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Pintos with Panzerschreken For once we'd like to see an Auto Assault preview where the writer didn't get in the newbie-mobile, skip the introductory quests, comment on the devestation all around (which you can glibly add to be destroying landscape objects) and finally relay the joy of blowing things up (well, okay, you can never say enough about blowing things up! Vin Diesel agrees.) Unfortunately, Stratics follows the unwritten formula for AA previews.... doesn't anyone do anything fun and new in this post-apocalyptic world- stop for gas and donuts perhaps?
" Upon first entering the game world as a Biomek Terminator (with a giant cannon for a left arm, it doesn't do much but it sure looks cool) I noticed how bleak it all seemed. Ever play Fallout and notice all the devastation? Same principle. I didn't waste much time in the starter city getting any of the dozen or so missions readily available for rewards of experience and cash, I jumped straight into my car and was out there blasting things. In the original newbie car – I use car as a superlative, it's really more of a rolling death machine with a giant gun on the top – you're already able to get up to a handy seventy something miles per hour, chaingun firing away with reckless abandon at anything that moves or doesn't move. One of the first handy things I noticed is that as I destroyed the beautifully crafted landscape the destroyed objects would release other objects to me which I could pick up. Bits of scrap metal, grease, nuts&bolts, general junk really. Little did I know at the time that each and every one of those items that I got from just gleefully destroying the world would allow me to craft my own items with ease when I returned to the city."
Read more of the Stratics preview of Auto Assault at Stratics Central, that is, if you haven't read it all before. Other links you might enjoy:
Ganking: All in Good Fun! CCP's EVE Online producer Nathan Richardsson comments on the uniqueness of the game among its "massively single player online" peers. When Gamasutra asked CCP to try out the moves on pages 3 and 14, CCP respectfully declined out of Icelandic modesty.
"We fully understand the reason behind sharding, instancing and the PvE focus. A lot of players want this kind of experience and these tools are far more commercially viable to fully control the experience and content created. We however decided to take the more difficult path and try to take on those obstacles head-on. It certainly has a lot of unpleasant side effects and EVE will never be a mainstream game. We're complex, we're open ended, we're fully PvP oriented and you can lose six months work in a second. But we believe this is what makes EVE so unique and we're trying to follow this vision and principles as well as we can."
You can find more of the EVE Online interview at Gamasutra. Other links you might enjoy:
Loading... You knew it was going to happen. We've been mentioning Vin Diesel on the site and in the newsletter for months, awaiting the day when somebody would call us and tell us to cease and desist. Well..... today wasn't that day... so we're still on it. Friday Vin Diesel Fact:
In space, Vin Diesel can hear you scream. What's new on the network.
What was recently recent, or what we still want you to see...you decide.
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Peugeots With Panzerfausts - 56 seconds worth Gamers Hell highlights AA's nifty physics engine and combat styling with a new movie. You may need to buckle up, but you won't need a driver's license.
"We have a new Auto Assault movie, showcasing this vehicular combat with role-playing elements which will be released later this year (thanks: GameSpot). In this game, players explore a post-apocalyptic future in customizable cars, motorcycles, semis and even tanks. Players battle other players both in arenas and in epic race vs. race wars for control of the regions in a devastated Earth. Auto Assault uses the power of the Havok physics engine to let you make insane jumps, send obstacles flying and even blast bridges, buildings, fences and trees with your car-mounted rockets. "
Link to the Gamers' Hell Auto Assault video download via this page (the dl is about 45 megs). More fun links:
Pictures that won't look anything like the final product. Turbine has posted some Lord of the Rings Online concept art for you viewing pleasure. The picture today is what that girl you met last night looks like when you sober up, otherwise known as the Gothorog. Elijah Wood was too busy eating second breakfast to speak to us, but his agent was kind enough to tell us:
" In the early days of Angmar, the Witch-king sent forces North to "collect" the remnants of an evil race that was long believed destroyed, but which Sauron's far-seeing eye spied in the ruins of the Northern Waste. These ancient creatures were few in number but great in strength; of Troll-kind but far more cunning, and exceedingly cruel. The name given them was Gorthorog. "
You can view the Lord of the Rings Online Concept Art at the Official Site. Related Links:
How DDO will beat the demon Lead designer Ken Troop talked with Next Generation about how the Turbine team is out to make players feel like a hero. I'm not sure that low-population servers (>1,000) and making all zones outside the main cities and towns instanced (the majority for 4-6 players) is the way to do that, but I am sure that Vin Diesel doesn't need to feel like a hero.
" Turbine has got a few MMOs under their belt (Asheron's Call 1 & 2, the forthcoming Lord of the Rings Online) but lead designer Ken Troop explains why DDO is going to be different from any other MMO. 'One of the things D&D is really good at that many MMOs seem to miss is the sense of being a hero, of being important and different from the everyday people in town. Stormreach, [chief city of DDO] will be filled with enough players to provide a broad selection of adventuring partners, but not so many as to reduce them to mere statistics.' "
Dungeons and Dragons Online lead designer Ken Troop's interview with Next Gen. More fun links:
And a bonus Vin Diesel fact:Vin Diesel doesn't need dice, he can randomize numbers in his head to 14 decimal places.
We didn't even know that Autumn was broken. IGN is reporting that there will be a new Final Fantasy XI update for Autumn. We went AWOL and used our VIP pass to talk to IGN about FFXI on the QT:
"Though the PC and PlayStation 2 versions of Final Fantasy XI were updated on August 1, the Square Enix development team is already working on another list of improvements. Expected to be ready for download before the end of the fall, the new update will boasts several new additions to the Fellowship system as well as a couple of new areas to explore. Several other changes are expected to be included, but have yet to be disclosed."
You can read the entire Final Fantasy XI update for Autumn Notes on IGN. Related Links:
Locked chests, the bane of MMOGs. ArenaNet has posted the latest Guild Wars Game Updates. When we approached Jennifer Love Hewitt about the changes, she ran, fast, the other direction screaming:
" Improved distribution of rare items in locked chests so that most players will get more rare items. "
You can read the Guild Wars Game Update Notes at the Official Site. Related Links:
1.7.1 - attach tinfoil hats. Blizzard has posted the patch notes for World of Warcraft Patch 1.7.1. Disjointed reports from the Arathi Basin dribbled in confirming the following:
" Altered geometry in Arathi Basin to prevent a possible exploit. "
You can read the World of Warcraft Patch 1.7.1 Notes at the Official Site. Related Links:
Peeking or Peeping? RPG Vault has posted Hero's Journey Peek #7, featuring a new adversary, The Pack. Kevin Sorbo ignored us completely when we asked him if he like playing a hero on Hercules, but we are 100% confident that had he given us 10 seconds of his time he would have said this:
" We find out about The Pack, a new species of adversary the developers at Simutronics are creating to challenge you "
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The Italian Hall Tragedy is the topic of two documentary videos. The first is a work commissioned by the Brothers and Sisters of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 58 in Detroit.
Jeff Radjewski, Business Agent for Local 58 was instrumental in the production of this wonderful documentary. It is entitled �Our History, Our Hopes, The IBEW in Michigan. This video features an extensive segment devoted to the Italian Hall incident as part of the general story of labor struggle in the early part of the last century.
