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Kristin Larsen, the longtime executive director of the non-profit Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, has resigned her position at the small Equity company, which produces at the Greenhouse Theatre Center. She is to become executive director of Stage 773, a complex of small theater venues on Chicago's North Side.
Remy Bumppo has seen several leadership changes following the retirement of James Bohnen, the founding artistic director. Stage 773 was formally known as the Theater Building Chicago, prior to the sale of the building to an entity headed up by Brian Posen, who continues as Stage 773's artistic director.


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#132152 - 08/30/04 09:04 PM Re: Rabbit-Tobacco Joined: Sep 2001
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"Gnaphalium obtusifolium"? Well, then, I was correct in my first surmise of the correct genus and species if your Alabamian friends are correct.
Thanks a lot, Milo. I'll print this out for my team to do with what they will--agreeing or still disagreeing. It's all part of the process--and I don't mind lengthy processes.
Harper Lee wasn't particularly brilliant botanically in Mockingbird, although the gifts she did possess in writing her one and only novel were impressive. She calls the oaks around the county courthouse "live oaks" (Quercus virginiana) when, in fact, they are a variety of water oak (Quercus nigra), but I doubt there is much interest in this kind of writer's peccadillo.) The fact that she can take such subjects as extreme racial prejudice, rape, and a problematical court system and cause one to smile and laugh throughout the novel (especially that provision of many warm smiles) is a testimony to her creative gifts. I wouldn't mind at all if she had, in fact, misnamed every plant in the book--it would simply give the scholars something to be busy with to earn their keep. And you know what James Joyces had to say about the scholars.
#132153 - 09/01/04 01:37 PM Re: Rabbit-Tobacco Joined: Mar 2000
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Google imaging gives both varieties:
http://www.comerestawhile.com/latefall/html/Rabbit Tobacco.htm
#132154 - 09/01/04 09:13 PM Re: Rabbit-Tobacco Joined: Sep 2001
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Are the photographs are of two varieties of Gnaphalium obtusifolium? The reason I ask is there is no mention on the photograph page of genus and species. Did you google by looking under Nicotiana sylvestris and Gnaphalium obtusifolium, or just Gnaphalium? The reason I ask is they both look like Gnaphalium to me--one early and one later in the growing season. Neither looks like Nicotiana.
The second photograph looks like Gnaphalium after it has grown a long stalk up out of the composite of leaves that form in the spring--the stalk forms and then the flower heads form in the fall. But if you have two distinct varieties here, specifically which genus and species do you have and what are the Latinate names of the varieties? Many thanks.
Edit: I just read over what I wrote and better add that I don't see that these are necessarily two different botanical varieties, but a single genus and species during different points in the growing season, and I suspect that genus is Gnaphalium. Hope this makes sense. As I wrote much earlier above, common names cause uncommon problems in botanical classification. Thank heaven for Latin.
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Oops, sorry: neither. I went to Google Images and typed in rabbit tobacco. I've seen the tall spindly one often, without knowing what it was. I would never have thought it was the same plant as that nasty-looking thing lying along the ground.
Here's the Google Images link to Nicotiana sylvestris:
And for Gnaphalium obtusifolium:
#132156 - 09/02/04 07:28 PM Re: Rabbit-Tobacco Joined: Sep 2001
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I'm pretty sure both of your images of rabbit tobacco are Gnaphalium, Jackie: one early and the other matured to the flowering stage. I'll run them past our botanist at school, although I don't know whether his area of expertise is herbaceous or woody plants. Will report back tomorrow after I print out your images. They are lovely and they do look like Gnaphalium to me, which resembles lamb's ear (a little) in the early stage.
Also, although Google images are terrific--and when you google rabbit toboacco you'll get lots of good hits--some of the hits will be entirely incorrect. In fact, when we use the Google Images function, we pull up all kinds of things that may not have anything to do with botanical specimens at all.
But your two images of rabbit tobacco look like Gnaphalium to me.
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Well, let me know. And yes, I believe the Google things, at least the images, are brought up by however they're titled; so if someone has a picture of real tobacco, say, and posts it as rabbit tobacco, then it's going to get a hit as rabbit tobacco. No guaranteeing that all these titlers have been correct.
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if someone has a picture of real tobacco, say, and posts it as rabbit tobacco, then it's going to get a hit as rabbit tobacco
So true, Jackie. I find it helpful to add .edu to my search terms when I'm looking up something like this; kinda weeds out the tobacco from the rabbits.
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The teacher in the biology department I talked to yesterday knows mostly about woody plants, but he gave me the name of another teacher who specializes in herbaceous plants. Next week will be a little crazy with school's opening for students, but I'll try to track him down and see whether he can recognize the photos. As I was talking to the 'woody plant biologist' yesterday, another teacher from the history dept. overheard our conversation about rabbit-tobacco and immediately began to recount the time in his childhood when friends and he had smoked rabbit-tobacco. I said, "Well, at least it has medicinal properties!"
What I'd really like to do at some point is write to Harper Lee and let her know what a lark this has been trying to track down the rabbit-tobacco in Mockingbird. My mother says it used to grow all about Dinwiddie County, Virginia, but she hasn't seen it for years. Wonder why?
An aside: The most recent studies in educational theory are stressing the importance of students finding a personal interest hook into studies to investigate as throughly as possible, building webs between new subject areas, deepening knowledge of areas that are of personal interest, and making as many connections between areas investigated and areas in curriculum. I'll use my own interest in botany to demonstrate to my ninth graders a model for their own investigations of areas from Mockingbird. The possibilities offered by that novel are many and rich. Our final product will be an illustrated Mockingbird lexicon from each of my three ninth grade classes.
At first glance, it might seem that this kind of investigation of rabbit-tobacco trivializes the content of Mockingbird, but actually, in presenting this example to my classes, I'll address:
The descriptive details of the Radley yard: specific details in the weeds Ms. Lee chose to place there (i.e., rabbit-tobacco and the noxious weed Johnson grass);
Open-ended questions of what these two details might suggest about the appearance of a 'swept yard'--and how the reader might visualize such a yard; how community members might react to such a yard, including adults' reactions as opposed to that of children;
How Lee's use of such a yard ties into the repeated themes in the novel: poverty, prejudice, the oppression of the pariah, etc.
In other words, even with the mention of two specific details, such as Johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco, much can be suggested. And I hope this will impress upon my students that in their own writing, specific details will add depth.
The other point of fascination to me is what the reader brings to a work of literature. Perhaps Lee simply used Johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco because that is what she had seen in bleak-looking yards in her own Monroeville--and nothing more. Perhaps she herself used them to suggest a yard with weeds--a yard that lacked tender-loving care and nothing more. And perhaps my own tendency to take connections as far as I can when considering themes in a novel causes me to think of connections Lee never herself considered. Well, that's exciting, I think. I believe readers create novels in their own reading that the writer herself or himself didn't visualize while writing the work because readers bring information into the work that the writer may have not been privy to. And that is very exciting because it makes novels burst with new life. However, this kind of thinking I will probably not touch on with my ninth graders because it is most likely too abstract. I'll share it with you all, however, because we tend to take topics here in so many directions.
