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"Dude, Where's My Accent? Why the California Vowel Shift May Have Us All By the Tongue
Read the full article in Portland Monthly here
ON AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON at a downtown Starbucks, Jeff Conn asks me to meow like a cat.
"Go ahead," the linguist says. "Just say the word meow."
Conn, 39, teaches at Portland State University. An expert in phonetics and dialects, he spends a lot of time listening to people—not so much what they say, but how they say it. He runs me through some more words (sit, set, sat, dude, love, day, Tracy Barry), listening to my vowels. Linguists like Conn stalk vowels the way bird-watchers pursue shrikes—he can detect a raised Canadian diphthong (that's the one that turns about into aboat) from across a room. He knows that Texans can't tell a pin from apen and that Detroiters turn a trap into a tree-ap.
These days, he's paying special attention to the way Portlanders pronounce words like caught, dude, and no. He's monitoring those words for signs of a phantom invasion—he wants to know if yourdude sounds like di-ood, if your caught sounds like cot, if your no sounds like ne-ow.
If any of those mutations is taking root in your speech, you could be part of a transformation known as the California Vowel Shift. First observed in the Bay Area, the phenomenon appears to be spreading. Some linguists believe that CVS is burrowing into Portlanders' speech. Others (like Conn himself) think the future of how we talk is more complicated.
At first blush, it's hard to think of anything more trivial than how a given person—or city—says the word egg. But vowels are a sort of linguistic barometer, yielding clues to both the past and future of everyday language. Indeed, how we pronounce the humble vowel may eventually even influence how we see ourselves.
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS judged one another by how they speak. The Greeks coined the wordbarbarian to describe people whose language sounded (to the Greeks) like ba-ba-ba-ba. The Bible's book of Judges relates how victorious Gilead identified defeated Ephraimites via the Hebrew wordshibboleth: soldiers killed anyone who pronounced it sibboleth. Even if massacres aren't involved, accents help signal education, status, background, possibly even sexuality.
American English features about 15 distinct vowel sounds, which linguists categorize according to where in the mouth they originate. Eeee is a high-front sound; aaah is low-back. Say eeee and then drop your jaw, the sound changes to awww. Purse your lips, and you get oooo. Say meow—out loud, please, especially if you're reading this in a coffee shop—and you'll glide through roughly 10 different vowel sounds.
In English, vowels convey meaning—think about the sonically subtle but vital differences betweenbeat, bit, bet, bat, bought, but, bait, bite, bout, boat, and boot. Change the vowel, and you're saying a different word. So if you begin pronouncing a vowel a little differently—by moving it back and lower in the mouth, for example—your bat will begin to sound like your bought. The only way to preserve the distinction between the two words will be to change bought, too. Vowels in English jostle each other like children in a crowded elevator. If one shifts position, the next must shift as well. Eventually, in imperceptible increments, a whole language can change.
This happened in England starting about 1350, when something called the Great Vowel Shift took hold. Earlier, green sounded more like grain; root was more like rote. Within a couple of centuries, virtually all of the long vowels of English transformed. This is why Chaucer's original, 14th-centuryCanterbury Tales—"Whan that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote"—look and sound bizarre now, while Shakespeare's 16th-century writing seems much more "modern." The shift also helps explain why English spelling is such a hot mess.
A Stanford University linguist named Penny Eckert noticed a similar shift among Palo Alto teenagers after she moved to California in 1985. No was turning into ne-ow even as dude went from dood to di-ood. Black began sounding more like block. Two vowels in the low-back area—those in cot andcaught, which sound very different from one another on the East Coast and elsewhere—were merging into a single sound.
Eckert and her colleagues subsequently documented the phenomenon's journey from Bakersfield to San Jose, while other researchers have observed it as far north as Alaska. "The shift is happening," says Eckert. "No question." When something as fundamental as language in the nation's most populous state (and world's 10th-largest economy) changes, that change resonates. In the Saturday Night Live soap-opera spoof "The Californians," the show's cast revels in talking like stoners afflicted with sunstroke.
Teenagers' early adoption is particularly significant. Kids are the shock troops of language, often deliberately adopting obscure slang and funky pronunciation to distinguish themselves from their terminally lame parents. Over time, their speech inevitably becomes the new normal. "Languages tend to change systematically," says Kara Becker, assistant professor of linguistics at Reed College. "The oldest speakers represent the older forms. The youngest tend to predict the coming forms." Becker studies how language both reflects and affects society. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on New York's infamous Lower East Side accent, where coffee sounds like cawfee and bought is bowt. "Speech is not just about communication," she says. "We use accents to construct our identities, to mark ourselves as belonging to a certain group."
Sometimes, people cherish and flaunt their New Orleans drawl or their highland burr. In other instances, people worry that their speech marks them as rednecks, nouveaux riches, or Long Islanders—a phenomenon known as linguistic insecurity. Either way, people tend to adopt certain accents for discernable reasons. When it comes to the CVS, California's image as a lotusland of surf and sun may be pushing vowels around nationwide. In a 2011 article in the journal American Speech, researcher Robert J. Podesva argued that Californian speech is markedly common among gay men, for instance. "The CVS indexes 'fun' and 'laidback' meanings," he wrote. A linguistics blogger (they exist!), following up that research, tracked down the Californian accent as far away as New York.
To put it in terms a 1980s Palo Alto teenager might understand, if we think a certain way of talking sounds rad, we're likely to mimic it.
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The scale of money printing in the West has become so massive that the world may fall prey to "monetary anarchy," with traces of bubbles appearing everywhere.
At least that's what some critics see in the latest round of cash pumping by major central banks.
It is also an eerily reminiscent of 2011, when similarly generous monetary easing sparked higher oil prices, slowed the recovery and stoked speculative hot money flows into vulnerable emerging markets.
The European Central Bank alone is expected to lend another half trillion euros or more of super-cheap money to banks on Wednesday, following Japan and Britain which have already injected fresh cash. The Federal Reserve has promised to keep interest rates low until 2014 and act further if needed.
There is a sense of deja-vu in financial markets. Just like the last time a wave of money was pumped into the world financial systems in 2011, crude oil - fuelled also this time by Middle East tensions - has jumped 15 percent this year.
As a result, riskier assets such as equities are already coming off new year highs. Rising emerging market currencies are forcing some central banks there to intervene.
The scale of money creation since the onset of the global credit shock can be seen in the size of central banks' balance sheet expansion.
JP Morgan says G4 central bank balance sheets have more than doubled since 2007 to 24 percent of combined gross domestic product and will reach 26 percent this year.
"We have Monetary Anarchy running riot, where the elastic band between the real economy and the current liquidity-fuelled markets is stretched further and further beyond credulity," Bob Janjuah, head of tactical asset allocation at Nomura, noted.
He said bubbles were visible in all asset classes because central bank balance sheets are at the core.
"If/when the current cycle implodes, central banks which have seen explosive balance sheet growth will add to the problems, rather than being able to act as credible lenders of last resort," he said.
"Real assets are relatively attractive. But I am going to wait for this current central bank bubble to burst before going all in. The end of the bubble will be signposted by either monetary anarchy creating major real economy inflation or by a deflationary credit collapse."
Kicking off its second bout of quantitative easing in late 2010, so-called "QE2," the Federal Reserve announced a $600 billion (378.4 billion pound) programme to buy bonds.
The Bank of Japan raised its asset buying and lending scheme to 55 trillion yen in October 2010 and spent a record 8 trillion yen to the currency's ascent, pumping more cash in the process.
Also in October, the Bank of England expanded the size of its asset purchase program to 275 billion pounds. Last month, it raised it again to 325 billion.
While markets got an initial boost from this, the effect was short-lived partly because rising oil prices eventually chilled spending. And aggravated commodity and food-price inflation forced emerging economies to step up monetary tightening.
Taking stocks as a guide, the MSCI all-country world index rose 18 percent between October 2010 and April 2011, only to fall more than 26 percent from there to September.
Since then, it has gained nearly 25 percent, mainly on the ECB's three-year, cheap loan program.
However, the negative consequences of cheap money may not have been all visible, because headlines and prevailing sentiment were dominated by the intensifying euro debt crisis.
"We saw what happened last spring when the Fed printed money - QE2 - amidst a commodities price shock: commodity prices surged further and U.S. consumption faltered as a result," said Stephen Jen, managing partner of SLJ Macro Partners.
"As Greece (debt worries) recede into the background for now, oil enters as the next potential threat to the global economy. The truth may be that oil had already been a threat, but investors were just too pre-occupied with Greece to notice."
Today, a renewed wave of yield-seeking capital inflows is starting to push some emerging economies to act again despite forecasts for an overall slowdown in the world economy.
