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In this Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 picture, artist John Crawford shows an identification label from Lawrence Salander's gallery still attached to the back of a framed art work by his father, Ralston Crawford, in Brooklyn, New York. In 2007, sick of not getting answers from art dealer Lawrence Salander to the whereabouts of his father's work, John Crawford drove his pickup truck into the city, marched into the gallery and gathered any of his father's paintings that he could find. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
By: Helen O'Neill, AP Special Correspondent
In a clattery, uptown bistro, not far from the studio where he once watched his father paint bold abstract masterpieces, Earl Davis contemplates the greatest loss of his life.
Not his beloved father, Stuart Davis, who died in 1964 when Earl was 12. Nor his father's work, which Davis, an only child, spent three decades trying to document, preserve and showcase. Even the loss of the millions of dollars that the paintings were worth Davis' inheritance, swindled from him in the cruelest fashion is not what hurts the most.
The biggest loss, Davis says, was the love and friendship of the man he admired and adored, a man he trusted with everything his confidences, his dreams, his father's life's work.
Even now, several years after the unraveling of one of the most elaborate art frauds in history, Davis has nightmares about confronting Lawrence Salander, begging him for answers, for the truth.
Why did the art dealer spend decades cultivating his friendship even as he sold more than 90 of father's paintings behind his back, dismantling a collection that Davis had sought so hard to preserve? How could he have collaborated with Davis for 23 years, working together on an exhaustive catalog that detailed the story behind every Stuart Davis work, only to be sentenced before it was published?
What of the more mundane things those endless, richly satisfying conversations about art and philosophy and life? Was any of it real?
The same anguished questions have tortured dozens of other victims from celebrities to wealthy collectors to artists and those managing their estates defrauded of some $120 million by a man some call the Bernard Madoff of the art world, owner of a lavish Upper East Side gallery one luxury magazine called the best in the world.
Earlier this year, Salander pleaded guilty to 29 counts of grand larceny and fraud. In August, he was sentenced to six to 18 years in prison.
In court documents and testimony, the 61-year-old Salander outlined his schemes: How he would sell art he didn't own, sometimes peddling the same painting or shares in a painting to two or more buyers. How he falsified records, lied to investors, submitted fraudulent loan applications, sold paintings that were for exhibit only, and pocketed the money to pay for private jets, his multimillion dollar Manhattan town house, his 66-acre estate upstate.
Was it all a great con from the start? Or did Salander, as some suggest, cross to "the dark side" of the art world, taking advantage of a strangely unregulated place where priceless works are often consigned to galleries with little more than a handshake, where trust is as important as receipts?
"Larry Salander took that which is the essence the art world relationships and violated it in the worst possible way," says Ellyn Shander, a psychiatrist who lost her late father's art collection to Salander. "He is a sly, manipulative sociopath, a con man with no soul."
But others describe Salander as a misunderstood visionary who was passionate about great art, who nourished lesser known artists as well as established ones, who ultimately felt betrayed himself by the world he loved and the backers who once believed in him.
"Was he a cheat? Yes. Was he ruthless? Yes," says artist Paul Resika, who exhibited with Salander for 19 years and lost much of his own art. "But he did great exhibitions that I consider a very high and moral thing to do. He did tremendous things for art."
Resika is speaking on the phone from Cape Cod. In the background his wife cries out, in disgust: "Larry Salander was a villain."
Ellyn Shander treasures childhood memories of the Sunday morning ritual with her father, Alexander Pearlman. They would take the train to Manhattan from their home in Queens, sometimes with her two sisters in tow, and spend the afternoon wandering through art galleries, inevitably winding up at the Salander-O'Reilly gallery on 79th Street. (Salander's partner, William O'Reilly, retired from the gallery in 1997, but Salander kept the original name.)
Shander's eyes glow as she sits in her Stamford, Conn., home and describes growing up in a house filled with art, how the children pretended to friends and neighbors that their father, a physician, was an amateur painter because they were afraid the work would be stolen.
The tiny figurative piece by Modigliani the first her father ever bought. The vivid Monet seascape. Small Picassos and Cezannes.
All had their stories and memories. They were more than just objects, Shander says. "They were part of our life, part of our connection to our father."
At the gallery, Shander remembers a stocky, balding, genial man who embraced her father and called him "Doc." They would stroll through rooms filled with paintings American modernists like Marsden Hartley and Albert Pinkham Ryder as well as works by Matisse, Corot, Constable, Rembrandt and El Greco as the two men talked about the latest acquisitions. Her father, Shander says, loved Salander like a son.
And so after Pearlman died in 2004 at the age of 91, his daughters felt relieved when Salander drove to his home after the funeral and loaded the entire collection into a van "for safekeeping." It was the last they ever saw of their father's art.
"He walked in all concerned and crying for my dad, and he walked out with a $2 million-plus art collection that he stole. What kind of human being does that?" Shander cries.
And, she adds bitterly, what kind of a world lets him get away with it?
In fact, the art world, with its clubby nature and casual intimacy between dealers, collectors, galleries and artists, is particularly vulnerable to exactly the kind of fraud that Salander masterminded.
"It's a world of relationships, friendships, handshakes," says longtime Manhattan gallery owner Joan Washburn. "A world where you only deal with people you know and trust. And often, transactions are very informal."
It's also a world of fabulous wealth, enormous egos and creative pride. Artists, eager to have their work exhibited in the finest galleries, hand over paintings with few safeguards. Paper trails can be murky, especially with paintings or sculptures that are hundreds of years old. Title is not always clear. And the agreements that are signed when a work is handed to a gallery for sale or for exhibit offer little protection if the gallery owner is dishonest or goes bankrupt.
Art is also portable. It's difficult to track whether a piece is in an exhibit, or a gallery or in storage, especially if a dealer is lying about its whereabouts.
Certain legal protections are available, such as filing a Uniform Commercial Code contract or lien that protects the title of the work. But in the art world that's often considered unseemly, almost a violation of the very trust that is the heart of deals between galleries, collectors and artists.
So Salander was free to build his empire, and his reputation, by manipulating that trust.
By the time his gallery collapsed in October 2007, Salander had become a towering presence in the art world, a self-taught scholar who had risen from relatively modest beginnings managing his father's small gallery in Manhattan and another in Wilton, Conn. An amateur painter himself (his oil depiction of the crucifixion is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Salander's charm, his prodigious knowledge of art, his energy and passion were irresistible to many.
Tennis star John McEnroe, a serious art collector, apprenticed with Salander in 1993 and is the godfather of one of Salander's seven children. Abstract expressionist painter Robert De Niro Sr., the late father of the actor, became Salander's friend and exhibited at the gallery. Hedge fund executive Roy Lennox, a neighbor of Salander's in Millbrook, N.Y., invested millions in various deals with the gallery. Later, he would describe them in court documents as "nothing more than an illegal Ponzi scheme."
Earl Davis ... Alexander Pearlman ... John and Neelon Crawford, sons of the painter and photographer Ralston Crawford ... T. Kinney Frelinghuysen, nephew of abstract artist Suzy Frelinghuysen who also represents the estate of her husband, artist George L.K. Morris. All were the recipients of Salander's perceived bounty, and ultimately his betrayal.
