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Victim remembered as antithesis of 'oppressive cop'
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Everyone thought John Victor Young would be the last police officer in San Francisco to become a killer's target.
Young was known as the kind of officer who would rather take a drunk to church than to jail, drag a rowdy teenager to his parents' house instead of to juvenile hall, or let a driver go with a stern warning instead of a speeding ticket.
So his colleagues saw it as particularly disturbing and cold-blooded that an officer with no known enemies was shot to death while sitting at a reception desk in the Ingleside Station on Aug. 29, 1971. After news broke Tuesday that eight former members of a radical group, the Black Liberation Army, were arrested and charged with murder for Young's killing, former colleagues reflected on Young's life, his untimely death and the violent world of San Francisco in the early 1970s.
"Jack Young was about the kindest, gentlest man to ever put on a San Francisco police uniform," said Frank Jordan, a former mayor and police chief who served as pallbearer at Young's funeral. "We really felt at the time that if someone would kill Jack Young, they would kill anyone. I don't think he had an enemy in this city."
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Jordan sat next to Young for several years when the two men worked together in the office of Police Chief Thomas Cahill in the late 1960s. Young, who was killed at age 51, was known for his volunteer efforts in the community. He was married but had no children of his own and volunteered at the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma County and the Claussen House in Oakland.
"If these guys wanted to strike at the white power structure by assassinating a so-called oppressive cop, they really got the wrong guy," said former Deputy Chief Kevin Mullen, an author who has written extensively about the department's history. "Jack Young had this almost priestly quality about him. Murdering him was one of the most pointless and vicious crimes."
Young often organized trips for children from Hunters Point to Giants games or Playland, the amusement park near Ocean Beach that closed in 1972. He would get discounted tickets and then pay for kids' snacks and rides out of his own pocket. He also volunteered at a senior center and helped organize retreats for Catholic police officers, his friends said. And he would recruit other officers to help chaperone kids to events.
"He was always organizing some kind of charitable event," said Jordan. "He would make the rounds and get all the young officers to volunteer. He was the exact opposite of the tough macho cop. Jack Young admired St. Francis and really saw his role in society as a peacemaker, a person who had a calming, stabilizing effect on everyone around him. He really considered himself a peace officer in the truest sense of the term."
One of Young's other jobs in the police chief's office was to review the cases of men getting out of prison, Jordan said. Young developed a reputation as a guy who would pick up the phone and try to help an ex-convict get a job or find an apartment.
Former Police Chief Tony Ribera met Young shortly after joining the department.
"He was really a mentor to a lot of young officers," Ribera said. "He was streetwise but gentle. He projected kindheartedness that can be difficult when you are a police officer and you are called on in tough confrontations."
At the Ingleside Station, Young was known for his efforts to reach out to children, teens and their parents in African American neighborhoods such as Ocean View that were often alienated from police.
"I saw Jack Young as the personification of everything I tried to do with community policing as chief and as mayor," Jordan said.
At the time Young was killed, San Francisco was in the midst of its most deadly two-year period for police officers. Six officers had been killed in the line of duty from January 1970 to July 1971. Four of those officers were killed by gunfire; one by a bomb; another in a helicopter crash. Attackers had set off a bomb -- injuring several people -- at the funeral of one of those police officers in 1970 at St. Brendan Church. There was a bombing attack at the Park Station and an attempted bombing at the Mission Station, and all of San Francisco's police stations were equipped with bulletproof glass, as well as reinforced steel and concrete, as a result.
The night Young was killed, he was pulling desk duty, sitting behind a bulletproof glass partition where he could speak to the public through a small opening.
His killers dashed into the lobby of the station, and one of them put a shotgun muzzle through that opening and began firing into the police office. Young was struck and later died from his wounds. Ellen Lipney, a civilian police clerk, was wounded as she sat at a desk typing up a police report.
The killing shocked the department because of the widespread belief that Young was not personally targeted but was the victim of a symbolic attack on police.
"It was hard not to be somewhat paranoid, to feel like the uniform was like a target," Ribera said. "Jack Young's assassination was really an act of terrorism. I'm very excited that after all this years, these guys will be held responsible."


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The NFL has begun keeping track of player participation information on a weekly basis and releasing that data to the media. Here's how the Titans lined up in Week 10's 37-3 win against the Miami Dolphins.
