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As you might have seen in some of the screenshots, I run mplayer against the framebuffer on my Thinkpad, scrunched into a slot that takes up half the available 800 pixels, and usually from within a screen-vs session.
If it's vaguely interesting to you, or if you also want to smush DVD rips against the framebuffer of an 8-year-old laptop, you might be interested in the flags I use to build mplayer. Most of these come from the mplayer-no-gui PKGBUILD in AUR (which has since been purged out, I should mention), although I have adjusted it even further to carve out even less dependencies, and reduce the time it takes to build.
And even if you're not interested at all and you think I'm a hopeless lunatic … well, I get tired of keeping the flags in hnb, so I'm dumping them here.
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --mandir=/usr/man \ --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32 \ --disable-mencoder \ --disable-x11 \ --disable-gl \ --disable-tv-v4l1 \ --disable-tv-v4l2 \ --disable-runtime-cpudetection \ --enable-largefiles \ --disable-gui \ --disable-nas \ --disable-mga \ --disable-smb \ --disable-arts \ --disable-openal \ --disable-sdl \ --disable-aa \ --disable-esd \ --disable-jack \ --enable-fbdev \ --disable-lirc \ --disable-lircc \ --disable-liblzo \ --disable-fribidi \ --disable-libdv \ --disable-musepack \ --disable-speex \ --disable-cdparanoia \ --disable-dvdnav \ --disable-libamr_nb \ --disable-live \ --disable-mad
Insert that into your Pkgfile (for Crux) or your PKGBUILD (for Arch) or just your
./configure command, and it should spit back out a leaner, meaner mplayer. (Please note that this is written for Crux, so it might need a little smacking around to make it work with your distribution. Be prepared to fight for your freedom.)
And so, once again, this blog does the thing it was originally intended for: keeping a record of all the little weird things I do.


text: Hi all,I am trying to find out if I can use the analytical functions to perform the following:I have a table that has two columns---------------------------customer_id | partner_id |---------------------------Customer_id has the unique index.Hence one vendor can have more than one customer.If I need to have the data for the distribution or histogram, I can easily do it with the simple SQL code:select total_customers, count(total_customers) from ( select count(vendor_id) total_customers, partner_id from table_a group by parnter_id_id order by total_customers desc )group by total_customersAnd I will be able to do have the distribution of customers/ per partners.Is that possible to do the same using Oracle analytical functions?Also, I need to know if I need a scale of 5, not 1? e.g. how many partners have 1-5 contacts, 6-10 contacts etc...Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!thanks, alex

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New York Post, July 11, 2009:
When it's finished, Jeter's mansion in Tampa's sleepy Davis Islands community will boast seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two three-car garages, an entertainment room, a billiard room and a memorabilia room.
But the enormity of the project has perturbed the community near downtown Tampa, an area made up of apartments and smaller, modest single-family homes. ...
Jeter bought the three lots and combined them to total 1.26 acres. He's building the 31,000- square-foot, two-story mansion as a place to crash during spring training. ...
The Yankee shortstop also plans to erect a 6-foot fence around the giant shorefront home. Zoning officials are planning a hearing on that for next month.
Tampa ordinances limit the height of the fence to 3 feet. But Jeter wants permission for a 3-foot masonry structure topped by a 3-foot-high wrought-iron fence.
Alan Schwarz, New York Times, July 9, 2009:
As baseball's statistical revolution marches on, the last refuge for the baseball aesthete has been the sport's less quantifiable skills: outfielders' arm strength, base-running efficiency and other you-won't-find-that-in-the-box-score esoterica. But debates over the quickest center fielder or the rangiest shortstop are about to graduate from argument to algorithm.Jack Curry, New York Times:
A new camera and software system in its final testing phases will record the exact speed and location of the ball and every player on the field, allowing the most digitized of sports to be overrun anew by hundreds of innovative statistics that will rate players more accurately, almost certainly affect their compensation and perhaps alter how the game itself is played.
Which shortstops reach the hard-hit grounders up the middle? [Not Jeter -- redsock] Which base runners take the fastest path from first base to third? Which right fielders charge the ball quickest and then throw the ball hardest and most accurately? Although the game will continue to answer to forces like wind, glaring sun and the occasional gnat swarm, a good deal of time-honored guesswork will give way to more definite measurements — continuing the trend of baseball front offices trading some traditional game-watching scouts for video and statistical analysts.
The first baseman loved throwing knuckleballs. That was a problem for Stan Cliburn in his first managing job with the Watertown Pirates in upstate New York in 1988. Almost every day, Cliburn began fielding practice by reminding his first baseman to throw the ball straight.Baseball Fans Delighted By New Between-Innings Fuck-Cams
"I'd catch him throwing that knuckleball around the infield all the time," Cliburn said. "I had to tell him we weren't fooling around."
Tim Wakefield, the frolicking first baseman, tried to entertain teammates before Cliburn marched on the field. but he was perpetually caught fiddling with the pitch. Before long, Cliburn and others learned, Wakefield was not fooling around anymore.
What started as an aimless way to toss a pitch that danced eventually became Wakefield's vocation. He realized that a .189 batting average in his first season at Class A was going to make him an afterthought. By his second season, Wakefield had begun the transformation from a floundering hitter to an apprentice knuckleball pitcher. ...
Attendance may be down, but the fans at last week's [Nationals] game didn't care -- they were too busy enjoying the stadium's new Fuck-Cam.
"We've been really surprised and delighted by the crowd reaction," said Washington Nationals public relations director Janine Perry, who started the Fuck-Cam program that has since been emulated by every other ballpark in the major leagues, except Miller Park in Milwaukee. "Apparently, people who like watching baseball games also really enjoy watching other people have sex. And not just between innings, either. If the action on the screen is still going when the play on the field resumes, they'll still watch. The Fuck-Cam has been quite a phenomenon."


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There's nothing like an unexpected cockroach sighting to turn grown men and women into squealing messes. How did it get in? Does it have an army of cockroach mates back from whence it came (and where is that, exactly)? And let's not even get started on the joys of a full-scale infestation.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely you'll ever be completely rid of cockroaches in your home, and cockroach killers can be toxic to humans and pets as well as insects. So how do you make sure you keep the roaches under control while keeping your household safe?
CHOICE no longer reviews pest control for cockroaches.
On this page:
- Cockroach killer safety
- Which cockroach killers are safest?
- Importance of exclusion zones
- Types of cockroach killers
Cockroach killer safety
Cockroach killers can be poisonous if ingested, and some of their chemicals can accumulate and remain in our bodies for years.
The best way to avoid a child or pet accidentally ingesting cockroach killers is to prevent roaches in the first place: keep your home clean, take out the bins often and store food in sealed containers. If that's not possible or that particular horse has bolted, pick the safest cockroach killer you can.
Which cockroach killers are safest?
The best way of finding out about the toxicity of a cockroach killer is by paying attention to the signal heading at the top of the product label – it gives you a warning as to how poisonous the product is.
- No signal heading means the product is relatively safe to use.
- CAUTION means the product is a low to moderate hazard, and could cause irritation to the skin or eyes.
- POISON is very hazardous and can cause poisoning if it enters the body.
- DANGEROUS POISON means the product is extremely hazardous – just a small amount can cause poisoning or even death if it enters the body.
Importance of exclusion zones
Exclusion zones can be a useful way of keeping children and pets safe from cockroach killers. Since cockroaches like closed, dark spaces, you can target the insecticide in areas that have limited access to babies and pets, such as ground-level cupboards, under the sink, and behind the fridge.
Types of cockroach killers
There are three main types of cockroach killers: surface sprays, baits/traps and knockdown sprays.
Surface sprays
Surface sprays offer preventative, long-term control. Their active ingredients tend to be synthetic pyrethroids, which interfere with the roaches' nerve function, causing paralysis and eventually death. Some also contain an insect growth regulator, which works to inhibit the lifecycle of the roach.
- Surface sprays are best applied to cracks, crevices and gaps, as well as inside rubbish bins, cupboards, drawers and shelves.
- Don't treat surfaces where food is handled, or that are washed regularly, with surface spray.
- If treating food storage areas, ensure food is sealed and removed first, and only replace it once the treatment has dried.
- Always wash hands after use.
Baits and traps
Baits and traps also provide long-term cockroach control, but can be more effective if used with a surface spray. The active ingredient generally used in baits and traps is Indoxacarb, which blocks sodium channels in an insect's nervous system, leading to dehydration and death.
- Place them in corners and along edges where cockroaches travel.
- Don't contaminate baits or traps with surface or knockdown sprays, as this will repel the cockroaches and make the baits/traps ineffective.
Knockdown sprays
Knockdown sprays, which also tend to use synthetic pyrethroids, target individual cockroaches and provide a quick response. They're not all created equal, though, and not all will stop a roach in its tracks – some are more effective on little German cockroaches than the big American dudes.
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Court Imprisons Mob Members for Church Fire Attacks in Indonesia
Indonesia has given 17 men prison sentences of up to five months for burning churches and attacking police officers, Thursday.
The offences were carried out in February when 1,500 Muslim militants attacked and set on fire two churches, as well as ransacking a third in Temanggung, Java.
The mob was furious that a Christian man had not been given the death penalty in a court appearance for insulting Islam.
In the ferocious attack that ensued a police vehicle was set on fire, and police officers were attacked with stones. The mob was fought back using tear gas, however, police were unable to stop the devastating attacks on three local churches.
On Thursday the Semarang district court found 17 Islamic extremists guilty of the violence, with 16 sentenced to five months in prison, and one other given just four months.
The sentences were reduced from the 10 months prosecutors had requested as the defendants were found to have been co-operative throughout the trial process.
According to AFP one of the judges said, "They are legally and convincingly proven guilty in destroying public properties and carrying out assault."
Next week a further nine defendants being charged for the attacks will hear their verdicts.
Tensions between various religious groups in the country have been escalating throughout the year.
In April, Indonesian police foiled an Islamic extremists' plan to bomb a church ahead of Easter celebrations in Serpong, just outside of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
Authorities discovered about 150 kg (3330 pounds) of explosives not far from Christ Cathedral Church. Bombs were found beneath a gas pipeline and in bags near the church entrance. Police were able to safely diffuse the explosives.
The militant cell had planned to detonate the explosives remotely using a mobile phone at 9 a.m. on Good Friday, just when service at the 3,000-seat Catholic church would begin.
Authorities were led to the bombs' location after arresting 19 suspects in alleged connection to a suicide bombing in West Java, and parcel bombs mailed to advocates for religious pluralism.
Wesley Ernst contributed to this article