"It was such a beautiful location and Larry was very personable and we were really looking to showcase the art and give Suzy and George a bigger market presence," says Frelinghuysen, director of the Frelinghuysen Morris house in Lenox, Mass. Though apprehensive at first about leaving his old gallery and handing over so much work, Frelinghuysen was thrilled by the prospects of a magnificent exhibition, and flattered that Salander included some of the nephew's original work. "I was very proud, and Larry was excited and happy."
Other collectors and artists felt the same way, privileged to be in such a special place, filled with a sense of gratitude as they handed over valuable pieces.
Even staff at the gallery felt anointed by Salander. Paula Hornbostel, hired as a researcher in 1996, spent a thrilling 11 years at her dream job working for a boss and mentor who inspired her. Salander nicknamed her "Supe" short for "superwoman" because of her ability to verify the work of obscure pre-Raphaelite painters. In 2000 Salander flew her to Boston in a private plane and introduced her to the Gaston Lachaise foundation, whose directors were so impressed that they named her curator. Salander went to Hornbostel's wedding. He offered to help publish her graduate work.
"It was just all so exciting and I was learning so much," Hornbostel says, recounting traveling expeditions to Budapest and Prague, parties at Salander's country estate, cozy dinners with artists at his favorite Italian restaurant, Girasole, on East 82nd Street. In 2004, when Salander rented the opulent Frick collection museum on 70th Street for a lavish 40th birthday party for his second wife, Julie, he hired Hornbostel's sister, a baker, to cater the event.
But even as she was swept up in Salander's magical world, Hornbostel wondered privately about how he was paying for it all. Her sister was having trouble getting paid. Hornbostel suspected others were, too. The gallery was simply not selling enough work to pay for its exhibits and overhead.
Hornbostel wasn't the only one who questioned Salander's lifestyle. In the fall of 2005, Salander moved the gallery to a 25,000-square-foot Italianate mansion on East 71st street with lush velvet walls, a marble foyer and a rent of more than $150,000 a month. Many other gallery owners wondered if he was over-stretched.
Salander talked grandly about bringing "soul" back to art, about acquiring the greatest collection of old masters and Renaissance paintings. He made no secret of his disdain for the astronomical sums of money paid by wealthy new collectors for pieces by contemporary stars like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Art, he said, was the expression of the human soul. And America, he wrote, had become "a soulless society ... one that would value a work of art by Andy Warhol or by Francis Bacon three times more than that of a great, late masterpiece by Rembrandt."
Salander's new gallery would change that. He was going to single-handedly restore the art market's soul. Says Hornbostel, "He talked about it all the time."
The art world was skeptical. Old masters don't come on the market very often and their authenticity can be hard to trace.
"It was just a mystery to the rest of us, how he could afford it all," Washburn says.
Then, almost overnight, the mystery was revealed.
For Davis, the first hint of trouble came in 2005 when he began asking basic accounting questions about hundreds of paintings and drawings stored with Salander. He was shocked to learn that several pieces had been sold without his permission. Salander stalled, promising that Davis would be paid, offering vague answers about the whereabouts of other works.
Though Davis trusted Salander implicitly, he was worried. There were rumors about cash-flow problems at the gallery, about others not getting paid, about paintings being sold without authorization. Trade magazines began were reporting on legal complaints by collectors, Salander's former landlord, even his former partner, all saying they hadn't been paid.
Salander kept reassuring his friend. "The only thing that could stand in the way of paying you would be my death," he wrote in one 2006 e-mail. Little did Davis know that similar assurances were being sent to dozens of others.
Finally, when Davis demanded a return of all the work, Salander produced a favorite piece "Music Hall," from his father's Ashcan period. Davis felt so relieved, he stopped asking questions, at least for a time. Some time later, according to Davis, Salander called apologetically and said he had been mistaken. "Music Hall" had in fact been sold to a collector years before and he was forced to return it. Davis says he eventually discovered that Salander had simply borrowed back the piece temporarily to falsely reassure his friend.
Later, dozens of similar tales would unfold, many of them detailed in the blizzard of lawsuits that eventually became part of the Salander saga. In the case of McEnroe, Salander persuaded him to buy half shares in two paintings, Arshile Gorky's "Pirate I" and "Pirate II." McEnroe later discovered that the shares, for which he had paid $2 million, already belonged to someone else.
"The level of deception was just staggering," Davis says. "And the level of control."
But things were spiraling out of control. By 2007 the lawsuits were mounting, as were questions about the gallery's viability.
Salander's response, in press reports, was to dismiss the lawsuits as disputes among friends. Everything would be resolved, he said. And the key would be one of the most ambitious exhibitions of old masters paintings ever mounted, a show called "Masterpieces of Art: Five Centuries of Painting and Sculpture," to open in the fall of 2007. Anchoring the show: a rare Caravaggio on loan from a London dealer. It was called "Apollo, the Lute Player" and Salander boasted that he could sell it for $100 million.
But that wasn't enough to assuage the growing unease.
In Massachusetts, even before he learned of the lawsuits, Frelinghuysen became suspicious when a collector from California called to praise a piece he had just bought from the collection stored with Salander. The piece was not for sale. Salander assured Frelinghuysen that the gallery had made a mistake, and that he would be paid the same assurances he was making to so many others.
Today Frelinghuysen says he feels not only betrayed, and guilty about losing his aunt's work, but also painfully naive. "I was still thinking of Larry as a buddy, who believed in the integrity of the foundation," he says. Court documents indicate that Frelinghuysen's foundation was defrauded of 41 works worth more than $2 million.
In Connecticut, after reading about Salander's troubles, Shander went directly to the gallery and demanded her father's work. She was escorted out by a security guard. Later, she says, Salander called and "tried to sweet-talk me into a deal to sell five paintings and get paid over five months." Shander refused. She found out later that part of the collection had been sold. The rest is now tied up in bankruptcy proceedings; even her lawyer says it is unlikely she or her sisters will ever retrieve it.
Brooklyn artist John Crawford, son of Ralston Crawford, experienced the same kind of stomach-churning unease when he requested an inventory of his father's work. In 2007, sick of not getting answers, he drove his 1987 Dodge Dakota into the city, parked on 71st Street, marched into the gallery and loaded any of his father's paintings that he could find.
In Wyoming, Crawford's brother, Neelon, was beginning to feel desperate. Even three trips to Manhattan couldn't get him a full accounting, or a meeting with Salander. Finally, tipped off by a sympathetic gallery worker some of his fathers' paintings were about to be sold for far less than he had agreed, Crawford called New York City Detective Mark Fishstein in the art fraud division. As Crawford tells it, the detective made a short, laconic phone call to Salander.
"There's a guy in Wyoming who wants his paintings, you understand? There's a guy in Wyoming who wants to be paid, you understand? There's a guy in Wyoming who wants everything shipped to him on a truck next Friday, you understand?"
The detective ended the conversation with a veiled threat to personally visit the gallery.
Most of the paintings were shipped by the end of the week. Crawford laughs heartily as he tells the story. But, he adds, "I feel a lot luckier than most."
Hornbostel, Salander's "superwoman," was not so lucky. In her basement office, she recalls a creeping sense of doom as the gallery prepared for the Caravaggio show. Salander seemed grimly distracted, everyone else was busy, and Hornbostel couldn't shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong.
It wasn't until another staff member mentioned that a Lachaise sculpture "Garden Lady" was being boxed and carted off in a shipping truck upstairs that she panicked. She burst into Salander's fifth-floor office, crying out that the piece was not for sale. With a grand gesture, Hornbostel recalls, he picked up the phone and announced, "there has been a mistake, cancel the shipment." But by the time Hornbostel raced back down to the ground floor, the piece was gone.
