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What is the purpose of looking for anomalous behavior on a WLAN infrastructure?
A. Identifying new attack tools
B. Auditing employee's bandwidth usage
C. Identifying attacks using signature matching
D. Improving performance by load balancing
Answer: A
As of controller release v5.2, which two statements about wired guest access support are true?
(Choose two.)
A. It is not supported on the Cisco 2100 Series Controllers.
B. No more than three wired guest access LANs can be configured on a controller.
C. Layer 3 web authentication and passthrough are not supported.
D. Wired guest access cannot be configured in a dual-controller configuration that uses an anchor
controller and a foreign controller.
E. The wired guest access ports must be in the same Layer 2 network as the foreign controller.
Answer: A,E
The wireless client can roam faster on the Cisco Unified Wireless Network infrastructure when
which condition is met?
A. EAP-FAST is used for client authentication on the wireless network.
B. Cisco Centralized Key Management is used for Fast Secure Roaming.
C. QoS is being used on the WLAN to control which client packets get through the network faster.
D. RRM protocol is used between multiple APs that the client associates to while roaming.
Answer: B
Which option best describes an evil twin attack?
A. A rouge access point broadcasting a trusted SSID
B. A rogue access point broadcasting any SSID
C. A rouge ad-hoc with the SSID "Free WiFi"
D. A rouge access point spreading malware upon client connection
Answer: A
Which two configuration parameters does NAC OOB require on a SSID/WLAN? (Choose two.)
A. WMM enabled on the WLAN
B. Open authentication on the WLAN
C. AAA override configuration on the WLAN
D. 802.1x configuration on the WLAN
Answer: B,D
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If you were to ask me 2 years ago if I were planning on using cloth diapers with my son, I would have said…No. However, when our first and only son was 22 months old I decided that it was something I was very interested in pursing. My interest began when we were planning on a family vacation to the beach and swim diapers came to mind. What was a frugal alternative to Little Swimmers? What could our son wear that I wouldn't have to spend so much money on to throw in the trash? And in research, I decided to try a cloth swim diaper.
After reading a friends blog, I found she was cloth diapering and selling homemade products at a local store I did not know existed. The store provides amazing natural alternatives to baby products, some manufactured by local individuals and companies. I just HAD to go there to visit and get advice. I knew that once I saw cloth diapers in person, and had a professional explain the products, I would commit fully or resist. Well, before I made the trip I had to discuss this financially with my husband. When I brought up the concept of cloth diapering, he resisted 100%. He stated that we sacrificed in so many ways to save money and that this was not of interest to him. So, I further explained the swim diaper to him and he was much more open to try a cloth swim diaper than using them for all day, every day use. I did tell him I wanted to buy a few for our up coming vacation to try for myself, he apprehensively agreed to that.
Prior to my trip to the store,my research lead me to one size pocket diapers. They seemed most economical for our family. They sold a small variety of bumGenius, Flip, Econobum, and a few other items. Their major sellers were BG and Flip. I settled on 1 BG pocket, and a day pack of the Flip Stay-Dry System. I also purchased a Bummis Swimmi Diaper. I was so excited to have that soft fluff in my hands and be able to try this new world out. I went home and immediately began to prep the diapers. When they were all prepped and ready to apply to my little one's bum, I was more excited than Christmas morning. He looked so adorable with his colored bottom and soft little tush! However, I always joke about how he needs to grow a booty, and this was the answer. Fluff gave him the bottom he has always needed.
In the month we have been cloth diapering, I have convinced my husband it is a great thing and can be economical with moderation. Our diaper stash has expanded to include more pockets, which are used for nighttime, Flip covers and many inserts, a few prefolds, Hemp Babies (which are amazing), and the newest addition…the Knickernappies diaper sprayer (best thought of invention since sliced bread). My husband is on board now and excited with the prospect that we are purchasing more diapers for an additional child in the future. He has wanted another baby for a while and this is a way to convince him that his dreams are in the closer future than originally thought. Our family is new to cloth diapering and we love it!
My name is Tabby and I am a wife and mother to my almost 2 year old son, Jackson. New to cloth diapering but loving every minute!


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The NFC West gets a timeslot all to itself. Isn't that nice for them? The headliner is the third meeting between the Niners and the Packers in the span of the last calendar year. San Francisco won both of those, hanging 75 points on the Green Bay defense in the process. Understandably, Green Bay's defense is somewhat determined to prevent another humiliation.
Part of that strategy is making sure to hit Colin Kaepernick when they can, because that's a pretty good strategy if a defense doesn't want to give up a million points. Nevertheless, Jim Harbaugh considers this to be the Packers "targeting" Kaep for illegal hits, which is either gamesmanship to make sure the referees are watching extra closely for roughing the passer penalties or just being a dick. Knowing Harbs, it's likely both.
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Green Bay at San Francisco ****
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So you've just been put in charge of your company's brand-new blog, and the director has given you total creative control. That's exciting news, right? Except for one tiny detail: you're not a writer. In fact, if you're being totally honest, you don't even like writing. Now that the written word has become such an integral part of the digital marketing plan, lots of people are finding themselves in this very situation – especially at smaller and mid-market companies, where the resources to hire a full-time content writer may not be available. This can be very tough on the person who's been designated to run the blog, especially if there's not much money for freelancers. When you add in the fact that the optimal length for a blog post, in terms of SEO and shareability, is 1200 words at a minimum, as MZ's CEO Shama Hyder relates in her new book Momentum, handling a company blog as a non-writer looks even more daunting. So how do you handle your new role when you'd rather be doing…well, anything else besides stringing sentences together and worrying about grammar? How do you create a well-written, informative, entertaining blog that people want to read…


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Fried Shrimp Topped with Crab Etouffee (Shrimp Norman)
Shrimp Norman
Shrimp Norman is a Cajun Seafood dish prepared at one of our favorite local restaurants, Mike Anderson's in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and also at the Mike Anderson's location in Gonzales, Louisiana.
It is basically Fried Jumbo Shrimp with Crab Etouffee on top.
Without a recipe, we have recreated this scrumptious Cajun recipe for you.
Ingredients for Fried Shrimp Norman
1 pound large or jumbo shrimp
Crab Etouffee (see recipe)
1/2 cup of corn flour ( or Fish and Shrimp Fry mix)
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon Tony's Creole Seasoning
1 tablespoon salt
Canola oil
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
Make Crab Etouffee according to recipe, but use less water or stock.
Etouffee should be a thick consistency.
Peel shrimp leaving the tail on.
Slice deep through the top of the shrimp to both de-vein the shrimp (take out the black vein) and butterfly it for frying.
Set aside in a bowl.
In a mixing bowl, prepare the shrimp fry mix by blending 1/2 cup corn flour, 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, salt and Tony's Creole Seasoning.
In another small mixing bowl, crack the egg and stir in ½ cup milk. (This is the egg wash.)
Take each shrimp and coat in the egg wash.
Move shrimp to the shrimp fry mixture and coat with the corn flour mix.
Fan out the tail for a pretty presentation (be careful – there is a sharp point on the tail of a shrimp that can pierce your hand or finger).
Place a clean platter.
Heat oil.
Fry shrimp a few at a time until golden brown or floating on top the oil.
Remove the shrimp to a paper towel lined platter to blot excess grease.
Serving Suggestions for Fried Shrimp Norman
To serve, arrange 6-8 shrimp with tails up on a plate.
Spoon the crab etouffee over each of the tails or just place in the center.
Adding a small mound of white rice is optional.
To eat and enjoy, take a shrimp and scoop up a dollop of crab etouffee and take a big bite of some deliciously good groceries.


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Hi, I want to buy a hanging baskets online for flowers. Because I am new in the hanging baskets plants, can you please give me some idea, what kinds of flower is good for it?
Hanging baskets is like this,
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Hi, I want to buy a hanging baskets online for flowers. Because I am new in the hanging baskets plants, can you please give me some idea, what kinds of flower is good for it?
