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How do good people mistake evil for good? Is it possible for an entire nation to be deceived?
In the third volume of master storyteller Gerald N. Lund's dynamic new series, the Eckhardt family finds itself clinging to hope in a nation on the brink of collapse. Work is scarce, food has become an extravagance, and money is practically worthless. War-torn Germany has been battered down and humiliated on an international scale, and the people have lost the pride and conviction that once carried them.
Living in such desperate circumstances leaves the people vulnerable to fall for a wolf in sheep's clothing, and Hans Eckhardt is not immune. His friend Adolf is charismatic, driven, a man of vision—seemingly, everything that Germany needs. While a few suspect that this rising new political leader may not be the rescuer they seek, many more are quick to turn a blind eye to the warning signs.
But there are bright spots amid the bleakness. Faith and family continue to provide joy and solace as life journeys forward. And a visit from two former LDS missionaries and their families brings a spark of excitement to the Eckhardts. Family life seems to be the one area unmarred by the turmoil all around them—until personal tragedy strikes.
Join the Eckhardts and their American friends the Westlands as they unknowingly dive into a momentous turning point in the world's history.
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Scary and enthralling at the same time . Also some spiritual moments...
I LOVE this series!!!
Really enjoying it!
Wow, I really love these historical fiction books by this author! I love the way he puts his character right into the thick of what was happening in each time period, in the case of this one, Hitler's rise in Germany. I love that he has notes that you can read at the end of his chapters, I've learned so much from each of his novels. His characters are so well-written, I always love them from the very first page. And I love that he writes series books so that you can fall in love with those characters over and over again.
I loved the characters in this book. I love that the Eckhardts and the Westlands are friends, even though they live on different continents and even though their countries have been at war with each other. It was really fun that the Westlands try to do all they can to help their friends in Germany, even sharing what's in their letters with the leaders of the Church so that those in Germany can get the help they need.
Emilee and Hans Eckhardt are some amazing characters! I love the way Emilee goes about seeking to find what is right and true, and her kindness to all around her, including Adolf Hitler. I love the way this book shows what could have been the thoughts and feelings of those who followed him as a leader from his rise until his fall. It portrays him as a normal person, he definitely had certain ideas about how things should be run, but he was a true friend to Hans in this one, especially near the end.
I can't wait to read more of this great series, I need to know what happens to Hans and Emilee and their family during this tumultuous time in history!
I love reading the books by Gerald Lund. One of my favorite authors. I really enjoyed this book but enjoyed the first two even more. I think part of me wanted more to this story and the ending was disappointing to me because I wanted more. I hope this means that there will be more in this series. He gave me understanding of how Hitler rose to power and how convincing he was to so many. Bro. Lund did an excellent job of researching his subject and opened my eyes to a lot I didn't know about. Brother Lund never disappoints me.
My husband and I read all three books together and were disappointed in this series. We found that the proof reading was lacking as there were mistakes in each book. We also discovered that some of the story was left hanging. There were some parts that were well written and carried the story along well but, there were other times that the story just seemed like filler. The first book was the most interesting doing a good job developing the story. The last book was the most disappointing with parts that lagged and other parts that by-passed events that had been built up then seemed anti-climatic. In the store we had asked for a good book to read that didn't have to many volumes and were lead to the "Fire & Steel" series of three books. We are assuming there will be more to the series as this book didn't seem to really end the story.
This one was really a page turner. I was done in less than a week and it has left me thirsty for more. I am really happy Mr. Lund has decided to do this because this part of World History has really fascinated me for years. It has been my privilege to read both 'Mormonism in Germany' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' and Mr. Lund does very well in bringing them both together The Eckhardts are becoming real to me and almost like family friends. I am really anxious to see how Hans and Emilee are going to handle what is going to be one of the darkest times the world has ever faced.. This book leaves on the eve of the Beer Hall Putsch and I am just biting my nails waiting to see what happens to Hans during the attempted coup. I don't know if this is one of the Author's goals but overall this series is teaching me that the Gospel can be an anchor no matter how troubled the world is. Thank you Mr. Lund for doing this and keep them coming.
I have been a big fan of Gerald Lund for years (decades!) and this novel/set only reinforces my love for his stories. I greatly enjoyed the San Juan novels but was not sure about joining the two series together. I feared for no reason and really enjoyed the crossover between the two and the contrast between the story in America and the story in Germany. The characters in Gerald Lund's novels are so interesting and realistic and the intermingling of persons and events from history with the characters in the novel brings the period and events to life. I also appreciate the chapter notes that give more information and options to read more if interested. Some chapters jump forward in time more than you would expect so be sure to pay attention to the chapter headings. I look forward with great anticipation to reading the rest of the series!
I love historical fiction. It is my favorite genre. I also love the way tha Gerald Lund writes his historical fiction. He helps you to care about the characters and also helps you to understand the time that his books are set in. I have read a lot of books about this time frame. With that said I don't really know how I feel about this book. Maybe it is because he makes Hitler into such a likable guy. You are almost rooting for him even though you know how it all turns out and you just want to scream at Hans to get away from Hitler. I am on pins and needles until the next one in the series to see how he will save Hans from Hitler!
I listened to the audiobook,which is about sixteen hours long! I did not read or listen to the previous two books, so perhaps that is why I did not enjoy this book as much.
I loved the first fifteen or so chapters! But then the book had another fifteen or so very dry, very boring chapters in the middle. Each time the book took us back to America to see the lives of the returned missionaries the book went stale. Honestly, adding the missionaries etc. felt very out of place. And I am a returned missionary, so it is something I usually love! It felt like he had this marvelous story in Germany and just for the sake of making it a "Mormon book" he added the stories and characters from America. It just didn't fit. It felt like two different books chopped up and smashed together. Also, most of the conversations of the returned missionaries were just running off statistics and facts. The conversations were unnatural and just a means for the author to fit the facts in.
The only reason I kept listening was to hear the parts of the book that happens in Germany. That part was fascinating! To see how Hitler started out, innocently wanting to make Germany great again and how those around him, good people support him was interesting! To see how people can mistake evil for good was almost haunting. It reminds me of a story I heard once. That frogs are cooked by slowly, ever so slowly increasing the temperature on the pot. They don't jump out because it did not get hot at once. By the time they are in serious danger, it is too late. Looking back on history we all say we would never support Hitler and are surprised how many people did, but reading this book was eye-opening! How many things in our world have we been slowly "warmed up to?" Arw we at times like the frog, slowly getting cooked without noticing,until it is too late?