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The anonymous author or authors of the story of the Deluge wrote their account on stone tablets in the ancient palace of Ninevah which were first uncovered by excavators in the mid-19th century.


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2010-06-30No Impunity for Crimes Committed in Georgia
On June 22-24 delegation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court conducted a visit in Georgia. The main purpose of the visit was to gather additional information from the Georgian authorities on the on-going national investigation into crimes allegedly committed in the context of the August 2008 armed conflict in South Ossetia, Georgia.
2010-06-30Georgia VS International Obligations?
According to the draft-amendments to the general administrative code, the state will have right to keep the information about the cases discussed at international courts and courts of foreign states in secret. The prohibition will work for the European Court of Human Rights and Hague Tribunal. Political party of Irakli Alasania "Our Georgia – Free Democrats" speaks about violation of the European Convection on Human Rights. What are the arguments of the project authors?
2010-06-29Presa.ge Requests Information about Giorgi Barateli from the Supreme Court
The presa.ge filed cassation suit on June 29 and now they will wait for the decision of the Supreme Court – to leave the verdict of the Appeal Court of May 11 in force or to abolish the verdict and order the penitentiary department to release information where Giorgi Barateli serves his term for the murder of Academician Guram Sharadze. Barateli is sentenced to 27-year-imprisonment.
2010-06-29A Man Gone for Bread Returned Home Three Years Later
Member of the Ossetian Association in Georgia Giorgi Khetaguri disappeared for three years. He was detained on October 29, 2006 but the law enforcement bodies did not inform anybody about it. The society received complete information only after Giorgi Khetaguri served the complete sentence. Khetaguri, convicted for the purchase and usage of narcotics, said that he was sent to prison on political grounds. The law enforcement officers wanted to compel him to be their informer on the Ossetian side.
2010-06-21The Human Rights Center Blames Gldani Prison # 8 Administration in Physical Assault of Prisoner
2010-06-18Attorney Requests to Place Vakhtang Maisaia In Isolated Cell
Attorney of Vakhtang Maisaia – military expert accused in espionage – Natia Korkotadze reported to the journalists at the press-conference on June 18 that her client has still been under physical and moral oppression. On June 6, Vakhtang Maisaia was beaten by his cell-mate Paladi Birkaia after what the military expert was blamed in the incident and he was placed in the punishment cell for ten days. Prison administration put Paladi Birkaia in the punishment cell only for three days.
2010-06-16The Human Rights Center Will Appeal to Strasbourg for Breached Property Rights
On June 15, the Human Rights Center gave a conference about one more fact of the breached private property. The case was about the owner of the "Farmakon 11" Nodar Begiashvili who was fined with 301472, 95 GEL.
2010-06-14More Appeals Sent to Strasbourg from Georgia
More and more appeals are sent to the European Court of Human Rights from Georgia year by year. Particularly a large number of appeals were sent in 2008-2009. The Human Rights Center assists people to protect their rights at the European Court of Human Rights for free.
2010-06-14Vladimer Vakhania's Sister Asked Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Assist Them in The Release of her Brother
2010-06-14"Nobody Has Right to Treat Us Like Slaves," Workers Arrested Because of Strike
Protest demonstration of the workers of Kutaisi Metallurgic Factory ended with the detention of 7 people last week. The strikers protested against the poor conditions in the enterprise and against salary arrears; they refused to enter the factory and to continue working.
2010-06-14Attorneys Cannot Meet Their Clients in New Prison
We wrote about the opening ceremony of the new prison # 1 in Rustavi several days ago. According to the plan, the prison was to be opened in 7 months, but the ceremony took place on June 1 under PR-Ceremony of the National Movement and by participation of the president Saakashvili.
2010-06-10"Nationalist" Judges in Protection of Fraud
Tbilisi Appeal Court decided on the arguments about the results of the polling station in Variani village, Gori district in favor of the election administration. More precisely, they did not change the judgment of the judge of the Gori district court and former district prosecutor Nikoloz Marsagishvili. The court was discussing the suit of the observer of the Human Rights Center. In fact, within the limited 4 days, the court demanded the observer to preserve all procedures which are necessary for huge cases prolonged for many years. Instead, they did not envisage the violations which were observed during the counting of votes at the PS.
2010-06-09Georgian and Spanish Law Enforcement Officials Lobbed Interests of Narcotraffic and Kalashov
2010-06-07Spanish Police Arrested Shakro Kalashov
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Well done to all those Reg readers who donated cash to the campaign to release Iranian teenager Nazanin Fatehi, who secured her freedom on Wednesday.
Fatehi was in January 2006 "sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005".
A retrial spared her the rope, but she remained in prison until supporters could raise 400m Rials (approx $43,000) bail.
Well, thanks to an extensive web and press campaign, the Help Nazanin site collected "$31,000 USD in online donations, $1,000 in cheques and $1,000 in Iran". Member of Canadian Parliament Belinda Stronach generously covered the rest of the amount, and Fatehi is now back with her family.
Help Nazanin has an update here, complete with heartwarming pictures. All those who donated can award themselves a well-deserved pint. ®