For example, Colombia raised its key interest rates twice this year to control inflation and slow consumer credit growth. Brazil has been intervening in the currency market to curb a currency rally and keep local manufacturers competitive.
Data from fund tracker EPFR shows global emerging markets equity funds absorbed $18.5 billion this year, compared with outflows of over $13 billion in the same period last year.
Goldman Sachs says the latest round of liquidity injection - which it calls "competitive" monetary easing - may create a problem for emerging markets again.
"With output much closer to potential and inflation at or above policymakers' range of comfort, any stimulative leakage from a bout of monetary easing in the DM world is much less welcome," it said.
"Policymakers are forced to choose between allowing exchange rate appreciations that may be too rapid and accepting domestic overheating, which has its own negative ramifications."

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'Person of mercy'
Woman finds healing from abortion, offers hope to those facing unplanned pregnancies
The year was 1969, three years before abortion became legal in America.
A 20-year-old from rural Iowa fled her rocky upbringing, looking for a fresh start in a big city.
She landed in New York. A great job and a sprawling metropolis bursting with culture invigorated her.
Looking for a carefree life to erase the troubles and scars of her childhood, she immersed herself in the arts and entertainment of the city that never sleeps.
And, not long into her new adventure, she found love. Defying her Catholic formation, she moved in with her new boyfriend. Very soon, his controlling behavior made the apartment feel more like a prison.
Then, she became pregnant. Her boyfriend's simple directive to "get rid of it" brought them both to a local abortion clinic. Though still illegal, it was not hard to find a place to terminate her pregnancy.
She cried during the procedure, which took place in January 1972. She went home, stuffed her emotions, and lived under the harsh rule of her boyfriend, who refused to let her talk about it.
Just nine months later, she got pregnant again. So, she made a second trip to the clinic, thus having two abortions before the landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade in January 1973.
She tried to forget about the pain, the trauma. Nothing worked — not the alcohol, not her many travels, not her boyfriend's command of silence on the issue.
Eventually, the anguish drove her to walk out of a bar, cross a parking lot and step to the edge of a nearby freeway, which she intended to dart into and end her life. The boyfriend, chasing her out of the bar, grabbed her and pulled her back just in time.
Today, her two aborted children have names — Daniel Anthony and Esther Maurine. And, the woman, Jeanette Meyer, 63, now works to help other women facing unplanned pregnancies avoid the mistakes that she made.
Or, if they made that mistake, she tries to help them find healing.
Like she did.
Archdiocesan program helps people find healing after abortionThe Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has developed a program to help women and men find healing after abortion. It's called Project Rachel, and it is designed to guide post-abortive people to resources that can help.
Those seeking help and information can call (651) 291-4515 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
There also is a website: http://www.hopeafterabortion.org.
Though similar in name, this is an outreach separate from Rachel's Vineyard. Project Rachel provides one-to-one support, while Rachel's Vineyard is a weekend retreat.
For more information on Rachel's Vineyard, visit http://www.rachelsvineyard.org. Rachel's Vineyard is a ministry of Priests for Life.
Healing begins
That came in 2005, when a friend urged her to go to a Rachel's Vineyard retreat. More than three decades of regret and agony roared to the surface of her soul like the snowstorm that raged outside the building at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota where 20 post-abortive women stayed for the January retreat.
"We had a memorial service for our babies," said Meyer, a member of Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville. "You sign a certificate of life. They also give you little dolls about six or eight inches long — no faces, but they're wrapped in a blanket and they're very soft. I took them and I slept with them that night. It was like I was acknowledging that they were my children, Esther and Daniel, and I could hold them.
"There was a blizzard outside. Everyone talked about the windows shaking in the storm. I heard nothing. It was the best night's sleep I'd had, I'm sure, in over 30 years."
The tears of healing shed that weekend return when Meyer tells her story, which she eagerly does to any young, scared pregnant woman who asks. She never forces it on anyone, but weaves it into the loving conversations she has with women she sees at Pregnancy Choices in Apple Valley, where she has served as executive director since 2010.
It's all part of her mission to be what she calls a "person of mercy."
"When I come to work here and I know someone who has aborted [a child] . . . I feel pain and regret," she said. "And, it's not regret like shame. . . . It's deeper and it takes me closer to the cross. And, that's what I've come to see. I never knew that I'd be working in this abortion realm, trying to save the lives of the mothers as well as the babies. Coming in touch with the pain takes me closer to Him. It's only in that wound that I really know who he is.
"He gives me incredible graces. Sometimes, when I'm working in the kitchen, I hear him — in that inaudible voice — say, 'I love you. You're mine.' So, I'm OK now being with the pain. I tried to run from it most of my life, but now I'm OK being with it because if I just allow it, it deepens my relationship with the Lord."
Offering a listening ear
Yet, as much as the Holy Spirit compels her to work in this intense ministry where the success stories are often never known, she has to, at all times, restrain her desire to pull women away from the deeply hurtful choice of abortion. She knows the pain it can cause, but must never, ever give even the slightest hint of trying to control the pregnant woman's behavior — like her boyfriend in 1972 tried to control hers.
"When people come in here, I'd like to just give them a hug and say, 'Honey, don't do that [have an abortion]. But, I can't," she said. "The most important gift God gave us is free will. And, if you don't honor that, if you don't talk about it, then somebody with a bigger voice over here is going to say, 'Oh no, you've got to do this.' I want them to have a voice. I want them to know about options."
As riveting as her story is, perhaps the most important thing she does is listen. The message she wants to send to the women is that they are not alone, and she and the staff at her clinic believe the best way to do that is with their ears and not their tongues.
Another effective tool is simply time. Though staffers and volunteers can have as few as five minutes with a pregnant woman, their goal is to slow down her thought and decision-making process. They want her to take the time to think through her decision and her options.
In other words, they want her to have a real choice, something Meyer never had in 1972.
Fortunately, she did have enough of a conscience left after the two abortions to consult a priest she had met while living in Nebraska, Father Thomas Halley. She went to him for confession within a year, and that began a chain of events that brought her back to Iowa in 1974 and her mother, Maurine Pickerill, now 84.
It was a bittersweet reunion. On the one hand, her mother welcomed her and took her back under her roof. On the other hand, it rekindled the emptiness of being abandoned by her father when she was five.
The poor way he treated his wife and four children (Jeanette was the oldest) was bad, but the emptiness of his abandoning them may have been worse. Added to that was the instability, with the family moving nine times during Jeanette's childhood.
But, Jeanette's sadness upon arriving back home was short-lived. After going to a charismatic prayer meeting in Omaha during her visit with Father Halley, she started going to meetings in Iowa and ended up back together with her high school sweetheart, Tim Meyer.
They dated for a while, then Tim broke it off. In the meantime, she got to know his younger brother Marty. They shared a love for music and playing the guitar, which they did at many a prayer meeting.
The friendship turned to love, and they married in 1975. Within a few years, they moved to the Twin Cities to join a charismatic community, and Jeanette ended up bearing five children, who range in age from 23 to 35. One of them, David, lived for just one day outside the womb.
In fact, he was instrumental in his mother's move to Pregnancy Choices. It was during a visit to his gravesite in 2010 that she saw something that triggered a desire to help other women.
Embarking on a ministry
She was at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota in the area reserved for deceased children. Looking away from his grave for a moment, a plaque nearby caught her attention. She had seen it before, but this time the words on it sank in.
"Just about 12 feet away was a plaque where someone gathered 13 unborn babies that were aborted at the Highland Planned Parenthood," she said. "And, they made a grave for them there. And, it says on the plaque, '13 unborn babies. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.' . . . I started crying . . . and I looked up and it just overwhelmed me."
After hiring a Catholic life coach to help her sort out her career and vocation options, she felt like God wanted her to do ministry with abortion-vulnerable and post-abortive women.
At the same time that discernment process was happening, the executive director of Pregnancy Choices at that time, Jeri Bartek, was experiencing health issues that led her to a decision to step down from her full-time work at the center. The search for her replacement began, and Meyer became one of the three finalists.
"I asked not to be part of the interviewing process, but when I saw that she was in the pool, I started praying that she'd get the job," said Bartek, who has known Meyer since 1978. "She just has a gentle presence here. She has a bigger vision than I did. She wants to coach clients' lives beyond pregnancy. And, I think that's kind of cool. We have to be for the good of these women who are under-equipped.
"I think Jeanette would say we try to leave God's fingerprint on each of our clients. It's not our job to evangelize them, but it is our job to love them with truth and gentle presence. They often will say, 'I just feel good after I've been here.'"
Need for love
No doubt, Meyer feels just as good about spending time with these women — women who remind her of the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel (John 8:2-11).