This book is mostly for adults, perhaps young adults as well. I think the book was too long. It felt like the American part of it was forced in there and didn't fit. If it had been just the part in Germany I would have given it a five-star rating, however the other part watered it out and destroyed a great story.
I would not recommend this book to others. The well-written part that takes place in Germany is so wonderful but not good enough to sludge through nearly fifty chapters with a large portion of it being unnecessary and that doesn't fit naturally in the book. I was disappointed. This book could have been great. I really wanted to like it. :(
Book 3 of the series keeps you wanting for more. This has been a series that both my husband and myself have enjoyed reading. Author Gerald Lund is spot on with his way of writing "historical fiction". I loved learning more about the motives behind the rise of Hitler although it is always hard to watch good people being deceived by evil ways. A highlight of the book was the families attendance at the Passion Play in Germany which is traditionally performed every 10 years. So uplifting to feel what the family experienced as they watched actors perform the last week of the life of Christ. Be sure to start at the beginning of the series and read all 3 books!
My favorite book of Gerald Lund is "The Alliance". I have yet to enjoy any as much as that, although I really enjoyed "The Undaunted". I do appreciate all of the history that goes into his books, but I was not in love with the characters in this one. None of them drew me in. It is interesting to see the evolution of Hitler and how people were swayed by him. I wanted to like the book more, but I just found it difficult to get into and even harder to keep reading, but I will give it 3 stars just for the historical aspects.
Another well written story by Lund. This and the rest of his books combine historical fact with plausible fiction. Chapter notes make it clear what is fact and what is the author's fiction.
Lund has developed characters that you feel like you know personally. This volume is particularly interesting in that it helps the reader gain insight into how good people can be duped into following bad people. A timely reminder in our current times.
Do not read this without reading Volumes 1 and 2 first. I am already looking forward Volume 4.
Another great book by Gerald N. Lund. The Shadow Falls is v. 3 of the Fire and Steel series. I have enjoyed everything I have previously read from this author, and I have to say that continues after having read this book.
This book shows how easily good people can be influenced by what appears to be "well-intentioned" people and how they could be deceived into following leaders with motives are not for the good of the people.
In this pre-WWII time period book, it becomes apparent how gradually people can become confused and lead away unknowingly making decisions that can lead them in the wrong paths.
Hans and Emilee's family begins to grow and Hans finds himself as a close friend and confidant of the Führer and becomes heavily involved with the party. It seems at first all is for the good of a nation, but we all know how this story goes.
Having had parents that grew up in Germany in this time period, I have personal insights in the historical events of this book. As a result I found this series very enthralling and an excellent reads which keep you reading till the end.
The events and characters in this series intertwine with other books he has written and you see families from his other books in this series as their paths cross and their lives mingle to create a most interesting set of books. You won't want to miss any of them.
I highly recommend this book, the whole series, for that fact!
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for my honest review. All thoughts are my own and no monetary compensation was received.
Another wonderful story based on historical facts. I love the way the author weaves history into this story. Reading history doesn't hold my interest, but make it into a story and I'll read it. I also really enjoy the footnotes at the end of each chapter that clarifies fact from fiction.
I enjoyed the storyline mixing the American and German families. I also loved reading about the Passion Play and how it came about. The author really helps you to feel as if you are part of the story. Another wonderful book.
Gerald Lund continues to draws the reader into the stories he writes. The settings and people are so real you feel like you are part of the story. I appreciate the author's chapter notes that outline the sources for the historical information. Adolph Hitler became a live person in the story and Gerald Lund made the facts about Hitler become real to me as a reader. I also appreciate the context of world events tied into the story. Another excellent story- I can hardly wait for the story to continue.


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The Network Journal reporter, Herb Boyd has named the top six African-American anthropologists in his recent article A Select Six Black Anthropologists. Of the six, the top five are AAA Members:
Dr. Leith Mullings Marable is a distinguished professor of Anthropology at CUNY's Graduate Center and president-elect of the American Anthropological Association. In her research she has applied a feminist and a critical theory of race to her essays and books in a most objective and productive way. The role of women in Africa has received a considerable amount of her research time and commitment. One significant contribution in this regard is her book On Our Own Terms: Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African-American Women, (New York: Routledge, 1997). Dr. Marable also devoted much of her immense insight and knowledge of African-American history and culture to a number of other books that she co-authored with her late husband, Dr. Manning Marable. To this end she was vitally involved in his completion of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking, 2011)
For several years Dr. Lee Baker was happily ensconced at Columbia University and working in close association with Dr. Manning Marable and his wife, Dr. Leith Mullings Marable. But currently he is dean of Academic Affairs at Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of cultural anthropology and African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Among the many things that commend him as a scholar and author is his book From Savage to Negro—Anthropology and the Construction of Race: 1896-1954 (University of California Press at Berkeley, 1998). The book, in effect, should have been titled Black Anthropology because it illustrates with brilliant writing and analysis the conjunction of the discipline and race. He deftly navigates that tricky legal terrain where black life has always hung in the balance.
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is perhaps the nation's most celebrated black female anthropologist, having received her doctorate in science from Northwestern University with a fruitful academic stop at Oberlin College. Several notable colleges have been beneficiaries of her considerable learning and teaching skills, which was the ballast she needed to become, in 1987, the first black woman president of Spelman College. After a decade leading Spelman, Dr. Cole returned to the classroom as a distinguished professor at Emory University and, subsequently back into the administrative life as president of Bennett College for Women. Currently, she is director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. She is also the chairwoman of the board of her own Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute. Recently, Dr. Cole received the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award, just one of a collection awards she has garnered as an author and educator.