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Kingston has now launched their HyperX triple channel kits for the Core i7/X58 platform. 3GB kits will be available first, with their 6GB counterparts following shortly after. Speeds range from 1375MHz to 2000MHz with the new memory. The RAM provides full Intel XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) support, and conforms to Intel's 1.65 volt recommendation for the Core i7 platform.
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Smithsonian Exhibit in Downtown MoscowName: Smithsonian Exhibit in Downtown MoscowDate: August 31, 2019Event Description:The Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street, in cooperation with the Idaho Humanities Council and the Latah County Historical Society, presents "Crossroads: Change in Rural America." The exhibition examining the evolving landscape of rural America opens at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce office at 411 S. Main St. on Friday, August 23. "Crossroads" will be on view through October 4.
Moscow and the surrounding community have been expressly chosen by the Idaho Humanities Council to host "Crossroads" as part of the Museum on Main Street program - a national/state/local partnership to bring exhibitions and programs to rural cultural organizations. The exhibition will tour six communities in Idaho from August 2019 through June 2020.
"Crossroads" explores how rural American communities changed in the 20th century. From sea to shining sea, the vast majority of the United States landscape remains rural with only 3.5% of the landmass considered urban. Since 1900, the percentage of Americans living in rural areas dropped from 60% to 17%. The exhibition looks at that remarkable societal change and how rural Americans responded.
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Americans have relied on rural crossroads for generations. These places where people gather to exchange goods, services, and culture and to engage in political and community discussions are an important part of our cultural fabric. Despite the massive economic and demographic impacts brought on by these changes, America's small towns continue to creatively focus on new opportunities for growth and development.
"'Crossroads' explores themes that are incredibly relevant to the lives of folks in Latah County, including the ways that land impacts personal identity, how change is constantly reshaping our communities, and how towns in our region have sustained themselves and reimagined their futures over time," said Latah County Historical Society Executive Director Dulce Kersting-Lark. "We want to convene conversations about what makes our community unique and are developing local exhibitions and public programs to compliment this Smithsonian exhibit." Details about companion programs are forthcoming.
Designed for small-town museums, libraries, and cultural organizations, "Crossroads" will serve as a community meeting place for conversations about how rural America has changed. With the support and guidance of the Idaho Humanities Council, Latah County Historical Society will develop complementary exhibits, host public programs, and facilitate educational initiatives to enhance people's understanding of their own history, the joys and challenges of rural living, how change has impacted the communities of Latah County, and prompt discussions of goals for the future.
The exhibition is part of Museum of Main Street, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils across the nation, and local host institutions. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the U.S. Congress, including Senators Mike Crapo and James E. Risch, and Representative Russ Fulcher.
SITES has been sharing the wealth of Smithsonian Institution collections and research programs with millions of people outside Washington, D.C., for more than 65 years. SITES connects Americans to their shared cultural heritage through a wide range of exhibitions about art, science and history, which are shown wherever people live, work and play.


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Northern Delights
The talented Emma Fexeus from emmas design blogg has been working tirelessly on a new book soon to be released next month. Here are a couple preview pages from the book which you can soon order here.
Great work dear Emma!
A bit about the book:
If the goal were to build a house in which everyone would like to live, the architect would likely be Italian, the engineer maybe German, the gardener probably British, and the craftspeople either Swiss or Japanese. The interior designer of that house, though, should—beyond any doubt—be from Scandinavia.
Hardly any other interior or product design is so timeless, so functional, so aesthetic, and of such high quality as that of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Throughout the years, countless pieces of furniture, objects, and buildings from Scandinavia have become icons of international design and architecture. A current generation of designers from these countries is consciously building upon local sustainable design traditions and further developing them in a way that is consistent, intelligent, and reflects an unerring sense of style.
In Northern Delights, design classics meet young talents, individual products meet skillfully staged living spaces. The book's stunning selection of work reveals what makes Scandinavian design so exceptional. The included examples show how the grains of different woods, the clarity of colored glass, the cheery colors of fabrics and patterns, and the overall quality of craftsmanship contribute to creating simple, inviting, and very comfortable living spaces.
Northern Delights offers inspiration to designers, architects, and individuals in equal measure. In a Scandinavian dwelling, everyone feels at home.
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So nice, I think I am going to order it. I am not a designer or architect, but a individual who just loves beautiful things!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the share. Love Emma's style.
Sweet greet, Martine.
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How very beautiful! I love her blog and I'm certain her book will be nothing less fabulous!ReplyDelete
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Hi! My name is Maggie. I've been working on my paternal grandmother's family history for a few months now. If I have my information correct, her grandmother was Margaret Kelley Casey, daughter of Dennis Kelley and Catherine McNamara. My best estimate says they came to America around 1850, with 2 children. I believe they lived in Glendale, Ohio or Springfield, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. I think they had a rather large family, but after 1880 I can find no trace of them as a family unit.There are a lot of Kelleys out there, and if anyone is familiar with this branch, please contact me:)
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Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Friday wrote to President Clinton to raise the issue of ongoing violations of the Coptic Christian community's religious freedom rights. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrives in the United States on a state visit today. The text of the letter follows:
March 24, 2000
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States Of America
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Re: Treatment of Coptic Christians by Egyptian Government
Dear Mr. President,
Next week President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will return to the United States on a state visit. On behalf of the U.S. Commission On International Religious Freedom, I urge you to raise with him his government's ongoing violations of certain religious freedom rights of the Coptic Christian community, an issue raised by the Commission in our letter dated June 24, 1999, written to you on the eve of President Mubarak's last visit to Washington.
We are particularly concerned about the Egyptian government's response to repeated violence against Copts in the village of Al-Kosheh, 300 miles south of Cairo, in Sohag governate. Local police, in the course of investigating the murder of two Copts, arrested and tortured or abused hundreds of Copts from the village.
Not surprisingly, this cycle of violence against the largest religious minority in Egypt recently reignited in the same village of Al-Kosheh. On January 1-3, 2000, crowds of Muslims attacked their Coptic neighbors in their homes, shops and fields, killing 21 Copts and firebombing homes and businesses. One Muslim was also killed. Local police reportedly withdrew from the scene immediately prior to the attack.
The Egyptian government has offered to provide token compensation to the victims in Al-Kosheh. However, the Commission fears that local prosecutors will again resort to blaming the victims and that justice will once again languish. Our Government's reiteration to Mr. Mubarak that promotion of religious freedom is critical to Egyptian-American relations can be a step toward mitigating that possibility.
Egypt remains a home in which six million members of the Coptic Orthodox Church experience serious and pervasive religious discrimination. According to the State Department's most recent Human Rights Report released February 25, Christians who proselytize are subject to arrest. Permits to build Christian churches can only be issued by President Mubarak, and obtaining permits to repair churches can be difficult and delayed interminably. Yet mosques and the salaries of their imams are paid for out of public funds.Therefore, we hope and urge that President's Mubarak's visit provides an occasion for a serious discussion of religious freedom in Egypt.
Rabbi David Saperstein
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments, and to give independent policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and the Congress.
Rabbi David Saperstein, Chair
- Dean Michael K. Young, Vice Chair Hon. Elliott AbramsLaila Al-Marayati, M.D.Hon. John R. BoltonFiruz KazemzadehArchbishop Theodore E. McCarrickNina SheaJustice Charles Z. SmithAmbassador Robert Seiple,Ex-Officio Steven T. McFarland, Executive Director


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The latest entry in an ongoing series devoted to magazines of the past.
I discovered Tower Records back in 1980 when I dropped by their store on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood after auditioning for a guest role as a redneck trucker on The Dukes Of Hazzard. Actually, I visiting an older brother who had moved to California. I was amazed by Tower's selection of Hollies' import albums, and bought a copy of Butterfly. As an avid collector of pop culture publications, I was thrilled to find a wide selection of free papers, including the L.A. Reader and L.A. Weekly.
I also grabbed a copy of New Vinyl Times, which according to a diagram on the back cover, was a "Free Record Review Magazine combined with a Special Jukebox (at your record store)." The idea was to use the magazine's reviews to learn about various artists. The writing was purely hype; I've glanced through the various album profiles, which were listed alphabetically from Joan Armatrading's How Cruel to Warren Zevon's Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School, and none of them warn against wasting your money on a particular slab of vinyl.
Among the albums listed were Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Heart's Bebe Le Strange, Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door, The Buzzcocks' A Different Kind Of Tension, The Clash's London Calling, Squeeze's Argybargy, Pink Floyd's The Wall, and debut releases from The Undertones, The Romantics, and Madness. There were uncredited feature stories on reggae music and The B-52's and a cool center spread showing over 70 band photos or logos. The inside front cover was a full page ad for The Specials and The Selector, and the inside back cover was a full page ad for Gil Scott Heron. So basically, New Vinyl Times was a 12-page promo packet, but it looked cool, which is why I still have it in my collection.
Some years later, I would have a Tower Records in my own back yard, when I lived in Lincoln Park, just around the corner from their location on Clark Street. I went there at least twice a week to browse through CDs, magazines, and action figures. I saw Material Issue, Ivy, Lime Credo, and Sam Phillips perform live there, as well as several other acts. Even though I've long since moved to the suburbs, I was heartbroken to see that Tower Records close down.


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Cyrille Fournier
Assigned to the prime crew for the 105-day Mars500 study
Age: 40
Nationality: French
Resides in: Paris, France
Current employment:
Commercial airline pilot for Air France, currently Captain on the Airbus A320.
1993-96 – Diplôme d'ingénieur Material Sciences and Technologies at the Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Montpellier (ISIM)
1987-90 – DEUG A in Physics and Mathematics from the Université Paris Sud.
A commercial airline pilot with Air France since April 1998. Fournier started as First Officer on the Airbus A320, moving to the Airbus A340 in May 2001. He moved up to the rank of Captain on the Airbus A320 in April 2006.
Since April 2008, Fournier is also a mentor on the Air France course 'Taming the aircraft' which aims to help people with a stress-associated with a fear of flying.
Fournier also has work experience as a product engineer for surface finishing technologies company Walther Trowal.
Field hockey, jogging, squash, skiing, art, photography, travelling.


