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Cologne girl wrote:
Back to topic, I think two questions I might like to ask him are:
When will we have this "hardcore fans only, Beatles nostalgics keep out" concert at a small and cosy venue?
Were you and John really planning to do some work together before he got assassinated?
Hi Cologne Girl ! Regarding your 2nd question, I'd like to mention that May Pang (you know, she's w/ John during his "lost weekend" or something) wrote that John wanted to send Paul a postcard hinting at a future collaboration when Paul was in Nashville (early '75). He wrote it but never sent it (she did not tell the reason why). Anyway, after John's passing May said she gave it to Paul, who proudly showed it to a lot of people, beaming w/ joy.


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The Creators Project: There's an article about you somewhere that says you were specifically influenced by a Steve Reich track called "Come Out" early on in your career. What significance did it have for you?
Matthew Herbert: I think I was very lucky that I had a great music teacher named Mr. Story. He taught us a sort of general approach to music through Queen and Stravinsky and Mozart's clarinet concerto and Steve Reich… all sorts of people. He let us in quite early to one of the fundamental secrets of music: that it's all roughly the same. It's just done with different orchestration or different techniques, but it's principally governed by the same rules, which are tension and release and harmony and discord and other things. Anyway, he played us Steve Reich, which was very influential to me because it was intellectually challenging and stimulating to my brain, but also felt emotional and soulful as well. All the challenging music I had heard before then was based around dissonance. I thought that challenging music was supposed to be dissonant or unpleasant or free from these harmonic rules that had governed the rules of music for so long prior to that period. It was a sort of turning point for me. I do think that's something I find the greatest challenge—to create challenging and engaging and thoughtful and artistically rich music in terms of the ideas or the content of it, but also to sort of package it in such a way that it sneaks under the radar so that you can engage with it in an emotional way as well as an intellectual way.
You're known for eschewing typical samples in lieu of building sounds made by ordinary objects around the house or actions like bodily movements. Is there a process for this or an overarching concept? Like, do you say, "Between three and five today I'm going to record a table?"
It's a combination of pretty legitimate planning from day one and a kind of joyful exuberance because basically I've been given this incredible gift—the sampler—that can turn any noise into music instantly. It can allow you to play it on a keyboard. Look at classical music and how much of it is a simulation of nature—bird songs or rolling, expansive hills, or something like that. You don't need to do that anymore. You can take out a microphone and go out to the hills and record a real bird song, and then your piece of music is the Austrian mountains.
You have very strong ideas about music and how it connects to society in political and sociological ways. Off the top of your head, can you give us an example that someone who listens to Top 40 mainstream music might understand?
Someone who I respect told me this so I don't have any reason to doubt it, and I also don't have any hard evidence, but I was told that the vocoder was invented to disguise Winston Churchill's voice in the Second World War. They probably didn't expect it to—
Turn up on Kanye West records?
[Laughs]. Exactly, but there's a strong military relation to everything around us, and we're happily going along making bits of music without much real consideration for why we're making music in the first place and why anyone should bother to listen to it in this day in age.

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Debates of Nov. 2nd, 2004
House of Commons Hansard #20 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was victims.
- Canada Account
- Export of Military Goods
- Competition Act
- First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Take Note Debate
- Criminal Code
- Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994
- Contraventions Act
- Visually Impaired
- Agriculture
- Athens Olympic Games
- Writers
- Dairy Industry
- Riding of Oxford
- ADISQ Gala
- Jean Lemire
- Canadian Automobile Association
- Health
- Dan MacPherson
- Sudan
- Canadian Automobile Association
- Dairy Production
- Agriculture
- East Nepean Eagles
- Natural Resources
- Parental Leave
- Privacy
- National Defence
- Trade
- Air Transportation Security
- Social Programs
- Agriculture
- Softwood Lumber
- Ukraine
- Automobile Industry
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Justice
- Terrorism
- Taxation
- Automobile Industry
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Aboriginals
- Canadian Heritage
- International Cooperation
- Health
- Contraventions Act
- Criminal Code
- Supply
- Tlicho Land Claims and Self-Government Act
- Criminal Code
- Contraventions Act
- Message from the Senate
- Assistance to Hepatitis C Victims
Canada Account
Routine Proceedings
10 a.m.
Nova Scotia
Mark Eyking Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade (Emerging Markets)
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Minister of International Trade, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the Canada Account's annual report of 2002-03, prepared by EDC, Export Development Canada.
Export of Military Goods
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Nova Scotia
Mark Eyking Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade (Emerging Markets)
Mr. Speaker, I also have another report to table on the export of military goods from Canada, 2002.
Competition Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
New Brunswick
Andy Scott for the Minister of Industry
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-19, an act to amend the Competition Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
New Brunswick
Andy Scott Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-20, an act to provide for real property taxation powers of first nations, to create a First Nations Tax Commission, First Nations Financial Management Board, First Nations Finance Authority and First Nations Statistical Institute and to make consequential amendments to other acts.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, thousands of Canadians, because of no fault of their own, now possess unregistered firearms. Any individual who now tries to register a firearm is under threat of federal prosecution.
The petitioners are calling upon Parliament, the Department of Justice and the Government of Canada to call an immediate amnesty for all unregistered firearms or, in the absence of an amnesty, scrap the firearms registry completely.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
New Brunswick
Dominic LeBlanc Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
Is that agreed?
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Some hon. members
Take Note Debate
Routine Proceedings
November 2nd, 2004 / 10:05 a.m.
Karen Redman Kitchener Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, discussions have taken place among all parties concerning tonight's take note debate on hepatitis C and I believe you would find unanimous consent for the following motion:
That when the House begins the debate on Government Business No. 3 pursuant to Standing Order 53.1 later this day, no quorum calls, dilatory motions or requests for unanimous consent shall be entertained by the Speaker; and that if a member wishes to divide his or her speaking time, he or she may do so by indicating this to the Chair.
Take Note Debate
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker
The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
Take Note Debate
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Some hon. members
(Motion agreed to)
The House resumed from November 1 consideration of the motion.
Criminal Code
Government Orders
10:10 a.m.
Northumberland—Quinte West
Paul MacKlin Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, picking up from where I left off last evening, the second change that would enhance safety is the inclusion of those individuals found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder within the DNA data bank scheme. We currently have in the House Bill C-10 which proposes important changes to the provisions of the Criminal Code dealing with the mentally disordered offender.
While Parliament rightly does not submit persons who have a mental disorder conviction to imprisonment because of their diminished responsibility, we must remember that these persons have been found beyond a reasonable doubt to have done the act that constitutes the physical element of the offence. It is clear they may be very dangerous and so they are made subject to the jurisdiction of a provincial review board.
By making it possible for a judge to order that their DNA profiles be included in the DNA data bank, we may be solving crimes that they have committed in the past. As well, if they should be released and commit a crime where they leave their DNA, we will solve that crime.
Members should remember, however, that having their DNA in the data bank could be a benefit to a mentally disordered offender who has been released into the community. In the event of a crime similar to the one for which they were tried being committed near where they reside, they are likely to be suspects. However, if their DNA does not match the DNA from the crime scene, the police will know they were not involved and leave them undisturbed.
Another important change is creating a process for compelling the offender to attend at a specified time and place to provide a DNA sample. The current legislation requires that a DNA sample be taken at the time the person is convicted or as soon thereafter as is feasible. This has proven unworkable on the ground in some jurisdictions. The police cannot always have a trained officer attending at every court and so the courts have been ordering offenders to present themselves at the police station at a specified time. Unfortunately, this procedure was not foreseen by the Criminal Code so there is no express provision for issuing a warrant to arrest the person if he or she does not show up. Some offenders who should be in the data bank have not shown up and the police need the tools to make the court order effective.