Among his many academic duties, Dr. Arthur Spears is a professor and chair of the anthropology department at City College of New York. In the recent past, he also chaired the college's Black Studies Department. A renowned linguist, he founded Transforming Anthropology, the journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, which is affiliated with the American Anthropological Association. He is comfortable teaching in four languages—English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, all of which served him well in his steady climb to anthropological prominence. His most recent books include The Haitian Creole Language: History, Structure, Use, and Education (co-editor; Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), Black Language in the English-Speaking Caribbean and U.S.: History, Structure, Use, and Education (editor; Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Because she has been so productive for such a long period of time, it seems Dr. Audrey Smedley has been around forever. I arrived too late to have her as a teacher at Wayne State University in Detroit where she was a professor in the anthropology department. But her scholarship kept her in view across the years, especially her phenomenal work on the issue of race, and her definition of the concept has become one of the most cited. "Race is an ideology that says that all human populations are divided into exclusive and distinct groups; that all human populations are ranked, they are not equal. Inequality is absolutely essential to the idea of race. The other part is that the behavior of people is very much part of their biology," she told an interviewer several years ago. And it is this kind of cogent, well-thought out explication that has earned Dr. Smedley such longstanding recognition and acclaim. She is currently a professor of anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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What a huge mistake it was in retrospect for a natural gas driller to approach filmmaker Josh Fox with an offer to lease his land for drilling. Fox decided to look into the matter carefully, and his research led to the making of Gasland. "Know your audience" might have been a good piece of advice for the natural gas industry. Fox certainly knows his. His portraits of people whose health has been damaged and whose rural homesteads have been turned into houses of horror sited on nightmarish landscapes can only move viewers to pity and indignation. In keeping with the dictum that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the film has also moved the entire natural gas industry to rage.
No one from the industry agreed to be interviewed in the film; Fox gives viewers a long list of those who turned him down. I think they didn't trust him to be fair. But as any good public relations consultant will advise, that shouldn't have prevented the industry from making its case. It may have been that the industry feared it was running up against someone who actually knew what questions to ask.
As a close observer of the oil and gas industry, two things struck me about the film. First, the people most directly affected by natural gas drilling tend to be rural and of meager means. Because there are so few of them, they will never make up an electoral force on their own able to compel increased regulation of the industry. And, they have few options when their land, home and health are affected. Frequently, suing isn't one of them. Leaving is a difficult option since after their property has been stigmatized by the proximity of drilling, the land becomes more difficult to unload at any price.
Second, the film mentions the explicit exemption of hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act, an exemption written into the 2005 Energy Policy Act. I've known about this exemption for a long time. And, obviously the exemption makes it cheaper to drill for shale gas since drillers are not obliged to follow federal water regulations. But the nature of those regulations as they relate to hydraulic fracturing was only made clear to me recently in a conversation I had with an environmental consultant to the oil and gas industry.
He said that one way to solve the controversy surrounding hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells would be to treat them as hazardous waste injection wells which for obvious reasons are subject to the toughest regulations of any kind related to drilling. Such wells are designed to inject liquid hazardous waste deep into the ground into strata far below any drinking water.
Watching the emissions and pollution resulting from the drilling and production operations shown in the film, I realized why the explicit exemption was inserted into the Safe Drinking Water Act. It occurred to me that the federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing operations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might have resulted in the determination that fracturing fluids are hazardous waste. That would turn fracked natural gas wells into hazardous waste injection wells. Such a classification would make shale gas wells not just a little more expensive to drill, but tremendously more expensive to drill. And, that would mean that natural gas from shale would only come out of the ground at much, much higher prices.
The United States has based its power and economic vitality on cheap energy. The exemption was adopted to help keep energy cheap, knowing that it would not be if shale gas wells were extremely costly to drill.
Because most of us now live in cities, we may be unaware of the size of America's shale gas formations. Vast areas of Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio have shale gas beneath them. Large parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Colorado and Wyoming do, too. Gasland takes viewers on a shale gas roadtrip across the country to this new sub-territory within the country, a territory for which the rules that apply to the rest of us have been rewritten for the oil and gas industry. The people we meet have persistent headaches, breathing difficulties, newly acquired asthma, unexplained pain which now racks their bodies, and myriad other symptoms. Their ignitable water shoots flames when lit, the air smells of volatile hydrocarbons, and their animals, both household pets and livestock, don't always look so healthy.
Whether all of this is due to the pollution of their air, water and land by natural gas drilling and production cannot be easily proven. The shale gas boom hasn't been going on long enough for long-term studies to say for sure how serious the public health effects will be. Testing that is only now starting to be done suggests the effects will be profound. And, the damaged people whom we meet in the film give living witness to just such a possibility.
What America has done time and time again when it wants a valuable resource is convince itself that either its methods for getting it are surely safe or at least up to the industry standards, in other words, the best we can do. That then seems reason enough not to delay the profits that will follow. What is left behind is, in reality, a "sacrifice zone," an area and its people who are simply sacrificed for what is perceived as the greater good or sometimes just the greater greed.
Gasland is part of an American journalistic tradition of showing us this truth about ourselves. If you watch this movie and come out simply disgusted, you have missed the point. If you want to stop the devastation, you must take the first step yourself; you must turn down the gas. As long as we buy into the myth that we must have ever more energy to live well, we will be hostage to the energy giants who perpetrate this myth. Forcing them to extract natural gas and other fossil fuels more safely would be wise, but we should understand that it would mean smaller supplies and thus higher energy prices.
Ultimately, what we need to do is move away from fossil fuels altogether. After all, none of the people in Gasland would be suffering the maladies we witness if they were living next to solar panels or wind farms instead of shale gas wells.
Kurt Cobb is the author of the peak-oil-themed thriller, Prelude, and a columnist for the Paris-based science news site Scitizen. His work has also been featured on Energy Bulletin, The Oil Drum, 321energy, Common Dreams, Le Monde Diplomatique, EV World, and many other sites. He maintains a blog called Resource Insights.


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October 02, 2009
By Paul Feinberg
For shoppers, Gap seems as ubiquitous as, well, blue jeans themselves.
Gap Inc. operates 3,100 Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy stores in North America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Japan. There are another 100 Gap and Banana Republic stores franchised internationally and the company also runs two online brands, Piperlime and Athleta. And in spite of the recent worldwide economic turmoil, the 40-year-old company netted $14.5 billion dollars in its 2008 fiscal year and has about $2 billion in cash on its balance sheet.
Sabrina Simmons ('90) is Gap Inc.'s executive vice president and chief financial officer. She works with chairman and CEO Glenn Murphy to steer a leadership team that includes eight separate operating divisions, each with its own president. As corporate CFO, her role is to manage the portfolio, challenging each brand to drive better results for company shareholders and to allocate capital efficiently, deciding where to invest based on performance and potential.
"One of my most important and most challenging responsibilities is to continually communicate to our employees and our shareholders where we as a company are headed," Simmons explained. "(We try to communicate) what our vision is for the long-term and how we are balancing short-term goals. As a publicly traded company, we look for short term success, but it is critical that we never lose sight of driving the long-term health of our business. Communicating that clearly and keeping everyone aligned is a really important part of my job and one I underestimated. I didn't realize before how vital communication is every day."