This is a Scripture story that helped her understand how God feels about women who make big mistakes, and who simply seek mercy and compassion from the One who now holds their babies in his arms.
"The first thing they need is love," Meyer said. "By loving and accepting them, we enter the wounds of Christ, as holy mothers, to greet the potential in each person, mother and child. For many [of the clients], it is an awakening to view their past lives and abortions with hope rather than despair."
To make sure she stays true to her mission, Meyer has posted a quote from Blessed Mother Teresa on the wall above her desk. It is a simple reminder of what really matters in all Gospel-related endeavors:
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
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- Tory MP James Grundy apologises for exposing himself in pub
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È stato scelto un vincitore tra 18 design presentati da 6 designer.
I need help in designing Folder and Brochure which our company (RMDSTEM Limited) will use on a regular basis when presenting marketing material to our clients.
RMDSTEM Limited; http://www.rmdstem.com.au
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I need help in designing Folder and Brochure which our company (RMDSTEM Limited) will use on a regular basis when presenting marketing material to our clients.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Not far from the tourist shops that ring the thundering falls is a long quiet path that snakes through the City of Good Neighbors, bucolic, green, sweet -- and sometimes deadly.
"I just remember there being a sense of fear," says Lissa Redmond.
Once there was a young family here in Buffalo, N.Y.; a transplanted chemistry professor named Steven Diver, his four children, and their mother - his wife - Joan Diver.
Diane Dennis: She'd been a runner for a long time and she was just trying to stay in shape.
Her older sisters remember growing up with her, the baby of the family, back in Salt Lake City.
Linda Tanner: She had a very strong personality. She knew what she wanted and she went after it.
What Joan Diver wanted, on a fine September morning in 2006, was to see the children off to school, drop the youngest one at daycare, and drive down to her favorite run: the long path that winds through one of the safest towns in America. "The bike path," they call it here.
Linda Tanner: I asked her, "Is it a safe place?" and she says, "Oh, it's really safe. People go there all the time." She says, "There's a wooded area. I don't go up to the wooded area." We talked about if someone tried to grab us what would happen. And she says, "Oh, I'd give him a fight." And I said, "Oh, I would too."
September 29. The day Joan Diver disappeared.
It was later in the day when Steven Diver learned Joan had not picked up their son from day care. He called 911.
(911 call)
911 operator: Buffalo police 911.
Steven Diver: I called before about my wife being on the bike path. And she is somehow out there.
911 operator: Oh she hasn't returned?
Steven Diver: She hasn't returned but she's probably injured. And I saw her vehicle at the bike path. We're going to drive out on the bike path and find her because she's out there.
Which was strange because, when they came here and looked for the car, it wasn't there. They found it three miles away.
The news of the mysterious disappearance of a middle class professor's wife, a mother of four, was no small thing in Buffalo.
Sheriff's deputies beat the bushes up and down the eight-mile stretch of the bike path.
They scoured the area with ATVs and search dogs but they could not find a trace of Joan Diver.
Alan Rozansky: We really didn't know--
Keith Morrison: You didn't know whether she was---alive or dead.
Alan Rozansky: We had no idea.
And so the search was called off. She wasn't to be found. But of course--she was.
A volunteer had joined a search party organized by Joan's husband. The volunteer called out the alert. He'd found a body. Detective Alan Rozansky arrived soon after.
Alan Rozansky: She was about 70 or 80 feet from the bike path and another 20 feet into the brush.
Keith Morrison: And she had been strangled?
Alan Rozansky: That's correct. Yes, she was.
But there was something significant, a potential clue, in what was not done by the murderer.
Alan Rozansky: The manner in which she was clothed-- she had not been raped.
In fact, there was no trace of DNA evidence found on her body, nothing to indicate her attacker.
But then the investigation seemed to stall. Far away, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Joan's family waited for news. And waited.
Diane Dennis: What was rather hopeless at first too is they just had no clues on what had happened. They didn't have anything to go on, you know. It was just a terrible feeling.
There was just one thing that, all along, had bothered detective Rozansky. Something about the way Joan was killed.
Alan Rozansky: Double ligature marks around her neck.
It got a feeling going in his gut. It reminded him, eerily, of an old case that had haunted Buffalo for more than 20 years: the bike path rapist, a man tied to nine rapes, including two murders.
But it couldn't be. After all, Joan Diver had not been raped, and besides, the last they'd heard of him was way back in 1994. The case had never been solved. The man was probably dead by now or in jail.
Alan Rozansky: There were similarities to the bike path rapist, but we were not absolutely sure at the time whether it was not a copy-cat or just another homicide.
It was November, six weeks after Joan's murder, when a strange DNA result came in.
It came from a spot, a speck, a whiff of something human swabbed from the steering wheel of Joan's SUV three miles away from where her body was found.
Someone had been in there.
(Sheriff's press conference)
"There's some shocking information that this case is tied to other known cases … the Joan Diver murder tied to the bike path rapist."
It was astonishing where that microscopic piece of DNA would lead, its powers of revelation even then stirring unseen fates in a prison cell far away.
But not yet. Fates, as you'll see, have a way of brewing for a while. For the moment what jumped out hard and clear was something truly morbid: Joan Diver had been killed on someone's anniversary.
Alan Rozansky: It was the date of the Linda Yalem death, which was in Amherst back in the '90s.
After 12 years of hibernation, was Buffalo's bike path rapist announcing his return?
Buffalo was a giant once, whose rail system, the second biggest in the world, hauled steel one way and finished goods back again. But times change, promise fades, Buffalo's railways languished and became, in modest resurrection, bike paths.
Now, like some almost forgotten ghost, after a 12 year absence, he was back.
The old, failed investigation coughed back to life and the cops re-opened the frustrating old file that puzzled them for more than 20 years. They had the assailant's DNA, but he was still out there lurking in the paths.
There's a story around here, could be true, that a statue of David was cast as a direct copy of the original by Michelangelo. And there's the bike path, running right past it. This is a very public place and yet here is where, more than 20 years before he killed Joan Diver, police believed the bike path rapist struck for the first time.
Det. Lissa Redmond: 44 year old woman who was jogging, raped and strangled in such a way almost every blood vessel in her eyes was burst, horrifically strangled and left on the path.
Remarkably that first rape victim in 1986 survived, as they all did at first. All of the women were attacked in the morning, in broad daylight.
Det. Lissa Redmond: Victim number two, 17 year old girl raped and strangled as well with the double ligature.
Detective Lissa Redmond was all too familiar with the bike path rapist's resume from her work at the Buffalo Police sex offense unit.
Det. Lissa Redmond: The next victim was a young girl on the railroad tracks in Buffalo.
And there were more survivors to find.
Denise Foster: He told me to get down on the passenger side of the floor
Denise Foster still carries ligature scars on her neck almost 20 years later.
Denise Foster: Put the rope around my neck, and just held it. And he told me if I moved or if I screamed, he would pull it tighter.
The rapist took her down to a wooded creek-side. He forced her down onto a rock and stripped off her clothes.
Denise Foster: That's when he raped me and strangled me and just left me there.
Keith Morrison: You remember it getting tighter, and then
Denise Foster: Yeah.
Keith Morrison: You blacked…
Denise Foster: Yeah, I blacked out.
When she regained consciousness, she says, she stumbled naked into the road, where a neighbor saw her and called police.
Six rape victims survived and then on Sept. 29, 1990, the violence escalated. The bike path rapist became a killer.
(WGRZ news report)
"Linda Yalem's body was found yesterday along the Elicut Creek bike path in Amherst. The 22-year-old U.B. sophomore had been training for a marathon."
The bike path rapist killed again in 1992. Police found the body of 29-year-old Majane Mazur, a prostitute, discarded beside the railroad tracks.
In 1994, he struck again, raping a 14-year-old on her way to school.
And then he simply stopped, disappeared -- until 2006 when he killed Joan Diver on the anniversary of his first murder.
(WGRZ news broadcast)
"Ironically her disappearance and death came 16 years to the day Linda Yalem was killed on the Amherst bike path."
Now there was a new urgency to solve the 20-year cold case.
So for the first time ever, four police departments -- the Buffalo police, police from neighboring Amherst, the state police and the county sheriff joined in a special task force to find the man now who had been preying on women for more than 20 years.
Detective Dennis Delano is a cold case specialist with the Buffalo police department.
Dennis Delano: If I have to turn over every rock we can. We're going to exhaust all possibilities to get to the truth.
But every task force member knew this:
Dennis Delano: That the Diver homicide was linked to the other crimes. If we solved that crime, you have to solve the rest.
For years, law enforcement had known that DNA evidence from seven rapes, and now, three murders were left by one man. But who?