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Six Baker County residents were recently cited for more than 30 wildlife law violations by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers.
Trenton Lee, Forester Stokes, Joseph Bruce Johnson, Dustin Rhoden, Brian Harris and a 17-year-old juvenile, all from Baxter, and David Henry Jones, of Callahan, were charged with a multitude of violations for the illegal take of deer and alligators as well as several hunting license violations.
FWC officers in Baker County had received several complaints of illegal hunting activity in a remote part of the county.
"After following leads and gathering information, we were able to ascertain where the illegal hunting was happening and who was involved," said FWC K-9 Officer Bret Gill, who put together the case.
On Nov. 2, six FWC officers, along with the Baker County Sheriff's Office, headed out to execute the search warrant they had obtained for a particular residence.
"On the way to serve the warrant, Officer Hoyle saw four of our subjects being dropped off on a dirt road. The four men walked into John M. Bethea State Forest, which is part of the Osceola Wildlife Management Area," Gill said. "However, the area wasn't open for hunting on Nov. 2."
The woman driving the truck drove away. Hoyle stopped the vehicle once it was out of sight of the four men and escorted it to the residence, where the other officers were executing the warrant.
The Department of Corrections K-9 team was contacted to help locate the four men, but before they could arrive, Hoyle heard someone say, "Come get us" from a radio under the truck's seat. Hoyle then had the driver take him back to pick up the subjects.
"When the men saw the truck, they came running out of the woods, dragging two bucks," said Gill. "They were very surprised to see Officer Hoyle step out of the truck."
In total, six people have been charged with approximately 30 different wildlife law violations; nine illegally taken deer were seized, including a large buck in velvet that was confined to a small island during the Tropical Storm Debbie flood; and four guns were seized.
The violations for each person were:
- Trenton Stokes: two counts of taking deer out of season, one count of taking deer at night, one count of illegal method, two counts possession of illegally taken deer.
- Joseph Bruce Johnson: one count of taking deer out of season, two of hunting license violations.
- David Henry Jones: two counts deer out of season, two counts illegal method, two hunting license violations.
- Dustin Rhoden: two counts illegal possession
- Brian Harris: one count illegal possession of alligator, one count possession of less than 20 grams of cannabis.
- 17-year-old juvenile: five counts taking/attempting to take deer out of season, three counts taking/attempting to take deer by illegal method, two counts illegal possession, one count baiting in WMA, two hunting license infractions, three warnings for illegal WMA access.


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My photography teacher told me about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards which is basically a big art/writing contest, and suggested I enter some of my work in it. This week, with his help, I put together a senior portfolio which consists of eight images on a disk, an Artist's Statement, and some forms.
So if anyones interested in seeing my portfolio you can go to this link and check it out:
I'm pretty excited :] I dont know how its gonna go and I've never entered a real contest like this before so even if nothing happens, I'm sure it'll be a cool experience.
Also, my goal is to post a photo at least once a week, since I've been slacking, haha. Then I'll work up from there.


