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Campbell, that dodgy dossier and the lies that cost David Kelly his life
By NORMAN BAKER
Last updated at 22:00 23 October 2007
Why not ask Cherie Blair to autograph a copy of the 750-page document which saved her husband's political career and offer it as one of the lots?
A copy was organised, Mrs Blair duly signed it, and the special souvenir edition of the Hutton report went for £400 at the event in London's Mayfair last year, with various Labour luminaries in attendance.
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At no point did anyone seem to reflect that treating an official document about the death of a respected civil servant as some sort of novelty item might have been in bad taste.
But then, for Tony Blair and his colleagues, what was owed to Dr David Kelly in the way of decent treatment had never been much of an issue.
In the weeks before he was discovered dead in a wood in Oxfordshire on Friday, July 18, 2003, he was treated as a pawn in the Government's game against the BBC.
Even after he died, no one seemed particularly chastened. With his body
barely cold that weekend, the Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was photographed enjoying VIP treatment at Silverstone, and Blair's director of communications, Alastair Campbell, was working the phones to friendly Fleet Street editors to shore up his own position.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's press spokesman Tom Kelly (certainly no relation) was busily advising journalists that the world-respected weapons inspector had, in fact, been a Walter Mitty character who had contributed to his own downfall.
Comparing the late Dr Kelly to a character famous for living in a world of fantasy was outlandishly cruel to his memory, given that it was his very passion for the truth that led to him becoming so ensnared in controversy in the final weeks of his life.
The scientist's only crime was to speak to BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan and voice his concerns, widely shared among his colleagues, that the facts on weapons of mass destruction were misrepresented in the notorious 'September dossier' produced by the Government to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Reading the transcript of Gilligan's broadcast today, the most striking aspect is the accuracy of the allegations he was reporting.
True, his language was in places not as tight as it could have been, but the BBC certainly didn't
To the organisers of the auction to raise money for Labour Party funds, it probably seemed a good idea at the time. Why not ask Cherie Blair to autograph a copy of the 750-page document which saved her husband's political career and offer it as one of the lots?
A copy was organised, Mrs Blair duly signed it, and the special souvenir edition of the Hutton report went for £400 at the event in London's Mayfair last year, with various Labour luminaries in attendance.
At no point did anyone seem to reflect that treating an official document about the death of a respected civil servant as some sort of novelty item might have been in bad taste.
But then, for Tony Blair and his colleagues, what was owed to Dr David Kelly in the way of decent treatment had never been much of an issue.
In the weeks before he was discovered dead in a wood in Oxfordshire on Friday, July 18, 2003, he was treated as a pawn in the Government's game against the BBC.
Even after he died, no one seemed particularly chastened. With his body deserve to have the world fall in on its head, as happened when the Hutton report was published in 2004.
With Alastair Campbell fanning the flames, the furore led to the resignations of the BBC's chairman and director general and forced its vicechairman Lord Ryder to make a public apology to the Government of such capitulation that I wanted to throw up when I heard it.
Yet during my investigation into Dr Kelly's death, I have obtained a secret report showing just how right he was to question the Government's integrity when he spoke to Andrew Gilligan.
It reveals the true extent to which Alastair Campbell misled MPs about his role in the whole affair.
At the end of June 2003, both Gilligan and Campbell found themselves called before the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee which was investigating the basis on which we had gone to war against Iraq.
Campbell appeared on June 25 and he went on the offensive, accusing the BBC
of 'lies' and demanding an apology.
Later, his diary recorded his satisfaction with his work that day.
He felt a lot better for having 'opened a flank' on the BBC, yet it seems that at the very time he was accusing others of dishonesty, he was being less than forthcoming himself.
Some months later, the FAC carried out a confidential analysis showing that when asked what role he had played in shaping the dossier, there were notable differences between the account he gave them and the one he later presented to the Hutton inquiry.
The report was never released but, though it was made available only to those MPs who were on the committee and my official request for a copy was refused, I managed to obtain one through other means.
Running to some 14 pages, this paper shows, for example, how Campbell told the committee that the draft dossier had said that Saddam Hussein had sought to secure illicit uranium and that he had asked if any had actually been obtained.
Yet the memorandum from Mr Campbell to John Scarlett, the spy chief nominally in charge of the dossier, revealed that, as one of many suggested drafting changes proposed by Campbell, he had written: "Can we say he has secured uranium from Africa?"
This was transparently not an inquiry about the facts but a request for a change in the wording.
Most crucially, the document showed that Campbell failed to tell the MPs of the pressure he applied on the so-called '45-minute claim'.
In the draft dossier, the relevant sentence read: "The Iraqi military may be able to deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes of an order to do so."
It was Campbell who suggested changing the cautious 'may be able to deploy' to the definitive 'are able to deploy'.
This was hugely significant.
Strangely, Tony Blair had assured the Commons earlier that month that there was no attempt by any member of Downing Street staff to override the intelligence judgments of John Scarlett and his colleagues.
"That includes the judgment about the so-called 45 minutes," he said.
Very plainly, that assurance was, as the quaint language of the Commons might put it, at variance with the facts.
These were far from the only changes made to the dossier at Campbell's
In just one memorandum, he requested 16 changes in all, of which 13 called for a strengthening of the language used, implicitly making judgments on intelligence matters far beyond his remit.
This was utterly unacceptable but around half of these suggestions were accepted by Mr Scarlett.
No wonder Lord Hutton suggested that the spy chief may have been 'subconsciously influenced' by political considerations.
Tony Blair's foreword, written by Campbell and signed off by Scarlett, has some of the most assertive and hence most unjustified language in the dossier, and here, too, the editing is key.
How extraordinary to remember that, in the first draft, this foreword had Blair saying: "The case I make is not that Saddam could launch a nuclear attack on London or another part of the UK (he could not)."
This vitally important point, putting the claim in context, was removed from the final version.
The fact that the 45-minute claim related only to battlefield munitions, rather than long-range missiles of mass destruction, was obscured, and indeed Tony Blair, somewhat incredibly, claimed he only found out about it in the summer of 2004.
This was later contradicted by Robin Cook, his former Foreign Secretary.
He was clear that before the invasion of Iraq he had been briefed by John Scarlett that the weapons in question were only battlefield ones.
Mr Cook had discussed the matter with Blair so he was understandably 'mystified' to hear Blair say that he hadn't understood the distinction.
'Given that the Prime Minister was justifying war to the nation on the grounds that Saddam was a serious threat to British interests, he showed a surprising lack of curiosity as to what that threat actually was,' Mr Cook said.
The implication is clear. Both Blair and John Scarlett did indeed know that Saddam had no long-range WMD capability, but chose deliberately to use language that allowed a contrary impression to be formed.
The Government's lack of remorse about this was apparent when Geoff Hoon was asked at the Hutton inquiry about the newspaper stories which had greeted the publication of the dossier in September 2002.
