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Misinterpreting the genocide in Darfur
Marc Gustafson's op-ed on Aug. 19, "The 'genocide' in Darfur isn't what it seems," is misleading.
His most distorted claim is that activist pressure somehow cost lives in Darfur by diverting US government funding away from humanitarian assistance for displaced Darfuris and toward civilian protection. But even his own numbers show that US appropriations for humanitarian assistance in Darfur increased by more than 20 percent in the time period he references.
Indeed, the US government's annual financial assistance for humanitarian aid in Darfur has been one of the only things that has consistently gone right in the world's reaction to this ongoing crisis, providing funding at or near the targets set by relief organizations.
Save Darfur's efforts to spotlight what was clearly an unmet need for peacekeeping and civilian protection in Darfur did not diminish the allocation for humanitarian aid, both because that's not the way the system works and because that was never the intent.
Quite the opposite, the intent was to push for the creation of a stronger and fully funded peacekeeping force to complement the humanitarian lifeline already in place. And that's exactly what happened – the United States provided additional funds for the struggling undersized African Union peacekeeping force, pushed for the creation of the hybrid United Nations-AU force, and then provided additional funding to help field that larger force. All of these funds were additional to the US's strong financial commitment to funding humanitarian aid in Darfur, not in conflict with that commitment.
Though spending on civilian protection did increase in part because of our advocacy, as Mr. Gustafson notes, it has been necessary.
The UN Security Council authorized the AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in July 2007, because an under-resourced, outgunned AU protection force was on the verge of collapse. The AU force had neither the experience, the infrastructure, nor the stable funding support necessary to run a mission in Darfur. That such a mission was undertaken at all is a testament to just how violent a place Darfur remains, and just how critical civilian protection is to stability in Darfur.
Darfur's recent history is littered with failed cease-fires, and the April 2004 N'Djamena cease-fire agreement is sadly just another example. Were it in fact as successful as Gustafson claims, one wonders why new cease-fires were deemed necessary in subsequent years.
Civilians are not safe; in particular, rape remains endemic. And that lack of security is also a major problem for the humanitarian operations on which 2.7 million displaced Darfuris and another 1.3 million "conflict affected" civilians depend in order to survive.
The government of Sudan, which bears overwhelming (though not sole) responsibility, is certainly unwilling (and at this point probably unable) to provide the necessary security. That leaves it up to the international community, which means that the US needs to play a leading role.
Needless to say, neither Save Darfur nor the US government established the size of UNAMID or drew up its budget; the UN did. It is worth saying, though, that Save Darfur's advocacy efforts have helped convince the US to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in additional bilateral peacekeeping funds over and above the standard US share of the UN peacekeeping budget to help develop and deploy the force.
Gustafson also wades into the unnecessary debate over casualty rates in Darfur. Mortality studies sponsored by the UN, the US government, and independent experts over the years have produced different findings.
Certainty is impossible, in large part because the government of Sudan has barred the type of region-wide epidemiological survey that could provide authoritative information.
Save Darfur uses the most recent UN estimate that as many as 300,000 men, women, and children have died as a result of the conflict in Darfur. But the causes of death are both direct violence and conditions (such as lack of food, water, and shelter) deliberately inflicted upon civilians largely by the government and its proxies.
It is interesting to note that new satellite data available on Google Earth and through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., reveal that there were actually twice as many villages destroyed as previously reported, a great many of them well after the April 2004 cease-fire.
Finally, Gustafson claims that activists exaggerated the situation in Darfur by calling it a genocide in order to expand the movement.
Save Darfur as an organization views what has happened in Darfur as a genocide, and we're hardly alone in that view. Indeed, the fact that the US government itself determined the situation in Darfur to be a genocide and then failed to back up that determination with sufficient actions to end the crisis helped give rise to the Save Darfur movement.
While others have not reached the same conclusion regarding the "genocide" label, there is a broad consensus that the government of Sudan is responsible for crimes against humanity in Darfur. As the UN Commission of Inquiry emphasized, those crimes – a widespread and systematic attack on a civilian population – are no less heinous than genocide.
Alex Meixner,
Senior director of policy and government relations, Save Darfur Coalition
Sweden's response
On Aug. 26 The Christian Science Monitor carried a piece written by Alan Dershowitz, "Sweden's shame over Israeli 'organ theft' nonstory." We would like to clarify the following points:
In regard to the main question, Sweden's position is categorical: Anti-Semitic agitation is not only unacceptable, it is also criminal. It is explicitly forbidden by Swedish law to spread anti-Semitic statements. The crime falls under public prosecution. If there is a question regarding a violation of freedom of the press, however, it is only the chancellor of justice who can bring action. In the parliament there is total support in the stand against all types of anti-Semitic tendencies when such come up for debate.
When the Israeli foreign minister and spokespersons for the Israeli Foreign Ministry demanded that Sweden's government react and condemn the article that accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting Palestinian organs, the matter took on a new dimension. Such proposals from other countries are always denied. Neither the government, individual ministers, nor representatives of Sweden are allowed to create an impression that the government has any control over what is published in the media.
The responsible publisher bears entirely and completely the responsibility for what has been published in the debate. This responsibility can never be taken over by the government. The division of responsibility between the government and the media is a central element in Swedish society and strongly anchored in our Constitution.
This division of responsibility is also the basis for the government not apologizing for, censoring, or condemning individual newspaper articles. As late as 2007, the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution declared that the government must maintain a safe distance from the constitutional laws and freedom of the press. The committee requested the government to keep well within the framework of the Freedom of the Press Act.
It has been reported that the government closed down a website during the debate about the Muhammad caricatures. That information was incorrect. The owner of the website received information about the threats and made his own decision to remove the pictures. The involvement of the minister for foreign affairs was strongly questioned – by the Committee on the Constitution among others – and this contributed to her resignation.
There have also been rumors that Sweden apologized for publishing the Muhammad caricatures in certain newspapers. The only case in which such an apology was extended – a letter from the embassy in Riyadh to the government of Yemen – was criticized by the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution. During the incident involving the so-called Roundabout Dogs a year later, no apologies were extended due to, among other things, the statement by the Committee on the Constitution in 2007.
As for the article in Aftonbladet, that is now being examined by the Swedish chancellor of Justice to see if it has violated the Freedom of the Press Act.
Furthermore, the actions of the government will be reviewed by the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution.
Stig Berglind
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YUMA — If Congress cannot find common ground soon on a farm bill that both funds the food stamp program and sets new agriculture policy, farmers and livestock producers risk losing insurance and drought relief, and milk prices could jump nationwide.
The trouble with the Sept. 30 deadline: Congress has only nine working days together next month.
"The single most important thing is for Congress to take action," said Don Shawcraft, president of the Colorado Farm Bureau. "There is so much up in the air. What will be the price of milk? What will be the price of a soybean? That's where the rubber meets the road. … We need to get this done because it's good for Colorado."
The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate don't have major differences on the agriculture portion of the farm bill, which has passed both chambers.
The proposed legislation eliminates direct payments for some crops, creates a robust insurance program and avoids reverting to a 1949 law that would lead to spikes in the price of butter and cheese.
But gaping differences remain on Capitol Hill about what to do with the food stamp program.
The House rejected a comprehensive agriculture and food stamp bill earlier this summer, in part, because Democrats didn't like the $20 billion in cuts to food stamps and some Republicans didn't think the cuts went far enough. Instead the House mustered a close vote on an agriculture-only bill. It was the first time since the 1970s the two pieces of policy were decoupled.