Hanging baskets is like this,
05 Mar 2014 13:53
Hi Jameslu. I think most people use petunias, trailing geraniums and lobelia, ivy etc. You can also grow Tumbling Tom Tomatoes (either red or yellow varieties). Do these baskets have any drainage holes?
05 Mar 2014 16:19
Hello i prefer to buy with drainage holes as this benefits all round as artjak was saying drainage holes are need i would put trailing ivy night scented stock lobelia oh an you can get fertiliser that makes them grow blooming marvelous lol put id say 2 marigolds in this keeps the bugs away works for me but im sure alot on here will offer there ideas im new happy gardening
05 Mar 2014 18:34
welcome vicki 66 That's a good idea about the marigolds.
05 Mar 2014 19:13
Trailing verbenas are excellent with upright pelargoniums in the centre. Surfinia petunias are now disease free and many, ESP the dark purple varieties, are highly scented. Begonia fireworks produces masses of cascading orange and red flowers for months.
I use gel crystals too and sustained release fertiliser pellets. As early a start as possible too is useful. I pinch back growing points ASAP and repeat a few weeks later to ensure a bushy appearance (and more flowers). I also resist the urge to overplant......even on the tv progs they suggest we shove so many plants into the baskets but my feeling is they compete too much for nutrients and water. I use about 6 plants including a central fuschia/ pelargonium. Regular dead heading too helps a lot. A newly planted basket hung in the greenhouse until frosts are over will bloom all summer


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New Trailers For 'Grown Ups' & 'Knight And Day'
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We've got new trailers for two summer flicks that both hope to entertain audiences with their humor ("hope" being the key word here) — the explosion-ridden action flick Knight and Day and the comedian pileup that is Grown Ups.
But don't take my less-than-enthralled word for it– have a look yourselves. :)
Columbia Pictures has released a new trailer for their summer comedy Grown Ups, which will at long last provide the Adam Sandler/Kevin James/director Dennis Dugan reunion that moviegoers have been clamoring for since I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry came out back in 2007 ;) .
Along for the ride this time are fellow comedic talents Chris Rock, David Spade, and the (*cough*) ever-lovable Rob Schneider who (along with Sandler and James) play a group of former high school pals who catch up with one another over the 4th of July weekend in the wake of the death of their old basketball coach.
Sounds a bit somber, you say? Well, check out the trailer for yourselves and see:
I for one am glad to see that Sandler and co. are expanding their comedic ranges to include excessive slapstick, pratfalls, and urine jokes, all of which will be threaded together by a saccharine plot about how growing older doesn't mean you can't still enjoy life.
Seriously though, Grown Ups will at best be a guilty pleasure – but, then again, it's not as though moviegoers go to a mainstream Adam Sandler movie expecting anything else. Right?
There's a new international trailer for the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz blockbuster vehicle Knight And Day and it offers, well, pretty much the same footage we've seen already.
Just have a look below:
So yeah — the same bits with airplanes crashing, motorcycle chases around foreign cities, while Tom Cruise spouts what is meant to be clever banter in pretty much the same manner he delivers dramatic dialogue.
That isn't to say that Knight and Day doesn't have the potential to be the kind of entertaining, action/set piece-driven show that, say, Mr. and Mrs. Smith was – but I have my doubts.
Both Knight and Day and Grown Ups will be out in theaters on June 25, 2010.
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THE body of a man has washed up on the shore of Cramond Beach, police have confirmed.
It is understood officers were called out this morning after being alerted by a member of the public.
A police spokesman said: "Lothian and Borders Police responded to Cramond Island at around 10am on Wednesday 30th January after the body of a man was discovered on the beach.
"Enquiries are now underway to establish the man's identity and determine the circumstances surrounding his death."


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Sayla' councilors on Tuesday elected a new chairman and his deputy to lead the local council affairs after days of controversy over the recent municipal elections in the region.The ten-member council elected Hussein Idle Barqadle as the council chairman and Sa'ad Dahir Ige as his deputy at a session in Sayla' town. The elected officials were immediately sworn-in.
Several top Somaliland officials including ministers attended the event.
Speaking to Bar-kulan, Education assistant minister Ali Hamud Jibril welcomed the new council officials and called it a step forward in ending controversies surrounding the election of the council members.
The outcome of the recently held municipal elections in the region sparked a two day protest in Borama. One person was killed and four others sustained injuries during the Borama riots.
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SwellSaturday, July 31st, 2010
In the space that used to be Bar Crudo is a restaurant called Swell. Quite frankly, it is so close to what Bar Crudo was in its realization as to be spooky. Well, similar in style, presentation and quality of seafood without the wait, crowd, or hype. There is also a more accessible menu insofar as small bites are concerned.
I learned all this late one afternoon when BFF Lisa and I were wandering around Union Square, trying yet again to decide where to eat that might be different and off-radar. I had completely forgotten about the restaurant's existence after Bar Crudo departed and considering it was a Tuesday, we weren't even sure it was going to be open. Walking in around 7:00 in the evening, we were really pleased to get a table. Once we finished our meal, we were more surprised they weren't packed.
While we pondered the menu, we decided to start with a dozen oysters and I ordered a glass of Riesling from Chile to accompany — mostly because I have never tasted a Chilean Riesling. Our waitress instead suggested something I had never tried, Picpoul de Pinet, by Felines Jourdan from Languedoc. She was really fabulous; not only in the wine recommendation but also in bringing me a taste of the Chilean Riesling and a Domaine Auchere Sancerre, which I would have normally ordered with oysters. Her suggestion was spot on and a great complement to the oysters.
In wanting to try as many dishes as possible, we started with the larger portion of a Chef Tasting Platter; four selections for $22. For $15, you can start with three. And getting one taste of each kind was perfect for the two of us as $11 for four intense and interesting samplings was very intriguing. Lisa and I indicated that we would be very happy if one of the selections would include sea urchin, a particular favorite of ours. Our first four tastes:
Sashimi Grade Yellow Fin Tuna – Ample perfectly squared cuts of yellow fin tuna sits atop slices of Haas avocado with a bit of shiro dashi and sesame seeds. Very rich and quite good.
Dayboat Scallops – Fileted scallops wrapped around matchstick slices of crisp, green Granny Smith apples all topped with wasabi caviar and yuzu aïoli. This was a stunner of a combination. The rich scallop with creamy aïoli provided a rich juxtaposition with the clean, juicy apples.
Smoked Ocean Trout – Prepared with red beet gelée, wasabi-crème fraîche, and quail egg. Here the red beet gelée was prepared and used the way seaweed nori would be in a classic nigiri offering, clutching the delicately smoked trout. The fish and beet preparation sat beneath the ever-so-slightly-spicy wasabi crème fraîche and perfectly hard-boiled quail egg.
Santa Barbara Sea Urchin – With Asian pear wrap, nori, apple aïoli, and jalapeño. Served on a slice of cucumber, the waitress advised us to consume the fish combination separate from the cucumber as the vegetable component would overwhelm the rest. What was the most anticipated of all the crudo offerings proved to be the most disappointing. Perhaps because we were dining on a Tuesday and very often fresh fish is not brought in but used from the weekend, we found the uni lacking in freshness and the preparation to be the least enticing.
Of all the previous four, it was the scallops which were the most exciting with the smoked trout a close second. The tuna was very good, but with so many avocado and sashimi-grade fish offerings in the city, it was not as memorable as the other selections. Still a little hungry and very intrigued with the rest of the menu, we decided on another Chef Tasting of Four, this time getting a few cooked items on the platter.
Rhode Island Fluke – With pickled ginger, citrus salad and rice crispies. An another interesting crunch component with the light rice crispy added a very textural element but the citrus and ginger were too similar in tangy flavors to balance out the clean fluke. It was only the addition of the little sea bean which made the dish more interesting.
Coconut Ceviche of Kampachi – Served with sea bean, red onion, and rice chips. The texture of raw fish, pickled vegetable, and crunch with a hint of coconut was intriguing, but there was a little too much of the rice chip although I can understand why it needed to be that size, to hold the dressed kampachi.