Offense (61 total)
QB: Jake Locker 50, Matt Hasselbeck 11
RB/FB: Chris Johnson 49, Quinn Johnson 24, Darius Reynaud 10, Jamie Harper 2
TE: Craig Stevens 46, Taylor Thompson 24, Jared Cook 23
WR: Nate Washington 42, Kenny Britt 33, Damian Williams 27, Kendall Wright 25
OL: Deuce Lutui 61, Michael Roos 61, Fernando Velasco 60, Steve Hutchinson 50, David Stewart 50, Kevin Matthews 12, Mike Otto 11
Defense (60 total)
DE: Derrick Morgan 43, Kamerion Wimbley 43, Scott Solomon 16, Jarius Wynn 9
DT: Sen'Derrick Marks 43, Jurrell Casey 41, Mike Martin 21, Karl Klug 15
LB: Zach Brown 51, Colin McCarthy 41, Akeem Ayers 23, Tim Shaw 19, Will Witherspoon 5
CB: Jason McCourty 60, Alterraun Verner 55, Coty Sensabaugh 27, Ryan Mouton 19, Tommie Campbell 5
S: Michael Griffin 60, Jordan Babineaux 56, Robert Johnson 4, Tracy Wilson 4
Patrick Bailey and Beau Brinkley each only appeared on special teams.
The counts at every position are thrown off by the amount of garbage time. The game was uncompetitive in the fourth quarter, so rarely-used players got a chance to play they otherwise would not have had. Thus, backups at virtually every position played more than they otherwise would have. About the only exception to that rule was Chris Johnson, who played his normal 50 snaps. That said, there is one thing I want to emphasize.
Jared Cook played fewer snaps than either Quinn Johnson or Taylor Thompson. Yes, it was close. Yes, those numbers are inflated by the garbage time I was just discussing. Still, teams tell you who they want to be, and the Titans are telling us they want to be a running team. This isn't much of a surprise. They're paying their running back a lot of money. They have a fullback on the roster. They paid a blocking tight end starter-type money in the offseason. When the game situation has permitted it, they've run the ball even when it hasn't been that effective (see the Colts game). The Titans are committed to what I termed the Craig Stevens Offense, not the Jared Cook Offense.
In the next day or two, I hope to have a broader look up at the trends in playing time over the first ten weeks of the season.

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Munster said that upon surveys of 100 Apple Stores, his team found that supply of both AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) models had seen "dramatic improvements in availability," while Sprint (NYSE:S) units remained readily available. "As we get closer to the holiday, we believe consumers will likely have the ability to walk into an Apple Store and walk out with an iPhone 5 within the next two weeks," Munster said.
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While AT&T models were available at 82 percent of stores and the Verizon model at 72 percent of stores, the Sprint iPhone 5 was in stock at 92 percent of Apple Stores. Earlier this week, Apple also updated its online store to show two-week shipping times for the new smartphone.
Apple struggled for a while with supply issues after the launch of the phone in September, with concerns that keener quality control at Foxconn factories was delaying manufacturing. Both AT&T and Verizon admitted to be short on supply of the iPhone 5 during their respective earnings reports for the last quarter. Last year, iPhones accounted for 53 cents of every dollar Apple earned in its December quarter, making the device incredibly important for the company as it tries to exceed Wall Street expectations after missing estimates in the last two quarters.
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The parks in the Sunshine City are going green.
On Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Council unanimously approved a resolution that could be a boon for training local high school students in the technologies for alternative energy.
The resolution approves a partnership between the city and the Science Center of Pinellas County for spending a $1.4 million Solar Parks Initiative Grant, plus an additional $1 million, all from the U.S. Department of Energy, to install solar systems in 17 parks and recreation centers and establish two exhibits at the Science Center.
"We're very excited about our partnership with the city and Department of Energy," said Joseph Cuenco, executive director at the Science Center.
Each of the 17 parks will get solar panels — some atop the recreation centers, some atop maintenance buildings — to help supply energy for the facilities.
At the Science Center, one exhibit will be a working model of solar panels outside the building. Inside, there will be a hands-on education exhibit and kiosk that will demonstrate how the technology works, Cuenco said.