She remembers the chaotic day the gallery closed, ordered padlocked by a court after Salander's former partner and biggest investor, Donald Schupak, filed a series of legal motions to end Salander's control. It was the opening day of the Caravaggio exhibit. Earlier that day, the London dealer had marched into the gallery and removed "Apollo, the Lute Player," from the wall. Crowds had gathered outside, some hoping to see the exhibit, others demanding their work.
Hornbostel watched in dismay, barely beginning to digest the level of Salander's betrayal. And yet she hugged him farewell, saying, "I guess I won't come in tomorrow."
"I still don't know why I did that," she says.
About six months after the gallery closed, Hornbostel was having lunch with her husband and young children when Salander and his wife walked into the restaurant. He smiled, joked with the kids, never mentioned the gallery or the fact that he had filed for personal bankruptcy. Hornbostel could barely contain her anger, and her bewilderment. The Lachaise Foundation, for which Hornbostel had been responsible, had lost an estimated $6.6 million.
"There was no apology, no remorse," Hornbostel says. "After all the agony he had put me through. I kept looking at him thinking: How could you? Who are you?"
"He was a crook from the start and I believe he thought he could get away with it to the end," says the poet and collector Stanley Moss, who professes never to have bought into what he calls the Salander myth. He tells of a piece, a small Madonna and child supposedly by 15th-century Italian sculptor Luca Della Robbia, that Salander gave him as a housewarming gift when he moved upstate several years ago. "I knew it was a fake, and he knew I knew it was a fake," Moss says. "I think it was all about the glamour of money."
But others have more complicated feelings about a man they had considered a great scholar and friend. Collector Monty Diamond's voice cracks on the phone as he talks of how hard it is to reconcile his friend of 40 years the "standup guy" with whom he shared summers on Brant Lake in the Adirondacks, the man who taught him a love and appreciation of great art with the broken man he witnessed in court.
"I was the beneficiary of this great friendship," Diamond says. "And at the same time he duped me, he was a con man ..." Diamond's voice trails off.
Salander would offer no public explanations. His sobbing apology in the courtroom seemed, to many of his victims, to be entirely self-centered.
"I've lost my wife, my business and my reputation," he said. "I am utterly and completely disgraced."
Salander, now jailed at Riker's Island, has said no more; through his lawyer, he declined to be interviewed.
If there are clues to his actions perhaps they lie in the pages of his unpublished manuscript, "Soul Wars," a rambling 578-page treatise on the state of the human soul.
In it, Salander laments a decaying society in which "too many of us have prostituted our beautiful souls for money." He took a risk, Salander writes, "by standing up for the human soul and the art that proves it exists."
There is one chapter titled "Betrayal."
"All betrayals are to some degree premeditated," Salander writes. "Betrayal is never an accident."
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (March 1, 2008) -- With several seedings still yet to be determined for next week's Atlantic Sun Confernece Tournament in Nashville, the ETSU men's basketball team will do what it can Saturday afternoon when the Buccnaeers hit the road to face USC Upstate at 4 p.m. inside the G.B. Hodges Center.
This will be ETSU's first-ever trip to USC Upstate, having played the Spartans only once in program history, and enjoying a 67-60 win in that meeting back in January. The Bucs (17-12 overall, 10-5 A-Sun) will be looking for their third straight win and they hope to continue building momentum as they prepare for the conference championships. Right now, the Bucs could finish anywhere from third to fifth in the league standings.
Senior Travis Strong (Memphis) enters the game just four points shy of 1,000 for his career. If he can reach 1,000, he will be the sixth player from the 2003-04 NCAA Tournament team to reach that mark. Those teammates from the '03-'04 squad are Zakee Wadood, Jerald Fields, Ben Rhoda, Tim Smith and Brad Nuckles.
For more on Saturday's game, click the game notebook link above or read the game notes below. Fans unable to attend the game Saturday can watch live via the live video streaming offered at ASun.TV, or they can listen live through ETSUBucs.com. Links to those broadcasts are located above.
Buc Shots
A seven-time NCAA Tournament and two-time NIT participant, the ETSU Buccaneers enter the 2007-08 season coming off a regular season Atlantic Sun Conference championship with a 24-10 overall record, and a 16-2 league mark a year ago ... The Bucs return the 2006-07 A-Sun Player of the Year in junior guardCourtney Pigram (Memphis), as well as the A-Sun Coach of the Year Murry Bartow and All A-Sun Freshman team pick Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) ... Along with returning players like Pigram and Smith, the Bucs also return significant contributors to last season's success such as senior post Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.), senior forward Kenyona Swader (Smyrna), and senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis) ... Newcomers for the Bucs that are expected to contribute early and often include junior college transfer Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.), who was the JuCo Division II National Player of the Year last season, and lightning quick JuCo point guard Jocolby Davis (Meridian, Miss.) ... Several Bucs are currently leading A-Sun statistical categories, see page 6 of this notebook for more information on those players and their rank ... In addition, see where the Bucs ranks as a team and individually on the national charts on Page 4.
The series against USC Upstate
This will be the second ever meeting between the Bucs and USC Upstate ... ETSU leads the series 1-0, having dropped Upstate 67-60 back on Jan. 5 ... The Trojans are playing their first season as members of NCAA Division I, after spending several seasons at the Division II level as members of the Peachbelt Conference.
Last time against the Spartans
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 5, 2008)- The ETSU men's basketball team may have been facing a first year Division I opponent on Saturday, but USC Upstate was not interested in making anything easy for the Buccaneers ... In the first meeting ever between the schools, ETSU held just a 3-point lead with 10 minutes left in the game, but the Buccaneers were able to overcome one of their worst offensive games of the year to pick up a win in the Atlantic Sun Conference opener for both teams 67-60 at Memorial Center. With the win, ETSU improves to 7-7 on the year, 1-0 in A-Sun play, while USC Upstate drops to 2-13, 0-1 ... Four Bucs reached double figures, led by a game-high 14 points and team-high seven rebounds from senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.). Along with Reed, sophomore guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) pitched in 13, senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis) added 11, and junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) netted 10 ... For USC Upstate, forward Bobby Davis posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, while teammate Jeremy Byrd posted a game-high 14. Luke Payne and Mezie Uzochukwu each added 11 points apiece for the Spartans ... In the first half, ETSU used a 16-4 run from the 16 to 11-minute mark to build a 22-8 lead. From there, the Bucs basically maintained that advantage thanks to 50 percent shooting from the floor, ultimately holding a 39-27 advantage at the intermission ... In the second half, the Bucs just could not get going offensively. In fact, ETSU would hit just five field goals after the break and allowed the Spartans to get within three points on a 3-pointer by Rashawn Brailsford with 10:03 left in the game. Luckily for the Bucs, they managed a 7-0 spurt to make it a 10-point game at the 7:48 mark, and the Spartans were only able to get as close as five points at 55-50 the rest of the game ... For the game, ETSU hit on just 41 percent of its shots, but held the Spartans to 34 percent. The Bucs out-rebounded USC Upstate 36-35, and ETSU was a decisive 25-of-33 from the foul line for a 76 percent clip. The Spartans had 10 steals and forced 23 turnovers by the Bucs.