Bill C-13 would permit a judge to make an order for the taking of a DNA sample at a time other than the imposing of the sentence. It also provides a warrant for the arrest of the person if the person fails to appear for that DNA sampling. As a result of consultations with the provinces, the warrant will be for the purpose of taking a sample rather than for the more usual arrest and bringing the offender back to the court that made the order. This means that an offender convicted in Toronto who skips and then is subsequently arrested in Vancouver will not have to be flown back at great expense to have the finger pricked for that test. The Vancouver police will be able to do it under the DNA data bank order.
While it is not known how many offenders have failed to show up, I understand this is a major concern for the police. We should move swiftly to fix this problem.
The most important changes proposed by Bill C-13 are the changes in the list of designated offences covered by the DNA data bank scheme. The list of designated offences is the lynchpin of this legislation. A DNA warrant can only be granted for a designated offence and the crime scene index only contains DNA found at the scene of or on the victim of a designated offence.
It is very important that the members of the House consider sending the legislation immediately to the committee so that we can put in place those issues that I have been outlining here today. They are of great concern to the police, the provinces and those of us in the House.
Criminal Code
Government Orders
10:15 a.m.
Kevin Sorenson Crowfoot, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to participate in the debate on Bill C-13. The purpose of the legislation before us today is to broaden the provisions governing the national DNA data bank.
In 1998, Bill C-3, an act representing DNA identification, was enacted. This legislation created a new statute governing the establishment and administration of a national DNA data bank and amended the Criminal Code to permit a judge to make a post-conviction DNA data bank order. These orders authorized the taking of bodily substances from a person found guilty of designated Criminal Code offences in order to include the offender's DNA profile in the national DNA data bank.
The DNA data bank, which was officially opened on July 5, 2000 here in Ottawa, is maintained by the RCMP.
The party that I represented at the time Bill C-3 was enacted was firmly committed to restoring confidence in our justice system by providing law enforcement agencies with the latest technological tools to quickly detect and apprehend criminals. We did not support Bill C-3 because we believed that it blatantly denied police the full use of the technology that was available at the time.
In 1998, there were literally hundreds of unsolved rapes and murders outstanding in the country. However, because Bill C-3 did not allow for the retroactive taking of samples from incarcerated criminals, other than designated dangerous offenders, multiple sex offenders and multiple murderers, these cases remained unsolved.
Fortunately, Bill C-13, the bill before us today, does expand the retroactive provisions for DNA sample collection orders.
If enacted, Bill C-13 will allow judges to order that DNA be taken from anyone convicted of one murder and one sexual offence committed at different times before the DNA data bank legislation came into force.
To illustrate the importance of DNA technology, especially involving old murder cases, and to encourage the government to expand the list of designated offenders from which retroactive samples can be taken, I would like to read a portion of an article that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on July 15, 2004. It states:
Sometime in the early hours of Aug. 27, 1991, Richard Mark Eastman broke into the Mississauga apartment of Muriel Holland...a 63-year-old former playright and model.
Eastman, 48, raped and strangled Holland while her 95-year-old father slept in the next room. Although Peel Region police obtained a partial thumbprint and a DNA sample from the crime scene, their investigation into this brutal attack led nowhere for a decade.
The key break in this cold case would have to wait until after June 30, 2000. Then, after years of debate and false starts, parliament proclaimed a bill that would create a national DNA data bank.
The article went on to state:
Peel Region investigators didn't know it at the time, but the timing of the bill meant they were involved in what would become a landmark case. They sent a DNA sample from Holland's rapist to the new data bank on Nov. 28, 2000. The sample was stored in a database that indexes DNA evidence obtained, but not yet identified, at crime scenes.
Separately, the DNA data bank maintains profiles of serious criminal offenders. A sample from Eastman, who had been convicted in 1995 of sexual assault, was forwarded to the data bank on May 4, 2001. Within hours, data bank scientists matched Eastman's DNA profile to the Holland case.
Two days later, Peel Region police charged Eastman with murder--making this the first homicide case that emerged as a result of a cross-match between the two main databases in Canada's DNA data bank.
I would like to point out that there would have been many more matches if in 1998 the Liberals had seen the wisdom in expanding the retroactive provisions for the DNA collection orders as recommended by our party and as recommended by the Canadian Police Association.
The Canadian Police Association recommended the list of convicted offenders, from which retroactive samples could be taken, be greatly expanded.
The CPA, with our full support, also strongly advised that DNA samples be taken at the time of arrest as opposed to the time of conviction to prevent potentially dangerous offenders from fleeing before their court date.
The CPA also expressed concern about a provision within Bill C-3, which allowed judges to exempt offenders from having a DNA sample taken if the judge believed that it would impact an individual's privacy and security.
This unnecessary and dangerous exemption has not been removed under the new legislation, nor have the other issues raised by the police officers all across the country. Those issues similarly have not been addressed in the legislation.
I would therefore suggest that the concerns raised by the Canadian police in 1998 should be raised again. Their concerns I am sure will be nothing more than dismissed by the Liberal justice minister.
On a final matter, I have serious concerns that the legislation does not address the backlog within the RCMP evidence recovery units.
In August 2003, I received some information, which I relayed to the then solicitor general, regarding the closure of the RCMP recovery units in Regina and Edmonton at the end of 2004, as well as the closure of the Halifax unit in March 2005. I expressed my concerns about these closures because of the serious and detrimental effect these closures would have on the timely examination of criminal evidence, especially DNA. My concern was based on the evaluation of the auditor general regarding the large case backlog within the RCMP laboratory system.
Since 1997, the RCMP forensic laboratories have been undergoing changes with the introduction of the DNA technology. Limited funding, insufficient resources and an increased workload due to this new technology resulted in a backlog in 2001 of 900 cases requiring DNA examination being stalled. This backlog prompted the auditor general to recommend a reorganization in order to gain increased efficiencies.
Unfortunately, the Liberal government took this to mean the closure and centralization of evidence recovery units, which will, in my opinion, complicate the process not ease the backlog.
My concerns, although never properly addressed by the solicitor general, were confirmed by a news article in the National Post on October 9, 2003 which read:
Joe Buckle, the RCMP's assistant commissioner in charge of forensic laboratory services...acknowledged, however, that the RCMP's forensic labs have not received a funding increase in the past five years.
Moreover, he did not dispute that in the first eight months of this year, 74% of the RCMP's most serious DNA cases failed to meet the Mounties' own 15-day analysis deadline.
Scientists familiar with the RCMP's six forensic labs paint a much different picture. They say the lab system is in such disarray, and the DNA case backlogs so overwhelming, that serious criminal investigations involving homicide, sexual assault and threats to national security have been delayed for months at a time, potentially jeopardizing the chances of arrests and convictions.
In closing, I reiterate that we need proper funding. Without better funding and better resources for the RCMP, the forensic labs and police agencies, we are in dire straits. We also need to make sure that we have the ability to bring forward the proper amendments that Bill C-13 needs.
Canada has to restore confidence in our justice system. We have to be able to give the resources to the police agencies. We have to build confidence that we do have a justice system that works. Unless we can make some amendments to the bill, the confidence will not be restored.
When the bill does go to committee I encourage the government to look at some very serious, workable amendments that would make the bill a better bill.
