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Sorry, no pics to my knowledge. I was far away from the body shop and too busy working, earning the coin to pay for the work. I tend to give a lot of trust to my mechanic and selected body man. Everything is done on a cost-plus basis. These old cars are booby traps, waiting to spring.
Here are some things I do know. My mechanic, dropped the old exhaust, broke down the old subframe, installed all the new bushings and new hand made SS fluid lines and put the subframe back on the vehicle in a solid enough state to self-transport it to the body shop. It was easy for the body man to re-disassemble the subframe and begin the work.
There was a lot more work done than just the bushing mount points. The body man was taking a run at a full restoration when my mechanic warned me and we put the brakes on at $2200. For that, I got a lot: a patch on a weak spot on the subframe hollow-body section (good call), exhaust hanger hardpoint rebuild, R&L rear wheel well arch repair, LF jack hard point rebuild, repair to the sloped floor of the driver side footwell in addition to the two layer bushing mount point fix on both sides. There may have been a few more little details done as well. The man was thorough and critical.
The vehicle could go back tomorrow and eat up another $2200, easy.
The BMW was able to self transport back to the mechanic's shop for the new SS exhaust and the some other minor mechanical repairs that were on order. By the time it was all over, there was a $4200 invoice in my hand.
Cars, you gotta love 'em.
Regarding bushings, my mechanic shys away from the harder polyurethane aftermarket bushings. He warns me they are more expensive and make the ride more harsh. The '87 535is is already a very firm ride, when everything is in order. I don't want it to ride like a truck. It's a luxury touring sedan.
We all know that frequent front end bushing replacement is normal on this vehicle, especially if one deals with rough gravel roads, washboard and potholes. The good thing is that the bushing rebuild is a relatively inexpensive and quick procedure, when done by an experienced mechanic using original spec parts. Every 20 to 30 thousand miles it has to be done, just like
and brake jobs.
I am suspicious of some of the aftermarket "upgrades". Are they really improvements?
Stay away from the colorful aftermarket "high performance" plug wire set for this vehicle.
It looks pretty, that's all it is. My mechanic smirks at the wires and shakes his head at me. That hurts. It IS pretty. Mine are red. I'm still saving the old wires.
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'Using his aunt's home in Munich as a base, the 19-year-old hitchhiked and couch surfed, going to Paris and Switzerland and Slovenia, meeting new friends and visiting old ones along the way …'The Statesman 24th January 2010
'In the pre-Internet days, pen pals were people's window to the world. Pals from different countries exchanged cultural details in letters. Couchsurfers do the same thing now by actually landing up at your doorstep and exchanging notes with you while you have dinner together.'Times of India 23rd January 2010
Just how comfortable is your sofa? Would you be prepared to let a stranger crash out there for the night? And, on the basis of a bit of email correspondence and seeing a photo of the sofa belonging to 'A. N. Unknown', would you travel halfway across the world to do the same? It might sound crazy, but this is exactly what millions of people have done whilst participating in an activity known as couch surfing.
as well as the financial advantages of couch surfing, participants also claim that the practice gives a more authentic travel experience
Couch surfing is travelling on a budget, using a broad network of contacts in order to get overnight accommodation for free, or at as little cost as possible. Participants, dubbed couch surfers, join dedicated websites, providing as much information about themselves as possible in order to make others feel comfortable hosting them, or using them as a host. Various safety features are generally available in such online networks, like verification of names and addresses, personal references, and 'vouching for' a particular member as a reliable host or guest. Couch surfers span a range of nationalities and even ages, though the majority are younger people originating from the USA, Britain, France, Germany or Italy.
As well as the financial advantages of couch surfing, participants also claim that the practice gives them a more unique, authentic travel experience, allowing them to experience culture and cuisine through the locals, rather than from the confines of sanitized tourist accommodation. Among the most popular couch surfing destinations are New York, Melbourne, Montreal, London and other large European cities such as Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona and Istanbul.
The term couch surfing (and related forms couch surf, couch surfer, etc) first appeared in 2004 with the launch of website www.CouchSurfing.org, the brainchild of American web consultant, Casey Fenton. Fenton's inspiration for couch surfing came from the experience of finding a cheap flight from Boston to Iceland, and then randomly emailing about 1,500 Reykjavik students to ask if they'd put him up on their sofas. The result was more than 50 offers of accommodation.
Although the capitalized variants CouchSurfing and CouchSurfer are registered trademarks of the website, the lower case variants, either as open or closed compounds, are now regularly used. Though the website led to the coining of these terms, the underlying concept is nothing new. The practice of finding accommodation through a community of like-minded travellers – usually referred to as hospitality networks – dates right back to the late 1940s. Among the first web-based networks was The Hospitality Club. Web-based hospitality networks have brought the terms couch surfer and couch surf into the public eye, though another popular interpretation of these expressions is in the context of homelessness. People who have unstable, temporary living arrangements are often described as couch surfers.
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Brookville, NY - Behind 13 saves from Ryan Dougherty (Port Jefferson Station, NY), the Dowling Men's Lacrosse team handed No. 1 nationally ranked and defending National Champion, C.W. Post, their first loss of the season. The Golden Lions improve to 8-1 with their 7th straight win while the Pioneers drop to 10-1.
With C.W. Post not having lost a contest since March 21st of 2009, their 19 game win streak would seem to trump the 7 game run by the Golden Lions started on March 13th of this year. However, strong defensive play would be the name of the game as Dowling held C.W. Post to 1 goal in the 4th quarter to give them the 8-7 East Coast Conference victory.
Both teams would would put the pressure on in their respective defensive zones, but it would be the 2009 National Champions who would strike first as Nick Coric scored from a Joe Meo pass at the 13:13 mark to put the Pioneers on the board. Dowling would be held scoreless in the 1st as they were outshot 9-2 with Dougherty making 5 saves to keep it within 1.
Down 1 going into the 2nd, this time it would be Dowling who struck first as Brandon Bergersen fired one in on his own to tie it up at a goal a piece with 13:37 remaining. They weren't done there as C.W. Post seemed to win the next faceoff, but Kyle O'Brien would be able to grab a loose ball and fire it into the net to give Dowling their second goal in under 10 seconds, putting them up 2-1. The Pioneers would even it up at 2 thanks to James Johnston, but Dan Abbene would quickly score his 2nd goal of the season to once again give Dowling the 1 goal advantage. With the game hardly over, C.W. Post would score two more before the half to give them a 4-3 lead over the Golden Lions.
Spread out scoring would help Dowling tie it up at 6 at the end of 3 with Abbene adding another to his total while Redmond Killpack and Vito DeMola would each put one on the board.
With the score tied, both teams would come out firing in the 4th as Dougherty recorded another 3 saves off 9 shots. Once again, however, it was Dowling who struck first as Kyle O'Brien snuck one in off an assist from John Amato. Less than a minute later, PJ Nunez would give the Golden Lions a 2 goal lead with just under 12 minutes remaining. The Pioneers would kick it into high gear, putting more pressure on Dougherty and the Dowling defense. James Johnston would score once again, pulling his team within 1 with 3:49 showing on the clock.