Miso Black Cod Brûlée – Served with purple potato salad, this was a universally loved concoction. The black cod with its miso marinade and slightly browned exterior had a skillfully prepared amount of sweetness which paired well with the rich, creamy potatoes.
Tuna Tartare – Prepared very similarly to a tartare recipe I grew to love when I worked for Joachim Splichal's Patina group in Los Angeles, almost a decade ago. Freshly cut tuna, dressed with with black sesame and a hint of sesame oil plated atop finely slivered and pickled seaweed. I could eat a large plate of this.
Lisa was not interested in dessert but the waitress described the flavors of a Crème Brûlée sampler and I couldn't resist; ginger, miso, and coffee. Our waitress insisted it was not too much and that just a few spoonfuls of each flavor would not be too overwhelming. Lisa was determined to not eat more than a bite or two but within just one taste of each flavor and we knew there was no way to not consume each one – and scrape out a little at the end with our fingers… The ginger was spicy enough with a strong, piquant taste that I adore. The coffee was rich and pungent, the way I like it – almost bitter with coffee taste. But it was the miso which was the surprise. Almost the way a salted caramel gives just enough salt taste to counter-balance the sweetness of a caramel, the umami and saltiness of the miso worked enticingly well with the sweet candied top of the crème brûlée.
There were a handful of larger dishes I would like to go back and try; a lobster bisque, a beef tartare, and bouillabaisse. Glad to have rediscovered the spot and looking forward to repeat visits.


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Want to network with your CEO or the president of your university?
Start running.
Adam Goldstein, CEO of Royal Caribbean International, says his running workouts and passion for the sport build rapport with staffers at all levels. "There is no doubt I have running friends in the company who I might otherwise not have formed as strong relationships."
Running just may be the 21st century version of golf. It's a chance to polish office relationships, impress the boss, and "bond with colleagues outside the hierarchy," Goldstein says.
Across the country, companies are forming running clubs, co-workers are pairing up to train for marathons and businesses are sponsoring employee teams in charity events. It's hard to beat running as a low-cost-barrier-to-entry sport. All it takes is a pair of sneakers and comfortable clothes. And it can be done anywhere on your own schedule.
Often, the initial draw is workplace camaraderie. Corporate runs introduce newbies to the sport, often with company-wide training programs to prepare for the 5-kilometer run. That's what hooked Ed Suarez-Rivero, a software manager at Motorola in Plantation, Fla., who now jogs at lunchtime with the running group at his company.
Suarez-Rivero says exercising with co-workers builds relationships across departments and opens the door to more personal conversation than what would typically take place among desks and computers. "You get really comfortable with people you sweat with. You joke around. If you're having a problem with your son, you might vent with them."
All it may take is one runner at a workplace to change the vibe. Jim Halley, a competitive runner who works at the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Executive Airport, says he's that guy. "I'm not pushy about it. I just let my co-workers know if they are interested, I can help them out."
Halley says he rallies a team for the corporate run, encouraging colleagues to get past hesitation or the awkwardness of sweating with co-workers. "Once they make it across the finish line the first time, they're hooked."


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Kanye West Performs in Atlantic City, Serenades Kim Kardashianby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Kanye West put on his first solo concert in over a year Friday night in Atlantic City, but the rapper wasn't really alone.
He made multiple references throughout the night to Kim Kardashian, who watched the festivities from a private box alongside close friend Jonathan Cheban.
At one point, Kanye broke out into a rendition of "Way Too Cold" (aka "Theraflu"), the track in which he initially declared his love for Kim. At another, he told attendees: "If you love someone tonight… hold on real tight!"
Kardashian, witnesses tells Us Weekly, jokingly hugged herself in response.
Kanye and Kim are reportedly heating up. Big time. A recent story claimed he's seriously thinking of putting a ring on Kardashian's finger, despite the fact that she is legally still married and despite the fact that the relationship is clearly just for PR purposes.


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The great rabbis of the recent past wielded more authority than their present- day counterparts because society has changed, according to three well-known rabbis from different denominations.
The clergymen came together under the aegis of the New York Board of Rabbis last week to answer the question: "Where have all our leaders gone?"
Each rabbi, speaking in the vernacular of his own movement, provided essentially the same response: Rabbis today are just as terrific as any of those who emerged as the philosophical and spiritual leaders of their movements in the past.
But, they said, because the world around the rabbinate has changed, few today have attained the same level of broad respect and authority enjoyed by past greats such as the Reform giant Rabbi Abba Hillel Sliver, the Conservation legend Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Orthodox sage Rabbi Joseph Soleveitchik.
What's more, said Rabbi Paul Menitoff, executive director of the Reform movement's Central Conference of American Rabbis, Jewish history's great rabbis would never be considered as great today as they were then if they were alive now.
In previous eras, "the rabbi was the most educated individual in the community, often the only one who had gone to college and usually the only one to have a graduate degree," Menitoff said.
"The rabbi was elevated to a certain position by virtue of his education," he said, adding, "Today it is not unusual to have a number of Ph.D.s in Jewish studies" sitting in the pews while the rabbi gives sermon.
"Also different is the view of authority, which was held on a pedestal in the past. Today it is very different. Today the atmosphere isn't as conductive to creating these super figures nationally or within an individual community," Menitoff said.
"If any of the greats who are all in our minds were alive today, they would have the same difficulties and not emerge as the leaders they were" in their own eras, he said.
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, an Orthodox rabbi and spiritual leader of Bronx's Mosholu Jewish Center, agreed.
"In comparison to our predecessors, our leaders seem inadequate," he said.
But he said such a sense of inadequacy was inevitable when any generation of Jews compares itself to an earlier generation.
Even previous generations of rabbis felt inadequate compared to their predecessors, such as Rabbi Akiva.
"We may think we are dwarves but we are the fortunate beneficiaries of days gone by," said Schacter.
Rabbi Bill Lebeau, vice chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and dean of the Conservation movement's rabbinical school, offered yet another explanation.
Rabbinic "leadership today is on the local level" rather than the type that leads to the development of a nationally respected figure, Lebeau said.
The rabbi's role "is more as teacher, darshan (preacher) and counselor" than national figure, he said.
Lebeau said that even though the Jewish community could benefit from powerful and charismatic leadership, such leadership should come from many rabbis, not one.
"I'm well aware of our dying" as a community, he said. "We're awaiting not one giant to lead us, but a chorus of courageous leaders who will help us transform the shudder of a dying people" into something new.
The Reform movement's Menitoff best summed up the meeting's seemingly defensive tone.
"We as group are no more or less gifted than our predecessors," he said. "We're living in a different time and we function very well."
"We're all leaders," Menitoff said to the four dozen of his colleagues who attended the meeting at Manhattan's Jewish Center.
"And we don't have to feel bad because we don't measure up to a past image, which was glorified anyway."


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Preparing music for County Chorus takes a lot of rehearsal and commitment. Students obtain the two vocal audition pieces in the late spring and then prepare and rehearse the selections so that they feel confident to sing their parts alone for an audition in late September. It can be beneficial to study with a private voice teacher to learn the music.
AUDITION DATE: Saturday, September 27, 2014 at JP McCaskey High School
FESTIVAL DATE: Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at EHS!!!!
VOCAL TRY-OUT PIECES: Sing Joyfully by William Byrd; Dona Nobis Pacem (from b minor mass by JS Bach)
***see below attachments to rehearse your individual parts
CONGRATULATIONS!!!to these students!!!
The following students placed in the top 25 of their voice part:
Ethan Fasnacht, Bass I (2nd)
Hannah Rodriguez, Alto II (17th)
Nic Stauffer, Bass II (13th)
Ian Wettlaufer, Tenor I (19th)
FESTIVAL DATE: Saturday, January 17, 2015 at our own Ephrata High School!!
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OTC: Does Sprint Center Need A Pro Team To Succeed?
