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Iraqi Shiites say insurgents and neighbors expel them from their homes in Sunni province
KIRKUK, Iraq – The insurgents came at midday, walking across a canal, advancing under cover of mortar fire toward the cluster of three Iraqi villages.
Within eight hours, Shiite residents who fled said the Sunni insurgents had expelled thousands of them from the majority-Sunni province, helped by local Sunnis in neighboring villages.
"You cannot imagine what happened, only if you saw it could you believe it," said Hassan Ali, a 52-year-old farmer siting in the al-Zahra Shiite mosque, used to distribute aid in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the displaced had fled, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) away.
"They hit us with mortars and mortars, and the families fled, and they kept hitting us. It was completely sectarian. The Shiites, out," he said.
The attacks took place on June 16 in the neighboring villages of Chardaghli, Brawchi and Karanaz, as well as a fourth village, Beshir, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) to the north, said the displaced residents. All places were home to Shiite Turkmen, an ethnically distinct minority who speak their own language and are scattered through Iraq.
Over a dozen displaced residents in Kirkuk and the nearby Shiite Turkmen town of Taza Khormato gave The Associated Press near identical accounts of the expulsions. It was not possible, however, to independently confirm the incidents because Sunni insurgents now control of the villages.
The expulsions show how Iraq's sectarian mosaic is unraveling in particularly hateful ways, unseen since the mid-2000s when sectarian killings nearly plunged the country into civil war.
The difference this time around is the lack of a U.S. military presence. At the time, when Iraq spiraled toward a sectarian civil war, U.S.-led troops fought both Sunni and Shiite extremists, eventually brokering an uneasy peace until foreign troops withdrew in 2011.
The expulsions appeared to be part of a plan to create a Sunni-dominated territory from the Syrian border to Baghdad's edge.
The rough plan appears to have emerged after insurgents, led by fighters of the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, began sweeping through Iraq on June 9, seizing the country's second largest city of Mosul and heading southward into Iraq's Sunni heartland.
The three Turkmen Shiite villages were in Salahuddin, a central province that links the west to the capital.
Expulsions from those villages were preceded, just days earlier, by insurgents seizing the Turkmen-dominated city of Tal Afar near the Syrian border. There, they burnt down Shiite homes.
The Islamic State fighters consider Shiites to be heretics, and proudly post images of them being killed — often for no reason other than their beliefs.
But even less-ideological Sunni groups that are fighting alongside the extremists have grievances against Shiites, and see them as an obstacle to having a more autonomous territory.
They deeply resent the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The litany is long: harassment by security forces; lacking political representation, disenfranchisement, and neglect of Sunni provinces.
The first mortar shell to hit the three villages in Salahuddin exploded just after lunch on Monday, the displaced said. Residents were worried: villagers had seen jeeps race into the Sunni village of Yenkeje across the canal.
Shiites watched from rooftops as insurgents poured out of their vehicles under cover fire and steadily advanced toward the village, the displaced residents said.
When villagers first fled toward the nearby Sunni villages of Bir Ahmad and Bastamli, they realized that insurgents were also firing mortars at them from that direction. Attempts to flee south to the Shiite village of Brawchi were in vain — it too was under attack. Rooftop snipers in the nearby Sunni village of Albu Hassan shot at them as they ran, they said.
Men, women and children were killed in the melee, three residents said.
"Among them was an old man and a woman, children, youths," said farmer Ali.
Days after they were killed, after pleading interventions to Sunni tribal leaders, the insurgents agreed to dump the bodies on a roadside for collection. The displaced residents say between 15 and 25 people were killed.
"They called and said: send somebody to collect your dogs," a 35-year-old villager, Abu Falah, said, lying in bed at the home of relatives in Kirkuk. A policeman, he was wounded in a recent suicide bombing, and his leg was reinforced with metal screws.
Farmer Ali said he helped bury the dead, which he said numbered 20, in a mass grave in the nearby town of Toz Khormato, controlled by Kurdish forces. It was where many displaced Shiites initially fled to on Monday night, before drifting to Kirkuk, also controlled by Kurdish forces, but considered safer.
On the same day the three villages came under attack, Sunni insurgents also attacked nearby Turkmen Shiite village of Beshir. Within hours, about 7,000 people fled, under sniper fire as they passed neighboring Sunni villages, displaced residents said. Kirkuk police chief Torhan Abdul-Rahim corroborated the story.
Residents from each village said that after they left, their Sunni neighbors burned down their homes, set fire to their wheat, and stole their sheep. They said insurgents also blew up some Shiite mosques. They said they knew of the looting because other Sunnis, opposed to the sectarian violence, were calling to update them.
One medical clinic manager from Beshir who requested anonymity, fearing his neighbors, said he had worked with residents of the nearby Sunni village of Muamaleh for years.
"If you serve somebody for twenty years, could you betray them? Let their bodies be eaten by dogs?" he grieved from a relative's small house in Kirkuk, where he now lives packed into a few rooms with five other families.
It wasn't immediately possible to contact people who had remained in the villages. Fleeing Shiites said they feared retribution if they provided telephone numbers. They also said they wanted to protect those still providing them with information.
Community leaders were trying to account for the thousands of displaced and some residents were presumed dead.
"Awn Qassim, my brother-in-law, he has seven children, nobody can find him," said Ayad Suleiman, 28, from Beshir. "Please tell the Red Cross," he asked.
Within days of the reported expulsions, more of the threads keeping Iraq together unraveled.
Abdul-Rahim, the Kirkuk police chief, said residents of three Sunni villages close to frontline combat fled into Sunni-majority areas, fearing retribution by Shiites.