Criminal Code
Government Orders
10:25 a.m.
Richard Marceau Charlesbourg, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak today on Bill C-13, which has been introduced by the government. In this day and age, political discourse is often focused on the respect of human rights and freedoms, and I agree with that. We have taken part in some debates that illustrate this, the one on same sex marriage in particular.
It is also important to note that individual rights encompass individual security. In a society based on rule of law, such as ours, the right to personal security is essential. If this is to be more than merely theoretical, and to exist in reality, it is important to provide law enforcement bodies with the tools necessary to fight the crime that so often harms our communities.
The Bloc Québécois will be supporting Bill C-13. We feel that it will provide police officers with more effective investigative tools, which should permit them to resolve more crimes.
Members have examined this bill with care and will have realized that it makes some rather technical amendments to legislation already in place. When the bill is examined in committee, the Bloc Québécois will ensure that the changes proposed represent real improvements to the existing system of DNA testing. In addition, the Bloc Québécois will ensure that the RCMP has the funds to accommodate the expansion of the DNA bank this bill will bring about.
To make a small aside, it is all very fine to announce measures, measures we support, but there must be money attached to them. As hon. members are aware, the RCMP has decided—for financial reasons, or so we are told—to close detachments in numerous locations in Quebec. There has been much opposition to this, from mayors, municipal counsellors and reeves, backed up of course, as is only natural, by myself and my colleagues in the Bloc Québécois.
It does not, therefore, make any sense to talk of increasing the responsibilities, as well as the operating costs, of a police force, the RCMP, while making cuts here and there, including cutting police detachments scattered outside the urban centres.
And so I hope the government will reverse its decision to close these detachments. I believe my hon. colleague's riding of Joliette is affected by the RCMP detachment closures. I know that the mayor, municipal officials and prefect have made him aware of the situation. It is the same in Saint-Hyacinthe. I hope the RCMP will reverse its decision. If it wants to fight crime effectively, the force must be present throughout the area.
Having finished my aside, I return to Bill C-13, which takes up for the most part the provisions of Bill C-35 from the last legislature, the bill to which the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice has referred.
Bill C-13 amends the provisions in the Criminal Code respecting the taking of bodily substances for forensic DNA analysis and the inclusion of DNA profiles in the national DNA data bank. It also makes related amendments to the DNA Identification Act and National Defence Act.
I have five minutes left. That is a very short time to address such a technical bill. That is why we are going to examine it very seriously in committee.
Bill C-13 makes other amendments, which ought at least to be listed in the parliamentary record of debates. It adds offences to the list of designated offences in the Criminal Code for which a judge is required to make an order for the collection of a DNA sample from the offender, unless the offender can convince the court otherwise.
It adds offences to the list of designated offences for which an order for the collection of a DNA sample can be made if the prosecutor so requests and the court agrees.
It provides for the making of DNA data bank orders against a person whohas committed a designated offence but who was found not criminallyresponsible by reason of mental disorder. This ties in somewhat with the subject matter of Bill C-10, which we are also working on.
It creates new provisions for the making of DNA data bank orders against a person who committed one murder and one sexual offence at different times before June 30, 2000, when the legislation on the DNA data bank came into force.
It provides for the review of defective DNA data bank orders and for the destruction of the bodily substances taken under them.
It allows the destruction ofthe bodily substances of offenders who are finally acquitted of a designated offence.
It compels offenders to appear at a certain time and place to provide a DNA sample.
It allows for a DNA data bank order to be made after sentencing.
Finally, it makes related amendments to the National Defence Act to ensure that the military justice system remains consistent with the civilian justice system.
So, this bill proposes many things. I must say that we are somewhat uncomfortable with the retroactive provisions included in this legislation and we hope they will dissipate with the review in committee. Obviously, any retroactive provision, particularly in the criminal justice area, raises serious issues relating to rights and freedoms and to the charters, whether it is the Quebec or Canadian one. In this regard, we are anxious to hear the witnesses and experts, who will tell us whether the bill does indeed respect the charters.
We also wonder why the bill adds participation in the activities of a criminal organization to the list of secondary designated offences, that is to the list of offences for which the taking of a DNA sampling is not mandatory, but optional. We wonder why such offences were not included in the list of primary designated offences. This is an issue on which we want to get an answer as quickly as possible.
All to say this is a very technical bill and it requires a thorough study of its provisions. At this stage, the Bloc Québécois supports its referral to a committee. We will work very seriously, as we always do, to ensure that, on the one hand, enforcement agencies have the necessary tools to fight effectively criminal activities in which the public is all too often the victim, and, on the other hand—and this is important in a society such as ours—to ensure that the rights and freedoms of the accused are respected. As I said earlier, the whole issue of retroactivity will also have to be thoroughly examined.


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Remember When?
Gene Watson Gallery
This picture, which hung in the office of the late Dr. Otto S. Hult, for many years shows the first-grade class of 1907 at the First Ward School, which was located on the south east corner of Fifth Street and Wisconsin Ave. in Gladstone. Hattie (Beneshek) Hupy was the teacher. Dr. Hult identified the students are: (first row of students from front to back) Ralph and Charles Pelkey, a Potvin and unidentified; Joe Anderson, Art Johnson, Evelyn Swanson and Ellen Lillquist, Otto Hult, and Clyde Cole, two unidentified girls, and August DeGrave and Charles DeGroat. Among those in the row next to the teacher are: Floyd Olson, Walter Swanson, Lydia Broeckaert, Amy Sigfried, Phil Richel, Walter Hubert, Flora Hubert, Maggie Lewis, Carl Haglund and Al Soderman.
Anyone with an interesting old photograph of local interest may submit it for publication. Although care will be taken with the historical item, the newspaper cannot guarantee its safety or return. It is recommended that a commercial copy of the print be made (not a photocopy). Send or drop off photos, including all information about them, to Daily Press Lifestyles Department, "Remember When?" 600 Ludington St. Escanaba, MI 49829.


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When tornadoes or other disasters strike, this amateur radio hobbyists springs into action.
BRANDON BYRD, 10, slowly turns the dial on the amateur radio in his grandparents� home in Gulfport, Miss., as he searches for an open frequency. �This is KF5NYQ,� says Brandon, speaking into the microphone and identifying himself with his call sign.
�I like talking to the other amateur radio guys, and I really like it when I can contact a new country,� says Brandon, who earned his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license at age 8 and is the youngest in his family of four generations of amateur radio operators. The fourth-grader has logged communication with people in more than 120 countries.
Brandon and his grandparents, Ed and Betty Jo Byrd, are among more than 700,000 amateur radio operators in the United States. Not only do they have fun talking with people worldwide and competing to see who can contact the most countries, but they also enjoy using their �ham radio� hobby to serve the nation.
In the first hours or even days after a natural disaster when power and phone lines are down, two-way amateur radio often is the only way to communicate, as was the case when Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast in 2005. �All the cell phones were dead. The only ones with communication were fire and police departments,� says Ed Byrd, 63. Within two years after the Katrina tragedy, the Byrds had helped train 1,500 people, including staff at 16 hospitals, as licensed amateur radio operators, known informally as �hams.�
Volunteers on Call
Practicing their radio skills, which can involve evaluating the atmosphere and weather conditions to determine how much wattage is needed, keeps the operators sharp for contests and public service.
Many hams belong to the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, which works with disaster- relief organizations such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross. Hams also volunteer as trained weather spotters for the National Weather Service�s Skywarn network.