The 30 minute film was filmed by Diedre Bellomo and features interviews with Calumet area residents as well as picture from this very web site. Filming was completed in 2000 and the tape has been shown on PBS TV 56 in Detroit. As the video is being offered to public TV stations across the state, please watch for it on a PBS station in your area!
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The second yet to be completed documentary is about Woodie Giuthrie�s song �1913 Massacre� The song, which was said to be one of Guthrie�s favorites, details the events of the tragedy. A transcript of the words to the song as well as an mp3 of the song can be found on this web site.
The work is being co-produced by New York based film makers, Louis V. Galdieri and Ken Ross. They started filming in the U.P. during the Spring / Summer of 2001. They welcome input from area residents.
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Remembering a tragedy ; Filmmakers tell story of mysterious Christmas Eve in Calumet that killed 74
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Call it the remnants of a holiday turned horror day.
A brick arch in Calumet is all that remains of the place where, 90 years ago, great pain and sorrow befell an already suffering people.
The Italian Hall disaster.
On Christmas Eve 1913, about 700 people crowded into the second floor auditorium on Seventh Street to celebrate the holiday. Most of them were children.
Amid the merriment, something sparked a panic that led to a stampede for the exit and 74 deaths.
For Keweenaw Peninsula residents, questions about the disaster still can fire up a passion about the terrible blow inflicted upon striking mining families fighting the iron will of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. For those who live outside of the peninsula, there remains interest as well.
"I have people come in here every summer wanting to know where it is," says Sue Cone, comptroller for the village.
The "it" is the site and the arch, the same arch that held the doors where a wave of human bodies piled up from the first floor to the second.
Eye of the lens
Three years ago, a New York City filmmaker and historian came to see it with his camera and learn the story for himself. Louis Galdieri went back to New York and showed some footage to his filmmaker friend, Ken Ross. The clip included a woman Galdieri had stopped on the street and asked about the tragedy. She started crying. He learned how powerfully the tragedy is woven into the community.
"This story has an entire existence of its own," Galdieri says. "It's a whole subculture."
Ross immediately caught Galdieri's zeal to capture the story, the emotion surrounding it and the influence one version of the story has on history. The version was penned by folksinger Woody Guthrie. It's his song "1913 Massacre."
"I heard the song and got inspired to go out to Calumet," Galdieri explains. "I first heard it sung by Arlo Guthrie."
Now, the filmmakers are raising funds to complete their project.
Calumet in 1913 was the village of Red Jacket. Immigrants from Croatia, Italy, Sweden, Finland and elsewhere spent up to 12 hours a day 1,000 feet or more into "copper country" mines chipping out the precious metal that was making Thomas Edison's invention available to the world.
However, mine owners realized the end was in sight, says Michigan Technological University history professor Larry Lankton. The Bureau of Mining was being formed, copper prices were falling and other regions of the country produced copper more cheaply.
"It was the last hurrah of their running the world, and they knew that," Lankton says. "Nobody, not even the president, was going to tell the mining companies what to do."
Miners tired of long days, desiring more pay and worried about the safety of the new one-man drill, struck Calumet & Hecla in July 1913 after months of organizing by the Colorado-based Western Federation of Miners.
Anna Clemenc, wife of a Croatian miner, stepped up to help lead the effort against the mining bosses. She spent some time in jail for her efforts. A private detective agency from New York had been hired to protect mining property, and Gov. Woodbridge Ferris dispatched the Michigan National Guard to the city to protect the railroad and other vital interests.
As Christmas approached, Anna, better known as "Big Annie" organized a special Christmas celebration for the striking workers' families. On Dec. 24, children crowded into the auditorium that featured a five-foot stage and lined up in rows in front of it. As the audience looked up at the stage, they saw a beautiful tree on the right, decorated for the holiday.
"My grandmother, who was 13 at the time, wanted to go to the party," Cone says. "But her mother told her she couldn't go because they were bakers."
The program began. After songs and skits, the big moment arrived. Santa Claus walked onto the stage from wings with a big bag in his hand with goodies for the children. He stopped at stage center and raised his hand. Then something happened.
Papers the next day reported a man shouted: "Fire!"
The real cause is unclear; the result is known. Pandemonium. Chairs collapsing, children screaming and mothers and a few fathers grabbing infants and toddlers to head for the stairs and then down to the street. At the bottom of the stairs was the arch and two sets of double doors. One set opened in, and one set opened out. The doors that opened inward were shut.
Annie jumped up: "Everything is OK, sit down!"
But nobody listened. Despite valiant efforts by one woman to hold back the crowd and later a man caught in the current of flesh, wave after wave of bodies started falling down the steps and filling up the foyer below. Babies smothered. Adult hearts became pressed by the weight of the flesh pile until they burst.
Bodies blocked the doors.
Cone says a man came into her office shortly before the 75th anniversary of the incident, when the arch and memorial to the disaster were dedicated. Tears fell from his eyes. "He told me he wasn't going to come to the dedication because it was too painful to him," she recalls. "He had rushed to the stairs, and he was up to his waist in people and had to be pulled out."
The man told Cone he left the hall after his rescue and went to midnight Mass at a local Roman Catholic Church where he was an altar boy. The priest put his hand on his head and kept repeating: "You poor, poor boy."
Newspaper accounts at the time report the fire department arrived to find one woman standing on a window ledge with a baby, ready to leap. Firefighters quickly pushed her back inside after climbing a fire escape. Rescuers had to get at the pile from behind, or from the second floor, pulling bodies back into the auditorium.
When it was all over, 56 children, 13 women and five men were dead. There was no fire. And the great question fueled union anger.
Unanswered question
Who started it?
Was there a bearded man wearing a pro-mining company button who shouted through the upstairs doorway, as some alleged? One woman told reporters she sat next to a man whose son accidentally caught his hat on fire. And there are more stories -- all different and confused.
"I've come to the conclusion that there is no way to know what happened," Lankton says. "Eyewitness accounts are notoriously bad. Something caused a panic."
Galdieri, who has 70 hours of footage under his belt, agrees. "There are 30 different versions of this story," he says.
Sympathy for the bereaved families unified the village, and citizens began to raise funds and collect food and other necessities. But the union boss, Charles Moyer, refused any help, saying the union would take care of its own.
Funds started arriving anyway. Citizens met to form a committee to help those who had suffered a loss. When village representatives brought food, money and other aid to homes of those who lost loved ones, they refused.
A meeting was held with the union boss. He again refused to accept any aid. Shortly afterward, Moyer was visited by a group of men who escorted him out of the city. During the process, he was shot in the shoulder -- accidentally.
He was given a ticket to Chicago and told not to come back. He survived the gunshot.
Headlines across the nation spoke of the disaster and undoubtedly helped bring a congressional investigation of the mining strike and situation in the Calumet area.
In April, the mining company agreed to the eight-hour workday, and the strike ended. But many of the striking miners opted to leave the area for western mines or the auto factories downstate.