FBI profilers said that the bike path rapist most likely worked at night. And what investigators knew now from modern DNA analysis was that the killer was of Hispanic origin. But what struck Delano was his m.o., the distinctive signature he left.
Dennis Delano: All of them had double ligature marks on their neck. A lot of them were told to put an item of clothing over their face and eyes.
Then, as detectives worked through the yellowed old files, Delano came across something very strange: a completely different file of rape cases which occurred in the same place, by the statue of David, a few years before the first known attack by the bike path rapist.
Dennis Delano: We wound up making a spreadsheet on all of the crimes. And they're all basically identical. The only difference that we could find was that a gun was used or a knife in the first set of crimes. And ligature was used from 1986 to 2006.
But here's what made that case so strange: somebody else was convicted of the earlier crimes near the statue of David.
It was a young man named Anthony Capozzi, although he wouldn't be so young anymore. He had already been in prison for over two decades.
Back in 1985, Capozzi was 29, a schizophrenic who lived at home. One of the five children of Mary and Albert Capozzi. Anthony was asleep, said Mary, when the police came to get him.
Mary Capozzi: He said, "Ma, don't worry. I'll be back." Because he figured he didn't do anything, you know, that he'll be back.
Capozzi was convicted of two rapes and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The Capozzi family watched as the authorities took Anthony off to prison.
Albert Capozzi: Oh, my god. It's-- tears you. Every day-- every night when you go to bed, you think of what's happened to your family.
Every day Mary prayed. Every week, Albert and Mary drove to whatever prison Anthony was being kept in. For 22 years. Five times he came up for parole. Five times, was denied.
Keith Morrison: You know, they did offer him a chance to get out. All he had to do was confess.
Albert Capozzi: He wouldn't-- wouldn't do that--
Mary Capozzi: His younger brother said, "Damn, Anthony, tell them you did because they'll get you out earlier." He said, "Why should I tell them when I didn't do it?"
And now, after 22 years, members of a task force looking for the bike path rapist and killer found themselves staring at the Capozzi case with brand new eyes.
Dennis Delano: A lot of the mannerisms that the perpetrator was doing were all identical in all the crimes.
Keith Morrison: What sort of mannerisms?
Dennis Delano: When he was leaving he told them to wait a certain amount of time. "Give me 20 seconds to-- or 20 minutes to-- to get away." Or, "Give me ten minutes to leave. Give me five minutes."
When Delano and the others compared the rapist's crimes with those of Capozzi, it made the hair stand up on the back of their necks.
Dennis Delano: The truth didn't match the circumstances. It just didn't jive.
The detectives were convinced that it had to come back here. In fact, to this little area right around the statue of David, to that bit of brush right on the other side of the bike path. Supposedly they were two separate cases. But why hadn't anybody noticed that the location of the crime was exactly the same, that the method used was virtually identical. These crimes had to be the work of one man.
Maybe the trial transcript would offer some solid evidence that those rapes attributed to Capozzi were somehow different than the others.
Dennis Delano: There was no other evidence linking him to those crimes other than eyewitness identification.
Was it possible Capozzi was sent to prison for crimes committed by somebody else?
Alan Rozansky: That's when we took a ride out to Attica correctional facility to interview him. It didn't take long to talk to him to know he wasn't the type of person that could do heinous crimes.
Their job was to catch a rapist and killer -- Joan Diver's killer -- not to fret about an old resolved case. Still, they put together what they'd learned about Capozzi and took it to the district attorney.
District attorney Frank Clark told the detectives there wasn't much his office could do.
Frank Clark: The law requires hard evidence. The statute is very, very clear as to what's required in order to overturn a jury verdict.
So the detectives followed their instincts. Perhaps rape kits, slides of evidence from the Capozzi case stored in the vaults of the medical center would have traces of DNA and that might exonerate Capozzi.
Lissa Redmond: We had hoped the Erie County Medical Center had some slides. And we're told there was no such thing.
No DNA. No proof of anything. So Anthony Capozzi stayed in prison.
Dennis Delano: It wasn't-- it wasn't a good feeling. It's sickening.
Meanwhile, in the search for the bike path rapist, detectives seemed to be stymied.
Lissa Redmond: Now we have our serial killer rapist out there and an innocent man in jail. So we-- all of a sudden we found ourselves in the middle of two investigations.
And that's about the time they discovered, in the old Capozzi file, a clue.
Alan Rozansky: And I said, this is our guy.
In the months after Joan Diver was murdered by Buffalo's bike path rapist, the task force manhunt produced two bizarre discoveries in a case file that had been gathering dust for more than 20 years.
One: the possibility that Anthony Capozzi, a convicted rapist, was an innocent man. And two: a clue, buried in the old Capozzi file, that had never quite been tracked down.
Alan Rozansky: And it was involving a rape many years ago, and a rape victim possibly in-- it was in the Anthony Capozzi file, because possibly they suspected Anthony Capozzi of that rape.
Keith Morrison: When did that rape occur?
Alan Rozansky: 1981
And what was the clue, tucked away in the file? A license plate number from the back of a car, given to police by a woman who reported she was raped by the car's driver.
Dennis Delano: We came across the fact that the victim had spotted her attacker two or three days after the attack. She was pretty sure, at the time, it was her attacker.
She took down the license plate number. At the time, way back in 1981, the owner of the car had an alibi.
But now, when detectives checked again, it turned out that owner had been hiding a guilty secret all those years.
He wasn't in the car. But someone he knew was.
Alan Rozansky: He said, "Detective, you're looking for me." I said, "Yes, I am." He said, "Is this about something that happened many years ago?" "Yes." And I didn't even pry. He supplied. He goes, "My nephew, Altemio Sanchez was driving the vehicle."
Sanchez. Remember, DNA had revealed the bike path rapist was most likely of Hispanic heritage. So could this Sanchez be the man they were searching for?
Dennis Delano: We took Hispanic names that were previously investigated and narrowed those down through state police resources, which ones were arrested prior for prostitution. Because FBI did a profile years ago. And said that most likely, the suspect frequents prostitutes.
There were 84 names on the list, and one of them was Altemio Sanchez.
Alan Rozansky: And I said, "This is our guy."
Was he? This Altemio Sanchez had been arrested twice in Buffalo for soliciting prostitutes. But that was years and years ago.
Alan Rozansky: Well, we decided that we were going to surveil Altemio Sanchez to get a DNA sample for him. Because we decided, we pow-wowed amongst all of us and said, you know, if we knock on his door and say, "Can we have a DNA sample?" he's going to say, "See you later, goodbye." And now he's going to be looking over his shoulder.
It was a Saturday night when they got their chance. Sanchez took his wife out on a date to a restaurant. This was the moment to find that hard evidence. DNA evidence. Investigators asked the waiters at the restaurant not to touch the couple's glasses when they left.
But would the glass, or napkin, yield enough DNA for some kind of identification?
Investigators rushed the glass and the napkin to the forensics lab. And then the wait began.
Lissa Redmond: It was like waiting for a baby to be born. We were literally hovered around the phone.
And? It was him.
(News broadcast)
"It's the break that law enforcement and people living around the Clarence bike path have been waiting for."
The official announcement was, perhaps understandably, colorful.
(Press conference)
The monster that's been known as the bike path rapist has been taken into custody.
Sanchez, 49 years old, was charged initially with two counts of murder in the second degree. He pleaded not guilty.
And in the hours and days after his arrest, all of Buffalo watched -- both horrified and astonished -- as they learned about Altemio Sanchez. Who was he really?
Was it actually possible a man of his standing and reputation could have committed such awful crimes?
In the city of good neighbors, it turns out that the suspected bike path rapist and killer was just that -- a good neighbor living among them.
(WGRZ news broadcast)
Male neighbor: He's a fantastic guy. (crying)
Female neighbor: Honey. They're the most wonderful family. We-- we just love then dearly. They have just been the best neighbors anybody could want.
It was simply beyond imagining. Altemio Sanchez, accused of raping and killing women for decades, was a regular guy who lived a quiet, middle class life in a Buffalo suburb.
Female neighbor 2: I never would imagine the bike path rapist murderer was a house away.
Altemio Sanchez, 49, had owned his house for years. He'd held, also for many years, a steady and respectable job working the night shift at a brass factory.
Lissa Redmond: Like any family on any suburban street. He was always the first one that signed up for the, you know, charity things, and volunteered to help out.
Sanchez's family, said police, including his wife of 25 years, had no idea, not a clue, until the headlines and news reports brought their whole world crashing down.
Lissa Redmond: No. She was absolutely dumbfounded.
How could it be? The man finally arrested after more than 20 years of brutal attacks, rapes, murders, the ugliest of human behaviors, turned out to be a married, church-going dad, and a little league coach whose players knew him, with affection, as uncle Al.
