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Mel Gibson, whose angry rants at his Russian babymama have his career on the ropes, has finally found a defender in Whoopi Goldberg and is reportedly getting therapy.
Goldberg stuck up for the "Braveheart"star on ABC's "The View," just days after RadarOnline released what appear to be secretly recorded tapes of Gibson raging at Oksana Grigorieva. At one point, he allegedly tells her that her provocative outfits will get her "raped by a pack of n-----s." In another segment, Gibson allegedly refers to Latinos as "wetbacks."
"I don't like what he did here, but I know Mel and I know he's not a racist," said Goldberg, who in the past has defended pariahs Roman Polanski, Michael Vick and Jesse James.
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"I have had a long friendship with Mel," Goldberg said. "You can say he's being a bonehead, but I can't sit and say that he's a racist, having spent time with him in my house with my kids. … I don't like what he's done. Make no mistake."
Co-host Joy Behar reminded Goldberg of Gibson's 2006 rant to a police officer after he was arrested for DUI, in which he railed against Jews. Goldberg dismissed that incident as the booze talking, but acknowledged Gibson sounds sober in rant No 2.
On Tuesday, Goldberg took up Gibson's case again by implying Grigorieva was wrong to tape the actor.
"If there's a beef, take it to the cops, to the people who can take care of it," she said to protests from the rest of the gals on "The View."
Los Angeles cops announced last week they have opened a preliminary investigation into an accusation that Gibson beat up Grigorieva January 6 at the actor's Malibu residence.
If a third chilling tape released by Radar Tuesday is to be believed, Gibson also has money issues.
"I'm paying my tax money instead of the credit card. Don't you get it," the Oscar-winner allegedly screams at Grigorieva.
Gibson, 54, has not denied being the voice on the tapes, but they have not been verified. Grigorieva denies releasing them. Gibson began therapy earlier this year and is still getting the psychological treatment, a source close to him told People magazine.
Gibson began seeing a shrink because "he realized how unhealthy the relationship was and recognized that they were in a bad place and he was getting his buttons pushed," a friend of the actor told the magazine.
The pair split in March, signing an agreement for shared custody of their 8-month-old daughter.


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The civil war in Syria has become a high-stakes political gamble for President Obama and for the United States Congress.
For the President, whatever happens in coming days as lawmakers return from their summer break to debate Obama's plan to attack the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is likely to color if not define the rest of his last term in office – and beyond that, his presidential legacy.
For Congress – especially the Republican-led House – getting what they wanted on Syria will not be a walk in the park. Voting "yea" or "nay," lawmakers now must assume co-ownership of US foreign policy in this most difficult and contentious part of the world at a time when the ghost of Iraq hovers about and most Americans are highly skeptical of anything that could involve them in another war.
But for now, and at least until Congress gets back to fulltime work in Washington Sept. 9, the focus is on Obama's Rose Garden announcement Saturday that he wants to attack the Assad regime for its use of chemical weapons but will hold off until House and Senate debate and vote on an authorization measure.
"A successful vote in Congress would strengthen Obama's hand with both allies and enemies," reports Politico.com. "The flip side: a losing vote could weaken the president ahead of debates on key domestic issues including the budget, debt ceiling, Obamacare funding, and immigration. On the international stage, it could embolden Syria, Iran, and other unfriendly countries."
The Obama administration is wasting no time in pushing its message that Assad not only killed more than 1,400 people (including more than 400 children) in a recent chemical attack, but that he did so in violation of international law and must therefore be punished.
Appearing on five TV news shows Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry reported specific evidence that sarin gas had been used in the Aug. 21 attack in Syria. Until now, the type of gas had not been so positively identified.
"In the last 24 hours, we have learned through samples that were provided to the United States and that have now been tested from first responders in East Damascus, and hair samples and blood samples have tested positive for signatures of sarin," Sec. Kerry said on NBC's Meet the Press.
"We are saying that the high confidence that the intelligence community has expressed and the case that I laid out the other day is growing stronger by the day," Kerry said. "We know where this attack came from. We know exactly where it went. We know what happened exactly afterwards."
Such information in greater detail is expected to be part of classified briefings scheduled Sunday for lawmakers who remained in Washington over the break or decided to return early. Unclassified telephone conferences on Syria for Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats – separately – were held Saturday.
"The Congress is going to do what's right here," Kerry said, stating challenge as much as prediction.
"I do not believe the Congress of the United States will turn its back on this moment. I think the interests that we have with respect to potential future confrontation, hopefully not, but the challenge of Iran, the challenges of the region, the challenge of standing up for and standing beside our ally Israel, helping to shore up Jordan, all of these things are very, very powerful interest," he said.
Kerry also repeated that Obama believes he has the authority to strike Syria without congressional authorization.
But for now it's up to the Obama administration, and especially Obama himself, to convince lawmakers to go along. Five US Navy destroyers armed with an estimated 200-300 Tomahawk cruise missiles, plus an amphibious ship with several hundred US Marines on board, are patrolling the eastern Mediterranean within missile range of Syrian targets.
At this point, it's impossible to know how Congress will ultimately respond to Obama's challenge to engage politically on Syria.
"A measure authorizing a strike would seem to have a good chance of passing in the Senate, where the Democratic majority will likely be backed by influential Republicans who favor U.S. military intervention," the Washington Post predicted Sunday. "It is expected to be a tougher sell in the House, where both war-weary liberals and conservative and libertarian Republicans have argued that the best of bad options is to avoid the temptation to use military force."
With a one-sentence letter of transmittal to House and Senate leaders Saturday, Obama sent his two-page draft legislation authorizing him "to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict in Syria in order to (1) prevent or deter the use or proliferation (including the transfer to terrorist groups or other state or non-state actors), within, to or from Syria, of any weapons of mass destruction, including chemical or biological weapons or components of or materials used in such weapons; or (2) protect the United States and its allies and partners against the threat posed by such weapons."


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The Photographers' Gallery presents FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 its annual exhibition showcasing the quality and breadth of graduates' practices from photographic courses across the UK.
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The exhibition aims to draw attention to innovative new talents from a range of photographic fields and will be accompanied by an online image gallery. Now in its fifth year, FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 will introduce a new mentorship scheme that will offer selected finalists professional development and guidance in the twelve months following the exhibition. The show will be on display in the newly transformed Gallery building, spread across the two major exhibition spaces in the fourth and fifth floors.
Twenty-two photographers had been selected from an open submission of hundreds of applicants. They were chosen by a judging panel of photography experts: Bridget Coaker, night picture editor for The Guardian and Observer and co-founder of Troika Editions; Anthony Luvera, artist; Karen Newman, Curator, Open Eye and Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers' Gallery. The finalists have all graduated in the past year from BA and MA visual arts courses across the UK with photography forming the main component of their practice.
Featured artists display a wide range of photographic approaches and subject matter. Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir incorporates found images into her interpretation of home, her country of origin – Iceland. David Birkin combines original and appropriated images to examine the production and dissemination of war photography. Helen Goodin and Chloe Sells apply darkroom processes to images exploring the nature of light and the creation of abstract landscapes. Alison Bettles and SeoYeoung Won use constructed photographs and studio installations to investigate photography's relationship with sculpture and painting. Jonny Briggs' staged scenes seek to recapture forgotten childhood memories and Elisavet Tamouridou attempts to retrace her family's lost history following the 1922 Greek genocide and displacement. Maria Gruzdeva will showcase her documentary study of the Russian Border Guard Service community while Emma Critchley's series of underwater images address more conceptual ideas about the fragility of life. Additional featured artists include: Brendan Baker & Daniel Evans, Anders Birger, Paula Gortázar, Gemma Marmalade, Marianne McGurk, Nadège Mériau, Vilma Pimenoff, Minna Pöllänen, Martin Seeds, Alison Stolwood and Helen Thompson.
FreshFaced+WildEyed is dedicated to recognising and nurturing new talents and has helped launch and establish the careers of several photographers such as James Cant, Briony Campbell, Petros Chrisostomou and Steve Schofield – all of whom have gone on to publish their work and exhibit in local and international venues. More recently a number of past participants have been commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery to take part in its major Olympic project The World in London. In demonstration of the Gallery's continued commitment to supporting emerging artists FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 will launch a mentorship scheme during which a selected group of finalists will be matched with a mentor whose creative background is relevant to their practice. The mentor and graduate will enter into a year-long dialogue that will offer the participant expert feedback on their output and the broader professional and critical context into which it fits.
Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers' Gallery, and a member of the judging panel said: The judges were struck by both the range and quality of the works submitted to this year's event, testifying to the enormous wealth of talent being produced within the field of photography in Britain today. With representatives from art schools stretching across the full breadth of the UK, FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 reflects the skill, sense of urgency and imagination of a new generation of practitioners, many of whom have chosen the UK as their place of study. Displayed for the first time in the more generous spaces of the new Photographers' Gallery, these twenty two artists deserve to generate serious interest from the public, critics and collectors alike.


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The owners' goal was to create a grand home that would blend into its impressive Oak Bay waterfront surroundings immediately. It would overflow with modern conveniences and high tech toys, but look as if famed West Coast architect Samuel Maclure had designed it a century ago.
That was a tall order, but the result is a spectacular, sumptuous house that nestles into the neighbourhood. It is loaded with Maclure elements, from exterior cedar shingles and lavish panelling at the front entry, to interior beams, two-storey entry hall and windows overlooking the water.
Combining old world charm with contemporary esthetics, it is an instant, elegant addition to Victoria's architectural heritage, a stately home to rival the baronial castle Maclure designed at Royal Roads - for another family with Scottish roots.
And the oceanfront location is as impressive as the house. Shaped like a massive pie, the road frontage is only 20 metres wide, but the property expands to almost 10 times that length along the shoreline.
Built by Mike Knight Construction and designed by Michael Cullen for clients from Alberta who recently retired here, it took three years to complete, with seven months in the design phase.
Because of the limited frontage, the 12,000square-foot home appears smaller from the road than it is, but from the clouds it looks as if a huge sea bird has settled on a promontory and spread its giant wings to watch orcas swimming in the kelp beds.
"The lot was an unbelievable find in Oak Bay," said Knight, and the house reflects an equally meticulous construction ethos.
It swept many top prizes at the recent Vancouver Island CARE awards (Construction Achievements and Renovations of Excellence) including best single family detached home over $2.5 million; best outdoor living space over $50,000; best home design; best master suite over 800 square feet; best media room; best custom millwork over 7,000 square feet - and people's choice award.
The roof is slate, gutters are copper and almost all the wood is edge grain. The top floor is heavy dash stucco, the middle is shingle and the ground level is stone.
"All the deck railings are massive and they needed to be against a house this large," said Knight, who specializes in creating marvels for millionaires.
Granite pavers cover the drive that passes through granite columns and an iron gate, before sloping gently down to a large boathouse. Every stone was shipped from China.
Grass streams down the middle of the drive and collects in a small lawn by the boathouse, but it isn't all sweet green softness.
Underneath, it's engineered to support substantial weight, considering this owner's 13 cars, including classic Jaguars and MGs.
A small, mid-century home originally stood on the site but was put on a barge in McNeil Bay. "We watched it go by on it's way to Protection Island," near Nanaimo, said Knight, who says the new home is one of the "warmest and most welcoming" he's ever built.
Owners Dick and Linda (who asked to keep their last name private) enjoy entertaining and one of the first things they did when construction ended a year ago was throw a party for the legion of trades people, craftsmen, glass artists, woodworkers, tile setters and landscapers who worked there. More than 450 workers and family members came to the shindig.
When touring people through his new home, Dick is clearly pleased with his spacious billiards room, with its library shelves, granite counters, leather floor and scotch bar - although he's also partial to his garages.
Downstairs is a theatre complete with leather loungers and a computer storing every movie nominated for an Academy Award. Nearby a games room features vintage pinball machines, a juke box that plays CDs, an old coke dispenser - and classic popcorn machine that Rick is restoring.
Linda's favourite relaxing space is a sunroom she decorated with comfy sofas, bright colours and custom glass. Light is important to Linda and she wanted big windows and high ceilings -"We have so much light now we have sun shades," she joked - but she didn't want the feeling of a huge, echoing house.
"I like cosiness and warmth, nothing too formal. We didn't want a stuffy show home because we like entertaining casually. We had a lot of discussion about scale."
The house manages to be grand without ostentation, large yet intimate, thanks to designer Michael Cullen who also spent hours sitting outside pondering topography. His planning paid off because the house's porches and verandahs, bedrooms and living spaces, capture all the drama of the coastal view while respecting native plants, including an overgrown clump of twisted Garry oaks.
A scale model of the house and topography was built before construction began.
"It did have its challenges, because the site is an elongated trapezoid with a covenant on the waterfront from 1920 that only allowed us so far forward on the 1.4 acres. There was also a 25-foot easement for a pumping station on the south side.
"We were restricted to a small part of the property, so it was a brain twister to see what we could get in there, of the size the owners wanted. I eventually winged the house around the oak meadow."
Another challenge was building such a large house without it seeming cavernous.
AIn the 16-foot high living room, he brought the ceiling down with enormous trusses that support the roof, an idea he took from old colleges and university chapels in Oxford.
"I was struck by the medieval beam work there years ago, and thought it would be perfect in this space. I created deep trim mouldings with a belly band around the room and sat the beams on top of that, with big knee brackets underneath," made by Island Timber Frame in Cumberland.
Suitably large lamps were custom made in California, said Cullen, who has restored historic buildings in Prague, plantation houses in Barbados and several buildings in Mexico including a 200-year-old villa for himself.
One of his favourite hideways in the new home is a small verandah overlooking the canopy of scrub oak trees.
"When you're sitting here you feel like a kid in a tree fort, or a captain on his poop deck." Originally it was going to be a book-lined passageway, but they saw the potential for a sunny nook.
They also included lots of skylights that open, for fresh air and brightness: "Even on a grey day it doesn't feel dark and gloomy, which most older houses did feel like."
Cullen explained they eliminated a porte cochère and circular drive, "but we wanted that sense of a lovely covered entrance," so he created a large entry outside the front door, with a skylight.
The floor is black and jade green slate in a basket weave pattern and it's rimmed with white oak panels.
"Dick looked at me as if I'd lost it and said: Wood panelling outside? But they're suspended so they expand and contract with the weather."
He added Dick is a big man, a brilliant man, former head of a huge international corporation and a man who dreams big so this house is a fitting prize at the end of his career.
His electronics room looks like a nuclear command post, and there are control panels for music, lights, security system, cameras and front gates. There is even a cistern holding thousands of gallons of rainwater so no municipal water is used for the garden," and Dick dug eight 375-foot wells for geothermal heat.
And everywhere there is fine workmanship to admire. The wine cellar right next to the dining room (who wants to go downstairs in the middle of a dinner party?) features a stained glass window with the family's Scottish crest, and woodwork by Bruce Ketterer, who also make Dick's office desk.
"I don't think people in Victoria really appreciate the tremendous quality of craftsmen here," said the owner.
"The best complement we had was from an elderly neighbour who stopped by the house after it was finished and said we'd done a beautiful job restoring it."
When he told her the home was brand new, she bristled and said: "Don't try and tell me that, son. I've lived here all my life and I know this house."
Landscaping was done by Twyla Rusnak and Illarian Gallant who said the site was challenging because of the rock outcrops.
"We brought in truckloads of fill to level it out," said Rusnak. "In some areas we filled a foot or so, but in others we used three and four feet of gravel and road base, and Illarian built lots of sandstone steps.
"We all worked to save and celebrate the Garry oak trees in the centre because they give heart to the garden."
Rusnak created low maintenance dry river beds "to keep the ground down, when the wind comes up" and layered sandy soil under landscape cloth, over which she poured clear crush, drain rock and river rock which was imported from Mexico or Indonesia. She piled small and large rocks here and there to guide people around the site, rather than using handrails, and added paths so people could access all parts and get down to the water.
Plantings include many varieties of thyme, native sedums that were saved on-site and replanted, drifts of purple catmint that withstand salt spray and lots of bulbs, roses and Japanese maple
Her strategy was to place high maintenance plants, "the fussier plants," and more formal ornamentals close to the house while low maintenance species are farther away, blending with the natural landscape.


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The other thing we sort of know is what was brought to our attention by some keen eyed readers is a price list in German is floating around on the interwebs that seems to list some possible prices and names of the upcoming blasters. I've put my german speaking friends on it (as well as our trusty Google Translate) and it doesn't really tell us much other than the Vortex blasters might be called different things in Germany (something like the Super Soaker Point Break was called the High Tide over there?) but for now these are the 'working titles' of the new pieces.