Guthrie's song puts the blame for the Italian Hall tragedy squarely on "copper-boss thugs." He wrote and recorded the song after reading about the incident in a socialist union organizer's biography in the 1940s.
Arlo Guthrie put the song on his "Hobo's Lullaby" album and Bob Dylan sang it at Carnegie Hall in 1961.
"It's a left-wing song and is therefore very predictable and very inaccurate," Lankton says. "Let's not take it for history."
However, the song still resonates. "Sure, everybody up here knows that song," Cone says.
Galdieri and Ross want to document how the song has influenced people's understanding of just what happened and how folk music transmits history.
"In a way, our film is about telling stories and passing them on," Ross relates.
During research at the Woody Guthrie Foundation, they also discovered a play Woody Guthrie wrote about the disaster.
They've interviewed Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger and two survivors to the disaster.Ross is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches film classes at Purchase College, near New York City. Galdieri is a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor turned filmmaker and has worked as a producer and writer on PBS projects.
They cannot predict when the film will be completed, but they want no doubt it will happen. "We are actively doing this," Galdieri says.


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Wow, the gluten-free diet does suck, does it not? From travelling, to going to PTA meetings with donuts-a-plenty, to visiting relatives who secretly hate you — there are a zillion ways things can go horribly awry. Which is why I have been amazed at my own ability to not eat gluten — intentionally, anyway — ever. Well, okay, there was that one time I drank a beer because I was slightly encouraged to give it a shot, on account of the lack of wheat. And I'm horrible at peer pressure. But I'm never going to do that again, because that was dumb.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered maybe my gluten-free diet isn't so gluten-free after all. Did I say surprise? How about tears followed by raging anger followed by crazy regret at not making one ounce of that gluten count. I could have had croissants, people. Pastries!!!! It turns out, gluten really does sneak into you even when you think you've got its number. (It's number, by the way, is 666.)
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First, try adding a one way air valve to each of the tubes on your system. They come with the petco pumps. Otherwise, they are about $2 at an aquarium store.
Second, make sure your tube is submerged under as much water as possible. If it is curling back up on itself and is therefore only a few inches below the waterline, attach something rigid to it.
If that isn't the whole problem, try this. Take the whole Airlift tube system out of your bottle. Detatch the needleside portion of the air tubing from the little one-way valves. Blow through those air tubes to clear all the water out. Maybe leave it out to dry and if you see any waterdrops in the line. You want to try to dry out the air tubing part of it and have air pumping through it before you stick it back in the pre-filled bottom water bottle.
Here's the logic. Water is going to want to get in to the air tubing through the needle. If it does, that water is a lot of extra "weight" that the pump has to counteract to get it's air out of the tube before it even makes it to the needle. So dry that tubing out and then only reinsert those "guts" after you have hooked it up to the pump and the pump is on. This way it is always blowing air out so water can't get back in.


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NERW 8/6/2012: Albany TV Consolidates
In this week's issue: New owner for Albany's WXXA – FCC quashes Pittsburgh "Franken-FM" – Howie stays at WRKO, unwillingly – WEEI to split AM, FM – Remembering Al Brady Law
by SCOTT FYBUSH
*The Albany, NEW YORK television market is only the third-largest in the Empire State – at number 58, it ranks far behind #1 New York City, of course, and also just back of #50 Buffalo. Until now, though, Albany has boasted something Buffalo didn't have, and neither did lower-ranked Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Elmira, Utica, Watertown or Burlington-Plattsburgh: among all the upstate markets, only Albany could claim four independently-operating local TV newsrooms at each of its "Big Four" network affiliates.
With the selloff of Newport Television's properties, that's about to change. Newport's Fox affiliate in Albany, WXXA-TV (Channel 23), wasn't part of the big chunks of station sales announced a week ago, in which most of Newport's stations were split up among Nexstar (which got the Syracuse, Watertown, Binghamton and Elmira markets), Cox and Sinclair, which already owns the Albany-market duopoly of WRGB (Channel 6)/WCWN (Channel 45).
Instead, WXXA has now been sold to a new group called Shield Broadcasting, headed by veteran broadcaster Sheldon Galloway. Shield will pay $19.4 million for WXXA, but it won't operate the station – instead, it plans enter a shared-services agreement under which WXXA will be run by Young Broadcasting's ABC affiliate, WTEN (Channel 10).
The details of the agreement haven't yet been announced, but it's a pretty safe bet that when it takes effect later this year or early in 2013, WXXA's existing studios on Corporate Circle will be shuttered and its local newsroom will be merged into WTEN's operation over on Northern Boulevard. Under Newport, WXXA has run an extensive schedule of local newscasts for a medium-market Fox affiliate, programming from 6-8 AM, 5-5:30 PM and 10-11:30 PM. Some of those shows (the 6 AM hour, the 5 PM newscast and the 11 PM newscast) overlap with existing WTEN newscasts and are likely to give way to syndicated fare, while the 7 AM and 10 PM hours will likely continue out of the WTEN newsroom.
WXXA's sale leaves just one Newport station in the region without a buyer: Rochester's WHAM-TV (Channel 13) also couldn't go to Nexstar because the company already owns WROC-TV (Channel 8) and manages Sinclair's WUHF-TV (Channel 31), and so far it's still on the market.
