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- "None of yous is gonna get a medal for playing hero. All you's gonna get is a bullet to the heart!"
- ―Michael Keane to the bank hostages in Three Leaf Clover.
Michael Keane (Irish: Mícheál Ó Catháin), also known as Saint Michael, is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series, who appears as a minor character in Grand Theft Auto IV and The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Michael Keane is from Irish origins and a member of the McReary crime family. It is implied that his parents are siblings, although Michael never confirms or denies it. The insults are likely used to mock his intelligence.
He was often called "stupid" by Packie McReary and other members of the gang, and was often accused of being inbred. Packie also referred to him as "Saint Michael", mainly after his death.
He often worked with McReary and Gordon Sargent, specializing in robberies and hijackings.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV
Assault on the Ancelottis
Michael, alongside Gordon, meets Niko when they, alongside Packie, plan an assault on an Ancelotti crime family asset.
Michael accompanied McReary, Gordon, and Niko Bellic to the Ancelotti waste management plant on Colony Island, shooting their way in and successfully stealing the Ancelottis' payment. Keane and Sargent provided covering fire as McReary and Bellic made their escape. The two later escape as well.
At first Michael, like Gordon, is unsure of Niko; But after helping them steal the Ancelotti's money, he soon takes a liking to Niko.
Bank Heist and Death
Michael and Packie back Niko up when Gerald McReary doesn't want Niko to take part in the Bank Heist.
Soon after the former mission, Michael took part in a bank robbery at the Bank of Liberty in Chinatown, Algonquin, along with Packie, Derrick and Niko; but one of the hostages named Eugene Reaper, shot and killed him with a concealed gun, much to the distress of Packie who, along with Derrick, avenged Michael's death by immediately killing Reaper.
After the three surviving members had escaped in a car, Packie admits that he feels bad about his behavior towards Michael, and wishes he had been nicer to him.
Packie says that he will give Michael's part of the heist, $250000, to Michael's parents.
In Grand Theft Auto V, if Packie McReary is chosen as the gunman for The Paleto Score, he will mention the bank robbery he committed during the events of GTA IV. He mentions Michael, telling the rest of the crew that he was killed during the robbery, and avenged his death by killing the hostage.
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Mission Appearances
- Waste Not Want Knots
- Three Leaf Clover (Killed)
- The Ballad of Gay Tony
- I Luv LC (Killed)
- Packie frequently accuses Michael of being inbred, mentioning "I'm surprised you don't have three eyes, no balls, and a club foot" and "Your parents must have been twins to produce a kid as dumb as you". It can be noted that whenever Packie insults him in this manner, he never denies it, instead telling him to leave his parents out of the argument. Thus, it is unknown whether there is any truth to Packie's claims. It is likely that the inbred jibes are simply used to insult his intelligence.
- It is possible that Keane is named after GTA IV 's character artist Michael Kane.
- He mistakes the Gambetti crime family for "Gambino", a real-life crime family, and the Pegorino crime family the "Pecorino" family, a type of cheese.
- In Three Leaf Clover, when the crew enters the bank and holds everyone hostage, Michael says "None of yous is gonna' get a medal for playing hero. All yous gonna' get is a bullet to the heart." Ironically, this is how Michael himself dies when Eugene Reaper kills him.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Shaking off the rust from Christmas break, Lipscomb's track and field teams put together a strong showing at the Ed Temple Classic, Saturday, hosted by Tennessee State. Two school records were set by Lipscomb athletes at the Gentry Center, and Lipscomb's sprinters were excellent in relays and as individuals.
The biggest highlight for the men's team came in the 400m dash. Freshman Colin Dempster (49.40s) held off junior Bobby Bassett (49.75s) for the victory, just missing Bassett's school record of 49.36s in a race down to the wire.
Tucker Peabody set one of the school records in the 55m dash, finishing third with a 6.42s mark in the finals. He was second in the 200m dash, posting a 21.78s mark that was one-hundredth off the school record.
The 4x400m relay team finished fourth overall with a 3:23.14s run. Dempster, Bassett, Peabody and sophomore Ryan Whitley each ran a leg for the Bison.
"Tucker's performances were terrific," said Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor. "All our 400m runners ran terrific. Colin and Bobby put together great races; whatever 100 percent is, they gave it today. This time the freshman came out ahead, but it will be fun watching them compete with one another throughout the season."
Junior Logan Ray improved his personal-best in the triple jump by nearly two feet, hitting 48' 0" (14.63m) to finish fifth.
Freshman Houston Ward garnered a third-place finish in the weight throw, hitting a 12.97m (42' 6.75") mark.
The women's team also had a strong showing in the 400m, with junior Sara Stephens (1:00.44s), freshman Brenna Thompson (1:01.53s) and senior Valerie Winkler (1:01.97s) each winning their respective heats. Stephens finished sixth overall.
"All three women put together great heats," Taylor said. "Each of them winning their heats was very exciting."
Freshman April Terry raised the bar for the school's shot put record again, with an 11.41m (37' 5.25") toss netting her a seventh-place finish.
"This was a really great start to 2012 for both teams," Taylor concluded. "Across the board, we competed hard and showed great spirit. Even though they weren't competing today, the distance middle distance teams were there to cheer on their teammates. This is a great foundation to build on!"
Lipscomb will be back in action next weekend at the Saluki Booster in Carbondale, Ill.
Check LipscombSports.com for all the Lipscomb cross country and track and field news, and be sure to like us on Facebook (Lipscomb-university XC-track).

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Cornell University at its Sesquicentennial
Members of the University community:
The final version of the university's strategic plan is now available. The Strategic Planning Advisory Council appreciates the comments and suggestions from the university community over the past year.