Dowling would be able to take the win as long as they could hold possession, but a slashing call would put the Golden Lions a man down with just over a minute left in play, giving the Pioneers one last chance to tie it up and send it into overtime. The Dowling poles would do their part, forcing loose balls and winding down the clock to secure the 8-7 victory.
Dougherty recorded 13 saves on the day while Dan Orlando of C.W. Post would have an equally as impressive game, turning away 11 shots to keep the game close. Turnovers were plentiful in the game with the Pioneers committing 32 to Dowling's 27. Post would also struggle in man up opportunities, failing to take advantage of all 6 chances.
This game also marks the first home field loss for C.W. Post since March 15th, 2008.
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May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963
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John F. Kennedy (JFK) was the youngest man ever elected as the President of the United States, and he was the youngest President to die in office. JFK was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the assassination of JFK.
But, who really killed JFK?
Perry Russo, A Connection To The JFK Assassination
By Anonymous - November 11, 2013
I can still recall the moment I was in grade school when Sister Isador came into the class room to send all of us children back home because President John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated in Dallas, Texas. We were all totally shocked by the experience.
I can also recall the following day at home on a Saturday when I was watching TV about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot live on TV by Jack Ruby, in the basement of a Dallas police station.
A few years later, the Jim Garrison Investigation in New Orleans probed into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and turned up a key witness by name of Perry Russo.
Perry Russo was the key witness for the Jim Garrison investigation looking into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and I used to be friends with Perry Russo when I was a teenager living in New Orleans many years ago.
The death of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) still remains a deep mystery to me, and the history of what was going on around me while I was a teenager has troubled me for many years regarding the period that I spent living in New Orleans, so many years ago.
Rarely through the years have I talked about this with others. And hardly ever in detail or at length...
JFK was long dead by the time I got to New Orleans, and there was nothing I could do to change what had occurred. But his death has been on my mind for a very long time, especially every time November rolls around and the media goes into frenzy mode to recall when JFK was assassinated in Dallas back in 1963.
Regardless of my feelings, somehow through a fluke of life, back in 1970 or shortly before I became involved with, and became close friends with a fellow named Perry Russo. Perry Russo was the the star witness of Jim Garrison (New Orleans District Attorney), and the Garrison Investigation back in those days, and Perry was the star witness of the court trial of Clay Shaw, and the conspiracy to kill JFK.
In later years, in a JFK select committee report, the committee members came to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was not alone in the assassination of JFK, and they believe that others were involved in the assassination. Since I was a teenager, this was also my belief... Click on report below...
Also in later years, Perry Russo was involved in helping Oliver Stone make the film called JFK, that reminds me of a period when I was a homeless teenager living on the streets of New Orleans.
I used to be a close friend of Perry Russo back in those days, and worked for him while living at a crash pad that Perry owned which was called the Youth Rescue League in the French Quarter of New Orleans during 1970.
Click on links below for a photo of Perry Russo...
Perry's photo in later years from Oliver Stone's JFK film...
I have been trying through the years to better understand what I was involved in, who I was involved with, and what was going on there before I arrived in New Orleans, and while I was there...
After my experience with Perry Russo and my experience in New Orleans, I never believed the government line of B.S. that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.
I was a close friend of Perry Russo for well over a year or more in the French Quarter of New Orleans. I met Perry Russo when I was a 16 year old runaway during January or early February of 1970, when I hitch hiked my way to New Orleans from Houston, for Mardi Gras that year.
I was with a friend named Gary McDaniels when we were hitch hiking a ride from Houston to New Orleans, when Perry Russo picked us up and took us for a long ride to New Orleans. Along the way we quickly became friends, and Perry offered Gary and I a job, and place to live at a crash pad he was about to open up called the Youth Rescue league. Gary and I were both runaway teenagers in those days, and worked at the buck a night crash pad checking people in at night, and cleaning the place up the following mornings.
In my spare time when away from the crash pad, I used to love going nearby to a small joint that served hamburgers near Jackson Square where I played pin ball at. Often I would also hang out afternoons in a small bar across the street from the burger joint to play ping pong, or would hang out in Jackson Square to get some sunshine and excitement along with all the other people hanging out getting stoned, and having a good time listening to some great music from the 60's.
In time during my days in New Orleans, I was to learn that Perry Russo knew Lee Harvey Oswald while he was still alive, and that Perry was close friends with Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie. All four of whom were allegedly involved in the Jim Garrison (New Orleans DA) investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK). Lee Harvey Oswald was part of the investigation, even though he was dead (assassinated) by the time the investigation began by Jim Garrison.
While Perry Russo was close friends with David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald used to be David Ferrie's roommate.
Clay Shaw was brought to trial by Jim Garrison, the DA of New Orleans, and Perry Russo was the star witness of Jim Garrison, and the Garrison Investigation, and the trial that was taking place against Clay Shaw.
The Jim Garrison investigation was still taking place when I went to New Orleans, back in early 1970, and Perry was real paranoid because of the never ending investigation swirling around him, and the media attention to his life.
As I was saying, I breezed into New Orleans shortly before Mardi Gras in 1970, and was picked up hitch hiking with a friend by Perry Russo, somewhere between Houston and New Orleans.
I was a teenage runaway back in those days, and my friend and I (Gary McDaniels) wanted to experience Mardi Gras, which is why we were hitch hiking to New Orleans from Houston.
I was living on the streets of Chicago as a homeless runaway with my friend Bob Schaefer when we met Gary McDaniels in Chicago who was with a woman named Margurite who he claimed was his wife, even though they both were only around 16 years old. Gary and Margurite were hanging out with another kid named David Lane across the street from the Grey Hound bus station when we all first met one another, while Bob and I were broke and hungry one morning wondering what we could do to get something to eat. All three of them were from Texas, and I later learned that they made a living by traveling around doing armed robberies.
Gary and Margurite liked pulling off a murphy on local business men in suits. Gary would rent a cheap hotel room, and would hide in the closet with a 38 pistol. Margurite would dress up like a prostitute, and go out and pick up a businessman to take back to the hotel room where Gary would wait till they climbed into bed, then he would leap out of the closet and say, "Ah ha, I caught you with my wife." Then Gary would rob the businessman, and he and Margurite would flee the scene in a taxi cab to a distant part of the city where they would spend the money.
Getting back to Parry Russo, months later when Perry picked us up somewhere outside of Houston, during the ride Perry offered Gary and I a place to stay at a buck a night ($1.00) crash pad he was about to open up in the French Quarter, that he called the Youth Rescue League.
He also gave us a job working there to help run the place and to keep the place clean. Around 70 people a night would check in, and sleep on the floors, and there was a small TV people could watch, and the place had a small bathroom people could use. Often people used the bathroom to shoot their dope in....