Simmons began honing her communication skills at UCLA Anderson. "It's really critical to have a strong academic foundation to succeed and move upward over time," she said. "It's the entry ticket. (In graduate business school) you start to learn the key leadership and communication skills." Simmons earned an undergraduate business degree from Berkeley's Haas School, but notes that the added maturity she brought to her Anderson MBA experience after working for a few years was essential.
"Learning as a student is so much richer when you see how things work in the corporate world. A lot of light bulbs went on for me in (graduate) business school," she said. "Overtime you may forget technical things, but learning how to learn, how to work in teams, which you do more in business school, lays the critical groundwork for what lies ahead in the business world."
For Simmons, over the past few years, that world has included a consumer-led recession that's taken its toll on the nation's retail sector. But she says Gap Inc. views the recession as a "great opportunity."
"We've lost market share over the last few years," Simmons said. "But even in this environment, the company has had healthy earnings. Our biggest goal right now is to regain market share. We see lots of silver linings in this recession in terms of using our leverage and size with some of our partners, such as real estate landlords and merchandise vendors. Also, some of our competitors are relatively weaker as their balance sheets may not be as strong as ours. Gap Inc.'s relative strength has allowed us to invest in marketing in North America and international growth opportunities. Since I've been here, we've managed our balance sheet carefully and have built large cash reserves that we can now use to our advantage."
Gap Inc.'s diverse set of brands is another advantage. Simmons says that each brand delivers a different value to the company's customers. Banana Republic, for example, offers value to a target audience of young urban professionals. But it's Old Navy that is Gap Inc.'s value brand.
"We have been especially focused on driving Old Navy, our value brand, forward during the recession," Simmons said, noting the marketing dollars behind the popular "Supermodelquins" television commercials. "(It) is playing to what the company is going for. We're trying to offer great value for shoppers with strategic promotions and when we plan properly, we can achieve profits in a win-win situation for customers and the company."
Simmons joined Gap Inc. in 2001 as vice-president and treasurer. She held numerous positions, ultimately rising to CFO in January 2008. Previously, she served as chief financial officer and executive member of the Board of Directors at Sygen International PLC, a British genetics company. Before that, she spent five years at Levi Strauss & Co.


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Ingredients 4 sheets of heavy aluminum foil
4 pieces of chicken ( chicken breasts, thighs, boneless or bone in )
1 can Cream of chicken or mushroom soup
1/2 cup white wine
1 (12 ounce) box Stove Top stuffing mix
1 cup water
four ham slices
1 package 8 oz fresh mushrooms
Mix stuffing with water set aside. Mix wine and soup set aside.
1/2 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs add extra 1/4 teaspoon of each, garlic powder, parsley and black pepper, oregano, thyme, sage mix together this is for topping, done last.
Starting with one piece of foil:.
spray with non stick oil .
Stack stuffing first on foil top with the ham.
Add mushrooms.
Place the chicken with a little salt on top of the stacked mixture.
Spoon soup mixture on top of each stacked chicken package.
Sprinkle with seasoned bread crumbs.
Bring sides together and fold to tighten around chicken. Put all four wrapped pieces of foil with chicken in it, on a large cookie sheet and bake for 45 minutes or longer depending on chicken size on a 350 degree hot oven.


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An El Paso County jury on Friday awarded nearly $300,000 to the daughter of a burglar who was fatally shot in 2009 while breaking into an auto lot.
Parents of the victim, Robert Johnson Fox, embraced their attorneys after a judge announced the jury's verdict, capping a two-week-long civil trial in which business owner Jovan Milanovic and two relatives were painted as vigilantes who plotted a deadly ambush rather than let authorities deal with a string of recent burglaries.
Phillip and Sue Fox, who filed suit for wrongful death in 2010 on behalf of Fox's 3-year-old daughter, called the jury's award a victory in their fight to seek accountability for the death of their son, who they say never posed a threat to the heavily armed men.
"Rob was in the wrong place doing the wrong thing, but the punishment didn't fit the crime," Sue Fox said afterward. "I can't excuse his actions, but he didn't deserve to be executed."
The exact amount of the award was $269,500, for factors such as loss of companionship and loss of future earnings. The family will also be awarded some of the costs associated with the more than yearlong legal battle.
The jury of three men and three women deliberated for 2½ days over closely contested testimony about the predawn shooting on April 19, 2009.
Fox, 20, was shot after he and a friend scaled a fence to get inside Southwest Auto Sales at 2444 Platte Place in the city's Knob Hill neighborhood. According to the accomplice, Brian Corbin, they had smoked methamphetamine and were looking to steal anything to buy more drugs.
Corbin testified he saw two armed men charge out of a building and run in their direction, one of them shouting "we're gonna get you" in an obscenity-laced threat. Corbin, who escaped by climbing over a car and jumping a fence, said he felt a bullet pass by him as someone fired four gunshots.
Fox was standing inside a small shed when a .45-caliber rifle bullet passed through the shed's door and pierced his heart.
Police said in a 145-page investigative report that the intruder had knives in his pockets and one strapped to his ankle, but never posed a threat to Milanovic or the other men, his father Ljuban Milanovic and brother-in-law Srdjan Novak.
The men are refugees who came to the United States from the former Yugoslavia in 1998.
Jurors found that Fox's death was the result of "willful and deliberate" conduct by Jovan Milanovic, who was accused of firing the rifle, and Novak, who supplied the semiautomatic Heckler & Koch that Milanovic used in the killing.
Only Ljuban Milanovic emerged without a judgment against him.
The jurors declined to comment after the trial.
"It's been a long two weeks," one said before getting on an elevator.
The three men were accused of keeping an armed vigil over the auto lot and firing on the first burglars they saw. The men were angry over a series of thefts that began when someone broke in a week earlier and stole keys to customers' automobiles as well as keys to buildings on the property.
Car stereos were taken in the days that followed, according to testimony.
Under Colorado's self-defense laws, the use of deadly force is justified only under the "reasonable belief" that it's necessary to prevent serious bodily injury or death. The jury found that none of the men had a legitimate claim of self-defense.
Property rights are not a lawful defense for using deadly force in Colorado, and the state's so-called Make My Day law, which sets lower standard for using force, applies to households, not businesses.
For the plaintiff's attorneys, Terry Rector and Jennifer Stock, Friday's verdict ended an emotionally draining fight for the girl, Sidney Richardson, who has been cared for by the elder Foxes for the past year.
Rector, of Colorado Springs, had represented Fox on traffic matters, and said his death came as a blow.