21 Responses to OTC: Does Sprint Center Need A Pro Team To Succeed?
"GH: We paid for Sprint Center with promises that a professional team would be calling it home soon after it opened. This October it will be three years since Sprint Center
I'm not sure how reasonable your demand is that Mellinger refuse to take no for an answer when messages to Leiweke and Tinnen went unreturned. It's not as if Mellinger only left them one message, fifteen minutes before his deadline or something. That piece seemed very well-researched and I have to believe Mellinger gave them both plenty of chnaces to comment and they just wouldn't. "So Mellinger should walk to the Sprint Center and DEMAND that they speak to him," you argue. Really? How well do you think that would have worked out. It's not as if Mellinger, by virtue of a press pass, has access to all the offices in the Sprint Center or something. So you would have him go sit in the lobby and just tell the receptionist "I'm not going anywhere until Tim Leiweke comes out here and comments on the record about a story I'm writing!" Do you really think that would have worked? I have my doubts.
You are right, though, about Mellinger offering an apology on behalf of all the AEG people. That's not really Mellinger's role and if they don't want to talk about it publicly, he should let their silence speak for them. Build your story and tell it as well as you can. If a principal player in the story refuses to comment, note that you tried to get him to speak but he refused. Let the reader draw his own conclusions.
One gripe I had about the story is that Mellinger makes it sound as if Kansas City was really a threat to land the Pittsburgh Penguins. No way. Kansas City was used like a dishrag whore by the Penguins' management. We were never going to get that team and it was obvious we were being used as leverage. Mellinger says that team officials were "preparing" for a possible move to Kansas City. Well, what else WOULD the team say? No way they'll cop to using KC to get leverage, especially years after the deal has been done. Why not just say "Kansas City got used, but it HAD to try and land the team if it really had the desire to actually get an NHL Team. So Sprint Center officials can be forgiven for trying so hard and what was always a longshot." Nothing wrong with that.
P&L District was agreed to by Cordish five months before it was ever announced there was the possibility of an arena across the street. Cordish said they could make the entertainment district work without an arena. Cordish is now trying to rewrite history.
KC Fan
We were sold a bill of goods on the Sprint Center. That is the bottom line. No NBA or NHL team is coming anytime soon. There is no push to get a team here. It is very depressing. Can we agree that Kansas City is at the bottom of sports towns in America. We have a joke of a baseball franchise, run by David Glass. We have a football team that may turn around (Please don't draft Bryan Bulaga, Please!!!), if Pioli doesn't do a favor to his buddy ala drafting Bulaga for Kirk Ferentz. At least the Wizards are building a stadium, but who cares about MLS.
To sum up, KC pro sports BAD AND GETTING WORSE!!!
P.S. Kansas City should change its name to Bigger Omaha or Bigger Des Moines.
"P&L District was agreed to by Cordish five months before it was ever announced there was the possibility of an arena across the street. Cordish said they could make the entertainment district work without an arena. Cordish is now trying to rewrite history."
Cordish maybe trying to rewrite history of the P&L District. But perception is reality. And right now the perception is that without an anchor tenant, P&L will fail and the Sprint Center will be a white elephant stealing our tax dollars. Barnes said if we build it a team will come. I bet many people voted for it simply because they thought we would have a NBA or NHL town in a year with it.
Sure it was also built to keep the Big 12 basketball Tournament in town. But, the tournament will never permantly stay here. Those days are long gone.
And yes, it also brings in concerts. But so was Kemper, Sandstone and the Music Hall in Swope Park. Sprint Center brings in about 4-5 more concerts a year then what the other three venues would attract.
So without an anchor tenant, looks like the Sprint Center was built for the tournament to come to town every three years in stead of every five years and a few more concerts and one Tyler Perry play a year.
the longer sprint stays empty the harder it will
be to get a team tenant.
AEG knew the chances of getting a team here
in kc were almost niol. If someone followed
these guys they would know that they skated
town after the comets fell apart and they
"papered" kemper with free tickets.
There is no team coming to sprint. So it will
hve to live with the one concert every 2 weeks
that it has. But maintaining a building like that
that stays empty makes it even more expensive.
We saw what they made p and l…hardly
a family place that was the vision of lie wicke
and barnes…its a pick up bar area geared to
dults 20-30 years of age.
Problem is that kc could support a team..not
a pro team but more college events at sprint.
Maybe like the old preseason big 8 tournament
thatwas at municipal. How would that work
between xmas and new years or the first week
of january….
or a mini tourney…brining in 8-10 mjor college
teams for a tournament.
We're stuck with sprint…a cheap imitation of
the palaces being built elsewhere.
And with no local people with big bucks
to pay the bills forget it.
St. Louis is having the same problems we
are. American airlines is about to pull out of
st. louis. It will kill the city.
Like kc…corporate headquarters are leaving
st. louis. The top corporate guys at anheuser
bush are headed to new york. They are talking
about getting rid of the rams so they can bring
in more conventions usi9ng the dome building
floor as a wayto attract more dollars than the
rams are bringing in.
Our city is fine. We have baseball and
football and both appear pretty well set in
staying. Whether the p and l makes it ain't
my problem. Its kcmo's…and I could care less
if the place closes up…i never go there.
And everntually it will be filled with hip hop
The sprint center is nice but it can sustain
itself with concerts. I personally could care
less about the nba or the nhl…i wouldn't pay
to watch them. How about mma/boxing/major
events…how about more events to bring in
epople…they've not been creative in ways
to use the buidling.
Maybe a massive christian rally or how about
filling it up with all those tea baggers
and sarah palin and rush limbaugh.
OUr city will survive. But for now, I like
most of the money people find everything I
need in johnson county so kcmo can become
a crp hole and I could care less.
when talk of an nba or nhl team was being used to sell the sprint center, i was pretty cynical. there isn't one market in the united states as small as kansas city that has successfully supported three major professional sports franchises. given what has happened to the economy, i think that had a team come here it could have been a disaster.
does anyone find it ironic that the local government can find the money to build a new arena but feels it has to cut back on services, including closing schools?
The Independent Rage
I'm just noticing that your column is back. That's great to see. It's been a few years.
GH: Glad to be reunited, I-Rage. Spread the word if you would. I've been posting my OTC here five times a week for 14 months. I have not done a very good job of letting everyone know where to find me but hopefully some word of mouth from my readers will get the news percolating on the web.
Barry sed:
does anyone find it ironic that the local government can find the money to build a new arena but feels it has to cut back on services, including closing schools?
Donkeypunch sez:
Not a fair analogy. I'd love nothing more than to pound the KC City Council, however the Sprint Center's funding was approved well before the economy tanked. I could listen to the argument that the writing was on the wall that the economy was about ready to take a nose dive, however that's for another thread. However, the point remains that the Sprint Center was approved/built prior to Barry and his band of misfits turning this country into his pinko-commie version of Russia
@John – Our perception doesn't really matter. The facts are that Cordish signed a sweetheart deal with the city. This deal was based on highly flawed projections that wouldn't have held up even in a good economy. It was not contingent upon a new arena at all.
A lot of people may have hoped the Sprint Center would land a 3rd franchise, but they voted for the arena because it was funded in small part by AEG private dollars and in large part by out-of-towners via hotel and rental car taxes. In other words, the construction burden did not fall on area citizens.
Oh – and the Sprint Center is profitable and is run by a successful management group.
Contrast that with the P&L, which will never turn a profit and was highly subsidized by the local tax base. It's really apples and oranges.
lets face it, the Sprint Center was built for the Big 12 tournament. Thats why I voted for it.
"lets face it, the Sprint Center was built for the Big 12 tournament. Thats why I voted for it."
So you're OK with the tournament only coming here every three years? Lets face it. It's not going here every year. It has to go to Dallas, Houston, OKC and San Antonio as well.
KC Fan
Agree with John, having a basketball tournament every few years is not a reason to build an arena. I remember Lieweke saying that we might even get both the NBA and NHL. That was hyperbole to say the least, but we should be in line for one of them.
The fact remains that the mentality of KC as a small time sports town will forever kill any chance that we get an NBA or NHL team. The fans would rather follow college sports than support a pro team. That is the truth, listen to local sports radio. There is no grassroots push for another team. Oh well, enjoy the concerts, pathetic baseball franchise and hopefully a better football team
donkey punch: I know you don't know shit so
stop trying to act like an even bigger
asshole in your final comment.