Farmers hated this move. Both the national agriculture lobby and the Colorado Farm Bureau support keeping food stamps and agriculture policy together.
It was also deeply troubling to Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican from this Eastern Plains town, who stood at a town hall earlier this week and threw his own GOP-controlled caucus under the bus because of its dysfunctional approach to agriculture policy.
"I think the House weakened its hands by splitting the bill in the first place," Gardner said, after the meeting. "It was bad for rural Colorado."
Kathy Underhill, director of HungerFree Colorado, said if the current farm bill expired, the federal food stamp program would mostly stay in tact.
But she worries about the House's proposed cuts, which would remove 55,000 Coloradans off the food stamp program based on May 2013 figures of about 500,000 enrollees.
"This isn't a program that continues to grow and grow," Underhill said. "As the economy improves, the rolls naturally come down. It's truly a safety-net and not a hammock."
At the moment, no one knows how the Senate and House will work out their differences on funding the federal nutritional program.
It is possible Congress could enact a short-term extension, but that may not have some of the reforms — like better insurance — farmers were fighting for. Plus that risks throwing the farm bill into the looming fiscal showdown in September and October, when the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and new money must be appropriated to keep the federal government open.
Sen. Michael Bennet — a Democrat who was appointed to the farm bill conference committee charged with navigating differences between the House and the Senate — says he is worried the politics in Washington are crippling Colorado farmers, and livestock and dairy producers.
"People should have differences about things … but that's not an excuse for not doing your job," he told a group of rural stakeholders in Fort Morgan this week. "In this case it's passing a farm bill for the farmers and ranchers in Colorado."
Farmers, too, are worried.
"That will be hard on the farmer, hard on the community and hard on the state of Colorado," Washington County farmer David Foy said.
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Looking for a marriage for a Francis Taylor & Jane Wilkinson, they lived at 29 Fourth Street, Belfast. Co. Antrim, in 1893, As that is where my ggrandad William Taylor was born. Any help with this would be appreciated.
Looking for a Francis Taylor & Jane Wilkinson in Antrim, Ireland
Hi, I'm looking for information on my gggrandad & gggrandmother, Jane Wilkinson & Francis Taylor, they lived in Co. Antrim, until Francis died, and Jane Re-married.
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Man's Facebook Date Used as Unwitting Getaway Driver
Leah Gibbs was so impressed with Adam Minton's Facebook profile that she agreed to go on a date with the man she knew just through the social networking site.
The 23-year-old Australian woman probably realized this wasn't going to be a traditional date when Minton kicked it off by asking her to drive him to a betting parlor and then wait in the car while he presumably made a wager.
If only. Instead, Minton emerged from the parlor with a knife and a bag of money. "Drive, drive," he demanded.
They made it back to Minton's house but the police soon arrived and arrested them both. Gibbs spent the evening in a jail cell, only to be released the next day, when Minton admitted she was a completely unwitting participant in the crime.
"It was the date from hell," Gibbs explained.
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Behavioral addictions, which are altered from addictions to consciousness-expanding substances, accept aswell been begin to aftermath concise rewards that animate humans to appearance assiduous behavior admitting adverse its consequences. Abounding humans with behavioral addictions like dissection gambling, besetting animal behavior, kleptomania, besetting buying, etc., ache from an acute appetite or appetite above-mentioned to initiating the behavior. Behavioral addiction like botheration bank is a austere academician ataxia acquired due to an arrangement of psychological, biological and sociological factors.
In abounding people, gambling, be it besetting or pathological, is associated with austere problems. However, there is a slight aberration amid besetting bank and botheration gambling. While besetting bank can be categorized as an impulse-control disorder, botheration bank is a added austere form, wherein the getting continues to action admitting adverse after-effects such as disruption of life.
While there are acceptable methods to amusement the conditions, advisers at the University of British Columbia's Department of Psychology and Centre for Bank Research accept apparent the allotment of the academician that is complex in behavioral addictions. Thus, the treatments that ambition this allotment of the academician can accommodate a abiding acquittal to humans with botheration gambling.
Treatment to affected able urges
In the abstraction appear afresh in the account Translational Psychiatry, the scientists appear that any analysis targeting insula allotment of the academician (region complex in behavioral addictions) could advice humans with bank botheration affected their urges. According to the experts, insula has been articular as a hub for cravings in several studies. While there was an added academician action in locations of the aboveboard case of the brain, a abutting hotlink was aswell empiric in activities in the insula region, as apparent in case of biologic addiction.
It was empiric that every aspect of gambling, including lights, sounds of the aperture machines, that appears to smell of bank and likewise, act as able triggers for the patient. Failing to ascendancy these triggers eventually leads to a relapse. A analysis targeting the insula arena will not alone advice in annoyance the urges, but aswell abetment in toning down the responses to the cravings. Lately, studies are getting conducted to analyze the furnishings of naltrexone, a medication acclimated to amusement booze and heroin addiction, in alteration these academician responses in botheration gamblers.
Treating botheration gambling
Problem bank is "highly disabling both to the alone and to society, generally arch to suicide, job loss, and bent behavior," empiric an old abstraction conducted by American Friends of Tel Aviv University.
Defining bank as a abiding disorder, the abstraction appropriate alleviative the action with biologic analysis such as naltrexone. "Drug analysis with naltrexone should endure for at atomic two years and be complemented with added treatment," the abstraction revealed.
Additionally, the patients can aswell abide accumulation therapies or seek abutment from attorneys to bang the habit. In astringent cases, accurate ecology and holistic treatments are appropriate to abstain a relapse. Moreover, therapies like cerebral behavioral analysis (CBT) can aswell be accessible in alleviative the condition.
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It is acceptable to allow in some life-changing practices, such as practicing meditation, approved concrete exercise or arena a action to relax the apperception and accumulate besetting thoughts at bay. However, if the affection abide for a best period, even if the activate has subsided, it is important to seek actual psychiatric help.


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SEEKING KARL MINTZ FAMILY from BESSARABIA, RUSSIA to NORTH DAKOTA AND THE GEORGE SENECA TURNER FAMILY FROM NEW YORK TO NORTH DAKOTA
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Author: GARY NADEN
Surnames: TURNER, MINTZ
My name is GARY L. NADEN and I am involved in GENEALOGY research on my Mother?s family.
Her Maiden Name was IRENE AUGUSTA MINTZ and her father was WILLIAM ?(Bill)-(F)REDERICK MINTZ .
In my research of my Mother?s MATERNAL family (GEORGE SENECA TURNER and HARRIET AUGUSTA CASE-TURNER)
I had access to my Mom?s old photo album (at a recent family reunion) and inside the back cover it stated that my Grandmother ADDIE HARRIET TURNER-MINTZ was born in 1900 in COGSWELL, (HARLEM TOWNSHIP) SARGENT COUNTY,NORTH DAKOTA.
George Seneca and his family,along with George William had moved to COGSWELL,(HARLEM TWP.)SARGENT COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA around 1883 where the family resided (and where my Grandmother, ADDIE HARRIET TURNER-MINTZ was born in 1900) until around 1920 when GEORGE WILLIAM TURNER (Sr.) died. At that time, GEORGE SENECA and his wife HATTIE AGUSTA CASE-TURNER and their remaining children moved to LEAF RIVER, WADENA Co., MINNESOTA where GEORGE opened and ran a store.
George died on 09/29/1939.
Harriet died on 08/02/1946.
When I went to the Sargent County web page and was able to research the 1880 and 1900 U.S. Census records I found the TURNERS.