Now, in Taza Khormato, only armed men remain defending the pastel-colored homes in the Turkmen Shiite town. The men evacuated their wives and children, fearing attacks.
In one house, men distributed shiny assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Gunmen patrol the town's entrance, emblazoned with a poster of an Iraqi soldier standing atop an insurgent's flag.
"We won't let anybody enter this village," said Yashar Hussein, 41, carrying two pistols. "Even if everybody dies."
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Albeau (JP/NeilPryde) continues to dominate the 2009 Pegasus PWA world Cup despite jumping the gun in race six. Dunkerbeck (Starboard/Severne) holds firm in second with consistent sailing throughout, whilst Maynard (RRD/NeilPryde) storms into the remaining podium position after a strong day on the water.
Valerie Ghibaudo (Tabou/The Loft) looks ever more likely to take the PWA slalom crown as she finishes day three counting a clinical score of straight wins. Two more bullets were added to her tally after she delivered another dominating performance.
Valerie Ghibaudo: "I am very easy with my gear and I like these conditions. It's not finished yet, but for the moment it is OK for me."
Karin Jaggi (F2/Severne) once again delivered a determined display of sailing, particularly in the second final. After a terrible start Karin fought her way back, finishing second after a tantalizing battle with Marta Hlavaty (Starboard/MauiSails).
Karin Jaggi: "I pressed my start watch two seconds late. I knew it at the time, but when it came to the start I forgot. It was super windy so everyone was really over powered and I just held on."
Sarah Hebert (Starboard/Naish Sails) holds onto third place with a mixed bag of results. However a solid second place in race five proved she deserves to be on the podium, for both the event and the overall.
Sarah Herbert: "I have learned to tune my equipment really well and my speed is solid. Now I just need to be a bit more consistent."
Lena Erdil (Starboard/The Loft) also raced fantastically today, showing moments of magic but failing to capitalize on a number of advantages. Sara-Quita Offringa (Starboard/NeilPryde) proved her worth with a second position in race five, but finished down the pan in the final race. Still, her performance was enough to move her up into fourth place overall.
Albeau's error in race six demonstrated to the rest of the fleet that he is fallible, but fortunately for the World Champ it was an easy discard. Together with his win in race five, his lead grew further and the results are looking very positive.
Antoine Albeau:"I was too fast at the start, pushing it a bit too much. But I am still really happy."
Bjorn Dunkerbeck's steady work gave him the lowest point score and he wins the much-coveted "sailor of the day" award. Despite not winning either final he raced superbly, coming back despite suffering setbacks.
Equaling Dunkerbeck's low points score was Finian Maynard. The speed World Champ was on top form, fighting Albeau until the finish in race five, moving onto third position in the process.
Finian Maynard. "Not a bad day, I am happy to be consistent. Against Antoine it was close, I had decent gybes, I tried to hold him off but credit where credits due."
Micah Buzianis (JP/NeilPryde) was unlucky not to be higher up the ranking tonight. A collision with Peter Volwater (F2/MauiSails) meant he missed the all-important qualifying slot for the final. The two racers almost came to blows on the beach, but the towering American refocused his energy and convincingly won the last final of the day. He now sits in fourth place, just 1.4 points off the podium.
Micah Buzianis. "I feel comfortable in these conditions. As long as I don't screw up, or get taken out, and can make it to the final, I feel like I can win."
Peter Volwater. "I was scared for my life! He was quite mad and he is quite big and quite strong, and it was me that crashed into him! I said sorry, but I should have known to stay clear for a while. I probably should have sailed up to Izmir and stayed there for an hour!"
After a fantastic start Ross Williams (Tabou/Gaastra) had another disappointing day for his usual high standard.
Ross Williams "I have a new sail for this event and I think I had it tuned slightly wrong. I spent the afternoon getting it better, we will see tomorrow. Never give up."
Cyril Moussilmani (Starboard/North Sails) however seemed to find form today. After a mediocre beginning to the event, a third and fifth place saw him spring up the ranking into sixth.
With the wind forecast to build for tomorrow join us again for more slalom excitement. Follow the live ticker, the elimination ladder and check out the fantastic photo gallery, all available at www.pwaworldtour.com.
Men's Results after 6 Races.
1 Antoine Albeau NeilPryde, JP
2 Björn Dunkerbeck Starboard, Severne Sails
3 Finian Maynard RRD, NeilPryde
4 Micah Buzianis NeilPryde, JP
5 Josh Angulo Dakine, Angulo, MauiSails
6 Cyril Moussilmani Starboard, North Sails
7 Kevin Pritchard Starboard, Gaastra,Dakine
8 Steve Allen
9 Peter Volwater F2, MauiSails
10 Ben Van Der Steen Simmer Style, Exocet
Women's Results after 6 Races.
1 Valérie Ghibaudo Loft Sails, Tabou Boards
2 Karin Jaggi F2, Severne Sails
3 Sarah Hebert Starboard, Naish Sails
4 Sarah-Quita Offringa Starboard, NeilPryde
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frankly, i've come to enjoy webster's show more than alex jones'. i mean who does alex rely on for his movies? everyone here should be listening to tarpley.
1 Another concept asserts that the 13 Army personnel were killed during the suppression of a mutinyoccasioned by the overstretch of US forces caused by Obamas contination of the Iraq war and escalation of the Afghan war. Almost a week after the massacre, no direct substantiation for this idea has emerged.
