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Day of Terror: Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing
Aired April 13, 2013 - 20:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DREW GRIFFIN, HOST (voice-over): April 19th, 1995. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got a critical. INSPECTOR JERRY FLOWERS, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE: People running past us had blood all over them. I have never seen so much glass. GRIFFIN: Domestic terrorism strikes in the heartland of America. The rescue. AMY PETTY, TRAPPED SURVIVOR: I was falling three floors, still in my chair but upside down. GRIFFIN: The arrest. CHARLES HANGER, OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY PATROL (RET.): He said, "My weapon is loaded." And I said, "Well, so is mine." GRIFFIN: The emotions. KATHY SANDERS, LOST GRANDCHILDREN CHASE AND COLTON: It was as though we entered the gates of hell. GRIFFIN: The stories of those who lived it in their own words. DAY OF TERROR: REMEMBERING THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. PETTY: April 19th began very beautiful. It was a very beautiful spring morning. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The sky was kind of a turquoise blue. Right there at the sunrise. There was some yellows and oranges as the sun crested the horizon. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oklahoma's news, weather and traffic. CARRIE HULSEY, FMR. KTOK-RADIO REPORTER: I was listening to the radio, going through different stations, listening to different, you know, morning drive time, like I always did. FLORENCE ROGERS, BOMBING SURVIVOR: I went to work as I always did. And parked underneath the Murrah Building. I had scheduled a meeting with seven of my staff members. EDYE SMITH LUCAS, LOST CHILDREN, CHASE AND COLTON: I took the kids into daycare and I parked right in front of the Murrah Building every morning. It was just a normal, regular morning. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was just like any normal routine. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It started out as a very good day. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Holy cow. About a third of the building has been blown away. (CROSSTALK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got a critical. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Smoke and debris and fire on the ground. This is just devastating. HULSEY: I've got three ambulances around me. There are fire crews. It was at the north (INAUDIBLE). People were running from the federal courthouse, falling out of the windows. I was the first reporter on the scene at the Oklahoma City bombing. I have just seen a man walking out of the building, he has blood on him from head to toe. There is glass covering this block. At 9:02, I was right here at the stoplight at 4th and Harvey when the bombing occurred. And about 30 seconds after the bombing occurred, I was on the air and started reporting. I was just at the stoplight when all of a sudden I heard a large boom and the ground literally moved beneath me. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The roof has collapsed. We've got a lot of problems here. HULSEY: It is an amazing sight. It's as if somebody came and sheered off an entire half of the building. Below it in the parking lot, all the cars are damaged and they're smoking. We are seeing injured people everywhere. Literally dozens of people that are bleeding. Some of them you can't even make them out. PETTY: I felt and heard just a tremendous roaring noise in my head, and everything went black. I could hear people screaming, and I heard my own self screaming. And I was screaming out, "Jesus, help me." I thought maybe I'd been shot in the back of my head, was the first thing I thought. Maybe I'd been shot in the back of the head, and that I was falling to the floor. And actually, I was falling three floors. And it was hot and dark. I couldn't see anything. I was actually still in my chair but upside down. And I laid there trying to figure out whether I was dead or alive. ROGERS: I remember turning around and kind of leaning back in my chair. And I literally was all of a sudden just started to see the whole building blow up right in front of my eyes. Then all these girls in just literally seconds were just gone. And my desk was just sitting at an angle ready to topple over into the hole where all those girls had fallen. HULSEY: The ambulance crews are just working as fast and furious as they can, trying to get to these people and put them on stretchers and get them to the hospital. Everywhere you look, the buildings have been destroyed. It is really a chaotic situation. Many people are running around trying to find friends and co-workers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry. You can't go beyond the yellow tape. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't care. (CROSSTALK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right there. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You were on the first floor? DR. BRIAN ESPE, TRAPPED SURVIVOR: Fifth floor. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Fifth floor. (CROSSTALK) ESPE: Huh? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You went under a table? ESPE: Yes. I went under the table when the ceiling started falling. I don't know how long after the rumbling stopped and the things start falling, when I looked around, I could see the sky, I could see across the street, were before there were walls on all four sides me. And now on three sides of me there were no walls. I was standing looking out the south side of the building, and somebody tapped me on the shoulder, and it was Mark Mulman, the fireman. He said, we're here to take you down. Thank God for Mark, because he talked me down that ladder every step of the way. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This building was (INAUDIBLE) and my moms in there. (CROSSTALK) LUKE FRANEY, ATF AGENT, TRAPPED SURVIVOR: Somewhere around 10:20 to 10:30 is when I heard loud screams coming from outside of the building. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go. Go. FRANEY: I went to the rear wall, looked out the window. And I could see the rescue efforts that had been taking place down there were now ceased, and everyone was running from the building. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a live picture right now. We are told there may be another explosion in the area right now. We don't know exactly what is happening. This is a live picture of people running to the north. JON HANSEN, FMR. OKLAHOMA CITY ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF: The call was made to evacuate the building. And we got out. It's what we believed to be an explosive device that one of our crews just found in the building. FRANEY: And I could see Mark Michalic, who I had been talking to on the radio, one of the agents that I worked with in the office. And I said, Mark, what's going on. And Mark said, hey, they think they found another bomb. They think it's going to go off. And try to find something sturdy to hang on to. Now I will remember those words for the rest of my life. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They are talking about a second explosion. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, they're asking everybody to move back. HANSEN: The explosive device that our crews found was a training device, one of the law enforcement agencies use. It wasn't an active device. BERNARD SHAW, FORMER CNN ANCHOR: Authorities in this building behind me are coming across more bodies. One of the emotions I had to deal with was rage, anger. As I sought to be a journalist, dispassionately covering a very emotional story. For now, that's the latest from this tragic site. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have emergency workers walking around scratching their heads saying they couldn't even estimate the number of victims. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The ambulance would pull up, and multiple victims would pour out, and adults, a couple of children. Cars would pull up and unload victims. And we would say, well, did you know him or her? And they said, no, we just wanted to help. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: St. Anthony's Hospital has put out a call for trained medical help who can come in and help with the deluge of patients who arrived in the wake of this explosion. THERESA GREEN, FMR KFOR-TV REPORTER: There was a sense that the first victims were probably those outside of the building, and that the next ones to come would be the badly injured who were in the building, and it would take some time to reach them. And I remember that sense of despair when it became more and more clear that there wouldn't be a second wave. There weren't going to be many lives to save. And that we probably lost a lot of people. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, I was parked in that spot 30 minutes before the bomb went off. GRIFFIN: Coming up, the young victims. LUCAS: My kids hadn't been at daycare for half an hour and they were dead. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you are just joining us, you are not watching some scene of international catastrophe. You are looking at your own backyard. Downtown Oklahoma City is in flames and smoke right now. K. SANDERS: And I looked up the street. I said, Edye, the babies, and I'll never forget the way her face just dropped, and she took off running. LUCAS: Every block I ran, I was like, please, be this building. I didn't want to keep running and not see anything horrible, you know, until I got to the Murrah Building, but that's what happened. And when we walked around to where the daycare had overhung the street, I mean, it was just gone. There was nothing left. SANDERS: That's when my heart died. Edye crumbled to her knees, crying, my babies, my babies, and it was as though we entered the gates of hell. LUCAS: Come back to me as fast as you can. You brought a stick in the house? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Uh-huh. LUCAS: The day of Chase and Colton's funeral, a rescue worker came up to me. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I arrived, the boy had a pulse. It was very weak. LUCAS: He dug through some rubble and found my son Colton. I love you. He said he held him for a while until he died. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is a daycare center in the building. That daycare center would have been devastated. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The employees were very happy about having their kids on site there where they could feel more comfortable about where they were. DELORIS WATSON, GRANDMOTHER OF P.J. ALLEN: I felt that P.J. was alive. When I made it to Children's Hospital, they said, oh, he's been screaming and calling you. He had cuts and lacerations about his head. He had second and third degree burns over the upper 55 percent of his body. He had inhaled much of the gas from the bombing. His lungs were severely damaged, irreparable. I'm so happy to go home. At the time of the bombing, P.J. was 18 months. P.J. ALLEN, OKLAHOMA BOMBING SURVIVOR: My name is P.J. Allen. I'm in the sixth grade. WATSON: He's 11 today. ALLEN: I remember a lot of it. A long time ago I had asked why I had the thing in my neck and everybody else didn't. And that's how I figured it out. This is Albuterol. It opens up my lungs. WATSON: P.J.'s lungs were so extremely damaged, they were burned, charred. He no longer had air pockets. So they had to perform tracheotomy. On January 6th, 2004, his trach came out. And he was able to talk. ALLEN: The bridge can carry a maximum of about 5,000 cars. I don't like to be treated different than anybody else. WATSON: I'll let you finish. ALLEN: OK. And if anybody else can do it I can do it, too. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you are by chance watching this program knowing that you've had a young child down at the hospital and have not yet been able to locate them, try calling University Hospital. THU NGUYEN, FATHER OF CHRIS: About 10:00 or so, I found, there's a bombing in Oklahoma City downtown area, where I have my wife and my little boy. PHUONG NGUYEN, MOTHER OF CHRIS: My co-worker come by and ask me, Phuong, is that your Christopher, your baby, in that daycare in that federal building? I said, oh, my God, it is. T. NGUYEN: And I stopped by the 7-11 on the way to downtown, and I bought some plastic bag with the intent to pick up my son's body. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is only 5-years-old, but Christopher Nguyen is going through enough pain to last a lifetime. CHRIS NGUYEN, SURVIVOR: When I see the pictures of me in the hospital in the bed, I see like a little boy covered in blood. And I just even at that 5-year-old age, to be hospitalized for something that serious, it's just depressing that there's someone out there who would do that. Some people say I should feel angry about it, but I just feel a sadness because so many people died for nothing. And it's just uncalled for. Killing so many people for just one cause or maybe none at all. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We mentioned to you earlier the little girl, they have not been able to connect her with her parents, we understand the little girl's name is Rebecca. JIM DENNY, FATHER OF BRANDON AND REBECCA: The phone rang and it was Claudia. And she said a bomb went off at the federal building. Get down here right away. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her 3 1/2-year-old brother Brandon, blue eyes, reddish blond hair, he is still missing. CLAUDIA DENNY, MOTHER OF BRANDON AND REBECCA: I couldn't move because it was gone. Like my kids were gone. This is Rebecca five days after the explosion. REBECCA DENNY, SURVIVOR: On my left side it was just all damaged. They had to do surgery on my face. I had 240 stitches in my face. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three-year-old Brandon Denny suffered serious brain injuries. C. DENNY: First of all, they said he might not live. And second of all, if he does live, he will never walk or talk again. We proved them wrong. He walks, he talks, he runs. Through all his bad times, you never saw a more positive person. He was always smiling, always positive, even when he felt bad. GRIFFIN: Still ahead, buried alive. PETTY: I started screaming out for help. And one of the men said, I hear you, I hear you. He started yelling, we have a live one. We have a live one. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MELISSA WEBSTER, FMR. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECH.: The flow of people just never stopped. There was always as soon as you bandaged one person, the next one was ready. People were in there just digging and digging. And we would find a purse, and then we would find a body. I remember finding a little baby shoe. And I think at that point it was probably when it hit me the hardest. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You look at that and you wonder how in the world would any kind of rescue worker be able to go in there and find somebody. WEBSTER: You just wanted to feverishly dig, you know, to try to find a pocket of air or pocket somewhere where there were still live people and live babies and children. And you just didn't find it. FLOWERS: My partner and I, Steve and I, ran directly into the building. You try to move around the steel rebar that held the concrete together was hanging out and sticking out, and protruding and -- it's like walking through a gauntlet of pokers, if you will. These things were -- it hit you in the head, hit you in the shoulder, stick you in the side, I mean, as you try to work your way through and it is dark. And we're wading through water and crawling up and over, and up and over boulders. JOHN AVERA, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE (RETIRED): We were close to having to be rescued many times when we first went into the building. The debris was deep. And we used the electric cables, actually the ropes to crawl over some of the debris, we had to keep our balance. Bringing people out, we did the same thing. We'd have to -- as we carry them out, we'd have to pull ourselves up and hold on to it. We carried these two ladies out. I saw people laying on the sidewalk, I saw blood running down the gutter. TERRI SHAW, TRAPPED SURVIVOR: When I first came to, I thought, I'm dreaming. This has to be a dream. I guess I was down there for a couple hours. And somebody would come and my rear end was actually sticking -- that was the only thing, like a little hole. FLOWERS: As I turned and looked right behind me just feet away, I saw a -- the back side of a person stuck in a wall. All I could see -- I knew it was a lady because she was screaming. I could hear her voice. As I walk over to her, I put my hand on her lower back. And I'm telling her, I'm going to get you out of here. There was no way in the world that I knew that I was going to get that lady out. SHAW: Well, they were trying to find some way to get me out. They didn't know how my body was positioned behind the wall that I was in. There was so much rubble that got into my eyes, I couldn't see anything. And I just was screaming. Some people wanted me to like shut up because I wouldn't stop screaming. And the ambulance driver who drove me to the hospital said, let her scream all she wants to. It's the best sound I've heard all day. PETTY: I heard voices off in the distance, men that were saying, you know, "This is where the daycare children should be. Let's split up." I started screaming out for help. And one of the men said, "I hear you, I hear you." He started yelling, "We have a live one, we have a live one." They had just begun trying to uncover my hand when another voice came up very frantic, and very panicked and said, everybody, pull out now, there's another bomb. Pull out now. And then, I think, the next part was the hardest part. And that's when I was alone and I was waiting for a second bomb. That was the hardest part. You know, the whole thing you hear other people talk about life flashing before their eyes, you know, when they're at death. You are thinking about your family and your friends and eternity. You're thinking about other things. And so I just prayed and I don't know how much time passed, but I heard voices coming back to me again. And so then they began the tedious work of uncovering me. When they pulled me out, they said we're going to pull and it's going to hurt. And they did. They counted to three, they pulled, it hurt so bad. And it was the best feeling I felt all day. I remember looking around and it looked like a war zone. But I'll never forget what it felt like to breathe in that first breath of fresh air. WEBSTER: I went to take a shower because I was just filthy. And the water no sooner hit me until I just -- I lost it. I mean I don't know what it was but it was -- as soon as I got in the shower, I just started crying. And I bet I cried for the next hour. Because I finally let my emotions in. B. SHAW: I looked into the eyes of rescue workers, and the one impression that came back to me each time was the utter absolute grit of these people. Yes, we've been bombed. Yes, some of us have been murdered. Yes, we're bloody, but we are determined to survive. We're determined to help. HANSEN: After that we're through with our search, the building will be turned over to the Oklahoma City Police Department. There was obviously, a kind of relief, yet a let down when we had to call the operation off, knowing that we still had a couple of people in the building. We knew where they were, we couldn't get to them because of the structural dynamics of the building. But, wow, it was -- it was tough. I mean, it was real tough to try to -- especially communicate that to the families of those victims, that the chances of us finding your loved ones alive were just almost gone toward the end of that effort. FRANK KEATING, FMR OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR: The building was creaking, the building was dangerous and unstable. And that was an urban area. So they needed to take the building down. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I knew the two people that were -- that the bodies that they still hadn't gotten out at that time. And you know that bothered me some. I knew they had to do it. I mean, I knew that they needed to do that. HANSEN: I had the honor of standing by Philip and Ken Thompson (ph). They are the sons of Virginia Thompson who was left in the building. And that was an experience I'll never forget as long as I live. KEATING: All of us got rather teary-eyed because we'd been so emotionally involved with this. But then once the smoke cleared and we could see that the symbol wasn't there -- my reaction was to want to go and kick the material. Just kick it, like, you know, you're out of here. We're -- you're -- it's over. You know, this agony's behind us. We hated what had happened there. And to get it out of our psyche was a very good thing. GRIFFIN: When we return, the arrest. HANGER: He said, my weapon is loaded, and I nudged him a little bit with the barrel of my weapon, I said, well, so is mine. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Lemon at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Here are your headlines this hour. Secretary of State John Kerry, he's got a promise of cooperation from China today on the North Korea issue. Kerry says there's no more room for threats or confrontational language with Pyongyang. He is on a three-nation diplomatic swing of Asian countries. Kerry arrives in Tokyo tomorrow. Now in credible videos showing a plane with a huge crack floating in the ocean. Amazingly everyone on board survived. The Lion Air's 737 carrying more than 100 people overshot a runway and slam into the ocean near Bali, Indonesia. Basketball fans won't see Kobe Bryant on the court for a long time. The L.A. Lakers star will be out for at least six months after tearing his Achilles' tendon. Similar injuries have ended the careers of some other players but the Lakers' trainer says they plan to have Kobe -- to have him back at the start of the season. Those are your headlines this hour. I'm Don Lemon, keeping you informed. CNN.com, the most trusted name in news. B. SHAW: We flew by chartered jet late at night, the day of the bombing. As I looked at that building, with all the night lights on it, my only thought was, who could do this? ELDON ELLIOTT, RYDER SHOP OWNER (RET.): He came in using a different name, put a deposit down to be able to rent a truck. He had a driver's license showing it was Bob Kling. He just seemed like an average, nice, young gentleman. There was nothing about him that would make you suspicious about anything. He was polite, and he wanted a 20-foot truck for what he was hauling. And he rented it to go to Omaha, Nebraska. SGT. MIKE MCPHERSON, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE: The truck bomb, there's going to be a crater right where it was sitting. We knew the bomb came up in the truck because that's where it was parked, right on the crater. It just disintegrated the truck. So, at that point you have to start looking at trying to identify the truck. The rear axle of the truck had blown all the way in front of the Regency Towers. A car was pulling up there about the time of the explosion. And it had hit on the front of that. It was laying there in the street. I got to thinking, there's going to be a stamp number on that axle. We ended up getting the full confidential number on the truck. At that point I called the National Insurance Crime Bureau. They told me that the pull van, that it was a Ryder truck. ELLIOTT: The vice president from Ryder called us, and he said that he was sure that that was the truck that was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. Just couldn't hardly believe that it was. HANGER: On the morning of April 19th, 1995, I stopped an old yellow Mercury Marquis for a traffic violation. He wasn't displaying a tag on the rear of his vehicle. When he got out of the car he looked like a clean cut young man that had a military-type appearance, he had a short hair cut. He also had a light windbreaker or jacket on. And it was zipped up just slightly at the bottom. But as he was removing his billfold from his right rear pocket, that jacket tightened up, and I could see a bulge under his left arm that appeared to me to be a weapon, and I grabbed the bulge on the outside of his jacket and instructed him to, you know, get his hands up and turn around. At the same time I was drawing my weapon and stuck it to the back of his head. He said, my weapon is loaded. And I nudged him a little bit with the barrel of my weapon and I said, well, so is mine. It was just a routine traffic stop with an individual that happened to be carrying a weapon. I would have ticketed and let him go if he had not had that gun on his person. He would have been on down the road. ELLIOTT: They brought the sketch artist in the next morning. My mechanic was sitting in there on break the whole time that he was in there on Monday, right close to him. And so the mechanic made this sketch for him. And I looked at it and said that looked just like him. ATF AGENT MARK MICHALIC, OKLAHOMA CITY BOMB TASK FORCE: Agents in that area went around to all the hotels and everywhere they could showing these sketches, and asked if anybody would recognize him. And it just so happens Mr. McVeigh had stayed in one of the hotels. He rented the truck under the name Bob Kling, but he registered in the hotel under his name. HANGER: I had ran McVeigh's name, Social Security number, date of birth, also checked on the weapon. The morning I had arrested him I had ran all this information. MICHALIC: If a person's name is checked through NCIC, there's a signature that's left in the system, and you can determine if somebody's name is actually ran at a certain time. And I called up, telephone rings, and Nova County Sheriff's Office. And I said, well, Sheriff, here's the deal. Highway Patrol hooked up an old boy, Wednesday morning after the bombing, and I think they brought him into your facility. Can you tell me if that's true? He said, sure, Mark, hold on. HANGER: McVeigh was probably 15 to 20 minutes away from being released from the Nova County jail. MICHALIC: About five minutes later he said, "Yeah, yeah, he's arrested. We brought him here into my jail." He said, as a matter of fact, we still got him. I said, you're kidding me? What's his name? And he said, Timothy James McVeigh. And I screamed, "We got him." And the whole place just erupted. ELLIOTT: We was down at the Elks that evening and seen it on TV that he was arrested and brought out. And I said, that's the man. HANGER: And you see that individual with that solemn, grimaced- looking face, and you wonder how anyone could have committed such a horrendous crime against innocent people. GRIFFIN: A terrorist talks, next. STEPHEN JONES, MCVEIGH'S TRIAL ATTORNEY: He told me on the very first meeting, he said, I decided to do this. How he assembled the bomb. How he drove it to Oklahoma City. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) JONES: At the time I was appointed, Tim McVeigh was being held in a federal prison in Oklahoma, in El Reno, Oklahoma. I went over and stuck out my hand. I said, Mr. McVeigh, my name is Stephen Jones, I'm a lawyer from Enid, Oklahoma. I've been appointed by the federal court to represent you. Shook his hand. And as I did, he said, "Well, I heard you were coming." I can only tell you about my conversation with Tim McVeigh now, because he clearly waived the attorney/client privilege, and the courts have so held. On that morning, I listened to him virtually all day. He told me in the very first meeting, he said, I decided to do this. He told me why he chose the Murrah Building. Told me how he assembled the bomb, where he got the parts. How he drove it to Oklahoma City and parked on the way down in Blackwell, Oklahoma, came down the next morning. How he lit it when the bomb -- when the truck was paused briefly in front of the Regency Towers, he lit one of the fuses there and then lit another fuse and closed the door and walked away. He took 100 percent of the blame. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Holy cow. JONES: Tim McVeigh considered himself a patriot. That was his conviction, that the government had overstepped. It killed people, violated the law. The law had failed to avenge the wrongful deaths of innocent people in Ruby Ridge and Mt. Carmel with the Branch Davidians. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This fire is really rolling now. JONES: And that it was necessary to strike back in, say, the fashion of John Brown and Harper's Ferry. HANGER: He had to know that there were children in that building. And I just cannot imagine anybody committing that kind of act against another human being. JONES: At times he said he knew there was a daycare center there. At other times, he appeared to avoid that. I think that the death of the children was very uncomfortable for him. On one hand, he sought to rationalize it. On the other hand, it was beyond rationalization. And even Tim McVeigh knew that. But I think the first time he said -- he just looked at me and he said, "Children also died at Waco." He assigned almost all responsibility to himself. I did this, I did that. Terry Nichols helped me with this or that, but he played down the role of Terry, played down the role of anyone else. I think he expected to be found guilty. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We got him. JONES: He was not surprised by the return of the verdict finding him guilty, nor was he surprised that the jury voted death. As I recall, we simply exchanged some brief, momentary remark, and then the marshals took him out. HANGER: If anyone was ever deserving of the death penalty, it was Tim McVeigh. PAUL HOWELL, VICTIMS WITNESS AT EXECUTION: They got us up about 6:30 that morning. We got in a van. We drove over to the chambers. We was the last ones to go in. They finally opened up the curtains, and he looked over, first of all, to his area where his lawyer was at. Then he turned his head towards us. And he only kept his head there just maybe 30 seconds or less. Enough time for me to see in his eyes -- kind of like dead eyes. There was no feeling whatsoever in the eyes. In my own heart, I felt like the only way that we, my family or anybody else in the world that had been affected by it, the only way that we could get any peace was to watch him die. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was pronounced dead at 7:14. JONES: I believe that Tim McVeigh was recruited, that he was not a mastermind. That's my best judgment, that there were others involved. Perhaps their role was more peripheral. Perhaps it could have been stronger. We will never know. Certainly, Tim McVeigh is beyond the ability to relate. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Published report says Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols admitted last year to his role in the bombing. NOLAN CLAY, REPORTER, "THE OKLAHOMAN": It was a confession. He wanted to avoid the death penalty here in Oklahoma. Nobody knew about it until well after the trial. He admitted in this that he was involved in the buying of the materials and that he helped build the bomb, even siphoning diesel fuel out of his own truck when they ran out of racing fuel. It was, I did this, I did that, I was involved in the actual making. And he -- they asked -- prosecutors asked him if he knew of anybody else involved. And he said he did not. B. SHAW: This act of terrorism, this snuffing out of lives, was an unimaginable slap in the face. And the slap was, this can happen. This did happen. Regrettably, possibly, this can happen again. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had some kind of an explosion downtown. GRIFFIN: When we come back, nearly two decades later, how people are coping. B. SHAW: I believe you never heal from something like this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The explosion went off around 9:00 a.m. And we could feel the explosion in the -- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stretcher. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out from under the desk and there just wasn't any building left around me. B. SHAW: People talk about the healing process as if you can take a shower after you've exercised outside on a hot day. I believe you never heal from something like this. HULSEY: I did lose something that day. It wasn't a family member, but it was that realization that you always grow up thinking nothing's going to happen to you, nothing bad. And that's gone. C. NGUYEN: I don't know if I consider it exactly lucky, because even though I'm a survivor with the other kids, I have to deal with thinking about why we're here and they're not. And we were all in the building at the same time. Even if we were in different places, we were in the building. And they're dead and we're not. So I have to suffer with that, because it's like a burden. ALLEN: I think that if God could save me from second and third- degree burns and a broken arm, since all those other people died, and out of six survivors, God saved me, and those other five, he must have something special planned for all six of us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just can't imagine it. There's just bodies laying everywhere. There's people just laying there screaming, trying to get out. You know I've helped rescue several bodies of a bunch of babies that we've had to drag out. It is just a real gruesome sight. LUCAS: Certainly a stark reminder of all the people who died here. And it's sad to me just to think that that's what's left for my children. You know, the daycare that they loved. Now they have these two chairs, and that's it. Whenever I pray about it, I always ask God to tell them I said hi. That's the main thing, like just tell them I said hi and that I love them. And you know, I don't know what happens to children when they die. I don't know if they become adults when they go to heaven. I'm not sure about those kinds of things, but I know that they're safe and they're happy and they're watching out for us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had some kind of an explosion downtown. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you give me a location? PETTY: During the time that I was trapped and I was thinking about my life, I thought about the fact that my husband and I didn't have any children. Because at that point, I'm thinking, OK, this is it, my life is over, I'm dying. And I never had a child. And it really bothered me. So, after the bombing and I had this second chance at life, we really rethought the whole no children thing. And I got pregnant. And I have a wonderful 5-year-old that's just absolutely changed my life. I don't look forward to the day when I have to explain to him what happened to me and what kind of world we live in. Because right now he thinks everybody is good and everybody is wonderful. FLOWERS: People change and people move on, but I can tell you personally from my standpoint, my grandkids' grandkids will know as much as I know right now. They won't have all the feelings that I've got, but they're going to know what happened on that day of April the 19th. They're going to know the people that lost their lives down there that day as an act of domestic terrorism. And they're going to know that evil is real in this world. GREEN: Ten years and I still get emotional. What I want to say is it's not -- awful thing happened. A really, really horrible thing happened here. And yet, what struck me and what sticks with me is that all of these wonderful things happened, that all of these people stepped up. They didn't have to. KEATING: Within that community, it was a source of pride, that we did this so well, we love our neighbors so well. We could come together so well as a people. How can good come out of evil? Sometimes it does. And in this case, I think good very definitely came out of evil. C. NGUYEN: I think most people should know that life is just too short to live in hatred, because you need it to get what you can out of life while you have the chance. B. SHAW: You never recover from something like this. How can you? You don't heal. You contend, you cope, you live, but I don't believe you heal. I think there's an indelible scar in the mind and on the heart.


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In the latest Farmers Insurance rankings of hundreds of communities across the U.S. based on safety and security, Holland-Grand Haven in Michigan and Corvallis, Oregon secured the title of Most Secure Mid-sized City and Most Secure Small City, respectively.
The study of metropolitan areas, compiled by quality of life expert Bert Sperling (www.bestplaces.net) took into consideration a number of criteria, including economic stability, crime statistics, extreme weather, risk of natural disasters, housing depreciation, foreclosures, air quality, environmental hazards, life expectancy, motor vehicle fatalities, and employment numbers. In the survey, Mid-sized cities were those with populations between 150,000 to 500,000 while Small cities were those with populations smaller than 150,000.
One of the nation's largest multi-line insurers, Farmers Insurance is committed to helping consumers become smarter about insurance and risk management and has a long history of helping communities become safer and more secure.
"Farmers Insurance is celebrating its 85th anniversary this year and since our founding, we have been committed to improving the communities in which customers, agents and employees live and work," said Chuck Browning, Head of Sponsorships. "We congratulate the residents of Holland-Grand Haven and Corvallis, along with all medium and small cities named in the top 20 rankings. They are fortunate to have dedicated local government, law enforcement, fire, medical and education leaders who work hard and have earned the Farmers Insurance most secure city recognition."
Earlier in the year, Farmers announced that the Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick area in Maryland had been ranked the Most Secure large metropolitan area in the country.
"Our most secure metropolitan areas are islands of security in our challenging times," said Bert Sperling, president of Best Places. "They have been able to maintain stable economies and many are fortunate that their locale is not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes. Although each metropolitan area is different, they all possess a desirable combination of factors (jobs, low crime rates, housing, climate, health, reduced levels of natural disasters) that make these some of the best places to live in the United States."
The Farmers Insurance Top 20 Most Secure Mid-sized Cities (150,000-500,000 pop.) are:
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3/18 The eye of the tiger
The first time I started boxing was at the Boys Club and I was 12 years old. Back then, you put gloves on and you're just swinging. You learn a one-two combination, which is a jab and right cross. Other than that, you're throwing hooks, and it's really wild hooks.
In 2008, I had surgery on my knee, so going into the 2009 season, I couldn't do much running, and I worked with a Gold Glover named Angel Romero in Philly. I worked on little things — hitting the mitts, double-ended bag and a heavy bag. In 2009, I had a great season, my legs felt good, I felt more explosive. Last year, before I came to Spring Training, I did more sprinting. Everyone knows how I felt about my second half last year — I got a little bit tired. My whole thought process going into this year was to do more low impact stuff, save my legs, make sure I drop my weight and still be explosive. I talked to Hammerin' Hank Lundy, who is a boxer in Philadelphia. He's 19-1. The guy he trains with is Danny Davis. Danny Davis is also Bernard Hopkins' trainer. Their gym is Joe Hand Boxing in Philadelphia. The strength coach there helped with my core work and kept my cardio up.I went there Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 o'clock, and I did my core for 30 minutes and then I went 30-45 minutes boxing with the speed bag, the upper cut bag, the heavy bag. We worked on mitts, worked on the heavy mitts, we worked on focus mitts. We also sparred a little bit and worked on the sticks for defense — they're styrofoam sticks. If you don't keep your hands up, they'll hit you in the head with them.