"I can see him sitting in my office today," an emotional Rector said as participants filed out of the courthouse.
"This is a victory for Sidney Richardson. It's the only measure of justice we have - we cannot bring her father back."
Said Stock: "This jury didn't let sympathy and bias influence them. That's why we got the correct verdict that follows the law."
Milanovic and his father told police a week before the shooting they would shoot any intruders who returned. Police say the men concealed the rifle in the trunk of a car so well that a police detective initially missed it during a search.
The 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office declined to file charges in the shooting, and instead sent the case to a grand jury, which decided against returning an indictment, effectively clearing the trio of criminal wrongdoing.
The civil award has no criminal implications for the Milanovics or Novak.
Defense attorneys John P. Craver and Chelsey Burns declined to comment.


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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Trey Burke scored 19 points and No. 2 Michigan never trailed after the opening minutes of a 74-60 win Sunday over Illinois that could push the Wolverines to No. 1 in the nation for the first time since the 1992-93 season.
Duke's lopsided loss to Miami earlier in the week opened the door for a new No. 1 when the AP poll comes out Monday - and Michigan put itself in position to take the top spot.
Glenn Robinson III scored 14 points for the Wolverines (19-1, 6-1 Big Ten). Nik Stauskas and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 12 each.
Brandon Paul led Illinois (15-6, 2-5) with 15 points but had five of Illinois' 15 costly turnovers.
Michigan's Jordan Morgan did not return after leaving early with an apparent ankle injury.


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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
North meets South: Lingonberry and Coconut Friands
Friands again. I wrote about these dainty Australian cakes just a short time ago when posting a recipe for blueberry and lemon friands. This is the same basic recipe, but I wanted to use coconut this time and paired the pure white coconut with bright red lingonberries. The combination worked like a dream!
I am pretty sure that lingonberries - while widely available and used here in Estonia - are hard to come buy Down Under, so in a way it's a North-meets-South fusion recipe :)
Again, it's an excellent recipe for using up those egg whites, when you're tired of making meringues and mini-Pavlovas.
Coconut and Lingonberry Friands
Makes 8 regular-sized friands
100 g unsalted butter, melted
125 g icing sugar/confectioner's sugar
30 g plain flour/all-purpose flour (50 ml or 3 Tbsp + 1 tsp)
50 g finely ground almonds
50 g grated/desiccated coconut
3 medium-sized egg whites
a very generous handful of lingonberries
Preheat the oven to 200C. Generously butter eight non-stick friand or muffin tins.
Sift the icing sugar and flour into a bowl, add the almonds and mix.
Whisk the egg whites in another bowl until they form a light, floppy foam.
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, pour in the egg whites, then lightly stir in the butter to form a soft batter.
Divide the batter among the tins. Sprinkle some berries (I used about a tablespoon for each) and flaked coconut over each cake.
Bake in the middle of a pre-heated 200 C oven for about 20 minutes, until just firm to the touch and golden brown on top.
Cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. To serve, sprinkle with more coconut
5 comments:
- Megan said...
In Australia our most well-known lingonberries tend to come in a jar from a certain furniture manufacturer, but rest assured, it's possible to find them in a few specialty shops! :)
- 8:58 pm, March 16, 2011
- Gloria said...
Pille, thanks for stopping by! These lingoberry look delicious! gloria
- 11:57 pm, March 16, 2011
- Pene said...
They look yummy! I suggest using sea-buckthorn or red currant berries.
- 10:23 am, March 17, 2011
- Tuuli said...
Pille - üks tunnustus sulle ja sinu blogile ootab sind minu blogis. Täpsem info juba sealt :)
- 10:22 pm, March 20, 2011
- Pille said...
Megan - I wonder which certain furniture manufacturer are you talking about ;)
Gloria - thank you!
Pene - I'll definitely try with redcurrants, come summer! Re: sea buckthorn berries, I'm afraid the seeds would bother me in a cake..
Tuuli - oi, kui armas! Aitäh!!!
- 11:45 am, March 22, 2011
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ifm offers a large selection of electronic vacuum sensors for different industrial applications such as monitoring of vacuum pumps. For example, vacuum sensors used on vacuum grippers ensure that parts, workpieces or goods are reliably picked up by robots.
Besides vacuum monitoring, some units can also be used for pressure measurement.
All sensors have robust housings and do not require moving parts such as pistons or springs. The result: The sensors are extremely shock and vibration resistant and operate without any wear or maintenance.
The sensors are resistant to dynamic pressure peaks and have a high overload protection.


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Mark Buehrle: A Player for the Ages
Mark Buehrle, one of the great White Sox of all-time, leaves us with a treasure trove of memories gathered over his 12 seasons on the South Side. There's the perfect game, the no-hitter, the Gold Gloves, the World Series save, the All-Star Game nods, the record Opening Day starts, his outstanding winning percentage and all those innings pitched. And I haven't even mentioned the unbelievable between the legs throw on Opening Day 2010 (see below).
There are also the things that were more under the radar: his sense of humor, his leadership, the humility that was evidenced by him catching ceremonial first pitches (except on the days he pitched) through his Sox career and, of course, how beautifully he represented the franchise. Simply a class act.
It's no surprise that Mark opted to play for Ozzie in Miami. He couldn't resist the four-year, $58 million deal and the lure of playing in the National League, which he has dominated in interleague play. And the Sox apparently felt that at this stage of his career and the fact that they are in a rebuilding phase, it wasn't feasible to match the offer as much as they wanted to keep him.
This week certainly hasn't been a great one for the Sox. On Monday, Minnie Minoso was once again denied his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame and yesterday another one of the club's most popular players chose to take his talents to South Beach.
It won't be the same on the South Side without No. 56, who very well might be the last Sox player to wear that number. But we'll surivive, just as we did when the likes of Minoso, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, Billy Pierce, Frank Thomas and Robin Ventura changed uniforms.
And remember, you can go home again. Just ask Minnie, Billy, Frank, Robin and the others.


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The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet
The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet by LunaMetrics is a huge (and very long) informational infographic that shows the readers all of the important image sizing requirements for the major social networks.
In June of this year, we published an infographic listing all of the sizing information for images on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. It was a wildly successful piece of content, totally blowing our expectations out of the water. Unfortunately, while its popularity has flourished, nearly every social network instituted changes to their image sizes, rendering most of the information on the infographic out of date.
We knew we needed to update the information on the cheat sheet, but we weren't comfortable with simply adjusting one or two figures on the blog post and leaving it as-is. We'd also received a lot of feedback, both on the design and information it contained. We decided to redesign the entire sheet and incorporate a few more social networks.