Best Regards,
Ed Lawler and Kent Fuchs
A Strategic Plan
May 11, 2010
- Download the Strategic Plan (pdf)
- Download the Strategic Plan Summary (pdf)
- Preamble
- Cornell's Enduring Commitments
- The Institution and Its Environment
- Goal Areas: Objectives and Actions
- Strategic Initiatives for 2010-2015
- Excellence in Organizational Stewardship
- Cornell at its Sesquicentennial
- Appendices
Appendix A: Structure and Process of Strategic Planning 2010Appendix B: Cornell's Statement on DiversityAppendix C: Student Learning OutcomesAppendix D: Assessing Progress 2010-2015
Section I
Executive Summary
The Approach
This strategic plan treats Cornell University as a single unit or entity. Cornell, aptly described as the "first American university," is today a comprehensive university that combines the finest attributes of an Ivy League institution with a deep commitment to public service, stemming from its history as a land grant institution. The academic strengths of the university are grounded in a wide range of outstanding colleges and schools, each of which has achieved academic excellence and a position of distinction in its own field. Cornell is a productive conglomeration of very strong colleges and schools, and it also is a whole greater than the sum of these parts. The focus of this strategic plan is that "greater sum," rather than the particular subunits or parts that compose it. The plan proposes university-wide goals and actions that crosscut or transcend the boundaries of colleges, schools, and administrative units. It suggests that the university can take even greater advantage of its distributed strengths while also reinforcing those strengths and facilitating the "bottom-up" blossoming of innovation and creativity characteristic of the colleges and schools. The relationship of individual academic units to the central administration of the university should involve an ongoing dynamic interchange.
Developing a strategic plan with a focus on Cornell as a single entity is important. The challenges and opportunities of Cornell's changing environment suggest the need for enhanced institutional capacity to act as a unit, that is, to chart strategic directions and mobilize colleges and schools around those directions. A few examples: The renewal of Cornell's faculty is a major issue for the university in light of anticipated retirements over the next ten to fifteen years, and this requires an institution-wide response. This challenge also presents an opportunity to increase significantly the diversity of the faculty. The growing infrastructure costs of research and scholarship (e.g., libraries, research facilities) require an institutional response that sets priorities and ensures support is cost-effective. Financial pressures from the cumulative declines in state support for the land grant mission create a need to rethink how the university fulfills and revitalizes Cornell's unique commitment to public engagement and whether historic structures and practices will be adequate in the future. Institutional, university-wide strategies and tactics will help Cornell meet such challenges effectively over the next five years and take advantage of opportunities for academic enhancements.
An Aspiration
The plan puts forth an overarching aspiration for the university: to be widely recognized as a top-ten research university in the world, and a model university for the interweaving of liberal education and fundamental knowledge with practical education and impact on societal and world problems. This aspiration reflects both Cornell's stature as a first-tier, Ivy League institution of higher education and its special and unique capacity to bridge the world of thought and ideas and the world of practice and action. Having an overarching aspiration for the institution as a whole is important for the one-university theme of this plan.
The general strategy proposed here for achieving this aspiration is captured by two words: focus and connectivity. (1) Focus on strong or potentially strong academic programs that are strategically important to the university and maintain areas of excellence within each of the basic academic groupings-humanities and the arts; life sciences and agricultural sciences; physical sciences and engineering; social sciences; and professional schools. In other words, create and maintain academic leadership across all of the broad areas but do so selectively and strategically within each. (2) Build greater connectivity among the diverse colleges, schools, and programs around these basic academic areas by developing new integrations, boundary-crossing structures, and productive synergies. Greater connectivity implies that it will be easy for students and faculty to cross college and program boundaries in pursuit of their academic goals. The idea is to make academic boundaries at Cornell as permeable and seamless as possible.
The main elements of this document include Goal Areas with associated Objectives and Actions which define areas of focus for the plan and steps for achievement. Among these, there are Priorities that provide direction on where to start. Strategic Initiatives then describe in more detail how the priorities can be implemented.
Specific Objectives and Actions
This plan develops a series of specific objectives (ends) and actions (means) to enhance excellence in five central domains or goal area of the university: Faculty; Education; Research, Scholarship, and Creativity; Outreach and Public Engagement; Staff and Organizational Stewardship. The Faculty section emphasizes the importance of increasing the size and quality of faculty in strategically important areas, enhancing the diversity of faculty, and anticipating future retirements by pre-filling positions and recruiting at lower ranks. The Education section identifies ways to enhance excellence in teaching across the university and ways to enable students to take full advantage of the university's educational breadth through more field-based or international activities in which they "engage the world" in their academic work under faculty supervision. The health and well-being of students are included as conditions for academic and life success. A key theme is to make public engagement and impact a more distinctive component of education at Cornell. The Research, Scholarship, and Creativity section stresses the need to increase the number of academic departments that achieve a position of leadership, strengthen support for emerging interdisciplinary areas, and provide libraries and shared research facilities. In the section on Public Engagement, the outreach mission is broadly defined as "public engagement" so as to include the entire university. The plan suggests the need for a rigorous assessment of the university's public engagement and impact with an eye toward connecting these activities even more closely to educational and research strengths on campus. A section on Staff Excellence affirms the critical role of staff in support of the academic mission and the importance of being an exemplary employer; under Organizational Stewardship, the plan develops objectives and actions for how the management of key resources (finance, capital, and information technology) can efficiently support the academic mission. Effective organizational stewardship will be necessary to free up the resources important for achieving the strategic initiatives of this plan. Overall, the specific objectives and actions of the plan suggest the need to move on a number of fronts to keep abreast of the competition and enhance academic excellence.
Strategic Priorities and Initiatives
The highest overall priority proposed for the next five years is to enhance faculty excellence. Such a priority is timely and important because of the need to anticipate and be proactive about forthcoming faculty retirements. Along with a faculty excellence priority, special emphasis should be given to promoting and recognizing excellence and leadership in research, scholarship, creativity, and graduate education. Improving the quality of research and graduate education is critical for ensuring a place among the top-ten research universities in the world. These emphases can and should be pursued with a parallel focus on enhancing the teaching of undergraduates. Excellence in teaching is an integral component of faculty excellence, and this plan affirms Cornell's commitment to have faculty who achieve excellence in both research and teaching. Research and teaching quality should be inextricably bound together at Cornell University.