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From the NERW Archives Yup, we've been doing this a long time now, and so we're digging back into the vaults for a look at what NERW was covering one, five, ten and – where available – fifteen years ago this week, or thereabouts. Note that the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest years as "New England Radio Watch," and didn't go to a regular weekly schedule until 1997. One Year Ago: August 8, 2011 - *NEW YORK is now the largest state with its own state law banning pirate radio. It's been a month and a half since state lawmakers passed a bill that echoes similar laws in New Jersey and Florida making unlicensed radio operation a state-level crime, and while members of the New York State Broadcasters Association were hoping to see Governor Andrew Cuomo sign the bill into law at their June convention near Lake George, they're pleased to see it signed, period. Unlike other state laws that make unlicensed broadcasting a felony, New York's version makes a first-time conviction for pirate radio only a class A misdemeanor, though it also provides for confiscation and destruction of the equipment used by pirate operators. Those penalties still promise to be a somewhat stronger deterrent than the typical FCC sanction of a $10,000 forfeiture order, a sum that's rarely paid by pirate operators who often aren't even US citizens. As in Florida and New Jersey, the idea behind the law is to give local law enforcement a greater incentive to help beleaguered broadcasters fight an onslaught of pirates that has so far proved to be beyond the capacity of a budget-strapped FCC Enforcement Division to control. Even with the new law in place, the challenge of quelling New York City's pirate operators is a huge one: many of the illegal stations come and go on a regular basis from transmitter sites that are well hidden in the city's forest of high-rise buildings, making it hard sometimes even to pin down a pirate's transmitter location, never mind catching the broadcaster in the act before the signal is moved to another site. And unlike Florida, where the state's Department of Law Enforcement has become an aggressive partner with legitimate broadcasters in hunting down and arresting pirates, law enforcement in New York City and vicinity is largely the purview of local police departments, many of which already have their own hands full with other serious crimes. We'll be watching closely, of course, as the new law takes effect in November. *The rest of our Empire State news also focuses on New York City, at 395 Hudson Street, no less – but while Merlin's WEMP (101.9 New York) kept chugging away with its "FM New" not-quite-a-format-yet, the news last week was being made down the hall at one of the remaining Emmis stations, WRKS (98.7 Kiss FM), where there's a new program director. Jill Strada is out after two years, and in to replace her is Jay Dixon, who'd been production/public service director at Kiss in the 1990s. Dixon went on to program top-rated WBHK in Birmingham and then WALR-FM in Atlanta for Cox, and now he returns to New York while Strada heads south to program WPOW-FM in Miami. *It was a very, very quiet week upstate; the biggest news came from sleepy Canandaigua, where the Finger Lakes Radio Group pulled the plug on the oldies at WCGR (1550) and the FM translator at 104.5 that's where most of its audience now listens. Last Monday, WCGR flipped to a simulcast of the company's latest acquisition, country WFLK (101.7 Geneva), which is now imaging as "K-101.7 and 104.5." The move also ends the simulcast on WCGR of the morning show from Geneva's WGVA (1240). *In the days before Radio-Locator and 100000Watts.com and FCCInfo and all the rest of our modern on-line station listings, there was only one serious place to get a comprehensive directory of what was what on the FM dial. Beginning with its first edition in 1971, Bruce Elving's FM Atlas was a constant companion to DXers and to many broadcasters as well. Even as on-line information sources proliferated in the 21st century, Elving continued to update his listings in the annual directory and the monthly FMedia! newsletter, keeping track of details that sometimes escaped other directories. (Many is the station that received a postcard query from Dr. Elving's Minnesota home, inquiring whether it was operating in $tereo or running any subcarriers.) So it was a blow to the DX hobby, and to the FM radio industry, to learn of Dr. Elving's death in late July, of a heart attack suffered while he was in southern California for cancer treatment. Bruce Elving had a NERW-land connection as well: a Syracuse University graduate, he was one of several applicants vying for the 100.9 frequency when it was added to the Syracuse-area dial in the early 1970s, and he returned on occasion to Syracuse for reunion visits. He was also a longtime friend of this column and your editor, frequently quoting NERW items in FMedia! and supplying information we used in NERW as well – and we had the pleasure of visiting him at his "Publishing Estate" outside of Duluth during our 2005 Big Trip. Elving is survived by his wife, Carol, and three daughters – and by 21 editions of the FM Atlas, the most recent one published just last year (and still available, in limited quantities, at our Fybush.com store…); a memorial service is being held in Minnesota today. *There's now high-definition local TV news in NEW HAMPSHIRE, and it comes, unsurprisingly enough, from Hearst's WMUR (Channel 9) in Manchester. The dominant ABC affiliate spent much of July rebuilding its set for HD, and local HD news debuted last week. On the LPFM front, Concord's WCNH is now less than a month away from completing its move from 94.7 (now WNHN-LP) to a new full-power license on 91.5 in Bow. Once the classical format moves to the slightly more powerful 91.5 signal, the 94.7 signal will transfer to a group called "NH News, Views and Blues," chaired by former state representative Gordon Allen. The new WNHN will start out with nonstop blues and will eventually add local talk as well. *WMUR's sister station in MASSACHUSETTS, WCVB-TV (Channel 5), was once the staid player on the Boston news scene, so it was something of an eye-opener last week when WCVB hired Michele McPhee as a reporter. McPhee made a name for herself as an outspoken Boston Herald columnist and parlayed that into a talk radio career, first at WTKK (96.9) and now at WRKO (680), where she's heard from 1-3 PM weekdays. *And we note with sadness the passing of one of the busiest engineers in the region. Ken Jones had a hand in the construction and maintenance of plenty of broadcast facilities in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. While he'd most recently been working as a contract engineer, Jones had been in management with Clear Channel, at one point serving as a regional engineering manager for the company. He'd also worked for WGGB-TV and for Vox Communications. Jones was 71 when he died last Wednesday, apparently of complications from what was supposed to have been routine surgery. In addition to his wife, Delores, Jones is survived by his son, Jamieson, who's also a broadcast engineer. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Springfield. *There's a new format on the air at what had been PENNSYLVANIA's last smooth-jazz signal: after pulling the plug a week ago on "Smooth Jazz 92.7," WSJW (92.7 Starview) relaunched last Monday with classic rock as "92.7 KZF," with new calls WKZF. The Hall-owned station enters a fairly crowded rock market in the Harrisburg/York area. One of those other rock-based outlets has parted ways with its founding programmer. Chris Tyler was instrumental in transforming the former WHP-FM (97.3 Harrisburg) into "The River," WRVV, almost two decades ago – but he suddenly disappeared from the Clear Channel station's morning-drive slot last week amidst cutbacks that also claimed several on-air traffic reporters in the region. *Duquesne University's sale of WDUQ (90.5 Pittsburgh) took another step forward last week when the FCC denied the objections filed by several listeners and groups upset about the public broadcaster's transfer to the new Essential Public Media group, and especially about the end of most of the jazz programming that long defined WDUQ. "Although the commission recognizes that WDUQ's program has attracted a devoted listenership," the decision said, "it is well-settled policy that the commission does not scrutinize or regulate programming, nor does it take potential changes in programming formats into consideration in reviewing assignment applications." That