Then I went to the 1910 U.S. Census and while skimming the records, I came across a listing for a Mr. J0HN UCHNER and his wife JOHANNA (Daughter of GEORGE & HARRIET TURNER).
The interesting part was that it not only listed their children living with them, but it listed a Mother-In-Law JOHANNA MINTZ along with her two son?s ARNDT MINTZ and the youngest son WILLIAM F. MINTZ born in MAY,1900...
I also found in my Mother?s Photo album a photo of WILLIAM F. MINTZ taken in 1911 with the caption ? DADDY WITH HIS FIRST PAIR OF LONG PANTS, 11 YEARS OLD?!!
I know that FERDINAND MINTZ DIED JANUARY 29th,1910 just before the JULY U.S. Census was taken and I?m assuming that since her husband was dead and she was in mourning that JOHANNA MINTZ took her two sons to COGSWELL, SARGENT COUNTY (about 50 miles away) to live with her Daughter and Son in Law! JOHANNA MINTZ later re-married in March 1911 to JOHANN GEBHARDT.
I am also assuming ( since this was a very small community) that my Grandmother ADDIE TURNER (who was 10)
and my Grandfather WILLIAM F. MINTZ, (who was also 10) were in the same class in school and that is
where they met and connected!!
I have located my Mother's younger Sister's Family (DONNA MAE MINTZ-McMICHAEL Died in 1955)
but I still have not found my Mother's Middle Sister DOROTHY MINTZ-LENO-??.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFO ON THIS BRANCH OF THE MINTZ (or TURNER) TREE,
Please contact me at ..
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NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed claims by BP fuel stations and convenience stores that the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico diminished the value of the oil giant's brand and cost them business.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's ruling says the dealers' claims against BP PLC aren't viable under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, general maritime law or state law.
Thomas Bleau, a lawyer for BP dealers Tobatex Inc. and M.R.M. Energy Inc., argued during a hearing last month that consumer animosity and bungling by BP corporate executives after the nation's worst offshore spill severely damaged the company's brand name. Switching brands wasn't an option for the dealers because many are locked into long-term contracts, he told Barbier.
The judge's ruling, however, says the BP dealers' allegations "do not state a claim for which relief may be granted." He didn't pass judgment on whether BP dealers have viable claims for economic losses based on a decline in tourism after the spill.
"It doesn't completely close the door on BP dealer claims," said Bleau, who added that he may appeal Barbier's ruling.
All claims by the roughly 13,000 BP fuel stations in the U.S. are excluded from the company's proposed settlement of billions of dollars of claims by other businesses and individuals who blame the spill for economic damages.
Also on Tuesday, Barbier tossed out claims against BP by Gulf Coast homeowners who say the spill hurt their property values even though no oil physically touched their property and they haven't sold their homes. A provision of the Oil Pollution Act only allows recovery for "loss of profits" or "impairment of earning capacity," the judge noted.
"Such claims concern neither a `loss of profits' nor `impairment of earning capacity.' Before real property is sold, there can be no `profits' to be lost," Barbier wrote. "Furthermore, until property is sold and a loss realized, damages are speculative _ it is possible that the value of real property eventually may meet or exceed its pre-spill amount."
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This recipe is an adaptation of Susan Jane Murray's fabulous recipe for Rooibos Quinoa Flatbread. Made with rooibos tea and with a slightly sweet flavor, her recipe is amazing (although i've always substituted some other flour for the soy, due to my allergy). You must explore her website, it is full of inspirational, easy, and super food intolerance friendly recipes. I like to use her recipe as a framework for a super adaptable flatbread that goes together quickly, bakes in a jiffy, and freezes well. It is delicious and moist, sturdy and beautiful, and loves to be changed! So get creative, and try out something new each time. I whip this bread out a lot; it has become a standby in my freezer and is loved by one and all who tries it. Plus, if you use a slightly smaller pan, you can slice it in half horizontally, and use it for sandwiches, like focaccia.
I've done a lot of baking this week, it is a little freaky, actually. But I made that kefir the other day, and am heading out of town to Seattle for the weekend. The kefir needed to get used, and I wanted a variety of frozen, tasty baked goods to throw in my carry-on for easy food while there for the weekend. Plus, I just got my copy of Nourishing Traditions in the mail the other day, and I wanted to try another kefir/yogurt soaking recipe after my success with Carrot's Whole Grain Buckwheat Yogurt Muffins, an adaption of a recipe inspired by Fallon's book.
And now, I am having a seriously hard time not devouring the entire loaf. I wasn't going to eat any of it, just put it in the freezer right away. But it smelled so damn good, it was so golden and crusty, so beautiful...I couldn't resist. I should have known I'd eat a square. It is GOOD. Damn good. Wow.
The result of this flatbread is TOTALLY different than when making it with water. Soaking the flours in kefir yielded a moister, richer texture, and a wonderful, slightly sour flavor that combines oh so well with the quinoa. It is lighter and more fluffy, but still has a sturdy and substantial texture. This bread is good, and reminds me of the tasty buttermilk cheddar cornbread I used to make from time to time. Plus, if the friendly bacteria in the kefir was doing its job, the flours should be more digestible and all those good vitamins, minerals, and protein more available and easily assimilated. Hooray! Fermentation is fun.
If you want to skip the whole kefir thing, and just make the recipe the normal way, just check out Susan's website, and try it out. You won't be sorry! And while there, you must must must try Susan's recipe for Wholemeal Buckwheat Bread, a similar flatbread loaf made with buckwheat flour. I substitute quinoa flour for the soy flour, and quinoa flakes for the millet or barley flakes (you can't find millet flakes in the U.S., and I'm off gluten). It is amazing. Totally amazing. That is probably my favorite gluten free bread on earth. I'd like to try it with the kefir soaking method. Also try her Carrot Cake recipe. Holy smokes. So good. I made it last Thanksgiving for my family (substituted flax eggs for real eggs) and even my grandparents loved it.
QUINOA MILLET KEFIR FLATBREAD (gluten free, egg free, yeast free)
yield 1 flatbread loaf
1/2 c millet flour (or another flour option, like rice, amaranth, buckwheat, or garbanzo)***
3/4 c quinoa flakes (or millet flakes, if you can find them! I can't find them in the U.S.)
1/4-1/2 c whole millet or quinoa grain (or another whole grain, try matching up your alternative flour choice!)***
1 1/2 c kefir or yogurt (I use goat kefir)
squirt of agave
1 t salt or Herbamare/Trocomare
1 t baking soda
1 t cream of tartar
optional: handful of sunflower seeds or other seeds/chopped nuts
optional: herbs, spices, or other seasonings of your preference, like one of these combinations...
- cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger
- curry powder and cumin seeds
- caraway seeds
- lemon zest, cardamom, and poppy seeds
- herbes de provence
- basil, oregano, and rosemary
- garlic (roasted mashed cloves, diced, or powder)
- orange zest and clove
- roasted onions and fresh parsley
- Chinese 5 spice
- saffron soaked in kefir
- Mix flours, quinoa flakes, whole quinoa or millet grains, optional seeds in a large bowl.
- Pour in kefir and optional agave, and mix well. Cover bowl with towel and let sit on kitchen counter for 12-24 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350* F. Grease an 8"x8" square pan, or 9" round pan with oil/ghee/shortening, or line with parchment.
- In a small bowl, mix together salt/Herbamare, herbs/spices, baking soda, cream of tartar, and vitamin c crystals.