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another teacher from the history dept. overheard our conversation about rabbit-tobacco and immediately began to recount the time in his childhood when friends and he had smoked rabbit-tobacco
Reminds me of the time when a bunch of us 15 year olds at summer camp started to smoke something we called "Bumwado Cedarettes".
We took strips of bark off the cedar trees which were everywhere and ground them up in our hands into something that looked like tobacco. Then we hand-rolled them in what was known as "bumwad" from the Kibos and lit them up.
And I do mean we "LIT" them up. When the flame hit the bumwad, they flared like a butane lighter on wide open gas. But then they would settle out to a raspy smoke that lasted perhaps 5 minutes or more.
Voila! Bumwado cedarettes.
It was more of a style than a substance thing, you know.
It was a little disconcerting to see all the dust come out of the cedar strips when we ground them up. But that was in the days before we knew anything about all the crap in regular tobacco.
No-one's ever died of a "Bumwado Cedarette", as far as I know. And no durn government ever put a tax on it.
Hell, no tabaccky company ever made a puff of profit from our cedarettes. And there ain't a billboard nowheres boostin' them to kids.
#132161 - 09/04/04 03:21 PM Re: Rabbit-Tobacco Joined: May 2004
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Excellent thinking, Wordwind, write Harper Lee now. If you can reach her I'll bet that she will be delighted to respond. Please let us know if she does.
As for your three classes of ninth graders, I'll bet that the method of teaching by establishing conections with subects of personal intrests to your students will also spill over into their understanding of the symbolism and subtleties of literature. This enjoyment of living that you might add to only one of your ingrateful and socially self-centered urchins is a gift beyond measure. I know, I myself am a reformed self-centered urchin.
Of course,I know that you are well aware of the good that you do, but I just wanted to say it myself as a way of saying "thank you".
(If can find any of the so-called rabbit tobacco in the woods this week-end I will have a sample identified at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham Tuesday and repot back.)
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Payback can come in a lot of different ways.
In the first on-ice meeting between Marian Hossa and Raffi Torres since the hit in the playoffs that saw Hossa leave Game 3 on a stretcher, the Blackhawks paid Torres and the Phoenix Coyotes back with a dominating 6-2 win Thursday night at Jobing.com Arena.
The win moved the Hawks to 9-0-2.
Who else but pro's pro Jamal Mayers took care of business early, dropping the gloves and fighting Torres just 2:35 into the first period. Mayers came off the bench and immediately challenged Torres, who knew it was coming.
The bout was probably a draw, but it was the effort by Mayers that drew the praise of his teammates.
"If that doesn't get you pumped up, nothing will," Patrick Kane told Comcast SportsNet following the first period. "That really set the tone for us and pumped up everyone. It gave you chills on the bench watching that."
Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said what Mayers did was not premeditated.
"He might have had an idea of what he wanted to do," Quenneville told reporters. "Jammer knows his role. He's a good pro. I commend him."
Kane took over from there, scoring 2 power-play goals and adding an assist in a 4-goal first period when the Hawks outshot Phoenix 17-4.
Viktor Stalberg opened the scoring at 8:17 when he fired home a pass from Andrew Shaw, who had chipped the puck to himself around Coyotes defenseman Chris Summers.
Kane made it 2-0 during a 5-on-3 power play when he took a pass from Jonathan Toews during a scramble in front and beat goalie Mike Smith.
Kane then set up Dave Bolland's goal at 17:24, drawing two Coyotes defenders to him along the boards and finding Bolland in the slot.
Kane got his second goal at 18:25 when he one-timed a pass from Patrick Sharp and beat Smith from the right side. Sharp had 3 assists in the first period.
Hossa, who assisted on Toews' goal in the third period, told reporters at the morning skate that he was taking it as just another game.
"I'm here to just play another game," Hossa said. "We'll see what's going to happen and what kind of game it's going to be, but for me I'm going to prepare for just another game."
The Hawks remained the only team in the NHL without a loss in regulation.
"We try to play our game how we've done so far this year," Hossa said. "I think we've done so well so far and we're not going to change anything. We're going to roll all four lines and that's our goal."
Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said there were a number of challenges about playing the Hawks, starting with containing their best players.
The Coyotes failed to do that.
"They're a solid team throughout, but their top players are really good top players," Tippett said. "Their top players are elite players and you have to be aware of them."
The Coyotes made it 4-1 early in the second period on a goal by Martin Hanzal, but the Hawks got the next 2.
Torres got the final goal of the game with less than two minutes to play, but by that time it hardly mattered.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten will not seek another term in office, he announced Thursday during a news conference at city hall.
Speaking to reporters, the mayor discussed changes he hopes to see in the city's future, but said he will leave office in April feeling good about Topeka.
"I have enjoyed serving as mayor immensely," Bunten said.
Bunten said he feels good about a number of projects that are underway in the city, including the NOTO Arts District, downtown redevelopment and street improvements.
The mayor also highlighted businesses that are bringing jobs to the area, including Mars and Bimbo Bakeries.
After praising Topeka's good works, Bunten discussed concerns he wants addressed in the future, including what he considers to be an unacceptable salary for the city's mayor.
"I believe it is unwise to have the office of mayor stand as the lowest paid full-time employee of the city, paid almost $1,000 less than a building custodian," Bunten said.
Topeka's mayor is paid $20,000 plus $3600 for vehicle expenses. The compensation was changed in 2005, when the city's form of government changed from strong mayor to council-manager. The thought was the mayor's position would become more ceremonial and part time, but Bunten maintains meeting even half of the board, meeting, ribbon cutting, public event and other obligations is a full-time commitment. He says, this year, he's logged 269 events through the end of September.
Bunten was the first mayor elected in the new form of government. He won a second term in 2009, carrying more than 65 percent in every precinct.
The mayor's office caps a public service career that's spanned five decades. Bunten was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1962. He served in the House for 28 years. He returned to the legislature in 2003, when he was appointed to the State Senate to fill out the term left vacant when Lynn Jenkins was elected State Treasurer.
Bunten had previously said part of his decision would be based on whether he was comfortable with people who expressed interest in the job. He said Thursday that he did have conversations with a few people, but he did not reveal who any of those people might be.
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Akhtar Zaman and his 25-member extended family fled fighting in the Swat district six weeks ago. They are now staying with relatives in Mardan and being supported by WFP. Their story is the story of hundreds of thousands of families in northern Pakistan at the moment.
MARDAN -- Akhtar and his family didn't have time to pack before leaving their home in the beautiful Swat valley. The women had to sell their jewellery just to pay for the car out of Swat.
"We came with nothing but the shoes on our feet, we didn't bring anything with us," he says as he clutches his ration card at a WFP distribution centre in Mardan. He's collecting his WFP provisions for June.
Now he, his wife and two kids, his 2 brothers and their families, his two sisters and their families, his mother and father, are staying with their cousins at their home in Mardan.
Better than a tent
His cousins live in three mud rooms built in a U shape. The courtyard in the middle of the U has been given over to Akhtar's family. With 25 newcomers and 23 people already living there, that's 58 people in total.