The biggest thing about that was me being in the gym with other professionals. These are amateurs trying to become professionals, or professionals who are trying to make a name in the business. Just the mental aspect of being with these guys was big. To use a cliche, being with those guys, they have the eye of the tiger. It gave me a different sense of urgency as far as going to the gym and working out. Those guys get in, get out, and have to go work 9-to-5's. It really got me mentally prepared for this grind. I'm a guy who always works hard, and everyone knows that. I think I can always better myself and step it up a little bit. Boxing, that thought process of being in the gym three minutes on, 30 seconds off for 30 to 45 minutes straight mentally got me right.
I worked with Danny Davis and also went to San Francisco and worked with Nonito Donaire, who is a 122-pounder. On Feb. 19, he knocked a guy out and broke the guy's orbital bone and his jaw in a fight. I worked with one of his mitt guys on different techniques to be more explosive. We intertwined everything with my first steps in the outfield. We timed my right cross with swinging the bat, and throwing my right and bringing that back hip through. It was funny, I've always done baseball-specific training. The past couple years, this is the first time I've done nothing baseball-specific but everything transfers over to baseball.
Would I ever fight? No chance. I realized just sparring with the guys and trying to hit the guys, I play baseball. It's like a boxer trying to come out and play in the big leagues. No chance. Not happening. If I trained for maybe a year, two years, I could do an exhibition fight. Like Mike Tyson said, everybody has a plan until they get hit. I don't like getting hit.
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Hi Marlon!
I feel like we're really on the same page here. I mean, my very first "Byrd's Nest" comment of the year contained the following quote…and I quote: "I'm a little thing I like to call "Byrdified" which, loosely defined, means that I'm ready to unleash the fury of a thousand bengal tigers on the softball field wearing a fresh pair of baseball pants and one really big cup." Obviously our brains are perfectly in tune like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (I'm not Mormon, Marlon, but those boys can SING!).
My brother-in-Law Andy inspired me to try this P90X thing and I'm gonna tell you a little secret. Sometimes I fart quietly at church and just hope nobody smells it. Also, one of the workouts is Kenpo which is just P90X's version of Cardio Kickboxing. My sister-in-law Tara says that when my brother-in-law Andy gets doing his Kenpo it tears up pieces of the carpet. Don't tell Larry though. What I'm trying to say is that I have been throwing punches like Daniel-san for 4 weeks and I'm hoping it leads to quick hands on the softball diamond.
Marlon, our league commissioner for church league softball has decided to do away with the strike zone mat this year. We already have players without a firm grasp on the rules umpiring our games. Now what do you think is going to happen? There's going to be conflict and I'm just hoping we all consider Jesus before we start bickering about bad calls. I'm not saying you shouldn't argue bad calls. Those umpires are pros and they deserve it.
Marlon, you mentioned that dude breaking that guy's orbital bone. I just commented on Carrie the Muskat's blog about this lady I was with at Spring Training two years ago taking a shot to the face with a foul ball. It also broke her orbital bone. She's ok now, but it was scary. I was an inch from stopping the ball, but I couldn't do it with my bare hands. I wish I could have been the hero, but it wasn't my time to shine. That time is when I'm roasting on the beach covered in baby oil.
You are a great player. Keep your average up like last year, and lead us to a World Series! I have been waiting 13 years for a title. Make it happen!
I know what you mean with the training I boxed in the Navy, I'm also with you on the tyson comment there is always someone who hits harder and faster than you 🙂 .
Have a great season!
Stands back from the keyboard in amzmeaent! Thanks!
Marlon: This has nothing to do with your post, but I wanted to tell you that I love the way you play baseball. You really put yourself into it and leave it all out on the field. Thanks for joining the Cubs.
Way to go, Marlon!


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This past weekend I attended the Specialty Coffee Association of Americas (SCAA) 23rd Annual Exposition in Houston, Texas. As a newbie to the coffee world, I did not know what to expect. Ill be honest, my interaction with coffee has been limited to either buying a cup of coffee from a shop, or brewing a batch at home. I always thought coffee just grew in a field, it was harvested, and then shipped to grocery stores and cafs to serve. So when I walked into the SCAA Exposition I was shocked! I had no idea how many people and hours are involved in producing one cup of coffee. Nor did I realize how each step of the journey builds on the previous step. Here is quick look into the journey from seed to cup.
It begins with coffee producers. Producers spend years cultivating coffee crops. It may take 3 to 4 years for a coffee plant to reach maturity. Some of the booths shared pictures of coffee farms, and the harvest process of coffee crops. It is remarkable to see the harvesting of coffee and how individuals hand pick beans. The devotion to quality coffee continues after harvest as the beans must be processed. Pulp must be removed from the beans, and then the beans must be dried for days. Yes, all this work goes into coffee before it even heads to the roasters!
Roasters then take the processed beans and roast them to unlock the flavor. This is a process that is considered an art that takes time and skill to master. Once beans are roasted they are packaged and sent to cafs and stores, but the journey does not stop here.
Manufacturers of grinders and brewing equipment are part of the journey too, thats where BUNN comes in. The equipment matters in how the coffee tastes. The equipment should help manage the water to coffee contact time, the water temperature and the turbulence of the grounds, to ensure extraction of ideal flavor from the coffee.
Caf owners and baristas perfect the skill of preparation and service to deliver a great coffee experience.
I never would have thought coffee takes a journey to reach my cup, but it does. Walking through the SCAA Exposition it made the seed to cup journey come alive. Exhibitors were eager and excited to share how they fit into the journey, and I was very eager to learn.
The SCAA Exposition was a truly amazing learning experience. I was able to see how all the different segments of the coffee industry work together to take coffee from a seed, to a delicious cup of coffee. I realize that this was just a glimpse into the coffee industry and I have so much more to learn!
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text: Thermotoga neapolitana Jannasch et al. (ATCC® 49049™) Strain Designations: NS-E [DSM 4359] / Type Strain: yes / Biosafety Level: 1 General Information Characteristics Culture Method History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Strain Designations NS-E [DSM 4359] Application Characterization Isolation Marine hot spring, near Lucrino, Bay of Naples, Italy Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format freeze-dried Preceptrol® no Genome Sequenced Strain Thermotoga neapolitana DSM 4359, complete genome. Type Strain yes (type strain) Comments Genome sequenced strain Medium ATCC® Medium 1658: MMS Medium for Thermotoga neapolitana Growth Conditions Temperature: 77.0°CAtmosphere: Under a gas mixture of 80% N2, 20% CO2 Name of Depositor HW Jannasch Isolation Marine hot spring, near Lucrino, Bay of Naples, Italy References Validation list no. 28. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 39: 93-94, 1989. Jannasch HW, et al. Thermotoga neapolitana New species of the extremely thermophilic eubacterial genus Thermotoga. Arch. Microbiol. 150: 103-104, 1988. Belkin S, et al. A new sulfur-reducing, extremely thermophilic eubacterium from a submarine thermal vent. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51: 1180-1185, 1986. type strain type strain Cross References Nucleotide (GenBank) : CP000916 Thermotoga neapolitana DSM 4359, complete genome. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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Big Data in Education in 2025: A Thought Experiment
Each January, about 85 government ministers or so -- together with some members of their staffs, leaders of the education departments in international organizations, large NGOs and multinational companies, and other 'high level decision makers' -- gather in London to speak informally about topics of common interest during the Education World Forum, which bills itself as the 'world's largest gathering of education and skills ministers'. It's a rather unique and impressive collection of people with the power to make decisions affecting hundreds of millions of students and teachers around the world. This annual meeting was previously called the 'Learning and Technology World Forum'; despite dropping the word 'technology' from its official title a few years ago, talk of tech was inescapable during this year's Forum, whether onstage or in the hallways. If I were asked to identify three general themes that permeated discussions throughout this year's three-day event, they would be 'technology', 'systems' and 'data'.