- Dissolve dry ingredients in a couple tablespoons of water, and pour over kefir/flour mixture, and stir until just well mixed. Add just enough additional water to create a batter of pouring consistency, and stir until just evenly moistened and mixed. Do not overmix!
- Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake in preheated oven for approximately 35-40 minutes. The top should be golden brown and crisp, with some crackles, and a fluffy but firm inside. A toothpick inserted in the middle of loaf should come out clean.
- Remove from oven, allow cool in pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- When cool, slice into squares or wedges of desired size. Try slicing in half horizontally, and using for sandwiches, like focaccia.


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Genealogies of the Agard, Nunn, Hardenbrook, Wortman, Doyle, and Tucker family lines.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Nunn Family - Success
The dawn of the new year brought much success. Yesterday I connected with two of the grandchildren of Elizabeth Nunn Siebert. They were delightful to talk with and I hope to be able to meet them in person sometime soon.
They filled me in on the lives of my grandfather Harry Nunn's siblings. They told me they referred to my grandfather as "Uncle Honey," and I told them he was "Pop" to us.
Probably the most important item I learned was that Elizabeth never remarried after her husband, Louis, died. I had mistakenly thought she married Fritz Piepenburg and moved to New Jersey. Not so. Elizabeth died in 1947 at the tender age of 60 from pneumonia during a hospital stay and is buried in a cemetery in Queens, New York.
I was given the contact info for another family member who has a lot of information and I anxiously await a note in return.
Today will find me working on my Nunn genealogy and running off a copy to send to my new found cousins. I think they will be fascinated by the story of Elizabeth's suing her neighbor for the $300 (they didn't know about that), as well as the photos of St. Joseph's Home and the admission and discharge papers of the Out-Door Poor for these aunts and uncles they so loved.
Needless to say it was a very good day.
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Congratulations on these new connections! 2014 is starting off on a high note. Me too: I've been corresponding with a lady whose father trained under a great-uncle of W's during WWII, and getting some personal insights!ReplyDelete
We have both hit the ground running this new year. Let's hope the good luck continues.ReplyDelete
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Gallup Annual Poll: Obama, Hillary Are Most Admired
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President Barack Obama topped is the most admired man in America for the fifth year in a row and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was named most admired women for the 11th year in a row, according to a poll released Monday.
Obama was named by 30 percent of respondents in Gallup's annual poll, while two percent named former president George W. Bush or failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and one percent each picked former president Bill Clinton, former president George H.W. Bush, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) or retiring Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
No leader from the world of business made the top 10 list. Last year's list included Warren Buffet, Donald Trump and Bill Gates.
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The death certificate for Andy Griffith says the actor's death earlier this week was caused by a heart attack.
The certificate says the 86-year-old had suffered the attack 24 hours before he died at 7 a.m. Tuesday. It also says he had suffered for years from other illnesses, including coronary artery disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, which can be a form of high cholesterol or high triglycerides.
Griffith's death certificate was filed Thursday with the vital records office in Dare County. It says he's buried in the Griffith Family Cemetery in Manteo. Dr. Johnny Farrow of Manteo signed the certificate.
Griffith was best known for playing Sheriff Andy Taylor in "The Andy Griffith Show," which aired from 1960 to 1968. He was born in Mount Airy and lived in Manteo.
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Andy Griffith's gift to the show that bore his name wasn't just the homespun wisdom of the plain-spoken sheriff he played. It was the place he created: a small town where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever, full of characters who felt like family.
Mayberry, a fictional North Carolina village said to be modeled on Griffith's own hometown of Mount Airy, was so beloved that it practically became a synonym for any community that was too innocent and trusting for real life. After all, Griffith's Mayberry was a place where the sheriff didn't carry a gun, the local drunk locked himself in jail and even the villains who passed through were changed by their stay.
On "The Andy Griffith Show," he created an endearing portrait of a place where few people grew up but many wished they did.
Griffith, who died Tuesday at 86 at his North Carolina home, played a sage widower named Andy Taylor who offered gentle guidance to son Opie, played by little Ron Howard, who grew up to become an Oscar-winning director. Griffith inhabited the sheriff's "aw, shucks" persona so completely that viewers easily believed the character and the man were one.
"What made `The Andy Griffith Show' work was Andy Griffith himself - the fact that he was of this dirt and had such deep respect for the people and places of his childhood," said Craig Fincannon, who runs a casting agency in Wilmington and met Griffith in 1974.
A character on the show "might be broadly eccentric, but the character had an ethical and moral base that allowed us to laugh with them and not at them," he said. "And Andy Griffith's the reason for that."
Don Knotts, who died in 2006, was the goofy Deputy Barney Fife, while Jim Nabors joined the show as Gomer Pyle, the cornpone gas pumper. George Lindsey, who died in May, was the beanie-wearing Goober. The sheriff's loving Aunt Bee was played by the late Frances Bavier.
The show initially aired from 1960 to 1968 and never really left television, living on for decades in reruns. Almost 20 years later, a reunion movie titled "Return to Mayberry" was the top-rated TV movie of the 1985-86 season.
The series became one of only three in TV history to bow out at the top of the ratings (The others were "I Love Lucy" and "Seinfeld."). Griffith said he decided to end it "because I thought it was slipping, and I didn't want it to go down further."
In a 2007 interview with The Associated Press, Griffith said he wasn't as wise as the sheriff or as nice. He described himself as having the qualities of one of his last roles, that of the cranky diner owner in "Waitress," and also of his most manipulative character, from the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd."
"But I guess you could say I created Andy Taylor," he said. "Andy Taylor's the best part of my mind. The best part of me."
Griffith's skill at playing a lovable rube was first established on a comedic monologue titled "What It Was, Was Football," about a bumpkin attending a college football game.
That led to his first national television exposure on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1954 and the stage and screen versions of "No Time for Sergeants," a production that cast Griffith as Will Stockdale, an over-eager young hillbilly who, as a draftee in the Air Force, overwhelms the military with his rosy attitude.
His television career slowed down in the 1970s but resumed in 1986 with "Matlock," a light-hearted legal drama in which Griffith played a cagey Harvard-educated, Southern-bred attorney with a leisurely law practice in Atlanta.
Decked out in his seersucker suit in a steamy courtroom (air conditioning would have spoiled the mood), Matlock could toy with a witness and tease out a confession like a folksy Perry Mason.
This new character - law-abiding, fatherly and lovable - was like a latter-day homage to Sheriff Andy Taylor, updated with silver hair. The show aired though 1995.
Griffith was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's highest civilian honors.
In a statement Tuesday, President Barack Obama said Griffith's characters "warmed the hearts of Americans everywhere."
Griffith's signature role "put heavy pressure on him because everyone felt like he was their best friend," Fincannon said. "With great grace, he handled the constant barrage of people wanting to talk to Andy Taylor."
In the coastal town of Manteo, Griffith protected his privacy with help from a circle of friends who revealed little to nothing about him.
Strangers who asked where Griffith lived would receive circular directions that took them to the beach, said William Ivey Long, the Tony Award-winning costume designer whose parents were friends with Griffith and his first wife, Barbara.
Griffith and Knotts had become friends while performing in "No Time for Sergeants" and remained so until Knotts' death at 81.
Knotts' widow, Francey Yarborough Knotts, said Griffith was in good spirits when she spoke with him June 1, his birthday.
"Don and I loved Andy very much," she said in a statement. "Andy and Don had a great friendship and a great creative partnership. Throughout their lives, they continued to have fun together and discuss the art of comedy and acting."