NERF Vortex Ammo Refills: 4,90 €
NERF Vortex Mission: 12,90 €
NERF Vortex Nitron: 69,90 €
NERF Vortex Practice: 39,90 € (This one's name seems a lil' out of place, given it's the 2nd most expensive!)
NERF Vortex Proton: 14,90 €
NERF Vortex Vigilon: 24,90 €
As I said, it's all speculative, but that's why we're calling it "rumours". Check out the original post if your German is a better than mine (or Google's). Thanks to Bluefire + an Anonymous for the find!
Neue NERF Guns: Die NERF Vortex Reihe via Blasted.de


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The Chapel Hill/Durham office provides a relaxed atmosphere for agents and clients. Our gathering room is the perfect place for casual conversations, client appointments or business meetings. The latest technology is a "click" or "touch" away. Most importantly, within the walls of our office is an incredible team of talented agents committed each day to providing extraordinary service.
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Located in the central part of the state, Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, a region rich with leading technology firms, government services, medical centers and world-class universities. Those universities – North Carolina State University, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – serve as a major attraction for new businesses and residents, thanks to their research facilities and highly educated workforce.
Chapel Hill is home to UNC and UNC Health Care, and the university's influences can be seen and felt throughout this laid-back college town. About 10 miles northeast of Chapel Hill, Durham is home to Duke University, Duke Medical Center and the Durham Bulls, a Triple-A minor league baseball team.


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
This Sunday we can focus on this invitation of the disciples to the Lord.
So often we focus on the Lord's relationship to us. We need to look into
our hearts. Do we invite people to stay with us? In that inviting of
others, we can meet the Lord. Surely this was an expression of Jewish
hospitality and we can look at our own hospitality to others. Only in this
openness to the other will we meet the Lord as He wants to be met.
The first reading today, from the Acts of the Apostles, gives us a picture
of Peter giving witness to other Jewish people. He is with others. He is
offering words that might open a new vista for others. He is like Jesus in
the Gospel. The other people do not yet recognize that he is a special
messenger from God. In this reading, it is a question of whether the
hearts of the hearers are open. We also hear the same Scriptures. These
Scriptures, just as to these early listeners, have become so well known
that we often find nothing new in them. Often we do not even encounter the
Lord in them because our hearts are dull.
The second reading, from the First Letter of Peter, tells us to conduct
ourselves in such a way that it is apparent that we know God. This comes
down to loving others once again, to listening to others, to asking others
to stay with us so that we can encounter the Lord in them. So often we
want to be away from various people, we want some people out of our lives
and we want to love those who make us comfortable. This never denies that
there are people who should not be in our lives because they draw us away
from the Lord. Sometimes, however, we want people out of our lives because
they are inconvenient for us. It all comes down, once more, to this: am I
seeking God or just my own comfort.
The Gospel brings us back to the Emmaus experience: in listening the
Scriptures, we can encounter the Lord. In listening to others who are the
images of Scripture, we can encounter the Lord. In seeking to hear the
other person, we might encounter Jesus Himself.
Stay with us, Lord, because it is almost evening! Our lives are finite and
so it is always evening. The only value of this life, from a deeply
spiritual point of view, is to encounter the Lord, to know the Risen
Christ, to live in His love and to proclaim that love to all the earth.
Amen. Alleluia.
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In woods not far from Philadelphia, the body of a young boy was found in a box in 1957. An autopsy showed the 4-to-6-year-old child had died from a blow to his head and had sustained numerous bruises. A widespread, prolonged investigation failed to even determine the boy's name.
by Mark Pulham
It had rained heavily the night before, and there was still some rain and cloud cover that Wednesday morning. It was November
11, 1998, and a crowd of around a hundred had gathered at the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia for the funeral service. Just in time, the rain cleared and the clouds broke apart to reveal the sun, leaving a blue sky for the ceremony.
The service began exactly at 11 a.m. A lone piper played "Going Home" from Dvořák's "New World Symphony" on the bagpipes.
Reburial of the Boy in the Box. November 11th, 1998
The pallbearers were not family members or relatives, nor were they friends of the deceased, not in the common sense. Some were Philadelphia police officers, others were members of the Vidocq Society. The white casket was lowered into the ground on the corner triangular plot. One of the pallbearers, Sam Weinstein, a retired Philadelphia detective, sat on one of the chairs and wiped a tear from his eye.
Weinstein was there at the beginning, some forty-one years earlier.
In 1957, Fox Chase was still a rural district about eight miles north of Philadelphia's downtown area. Remote and sparsely populated, Fox Chase had become an illegal dumping ground for trash.
It was Monday, February 25. Spring had yet to arrive, and it had been cold for that last week, the temperature dropping down to the 20s. Around 3:15 that afternoon, Frederick J. Benonis, a 26-year-old student from La Salle College, parked his car on the Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase. He got out of the car and went into the thickly wooded lot. Two weeks earlier, he had stopped at the same spot and chased a rabbit into the woods where he spotted a couple of traps set for small game. Benonis didn't like the cruelty of these traps and sprung them. Now he wanted to check the traps again. They had not been reset.
As usual, garbage was strewn everywhere, including a large cardboard box partially covered with brush. It had not been there on his previous visit. Curious, he took a look inside and saw a large doll. It was very realistic. Too realistic.
Benonis rushed back to the car and drove away. He didn't call the police; he knew what they would think. They had already talked with him about his habit of spying on the young ladies at the Good Shepherd Home for Wayward Girls across the street from the woods.
The next morning, as he drove to school, he heard a news broadcast on the car radio. A 4-year old girl named Mary Jane Barker had vanished from her home in Bellmawr, New Jersey, less than 25 miles away. Could that be Mary Jane's body in the box? Is that what he had found? He had to talk to someone. He told of what he had found to two counsellors and a priest. They told him to call the police.
Sergeant Charles Gargani was manning the station desk when the call came in at 10:10 that Tuesday morning. He ordered a radio message to officers to investigate a cardboard box off Susquehanna Road, saying it could be a body, or a doll. Shortly after, Patrolman Elmer Palmer arrived on the scene. It was drizzling and cold.
Sure that what he would find would turn out to be a doll, Palmer entered the wooded area. Soon, he found the box, which was about three feet long and stamped "Fragile-Handle with Care." Palmer stopped. He could see the head and shoulder that were sticking out of the box, the rest wrapped in a blanket. This was no doll. He went back to his patrol car and reported what he'd found.
A second car pulled up on that rainy, foggy morning. Sam Weinstein had arrived on the scene. Weinstein looked in the box. He was no stranger to death, having served in the Pacific as a Marine in World War II. But this was different, this was a child. Weinstein would always remember the sick feeling he got when he saw the body, thrown away with the rest of the garbage. He would make a promise that he would never give up on this child.
Police at the scene. At the extreme left is Sam Weinstein. Next to him is Elmer Palmer.
Soon, more cars arrived, including one carrying Philadelphia's chief medical examiner, Dr. Joseph W. Spelman. Weinstein reached into the box and lifted the small naked body from it. It was a boy, dispelling the notion that it was Mary Jane Barker. Mary Jane would eventually be found a week later. She had gone into a vacant house not far from home to play and had gone inside a closet. Once inside, she couldn't get out. By the time she was found, it was too late. She had starved to death.
Spelman made a quick inspection. The boy was aged between 4 and 6 years old and had bruises on his face, legs, and stomach. His hair, light brown or blond, had been roughly cut, some of it still clinging to the body indicating the haircut had happened while the boy was naked, or at least shirtless. Was the hair cut off to make the boy less identifiable? Maybe it would delay identifying the boy, but once his picture was out, the detectives knew someone would come forward.
Nothing more would be known until after an autopsy, and the body was taken away by ambulance. In the meantime, there were other clues.
The box he was found in was large, 35-by-19 by fifteen inches. It was traceable, thanks to the shipping mark, to a J. C. Penney store some 15 miles from the crime scene. It had contained a white bassinet, the store confirmed, that sold for $7.95. It had been bought sometime between December 3, 1956 and February 16, 1957. As for who bought it, that was more difficult, this was long before the proliferation of credit cards. Maybe the killer had purchased the bassinet and used the box to dispose of the boy. Then again, with the area being a dumping ground for trash, maybe the box had nothing to do with the boy or his killer, it was just conveniently there.
The blanket the boy was wrapped in was distinctive. It was an Indian-style blanket, with diamonds and blocks, all in various colours, brown, white, rust colour and green. It was in two pieces, but it was clear that there was a third piece that was missing. The Philadelphia Textile Institute examined the blanket, and said it was made in either North Carolina or in Quebec, and was manufactured for only a few years. However, over one and a half million were sold across the country.