is, indeed, longstanding FCC policy – and with the sale of the WDUQ license now having received Commission approval, the deal is expected to close within the next few weeks, bringing with it new calls for the station. *Dorothy Brunson is being remembered most prominently for her radio ownership in Baltimore, where she was one of several owners who made WEBB (1360, now WVIE 1370) a force in the black community. But Brunson, who died July 31 at 72, owned TV in Philadelphia as well, and it's believed that when she put WGTW (Channel 48) back on the air in 1986, she became the first black woman to own a TV station. Brunson's radio career began in New York City in the early 1960s, when she worked in the business offices at WWRL, eventually becoming the station's assistant general manager before leaving in 1969 to become general manager of WLIB and WBLS, a post she held for almost a decade until departing for Baltimore. In Philadelphia, Brunson acquired the facilities of the defunct WKBS-TV after Field Communications shut the station down in the early 1980s; she sold the station to TBN in 2004 for $7 million cash and the assumption of $41 million in debt. *It turns out that Cogeco and Quebec's provincial transport ministry aren't the only parties interested in returning two of CANADA's handful of AM clear channels to the air. As NERW readers know, Cogeco and the transport ministry were poised to put the former CINF (690) and CINW (940) back on the air to serve as French- and English-language all-traffic signals to assist drivers navigating through Montreal construction traffic. But while the ministry announced the impending launch of the stations as a fait accompli in a press release earlier this summer, the regulatory reality was a bit more complex: while Cogeco had acquired the former CINF/CINW transmitter facility in Kahnawake as part of its purchase of Corus' Quebec operations, the licenses for the two 50,000-watt AM signals had been surrendered to the CRTC back in 2009. And while Cogeco had hoped to restore the licenses quickly and quietly through a "non-appearance proceeding" at the CRTC, other broadcasters intervened – and that means those two AM channels now go up as part of a call for competing applications, which are due August 29. Five Years Ago: August 7, 2007 - *So there we were on Friday night, wearing our "editor of 100000watts.com" hat, plugging in call letter updates, when we noticed a new callsign – WKEL, for EMF's new signal in Confluence, PENNSYLVANIA. That was all well and good – except for one question: what new signal in Confluence, PA? Actually, there was a second question, too: where the heck is Confluence, PA? And a third: how did a new signal in an obscure western Pennsylvania town slip right past us? After a bit of frenzied digging, it turns out that the class A signal on 98.5 isn't a completely new facility after all – it's the infamous "Meyersdale FM" that went unclaimed in one round of FCC spectrum auctions, then went to EMF for $376,000 in another round of auctions back in January. It also turns out that, under the FCC's new rules for moving an FM allocation, it's going to be much easier for moves like this one to happen in the same stealthy way this one did, through a minor amendment to a pending application. In this particular case, it turns out that EMF filed the application way back in February, it was accepted in March, and was granted in late June. So where is Confluence, and why would EMF want to move an unbuilt station there from Meyersdale? It's a community of some 800 people, on the Youghiogheny River about 10 miles west of Meyersdale and 15 miles southeast of Uniontown – but the application calls for a transmitter site well to the northwest of Confluence, near Mill Run in Fayette County. By itself, the new WKEL won't even approach Pittsburgh rimshot status – it'll be nearly a 50-mile shot, on a channel that's first-adjacent to in-town WOGI (98.3 Duquesne). But it will put a decent signal over much of Fayette County, including Uniontown and Connellville, and it will eliminate the need for EMF to feed its chain of (as yet unbuilt) "K-Love" translators serving Pittsburgh from a primary station way down in Grafton, West Virginia. At the same time, EMF eliminates a big overlap that would have existed between the Meyersdale signal and its existing WLKH (97.7 Somerset), which already serves Johnstown and a big swath of territory to the south. But in the process, it's playing an interesting game. In order to take part in the auction for the "Meyersdale" frequency, EMF had to apply for a commercial license; an application for a new noncommercial license can only take place during a filing window, and the next window, coming this fall, will cover only the "reserved" portion of the dial, from 88.1-91.9. EMF tells the FCC it pledges to follow all the commercial rules, including building a main studio to serve Confluence. However, it also acknowledges that it has the right, at some later point, to change the station's status to noncommercial – which it will have to do in order to follow the rest of its usual game plan, including filing for the main-studio waiver that will make WKEL a satellite of KLVR in California and daisy-chaining the noncommercial translators that will bring the signal into Pittsburgh. It's all strictly within the letter of the rules, as is everything that EMF does, but it seems – to us, anyway – to stretch the spirit of the rules more than a little bit. *Up in Montrose, between Scranton and Binghamton, WPEL may soon be abandoning the 1250 frequency that's been its home for 60 years. The southern gospel station (sister to the big-signal religious WPEL-FM on 96.5) has been granted a CP to move down the dial to 800, where it will still run 1000 watts by day, and will add night service with 135 watts, all non-directional. There's a new AM signal coming to the southeastern Pennsylvania airwaves, as Four Rivers Community Broadcasting's application for 1390 in Morrisville becomes one of 46 "singleton" applicants from the 2004 filing window to be cleared by the FCC to take the next step. That's the filing of a full Form 301 application, due by September 26. Four Rivers' initial application for the Bucks County signal asked for 250 watts, non-directional day and night from a tower on the north side of Levittown. The obituaries for Tom Snyder, who died July 29 at 71, focused – and rightly so – on his national talk-show work for NBC ("Tomorrow"), CBS ("The Late Late Show") and so on. But we can't let this giant of the industry go without noting the role he played in the early days of "Eyewitness News" at Philadelphia's KYW-TV (Channel 3), where he arrived in 1965 to anchor the noon newscast. Snyder also hosted a morning talk show, "Contact," at the station before being called up to the big leagues to anchor at KNBC in Los Angeles in 1970. He later anchored at New York's WNBC-TV (1974-77) and WABC-TV (1982-85) in addition to his network gigs. We're firing up the ol' colortini in his memory, and watching those pictures fly through the air one last time… *In upstate NEW YORK, all the numbers are in now on the big Clear Channel/Galaxy/Roser/EMF deal that's about to shake up the Utica radio dial, and it's clear that both Galaxy's Ed Levine and Ken Roser of Roser Communications come out as big winners. The big number first – Galaxy will pay Clear Channel $3.1 million for its nine-station cluster in Utica/Rome. But Levine won't need anywhere near that much cash by the time he's done spinning off five of the Clear Channel stations and one more from his existing cluster. EMF will pay Galaxy a total of $1,574,000 – $1,224,000 for Galaxy's big-signal WRCK (107.3 Utica) and another $350,000 for Clear Channel rimshot WOKR (93.5 Remsen). This piece of the deal also allows Galaxy to obtain an independent appraisal of those stations' fair-market value, and to take a charitable deduction on the difference between that value and the actual sale price. Roser, meanwhile, will pay just $650,000 for the "Kiss" combo (WSKS 97.9 Whitesboro/WSKU 105.5 Little Falls) along with WUTQ (1550 Utica) and WADR (1480 Remsen) – a remarkable price, considering Roser sold the two FMs and then-WLFH (1230 Little Falls) to Clear Channel for $2.15 million just five years ago. As for Galaxy, Levine ends up paying a net price of just $876,000 to add rocker WOUR (96.9 Utica), hot AC WUMX (102.5 Rome) and sports WIXT (1230 Little Falls)/WRNY (1350 Rome) to his cluster, plus whatever charitable deduction he can get from the EMF sale – plus the competitive edge he'll obtain from owning WOUR and eliminating its rock-format