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Bellator 65 Results & Play-by-Play
Sherdog.com reports from the Boardwalk Hall Ballroom in Atlantic City, N.J., at approximately 6:10 p.m. ET with play-by-play and live results of Bellator 65, which is headlined by the Bellator bantamweight title bout between champion Zach Makovsky and challenger Eduardo Dantas.
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Mikhail Malyutin vs. E.J. Brooks
Round 1
Brooks opens the proceedings by pawing with his right and follows with a couple of kicks. Brooks connects with another inside leg kick and ducks down for a half-hearted double-leg attempt. He changes that and works the clinch game, but Maluytin breaks free none the worse for wear. Brooks throws another high leg kick and Malyutin still doesn't seem ready to go yet. Brooks paws with a right again, and this time Malyutin counters with a shot to the body. Brooks explodes for another double-leg attempt and puts Maluytin up against the cage. After about 30 seconds struggling for the takedown, Brooks finally puts Malyutin on the mat and looks to take his back. Malyutin grabs his wrist to prevent Brooks from doing that though and manages to stand the fight back up. Both fighters are still working from the clinch until Brooks breaks away from the Russian. Brooks connects with another strong kick to the body as the relatively uneventful round comes to a close.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Round 2
Brooks opens the second with a slick duck-under single-leg takedown attempt. Malyutin is hopping around trying to avoid the takedown but Brooks lifts him up for the slam and goes to work from half guard. Brooks never establishes position though allowing Malyutin to stand up and hit a double-leg of his own to take the former Missouri wrestler down. Brooks immediately gets back up though and the fight is back on its feet. Brooks goes back to where his bread is buttered with another double-leg attempt putting Malyutin up against the fence but it devolves into working from the clinch and eventually Brooks breaking away and bringing the action back to the center of the cage. Brooks reloads with another takedown attempt and this time is successful taking Malyutin to the mat and taking his back. Malyutin tries to roll through to get away from Brooks but he quickly turns to his back to avoid giving up bad position. As the round ends Malyutin tries to stand up but runs into a Brooks guillotine attempt that goes for naught.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Brooks
Keith Mills
Brooks got to show off his
strength against Malyutin.
Malyutin throws a right to start the round with little effect. Brooks closes the distance on Malyutin and works from the clinch where Malyutin tried to work a single leg of his own. Brooks countered with a delightfully awkward gutwrench slam attempt that went no where. In the scramble off that Brooks finds himself taking the Russian's back again and Malyutin turns to his back. Brooks moves to side guard on Malyutin and works a kimura attempt that goes nowhere then transitions to mount off that. Malyutin escapes through Brooks' legs and the resulting scramble sees both fighters working on their feet with about 90 seconds left in the round. Malyutin looks spent but keeps trying to close the distance on Brooks. The wrestler responds in kind with push kicks and quick sneaky shots from in close until the bell.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Brooks (30-27 Brooks)
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Brooks (30-27 Brooks)
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Brooks (30-27 Brooks)
Official result: Judges Eric Colon and Dave Tirelli have the bout 30-27, while Michael Depasquale sees it 30-26, for the winner by unanimous decision, E.J. Brooks.
Lyman Good vs. LeVon Maynard
Round 1
Good and Maynard meet in the center of the cage. The former Bellator champion immediately lands a short right to the face of Maynard, knocking him to the ground against the cage. Maynard is dazed as Good pounces into half guard and lands five big punches on his opponent before referee Kevin Mullhall can dive in to stop the bout. The official time is a mere 13 seconds.
Ailton Barbosa vs. Kris McCray
Round 1
The fighters touch gloves and McCray comes with a harmless low kick. He ducks under a Barbosa left and clinches up with the American Top Team welterweight. He puts Barbosa up against the cage as both fighters seem to work simultaneous knees. McCray finally gets the better of the clinch battle and scores the takedown working from side guard. With 90 seconds gone in the round, Barbosa uses the cage to get full guard back on McCray as the TUF veteran works short elbows and rights from there. Barbosa quickly opens up his guard and looks for a couple of submission attempts but to no avail on McCray. The resulting scramble sees McCray fighting off another submission and winds up back in Barbosa's full guard with 75 seconds left in the round. McCray postures up to create some distance and lands with a couple of shots to Barbosa's body. With 30 seconds left in the round, Barbosa opens his guard up again looking for another submission but nothing comes from it. The round ends with McCray on top.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 McCray
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 McCray
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 McCray
Round 2
Barbosa throws a sloppy kick to start and McCray makes him pay for it. He grabs the leg and throws Barbosa down and goes to work from Barbosa's open guard. Barbosa closes his guard back up but less than a minute into the round the ATT welterweight is back in the same place he ended the last round. McCray is scoring with some small shots but Barbosa is keeping him close and forces the standup from referee Kevin Mulhall. On the restart, Barbosa connects with a couple of strong punches, but McCray closes the distance again and takes Barbosa down with less than three minutes in the round. The action slows to a lull again and Mulhall again restarts the action on the feet where. McCray connects again, but as he comes in to close the distance on Barbosa again he eats some heavy leather from the Brazilian. It allows Barbosa the opportunity to take McCray's back in the ensuing scramble and go to work on a rear-naked choke with less than a minute left in the round. McCray works to turn into Barbosa which hinders his attempts at the submission. McCray successfully turns into Barbosa to end the round.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Barbosa
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Barbosa
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Barbosa
Round 3
K. Mills
McCray battled back from
adversity against Barbosa.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 McCray (29-28 McCray)
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 McCray (29-28 McCray)
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 McCray (29-28 McCray)
Official result: Judge Sue Sanidad sees it 29-28 for Kris McCray, while Eric Colon reckons it 29-28 for Ailton Barbosa. Decisive judge John Bilyk has it 29-28 for the winner by split decision, Kris McCray.
Lester Caslow vs. Scott Heckman
Round 1
K. Mills
Heckman choked Caslow out.
Bellator Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Galvao vs. Ed West
Round 1
West comes out kicking, landing side kicks, low kicks, then a head kick. Galvao has had enough, ducks under, elevates West and slams him. West locks up a nice guillotine on the way down, but Galvao tripods up, pounds to the body, and escapes. West snakes up the fence, but Galvao trips him and instantly dives on his back, sinking his hooks. West shakes him off but is eating leather almost immediately. West tries to respond with a jumping kick, but Galvao clocks him out of midair with a right overhand. The Brazilian is tenacious in the early going, diving on West and following up with ground and pound. West upkicks, but Galvao shucks his legs by. He gets side mount briefly, but West regains half guard. Galvao threatens with a guillotine set up, but the Arizonan escapes. West gets up the fence and they clinch, trading knees to the body. Left head kick by West is blocked. Galvao tries to return with a flying knee that whizzes wide. West continues to kick, but Galvao tries to wing hooks right through them, looking to counter. Right body kick from West smacks loud. Wild winging before the bell that sees Galvao crack West with left hooks, and West land a hard knee. Fun action to close the round.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Round 2
West explores lateral movement with quick jabs and kicks again. Just as happened in the first, "Loro" tires of his opponent's tactics, and ragdolls him to the mat while West grabs a guillotine. Galvao tries to pass guard, but West stands back up himself, and they clinch along the fence. Galvao tries an outside trip, but West partially blocks it. They jockey for position fruitlessly, and Galvao breaks the clinch with a knee. Spinning back fist by West whizzes high. Galvao now moving forward, looking to land punches, but eats a right roundhouse kick to the head. Unfazed, the Brazilian returns with a glancing flying knee, forcing West to clinch. West stomps Galvao's feet before breaking. West looks to resume his kicking offense with 90 seconds to go in the round, but Galvao clunks him with an overhand right. West's kicks are now being blocked, while Galvao's punches are going wide. Galvao scores a low kick and West switches to southpaw for a second, but nothing comes of it before the bell.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Galvao
Round 3
K. Mills
Galvao was aggressive and
dominant on the ground.
Two wild hooks for Galvao glance, then he knocks West down with an overhand right when West tries to kick. Hammerfists from Galvao come down again. West again pushes away from butterfly guard and tries a back somersault, but Galvao gets his waist and controls him again. West turns around and gets an underhook as both men clinch along the fence. West throws some short hammerfists to the thigh of his opponent and misses a right hand on the break. Galvao wings a right hand at the bell that just touches West.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Galvao (30-27 Galvao)
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Galvao (30-27 Galvao)
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Galvao (30-27 Galvao)
Official result: All three judges -- Eric Colon, Sue Sanidad and Dave Tirelli -- all see the bout 30-27 for the winner by unanimous decision, Marcos Galvao.
Bellator Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Vila vs. Luis
Alberto Nogueira
Round 1
Vila immediately throws a high kick which is blocked. Nogueira circles away and the two size each other up for a moment. The Cuban throws a looping left hook which misses. Another hook comes up short for Vila and Nogueira counters with a volley; Vila blocks them. Another high kick from Vila is blocked by his foe. Noguiera continues to circle and Vila pushes forward with another big hook that lands this time. Vila dives under for a single but is rebuffed by his opponent. Another attempt and the Brazillian lands two short punches to the head of Vila in retort. Nogueira now pushes forward and lands consecutive lefts and rights and then lunges forward with a flying knee which is blocked. Vila dives for another takedown but is stuffed. Vila comes forward with a lead jab followed by a right hand which misses. Nogueira seems content to counter as Vila dives forward for a punch but Nogueira slickly dives under his punch and secures back control. Vila stands up but Nogueira still has control of his body. The round ends with Nogueira hanging on to Vila's back.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Nogueira
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Nogueira
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Nogueira
Round 2
The two fighters touch gloves and Nogueira continues to circle away like he did in the previous round. Vila maintains his stalking approach and throws a head kick which is blocked. Nogueira begins feinting and pushing forward towards Vila. A big left hook is blocked by Vila and he counters with a right of his own. Vila digs into a right straight but misses and loses his balance. Vila then dives for a takedown but is quickly rebuffed. While moving away Vila lands a big hook to the face of his foe. Driving again from a double leg, Nogueira manages to stand up but Vila drives him again against the fence and pulls his legs out from under him. The Brazilian continues to attempt to wall-walk and stands up. The two fighters break and return to the center of the cage. Vila lands a quick jab to the face. Another quick jab and Nogueira is now stalking Vila to the cage. A big right is countered by Nogueira and knocks Vila off balance. Vila comes back at him with a takedown but they break apart. Vila throws a right kick and drops for a single. The two are at a stalemate against the cage as the round ends.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Vila
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Vila
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Nogueira
Round 3
K. Mills
Nogueira asserted himself standing.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Nogueira (29-28 Nogueira)
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Nogueira (29-28 Nogueira)
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Nogueira (30-27 Nogueira)
Official result: All three judges -- Eric Colon, Sue Sanidad and Dave Tirelli -- all see the bout 29-28 for the winner by unanimous decision, Luis Nogueira.
Bellator Season 6 Featherweight Tournament Semifinal
Straus vs. Mike
Round 1
Straus almost instantly lands a left cross that flash knocks Corey down. He gets back to his feet and recovers and Straus circles away. Straus puts Corey onto the fence, and they take turns putting the other onto the cage, landing short punches and knees to the body. They separate and Corey takes the center, walking Straus down. Straus now comes forward and drops an inside low kick in. He throws a one-two-head kick, then explodes into a double-leg. Corey stuffs it along the cage and tries to hit a switch by reaching between Straus' legs. Straus doesn't allow it, and keeps reshooting, driving for the takedown. Corey headlocks and forces a clinch. They separate and neither man can land with punches from distance. Straus glances with a right cross and push kick. A spinning back fist attempt for Corey gets him cracked with a left hook and he clinches. They break before the bell, and Corey glances with a one-two.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Straus
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Straus
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Straus
Round 2
Straus with a push kick and dives for a single but is rebugged. Corey drives for a double of his own and drags Strauss to the mat. He is in side control and lands light punches on Straus and referee Gasper Oliver stands them up. Straus lands a straight right and Corey is bleeding from a cut over his eye. A two-punch combo lands from Straus and Corey throws an upkick to the face. Straus clinches his foe against the cage as the two battle for position. Straus attempts a hip toss but Corey keeps his balance. Straus throws a few tight punches to the face and the two break from the cage. Corey comes forward with a combo and Straus covers up for a moment. The Chicagoan presses Straus against the cage and lands repeated left hands. He maintains an underhook on the right side and pounds the body of Straus. Straus turns him around and the two exchange punches before breaking towards the center of the cage. The two again exchange combinations with Corey getting the better of the exchange. The round ends as Straus attains a waistlock.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Corey
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Corey
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Straus
Round 3
K. Mills
Straus landed the cleaner
harder shots standing.
Straus' mouthguard comes out, and referee Gasper Oliver gives him a moment to get it cleaned. On the restart, the two flurry at one another wildly, and Straus dives for a leg. He can't get the takedown, so he and Corey swing away until the final bell. Fun, competitive fight.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Straus (29-28 Straus)
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Straus (29-28 Straus)
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Straus (30-27 Straus)
Official result: Judges Eric Colon and Michael Depasquale have the bout 29-28, while Dave Tirelli sees it 30-27, for the winner by unanimous decision, Daniel Straus.
Bellator Bantamweight Championship
Makovsky vs. Eduardo
Round 1 Dantas opens up with a straight kick to "Fun Size" and Makovsky counters with a left high kick. The challenger looks to close the distance on Makovsky and lands with a short knee though the champ is unfazed. Dantas throws out his left to paw at Makovsky but comes back with a kick to the body thats thud reverberates throughout the arena. Makovsky follows with a small flurry but little connects and Dantas comes back to put Makovsky on the mat for a moment with another kick to the body. Makovsky comes in with a takedown attempt getting Dantas on the single but Dantas counters with an armbar attempt. Makovsky flips out of it and ends up back in Dantas' guard. But Dantas' guard is an open one and Dantas goes back to work trying to isolate the champ's arm. Makovsky escapes though and postures up to deliver a shot to his own before he stands up allowing Dantas to get back to his feet as well. Ninety seconds left in the round and Dantas connects with a one-two leg kick combination and while Makovsky throws a right of his own. As the round ends, Dantas connects with another high kick but Makovsky counters clinching up with Dantas before breaking back away as the round ends.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Dantas
Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Dantas
Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Dantas
K. Mills
Dantas was sensational in
his title capture.
Makovsky is rushing forward with punches but can't land. He dives in on a single-leg, but Dantas hits a brilliant switch, momentarily taking his back. Makovsky bails to his back and gives up side control. "Dudu" is immediately into knee-on-belly and then into mount. Makovsky tries to go out the back door, but only gets back to half guard. Dantas postures up and pounds, letting Makovsky get full guard back. The Brazilian stands up again to pound, and as "Fun Size" tries to squirm away, Dantas dives onto his back. The champ rolls, but he gives up full mount. This is complete dominance by the Brazilian now, who is sitting on Makovsky's chest with over two minutes to go in the round. Makovsky tries to push off the fence, but Dantas turns him away. Makovsky tries to roll, but he gets caught in a arm-triangle. Makovsky tries to hook his own leg, but Dantas' grip is so strong that Makovsky goes out cold. Makovsky's grip unconsciously breaks, as his body goes limp and referee Keith Peterson rescues him at 3:26 of the second round. Eduardo Dantas is the new Bellator bantamweight champion in remarkable style.
Plinio Cruz vs. Duane Bastress
Round 1
An errant Cruz front kick gives Bastress the opportunity to bullrush the Brazilian and take him down to the mat. The subsequent scramble for position sees Bastress end up on top fending off a single-leg attempt from Cruz and then taking Cruz down himself with a little less than three minutes remaining in the opening round. Working from Cruz's half guard, Bastress is intermittently throwing rights down as Cruz is on his side against the cage. A brief opening allows Cruz to get back to his feet but Bastress comes bulldozing in again clinching with Cruz. With a minute left to go Bastress parlays that clinch into another takedown working from Cruz's full guard coming down with short elbows. Cruz turns over giving Bastress the opportunity to take his back. Looking for some answer Cruz tries turning back into Bastress again but can't find the offense he needs as the round closes.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Bastress Sam Genovese scores the round 10-9 Bastress Lutfi Sariahmed scores the round 10-9 Bastress
K. Mills
Bastress pounded Cruz.
The second round opens with another Bastress bullrush for a double-leg takedown which he eventually secures. Less than a minute into the round, Bastress is working from the half guard of the middleweight from Newark, N.J. Cruz looks to turn into Bastress but an errant knee on the ground forces referee Kevin Mulhall to stop the action and call for the doctor to check on Cruz. After a brief respite, the action restarts on the feet and Bastress almost immediately pins Cruz up against the cage again and forces him back down to the mat. Cruz flails around on the bottom looking for a way out but Bastress is having none of it. A flurry of elbows by Bastress overwhelms Cruz who turns to his side, offering no defense. Kevin Mulhall is forced to intervene at 2:52 of the second round.
Will Martinez Jr. vs. Terrell Hobbs
Round 1
The taller Martinez, from a rigid stance, cracks Hobbs with two quick outside low kicks. Martinez rushes in and Jobbs lands a short right-hand counter. The right hand on a one-two from Hobbs snaps Martinez's head back. Another kick by Martinez and Hobbs just misses with a massive overhand right. Jab-low kick from Martinez lands as Hobbs again swipes, trying to land the right off of Martinez's kicks. Martinez chasing the circling Hobbs and when he gets his back to his fence, he yanks him to the mat. Martinez passes over Hobbs' legs for a moment and gets mount, pummeling his foe with short rights. Hobbs shrimps away but Martinez controls his head and keeps his pinned awkwardly to the cage. Martinez locks up a front headlock and jumps a guillotine, but Hobbs escapes and in the scramble, ends up taking Martinez's back. Wild grappling transition. Hobbs sinks in a rear-naked choke briefly, but then tries to switch off to an armbar. Martinez slips out, and he dives straight on Hobbs' back and Gable grips his way to a nasty rear-naked choke. Hobbs is forced to tap out, ending a tumbleweed-style grappling exchange. The bout comes to a close at 4:12 of the first frame.
Kenny Foster vs. Jay Haas
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Kenny Foster went neck hunting.
Foster catches a Haas high kick and puts him on the mat for it. He doesn't follow Haas to the ground however and the fight goes back to its feet. Haas comes in and connects with a short left-right flurry, but Foster circles away from any threat. Foster misses with a left-right-left combination and Haas counters with a left of his own. Haas with a low kick to Foster's lead leg and Foster counters with a left of his own. The punch freezes Haas and Foster rushes him. The ending is academic from there as Foster throws on a guillotine choke and brings Haas down to the mat with it. The tap comes shortly after and Foster is the winner at 2:51 of the first round.