Asked in 2007 to name his favorite episodes, Griffith cited those that emphasized Knotts' character.
"The second episode that we shot I knew Don should be funny and I should play straight for him," Griffith said. "That opened up the whole series because I could play straight for everybody else. And I didn't have to be funny. I just let them be funny."
Griffith's generosity toward his cast mates paid off richly for those fellow actors, particularly Knotts.
Sheriff Taylor was ever-indulgent with the twitchy, bug-eyed Deputy Fife and loved joshing with him just for sport. The result was five supporting-actor Emmys for Knotts.
"What are the state police gonna think when they get here and find we got an empty jail?" rants Barney in one episode, worried about appearances, as always. "They're gonna think this is just a hick town where nothing ever happens!"
"Well, now," Taylor says calmly, "you got to admit that's about the size of it."
In the 1957 drama "A Face in the Crowd," Griffith starred as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a philosopher on national television. As his influence rises, his drinking, womanizing and lust for power are hidden by his handlers.
"Mr. Griffith plays him with thunderous vigor," The New York Times wrote. The Washington Post said Griffith "seems to have one of those personalities that sets film blazing."
Griffith said director Elia Kazan led him through his role, and it was all a bit overwhelming for someone with, as he put it, just "one little acting course in college."
More recently, Griffith won a Grammy in 1997 for his album of gospel music "I Love to Tell the Story - 25 Timeless Hymns."
In 2007, he appeared in a critically acclaimed independent film, "Waitress," playing Joe, the boss at the diner. The next year, he appeared in Brad Paisley's awarding-winning music video "Waitin' on a Woman."
Paisley said Griffith was "an actor who never looked like he was acting, a moral compass who saved as many souls as most preachers and an entertainer who put smiles on more faces than almost anyone."
Griffith also dappled in Democratic politics, appearing in 2008 in an Obama campaign video directed by Howard and featuring the former child star chatting with Griffith and other former TV colleagues. Two years later, he made a commercial praising the president's health care legislation.
Griffith was born June 1, 1926, and as a child sang and played slide trombone in the band at Grace Moravian Church. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and for a time contemplated a career in the ministry. But he eventually got a job teaching high school music in Goldsboro.
He and his first wife, Barbara Edwards, had two children: Sam, who died in 1996, and Dixie. His second wife was Solica Cassuto. Both marriages ended in divorce. He married third wife Cindi Knight Griffith in 1983.
Griffith also suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can cause sudden paralysis. He suffered a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2000.
North Carolina lost a legend today.
Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie has confirmed Andy Griffith has died and also released a short statement from the family.
Sheriff Doughtie tells WITN News the family stated that Andy died at seven this morning, peacefully, at his home and that Andy has been laid to rest on his beloved Roanoke Island. The funeral home confirms that happened on his family farm.
The actor's death was first confirmed by former UNC President Bill Friday just before 10:00 a.m. and later by the sheriff. Friday and Griffith were close friends.
Friday told us the 86-year-old actor died at his Roanoke Island home around 7:00 a.m. this morning. The sheriff had confirmed earlier that an ambulance was called to the home this morning.
A family statement says the actor died with his wife Cindi at his side. "Andy was a person of incredibly strong Christian faith and was prepared for the day he would be called Home to his Lord," said his wife in a statement. "He is the love of my life, my constant companion, my partner, and my best friend. I cannot imagine life without Andy, but I take comfort and strength in God's Grace and in the knowledge that Andy is at peace and with God."
Griffith was born in Mount Airy and attended UNC Chapel Hill where he earned a degree in Music. His first job out of college was an English teacher at Goldsboro High School.
His legacy role, which earned him the title of "America's Favorite Sheriff"on "The Andy Griffith" show, set in fictional Mayberry, put North Carolina on the map in the entertainment industry. The show ran from 1960-1968, propelling a handful of spin-off programs. Griffith also produced and starred in the television series "Matlock."
President Barack Obama says Griffith was a performer of extraordinary talent. "Andy was beloved by generations of fans and revered by entertainers who followed in his footsteps," Obama said in a statement. "He brought us characters from Sheriff Andy Taylor to Ben Matlock, and in the process, warmed the hearts of Americans everywhere. Our thoughts and prayers are with Andy's family."
Visiting Eastern Carolina this morning, U.S. Senator Kay Hagan says Griffith was an iconic figure in the state. "His show was known not only in our nation, but around the world," Hagan told WITN's Brittany Creamer. "My thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Governor Beverly Perdue said the state has lost its favorite son. "Andy Griffith graciously stepped into the living rooms of generations of Americans, always with the playful charm that made him the standard by which entertainers would be measured for decades," said Perdue. "Throughout his career, he represented everything that was good about North Carolina: a small town boy and UNC graduate who took a light-hearted approach to some of the attributes he grew up with and turned them into a spectacularly successful career. And regardless of where that career took him, he always came back to North Carolina and spent his final years here."
Griffith received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 from President George W. Bush.
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Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie confirms to WITN News that an ambulance went to Andy Griffith's home at 7 a.m. this morning.
The sheriff says he is checking to get more information on the condition of the person who the ambulance was called for.
The 86-year-old Griffith lives on Roanoke Island, not far from the Lost Colony, a play he performed in right after high school.
Griffith was born in Mount Airy, and is most known for his role as "Andy Taylor" from 1960 to 1968.
Stay with WITN News and witn.com for more on this developing story.


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April, 14, 2012
Best Buy (and Victoria's Secret and The Finish Line and many other stores!) Requires Govt. Issued Photo ID for ALL Returns.
The ID card data is swiped, stored and shared with a third party to track customer purchases and "to monitor the return behavior of shoppers; and warn or deny individuals flagged as questionable" Link to The Retail Equation, Inc.'s brochure
Best Buy's return policy;
Returns Tracking
When you return or exchange an item in store, we require a valid photo ID. Some of the information from your ID may be stored in a secure database used to track returns and exchanges. Based on return/exchange patterns, some customers will be warned that subsequent purchases will not be eligible for returns or exchanges for 90 days. . .
. . . And how do we like it so far?
I'm Done With Best Buy Thanks to The Retail Equation
I am a premier silver member and have been for several years. In November of last year, I received a warning in store that I could not make any returns at Best Buy for 90 days. So for the next 90 days I did not make any purchases at Best Buy.
Yesterday, I spent over 700.00 on the new Ipad and an Invisible Shield. The Invisible Shield was not installed correctly and Best Buy decided to give me a refund. Keep in mind that this was only 29.99 of the amount I spent. This was the first purchase I have made since the 90 days had expired. I figured that I could return something that was actually not working correctly and be fine. However I received another warning today saying that I could not return anything for 90 days even though the product was not working correctly.
It sounds like The Retail Equation (TRE) does not take into consideration that some returns might be valid due to defective products. All TRE looks at is how many returns and that is not a fair way to evaluate whether someone is abusing a return policy. In the end, Best Buy has lost a premier silver member. Amazon and other online retailers will gladly accept my business going forward. Best Buy seriously needs to find another way to evaluate returns instead of TRE. Their method simply does not work.
Another unhappy Best Buy customer is suing them over their "swiping" policy.
How does this work? According to the Retail Equation, Inc.,
"The technology's predictive modeling measured the likelihood of fraudulent or abusive behavior, as well as the likelihood of a consumer's profitability"
Predictive Analytics
From Wikipedia Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events.