competition, WOKR and WRCK. It's no wonder, then, that Levine described the purchase to NERW as "the best deal I've ever done." *The University of Rochester's WRUR-FM (88.5 Rochester) is tightening its physical connection to public broadcaster WXXI, which operates the station for the university. The FCC has granted an application to move WRUR's antenna from the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Rochester to the WXXI tower on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton. WRUR's power level will remain almost identical – 3 kW/345′ from the Hyatt, 3 kW/358′ from Pinnacle. (Disclosure: your editor is a part-time employee of WXXI.) *Multicultural Broadcasting's WNSW (1430 Newark) has signed off from its two-tower site next to the Garden State Parkway in Union, NEW JERSEY, and the station is now operating at reduced power from the WPAT (930 Paterson) site nine miles north in Clifton. WNSW (which changed format not long ago, from Korean to Spanish religion) holds a construction permit to go to 10 kW days, 7 kW nights, diplexing on all four of WPAT's towers, but Multicultural has to resolve the interference issue with co-owned WNYG (1440 Babylon NY) first; it's hoping the FCC will move quickly on its application to move WNYG out east to Medford, NY. *Sinclair Broadcast Group is bowing out of TV ownership in MASSACHUSETTS, selling WGGB-TV (Channel 40) to John Gormally's Gormally Broadcasting for $21.2 million and restoring local ownership to the TV market for the first time since the 1983 sale of WWLP-TV (Channel 22). Gormally publishes the "Business West" business newspaper, and the ABC affiliate is his first television property. Springfield always seemed like something of an odd market for Sinclair, which entered with the $310 million purchase of Guy Gannett's six TV stations (including WGME-TV in Portland, Maine, as well) in 1998. While Sinclair has built duopolies, usually including Fox affiliates, in most of its markets, there simply weren't enough stations in the Springfield market to make a duopoly work. WGGB also retained a full local news operation while many of Sinclair's stations switched to the now-defunct "News Central" model. It remains far behind market giant WWLP in the ratings, and faces new competition from Meredith's CBS affiliate, WSHM-LP, so Gormally will have his work cut out for him. In TV news from Boston, Jen Street is departing WBZ-TV (Channel 4) after 17 years, the last two of them as news director. She's moving to the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, where she'll be vice president for communications; no replacement has been named yet at WBZ. Meanwhile over at WHDH-TV (Channel 7), Kim Khazei is returning to the station where she anchored from 1993-2001. After taking a break to raise her children, Khazei's taking the anchor chair at 4 PM and 5:30 PM, as well as reporting for the 10 PM and 11 PM newscasts on WLVI (Channel 56) and WHDH-TV, respectively. It's taken more than a year, but the FCC has now signed off on the settlement deal between Living Proof, Inc. and two of its rival applicants for the use of 91.7 west of Boston – the University of Massachusetts Boston's WUMB and the channel's incumbent occupant, WAVM (91.7 Maynard). For many years now, we've been chronicling WAVM's fight to upgrade from its unprotected class D status to a protected class A signal, and we're sure there are a lot of relieved folks in Maynard now that the station is in possession of a construction permit that will take WAVM from 16 watts to 500 watts/77′ DA. (Unlike an earlier WAVM CP for class A operation, which expired unbuilt some years back, we're pretty sure this one will be built, and quickly.) WUMB has its CP, too, for a share-time operation licensed to Stow but sharing the WAVM transmitter and antenna. And Living Proof now has its CP, for 572 watts/115′ on 91.7 in Lunenburg, with a DA aimed mostly to the north. The only odd man out, as it were, is CSN International, whose application for 91.7 in Lexington has now been dismissed. And the rancor continues to grow over Howie Carr's attempt to bolt his longtime home at Entercom's WRKO (680 Boston) to become the new morning man at Greater Media's WTKK (96.9 Boston); last week's action included a countersuit from Entercom against Carr's lawsuit seeking to free himself from his WRKO contract. That brought a couple of revelations: paperwork accidentally left unsealed disclosed that Carr is paid just under $800,000 annually for his WRKO afternoon show, and we now know that Cary Pahigian is not only president and general manager of Carr affiliate WGAN (560) in Portland, Maine – but also Carr's agent. That's prompted some earnest hand-wringing about conflict of interest, but as long as WGAN owner Saga Communications knows about the arrangement, who are we to second-guess it? We jumped the gun a bit on this one a few issues ago, but now our ears on the South Shore have confirmed it: WGTX (102.3 Truro), the former WCDJ, is back on the air with oldies, as "The Cape's Oldies, Dunes 102." It's primarily an Outer Cape signal, and it's ID'ing with Provincetown at the top of each hour. *And across the border in CANADA, Corus is moving forward with its AM-to-FM move at CHLN (550 Trois-Rivieres QC). The French-language talk station signed on its new FM signal at 106.9 last week, and it now has 90 days to sign off the AM dial. (Sister station CJRC 1150 in Ottawa/Gatineau is about to turn off its AM in favor of its new 104.7 FM signal, and CHLT 630 in Sherbrooke and CKRS 590 in Saguenay will be next to make the move. In Tillsonburg, CKOT (1510) is finally making its long-awaited move to FM. Its new FM simulcast, CJDL (107.3), signed on last Wednesday (Aug. 1) at 5 AM. The AM signal, Canada's last remaining daytimer, will continue on the air, and no changes are planned at CKOT-FM (101.3 Tillsonburg), which continues with its soft AC format. Ten Years Ago: August 12, 2002 - *The Energy has run out in CANADA's largest market. Corus is pulling the plug on the "Energy FM" dance-CHR format that's been running on CING (95.3 Hamilton) and replacing it with country music on the 100 kW signal that serves the entire Golden Horseshoe area from Toronto to Niagara Falls. Energy moved to 95.3 with high hopes a couple of years ago, after launching on the weaker 107.9 signal licensed to nearby Burlington. (That signal became home to classic rock "Y108″ CJXY, which had occupied 95.3 as "Y95.") In the meantime, Energy had expanded to four other signals: CKGE 94.9 Oshawa, which has since returned to its old modern AC format; CHAY 93.1 Barrie and CFHK 103.1 St. Thomas-London. CHAY and CFHK will stay with the Energy format, as far as we know. Corus launched "Country 95″ on the frequency last Friday (August 9), and the format is running jockless for the moment, with a full launch scheduled for next Monday (August 19). Energy's airstaff was largely shown the door, though we hear morning jock "Big D" is headed to sister station Y108. Heading across the border, we'll start our U.S. report in PENNSYLVANIA, where a long-dead call and format returned to life in Philadelphia last week. WSNI (104.5 Philadelphia) dropped the "Sunny" nickname and soft AC format in 1990 to go hot AC as WYXR "Star," then went modern AC in 1999 as "Alice" WLCE. "Alice" was replaced by a day of non-stop "Here Comes the Sun" last Friday, followed by the relaunch of the old soft AC format and "Sunny" nickname, followed a few days later by the WSNI calls. Sunny challenges market-leader WBEB (101.1 Philadelphia), one of the last individually-owned major market FM stations in the country; it promises to be a good fight. The NERW-mobile passed through the Scranton area on our way to and from New York City this past week, and we know we'll always find something different there each time we turn on the dial. This trip was no exception: on Monday (Aug. 5), Citadel flipped WCWI (94.3 Carbondale) from a simulcast of CHR WBHT (97.1 Mountain Top) to country as "Cat Country 94." If that sounds familiar, it certainly should; under the calls WCTP, 94.3 did country as "Cat Country" from 1998 until 2000, when it became WBHD and began simulcasting WBHT. At the time, "Cat" was simulcast on WCTD (93.7 Dallas), which later became active rock WBSX. When the WBSX calls and format moved to the former WAOZ (97.9 Hazleton) in April and 93.7 changed calls to WCWQ, there was speculation that "Cat" would reappear there as well; for now, though, 93.7 is still simulcasting 97.9. And what of the third Citadel call change this past spring, in which WEMR-FM (107.7 Tunkhannock) became WCWY? That frequency is still