'BRITS 45 MINS FROM DOOM' and '45 MINUTES FROM ATTACK - dossier reveals Saddam is ready to launch chemical war strikes' were typical of the headlines.
None of this was remotely true, of course, and it is clear that nobody in the intelligence services or at the top of Government believed that it was.
One might have thought that they would have wanted to correct these very misleading stories.
Instead, they seemed happy for this alarmist picture to be painted, as a supremely indifferent Geoff Hoon demonstrated to Andrew Caldecott, counsel for the BBC at the Hutton inquiry.
The exchanges are worth recalling in full.
Caldecott: "Why was no corrective statement issued for the benefit of the public in relation to those media reports?"
Hoon: "I have spent many years trying to persuade newspapers and journalists to correct their stories.
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"I have to say it is an extraordinarily time-consuming and generally frustrating process."
Caldecott: "But Mr Hoon, you must have been horrified that the dossier had been misrepresented in this way.
"It was a complete distortion of what it actually was intended to convey, was it not?"
Hoon: "Well, I was not horrified."
After a few more such exchanges, the BBC's counsel pointedly asked: "Do you accept that on this topic at least you had an absolute duty to try to correct it?"
"No, I do not," replied Hoon.
I said that Hoon was supremely indifferent. Actually, it was worse than indifference.
It was contempt. Contempt for the inquiry process, for the questioner and, most of all, for the public.
The reason there was no enthusiasm to correct the stories is, of course, because they were exactly what the Government wanted to see as it pursued a foreign policy which positioned Britain firmly on the back wheel of President Bush's pennyfarthing.
But this particular deception cannot be laid at Bush's door. The U.S. administration was quite happy to flout international law and talk brazenly of regime change in Iraq.
It was only in order to satisfy British sensitivities that the convoluted, complicated and essentially dishonest talk of WMDs was generated.
In return for telling the truth about all this, David Kelly found himself 'outed' as Gilligan's mole in a manner that, I believe, made him a target for assassination by aggrieved Iraqi opponents of Saddam.
After his death, Tony Blair said it was 'completely untrue' that he had authorised the leak of Dr Kelly's name.
He was asked why the Ministry of Defence had confirmed the name to journalists.
"That's a completely different matter once the name is out there," he said. Yet the name was not out there at all until the ministry released a series of clues clearly implicating Dr Kelly.
Blair made much the same defence on the issue at the Hutton inquiry, although it was an unusually hesitant and uncertain performance.
Julia Quenzler, the freelance court artist who covered the inquiry from start to finish for the BBC, told me that Blair, normally such a polished performer, was the most nervous of all those who gave evidence before Lord Hutton.
He was clearly very uncomfortable for some reason.
For his part, Geoff Hoon insisted that his department had 'made great efforts to preserve Dr Kelly's anonymity'.
Presumably this included the instruction to confirm his name to journalists if it was offered.
It was Hoon's decision to force Dr Kelly to appear in public before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, July 15, 2003.
In this, he overruled Sir Kevin Tebbit, the senior civil servant at the MoD, who felt it would be inappropriate.
According to reports, Hoon pulled rank in a rather unpleasant way, telling Sir Kevin that he would have to 'consider his future' if he refused to allow Dr Kelly to appear.
The FAC hearing - televised and taking place in the full glare of publicity - conjured up images of a Soviet show-trial.
Here was a witness, clearly intimidated and ill at ease, with his ministry minders sitting behind him.
Three days later Dr Kelly was dead.
Those who believe that he committed suicide suggest he may have buckled under the pressure of this appearance - but that is to ignore the fact that he was smiling as he left and was in good form before the Intelligence Committee the next day.
For reasons outlined throughout this series, I believe that he was murdered.
Not that the Government showed much sign of caring either way.
Within days of Dr Kelly's death, the Prime Minister and his wife had hit the headlines during a trip to China.
Their need to enjoy themselves clearly came ahead of any remorse for the death of one of Britain's most distinguished scientists.
While there, Mrs Blair astonished reporters when she took the microphone for a public rendition of The Beatles' When I'm 64.
Those watching could have been forgiven for wondering what her husband's choice of song would have been.
P. J. Proby's I Apologise would have seemed more than appropriate.
Extracted from The Strange Death Of David Kelly by Norman Baker, published by Methuen on November 12 at £9.99. ° Norman Baker 2007. To order a copy (p&p free), call 0845 606 4206.
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Jorpho wrote:Ahh, here's the Pokemanz thread. No excitement over X/Y?
I'm bumping because Gamestop/EB is apparently having another series of event for B&W/B2&W2.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/30/games ... y-pokemon/
This seems like as good an excuse as any to finally unwrap my copy of White. How do these things work, exactly? Is there just a wireless hotspot running inside the store that your DS can connect to?
Correct. Might manage to access it from slightly outside the store.
Instructions: Mystery Gift -> Receive Gift -> Get Via Wireless. Free up a team slot. Speak to a delivery person at any Pokemon Center. Save. Works with Black/White and Black 2/White 2.
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Food for Freethought 2010
What is "Food for Freethought"?
Food for Freethought, inspired by the Center for Inquiry's Campaign for Free Expression, is a food drive that also encourages freethought, freedom of expression, and free inquiry. We plan to accomplish this by giving "Banned" and Freethought books away in exchange for non-perishable food donations that will be going to Food Bank of the Rockies, during "Banned Books Week", September 27 – October 2 (specific dates below). Our goal is to raise an enormous amount of food for those in need. Most food drives are done during the holidays and tons of food is raised and distributed. That is all well and good, but what about the majority of the time that it isn't the holiday season? The hungry don't stop being hungry after the holidays, they are hungry now too! Given the existing goals of Metro State Atheists, it is only natural that we would attempt to help the hungry by promoting freethought, freedom of expression, and free inquiry. With the proper support, we can have an immeasurable positive community impact!
The event will be taking place at the Auraria Campus (1201 5th St, Denver, CO 80204). September 28-30th, 9am-4pm (Times Subject to Change)
Metro State Atheists will have SIGNED COPIES available at Food For Freethought 2010 by the following authors:
Hemant Mehta , Daniel Dennett , James Randi, Michael Shermer, Dan Barker, and…RICHARD DAWKINS!. If you'd like to obtain any of these signed copies, donate food!
Largest donors receive signed books!
Metro State Atheists would like to formally thank the above and the following groups for their support:
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[…] for Freethought 2009 Food for Freethought 2009 is a great idea for an atheist charity. Joel Guttormson from the Metro State Atheists in Colorado […]
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what a fabulous and productive idea!
Comment by Susanne Moore | August 5, 2009
Thanks Susanne,
Is this the Susanne Moore I think it is?
Chalmer (Cody)
Comment by Metro State Atheists | August 5, 2009
What would an atheist care that the "bible" is a banned book?….hmmmm..sumpin ain't right in Denmark!!! thats all i'm saying
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I wasn't aware that was the case. No book should be banned, no matter how stupid it is lol
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I'm there!