Last time out
BUIES CREEK, N.C. (Feb. 25, 2008)- Watching a 12-point halftime lead evaporate in the first four minutes of the second half and trailing 58-53 with 15:38 left in the game, the ETSU men's basketball team kept its poise, going on to outscore Atlantic Sun Conference foe Campbell 37-16 over the next eight minutes to build a 16-point lead and roll to a 96-87 win over the Camels Monday night at Carter Gym ... The Buccaneers, who improved to 17-12 overall, 10-5 in A-Sun play, ruined a special ceremonial night at Campbell (10-17, 5-9), as the Camels played their final game inside historic Carter Gym. The Camels first began playing in Carter during the 1953 season, and will open the new John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center next season ... In the first half, the Bucs shot 51 percent from the floor and raced out to a lead of as many as 14 points at 31-17 with 7:04 left before the intermission, ultimately leading by 12 48-36 at the break. Jocolby Davis (Meridian, Miss.) led the attack, reaching his career high in the first 20 minutes with 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting from the floor and a 3-of-3 effort from the foul line ... The second half was a different story early on, as Campbell came out hot from beyond the arc, outscoring the Bucs 19-5 to open the half and grabbing the lead 55-53. From there, though, junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) scored 13 of his18 points to power the ETSU comeback. Along with Pigram, the Bucs got a team-high 20 points from senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis), who is now just four points shy of reaching 1,000 for his career ... Along with Pigram and Strong, the Bucs got double figure scoring from senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.) with 14, Davis with 12, and both sophomore guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) and senior forward Kenyona Swader (Smyrna) each finished with 11 points apiece. The Bucs dished out 24 assists on the night and shot 55 percent from the floor, 40 percent from the 3-point arc, and 78 percent from the charity stripe. ETSU's bench also outscored Campbell 31-1 on the night ... For Campbell, the team's standout player Jonathan Rodriguez finished with a double-double, posting game highs with 31 points and 12 rebounds. Senior Reggie Bishop added 17, while Junard Hartley and Kyle Vejraska netted 16 and 13, respectively.
Strong approaching 1,000 points for his career
With one regular season games left on the schedule and at least one game in the Atlantic Sun tournament, fifth-year senior guardTravis Strong (Memphis) is on the verge of reaching the 1,000-point mark before his time at ETSU is over ... Strong currently stands at 996 points for his career after scoring 20 points in back-to-back games against Tennessee Tech and Campbell ... Strong, who is averaging 10.6 ppg, is the final link to the 2004 NCAA Tournament team at ETSU, and would be the sixth player from that squad to reach 1,000 points ... The others to reach that mark from the 2004 squad include Jerald Fields, Zakee
Wadood, Tim Smith, Ben Rhoda and Brad Nuckles.
Williams making his mark
As a redshirt freshman, guardMicah Williams (Manchester) spent last season and much of the early part of this year waiting for his chance to make a mark ... Most recently, Williams broke through against Lipscomb (2/16), setting or matching career highs for points (14), field goals (5), field goals attempted (8), 3-point field goals (2) and rebounds (6) ... In his last 11 games, Williams is averaging 5.1 points and 2.5 rebounds a game in 12.4 minutes a contest.
Tiggs taking over
With his second A-Sun Player of the Week honor in his possession, junior forwardKevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) is certainly making an impression on the ETSU basketball program and the Atlantic Sun Conference in his first season wearing the Blue and Gold ... After several strong performances, Tiggs is second in scoring (15.6 ppg), is second in rebounding (5.7 rpg), and is first in steals (1.7) on the team ... In the league, he ranks fourth in field goal percentage (56 percent) and is sixth in free throw percentage (79 percent) ... This season, he has already posted three double-doubles, and has reached double figures in scoring 18 times.
Bucs' RPI, Strength of Schedule rank among best in nation
Though the Bucs are now 17-12 on the year, the team's slow start at the beginning of the year was understandable when considering ETSU played an exceptionally tough early season slate ... As of Jan. 21 the Buccaneers' strength of schedule (SOS) ranked 74th in the country according to RealtimeRPI.com ... That SOS rank is obvious when looking at the RPI of ETSU's opponents in the early season schedule, which included -- at the time -- St. Mary's (4th), Dayton (7th) and Syracuse (11th) ... In fact, until just recently the Bucs SOS was as high at 18th in the country, before entering conference play ... As for RPI, the Bucs rank a respectable 150th out of 342 Division I teams.
Non-conference home win streak at 17
Over the last three seasons, the Bucs have fared well against non-conference opponents within the confines of Memorial Center ... In fact, the Bucs have won 17 straight non-conference homes games since losing a 90-73 contest to Fresno State back on Nov. 27, 2004 ... ETSU has enjoyed wins over teams such as Marshall (2), Chattanooga, Central Michigan, Morehead State, Tennessee Tech (2), UNC Asheville, Eastern Kentucky, Radford and Appalachian State in that time frame.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 118-38 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 76 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the final game of the year in the championship of the A-Sun Tournament ... This year, the Bucs are 11-2 at Memorial Center.
The Bucs at the Rainbow Classic
Spending a week in Hawaii during the winter months is always enjoyable, but ETSU's second trip ever to the Rainbow Classic was a bittersweet experience ... While the Bucs picked up their first win over a Southeastern Conference opponent since 1991-92 with a 76-58 victory over Georgia in the first round, the team finished the trip 1-2 after falling in back-to-back games to St. Mary's and Louisiana-Lafayette ... While the St. Mary's game was expected to be difficult -- considering the Gaels were ranked No. 2 in the RPI -- the 82-80 overtime loss to a 3-7 Lafayette team kept the Bucs from evening their season record to 6-6 coming home from the islands ... In two trips to the Rainbow, the Bucs are now 2-4 all time.
Another championship banner
With a win against Stetson (2/22), the Bucs wrapped up an outright 2006-07 A-Sun regular season title and garnered the No. 1 seed in the week's league championship tournament ... For ETSU, it was the continuation of a recent string of success that dates back to the 2000-2001 season ... In all, the Bucs have captured championships in five of the last seven seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament trips in 2002-03 and 2003-04, and a trip to the NIT in 2006-07 ... Here is the championship breakdown:
2000-2001-- Southern Conference North Division Championship
2001-2002 -- SoCon North Division championship
2002-2003 -- SoCon North Division championship; SoCon Tournament Championship
2003-2004 -- SoCon North Division championship, SoCon Regular Season Championship, SoCon Tournament Championship
2006-2007 -- Atlantic Sun Conference Regular Season Championship
Pigram eclipses 1,000 points
Beginning just his third season at ETSU, junior guardCourtney Pigram (Memphis) has already eclipsed the 1,000-point mark with a jump shot from the right corner at the 17:52 mark against Chattanooga (11/28) ... That basket gave Pigram 1,000 for his career and following the contest with the Mocs ... The junior now stands at 1,395 for his career and ranks for 7th on the all-time program scoring list ... The 6-1 shooting guard scored 325 points as a freshman and then netted a remarkable 614 as a sophomore ... His 614 points a year ago ranks 6th on the single season list.
1,126 wins and counting
With a win Jan. 25, 2007 against Belmont, the Bucs collected the program's 1,100th win all-time ... In over 80 years of basketball, the Bucs are 1,126-906.