The collaboration between the city and the Science Center should bear fruit beyond the exhibits.
"What we're going to do is to develop a curriculum for certification so that high school students can get training," said Cuenco, who added that the goal is to provide students with certification and career paths to job skills, postsecondary education and beyond.
The exhibits will be open to all students, and Cuenco hopes to attract a lot of middle schoolers — before they make decisions on whether they're going to stay in school and what areas they're interested in.
"Alternative energy is going to be one of the areas for job growth in the future and this curriculum will help in preparing students for that," he said.
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More than 120 people participated in last weekend's Tweed Ride and Seersucker Shuffle, which was organized to raise awareness about the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club at 559 Mirror Lake Drive N.
Never heard of a Tweed Ride? It's a rapidly growing phenomenon that started in London a couple of years ago. A group of cyclists, dressed in traditional British cycling attire (preferably tweed), takes to city streets. In St. Petersburg, the nattily attired riders heard cheers as they meandered through the streets downtown.
Proceeds from the event, which are still being calculated, will help restore the club's tournament courts.
"Our goal for the event was to do something a little different than usual and to raise awareness about the club," said event organizer Christine Page.
Tweed Rides are gaining in popularity across the country, Page said, but this was the first in St. Petersburg.
"I had seen a video of the ride in Washington, D.C., and thought it would be a perfect Shuffleboard Club event," she said. "The club is dedicated to promoting outdoor recreation. Cycling in a tweed suit fits right in. Plus, argyle kneesocks look fantastic next to our 1920s buildings and hex blocks."
For those who missed it, Page said the club is planning another Tweed Ride later this year.
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The shelves at the St. Petersburg Free Clinic's Food Bank are looking pretty bare.
"Yes, we are in need of donations," said Jane Egbert, executive director of the Free Clinic, which helps people with basic needs of food, shelter, medical care and referrals. "This is a low time for us and we're stretching what we do have."
"Our letter carrier (food) drive is scheduled for May 14, and we're really hoping that residents will be generous during that time."
Egbert stressed that some food is still on the shelves of the agency, at 863 Third Ave. N, thanks in part to Publix and Sweetbay, but the Free Clinic needs dry goods.
"The usual staples are much lower than what we usually have," she said. "We are very grateful to the groups that are generous year-round, but right now we just have a greater need."
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The University of South Florida St. Petersburg will host a special event at 11 a.m. Monday to mark the groundbreaking for the Multipurpose Student Center at Harborwalk, Second Street and Sixth Avenue S.
Upon completion, the 81,000-square-foot facility will feature dining services, meeting space, an atrium and a six-story residence hall with accommodations for 196 students.
For more information, visit online at stpete.usf.edu.
Sandra J. Gadsden is assistant metro editor/community news. She can be reached at email@example.com or at (727) 893-8874.


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The Revilliod mss., 1919-1971, are the papers of Mrs. Olga (Masaryk) Revilliod, (Mrs. Henri Jules Revilliod), 1891-1978, daughter of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1850-1937, president of Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1935.
They consist of letters from her sister, Alice Garrigue Masaryk, 1879-1966, sociologist, 1950-1962; from Mrs. Ruth (Crawford) Mitchell, 1890-1984, social service worker, 1954- 1964; from U.S. senators, who were sponsoring a bill in Congress for Henri Jules Revilliod, 1873-1956, physician, and Mrs. Olga (Masaryk) Revilliod, to become permanent residents of the United States; from scholars not to pursue the matter of finding a publisher for volume III of the Spirit of Russia; from publishers; and from personal friends. Many of the letters are in Czech.
Included are also thirty-one sketchbooks, 1920-1956, of sketches made by Henri Jules Revilliod; a musical composition, Vanocni Koledy, by Karel J. Staller, 1958; memorabilia; pictures; newspaper clippings, and other printed matter.
The first box in the collection contains biographical information.
Among the correspondents are Selden Daskam Bacon, Price Daniel, Frederick May Eliot, Harry David Gideonse, Ivan Herben, James Hovorka, John Howland Lathrop, Herbert Henry Lehman, Edward Martin, Alice Garrigue Masaryk, Kenneth Dexter Miller, Mrs. Ruth (Crawford) Mitchell, Premysl Pitter, William Arthur Purtell, Hugh Doggett Scott, James Thomson Shotwell, Grace Harriet Spofford, and Sir Stanley Unwin.