I will throw in what I know....I have spoken with both Webster Tarpley before, and with some trainees in that very medical unit the Saturday before the massacre.My dialog with Tarpley, I challenged him on some his claims pertaining to Katrina. Before he answered either of my questions, he first asked me how I viewed 9/11, the government, etc.. That in my mind reduced his credibility. 9/11 has nothing directly to do with Katrina, and how *I* viewed things should not affect his answer. If all he was giving us was facts, my opinion of it should not matter. I was also dissatisfied with his answer in the end. So...I do think Webster Tarpley knows stuff. But he seems a little overzealous with his viewpoint, to the point of telling us what to think. I don't want to be told what to think: give us FACTS.Now, my brief contact with the medics before the shooting: they seemed critical of the training they were receiving. Effectively, they're a death panel. A lot of these guys (if not all) were not graduates of med school--they were more like field nurses, and one of their jobs is to triage the wounded. They're supposed to wheel the wounded into different units, such as "going to die", "not going to die", "low priority". When the soldiers get carried into the "die" unit, they know full and well exactly where they're going. A couple medics said they refused to do that. If their man is dying, they're going to treat that guy to the very end. A lot of that could be that they're green, they're acting on emotion and they haven't experienced the reality of it that you can't save them all. But--you know that is a death panel. What is incredibly ironic about this is that they used their training for real almost the minute they graduated, before they got sent off. These are good people who got attacked--they're not the power-hungry thugs from Blackwater.
After 17 pages of the most incredible journalistic integrity while the false flag is still fresh in everyone's mind, that is your contribution?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/triage TRIAGE--–noun1. the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors. Col3, are you military? How did you get access to these medics? Of course they would be upset if they were put in the "going to die pile"--but, they WERE JUST DOING A DRILL, THE SATURDAY BEFORE, RIGHT? In the Forrest Gump movie, Forrest rescues them all because it's a movie. In real life, he would have left the ones that he thought were going to die.
I have spoken with both Webster Tarpley before, and with some trainees in that very medical unit the Saturday before the massacre.
Sane, I can't really decipher what Col3 was saying. It appears that he talked to them earlier and they did triage training at some point. I wouldn't say that Saturday but who knows. When I was in the military as a doctor we did triage training.
The medics I spoke to most definitely were NOT doing triage training the Saturday before. However, the way they were talking, it seemed very fresh on their minds, as if it was the Friday before. I thought nothing of it--they were about to deploy. You train before you deploy.What WAS ironic, though, was how soon these green troops were already doing triage for real exactly a week later. It never occurred to me that it may be a little TOO ironic. I say that to address Tarpley's point about this operation being some kind of crackdown on mutinous troops. To me, they seemed critical, but I thought it was understandable and nothing out of the ordinary. OTOH what they were critical of didn't seem particularly unusual, either. The only thing unusual might have been that they were critical of their commanders at all.
19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_shootingHis supervisors at Walter Reed had even reprimanded him for telling at least one patient that "Islam can save your soul." Hasanspent six years as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed, beginning in 2003, and he had afellowship at USUHS until shortly before he went to Fort Hood in the summer of 2009.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fae_1258418825Accused Fort Hood Shooter Was a Regular at Shooting Range, Strip Club Nidal Hasan Also Spent Time with a Young Muslim Convert Who Considered Himself "Extremist"
Wow that smacks of bullshit! I loved how the guy at the shooting range wouldnt talk to the reporters to verify the most likely contrived script the 'investigators say'. Also just like 9/11 the muslims in a strip club thing,lol, is that their code for 'this is a false flag'? Also at the strip club no girls interviewed either. Im not one to draw concrete conclusions but all smells fishy to me.
13 vs. 2,000,000: Fort Hood Shootings a Shocker...Why Not U.S. War Crimes?by Ted Rallhttp://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60144&hd=&size=1&l=eNovember 16, 2009NEW YORK--American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts marking their deaths are short, sweet, and short-lived. Congressional investigations? No way. To the contrary! If anyone is inconsiderate enough to mention the killings of people overseas in a public forum, they get shouted down or simply ignored.The massacre of 13 soldiers at an Army post in Texas earlier this week places this dichotomy in sharp relief.The FBI is already helping Army investigators. In addition, Senator Joe Lieberman has announced that his Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will launch a full investigation into "every angle" of the shooting, including the motives of the suspect and whether or not government eavesdroppers could have prevented it by notifying Army officials of his contacts with a radical Muslim cleric. Over in the House, Representative Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat, has summoned national intelligence director Dennis Blair to answer questions about Fort Hood before the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.But wait--there's more. "Other committees may also launch investigations into how the Army missed warning signs about the accused," reports The Politico.All sorts of hands are being wrung.Major Hasan, an army psychiatrist, ministered to victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome who told him terrible stories about combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Should someone have helped him cope too?Ordered to deploy to the war zone, he asked not to go--and was refused. Should the Army be more flexible?Is it reasonable to ask a religious Muslim to deploy to Afghanistan or Iraq, wars where he would be asked to kill his coreligionists?Then there are the phone taps. "U.S. military officials said intelligence agencies intercepted communications between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a former imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, a Washington suburb," reported CNN. "Al-Awlaki, who left the United States in 2002 and is believed to be living in Yemen, was the subject of several federal investigations dating back to the late 1990s, but was never charged." As jihadis do at the start of an attack, Hasan reportedly cried "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire. Shouldn't someone have noticed that the nice shrink with the dopey smile had become a radical Islamist?The shock, grief and soul-searching are all reasonable reactions to a brutal and tragic event. But it's not hard to imagine how it looks to the outside world. While the media and public obsess over the deaths of 13 fellow Americans, they ignore the deaths of hundreds of thousands of foreigners.The American military has killed roughly two million people in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Those attacks were illegal--no declaration of war, no UN mandate--and are largely recognized as such by the American public. Many of the victims were killed with chemical and radioactive weapons, and some while under torture. In other words, these are crimes--some of the biggest mass murders in human history.There are no angry editorials. The illegal wars, instead of being brought to an end, are being ramped up. The crimes--yes, including the torture--continues. But it's OK--as long as it doesn't happen here in the United States. It's OK to rain death on Pakistanis using drone planes...gotta spare those precious American lives!Mass murder is shocking when the victims are Americans; it's doubly shocking when it happens in America.Thirteen soldiers die in Texas and it's all we talk about. Two million die in Afghanistan and Iraq and we don't notice and we don't even want to hear about it. Only 12 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 can find Afghanistan on a map.The punk band T.S.O.L. wrote the soundtrack to this attitude a quarter-century ago: "We live in the American zone/Free of fear in our American home/Swimming pool and digital phone."Still wondering why they hate us?_______Ted Rall Online: www.rall.com
Tarpley breaks down the Fort Hood false flag like no-one else has. On his weekly radio show this week Tarpley explains how Hassan is a classic patsy a la Oswald and Atta, how the soldiers on base thought it was a drill, how there were multiple shooters...and so on.This is a must listen, get it from the GCN podcasts (11/14) or commercial free from this torrent:http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5162816
Webster + AJ's latest analysis of FT HOOD 'patsy' as he's being called (due to 7/7-like drill in operation on the day)Do the ARMED FORCES listen to A.J.?Is that allowed? Do they realise they're being used?Mike
The writer has a point, millions of innocent foreign lives aren't worth 13 American lives to most Americans. That's an incredibly selfish and supremacist attitude. Whether this was a false flag or not one could argue that's the bigger point. If more Americans were of good conscience they wouldn't be susceptiple to these false flags anyway but since they have this supremacist attitude 3000 Americans are more important than a million + Iraqis, etc. and it works.