A corduroy cap, size 7⅛, was found 17 feet from the body. It was royal blue and had a distinctive leather strap with a buckle in the back. Inside the cap was a label. Robbins Bald Eagle Hat & Cap Company, 2603 South 7th Street, Philadelphia. It was a solid lead. Detectives interviewed the owner, Hannah Robbins. It was one of 12 hats made in the store. It was originally made without the leather strap and buckle, but, Mrs. Robbins stated, a blond man aged between 26 and 30 years old bought the cap and paid extra to have the strap and buckle added. She never saw the man again. Detectives visited 143 stores in and around the area, showing pictures of the boy and the cap, but no-one recognized either the boy or the cap.
On the evening of February 26, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin carried this headline on its front page: "Body of Boy Found in Box in Fox Chase. Victim 4 to 6, Appears to have been bruised."
The Boy in the Box. Post mortem photo showing bruises to the head.
A post-mortem examination later that evening revealed that the boy had died from a severe blow to the head. Along with the bruises on the body, it showed the boy had suffered from a brutal beating. There were several scars on the body, a few which may have indicated that he had had surgery. One scar on the left ankle looked like a "cut-down" incision, which is made to expose a vein for a transfusion. There was also an L shaped scar on his chin. Strangely, the child's right hand and the soles of both feet were wrinkled in what police called a "washerwoman" effect. It looked as if they had been submerged in water either just before or after he had died. Another clue was found when ultraviolet light was shone into the boys eyes. His left eye fluoresced a brilliant blue. This may indicate that a special dye had been put in the eye to diagnose an eye ailment.
The time of death could not be established. The cold weather had made that impossible. He may have been dead only two or three days, but it was also possible that he died two or three weeks before.
This poster appeared everywhere people gathered.
By now, photographs of the boy had appeared in the morning newspapers. Soon, thousands of posters would appear in post offices and liquor stores, and anywhere else the public gathered. Confident that the photographs would jog someone's memory, the detectives knew it would not be long before someone stepped forward with information, and the identity of the boy could be established. It wasn't long before people began to get in touch.
One informant told the police he was driving along Verree Road on Sunday, February 24, when he saw a middle-aged woman and a young boy aged around 12 or 14 parked on the side of Susquehanna Road, about 200 feet from where the boy was found. They were unloading something from the trunk of a car. The man pulled up and asked them if they needed help, thinking they may have a flat tire. He told the police that they didn't say a word, and it seemed to him that they were standing in such a way as to purposely hide from him the license plate of the car. The police could not find the woman or the boy.
Soon, the Philadelphia police got a call from someone in Camden, New Jersey, certain that the boy was the son of a roofer named Charles Speece. Five more Camden residents contacted them with the same certainty. With that many people sure of the boys identity, an alarm was sent out. Find Charles Speece and hold him for questioning. They found Speece's estranged wife, and she was brought in to view the body. Although it had been a year since she had last seen her son, she was certain this was not her son Terry. For one thing, Terry Speece was 8 years old. When Charles Speece was finally located, they found Terry Speece watching TV and eating a sandwich.
George Broomall, a Marine private, also came forward. He thought the boy may be his brother. Broomall was one of 18 children, and he had lost contact with his family when they still lived in Philadelphia. But, like Terry Speece, the lost brother was 8 years old. Eventually, the missing brother was found by detectives, living in California.
Sixteen months earlier, on October 31, 1955, Marilyn Damman went shopping in East Meadow, Long Island. With her were her two children, Pamela, who was seven months old, and Steven, who was just two months shy of his 3rd birthday. Marilyn went into a supermarket on Front Street, and left the two children outside. She was in there for 10 minutes. When she came out, both children, along with the carriage, were gone. A short while later, behind the rear of a store a block away, the carriage was found, with Pamela still strapped in. Of Steven there was no sign.
Police officers on Long island, reading the account of the boy in the box, wondered if this may be Steven Damman. He would have been roughly the same age, and he was blond. Steven was also blue eyed, as was the boy in the box. Steven had one more thing that linked him to the boy in the box. He had a similar shaped scar under his chin. Detective Inspector James Farrell from Nassau County, Long Island headed to Philadelphia. Once he saw the body, he knew. This was not Steven Damman. An x-ray confirmed this, Steven had broken his arm, but the boy in the box had not. Both sides were disappointed, the Philadelphia detectives still didn't have a name, and the Long Island detectives hadn't found Steven. He remains missing to this day. This was not the only kidnapping lead to come in.
More tips came in, and each one was investigated. And each one resulted in a dead end. More flyers and posters were printed. Flyers were sent out with the gas bills by the Philadelphia Gas Works, 200,000 in all. The Philadelphia Electric Company also sent them out with their bills.
Although a house-to-house check had been done, Detectives Raymond Latchford and Edmund Repsch decided to do it again. This time, they came across 18-year-old high school student John Powroznik. He admitted that he had come across the body a couple of days before Benonis. He was so horrified by the discovery that he ran home, not telling anyone, including his parents, about what he had found. It was his traps that Benonis had sprung. His parents were Polish immigrants, whose fear of authority had no doubt passed on to him, and which probably kept him from coming forward. Still, although they now knew the boy was there a couple of days earlier than reported, it didn't help any.
Dr. Wilton M. Krogman was a renowned anthropologist whose speciality was human growth. He also examined the boy. The body was 40 inches tall, which gave him a height age of three years and eight months. However, the boy only weighed 30 pounds, which was a weight age of only two years and two months. This discrepancy meant one thing, malnourishment. The bones would confirm this conclusion. Looking at x-rays, Krogman found scars on the long bones in the leg that indicated arrested growth. Also finding evidence of chronic ill health, the question came up as to why these conditions existed in the child. Krogman thought it may be representative of a family that is always on the move or maybe kidnappers who kept moving fearing being caught by the police.
The boy dressed, in the hope someone would recognize him.
The police didn't think it was kidnappers, the boy was, in other respects, kept very neat, with fingernails that were trimmed. Kidnappers would not do that. Krogman also suggested the boys' ancestry. With his long narrow head and face, the boy was possibly of German, Scandinavian, or British stock. It didn't help.
It did raise another possibility. Could the boy be Hungarian? Since the uprising of 1956, many Hungarians had fled to North America. But Immigration authorities deflated that idea. All the people who had come over during the Hungarian refugee program had received a vaccination. The boy in the box had not been vaccinated.
Still the leads came in, and still they led nowhere. The boy had been dressed and posed as though alive, hoping that someone would recognize him. No one did.
On July 24th, 1957, the boy in the box was buried in a potter's field near Philadelphia State Hospital. Detectives and members of the public donated money for the funeral, as did the Funeral Directors Association of Philadelphia. A small tombstone, inscribed "Heavenly Father, Bless this unknown boy" was donated by a local monument maker.
But this was not the end. Like Sam Weinstein, others had taken a vow to continue the hunt for this child's killer, and to give him a name. One was Remington Bristow. Bristow was an investigator at the medical examiners office when the boy was brought in. Bristow wasn't so sure that the death of the boy was a murder, even though that was how it was being treated. He felt that this may have been an accidental death, and that those responsible would have stepped forward at some point if it had not been labelled a homicide.
Bristow also felt that maybe no-one recognized the boy because he may have had very long hair, and neighbours may have thought he was a girl.
Another who became involved was William Kelly. At the time, he was the head of the identification unit on the Philadelphia Police force. He had taken the boys prints that day. Like the others, he believed that the boy would be identified within a short while. When no-one identified him, Kelly began his own mission on his own time. He would spend a couple of hours of each day in the records department of hospitals, looking at the birth records. As each baby has his footprints taken at birth, maybe Kelly would come across the boy in the files.
Bristow and Kelly, two men on the same mission, would often meet to exchange information. They had both come to the same conclusion. The boy was killed by abusive parents or someone who was in charge of the boy. Maybe it was an accident, as Bristow believed. Maybe during bath time the boy had played up and had been given a beating, one that went too far this time.
As the weeks turned to months, and then to years, theories and leads turned up, and were shot down. Margaret Martinez, a 30-year-old mother of nine from Colorado, was questioned about the boy in the box. She had been arrested for throwing the body of her 3-year-old daughter into a trash can. Joseph Komarnicki, former head of the Philadelphia Detective Bureau's Missing Persons Division, saw the report of her arrest and saw that she fit the description of the woman seen moving something from the trunk of her car near the site where the body was found. He travelled on his own expense to interview her. But no proof was found linking her to the case.