Collection size: 2,280 items
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By John Dickson Carr
Gather round while I relate to you the epic saga of how I attempted to make my way to the end of John Dickson Carr's Dark of the Moon. I picked up a cheap paperback copy quite some time ago at a used bookstore and I was rather keen to read it. After doing so for a short time I put it aside. Then I came back to it. Then I put it aside. Then I came back to it. Then I put it aside. You get the point.
Finally I put it aside for good, on a stack of books that I intended to trade in at the aforementioned store. Or so I thought. Many months later, more or less on a whim, I dug the book out of the stack and started it again. And found, to my surprise, that it was relatively smooth going. For a while, anyway, until about the two-thirds mark, when I put it aside again. Finally, not so long ago, I came back to it and finished it off.
Which might lead one to believe that I didn't like this book very much. But that's not quite true. Right here, I'll note that I'm not real well versed in Carr, having read perhaps ten of his books in all. But from reading the opinions of others I gather that his later books are not nearly as well regarded as the earlier ones. If Dark of the Moon is any indicator I think I can see why. This was the fourth to the last of the books to be published before his death in 1977 and the last to feature his series character Gideon Fell.
Who is called to the house of an acquaintance on a coastal island in South Carolina, a state where Carr apparently spent his later years. After rather a lot of slow-paced preamble and working around to the point someone is bumped off in a manner that anyone who knows Carr will find familiar. This time around the master of the impossible crime trots out another of those sandy beach type gems, in which the victim is found in an expanse of sand with no footprints around but his own.
The pace hardly picks up from here, if I do say so myself, but eventually the whole meandering conglomeration of a contraption of a story works its way around to one of those lengthy reveal scenes. As for the explanation of the crime, I wouldn't go quite so far as to cry foul, but I would say that the author really stretched my credibility to the limit. Of course, if the killer had merely clocked the victim with a blunt object and been done with it it would hardly have been a proper John Dickson Carr book, now would it?
I guess what I found trickiest about this book, as I've noted, was that languid pace and meandering nature of the plot. Perhaps it was because he was getting up in years and living in and writing about a place where things move at a slower pace that things played out this way. On the plus side, however, Carr does what I've always felt he does best - perhaps as much or even more than all that impossible crime stuff - and that's to create a truly memorable atmosphere and sense of place.


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One year ago, I wrote in The Herald:
"There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil had been discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out."
That argument does not belong to me, but to writers and artists of all kinds whose work has arisen from Scotland, stretching back to the stories and songs from before Christianity. That immense inherited file remains undervalued, under-researched and under-used, a vast storehouse of resources.
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Michael Fry begins his recent book, A New Race of Men, by emphasising that, unusually, he has placed the nation's culture, indeed high culture, on a par with mechanised agriculture, steel production, housing problems and other such matters that form the normal pabulum for academic historians of Scotland.
Some would argue that, without an understanding of culture and literature, history is simply inadequate. History, after all, is literature: telling stories in another way. Michael Fry's justification goes further, though. He argues that, socially and economically, Scotland might justly be understood as merely a region of England, but in politics and culture, it's different. This is as valid a foundation for a history of Scotland as it is for independence.
But it needs to be demonstrated, fully, confidently, because the good of the arts, especially in Scotland, is so often neglected or trivialised.
In 1913, Ezra Pound wrote: "The arts give us a great percentage of the lasting and unassailable data regarding the nature of man, of immaterial man, of man considered as a thinking and sentient creature. They begin where the science of medicine leaves off or rather they overlap that science." Now we would insist, "man and woman", but the essence of what Pound says is true. So the question is, as with medicine, how do we make best use of that data? The NHS in England is being sold off. What of the arts?
The commercial ethic is opposed to democracy because it prioritises making money over human beings as thinking and sentient creatures. It endorses the "material" and denigrates or liquidates the "immaterial". But the "immaterial" is vital for human wellbeing. Democracy educates and education democratises. What sort of education would you like? One in which Scottish traditions in literature, music and painting are central?