About the confusion of the number of shooters at first, Remember this?http://www.time.com/time/2003/invenhttp://img.timeinc.net/time/2003/inventionsI remember hearing rumors of 5th group experimenting with these when I was at Ft Campbell.
Here is the link to the Japanese company developing the optical camoflaugehttp://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/index.phpThe translation I got from google is as follows (mind you its not in proper sentence structure but you can get the general idea)Optical camouflage technology and is optically camouflaged objects to its name. Present a general technique for augmented reality image, the video sort of superimposed images of virtual space to real space, "adding" is. Visually transparent objects Reality Conversely, the video or "minus" to enable the "optical camouflage (Optical Camouflage)" to clear the distracting visual objects in real space through the use of technology enabling.Camouflage is a reflection on the retro-reflective material affixed to the body shield, background images captured in real time or in advance by HMP to achieve projected. If you want to build a projection system and video cameras in real-time background, if the projected image from the projector without the camera would shift to Nirimasu larger image. So this approach will create a simple model of the background, the video projector at the location of the viewpoint of IBR (Image-based Rendering) is generated by the real-time.
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Deborah Raffin, a film actress, veteran of television miniseries and entrepreneur whose company, Dove Books-on-Tape, became a major force in the audio book industry, died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 59.
She was diagnosed with the blood cancer about a year ago, said her brother, William.
The blond, California-born actress first came to attention in the mid-1970s playing "pretty girl" roles in movies such as "Forty Carats" with Liv Ullman and "Once Is Not Enough," based on the salacious novel by Jacqueline Susann.
She later tackled more substantial parts in television miniseries, playing legendary actress Brooke Hayward in "Haywire" (1980) and a businesswoman in "Noble House" (1988), based on the James Clavell saga of love and intrigue in Hong Kong.
In the mid-1980s, she and her then-husband, Michael Viner, launched Dove as a hobby in the garage of their Coldwater Canyon home, but it blossomed into a multimillion-dollar business with a mix of high- and low-brow titles, from Sidney Sheldon's bestseller "The Naked Face" to physicist Stephen W. Hawking's opus on the cosmos, "A Brief History of Time," which was Dove's first bestseller.
"I enjoy acting," Raffin told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1996, "but I've never been driven to just act. I've always had a desire to produce, to be in control of my own destiny, to be able to find material and develop it."
The daughter of Trudy Marshall, a contract player at 20th Century Fox in the 1940s, and Philip Raffin, a meat broker and restaurateur, she was born in Los Angeles on March 13, 1953, and grew up in Beverly Hills and Bel-Air. After graduating from University High School, she attended L.A. Valley College and was in her second year there when she was discovered in an elevator by a talent agent.
She met Viner, a music producer, on a blind date in 1974 and married him four months later. They launched Dove Books-on-Tape in 1985 and later expanded in book publishing and movie and television production.
The books-on-tape venture had its origins in a backgammon game in which novelist Sidney Sheldon had lost $8,000 to Viner. Viner did not want to take the money and arranged instead to produce two of Sheldon's bestsellers as audio books. The name of the company was inspired by Raffin's 1974 film "The Dove," which was her second movie and co-starred Joseph Bottoms.
Her job in the audio books company was lining up performers such as Burt Reynolds, Elliott Gould, Roger Moore and Ruby Dee. Among the first tapes she and her husband produced were "Anatomy of an Illness" and "The Healing Heart," the nonfiction bestsellers by their neighbor Norman Cousins. They were read by Jason Robards Jr. and William Conrad.
Raffin also compiled celebrities' Christmas anecdotes for a 1990 book, "Sharing Christmas," which raised money for groups serving the homeless. It included stories from Margaret Thatcher, Kermit the Frog and Mother Teresa, whose contribution Raffin obtained by traveling to the Nobel Prize winner's mission in Calcutta.
Raffin and Viner sold the company in 1997 after some ill-timed expansion efforts and controversies stemming from some of the more sensational book projects favored by Viner. These included two books by figures in the O.J. Simpson murder case, including Faye Resnick's "Nicole Brown Simpson: The Diary of a Life Interrupted" (1994).