We also decided to permanently redirect the old sheet here, so that shared tweets, pins, likes, and so on, would lead to the correct sizing dimensions. Additionally, as sizing changes are implemented across social networks, we'll actively update this sheet – meaning that if you use the embed code at the bottom to share this sheet on your own site, the image will automatically update with changes as they are rolled out. No more out-of-date information.
I love that all of the sizes are shown in correctly proportional rectangles! Based on their claim, this infographic should also update correctly as they revise it to match the ongiong changes from all of the social networks.
Some color of the official logos of the different social media networks at each section break would have been helpful to the reader. The light typeface used at each section break is hard to distinguish from the rest of the design.
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Choose Your Own Hamlet Becomes The Largest Publishing Project On Kickstarter, Thanks To The Public Domain
from the you-can't-do-this-with-catcher-in-the-rye deptA Kickstarter project by Ryan North, called To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure, has become the most funded publishing project on Kickstarter ever, as it recently surpassed $400,000 (he was originally seeking $20,000). While we always love to see interesting and successful crowdfunding projects, this one is interesting for a few additional reasons concerning topics we talk about here: copyright and trademarks. The actual book is, as North explains, "an illustrated, chooseable-path book version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet." So, how does that hit on copyright and trademark issues?
- Copyright: Even if the head of the Author's Guild doesn't seem to know this, Shakespeare's works are in the public domain, meaning that anyone can use them however they want -- whether it's to make an exact copy (and, yes, there are plenty of those on the market) or to do a derivative work. There have been tons of remakes and updates on Shakespeare's work, and many of them are super creative, such as this one. Kinda demonstrates just how ridiculous it is for copyright maximalists to argue that without strong copyright protection, creativity gets killed off. Just the opposite, it seems. The ability to build on the works of the past quite frequently inspires amazing new creativity.
- Trademark: North refers to this as a "choosable path adventure" because:
"Chooseable-path" you may recognize as a trademark-skirting version of a phrase and book series you remember from childhood. Remember? Books in which... an adventure is chosen??Yes, they're not using the widely known phrase "choose your own adventure," because it's trademarked, and the owner of the mark has sued before. Of course, the story of the mark is interesting in its own right. Apparently, Bantam Books who helped popularize the original choose your own adventure books let the trademark lapse, and it was bought up by Ray Montgomery, who had run the small press that published the original books, but had not held the original trademark on it.
Either way, the book looks absolutely awesome, and if you want in on the Kickstarter offering, there are just a few hours left.
Filed Under: choose your own adventure, copyright, creativity, crowdfunding, hamlet, public domain, shakespeare, trademark


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Fiscal Cliff: Two Cheers for Boehner's Plan B (But Oppose It Anyway)
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House set to vote on Boehner's Plan B
House set to vote on Boehner's Plan B
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Obama in focus, yet all over the map
Obama in focus, yet all over the map
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Republicans put Obama in a box
Republicans put Obama in a box
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WHIP COUNT: House lawmakers' positions on GOP's 'Plan B'
WHIP COUNT: House lawmakers' positions on GOP's 'Plan B'
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite: GOP Congressman Appears On MSNBC To Bash John Boehner For Pushing A 'Tax Hike'
John Flowers / msnbc.com: Today's 'Plan B' vote isn't about higher taxes - it's about John Boehner's survival
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: House to vote on Boehner's 'Plan B'
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Boehner's Plan B Fails; Inmates Running Asylum
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House to vote on bill replacing sequester spending cuts
House to vote on bill replacing sequester spending cuts
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Newt Gingrich Supports "Reality" Of State-Sanctioned Marriage Equality
Newt Gingrich Supports "Reality" Of State-Sanctioned Marriage Equality
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Cory Booker: I'll explore U.S. Senate run
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Cliff Hanger: The President's Unnecessary and Unwise Concessions
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Gallup: Obama's Approval Rating Reaches Highest Point Since 2009 — President Barack Obama's job approval rating reached 56 percent in Thursday's edition of the Gallup daily tracking poll, the highest mark since October 13, 2009. — Thursday's release also showed 37 percent disapprove of Obama …
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Frank Newport / Gallup: Obama Approval at 56%, Highest Since October 2009
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Google has quietly launched a website for "Google Helpouts," a new p2p video chat helpline service. Anyone can sign up to receive or provide help, and providers can make money off chat sessions.
While Helpouts has yet to launch, a good deal of information can be gained from the support site. Anyone can sign up to provide help; just enter in your skills, availability, qualifications, and pricing, and Google will match you with people in need of your assistance. You can even include an introductory video of the services you'll be providing. Once you're all set up, customers can schedule a video chat session during your available hours.
Of course, the service requires a Google+ account. If you choose to charge someone for your time, payments will be handled by Google Wallet, and Google will take a 20 percent cut. The support pages confirm support for desktop browsers, Android, and iOS, and Google is promising a 100 percent money back guarantee for unhappy customers.
The setup for some helpout listings can be pretty elaborate. This page shows that you can style your helpouts like a structured course, including any preparation or materials the person might need before starting. Google even has a process in place to verify medical certificates and licences.
If this at all sounds interesting to you, head on over to helpouts.google.com and request an invite. If you manage to get in, send me some screenshots.
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the world seems to be afraid of "offending" the "immigrant" and while words like islamophobic are becoming more and more common.. we allow cruelity and injustice to go on in the name of "multiculturalism"
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That sounds too simplistic to me. Unless there's really a simple way to prevent this cruelty and injustice?
There's another cliche, like "Freedom Isn't Free", as if it poses a useful solution (which it doesn't). The way I see it now, one of the costs of freedom that we should bear is the cost of setting a good example to the world. Instead of espousing that all we have to do is wipe out extremists (and ignore the costs of innocent lives, and ignoring its cultivation of new, angry extremists), we could spent resources on constructive instead of destructive endeavors. Like medicine, hospitals, and other things that we're good at and are good for the world, and good for the world to see.
(I mean yeah, give me a button that instantly kills all extremists and discourages future extremists, and I'll push it!)
this image isn't about solutions.. it's about awareness.. and no there's no button to press to suddenly change the scriptures or tribal practises that have been around thousands of years...
what this image is about, is the liberal minded westerners that would rather have some keep their primitive rituals , rather than condemn them for being unjust and cruel..
the word islamophobic is now being used whenever anyone criticises islam and it's sharia.. with the innuendo of racism.. at least that's what i see, and because of this, people become very wary of pointing out how wrong some of these cultural/ religious rituals are..