simulcasting soft AC WMGS (92.9 Scranton), leaving NERW to wonder what the long-term plans – if any – might be for this cluster (and to note that the Scranton-market stations that don't flip calls and format annually, like country behemoth "Froggy" WGGY 101.3, do much better in the market than their oft-flipping competitors…) Up in the Merrimack Valley, Costa-Eagle is getting ready for some big changes at its cluster in the Lawrence area, aimed largely at putting Spanish programming on its Lawrence-licensed 800 signal. Come September 8, that signal will take the WNNW calls and tropical programming now being heard on 1110 in nearby Salem, N.H. The English-language news, talk and sports now on 800 will move, along with the WCCM calls, to 1490 in Haverhill (now WHAV). And WHAV's Spanish talk programming will move to 1110 Salem under the calls WCEC. What becomes of the Lowell Spinners' baseball now heard on WCCM? More on that next week, we hope… Fifteen Years Ago: August 7, 1997 - We'll start this week up in VERMONT, where TV viewers are still awaiting the debut of Burlington's newest TV station. WFFF-TV (Channel 44) is now shooting for an August 31 start date, to coincide with the start of regular-season NFL football on Fox. Burlington is the largest TV market with no primary Fox affiliate; once WFFF starts up, Fox will have outlets in every top-100 TV market. On the radio side, Wilmington's WVAY (100.7) switched its simulcast from WKVT-FM (92.7 Brattleboro) to WHDQ (106.1 Claremont, N.H.) on August 1, after WKVT owner Richard Lightfoot's offer to buy WVAY expired. The Brattleboro Reformer reports the problem was WVAY's tower leases on Mt. Snow and Haystack Mountain. The leases from the state were non-transferable, and Lightfoot was unable to strike a deal to get the tower space. Further complicating matters was interference WVAY was allegedly causing to state police communications. Lightfoot offered to fix the problems, but he apparently wanted to reduce the purchase price by some $60,000 to cover the added costs. Now it's WHDQ owner Jeff Shapiro in the buyer's seat, offering a reported $180,000 for WVAY. In addition to WHDQ (plus its booster in Rutland and translators in Hanover and Keene), Shapiro owns WRSI Greenfield, Mass., WZSH/WSSH Bellows Falls-Marlboro, WTSV Claremont, and several Upper Valley stations. Moving south to MASSACHUSETTS, there's a new owner in the future for Worcester's WNEB (1230). Bob Bittner is selling the station to a group of local businessmen called "Heirwaves, Inc.," and word is that they'll try to run an all-local format on the station. WNEB has been rebroadcasting Bob's beautiful music from WJIB (740 Cambridge), with some separate leased-time programming on weekends. Further up the Worcester dial, we hear the mystery foreign-language pirate on 1620 has moved to 1610, while Spanish-language programming continues to be heard on 1680. Up in MAINE, Lewiston's Channel 35 made its debut on schedule last Friday, with general manager Doug Finck introducing the station, followed by an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager." The calls are now legally WPME(TV), having changed from WWLA. There's a new source for smooth jazz in upstate NEW YORK. Auburn's WPCX (106.9) shed its AAA format last Friday to become "Smooth Jazz CD 106.9." The station is aimed squarely at Syracuse, whose last smooth jazz entry, WXCD (now soft rock WLTI) was owned by Salt City Broadcasting, the same company that recently bought WPCX. (Salt City sold WLTI to Pilot last year.) "CD 106.9″ is operating from studios on Burnet Street in downtown Syracuse, and it's planning to use the calls WHCD once the change is granted (until then, the WPCX "legal" ID is buried as early as :32 past the hour!). And down in Newburgh, WGNY is fighting to stay on 1200 kHz. The station is licensed as a daytimer on 1220, but since 1989 has held a construction permit to go fulltime on 1200. For most of that time, it has operated on 1200 under special temporary authority, while awaiting environmental approval to build the planned permanent 1200 site just south of Orange Lake. Now WGNY has been ordered back to 1220, but it has filed a petition for reconsideration in hopes of getting its construction permit for 1200 back. This should be a long, complex process that affects not only WGNY, but also WKOX Framingham, Mass. (which has had its hopes for more power repeately dashed by WGNY's existence co-channel on 1200), and even WLIB New York, which might be able to expand its pattern more on 1190 were WGNY to remain on 1220. |


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"Withholding Consent from the Khan" by Peter C. EarleRather than utilize the suspicious paper chits issued by the Khan's local governor, Tabrizians either fled the city or remained and subsisted on emergency food stores, sometimes raiding the gardens of neighbors who had left. Merchants refused to transact or trade; tents in bazaars stood empty. |
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For all the good that extended-release and long-acting opioid analgesics do—which is considerable when they are used appropriately in the right patients—their misuse and abuse have us facing a significant public health crisis. We've all seen the statistics, and heard everyone from members of Congress to medical and mainstream media refer to an "epidemic" of prescription drug overdoses, with ER/LA opioids perceived to be the primary vehicle.
This presents a dilemma: How do we as a society maintain access to these important medications for the patients who desperately need them while keeping these potentially dangerous substances out of the hands of those at risk (eg, addicts, drug seekers, innocent children, under-informed patients), all without imposing onerous restrictions on healthcare professionals who are trying to provide their patients with compassionate care?
The FDA took a significant step in addressing this issue when it approved a Risk Evaluation and Mitigations Strategy (REMS) for ER/LA opioid analgesics. It's the largest REMS program to date, covering 35 branded and generic drugs made by more than 20 manufacturers. These competitors are now working together to provide and promote essential safety education that includes prescriber training, a patient counseling document, and Medication Guides that will be unique to each ER/LA opioid analgesic product.
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If this account is accurate, why vote at all? Just let Burris designate which bills will become law and which will not.
UPDATE I: Goins elaborates that Burris ruled he had recognized another legislator to present a new bill before the motion for a roll call was uttered. Burris moved mighty quickly.
UPDATE II: Two wrongs make a right. An eyewitness said that on one occasion during interminable efforts to pass anti-abortion bills in 2011, Public Health Chair Linda Tyler (defeated by Rapert for Senate last year) gaveled a meeting to adjournment immediately after ruling a voice vote had failed to pass one abortion bill (the particular one I can't pin down). She exited the room as anti-abortion legislators tried to call for a roll call.
UPDATE III: Big day for fetuses. The committee also, as expected, endorsed Rep. Andy Mayberry's bill to ban most abortions at the 20th week of pregnancy. It was amended to include a rape and incest exception. It provides no exceptions for fetal anomalies, the primary reason for the 46 abortions performed at this stage in 2011 nor protection for the health of the mother, only to save her life.
UPDATE IV: AP reports that House Speaker Davy Carter will send the unconstitutional Rapert bill back to committee because of complaints over Burris' refusal to have a roll call. I suspect is has the requisite votes if enough members attend, though that is sometimes a challenging if.
UPDATE V: KARK reports the governor has made up his mind on the abortion bills, but says he'll let the legislature vote without influence from him. He's a lawyer. He knows that the U.S. Supreme Court has, to date, ruled repeatedly and clearly that both the Rapert and Mayberry bills are unconstitutional because they prohibit abortions before viability of the fetus.
UPDATE VI: The Public Health Committee will meet after adjournment today and take another bite at Rapert's unconstitutional apple. Roll call or not, ultimately approved or not it will remain unconstitutional.
UPDATE VII: The Committee met briefly and quietly. Roll was called. 11 votes, the minimum for passage, were cast for the bill. There were five nays. It moves to the floor. And, if enacted, to court.