Bucs dominate Preseason All A-Sun Picks
Last season, ETSU won its first Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball title, but Belmont denied the Buccaneers the conference's automatic bid in the final of the General Shale Brick Men's Basketball Championship ... Entering the 2007-08 season, both the coaches and the media predict that the Buccaneers will again be battling the Bruins for conference supremacy ... Both chose ETSU as the favorite to win the conference and defend its regular-season title with Belmont second ... The Bucs were the clear choice by the media to win the tournament ... The Buccaneers have gone 28-10 in A-Sun play in their two years in the league and will continue to be led byCourtney Pigram (Memphis). The junior from Memphis, Tenn. was named the preseason Player of the Year following up his Player of the Year award for the 2006-07 season ... As a sophomore, Pigram averaged 18.1 points per game, second-best in the conference and also ranked in the top 10 in steals (2nd, 2.62 SPG), 3-point field goals per game (3rd, 2.62 3-pt FG per game) and assists (7th, 3.74 APG). He turned in one the league's virtuoso performances of the season when he dished out a conference-record 18 assists against Mercer on February 24 to go along with 29 points and eight rebounds. The 18 assists set an A-Sun record, were one off the school record, and were the second-highest single-game total in Division I in the last two seasons.
Bucs on the Tube
Along with the new ASun.TV package which will video stream all ETSU men's and women's home games on the Internet, the Bucs will again have a significant presence on the television screen as well this year ... In fact, ETSU's trips to Oklahoma State (Dec. 8) and Syracuse (Dec. 15) both aired live locally, with the Oklahoma State game showing on WKPT (ABC) and the Syracuse contest aired on WJHL (CBS) ... The Bucs have also appeared on regional cable through the Friday night CSS Atlantic Sun Game of the Week with the Jan. 25th trip to Jacksonville and the Feb. 1 home game against Mercer on CSS ... In addition, Charter Main Street will air its weekly ETSU replay on Charter 13 and Comcast 14 Tuesday nights at 8 p.m., with the weekly games beginning on Dec. 4th with the Tennessee-Wesleyan game.
Chilton's No. 42 comes out of retirement
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 31, 2007)- For many years, Tom Chilton's No. 42 has held a special place in ETSU basketball's history. Next season, fans will see that special number on the floor once again ... Chilton, who ranks first all-time with 26.1 points per game and fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,801, has agreed to allow junior transfer Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) to wear his No. 42 jersey for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 season. Chilton, who now makes his home in Madison, Ind., said he was honored a current player would want to wear his number ... "I wish him the best and I'm honored he wants to wear No. 42," said Chilton, whose 42 is the only retired number in ETSU's program history. "I hope he always considers that the number doesn't make the player, but the player makes the number. A lot of hard work and effort went into that number during my time there, but ETSU gave a lot back to me and I wouldn't be where I am today without that university, so I'm happy to allow the number to be worn again." ... ETSU head coach Murry Bartow said he was appreciative Chilton would allow the number to come out of retirement, and he reiterated that the number will go back into retirement two years from now ... "Tom Chilton was one of the finest players to ever wear an ETSU uniform, and his willingness to allow Kevin to wear the number shows he is still proud to be a part of our program's tradition," Bartow said. "It's our expectation that Kevin understand the importance of the number and the responsibility that goes with wearing it." ... Tiggs, the 2007 National Junior College Division II Player of the Year, said he certainly understood the history behind the number ... "Mr. Chilton was and is a legend here, so wearing his number comes with a great deal of responsibility," Tiggs said. "I just want to play in a way that would make him proud."


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By Jennifer Rizzo
A military appeals court decided Thursday that accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan can be forcibly shaved, despite his assertion that his religion requires he wear a beard.
Siding with the judge overseeing the trial, Col. Gregory Gross, the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not allow Hasan to wear a beard during his upcoming court martial, as Hasan did not prove his beard was an expression of a sincerely held religious belief.
"We agree with the military judge's conclusion that petitioner's wearing of the beard denigrates the dignity, order, and decorum of the court-martial and is disruptive under the current posture of the case," the decision says.
Even if Hasan did wear the beard out of a sincere religious belief, the decision found that "compelling" government interests justified the judge's order for Hasan to be shaved.
The military psychiatrist is accused of opening fire in November 2009 at the Texas Army post's processing center, where soldiers were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq.
The attack left 13 dead and 32 people wounded. Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down after police exchanged fire with him.
His court-martial had been scheduled to start in August. But the appeals court delayed its start to determine whether his beard can be forcibly shaved during trial.
Army regulations prevent soldiers from wearing facial hair while in uniform. Hasan, who is still a soldier, is a practicing Muslim and maintains he has the right to wear the beard under U.S. laws protecting religious freedoms.
At a hearing in August, Hasan spoke about the beard he had grown.
"Your honor, in the name of almighty Allah, I am a Muslim," he told Gross. "I believe that my religion requires me to wear a beard."
Prosecutors argued that Hasan should have to shave his beard, saying the facial hair would make it harder for witnesses to identify him in court.
Gross ordered that Hasan would have to shave, triggering the appeal from Hasan's lawyers that was decided Thursday.
The court's decision can be further appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, an independent tribunal with worldwide jurisdiction over active-duty members of the U.S. armed forces and others subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Members of Hasan's defense team have indicated they plan on appealing the decision, according to Fort Hood.
If convicted of the shooting, Hasan can be sentenced to death.
A U.S.-born citizen of Palestinian descent, the licensed psychiatrist joined the Army in 1997. Though he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, he had been telling his family since 2001 that he wanted to get out of the military.
Hasan told his family he was taunted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Investigations tied to the Fort Hood shootings found he had been communicating via e-mail with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric killed last year in a U.S. drone attack.
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Where's the pic of him without the beard then? Having not seen it, I'd say to him DON'T DO IT leave the beard on. Looks great. In fact, he looks a liltte bit like a younger version of the actor Tobin Bell.
This is absolutely ridiculous!! Islam does not "REQUIRE" Muslims to wear a beard!! What a deceitful liar!!! Stop spreading incorrect messages about Islam! No where is it written in the Koran to wear a beard. Islam is not a religion of external appearances.
it's more than a week and why this bugger is still unshaved? I can't wait to see his new picture.
Let this killer go to hell
What a STUPID story, no matter what this guy did and why he wants to grow a beard, he still has rights. When has someone growing a beard ever been an issue? Maybe Hair Club for Men can transplant it to his bald f'n head, then you can execute him.
Dear Internet,
My name is Peter Hawker and I CLEARLY have no idea how the military works, but I'm going to comment on this story anyway. Please ignore the obvious fact that this guy is *still in the Army* pending the results of his trial and that growing a beard is prohibited in the military.
This guy is a hypocrite. For years this Muslim shaved his face every day. Since we have an all volunteer army, he could also have left the military at any time if he had problems reconciling it with his religion. Shave him every day, for the rest of his life.'
Can we pull his whiskers out one by one with a pair of needle nose pliers instead, and laugh like little kids every time we pull a hair out? I will donate the pliers and my time and I promise it won't hurt, your honor!
My brother was shot 5 times by this guy. I can assure you, no one in our family, my brother included, cares whether he has a beard or not. To continue to allow these circus acts to overshadow the real issue at hand is in itself an injustice to those killed or wounded by this terrorist.
God Bless You and your brother, Kimberly! I am glad your brother is alive and my prayers are with you and your family.
I guess his beard is more important than your brother.