When the investigators interviewed Sanchez, they were confronted, they said, by a wall of self control and denial.
Alan Rozansky: Yeah, he was dancing a lot. He was probably preparing this for years.
Keith Morrison: And he didn't crack.
Alan Rozansky: No, he did not crack.
But, with that solid DNA evidence linking Sanchez to those seven rape cases and three murders, there was little chance he was going to walk, said district attorney Frank Clark.
Frank Clark: In the public's eye, when you have this DNA which takes the probabilities to the tens of billions, I mean the public just assumes DNA, that's him, guilty. Case over.
And the citizens of Buffalo and the suburbs of western New York let out a collective sigh of relief. Or at least, almost all of them did.
Denise Foster saw it on TV.
Denise Foster: When they-- the news showed his face, I just like went into stone. I knew it was him--
And the torment flooded right back.
Keith Morrison: How did you know?
Denise Foster: I remember the face
Keith Morrison: It was that clear?
Denise Foster: Yes.
Keith Morrison: Did it bring it all back to you?
Denise Foster: Yes
Twenty-two years later, said Denise, the terror lingers. The rock, the rape, the strangulation, the blackout, the naked stumbling for help. It doesn't go away.
Even the physical scars are still there, around her neck.
Denise Foster: I've had nightmares.
As the investigation continued, the task force discovered that Denise was just one of many in a growing list of casualties.
There were more victims than anyone had suspected, beginning, investigators now believed, in the late '70s.
But as they put together their case for the trial of Altemio Sanchez, a second obsession gripped the members of the task force.
They believed that an innocent man -- Anthony Capozzi -- had been wrongly convicted of two of the rapist's crimes.
Dennis Delano: I knew he was innocent and he was in jail. And I felt that we had enough circumstantial evidence to create a doubt that he was guilty.
That belief was not shared, however, by the D.A.
Frank Clark: I don't have any quantitative proof, like DNA, where we can look at it and make a determination.
Dennis Delano: We found that it's a lot more difficult getting somebody out of jail than it is putting them in jail.
Since he couldn't get anywhere with the D.A., Delano went public and spoke with WGRZ reporter Scott Brown.
(TV interview)
Delano: In my mind, one person committed all the attacks … A lot of the verbiage, which I can't really get into, was similar in most of the cases.
Scott Brown: He's like Andy Sipowicz [detective from "NYPD Blue"]. And he wouldn't let go of this thing.
Capozzi's sister, Pam Guenther, saw Delano's appeal on TV.
Pam Guenther: I was shaking. I said, "I cannot believe this. This is our angel."
She called her parents -- Anthony's parents.
Keith Morrison: You didn't know what was happening?
Mary Capozzi: No.
Albert Capozzi: I didn't know. She says,"Mom, what would you like-- the best thing you could have?"
Mary Capozzi: We said "Anthony, naturally."
And try as they might, detectives on the task force just couldn't find the hard evidence that could undo what they now firmly believed was a gross miscarriage of justice.
So as the trial of Altemio Sanchez approached, they wondered: would two people wind up in prison for the very same crimes?
Delano: I mean it's-- that's not right, though. It's always been my understanding that if something's not right, you try and correct. Not just overlook it.
But even Delano was going to be shocked by the impending discovery.
This summer, after more than 20 years, Buffalo celebrated the revival of its bike paths.
Altemio Sanchez had already decided not to wait for his day in court.
The number of rapes attached to his name had mounted to 15, along with three murders.
And investigators had discovered something truly creepy.
Here on the roster of runners in a race commemorating the victim of the bike path rapist's first murder was the name Altemio Sanchez, wearing bib number 679.
It was on this last anniversary of that very same murder that the rapist spent the morning killing Joan Diver and spent the evening at a party with his wife.
This past May, four months after his arrest, Altemio Sanchez -- without explanation -- agreed to plead guilty to three counts of murder in the second degree. The statute of limitations had run out on the rape cases.
His wife attended his court hearings and visited him in jail. According to sources, she was unable to get her husband to tell her what he did or why.
But that isn't the whole story of course. What about Anthony Capozzi, in prison 22 years for supposedly committing two rapes?
Dennis Delano: The district attorney's office is telling us that we need hard evidence to free Anthony Capozzi from prison. Even though we knew -- beyond a shadow of a doubt in our hearts that he was innocent.
Then, suddenly, there was news.
At this building, the Erie County Medical Center, after years of misinformation, officials revealed a remarkable discovery: the rape kits, the swabs, the slides of evidence collected in the Capozzi case were there after all.
There was DNA. Tests revealed the rapist was not Anthony Capozzi. It was Altemio Sanchez.
And that's how it came to be, that on a fine spring morning, Mary and Albert Capozzi, now in their 80s, gathered their family around them after 22 years and phoned their son in prison to tell him.
(Phone call)
"You're free Anthony. You're free! They made a mistake."
(Anthony Capozzi on the phone)
"All right. That sounds good to me."
Albert Capozzi: It was really a miracle--
Mary Capozzi: A miracle.
Anthony was 29 when they took his freedom away.
Mary Capozzi: He said, "Ma, don't worry. I'll be back." Because he figured he didn't do anything, you know, that he'll be back. But he came back 22 years later.
In all those years in prison, he continued to suffer from schizophrenia so he was released to a psychiatric center, where he's getting help adjusting to an independent life.
Lissa Redmond: The family invited us to the psych center where he was released to after jail and when we saw Anthony Capozzi for the first time as a free man, there were no words. There were no words.
Alan Rozansky: When he saw me at the psych center, he goes, "This is for you. I remember you." It's a piece of candy. He goes, "This is for you." So I keep it in my pocket.
Keith Morrison: Let me see that.
Dennis Delano: It's been the apex of my career. I mean I-- there's nothing that I can compare it to. There's no feeling like that.
Now there was one more thing to do. On Aug. 14, 2007, Altemio Sanchez, the bike path rapist, appeared in court for sentencing.
(Altemio Sanchez in court)
I just wanted to mention that whatever sentence I get today, I deserve. I know I'm going to be spending life behind bars, never to see the streets again. But I committed, I did these crimes and I should pay for these crimes.
He will. The sentence was 75 consecutive years in prison.
The Capozzi family has a photograph that occupied the place of honor in the their house for 22 years. His parents decided they just couldn't take another family photo with Anthony in prison.
Mary Capozzi: I said, "We can't because there's one missing." I said, "The next time we take a photo, we'll make sure Anthony is in it." I said, "Some day we will."
And that's exactly what they did.
Thanks to the Buffalo News for use of their photos and headlines.
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Janet Elway to be honored
Janet Elway and Leland Huttner are to receive the Hannah G. Solomon Humanitarian Award at an April 18 dinner put on by the National Council of Jewish Women, Colorado Section. The award is named for NCJW's founder and acknowledges those who have worked to improve the lives of those in need and have motivated others to do the same.
A philanthropist and community activist, Elway grew up in the Seattle area and moved to Denver following her 1984 marriage to former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway. They are now divorced.
She attended Stanford on a swimming scholarship and graduated with a bachelors degree in sociology. She learned to swim when she was 5, at her hometown YMCA. She broke an American record for the 400 individual medley when she was 16 and represented the U.S. Swim Team in competitions held all over the world.
In addition, she was rated fourth in the nation and was an Olympic hopeful when the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Russia.
When her four children were young, Elway devoted much of her spare time to charitable fundraising and serving as a youth swimming coach. She is currently a member of the boards for the Kempe Children's Foundation, YMCA, Janet's Camp, Adam's Camp, Excelsior Youth Center and the Denver Victims Service Center.
Leland Huttner, a Denver native and retired attorney, graduated from East High School and attended the University of Denver and Westminster Law School. He and his late wife, Marilyn, were the parents of four and grandparents of 10.
In the 40 years that he practiced law, Huttner served on the Colorado Bar Association Executive Committee and was appointed by Mayor Tom Currigan to Denver's Board of Adjustment Zoning. In addition, he is a 36-year member of BMH-BJ Synagogue, serving as its president from 1974-1977, and sat on the boards for Stepping Stones, Jewish Family Service, Herzl-RMAH, Allied Jewish Federation, the Holocaust Awareness Institute and the University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies.
He is also founder and first president of the Colorado Agency for Jewish Education; the recipient of Jewish Family Service's Jack Shapiro Community Volunteer Award, the Max Frankel Volunteer Award and the Minoru Yasui Volunteer Award. He is currently involved in a campaign to raise $3 million for a Holocaust memorial and endowment at DU and has been a para-chaplain for Jewish Family Service for the past 13 years, providing services on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings at five local nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
The dinner at which they will be honored is being chaired by Mimi and Jim Barnard and Arlene and Art Moss.
