that company
representatives were by her side through the
initial investigation, spending "days at both
the police station and the prosecutor's office
to help win her release."
"Only when Ms. Dalelv declined to have
positive and constructive discussions about
her employment status, and ceased
communication with her employer, was the
company forced to end our relationship with
her," the statement said.
"The decision had nothing to do with the
rape allegation, and unfortunately neither Ms.
Dalelv nor her attorneys have chosen to
contact the company to discuss her
employment status."
The company is owned by Qatari billionaire
Wissam Al Mana, who made headlines this
year after it was revealed that he secretly
married singer Janet Jackson in 2012.
Raped on the job in America's fields
Rights record criticized
The United Arab Emirates has been heavily
criticized by rights groups that say it
condones sexual violence against women.
Human Rights Watch has called its record
"shameful," saying it must change the way it
handles such cases.
In December 2012, a British woman reported
being raped by three men in Dubai. She was
found guilty of drinking alcohol without a
license and fined.
In January 2010, a British woman told
authorities she was raped by an employee at
a Dubai hotel. She was charged with public
intoxication and having sex outside of
An Australian woman reported in 2008 that
she was drugged and gang-raped. She was
drinking alcohol, and she was sentenced to
11 months in prison.


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John Leroy 'JB' Bloomer
John Leroy "JB" Bloomer was called home to Heaven on Dec. 3, 2012. He was born to Henry and Caroline Bloomer on April 6, 1936, in Florence, Kan. He was raised in Peabody, Kan., until he joined the Army in January 1955, returning home in December 1956.
He married Cora (Clithero) Bloomer on Dec. 19, 1958. The same year he started J.B.'s Repair as the owner/operator. In 1980, he started at the Farmer's Grain Coop as a mechanic and millwright until his retirement in April 2001.
From then on he could usually be found "out back" either tearing something down or building something up with greasy hands and a big smile.
He was a member and elder of the Peabody Christian Church for over 60 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers Don Bloomer and Leonard Bloomer; and a sister, Barbara Evans.
He is survived by his wife, Cora; daughters Faunetta Bloomer (Vici), Carnella Anderson (Bob), and JoLonna Barnes (Erik); grandchildren Heath Andres (Brittany), Jake Andres, Paige Barnes, Rayna Barnes, Kyle Anderson, Matt Anderson, and Ryan Anderson.
A memorial has been established with the Peabody Christian Church and Harden Hospice of Kansas in Newton. Visitation will be Thursday, Dec. 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Baker Funeral Home, Peabody. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 7, at the Peabody Christian Church at 10 a.m. Interment will be at Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody.
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2006-09-16 11:36
|Captures made on PC.
Cars listed as "unlockable" are those that you can own at the end of the "Evolution" mode, though they are available directly in multiplayer (network game). They can also be seen as factory car using a "trainer".
Others are available as factory cars in the single player free race mode or as first car of "Evolution" mode.
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antp (26)
2006-09-22 19:19
|Still more cars to add...
2006-09-23 03:00
|My little brother has this game, used to be really fun. Up untill games with better graphics (Project Gotham Racing 2, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and the likes) made it seem not as good.
2009-08-31 01:41
|Adding the rest of the cars!
2009-08-31 18:01
|NFS: Porsche is completed.
2009-08-31 18:04
|In addition, i have to say, that this is in my opinion the best NFS ever made and one of the best car-related games in the history, almost 10 years have passed, and i already haven´t seen a game like this.
2009-11-12 21:52
|System Requirements please? Please get back 2 me
-- Last edit: 2009-11-12 21:53:09
pokeoddsponge (3)
2010-03-21 01:14
|Preferably played on Windows 9x with a video card of that era.
2010-04-19 08:14
|I love playing these on my PC !
2010-05-02 00:24
|PS1 version was worst
strike9 (13)
2010-10-09 22:32
|there was a special version of this game based with just 3 cars, a cayman, a cayenne, and i think a carrera gt
2010-10-10 00:49
|NFS Top Speed had a Cayenne, a 911 Turbo and a 959:
Maybe it´s the game you´re refering to.
Antti-san (38)
2010-10-28 23:18
Indeed! I guess you could say that this game ignited my love for Porsche's!
Oh, and the 959 and 928 were official addons made by EA, so they should be listed as downloadable.
2010-10-28 23:29
|True, i didn´t list that cars, so i didn´t noticed. But the GT2 and the GT3 were downloadable too.
This also remind me, this was the first game i had with DLC...10 years ago! (But they were free...)
-- Last edit: 2010-10-28 23:31:13
2011-01-28 11:52
|Antti-san, where did you find the cars you just added?