It was mostly young people (16 - 25) passing through from all over the country to join in the Mardi Gras celebration taking place, but there ended up being a core group of homeless people residing there including Vietnam Vets, aspiring artists, and some heavy duty dope fiends.
Gary and I would chase everyone off in the morning, and try to have the place cleaned up for them to come back to by late afternoon/early evening later that day.
I believe that the Youth Rescue League was on Burgundy Street from what I recall, and it was in a one story duplex. A close friend of Perry rented out the other half of the same residential duplex building.
I spent well over a year hanging out with Perry. I also enjoyed spending a lot of time cruising around with him at night while he was making the rounds in New Orleans. I really had no idea what Perry was up to, but eventually I suspected that he may have been selling guns, and was making the rounds picking up money and dropping money off with his many connections. Perry was very secretive when making his rounds at night.
Meanwhile during that same period, Perry and my friend Gary McDaniels became lovers. Perry Russo liked to go to bed with teenage boys back in those days, and Perry was attracted to Gary.
Perry was straight back in those days, in the context of staying away from drugs. It was not long though before Gary and I got Perry to smoke some pot with us, a got him to try some orange sunshine acid, and Perry eventually joined us in shooting up some smack now and then while listening to some beautiful Nina Simone music in the back room at the crash pad.
While we were stoned it eventually became evident that Perry Russo was a nervous wreck from the Jim Garrison investigation that involved him, and at times Perry became a very scary guy.
I eventually learned that Perry knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and according to Perry and his friends, Lee Harvey Oswald used to be a hustler (male prostitute) for gay men. To say the least, life was pretty interesting in the world of Perry Russo.
When Perry and his friend Shane told me that Lee Harvey Oswald used to be a hustler, I believed them. Perry and my friend Gary McDaniels were still lovers at that point (sexual partners), and I distinctly recall the day Gary came out of Perry's room one morning and he was very upset. Gary told me that Perry told him that Lee harvey Oswald did not kill the president (JFK), and said that Perry told him that three other men killed the president in Dallas a few years back.
It was still sinking in to Gary and I, that Perry Russo was linked to a lot of stuff going on, and it was starting to really alarm us. When we first met Perry, he failed to mention that he was involved in the Garrison investigation or that he used to be friends with Lee Harvyy Oswald. In time he started to tell us what was going on in his life, and that he (his name) was appearing in many news paper stories, all over the world regarding the death of JFK.
Gary and I were both teenagers at that time, and were just trying to survive in those days. We were stressed as it was. Add all of that to all of the intrigue going on with Perry Russo then, and there we were working for Perry, and living in his house that he turned into a crash pad. It all seemed very weird, at the same time it was all normal to us... I had no idea what we really got ourselves into back then, and years later it really sunk in that Perry was involved in some heavy stuff when I knew him.
Sometime more than a year after first hooking up with Perry, the Youth Rescue League was raided by the cops of New Orleans.
Big Red the manager got arrested, and the cops found a bunch of Orange Sunshine (LSD) that Red was selling for me at the crash pad. (According to Perry Russo).
Sometime earlier I ripped off 2,000 hits of orange sunshine from a guy in the syndicate, and shared half of the acid with a fellow named Mark who owned a large waterbed store on Bourbon street at the time. Mark approached me one day and asked me if I was interested in making a big score by ripping someone off of a bunch of acid, and he said he would be willing to split the take with me. I ended up ripped the fellow off from the mob by impersonating a law official, ran off with the dope and split it with Mark from the waterbed store. Looking back on it all, I must have been an honest thief back in those days when I was dumb enough to give Mark 1,000 hits of orange sunshine that was sealed like a round baseball in saran wrap.
Perry really freaked out about the bust when Red got busted with a lot of my orange sunshine, and he thought that I had set him up. Later that night Perry kicked my door in at a sleazy hotel that I was staying at during that period, and Perry kidnapped me at gunpoint. That was around midnight through 1:00am from what I recall.
Perry was with two others, and they drove me away at gunpoint to some swamp lands near the airport, telling me along the way that they were going to kill me. I really believed them and can recall being very frightened.
I begged and pleaded for my life, and swore up and down that I did not set him up, or call the cops on the crash pad, which was true. It was my money and dope the cops found at the crash pad, and it was a big loss to my finances at that time.
Perry and the two others beat the hell out of me, and left me laying on the ground bleeding, after Perry finally became convinced that I did not set him up. They drove away and left me there out side of the airport deep in some tall swamp grass that covered the whole area.
Before leaving me, Perry told me that I was to leave town (New Orleans) immediately, and that if he ever saw me again, he would kill me. I absolutely believed him.
Around three days later I ran into Perry on Bourbon St., and Perry came up to me real nice like, and apologized for beating me up and kidnapping me from my hotel room a few days earlier.
He even invited me over for dinner and said that he wanted to make things right, and he wanted to let me know that he was not angry at me any longer.
I became so frightened at that point, that I left New Orleans the following day, and headed back to Chicago. From what I recall, I believe that my friend Bob Schaefer (Indian Bob) left with me back to Chicago.
As the years have rolled by, I still think of Perry Russo and my time in New Orleans that I spent around him and his friends.
I have done a little bit of reading through the years to have a better understanding of who Perry was, and what was going on down in New Orleans while I was there, and before I arrived.
Oddly, many years after first meeting Perry, the big shocker for me was when I realized that Perry Russo was in the JFK film, when I was sitting at home one night watching the wonderful film by Oliver Stone. In the movie, I heard the character of Jim Garrison asking Clay Shaw, "And what about Perry Russo?"
What about Perry Russo? I jumped up out of my seat around three feet in the air, when I heard that question!
I was happy to get out of New Orleans with my life when I was a teenager, and even though I liked Perry Russo very much despite all of his faults and problems, including his alleged involvement with the assassination of JFK, I am glad that he did not kill me that windy night near the airport in New Orleans, where I thought that I was going to die...
Even though I was only a teenager and liked Perry very much, he was a scary guy at times.
I can still recall a fellow named Big John who was Perry's friend and neighbor next door, in the same duplex residential building of the Youth Rescue League.
Big John used to shack up with a teenage boy nick-named Little John as lovers, and it was Little John that was with Perry, when Perry kidnapped me at gun point from the sleazy hotel on Bourbon St., that I was staying in when the Youth Rescue League was raided by the cops, and Big Red got arrested with my acid (LSD).
I also clearly recall Perry Russo telling me several times that he was working for Carlos Marcello of the Mafia, as a way to explain how he got some of his money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello
Perry Russo knew Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, and Pery was close friends with David Ferrie. It was David Ferrie who flew Carlos Marcello (Mafioso Mob Boss) back into the country after Robert Kennedy deported Carlos Marcello to the country of Guatemala in 1961. In 1962, Carlos Marcello made it clear to an investigator that he was to arrange for JFK's death in someway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello
Oddly enough... I recall that one evening while I was making the rounds with Perry in New Orleans, he dropped me off at a restaurant that he wanted me to hang out at until he came back to pick me up. While I sat at a table eating some food, waiting for Perry to come back, the owner of the restaurant approached me and asked me if I knew who the man was that dropped me off at the restaurant? I said, yes, thats Perry Russo. The owner then warned me that Perry Russo was a very bad man, and that I needed to get as far away from him as possible. I never forgot that moment, and I never mentioned it to Perry.