�We don�t chase tornadoes, but we sit on the ground and report over the ham bands to the National Weather Service,� says Jack Sovik, 62, of Youngstown, Ohio. Field reports of funnel clouds by Skywarn spotters help the weather service issue timely warnings that save lives.
When one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history struck Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, Skywarn spotters had been monitoring the storm for hours. Caleb Burns, 27, was coordinating the spotters by computer in nearby Springfield, Mo. �I took a call [by radio] and I�ll never forget the scared voice,� Burns says. �Someone said, �This is Freeman Hospital. Can anyone hear me? We�re in trouble.��
When Burns replied, the hospital employee reported that nearby St. John�s Regional Medical Center had taken a direct hit from the tornado. Patients were being evacuated to Freeman Hospital. �He said, �We�re doing triage in the parking lot.� He needed to know how many patients our hospitals in Springfield could take.��
Burns called Springfield hospitals and transmitted the information to a Freeman employee. Hams, including Andrew Brashers, Steve Palmer and Patti Flowers-Palmer, rushed to the hospitals to set up emergency radio stations. Hospital staff in Joplin used portable ham radios in cars to talk directly to Springfield doctors to make arrangements to transport injured patients and to order crucial medical supplies.
�The phone lines were shut down because of overload, both the cell and land,� says Steve Palmer, 50. �In the first 12 hours, there was no other way for hospitals to communicate.�
A Century of Hamming
In 1912, the U.S. government began issuing licenses to thousands of electronics trailblazers who experimented with the new wireless telegraphy. Two years later, industrialist Hiram Percy Maxim founded the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Newington, Conn., to promote the art, science and enjoyment of amateur radio.
A growing number of hams are being attracted to the airwaves a century later. Last year, a record 717,201 Americans were licensed amateur radio operators, up from 662,600 in 2005. A written exam must be passed to obtain an FCC license and to transmit on radio
frequency bands reserved for amateurs, as opposed to commercial operators.
Tinkering with hands-on gadgetry attracted Kevin O�Dell, 56, of Perry, Okla. When he was in the ninth grade, he learned Morse code so he could get his ham license. Although Perry still knows how to tap dots and dashes that represent letters of the alphabet, today he usually talks over his ham radio.
�Last night I was updating software in my computer that attaches to my radio and I made contact with a gentleman in Helsinki, Finland,� O�Dell says. Soon, he was exchanging small talk in English, the universal language for hams. �It�s kind of like fishing,� O�Dell says. �You don�t really know what you�re going to land and that�s exciting. You never know who�s on the other end.�This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't.
In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice–and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Child.
Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.
Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Mark's plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tell–and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: They're all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed.
In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, it's a mystery with only one answer–the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.
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Lee Child is the author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader , The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way , and #1 bestsellers Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his fourteenth Jack Reacher thriller .Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
Chapter One
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.
Israeli counterintelligence wrote the defensive playbook. They told us what to look for. They used pragmatic observation and psychological insight and came up with a list of behavioral indicators. I learned the list from an Israeli amy captain twenty years ago. He swore by it. Therefore I swore by it too, because at the time I was on three weeks' detached duty mostly about a yard from his shoulder, in Israel itself, in Jerusalem, on the West Bank, in Leb anon, sometimes in Syria, sometimes in Jordan, on buses, in stores, on crowded sidewalks. I kept my eyes moving and my mind running free down the bullet points.
Twenty years later I still know the list. And my eyes still move. Pure habit. From another bunch of guys I learned another mantra: Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive.
The list is twelve points long if you're looking at a male suspect. Eleven, if you're looking at a woman. The difference is a fresh shave. Male bombers take off their beards. It helps them blend in. Makes them less suspicious. The result is paler skin on the lower half of the face. No recent exposure to the sun.
But I wasn't interested in shaves.
I was working on the eleven-point list.
I was looking at a woman.
I was riding the subway, in New York City. The 6 train, the Lexington Avenue local, heading uptown, two o'clock in the morning. I had gotten on at Bleecker Street from the south end of the platform into a car that was empty except for five people. Subway cars feel small and intimate when they're full. When they're empty they feel vast and cavernous and lonely. At night their lights feel hotter and brighter, even though they're the same lights they use in the day. They're all the lights there are. I was sprawled on a two-person bench north of the end doors on the track side of the car. The other five passengers were all south of me on the long bench seats, in profile, side on, far from each other, staring blankly across the width of the car, three on the left and two on the right.
The car's number was 7622. I once rode eight stops on the 6 train next to a crazy person who talked about the car we were in with the same kind of enthusiasm that most men reserve for sports or women. Therefore I knew that car number 7622 was an R142A model, the newest on the New York system, built by Kawasaki in Kobe, Japan, shipped over, trucked to the 207th Street yards, craned onto the tracks, towed down to 180th Street and tested. I knew it could run two hundred thousand miles without major attention. I knew its automated announcement system gave instructions in a man's voice and information in a woman's, which was claimed to be a coincidence but was really because the transportation chiefs believed such a division of labor was psychologically compelling. I knew the voices came from Bloomberg TV, but years before Mike became mayor. I knew there were six hundred R142As on the tracks and that each one was a fraction over fifty-one feet long and a little more than eight feet wide. I knew that the no-cab unit like we had been in then and I was in now had been designed to carry a maximum of forty people seated and up to 148 standing. The crazy person had been clear on all that data. I could see for myself that the car's seats were blue plastic, the same shade as a late summer sky or a British Air Force uniform. I could see that its wall panels were molded from graffiti-resistant fiberglass. I could see its twin strips of advertisements running away from me where the wall panels met the roof. I could see small cheerful posters touting television shows and language instruction and easy college degrees and major earning opportunities.
I could see a police notice advising me: If you see something, say something.
The nearest passenger to me was a Hispanic woman. She was across the car from me, on my left, forward of the first set of doors, all alone on a bench built for eight, well off center. She was small, somewhere between thirty and fifty, and she looked very hot and very tired. She had a well-worn supermarket bag looped over her wrist and she was staring across at the empty place opposite with eyes too weary to be seeing much.
Next up was a man on the other side, maybe four feet farther down the car. He was all alone on his own eight-person bench. He could have been from the Balkans, or the Black Sea. Dark hair, lined skin. He was sinewy, worn down by work and weather. He had his feet planted and he was leaning forward with his elbows on his knees. Not asleep, but close to it. Suspended animation, marking time, rocking with the movements of the train. He was about fifty, dressed in clothes far too young for him. Baggy jeans that reached only his calves, and an oversized NBA shirt with a player's name on it that I didn't recognize.
Third up was a woman who might have been West African. She was on the left, south of the center doors. Tired, inert, her black skin made dusty and gray by fatigue and the lights. She was wearing a colorful batik dress with a matching square of cloth tied over her hair. Her eyes were closed. I know New York reasonably well. I call myself a citizen of the world and New York the capital of the world, so I can make sense of the city the same way a Brit knows London or a Frenchman knows Paris. I'm familiar but not intimate with its habits. But it was an easy guess that any three people like these already seated on a late-night northbound 6 train south of Bleecker were office cleaners heading home from evening shifts around City Hall, or restaurant service workers from Chinatown or Little Italy. They were probably set for Hunts Point in the Bronx, or maybe all the way up to Pelham Bay, ready for short fitful sleeps before more long days.
The fourth and the fifth passengers were different.