Remember…long before "barry" took over
we had the biggest financial collapse since
1932…the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the
americans ever…government funds (yes government
funds) subsidizing such great project like
union station…sprint center…downtown
renovation…liberty memorial…power and
light…block buidling…kemper….a war(s)
that is never ending…wall street fraud….
the biggest fucking housingcollapse in history…
gov. debt skyrocketing….the biggest con schemes
in history…and this was in just the
3 years before barry took office.
The commies you hate have been in power a lot
longer than you think…the government has
been bailing us out…paying for crap…hiding
money….stealing money long long before
barry took office and they'll be doing it long
after barry leaves in 2017.
The hate you spew and the words you use were
the same hateful spiteful deadly thoughts that
consumed mcveigh when he killed 170 "government"
workers…you are fillthy lying scum.
Go fuck yourself and the rest of your
teabagging low life lying piece of shit friends.
Barry had to and continues to be forced to
clean up the mess the real "criminals" before him
created. Without those bailouts you wouldnt
have your $8 and hour job washing out portable
toilets. Lucky you still clean upi shit because
you are shit.
JOJO, I knew you were a Misery fan, though never pegged you for a liberal hippy. Sad that it took me a total of 15 posts to send you over the edge.
Oh, thanks for recognizing me for my $8/hr job. You almost have me figured out, numbnutz
HALL'S UNFAIR SHOT DIRECTED AT MELLINGER (Or Hall gets called out)
Greg Hall, who blogs about local sports issues and reporters, has taken to task Kansas City Star sports columnist Sam Mellinger.
Hall basically called Mellinger lazy (or incompetent) for not getting quotes from Sprint Arena officials for a story he wrote in Sunday's paper regarding a lack of a pro team relocating to Kansas City and housed at the Arena.
In his article, Mellinger, who was recently promoted to columnist to fill the position vacated by Joe Posnanski, quotes a variety of principals, including former KCMO Mayor Kay Barnes and current Mayor Mark Funkhouser, however, he reported two key individuals were not available.
"(Tim) Leiweke and Sprint Center general manager and senior vice president Brenda Tinnen did not return messages for this story
Jojo, you're first long-ass post has some good ideas, imo. I would go see some boxing at the Sprint Center. They could get fights of the Pavlik-Jermain Taylor level. And that fight was freaking awesome a few years back. Steal some of the fights from Memphis. Why not??? I think when you bring in the Christian rallies is the day you decide there is NO chance you're ever going to get a team. If they could land some high profile MMA and high-as-possible boxing matches it could showcase the place. Concerts at the Sprint Center do NOTHING for me. Why would you ever want to watch a concert inside? I hate the morons that tore out the reserved seats at Sandstone. I enjoyed that place. Sprint isn't even loud.
Really dumb shot at Mellinger. Gavin said it pretty well.
Do you have any training or education in journalism or are you a self-professed expert? Just curious.
hall: you're an idiot. you can't just summon people like brenda tinnen on the phone. you make appointments, days even weeks in advance. if it were so easy, why don't you do it? moron.
Rainbow Man
KC will pay for letting go of the Kings. We are in NBA purgatory. Take note my KC friends, take note.
An NBA team? That'll make the Plaza riot(s) look like a tea party. The kid's will have something to do they'll just have to rape and pillage whitey to get money to afford the tickets. Or maybe they can have $10.00 off a ticket when you flash yo grill, gunshot wound or note from your PO.


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Since being indicted last week on charges of perjury and obstruction, among other felonies, Roger Clemens has been feverishly denying the allegations that he ever used performance-enhancing drugs and especially that he lied to Congress. And it appears that he's using the best PR team that money can buy, because he's defending himself via Twitter. By making fun of a reporter. To his niece.
The man who once inexplicably threw a shattered bat at Mike Piazza has been spending the past few days thanking his 9,200+ followers for supporting him, and again denying any wrongdoing. But his last three Tweets have caught the attention of the Interwebs and especially U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, who has told everyone involved in the federal case – mainly Clemens – to shut the fudge up by issuing a gag order to prevent the tainting of a jury pool. I tainted a jury pool once. Whatever, they shouldn't have fallen asleep on my couch.
Hey Roger, what's the best way to gain public support and rebuild your image?
You go Kirb! He's a low life wanna-b. By his looks he could star on the Adams Family. http://www.kirbiegoestohollywood.com Btw…
Btw…the dude they sent from the times that did that so-called write up…he reeked of liquor both days. 11am interview (but I guess it was 5p somewhere)
Ouch…Come get ya some. (YOU RANG). No need to get in a piss-n contest with a skunk
Those were insults that Roger hurled at Sports Illustrated writer Jeff Pearlman after he published this piece on Saturday. By Kirb, Clemens is referring to his niece, who took to her blog to defend the former Cy Young Award winner, and of course the rest of his comments are comparisons of Pearlman to the Addams Family character Lurch. Timely and hilarious, Rog. Way to win us back.
And while 9,200+ followers may not seem like a lot for a superstar like Clemens, he only recently joined Twitter. So if you want to know just how much these fans are supporting him, look no further than the Tweet lists they've added him to, among others: Fame monsters, idiots, biggest sports cheaters, loser and liar, anger management, f*ckin *ssholes, celebrities I don't care for, and my personal favorites – openly gay people and ass ponies.


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Last month, Rachel of Boston Food Bloggers organized a tour of the Taza chocolate factory, followed by a trip to a few of her favorite spots in Somerville. I'm rarely in the area so I took up the opportunity to not only meet a few new blog friends but also check out some of Somerville's hidden gems.
Christina's spice & specialty food perfectly fit the bill.
The shop is small but is jam packed with spices, sauces, and… specialty foods (yeah, I'm original like that). The photo above depicts tables full of spices, alphabetically organized (!!). This makes it really easy to find that spice you've been looking all over for… and a few others you didn't know you needed but could not walk out of the shop without having.
The shelves were full of other fun goods…
…like every kind of salt imaginable…
How cool are these long peppers?
I've heard a lot about preserved lemons lately. I will be definitely picking up a baggie next time!
Spices and herbs as far as the eye could see…
It was exciting and overwhelming. They had sumac – a spice I often see in my Please to the Table cookbook. I also picked up a few kinds of paprika (again, the book always calls for smoked, sweet or spicy and I just had the generic "paprika" from Whole Foods before). Then pretzel salt and fleur de sel caught my eye and of course I had to grab those (btw, everything is available in little baggies or in bottles. They also have empty bottles if you need them – pretty awesome!). And then it was time to cut myself off before too much damage could be done!
I've been using the paprikas ever since. I think sumac will first go into a traditional plov (I'll blog over at Russian Bites when I make that). And pretzel salt of course had to be put to use over some pretzels. Actually better than pretzels – pretzel buns for pretzel sandwiches. Oh yes!!
I used Alton Brown's recipe for pretzels but instead of twisting the dough into the traditional pretzel braids, divided it into ten 3.5-3.75oz balls.
With the help of instant yeast and my trusty KitchenAid mixerwith a hook attachment, this dough came together in about 5 minutes. 50 minutes later it doubled in size and was very easy to work with. As I said before, I divided it into 10 balls for large sandwich buns.
After a quick dip in a baking soda bath, an egg wash…
… and a sprinkling of salt, they were ready to bake!
Quick tip – don't be shy with the salt. Your buns will further grow in the oven so the salt will spread out. I could have probably tripled the amount I used!
Hello gorgeous!
The whole thing came together so quickly, this little experiment for sure was the beginning of something beautiful. A pretzel filled beautiful life! I will no doubt will be making mini ones for sliders or any time a pretzel craving or an amazing-bun craving hits!
Fresh fig buratta, tomato, basil and dijon mustard sandwich = heaven on earth
Incredibly soft on the inside, chewy on the outside. These were out-of-this world amazing… and easy enough even for a weeknight project. Seriously!
Make them now. They will change your life. They changed mine!