On February 9, 1961, the body of a girl was found in woods in Southern Virginia. She was wrapped in a blanket. It wasn't long before police in Lawrenceville, Virginia, arrested Kenneth Dudley, aged 47, and his 44-year- old wife, Irene, who were itinerant carnival workers. They were charged over the death of their 7-year-old daughter, Carol Ann, who had died from malnutrition and neglect, with a broken leg as a contributing factor. Out of the 10 children that the Dudley's were known to have, at least four others were missing. Two of them were thought to be about the same age as the boy in the box. The Dudley's were questioned intensely and finally revealed a horrific story.
They had a son named Claude, who was born in March, 1955. When Claude starved to death in mid-November, 1958, they just dumped his body in an old phosphate mine in Florida. Their 10-year-old son, Norman, died from malnutrition and neglect on December 23, 1959, and two days later, his 8-year old brother also died. The Dudley's drove around with their bodies for a few days before wrapping them in a blanket, weighing it with stones, and then dropping them into Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana. When Debbie died just two months before her fourth birthday, her body was casually tossed onto a rubbish dump. Carol Ann was just the last in a line of victims. The Dudley's were also suspects in the murder of two women in Onondaga County, New York. They would deny these murders, but would eventually confess to the murder of Mrs. Jean Valla in 1951, whose body was also dumped on a rubbish tip.
Despite the similarities between the boy in the box and Carol Ann, there was no connection. Once again, the boy in the box case had reached a dead end.
Remington Bristow would never give up. He had not been making progress and he was desperate. He turned to Florence Sternfeld, a psychic from New Jersey, who had worked many times with other police departments. Bristow travelled to Palisades Park to see the elderly woman. Florence was a tactile psychic, and needed something to hold, preferably metal. Bristow brought along some staples from the cardboard box. Holding the staples, Sternfeld described a house with a wooden porch and a log cabin nearby with children playing. Bristow returned to Philadelphia and spent some time driving around, eventually coming to a house that fit the description. It was about a mile and a half from where the boy was found. Bristow brought Florence to Philadelphia, the first time she had ever been there. She was taken to the spot where the body was found. She turned and led the detective to the house with the log cabin.
Remington Bristow at the 10th anniversary of the boy's discovery.
Bristow began to focus his attention on the house. At the time of the boys' death, it was a foster home run by Arthur and Catherine Nicoletti, and Catherine's 20-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Anna Marie Nagle, who was said to be mentally challenged. Anna Marie had given birth to four children out of wedlock, three of whom were stillborn, and the fourth electrocuted in 1955 while on an amusement ride at a department store at the age of 3. Although the usual number of children at the foster home numbered around six, there had been times when as many as 25 were there.
When the Nicoletti's got out of the foster care business in 1961, the home was closed and put on the market. At a preview for an auction of the furnishings, Bristow saw a bassinet similar to the one contained in the box that the boy was found in. There were also blankets similar to the one the boy had been found wrapped in. They had been cut to fit into the cots that the children slept on.
Bristow was convinced that the Nicoletti's had something to do with the death of the boy. For many years, he tried to persuade the Philadelphia police to investigate the foster home, even though they had investigated them at the time and determined there was no connection. In 1984, the police agreed to interview Nicoletti. Once again, they turned up nothing that was incriminating. Bristow was frustrated and telephoned Nicoletti. He tried to get him to take a lie-detector test, but Nicoletti refused. His lack of co-operation convinced Bristow even more that Nicoletti had something to hide.
Bristow continued his investigation, using his own time and money, and even offering a $1,000 reward, for information that would lead to the solution. Remington Bristow died in 1993, having spent thirty six years of his life devoted to finding the answer to the boy in the box mystery.
William Fleisher. Founding member of the VSM.
By this time, the investigation had been taken over by Detective Tom Augustine. As an 11-year-old boy, Augustine had seen the photos of the boy on posters that were displayed throughout Philadelphia. In February, 1998, Augustine followed up on the investigation into the foster home, started by Remington Bristow. He interviewed Arthur Nicoletti, whose wife Catherine had died, and who was now married to Catherine's daughter, Anna Marie Nagle. The Nicoletti's were more forthcoming on this interview, and answered many questions. But the interview confirmed that they had nothing to do with the boy or his death. Only a few months later, Arthur Nicoletti died, and his wife entered a nursing home.
In 1998, the Philadelphia police requested that the Vidocq Society accept the case. The Vidocq Society is an organization devoted to solving cold cases. Its members are professionals from the world of forensics and investigation, including former FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler, who coined the term "serial killer," and renowned forensic artist Frank Bender, whose bust led to the arrest of John Emil List. Bender is one of the founding members of the Vidocq Society. Another founder of the Vidocq Society is former Philadelphia police officer and FBI Special Agent William L. Fleisher, who was 13 when he saw the photographs of the boy.
Sam Weinstein wipes away a tear at the 1998 reburial. Photo by Alejandro A. Alvarez/ Philadelphia Daily News.
Another member of the Vidocq Society was Sam Weinstein, now retired from the police department. After his retirement in 1985, he felt he would never be involved in the case again, but now, he was back investigating. He would be joined by William Kelly and Joe McGillen, who had been an investigator with the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office.
In late 1998, the body was exhumed. Science had come a long way in the intervening years, and now, DNA evidence could be extracted. Although they could not get any nuclear DNA from the body, mitochondrial DNA was obtained from the teeth. It would be useful to confirm or rule out any genetic relationship. It did finally confirm that it was not Steven Damman.
On October 3, 1998, the Boy in the Box case was presented on the television show "America's Most Wanted." It would generate new interest in the case, and more than 150 new tips. George R. Knowles was 11 when he saw the posters in New Jersey, when he went to a local police station to register his new bicycle. He had not thought about the mystery for years until that October night when he saw it on the television. It brought back memories, and he was determined that he should help in some way. By 1999, Knowles had created the website Americasunknownchild.net. Visitors to the site number in the millions, with hundreds of tips and theories that have been passed on to the police. Unfortunately, none of them have moved the case any further. A second television program, CBS's "48 Hours" also had a segment on the mystery in May, 2001.
George Knowles (left) creator of the America's Unknown Child website, and Elmer Palmer (in red), first patrolman on the scene in 1957.
Then, in February 2002, Tom Augustine got a phone call from a psychiatrist from Cincinnati. One of her patients had called the night before and demanded that she call the Philadelphia police. It concerned the boy in the box. Augustine, along with Joe McGillen and William Kelly, drove down to see the patient, a woman identified only by the initial "M." For three hours, M talked. She told of how her mother, a librarian, had purchased the boy from his birth parents in the summer of 1954. M's mother was abusive, and kept the boy in the basement, where he was physically and sexually abused, as was M herself.
The end came when the boy, whom M had called Jonathan, vomited in the bathtub. Her mother, in an angry rage, slammed him to the floor, killing him. She cut the boys hair and trimmed his nails, all in an effort to hide his identity. The boy, after being wrapped in a blanket, was placed in the trunk of the car and they drove to Susquehanna Road. M recalled that as they were getting ready to remove the body, a man drove up and asked if they needed any help. They turned away, blocking the man's view of the license plate. After a short while, the man drove away.
The tale was compelling, but as M had a history of mental problems, there could be a chance that she was making the whole thing up. A thorough investigation of her story began, and although some of it could be corroborated, most could not. Many of the details that M supplied were public knowledge. The house in which she lived was located, and when investigators finally got permission to examine the basement, they could find no trace evidence to show that the boy in the box had been kept prisoner there. Two former neighbours were also found, and they said that no boy was kept in the basement. They frequently visited the home and were able to go to the basement freely. Another neighbour said the claims were preposterous. Once more, a promising lead came to an end.
The identity of the boy in the box and what happened to him remain a mystery. But the case remains open. The boy in the box case became a life's work for some of the investigators. Sam Weinstein, involved from the beginning and who lifted the boy out of the box for Dr. Spelman to examine, passed away on May 16, 2004. He headed the Vidocq Society's investigation into the case from 1998 to 2000. Sadly, Elmer Palmer, the first officer on the scene and who visited the boy's grave whenever he could, passed away on January 10, 2011. Along with Remington Bristow, their dedication to this case is inspiring.