Comment by Alekx | August 12, 2009
You're making a presumptuous and insulting insinuation. As Joel said, we are against banning books. If you think our principles end with content we disagree with, you have made a serious misjudgment.
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If I were in the area, I would definitely bring a pantry's worth. This is a great idea, though!
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you can mail them or you can donate funds via the links above
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buffygirl wrote:WolfieMario wrote:Millah wrote:Wildhound wrote:blowfishhootie wrote:Wildhound wrote:kryton wrote:Reviewing the gif and I stumbled on a revelation. They didn't start building the first castle until AFTER Megan shook building material from her hair. It's not a sand/coffee/semen castle, it's a DANDRUFF Castle.
Are we to assume then, that before T0 they spent so much time sitting on that knoll that they had shed enough dandruff to build this monument?
He didn't say it was all THEIR dandruff.
How structurally sound would a dandruff castle be anyway? We need data. It's time that we all got together for some real world testing.
how structurally sound would a semen castle be? (i'm not suggesting we get together for real world testing on that one)
How structurally sound would a semen-and-dandruff castle be? Sand castles typically require a solid and liquid component anyhow.
...I think I'll just go back to figuring out how Randall got this to keep playing in my room even after I unplugged my speakers and bashed them in with an iron pipe. Some of these HTML5 features feel rather unnecessary.
Everybody must listen to this as we await the next newpix. I declare it part of the religion of the Usserisses.
I like the music.
A Religion with good music can't be all weird.


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I have had a remarkably productive weekend, as far as achievements go. I have long been working towards getting a proto-drake mount as well as Loremaster...
I picked up Loremaster on Friday, along with several other achievements including Deadliest Catch and The Argent Champion. Sunday I turned around and finished off Glory of the Hero for my first ever Proto-drake mount (yay!), so I spent the afternoon circling Northrend on him while fishing.
Unexpectedly but quite happily, we also downed Yogg+1 for the final achievement needed for Glory of the Ulduar Raider, bagging me two protodrakes in one day! Yay! Vortex is quite proud of this achievement, as it is one that very few strict ten-man guilds have :) 3 of us spent about 10 minutes just circling Krasus' Landing in joy. And, yes, a guide as well as our warlock's video is in the works! Astonishingly, we managed it without anyone going insane, though I did have to battle-res the mage after she got SQUISHED by an unlucky add spawn in P3.
A very interesting thing I did note while playing with my protos is this:
The flying minipets from the oracles' eggs can fly in the air with you while you are mounted.
This is something none of the other flying pets can do, as far as I have noticed. Now, they don't seem to chase after you until you stop and wait for them to catch up, but it's certainly a change from the poor dragonhawks and owls and such which can't seem to get more than a few feet off of the ground!
Anyway, I'm quite content, and hoping to see Algalon dead in the next couple weeks as well, now that our focus has shifted off of Yogg+1. :)
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Jury renders verdict after 2 week trial in Valdez court
A Valdez jury convicted former Valdez man Derek Werder of 28 felony sex abuse charges and six assault charges Thursday afternoon after a trial lasting nearly two weeks.
Werder was accused in August 2011 of numerous counts of sexual abuse involving underage victims, including a victim he continued to abuse after adulthood.
"The secret is now out to your community," Melissa Howard, assistant district attorney, told the jury during the trial's closing arguments Wednesday.
The defense attorney, Nikki Swayne, had painted a portrait of an unorthodox but consensual romantic relationship between Werder and the main victim that turned sour, resulting in false accusations against her client.
Swayne said she did not wish to demonize the victim, then proceeded to claim the testimony given by witnesses against Werder were lies and that the victims in the case had conspired to bring false charges in order to force him out of his home. As evidence of untruthfulness, Swayne said that the trial included testimony that Werder had been reported to the Office of Children's Services three years before his 2011 arrest and the victims denied any wrong-doing on Werder's part at that time.
Howard reminded the jury of expert testimony during the trial that it is common for childhood victims of sexual abuse to initially deny the crimes committed against them and said it was absurd to believe defense allegations the victim was a willing participant in Werder's abuse and had nothing to fear from him.
"If it was a consensual relationship, why didn't she just break up with him?" Howard asked the jury.
Howard also pointed a finger at Werder's wife Jennifer, who had testified she knew about the abuse but did nothing to stop Werder or aid the victims.
The trial included sworn testimony that Werder once held a gun to the main victim's head and threatened to shoot if there was an attempt to escape.
Four of the five assault charges Werder was convicted of last week stemmed from an incident on Thompson Pass where he used a firearm to shoot at the victims from an RV.
Werder's ongoing crimes came under the radar of law enforcement after a July 2011 encounter with Alaska State Troopers at a campground near Ninilchik. Troopers were called to the scene to investigate a report of a domestic assault and found the main victim had been beaten, though initially it was claimed the facial injuries were caused by an accident with a four-wheeler.
There was utter silence in the courtroom when Judge Eric Smith read the words "guilty" after each of the 34 charges against Werder. There was no visible reaction to the verdict by Werder.
Members of the jury were offered free counseling by the court due to the graphic nature of the evidence and testimony which included ongoing domestic violence and allegations Werder kept the main victim as a virtual prisoner in his home for nearly a decade, after the victim was removed from school when in the sixth grade.
Smith set sentencing for October 15, 2012 in Valdez Court.


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What's wrong with this picture?
First, a bit about the husband of my GGA Irene Carroll:
- Denson Martin
- born Buda, Hays, Texas 23 Aug 1893
- died Napa County, California 9 Jun 1986
- buried Martin Church Cemetery, Goforth, Hays, Texas
At least the headstone for Denson Martin is in Martin Church Cemetery…
Why do I question his burial location?
Both Denson and Irene died in Napa County, California, according to both the SSDI and Ancestry.com's California Death Index, 1940-1997. Irene is not listed as being buried at Martin Cemetery. Denson's date of death is not on his headstone…
What is wrong with this picture?


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The Bible Mini-Series Breakdown
A Story of God and All of Us
Prologue by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett
Until now, nothing exists. No universe. No life. No light. No dark.
No breath. No hopes. No fears. No dreams. No shame. No sin.
There is only God. And God is Love.
Then, in an instant, God becomes the creator.
Here is a breakdown of the 10 hour mini-series The Bible.


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Tonight, The New York Knicks will continue their push to obtain the 6th seed in the playoffs as they face the LA Clippers at MSG. Knicks' fans, however, will also be doubling as Bobcats fans since we need the 'Cats to grab that elusive 8th win against Orlando, in order to keep our 6th-seed dreams alive. Also, the Knicks will be looking to continue this positive momentum going into the playoffs.