Data mining and predictive analytics is being used in just about every aspect of our lives. Predictive analytics applies a mathematical formula to masses of data to predict what a person is more or less likely to do in the future. Decisions are being made that affects our lives, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, every day.
For example, in our schools;
"They use their technology infrastructure to gather and analyze data on the factors that are most predictive of students who are in danger of school failure and/or dropping out. . . .As a result, the district has forged new partnerships with local law enforcement agencies"
From the Oklahoma Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development pg 26
If you think it stinks when you are misidentified as a naughty shopper, wait till you are misidentified as a "troubled individual"
Technology identifies troubled individuals
Sept 26, 2010
Imagine using the same technology to locate a lone bomber before he carries out his terrorist act and to identify a troubled veteran or first responder ground down by tragedies and violence.
Stop imagining.
A Swiss professor working with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who heads the Mind Machine Project there outlined how this program operates through computerized scanning of phone calls and electronic messages sent through e-mail and social networking mechanisms.
. . . Using character traits that have been identified through psychological profiles conducted on lone bombers following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Guidere said he and his colleagues developed programs that isolate signs pointing to a potential terrorist.
He said lone bombers, in particular, are not mentally deranged but harbor hatred and deep resentment toward government. Their emotional spikes, Guidere explained, can be identified by the computer program.
The practical side is that once the individual has been identified, the information can be passed along to authorities so surveillance can begin. . .
The burgeoning use of driver's license scanning devices makes tracking and monitoring of the population much easier. When these data are held in separate databases there are plenty of security and privacy concerns but if the databases are linked or matched with other databases or shared-watch out! The negative implications explode at that point.
In case you are wondering just what information is in those bar codes on your driver's license, here is a link for you to follow and find out.
And here is a great article from 2002 which is ancient history from a technology capability perspective, but it does a great job of allowing us to begin to consider the implications of widespread scanning of our government issued photo ID's .
Welcome to the Database Lounge
Published: March 21, 2002
ABOUT 10,000 people a week go to The Rack, a bar in Boston favored by sports stars, including members of the New England Patriots. One by one, they hand over their driver's licenses to a doorman, who swipes them through a sleek black machine. If a license is valid and its holder is over 21, a red light blinks and the patron is waved through.
But most of the customers are not aware that it also pulls up the name, address, birth date and other personal details from a data strip on the back of the license. Even height, eye color and sometimes Social Security number are registered.
"You swipe the license, and all of a sudden someone's whole life as we know it pops up in front of you," said Paul Barclay, the bar's owner. "It's almost voyeuristic."
Mr. Barclay bought the machine to keep out underage drinkers who use fake ID's. But he soon found that he could build a database of personal information, providing an intimate perspective on his clientele that can be useful in marketing. "It's not just an ID check," he said. "It's a tool."
Swiping of driver's licenses is being required for buying gas (in case you try to leave without paying), for entry to public schools (in case you might be child predator and if you are misidentified as a sex offender, which happens often enough, well, stinks for you!), for buying cold medicine, for entry to bars and casinos, San Francisco wants ID swipes for most public events, Harlem wants tenants to swipe to gain entry to their homes, and now, the TSA is swiping airline passengers' ID's .
TSA tests ID-scanning machines at Washington Dulles
April 14, 2012
The Transportation Security Administration began an experiment today at Washington's Dulles International Airport to check identification and boarding passes by machine rather than just the visual check by officers.
While TSA officers have been checking identification with black-lights and magnifying glasses, the machines are geared to recognize all valid identification, ranging from driver's license or passport to tribal identification or foreign passport.
"For efficiency, it is fantastic," said Domenic Bianchini, TSA director of checkpoint technology. "We think it's a valuable technology and we think over time we will see the real value added."
The machine doesn't store any personal information about the passenger, according to Greg Soule, a TSA spokesman.
Gee. When have we heard that before?
Although TSA has repeatedly stated that the scanners were "incapable of storing or transmitting" scanner images, despite specification data to the contrary provided by the respective manufacturers. In August 2010 EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) discovered that the TSA had stored over 2,000 images, which the agency quickly claimed were of "volunteers" without specifying who compose this group or whether any were passengers who had "voluntarily" used the scanners in the testing phase.
The TSA is conducting the driver's license "experiment" at Dulles, Houston and Puerto Rico but hopes to eventually "expand the program to every airport checkpoint" Read more
At some point in the not-so-distant-future, we will be required to show and/or swipe our driver's license for just about everything we as humans need to live. As the process grows more and more automated and the data is digitized, we will find our movements, transactions and habits logged and our lives tracked and documented. Data mining and predictive analytics will be applied to nearly everything we do. The purpose of such credentialing processes is to allow some access and deny others, deemed unworthy by algorithm, access.
In 2010 I was repeatedly denied the ability to pay for my purchases by check due to a company called Certegy's algorithm which decided that since I rarely write checks but had written several during the Christmas shopping season, this indicated that I was untrustworthy and that stores should not accept my checks. The year before, I was denied the privilege of renting a car because my credit score was too low. My credit score is low because I don't buy on credit! I wasn't asking to pay for the rental with credit either. I offered my debit card.
Chances are you have experienced similar incidents. Chances are that we have encountered other bumps in the road of life when no explanation for the problem was ever given but likely there was some algorithm behind it. This is our future. In health care, travel, purchases, renting or buying our homes, anything information about us that can be digitized can be factored in to determine whether or not we measure up. This is nothing short of destiny management.
With the governments unhealthy focus on security at all costs, we can expect things to get more and more complicated as the practice of tracking and tracing and databasing everything we do grows. Woe to those that are unfortunate enough to be perceived as a possible threat or have a data trail that makes them appear less than an ideal citizen in the eyes of Big Momma Gov. who is no longer willing to wait for us to actually do something wrong before she pounces. This government (and its partner corporations) wants to play psychic and limit our opportunities based on some supposed prescient power that indicates that we are more likely to do something naughty in the first place.
How do we exercise our free will when it is being effectively pre-empted?


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Life will always blossom from the darkest soil. – Alexstrasza
Blog Azeroth had a really amazing shared Blog Topic last week that I really, really wanted to talk about but I got caught up in other stuff. Akabeko from Red Cow Rise suggested it:
Canon refers to the actual events and characters that exist in a fictional world. Headcanon refers to any situations or characters that are imagined by fans of said fictional world. Sometimes they are silly, like the fact that Garrosh's favorite treat is lemon squares. Sometimes they are serious, like positing that tauren store grief in the lungs. For my writing, I've come up with a lot of headcanon. Got a theory about a torrid romance between your favorite auctioneer and the patrolling guard? Given any thought to where mounts and pets go when they aren't summoned? Do you know how your characters do their laundry, or what Baine Bloodhoof does in his free time? What are your headcanons, and where did you get the idea?
As I've explained before, I practically live in a world of my creation when it comes to World of Warcraft. My grasp on lore is shaky at best and I have some very strong opinions that Azeroth could be better if I was one of the Titans. As someone who frequently isn't represented in games because I'm queer woman, a lot of what I have to do is fill in the gaps when it comes to representation, amongst other things. So it should be no surprise that a lot of my headcanon satisfies that need to see "myself" reflected in the world I spend so much time playing in.
It all started with a rare out in Tyr's Hand and Rades. If anyone ever listened to the best episode of Bifactional that we ever did (about rares), one can remember the discussion that was had about the mysterious Lynnia Abbendis. Why is she there? Who is she? What kind of life did she have? It was joked that Lynnia must have known Lilian Voss and the two could fight crime together. I dreamily imagined the idea of two undead women careening around Eastern Kingdoms righting wrongs; so many things right about that scenario and yet I felt it was missing something.