It is almost 54 years since the boy was found. Maybe it will never be solved. But, as investigators retire or pass away, others carry on the hunt for the truth, and to give a little boy a name.
|Investigators at the 2000 Memorial to the Boy in the Box: From left to right: William Kelly, VSM; Joseph McGillen, VSM; William L. Fleisher, VSM; Sam Weinstein, VSM; and Elmer Palmer.
If anyone has any information, please contact any of the following:
Philadelphia Police Dept. Homicide Unit, 215-686-3334 / 3335 / 3336. email@example.com
The Vidocq Society: 215-545-1450 (voice) or 215-545-1773 (fax). email@example.com
The FBI - Philadelphia Field Office: 215-418-4000. email@example.com
America's Most Wanted: 1-800-CRIME-TV. http://www.amw.com
My thanks go to William Fleisher VSM for permission to use the photographs.


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By Shannon Livick
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The hum of sewing machines filled the banquet room behind the Ponderosa Restaurant Tuesday morning as a small group of women concentrated on making masterpieces.
Many of them were under the gun to get their projects ready for the Dolores Mountain Quilters Quilt Show. The biennual event is this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23.
Kate Nemaic was putting the finishing touches on a beautiful quilt with a flower pattern in blues and whites. She'd been working on it for two years.
Barb Shafer, who has been quilting for about 12 years, was excited for the event, which will feature three of her quilts and one of her wall hangings.
"I like to see what everybody does," she said of the show.
Judi Swain said the quilt show is open to everyone, but the majority of the quilts are those done by quilt club members. The Dolores Mountain Quilters boasts 88 members, and while they technically meet once a month, that didn't stop them from meeting again at the Ponderosa on Tuesday, as a subset of the group called Sew and Sews, organized by club member Nemaic.
"We come here because we miss our sisters," Nemaic said.
Nemaic said she doesn't have sisters, so she loves to get together with her quilting sisters.
They sew, they chat, they consult, and they help one another solve problems.
The show will feature about 100 quilts. There will be door prizes given. Entrance to the show for those 16 and older is $3. Children are admitted for free.
At this show, judging is done by those that attend, Swain said.
Judging categories range from best bed quilt, best lap quilt, best wall quilt, best baby quilt, best artistic quilt and best youth quilter.
"We have a lot of wonderful quilts this year," Swain said. "The art quilts will just blow you away."
The art of quilting is something everyone can appreciate, Swain said.
At once thought to be a dying art, quilting recently has started an upsurge with nearly 30 million quilters worldwide, Swain said. This fact, she attributed to baby boomers retiring. She added, she started quilting when she retired.
"It's a way to express yourself," Swain said. "It's an outlet for your creativity."
The show not only shows off some of area's most talented quilters, it also allows those that attend to win door prizes and shop at the boutique.
The boutique will offer quilts for sale, crafts and all kinds of quilted items.
"Several people start their Christmas shopping there," Nemaic said.
Nemaic said that when she started quilting, she thought she'd never be able to do it.
"I saw quilts, and they were beautiful, and people said, 'You can do this.' And I said, 'No I can't.' Yet here I am," she said.
There will also be a chance to purchase raffle tickets for the club's beautiful king-size quilt titled "Homeward Journey."
Linda Towle, who was working on a beautiful Southwestern quilt on Tuesday, was excited for the show.
"What's really fun is we see people working on these throughout the year, and we go to the show, and then there they are all finished and beautiful," Towle said.
Proceeds from the raffle, the boutique and the show go toward the charities that the quilt club supports.
The club makes lap quilts for veterans every year. Members assist with afterschool programs and 4-H clubs. Quilts are donated to the Child Advocacy Center and assisted-living centers. In addition, the club raised $3,400 for the Child Advocacy Center last year, Swain said. The club also provides handmade stockings filled with toys to local foster children every year.
"We have a lot of very generous quilters in our group," Nemaic said.


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Senator Kerry's most important Senate appearance was in 1971
The next chapter in Sen. John Kerry's story began Thursday during his confirmation hearings for his nomination to be Secretary of State. msnbc's Lawrence O'Donnell took a look back at John Kerry's place in history when he testified on Capitol Hill before a panel nearly 40 years ago as a Vietnam War veteran and protester.
In his opening statement on Thursday, Kerry reminded himself of his own journey that began in 1971 when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971 and spoke about his experience in war and as the leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
"Nearly 42 years ago, Chairman Fulbright first gave me the opportunity to testify before this committee during a difficult and divided time for our country," Kerry said. "Today I can't help but recognize that the world itself then was in many ways simpler, divided as it was along bi-polar, Cold War antagonism. Today's world is more complicated than anything we have experienced."
Speaking to the complex challenges the country is now facing, Kerry remained humble about the first time he set foot on Capitol Hill. "I'll tell you, Mr. Chairman, when I first came to Washington to testify it was as a member of group who came to have their voices heard. That is what this place is all about." Kerry was a former navy lieutenant in Vietnam, was wounded three times and awarded the silver star for heroism.
His well-received testimony received a standing ovation from peace demonstrators in the gallery; his speech also resonated with President Richard Nixon who ended the draft a year later.
O'Donnell praised Kerry as the ultimate war hero, saving countless of lives with his powerful testimony against the war.
"More than 2,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam after John Kerry's testimony. That number was going to be higher, much higher. 5,000? 10,000? We'll never know, but it was going to be higher if John Kerry hadn't become the most "extremely effective" war protester in American history. The only war protester who the war President, Richard Nixon, thought was, in his words, 'extremely effective.'"
O'Donnell thanked Kerry for his most valuable contribution to the country and the world.
"There are men who are alive today in this country thanks to John Kerry. I have brothers who I believe are alive today, thanks to John Kerry. Some of you have brothers, fathers, uncles, who are alive today because of John Kerry. John Kerry didn't play it safe when he testified against the war. He personally attacked by name President Johnson's Defense Secretary–along with the other Democrats in the Johnson Administration who were the architects of that war… the so-called best and the brightest who failed the country and the world so miserably. On April 22, 1971, at the age of 27, John Kerry assured his position in American history, and that position is war hero…the most valuable kind of war hero, the hero who helps end the war."


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|Phototransduction - fly - Reference pathway + Dictyostelium
|Phototransduction is the process that converts the signal of light (photons) into a change of membrane potential in photoreceptor cells. Drosophila visual signaling is initiated with the activation of rhodopsin by light. Rhodopsin is composed of a protein, opsin, covalently linked to a chromophore, 3-hydroxy-11-cis-retinal. Upon absorption of a light photon the chromophore is isomerized from the 11-cis to the all-trans configuration which induces a structural change that activates the opsin. This photoconversion activates heterotrimeric Gq protein via GTP-GDP exchange, releasing the G(alpha)q subunit. G(alpha)q activates PLC, generating InsP3 and DAG from PIP2. DAG may further release polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) via action of DAG lipase. This reaction leads to the opening of cation-selective channels (trp and trpl genes) and causes the depolarization of the photoreceptor cells. The transduction proteins rhodopsin, G(alpha)q, PLC, PKC, TRP, and TRPL are coordinated by a polymer of INAD scaffold proteins.


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Patt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Clibing up the walls - In portuguese: Subindo nas paredes
I'm an ex-"mad women". 20 years working for Ad Agencies as Account Services Diretor. Five years ago I gave up it and bought a Frame Shop. I still have it and love it as much as at the first day. My associated onws a frame supplies company. One of the biggest in Brazil and had the idea of this project. We want to expand our businesses and are getting ready to start a new shop related to what we already do; But this will go further. We'll have everything one can imagine that can be hanged on the walls. From framing services to special wall paintings. Tapestries, wall paper, art work, hadcraft, photos, door panels, litle funny presents, all related to the walls. Both of us are enjoyng very much the project. Twice a week we seat togheter and just keep having ideas, look the internet searching for new supliers, and have fun.
Primary: Both sex. From 24 to 40 years old. Young couples (or singles) with no childrem or with new ones. They are starting their lives. Both work and have a good income that allows them to have exclusive objects at home. They can afford to pay, and the good taste to have it. But not allways the price is the most important. Some times, it can be only a simple object, cheap, but very neat!
Of course we will have older clients and with more " classic" taste, and to tehm we will have products also. But the main focus is young people.
Secondary: Interior designers, who seek for different objects to their clients.
The name - CLIBING UP THE WALLS - should means not only the things you can hang on the walls, but also that you'll go crazy with what we offer. So different and so exclusive!
When thinking about the brand, one of the ideas we like is to use a lizard or gecko as our symbol, once they clinb up the walls and are very friendly. This is not mandatory, but is something that came so naturally to our minds...