The fifth was a man. He was maybe my age, wedged at forty-five degrees on the two-person bench diagonally opposite me, all the way across and down the length of the car. He was dressed casually but not cheaply. Chinos, and a golf shirt. He was awake. His eyes were fixed somewhere in front of him. Their focus changed and narrowed constantly, like he was alert and speculating. They reminded me of a ballplayer's eyes. They had a certain canny, calculating shrewdness in them.
But it was passenger number four that I was looking at.
If you see something, say something.
She was seated on the right side of the car, all alone on the farther eight-person bench, across from and about halfway between the exhausted West African woman and the guy with the ball player's eyes. She was white and probably in her forties. She was plain. She had black hair, neatly but unstylishly cut and too uniformly dark to be natural. She was dressed all in black. I could see her fairly well. The guy nearest to me on the right was still sitting forward and the V-shaped void between his bent back and the wall of the car made my line of sight uninterrupted except for a forest of stainless-steel grab bars.
Not a perfect view, but good enough to ring every bell on the eleven-point list. The bullet headings lit up like cherries on a Vegas machine.
According to Israeli counterintelligence I was looking at a suicide bomber.
Chapter Two
I dismissed the thought immediately. Not because of racial profiling. White women are as capable of craziness as anyone else. I dismissed the thought because of tactical implausibility. The timing was wrong. The New York subway would make a fine target for a suicide bombing. The 6 train would be as good as any other and better than most. It stops under Grand Central Terminal. Eight in the morning, six at night, a crowded car, forty seated, 148 standing, wait until the doors open on packed platforms, push the button. A hundred dead, a couple of hundred grievously injured, panic, infrastructure damage, possibly fire, a major transportation hub shut down for days or weeks and maybe never really trusted again. A significant score, for people whose heads work in ways we can't quite understand.
But not at two o'clock in the morning.
Not in a car holding just six people. Not when Grand Central's subway platforms would hold only drifting trash and empty cups and a couple of old homeless guys on benches.
The train stopped at Astor Place. The doors hissed open. No one got on. No one got off. The doors thumped shut again and the motors whined and the train moved on.
The bullet points stayed lit up.
The first was the obvious no-brainer: inappropriate clothing. By now explosive belts are as evolved as baseball gloves. Take a three-foot by two-foot sheet of heavy canvas, fold once longitudinally, and you have a continuous pocket a foot deep. Wrap the pocket around the bomber, and sew it together in back. Zippers or snaps can lead to second thoughts. Insert a stockade of dynamite sticks into the pocket all the way around, wire them up, pack nails or ball bearings into the voids, sew the top seam shut, add crude shoulder straps to take the weight. Altogether effective, but altogether bulky. The only practical concealment, an oversized garment like a padded winter parka. Never appropriate in the Middle East, and plausible in New York maybe three months in twelve.
But this was September, and it was as hot as summer, and ten degrees hotter underground. I was wearing a T-shirt. Passenger number four was wearing a North Face down jacket, black, puffy, shiny, a little too large and zipped to her chin.
If you see something, say something.
I took a pass on the second of the eleven points. Not immediately applicable. The second point is: a robotic walk. Significant at a checkpoint or in a crowded marketplace or outside a church or a mosque, but not relevant with a seated suspect on public transportation. Bombers walk robotically not because they're overcome with ecstasy at the thought ...
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Course of Study
Students must earn 32 credits and complete a culminating project to earn the M.A. in the Education of Gifted Students. The course of study consists of courses in the following areas:
The Nature of Giftedness
Courses in this area focus on the nature of giftedness and intelligence and include an advanced seminar that deals with topical issues in gifted education. There are three required courses and one elective course dealing with the education of young gifted students.
Teaching Gifted Students
Three required courses focus on pedagogical issues in gifted education, including curriculum differentiation, instructional models, and program planning.
Out of-program Courses
Depending on how many credits a student accrues in the previous two areas, students take 9 to 16 credits of coursework in programs outside the Program in the Education of Gifted Students. These courses are chosen in consultation with the academic advisor with the goal of addressing gaps in the student's professional education and constituting a coherent course of study.
The Culminating Project
The Nature of Giftedness (6 -12 credits)
Required Courses:
C&T 4021 Nature and Needs of Gifted Students (2-3)
C&T 4026 Giftedness and Intelligence: Theoretical Approaches (2-3)
C&T 5506 Advanced Seminar: Giftedness (3)
Elective Courses:
C&T 4025 Nurturing Talents & Gifts during the Early Childhood Years (2-3)
Teaching Gifted Students (6 - 9 credits)
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C&T 4023 Differentiated Curriculum for Gifted Students (2-3)
C&T 4022 Instructional Models in the Education of Gifted Students (1-3)
C&T 4024 Planning and Implementing Programs for Gifted Students (3)
Out-Of-Program Requirements (8 - 17 credits)
Additional courses to be determined in consultation with your advisor.
Field Placement (3 credits)
C&T 4702 Observation and Student Teaching: Gifted (3)
C&T 5302 Advanced Practicum: Gifted (3)
Culminating Project (0 credits)
Completion of the Professional-development Portfolio.
Your culminating project for the M.A. in Gifted Education for in-service students will consist of a professional-development portfolio. This portfolio will document your professional growth as an educator over a period of time of your choosing but which must include the period in which you are a student at Teachers College. You will be responsible for designing, compiling, managing, and submitting the portfolio to me as a requirement for graduation. To complete the project, you must do the following:
1. Review the literature on professional-development portfolios. Based on your review, write a short (3-4 pages) paper discussing the rationale and implementation of such portfolios.
2. Design your own portfolio and submit the plan to me.
3. Maintain your portfolio. It could contain a number of things, including, but not limited to:
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- Papers
- Photographs
- Lesson Plans
- Journals
4. There must be a separate section devoted to your Advanced Practicum (C&T 5302). Describe your practicum and discuss how it has affected your teaching or your plans for your teaching.
5. The last item in your portfolio should be a reflective paper (5-6 pages at most) that summarizes, analyzes, and reflects upon your professional development. It should also address the issue of how you plan to be a life-long learner as an educational professional.
If you have any questions about this requirement, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ernest Bartolameolli
IRON MOUNTAIN – Ernest Bartolameolli "Ernie Bart" has found his way home to the great camp in the sky where he will be greeted by many family members and friends who are awaiting his famous rabbit and polenta dinners. Ernie was 92 and passed away very peacefully on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, surrounded by his loving wife and children and special friend Dennis.
He was born on Aug. 15, 1920, to Amadeo and Kathryn (Fedrizzi) Bartolameolli. He was preceded in death by his parents, and all of his siblings, Gaeno, Guido, Jolo, Minnie Simmons, Linda Weiser, and an infant sister, Mary.
He graduated from high school in 1938 and attended technical training in Ironwood. Following his return, he worked for Ford Motor Co. and then became the custodian for Amidon Elementary School, where he stayed until his retirement in 1982. Ernie was an integral part of the "Amidon Team" and in fact, Principal Peter Vanlaanen wrote his master's thesis about the unique role Ernie played at the school, finding himself wiping runny noses, bandaging bruised legs, knowing the children by name, breaking up fights on the playground, walking kindergarten classes to his wonderful wife Clarine for juice breaks or mini field trips, assisting teachers and becoming a close personal friend to all the faculty and staff.
Ernie developed a special friendship with Dennis (Sue) Veale, who met Ernie on his first day teaching at Amidon. Dennis has remained a close family friend and became a surrogate son to both Clarine and Ernie.
Ernie married his wonderful and loving wife Clarine (Paquin) in February 1945. The two spent 68 years together in Iron Mountain, with Clarine providing years of TLC and always "standing by her man."