I really don't consider myself some sort of "shipper" because I tend to adhere to an author's wishes in romantic choices and I don't like to pare away stories to just flat and rigid relationships. However, the idea of two young Scarlet Crusade women finding solace, friendship and dare I say it, some sort of complex companionship over the tenure of their brief lives before meeting tragic ends is right up my alley. Since that seed of a thought got planted, it's only grown stronger and thicker until now when it has managed to strangle a lot of my other ideas about Azeroth. It is a story that deserves to be told and expressed. There's no way, in my mind, that this couldn't be the truth. There really could have been a Scarlet Crusade academy, and all of the young Crusade children could have been friends with eachother (it's canon that Voss and Gebler were). Considering that Lynnia is an Abbendis, it'd be assumed she'd also be there. Lynnia and Lilian strike me as having some sort of age differential but nonetheless could have been friends or close to eachother.
You can see what kind of castles I've constructed out of the air from the tiniest motes of dust.
I've spent at least 2 IM conversations with Rades discussing the plotline and arc of these two women's lives when they still had a pulse and what might be in store for them now. What would have lead the two of them to have such different places in the game? The obvious answer is because I am the only person that considers them linked in some way but as far as a story concept, it does bend what ifs in a particular direction.
The story of Lynnia and Lilian is a sad one, even if I truly believe there could be a bittersweet ending for both of them. Lilian's childhood was controlled by her father and Lynnia is called the Fallen Hope. They are in wildly different locations and doing very different things when we find them in the world. There's not a lot of sunshine and kittens to be had here. And now that the two of them aren't even "alive," it seems to me that joy is in short supply. Maybe that's why the idea of their feelings for eachother surviving is so persistent in my brain; to give them an ending that Blizzard never intended and never wanted for the tragedy that was the Scarlet Crusade. What would the two of them meeting now be like? Have they not seen eachother since they died? I get a little choked up thinking about it. It spurs me to put words on the page and draw lots of art.
I have hope though, even if the story will never be told by Warcraft. It is something that can live on in my imagination for now. Considering that Voss plays a very large role in the new heroic dungeons in Mists of Pandaria, I will not let this story fade to black just yet.


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Martinez rules midsummer classic
Jamestown outfielder named MVP with two hits, two steals
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | August 14, 2012 10:21 PM
For both New York-Penn League All-Stars, Tuesday was the chance to make up for lost time.
Game MVP Martinez was 2-for-2 with an RBI, a run scored and two stolen bases while Quinn contributed an inside-the-park homer as the National League bested the American League, 8-1, in the short-season league's All-Star Game. The contest was played in front of 5,897 at Mahoning Valley's Eastwood Field in Niles, Ohio.
The Jamestown center fielder, who was named to the DSL All-Star Game in 2009 but couldn't play, admitted he first was just happy to be included in the festivities.
"When I saw my name in the lineup, I was just ecstatic," Martinez said through a translator. "I just wanted to do a good job out here and show people what I can do. Most people know I'm a fast guy, so I think everyone on the field knew I would try to steal."
The 23-year-old outfielder got the chance to show off his speed in Tuesday's fifth inning. After singling in the third, Martinez drove in the game's second run with a one-out base hit to left. He then stole second base and proceeded to come home after his swipe of third forced a throwing error by AL catcher Sam Kimmel, who had entered the game that inning as a defensive replacement.
Martinez was batting .242 in 43 games, but made the NL squad for his basestealing ability. His 14 thefts rank fifth on the Class A Short-Season circuit, and that was enough for NL manager Angel Espada -- his skipper at Jamestown -- to give him the start, batting ninth.
"It seems like he definitely made some adjustments," Espada said. "You could tell he was trying to show everyone what he's all about. It's definitely exciting for him."
Quinn got his chance to shine in the showcase three innings later. The Williamsport shortstop entered as a pinch-hitter in the eighth against Hudson Valley right-hander and Rays' first-rounder Taylor Guerrieri and made the most of his opportunity. The Phillies' second-round selection from 2011 laced a shot through the hole at shortstop and started running.
"Once I hit the ball, I thought it was an easy double," Quinn said. "So I just took off and saw that they were waving me in. Gosh, it was just really unexplainable."
The Florida native, who added an RBI single in the ninth to finish 2-for-2 with a game-high two RBIs, didn't have any homers but tripled nine times over 187 at-bats in his first pro season prior that plate appearance. But he acknowledged he still can't wait to get the first that counts.
"It's a big deal obviously," Quinn said. "But at the same time, it loses a little bit because I know it's not going to be showing up on my stats sheet."
Nine National League pitchers combined on an eight-inning shutout before Tri-City's Blake Ford gave up a solo homer to Tyler Hanover of Connecticut in the ninth.
In particular, four Brooklyn pitchers -- starter Luis Mateo, game winner John Mincone, Hansel Robles and Gabriel Ynoa -- all caught the eye of their manager for the day.
"They're all great Mets arms, and they're all arms that really impressed me today," Espada said. "You can tell the future of that system is very bright. As the years go by, hopefully they have great careers and I can say someday that I managed them in the 2012 All-Star Game."
Still, it was Martinez who walked away with the individual hardware Tuesday, and that's a moment he'll make sure replaces the memory of the missed All-Star Game.
"I want to put the bat in a glass case and hang it up next to my [All-Star] jersey at home," he said. "That way people can see it and know what I did here."
Tri-City's Austin Elkins plated two runs after entering as a pinch-hitter in the seventh.
AL leadoff hitter Thomas Coyle (Hudson Valley) provided the team's only other extra-base hit with a third-inning triple. Staten Island's James Pazos was the hardest-hit AL pitcher, giving up four runs on three hits in the ninth .
Before the game, the league announced that the Connecticut Tigers will host the 2013 All-Star Game on Aug. 13, 2013 at Dodd Stadium.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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X-com Music, Can Someone Upload Back
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Seriously though, the X-Com Apocalypse music file is composed of uncompressed audio combined into a single 300 megabyte file. You'd either have to be very patient, or have a broadband connection to get it in a timely manner.
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Posted 07 August 2007 - 04:29 AM
Seriously though, the X-Com Apocalypse music file is composed of uncompressed audio combined into a single 300 megabyte file.
Signed 16 bit PCM, 44100 Hz, Stereo, No endianess, to be exact.
You can open it with Audacity (Import raw data) and convert it to OGG or MP3. Of course the game requires the raw PCM, but this way you can listen it with your favourite music player.
Be warned, it is more like a soundsystem than a soundtrack.
Here's a tiny perl program I used to cut that MUSIC-file into separate tracks before converting:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # These settings read X-Com Apocalypse # soundtrack and cuts it into separate # track files. # # Each track is Signed 16 bit PCM # (44100 Hz, Stereo, No endianess) # my $filename = "MUSIC"; my $sample_size = 4; # in bytes my @cut_pos = ( # in samples 2074_000, 4883_000, 8980_000, 11650_000, 14481_000, 18040_000, 21049_000, 23165_000, 26015_000, 26944_000, 29629_000, 32673_000, 35535_000, 38537_000, 41476_000, 44149_000, 46809_000, 49191_000, 51804_000, 54644_000, 57864_000, 58528_000, 59297_000, 59958_000, 60619_000, 61281_000, 61961_000, 62631_000, 65831_000, 68947_000, 71953_000, 74710_000, 76207_000, ); my $pos = 0; my $item = 0; open IN, "<$filename" or die "No file!"; binmode IN; while (1) { my $data = ''; my $bytes = $item < scalar @cut_pos ? $sample_size*$cut_pos[$item] - $pos : -s $filename; read(IN, $data, $bytes) or last; $pos += length $data; print "Writing track $item..."; open OUT, sprintf(">track%02d.raw", $item++); binmode OUT; print OUT $data or die "Cannot write!"; close OUT; print "done!\n"; last if $item > 100; } close IN;
Posted 07 August 2007 - 03:39 PM
We don't particularly condone it - but there's nothing that says that you cannot share information in private through the board's private messenger or e-mail! Hint, hint!