In the context of these overarching priorities, the plan proposes seven strategic initiatives over the next five years.
- Faculty renewal in the context of academic priorities and substantial retirements. Identify strategically important departments where the age distribution will result in a significant loss of reputation over the next ten years and develop multi-year hiring plans giving priority to recruiting new Ph.D.s and "rising stars." Use pre-fills of retirements, internal reallocation, and fund-raising to generate necessary resources.
- Identify a few departments or fields of critical importance to the university and move them into a position of world leadership while working to prevent others from losing such stature. Identify departments on the cusp of leadership or on the verge of losing it and make proactive efforts to generate or preserve that leadership.
- Create a culture in support of teaching in every department across campus. Improve assessments of teaching and enhance the importance of teaching excellence through the allocation of resources to departments, programs, and faculty. Identify good models for promoting a culture in support of teaching and use these as benchmarks to assess and improve teaching in other units.
- Develop stronger connections across colleges to enhance educational opportunities for students and the quality and stature of disciplines or fields. Develop policies that encourage students in one college or campus to take courses in another, and devise new mechanisms of coordination and connectivity across academic disciplines or across colleges within a given academic discipline.
- Implement strategically focused, cost-effective enhancements to the infrastructure in support of research, scholarship, and creativity. This includes in particular the university libraries, shared research facilities in the sciences and social sciences, and administrative support for faculty applying for or managing research grants.
- Make significant progress toward a more diverse faculty, student body, and staff in terms of gender and race and ethnicity. Establish explicit and ambitious goals, considering appropriate pipelines and the importance of "critical mass"; enhance recruitment and retention processes; and ensure that mechanisms holding units accountable are effective.
- Strongly connect outreach and public engagement with Cornell's areas of strength in research, scholarship, and education. Broadly redefine the outreach mission as public engagement and impact, extend it across campus, and develop approaches appropriate to different academic disciplines or fields; strengthen opportunities for students to "engage the world" as part of their academic work.
The plan develops a framework for assessing progress that emphasizes the importance of (a) multiple measures for a given objective or priority, (b) combining quantitative metrics and qualitative indicators, and (c) minimizing the staff time devoted to such measurements. This plan specifies a core set of metrics for assessing institutional progress toward key priorities. For example, these include the number of top-ranked programs and departments; amount and nature of faculty hiring; faculty and staff compensation; the age distribution of faculty; diversity of the faculty, students, and staff; student learning outcomes; student surveys; library rankings; and sponsored research. Such metrics need to be supplemented with qualitative assessments by colleges and regular external reviews of academic programs. The mechanisms of assessment should be developed and finalized at the implementation stage of this strategic plan and in consultation with academic units.
- Preamble
- Cornell's Enduring Commitments
- The Institution and Its Environment
- Goal Areas: Objectives and Actions
- Strategic Initiatives for 2010-2015
- Excellence in Organizational Stewardship
- Cornell at its Sesquicentennial
- Appendices
Appendix A: Structure and Process of Strategic Planning 2010Appendix B: Cornell's Statement on DiversityAppendix C: Student Learning OutcomesAppendix D: Assessing Progress 2010-2015
- Strategic Plan Summary
- Posted June 8, 2010
- Strategic Plan (final)
- Posted May 27, 2010


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The Dell Studio One 19 (EO19-USE012CS) ($999.99 list), which is available at Costco, is very similar to the Studio One 19 I looked at earlier this year. Like the previous iteration, this Studio One 19 is a smallish all in one PC with a 18.5-inch touch screen panel. It's more powerful than the sub $600 all in one nettops we're seeing on the market these days, and it's also priced accordingly. It has all the PC hardware squeezed in behind the screen, so it's sleek like the Apple iMac. It's a good way to try out the "touch" that will be part of Windows 7, especially if you need a system for back to school now.
Except for the fact that the Studio One 19 (EO19-USE012CS) comes with black speakers, and the first Studio One 19 had red speakers, not much differentiates the two systems on the outside. Both have the same rounded flat panel TV look, and those speakers really sound good when playing back music or audio from Web videos. They have some of the best stereo separation I've heard in an all in one PC, especially when sitting in front of the system. The wireless keyboard and mouse complete the Studio One 19's design aesthetic: There are no wires to muck up the system's clean lines except for the required power cable.
The Studio One 19 (EO19-USE012CS)'s touch screen is just as responsive as its predecessor, though I still needed to touch the screen more than once while surfing the Web in Internet Explorer 7. Upgrading to IE 8 didn't help much, though I'm hoping that upgrading to Windows 7 later will help touch functionality. Other touch navigation including the "Touch Zone" interface was quick and snappy. It's not quite the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch's level of touch accuracy, but it's still one of the better touch interfaces on a PC.
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From the new e-Guide to documentED, a tailored service for preparation and follow-up on visits to memorials, the June 2018 edition of the magazine "Lernen aus der Geschichte" (Learning from History)—entitled "Learning with Documents: The Educational Work of the ITS"—is devoted to the work of the International Tracing...learn more
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So great is the deference Americans pay to the office of president of the United States that it must be a rare event when a United States senator, summoned to the White House for a conference, pounds his fist on the president's desk and demands answers. Yet such a scene was vividly described by George Victor in his 2007 book, The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable. The encounter took place on the afternoon of December 7, 1941, the "date which will live in infamy." Franklin D. Roosevelt had met with his cabinet and was preparing the speech he would deliver the next day to a joint session of Congress, asking for a declaration of war against the empire of Japan. A bipartisan group of congressional leaders arrived and were listening respectfully to the president's account of what had happened when Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, a Democrat and a strong supporter of the president, sprang to his feet, pounded the desk with his fist and, shouting at Roosevelt, demanded to know:
How did it happen that our warships were caught like tame ducks in Pearl Harbor? How did they catch us with our pants down? Where were our patrols?
The commander in chief of the army and navy expressed a strange bewilderment.
"I don't know, Tom. I just don't know."