In addition to Clarine, Ernie leaves his special caregiving daughter and son-in-law, Julie and Danny Poeschel; a son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Sharon; two grandchildren, Tracey (Don) and Steven (Amy); and a great-grandson, Logan Kaminski.
He also has one surviving sister-in-law, Vera (Jolo) Bartolameolli; a cousin, Lu (Specs) Bartolameolli; two nephews; and two nieces.
Ernie's favorite things in life were weekends at Camp Stahav, rabbit hunting, running his beloved beagles, fishing, playing mota, and fancying himself the best smear player east of the Mississippi.
In his later years – with his health failing and Clarine wearing out as his caregiver – his personality remained quite tart and colorful. He was fortunate to find the Hyland Nursing Home Team who adopted him as the "resident character" and accepted his self-designed language (Ernie Speak) with a smile and plenty of TLC.
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From 2003-09, Peyton Manning and Dallas Clark formed one of the most prolific QB/TE combinations in NFL history. The 44 touchdown passes that Manning threw to Clark were second only to the 45 that Drew Bledsoe tossed to Ben Coates, and from 2007-09 the pair was good for 235 completions, 2,570 yards and 27 scores.
The two might have gone right on racking up such unprecedented numbers if injuries hadn't intervened. It started with Clark's season-ending wrist injury just six games (and another 37 catches and three scores) into the 2010 campaign, which followed his groundbreaking 100-catch effort in 2009. And it ended – "it" being the NFL partnership of Manning and Clark – when the quarterback's neck injury led to him missing the 2011 campaign. The Colts chose to move on, releasing Manning and drafting Andrew Luck, and Clark was one of a handful of accompanying veterans that was let go.
Now Manning is a Bronco and Clark is a Buccaneer, and they're both doing quite well. While he hasn't had much time to dwell on it yet, Clark knows that his years in that shared groove with Manning constituted a one-of-a-kind experience.
"It's something special," he admitted. "It's unique and it's definitely something that, as you continue to play and down the road when you're done playing, it's one of those things that will be something you'll look back on and realize how special the situation was that we had."
Some thought that the Broncos would try to reunite Manning and Clark in Denver, but they went with another ex-Colt, Jacob Tamme, instead. Still, the two former Colts will get a chance to catch up this Sunday when Clark's Buccaneers visit Sports Authority Field to take on Manning and company. It's a big challenge for the playoff-seeking Buccaneers and Manning, who is third in the NFL with a 104.8 passer rating, is one of the main reasons why. It hasn't take Manning long to get comfortable in Denver, and to begin running the Broncos offense with the same total control he had in Indy. Clark isn't at all surprised to see his former quarterback making such a swift rebound from his serious neck injuries.
"I would never bet against him on his determination with his rehab," said Clark. "Just being around and seeing all of the hard work that he was putting in, you knew he was going to surprise a lot of people. He definitely gave great commitment and dedication to getting back, and everything that you have to do to overcome an injury as an athlete. He did that, and did a great job of putting himself in a position to come out and perform the way he wants to."
Clark also knows that some of his current defensive teammates will be looking to him for clues as to how to defend Manning, but he doesn't think he'll be too much help in that regard. In fact, he would counsel his fellow Bucs to focus on their own preparations and treat this matchup like any other.
"I've been on a team where we've played other ex-teammates," said Clark. "You find a lot of teams try to play the game of…if you give them a few code words or if you give them a few things here or there then that's all they're looking for and they're forgetting to play football. The main thing I tell them is, just play your game. Play the scheme, play everything else and just play hard."
Of course, Clark wouldn't expect any information he had from his time with Manning to be of much use anyway. Manning is legendary for playing a mental game with the opposing defense at the line of scrimmage, trying to be the last one to react to the other team's adjustments.
"There's not much you can do, because he's got ways to kind of fool you," said Clark. "It's not worth trying to give them this and that, code words or whatever. Besides, he's in Denver now and who knows what they're running and the code words and all of that. If he was in Indy, it would be a little bit different, but I don't know what they're doing in Denver."


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Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College buys former BCMH building
L'ANSE – The Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College has officially purchased the former Baraga County Memorial Hospital building in L'Anse to use as its east campus.
The building has been vacant since the new hospital opened on U.S. 41 in June 2011, and voters twice turned down countywide ballot initiatives to transfer county courthouse functions to the location. The KBOCC expressed interest last year and, after waiting months for environmental assessments to be completed and paperwork to be finalized, the deed was signed and the building purchased for $1 on April 16.
"It's a miracle," said BCMH Chief Executive Officer Tim Zwickey, who said the hospital has had to pay about $10,000 per month to heat the old building. "It's really good for us and it will be a really good thing for the community and the tribal college. … I thought it would happen, but until those documents are signed, you never know."
KBOCC had hoped to begin renovation in January and be open in September, but a three-phase, three-year renovation plan will begin now and part of the facility will open in early 2014.
"It's been several months we've been waiting (for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality indoor air quality and hazardous material assessments, and a building inspection), and we thought we'd be able to get in the facility this fall, but we won't be able to relocate anything there until January," KBOCC President Debbie Parrish said. "I'm very excited about this, the new campus and what's going on with the college."
KBOCC has secured about $2 million in grant funding over five years, with $875,000 in Department of Education funding going into the first phase of construction. That will include installing a new heating and cooling system by Bianco Heating and Plumbing. Gundlach-Champion will serve as the general contractor.
Other renovations will also include developing nine classrooms, using the former patient rooms as offices and creating a new library, entrepreneurial center and wellness center. A distance learning program and video conferencing will be part of the final phase of renovations in 2015.
A house across Main Street, which was previously occupied by doctors Pete Carmody and Alin Sora, will house the OCC Child Care Center for students attending afternoon/evening classes.
The industrial kitchen remaining in the building will be used as a cafeteria and will likely be the hub of culinary arts classes, which, along with a federal certified nursing assistant program, need to be approved by the Board of Regents.
KBOCC still plans to use the four facilities it is now divided between, but having one large campus building will aid the college's accreditation process through the North Central Association.
"During a recent accreditation visit (in November) it was noted our facility here was not adequate because we had a lot of shared office space," Parrish said. "This will help us with our accreditation space for the students, faculty and staff."
Another NCA higher learning commission visit is slated for May 7, and the college's board of regents will likely take official action on accreditation and perhaps new programs at its June meeting.
KBOCC will hold its spring commencement exercises at 1 p.m. today at the KBOCC Gymnasium. Six students will be receiving two-year degrees in either environmental science or liberal studies.


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U.S. Women Set Roster for World Championship
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 26, 2010) - The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team has announced its 14-player roster for the FIVB Women's World Championship that will take place Oct. 29 to Nov. 14. The FIVB World Championship is held every four years in the second year of the Olympic quadrennial.
U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) has selected outside hitters Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.), Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) and Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) for the World Championship roster. Middle blockers named to the squad are Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.). Among the opposites on the roster are Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) and Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.). Setters are Lindsey Berg (Honolulu, Hawaii) and Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.). Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) are the liberos.
"There were some extremely difficult decisions to make in selecting the final World Championship roster," McCutcheon said. "We've now developed some depth across all positions and, as a result, it's been a very competitive training block. It was tough to determine the final 14, but we think we have selected the best team we can to represent our country at these World Championships. We are excited to go to Japan and compete."
The World Championship roster is very similar to the USA's 14-player roster that captured the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix gold medal in August. The only changes are Berg for Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) at setter and Metcalf for Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) at opposite. Both Spicer and Fawcett were on the World Championship preliminary roster.