For many groups, the Education World Forum offers a high profile venue to announce new initiatives, launch new publications, and present findings from recent research. My boss at the World Bank, Elizabeth King, for example, officially launched a new 'SABER' education data technology tool during her keynote speech on the second day ("When it comes to learning, education systems matter"). While the links between these three themes were perhaps not always explicit in Beth's speech, the important role that new technologies will play in helping education systems to collect and analyze key data about the health of the education system, especially as pertains to whether or not students are learning (and, if so, how), was echoed and amplified by many of the other speakers in both EWF plenary sessions and related side events.
While the Forum has become increasing open over the years, embracing the use of social media throughout much of the agenda, for example, and quickly making available on YouTube key speeches and presentations, the off-the-record ministerial exchange sessions that happen on the second day are, as per the EWF social media policy, meant to be a largely Twitter-free zone. The hope is that, if/when/where given space to ask the 'dumb' questions of their peers, and freed from having it reported that someone, in response, provided some 'dumb' answers, Forum participants might feel comfortable enough to have what turn out to be some rather smart conversations about topics for which they had not been prepped, and about which no formal position papers had been prepared back home.
At one of the informal Forum ministerial exchange sessions a few years ago, rather exasperated that much of the conversation was concentrated on discussions of the lowest costs that various countries had paid for student laptops, I posed the following scenario, and question, as a sort of 'thought experiment':


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I want to run a C code through a VB.NET application.....
Is their a way by which it can be done?
Any help.....
You mean an executable (compiled C source)? Or C source code?
Oliver's Law:
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
even if it were possible for you to get the .net framework to run code for you, it uses c# and wouldn't understand C
Bukhari:V3B48N826 The Prophet said, Isnt the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man? The women said, Yes. He said, This is because of the deficiency of a womans mind.
sry,I didn't mention what kind of C code....
actually can a compiled C code be run within the .NET framework?
This should get you started:
Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Windows Processes
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Let's see. There is C++ and in Visual Studio.NET you can compile it as managed code, meaning that it actually becomes C++.NET code. You should be able to use this in your VB.NET application. Of course, C# is more preferred as a .NET based C-like language because it's easier in syntax and requires a bit less intelligence to use correctly. (It's easier to understand and to read.)
If you can't compile this C code into managed code, then it's still possible to call this code by putting it into a DLL and then build a wrapper around it. Something with P/Invoke's and other complex stuff will be required to be used to access it in that case, though. Pretty complex stuff for the inexperienced developers, though.
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Carnegie Mellon prizes its reputation for exploration among its top-ranked disciplines. From engineering, computer science and robotics to art, music and theater, students and faculty alike collaborate across campus on courses, research and startups.
Spread over 140 acres of lush parkland on the southeast corner of Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood, Carnegie Mellon University boasts an urban campus with a distinctly rural feel. The university's 50 academic, research and administrative buildings each features its own flair, from the grand hallways of the College of Fine Arts to the concrete behemoth that is Wean Hall.
Carnegie Mellon has a storied campus, full of fable and intrigue. Rumor has it that the original architect modeled the campus after a ship, with the expansive lawn between Baker Hall and Doherty Hall serving as the deck. Male students of Carnegie Tech used to meet with female students of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College at the Fence, a landmark that now serves as a billboard for announcements, well-wishes and even a few proposals. Anne Hathaway rode a high-tech motorcycle down the Mellon Institute steps as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises."
Each of the university's seven schools and colleges (College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy and Information Systems, Mellon College of Science, School of Computer Science and Tepper School of Business) has left its own mark on the campus, and we encourage our students to explore what every one of them has to offer, from the incredible talent on display at the Purnell Center for the Arts to the innovative engineering taking place at the Robotics Institute. Carnegie Mellon produces some of the most groundbreaking work in the world, and no student should leave the school without seeing it firsthand.
The Tepper School of Business is housed within Posner Hall, a 22,000-square-foot building completed in August 2000 on the southeast corner of the Carnegie Mellon campus. The building features a variety of classrooms including tiered lecture halls, multiple event spaces, open-plan conference rooms to support collaboration among students and faculty, and an expansive entryway looking up at a third-floor glass walkway. Added in 2004, the Posner Center is an earth-sheltered conference center featuring special exhibits of rare and historical documents.


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Austin Amann Elk Grove
The backbone of the Elk Grove program the last two seasons, Amann put the finishing touches on an outstanding career that he ended as the schools all-time leading scorer, all-time assists leader and second all-time in rebounds. This year he averaged 18.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and drained 48 3s. The thing I was most impressed about with Austin was his all-around play, said coach Anthony Furman. It wasnt just scoring. He did a little bit of everything. Whatever we asked him to do, he did, and did it without consequence.
Andrew Apel Buffalo Grove
Apel became a starter near the end of his sophomore year and continued to exceed expectations as a junior, averaging 13.1 points. One of the most physical players in the area, Apel also averaged 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 steals. He guarded all five spots on the floor and that gave us a lot of flexibility as a team, said coach Ryan OConnor. We could go small or we could go big because of his defensive versatility. It made us very adaptable in a lot of situations.
Ore Arogundade St. Viator
Arogundade built on an all-area sophomore season with an even-more impressive junior campaign, averaging 19.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2 steals per game. Already with three Division I offers, Arogundade took his game to another level in the second half of the season with big-time performances in wins over state-ranked Marian Catholic and Benet. Hes a monster in transition and has always been that way, said coach Mike Howland. He can play against any type of defense and is just a really tough matchup for other teams.
Zach Bart Barrington
The Broncos needed plenty of production out of their only true big man and Bart delivered in his first full varsity season. The junior averaged 11.6 points while shooting just under 60 percent from the field. Zach was an inside presence for us all year, said coach Bryan Tucker. He took the pressure off of our perimeter players, creating scoring opportunities for them as defenses were forced to sag in on him.
Allante Bates Maine West
To understand just how much attention Bates commanded, look no further than the Warriors regional semifinal against St. Patrick in which the Shamrocks sole focus was shutting the senior down. Bates shot just under 50 percent from the floor in averaging 12 points. He has an ability to score without running a lot of sets for him and he has an ability to create his own shot, which is so important at the high school level, said coach Erik McNeill.
Sean Benka Fremd
No task was too tall for the 6-foot-5 senior who guarded every position on the floor and also stepped up his game on offense with his ability to get to the basket. Benka averaged 7.7 points and shot 47 percent from the field for the regional finalist Vikings. He can guard a forward or a guard, whoever we ask him to, said coach Bob Widlowski. Hes brought a very competitive attitude for us on a consistent basis and been a very steady part of us this season.
Kyle Bolger Schaumburg
The Mid-Suburban West player of the year capped off a magnificent three-year varsity career by averaging 15.6 points, 2.4 assists and shooting 47 percent from the field, leading the Saxons to their second straight MSL title. The senior point guard and repeat all-area pick always played his best in his teams biggest games and will be remembered for his leadership on and off the floor. Kyle is everything we want a Schaumburg basketball player to be, said coach Matt Walsh. Hes extremely hard-working, coachable and unselfish.
Matt Dolan Rolling Meadows
Dolans emergence was a big reason the Mustangs got hot near the end of the season. The 6-foot-3 junior was dominant at times on both ends of the floor, averaging 12 points and 9 rebounds. We knew he was going to be good, but we didnt realize he was going to be this good this soon, said coach Kevin Katovich. Hes hard to guard because hes so big and strong, but he can also play on the outside.