The questioning stopped soon after. By the time Roosevelt delivered his "date of infamy" speech the next day, the nation was united behind the president and against the "treacherous" Japanese, who had launched the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor. The "cowardly attack" and the "duplicity of the Japanese," were bitterly denounced in editorials across the nation, all conveying the sentiment summed up in the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle: "Oh the dishonesty and trickery of it all!"
Few were inclined to ask at such a time, "Whose trickery?"
Roosevelt's deceptions were almost too subtle for detection and his countrymen, understandably furious at being attacked, were not in a mood to listen carefully or read between the lines. On December 7, Secretary of State Cordell Hull began his statement to the press with what appeared to be a simple summation of the obvious: "Japan has made a treacherous and utterly unprovoked attack on the United States." The following day Roosevelt, in his "date of infamy" speech to Congress, said "the Japanese Government has sought to deceive the United States by false statements and more expressions of hope for continued peace."
Neither statement, Victor pointed out, said the attack caught the administration by surprise. But each implied so. And nearly everyone assumed it was the case. Roosevelt was a master of communication and for such an historic speech he no doubt chose each word with special care. So while few would notice the difference, he did not say the Japanese government deceived the United States. He said they "sought" to deceive the United States. Did they succeed?
The story has oft been told since of how our military intelligence had broken the Japanese military and diplomatic codes and were routinely intercepting and reading their messages; of how exposed and vulnerable our Navy was at Pearl Harbor; of how warnings of the impending attack were sent to Washington, then withheld from the commanders in Hawaii, who later were made scapegoats for the disaster; of how Roosevelt, determined to enter the European war to rescue Great Britain, harassed German ships and otherwise tried to provoke Germany into initiating hostilities; how Japan, with its mutual defense agreement with Berlin, became Roosevelt's "back door to war" with Germany; of how the embargo against Japan was designed to force the Nipponese hand. That story is recounted thoroughly and well by James Perloff elsewhere on this site.
Yet the myth has proved remarkably resistant to the facts. Roosevelt's defenders marched dutifully into the state of denial and many remain there to this day. "The question," wrote Secretary of War Henry Stimson in his diary following a November 25, 1941 meeting with the president and his advisers, "was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without too much damage to ourselves." Remarkably, Victor noted, "Stimson's apparent meaning was unacceptable to generations of scholars. Most ignored his diary note. Others explained it away, saying he wrote it in haste, inadvertently making a poor choice of words." In a word from Victor's subtitle, the truth was simply "unthinkable." Even when told by an historian of the stature of Charles Beard in Beard's Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, the account was dismissed as a the work of a "revisionist" historian and a "conspiracy theorist."
The labels are interesting. The use of "revisionist" as an epithet implies an assumption that the first version always gets it right. (The "first draft of history" is a phrase often used to describe journalism, not history.) And to inveigh against a "conspiracy theorist" is to ignore the fact that most evil acts of great consequence are performed by people working together in secret. Perpetrators of dastardly deeds do not often issue press releases announcing them in advance — though we seemed to expect that courtesy from the Japanese warlords, judging by the bitter denunciations of the "sneak attack." We have no problem believing the Japanese conspired to attack Pearl Harbor. Why is it then so hard to believe that Roosevelt, who devoutly believed in the necessity of bringing the United States into the war against the Axis powers, would conspire to do so?
Many deny the truth because they see it (rightly) as a stain on Roosevelt's character. "However, nothing in his history suggests that this man could plot to sink American ships and kill thousands of American soldiers and sailors," came the indignant response of Gordon Prange in Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. Stimson's biographer, Elting E. Morison, made the interesting argument that the Pearl Harbor disaster was so bad, no one on our side could have planned it. "Not even a system schemed out in total depravity to produce all the wrong things at all the wrong times could have organized such compounding error and misfortune," he wrote.
No, Roosevelt did not plot all the "error and misfortune" of that day. The now-famous entry in Stimson's diary speaks of getting Japan to fire the first shot "without too much damage to ourselves." How much damage would be "too much"? Anything beyond a minor skirmish would likely be sufficient to pull America into the war. It's possible Roosevelt and his military advisors underestimated both the strength of the Japanese navy and air force and the vulnerability of our defenses at Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt may have calculated the loss of lives, planes, and ships would be far less than it turned out to be. In his calculations, the loss of lives may have been greater later on if we did not enter the war when we did. We can only speculate on how many deaths and injuries to what number of solider and sailors at Pearl Harbor Roosevelt might have thought acceptable in justifying his duplicity.
Yet even historians who have recounted that duplicity have rationalized the deceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that brought a reluctant America into a world conflagration for the second time in less than a quarter of a century. Roosevelt, it appears, had to deceive us for our and the world's own good. "As heinous as it seems to families and veterans of World War II, of which this author is one," wrote Robert B. Stinnet in Day of Deceit: The Truth About Pearl Harbor, "the Pearl harbor attack was, from the White House perspective, something to be endured in order to stop a greater evil — the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England."
In fact, Hitler had abandoned the goal of invading England and had instead invaded Russia in June 1941. Most Americans were willing to let the two enemies of freedom destroy one another without our help. "Despite his pleadings and persuasions," Stinnet wrote, "powerful isolationist forces prevented Roosevelt from getting into the European war."
The "isolationist" label is still used today to discredit anyone who believes in a Constitution that ordains a government to "provide for the common defense," but nowhere authorizes that government to settle all the world's disputes and to, as John Quincy Adams put it, go abroad "in search of monsters to destroy." Nor does it authorize the executive branch to decide for the American people whether or when to go to war.
It is often recalled that World War II was the last time Congress formally declared war, despite the number of conflicts we have entered since then. But in reality, the decision was not made by Congress. Once Roosevelt had maneuvered the Japanese into firing the first shot, Congress had virtually no choice but to grant the president's request for a declaration of war against an enemy that had attacked us. The decision for war had been made months earlier in the White House.