Mimi Barnard has a masters degree in social work from DU and is a life member of NCJW, ORT, Hadassah and JWI and has served on the board of the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE). The Barnards are active in Congregation Beth Shalom, where Mimi designed and created the library and Discovery Center. She also teaches first and second grades in the religious school.
Jim Barnard is a former aerospace engineer and owner and president of Trailrider Products, a custom leather sporting goods company, and has served as past commander of Denver Post #344 of the Jewish War Veterans. The Barnards are also trustees of the Molner Foundation, a charitable trust created by the late Lillian Molner of Chicago and Miami.
Arlene and Art Moss, married for 52 years, are life members of BMH-BJ Congregation and Hadassah. She is a past president and life member of NCJW, a native Denverite and former employee of the Denver Public Schools. Her husband, a Holocaust survivor, retired from Karman Western Wear and Pasternack's Loan. He is a past president of the BMH-BJ Men's Club.
Les Shapiro will emcee the event that is being held at the Inverness Hotel.
Lannie Garrett will entertain.
For tickets, call 303-695-8022.
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What a horrible day of devastation and destruction across the south. My heart goes out to all the people that were in the path of those deadly tornados. Alabama and parts of northern Georgia got hit very, very hard.
We are fine here, but did end up spending a little time in the Hidey Hole (tornado shelter). I am sure going to miss that when we move!
Our local weather forecasters said we should be on the tail end of the bad weather and our chance of anything severe was slim. However, we should stay on alert.
I get extremely nervous whenever any kind of weather is approaching and that is my greatest fear about our upcoming fulltiming lifestyle.
About 7 this morning, suddenly things changed and there was a possible tornado forming nearby. We scooted down to the tornado shelter and sat there for awhile. Nothing strong came and we headed back to the motor home.
As I type this, there is another tornado watch just south of us forming near Valdosta. We're getting some thunder and lightning. I sure wish this would hurry and get over with.
These tornado outbreaks we've had this week have confirmed my theory to stay out of the southeast during the spring months. I believe we'll stay in Florida until May. The south is just too unpredictable in the spring.
Yesterday, I decided to rattle a few cages and see if I could get some info on the status of our house sale. I know this is how these things work, but it's very difficult trying to move if you don't know if it's happening or not.
I don't know if they are just blowing smoke to shut me up, but the mortgage broker said she is expecting the paperwork to be out of underwriting today and then they will send the appraiser. Of course I've heard that before. She is estimating our new closing date to be around May 20th. I expected our original May 6 closing date to be delayed, so it was good to hear that I was right. We can slow down a bit and take a breath. Of course we're having a garage sale tomorrow and Saturday, but after this week-end, we may take a day off!


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Something Deadly This Way Come
Signed Edition
Series:Madison Avery
SKU: sign9780061718199
I'm Madison Avery, in charge of heaven's hit squad . . . and fighting it all the way.
When Madison died the night of her prom, she knew her life would never be the same. Now she has a powerful amulet, a team of rogue angels by her side, and the ability to flash forward into the future to see the shape of destiny. And of course, now she's finally with Josh a perfect boyfriend who doesn't even mind that she's dead.
But being dead has its disadvantages, too. Madison feels caught between the light and the dark, and between her real life and her timekeeper status. When Madison has the opportunity to get her body back to be alive again she faces her most difficult decision yet. If she claims it, she could return to being a normal girl and have a chance at a real relationship with Josh. But would having the one thing she wants most in the world also mean giving up everything she's worked so hard for?
Praise for the Madison Avery series:"This fast-paced tale delivers some uniquely amusing moments. Fans of Lauren Kate's Fallen and those who enjoyed the first book may be drawn into Harrison's world of heaven and earth."
-School Library Journal on Early to Death, Early to Rise
"Harrison injects her young adult debut with style and originality. Rocking good fun, packed full of twists and turns."
-Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of the Darkest Powers series on Once Dead, Twice Shy
"With a Kim Harrison novel, I expect action, humor, world building, strong female characters, true friendships, and a bit of realistic romance. I found it all right here."
-Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series on Once Dead, Twice Shy
"An amusing and entertaining jaunt of an urban fantasy."
-Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) on Once Dead, Twice Shy
"Abounds with originality and introduces us to rich characters…is sure to introduce [Harrison] to a whole new generation of readers."
-Arkansas Democrat-Gazette


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Harvard bio-boffins build gut-on-a-chip
Micromachine for medicine research
Engineers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have built an experimental synthetic intestine using currently available chip technology.
The gut-on-a-chip is about the same size as a USB stick and consists of a central tube that is lined with a single layer of human intestinal epithelial cells to mimic the human body. There's space above and below the cells to simulate the blood flow outside the intestine, allowing scientists to monitor the reaction of chemicals as they pass through the intestinal wall.
Handy for testing, useless for tripe
A vacuum controller expands and contracts the tunnel in a similar way to the actions performed by intestinal muscles to push the contents of the gut down and out. The team have also managed to culture intestinal flora that occur in humans and add them to the chip, to increase its realism as a testing tool.
"Because the models most often available to us today do not recapitulate human disease, we can't fully understand the mechanisms behind many intestinal disorders, which means that the drugs and therapies we validate in animal models often fail to be effective when tested in humans," said Wyss founding director, Dr. Donald Ingber, in a statement.
"Having better, more accurate in vitro disease models, such as the gut-on-a-chip, can therefore significantly accelerate our ability to develop effective new drugs that will help people who suffer from these disorders."
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Oklahomans Voice Concerns about EPA Takeover of Haze Rule
Inhofe Notes Diverse, Growing Coalition Opposed to EPA Haze Decision
Washington, D.C. - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today applauded Oklahomans who appeared before a meeting of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on EPA's proposed regional haze plan. State residents expressed concerns that EPA's takeover of Oklahoma's regulatory authority could cost them $2 billion in new utility costs.
Inhofe noted the growing and diverse coalition concerned about EPA's recent decision to reject Oklahoma's regional haze plan, and its further decision to take over the state's authority to address regional haze. Importantly, the EPA plan fails to allow the flexibility for Oklahoma utilities necessary to address higher costs imposed on consumers. As the top Republican on the Senate EPW Committee, which oversees EPA, Inhofe has a been vocal critic of EPA's overreach and has urged public input on EPA's takeover.
"Today, a growing coalition of diverse Oklahomans united in their opposition to EPA's takeover, and the impacts it would have on their businesses and utility bills," Senator Inhofe said. "I want them to know I stand with them, and will use my authority as Ranking Member of the EPW Committee to ensure EPA is listening.
"I want to thank the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for holding today's hearing. As I've stated before, these hearings are critically important: they provide Oklahoma consumers the opportunity to examine EPA's fatally flawed rejection of our regional haze plan, and to discuss its negative impacts on their budgets, their businesses, and their commutes."
As announced last week, the EPA will also be holding upcoming public hearings in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
EPA Agrees to Inhofe Request for Haze Hearing in Tulsa
Inhofe: EPA Overreaches in Oklahoma


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Megan Kelly covers Love and Rockets 36
Posted by Robert Goodin at 1:00 PM
Labels: 1991, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Henandez, Love and Rockets, Luba, Megan Kelly
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This blog is going out with a BANG!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Yeah, a bunch of great ones here at the end. Think it over!ReplyDelete
ohh... I like it..!"YOUR BRAİN İS VERY İMAGİNATİVE"ReplyDelete
Man, I almost forgot about the Love and Rockets tribute thing. Thanks for reminding us with this awesomeness!ReplyDelete
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Anyway, we use it almost every day now. Every day that doesn't rain, of course. I have been trying to have the kids eat most of their snacks and lot of their meals out there. Helps with indoor-mess problem. It's very helpful, too, that they are in charge of keeping their table clean. And they love going out there, damp cloths in hand, to clean it.
We were planning a trip to a nearby lake today, but we didn't want to miss out on seeing the cousins tonight. Instead, we had a special picnic outside, using our new stainless steel To-Go Ware container. It is three-tiered (and even comes with a little Sidekick that fits inside for dips or sauces, etc.). I always get inspired with the cute lunch boxes at Vegan Lunch Box.
We had sunflower butter and fruit spread (365 brand "Fruits of the Forest" - doesn't that name sound delicious?) on Food for Life fruit juice sweetened Brown Rice bread sandwiches. I think this may be my new favorite bread for nut/fruit sandwiches; it's spongy - like sponge cake (I mean, you know, as spongy as "less-processed" bread can be.). Fruit salad and granola "salad" with Galaxy Granola vanilla munch, Goji Berries & Almond Crunch, and a few Annie's Homegrown Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks mixed in. You know what they ate first, of course - the bunnies.