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- Shump v. Chris Paul. This will be one of, if not, the toughest tasks of Iman Shumpert's young career. Chris Paul is arguably the best point guard in the NBA and almost un-guardable, while Shump is one of the stingiest perimeter defenders in the league. One saving grace for the New York Knicks in this matchup is that Chris Paul sustained a mild groin strain in the midst of a loss to Atlanta last night so hopefully that, along with Shumpert, can slow him down.
- The potential of the Carmelo-Amare tandem was put on display against the Hawks on Sunday and they will surely be looking to keep this momentum going. Melo should thrive against the Clippers as he tries to continue the incredible scoring run he has been on in the month of April. Amare has also played well in the couple games he's been back and the Knicks will be looking to him for scoring, rebounding and most importantly, slowing down Blake Griffin, which is no easy task.
- With how Baron Davis played in the Knicks' last game (13 pts 10 ast), Mike Woodson is likely to start him against the Clippers. Baron is going to have cut down on the turnovers because the Clippers WILL capitalize on his mistakes. Chris Paul is always among the league leaders in steals per game every season so that causes some worries for Knicks fans who have seen how often Baron turns it over.
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In San Diego, a young teenage girl's eyes stare into a compact mirror. She
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INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist's fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. Hers is not just a story of survival, but of resilience.
At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvas creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past— a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once took her daughter by the hand to jump off a bridge together, and an endless shuffle year after year through the city's overcrowded homeless shelters.
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Albie Hecht and Susan MacLaury – an Academy Award-nominated husband and wife team - are the co-founders and driving force behind the non-profit production company Shine Global and Emmy winners for its first film, WAR DANCE. Albie is the former president of entertainment for Nickelodeon and Spike TV where he produced television shows and films such as The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Susan is the Executive Director of Shine Global and directs the outreach and education efforts for its films.
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"The most amazing thing that has happened at SUN 'n FUN," said event president John Burton late Thursday, March 31 after "a tornado, a micro-burst, I don't know" swept through the Lakeland, Florida, fly-in and air show. Local media reported multiple tornadoes north and south of the Lakeland area during the day including the major hit on Lakeland-Linder Airport at noontime.
Burton told gathered media that 15 show attendees were injured and transported to the on-site Sun 'n Fun medical facility. Of those, seven were then transported to the Lakeland Medical Center. None suffered serious injuries, Burton said.
Some 40-50 aircraft were damaged. No accounting was given between exhibitor and attendee aircraft, but Burton said a center of heavy damage was the manufacturers' exhibit area. My quick survey revealed major damage around the Aviat exhibit, with a number of damaged Husky aircraft, and further west where an LSA had perched atop an Eclipse jet. Beyond that, police kept even media away, claiming "environmental hazard." Burton confirmed there was leaked fuel in the area, but that heavy rains late this afternoon would help drain it.
Burton was quick and voluminous in his praise for local emergency agencies and SNF volunteers. The event was aggressively cleared of visitors. By mid-afternoon, streams of the last cars and walkers were heading out of the show. No one could get in. Even media had challenges gaining admission.
Campers were allowed to stay on the grounds; Burton noted some of them would have no other place to go. In further praise for local government, Burton noted that a nearby school district offered to open schools overnight for displaced show-goers. The City of Lakeland had offered emergency shelters as well. There was no information on whether either offer was taken.
Burton noted that damage in the campground area was minor, although the area would be re-inspected late Thursday.
He also corrected an erroneous report of heavy damage to the British Air Cadets' campground. Burton was especially touched by reports that local citizens in the Lakeland area were volunteering to take-in displaced tent campers for the night.
Grass field parking lots and the dirt roads in them were rutted muddy quagmires. At 5PM, a number of tow trucks, lights flashing, were circulating to help stranded cars out of the mud. That alone was dramatic confirmation of Burton's statement that "we are already at work. Clean-up has already begun. Volunteers are righting tables, collecting garbage and helping get exhibits back."
Asked whether impassable parking lots and dirt roads would affect opening tomorrow, Burton cited a drenching years ago that was handled using higher ground and alternate parking areas. "We've dealt with this before. We'll come back better than ever," Burton said.
He especially noted offers of help by airport management and others on LAL's north side so that Friday aircraft arrivals could expect hard-surface (or at least firm surface) parking on the north side of Lakeland-Linder Airport. Burton passed along word there was only minor damage north of the main east-west LAL runway.
Sun 'n Fun is shooting for an 8AM opening Friday morning, yet to be confirmed. The Blue Angels, due Thursday, will hold to their same schedule but one day later, with Thursday events to take place at the pre-scheduled time but on Friday.
"We're going all through the night," said Burton, who spoke to the press shortly after electrical power was restored the Media Center. Some other parts of the show may still have been down even at that late hour. The press conference was sparsely attended, since most media left the show in search of power to file their stories. Local TV and satellite trucks were heavily in attendance, but planned live shots for the evening news were quickly squelched by another downpour right at airtime.
Sun 'n Fun public affairs staff privately voiced particular aggravation at an erroneous national story (picked up by CNN) of 70 people trapped in a collapsed exhibit hangar. A large tent did collapse with 70 folks inside, but all SNF exhibit hangars are standing and apparently undamaged. The story was corrected later, but today at Sun 'n Fun made national news. Most here hope they'll never see anything like it again.
Burton, speaking especially to Tampa-area and state audiences expected for SNF's big weekend days with the Blue Angels, promised the kid-and-ice cream-cone crowd that Sun 'n Fun would be ready. Enormous crowds are expected, as at any airshow when a big military team flies (as will the new F-22 Raptor.) Burton was working the press hard to hold the expected crowd who, in the Tampa area at least, are mightily traumatized today by the nastiest weather in years.
"We are working with local agencies so we know we are safe before we open," said Burton, rushing out to handle his next meeting. Spaced out across the Sun 'n Fun venue, scores of police cars and emergency vehicles — lights flashing — stood guard over the drenched scene as night approached. It looked as if they would be there all night as Sun 'n Fun pulls its socks up, gets its act together and looks forward to great weekend weather and an 8:00AM Friday re-opening.
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Moose Lake is going to be changing in the next few years. With the proposal for a new McDonald's on former school district property along Highway 73 near the south entrance/exit of I-35, and the possibility of 36 units of low and moderate income housing, development that the city has been waiting for is going to explode. Those kinds of projects always bring more investment and development.
Along with those exciting projects is the proposal for a new school on that same property. Space for a school, bus garage and athletic fields has been reserved farther south on the approximately 200-acre school district property, bordering the school forest.
Three referendums for a new school have been defeated in recent years. Now it is time for the voters in the school district to once again make a decision about this worthwhile investment in the students and in the community.