We want something colorful (CMYK) and powerful, because the shop will be at a street that people pass, mostly, by car. We need to get their attention! You can work with the brand in english, but by the end, we will need it in portuguese. There are two ways to write it in portuguese:
SUBINDO PELAS PAREDES or SUBINDO NAS PAREDES.
It will be located at a good subdistrict of Sao Paulo (Brazil), that already has a good commerce around.
Please feel free to get more info with me (if I don't answer at the same day, I'll do it in the next day) and to CREATE.
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Jackson Rathbone's Half Way Party
And he gets even sexier.
Jackson Rathbone and band 100 Monkeys hosted a private party on Saturday night in Vancouver at the Players Chophouse.
Here is an exclusive copy of the invitation. The date stamp KILLS me.
You will note…
The open bar.
All class.
One of my pet peeves in life: Cash Bar At A Wedding.
Chill the f-ck out, bitches. I'm not talking the kind of wedding where the modest couple invites close family and friends for an intimate celebration. I'm talking the kind of wedding where the bride keeps yapping about her Vera Wang and they book out a swank hotel or a golf course and register for ten thousand gravy boats and you get there and everyone gets 2 tickets for their first 2 drinks and the rest is on you.
Sorry to digress.
When Jackson Rathbone gets married, it won't be a cash bar.
Anyway, the host wore a "Zorro" hat and 100 Monkeys were the last to perform. I'm told that the band's tradition is to ask the audience for a word and use that word to make up a song…? Anyway, the word on Saturday was "polygamy". So the ensuing chorus was:
I get what I need from you and you and you.
It was a well guarded event, not too many leaks, and no paps. Other Twilight cast members present included Kellan Lutz, Julia Jones, Ashley Greene, Chaske Spencer, Elizabeth Reaser, Xavier Samuel, and oh yeah, those other two, the only two most people care about – Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – were spotted smoking on the patio. Twi-Hards will take this to mean they that they were out there alone, slow dancing under the twinkling stars, talking about the magic-ness of their love.
Sane folks will understand that smoking patios are usually crowded and the best they could hope for is a hand job behind the umbrella stand.
This is Pattinson alone at the end of the night. Note the buttons. And you'll love this email from Debbie sent to me yesterday with a copy of one of these images:
Lainey, check out this pic of RPATTZ coming home with his shirt buttons messed up. Kristen was ripping it off in the cab so F-CK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Photos from INFphoto.com


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The Los Angeles Indie Music Meetup
Group Description
this meetup is for all who enjoy the indie genre of music!
don't have someone to go with to see a band like vampire weekend or the silversun pickups? no problem!
all you need to do is e-mail me with the show you want to go and I will make you an assistant organizer for that show!
we mostly do venues with general admission so we can meet up before the show and hang out during the show. Note: some shows will be" no-host meetups" and some will be "announcement only."
there are also the occasional meet and greets where we can meet up and talk about bands and music without attending a show.
any questions or comments? e-mail me! we are also a group on facebook.
jennifer juniper & Rolando Marin


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No matter what kind of learning is taking place in your science classroom, these adjustable lab tables from National Public Seating will make a great fit. An adjustable height accommodates chairs and stool of various sizes and also allows for standing experiments. These science tables can even be set at an incline for physics applications.
Getting these lab tables into position is incredibly easy. All you have to do is stand on the boot glides or casters and gently lift the tabletop. When the desired height is reached, the table automatically locks in place on release. These ADA-compliant tables offer flexibility and durability to help you provide a top-notch science education for all students.
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HTC One max unveield
After months of rumors, leaks and speculation, HTC has finally pulled back the curtain and unveiled the HTC One max. According the the handset's spec sheet, most of the rumors have turned out to be true. While the HTC One max is the largest handset ever made by HTC, it's not being pitched as a true flagship device. The HTC One is still the leader in that aspect. The HTC One max may have a larger display, larger battery, fingerprint scanner and microSD card slot, but it lacks optical image stabilization and the base model delivers only 16GB of internal storage.
On the software side, the HTC One max is running on Android 4.3 with HTC Sense 5.5. The latest version of HTC's software come with new customization options for video highlights, quick settings and BlinkFeed (allowing users to integrate RSS feeds, Google+ or turn the service off completely).
While we're not sure yet what service providers will be charging for the HTC One max, the storage and imaging compromises lead us to believe that the handset's price will come in slightly lower than that of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The HTC One max will go on sale in the UK this week with additional markets in Europe coming online later this month. Verizon and Sprint are expected to start selling the HTC One max by the holidays.
HTC One max spec highlights
- 5.9-inch Full HD 1080p display
- 164.5 x 82.5 x 10.29mm body weighing in at 217g
- 1.7Ghz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor
- 2GB of RAM
- 16/32GB storage options (microSd card slot up to 64GB)
- Gyro sensor, Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Fingerprint scanner
- 3,300 mAh battery
- Android 4.3 with Sense 5.5
- Ultrapixel main camera (4 megapixels) f2.0, 2.1 megapixel front-facing camera with 88 degree wide angle lens
World's best smartphone now in 5.9″ with new and improved HTC Sense 5.5 ® experience
London, October 15, 2013 – HTC, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today announced the HTC One max, a super-sized smartphone that brings the award-winning design, functionality and performance of the HTC One to fans of larger handsets. A new Fingerprint Scan feature takes convenience to a new level while acclaimed features including HTC BlinkFeed™, HTC Zoe™ and HTC BoomSound™, combined with the new HTC Sense 5.5, which are all enhanced to continue to deliver the best overall smartphone experience, now on a larger screen.
"The addition of the HTC One max means that we now have an HTC One phone for everyone. The family has been built on quality and game-changing innovations and the HTC One max is certainly no exception," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. "The upgrade to HTC Sense 5.5 will provide our most amazing mobile experience yet, with the HTC One max delivering the size and power required to do everything you want, and more, without compromise."
Big and powerful
The HTC One max's 5.9″ full HD1080p display is perfect for enjoying photos, videos and movies on the go. Smooth and efficient performance comes courtesy of a quad-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600 processor featuring a quad-core 1.7 GHz CPU enabling jaw-dropping performance, ultra vivid videos and booming sound. Whether you're watching videos in stunning HD, playing games or checking out what's hot online, the HTC One max sounds amazing, looks sharp and keeps working when you need it.
The 16GB or 32GB onboard memory can be expanded thanks to a microSD™ card slot, with a massive 50GB of additional free Google Drive online storage being offered exclusively to HTC One max owners
The large 3300mAh embedded battery means that this level of performance will last and last. Even the most intensive users will find the HTC One max is up to the challenge thanks to the optional HTC Power Flip Case, a stylish 1150mAh battery expansion for your HTC One max which offers both protection and extra juice when you need it most.
Maximum convenience at your fingertips
The average person checks their phone multiple times a day, so the HTC One max welcomes a new era of convenience and advanced functionality thanks to a built-in Fingerprint Scan feature. Located on the back of the device, the fingerprint scanner allows users to lock or unlock the screen and quickly launch up to three favourite applications by assigning an individual finger to each.
More content than ever before
The HTC One max's Sense 5.5 upgrade comes with a more social, personalised HTC BlinkFeed that can be further refined by customisable topic categories and new integration with premium content providers including Instagram and Google+. Up to 120 articles can also be downloaded for offline viewing, making BlinkFeed even better for snacking on information wherever and whenever you are.
Ultimate imaging
Featuring HTC's UltraPixel camera technology, HTC Zoe mode, that brings your photos to life, and a 2.1MP front-facing camera, the HTC One max will capture stunning photos and full HD 1080p videos whether you're the photographer, the subject or both. Dual Capture means you can now snap memorable moments and your reaction to them in one extraordinary photo or video by simultaneously shooting with the front and rear cameras.
Improved imaging is also introduced through Video Highlights, which combines your photos and videos to create a mini movie complete with the soundtrack and visual theme of your choice. And with the HTC One max, your Video Highlights can now be any length you want.
Design at its Best
Available in Glacial Silver, the HTC One max shares the same premium design credentials as the rest of the HTC One family, providing an all round exceptional experience.
Global Availability
The HTC One max will begin rolling out across the globe from mid – end October. See specific regions for details.