It's not much of a new home for Akhtar, but it's all his cousins can give him, and it's free. He says he'd rather stay here than in a tent and for the moment his cousins' family is willing to house them.
- WFP distributed monthly food rations to nearly 3 million IDPs in camps and host communities during May.
- WFP has capacity to provide food rations to 150,000 people per day.
- 35 Humanitarian Hubs are in action serving host communities and 10 food distribution points in camps.
- The UN has appealed for US$162 million to meet basic food needs of IDPs.
- According to registration authorities, there are more than two million IDPs in northern Pakistan.
"We will combine all our families together happily. I always welcome them," says cousin Chamin Khan. They're all sharing WFP rations - wheat, pulses, oil, salt, sugar, tea, biscuits - and the food the family buys from local markets.
Collect food
This has been the model of choice in Pakistan's exodus from Swat. Families that have fled the fighting are being housed in communities. WFP has helped the government set up 'humanitarian hubs' - centres close to the communities where people can come and register and collect food.
This system sometimes create a little tension relationship between IDPs and their hosts. The displaced people and many others are relying on the kindness of family and friends.
Chamin Khan is warm and open in his role as a host, but he admits that it's a challenge to house Akhtar and his family. "I'm not sure for how long I can afford to house these people, but I will try my best," he says. WFP food rations will certainly make it easier.


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Digging up a good book at the library
Many children dove into the Oceans of Fun show flippers first where puppets came alive as a pirate boy, rainbow fish and a beautiful mermaid told stories and sang songs about life under the seas at the County-City Library on Tuesday. A magical gold fish multiplied before the children's eyes, then a dancing skeleton came alive while bone moving music was played. A big treasure was found and the children had have a big splash learning about the ocean while digging in the books.Tricia Gregory (with lots of pride) was raised on the west side of Texas - Fluvanna/Snyder. She has been in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro area performing as a children's entertainer for close to 20 years. Gregory has been in partnership owning MerryMakers TOO since 2000 and they have created and performed over 30 themed and educational shows at schools, day cares and libraries. Gregory, with MerryMakers TOO, performs magic, puppets, songs and laughter as well. She has been a puppeteer for over 30 years and makes the hand and marionette puppets come alive. One of her specialities is balloon twisting. With years of practice, she has twisted many detailed balloons such as Elvis, cartoon characters, intricately designed animals, princesses, adult size bride and groom and many more. She has been an instructor for TCA, UTA Clown College, local groups and has also taught other balloon twisters. She is also a member of Texas Clown Association, Mid-Cities Clown Alley #85, Happi Tymes Clown Alley, DFW Face Painting Guild and G.O.T Balloon Jam. Gregory has attended the 2010 and 2012 World Balloon Conventions and has competed in balloon and skit competitions over the years and has received many awards. She was also awarded TCA Best All Around Clown of Texas in 2007. Gregory volunteers for the Make A Wish Foundation and for the Children's Cancer Fund.


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Texans running back Arian Foster can't seem to shake his hamstring troubles.
After missing the first half of August with a left hamstring injury, Foster left Saturday's preseason game after aggravating the the same injury, according to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle.
Foster knew right away there was a problem. After a nine-yard run, Foster angrily walked off the field and threw his helmet. He finished with eight carries for 38 yards.
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Monarchs Match With Wake Forest To Be Played At ODU
By ODU Athletics
Aug. 15, 2003
NORFOLK, VA. --Old Dominion's match with Wake Forest, ranked fourth by College Soccer News (Sept. 19) and Marshall (Sept. 20) originally scheduled for William and Mary's tournament and new stadium has been switched to the ODU Soccer Stadium. Both matches will start at 7 p.m. The Deamon Deacons (15-2-4) were the top seed in last year's NCAA College Cup and defeated ODU in the second round, 1-0 on a late goal.
The Old Dominion University men's soccer squad garnered 69 points, tying them with William and Mary for second spot on the CAA pre-season poll as voted on by the league's ten head coaches.
Defending CAA Champion Virginia Commonwealth got 81 points and nine first place votes and was a unanimous choice to capture the title again (coach can't vote for his own team).
ODU, William and Mary and VCU each earned berths in the NCAA Men's College Cup last year. The Monarchs were 10-9-1 last year and advanced to the second round of the NCAA College Cup for the first time in school history. The Monarchs have six starters back, including two-time CAA Player of the Year Attila Vendegh (Bratislava Slovakia), who is already the school's career leader in goals (46), and points (108). Also back is two-time All-CAA defender Trevor McEachron (Woodbridge, VA.) and senior goalkeeper Sam Cameron (Raleigh, NC.).
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Local women educators sorority celebrates anniversary
Alpha Nu, the Cheney-Medical Lake chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, is celebrating through the month of October as the international sorority of women educators marks its 65th anniversary.
Cheney Mayor Tom Trulove will deliver a proclamation at next week's City Council meeting declaring October Alpha Delta Kappa month, and the local chapter is preparing to host a "Founder's Day" meeting Oct. 20, where they will remember the sorority's roots and talk about current goals. The meeting will host chapters from across the Eastern Washington region as well as the president of the state association.
Alpha Delta Kappa's work is based on altruism with a mission to serve their communities both locally and nationally. The local chapter donates to a different cause, selected by the national organization, each year, but most of their work is done locally.
Co-presidents Linda Carr and Glea Trulove said they have developed relationships with many regional organizations that help the less fortunate over the local chapter's 47 years in existence. The group mostly gives of themselves; they meet monthly, bringing donated goods from their own homes or from friends and families. Different projects to benefit regional organizations are the focus for each meeting. Alpha Nu also finances scholarships for local students annually.
Carr and Trulove stressed the importance of the group's unique makeup: both current and retired teachers are invited to be members. While retirees have more time to volunteer during the weekday, active teachers keep the rest of the group up-to-date on needs in the schools and in the community.
Ultimately, "more gets done," Trulove said, adding that monthly meetings and weekend projects that bring many members together helps develop a sense of camaraderie between the older and younger members.
"We're all here for the same purpose, and it brings people together," Carr said.
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Curwensville downs Kane in five
Curwensville came to town Monday and walked away with an easy 14-3 win over the Kane Wolves.On a beautiful day for baseball, the visitors from Curwensville wasted no time getting in the scoring column as the first two batters reached base courtesy of a walk and a single. Pitcher Jeff Kocjancic then looked like they were going to get out of the jam as he retired the next two batters, but, Kyle Johns came up with a big single and two runs batted in. Kane again kept their composure and got things going for themselves as lead off batter Tyler Ennis got a single and came around to score the first run for Kane.Curwensville pitching then controlled the young Wolves hitters as only three batters were able to reach base and two of them were via hit batsman and a walk then a single by Tyler Burdick in the bottom half of the fourth.See full article by purchasing the May 1 edition of The Kane Republican.


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ASUS' ROG gaming notebooks have gotten more polished with each iteration and the latest versions unveiled by ASUS come with cutting edge features, from quad-core processors to 3D displays. NVIDIA's GTX 560M graphics are found on the two different models we saw today, the ROG G74Sx 3D and the G53Sx. While the G74Sx 3D uses the familiar NVIDIA 3D Vision that requires active 3D glasses, the 3D technology on the G53Sx does not.