Along with all of the other problems facing the existing school, such as the need for tuck pointing, new wiring, new plumbing, and a new roof, the school suffered damage from the flood last June. That was a first in all of its history but it showed the vulnerability of the school in being located so close to Moosehead Lake. The lake rose, and efforts to place sandbags to protect the school from damage were thought to have been effective. However, it was later learned that moisture had seeped into the walls and tunnel of the elementary school, and repair costs mounted to $850,000. Those costs were reimbursed by FEMA funds.
The flood and its effects just added to the list of problems in the current school.
The need for tuck pointing, new wiring, new plumbing, a new roof, handicap accessibility and a host of other problems have been an issue for many years. The flood just pointed out that the current site of the school leaves the school vulnerable to one more major threat.
The former problems, now estimated to cost $12 million to upgrade, were listed in past referendum campaigns.
Those problems have not gone away. They have just gotten worse.
The school's building insurance was cancelled recently because of the antiquated wiring system. Fuses are still used on the electrical panel instead of circuit breakers.
Do we want our children educated in a building that is so far behind in a vital backbone, such as wiring? The cancellation of the insurance tells us something.
The fire marshal required that a couple of classrooms be closed off a few years ago because they are too far from an exit in case of a fire. Old codes are no longer safe for the lives of students.
Those are just a couple of issues with the old school.
A new school would be up to date, with handicap accessibility that wouldn't keep people who have difficulty with mobility from attending school or events in the auditorium. The school would be more useful by the community for many events, as well as being a much more effective tool in educating our students.
And a new school would attract students from other districts, instead of the school having declining enrollment. Former superintendent Tim Caroline used to tell that he could see people not being impressed with the building when he took prospective students and their families on tours of the school, despite the school's academic achievements. Many chose other districts where the buildings were more modern.
The problem that always comes up in these campaigns for a new school is the increase in taxes.
Yes, the taxpayers will take a big hit on their property tax bill. If the referendum isn't passed, the problems in the old school won't go away. Investing $12 million in an old school to fix the problems just isn't worth it. It will still be an old school, with handicap accessibility issues.
Conditions to build now are favorable. Construction costs and interest rates are still low, due to the recession. That isn't going to last much longer. The economy is on the rise.
And, something that wasn't available in the past is the $7.2 million in equity aid from the state.
How can the voters pass up that kind of assistance for a sorely needed project?
However, there are still those that don't see the big picture. They just see the increase in their property taxes.
And it will be high. The problem is that the Moose Lake School District has no debt. People have been used to a low tax bill for far too long.
I talked to a former Barnum resident, and he said that he paid $1,000 a year just for his school taxes. That was on seven acres of property, valued at $250,000.
Why should Moose Lake property tax payers be exempt from paying that kind of bill?
Both the Barnum and Willow River school districts have modern buildings. Those residents know about paying high school taxes. And they know what they are getting for those taxes, schools that are good tools for educating their children and useful to the communities.
Those opposed to the proposal for a new school and an increase in taxes are forming a "Vote No" campaign. They claim that the 46 to 47 percent increase in taxes will be too hard on the farmers with many acres of land and people on fixed incomes.
And that is true. But so is the need for a new school. If this referendum doesn't pass, the problems will get worse, and it will just cost more in the future.
Our town is growing, and it is time for a new school to be a part of that growth and development. More growth means that the tax load will be spread out over more properties.
If you are a Moose Lake School District resident, get out and vote on Tuesday, May 21, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Moose Lake school gym. The future is in your hands.


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Lagrange County, Indiana, which lies directly east of Elkhart County, on the Michigan border, is an integral part of the Elkhart-Lagrange County Mennonite and Amish settlement. The first to arrive here were a group of Amish families from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and Holmes County, Ohio, who settled first in Clinton Township, Elkhart County in 1841, a portion of this group moving 15 miles (25 km) further east to Newberry Township, Lagrange County. The descendants of this group divided about 1860 into the Old Order Amish and the more progressive element which later became a part of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, largely in the Forks congregation, whose meetinghouse lies just east of the Elkhart County boundary. A second group of Amish, progressive from the beginning, came from Fairfield County, Ohio, to organize the Maple Grove Mennonite Church at Topeka about 1855. This group suffered two divisions, one before 1900, and one in 1923, which resulted in the Topeka Mennonite Church.
The Townline Conservative Mennonite Church was formed out of former Old Order Amish about 1885, with its meetinghouse just across the eastern border of Elkhart County. Mennonite settlers from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near Johnstown, were the majority element in the settlement made about 1860, which led to the formation of the Shore Mennonite Church (1874) near Shipshewana, later the Emma Mennonite Church (1901), the Marion Mennonite Church (1947), and the Plato Mennonite Church (1950). All these churches are west of the city of Lagrange, except the latter which is five miles (eight km) east of Lagrange.
In 1954 there were the following congregations in Lagrange County: Old Order Amish, 17 congregations with ca. 1,000 members; six Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregations with 1,132; one Conservative Mennonite with 120; and one General Conference Mennonite with 235. The total Mennonite and Amish baptized membership in Lagrange County in 1954 was thus ca. 2,500 in 25 congregations.
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Bender, Harold S. "Lagrange County (Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 Aug 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lagrange_County_(Indiana,_USA)&oldid=113833.
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NASHVILLE – This is the second part of an interview with author Hank Hanegraaff, who along with the Christian Research Institute, hosts a daily talk show where he is better known as the "Bible Answer Man."
Hanegraaff discusses with The Christian Post his latest book, Afterlife: What You Really Want to Know About Heaven and the Hereafter, that is in bookstores now. He took time out during the National Religious Broadcasters convention to sit down with CP and talk about the realities and misconceptions associated with eternal life, and heaven and hell.
CP: There are a number of books written in recent years that discuss near-death experiences of people who claimed that they have visited heaven and then returned to their earthly bodies. Do you believe this can happen and do you address it in your book?
Hanegraaff: No, because heaven in the most denotative sense does not exist as a physical place. Again, to go back to what I previously said, souls do not have locational qualities, they have relational qualities. So to ask where a soul is or are they walking around on streets of gold doesn't make sense. When Jesus returns a second time, paradise lost becomes paradise restored, and then there are locational realities. So to presume that people walked through a big pearly gate and their were gold-domed halls and I saw Grandpa Jones with a great tuff of white hair, that I saw Jesus and he had a Palomino pony and that God had these huge wings with yellow hair; this is the product of a possible misconception of the mainstream media.
CP: What is heaven going to be like? Will my favorite dog be with me? Will I see my grandfather? You even go as far as to address if people will have sex in heaven.
Hanegraaff: First of all, I don't want to shout where the Bible is silent. Let's start with areas where the Bible does address heaven. There are certain things we can say about heaven and there are certain things we can only conjecture with respect to heaven. And then of course, in answering this question, I have to make a difference between the transitional heaven and the eternal heaven, which is this universe restored.
CP: So Earth will be no more?