Mark Falotico St. Viator
After receiving quality minutes as a freshman, Falotico thrived in a starting role as a sophomore, averaging 10.5 points and 3.7 assists. And even more impressive to his coach is the point guard turned the ball over less than twice per game. He does what we need him to do to win each ballgame, said coach Mike Howland. Some games thats distributing and getting people involved, and other games hes got to score 20 for us. He will do whatever it takes that night to help us win.
Bobby Frasco Prospect
Frasco stepped up for the East champs in his first year as a varsity starter. The junior knocked down 53 3-pointers, led the Knights in scoring at 13 per game and also averaged just under 2 blocks and 2 steals per game. The best part of his game is that hes becoming more of a dynamic scorer in that he can get to the rim and hit the outside shot, said coach John Camardella. I know that growth will continue of making his game multi-faceted.
Mike Fuerst Hersey
It isnt common to be proficient in both rebounding and taking charges, but thats exactly what the 6-foot-5 Fuerst was able to do. The junior led the Huskies on the boards (7.2) and set a team record with 38 charges while also contributing on offense at 8.3 points per game. He made it a lot easier for our shooters to get shots and for our drivers to drive, said coach Steve Messer. Positionally, hes as good of a defensive player as Ive ever had.
Riley Glassmann Fremd
There was no easy solution to stopping Glassmann on the offensive end, where he averaged 15.2 points. The 6-foot-4 junior was equally comfortable playing in the post and on the perimeter. And his defensive prowess is an underrated aspect of his game. Weve asked him to score and to defend a wide variety of different players, said coach Bob Widlowski. He provides a difficult matchup on offense for a lot of people because of his size and his basketball intelligence.
Kevin Hammarlund St. Viator
Hammarlund contributed in a variety of ways for the regional champs, averaging 9.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.4 steals. But statistics dont fully explain the seniors impact. The first word that comes to mind with him is winner, said coach Mike Howland. He does whatever it takes for us to win. That means guarding the best player on the other team every single night, taking a big charge and sometimes going out and scoring 20.
Mike Houghton Prospect
Houghton continued a standout senior year that already included all-area honors in football by controlling the middle for the East champs. A bruiser in the paint, the Army football commit averaged 9 points and 6 rebounds while shooting 55 percent. Hes in incredible shape for a guy who plays his position at his size, said coach John Camardella. He did a lot in terms of clogging up the middle, help-side defense and weak-side rebounding.
Omar Lozoya Leyden
Leyden relied on Lozoya to knock down big shots throughout his career, and this year was no different as he averaged 13 points and drained 65 3-pointers. And in his senior year, Lozoyas game expanded beyond just scoring. I was really proud of the development that he made in other aspects of his game, too, said coach Bill Heisler. He rebounded and defended this year better than he ever has.
Jimmy Lundquist Schaumburg
Lundquist was a fixture in the starting lineup for three West crowns and two MSL titles, averaging 9.7 points and 6 rebounds in his second all-area season. The 6-foot-6 senior helped space the floor with his 48 3-pointers. Jimmy has been a rock the last three seasons, said coach Matt Walsh. He anchors our defense, hes our leading rebounder and his ability to shoot the ball really helped our offense.
Chris Macahon Palatine
Perhaps the biggest difference between the 3-win Pirates of 2011-12 and this seasons 17-win team was the sophomores presence running the team. Macahon averaged 10 points, 3.6 points and 3.5 rebounds at point guard. Hes a calming influence out there, said coach Eric Millstone. When the ball is in his hands, were in great shape. Whether its him scoring, running the break or getting us into our half court offense, hes in control of the tempo of the game.
Devin OHara Prospect
OHara never shied away from the big moment and was invaluable in the East-clinching win over Elk Grove and the MSL title game loss to Schaumburg. The senior, who will play quarterback at Western Illinois, averaged 10.2 points and 4.7 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the field. He slowly and steadily has become one of our leaders, said coach John Camardella. His leadership and demeanor is a big part of how we were successful this year. He can do just about everything.
Luke Potnick Buffalo Grove
The Mid-Suburban East player of the year built on his reputation as a high-volume scorer, averaging 21.4 points and sinking 73 3-pointers. And Potnick also did plenty of distributing to the tune of 3.1 assists per game. He understood that the more he gets his teammates involved, the more success we would have, said coach Ryan OConnor. For someone who is so talented in terms of scoring, if youre willing to give the ball up, it makes you even more deadly as a scorer.
Cole Reyes Schaumburg
The North Dakota football signee considered not playing basketball this season to focus on training, but the Saxons were sure glad he did take to the hardwood. Reyes averaged 10.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the MSL champs. He was a lockdown defender for us and usually got the matchup of following the other teams top scoring threat, said coach Matt Walsh. He was a huge scoring threat himself and really attacked the basket well.
Kevin Schimel Conant
As steady as any player all season for the Cougars, Schimels versatility far outweighed any statistical contribution. The 6-foot-4 senior averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds for the regional finalist and held his own defensively matching up with big guys such as Davidson-bound Andrew McAuliffe of Glenbrook North. Hes had a very consistent year on both ends of the floor, said coach Tom McCormack. Hes not the typical center that you would think of, at least in our league. Other centers have trouble keeping up with him.
Roosevelt Smart Palatine
Nearly unguardable with a single defender, Smart averaged 18.3 points and 5.4 rebounds in his second varsity season. The rising sophomore already has several Division I offers and is receiving interest from nearly every Big Ten school. Early in the year, he saw himself as a threat and wanted to do so much that I thought he rushed some things, said coach Eric Millstone. About seven or eight games in, I thought he really settled in and he flat-out dominated games.
Jonny Woolf Leyden
When Woolf was on his game, so too were the Eagles. The seniors versatility in averaging 13.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.7 steals wont be easy to replace. Going forward, were going to miss him more than anyone else because he could really make plays on his own, said coach Bill Heisler. Jonny was really good at creating something out of just a mess.
Brad Zaumseil Barrington
The three-year starter caused opposing coaches plenty of headaches with his ability to dominate a game in a variety of ways. Zaumseil led the Broncos in scoring (17.6), assists (4.2), steals (2.7) and 3-pointers (45) and was the teams second leading rebounder at 5.2 per game. He could hurt teams in so many ways, said coach Bryan Tucker. Im sure everyone game-planned for him and tried to take him out of the equation, but it was just so hard to do.Player School Pos. Yr.Austin Amann Elk Grove G Sr.
Andrew Apel Buffalo Grove F Jr.
Ore Arogundade St. Viator F Jr.
Zach Bart Barrington F Jr.
Allante Bates Maine West G Sr.
Sean Benka Fremd F Sr.
* Kyle Bolger Schaumburg G Sr.
Matt Dolan Rolling Meadows F Jr.
Mark Falotico St. Viator G So.
Bobby Frasco Prospect G Jr.
Mike Fuerst Hersey F Jr.
Riley Glassmann Fremd G Jr.
Kevin Hammarlund St. Viator F Sr.
Mike Houghton Prospect F Sr.
Omar Lozoya Leyden F Sr.
Jimmy Lundquist Schaumburg F Sr.
Chris Macahon Palatine G So.
Devin OHara Prospect F Sr.
Luke Potnick Buffalo Grove G Sr.
Cole Reyes Schaumburg G Sr.
Kevin Schimel Conant C Sr.
Roosevelt Smart Palatine G So.
Jonny Woolf Leyden G Sr.