ASUS also affirmed its confidence and commitment to the desktop PC with a new ROG gaming desktop system. The pre-made ROG CG8565 may have a name that's hard to remember but its angular, matte black exterior, which reminded us of stealth ships and aircraft, will stick in the minds of gamers. Powered by an Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7 processor with a Z68 motherboard, this system comes with ASUS' auto-overclocking utility where one can get up to 4.2GHz just by pressing a button. It also comes with ASUS Xonar sound card. Perhaps the P8Z68 Deluxe motherboard that we saw earlier is found inside this desktop PC.


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A Christmas morning fire in an east Houma trailer killed three siblings and left their father with serious burns, fire officials said.
A Christmas morning fire in an east Houma trailer killed three siblings and left their father with serious burns, fire officials said.
A 13-year-old girl and two boys, ages 11 and 12, died in the fire at 120 Whispering Oaks, one in a cluster of older mobile homes off Main Street near East Street, said Mike Delaune with the state Fire Marshal's Office.
The fire was called in by neighbors about 1:30 a.m., Wednesday and the trailer was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, Houma Fire Inspector Mike Millet said.
The children's father managed to rescue one child but was unable to get to the three who died. The dad, who was seriously burned on his arms during the attempt, was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to the burn unit in Baton Rouge, Millet said. He was in critical condition this morning.
"The fire was so quick, he just couldn't get to them," Millet said.
There were 12 people in the trailer when the fire erupted: One couple and four children who lived there and another couple visiting from Alabama for the holiday with their four kids, authorities and neighbors said. It was the visiting family that lost three of its members.
None of their names were made available. All were treated for smoke inhalation. The deceased children's mother and the children were also being treated at the Baton Rouge General Hospital burn unit, said Doug Cain with the state Fire Marshal's Office.
The fire started in the kitchen/living room area of the two-bedroom trailer, a state Fire Marshal's Office news release says, and may have been sparked by space heaters or candles in use throughout the home. Temperatures early Wednesday morning were in the low 30s.
Four children were sleeping in the living room when the fire started, the release says,
The dead children's parents, asleep in one bedroom, were alerted of the fire when smoke started seeping under their bedroom door, Cain said. The dad ran into the burning living room and rushed one child to safety, but he was unable to get back inside to the others.
The children's mother escaped out the bedroom window with another child, the release says. The other adults were asleep in a bedroom on the opposite end of the trailer and escaped through the back door with the remaining children.
The two families were related, but the exact relationship hasn't been revealed.
Neighbor Chantel Guillot talked to the father as firefighters worked.
"He said the only thing he can remember is his little girl saying, 'Papi, ayudame.' And that means in English, 'Papi, help me,' " Guillott said.
Guillott said the flames stretched over the roof of the home.
"I got socks and shoes for the lady who was walking and crying, the one who lost her children," she said. "They didn't want any help for them. They only wanted help for their kids."
The dad initially thought he'd lost all four of his children to the flames, Guillott said.
"And then come to find out, he found one of his little boys in somebody else's lap, and he fell down to the ground crying," she said. "It was really sad."
There were no working smoke detectors in the trailer, authorities said.
The fire destroyed the trailer, an older, white single-wide with a brown or orange trim.
A neighboring trailer suffered heat damage, and the fire also destroyed two cars and a shed belonging to the trailer that burned.
One of those cars was an Explorer bearing Alabama plates and a "Proud Parent of an Honor Roll Student, Terrebonne Parish Schools" sticker.
WWL-TV, The Courier and Daily Comet's news-gathering partner, contributed to this report.


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Why not? With all the crap that he's been through. No coach should have to go through what RR has gone through at Michigan. I'll guarantee you that if RR would go to Florida they would beat the crap out of everybody. He would be able to recruit just about anybody he needs for a spread offense there. If he does get fired and goes to Florida I'll laugh because Michigan will have made the biggest worst coaching job decision ever.
If fired RR goes to Florida???
Please stop stop stop. The speculation will go on around us without us having to explicitly detail it here. Can we "rise above" this kinda stuff please?
"Can we "rise above" this kinda stuff please?"
Not likely.
Dan Mullen will be Floridas next coach. Leave Rich Rod out of it.
what my Florida fan GM is saying. Mullen. He was also unaware of the previous debunked McGee rumors, though says they are going to need a new OC as well.
wow. that seems crazier that Auburn hiring a losing coach from Iowa State.
Thats Dan Hawkins
are you asking me to "Raise You Up?"
Normally I don't have this problem, but i couldn't find an image on google to describe how much I hate this (and every subsequent and identical) thread.
why has nobody pasted any?
This is what ND fans do everytime a successful "hot" coach either gets the axe, retires, or is somehow open to taking on another program.
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This was not the thread I was looking to start.
But grape kool aid on a hot summer day is refreshing.
Once I had so much Ecto Cooler (Ghostbusters) at one of my early birthday parties that my urine came out green. You wouldn't believe how scared I was.
Ecto Cooler was the best ever. Me not choosing to write about Ecto Cooler was the biggest worst (see above) decision I have ever made. My bad.
choosing to find a pic for my last post was my worst decision ever. I wish I could posbang your post eleventy billion times.
Searched for it on ebay a few years back.
buying Ecto Cooler Kool Aid on eBay
There's NOTHING as refreshing as 15 year old Ecto Cooler that's been inexplicably sitting in a total strangers house unopened for that entire period of time. Trust me, you'll be fine!!
This subthread is side-splitting. That was some good sh**!
2006-era "Steve don't eat it ( link ) is about eating the contents of an un-opened box of Urkel-O's from 1991.
The problem with posting all these funny comments in threads a lot of people don't want is that I keep reading them.
Well, it was more for the nostalgic purpose at that point. But I wonder what color my urine would have been had I found some and drank it?
According to the interwebs, you can make your own. With alcohol, as a bonus. The way it reads, it can't be good. But, I'll give it a whirl and post an all juice thread.
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sir are a god. I am making it this weekend. Although if I try to drink so much my piss turns green again, I will probably miss it due to alcohol poisoning.
The best part is you can go in knowing that your pee will turn green, 20 ounces of Vodka later, meltdown may very well ensue.
After a particularly rough St. Patrick's day my junior year I was horrified after getting off the pot to see that I'd just dropped a neon green deuce. In my hungover state it took me a while to put two and two together and realize the green beer was the culprit, but for a frightening few moments I was completely convinced I had just pooped out a chunk of Kryptonite.
Can be a dangerous day for solid and liquid waste. That is when Ecto Cooler got me...hence the green juice.
even better when drunks arrive at the ER morning of march 18 with green piss... they are FREAKED out and its everything we could do from errupting in laughter.
What the fuck is juice?
Better juice than shit.
this thread is much more dressed up with juice
The Juice:
Man swallowing a glove.
I want some purple drank!
Gimme some damn apple drank.....What the heck is Juice?
Lol... Purple stuff!!!! I miss the chappelle show
You need some commas in that last sentence or something.
That would break the post's theme. It works better as it is.
Commas are the biggest worst decision ever to use in a blog post.
Dumb and Dumber gets a +1 from me
I still like bacon.