On November 9, 2013, the RSNO performed Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, preceded by a talk about the composer and the work. The talk opened with a question on a screen: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" The screen flicked to three photographs: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten. Who is the greatest British composer?
The analysis of the symphony that followed was marvellously revealing and rich, enhancing the audience's understanding when the work was beautifully performed in the second half of the evening. But the question was still hanging in the air. The point is that these are not British but wonderfully, emphatically English composers. On the following evening, at St John's Kirk in Edinburgh, a Remembrance Day service included a performance of the cantata, Dona Nobis Pacem, by Ronald Center, a Scottish composer whose work remains almost unknown. This masterwork for minimal resources is not diminished by comparison with Vaughan Williams - if only we could hear it in a critical context of confident appreciation.
The same argument applies in different ways to painting and literature. All the arts resist the hegemony of power. Hugh MacDiarmid and William McTaggart are both long overdue full reappraisal. Major exhibitions of the work of J.D. Fergusson are now underway in Edinburgh and Perth but how many visitors know of his manifesto for political and artistic independence, or that he wrote in 1943: "Independent art is created by an independent people. Is that saying too much? Well, gaze around in this year of grace."?


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Every communication is two conversations: the content and the body language. When the two are aligned, a speaker can be powerful — even charismatic. When they are not aligned, the audience believes the non-verbal every time. How well did President Obama's Cairo University speech yesterday measure up in this regard?
Obama's elegant and sweeping rhetoric talked about openness, listening, and peace. What did his second conversation talk about? Caution, restraint, and an unwillingness to risk very much. This was not an emotional performance; it was a careful, measured one. Let's take the second conversation apart.
President Obama has the posture of a leader. He strode out to the podium with the confident and upright bearing of someone in command. His wave to the audience was that of a leader acknowledging the many.
As he began to speak, Obama nodded repeatedly, acknowledging the crowd and building agreement with them. The President also had great stillness in his body; this signals confidence, because it's at once poised and yet relaxed enough to show that his nerves haven't got the better of him — by contrast, just think of how many presentations you've watched in which a novice speaker shifts their weight nervously from side to side.
And yet, despite being a practiced and expert public speaker, President Obama still can't quite figure out what to do with his hands. At the start of the speech, he folded and unfolded his hands in a constrained, protective manner on the podium. It's one of the few ways he betrays a little nervousness.
As the speech went on, he occasionally got a hand gesture right — as, for example, when he talked about the overlap in views between Muslims and Christians and overlapped his hands quite naturally — most of the time, he used his characteristic (and prissy) thumb-and-forefinger gesture. This gesture is less admonishing than the raised forefinger, but it retains something of that off-putting feeling, and it is not one in the natural human retinue. It looks calculated and fake. For example, when he called for people around the world to "say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts," he used the thumb and forefinger instead of a more natural, open gesture that would have matched his words.
The President repeated this pattern throughout the speech. His non-verbal conversation was careful and half-closed even when his words were open. Later, when he spoke of the "interests we all share as human beings" being "far more powerful than those that drive us apart," he gestured as if he was holding something about the size of a loaf of bread in his hands. Apparently, those shared interests are not very big.
Similarly, when he talked about "equal justice" for everyone, his hands came back to the 'parade rest' folded position on the podium. The hand gesture spoke of a very carefully parsed justice rather than a broad vision. And at the close of the speech, when Obama said that "America respects all voices," he used again the admonishing forefinger, suggesting that he was looking for a quid pro quo of respect in return.
The conversation of his hands was most natural when he said, "America doesn't presume to know what is best for everyone." His open hand swept out across his chest in a gesture that unequivocally dismissed the presumption.
President Obama is an extraordinarily polished, powerful, and persuasive speaker. His posture, confident voice, and command of pacing result in a highly accomplished delivery. But he has still not figured out a natural set of gestures to go with his soaring rhetoric. Overall, he radiates confidence and dignity. Now he needs to figure out a set of hand gestures that communicates the same message.


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Ancelotti keen to keep Beckham in Milan
AC Milan have reiterated their desire for David Beckham to extend his short-term deal from Los Angeles Galaxy.
Beckham, who scored his first goal for Milan in the 4-1 win over Bologna yesterday, is set to return to America at the beginning of March for the start of the new Major League Soccer season.