We also dig our new Bambu veneerware sporks (idea from Green and Crunchy...I'm such an easy target for cool kitchen gadgets that are pictured with pretty food)...spoon on one side, fork on the other. They are supposed to be disposable, but we have been carefully reusing them (can't leave them in dishwater, though, or they come apart in layers). They are biodegradable, though; I can just toss 'em out in the woods when we're finished with them!


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Photograph, Ford of the Little Blue, Kansas Territory
Author: Bierstadt Bros., Photographers, N. Bedford, Mass.
Date: 1859
A view of the "Ford of the Little Blue, Kansas," 1859, photographed by Bierstadt Bros., Photographers, N. Bedford, Mass.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Bierstadt Coll. *1
Item Number: 100034 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Bierstadt Bros., Photographers; Bierstadt, Albert; Fords (stream crossings); Horses; Little Blue River, Kansas Territory; Photographs and Illustrations; Stereographs
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Good morning good evening fellow twitchers just a quick question
Has anyone followed or is currently having a gluten free diet ?
i ask as i was reading this https://www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-dise ... /symptoms/
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Yuliasir wrote:well, for many years I am practically on very low gluten diet (if not free) - I almost do not eat bread or pastry, practically no beer (had some experience only a year ago - and to be honest I am not a great fan of it), my favorite cereals are traditionally buckwheat and rice... Pasta is really occasional since the last 20 years or so (I dislike it, to be honest).
For me my diet does not affect netither twitching no bowel issues (I have them since my childhood, I think in a way close ot IBS).
I had a gluten rich food episodes for the last 9 months - due to certain circumstances, and I did not find any changes in my twitching as well (they did not become greater).
Other fellows have other experiences, as far as I know.
SecretAgentMan wrote:Changing my diet was instrumental in my recovery from BFS. Others notice a reduction in symptoms depending on their diet as well. Some don't. Everyone is different. It just depends on your own unique factors, influences, and triggers for your specific case. We all may manifest similar symptoms on the macro level for completely different reasons on the micro level.
no sugars (artificial or natural)
Yuliasir wrote:no sugars (artificial or natural)
Artificial sugars? What do you mean?
And you still eat fruits. If the fruits mean at least apples and bananas, or even lemons and kiwi... believe me, you got enough of natural sugar
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How to get the best price from Priceline Negotiator
So I'm sure by now you've seen "Captain Kirk" from Star Trek playing his ongoing priceline negotiator character on television. Some of you are probably wondering if it really works, and others have probably tried it and had OK results.
As with anything useful there are tricks to adhere to and Priceline's Negotiator is by no means an exception. About a week ago my wife and I had an anniversary, and we thought it would be nice to grab a hotel somewhere and get away (we have 5 grown-up children, one of which lives with us, but there is always something going on at our house and well getting away has its attractions).
I went for the best hotel in the area so out of the 5 stars available I could only select 3 1/2 stars or less (because there were no 4 or 5 stars in our area, outside of Chicago and we didn't want to go into the City, parking is always a fiasco and taking the train sucks).
So settle we did on a 3 1/2 star place. I did the search on priceline.com thinking that I'd get a good deal and it returned a decent value… a $350 a night suite for $254 (or something like that).
In the search results there was a selection that said "negotiate your own price" and so click away I did. The way this works is kinda interesting, but it's a bit of a gamble.
You give them your name, billing address, phone number, email, and credit card. Then you select 3 1/2 stars (in our case) and choose the region (it gives you blocks of towns to choose from, for instance (Naperville, Lisle, Downers Grove). You do the search, if they find one at your price they book it, no further notice. The deal is basically "Hey if you want a good deal you have to mean it, you need to be ready to accept the deal on the spot if we take it". So that's why I say it's a bit of a gamble, you don't know which hotel they are going to book, you just know that it will be a 3 1/2 star hotel in the area you selected at the price you want to pay.
Once you have finished doing that it asks you how much you want to pay for a room. Now the Priceline Negotiator commercial says "We even give you the average price people pay for a room, and the other guy says "Great so I know what to bid to get my room" and blah blah. The price it said was $180. I put in $60. (I know, I know, but this is the trick). The Priceline Negotiator website came back with a "Sorry your bid is too low"
I went back in and selected the same deal, added another block of towns (because you have to change something beside the price in the deal to get it to search again). I put in $65.
It came back "Your bid was too low".
I went back in, took off the new selection of towns, and entered $70. Low and behold "We have booked your room appeared". So according to this setup, I paid $70 for a $350 a night room, that usually sells for $180 through the priceline negotiator.
That's a pretty hefty savings (80% off, I'll take that).
I went to the hotel with my wife, we had a great time, I was treated like I paid $350 and everything went very well. So that's my secret for the Priceline Negotiator, start low, be patient, and go up in $5 increments. Just see/saw between town blocks to change the deal, toggle the extra set of towns, then deselect them. Eventually the Priceline Negotiator website will accept your deal because…. letting a room sit there empty is dumb, and hey… $70 is $70 bucks 🙂 Have fun and please comment to tell us how much money you saved using the Priceline Negotiator!


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Learning Communities
Meeting others, studying in groups, interacting with your professors, being active in class—these are keys to success in college.
Learning Communities and Living-Learning Communities can help you do all these things.
Learning Communities
A Learning Community is a group of students who take two to four classes together.
You'll get to know your classmates more quickly and feel at ease faster than if you were facing a new group of people in each classroom.
You can feel more comfortable speaking up in class because you know everyone.
Living-Learning Communities
Living-Learning Communities provide distinctive settings where your academic success is supported through residential experiences.
Living-Learning Communities bring academics into the residence halls through on-site classes, advising and referral services, tutors and special opportunities to interact with faculty.
- More about Living-Learning Communities, including how to apply
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Learning Communities have an academic focus and you don't necessarily live with the students in your Learning Community.
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Can taking a child abroad be fun?
By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 8th May 2013
Perhaps we'd head to England, where accents would be our only language hurdle. Or I could take her to Mexico, where I spent a lot of time while growing up in San Diego. Or we could head to France or Belgium, where we have cousins.
I knew my 5-year-old daughter's first trip abroad could open her eyes to different cultures, music, food and ways of living. Even if she understood the language, she might see for the first time that people live differently than we do. While I had been pondering where to go, spring break in Costa Rica fell into my lap.
My child had to get extra shots, wouldn't speak the language and occasionally gets picky about food. But that was the point, right? To show her a different way of living. And it turned out the flight was a quick hop, we had excellent hosts and we loved the food and our adventures. By all accounts, the trip was a great success.
Here's what I learned -- through trial and error -- about making the leap into international travel with kids:
A little familiarity goes a long way
Any trip abroad is going to be a huge change for a small child. So why not cheat a little by picking a country where you know people or speak the language? I speak enough Spanish to get by. I probably wouldn't have done so well taking my daughter to Germany or Portugal, where I wouldn't have had any special connections or language skills.
HLN's Susan Hendricks has some helpful hints for keeping the kids happy as families prepare to hit the road this summer.
My U.S. neighbors Paul and Kristin, who are living with their 10-year-old son on a university campus in Costa Rica for the spring semester, invited us to visit for the week. They also speak Spanish, are savvy about their adopted country's fun spots and set a pace that children can follow. Having another child built into the trip was essential for my child, who is incredibly social and was guaranteed a great time playing with her neighborhood pal.
Leave more ambitious trips for later
With small children, it's a terrible mistake to overbook unless your child is the Energizer Bunny. We were not going to take a seven-day backpacking trip through the Amazon. My preschooler still gets an afternoon nap, so I knew she would likely enjoy a couple of events per day with good lunch and dinner breaks. I also brought a tablet loaded with episodes of "Blue's Clues" and "Super WHY!" for the airplane and breaks.
I also didn't have a set agenda. When we landed to find our hosts suffering from a virus imported from previous guests, we deliberately scaled back our plans. We still hit an animal sanctuary the day we landed and held rainbow toucans and frogs, walked through butterfly and hummingbird enclosures and stayed a safe distance from a pacing puma.
Know your child
Knowing your child's strengths and weaknesses will help you on your trip, even as you teach them to go outside their comfort zones.
My child loves to learn new things (like "Where's the bathroom?" in Spanish) and does fine with a flexible travel schedule. She's also quick to get out of a funk. Once she learned she couldn't talk us into staying longer at a university pool, she pretty quickly regrouped and decided to have fun doing the next thing. But she doesn't do so well if she doesn't eat a good protein snack. That's why I packed healthy snacks and bought more.
Other children might need more advanced notice of the differences they'll see in a new country or more predictability about their schedules.