Someone shoot me now!
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RR is on his way to Gainesville right now...
I think Dee Hart has masterminded this whole thing.
If that doesn't encompass the crap that is being written in what 5 threads now I do not know what does.
Why stop your speculation there.... What if he doesn't get fired and leaves UM for Flordia.
Then what?
Then touche to Rodriguez. Fooled all of us.
With all the BS he has had to endure in his three years here would you blame him. We have an extremely young team with almost everyone coming back, went 7-5 despite injuries, transfers, and an early entrant to the NFL destroying our secondary, our best defender spent more than half the season hobbling around on bad ankles due to chop blocks, and our AD wants to wait until after the bowl game to evaluate despite having some very significant recruits who are interested in us and want to enroll early.
Wouldn't it be funny if RR bolted and Denard followed along with others, our pipeline into Florida burst, and we ended up with a nobody coach who had a month to recruit.
If RR does leave for Florida or elsewhere, I wouldn't blame him for a second.
A lot of people have treated him like shit the day he got here.
Just go away. I don't care if it's to Florida or somewhere else; just stop making new posts.
Bolivia perhaps?
I love that there is a thread about Meyer resigning to come to Michigan and one about RR heading to Florida. The bowls can't start soon enough.
My thread about Meyer coming was just stating what other people were saying...Not personal speculation and I was actually quite disgusted that peeps had already started calling for it...
Wasn't meant as a shot at you, Brew. I know you were just the messenger (and an unhappy one at that, given the suicide picure). Honestly, I find the whole thing more amusing than anything else. I've always enjoy watching the chaos and speculation that an announcement like this brings. I just sort of want to start talking about football again.
he should definitely check out Ybor City, good fish tacos there. also, South Beach. Skip Disney, but def go to Cape Canaveral.
Last I heard, Rich Rod was still "All In".
you sir are mistaken. according to house rules, after going all in you cannot call for a raise.
MODS!!!!! This guy needs -10000.
Why does everyone get so pissed with this type of thread. There is no football on right now and this is entertaining. I love this stuff.
There are 4 other threads already talking about this.
They are all entertaining!
clip always cheers up my day. I don't know if it is the disgust in the guy who talks the most or the fact that leroy just takes off after being tired of listening to him.
Good show!
I love this clip. My favorite part is the leader disgustedly saying "G-dammit Leroy." I laugh at this every time.
The royal smugness of the "leader" is what always makes me giggle. The South Park episode lampooning WoW did a great job capturing that
But its old. I was pissed at Howard yesterday when he talked right over the best part.
It could be argued that Florida is a better job than UofM if Florida and if Coach Rodriguez is offered, many would justify his taking the job. Since FL knows their coach is in his last game they have nothing to lose by finding and announcing their new hire ASAP. Brandon is running out of time to wait unless he is absolutely certain what he is going to do with the coaching decision. With the changing landscape, Rich Rodriguez now has more chips to play at the table.
Sorry, I didn't like anything about this post. Didn't he just say he "wanted to be a michigan man." ??? He wouldn't leave unless he got fired at which point I wouldn't blame him for taking the job.
Can a wolverine engineer please invent a time machine so I can fast forward to "the decision"? I can't take this $hit anymore!!!
I can help im an electrical engineer. Im sure if we get a couple other engineers together we can get something going soon
I'll do what I can
If you are the girl in your avatar, I highly doubt your cababilities, but I'm willing to watch.
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This week has been so nice with everyone getting distracted by the Gator Bowl and not talking about our coach's job...
...why did it have to end?
it is always the kids with barely over 100 pts to post dumbass shit like this
Yeah where's mathlete when you need him? I'm thinking a chart with post count on the bottom and awfulness on the vertical axis. There's definitely a bubble around the 100 to 500 point range
No man, it's been across the board by numerous posters and different point totals. I'll give you the majority but def not all of these posters have had low point totals.
Sir what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling incoherent post was there anything close to being considered a rational thought. Everyone on this board is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
I would award you points if I could but I'm not important enough.
You're important enough in my book and that's what matters.
+1 for all Billy Madison references.
+1 from a man who cannot presently act on this +1ing impulse.
I'm not saying the sentiment was nice, however. I am just praising the execution.
For using a picture of Roberto Mancini.
We need the mods to leave their day jobs until this post crisis has subsided and take care of business ASAP!
Problem every single thing in the news is a crisis here.
I guessed 55. Thought the negs would have been here sooner.
The real question, though, is why did you create this thread? You just got to the trusted level. Why do people keep making bad choices when they get the power to create threads? I just don't understand. Don't throw yourself into it with what you later find out is a ridiculous post. Hang out for a while, get a feel for the board, and only then post something you think the board needs.
I guess that's what it all comes down to: why would the board need this thread? I can't imagine any answers to that question that would seem reasonable. Granted, of course, that that's just me.
Because I hate threads like this, and commenting on it just makes it float towards the top and get more exposure.
Well played sir
I have zero knowledge on Florida and their coaching search, but I can almost guarantee Dan Mullen gets the job. If not, it will be Charlie Strong.
Belichek to Florida, book it.
Couldn't think of anything else to write on this dbl post
derp derp derp derp
Clicking on this thread is the biggest worst mistake I've made all day.
Please make this stop btw
Leave me with no remorse for going back to neg past posts. Completely warranted. I encourage everyone to do the same.
Maybe if Mullen goes to Florida, then RR will leave early to coach at Mississippi State!!!!! AGAINST US!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
And because of mgoblog's love affair with all things depressing...
Florida would never consider RR. The past three years would make it hard to find a job on a somewhat successful team. Maybe Texas Tech.
I spoke to a former Florida football player, who has ties to the Florida Athletic Department, this afternoon. His comment: "Speaking for myself, I want no part of Rodriguez and I think I can safely say that virtually everyone in the athletic department feels the same way." If that's the case, it doesn't speak well for Rodriguez' reputation nationally right now. By the way, he said, that they're all in for Mullen.
I have been probably one of the loudest critic of those that come onto these threads - which are clearly aboput the CC topic - and post nasty comments, stupid pictures, cartoons, cats or boobs (ok, I like the boobs, but who doesn't).
But on this post, and the other stupid posts that simply say, "hey, Florida needs a coach. Meyer is unemployed. DUDE!! OMG!! EITHER MICHIGAN WILL GET MEYER OR RR WILL GO TO FLORIDA": please bring Bolivia to these people. I get wanting to talk about a big decision relating to our program but this - this amounts to morons sharing their brain farts. Please make it stop.
This is a call to profitgoblue to bring back his ACT or to at least come up with a new one about threads like this.
I've been hammering away behind the scenes like you advocated so passionately. You asked and you received and now you want my services again? I'm not a rag doll to be tossed around and then picked up when you need some love!
It has gotten so ridiculous at this point I go on threads like this just to see what you guys come up with to say: "Oh Shit, not again."
illustrating every reason i don't read message boards. sheesh.
Is there functionally that would allow the board to auto-delete posts through a certain number of negs?
That additional level of self policing could help clean things up.