Perry liked to hang out with me when he made the rounds at night, and often he would drop me off at a restaurant for a while so I could get a meal inside me. He would take off for an hour or so, and would always come back later to pick me up. I never asked him what he was up to, and he never offered to tell me what was going on.
I also used to join Perry, my friend Gary McDaniels, and Bob Schaefer (Indian Bob) for a plate of beans and rice at Buster Holmes restaurant in New Orleans back in those days. I can still recall seeing numerous dogs wandering around the restaurant as I sat there eating a plate full of white rice and gravey, some french bread and all the water I could drink for only thirty cents.
All these years later, I can also vividly recall some of the people staying at the Youth Rescue League (Perry's crash pad), including a strange fellow called Snowflake who loved to hang out sniffing glue while painting pictures in front of the crash pad. Snowflake used to paint over pictures that he would take with a camera, and then he would sell the paintings to tourists nearby at Jackson Square.
Then there was Alexander who used to sell lots of white cross speed as a way to make a living, and I can still recall many evenings watching Alexander laying on the floor while he was jerking off inside of his sleeping bag. It just seemed a little odd back then that Alexander did not care that people watched while he was playing with himself....
And there was Weird Harold, a Vietnam vet who used to be a pan handler that had a manager named Gig. Gig would get a major cut of any money Weird Harold would make from pan handling the tourists that came into town looking for excitement.
A fellow named Shane used to come by and visit Perry Russo, Gary McDaniels and myself at night at the crash pad. Shane was a close friend of Perry, and we all used to hang out getting stoned in one of the back rooms of the crash pad that Perry had painted totally black, with crinkled tin foil on the ceiling, and 60's hippie posters on the walls that were lit up by the numerous black lights in the room. Perry used to love listening to Nina Simone albums as we got high, and Shane used to bring large bags that were full of boiled cray fish (craw dads) that we used to munch on like popcorn when we got stoned.
At times, Shane used to brag about Perry being involved in the Jim Garrison investigation of JFK's assassination, and he would tell Gary and I how Perry used to hang out with Lee Harvey Oswald, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on that fateful day of November 22, 1963. In a hushed excited voice, at times Shane would swear up and down that Lee Harvey Oswald used to be a hustler that made money by going to gay bars in New Orleans, where gay men would offer money to go to bed with him.
I can also recall that there was another buck a night crash pad in the French Quarter of New Orleans that to compete with the Youth Rescue League that was called the Head Inn, but I never stayed there and was very loyal to Perry for some reason.
It seems strange that I can still recall how many of the poor people at the crash pad (Youth Rescue League) ended up losing their teeth to a crooked dentist nearby that would pull out their teeth, and then give them a prescription for four tabs of blue morphine that people would shoot up in the bathroom of the crash pad. The morphine was strong enough that it could be cut into four parts, and in time many people lost most of their teeth to the crooked dentist. Not me... No way... Much as I liked blue morphine back in those days, this was the kind of scene that I was smart enough to avoid...
I am still troubled by the death of JFK and through the years have done a lot of reading about those that allegedely have been involved in the conspiracy to kill him. Regardless, I still have many fond memories of New Orleans when I was a young teenage runaway hanging out on the streets of New Orleans.
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In Memory of John F. Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
John F. Kennedy (JFK) was the youngest man elected President of the United States, and he was the youngest President to die in office. JFK was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the assassination of JFK.
Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the US House of Reps
Clay Shaw Trial Testimony of Perry Russo
The Trial of Clay Shaw
Perry Russo
The Last Testament of Perry Russo
Conversation with Perry Russo
Jim Garrison Interview / Playboy -- October 1967
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History Matters Archive
JFL Assassination Information
Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board
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Zapruder Film A Fraud?
JFK Archives
Declassified (head wound info)
JFK Autopsy Report
Naval Medical School Autopsy Report A63-272 (destroyed by James J. Humes on November 24, 1963)
Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA)
AARC Public Library - Table of Contents
JFK Assassination Records & Reports & the Church Committee Records
JFK Assassination Reports and Records
Garrison Investigation
Orleans Parish Grand Jury Transcripts
The Orleans Parish Grand Jury transcripts consist of testimony taken during 1967, 1968, and early 1969, as part of the Garrison investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy. These transcripts were ordered destroyed in the early 1970s by Garrison's successor as District Attorney, Harry Connick.
But the man who was supposed to destroy them, Gary Raymond, instead hid them in a garage for over two decades. Then in 1995, Raymond arranged for journalist Richard Angelico to pass these grand jury transcripts on to the Assassination Records Review Board. Connick, still the DA, convicted both men of contempt of court, and demanded that the ARRB return the transcripts.
The ARRB, meanwhile, was still seeking records (5 drawers of files) of Garrison investigation files held by Connick. The ARRB won its battle with Connick, and both the grand jury transcripts presented here and the investigation files are now part of the JFK Collection at the National Archives. The AARC is also in possession of a good deal of this material.
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The Garrison Probe
The Garrison Commission On the Assassination of President Kennedy
"It's not a matter or wanting to gain headlines," says Garrison indignantly. "It's a matter of not being able to sleep at night. I am in an official position in a city where the greater part of the planning of the assassination of President Kennedy took place, and this was missed by the Warren Commission. What would these people who have attacked me do if they were here and had official responsibility? Would they be able to say, "Jack Kennedy is dead and there is nothing I can do about it?"
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Lucien Sarti
These documentaries have been highly controversial. In the documentary broadcast in 1988 Stephen Rivele argued that the assassination of John F. Kennedy had been organized by Antoine Guerini, the Corsican crime boss in Marseilles. According to Rivele, Lucien Sarti fired from behind the wooden fence on the grassy knoll. The first shot was fired from behind and hit Kennedy in the back. The second shot was fired from behind, and hit John Connally. The third shot was fired from in front, and hit Kennedy in the head. The fourth shot was from behind and missed. As well as Sarti, also named Sauveur Pironti and Roger Bocognani as being involved in the killing. However, Pironti and Bocognani both had alibis and Rivele was forced to withdraw the allegation.
Antoine Guerini
1) Stephen Rivele, transcript from The Men Killed Who Kennedy (1988)
The initial turning point was the first meeting that I had with the French narcotics trafficker at Leavenworth Penitentiary. His name was Christian David. He had been a member of the old French Connection heroin network. He had then been a leader of the Corsican drug trafficking network in South America known as the Latin Connection. And he had also been an intelligence agent for a number of intelligence services around the world. In exchange for my help in finding him an attorney to represent him against the possibility of his deportation to France after he finished his sentence at Leavenworth, he agreed to give me a certain amount of information concerning the assassination based upon his own knowledge. The first thing that he told me, very reluctantly and only after four or five hours of my arguing with him, was that he was aware that there had been a conspiracy to murder the president, and indeed in May or June of 1963 in Marseilles, he had been offered the contract to kill President Kennedy. That was the initial breakthrough, if you will. He was eventually deported to France. I remained in contact with him. I went to Paris to interview him in two prisons in Paris. And in the fear that he would be either committed to an asylum or that he would be convicted of an old murder charge, he gradually gave me additional information about the assassination.