Book some adult-size rewards
The first tantrum came at a coffee plantation tour.
No child I know wants to go on a coffee tour, but the grown-ups in our party like their caffeine. So off we went. Children need to see their parents doing something for themselves on a trip or they'll think vacation (and life) is all about them. Teaching them to think about others is a good thing. Show them that accommodating others is going to happen no matter what.
I simply told her that we would also do fun stuff for grown-ups and that complaining would send her into timeout. Luckily, it worked. By the end of the tour, she had gotten into the banana trees scattered about the plantation and the chocolate-covered fruit candy at the company store. She high-fived our tour guide at the end.
Eat like a local
While I was worried about my daughter getting picky about food while we were abroad, I wasn't going to pack an entire refrigerator of U.S. foodstuffs. What could be better than mangoes with breakfast and avocados and tomatoes at almost every meal -- all delivered to our friends' doorstep and picked up from markets and street vendors? (And I had the benefit of friends who knew what food to trust.)
The local version of chicken nuggets and fries was the best grilled chicken I've ever had with papas fritas that any American kid would like, often with a fresh and local salad and ice cream from local fruit. She loved it all.
Tips for your next trip
Get your passport way before you need it to save money. Because I wasn't organized, I had to pay expedited fees to get it delivered quickly. (At least that was an option.)
Know what shots you need and get them early. (The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website
is a good resource.) We got our shots just in time. My regular doctor had all of my own shots in stock (not free but convenient), but my daughter's pediatrician didn't have typhoid shots, so we had to go to a travel clinic and self-pay ($170). Both doctors gave us prescriptions for antibiotics to carry with us in case we did get catch any number of diseases.
If you're traveling without your child's other parent, government authorities may require a notarized letter from the other parent stating it's OK for you to travel on specific dates to the specific country to assure officials that you're not kidnapping your own child.
How did our trip turn out?
As I was tossing the last of our gifts into our duffle bag on our last morning there, my daughter said quietly, "I don't want to leave." "That's the sign of a good vacation," I replied. "Let's come back some day."
If you've traveled internationally with your child, where did you go and what advice would you give other parents? Please share in the comments below.
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|I'm translating Dutch to English on Worldictionary
I can think of many uses for the genealogist. If you are in the Library or Salt Lake City or anywhere doing research and you find a set of church record books in another language, choose the language it is in from the list of language choices, point your phone at the word and a translation appears.
Worldictionary recognizes and translates between 21 languages, ranging from Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Germany, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Czech, Slovak, and Romanian.
I tried Worldictionary on some French text and then on Dutch text. It did a good job of translating the words. You can also translate two words side by side but it won't translate long phrases. However you can take a photo right in the Worldictionary App and then point it to each word in turn for a translation. One caveat: be sure you hold your iPhone steady! Even with its built-in anti-shake function, you need a steady hand.
Genealogists could also find this useful for translating original text in records. Worldictionary won't work on handwritten text but I tried printing out the written text of a Dutch church record and then using Worldictionary to translate my printed words. It worked! I wish I'd had it when I was in Salt Lake City trying to translate some German church record words.
You can also tap the translated word or words listed on the right hand side of the app to go through to a more thorough translation detailing example usage, structure, synonyms, and definitions from the web.
You can also translate from English to other languages using Worldictionary. I'm not sure how helpful that would be to a genealogist but it's a cool feature!
I tried using the app to translate words in books, on my computer screen and hand-printed by me. Everything worked perfectly. I'd like to try it on a street or highway sign or a restaurant menu but I'd have to drive to the next town to give it a try on the bilingual signage on the highway. I'm quite sure a menu would work fine since it worked on the examples I used (Book, computer screen and hand-written)
Imagine travelling to Germany, France or Spain or anywhere you don't read the language and you could instantly translate words in your hotel or restaurant or at the train station! The more I played around with Worldictionary the more I liked it.
It won't translate any text in Italics so if you encounter something in a book that is in Italics you'll have to print it out by hand and then point and translate with the app.
Worldictionary remembers your previous word searches and allows you to build your own database for increased translation efficiency.
I did encounter one small problem that I'm sure won't affect very many people. I was using the App so it was open and at the Translation screen. My doorbell rang so I set my iPhone down on my couch (face down with the app still open). I forgot all about it for a couple of hours.
When I picked my iPhone up it was red hot and the battery almost completely drained. Oops.
The poor app had been working and working, frantically attempting to translate my couch pattern into an English word. So take heed and don't leave the app open or face down on a surface or you'll drain your battery completely.
You must have an Internet connection for the app to work and it will cost you $4.99 in the App Store but I think it's well worth it. If you're a genealogist on the go or even working at home, you may just find this app makes it to your favorite app list.
Disclaimer: Worldictionary did not pay me to write this review but they did provide me the app at no cost so I could review it. I tested it on my iPhone 3G using IOS 4.2.1 and the version of Worldictionary I used is 2.1.0


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Hello Everyone
It was an incredible few days since we received this surprising news of our indy film The Dam Keeper's inclusion of the Oscar Shortlist of 10 films.
We received so many many emails celebrating the achievement of this film and we were anxious to write something about it. As there are certain restrictions about these announcements, we had to be sure of saying anything about it on our FB page.
Now it's all clear, I'd like to thank all my FB friends who supported our journey for so long. This news was a huge surprise for us but was absolutely made possible because of the support from our community. We don't have the big budget of the big studios to PR this film which means this is totally the power of grassroots support through all of you.
That said, this is still the 10 final lists. 5 films of these 10 will be nominated in the new year. The competition will be absolutely tough because we have seen many of these 10 and they are all absolutely Oscar deserving films.
I also want to mention that we have seen many, at least 10 – 15 other animated shorts during our festival tours that deserved to be on this list. At the end, we all know there are so many passionate filmmakers who just pour their heart into their films. And with or without any of the recognition, they are all winners.
Pig and Fox's journey continues with lots of challenges ahead of us.
But it was indeed a great news. It happened to come on the eve of my birthday too.
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If you always or like to work with linux terminal, I really recommend you to use Terminator. Your linux terminals will be more flexible. You can add, resize or create terminals in new window in seconds with few combination keys.
Installing terminator is very easy. Just open your linux terminal, make sure you are connected to the internet and type: sudo apt-get install terminator.
Type Alt+F2 to open 'Run Application' screen and type terminator.
If there is no error, you will get the terminator terminal. You can set the background into tranparent from Preferences menu (right-click mouse button/Background/Transparent background).
Split horizontally Shift+Ctrl+O
Press Shif+Ctrl+O to split the terminal by horizontal.
Split Vertical Shift+Ctrl+E
Press Shift+Ctrl+E to split the focused terminal by vertical.
Press Alt+UP to focus on above terminal.
Press Shift+Ctrl+E to split the focused terminal by vertical.
Now, you can try to focus terminal that you want to use.
Focus the terminal below Alt+Down
Focus the terminal left Alt+Left
Focus the terminal above Alt+Up
Focus the terminal right Alt+Right
Create a new TAB Shift+Ctrl+T
Please, Shift+Ctrl+T two times to create 2 new terminals.
Switch to the previous TAB Ctrl+PageUP
Switch to the next TAB Ctrl+PageDOWN
Create a new Window Shift+Ctrl+I
Press Shift+Ctrl+I to create new window.
Focus on next window Alt+TAB
Press Alt+TAB to focus on next window. But you have to press the ALT button it fast otherwise you will active your compiz (if you use it).
Close window Shift+Ctrl+Q
Press Shift+Ctrl+Q to close the focused window.
Increase font size Ctrl++
Decrease font size Ctrl+-
Press Ctrl++ (Ctrl button with + button) few times to increase the font size and press Ctrl+- (Ctrl button with – button) to decrease the font size.
Restore orginal font size Ctrl+0
Press Ctrl+0 (Ctrl button with zero button) to restore the font to original/normal font size.
Resize the terminal DOWN Shift+Ctrl+DOWN
Resize the terminal LEFT Shift+Ctrl+LEFT
Resize the terminal RIGHT Shift+Ctrl+RIGHT
Resize the terminal UP Shift+Ctrl+UP
You re-size you focused terminal to DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and UP. Just press and hold the Shift+Ctrl button and followed by DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and UP arrow button to resize the terminal.
Toggle Full Screen F11
Close all terminals by press Shift+Ctrl+W then press F11 to resize the terminal into full screen.
Click right mouse button and select menu 'Preferences'.
Disable the 'Show Titlebar' by clicking it.
Now you get full screen terminal.
With combination with cmatrix ($sudo apt-get install cmatrix) application, open few new windows, run airodump-ng and tcpdump you are already like a computer freak.