Where is the fun in that???
come on now. You can't call yourself a fan, if you make a thread like this. Wow first Miami speculation then this. How about "hey RR is our coach and is staying that way"! So sick of these threads, guess im one of the few ones HAPPY that Michigan is back in a bowl. I think we should make a change. You can't make threads unless your at 500 or 1000 mgopoints, after the bowl and the DB decision then let these fake fans make their threads!
it's called the Gator bowl.
If anything can break Brandon's - wait until the season's over stance the coaching musical chairs that is about to begin just might do it. Miami and Florida as the head line schools with openings - betting that Dan Mullen (Miss State) gets a nice raise offer right about ..... now!
This was my favorite part:
If he does get fired and goes to Florida I'll laugh because Michigan will have made the biggest worst coaching job decision ever.
That's one hell of a sentence you just put together, kid.
Florida would win that honor...
The phrase "biggest worst" actually does a great job of summarizing this post.
Maybe the world is going to end?
I'm not sure if it was debunked, but didn't Michigan's OC visit Florida? This was originally thought to be an interview for the OC position/Rodriguez helping out his people with soft landings, but perhaps it was something else.
Thank you for the stupid ass post.
I wouldn't be shocked if RR bolted for Florida, given the opportunity. He was dissatisfied with the powers that be in WV, so he ditched them. Why not here?
However, to completely absolve him from blame is retarded.
Hiring/recruiting/overseeing a completely dissolved Defense, falls entirely on his shoulders. Injuries or not.
I am so tired of people painting him as the victim.
...there is 0 chance he gets the Florida job. Zero.
There are so many people off the Florida coaching tree, many of them would be excellent candidates.
I kind of want to see Les Miles go to Florida, just for Spencer Hall's reaction.
but if he is fired after the bowl game (which i dont think is likely) that we should trade him for Urban Meyer, because you know he's not done coaching. He just wants out of the SEC.
who would you rather have? Meyer or Harbaugh?
I'd rather have Meyer, because he's proven he can run the spread offense. Harbaugh is a great coach, but he would have to rebuild the team. Meyer would already have it set for the most part from RR.
He hasn't burnt out yet.
Why would Florida, a place that could hire any coach out there, want a coach that got fired for not succeeeding at Michigan? They would get so much backlash from making that move!
What if Dan Mullen takes the Florida job? MSU could play really hard to prove they "don't need Mullen," or they could just go FTS and have no focus. Obviously, as a MIchigan fan, I would be hoping for the latter. It would be a lot of fun to see Michigan romp over a discombobulated MSU in the Gator Bowl.
Why not?
He kind of has to be offered the job first.
You think they'd aggressively go after a coach who's been on the hot seat for a couple years when they could have pretty much their pick? Doubt it. Should M fire RR (hope not), then JH is our best bet and the most likely candidate, but in reality Florida is a more solid program and more attractive to the better coaching candidates. RR would not be on their list, unless it was for Offensive Coordinator.
that Brandon isn't going to fire RR. Even so, your statement really underestimates Michigan. Florida is a good program. One of the best in the last 10 years. But, the tradition, the money put into the facilities and program, the general patience of the administration and fanbase, at really far more appealing to attract a coach looking for a long time tenure than in Florida. At the same time, the fanbase and some alumni of Florida were ready to fire Urban after this year. Pretty amazing considering the recent track record.
That's why they fired Wannstadt today......(Sarcasm!!!!)
Miami or Pitt. Just sayin'.
I don't know if Florida would hire a coach with a losing record the last 3 seasons. Plus RR wouldn't escape scrutiny coaching at Florida. Their fanbase is definitely not as patient as ours.


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Jason Kubel returned to hit two home runs, Ian Kennedy struck out seven in eight innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks rolled to a 7-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night.
The Diamondbacks gave Mat Latos his first loss in exactly three months after knocking the righty around for five runs in just 4 2/3 innings.
Kubel, who was dealing with a tight hamstring, hit home runs off Latos (7-3) in his first two at-bats since Saturday, a two-run blast in the first inning and a leadoff shot in the fourth.
"I wasn't concerned about it," Kubel said about his injury.
The Diamondbacks had scored just eight runs in their previous five games prior to Wednesday, but have now won two of the first three games in this four-game set.
Kennedy (7-8) was much better than he needed to be, allowing a run on eight hits without walking a batter to go 3-0 in his three career starts against the Reds.
He has struck out 47 and walked only seven in his last eight games.
Latos hadn't lost since April 18 at St. Louis, going 7-0 in 15 starts. But he allowed six hits and two walks with three strikeouts in this one and has given up seven runs in 9 2/3 innings in his last two outings.
The Reds have lost two of three on the heels of a six-game winning streak and gave up sole possession of first place in the NL Central. The Pirates beat the Rockies earlier Wednesday and have tied them.
Aaron Hill hit a one-out single and Kubel jumped on a 1-0 fastball two pitches later, sending it well over the center field wall.
"It did put a little stress on us," Reds manager Dusty Baker said of the early homer. "Hopefully, well get some offense early and take a little pressure off us."
The Reds used three singles to score a run in the second inning, including Drew Stubbs' RBI hit, but the Diamondbacks steadily padded their lead.
Kubel knocked an 0-1 breaking pitch to right field for his 17th homer leading off the fourth inning and Latos came out in the fifth after giving up runs on Hill's double and a bases-loaded walk to Miguel Montero to make it 5-1.
The bases were only loaded because the Reds opted to intentionally walk Kubel in his third at-bat. Kubel has 39 RBI since June 5, which leads the NL.
"I believe Kubel was back in the line-up," Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall quipped on Twitter.
Back-to-back doubles by Justin Upton and Paul Goldschmidt off Jose Arredondo in the eighth plated a run, and Goldschmidt later scored on a passed ball for Arizona's 7-1 lead.
Game Notes
At least one home run has been hit in the last 71 games at Great American Ball Park. It's the longest active ballpark homer streak in the majors, the longest home run streak ever at Great American Ball Park and the longest in the majors since an 80-game run at Coors Field in 2002-03...The Diamondbacks are 2-4 on a seven-game road trip...The Reds are 4-2 on a 10-game homestand.


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What: Veterans Day screening of National Geographic's film "Hitler's G.I. Death Camp," produced by Boulder-based Hoggard Films. Followed by a Skype talk-back with American veteran and Holocaust survivor Norman Fellman, who is featured in the film
When: 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11
Where: Boedecker Theater at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Cost: $6-$9; $7 for seniors and students
Info: 303-998-1021, thedairy.org or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The event is sponsored by Menorah, the arts and cultural programming series from Boulder's Jewish Community Center
A worn diary rested on a coffee table at the end of the hallway in young Fernando Acevedo's California house. He knew it had something to do with the war.
Sometimes Fernando would curiously flip through the pages. Names. Hundreds of names. His older brother had doodled on a few of the back pages. More names.
Sometimes Fernando would notice a distant blackness in his father's eyes, as if he were somewhere else. Sometimes his father, Tony Acevedo, would collapse into tears. And sometimes, he would share flickers of sharp memories, and his youngest son would understand the tears.
Tony Acevedo is American.
He was raised Catholic.
He grew up in California and Mexico.
He was a soldier in World War II.