Since then, Harry Truman committed the nation to a war (a United Nations "police action") in Korea without so much as a "by your leave" to Congress. America went to war in Vietnam, twice with Iraq, and into our longest war in Afghanistan, with vaguely worded, open-ended resolutions that basically let the president decide. Even that was conceding too much to Congress, thought former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was Secretary of Defense in 1990 when President George H.W. Bush sought a resolution from Congress authorizing the use of military force to drive Iraq's army out of Kuwait. In his memoir, In My Time, Cheney recalled why he opposed putting the question to Congress.
"I told Garrick Utley [on Meet the Press] that I loved Congress," wrote Cheney, a former Republican congressman from Wyoming. "But I also had a sense of its limitations." As an example of those "limitations," he cited the fact that in September 1941, just three months before Pearl Harbor, Congress had decided by only one vote to extend the military draft. "I also emphasized that putting the nation's security in the hands of 535 members of the U.S. Congress could be a risky proposition," he wrote. "And I cautioned that a drawn-out debate in Congress could convey a sense to our allies and to Saddam [Hussein] that we weren't resolute in our commitment to liberate Kuwait."
Cheney may have loved Congress, but he obviously didn't have much respect for it. The question of putting the question of war or peace in the hands of the Congress had already been decided by our Constitution, regardless of what our allies or some distant dictator might think of congressional debate. The idea that the decision had already been made prompted one member of Congress to challenge the argument that the lawmakers should "support American policy."
"What are we," asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), "the Canadian consulate?"
Congress did debate and finally approve the resolution, but President Bush made it clear he considered that a needless formality: "I didn't have to get permission from some old goat in Congress," Bush boasted when campaigning (unsuccessfully) for reelection in 1992.
At least Roosevelt recognized his need for the Congress, if only to validate a decision for war he had made long before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The responses received to CMI Working Paper 27 and the draft library of mortality projections have been summarised in CMI Working Paper 30, as well as the CMI's reaction to these points, and the resultant changes incorporated in version 1.0 of the library.
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Subsequent to the publication of CMI Working Paper 27 the CMI became aware that the dataset for permanent assurances for male lives used in recent research into mortality projections included initial exposures but was used as if these were central exposures. As a result, the results published in Working Papers 20, 25 and 27 and the projections in the draft library that used this dataset were inaccurate. The following errata and revisions are available:
CMI Working Paper 27 was not re-issued, as it was felt preferable to retain the version on which consultation took place. In addition it has effectively been superseded by CMI Working Paper 30, and the user guide.
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Jayasurya's life turned literally from rags to riches when director Vinayan made him the hero of his film, Oomappenninu Uriyada Payyan. That was on the recommendation of the director's son who had seen Jayasurya anchoring a TV show.
It has been a roller coaster ride for him ever since and he has switched from solo hero projects to multi hero ones and recorded some impressive hits to his credit. His roles in some whopping hits like Swapnakkoodu, Classmates, Arabikkatha and more recently, in Chocolate, has made Jayasurya one of the most promising youngsters in the Malayalam film industry.
In this interview, Jayasurya talks about his career and of course life after the success of Chocolate.
Your latest release Chocolate is turning out to be a big hit. How do you feel about that?
Absolutely thrilled. The film has been a winner from day one and I am really happy about its success. I have an interesting role in the film -- that of a fashion designer. He is soft spoken and is unable to open up his heart to the girl whom he adores.
How was it getting back to the campus after a while?
We have thoroughly enjoyed the making of the film, mainly as the director, Shafi always makes it a point to maintain a friendly atmosphere on the sets. The film has Prithviraj, Roma, Samvritha Sunil and Remya Nambeeshan among others, playing students in a women's college. With so many youngsters in the cast, the energy level on the location was amazing.
You have found tremendous success whenever you teamed up with Prithviraj. What do you think is the reason?
(Laughs) That's true. The reason for the success could be that he chooses only good films, which makes my job easier!
On a serious note, we share a great chemistry off screen and perhaps, we have been able to carry it on to the screen as well. Films like Swapnakkoodu, Classmates and of course, Chocolate have been examples. Now, I'm doing another film with him called Kangaroo to be directed by Raj Babu.
Let me also remind you that I have been doing films with other heroes as well. I did Bus Conductor with Mammootty, Kichamani MBA with Suresh Gopi, Arabikkatha with Sreenivasan and Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan? with Indrajith and Manikkuttan.
You have made your entry into films as a hero but is now seen mainly playing roles in films with other heroes. Do you feel uncomfortable about this fact?
Let me put it this way, you have to be lucky enough to get into this world and much more lucky to remain here. Lots of actors with much better talents have failed to make an impact. What we can do then is to be careful about the kind of roles we choose. I have been receiving some spectacular roles in films with other heroes and I don't find a reason why I should not accept it.
I have found great success in my career doing multi hero projects, like my role in Classmates. My role was that of a student leader called Satheesan Kanjikkuzhy who will do anything to safeguard his ambitions.
In Arabikkatha, my character is again cunning, but is very practical as well. He knows that just being honest will not fetch you enough to live.
Now there is Chocolate. All these prove that hero or not, it is the depth of the role that matters.
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Of course, I am also doing projects as a hero in between, Changathipoocha being a recent example. Two projects, Currency to be directed by Swathi Bhaskar and Shakespeare by a debutant director are among my forthcoming films.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
In perhaps their strongest effort of the year, the UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team came up just short today against visiting No. 49 and 1st place conference leader Long Beach State, 4-3. The loss extends the Gauchos slide to four games, and they now find themselves at 7-11 overall, and 2-3 in Big West play.
"We're not discouraged at 4-3 with Long Beach," head coach Pete Kirkwood said. "They beat Irvine 6-1, Northridge 6-1, Fullerton 7-0, basically mowing through the conference. We feel pretty good about how we played today."
In doubles play, Long Beach State lead off at No. 2 with an 8-3 victory, as Stephanie Jeanes and Jessica Weeks defeated the Gaucho pair of Asagi Onaga and Jill Damion. UC Santa Barbara responded promptly when the duo of Tova Hausman and Brittany Kausen took down the 49ers Deborah Armstrong and Lisa Sutton 8-6. The Gauchos sealed the doubles point at No. 1, as Charlotte Scatliffe and Marta Simic dropped the No. 31 ranked doubles team in the country, of Hannah Grady and Stephanie Bengson 8-6.