Antti-san (38)
2011-01-28 11:58
The inferior Playstation port (which I have) has a slew of cars which, for some reason, are not included in the PC version. Sorry I couldn't get any better pictures, for some reason the game crashes on my emulator when I try to start a race. :O
I think I've got most of the cars exclusive to the PS version uploaded now.
2011-01-28 12:17
|That was very stupid by their part...there were very nice cars, i mean, the first ever Porsche, the 917 race car, the 924, the 968...what a shame!
-- Last edit: 2011-01-28 12:17:59
Antti-san (38)
2011-01-28 12:30
|Indeed! Also, like I said earlier, there might still be some exclusive cars missing. But I'll go through the game again later and see if there's something missing. And as always, feel free to correct any errors I may have made.
minhtet19 (0)
2011-01-28 14:43
Pablo1989 (12)
2011-01-28 14:49
|928 are DLC for PC
Looking into Wikipedia DLCs are
Porsche 928 GTS
Porsche 959
Porsche 911 GT2
Porsche 911 GT3
2011-01-28 14:53
|The 928 for PC is from 1992, the rest are only found on PSX.
ALiXoV3rDoS3 (0)
2011-01-29 03:16
|What? No RUF? BLASPHEMY!!!! /Jokes.
pokeoddsponge (3)
2011-01-30 00:29
|Is it possible to split the PC and PSX version into two pages? Unlike the previous NFS games, in which the PC version was the same as the PSX version with some minor improvements, the PC and PSX versions of Porsche Unleashed are actually two different games published under the same title.
I think the PC game was developed by Electronic Arts (the publisher), but I want to say the PSX game was done by the people who did the Test Drive games... i'm not sure on that though.
-- Last edit: 2011-01-30 00:49:40
strike9 (13)
2011-06-11 18:06
|this was a good game for its time, strange since it only has porsches but it was well executed, unlike some of the lateset additions to the series
also this was one of the first nfs games i ever played, alongside high stakes and HP, i bought them all in a three pack this was my favourite of the set
-- Last edit: 2011-06-11 18:08:52
strike9 (13)
2011-06-11 18:10
|it was also available for GBA
minhtet19 (0)
2012-03-09 02:50
|i see some new traffics in the psx version.if you want to see them go to evolution>garage>try car and any track.They are a Land Rover Defender,A Opel Kadett,The rover and a triumph.I will update the photos later.
The Kadett can be seen at auvergne .
The rover can be seen as moving traffic or stopping traffic in any track.The stopping version is in Zone industrille.Only in PC
minhtet19 (0)
2012-03-09 02:51
|There are new cop cars too.
Photos Later
SwindonSwine (0)
2012-03-09 11:24
|As much as I love this game, I still can't help the feeling that the cars look like as if they were cast from plastic.
iskwakalogz (0)
2012-04-06 18:09
Kamusta? Anu nilalaro mo ngayon? hehe..
iskwakalogz (0)
2012-04-06 18:11
|I really loved this game! Ultra-Realistic Handling, real damage models and nice cockpit view.. the downside is the graphics is not that good enough
lcpdcv (52)
2012-04-06 18:27
Graphics don't matter in games-gameplay does.
Antti-san (38)
2012-07-21 01:58
|Just in case any of you peeps still play this, I found a nice fan-made patch in this thread that fixes the blurry textures problem: www.nfscars.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29789
Gamer (72)
2012-07-25 11:14
|My friend has this game on his laptop. It's an OK game, but NFS 2, which he also has, is better.
Antti-san (38)
2012-07-30 18:30
|Okay, I'm uploading the track pictures for this game. But there's like five different track configurations for Monte Carlo - should I add them all separately?
-- Last edit: 2012-07-30 18:31:38
Rinspeed (1234)
2012-07-30 18:32
|like you want
Antti-san (38)
2012-07-30 18:33
|Ok, I'll add them separately then if it's okay.
Star Wars Fanatic (487)
2012-08-10 22:15
|Thanks for adding the additional shots, but I don't think J-2's frontal shots really need replacing.
Antti-san (38)
2012-08-10 22:27
|Very well then, my apologies - didn't mean to intrude.
-- Last edit: 2012-08-10 22:31:51
Rinspeed (1234)
2012-08-10 23:02
it's an antp shot like that: www.igcd.net/vehicle.php?id=613 not J-2
Antti-san (38)
2012-08-10 23:06
RacingFreak (98)
2012-08-17 15:03
|Adding missing cars from the PSX version, going to add additional views for others too (from PSX version).