The final 14-player World Championship roster was turned into the FIVB World Championship control committee at the preliminary inquiry today (Oct. 27 in Japan).
Seven of the players – Barboza, Bown, Davis, Metcalf, Sykora, Tamas and Tom – have previous World Championship experience. Eight players have Olympic Games experience including Berg, Bown, Davis, Metcalf, Nnamani, Sykora, Tamas and Tom.
The FIVB World Championship first round has six teams in four pools playing a round-robin schedule with the top four teams in each pool advancing to the second round for crossover play. The U.S. is grouped in Pool C at Matsumoto with Cuba, Germany, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Croatia. In the second round, Pool C crosses over with Pool B (Brazil, Italy, Netherlands, Kenya, Puerto Rico and Czech Republic) to form Pool F in Nagoya. The semifinals and finals will be played in Tokyo on Nov. 13-14.
The Americans open the FIVB World Championship against Thailand on Oct. 29 at 4:15 p.m. Japan Time (12:15 a.m. Pacific Time). The U.S. challenges Croatia on Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. Japan Time (9 p.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 29) and Germany on Oct. 31 at 6 p.m. Japan Time (2 a.m. Pacific Time) before an off day. Pool C concludes with the U.S. facing Kazakhstan on Nov. 2 at 6:45 p.m. Japan Time (2:45 a.m. Pacific Time) and NORCECA rival Cuba on Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. Japan Time (2 a.m. Pacific Time).
Other first-round groups include host Japan, Serbia, Poland, Peru, Algeria and Costa Rica in Pool A and China, Russia, Korea, Dominican Republic, Turkey and Canada in Pool D.
According to the FIVB World Ranking released on Aug. 30, the U.S. is ranked second in the world behind top-ranked Brazil. The Americans' first-round pool has No. 6 Cuba, No. 12 Thailand, No. 15 Germany, No. 16 Kazakhstan and No. 45 Croatia.
Based on the current world ranking, Pool A is the toughest with an average ranking 14.0. Despite top-ranked Brazil in its group, Pool B has the lowest combined world ranking (16.83) of the four first-round groups. USA's Pool C has an average world ranking of 16.0, while Pool D has a ranking of 14.67.
The U.S. will leave for Japan on Oct. 21 and train in the city of Shiga leading up to the start of the World Championship. Team USA will scrimmage Toray, reigning champion of the Japanese V-League, on Oct. 26 before leaving for Matsumoto. Barboza played for Toray last season.
A total of 96 teams took part in the continental qualifying rounds for the FIVB World Championship. Among the 96 teams, 22 countries advanced to the Final Round in Japan. The 22 qualified teams, in addition to defending champion Russia and the host Japan, will compete for this year's title.
The Americans qualified for the FIVB World Championship by winning the FIVB World Championship NORCECA Pool G Qualification Tournament held July 6-8, 2009, in Orlando, Fla. Team USA swept Netherlands Antilles, Barbados and Costa Rica in the third-round qualification event.
The U.S. Women's National Team holds a 21-9 record in 2010 with three podium finishes, highlighted by winning the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix held Aug. 6-29. Earlier this year the Americans earned the silver medal at the Montreux Volley Masters and the bronze at the Pan American Cup.
The U.S., currently ranked second in the world by the FIVB, has medaled at the FIVB World Championship four times. Team USA earned the silver medal at the 2002 World Championship in Berlin and the 1967 World Championship in Tokyo. The Americans captured the bronze in the 1990 World Championship in Beijing and the 1982 World Championship in Lima, Peru.
At the most recent FIVB World Championship held in Japan in 2006, the U.S. finished in a disappointing ninth place.
In its most recent tournament, the U.S. Women's National Team captured the 18th FIVB World Grand Prix title with a 5-0 record in the Final Round following its sweep of Japan on Aug. 29. Earlier, the U.S. defeated Poland, Italy, Brazil and China in the Final Round.
USA middle blocker Akinradewo was named the Most Valuable Player and Best Blocker at the 18th FIVB World Grand Prix, while Glass earned Best Setter for the event that took place Aug. 25-29 at Ningbo, China.
During the FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round, Akinradewo averaged 1.47 blocks per set with 28 blocks to earn the Best Blocker Award. She out-distanced the second-best blocker by 0.57 blocks per set. Akinradewo added 49 kills and three aces for a total of 80 points in the Final Round, good for second-best in the tournament leading to her Most Valuable Player award. She converted 49 of her 91 offensive attacks into points for a53.8 kill percent, which would have ranked atop the Best Spiker list if she had qualified with the minimum 15 percent of the team's spikes.
The Americans, who won their final 11 matches of the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix, also won the event in 1995 and 2001. Until this year, Team USA had not reached the World Grand Prix medal podium since back-to-back bronze finishes in 2003 and 2004. The U.S. has now medaled in all three of its 2010 tournaments including a silver medal at the 26th Montreux Volley Masters and bronze at the Pan American Cup, both played in June.
McCutcheon believes the FIVB World Grand Prix title and the team's early successes in 2010 are a key part of the developmental process leading toward the FIVB World Championship and future tournaments. However, he understands the team has areas of improvement before heading into the World Championship.
"I think it helps a little in that we now know we can compete with confidence versus any team in the world," McCutcheon said in regards to winning the FIVB World Grand Prix. "However, we have a lot of work to do before the FIVB World Championship tournament as well. So we won't let winning get in the way of the lessons we need to learn."
Glass, playing her first season of international volleyball with the U.S. Women's National Team, averaged 13.11 running sets per set to lead all players in the Final Round. She tallied 249 running sets on 516 attempts. Glass set the squad to a .292 hitting efficiency (250-55-668) and 37.4 kill percent through the five Final Round matches in China.
Akinradewo and Glass were not the only Americans producing well at the World Grand Prix. Hooker finished the Final Round as the fourth-best scorer with 76 points (65 kills, 8 blocks, 3 aces) and Tom contributed 66 points (54 kills, 9 blocks, 3 aces) for ninth place. Bown ranked 15th in scoring with 52 points (35 kills, 12 blocks, 5 aces) and Larson charted 47 points (34 kills, 10 blocks, 3 aces) for 18th place.
Team USA established a dominant block during the entire tournament. During the Final Round, the U.S. held a 76-34 block advantage over its opponents and averaged 4.0 blocks per set. Including the nine matches from the preliminary round, the Americans out-blocked their opponents 222-84 and averaged 4.27 blocks per set. Aside from Akinradewo leading the tournament in blocking, the U.S. had six players rank among the top 20 in the Final Round. Bown ranked ninth (0.63 block average), Larson finished 11th (0.53), Tom was 15th (0.47), Hooker landed in 18th (0.42) and Glass ranked 20th (0.37).
The Americans also took their spots among the tournament's best diggers with four among the top 13. Sykora averaged 2.26 digs per set for third place, while Tom ranked seventh with 1.47 per set. Larson tallied 1.11 digs per set for 10th place and Hooker added 0.95 digs per set for 13th place.
Tom, who joined the team during the second preliminary round, ranked fifth in Best Receiver during the Final Round with a 43.26 efficiency. Bown was Team USA's leading server with 0.26 aces per set for seventh place. Hooker ranked as the seventh-best player in Best Spiker with a 38.7 kill percent, while Tom and Larson ranked 15th and 16th, respectively in the category.