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The Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic dedicated last night's thrilling overtime win over the Northern Mystics in the ANZ Championship preliminary final to the mother of star shooter Irene van Dyk.
Van Dyk received news early yesterday that her mother, also Irene, had passed away in her hometown of Meyerton, South Africa, following a long battle with cancer.
"While it was devastating for me to hear the news, I was comforted to know Mum passed away peacefully in her sleep and that my sister Janita and brother Harry were with her,'' van Dyk said.
"I knew Mum would have wanted me to carry on with last night's game. She has always been a huge supporter of my netball and I wanted to win last night's game for her.''
Teammates rallied around van Dyk, who slotted the crucial goal in last night's hard-fought match to level the game 44-44 and force the match into extra time. The Magic won 57-48, setting up an exciting final against the Vixens in Melbourne this Sunday, when van Dyk will once again take the court before flying out to South Africa on Monday morning.
"I have to see this through and the family back home are also very supportive,'' said van Dyk, who 35 of her 40 attempts in the match.
Her mother will be buried in her hometown of Meyerton at the end of next week.
Waikato Bay of Plenty chief executive Sheryl Dawson paid tribute to the composure shown by the 40-year-old goal shoot in last night's game.
"Irene, as always, was a consummate professional who put her team before all else despite her immense sadness having lost her Mum,'' Dawson said.
"We are so fortunate to be blessed with such a strong and amazing player and we will be doing everything we can to support Irene in the coming days.''