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September 5, 2010, Chicago, Ill. — Chicago's Sarah Loh scored her team's first four goals as the host Maroons claimed a 6-0 win over DePauw. The Tigers dropped to 1-1 on the season, while Chicago improved to 1-0-1.
Loh scored two in the first half and two more in the opening three minutes of the second half including a pair in a 45-second span. Emily Benoit and Allison Hegel chipped in the final two scores. Natalia Jovanovic totaled three assists, while Brigette Kragie and Benoit each had one.
Lauren Palfrey and Caroline Kerr split time in goal with each totaling two saves, while Emma Gormley had four for the Maroons.
Chicago outshot the Tigers 18-9 and held a 5-3 edge in corners.
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By Heidi Hall | The Tennessean
After Spc. Ryan T. Baker's Black Hawk helicopter went down in Iraq, the Army sent a letter to a toddler living in Franklin.
"Master Tristian Willis," it read, misspelling his first name. "On behalf of a grateful nation and a deeply saddened Army, please accept our condolences over the death of your father."
Tristan's mother, Brooke Willis, covered it in plastic and slid it into a forest-green scrapbook with the words "United States Army" on the cover. Over the years, she added every picture of Baker and newspaper article on his death she could find. She wrote a poem from her 2-year-old son's point of view and carefully trimmed out the colorful letters to spell it out across two pages.
Today, eight years later, Tristan has that scrapbook, its cover falling off, almost everything inside bearing the smudges, rips and wrinkles of being pulled out hundreds of times by a fidgety little boy who wishes he knew his hero dad.
He also has an 8-by-10 framed picture of himself sitting on his dad's lap, one box of his dad's clothing and a growing commemorative coin collection that started with a handful shipped back with the body.
And that's about it, all that's left to document the life of a 24-year-old helicopter crew chief stationed at Fort Campbell, the soldier whose rocky relationship with a local college girl resulted in Tristan's birth.
His helicopter was shot down on Nov. 15, 2003, and his grave is in New Jersey, too far to visit on Memorial Day.
"My mom tells me a lot about him, and Grandma Baker does, too," Tristan said. "He was a hero. He was the one serving our country for our freedoms and rights."
Tristan can repeat his mother's memories as though they are his own. He was born Nov. 11, 2001, Veterans Day, but his dad, conflicted about being a father, didn't visit him until just before Christmas.
"He has the Baker nose," the young soldier observed.
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Two months later, Baker was fighting in Afghanistan. He left Fort Campbell determined to find Osama bin Laden and was so brash with the people he encountered that fellow soldiers referred to saying the wrong thing as "pulling a Baker."
He was back in Tennessee in August, eager for a solo overnight visit with his son. Even six months at war couldn't prepare him. The diapers were so pungent that he threw up.
Then Baker was off to Iraq. He came home for two weeks in October 2003 for his father's funeral and a reunion with Tristan.
A month later, Brooke Willis' phone rang. She doesn't remember what was said. Only Grandma Baker's voice being drowned out by the sound of her own screams.
She started the scrapbook days later and eventually moved her family to Spring Hill and finished the psychology degree that Tristan's birth interrupted. She raised her son to be proud of a father he would never know.
That pride fueled Tristan's trip to a Spring Hill Board of Aldermen meeting this month to ask if his dad could be included in a banner program meant to honor active-duty military. Aldermen are considering changing the program to include the war dead and plan to discuss that at a June 11 work session.
But this Memorial Day, Tristan will eat barbecue at his grandparents' house in Franklin. He'll say a prayer. And he'll send a letter of his own, attaching it to a helium-filled balloon.
"Dear Dad: I am wondering how you are doing in heaven. I hope you are having a tremendous time. Sincerely, Tristan."
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As buzz continues to grow for upcoming film, The Hunger Games, new artists are being added to the soundtrack. Earlier today, iTunes updated the list of songs and artists featured which now includes Maroon 5 ft. Rozzi Crane on "Come Away To The Water."
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9. The Civil Wars "Kingdom Come"
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RURAL Fire Service crews from Beaumont and Kangaroo Valley were called to a car on fire on the top hairpin of Cambewarra Mountain on Wednesday afternoon.
The fire occurred shortly after 1.30pm.
It is believed mechanical failure may have caused the blaze which broke out in the vehicle while it was travelling up the mountain from Kangaroo Valley.
A passing motorist stopped to help the driver of the vehicle but did not have an extinguisher and made sure the driver was all right until the fire crews arrived.
With the vehicle close to the historic home The Eyrie, which was built by Os and Alma McClelland between 1926-28, crews quickly extinguished the blaze before it could spread to the structure and the adjoining bushland.
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Blueberry-Corncake Terrine
* 4- 4 oz. ramekins
* 1 tsp. butter
* ½ pkg. Effie's Corncakes
* 2 T. melted butter
* 1 c. fresh blueberries
* 3 T. sugar
* 8 oz. Mascarpone cheese
* ½ t. lemon zest
* 1 t. lemon juice
Lightly butter the bottom and sides of the ramekins and chill.
Combine the blueberries with 2 T. sugar and toss to macerate. Crush some of the blueberries to release their juices. Let stand for 10 minutes.
Break 6 Effie's Corncakes into the bowl of a food processor and pulse to form an even crumb. Add the melted butter to the Corncake crumbs forming a moistened meal. Set aside.
Combine the Mascarpone, 1 T. sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice in a small bowl.
Spoon a layer of blueberries on the bottom of the buttered ramekin. Do not add all the berry juices, reserve for drizzling. Gently spoon a layer of the Mascarpone on top of the berries so that it comes 2/3's up the side of the ramekin and spread evenly.
Press the Corncake crumbs over the top of the cheese. Place a layer of plastic wrap over the crumbs and gently press. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
To un-mold the terrine run a thin knife around the edge of the ramekin and invert it onto a dessert plate. Drizzle with remaining berries and juices.
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Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Montreal Hotel, Quebec, Canada - Foyer V.I.P. Section
Hot Dates, Hot Rates
The more you book, the more value you get with our Group Offers in Montreal. When you reserve a group of:
10 to 49 room nights and choose 1 option from the list
50 to 100 room nights and choose 2 options from the list
101 room nights and more and choose 3 options from the list
List of Added Value Options below:
- Double HHonors points
- Upgrade to the Executive level for $25 more
- 1 complimentary room for 35 rooms reserved and paid
- 20% off on all audio visual equipment rented at our audio visual PSAV service
- Refreshing cocktail
- 5% off master account excluding banquet items
Available Dates | Rate |
8-23 August, 2013 | CAD$159 |
21-22 October, 2013 | CAD$159 |
9-11 November, 2013 | CAD$159 |
16-22 November, 2013 | CAD$159 |
15-19 December, 2013 | CAD$159 |
Based on availability and new booking only – cannot be applied to existing reservations. Gratuities are not included. Credit card guarantee required at time of reservation. Availability and rate will be confirmed at time of reservation. Rates subject to availability and fluctuate depending on availability and demand. Offer cannot be combined with other promotional offers or award stays.