Behind Team USA at the FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round, Brazil claimed the silver medal with a 3-2 record and 11 points. Brazil was the two-time defending champion with eight overall World Grand Prix titles. Italy earned the bronze medal with a 2-3 record and seven points. Host China finished fourth with six points and a 2-3 record, followed by fifth-place Japan with four points and a 2-3 record and sixth-place Poland with a 1-4 record and four points.
Team USA's chances of reaching the World Grand Prix Final Round seemed remote based on its 1-2 record and eighth place in the standings following the first preliminary weekend in Poland. However, the Americans caught fire in Thailand starting with a four-set victory over Italy followed by wins over Thailand and Puerto Rico. The U.S. carried the momentum into Hong Kong, beginning with a three-set win over Germany to avenge a four-set loss in the opening weekend. Team USA allowed Thailand to score just 48 points in a three-set win on Aug. 21. In front of over 10,000 fans on Aug. 22, the Americans won their sixth straight match over the host Chinese in four sets to complete a run from eighth place to second place to conclude the preliminary round.
"We got better as the tournament went on," McCutcheon said.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for FIVB World Championship
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OPP, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)
2 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - Destinee Hooker (OPP, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Doctor: Dr. William Briner
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan
FIVB World Championship First Round Pools with FIVB World Ranking
(first three countries by seed, then next three based on drawing of lots)
Pool A (Tokyo): Japan (5), Serbia (9), Poland (8), Peru (17), Algeria (14), Costa Rica (31)
Pool B (Hamamatsu): Brazil (1), Italy (4), Netherlands (10), Kenya (35), Puerto Rico (13), Czech Republic (38)
Pool C (Matsumoto): USA (2), Cuba (6), Germany (15), Kazakhstan (16), Thailand (12), Croatia (45)
Pool D (Nagoya): China (3), Russia (7), Korea (21), Dominican Republic (11), Turkey (22), Canada (24)
First Round Schedule
Pool A:
Oct. 29: Peru vs. Algeria, 12:30; Serbia vs. Costa Rica, 15:00; Poland vs. Japan, 18:45
Oct. 30: Costa Rica vs. Algeria, 12:30; Serbia vs. Poland, 15:00; Japan vs. Peru, 18:00
Oct. 31: Peru vs. Serbia, 12:30; Poland vs. Costa Rica, 15:00; Algeria vs. Japan, 18:00
Nov. 2: Serbia vs. Algeria, 13:00; Poland vs. Peru, 15:30; Costa Rica vs. Japan, 18:45
Nov. 3: Peru vs. Costa Rica, 12:30; Algeria vs. Poland, 15:00; Japan vs. Serbia, 18:00
Pool B:
Oct. 29: Brazil vs. Kenya, 13:30; Czech Republic vs. Netherlands, 16:15; Puerto Rico vs. Italy, 18:45
Oct. 30: Czech Republic vs. Brazil, 13:00; Kenya vs. Puerto Rico, 15:30; Netherlands vs. Italy, 18:00
Oct. 31: Puerto Rico vs. Czech Republic, 13:00; Italy vs. Kenya, 15:30; Brazil vs. Netherlands, 18:00
Nov. 2: Brazil vs. Puerto Rico, 13:30; Netherlands vs. Kenya, 16:15; Czech Republic vs. Italy, 18:45
Nov. 3: Puerto Rico vs. Netherlands, 13:00; Kenya vs. Czech Republic, 15:30; Italy vs. Brazil, 18:00
Pool C:
Oct. 29: Germany vs. Kazakhstan, 13:30; USA vs. Thailand, 16:15; Croatia vs. Cuba, 18:45
Oct. 30: USA vs. Croatia, 13:00; Thailand vs. Kazakhstan, 15:30; Cuba vs. Germany, 18:00
Oct. 31: Kazakhstan vs. Cuba, 13:00; Croatia vs. Thailand, 15:30; USA vs. Germany, 18:00
Nov. 2: Croatia vs. Germany, 13:30; Thailand vs. Cuba, 16:15; USA vs. Kazakhstan, 18:45
Nov. 3: Kazahkstan vs. Croatia, 13:00; Germany vs. Thailand, 15:30; USA vs. Cuba, 18:00
Pool D:
Oct. 29: Russia vs. Dominican Republic, 13:30; Canada vs. Korea, 16:15; Turkey vs. China, 18:45
Oct. 30: Russia vs. Turkey, 13:00; Dominican Republic vs. Korea, 15:30; China vs. Canada, 18:00
Oct. 31: Turkey vs. Dominican Republic, 13:00; Canada vs. Russia, 15:30; Korea vs. China, 18:00
Nov. 2: Turkey vs. Canada, 13:30; Russia vs. Korea, 16:15; Dominican Republic vs. China, 18:45
Nov. 3: Canada vs. Dominican Republic, 13:00; Korea vs. Turkey, 15:30; China vs. Russia, 18:00
Second Round (Nov. 6-10) - teams play opposite pool in crossover
Pool E (Tokyo): 1A, 1D, 2A, 2D, 3A, 3D, 4A, 4D
Pool F (Nagoya): 1B, 1C, 2B, 2C, 3B, 3C, 4B, 4C
Semifinals and Finals (Nov. 13-14 in Tokyo)


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (88 votes).
In short: A hilly trail run , wonderDate of review: March 30, 2014
In short: Lovely raceIn full: Great friendly race, challenging and interesting route but never arduous. Loved the point to point course. Great cakes at the finish. Perfect low key run. thanks and congratulations to the organisers and marshallsDate of review: April 10, 2013
In short: Great as ever and perfect conditionsDate of review: April 8, 2013
In short: Great event - well done guys!In full: Really well run event on a great course. Not as hilly as you might think, but with a decent drag up at around 9 miles to wake you up! More people should do this - if you can handle a half-marathon, you'd probably be able manage this course (last few miles are downhill) and it's much more memorable than the usual tarmac trudge.Date of review: April 8, 2013
In short: Senery stunning,weather was behaving,been looking forward to this race and was not dissapointed. Thanks to all the marshalls ,helpers and general public who cheered us on. Overall a superb race especially the hills!Date of review: April 7, 2013
In short: A proper race with picture postcard viewsIn full: Congrats to everyone who competed the race. Well done to the marshalls, the Police and the drivers of the buses. Great weather, smooth organisation and an 'Italian Job' style bus ride to the start - see you next year !!!!!Date of review: April 7, 2013
In short: What a great run. Proper no-frills trail run (not really xc) in beautiful countryside. Well done Overton Harriers, I'll be smiling all weekDate of review: April 7, 2013
In full: A lovely friendly race with superb views - we had beautiful weather this year which obviously helped, would definitely be a lot more of a challenge in the mud.No doubt as to the route, plenty tape and friendly marshalls.Cake at the end too.The only point I would make is if you get even vaguely travel sick, make your own way to the start (I got hubby to drop me off there)as I am told the coach ride is tortuous! Going on your own also means you get your pick of the bushes for a loo stop before the masses arrive by bus :)Overall, lovely run and I look forward to it again next year. P.s., organisers.....an optional (extras cost) t-shirt would be nice for those of us who are delighted just to get round....I wasn't last though :)Date of review: July 14, 2012
In short: Gorgeous race.Date of review: April 16, 2012
In short: great 16 mile raceIn full: hot and dry this year - this does not suit me - only minor gripe is that the water cups were only half full leading to de-hydration! hit the wall at 14.75 miles - not fun! great cakes at the end and many thanks to the couple of runners who bought me a couple of slices of cake before I collapsed in a heap! hopefully will be cold and wet next year!!Date of review: April 14, 2012
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