Antti-san (38)
2012-08-17 18:01
Feel free to add better front pictures for the PSX exclusive cars as well, my ePSXe didn't like this game for some reason.
RacingFreak (98)
2012-08-17 18:19
|Yeah its not really playable on ePSXe, so I used other emulator (with same ePSXe plugins). Works even better
ditha57 (3)
2012-09-12 21:08
|The Play Station version had Scotland as location, if I did not guess it wrong.
Maltravers (8)
2012-11-25 20:34
|Interesting and helpful information for players:
Car setups.
Tuning help.
-- Last edit: 2012-11-26 16:50:29
Maltravers (8)
2012-12-02 04:14
|I have uploaded a traffic MPV, SUV and coupe, but pictures are still absent on this page
strike9 (13)
2012-12-02 23:42
|this might be one of the first 3d racing games were the cars have transparent windows\and or interior models.
sajmon14 (232)
2012-12-03 11:30
there were a lot of such games before this one was released
strike9 (13)
2012-12-03 18:49
like what?
Antti-san (38)
2013-02-04 11:29
|Sorry guys that I haven't uploaded any new pictures in ages. I grew a little tired of making shots for this game since there are so many 356 and 911 variants. But obviously, feel free to continue where I left off.
-- Last edit: 2013-02-04 11:30:09
solarriors (23)
2015-08-06 02:06
|Just in case, if you try the PSX PAL on a emulator it will likely end-up in a 12 seconds loop every time starting over and over again a race. I don't what the differences are, the cars and tracks proposed at the beginning are just not the same in quick races.
And is it applicable to games that the PAL games run on 50Hz but with a 625p resolution against 60Hz and 576p for NTSC ?
Aginnon (3)
2016-09-02 15:50
|So, use the PSX NTSC-U instead.
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In Reply to: With bells on posted by Smokey Stover on May 04, 2010 at 14:25:
: : I don't know how true this is but I was told that "With bells on" became popular thanks to "Bells on her fingers and bells on her toes, She will have music wherever she goes" but dates back before the nursery rhyme. Right or not? I cannot say! Thank you for your time.
: ...............................................
: Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross
: To see a fine lady upon a white horse.
: Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
: And she shall have music wherever she goes.
: The lyrics of this nursery rhyme are explained in a Website at:
: http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/ride_a_cock_horse.htm
: The explanation given there is:
: "The lyrics of this nursery rhyme relate to Queen Elizabeth I of England (the fine lady) who travelled to Banbury (a town in England) to see the new huge stone cross which had just been erected. The lyrics 'With rings on her fingers' obviously relates to the fine jewellery which would adorn a Queen. The words 'And bells on her toes' refers to the fashion of attaching bells to the end of the pointed toes of each shoe! Banbury was situated at the top of a steep hill and in order to help carriages up the steep incline a white cock horse (a large stallion) was made available to help with this task. When the Queen's carriage attempted to go up the hill a wheel broke and the Queen chose to mount the cock horse to reach the Banbury cross. Her visit was so important that the people of the town had decorated the cock horse with ribbons and bells and provided minstrels to accompany her - "she shall have music wherever she goes". The big cross at Banbury was later destroyed by anti - Catholics."
: According to the Wikipedia article on Banbury (in Oxfordhire), there were several large crosses there in the time of Queen Elizabeth, but they were all destroyed in 1600 by Puritans. Eventually another cross was erected in 1859.
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury
: The article includes a view of the present Banbury Cross.
: You may also wish to consult:"History muddle makes Banbury cross," q.v. at:
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/3033010.stm
: This article also has a cropped picture of the present cross.
: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39227000/jpg/_39227218_cross203.jpg
Oh, Smokey, Smokey! That www.famousquotes.me.uk site is a big steaming pile of manure, and I'm surprised at you for citing it. The identification of the "fine lady" with Queen Elizabeth is pure fantasy; its source is a pernicious little book called "The Real Personages of Mother Goose" published in Boston in 1930 by a lady named Katherine Elwes Thomas who was absolutely determined to identify every conceivable nursery rhyme character with a historical figure, whether the evidence pointed that way or not. Other theories are that the lady was Lady Godiva (since some versions of the rhyme speak of "Coventry Cross"), or the celebrated 17th-century horseback traveller Lady Celia Fiennes (which is pronounced "Fines" - hence, "a Fiennes lady"). The plain fact is that nobody knows if the nursery rhyme was a real person, and is so, who she was.
As for "With bells on", it is certainly nowhere near as old as the rhyme - the rhyme goes back at least to 1784, whereas the phrase is late 19th century and probably American in origin. It's probably related to the concept of "bells and whistles", i.e. with all possible add-ons.