Seriously though, the X-Com Apocalypse music file is composed of uncompressed audio combined into a single 300 megabyte file. You'd either have to be very patient, or have a broadband connection to get it in a timely manner.
Most people have broadband these days don't they?
Anyway I upped it in two smallish chunks
Posted 07 August 2007 - 11:20 PM
I'm switching over to Broadband when I next update my computer, but it irks me every time someone sends a multi megabyte PDF of a small newspaper scan that could've been typed in less time than it took to download, or some silly funny powerpoint slide. They should introduce something like a drivers license for net users!
But that aside, if you are able to obtain the 300 meg file and integrate it into the game, that's great. However the Apocalypse music does get a bit old after a while (I like some of the early half of the game's cityscape music though).
On XP, Apocalypse doesn't conk out like it used to whenever you alt-tabbed, so having a MP3, Mod/xp/st3/amf or even midi player with your favourite tunes playing in the background really helps set the mood. Quite enjoy mixing and matching game music like Unreal, Deus Ex, C&C, RA2, Warcraft II and Crusader No Regret, X-Com UFO, Doom and countless others for a bit of fun.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 12:21 PM
I might be able to get the music from the CD, though I'm not sure that's legal
Copyrights only work on things when used as a Whole if I remember correctly.
You can use the trigger of a glock and shove it into a rifle if it manages to fit, and its not illegal. =O
Although it probably should be due to safety reasons with firearms ^^'..
Its also not illegal to tear apart a furby and swap parts =O!
Edit: Forgot to quote ^^'..
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Eight Ball: For the love of God, would you stop jiggling me! How can I predict the future when I'm about to throw up?!
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Ripping it right now and uploading to Youtube... I dont know if it helps (3 years since topic start) but there is no music in the internet i have ever found and only one uploaded track is the combat music on youtube. And since this topic is coming one of the first google searches, i think i should post it here.
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Republic of South Sudan - Office of the President Abyei Joint Oversight Committee
Press Release
Abyei is Being Invaded Again by the Sudan
Abyei, 10th January 2013
The Sudan Government has made it clear during the meeting of Dr Nafai Ali Nafai, the Vice President of Republic of Sudan, with the leaders of Misseryia in Khartoum on 8th January 2013 to settle the Arab nomads in the Abyei Area so that they can take part in the Abyei Referendum and to change the outcome of Abyei to be part of Sudan. Sudan has come out with a clear plan to abstract the conduct of Abyei Referendum by settling the Arab nomads not in their traditional lands but in the land of the Ngok Dinka as defined by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. By settling the Arab nomads in Abyei area, the Government of Sudan will use the settlers to create confusion during the entire process of referendum in the Abyei Area, particularly during stages of registration, voting and declaration of results as echoed by some leaders of Misseriya.
While Sudan has been asking the AU Peace and Security Council for more time to engage with South Sudan over Abyei, the time requested by Sudan was only meant to take the parties to migration season during which the Sudan Government will directly assist in the settlement of the Arab nomads in the lands of Ngok Dinka. During my recent visit to the northern areas of the Abyei Area on 10th January 2013 the Arab nomads have already started with their normal migration season in Abyei Area and their settlement as declared by Khartoum will be seen during this month and when nomads return to their homelands in May.
This settlement of Arab nomads in the Abyei Area and the abstraction of Abyei Referendum will be happening in the presence of the United Nations unless efforts are exerted now to avert this anticipated chaos that might be caused by Sudan during the conduct of Abyei Referendum. Also, while the Sudan component of AJOC refused to sign the terms of reference for the Inter- Governmental Taskforce to coordinate the humanitarian assistance in the Abyei Area, a delegation from the Government of Sudan and the UN organizations in Khartoum visited Abyei without coordination with the South Sudan component of the AJOC to allegedly assess and coordinate the humanitarian assistance for the returnees. This trip was actually just a pretext to mobilize the humanitarian organizations to support the settlement plan of the Government of Sudan. In addition to this visit to Abyei area and in order to implement this settlement plan, the Government of Sudan has unilaterally formed the Abyei Commission for Humanitarian Affairs.
The timing of this visit by the Government of Sudan with UN organizations to the Abyei Area notably coincided very well with the declared policy of Khartoum to settle Arab nomads in the land of Ngok Dinka. Knowingly or unknowingly, under the pretext of humanitarian assistance to the returnees, the UN organizations and some international organizations from Khartoum are likely to take part in this settlement plan of Arab nomads in the area. While Khartoum has started mobilizing international assistance to support its plan of settlement of Arab nomads in Abyei area, the international community is unable to assist the return of the Ngok Dinka to their home areas. The result, those that were violently displaced remain displaced while others unjustly benefit from this crime with the support of members of the international community.
Equally, this settlement plan will be supported by the current presence of Sudan Armed Forces in Abyei Area in the form of oil police force that have become a source of insecurity in the area. This settlement plan by Khartoum with its military presence in Abyei may provoke reactions from the Ngok Dinka and the conflict that Sudan is to generate by its actions may undermine the period of relative peace in Abyei area after the deployment of the UN forces. Indeed it is likely that the presence of UN forces in the Abyei Area and the peace they provide to the area may be exploited by Khartoum to actually settle the Arab nomads rather than concentrate only on ensuring access of their livestock to water and pasture in the area. If this misuse of the UN forces occurs, the mandate of the UN forces will be undermined and its credibility will be tainted in the eyes of the Ngok Dinka and the Republic of South Sudan. The UN and the UN forces have a mandate to facilitate and provide humanitarian assistance in Abyei, not help from the Government of Sudan that furthers the fruits of its policy of forced displacement and abuses of human rights.
Given this serious development in the Abyei Area, I call upon the international community not only to condemn but also to stop this settlement plan of Khartoum through a clear mandate to the UN forces in the area. The AU Peace and Security Council and the UN Security Council are to ensure the immediate withdrawal of all armed forces of Sudan from Abyei area and to call the UN forces in Abyei area to provide not only security to the people, but to protect their properties including oil installation as per the UN Security Council Resolution No. 1990. I call upon the members of the AU Peace and Security and UN Security Council not to allow Sudan to continue with its delay game of not resolving the issue of Abyei, while it continues to take advantage of the international communities' patience and presence and commit more human rights abuses in the area by changing the demographic reality of the Abyei Area in favour of Arab nomads.
I call upon the UN and international organizations operating in the Abyei Area to distance themselves from this settlement plan of Khartoum by not engaging in any humanitarian assistance that may directly or indirectly support this settlement plan. Instead, their efforts should be to fulfill their existing commitments to aid the return of the Ngok Dinka displaced in May of 2011. It would be extremely difficult under such declared settlement plan by Khartoum to create the conducive atmosphere of trust required to establish a functioning administration in the Abyei Area and without clarity of the final status of Abyei area.
Luka Biong Deng
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