Raffin's marriage to Viner ended in divorce in 2005. (He died of cancer in 2009.) In addition to her brother, William, of Malibu, Raffin is survived by a sister, Judy Holston, and a daughter, Taylor Rose Viner, both of Brentwood.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City.
Through Dove, Raffin and Viner also promoted American movies in China, where the actress was a major star thanks to the popularity there of her early TV movie "Nightmare in Badham County" (1976), an exploitation flick about two coeds whose car breaks down in a small Southern town.
On a visit to the country in the early 1980s, Raffin's Chinese fans reacted to her by pointing and shouting "nightmare, nightmare, nightmare."
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Nashua man charged with aggravated DWI
Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday morning Bedford police said they clocked a Ford Focus traveling in excess of 30 mph over the speed limit on South River Road, according to police reports.
Police pulled the car over near the Manchester Country Club, said reports, and the lone driver jumped out and ran into the woods. Police set up a perimeter and located the driver within 45 minutes. Reports said he was hiding on Pebble Beach Drive in the Village Green community.
Jeremy Tappan, 24, of Nashua was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, disobeying a police officer, operating after suspension, two electronic bench warrants and a theft warrant, said police.
Tappan declined bail services and was taken to Hillsborough County Correctional Facility, according to police. He will be arraigned on Monday.


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Finding green alternatives to toxic chemicals is more successful when researchers and industry work together. To foster that collaboration, the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) recently hosted a symposium for UMass Lowell researchers and Massachusetts businesses, including Raytheon Corp., Teknor Apex, Tetra Tech and Alpha Chemicals.
The afternoon included a tour of the new Mark and Elisia Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, a poster session presented by faculty and students and round-table discussions – all intended to foster connections between industry and faculty.
Each year, TURI awards grant funding to UMass Lowell researchers to help companies find alternatives to toxic chemicals. The grant requires that researchers partner with Massachusetts companies.
"Our academic research program is a powerful way for TURI to match the real-world needs of Massachusetts manufacturers to develop and use safer materials and chemicals with the cutting-edge research interests of UMass Lowell faculty," says Pam Eliason, industry research program manager for TURI. "Our faculty and the future scientists and engineers collaborate with Massachusetts companies to ensure that they are addressing specific applications and challenges faced by companies that want to reduce or eliminate their use of toxic chemicals."
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Google has begun testing a new design for its famously minimalist home page, reducing its recently-added grey menu along the top of the page to a grey logo at the upper left. When users click the logo, a fly-out menu reveals Google's usual space of seven top services (Google+, Search, Images, Maps, YouTube, News, Gmail, and Documents) and a "More" option that flys out an hierarchical submenu with access to things like Reader, Calendar, Books, and Shopping. Each service is tagged with its own icon for easier visual identification.
The new design is not yet available to all Google users, but seems to be selectively available to some users in English-language markets.
The new design provides access to many of Google's services that were previously missing from the home page, while putting the Google+ social networking service in a can't-miss position on Google's home page. That's pretty prominent placement: last week, Nielsen declared Google was the most-visited Web site in the United States during 2011.
Overall, the new look bears a greater resemblance to Google's Web-dependent Chrome operating system, which is currently available on a handful of Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung. Chromebooks have been out for more than a year, and so far Google has yet to announce any new partners for Chromebook devices—although CES is right around the corner. Google has rolled out similar makeovers for services like YouTube.
Some users of the new Google home page design have pointed out where many common Google services (News, Maps, Images, Shopping, Google+) were available via a single click on the grey menu across the top, the new design requires two clicks: one to drop the services menu, and another to select a service—with services on the "More" menu, it's three clicks instead of two. Generally speaking, putting more clicks between a user and their destination is a quick way to stop users from accessing those service—although some analytics reports suggest that Google's home page navigation actually sees relatively little use from everyday users, who instead merely search for what they want.
Google's famously uncluttered home page design dates back to the late 1990s, when the company basically offered four things on its fast-loading page: a logo, a field, a search button, and the boastful "I'm feeling lucky." Although the company has tucked more functionality and links into the page over the years—including its famous Google Doodles—Google's primary home page remains one of the most streamlined and fast-loading sites for a major Internet company.


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2 runs ain't great, but it's hardly a disaster - back to back jacks - and a solo jack in the 6th - Jason did a good job - all things considered ...
if Lopez doesn't regain the leadoff spot before season ends, is certifiable leadoff man a off-season priority? ANd what does that mean about Lopezs future with nats?
sorry, i exaggerated a tad.
definitely need a leadoff...but I love Felipe's glove
Well, Lopez wasn't brought here to be the leadoff guy, so that shouldn't matter. As for Guzman, we need that money back somehow.
what is that in your avi? i want to say raccoon.........
Didn't Dmitri look like a 1st bagger when he makes a pick like that?
If Guman can come back next season and play like he has this season, i hope he gets an extension
that's a cat with an attitude!
oh is that so.*goes to google to look up animal controlll,pet abuse and PETA*
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"Cost-effective, small, rugged and easy-to-use test equipment for installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of CWDM access networks"
Anritsu Instruments Company, a subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation and a global provider of operational support solutions for advanced and converged networks, announced today the release of its new Optical Channel Analyzer module (MU909020A) as part of the Network Master MT9090A Family.
The Network Master OCA is a field modular device designed to measure and monitor power and wavelength over the 18 CWDM channels. It is a cost-effective alternative to more complex OSA for the emerging CWDM market, providing fast and reliable measurements in every environment. Coming in a small, light and rugged handheld format, this easy to use instrument is the ideal and essential mate of each field technician for installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of CWDM access networks.