Hanegraaff: No. It is this Earth, it is these mountains, and it is these hills that are restored. In a biblical worldview, God doesn't scrap things, he redeems them. It's not another body that you will receive; it is your body that has been restored. Now that doesn't mean Adam is resuscitated, it means there is continuity between what was and what will be.
So, you asked about animals. If you look at the paradise lost, it gives you some inkling what paradise restored will be like. In paradise lost there were animals, there were trees, it was a physical place. Paradise restored will be this universe minus death, disease, decay, and destruction.
CP: Minus sin?
Hanegraaff: Yes, minus sin. When Jesus Christ returns a second time, sin and Satan will be resolved. There will be no more sin or temptation. But that's what we long for. We long for a time when Jesus appears a second time. And that even takes some conceptualization. People point and say, Jesus went up there (pointing upward). Even if Jesus were traveling at the speed of light when he ascended, he wouldn't be out of our little galaxy now. But the ascension has to do with transcending time and space. So Jesus Christ is as close to me as is you are close to me now. But when the veil between heaven and earth is removed, then he will be that close physically. So we say Jesus isn't another dimension, he is real.
CP: So we can be with Jesus, we can be around him?
Hanegraaff: Yes, we will walk with him just as the disciples did. We will commune with him and we will interact with him. That's the end for all human beings and that's what we long for. In fact, that's what we were created for. We look forward to the restoration to the image of God and that is what will be restored.
CP: Are we married in heaven?
Hanegraaff: No, and as it has been said, Earth is the breeding colony and heaven is the homeland. Will we know one another in heaven? Absolutely, you and I will know each other in heaven. But our relationships will be different.
So, I'm married and I have 12 children, so relationships with my wife and children will be different from how they are now. But they will exceed anything we know here. My wife will not be my wife, but the relationship I will have with her will exceed anything I have in this world.
CP: Well, the last question I will ask you is how does a Christian, or rather, how does any person on earth get to heaven?
Hanegraaff: The simple answer to that question is that Adam and Eve fell into lies of perpetual sin and had lives terminated by death. As a result the universe was cast into a state of decay and destruction. The Bible is God's redemptive plan for this universe. And that is all a function of restoration of relationships that God has severed by sins.
We have to recognize that we are sinners and then we have to recognize that we need to repent of our sins, which is an old English word that describes a u-turn on the road of life and requires that we turn and follow Jesus Christ as the Lord of our life.
So we need to admit we are sinners, turn from that sin and recognize Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives. And when we do we will have a relationship with him not only in eternal life but also for eternity. It doesn't start when we die, it begins when we die to our old lives and accept a new one is Christ.
Conversely, those who do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ will be separated from his love for all eternity. Most people don't want to talk about that but that is reality.
If it were not reality, there would be no difference in heaven and hell. The righteous would inherit a counterfeit heaven and the unrighteous would be incarcerated in heaven against their will, which would be a hell in its own right.
So the notion is – and C.S. Lewis puts this better than anyone else – he said there are two kinds of people in the world, those who say to God "thy will be done," and those to whom in the end God says, "thy will be done." God does not force himself on us and if we do not want a relationship with Him in time, then He recognizes that will for eternity.
So He sustains people in existence, albeit apart from His glory, His goodness and His grace.


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Vice President Pence Underscores the United States' Unwavering Commitment to the U.S.-Australia Alliance
By DipNote Bloggers on April 24, 2017
On April 22, Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Sydney, Australia to meet with government officials, U.S. and Australian service members, and deliver remarks to the U.S. and Australian business community.
During his meeting with Australian officials, Vice President Pence underscored the United States' unwavering commitment to the U.S.-Australia alliance and to the broader Asia-Pacific region.
At a press conference with Australian Prime Minster Turnbull, Vice President Pence said, "Australia is, and always will be, one of America's closest allies and truest friends."
"I trust that my visit here today -- on my very first trip to the Asia Pacific as Vice President of the United States -- and the President's plans to travel to this region this fall, are a strong sign of our enduring commitment to the historic alliance between the people of the United States of America and the people of Australia."
While thanking the Australian people for their friendship and support throughout the years during international conflicts, Vice President Pence said, "The sons and daughters of both our lands have fought together in every major conflict for the past 100 years. From World Wars One and Two, to Korea, to Vietnam, and most recently, in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, our grandparents, our parents, and now our children have served together and sacrificed together, and have defended our freedom and all that we hold dear. That represents the foundation of an unshakeable bond between America and Australia."
And as old conflicts continue and new ones arise, Vice President Pence reaffirmed that the United States and Australia will continue to work together, "Even now our citizens serve together, in Afghanistan and in the fight against ISIS. And around the world, we are deepening our defense collaboration, and as Prime Minister Turnbull and I discussed today, we will continue to deepen our defense and security collaboration in the days ahead."
On the issue of economic partnership, Vice President Pence, during his remarks to the U.S. and Australia business community, expressed the United States' gratefulness for having Australia as an economic and trading partner, "You create jobs in both of our countries. You drive innovation. You open up opportunity. And you've helped build a strong and durable bond between the United States and Australia."
On exports, Vice President Pence said, "Countless American companies export tens of billions of dollars' worth of goods and services to Australia every year -- machines, appliances, automobiles, parts, electrical machinery, textiles, apparel, you name it."
"Today, more than a quarter of a million American jobs depend on exports to Australia. The American people are grateful."
On investment, Vice President Pence said, "Today, the United States is Australia's leading destination for investment, and we're grateful. Australian companies have invested just under $45 billion in America, where they employ over 95,000 Americans in good-paying jobs."
At the conclusion of his remarks, Vice President Pence reiterated his confidence and faith in the U.S.-Australia alliance and assured the audience that the relationship between the two countries will only grow stronger.
For more information:
- Vice President Mike Pence Arrives in Australia to Meet with Government and Business Leaders
- Remarks by the Vice President and Australian Prime Minister Turnbull at a Press Conference
- Remarks by the Vice President to the US-Australian Business Community
- Readout of the Vice President's Meetings with Australian Officials
- Vice President Mike Pence to Travel to the Republic of Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, and Hawaii


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The North Island's Best Gardens
For passionate green fingers, there can be no experience more unforgettable than exploring New Zealand's Rhododendron Gardens in full bloom.
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The southern and central regions of New Zealand's North Island are host to some of our most fantastic collector gardens. Manicured and much-loved outdoor environments showcase magnificent collections of both old and new world plants - presented by the passionate people who have created them. Rhododendrons are a special highlight here; the optimal climate results in dramatic presentation of the lush, evergreen foliage and vibrant trusses of pink, purple, yellow, red and white flowers.
Without exception these gardens are superb year-round, but the best time to visit is during the rhododendron bloom, between late September and mid December. There's fantastic variety to be experienced - from the myriad of perennials, natives and specimen trees to topiary, sweeping lawns, hedges and of course the grand rhododendron collections. These unique gardens have been matured over decades - and in some cases generations - by those who have dedicated so much to their creation.