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The fingerprint reader on Apple Inc's top-end iPhone 5S received an early thumbs up for ease of use from two influential reviewers, helping dispel concerns about the scanning technology which has been notoriously unreliable in other cellphones.
Apple's scanner is seen as a first step toward realizing the full potential for biometrics in personal electronics, heightening security for applications like banking and shopping while doing away with multiple passwords.
"The best part is that it actually works – every single time, in my tests," wrote reviewer David Pogue of the New York Times.
"It's nothing like the balky, infuriating fingerprint-reader efforts of earlier cellphones. It's genuinely awesome; the haters can go jump off a pier."
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg was also enthusiastic, calling it simple and reliable. But he noted that the gadget would inexplicably prompt him for a password when swiping a finger to make purchases, which he blamed on a bug.
"I have come to like it and consider it a step forward, despite a few issues," he said of the overall device.
Re-tooled iOS7 mobile software, a better camera, a more useful voice-activated "Siri" personal digital assistant and a faster processor combined to make the iPhone 5S the best smartphone on the market, he added.
However, he argued that owners of the previous-generation iPhone 5 may not have a compelling reason to buy the latest device unless they specifically wanted the fingerprint reader.
Many industry analysts view the iPhone 5S and the cheaper 5C as being modest improvements on the previous generation, reviving fears that Apple's most innovative days may be behind it. They said the mere fact of a fingerprint scanner was unlikely by itself to make the gadget a sure win in a crowded market.
Apple has embedded the scanner into the iPhone's home button, while other mobile devices usually have it on the back, making it awkward for the user and increasing the number of failed attempts.
Archrival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and fellow South Korean electronics manufacturer LG Electronics Inc have had problems incorporating the technology into finished products.
(Reporting by Edwin Chan and Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Michael Urquhart and Edwina Gibbs)
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Continuous Growth at Grundfos
The pump group Grundfos has a positive sales growth, but exchange rates and strain on the contribution ratio drags down the result. A revised group strategy will create additional growth and higher profit.
First half year of 2014 shows a turnover of 11.1 billion Danish kroner and a growth of eight per cent in domestic currency. This is equivalent to a growth of two per cent in Danish kroner. The result before taxes amounts to 301 million Danish kroner, which is less than the year before. Solidity has increased from 67 per cent to 69 per cent.
"Looking at the global pump market, we have a strong position. At the moment, we experience a positive growth in China of 18 per cent. At the important North American market, we are moving in the right direction with a growth of 12 per cent. But in other countries, things are standing still. This for example applies to certain places in Europe, where the situation in Russia and the Ukraine also affects the result. Put together, we are not satisfied with the result. First of all, our profit is not good enough, says Grundfos new Group President", Mads Nipper.
The half-year results is especially being dragged down by some key currencies that have taken a negative turn compared to first half-year of 2013. This means, that sales, measured in Danish kroner, have increased with only two per cent during last year. Excluding this, growth would amount to eight per cent.
"Furthermore, we experience a strain on our profit. This is caused by a combination of several things, among others pressure on pricing, product mix and geographical differences. We are definitely not satisfied with this, so we need to secure a cost reduction while at the same time having increased focus on the customers throughout the organisation", Mads Nipper underlines.
Since the turn of the year, Grundfos has been working on an analytical process in preparation for a revised group strategy which is to create both a heightened growth and profit. Mads Nipper expects this work to be finished around the turn of the year.
"I am convinced that Grundfos has a huge potential despite the challenges we meet in the market. We have a solid basis with a strong market position and an organisation of dedicated and capable employees. Together we have to be even more focused and determined in our way of prioritizing, in order for us to strengthen our core business the right places with our energy efficient top quality products and unique technologies for the benefit of the customers and the environment", the Group President explains.
Grundfos expectations for the rest of the year are a modest growth in sales and a total result just below the result in 2013.
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(Note to Santa: Please remember to take the toys out of the package and make sure they work before delivering them on Christmas Eve.)
Our tree is up! Underneath the tree my son's Geotrax Christmas train makes its rounds. He received the train last year as a present from Santa. Santa must have forgotten to do a final quality check because he delivered a non-working train - a dud! Those elves need to do a better job making the toys! Luckily my son didn't seem to mind in the least and played with it manually. Oh, to be a innocent young child, glad for all gifts, even non-working ones! Even so, a few weeks later Santa had a new, working train delivered to our home. We're enjoying watching and listening to it chug around our tree this year and hope it continues to work year after year after year.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wordless Wednesday - Circling the Tree
Posted by Brimful Curiosities at 8:00 AM
Labels: Christmas, Christmas gifts, Toys, Transportation, Wordless Wednesday
4 comments:
- Christy Killoran said...
Yikes! How cute that he didn't mind though!
- November 30, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- An Almost Unschooling Mom said...
Oh, a train around the tree! I love that.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very pretty tree! Love the train!
- November 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
I should do this with our Geotrax! I tried to put all blue lights on our tree, but my 5 year old insisted we have all the colors. This is a really sweet pic and a very pretty tree.
- November 30, 2011 at 11:01 PM
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Imagine that you've had a heart attack. Amid the wails of sirens and the flash of red lights, paramedics are rushing to help you. Skilled in the art of CPR, they remove your shirt and prepare to revive you. But much to their surprise—and yours—a sign about your neck reads, "Do not resuscitate."
The real shocker is that, unbeknownst to you, this sign was placed there by the Food and Drug Administration. In April 1993, the FDA blocked testing of the cardiopump, a new cardiopulmonary resuscitation device for heart-attack victims. As a result of FDA policy, thousands of people with heart disease are literally being protected to death.
The cardiopump, manufactured by Ambu International of Denmark, is a modest device. It weighs a mere pound and a half and looks like a modified toilet plunger, with a pliable cup that fits onto the heart-attack victim's chest and a combination hand- grip/pressure gauge instead of the wooden handle. Manual CPR exerts downward pressure on the chest, but the chest has to re- expand naturally. The cardiopump can apply pressure in both directions. Says Dr. Jeffrey Shultz of the University of Minnesota: "It turns the chest into a bellows. It allows you to pull blood back into the heart and air back into the lungs."
Just how effective is the cardiopump? In St. Paul, Minn., where tests were carried out, 54% more patients survived long enough to be admitted to intensive care if they were given cardiopump-assisted CPR, and 35% more survived to be discharged from the hospital. (Because of small sample size, the hospital discharge statistics aren't statistically significant.)
U.S. tests for the cardiopump began in 1992 and continued until April 1993, when FDA barred further use of the pumps. According to FDA spokeswoman Sharon Snider, "This product is considered to be a 'significant risk device,' and informed consent is required for any trials of significant risk devices."
The FDA's view is shared by virtually no one. None of the institutional review boards at the 12 medical institutions where the tests had been carried out called the cardiopump a "significant risk device." More important, the cardiopump is already in use around the world—Austria and France (where it is standard in physician-manned ambulances), England, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia, Japan and Chile, among others. The FDA, in its treatment of the pump, stands alone.
The concepts of "significant risk" and "informed consent" may well be important, but their relevance here is highly questionable. "Significant risk" is meaningless unless you compare the risk of the device with the risk of not using it. The survival statistics of manual CPR are dismal. About one million people have cardiac arrests every year in the U.S., and an estimated 700,000 are given CPR. About 680,000 of these 700,000 do not survive to leave the hospital. If the FDA had jurisdiction over manual CPR, it might well prohibit it on the same grounds.
As for informed consent, keep in mind that these are patients whose hearts have literally stopped beating. "You're talking about a life-or-death situation where our current therapy is nearly hopeless," explains Dr. Joseph P. Ornato, chairman of the American Heart Association's emergency cardiac care committee. "The reality is, there is no reasonable means to get informed consent."
The issue of informed consent for unconscious patients may be a complex question in some cases. This, however, is not one of them. The cardiopump is hardly experimental. In France, the average approval time for a medical device is a year and a half; the cardiopump was approved in March 1993 after just nine weeks. But the FDA has been of little help, aside from vaguely offering to "work with the company" in devising acceptable test procedures. It will take years just to produce studies with enough "informed consent" patients to satisfy the FDA.
The world-wide medical community is somewhat nonplussed by the U.S. government's attitude toward medical technology. The feeling is widespread that the Americans are shooting themselves in the foot by making it so difficult for new drugs and devices to reach the market. As Dr. William Grace of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York put it: "We are a Third World nation when it comes to the development of ... drugs for people with life-threatening diseases."
Keith Lurie, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota who helped develop the cardiopump, estimates that the device will increase one's chances of survival by about 10-50%. That kind of improvement "has not been reported since the first description of manual CPR more than three decades ago." Since 20,000 CPR patients a year survive to leave the hospital, even a 10% increase would mean 2,000 extra lives saved. In the St. Paul trial, the increase was 35%, which extrapolates nationally to 7,000 lives, or roughly 20 a day.
Yet strange as the FDA's actions might seem from a medical standpoint, they are perfectly understandable politically. If the FDA mistakenly approves a device that has adverse side effects, this would result in highly undesirable publicity. On the other hand, if the FDA delays in approving a life-saving device, the people who die are politically invisible. For a regulator, it's easy to err on the side of overcaution, even when the results are deadly.
The irony is that we applaud FDA approvals when we should really be asking why we had to wait so long. In 1987, when FDA approved streptokinase, the first drug that could be intravenously administered to reopen the blocked coronary arteries of heart-attack victims, it was estimated that the drug could have saved 22,000 lives in the two years between the filing of the new drug application and the approval. But these deaths received less media attention than the deaths of five patients last year during a test of the hepatitis B vaccine fialuridine.
Now Congress is considering charging device manufacturers "user fees" of up to $50,000 per new-product application; FDA Commissioner David Kessler calls this the solution to FDA's backlog problem. But backlog isn't the problem. No amount of staff and funding increases can erase the bureaucratic incentive to impose restrictions as illogical as informed consent from patients with no pulse.