Where do you go to for hard to find spices?
Ever made pretzels?
How should I use my fleur de sel?
Tell me, tell me, tell me!!


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Additionally, Hulu will also announce that they have surpassed 2 million subscribers for their premium service, which gives users access to exclusive content, as well as more episodes of their favorite shows. With this many people willing to pony up some of their hard-earned cash for more content, it's not all that surprising that Hulu is ready to cast its line into riskier waters. After all, attempting to create original programming is a lot more problematic that simply acquiring the rights to established properties.
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When The Drones Come Marching In
29th January 2011
Because when I put on my criminal hat—which I've been known to do for a living—I immediately start thinking of kit-built UAVs packed with Semtex and targeted via GPS. Voila, poor man's cruise missiles, available to any hardware hacker with a grudge; all s/he needs is their target's address. Fortunately, the powers that be have not fostered entire generations of experienced explosives experts with angry political grievances, right? Oh. Oops. Well, at least it's not like engineers seem disproportionately likely to become terrorists… oh, wait.
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What Cal head coach Jeff Tedford had to say after Monday's Armed Forces Bowl victory:
Offensively, I felt like we moved the ball pretty much the way we wanted to all game long. Kevin obviously came in and gave us a spark. Our receivers played well. Our offensive line played unbelievably. They were very physical up front.
On Kevin Riley being named MVP: I mean, he's a guy who plays very hard every week in practice. In practice, he pays attention and coach Daft gets him ready to play. It was obvious today that he came in ready to play and knew what he was doing. Really gave us a nice spark.
On a winning season: Oh, it's great. Especially for our seniors. We talked last night about our seniors and that they wanted a winning season. Everybody rallied, so it was great.


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It's similar to the Twitter and YouTube accounts that have not quite yet picked up as a result of our lack of effort. The YouTube is one that haunts me everyday since I have been on YouTube for so long. We are currently working with a start up company called NationBuilder in order to tie together all of our branches so that we can manage them together and keep things sync-ed. We also have our Bodyspace accounts on Bodybuilding.com but that's less of a business related and more of a personal thing. All of this information can be found on our "Nation" page.
Facebook is an international social media entity that is a great way to stay in touch with individuals from all over the world. Although it is not a tool that we have personally used for the past three or four years, I still have my friends on it and have used it to spread the word about Hungry & Fit. So if you are on Facebook, please friend "King Tucci" in order to find out more about Hungry & Fit! Every and all likes towards our page will be appreciated and hopefully returned!
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A Brush with Evil
In his new book, Sebastian Junger takes us back to 1963, when Bessie Goldberg was found in her home strangled with a stocking.
Albert DeSalvo, the handyman who later admitted to being the Boston Strangler, was working alone at Sebastian Junger's parents' house the afternoon that a neighbor, Bessie Goldberg, was murdered. (Globe File Photo)
ONE MORNING IN THE FALL OF 1962, when I was not yet 1 year old, my mother, Ellen, looked out the window and saw two men in our front yard. One was in his 30s and the other was at least twice that, and they were both dressed in work clothes and seemed very interested in the place where we lived. My mother picked me up and walked outside to see what they wanted.
They turned out to be carpenters who had stopped to look at our house because one of them -- the older man -- had built it. He said his name was Floyd Wiggins and that 20 years earlier he'd built our house in sections up in Maine and then brought them down by truck. He said he assembled it on-site in a single day. We lived in a placid little suburb of Boston called Belmont, and my parents had always thought that our house looked a little out of place. It had an offset saltbox roof and blue clapboard siding and stingy little sash windows that were good for conserving heat. Now it made sense.
Wiggins now lived outside Boston and worked for the younger man, who introduced himself as Russ Blomerth. He had a painting job around the corner, Blomerth said, and that was why they were in the neighborhood. My mother said that the house was wonderful but too small and that she and my father were taking bids from contractors to build a studio addition out back. She was an artist, she explained, and the studio would allow her to paint and give drawing classes at home while keeping an eye on me. Would they be interested in the job? Blomerth said that he would be, so my mother put me in his arms and ran inside to get a copy of the architectural plans.
Within a few weeks Blomerth, Wiggins, and a younger man named Al were in the backyard laying the foundation for my mother's studio. Some days all three men showed up, some days it was Blomerth and Wiggins, some days it was just Al. Around 8 in the morning my mother would hear the bulkhead door slam, and then she'd hear footsteps in the basement as Al got his tools, and then a few minutes later she'd watch him cross the backyard to start work. Al never went into the main part of the house, but sometimes my mother would bring a sandwich out to the studio and keep him company while he ate lunch. Al was polite and deferential to my mother and worked hard without saying much. Al had dark hair and a powerful build and a prominent beak of a nose and was not, my mother says, an unhandsome man.
The job was completed in the spring of 1963; by then Blomerth and Wiggins had moved on to other work, and Al was left by himself to finish up the last details and paint the trim. On one of those last days of the job, my mother dropped me off at my baby sitter's and went into town to do some errands and then picked me up at the end of the day. We weren't home 20 minutes when the phone rang. It was the baby sitter, an Irishwoman I knew as Ani, and she was in a panic. Lock up the house, Ani told my mother. The Boston Strangler just killed someone in Belmont.
The victim's name was Bessie Goldberg, and she had been found by her husband raped and strangled in their home on Scott Road. It was the ninth sex murder in the Boston area in almost a year, and the city was in a state of terror. My mother rushed out to the studio where Al was painting on a ladder and told him the news. It's so scary, my mother remembers telling him. I mean, here he is in Belmont, for God's sake! Al shook his head and said how terrible it was, and he and my mother talked about it for a while, and eventually she went back into the house to start dinner.
My mother didn't see Al again until the next day. He showed up with Blomerth and Wiggins because the job was almost done and they had to start cleaning up the site. Blomerth had brought a camera for the occasion, and he arranged us all inside the studio and took a photograph.
Al and I are the only people looking directly at the camera, and whereas I have an infant's expression of puzzled amazement, Al wears an odd smirk. His dark hair is greased up in a pompadour, and he is cleanshaven but unmistakably rough looking, and he has placed across his stomach one enormous, outspread hand. The hand is visible only because my mother is leaning forward to look at me. The hand is at the exact center of the photograph, as if it were the true subject around which the rest of us have been arranged.
JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT, America was not yet at war, and Belmont, Massachusetts, where Israel Goldberg and his wife, Bessie, had moved 10 years earlier, was arguably the epitome of all that was safe and peaceful in the world. There were no bars or liquor stores in Belmont. There were no dangerous parts of Belmont, or poor parts of Belmont, or even ugly parts of Belmont. There had never been a murder in Belmont. It was - until the moment Israel Goldberg glanced into the living room - the ideal place to live.
The first thing he noticed was his wife's feet, which protruded from behind the corner of the wall. Israel stepped into the living room to investigate. A standing lamp had been knocked over, and its pedestal was now propped on the arm of the divan. Between the lampshade and the knocked-over lamp lay the immobile body of his wife. Bessie Goldberg was on her back with her skirt and apron pulled up and her legs exposed. One of her stockings had been wound around her neck, and her eyes were open, and there was a little bit of blood on her lip. The first thought that went through Israel Goldberg's mind was that he'd never seen his wife wearing a scarf before. An instant later he realized that her head was at the wrong angle, that her face looked puffy, and that she wasn't breathing.
According to children playing on the street, Israel Goldberg was inside less than a couple of minutes before he screamed and ran back out and demanded to know if they had seen anyone leave the house. They hadn't, though they would later remember a black man passing them on the sidewalk as they walked home from school. A black man was not a common sight in Belmont in 1963, and virtually every good citizen who had seen him walking down Pleasant Street that afternoon remembered him.