And he was a victim of the Holocaust.
When most Americans think of GIs during World War II, they think of the liberators. Young soldiers defeating the Germans to liberate Jewish prisoners from death camps.
But that's not Acevedo's story.
Hundreds of American soldiers, of various ethnicities and religions, were also captured by Nazis and forced to work, often to death, in one of the most secretive concentration camps in Berga.
Hitler's G.I. death camp.
Until decades after the war ended, this slice of history was not widely known, as most American soldiers who survived didn't speak about it after they returned.
Some, such as Acevedo, say they were ashamed or embarrassed. He remembers someone telling him, "Only cowards are captured," and he locked his lips.
Others refer to a document they say the government made them sign that swore them to not speak publicly; there's debate among survivors about whether it was standard wartime protocol or some conspiracy to keep this story hidden from the American public. Historians say it was standard.
Regardless of the theories and personal reasons, this story was untold.
That is, until Acevedo's son grew older and began compiling the stories his father had told him into a yet-to-be-published book. Then in 2005, Fernando Acevedo read a CNN report about Berga's liberation.
"When I read the story online, it was incomplete," he says. "I said, 'You have a story about a tank liberator liberating the camp from the outside, but if you want to know the other half, about a man on the inside wanting to get out, contact me.' "
The article that evolved from that email caught the eyes of the Holocaust Memorial Museum and a pair of Boulder filmmakers, Steven Hoggard and Daphna Rubin. They pitched the idea to National Geographic.
On Monday, Veterans Day 2013, The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder will screen that documentary, which follows the story of Tony Acevedo and other American Holocaust survivors. The 50-minute film, National Geographic's "Hitler's G.I. Death Camp," starts at 7 p.m. Monday in the Boedecker Theater.
After the screening, survivor and veteran Norman Fellman, who is also featured in the film, will answer questions from the audience via Skype.
Tony Acevedo's diary
The reveal started with Tony Acevedo's diary.
Acevedo, a military medic, kept a list of all of the soldiers he met in Berga, as well as their health conditions.
This quickly turned into a death log, as about 20 percent of the concentration camp prisoners would die. By comparison, 3-4 percent of other prisoners-of-war didn't make it out alive, experts say.
Acevedo says he kept his journal tucked in his waistline, under his shirt, so Nazis would not confiscate it. He didn't know what he would do with the journal when he got out, but he knew he didn't want to forget the names and faces of the soldiers. Or their health issues.
Dysentery. Gangrene. Diarrhea.
Acevedo's health was crumbling, too, with only one-tenth of a loaf of bread to eat per 10-hour workday of grueling manual labor. The prisoners in Berga hauled wheelbarrows of rocks out of a mountainside in which the Germans were digging to create an underground facility.
Emphysema from the dust.
Most concentration-camp victims lost about half their body weight, survivors say. And as Acevedo turned into bones, it became more difficult for him to conceal his diary in his waistline. He remembers it falling out in front of a group of Nazis. Fear.
But the physical torture was nothing compared with the mental, he says. He gave soldiers placebo "pills" when his supplies thinned out.
"It wasn't true, but it was something to maintain life support to make them believe, so they would psychologically survive," Acevedo says.
Maybe that's what the journal was to him -- a vow to himself that he would escape and someday share the names of those who did not. And he did.
It took decades, but he moved the journal from his coffee table to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. It was the first original artifact from Berga in the museum, says Kyra Schuster, museum curator.
"Then it snowballed," she says. "Other people came forward."
Norman Fellman's tough choice
Norman Fellman, 89, remembers the faces.
"The skinniest people I'd ever seen in my life, in blue-striped pajamas," he recalls. "Their eyes were huge, faces were thin and they just stared at us. To this day, I can't forget what they looked like. That picture stays with me."
But what really struck him was what he heard.
Nothing. It was deathly silent.
When Fellman's 200-man company in the 70th Infantry Division, were ambushed by Germans in January 1945, he says, the Americans had to choose: freeze or starve to death, or surrender.
And later, when the Nazis asked all Jews to step forward, Fellman says he had another impossible choice to make: offer himself up or be discovered; his dog tag had been marked "H" for Hebrew.
He stepped forward.
"I had no idea. I had no idea," Fellman says. "I didn't think what would happen would be pleasant, but I had no idea."
In less than 100 days, he had wasted from 178 pounds to 82. Fellman had been turned into one of those faces in the blue-striped pajamas.
He shares stories from the camp. Dead bodies in a stack that prisoners had to walk past to get their food. Eighty men packed in boxcars designed to hold 40, freezing to death with no toilets or food. Residents spitting on them, throwing rocks at them.
After liberation, Fellman says, he enrolled directly into school.
"I just got busy. I tried to put it all behind me," he says. "I met my wife and went into business and began raising a family."
One night, he says, he sat in the car with his wife and shared the whole story.
"I told her that I was broken. Damaged goods. And I asked her to never bring it up again," he says. "She didn't."
Fellman did the same with his parents and brother. After that, until his father died at age 95, Fellman says no one spoke of his experiences again, save for a birthday card his father sent him every April 20, the day of his release from prison camp -- and also Hitler's birthday. Not even Fellman's employees at his men's shoes store knew he was in the service.
Until the 50th reunion of the war.
Fellman attended his first and last POW gathering. And he walked out with a new plan: It was time to share his story with the world. As he reads the news, stories about torturing prisoners in Iraq, he says it seems people still have not learned.
"Every time I tell the story, it gets a little bit easier," he says.
He thinks of the motto, "Never again."
He wonders if "Never again" is possible.
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I think the effects of a perfect game or no-no also can be physical. I mean it's a guaranteed complete game and guys often extend to 125+ pitches to get it done where if they were winning 5-0 having given up a single hit they might be pulled around 100. Plus obviously the mental strain of throwing a once in a lifetime game can lead to a guy putting a lot extra on late inning pitches and stress the system even more.
I mean a guy with a 10-0 lead having given up a hit or two is throwing get me over fastballs late in the game just to finish a complete game, but with a major achievement on the line, they are still letting it fly late with a high pitch count. I've felt this way for a while. It's more obvious for older pitchers I think.
I remember when Buehrle threw his perfect game and then came back and started the next game with like 5.2 innings of perfection. Then suddenly he hit the wall and the next 4-5 games (IIRC) he struggled. I thought it was the stress from all those tough pitches.
Really he had two bad outings. The outing against the Twins he had 5.2 perfect innings and the game got a way from him in the seventh but in looking at the game recap on baseball-reference I noticed that one of the runs was scored on a weak ground ball through third, another on a single into short right and yet another when Dotel walked in a run. I seem to recall thinking that anyone other than Dye in right would have gotten to that single. In his next outing he pitched into the 8th but gave up five runs (and the White Sox made three errors behind him) and then pitched 8 shutout innings against Seattle. I know a lot of people said that Buerhle fell apart after the perfect game in 2009 but I only thought he had four bad starts out of his next thirteen. Sorry for the hijack.
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A homemade bomb that broke several windows on the front of the Jackson County District Attorney's Office early Wednesday has left the employees a bit rattled, but overall, District Attorney Beth Heckert says, everyone is ready to get back to work.