However, Milan boss Carlo Ancelotti said: ''In football everything is possible. Milan's position is the same as it was and no pressure will be made.
''The choice remains exclusively his. Our desire is that he continues with us. When March 9 comes and he returns to America, that will sadden us because of the help he is giving his team in terms of quality of play and balance.
''He has had the ability to come in and right away have a starring role.
''It is all down to him, his desire and willingness to return to play in a league and in an important team.''
Beckham fuelled reports he will remain in Italy to help the Rossoneri battle for the Scudetto title, saying at the weekend: ''I can't say what will happen. My contract says that I'll be here until March. We'll have to see.
''At the moment I'm enjoying this experience. I'm at one of the biggest clubs in the world.''
Milan midfielder Kaka, no stranger to a transfer saga having turned down a record-breaking move to Manchester City last week, endorsed Beckham's stay.
''It was beautiful to see Beckham's first goal in the Rossoneri colours,'' said the Brazil playmaker.
''He is a great professional, he puts in a lot of effort and works very hard to give a great contribution to the team.
''When he scored we were all delighted and we ran towards him to hug him because he is a great man. We hope he can stay longer.''
Meanwhile, club lawyer Leandro Cantamessa said AC Milan would be willing to negotiate the permanent transfer.
''After March anything can happen,'' Cantamessa told television channel Skysport24.
''The situation is complicated and will depend on the player, but if there was a common interest, the English player could remain at Milan, but not on loan.''
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MUSKEGON, Mich. - After several days of sticking to social issues, and sometimes being called to clarify controversial statements, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum came to Western Michigan preaching a purely economic message, focusing on energy and manufacturing.
"Skyrocketing gas prices may put a halt to the improving economy - such that it is," Santorum said. "It's not going to take much to slow down this little train."
Santorum pledged to open ANWAR to drilling, approve the Keystone Pipeline and allow for more hydrofracking to tap domestic natural gas reserves.
He again clarified his recent comments about President Obama's "theology."
"I was criticized the other day. I don't know if you saw Bob Schieffer's show ['Face the Nation' on CBS]. I was criticized [for saying] that the president has radical environmental ideology, even theology," he said. "It's one that puts man just like any other species out there. The Earth is the objective. We focus on the Earth and we don't worry about man. … We believe man has dominion over the Earth and is steward of the Earth… Man has an obligation to protect Earth, be good stewards."
Santorum subtly jabbed Mitt Romney, but did not mention him by name, suggesting it was hypocritical for the former Massachusetts governor to have supported the Wall Street bailout, but not a bailout for Michigan's auto industry.
"Other folks competing here in Michigan supported the financial bailout of Wall Street but not bailout here of auto industry," he said. "I was opposed [to the bailout] on principal, but also from experience. To be for one [bailout] and not the other, you have to explain that to me."
He did, however, name Romney surrogate billionaire Donald Trump, who will campaign in Michigan for Romney.
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Before applying, please consider the following:
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Alexander Mickelthwate, music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, was the guest conductor at the Straz Center's Ferguson Hall.
Shellman made a bold choice to play the concerto of Ades (pronounced Ah-diss), an Englishman who just turned 40 and is one of the most ambitious composers of his generation. It's a daunting piece of music, but she and her colleagues were up to the task.
The structure of the Ades concerto has a "circular'' theme — the movements are titled "Rings," "Paths" and "Rounds" — but I was more struck by its brilliant sonic effects. Soloist and orchestra strings sounded like the rustling wings of a flock of strange birds in the almost continuous music of the first movement. Random low rumbles in brass and percussion added to the ominous mood.
Shellman, playing with a score on the stand in front of her, and cutting a slim, elegant figure in her long black gown, gave a confident, commandingly secure account of the complex second movement, the heart of the matter. Her rich, narcotic tone cut through the overlapping layers of the orchestra. Mickelthwate kept the blasts by brass and percussion that punctuate the 20-minute work pretty restrained, even the slashing disharmony that ends it with a bang.
Haydn's Symphony No. 59 opened the evening. Coming about half way through the composer's amazing output of 104 symphonies, it is an unfamiliar one, but like so many of those you've never heard, it turned out to be a delightful surprise. Haydn's music is not necessarily profound, but it's almost always entertaining.
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