I hope your brother and family and all other victims and their families are healed very soon.
if this guy and his lawyers want to play games with the system – see if you can go ahead and do video depositions (or whatever) so you don't develop ptsd or other anxiety illness waiting for justice to be done.
just a thought
best to you
I like the idea to inflict less of physical pain but more of mental shame to Jihatarts.
Wax every single hair on Jihatartds. That should be the law of the land.
It sez in the Koran, all jihadists must be waxed, never shaved.
Yeeha, I love the idea. I would support the waxing of all Jihadtarts in prison. Wax the hec out of them.
You're gonna need a lawnmower to shave that muff off his face!
how about John Deer GT425, zero-turn tolerance?
Shave him first. Then let some lady in a bikini hang him in front of a caricature of Mohammed.
Why wait? Why keep showing pictures of him with his beard? Nobody wants to see that. JUST DO IT.
What a waste of time. This man did it period. Everyone knows this so why waste time, money and the space in a jail.
This monster is facing multiple murder charges and is still gri[ing about hsi beard? Shave him! With any luck that straight-razor will "slip" and remove his head with it!
This happened in 2009. Why was he not put at the pit end of a shooting range long ago?
Cut his beard off....along with his head. Its time for criminals who kill the innocent to not have any rights. Enough already!!
It does seem strange that although he was a Muslim before his arrest, there was no compulsion for him to have a beard then. Prohibited from wearing one in uniform, he didn't seem to have any problem. Once out of uniform, it becomes a big damn issue. I think all prisoners should be kept clean-shaven and have short hair. Contraband can so easily be smuggled in long tresses or a bushy beard. Uniformity of hair also emphasizes the disciplinary nature of imprisonment, just as it does in the military. Oh, and by the way, why is a beard so absolutely necessary to follow one's faith whereas murdering hoards of total strangers is not something in which he felt compelled to show restraint?
If this guy wanted out of the military since 2001, why did he stay? Couldn't he get out when his enlistment expired? The man was a psychiatrist; it's not like he had no skills with which to make a living in the civilian world.
P.S. Also, changing one's physical appearance between one's arrest and one's trial is on old trick. If you come your hair differently or dye it another color or grow or remove facial hair, your appearance changes and may confuse witnesses against you.
Make that "comb." God.
Sarah, he is military. In the military you can not have a beard unless you are in a position that you can grow one for certain purposes. Now his position in the military he had to shave and he is still military therefore he has to shave his beard!!
Very well put. Amen.
This whole thing is pretty ridiculous. Frustrating and absurd that Hassan is maintaining this when he's gone without a beard before. He's digging his heels in now about something he didn't before. But why is the military delaying justice by digging in their heels on this inconsequential issue? In the time it's taken to make these decisions, they could have already tried and sentenced him. Why are they digging in their heels about such a ridiculous issue? He wants to have a beard - try him with his beard. What difference does it make? Both sides are acting pretty ridiculous on this, in my opinion.
I'LL DO IT - I'LL DO IT! I'll use a rusty knife as the razor and pig excrement for shaving cream 🙂
oh let me! let me! I will use a weed whacker and edger around his ears and eye brows. 🙂
Thanks for your offers, but you guys are too late, they already accepted my method, put duct tape across his face and pull.
Burn it off with a jet engine.
too tame!
gunna get you, sand N166ER
Dude no need for racism!!
Shave him
I hope the accidently slice his throat when they are shaving him.
This turd's trial should have long been over. It is a slap in the face to every honorable serviceperson in the country that this is still going on. Every day this turd eats, sleeps, and has his medical needs attended to at our expense, plus lawyers and the countless other costs that occur. Let me remind the "valiant" top brass overseeing this farce that he was finally subdued by a policewoman on an army base so politically correct that NO ONE HAD A GUN (but him). His fellow doctors down the hall should have been armed, along with guards, etc.. Patton is rolling in his grave.
He should get the death penalty and the Army should carry it out. I don't doubt that most of the average GIs wouldn't mind volunteering. That's what you get in an age where generals never even see combat.
"Let me remind the "valiant" top brass overseeing this farce" Snap out of it, sonnyboy. You want EVERY AMERICAN SOLDIER to lose their rights over a test case? Let's assume you don't, so zip it; he's an American, a citizen of the greatest country in the world, and he will be tried fairly by a military tribunal and defended by a lawyer. That's the way we do it here, and you can go back to whatever two-bit scrap of land you call home and tell them so. If he's found guilty, he'll rot in that wheelchair; if he's found innocent, I'll eat my hat.
He deserves as much choice in the matter... religious or otherwise... as he allowed those who became his victims. NONE!!!
We want the beard off. He doesn't want to be shaved. So we shouldn't shave him. We should wrap his noggin in duct tape and then pull it off verrrry slooooly. That will take care of the beard.
Use a good old fashioned straight blade and hope he resists...
found the time to shave all these year in the military....use a straight edge...so if he moves we can just call it an accident....throw is worthless body on the mortar range...
Why is this guy still breathing ? It's been 3 years ! What are we paying the military courts for – to decide if this guy needs a haircut and a shave ? At this rate, he'll die of old age before he gets to trial ! Who CARES if he's crazy – put him up against the wall and send him to Allah already.
We may not live to see "justice" rendered. There is no doubt of his guilt... due process shouldn't take more than a week – except for the stalling tactics of his lawyers [paid for by the American public].
"stalling tactics of his lawyers [paid for by the American public]." He's going to be tried by a military tribunal, the meanest and least-forgiving court of all; his military contract allows them to withhold certain of his rights because his carcass belongs to Uncle Sam. They could probably shoot him and bury him with a pig and it would be legal. I'd drown myself in a toilet to escape life in a stockade. You think he's enjoying life right now? Heh heh.
.....but shouldn't he really be sh0t?
Oh weird - his religion didn't require him to wear a beard when he murdered soldiers in cold blood...
MY thoughts, exactly...why was this even an issue?
I would cut his head off instead of shaving him.
Give him the ol' dull rusty straight razor....I'll execute that SOB w/ my bare hands.
So the defense council will also say that the killings were legal since his religion calls for Jihad ? I think these are Hasan's final moments on Earth. The real irony is a psychiatrist has a mental breakdown and kills people.
This was no mental breakdown. It was a cowardly, calculated attack by a member of the "religion of peace".
The US Military is one of the most pretentious things I've read about lately. They had to shave him for a court-martial because his beard would be disruptive? And these kinds of people are responsible for our freedom and safety? That's more terrifying than the terrorists.
And he just remembered his religion requires him to wear a beard when he was about to go on trial for a capital crime? Why hasn't he challenged Army rules before on the issue? He's been a Muslim for years, but without a beard.
I thought the same thing – his face was shaved before the crime. I wish they slit his throat from ear to ear "accidentally".
@Sam: Pretentious? Disruptive?
Think outside the box. The Judge is making a very smart decision here, which you are obviously not seeing. He's preventing appeals after the trial from the defense claiming jury bias, etc. Hasan was not wearing a beard when he committed the crime. The Judge wants him to look exactly as he did that day, so there's no question of misidentification from the witnesses during the trial. The Judge doesn't want Hasan to look like, "every old murdering, jihad'ing, muslim terrorist as seen on television and movies", which could potentially discredit the witnesses when they point him out in court as being the person they saw commit the crime.
Quite simply: The Judge is being smart. He wants Hasan to look EXACTLY the same way he did as the day the crime was committed, so there is ZERO CHANCE of an appeal down the road from Hasan claiming, "people just pointed at him and said he did it because his beard and general appearance make him look like a terrorist."