I think it was Pat Condell who said that islamophobia is not a valid word. Since phobia denotes an irrational fear, and there is absolutely nothing irrational about fearing Islam.
The Islamic country with the most Muslims is Indonesia. About 1/3 of all Muslims live there or in India, or Bangladesh. Is it really not irrational to fear them?
I'm mainly opposed to the "they're all the same" generalization, as if it's ok to indict (or fear) them all. The countries that have the most dangerous Islamic extremists are the same countries that have also had the most oppressive government.
If you're not into solutions, I'm not interested... I'll just leave you to your liberal bashing "awareness".
i didn't say "they are all the same" and i wasn't bashing all liberals..
interested or not, there is a distinct difference between relevant critism , racism and nationalism... and some would put all three under the same umbrella called islamophobia.. if we can't differentiate them from eachother, relevant critism of islam will be lost.. and primitive practises that are encouraged by sharia , hadith, and the quran will continue..
i'll find you an easy button to press .. it's that little red x at the top of your the screen :)
Ah, only bashing some liberals. Silly me for misunderstanding that.
i'll find you an easy button to press .. it's that little red x at the top of your the screen :)


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August 15 - Mary of Nazareth, Mother of Jesus, Theotokos
That pain was sickening. The anticipation of his reaction fanned the flames of panic within her as she prepared to tell her soon-to-be-husband something that he, surely, would not believe. Something he would hate and something for which he very well may hate her. Her life had made so much sense and been comfortably predictable. She had been betrothed to a nice man who loved her and desired to provide for her. They would have children. She would provide for them and, then, the angel came and destroyed her predictable plans. It had told her that she was blessed. Yet, in this moment of anxiety she definitely didn't feel it. It had told her not to be afraid but it did not comfort her in this moment. It had told her that she would give birth to a son who she should name Yeshua--God is saving--and that he would be called "The Son of the Most High." It told her that her baby would sit on David's throne and reign over the house of Jacob for all time. It told her that her baby's Kingdom would never end. She had protested, "But... but... I'm a virgin!" The angel had smiled and said, "I know but God is going to work it out. The God who formed you will work this out." She had swallowed the lump in her throat and said, "Okay...if that's what God wants." She struggle to believe it herself--how could she expect Joseph to believe it? And, yet, it had worked out. Joseph believed--eventually. God had worked it out.
That pain was overwhelming. It was the kind of visceral pain that made your skin crawl and made you want to be anywhere but where you were. Yet, she could no more escape it than she could will the dirty stable she was reclining in to become a beautifully-appointed palace. Her midwives were the animals and Joseph looked panicked at best. She was giving birth to her promised son--the one she would call Yeshua--but it didn't feel like or look like what she expected. They had been compelled to travel far by the Empire and they had no choice but to obey the power that commanded them. It was on a crowded night, then, that they found themselves in a stable giving birth to the "Son of the Most High." This, surely, could not be the birthplace of a King with a never ending Kingdom...could it? This couldn't be safe. It couldn't be appropriate and she didn't feel ready. And, yet, it had worked out. He had been born and was healthy. God had worked it out.
That pain was seductive. It was the kind of pain that whispers in your ear that it would only take a few quick tasks to make it vanish. Yet, as you chase it down you become consumed with it. She had heard the terrible things they were saying about her son. They thought that they were shielding her from their hurtful words but she was hearing it in their anxious and downcast eyes and seeing it in their covert whispers. They thought her beautiful son was crazy and unfit for the world. The worst part was, when the fear started seducing her, she wondered if they weren't right. He was traveling around the land erratically. The one whose Kingdom was supposed to have no end was not gathering an army but, rather, eating with sinners and outcasts. He was touching and loving lepers. He mocked the religious leaders that he had been raised to respect. He was offering a strange kind of resistance to the Empire where he essentially begged them to crush him and, then, offered his bare neck as a show of defiance. In return for their hatred, he was offering love. Surely, he understood that the world only like love on its own terms--that it resisted the kind of radical love he was offering. She had even begged him to quit upon occasion and he had looked at her--oh, the pity mixed with love in his eyes--as if she didn't get it. She wanted to run to him and beg him to give it up. She wanted to protect him where he refused to protect himself. Oh, how she longed to gather him to herself like a chick to a hen. And, yet, it had worked out. He had continued his ministry and healed countless thousands. He had understood what he was doing and knew it to be important work. God had worked it out.
That pain was the worst. She would have given anything to release him from it. And, yet, the cruelest part was that she could do nothing to help him. Nothing. He had crossed the wrong people and resisted the powers too stridently to get away with it. They had arrested him, beaten him until she barely recognized him, and now they had nailed him to a cross--naked and bleeding--so that he might die a humiliating death. She longed to scream at the crowds that waited for her beautiful son to die. Instead, she sobbed uncontrollably willing the world to fall in around her so that she and her beloved son might be done with this. He looked down to his good friend and said, "Don't worry about me. Take care of my mother." Her heart broke again for her soft-hearted and loving son who thought of her at the moment of his death. He looked into her eyes and said, "Don't worry about me, mom. Take care of this man--he's your son." She was panicked and overwhelmed and couldn't comprehend the love that consumed her son. He died a criminal's death. They took him down and buried him. And, yet, it had worked out. He had brought redemption even to a criminal on the cross. He had sowed the seed of conversion in the heart of, at least, one of his executioners. He had died but in his death he had inaugurated a Kingdom founded on love, peace, grace, mercy, and forgiveness. He had been raised from the dead after three days. He had ascended to Heaven. His Kingdom truly had and would have no end. God had worked it out.
Her pain was intense throughout life--she who was so close to the heart of the Son of God. She had been his mother and, perhaps, his most loving disciple. She had been present for his first miracle--she had even suggested it--and had been present for his greatest miracle--dying and being raised for the sins of the world. She had been the ewe who gave birth to the lamb that takes away the sins of the world. And, at that waning moment of her life she wondered what he might say to her when she saw him. Maybe, he would call to her as he had as a child: "Mommy!" She had been given a hard life and a hard calling. She had been made to suffer greatly. And, yet, it had worked out. She had been a vessel that bore God into the world. She had followed after her son Yeshua--God is saving--as he saved the world. Now, she was ready to see her son, again. God had worked it out.