Long Beach State roared back in singles play, winning the first four matches to capture the victory against UCSB. Nationally ranked Hannah Grady started the winning trend for Long Beach State, when she defeated Marta Simic in straight sets 6-0, 6-3. The match was official when 49er Stephanie Jeanes ousted Charlotte Scatliffe 6-2, 7-6 (6), at the No. 4 doubles slot.
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Long Beach State 4, UC Santa Barbara 3
No. 1 Hannah Grady (LBSU) def. Marta Simic 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 Stephanie Bengson (LBSU) def. Jill Damion 6-2, 6-1
No. 3 Asagi Onaga (UCSB) def. Deborah Armstrong (LBSU) 6-4, 7-5
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No. 5 Tova Hausman (UCSB) def. Jessica Weeks (LBSU) 6-4, 6-3
No. 6 Lisa Sutton (LBSU) def. Brittany Kausen (UCSB) 6-2, 6-3
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Jack Griffith's recent days have started to mirror the melancholy cowboy songs he sings any chance he gets. Unlike the drovers in many of those tunes, Griffith is not dying, but he is gradually hanging up his spurs.
Griffith and his wife Leona used to host Roundup Suppers at their ranch north of Walton. He would take people out in a coach, pulled by two Belgian horses he raised, to a place in his pasture. During the trek, he would tell cowboy stories. In the pasture, Griffith had fashioned a wooden stage and picnic tables. As his guests ate their meal of barbecue brisket, he would strum his guitar and belt out songs like "Cowboy Jack" and "Streets of Laredo."
"Cowboy Jack" is where Griffith derived his name; his given name is Kenneth. It's one of the oldest songs he knows, learning the simple chords when he was just 10 years old.
Griffith said, at 84, he is too old to for those roundup suppers. He used to play at Prairie Rose in Cowtown in Wichita but he is too old for that too.
However, Griffith is not retiring from singing. In truth, he can't stop. Griffith's incarnation as a cowboy singer has been a second career over the past 20 years. He has always sung in church though. He plans on continuing to perform a mixture of Gospel and western songs in rest homes and senior centers whenever he can, although not as often as he used to.
Griffith's voice sounds like strong black coffee and hard tack, enhanced with a bit of sharp prairie wind. It's hard to imagine him singing anything other than cowboy classics. He said his characteristic deep gritty pitch seeps through for his Gospel renditions.
He identifies with cowboys and he has some traits in common with the 1800s drovers who brought longhorns from Texas to Abilene. Griffith's first career was as a rancher. Along one of the walls of his home, he has showmanship trophies won from Fort Worth to Denver in the 1980s, proving his cattle-raising chops. Along with the cattle, he also raised red quarter horses, which was part of the inspiration for the roundup suppers.
There are traditional characteristics of cowboys Griffith admires. There's fierce independence. One of Griffith's favorite stories is a 1930s ranch hand telling an English visitor to Wyoming that he had no master. The Brit only asked for his boss using the preferred English colloquialism, but it was the spirit that mattered.
"They had a mind of their own," Griffith said.
There's also the cowboy code, which to Griffith is doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do. He's tried to live his life by that code whenever possible. While he never had to stare down a cattle rustler, Griffith was in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, part of an artillery division. Mostly, he has tried to live his life by the code with smaller measures, like pulling a neighbor out of a mud road and asking for nothing more than a simple thank you.
It's easy enough to imagine a young Griffith, weaving his way between cattle, singing to keep the slow moving beasts on track. It's even easier to imagine him sitting on a simple stage singing "Don't Fence Me In."
More than "Cowboy Jack", "Don't Fence Me In" should be Griffith's anthem because he has lived a diverse life. And he is not quite ready to close all of his gates just yet.


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Hey, FFDG, in our new location at 248 Fillmore @Haight, will be open during the Lower Haight Art Walk (Spring Edition) this Friday, April 1st 6-9:30pm.
Tons of drink and food specials and, of course, art scattered about the neighborhood... We'll be drinking Tecates and listening to music. Last chance to view West, Wester, Westest as well. ~more info
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Benton Harbor Michigan is made up of 92% African-Americans and is the first city in Michigan that our new dictator Governor Rick Snyder has targeted for takeover by an "Emergency Financial Manager". This is scary stuff, people. If you aren't sitting up in your chair with your jaw on your chest, you haven't read far enough. Eclectablog has all the details, go look at it. I'm pasting just a piece of his first post on the matter, this is BREAKING NEWS and I'm sure he will keep us updated, bookmark his site.
Today, for the first time, an EFM did just that. According to a press release from the Michigan AFL-CIO, Joseph L. Harris, EFM for Benton Harbor, Michigan issued "an order prohibiting all action by all city boards, commissions, authorities and other entities, except as authorized by the emergency manager."
And you thought that you got to pick your elected leaders, think again. I'm thinking of getting in my car and driving to Lansing to storm the castle. And I thought I was going to have a relaxing weekend.
Updated: Rachel Maddow does two stories on our nutty Governor. I love that woman.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The sound was abruptly cut in the Guantanamo war crimes court on Monday, prompting the angry judge to question whether someone outside the room was censoring pretrial hearings for five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
In all hearings for the alleged al Qaeda operatives who were previously held in secret CIA prisons, a court security officer seated near the judge controls a button that muffles the audio feed to spectators when secret information is disclosed. A red light flashes and observers hear nothing but static.
The feed was cut when David Nevin, a lawyer for the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, asked if the lawyers and judges needed to meet in closed session before considering a defense request.
When the feed was restored moments later, the judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, indicated it wasn't the court security officer who cut the sound in the proceedings formally known as military commissions.
"If some external body is turning things off, if someone is turning the commissions off under their own views of what things ought to be, with no reason or explanation, then we are going to have a little meeting about who turns that light on or off," Pohl said tersely.