Thanks to its reduced boot-up and warm-up times, the Network Master OCA allows a rapid characterization of a CWDM network, with a global vision of all the CWDM channels displayed in a graph or a table window on the large screen of the instrument. The network analysis is simplified thanks to pre-stored pass and fail indicators, in accordance with the ITU-T G.695 standard. Several drift functions allow a long-term characterization of the channels, a key point in CWDM networks where channels are lightened by uncooled lasers.
"The Network Master OCA has been especially designed to be the essential tool for the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of CWDM access networks. Its small size, light weight and elegant look will benefit to every field technicians" says Gildas Chauvel, Product Manager, Anritsu Instruments Company. "The software interface has been carefully developed to particularly ease the measurements of CWDM parameters, and will require quite no training to characterize a CWDM network in a glance".
Network Master OCA Key Features: Measure Power and Wavelength over the 18 CWDM channels
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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Work near the giant sinkhole in south Louisiana was stopped Sunday due to increased tremors. A "burp" early Tuesday morning in the sinkhole means all work in and around the area is ceased until further notice.
According to the Assumption Parish Police Jury Blog, seismic monitors recorded a very long seismic signal at 3:24 a.m. and they're saying this is likely when the burp happened. There are no reports of a slough in or if debris was burped up Tuesday morning.
The sinkhole grew by three acres last month, bringing its total size to about 15 acres.
It has been nine months since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left a nine-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and have been for the past seven months. Most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week.
On March 13, Texas-Brine, the Houston based company that owns the salt dome that caused the sinkhole, announced it would begin assessing the homes and offering buyouts and settlements for the 350 people evacuated.
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METS: Wright, Harvey lead charge in rout of Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- David Wright sure likes Philadelphia, even if the city isn't so fond of him.
Wright homered, tripled and matched a New York Mets record with four extra-base hits to back Matt Harvey's latest splendid start in an 8-0 victory over the Phillies on Sunday.
"This guy is tired, beat up, yet he rides it when you need him," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "I've been around stars, and this guy's as good as any of them."
Wright, who has spent his entire 10-year career playing for one of Philadelphia's biggest rivals, hit his 17th home run at Citizens Bank Park. He went 4 for 5 with two of New York's season-high seven doubles, raising his numbers at the Phillies' home field to .296 with 43 extra-base hits and 58 RBIs in 80 games.
With the Mets making a major marketing push to get Wright elected to start next month's All-Star game at Citi Field, the third baseman is batting .405 with 14 extra-base hits in his last 17 games.
"It would be a tremendous honor and something I would really like to do," Wright said. "First and foremost, I'd like to be there for the All-Star game. But to be able to start it in your home park would be pretty special. I think (that's) an understatement."
Given a rare heaping of run support, Harvey (7-1) allowed two hits in six innings and struck out six to earn consecutive wins for the first time since mid-April. The 24-year-old right-hander tossed four perfect innings and threw a season-low 72 pitches his outing was cut short by a 20-minute rain delay in the seventh.
Collins said there was no argument when he informed Harvey he would not return after the delay, and the manager didn't want to take a chance with his young star.
"I said, `Nope, it's not worth it,"' Collins explained. "The upside is too high."
Harvey also hit an RBI double to deep right-center and scored in a three-run fifth that made it 4-0. Later, he hit a line drive that knocked reliever Joe Savery's glove off his hand but was thrown out at first.
Harvey became the first Mets starter to win twice in one season at Citizens Bank Park, where New York took two of three after winning a five-game series at first-place Atlanta.
"He was really good," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "He was getting the ball over the plate. He was getting his slider on the outside of the plate against the left-handed hitters and he comes right after you."
Wright hit his 12th home run in the ninth and finished a single shy of the cycle. But he wouldn't trade one of those doubles for a single.
"I like doubles," Wright said.
The club said the previous Mets player to have four extra-base hits in a game was Edgardo Alfonzo on Aug. 30, 1999, at Houston.
New leadoff batter Eric Young Jr. had three hits and scored twice.
Philadelphia's only threat against Harvey came in the fourth, when Chase Utley hit a leadoff double and Ryan Howard worked a one-out walk. But Harvey got out of the jam by striking out Domonic Brown on a 99 mph fastball and retiring Delmon Young on a grounder.
New York opened the scoring in the first when Marlon Byrd drove in Young with a sacrifice fly.
In the fifth, Harvey helped himself by hitting the first of three RBI doubles for the Mets. Juan Lagares led off the inning with what appeared to be an easy fly to center, but Ben Revere fumbled the ball in the exchange from his glove to his bare hand and it was ruled it a three-base error, opening the door for New York.
The Mets added two more in the sixth. Josh Satin and John Buck drew back-to-back walks before Lagares chased Phillies starter John Lannan (0-2) with an RBI double. Buck scored on Omar Quintanilla's sacrifice fly to make it 6-0.
Byrd hit an RBI double in the seventh after Wright's triple.
Mets relievers LaTroy Hawkins and Brandon Lyon closed it out, handing the Phillies their seventh shutout of the season.
NOTES: Harvey is 3-0 with a 1.37 ERA in four career starts against Philadelphia. ... The Mets beat the Phillies for the third time in their last 13 meetings. ... Revere went 0 for 3, ending his 12-game hitting streak. ... Phillies reliever J.C. Ramirez struck out the side in order in the eighth in his major league debut. ... Over the last eight games, the Mets' bullpen has limited opponents to two earned runs in 27 innings (0.67 ERA). ... The Phillies embark on a 10-game road trip beginning with a three-game series in San Diego on Monday, when Cliff Lee takes the mound. ... The Mets are off Monday before starting a two-game set with the White Sox in Chicago on Tuesday, when top prospect Zack Wheeler will make his second big league start.