Well said PJW!
@PJW: Very well said.
I think more importantly, Major. Hassan is still on active duty drawing pay and will do so until comvicted and his punishment is determined, than he will be reduced in rank, fined, dishonorable discharge, and whatever his sentence is; life in prison or the death penalty. And since he is on active duty he must adhere to the UCMJ (uniform code of military justice) and ALL army regulations, including being clean shaven.
Exactly, and ssnst is right as well. Don't forget that he is active duty military – they could drop him out of a plane with no trial if he argued. They OWN him.
@SSNST: Yes, it's true that regulations are there, but remember, exceptions have been made to this regulation (see Army CPT Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, a Sikh who was allowed to keep his beard under an exception to policy rule in 2009, along with another Sikh).
The court needs a reason, other than regulation, to discredit and deny any appeals on this matter. Since precedents have been set allowing beards recently, this poses a very real risk of a successful appeal in the future if the court martial's ruling is based on Army Regulation alone. Making a judgment call that removes all bias of physical appearance so witnesses can positively identify Hasan and Hasan's defense team cannot delay things in the future with an appeal on the grounds that his physical appearance is prejudicial to due process is the true reason here, believe me.
COL Gross and the chief judge of the courts martial are not stupid. They know exactly what Hasan is trying to do. They know his defense team told him to grow a beard, and why. Hasan is not stupid, either. He knew an appeal on religious grounds would not pass the "smell test". They're just delaying the trial as long as possible and trying to set himself up for much bigger appeals later on down the road. We're going on 3 years now and the trial is still not underway. It's all delay tactics and attempts to discredit witnesses before the trial even starts.
The Commander in King has decided holding US citizens without charges indefinitely is the American Way. The Jews were shaved or wait that never happened right? Who else is shaved in the United States before ANY court for ANY reason? I don't care about Islam vs Christian angles. Do you comb his hair and do his nails? His crime is moot. If a beard on an alleged killer hurts the US military courts chance for conviction that much or is perceived to be offensive, we are really in much worse shape than even CNN lets us see. Fake wars, bull**** courts and fear, the best weapon.
You are very right Sam.
Any US Soldier standing in front of a court martial is required to meet the grooming standards of AR 670-1. Which means men will be clean-shaven unless they have a waiver.
Hasan does not have a waiver, and his is not eligible for a waiver.
Um, Hassan has been charged. He was charged in Nov-Dec 2009. And as far as shaving goes, Hassan is still a soldier in the US military, and is still subject to military law–including grooming standards.
So why would killing 13 people suddenly give this clown carte blanche to break the military rules that he himself has been following for 10 years? That I know of, he had no interest, nor did he ask permission, to grow a beard before he shot people. Why in the world would he be allowed to grow one now? Would it also be OK if he grows his hair and fingernails out, starts wearing a loincloth, and stops bathing too now that he's a coddled murderer? What if his 'religion' also demanded he smoke pot and marry a 6 yo? Should the military supply these things for him?
I have a better idea. Make this idiot follow all the rules that everyone else in the military has to follow. If he doesn't like these rules, maybe he should have left the military *before* he decided to kill people.
"Sp witnesses can identify him in court."
He is still a major in the United States Army and is still getting paid. Army Regulation 670-1, paragraph 1-8 states "Handlebar mustaches, goatees, and beards are not authorized". That means what it says – no beards!
Islam does NOT require a beard nor does it require a hijab for women. In many countries women wear hijabs because it's a fashion statement. I am muslim. Can't wait for them to fry this guy.
Well spoken, sir.
He will be meeting a better class of Muslims in jail than the ones he's been hanging around with, but they will not welcome him.
If you don't like it, get the hell out of America. Maybe you'd be happier in Iran or North Korea or someplace like that. You're bloody lucky to have the American military protecting you, dirt wad.
The military shaves heads and beards for many purposes...one reason is for hygiene purposes...head lice. You being a flaming liberal would certainly take exception to that.
You pretentious troll.. The military and the people who make it up are out there every day, allowing you to spew the garbage above.. Put a uniform on for four years and get in the middle of the mess they go into over in the Middle East.. Otherwise go back to selling your oil paintings on the street.... You make me ill...
Spoken like a true non-veteran. We (the United States military) have been protecting your right to say things like this for over 200 years. And yes I served, as is my son, as did my father, his father, his father, and his father before him – all proudly.
Pretentious? Ha! How about disciplined, selfless, professional, valiant, proud, or heroic? Of course these words don't resonate with people like you.
By the way – you're welcome.
This guy joined the military in 1997 and committed his vicious crime in November of 2009. It states that his family said that he wanted to get our of the military since 2001. As an officer, he could have simply submitted his resignation and he would have been released from active duty anytime between 2001 and 2009. Also, he is still on active duty drawing all of the pay and benefits of other military members who are performing their duties in an honorable manner. As a Major in the US Army, he is well aware of the grooming standards (beards included) of the military. This guy is just grabbing for straws in an attempt to save his life. The lawyers assigned to him must take a shower every night to keep the stench of this case off of them an for defending an individual that slaughtered and injured fellow members in arms. There is only one punishment for a person that betrayed his country and fellow service members in such as fashion.
Just set the beard on fire and hand him a razor. Either Allah will put out the fire or Hasan will shave it off, my money is on him shaving it off.
I would love to be the barber holding that razor...."Oops I slipped!"
My mower has a new blade and I want to see if it works.
We just don't want to connect the dots, do we? Just about every darn article on this site. No it isn't Islam, it's workplace violence. Yea, right!
I still recall that when he shot his victims, he was not wearing a beard. Did he just convert to Islam?
Just like many American convicts.. They get busted for a crime then, in prison, they all find God and claim they are innocent after proven guilty. Prior to the incident, he was not allowed to have a beard because he was serving the US military. Now, if his religion says he must have a beard, yet shaved it to get a job, then according to sharia law he must have his head removed from his torso. Either way, the death penalty is a just punishment. Dude should have never been let into the US military to begin with. He managed to disgrace the US uniform and his religion at the same time. A hundred and fifty years ago he would have been burned at the stake for heresy
The orthodox Jews as well as the radical Islamics believe that they must differentiate between men and women. This is how unreal their thinking is. Women must wear wigs, hijabs and long dresses and men must wear wide pants and beards..... We are all born naked and none of these attires appears when we are born.....I worked in a jewish orthodox school and I was choked when the kids age 7 identified pictures of kids according to what they wore (dress – has to be a girl, pants has to be a boy.... God created us and what He made is beautiful.... why all those stupid camouflage....Too many humans love to complicate and interprete their religious books according to their humans views.
He was supposed to be representing our [US] armed forces yet he gunned down his own people. This is treason and an act of war and terror. According to sharia law, a public hanging from the old oak tree is recommended.
To hell with sharia law. Hasan is a US Soldier and will be held accountable for his crimes by the US Army.
Now all they have to do is find a dull rusty blade.... =P
Shouting "Allahu Akbar" before he started shooting his FORMER comrades in arms demonstrates that FORMER Maj. Nidal Hassan had become a traitor to this nation, a refutation of the oath he took and a declaration that he had become an enemy combatant. He, therefore, can be considered to be an agent of a foreign organization and, as such, is only accorded those rights the United States of America allows foreign combatabts that have been captured. To paraphrase a movie quote, "he deserves a fair trial, followed by a first-class hanging.".