David's position was that there were three killers, and that they had been hired on a contract which had been placed with the leader of the Corsican Mafia at Marseilles, a man named Antoine Guerini. Guerini, he said, was asked to supply three assassins of high quality, experienced killers to murder the President, and that Guerini did so. In the course of one of the first significant conversations I had with David on this subject, he told me that he had been in Marseilles in May or June of 1963, and that every evening he went to Antoine Guerini's club on the old Port of Marseilles to meet people who owed him money. And one evening, Guerini sent for him, asked him to come to the office which was above the club. Guerini told him that he had an important contract, and he asked David if he were interested. David said, "Who's the contract on?" Guerini said, "an American politician." David asked, "Well is it a congressman, a senator?" And Guerini said, "higher than that... The highest vegetable." At that point of course David knew who he was talking about. David asked him where was the contract to be carried out. And when Guerini said it would be done inside the United States, David refused on the grounds that that was much too dangerous.
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Mike Ashley – January a better time to make good deals?
That could be because free agents next summer will be available for a lot less than they were this summer, and one top candidate in that situation will be Bafe Gomis, and we have to think the French International striker could (should) be our top transfer target come January.
And Newcastle signed both Yoan Gouffran and Moussa Sissoko last January, and they both had only six months left on their contracts, but Newcastle moved for them aggressively last January, rather than in the summer when they would have been free agents.
And we could even see the same thing happen again in four months time, but you could also say this is no more than a PR stunt by Newcastle, after just finishing a summer transfer window that was embarrassing, and the club failed to bring in any of their targets except one – Loic Remy on loan from QPR.
Maybe Newcastle learned something last January, maybe that it's easier to move players in the transfer market at that time, but it's always best to bring in targets early in the summer, so that have a pre-season behind them, and know how the team plays and get to know their teammates.
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Athletes had tears in their eyes as they watched the closing ceremony from the centre of the stadium and bade farewell to an "amazing" Olympics.
As the competitors entered the arena, the London Symphony Orchestra played a special composition in their honour, giving them a chance to reflect on what has been hailed as the most mesmerising Games ever, although the night was tinged with sadness as it signalled the end of 16 extraordinary days.
Gold medal-winning whitewater canoeist Etienne Stott, 33, said: "The vibe was awesome and the light show was amazing. It was a sad moment in a way but you've got to make a happy moment of it, and I thought it was really good. It's a bit sad for it to finish as it means the party is over."
Team GB backstroke swimmer Liam Tancock, 27, said: "The Olympics have been an amazing experience for me. To end it like that, with the best of British — what a show." Rower Alan Campbell said: "The Olympics have ended, but hopefully good news on the front pages and the back page won't end. That seven minutes last Friday [when he won bronze] changed my life."
Swimmer Caitlin McClatchey, 26, said: "It was so amazing just to be part of this. It was mindblowing. To have The Who and for the Spice Girls to reform for this, it was really cool."
The reunion of the Spice Girls had Boris Johnson dancing wildly in the royal box, competing with Take That as the highlight of what artistic director Kim Gavin called a "party for the world".
The three-hour show, watched by 26 million British TV viewers alone, featured some of the biggest names in the last 50 years of British pop music, aided by 3,500 volunteers, including 380 east London children. It ended after the Mayor handed the Olympic flag to his Rio counterpart.
Team GB sprinter Anyika Onuora, 27, said: "It was a dream. London 2012 put on such a fantastic show. I don't think Brazil can top that." Her 200 metres sprint colleague Margaret Adeoye, 27, said: "In the middle of that, you are thinking you are proud to be British."
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Cinema's highest honours have been delayed just three times before in history - never because of war.
A one-week delay was forced by floods in Los Angeles in 1938, while the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King jnr forced a two-day delay in 1968.
A one-day postponement to the ceremony was caused in 1981 by a bid to kill then-president Ronald Reagan.
Mr Cates said last week the glittering show, which is seen by up to a billion television viewers around the world, would go ahead with or without war, but added that any conflict would be reflected in its format.
"I think the Oscars will absolutely go ahead on March 23 as scheduled," he said last week, warning however of the "distinct possibility that we will be at war".
Stressing that Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, the venue of 75th annual Oscars, was a "safe environment" for the expected 3500 guests that will include the top movie stars, he said he was planning for the worst should it arise.
"I'm contingencied up the gazoo," the veteran producer told reporters.
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Recession-hit Asians pray for jobs, luck, recovery
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - With the Singapore government warning of a worsening economy, IT administrator Ismarini Ismail is praying the recession won't upset her wedding plans for December.
"I pray harder in times of economic downturn, although my job is not affected this time," the 25-year-old Singaporean told Reuters as Singapore's unemployment rose to the highest in over three years in the first quarter of 2009.
"I'm praying for my fiance that his job is safe."
Ismail is not alone.
As companies shed jobs and governments inject funds to stimulate economies, recession-hit Asians from Taiwan to Thailand are flocking to temples, churches and mosques to seek solace in religion -- and pray for a quick economic recovery.
Analysts say religion is a good refuge for people suffering from an economic downturn.
"People might experience depression and socio-psychological problems as they worry about jobs in a recession. It is through such worries that they turn to religion," said Alexius Pereira, sociologist at the National University of Singapore.
While some may seek supernatural power for help, others look to relieve their stress through meditation, said Tay Sin Wee, a meditation course administrator. Continued...