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Well…this is an S.O.S.! The Jonas Brothers recently called off their upcoming tour due to a "deep rift" within in the group, and even though we thought they were Inseparable, last night, the split became official...well, at least in the Twittersphere. Yes, it's true, the bros deleted the band's Twitter account. Will things ever B B Good between them again? Hopefully the hold on JoBro group tweets is just a sign that the guys needed to Take A Breath, not break up for good!
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It's Friday, meaning it's time for the best iPad apps of the week. This week, we're wowing you with a navigational app for boaters, one that will teach you something, and another that will test your knowledge of pop culture.
IBM Think: How did we get from the invention of the wheel to the personal computer? It's been a long road, marked by very important developments along the way. Based on IBM's Think exhibit staged in NYC last year, this app maps innovation in a beautifully-designed package. Free
Trivia Party: You don't have to go out to the bar for a trivia night. You challenge your friends' cultural know-how anytime with this competitive app. No friends? No problem. Fire up solo mode. Free
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Richie Sambora has confirmed he has rekindled his romance with Denise Richards five years after they first became a couple.
The Bon Jovi star first dated the actress in 2006, shortly after his marriage to Heather Locklear collapsed and Richards separated from her ex-husband Charlie Sheen.
Rumors of a reconciliation have been rife in recent weeks, and the rocker has now admitted they are back together.
Sambora confirmed the news during an appearance at Alicia Keys' Keep a Child Alive Black Ball in New York City on Thursday night, telling New York Post gossip column Page Six, "Things are good. I'm really happy."
When asked whether Sheen will be annoyed by the reunion, he adds, "No. He's a friend of mine. I haven't talked to him. I'm sure it'll be fine."
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Eclipse Virgo 3.0.0 Milestone 5
Milestone 5 of Virgo 3.0.0 is available for download. This is an important milestone which adds significant functional enhancements, upgrades several dependencies to their latest levels including Spring 3.0.5, Tomcat 7.0.12, and Servlet 3.0, and fixes a number of bugs. Full details are available in the release notes.


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Charter Management Organization Guide
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This is the view of Pendle Hill taken from the back of my house, taken in May 2009.
My mare Boushka adorned on Midsummer's Day, 2009. My equine muse makes a cameo appearance in my new novel, DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL, as Alice Nutter's horse.
Stanfield Tower on Blacko Hill. This tower is a Victorian folly not far from the site of Malkin Tower, my heroine Mother Demdike's home. Malkin Tower no longer exists, unfortunately.
Modern outbuilding in West Close, near Fence. Mother Demdike's friend and rival, Mother Chattox, lived in a cottage near this site. Alas, her home no longer exists either.
St. Mary's Church, Newchurch, in Pendle. The village is named after the church, which was built in the mid-16th century.
If you look closely, you can see the image of the eye on the church tower, possibly intended to ward against witchcraft and evil. Some believe that Alice Nutter was buried in this churchyard, although it is unlikely.
Image of a witch on a private home in Roughlee Village, not far from Roughlee Hall, possibly the home of Alice Nutter, although some argue that she lived at Crow Trees Farm, also very close to where this photo was taken.
You see these images of witches everywhere in Pendle. It freaks some visitors out! And sometimes it makes it hard to remember that the Pendle Witches weren't folkloric figures but real women and men who lost their lives on account of ignorance and hysteria.
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Just a note to thank you again for the great Intro to Silversmithing class. I learned so much in the 2 short days... and you gave me such a renewed appreciation for Southwestern jewelry. I have a large collection of Native American jewelry that I have collected for many years... just looking at those pieces now, and realizing what is involved to create these pieces... well, I'm in awe!.
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Dave Smith's Beginning Silversmithing class was AWESOME! Two days of nonstop education. Dave is very organized, patient and entertaining. He took time to help each person individually while keeping the rest of the class working too. He is safety conscious and critiques your work by teaching you what you could do better while instilling confidence in what you are doing. I am quite impressed with my project pieces and can't wait for the advanced class. I have been making and selling beaded jewelry for about 4 years and while I love the creative aspect, I haven't really found my 'nitch'. Until now! Thanks Dave,
Laury H
Hi Dave, I just wanted to thank you again for the Silversmithing class you taught at Beadoholique in Spring, Texas. I had a great time and FINALLY learned to solder without being scared of it. I am quite happy with my piece and enjoyed your way of teaching. I too teach jewelry classes and I'm a fine silver snob!! There's nothing like it although I am told gold is wonderful to work with but too rich for my 'not very deep' pockets! Thanks again and I hope to be in another one of your classes somewhere in time.
Kathy C.
I have been wanting to attend a silversmithing class to learn about the techniques because I didn't want to learn on my own, and I am so glad I waited! I was blown away with the quality of instruction and how many techniques we were able to learn in just two days. Everything we needed was provided for the class, and I was so impressed with the preparation that is taken to get ready for students. Dave was great with giving 1 on 1 attention to each student (even in a large class), was extremely patient for those that were slower learners, and made difficult techniques seem simple with giving professional hints and tips. Plus he even pushed through and continued the course when he was sick. Dave gave us lots of options to get everything we needed to start on our own, including tools, materials, and instructional dvd's/'online content at very competitive prices as well. I was so impressed with my own work and enjoyed it so much that I decided to purchase a kit and the online instruction so I could review our techniques and learn new ones. The online content is fabulous; it gives you a view that would just be like your own on the bench, and even shows how to prevent or fix mistakes! Dave gave me the confidence to start making pieces the very next day on my own, and I'm very excited to have learned this skill. I couldn't have been happier with the class and the instructor. If you decide to take this course I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
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Hi Dave, I was in your class at Argenta Bead Company this past September. After your class I took another beginner silversmith class because a pendant, ring and possibly a bracelet was to be taught and I wanted more practice and knew I'd probably get to learn different techniques with silversmithing. So far the class has only worked on a ring. I am very thankful I found your class because this class is more of a craft class. I got to experience an acetylene torch, saw, warm pickle and paste flux (I prefer your method for flux & pickle) but it has been very frustrating and illogical with some procedures. Many students have had to re-solder pieces because the instructor did not do a good job at showing how to manipulate the solder with heat. Because you made us watch twice how solder follows heat I was able to save my solder when it balled up on the inside of my ring connection. Very proud moment for me because I was in a state of panic. There is much more I can point out but it would be a book. If I hadn't found your class and took just this other one I would have given up on making jewelry, and I want this to be a business. So thank you for sharing your skills and experience. I hope to take another class from you some day.