Brad Zaumseil Barrington G Sr.* Captain
Special mention
Joe Biko (Hoffman Estates, Sr., F), Robert Hudson (Conant, Sr., G), Jack Milas (Rolling Meadows, Sr., G), Kishan Patel (Elk Grove, Sr., G), Jeremy Stephani (Wheeling, Jr., G)
Honorable mention
Ben Carlson (Fremd, Jr., F), Anthony Gonzalez (Leyden, Sr., C), Greg Grana (Palatine, Sr., G), Patrick Martin (St. Viator, Sr., G), DAngelo McBride (Conant, Jr., G), Scott Nelson (Barrington, Sr., G), Tom Kukec (Maine West, Sr., G), Alex Sutrinaitis (Hersey, Sr., G)Selections and profiles by Ryan OGara


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With flags and confetti, Venezuela in the last 14 months launched three new oil tankers that exemplify the socialist nation's ambitions to diversify to Asian markets and give a helping hand to its political allies.
But the tankers from shipyards in Iran, Argentina and China, have never set sail, according to five sources with knowledge of the company's fleet, as well as ship tracking data from Reuters showing the ships sitting where they were built.
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Ship brokers, a source from state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and a shipbuilder offered an array of explanations for the delays - from lack of payment to manufacturing hiccups. But it is clear PDVSA's push to replace and expand its fleet is stumbling.
The new tankers are fruits of deceased President Hugo Chavez's plan to stimulate shipbuilding in Iran, China, Argentina and even Brazil as part of a broad effort to blunt U.S. power.
The three vessels are part of 42 tankers PDVSA ordered starting in 2006 to replace its fleet by the end of 2012. But only five of the tankers have set sail.
The delays mean higher freight costs for the financially-strapped company. An internal report from March seen by Reuters said PDVSA leased 75 tankers. One contract signed this year showed PDVSA was paying $15,000 a day for a tanker, a broker who had seen the document said.
PDVSA's plan was to cut leasing, which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars a year at a time when PDVSA is struggling with falling output and tight cashflow.
Photographs published by Venezuelan embassies and government agencies more than a year ago show PDVSA officials and dignitaries at parties launching the medium-sized Eva Peron Aframax in Argentina and the Carabobo very large crude carrier (VLCC) in China. The Sorocaima was shown draped in ceremonial flags, floating in the water, in pictures by Iran's Mehr news agency.
PDVSA's latest annual report also trumpeted the launches.
"We finished the launch and floating of the Sorocaima...one of the four 113,000 tonnes Aframaxes being built by Iran. We programmed the launching of the Eva Peron for July 12th, 2012," it said.
But the tankers never arrived. A lapse of more than a couple of months to register, test and deliver a ship after it is launched is highly unusual.
"When a vessel is launched to the sea, it is because it is ready," said the president of the Venezuelan merchant marine officers' association, Gustavo Gonzalez. "The delivery normally occurs 2-3 months after the launching."
PDVSA did not comment on the reasons for the lack of deliveries.
Tracking data from Reuters and Marine Traffic, which include information on ship registrations and movements, show the three tankers never left their shipyards. At least two of the vessels have never turned on their satellite beacons.
Gonzalez, of the Venezuelan merchant marine group, said the delays may also stem from the fact that Venezuela gave the jobs to less advanced shipyards that cannot build tankers as fast as modern ones that build them in 3-4 years.
Sebastian Aguilar, spokesman of the Rio Santiago shipyard in Argentina, confirmed delivery has not yet been made.
"The Eva Peron is still at the dockyard. It was launched in July 2012 and is currently in the last stage, getting equipment ready before its final delivery," he said in a written response, without giving reasons for the apparent delay.
Aguilar added that a second Aframax for PDVSA, the Juana Azurduy, will be launched in the second half of 2014.
A PDVSA executive, who was not authorized to speak to the media, said the Argentine shipyard has not delivered the $70 million tanker on time.
Iran's former commerce minister said in July that the Sorocaima, ordered in 2006, was "ready for delivery" at the Sadra dockyard in Bushehr, but did not elaborate.
The PDVSA executive did not explain why the vessel has not yet set sail, but said it was not for lack of payment.
The third tanker that supposedly began operating last year, the Carabobo VLCC, ordered in 2010 from Chinese shipyard Bohai, was not ready when Venezuelan and Chinese officials held a christening event for it in September 2012.
"The Carabobo has not left China. It's not ready for navigation, it's not trading yet," said a former employee of the shipping company that manages the vessel.
He added that the company - CV Shipping, a joint venture of PDVSA and Petrochina based in Singapore - normally meets delivery targets and that there should not be problems because the tanker is being paid for with Venezuelan oil.
The office of the shipbuilder's president said "no comment" and called the construction schedule a "commercial secret."
The Venezuelan embassy in China called the Carabobo event a launch party but the PDVSA executive said it was just a testing exercise for the vessel.
Despite the hold up with the Carabobo, the Bohai shipyard this year did deliver another tanker, the Ayacucho, the first in a batch of four that were ordered. It is the only VLCC that PDVSA operates on long routes to Asia, the former employee said.
Venezuela wants to diversify its export markets to replace the United States as its main customer, but switching to Asian markets brings higher transportation costs.
With only 20 ships of its own and not all of them seaworthy, PDVSA moved on its fleet just a quarter of the 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude it exported last year and 12 percent of the 500,000 bpd of refined products, PDVSA's annual report says.
PDVSA's tight tanker situation has become more acute since 2012 when several fires and an explosion at its refineries damaged more than a dozen storage tanks. That has forced the company to use vessels to store oil.
"PDVSA will pay much more for freight in 2013, not including the misuse of part of its fleet and the inefficiency of some terminals," a tanker broker who trades with PDVSA said. "This implies extra costs for delays and fines."
Venezuelan Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez, who is also head of PDVSA, in March described the new course, when receiving some new tankers from Japan.
"We are en route to managing 40 percent of our exports with our own fleet. The routes to China, Japan and India will become profitable," he said.
But according to the tracking data PDVSA is using most of the new tankers to move oil between local ports because of the poor state of its fleet, which includes eight idled Lakemaxes that once ran to the United States.
The latest runs of four new Japanese built Aframax vessels - the Yare, Tamanaco, Terepaima and Paramaconi - were between Caribbean islands where the company has storage tanks and refineries on the mainland, the tracking data shows.
"We were moored for nine days, waiting for directions because of crowded docks and slowed refineries", a crew member of one of the Japanese built ships told Reuters.
Three other smaller multipurpose vessels, bought second hand by PDVSA's unit Citgo in 2011, were anchored for more than a year while it tried to transfer them to another state firm tasked with importing grains and petrochemicals.
One crew member said that after being moored for so long, the ships had to be repaired before starting operations in 2012.
"They are improvising as usual," he said. (Additional reporting by Juliana Castilla in Buenos Aires and David Stanway in Beijing; Editing by Daniel Wallis, Terry Wade, Peter Henderson and Michael Urquhart)


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Ross Brawn says Mercedes is "half a second" off the pace after finishing third and fourth in the Belgian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton had started on pole position but dropped behind Sebastian Vettel on lap one and then Fernando Alonso later in the race. Nico Rosberg dropped from third to fourth behind Alonso early on too, and Brawn said Mercedes was lacking some pace at Spa which was most evident in the early stages of the race.
"It was about where we thought we might be," Brawn said. "We were hoping we might have picked up a little bit of a better balance … in fact the car didn't look too bad at the end. We're not quite sure why we struggled so much on the first couple of laps as we were sitting ducks. But that's probably where the car was and we're half a second slower than we need to be."
With Hamilton and Rosberg able to hold off Webber late on Brawn said the main encouragement came from another race where the team had no problems with its tyres.
"We didn't have any tyre issues, which was great. On the last stint both drivers were able to push hard when they needed to and defend their position against Webber, so that was OK. We're getting there but it's a moving target and Red Bull are not sitting still."
Brawn added that he was hopeful of a more improved showing in Monza.
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