He seemed to be addressing the prosecution team and told them that Nevin had merely referred to the caption of an unclassified document - one asking the judge to order that the secret CIA prisons where the defendants say they were tortured be preserved as evidence.
A short time later, the judge said he would meet in closed session with the lawyers and reopen the public part of the hearing on Tuesday. The episode enlivened the first day of a weeklong pretrial hearing in the military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
Mohammed and his four co-defendants are accused of training and aiding the hijackers who slammed commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001. They could be executed if convicted of charges that include terrorism, attacking civilians and murdering 2,976 people.
Under a program during the presidency of George W. Bush, the defendants were among the suspected al Qaeda captives who were moved across borders without judicial review and held and interrogated in secret CIA prisons overseas.
The CIA has acknowledged that Mohammed was subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding. The defendants said they also were subjected to sleep deprivation, threats, and being chained in painful positions.
The defense lawyers argue that constituted illegal pretrial punishment and "outrageous government misconduct" that could justify dismissal of the charges, or at least spare the defendants from execution if convicted.
Pohl ordered in 2004 that the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq be preserved as a "crime scene." He was at the time presiding over the trial of U.S. military police officers accused of torturing and photographing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
It was unclear whether Pohl had authority to order the preservation of the CIA prisons, if they still exist. The government has kept secret their location, arguing that disclosure could threaten U.S. national security and put allies at risk.
Polish prosecutors are investigating allegations that one of the sites was in Poland, and there is evidence that the CIA set up others in Romania, Lithuania and Thailand, according to reports by the Council of Europe and the United Nations.
The chief prosecutor, Brigadier General Mark Martins, said he does not plan to introduce evidence obtained from the defendants or anyone else via torture, cruelty or inhuman treatment - which is prohibited by U.S. law and international treaty.
In a departure from the Bush administration, the Obama administration has made clear that any interrogation techniques must adhere to those long established in the Army Field Manual, which prohibits torture.
The defendants have been in U.S. custody for a decade, but there are still many legal and evidentiary issues that must be resolved before their trial begins.
Three of them wore camouflage jackets and accessories over their white tunics in court on Monday. As in earlier hearings, they alternated between refusing to answer the judge and critiquing the United States and the court. All five said they understood their legal rights could be compromised if the judge granted their request to skip some court sessions.
"We don't have any motivating factors that would invite us to come to court," said Yemeni defendant Walid bin Attash, who said restrictions at Guantanamo had thwarted efforts to build trust with defense lawyers.
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China is seeing a serious property bubble in many smaller inland cities, due to severe oversupply issues and persisting structural problems, according to Citibank researchers.
The bank says the overall property market in China remains robust, especially in major metropolitan cities, provincial capitals, and key cities in the provinces.
However, many smaller inland cities in northern, central and western China, where local economies rely on resource production or manufacturing, "confront serious bubbles and have become veritable ghost towns," Citi analysts Oscar Choi and Marco Sze said in a research note released this week.
Ordos in northern Inner Mongolia province, Yingkou in northeastern Liaoning province, and Tangshan in northern Hebei province are "worst in the pool" in terms of oversupply issue and troubled economies.
"The local property bubbles are more structural, not only reflected in oversupply, but also weak demand, decreasing population, weak local economies and deteriorating living environments," the note said.
However, the analysts argued that the concern for a nationwide housing bubble may be exaggerated and it is "unlikely" that a bubble burst similar to what happened in the U.S. after the subprime mortgage crisis would be repeated in China.
The bank expects that the potential market correction in these cities may be triggered by population flows from inland China to coastal areas and the 10 key metropolitan areas, such as the Yangtze River Delta, Bohai Rim, and the Pearl River Delta.
"We should see gradual deterioration in weak Tier 3/4 markets rather than a sudden burst," said the analysts.
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ACC M5: 03.12.14 EditionPosted by mpatton on March 12th, 2014
- Winston-Salem Journal: This may seem like a weird article to lead things off, but I think the biggest impact of the recent Greensboro Coliseum renovation is going to be AT&T's investment that should theoretically end the dreaded poor cellular service at packed sporting events. They wired up the Greensboro Coliseum to help deal with the massive volume of data being used in such a small area. I'm hoping the wireless Internet got an upgrade too, but this will have much more impact on the fan experience.
- Richmond Times-Dispatch: James Johnson's future at Virginia Tech won't be decided until after the ACC Tournament. It's tough to judge Johnson's body of work because his first season was essentially a throwaway since he was hired so late. Judging this season as his first makes me much more willing to give him another year to show significant improvement. That said, Virginia Tech has been really bad over those two seasons. And say what you want about Seth Greenberg, but he kept the Hokies competitive during his tenure in Blacksburg. Throwing in the new athletic director leads me to think this is probably Johnson's last gasp, but Whit Babcock needs to make the decision promptly, whatever it turns out to be.
- Duke Basketball Report: Sticking with coaching hires for a minute, this is an interesting look at how some ACC schools might have missed their shot with Gregg Marshall. I don't have a good read on Marshall at all, but something is off in that he didn't get plucked from Winthrop sooner. So I don't blame ACC schools. But I do agree with the general premise that it will be significantly more difficult to woo Marshall away from Wichita State to turn around Wake Forest. I think he's biding his time until the next really big opening.
- Syracuse Post-Standard: Jim Boeheim has found out for the millionth time that the Internet can't handle sarcasm very well. Reporters continue to ask him about playing in Greensboro. I'm not sure if that's to bait him into another funny comment, or because they didn't understand in the first place. But he spelled it out: "All [his disparaging comments] is just a Northern, not-funny guy trying to make some humorous remarks that people tend to want to take the wrong way. [….] Obviously for us, we're in New York. We'd like to go to New York. It's right there."
- Backing the Pack: TJ Warren won ACC Player of the Year, and he deserved it. His conference scoring numbers were ridiculous both from a per-game view and an efficiency vantage. Now the bigger question: how far can Warren carry the Wolfpack?