Rick C.
This was so much more than a soldering class. I went home and created jewelry for my wife and kids. They love it!
OMG! I am so looking forward to the advanced silversmithing class. I am the only student at my school who is making their own sterling body art.
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Monroe, NJ, United States - Branch (Retail) Banking - Posted Sep 26, 2018
Requisition Number: 180000RM
A Financial Services Associate (SOS Unit) travels between assigned branches in order to provide customers with high quality, prompt, and professional financial services. As a single point of contact, performs a variety of customer banking transactions and provides quality service to existing and new clients in accordance with the rules, regulations, and guidelines of the Bank. Participates in the development of client relationships by cross-selling banking products and services as appropriate.
Travels between assigned branches as needed by Regional Management. Processes all customer related financial transactions in accordance with the rules, regulations, and guidelines of the Bank. Opens new accounts that include but are not limited to savings, checking, certificates and IRAs according to customer needs. Accurately prepares all required documents for completing the transaction. Answers inquiries and provides information to customers in person, by telephone and by mail on various accounts and other bank services. Assists customers with routine issues and refers to management staff if necessary. Assists in the achievement of branch sales goals by developing, setting and achieving personal sales and referral goals. Proactively solicits and promotes new business by actively selling Bank products, conducting sales activities and referring business to other units of the Bank. Develops new and expands existing client relationships by identifying current and potential client needs and by cross-selling Bank products, participating in business development and CRA related activities. Processes various customer transactions including but not limited to cash, check and ATM deposits, withdrawals, check cashing, account closeouts, loan payments; issues bank checks, and U.S. Savings Bonds redemption. Balances cash drawer and prepares daily proof/settlement. Services customer accounts, executes changes of address, ATM claims, and all other account servicing requests. Opens vault and verifies cash shipments in conjunction with leadership team member. Assists with ATM settlement. Provide an exceptional customer experience by utilizing Bank service standards. Performs special projects, and additional duties and responsibilities as required. Where applicable and when performing the responsibilities of the job, employees are accountable to maintain Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and adhere to internal control policies and procedures.
High school diploma or equivalent. Retail sales, customer service, cash handling experience preferred OR minimum of one year of experience in a process-driven role handling credit or financial transactions such as; billing analyst at a medical facility, auto dealership, insurance practice or other comparable experience.
Computer literate with general proficiency in an application such as; billing, invoicing, cash management or other workflow application. Customer service focused. Detail oriented. Demonstrated multitasking skills. Strong communication skills. Critical thinking skills. Ability to travel between assigned branches. Ability to work well in a team environment.
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: NYCB) is one of the 25 largest bank holding companies in the nation, with assets of $48.3 billion and a market cap of $6.4 billion at June 30, 2017. With deposits of $28.9 billion and 255 branches in Metro New York, New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, and Ohio, NYCB also rank among the largest depositories in the United States. NYCB operates through two banks with eight local divisions - New York Community Bank a savings bank with 225 branches throughout our five-state franchise; and New York Commercial Bank which has 30 branches. With a longstanding reputation for strength, stability and service, NYCB is proud to be committed to the communities it serves. To learn more about the NYCB Family of Banks visit us at www.mynycb.com. Branch Out and help recruit top talent for NYCB through the employee referral program. All NYCB employees are encouraged to submit referrals. Locate top talent right in the community where you live, work and play. Amazing individuals are all around be sure to let them know how they can become a part of the NYCB family.
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Private tropical oasis in Hawaii Kai
Every realtor will tell you that you need to see their listing in person to appreciate it—and that's especially true with this single-story, marina-front home in Hawaii Kai. When you first see the photos, it looks like almost any other nice Hawaii house. When you actually visit it, you understand how unique it is.
It's owned by the Leslein family, who founded East Oahu Realty, so they know how to find good real estate. (The children are grown and it's now an empty nest, so the parents are downsizing to a simpler lifestyle.) The home is built not just for family living, but foreasy entertaining, as well.
For one thing, the lot is exceptionally large for a marina front home, at 11,291 square feet. This gave them room to create an extra-large driveway with lots of parking, and a bonus gated area for a boat, a trailer, kayaks, surfboards, canoes and/or a dog run.
On the other side, the 40-foot boat dock is also unusually large for the area. It's located in a prime viewing spot for the annual Christmas boat parade, as the entrants float by a few times during the course of the event.
The $100,000 rock waterfall—which is so impressive, you'd be more likely to find it at a hotel than at a residence—is an interesting feature: it's double-sided, so you'll see it cascading into a pond in the driveway. On the other side, it flows into the pool. There's a large rock at the top that is even naturally shaped like a fish, which is a nice touch.
The pond, by the way, holds about six koi, which are included with the sale of the house.
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It's open today from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and on Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. (Click here for details.)
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