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The Theory of the Theatre and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism
The Function of Imagination
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Whenever the spring comes round and everything beneath the sun looks wonderful and new, the habitual theatre-goer, who has attended every legitimate performance throughout the winter season in New York, is moved to lament that there is nothing new behind the footlights. Week after week he has seen the same old puppets pulled mechanically through the same old situations, doing conventional deeds and repeating conventional lines, until at last, as he watches the performance of yet another play, he feels like saying to the author, "But, my dear sir, I have seen and heard all this so many, many times already!" For this spring-weariness of the frequenter of the theatre, the common run of our contemporary playwrights must be held responsible. The main trouble seems to be that, instead of telling us what they think life is like, they tell us what they think a play is like. Their fault is not—to use Hamlet's phrase—that they "imitate humanity so abominably": it is, rather, that they do not imitate humanity at all. Most of our playwrights, especially the newcomers to the craft, imitate each other. They make plays for the sake of making plays, instead of for the sake of representing life. They draw their inspiration from the little mimic world behind the footlights, rather than from the roaring and tremendous world which takes no thought of the theatre. Their art fails to interpret life, because they care less about life than they care about their art. They are interested in what they are doing, instead of being interested in why they are doing it. "Go to!", they say to themselves, "I will write a play"; and the weary auditor is tempted to murmur the sentence of the cynic Frenchman, "
Je n'en vois pas la nécessité
But now, lest we be led into misapprehension, let us understand clearly that what we desire in the theatre is not new material, but rather a fresh and vital treatment of such material as the playwright finds made to his hand. After a certain philosophic critic had announced the startling thesis that only some thirty odd distinct dramatic situations were conceivable, Goethe and Schiller set themselves the task of tabulation, and ended by deciding that the largest conceivable number was less than twenty. It is a curious paradox of criticism that for new plays old material is best. This statement is supported historically by the fact that all the great Greek dramatists, nearly all of the Elizabethans, Corneille, Racine, Moličre, and, to a great extent, the leaders of the drama in the nineteenth century, made their plays deliberately out of narrative materials already familiar to the theatre-going public of their times. The drama, by its very nature, is an art traditional in form and resumptive in its subject-matter. It would be futile, therefore, for us to ask contemporary playwrights to invent new narrative materials. Their fault is not that they deal with what is old, but that they fail to make out of it anything which is new. If, in the long run, they weary us, the reason is not that they are lacking in invention, but that they are lacking in imagination.
That invention and imagination are two very different faculties, that the second is much higher than the first, that invention has seldom been displayed by the very greatest authors, whereas imagination has always been an indispensable characteristic of their work,—these points have all been made clear in a very suggestive essay by Professor Brander Matthews, which is included in his volume entitled
Inquiries and Opinions
. It remains for us to consider somewhat closely what the nature of imagination is. Imagination is nothing more or less than the faculty for
,—the faculty by which the mind makes real unto itself such materials as are presented to it. The full significance of this definition may be made clear by a simple illustration.
Suppose that some morning at breakfast you pick up a newspaper and read that a great earthquake has overwhelmed Messina, killing countless thousands and rendering an entire province desolate. You say, "How very terrible!"—after which you go blithely about your business, untroubled, undisturbed. But suppose that your little girl's pet pussy-cat happens to fall out of the fourth-story window. If you chance to be an author and have an article to write that morning, you will find the task of composition heavy. Now, the reason why the death of a single pussy-cat affects you more than the death of a hundred thousand human beings is merely that you realise the one and do not realise the other. You do not, by the action of imagination, make real unto yourself the disaster at Messina; but when you see your little daughter's face, you at once and easily imagine woe. Similarly, on the largest scale, we go through life realising only a very little part of all that is presented to our minds. Yet, finally, we know of life only so much as we have realised. To use the other word for the same idea,—we know of life only so much as we have imagined. Now, whatever of life we make real unto ourselves by the action of imagination is for us fresh and instant and, in a deep sense, new,—even though the same materials have been realised by millions of human beings before us. It is new because we have made it, and we are different from all our predecessors. Landor imagined Italy, realised it, made it instant and afresh. In the subjective sense, he created Italy, an Italy that had never existed before,—Landor's Italy. Later Browning came, with a new imagination, a new realisation, a new creation,—Browning's Italy. The materials had existed through immemorable centuries; Landor, by imagination, made of them something real; Browning imagined them again and made of them something new. But a Cook's tourist hurrying through Italy is likely, through deficiency of imagination, not to realise an Italy at all. He reviews the same materials that were presented to Landor and to Browning, but he makes nothing out of them. Italy for him is tedious, like a twice-told tale. The trouble is not that the materials are old, but that he lacks the faculty for realising them and thereby making of them something new.
A great many of our contemporary playwrights travel like Cook's tourists through the traditional subject-matter of the theatre. They stop off here and there, at this or that eternal situation; but they do not, by imagination, make it real. Thereby they miss the proper function of the dramatist, which is to imagine some aspect of the perennial struggle between human wills so forcibly as to make us realise it, in the full sense of the word,—realise it as we daily fail to realise the countless struggles we ourselves engage in. The theatre, rightly considered, is not a place in which to escape from the realities of life, but a place in which to seek refuge from the unrealities of actual living in the contemplation of life realised,—life made real by imagination.
The trouble with most ineffective plays is that the fabricated life they set before us is less real than such similar phases of actual life as we have previously realised for ourselves. We are wearied because we have already unconsciously imagined more than the playwright professionally imagines for us. With a great play our experience is the reverse of this. Incidents, characters, motives which we ourselves have never made completely real by imagination are realised for us by the dramatist. Intimations of humanity which in our own minds have lain jumbled fragmentary, like the multitudinous pieces of a shuffled picture-puzzle, are there set orderly before us, so that we see at last the perfect picture. We escape out of chaos into life.
This is the secret of originality: this it is that we desire in the theatre:—not new material, for the old is still the best; but familiar material rendered new by an imagination that informs it with significance and makes it real.
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National Australia Bank dissident director Catherine Walter faces an uphill - some claim hopeless - battle to try to sway the institutional investors holding the bulk of votes that will decide the board's fate on May 21.
The bank's top management will spend the next five weeks shoring up support among managers that could deliver about 60 per cent of the votes, but preparing for more embarrassment from individual shareholders speaking from the floor of the extraordinary meeting.
By contrast, major groups representing retail shareholders, such as the Australian Shareholders Association which has yet to decide how to advise its members to vote, can at best deliver just 0.5 per cent of the votes.
But the unprecedented boardroom showdown for the nation's largest lender could still create an untenable position for the seven other directors, according to a legal expert.
And many major institutional investors, which until last week were trying to find ways around the impasse between Mrs Walter and other members of the board, say it is still too early to call.
They are still awaiting her statement to shareholders.
"The institutions are not about to sack the whole NAB board by allowing Catherine Walter to stay," said Marcus Padley, editor of the newsletter Marcus Today.
"Even if she was Superwoman they still would not choose an individual or a management vacuum over the current management."
After Monday's volatility, NAB shares yesterday traded in a narrow range, ending the day at $29.57, down 7¢.
The director of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Ian Ramsay, said the "extraordinary" situation was at the "cutting edge of law and governance principles" and that the outcomes could not be guaranteed.
"What will happen if the Walter resolutions all fail but there is a significant protest vote? How will the directors respond?" Professor Ramsay said.
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Duke MBAs Fail Ethics Test
From the moment they set foot on campus, graduate business-school students are inundated with handbooks on business ethics, classes on the subject, and at many campuses, copies of a school honor code. At Duke University's Fuqua School of Business the preamble of the honor code is displayed prominently in each classroom and students must read and sign a copy of it before they even apply to the school.
But on Apr. 27, school officials said that Duke is taking disciplinary action against 34 of the school's first-year MBA students—almost 10% of the school's 2008 class—for allegedly cheating on an open-book, take-home final in one of the school's required core classes. It is the largest episode of cheating in the school's history, officials said. "There is a great deal of concern. The honor code is a cornerstone for the culture that we have here, and we take a violation of it quite seriously," said Mike Hemmerich, Fuqua's associate dean for marketing and communications.