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Wayland theatre to stage story of John Merrick
Wayland Baptist University Theatre will perform the popular drama The Elephant Man at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28 and March 1 and 2 in the Harral Studio Theatre on the Plainview campus.
The play is based on the true story of John Merrick, a man who lived in England during the Victorian period.
"Merrick had a debilitating physical deformity that defied medical explanation, for the most part," explained Dr. Marti Runnels, theatre director at Wayland. "In Victorian England, unfortunately, he ended up in the freak shows and spent a good deal of the beginning of his life there."
Eventually, Merrick is discovered by a London doctor who is fascinated by his condition and with finding help for him. He died in 1894 at the age of 27. His bones were kept for years for medical study.
Runnels said Merrick's story, while marked by heartache, has other facets that make the play intriguing.
"It also deals, in a powerful way, with the way a person in even the darkest circumstances looks to God," he said. "It's very much a play about spiritual journeys."
The play, by Bernard Pomerance, was based in part on Dr. Frederick Treves' memoirs, titled "The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences," written in 1923. The play opened in London in the 1970s and played on Broadway in 1979. Since then, it's been performed numerous times and was made into a movie in 1980.
Runnels said Wayland's production will make use of original slides of Merrick used in the London production. The director also chose to forego traditional background music, securing the talents of Dr. Ann Stutes, assistant professor of music at Wayland, on the viola.
"It will provide an aesthetic to match the Victorian era, and the religious themes in the music and the plaintive sounds will almost be like another character in the play," Runnels said.
The one-act play is short in length - about 80 minutes - and Runnels said scenes flow rapidly like film. Cory Norman, a senior from Lubbock, will play the lead role of Merrick. Runnels said the role is particularly challenging because of Merrick's deformities.
"Playing Merrick is one of the most physically demanding roles because the actor has to be contorted throughout the production," he said. "We'll be using exercises, massages, heating pads and other things to keep Cory from becoming deformed himself during the play, which is possible."
Other cast members include Teresa Moore, playing Mrs. Kendall; Jerrell Otwell, playing the orderly; April Langehennig, playing Miss Sandwich; David Howle, playing Carr Gomm and The Conductor; Chris Moore, playing Dr. Treves and a Belgian policeman; Brandon Campanella, playing Ross, Bishop How and Snork; Tisa Whitfill, playing a pinhead and Dutchess; Lorraine Chavez, playing a pinhead and Countess; Lori Stanley, playing a pinhead and Princess; and Billy Boone, playing the pinhead manager, a London policeman, Lord John and the porter.
Wayland will perform the play as its entry in the Christian University Theatre Festival to be held at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene in March.
Tickets for The Elephant Man are $7 for adults and $3 for students college age and below. Reservations can be made by calling the box office at 291-1089.


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Stop-and-frisk dents Kelly DHS bid
Civil liberties advocates applauded a court ruling this week striking down the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, but it might not be enough to keep the program's chief architect from getting a big promotion.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is the only potential Department of Homeland Security secretary nominee that President Barack Obama has publicly acknowledged. He has the backing of powerful Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, and his record of overseeing a sharp drop in crime has won applause from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
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But Kelly has spent much of his second stint as the head of the nation's largest police agency battling civil liberties and minorities groups — not only over stop-and-frisk but also over a program that spied on Muslims, his handling of political protests and the proliferation of surveillance cameras on New York City's streets.
Although many groups don't want to publicly oppose a theoretical nomination, their distrust of Kelly is evident.
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"The Obama administration has made the public record very clear that they oppose racial and religious profiling," said Corey Saylor, legislative director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "Kelly, in my book, is in complete opposition to the Obama administration's policy and the direction they want to go in with regards to surveillance."
Saylor said a Kelly nomination "would be stepping back to the McCarthy era, the 1950s, and the country just doesn't need that."
Civil liberties groups won a major victory Monday when a judge ruled that stop-and-frisk amounted to "indirect racial profiling" and said the police department's practice of stopping and searching people on the street violated the Constitution's Fourth and 14th amendments.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said the program, which Kelly usually calls "stop, question and frisk," involved stopping thousands of innocent people each year without a reasonable reason to search them. About 90 percent of those stopped were let go.
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Niaz Kasravi, the criminal justice director at the NAACP, said the ruling confirmed that the "NYPD's abusive stop-and-frisk program is really one of the nation's most blatant officially sanctioned racial-profiling programs."
Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are waging a robust campaign against the ruling, which the city plans to appeal. They argue that the searches deter criminals from carrying guns and have helped cause a 50 percent reduction in the city's murder rate. The duo appeared angry at a news conference Monday following Scheindlin's ruling, with Kelly denying the program was racial profiling.
"That, simply, is recklessly untrue," Kelly said, adding that the accusation was "disturbing" and "offensive." He added, "Race is never a reason to conduct a stop."
Kelly, who penned a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed last month saying the NYPD was "guilty of saving 7,383 lives" because of stop-and-frisk, is expected to continue the offensive this weekend. He's scheduled to appear on both "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation."
( Also on POLITICO: Ray Kelly 'flattered' by President Obama's comments)
"We need some balance here," Kelly will say on the NBC program. "The stark reality is that violence is happening disproportionately in minority communities. And that unfortunately is in big cities throughout America. We have record low numbers of murders in New York City, record low numbers of shootings, we're doing something right to save lives."
The NAACP wouldn't go so far as to say it would oppose a Kelly nomination. Neither would the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, another major critic of the stop-and-frisk policy.
"The hard questions would need to be asked of Ray Kelly," said Hilary Shelton, the director of the NAACP's Washington bureau, adding that Obama should find "the right person to handle Homeland Security in a country that is becoming ever more diverse."
Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, pointed to the NYPD's handling of protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention and during Occupy Wall Street as particularly troubling.
"He has viewed political protests as part of a continuum that ends with terrorism," she said. "He views protests as something to be controlled rather than facilitated."
( Also on POLITICO: Empty jobs plague Obama administration)
Saylor zeroed in on Kelly's involvement in a years-long program in which the New York police partnered with the CIA and spied on Muslims, monitoring mosques and groups well outside the city limits and even accompanying college students on a whitewater rafting trip. The department eventually acknowledged that the spying never generated a serious tip or investigation.
Kelly defended the program as necessary to keep the Big Apple safe following the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Not everybody is going to be happy with everything the police department does," Kelly said in February 2012. "But our primary goal is to keep this city safe and save lives, and that's what we're doing."
And it was Kelly's record in keeping New York safe from terrorist attacks that led multiple senators to praise him in interviews with POLITICO.