Since this guy seems like he's not cooperating, I'd be curious to see if this is going to make it worse for him later on, say, for example, at a sentencing hearing. Give him his rights, but lets get on with it...


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My Mom began her career with the company when her second little bundle of joy (me!) came into the world. I think she realized from the day I was born that I was going to need a lot of attention (boy was she right!) and she should probably find a job that she could do from home with a flexible schedule!
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This year marks the first time the conference will be held for two consecutive years in a row, which is a testament to how much interest there is in agriculture technology and the future of farming.
So I'm headed to St. Louis, Mo., on July 28, where I expect the attendance at InfoAg will be even higher than last year's conference. If you live in the area, and you are at all interested in precision ag, I highly recommend you consider signing up for the event. InfoAg kicks off with a pre-conference tour on that Monday, July 28, which includes visits to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a John Deere dealership, and the day wraps up with UAV demonstrations. Then the full InfoAg conference will take place from July 29-31 at Union Station in St. Louis. Just about every hot topic in precision ag will be covered in the presentations: UAS usage in ag; agricultural apps; on-farm Wi-Fi; data integration; autonomous systems; technology payback; multi-hybrid planting and more. Plus, there's a great exhibit hall where attendees can check out these new technologies first-hand. It's sort of one big "cool kids of ag tech" hangout for anybody that loves to learn and talk about what's coming in the future of agriculture.
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The concept of Ikarus is to bring in chefs from around the world to guest for one month at a time. This month's chef is Frank Zomkle from Bosman's in Paarl, South Africa.
So we had the Tastings of the Cape Menu, which was paired with a series of South African wine. The result is the best meal of the vacation thus far (and one that will be hard to beat).
- Sauvignon Blanc Vergelegen 2005
Very slight ammonia in the nose. Juicy grapefruit in the mouth, finishing nice and crisp. I'm not much of a SB fan, but I liked these two immensely.
Pairing: Ostrich threesome (tartare, carpaccio, and ragout) with pommery mustard
Sauvignon Blanc Grand Cuvée Boschendal, Stellenbosch 2005
No ammonia, a slight toasty character in the nose. Much richer and creamier, not as much upfront fruit, but richness was quite good for the spicy character of the dish.
Pairing: Roasted sea bass and bell pepper strips in coconut-lemongrass brew
Chardonnay Hamilton Russel 2004
24 months in barrel, and you could taste it. I'm not a fan of oaked chardonnay, and this is certainly an oaked chardonnay. For those that appreciate such things, a rather good example.
Pairing: Sautéed crayfish on vegetable-biltong risotto and crustacean bisque
Pinotage Kanonkoop 2003
Now this was dynamite. A little bit of French funk in the nose, and the luscious mouthfeel of a good Rhone. A little spice also. Very good; could have kept drinking this one all night.
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White Muskadel McGregor Winery 2005
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ENGLEWOOD — The Denver Broncos caught a glimpse Thursday of what things would be like if All-Pro linebacker Von Miller has to sit out all of September.
Miller skipped the final day of training camp to deal with his looming suspension for violating the NFL's drug-abuse policy, although ESPN reported that his appeals hearing was postponed. League spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press that the league was not at liberty to comment on the matter.
Nonetheless, with their 24-year-old star absent, third-year pro Nate Irving lined up at Miller's strongside spot in the base defense at practice and free agent newcomer Shaun Phillips playing Miller's rush end role in the nickel.
They did fine, but make no mistake, Miller was missed.
"When you lose a guy of that caliber, you're going to notice a difference," Champ Bailey said. "He's just that effective on our defense. I think you would notice a lot more difference in a game-type situation. Von, hopefully we have him back sooner than later."
This is, after all, the man Broncos Executive Vice President John Elway calls the most talented football player he's ever seen.
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Miller has collected 30 sacks in his two pro seasons, including a franchise-record 18½ last season, when he was voted runner-up for the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award after being named the league's top defensive rookie in 2011.
A four-game suspension for Miller would leave a gaping hole in Denver's defense when the Broncos kick off the 2013 season at home Sept. 5 against Super Bowl champion Baltimore.
Coach John Fox said Miller would play Saturday night in the Broncos' preseason game at Seattle. Even if Miller is suspended, he won't have to leave the team until Aug. 30.
Despite the specter of a suspension hanging over him, Miller had a terrific training camp, practicing with the starters in hopes he could win his appeal. The Broncos have worked on various contingency plans but Miller's absence Thursday presented them with their most extensive work yet on a backup plan just in case.
"We're prepared for any possible scenario," Peyton Manning said. "That's how you have to be. If you get all wrapped up into one outcome and it doesn't end up turning out that way, you don't really have a Plan B. Today was a good practice on the possibility that he may not be here. If that's the case, that's not going to be an excuse for our team and we have to find a way to do our job. But we certainly hope that he is here."
Miller's troubles were exacerbated Sunday when he was arrested at a firearms shop near the Broncos' practice facility on a warrant for failing to appear in court on Dec. 31 for an October traffic stop in which he was charged with careless driving and not having a license or proof of insurance.
"Obviously, you're very disappointed any time a guy didn't take care of his business, but we support him," Fox said. "He's going to be fine. He's dealt with it. We'll recover from it."
Bailey said the mounting troubles might make it seem like Miller is a bad apple but he insisted he's a good guy who just needs to mature.
"He's young. Things happen and it's a process," Bailey told the AP. "We all go through something like this in our life, whether good, bad, something to help you kind of take ownership and responsibility for what's going on around you and just make you more aware. And I think this is only going to make him a better person in the end.
"He's not bad now, but he'll be even better in the future," Bailey said. "We'll get through this together and we'll bounce back from it."
C.J. Anderson, an undrafted rookie RB from Cal, seriously injured his right knee during 11-on-11 drills and was carted off the field. "It's tough. He was having such a great camp," Bailey said. Anderson screamed in pain when he got caught in a pile of linemen. With RBs Knowshon Moreno (knee) and Jeremiah Johnson (toe) sitting out practice again, the Broncos are thin in the backfield and Fox said he might have to bring in another running back for the exhibition game at Seattle on Saturday night. … Pro personnel director Tom Heckert returned to work after serving his monthlong suspension for a drunken driving arrest in June.
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I scored a nice Ensoniq ESQ-1 (plastic version) at a flea market for $50.
It has the "battery voltage low..." error so I wanted to open it up and take a look before I got a replacement.
But I cannot seem to open the top panel.
I've remove the 4 allen screws on the from panel but when I lift it, the panel moved up about a half inch and stops... as if its catching on something.
I'm afraid to put any more pressure pulling the panel up.
What gives?
Is there anything else I need to be aware of opening this up?
The service manuals offer no help.
I ended up removing all the screws that held the hinge to the panel.
Once I had it off I could see what was catching.
The two top screw holes are notched underneath for the tabs that protrude from the rest of the plastic case.
The tabs contain the screw holes but the notch is deep enough that it can catch when lifting the panel.
All you have to do is lift both ends (left and right) carefully and evenly, and try to apply the pressure as close to the hinge near the top two holes (with the tabs).
All is well!
I owned an ESQ-1 (metal case) back in 1990... paid $1100 used. Loved it! It was my first and spoiled me rotten with the super easy programming interface and sequencer.
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