The incident has stunned the business-school community, affirming fears that cheating might be making a comeback at MBA programs. The scandal comes at a time when many business schools are taking a closer look at their honor codes and implementing new measures such as student-run courts meant to discourage students from deceiving the school's faculty.
Cheating on the Rise
Business-school leaders have reason to be concerned. Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted to cheating one or more times in the past academic year, compared to 47% of nonbusiness students, according to a study published in September in the journal of the Academy of Management Learning & Education (see BusinessWeek.com, 10/24/06, "A Crooked Path Through B-School"). Donald McCabe, the lead author of the study and a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, says the large number of students implicated in the Duke case is above average. "It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the bigger ones," he says of academic scandals involving all kinds of students.
One of the larger cases in the past five years was a cheating scandal in a physics class at the University of Virginia in 2002. The school eventually dismissed 45 students and revoked three graduates' degrees. In 2005, Harvard Business School rejected 119 applicants accused of hacking the school's admissions Web site (see BusinessWeek.com, 3/9/05, "An Ethics Lesson for MBA Wannabes").
The Duke occurrence came to light in mid-March, when the professor for the class noticed some unusual consistencies among students' answers on the final exam and as well as on assignments given during the course.
Stiff Penalties
The students were brought before the school's Judicial Board and are facing a range of wide range of punitive measures, including expulsion. The board is made up of three faculty members, three students, and one nonvoting faculty chair who only votes in case of a tie.
Thirty-eight students were initially investigated, only four of whom were found not guilty of violating the honor code. (Of the 38 students, 37 were accused of cheating and one of lying.) Of the remaining 34 students, 9 will be expelled, 15 will be suspended for one year and receive an F in the class, 9 will receive an F in the course and one will receive an F on an exam. The penalties for the students will not go into effect until June 1, after which students will have 15 days to file an appeal. The school did not release the names of the students involved or name the professor.
Gavan Fitzsimons, a professor who is chair of the Fuqua Honor Committee, said in a written summary of the board hearings that the board spent several weeks "deliberating at length" the circumstances of the case. "It is my utmost hope that all of the individuals found guilty of violating our Honor Code will learn how precious a gift honor and integrity is," he wrote. "I know from my interactions with many of them that they will forever be changed by this experience."
Academic Pressures
The faculty and student body at Duke were informed of the committee's decision on the afternoon of Apr. 27, and the news spread throughout the campus and on Internet chat groups. Charles Scrase, Fuqua's student body president, was surprised by the charges: "The classmates I work with on a day-to-day basis are ethical, outstanding individuals," he says. "We're shocked that [cheating] could've occurred to this degree."
Sonit Handa, a first-year Fuqua student, suggests the students involved in this case might have been tempted to cheat because they wanted to ensure they did well in the class: "Duke is a hectic MBA business school, and employers want good grades, so there's a lot of pressure to do well."
The pressure, of course, is not confined to Duke. Many schools have policies that encourage an open dialogue on business ethics. Students at the Thunderbird School of Global Management sign a Professional Oath of Honor similar to doctors' Hippocratic Oath, while Penn State created an honor committee of students and faculty last year to help foster academic integrity on campus.
Codes Not Foolproof
One of the more recent examples is the new graduate honor court at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In January, the business school established a student-run honor court, a body devoted to investigating student violations of the honor code. Between 30 and 40 students, from the school's five MBA programs, are involved with the court, according to Dawn Morrow, a second-year MBA student who serves as the student attorney general for the court.
Before this, student honor code violations were dealt with through the graduate honor court system, which handled cases from other graduate programs. Morrow says that students have been eager to get involved with the honor court because they want to ensure that the school's values are upheld inside and outside the classroom. Rutgers' McCabe estimates that 50 to 100 colleges and universities have honor codes.
Schools with extensive honor codes, such as Duke, tend to have less cheating in general, McCabe says. Still, he says, it's not a foolproof measure. Business-school students are more competitive than other students, and some use cheating as a way to ensure they get ahead: "It's kind of like a businessperson who has the opportunity to embezzle money in the dark of night," says McCabe. "Sure it's more tempting, but we still expect them to be honest."
BusinessWeek intern Dan Macsai contributed to this story.


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The Real Life Houses Used In ABC's "Nashville"
Since we have a huge film and television industry here in Louisiana, it's always fun to see real locations used in movies that are filmed here. Well, it's only natural that ABC's new hit tv show "Nashville" would do the same. Since I'm in Nashville quite a bit, I can recognize lots of real life places that are in the series, but I thought you might like to check them out as well! Of course, some of them are really obvious – like The Grand Ole Opry House, The Bluebird Cafe, and the State Capitol, but others are just real people's houses that are settings for the show.
It's nice to see a television series about country music that doesn't scream YEE HAW every 5 minutes, and portrays real life musicians and music industry types accurately. And I LOVE the music-how bout you?


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Kelly stays the course, but so does sluggish offense
Kelly stays the course, but so does sluggish offense
MILWAUKEE -- For one day, the Cardinals' futility on offense since the All-Star break was hidden by the fact they were able narrowly escape the Brewers for their first win of the second half. On Tuesday, St. Louis' struggles were brought back to the forefront, as the Cardinals managed to score in just one inning on the way to a 3-2 loss at Miller Park. Tuesday marked the fifth straight game in which St. Louis scored no more than three runs, as the Cardinals went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. And with a Reds win, St. Louis dropped back to 4 1/2 games behind first-place Cincinnati in the National League Central. But much like the night before, when three runs in their final at-bat rallied the Cardinals past the Brewers, St. Louis had chances late in Tuesday night's game, including the ninth inning.