In hindsight -- Belmont now forever marred by its first murder -- some witnesses agreed that the black man might have looked like he was in a hurry. He had glanced back several times. He had walked fast, hands in his coat pockets, and had almost walked into some bushes as he passed the neighborhood children. The black man had stopped in at the Pleasant Street Pharmacy across the street and then reemerged a few minutes later with a pack of cigarettes. The teenage boy who worked at the pharmacy said that he had bought a pack of Pall Malls for 28 cents but had not seemed nervous. A middle-aged woman said that he hadn't seemed nervous but that the skin of his face was "pocky." The black man was tall and thin and wore brown checked pants and a black overcoat. Soon it would be known that he crossed the street to the bus stop and boarded the first bus that came, which, unfortunately, was going in the wrong direction. Instead of getting off, he stayed on it to Park Circle, smoked a cigarette with the bus driver during the five-minute layover, and then continued back toward Cambridge. He stepped off the bus in Harvard Square at 19 minutes to 4 and walked past Out-of-Town News to the closest bar he could find. He would have been sitting at the bar counter ordering a 10-cent beer just as Israel Goldberg opened the door of his strangely quiet home.
When Leah Goldberg, Bessie and Israel's 24-year-old daughter, arrived at the murder scene, she was led by a police officer to her grief-struck father. Leah chose not to look at her mother's body. She did cast around the house, though, and spotted on the kitchen counter a piece of paper that the police officers had missed. It was from the Massachusetts Employment Security Office, and it had a name written on it. Shortly after that discovery the phone rang, and a woman named Mrs. Martin asked for Israel Goldberg. Mrs. Martin said she was calling from the Massachusetts Division of Employment Security and just wanted to know how the new cleaning man had worked out.
He murdered my wife, that's how he worked out! Israel Goldberg screamed into the phone.
The name on the employment stub was Roy Smith. At 11:13 p.m. the police issued a bulletin, accompanied by Roy Smith's mug shots and fingerprint data from a previous arrest, announcing that he was wanted for murder in the town of Belmont. If Roy Smith had indeed killed Bessie Goldberg -- and by now the authorities knew that his criminal history included grand larceny, assault with a dangerous weapon, and public drunkenness - they had their first break in a series of murders that had virtually paralyzed the city of Boston.
The public called the killer the "Boston Strangler," and a special investigatory unit -- the "Strangler Bureau" -- had been convened to track him down. They had screened 2,500 sex offenders and brought in 300 of them for close questioning. They had interviewed 5,000 people connected to the victims and combed through half a million fingerprint files. It was the most thorough investigation in Massachusetts history, and their spectacular lack of success was leading the public to attribute nearly supernatural qualities to the killer: He was inhumanly strong; he could break into any apartment; he could kill in minutes and leave no trace at all. Women bought guard dogs. They only went out in pairs. One particularly high-strung woman heard someone in her apartment and leaped to her death from her third-floor window rather than face whatever it was. Virtually every month there was another sick, brutal murder in Boston, and the 50-man tactical police unit -- specially trained in karate and quick-draw shooting -- was helpless to stop them.
It was right around that time -- the fall of 1962 -- that my mother had her first experience with the workman named Al.
ELLEN JUNGER, Belmont, Massachusetts: "It was quite early. I heard the bulkhead door slam, and I heard him go downstairs, I was still in my nightgown and bathrobe, and I hadn't gotten dressed yet. I heard him come in, and two or three minutes later I heard him call me. So I opened the door to the cellar, and I saw him down there at the foot of the stairs and he was looking at me. And he was looking in a way that is almost indescribable. He had this intense look in his eyes, a strange kind of burning in his eyes, as if he was almost trying to hypnotize me. As if by sheer force of will he could draw me down into that basement."
My mother knew almost nothing about Al at this point; it was only two or three days into the job, and they had never even been alone together. She stood at the top of the stairs looking into Al's eyes and wondering what to do. What is it, Al? she finally said. There's something the matter with your washing machine, he told her.
My mother thought about that. Al had been in the house only a couple of minutes and the washing machine wasn't even on. Why was he worrying about it? He was supposed to be outside building a studio, not in our basement worrying about the appliances. It didn't make sense. Clearly he wanted to get her down into the basement, and clearly if she did that things could go very wrong. My mother told him that she was busy, and then she closed the basement door and shot the bolt.
A few moments later she heard the bulkhead door bang shut and the sound of Al's car starting up. He drove off and did not come back for the rest of the day. My mother didn't tell my father about the incident because she was afraid he would overreact and cause a scene, but she decided that when she saw Russ Blomerth the next morning, she would tell him she didn't want Al working on the property anymore. The next morning my father left for work and this time the whole crew showed up for work -- Mr. Wiggins, Russ Blomerth, and Al. My mother got ready to confront Blomerth, but when she saw Al, he was so friendly and cheerful -- Hi, Mrs. Junger, good morning, how are you? -- that she hesitated. Was she overreacting? Did she really want to get a man fired for the look in his eyes?
Al never again gave her the sort of look he had in the cellar that day -- a "bold male look," as my mother described it -- but there was still something about him that made her uneasy. She gave private art lessons at home, and every week a teenager named Marie came by in the afternoon to learn to draw. One afternoon Marie arrived before my mother, and she let herself in to the newly finished studio to wait. It was a warm day, and she was dressed in a madras shift, and Al must have noticed her through the plate-glass windows because the next thing she knew, he was standing next to her. You must be the model, he said. Oh no, I'm just the student, she said. Al put his arm around her waist and pulled her close. But your waist is so small, you've got to be the model, he insisted. Right at the point when she began worrying what was going to happen next, my mother walked in. There's Ellen! she said and broke from Al's weird hug. She ran over to my mother and told her what had happened, and my mother went outside and told Al that she didn't like what she had heard. Aw, she's just a kid, she's so cute, Al said. I just wanted to hug her. My mother told him that she didn't want anything like that to ever happen again.
"Roy Smith."
"Where do you live, Roy?"
"One seventy-five Northampton Street, Boston."
"Did you come out to Belmont yesterday?"
"I did."
Roy Smith was in a chair in a back room of the Belmont police station. Gathered around Smith were Belmont police officers, a detective, and a lieutenant detective from the state police barracks named John Cahalane. Cahalane was the highest-ranking officer in the room and was sent by the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office because of the grave implications of the case. The interrogation started off with the Belmont police asking Smith to tell them, step by step, what he had done the morning before. Smith said he took the bus to Belmont, asked directions at a local gas station, and arrived at the Goldberg house just before noon. He said that Bessie Goldberg made him a bologna sandwich for lunch and then showed him what to clean after he'd finished eating. He said he cleaned the couch and the floors and the windows. He said he cleaned what he thought was the library - "It had a lot of books in it" - and the living room and the dining room. He said that he was paid $6.30 and that he left around a quarter to 4.
Much of a police interrogation consists of asking about otherwise meaningless details in a suspect's day that he can't possibly keep track of. Once the police have opened up even a small contradiction in the testimony, they have a way into the web of lies that inevitably surrounds any denial of guilt. It was Lieutenant Cahalane who attempted to break through the denials.
"Listen Roy. At the time this happened to the woman-"
"-that somebody knocked her flat-"
"I haven't knocked nobody flat."
"I'm telling you; you listen."
"At the time somebody attacked this woman, you were the only one in the house, so naturally we have to figure that you were the one who attacked her. Now, are you the one who attacked her or not?"
"Yes, someone's got to get blamed for it."
"No, I didn't figure that. That is why we're talking to you. We don't want to put anything on you. All I want is the truth."
"There's got to be some kind of way you all could see whether I'm lying or not."
"That's what we're trying to figure out," said Cahalane. "If something happened accidentally, all you have got to do is say so. If she were standing on a table or chair and fell off and you grabbed her all you got to do-"
"Do you mind if I say something?"
"I don't mind."
One can imagine Smith drawing himself up for this. The police have asked Smith to step into their shoes for a moment; now Smith was doing the same. "My home is in Mississippi," Smith said.
"There's no way I'd take no white woman because I love my neck, you understand?"
"But this is the North, not the South," said Cahalane.
"I know that too."
"You have a lot more freedom up here."
"I'm telling you one thing: I ain't going to take no one's woman, Jesus Christ, especially a white woman, you kidding? I've got more sense than that, Jesus Christ."
"But still, the woman was lying on the floor, wasn't she?"