Here are some of our favourite gardens to visit in the North Island.
Jury Garden, Tikorangi
Abbie and Mark present a garden of supreme maturity - lovingly crafted by five generations of the Jury family, this magnificent symphony of nature is an asset of national significance.
Pukeiti Gardens, Taranaki
Sprawling through hectares of lush rainforest, emerald lawns and spectacular gardens, Pukeiti is set against the lower slopes of the mighty Mt Taranaki. These gardens boast one of the greatest rhododendron collections in the world.
Cross Hills Garden, Kimbolton
Graced by seven acres of gemstone quality gardens, the much admired estate of the Wilson family is a sight to behold. Cross Hills showcases a collection of over 2000 Rhododendron varieties, complimented by azaleas, peonies, primulas and magnificent perennials.
Experience the magic for yourself
MoaTrek's Rhododendron Garden Tour includes some of the most spectacular gardens in the North Island – including those described above. Along the way you'll experience spectacular scenery, meet the passionate gardeners and tour their wonderful creations. Comfortable evenings will be spent enjoying local cuisine and wines in carefully selected accommodation. Find out more on our website, or contact us directly – we'd love to help make your dream garden tour a reality.


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A Waltham High School student was shot and killed Thursday night at the Gardencrest Apartments complex on Middlesex Circle.
A Waltham High School student was shot and killed Thursday night at the Gardencrest Apartments complex on Middlesex Circle.
Tyler Zanco, 17, of Waltham, was found at about 10 p.m. suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot at 31 Middlesex Circle, according to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. He was taken to Newton-Wellesley Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made but authorities do not believe this was a random attack. Anyone with any information is urged to call Waltham Police at 781-314-3607 or Massachusetts State Police Detectives at 781-897-6600.
An eyewitness to the fatal shooting said he saw Zanco fighting with one man when a third man pulled out a gun and shot him.
The witness, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was watching television in his Gardencrest apartment at Middlesex Circle when he heard banging from the complex's shared outside door. He then heard the sounds of screaming and fighting coming from outside.
"I looked in the window and there was Tyler on top of another guy and then there was another guy standing who pulled out the gun and shot," the witness said. "When he shot, [Zanco] tried jumping off to run and then he shot two or three times more and [Zanco] disappeared into the dark."
The witness then saw the shooter and the man who was fighting with Zanco run to the parking lot and get into a new gray Dodge Charger. The man who fought drove and the shooter sat in the passenger seat, the witness said.
The witness added that it was dark and he couldn't really get a good look at the faces of the men, but said he wanted the men to be caught.
Zanco was a member of the high school wrestling team.
Andy Merritt, former editor of the Waltham News Tribune and Zanco's mentor through the Mazie Mentoring Program, remembered Zanco as "a fierce and loyal friend, a smart and strong kid who had great things ahead of him."
"When I first met him two years ago, we became instant friends because of his charm, wit and the sensitivity he'd probably deny having, but it was there," Merritt said in an email. "I was only supposed to be his mentor ... but that role quickly evolved hand-in-hand with a deep and treasured friendship.
"He was an excellent athlete, a hard worker, and a devoted member of his family."
Zanco had a number of different ideas for his future, including joining the military.
"Our country would have been served well and honorably by such a brave and hardy soul," Merritt said. "But no matter what Tyler ended up doing after high school, I knew he'd be a success, because nothing would stand in his way.
"The last two years have been good ones for me because of my friendship with Tyler, and I join many others in saying I feel like we've been robbed of a friend, son, brother, teammate, nephew and cousin whom we will never, ever forget."
Mayor Jeannette McCarthy said she'll be reaching out to parents.
"This is very tragic for the family and the city," McCarthy said. "The School Department took the appropriate steps for the students and district. My thoughts and prayers are with Tyler's family."
School counselors were available in specific areas throughout the day Friday, according to Waltham High Prinicpal Greg DeMeo.
"We will continue to provide students with support as needed for the next several days," DeMeo said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the student and his family."
In addition, the school postponed Friday's scheduled MCAS in consultation with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The School Department has encouraged all students to seek out an adult if they feel confused, unsafe or need to talk to someone, Superintendent Susan Nicholson said in a statement.
"Staff and students at Waltham High School and in the district mourn the profound loss of a member of our high school," Nicholson said. "As a school community, we have come together to support one another during this difficult time."
The Waltham School Department has posted resources for dealing with tragic events on its website at http://www.walthampublicschools.org.
After school events were scheduled to proceed as planned Friday.
Waltham High School will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Support personnel will be available to meet with students and families from any of the schools in the district.
"Waltham High School's students and staff and in fact the entire school district are known for being caring and supportive," Nicholson said. "Together we will get through this tragedy."
"While the family of Tyler Zanco is grateful for the support they have received, they do not wish to make a statement at this time," the DA's office said in a press release.
Police on Friday morning referred comment to the Middlesex DA's Office, which had taken over the investigation. As of 11:30 a.m., authorities did not comment on whether there is a threat to the public.
A few residents at the complex said they didn't hear shots fired Thursday night.
George Moore, who lives in the building near where cops were focusing their investigation Thursday night, said he came out at 11 p.m. for a cigarette and saw police. He asked the police officer what was going on and the cop told him "Someone's hurt. And hurt bad."
Moore didn't hear gunshots and he said he can hear a car drive by from inside the building. Mostly families live in the neighborhood, he said.
"I feel safe but my wife doesn't," Moore said, when asked about the second shooting in that general area in about four months.
In November, a 20-year-old man was shot at 117 Middlesex Road, near the scene of Thursday night's shooting. The man lived, but suffered two gunshot wounds. Kayla Spangenberg, of Brighton, has been charged in connection with the shooting.
On March 22, 2009, Maryse Antoine was found murdered at her sister's apartment at 34 Middlesex Circle.
Waltham Police and Massachusetts State Police assigned to the District Attorney's Office are investigating the cause and circumstances of Thursday's shooting.
After midnight Friday, several cruisers and some unmarked vehicles were still at the scene of the shooting. About 10 officers were in sight looking around the area.
Police activity seemed to be focused on the back of the complex.
The complex was marked off with yellow police tape.
Eli Sherman can be reached at 781-398-8004 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
John Walker contributed to this report.
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Was not sure if this should go here or on TeX Stackexchange. Feel free to move if I made mistake. My setup is: GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32-5-686, CrunchBang Linux statler. I have installed xetex through apt-get (texlive-xetex). Problem is that whenever I try to compile a .tex file which LaTeX will compile without problems, I get the following from xetex:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
I have installed xelatex, my latex version is
me@box:~$ latex --version pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0
Version of xelatex is
asha@andromeda:~$ xelatex --version XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0
Searching, this seems to be related to a recent update to zlib, version zlib-1.2.6. Source. Other posts reveal that other programs have been affected as well, but I have not been able to find a description of a solution I can use. There was one example where someone reported on seuccessfully linking to the older version of zlib when building the tool in question from sources. This might be a bit above my Linux skills for now.