Facing Milwaukee's Francisco Rodriguez, who was made closer after John Axford blew his sixth save of the season on Monday, David Freese led off the ninth inning with a double down the right-field line. Yadier Molina then followed with a single that put runners on the corners with no outs. However, the next three batters had no such luck, as Rodriguez forced a groundout, strikeout and flyout to end rally and the game. "We had the opportunities," manager Mike Matheny said. "We were right where we wanted to be. Got a couple big hits form David, then Yadier, putting us in some good spots to make something happen. You don't get those very often, and you got to come through. Tough situation, tough pitcher. Last night it happened, and couldn't get it to work tonight." And unlike Monday night, the Cardinals didn't wait until the ninth inning to do their damage. After the Brewers opened the scoring with one run in the first, St. Louis was the next to strike, notching two runs in the third inning. It didn't take long for the Brewers to erase that lead, though, as Aramis Ramirez tied the game in the next half inning with an RBI single. Then, after a scoreless fourth for St. Louis, Milwaukee reclaimed the lead for good on a booming leadoff shot by Rickie Weeks. Cardinals rookie Joe Kelly, who has yet to give up more than three runs in seven outings, registered his fifth straight quality start, allowing just six hits and striking out four batters in six innings. And although he was happy with his performance, especially his ability to limit the Brewers to mostly ground balls, Kelly was frustrated with the pitch to Weeks. "I fell behind, gave him a fastball right down the middle," Kelly said. "I probably would have hit out myself. That's what everybody looks for, even pitchers, something down the middle, up. It's the easiest pitch in baseball to hit." In the seventh, the Cardinals had their first of two late chances to even the score, when Molina and Matt Carpenter led off the inning with back-to-back singles and then each advanced a base on Tyler Greene's sacrifice bunt. Matheny then brought on Lance Berkman, who entered the game batting 3-for-32 (.094) with seven strikeouts against Brewers starter Randy Wolf. Matheny said it was an "easy decision" to send Berkman to the plate, but it did not go well, as he struck out on a check swing. Berkman argued the call and, after going into the clubhouse to watch a replay, he returned to the dugout and yelled at home-plate umpire Brian Gorman, who ejected him from the game. Still not satisfied, Berkman went back on the field to argue with Gorman while Milwaukee made a pitching change. Berkman said the replay confirmed that he did not swing, in his mind, but he was most upset Gorman did not ask for confirmation on the call. "I don't think they should be allowed to make that call," Berkman said. "I don't think you can be watching the strike zone and also tell if a guy swings a bat. It happens too fast. And I know these guys pride themselves on being able to see everything, but it's impossible. They're human beings, and I feel like action happens too fast; they need to appeal that. They should take it out of the umpire's hands." Berkman's strikeout ended the inning, and continued a theme of missed opportunities that has become all too familiar for the Cardinals, who now are 8-for-45 with runners in scoring positon since the All-Star break. "We played lousy," Berkman said. "We haven't been hitting well. We should have won this game tonight. There's no reason we shouldn't have. They didn't beat us; we beat ourselves."
Jeremy Warnemuende is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Monster Blocks (superb game)
by: Thwack Studio • 559
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by: Thwack Studio • 559
Published: 2012-11-06, by Ana Gracia.
Monster Blocks Free is a tetris-based game that changes the blocks for monsters of several colors, which need to be arranged in groups of three of the same color in order to disappear and make room for the next ones to appear.
The monsters fall in groups of three, and you need to drag them left or right or tap on the screen to change the position of the colors, so you can have the result you desire. When you achieve a concrete score, you will be able to purchase weapons and powerups to increase your possibilities and overall improve the game quality.
Thwack Studio is the developer of Monsters Block Free (match 3), a colorful puzzle game with curious and cute graphics -the monsters are really different and detailed-, although the play board could be bigger. Definitely, a good choice in case you especially love tetris and want to play it a different way.
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What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization is the process of promoting a website home page and inner page links using various link building techniques. SEO search may be related to anything like image search, local search, global search, video search, academic search, industry search etc.
Types of SEO:
On Page Optimization:
Consist of keyword analysis as per your business requirement. Use Adwords keyword tool to do keyword research. Find more competitive rich keywords to beat your competitors.
Preserve keyword density on each and every web page to get indexed by all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing tec. Write unique content and keep on update your website with fresh content. Update meta keywords, meta description in each page to get crawled by search engines.
Off Page Optimization:
Various Off page link building techniques are as directory submission, article submission, press release submission, blog directory submission, blog posting, forum posting, rss submission, social bookmarking submission, classified submission, yellow page submission, business directory submission, video submission, local listings etc.
If you want good reputation, use quality directories to submit your website. Follow web master guidelines to get approved from other websites. Approval may take 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 1 month etc. as per web master guidelines.
As you submit more directories, your website will be able to gain more backlinks as well as traffic from all search engines.


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1. Re: xpathPOPS. Jan 25, 2013 5:47 AM (in response to 978329)Hi,
Use Inspect path (Script->Inspect path).
For table use Table Test (Script->Add->Table Test)
2. Re: xpathDeepu Muraleedharan Feb 1, 2013 7:27 AM (in response to 978329)You can use inspectPath.
If you recorded a web page then you can see DOMTree in detail view from which you can get xPath of any elemnt in the web page you recorded.
If you want a xPath of an element or table in forms then you have to use inspectPath and you have to navigate to particular element for which xPath is needed.
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During the Foundation course, I increased my session time from 10 to 15 minutes for Foundation Level 2, and then up to 20 minutes for Foundation Level 3. Well, I found that it was much more difficult for me to sit still for 20 minutes. You wouldn't think five minutes would matter, but boy did it make me feel anxious. Does the length of time matter? Should I do 20 minutes because it's so much harder for me, or should I do 15 minutes because 10 seems easy and 15 seems like a good balance?
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Hi, thanks for your question and it raises several great points: how much is too much? What is the optimal amount of time to sit for? And does a harder session mean we are getting better results?
Let's take one at a time…
If it feels like too much, it probably is. It's best to approach meditation much like anything else in life: start small, build up slowly and find your own personal sweet spot. For some people, this sweet spot is 10 minutes and for others, it's 60 minutes. To begin with, the most important thing is finding a time length which feels achievable and keeps us feeling motivated. Without this, it will never become part of an established daily routine. Also important to remember is that when it comes to awareness and compassion, quality always trumps quantity, so it's much better to be actively cultivating those qualities than sitting still like a statue wondering when the session will end. (We've all been there!)
So what is the optimal amount? Well, science is still working that equation out. Many of the recent findings seem to be pointing at frequency rather than duration. So for example, 10 minutes a day, every day of the week, is likely to be far more beneficial than 70 minutes on one day of the week. This also reflects the traditional teachings of meditation, which obviously respect the value of long sessions in certain environments and for those very experienced, but which more often than not encourage an attitude of "little and often." This bite-size approach helps us to discover stability of awareness in our everyday lives, rather than just an isolated practice that we do and then leave behind.
As for the final question: without wanting to sit on the fence, everything is about balance. If the session feels unbearable and continues to feel unbearable, and we are unable to discover the source of that resistance, then that is not time well spent. At the same time, it is often in those more challenging sessions that we discover the most about ourselves. But time alone is unlikely to be a good judge of this, so it would be my recommendation that you stick with your sweet spot, 15 minutes – a little longer than 10 minutes so it feels challenging, but not as long as 20 minutes so that it feels unhelpful or demotivating. Sound like a plan?
Let us know how you get on and we'll be sure to take a look at how we can better give guidance on duration for those starting out on the Headspace Journey.
Warm wishes,


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The Spring Coffee House musical performances at Iowa Lakes Community College will be held on Tuesday, March 11, at 7 p.m.
Performances will be held in "The Max" Student Center on the Estherville campus. The evening will feature vocal and instrumental performers from Iowa Lakes who will be showcasing their musical talents as well as community members. Admission is free and everyone is invited to sit back and relax with friends, listen to some great live music, and enjoy hot java, spiced cider and sweet treats!
If anyone is interested in performing at a Coffee House, please contact Linda Kautz, Music Department Assistant, at 712-362-8345 or email@example.com.