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Monday, November 14, 2016
Meal Planning Monday 2016 - Week 46
Posted on 12:23 PM by Jacquelin Estrela
Prior to my cat being ill I was trying to declutter and found a huge folder of Weightwatchers recipes torn out of their magazines. I haven't followed Weightwatchers for a long time and have probably enough recipes to cook something different every day for the rest of my life, but wanted to use a few of them before getting rid of the rest! So these recipes are from various magazines from several years ago - I will share some of my versions of the recipes on my blog over the coming weeks, if I get back into blogging - giving my kitty cat some extra love has been my priority recently.
Monday - curried fish pie from Weightwatchers magazine for me, with chicken for him as he doesn't eat fish.
Tuesday - tortelloni pasta with pumpkin and sage from Weightwatchers magazine - but I think I will use butternut squash
Wednesday - teriyaki salmon from Weightwatchers magazine for me, with beef medallions for him
Thursday - chicken in a creamy tarragon sauce from Weightwatchers magazine
Friday - tuna polpette in red pepper sauce from Weightwatchers magazine; spaghetti and meatballs for him
Saturday lunch - soup with crusty bread
dinner: chicken fajitas and enchiladas I was going to do last week but didn't
dessert: pear and hazelnut crumble for me, from Weightwatchers magazine; chocolate crumble from this recipe for my husband as he doesn't eat fruit
lunch- spicy prawn pockets from Weightwatchers magazine for me, with pizza filling for him
dinner - chicken basque from Weightwatchers magazine
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Christina Aguilera Has Guy Massage Her Feet on 'The Voice' Set
Christina Aguilera? A diva?
Xtina's antics are of little surprise to anyone — it takes quite a bit of maintenance to be one of the world's most respected vocal talents — but her latest demand is pretty out there.
Hollywood Life reports that the 'Genie in a Bottle' singer has a special staffer on 'The Voice' just for her … To massage her feet! "She has a guy on staff whose job it is to massage her feet at 30-minute intervals," a source said.
The source also said Aguilera has been showing up late to 'The Voice' set by up to two hours and "blatantly ignoring call times." Not good!
Aguilera's previous diva demands have included to be filmed only from flattering angles. "Christina holds up production with her constant demands, saying, 'Don't make me look fat' or 'Don't show my butt," a source said in February. "She's insisted the cameramen only shoot her at flattering angles, forcing a few segments to be reshot. She also demands that the stylists bring her the latest slimming fashions, and she's always ordering the makeup artists to make her face look thinner."
Why does Aguilera feel entitled to all that? Because she claims she's a "huge star." We don't disagree with her status, but lots of huge stars become and remain that way by remaining down to earth and behaving responsibly (think of Beyonce). Xtina's last big hit was her collaboration with Maroon 5 and fellow 'Voice' coach Adam Levine, 'Moves Like Jagger.' Prior to that, her album 'Bionic' was panned and didn't sell well, so she may want to cut down on her demands and work on her work ethic.
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In April of this last year I did a four part series on my quest to search for my great grandfather, Gustave Bebensee ("Quest of a Genea-Holic"). If you have not read those post you may find them interesting. For those new to my blog I will give you a quick run-down of the story thus far. Gustave Bebensee was last heard from in 1906, when he sent my grandfather money to emigrate from Hamburg, Germany. Grandpa's father was to meet him in Chicago where they would then travel to Nebraska to my great aunt Emma Haacks home. However, he never arrived in Chicago and my 16 year old grandfather had to find his own way. Gustave Bebensee's last know location was in San Francisco. It was assumed for 108 years that he must have perished in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as he was never heard from again. I'm beginning to wonder how accurate the information that has been passed down all these years is. I have searched through the Langely's San Francisco City Directories for the years 1899-1908 and thus far have found nothing. Now that does not mean that he wasn't there, but only that I haven't located an address for him. As my quest continues it makes less and less sense.
Gustave's youngest daughter spent years trying to locate him or to get confirmation that he had perished, with no success. In the late '90s I took over the search. I sent a request for a death certificate to California, but they had no record of him. I spent hours pouring over records on line, searching through historical sites that included records of the 1906 Earthquake, as well as hotel records, etc. that are available. But, I had no success. Through Ancestry.com I did locate a 1910 census report that indicated that a Gustave Bebensee and his second wife, Jennette, were living in Los Angeles, California. Because the information on this report seemed to match the information I had, I believed this was definitely my great grandfather. This became the only record I could find on him until this last year when new information appeared on "Family Search". A death certificate indicated that Gustave had died in Seattle, Washington in 1914. The additional details provided on the certificate then led me to the mortuary and finally to Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. A very kind volunteer through Find-A-Grave traveled to the cemetery and took photo's of where Gustave is buried.
I then contacted the Seattle Library through the "ask-a-librarian program" to see if an obituary could be located for his death in December, 1914. Fortunately one was located and through the obituary I learned that he had been a Freemason and that Alki Lodge #152 had paid for and made all the arrangements for his funeral. The Alki Lodge is still in existence today. A very generous man by the name of Richard Syson began a search for a record of his enrollment. Unfortunately the search through old records turned up nothing. Mr. Syson indicated to me that my great-grandfather was probably a sojourner, meaning that he belonged to another lodge. He said he would try to continue the search. I felt that the hunt for him was probably at a dead end at this point. I was happy to have what information I did have, and had resigned myself to the fact that I probably would never find anything more.
I had really hoped that on one of these documents that his 2nd wife's maiden name would appear, but it did not. The only additional clue I have is that she after he died she stayed with a family in the Seattle area by the name of C. R. Austin prior to his funeral. I don't know if these people were friends or possibly family, but at this point the clue has not led me down any new paths.
Then in December, out of the blue, I received an email from Richard Syson. My heart skipped a beat when I saw his name on the email. I hesitated to open it, assuming that it was just a follow up to let me know that he was unable to locate any additional information, but still hoping that he had found something. I couldn't read fast enough and my eyes blurred as he
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