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The title is a reference both to Black Hat's suggestion to pirate the audio and the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is some underlying humour: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you can not "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared.
The title is a reference both to Black Hat's suggestion to pirate the audio and the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is some underlying humour: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you can not "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared.
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A note on the site says that [.com| Amazon] sells DRM-free music files.
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Title text: I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.
DRM, that is, "Digital Rights Management," is a recent (to this day) anti-piracy mechanism that is used to prevent unapproved or unintended use of the program. An example would be a requirement to play the game while online (where the servers can validate the game), or again, allowing only a limited amount of installs. The problem is that there are ways that DRM can be restrictive even upon legal situations. (To derivate from the aforementioned examples, someone may simply want to play the game in an area where there is no Internet connection, or again, someone may had exceeded the amount of allowed installs due to installation problems or hardware malfunctions requiring the purchase of new hardware.) In the situation placed in the above comic, one can not, say, transfer the audiobook or song from an iPod to a Blackberry phone, even if the song was only to share between family, or again, to have a backup. For this reason, DRM has gotten another (rather-accurate) name: "Digital Restrictions Management."
Here, Black Hat proposes two paths:
- If you pirate the audio (that is, download them through other sites), you would not only be breaking the law (more specifically, copyright laws), but neither the publisher nor the performer nor the composer get any money from your gain. However, not only you would have gotten the audio for free (or at least at a substantial discount, since you may have to pay a third-party site for access to the pirated audio), but all DRM would have been broken or simply not present (since defeating the DRM is required to acquire the audio in the first place), so you can use the songs in whatever way you would like.
- If you buy the DRM-locked audio, you would be complying with the law, plus the publisher, performer, and composer would get money for their work. However, suppose that your computer got lost, broken or stolen. Or again, you could be switching to an operating system or upgrade to a new computer that does not support iTunes. In this case, you would not be able to access your collection due to the new hardware/software. If you try to recover your collection by breaking the DRM, you would be violating the law, albeit a different one, even if the reason you want to break the DRM is to recover the collection for which you paid, thus therefore legally own.
Since both situations have you end up being a criminal, Black Hat proposes taking the pirate path, which leaves you with a collection of dependable audio for (almost?) free.
Of course, there are at least a couple of alternatives to the situations that Black Hat proposes.
- You can simply re-buy the DRM-locked audio when unfortunate things do happen. That way, you would always be complying with the law. However, not only you would be required to pay multiple times for the same audio you legally own, but there is no guarantee that the audio you want is available the next time you need to make the purchase. In fact, there is always the possibility of the service that provided you with the audio in the first place withdrawing the item you legally bought.
- You can simply avoid buying the audio, but, if you are inclined towards audio plus there is no other legal way to buy the song, this would not be a pleasant solution (especially if you really like the song).
In light of this, Randall proposes a 5th option: demanding DRM-free files.
The title is a reference both to Black Hat's suggestion to pirate the audio and the "Piracy is a Crime" ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called Steal This Book. There is some underlying humour: since xkcd is under a Creative Commons license, you can not "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared.
A note on the site says that Amazon sells DRM-free music files.
- Black Hat: Thinking of buying from audible.com or iTunes?
- Black Hat: Remember, if you pirate something, it's yours for life. You can take it anywhere and it will always work.
- [There is a flowchart whose paths are (You're a Criminal)<-Pirate<-(Buy or Pirate)->Buy->(Things Change)->(You Try to Recover Your Collection)->(You're a Criminal)]
- Black Hat: But if you buy DRM-locked media, and you ever switch operating systems or new technology comes along, your collection could be lost.
- Black Hat: And if you try to keep it, you'll be a criminal (DMCA 1201).
- Black Hat: So remember: if you want a collection you can count on, PIRATE IT.
- Black Hat: Hey, you'll be a criminal either way.
- (If you don't like this, demand DRM-free files)
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I'm not sure how credible Natural News is. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/NaturalNews Then again, I'm not sure how credible RationalWiki is, either. 126.96.36.199 16:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how credible The Internet is. Thokling (talk) 06:43, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- Replacing that NaturalNews link with a link to the same story on The Guardian. --Alex (talk) 14:26, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
"Steal this Comic" refers to the TPB-related "Steal this Film" and not to "Steal this Book" unless I'm very much mistaken. Also, it needs an explanation of what DMCA 1201 is and why it makes "getting your stuff back" illegal (it is, IIRC, the anti-circumvention clause, which says that breaking DRM, even for a legal purpose, is illegal; thus, getting your stuff back, ordinarily a perfectly legal act, is illegal if it involves getting around the DRM). Magic9mushroom (talk) 11:39, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- The title of "Steal this Film" was itself a reference to "Steal this Book." 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I believe the breaking of DRM is necessary in certain cases because the media could be associated with specific accounts/computers/IPs/etc. It is not just about the use of iTunes or any other media manager. flewk (talk) 23:12, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I deleted the "license" crap. When you buy music - on physical media - you do own it. Copyright law prohibits you from doing some things with it - just like how driving laws prohibit you from doing some things with your car - that doesn't mean you don't own it. CDs, tapes, and LPs usually don't even have shrinkwrap "licenses". You only need a license to do legally restricted stuff. IANAL. PS I hate the CAPTCHAs on this site.Tor user @ 220.127.116.11 04:30, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
- Once you have an account for 5 days (I think), you don't have to answer any CAPTCHAs. 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 21:59, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
There's also System of a Down's album titled "Steal This Album" which is more directly related to the topic of the comic, which is music. 188.8.131.52 02:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Black Hat's arms seem too short in the last drawing, or is it just me? 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 21:09, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
I followed directions, yay me220.127.116.11 16:34, 10 December 2019 (UTC)


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A series of phishing scams recently sent Saint Louis University (SLU) scrambling to mop up the mess left when health records of about 3,000 people were exposed and banking details for about 10 employees were changed. The university began discovering the security breach in early August. According to the evidence, school officials said, the initial target of the attack was to glean financial information.
Since then, multiple instances of various phishing emails have been received by university members, but none of them has done the harm that the first one did.
In that case, according to a message posted on the institution's Web site, some employees had provided secure account information in response to a "sophisticated phishing email scam they received on July 25." The subject line of those messages read, "SLU incident where your SLU Net ID may have been compromised" and it appeared to come from a university account. Once recipients clicked on the spam link, the landing page attempted to replicate mySLU, a university portal site for online tools.
The university brought in law enforcement, implemented an investigation, notified the affected employees, and set about securing university accounts.
While direct deposit changes were made, the university noted, no unauthorized financial transactions occurred.
As the investigation proceeded, Saint Louis U also discovered that about 20 university email accounts containing personal health data for about 3,000 people had been accessed as well as about 200 Social Security numbers. Among those affected were people treated at "partner facilities," which required the university to work with those organizations as part of its response.
At no time, the institution insisted, was the university's electronic health record system breached.
Saint Louis U said that although none of the information seems to have been abused by cybercriminals, it was still providing a year of free continuous credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all of those affected by the security breach.
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Nursing home deaths may have been result of suicide pact
WISN 12 News has learned that two deaths inside a Milwaukee nursing home Monday may have been the result of a suicide pact.
Debbie Tyszko, 59, was a resident at Cameo Care Center, 5790 S. 27th St., after suffering from a stroke earlier this year.
Police said that 56-year-old Allen Silva signed in Monday afternoon to visit Tyszko, his girlfriend.
"The next thing I know, they're hauling out a body and then another," said resident Royal Smith, who was sitting outside when police and paramedics arrived.
Investigators said staff members found Tyszko had been shot and killed in her room. They also found Silva dead in the room. Investigators believe he slit his throat after shooting Tyszko.
"It's right out of a Greek tragedy," resident Gil Kaczmarek said. "He killed her and took his own life so they could be together for eternity."
Police said Silva's family spoke of a pact, but that news does not appear to be calming residents fears at the facility.
"They're going to have to tighten security," Smith said. "What are you going to do? We're all in our bed or upstairs in our rooms."
Administrators with Cameo Care Center would not talk to WISN 12 News on the record, but did say that Tyszko was well known to the staff as she had previously worked there before her stroke.
Officials said that adding metal detectors or other safety hardware would not be likely at the center. They said their efforts would be focused on improving community resources to help the mentally ill.
While patients at the senior center struggle to get over what happened, Tyszko's aunt, Geraldine Tyszko, told WISN 12 she is horrified. "If it had to be it had to be, but I said I'm very sorry that she had to go that way," she said.
The victim's aunt said the two hadn't spoken recently, but she did reach out from time to time. "She was very independent and more or less on her own," Geraldine said, adding that Debbie Tyszko had little family left and mostly kept to herself.