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By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Louisiana legislature today gave its final approval to the heartbeat bill to make it the next state to ban abortions this year – following states like Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says he will sign a bill that bans abortions when a baby's heartbeat begins… The Louisiana House voted 79-23 to pass the pro-life bill — sending it to the governor for his signature. The House rejected an amendment that would have provided an exception to allow killing unborn babies in cases of rape or incest… The Heartbeat Bill, when it goes into effect, will prohibit abortion when a human heartbeat can be detected. An abdominal ultrasound can detect a heartbeat between eight and twelve weeks.
By Willie Richardson, The Patriot Post – Margaret Sanger is upheld as an important figure to the Democrat Party and the slaughtering of infants in the womb through abortion. Her goal was to assure that "human weeds" would not procreate… Sanger was also an ally to the Klu Klux Klan. She said in her autobiography, "Always to me [any aroused group] was a [good group], and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Klu Klux Klan." What was good about the KKK? What was their arousal centered on? Sanger's legacy was to destroy the Negro race using a "reformed" lynching philosophy called eugenics.
Bishop Paprocki, Illinois, Condemns 'Gravely Immoral Action' of Illinois House Passing 'Radical' Pro-Abortion Act
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois issued strong words against the Illinois House passing Senate Bill 25 on May 28, calling it a "gravely immoral action."… The legislation, titled "The Reproductive Health Act," would overhaul the state's abortion statute. The measure passed 64-50 in the House today. Several Democrats voted against it… The act is being called the most liberal reproductive health care measure in the country… The Thomas More Society called the act "the most radical piece of abortion legislation that has ever been introduced in Illinois."
Reflections on the Feast of the Ascension, by Jonathan B. Coe
By Jonathan B. Coe, Crisis Magazine – During this interim between the Resurrection and the Ascension, (Jesus') followers ask him if he is going to restore the kingdom of Israel at this time and he replies that they are not privileged to know the Father's plans on such matters. He then tells them that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit is given them to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
New Interview, New Revelations Damage Pope's Credibility, by Phil Lawler
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Yet even that outlandish suggestion is not enough to bring the Pope's two claims into a workable alignment. Because if Archbishop Vigano had informed him, then even if the Pope somehow forgot, he could not truthfully say that he knew "nothing" about the McCarrick scandal… Archbishop Vigano, not mincing words, made his own position perfectly clear in responding to the new papal interview: "What the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie."
Ambulances Know Route to St. Louis Abortuary, by Charlie Butts
By Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow – The future of a St. Louis-based Planned Parenthood clinic is in the hands of a judge but pro-life activists have already reached a verdict about its reputation… After states such as Alabama and Georgia have made national headlines recently for their restrictive abortion laws, Missouri is getting national attention because the state's only abortion clinic could be closing its doors any day now… That's because The Show-Me State follows health and safety standards that must be followed and the clinic's permit is set to expire Friday… Kathy Forck, a Missouri-based pro-life activist, says the St. Louis clinic has kept EMT teams busy for years, mostly due to women hemorrhaging including some life-threatening 911 calls.
SCOTUS Cases for Next Term: Religious Liberty, Guns and Possibly Abortion, by Rachel Alexander
By Rachel Alexander, The Stream – The Supreme Court is going on its regular summer break, but has already lined up a few cases to hear when it returns in the fall. And as usual, since the Supreme Court became America's main legislator, the cases mean a lot for the future of our country… America's founding fathers designed the Court as an umpire. Now it rules… The court will decide whether federal anti-discrimination law that bans discrimination based on sex also bans discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identification. The lower courts are split on this….
Pope Francis: Chinese Bishops Know They 'Must be Good Patriots' to Communist Regime, by Claire Chretien
By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews – In his recent marathon interview with a Mexican journalist, Pope Francis said "relations with China are good, very good" and that two Chinese bishops – one Vatican-appointed from the "underground" Church and one appointed by the Communist government – with whom he recently met "know that they must be good patriots."… Pope Francis' controversial deal with China allows the government to nominate clerics from its state-run "church," the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, for the Vatican to make bishops… Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong has repeatedly spoken out about the Vatican-China deal, decrying it as a betrayal of the Catholic faithful in that country.
Msgr. Charles Pope: A Word of Encouragement for Discouraged Cultural Warriors
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By Msgr. Charles Pope – A reminder of the resilience of truth comes to us in the Office of Readings during this 6th Week of Easter. Evil and error have their day, or even their era, but the Word of the Lord remains forever. In Tuesday's Office we read this passage: I have seen the wicked triumphant, towering like a cedar of Lebanon. I passed by again; he was gone. I searched; he was nowhere to be found. See the just man, mark the upright, for the peaceful man a future lies in store, but sinners shall all be destroyed. No future lies in store for the wicked…..
Two Cheers for The Washington Post Fact Check on Maternal Mortality Rates, by Michael New
By Michael New, CNS News – On Tuesday, The Washington Post published an informative fact check regarding maternal mortality trends in Texas. At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing May 16th Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) claimed that the reported rate of maternal deaths in Texas doubled after funding cuts to Planned Parenthood. Unfortunately, as The Washington Post pointed out, Congressman Beyer was relying on incorrect data.
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Figueiredo Report the First of Many to Come?
By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register – Whatever the Holy Father may or may not have known, excerpts of correspondence published Tuesday by Mgsr. Anthony Figueiredo seem to indicate that the broad outline of what Archbishop Viganò claimed about McCarrick is true… Msgr. Figueiredo served as McCarrick's secretary soon after his ordination — by McCarrick himself — in 1994-95. Msgr. Figueiredo then spent most of the next 25 years in Rome and acted as McCarrick's assistant in Rome, especially after the former cardinal's retirement in 2006.
Saint of the Day for May 30: St. Joan of Arc (Jan. 6, 1412 – May 30, 1431)
By Franciscan Media Saint Joan of Arc's Story – Burned at the stake as a heretic after a politically-motivated trial, Joan was beatified in 1909 and canonized […]


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Trumpeting economic growth on par with India and asserting adherence to the authoritarian model of China, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi pushed an ambitious development plan based in part on ever-hardening repression of critical journalists. The government aggressively extended application of a 2009 anti-terrorism law, designating rebel and opposition groups as terrorists and criminalizing news coverage of them. Authorities were holding seven journalists in late year on vague accusations of terrorism, including two Swedes who reported on separatist rebels in the oil-rich Ogaden region, and three Ethiopians with critical views of the ruling party. The government provided no credible evidence against the journalists, and both Zenawi and state media proclaimed the journalists' guilt before trial proceedings started. The Human Rights Committee of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights raised numerous questions about the use of the terror law in its periodic review of Ethiopia's record. In November, government intimidation led to the closing of the independent Awramba Times and forced two of its journalists, including 2010 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee Dawit Kebede, to flee the country. Another journalist fled into exile in September after his name appeared in unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Police threatened to arrest the journalist after the cable showed he had spoken to U.S. diplomats about a potential press crackdown.
Ethiopia has driven more journalists into exile over the past decade than any other nation in the world, according to CPJ research. Official harassment and the near-constant threat of imprisonment have compelled dozens of journalists to flee.
Imprisonments in Ethiopia rose in 2011 in concert with its aggressive extension of terror laws. Dissent, and even coverage of dissent, was conflated with treason.
Two Swedish journalists reporting on separatist rebels were convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to 11 years in prison apiece. Two Eritrean journalists remained in government custody on vague terrorism accusations after being jailed in 2007. With seven jailed in all, Ethiopia's crackdown propelled it into the ranks of the world's leading jailers of the press.
Iran: 42
Eritrea: 28
China: 27
Burma: 12
Vietnam: 9
Syria: 8
Turkey: 8
Ethiopia: 7
With investments from China's ZTE Corp. and France Telecom, the government retained monopoly control over state-owned Ethio Telecom, allowing it to conduct the most substantial filtering of Internet sites in sub-Saharan Africa, according to CPJ research and the OpenNet Initiative. Censorship of online media secured authorities a spot in CPJ's May report on the world's worst online oppressors.
The ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) controlled all but one of 547 seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives. Since 2008, the chamber enacted three laws restricting independent media, political opposition, and civil society organizations. The party's grip on the chamber mirrored its dominance of the media and political scenes.
EPRDF's dominance of media and politics:
Media regulation and licensing: 100 percent (EPRDF controlled the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority)
Newspaper printing presses: 100 percent (EPRDF controlled the two state-owned printing presses)
Broadcasters: 95 percent (EPRDF supporters controlled 21 of 22 broadcasters)
Newspapers with in-depth political coverage: 60 percent (EPRDF supporters controlled six out of 10 newspapers)