"People have questions. People are apprehensive, but by the same token, we're not going to be intimidated by someone doing something like this," Heckert said at a press conference Thursday.
"We've faced threats in the past. They haven't had this result, so I think that kind of startles people and makes people realize that we do deal with a lot of dangerous criminals who sometimes take out their anger on us or our office."
The bomb, an improvised explosive device attached to a propane tank, went off at 4:38 a.m. Wednesday outside 715 W. 10th St. Several of the front windows shattered and fire sprayed the building, but the tank did not rupture and detonate fully. A perimeter was established around the buildings while 30 officers from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies combed the surrounding neighborhoods for debris and additional evidence. A damage estimate was not available Thursday. Investigators agree the bombing was intentional and directed at the DA's office.
On Wednesday, the DA's office operated with a bare-bones crew, working out of different county offices. County justice officials canceled grand jury sessions and delayed court until the afternoon.
Deputy District Attorney Jeremy Markiewicz described the moment he heard the news.
"It was a little shocking," Markiewicz said. "Not knowing what the damage was or anything, and to come down here and see it all roped off and see all the fire trucks yesterday morning — it was definitely an eye-opener."
Deputy District Attorney Ruby Herriott said she was awakened by a call telling her what had happened. She said the incident surprised her, but she's well aware that her profession is a potential target.
"It's something that you always kind of think about with this job," Herriott said. "It's something that's in the back of your mind, but I didn't expect it to actually happen."
Heckert said the attack could result in additional security at the DA's office, but she's not certain what approach the department will take.
"That's something we've looked at for a long time," she said, adding there are some challenges in making it happen. "We talk about it and look at it on a regular basis. ... Our buildings are what they are, and so it's difficult to somehow totally surround them with a chain-link fence and still allow the public in."
Despite the uneasiness caused by the blast, the office's attorneys are ready to get back to their desks.
"Work doesn't stop. Crime doesn't stop. We've still got things to do and work that needs to get done," Markiewicz said.
Heckert said she's received an outpouring of support from across the state, including Gov. John Kitzhaber and the Oregon Attorney General's Office.
"I think in times like this, law enforcement really pulls together," Heckert said.
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A homemade bomb that broke several windows on the front of the Jackson County District Attorney's Office early Wednesday has left the employees a bit rattled, but overall, District Attorney Beth Heckert says, everyone is ready to get back to work.


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Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:02 pm
He sang "Rags to Riches" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and then with his friends singing harmony, "End of the Rainbow." He also did a Jerry Lee Lewis impersonation, pounding the keys so hard that a glass of water he'd set on the piano began sliding off.
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me (New York: Putnam, September 19, 1985)
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mike edwards66 wrote:Interesting stuff.
Nancy Sinatra did a nice version titled 'The End'
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elvisalisellers wrote:Interesting topic.
Re. Hamilton's stellar version: this appeared as the closing track on his 1961 LP Only You (Epic-LN 3807).
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Mister Moon wrote:Very interesting and informative post. Thanks !!
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mike edwards66 wrote:Interesting stuff.
Nancy Sinatra did a nice version titled 'The End'
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ekenee wrote:I am thinking he would have nailed Rags to Riches in 1959.
It's interesting how many songs he eventually came back to later on.
Would be cool if a home recording surfaced of that song or the Rainbow tune.
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r&b wrote:Cool stuff . At The End of The Rainbow is a great song and it would have been a great one for Elvis to record in the early 60's. By the 70's it may have been given the overblown treatment and ruined.
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mysterytrainrideson wrote:Nice topic, Doc. Not heard the song before. Good research, Doc. Wasn't too impressed with the Earl Grant version, but Roy's was great. You can hear so much of Elvis in that song...Elvis obviously admired Roy and you can hear so much vocal mannerisms that Elvis got from Roy.
I agree with r&b, this would've went down perfect in the early 60's on an album like "Something For Everybody" or "Pot Luck". Had he tackled the song in the 70's on stage or on an album, it would've been overblown. I was never impressed with Elvis' over the top operatic voice in the 70's.
Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:01 pm
Tony.. wrote:'Sportheim' is actually a sports hall, not a restaurant, that Elvis hired 3 times, once was for his 'over the hump' party (which celebrated his being halfway through his army service), and another time was for the end of his army service, where this pic was taken ...
sportheim-badnauheim.de wrote:die turnhalle wurde nach dem 2. weltkrieg nicht mehr als solche genutzt.
nach dem krieg fanden im großen saal filmvorführungen statt.
weihnachten 1959 hat das us-bataillon, dem auch elvis presley angehörte, die weihnachtsfeier in der turnhalle abgehalten. hier zeigte sich elvis zum ersten mal mit seiner späteren frau priscilla.
the gym was no longer used as such, after the 2nd world war.
after the war, film screenings were held in the great hall.
on christmas 1959, the u.s. battalion, which elvis presley belonged to, held their christmas party in the gym. here, elvis appeared for the first time in public with his future wife priscilla.
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drjohncarpenter wrote:Well, the 1970 Presley studio version of "Rags to Riches" comes off relatively unscathed. But had he done it in March or April 1960, it would really have been something special!
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luckyjackson1 wrote:Many thanks for this topic close to home, Doc!
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Revelator wrote:Thank you for the excellent post Doc, and for introducing us to that sublime recording by Roy Hamilton. It completely erases the original, and reminds me for the thousandth time how undercelebrated Hamilton was in life and death.
Revelator wrote:drjohncarpenter wrote:Well, the 1970 Presley studio version of "Rags to Riches" comes off relatively unscathed. But had he done it in March or April 1960, it would really have been something special!
But the 1970 version is already something special.
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epf wrote:Interesting! Cool topic, doc. Good work. Thanks.
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Everyone was showing off multi-screen connectivity at E3--not just Nintendo. Microsoft spent a good deal of its E3 presentation on SmartGlass; Sony showed off how Vita can be used as a controller for the PS3 version of LittleBigPlanet 2. Given Wii U is defined by the asymmetric gameplay made possible by its unique tablet, did Sony and Microsoft steal Nintendo's thunder?
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata doesn't think so. "That suggests to me that they clearly see value in what we're trying to do," he said. "So the fact that we have so quickly seen somebody following in the footsteps of what we first introduced with the Wii U, suggests that there are people who see great appeal in what we're offering."
Although Iwata is flattered by the competition, he sees Wii U as having a technical advantage over both Microsoft and Sony's offerings. While SmartGlass can work on a variety of touchscreen devices, Iwata says that the lack of buttons will make it difficult to properly integrate into games. "Now, if they could hold a controller with two hands and hold a tablet or a smartphone with another hand, there would be no issue," he told investors. "Unfortunately, since it is not possible for humans to do that, you can't play a game in a way you can play with the Wii U."
Wii U was designed from the ground up to have two devices interoperate. "We have paid particular attention to the latency," Iwata noted. "If you have latency within that process, or lag within that process, it's no longer a quality game. So clearly and naturally the latency for a situation like that is going to be very different from a device that has specifically been designed to achieve that type of seamless interaction versus a device that simply has conventional technology layered for each device to be purchased for individual reasons."