What can I do with my present distro and setup to have xetex working ?


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NASCAR & Auto Racing
Derrick Walker claims final word in IndyCar race control
IndyCar's new president of competition said Sunday he was in agreement with acting race director Brian Barnhart to penalize Dario Franchitti in the first race at Toronto, then later overturn the call.
Derrick Walker also said he has final authority on all calls in race control during a candid interview Sunday with The Associated Press about specific officiating decisions in Saturday's race. Walker believes IndyCar officiating needs to be more consistent, and the series needs to urgently invest in upgraded technology to improve race control.
The most glaring call Saturday, in the first of two races around the street course at Exhibition Place, stripped Franchitti of a third-place finish while he was participating in the post-race celebration. Penalized for blocking Will Power on the final lap, the call was overturned two hours later following an appeal from Franchitti's race team.
"Brian ultimately consults with me on the calls," Walker said in outlining the nine-person race control room in which Walker has final authority.
"In this instance, Brian and I were in agreement on both aspects -- that it was a penalty, and then after reviewing it, in agreement that you need to be able to stand up and be big boys and say 'Hey, you did get third place after all.' If we were not in agreement, or Brian thought otherwise, ultimately I would say to Brian, 'I think we should let him off.'"
Walker, who took over his job at the end of May, said the decision to penalize Franchitti was based on the only camera angle they had access to in race control. It was a head-on shot that showed Franchitti appear to move to the left to block Power, then swing back to the right when Power adjusted to the other side.
With nothing else at their disposal to review the call, race control hurriedly issued a 25-second penalty that knocked Franchitti out of third. He was informed by a team member after he'd already accepted the trophy and was about to participate in the celebratory champagne spray.
"We're seeing the podium evolve and we're giving (Franchitti) a penalty and we don't know how to stop (the podium)," Walker said.
Once IndyCar officials returned to their at-track operations truck, they were met by several Target Chip Ganassi Racing team members with data to prove Franchitti didn't block Power. Franchitti arrived an hour after the race to make what Walker called "a passionate presentation."
Ultimately, officials were finally able to get two camera angles -- one from Power's onboard camera and an aerial shot -- that proved Franchitti was innocent.
"IndyCar needs to invest some money in new technology," Walker said. "The competition has gotten better and IndyCar needs to invest some money in equipment, so we can be the kind of organization (the fans) want us to be. That's not just being the village policeman, but being able to look at all of those views.
"There's a lot of cameras around this place, not all of them get beamed into our race control. We're limited and some of our screens are too small and not all of them are in high def. And HD makes a big difference. We actually need to completely revise what we've got and upgrade it."
Walker said the lack of cameras were behind the decision to stop warning teams mid-race about driving with more than two wheels over the curbs.
He explained that tire barriers had been removed from certain corners to prevent drivers from running into them and bringing out lengthy yellow flags. The result was drivers were driving straight across the curb, "which is very dangerous," Walker said.
IndyCar started the race issuing warnings but quickly gave up.
"We get into the race and the camera view wasn't always facing there so we could see the cars," Walker said. "Almost immediately, we realized we couldn't even police it. So we sent a note saying, 'Guys, knock yourself out on the curbs.' But last night we decided we had to stop them from doing that. We tried the honor system and that didn't work, so we put the tire (barriers) back out.
"Now it's on them to stay off of them because if they run into the tires, they are going to bring out yellow."
The issues came about on a weekend in which Barnhart returned to race control for the first time since the 2011 season finale. He was summoned for the role on no notice Thursday, Walker said, when current IndyCar race director Beaux Barfield couldn't enter Canada because of an immigration issue.
Although the paddock supports Barnhart, he's much maligned among fans who are critical of his officiating. Franchitti implored fans on Twitter on Saturday night to lay off Barnhart, arguing it was not an individual decision by Barnhart to issue the penalty.
Walker also said Barnhart was fine.
"I think he was a little apprehensive to start with, not knowing how he'd be received," Walker said. "He's giving it his best. Nobody has all the answers and he's got a lot more support now then he had back then. He was a lone wolf back then and he did his best then, but now he's got a lot more support. There's a different atmosphere about the place, it's about working together and team spirit."
Walker acknowledged that Barnhart and Barfield, who will return to race control at the next race, have different officiating styles and that Walker "is still trying to understand" Barfield's style after Barnhart held the job from 1997 until 2011.
"Beaux has a lot of experience, he has a different style in dealing with it," Walker said. "He does a lot of one-on-one in dealing with people, a lot of personal contact. So it's just different styles and doing things in different ways. I'm not saying which one is better because I am the new guy on the block."
But Walker said the series is not consistent enough for his liking.
"We need to be better, and better needs better tools and better procedures," Walker said. "It's not as simple as it looks. There's a lot of work that goes into it and this is a lean, mean machine. We don't have a ton of people doing these jobs. We have good employees. We just need more of them and a direction on where we are going."
Among the other things Walker said is IndyCar decided to use a standing start in Sunday's race because "we could hear the boos" from the crowd in race control when Saturday's standing start was aborted. The series was only scheduled to try standing starts on Saturday.
"The fans told us they wanted it, so let's do it again," Walker said.


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Back in the 18th century, this automaton called 'The Writer' was built by Jaquet Droz. After more than 200 years, the robot has been reanimated and it's way creepier than any robot made today.
Apparently Droz had made other automatons but only three survived, others could draw or play the piano but it's this 'Writer' that gives me the heebie jeebies. It's a mechanical boy controlled by a "complex clockwork mechanism" and whose head and eyes move when it writes. Just look at the thing, I half expect it to start stabbing people. [YouTube via TechCrunch]


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Ballet Montana
Ballet Montana began as Artisan Dance in 1995. It is a professional ballet company, in residence at Carroll College in Helena, whose performing members are employed by various established professional ballet companies throughout the United States and Canada. Ballet Montana dancers are generally 18 years of age and older unless showcasing exceptional younger talent. Ballet Montana provides a unique training ground for performers of high caliber by offering continual development and refinement of their technical and artistic skills.
Just as Artisan Dance has for 15 years presented high-quality professional dance performance to Montana - while educating audiences of all ages about the art of dance at a level normally not found in a cultural "outpost" region such as ours - Ballet Montana will in the coming years take this presentation beyond the borders of our state.
Ballet Montana explores the relationship between traditional and contemporary forms of dance by introducing original ballet works. Collaboration with other performing and visual artists broadens this experience and presentation. Ballet Montana's original productions contribute to the artistic identity of Montana and the region while presenting and preserving the integrity of the classics. Ultimately, Ballet Montana satisfies a full spectrum of dance exposure, and aspires to enhance the national American dance identity.
Ballet Montana is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
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