"No sir--"
"That woman wasn't touched when I left there, no sirree. If I touched that woman do you think I'd be still messing around here? Are you kidding? I ain't touched no woman. Maybe somebody come by after I left."
The interrogation of Roy Smith went on into the early hours of March 13. After 12 hours of questioning, Smith still refused to admit his guilt, and the police had no choice but to let the district attorney take over.
On the one hand, Smith was a longtime petty criminal with several assault charges on his record who was the last known person to have seen the murder victim alive, and who had left the victim's home less than an hour before the body was found. On the other hand, not one shred of physical evidence linked Smith to the body, and not one person saw him do anything wrong. People saw him go into the Goldberg home. People saw him leave the Goldberg home. People saw him take the bus, buy his liquor, ride around town, do whatever he did, but no one saw him kill Bessie Goldberg. Roy Smith's case was entirely circumstantial but nearly airtight, marred only by the fact that he refused to admit that he did it. A jury would have to step in and say it for him.
IT WAS SOMETIME in early March of 1965 that the phone rang in our house, and when my mother answered it, she was surprised to hear Russ Blomerth on the line. Russ hadn't called in two years -- not since the studio had been finished -- but he had odd and urgent news. Mrs. Junger, he told her, I don't know how to tell you this. But I've just found out that Al DeSalvo is the Boston Strangler.
He was just caught on a rape case, Blomerth went on. And then he confessed to being the Boston Strangler. DeSalvo had begun making lengthy confessions to the police, and Blomerth had already been contacted by investigators to provide corroborating evidence. DeSalvo, as it turned out, had been alone or off the clock for every single strangling in the Boston area. The authorities were particularly interested in December 5 and December 30, 1962, which were the days Sophie Clark and Patricia Bissette had been killed. Blomerth said his records showed that on those days, Al had come to our house by himself. "The exact hours that he did this I have no way of knowing," Blomerth testified in writing.
So Al had left our house and gone on to kill a young woman. Or he had killed a young woman and then showed up to work 20 minutes later; either possibility was too horrifying to contemplate. Al had spent many, many days working in the studio while my mother was home alone; all he'd had to do was ask to use the bathroom, and he was inside the house with her. It would be stupid to kill someone you were working for -- you'd be an immediate suspect, like Roy Smith.
My mother hung up the phone and shuffled through her memories of DeSalvo. What about the afternoon when Bessie Goldberg was killed; could Al have driven over to Scott Road - which he passed every day on his commute from his home in Malden -- and killed her and then gone back to work?
Al had stood at the bottom of the cellar stairs and called up to my mother with an odd look in his eyes. For a moment, at least, our basement was a place where the very worst things imaginable could happen without anyone around to prevent them. Was there some equivalent place in Al's mind where he went in those moments -- some dark cellar hole filled with dead women and a staircase leading back up into the rest of his life?
The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the street and an innocent black man went to prison for the crime. Meanwhile -- unknown to anyone -- a violent psychopath named Al was working alone at our house all day and probably committed the murder. In our family this story eventually acquired the tidy symbolism of a folk tale. Roy Smith was a stand-in for everything that was unjust in the world, and Bessie Goldberg was a stand-in for everything that was decent but utterly defense less. Albert DeSalvo, of course, was a stand-in for pure random evil.
Our family's story was so perfect that I didn't question its simplicity until I was much older. Its simplicity was rooted in the fact that the tragedy on Scott Road had brushed our family but had never really affected us. That was a piece of good luck that I eventually realized could easily have been otherwise. What if, for example, my mother hadn't gone out on the day of the murder; what if she had just stayed home with me? Would Al have gotten his terrible urge and killed my mother instead of Bessie Goldberg? Would some other journalist now be interviewing me, rather than the other way around?
One of the conceits of my profession is that it can discover the truth; it can pry open the world in all its complexity and contradiction and find out exactly what happened in a certain place on a certain day. Sometimes it can, but often the truth simply isn't knowable -- not, at least, in an absolute way. As I did my research I came to understand that not only was this story far messier than the one I'd grown up with, but that I would never know for sure what had actually happened in the Goldberg house that day. So if I was to say something meaningful in this story, I would have to do it without discovering the truth. But maybe the truth isn't even the most interesting thing about some stories, I thought; maybe the most interesting thing about some stories is all the things that could be true. And maybe it's in the pursuit of those things that you understand the world in its deepest, most profound sense.


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Thanks for the reply. But would that (too many open cursors) happen even when you are ensuring a Close (and Dispose) call is being made, presumably disconnecting from the database each time? Is there some other cleanup that needs to be done?
Thanks again,
Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote in news:fgvmg3$uea$2 @news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:
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>> C# Web Service in IIS Stops Connecting to Oracle (via ADO.NET) Over
>> I have a Web Service, written in C#, published on
>> a Windows XT Web Server under IIS, which
>> repeatedly connects to an Oracle 9x database via
>> ADO, processes, disconnects from the database, and
>> exits.
>> The Web Service is triggered by our Tibco
>> messaging system; in our test environment, it is
>> invoked every ten minutes. The trouble is, it will
>> run for hours -- Connect, Process, Disconnect,
>> Exit -- then, eventually it will fail on the
>> Connect: it will throw an exception while trying
>> to execute the OracleConnection.Open method (if I
>> remember correctly, I don't have the output with
>> me at the moment), and I am not yet getting any
>> specific Oracle error message or number. All
>> connection attempts after that point fail
>> immediately.
>> If we restart IIS, it returns to normal running
>> (for a while, that is.)
>> Also, another Web service, which runs serially after
>> the failing one and has been running successfully all
>> this time, will also start failing in its connections
>> to Oracle (once the other Web Service has failed.)
>> There have been instances where the 2nd Web Service
>> has been the one to initiate the failures, seeming
>> to eliminate one specific Service as the problem.
>> My question: assuming that the Web Services'
>> Connects (Opens) are all paired with associated
>> Disconnect (Closes), is there something (some
>> resource, perhaps) in IIS or Oracle which can be
>> consumed over time, or iterations? It seems as if
>> the Web Service, although it exits, is running out
>> of something or corrupting something, which can
>> only be repaired by restarting IIS. And the effect
>> appears to be IIS-wide -- at least within the default
>> application space -- since the other process
>> fails (database connects) after the one failure.
>> Would anyone have any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> GHuston
> > ORA-10000? (Too many open cursors) >Received on Fri Nov 09 2007 - 00:06:26 CST
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In Call the Midwife, as in every film about women giving birth, boiling water appears to be the main prop required.
This early-evening serial is based on Jennifer Worth's memoir about life as a midwife in the East End in the late 1950s, and is dramatised by Heidi Thomas, who brought us Cranford. But on the basis of its first episode, Call the Midwife lacks the hint of asperity that gave backbone to Cranford's gentle appeal.
It was like Heartbeat with babies; everything seemed to have been shot through pastel-tinted lenses. Even the bombed-out streets of Poplar looked spick and span, the bricks seemingly arranged in neat piles, while Vermeer appeared to have popped in to lend a hand with the lighting, bathing the most squalid room in a warm glow.
Its heroine – played by Jessica Raine – arrived there, according to Vanessa Redgrave's breathless voiceover, "knowing nothing of life itself". She found herself in the company of a flock of nuns, angelic Jenny Agutter, eccentric Judy Parfitt and grumpy Pam Ferris, who were attempting to cope with the 100 babies born each month.
The dialogue described a place of squalor and poverty; the screen showed a world of charming babies smiling in their prams, clean washing blowing in the wind, and women who adore their 24 children and save the 25th by the sheer power of love.
We met one slattern with syphilis, but even she softened when faced with the open face of young Jenny (Raine), who stood around looking very fetching in white gloves while women laboured in front of her. She seemed very ineffectual, but everyone kept praising her competence, so that is something else we had to take on trust.
It was, however, all as sweet as the cake Parfitt's Sister Monica Joan kept scoffing before the others could eat it; and I suspect it will be equally addictive. Miranda Hart arrives next week; I fear I will be watching.