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McKinney, May 16, 2002, 1:33 p.m.
"McKinney, 911," answers a female dispatcher, sounding somewhat blasé. "What was the address of your emergency?"
"Yes, ah...I am at the hospital at North Central Medical Center," says a male caller.
"Right behind the professional building," he continues, his twang as pronounced as his excitement. "There is a lady laying here, looks like she's lost a lot of blood. She is probably...it don't look good. There is another lady laying here without her legs...working..."
"Did you say one of the women does not have her legs?"
"She cannot feel her legs," says the man, growing frustrated.
"Do the women look like they have been shot?"
"Yeah, well, I see blood splattered way across this parking lot..."
"OK, stay on the phone with me just a minute, OK? Don't hang up!"
"I'm here. I'm here."
From the muffled background come sounds of panic and pain: One woman is screaming, "Help me, I can't move," as medical personnel from the hospital complex scramble to assist the women, both nurses.
The dispatcher returns to the phone. "What is your name, sir?"
He tells her.
"Did you see anybody else there? Any vehicles or anybody else out there?"
"No, no," he insists. He just heard two gunshots but didn't see anyone leave.
"Can I get a home address for you?"
He tells her, sighing deeply.
"Are you OK?" she asks.
"Yeah...I'm fine."
But he doesn't sound fine. "I know this is a pretty startling thing for you to have come upon...When I am sure an officer is with you, I'm going to disconnect. But I want the officer to be there with you, OK?"
Xtera Communications Inc., in Allen, five hours earlier
If one of his bosses started riding him about the "almighty schedule," if they so much as mentioned his not meeting a deadline that was beyond his control, if they started piling on the stress until he felt his chest tightening or his heartbeat racing, he would quit, all right. He would damn well do it. It wasn't as though he hadn't been thinking about leaving. Ever since his heart attack the year before, he knew he had to make some changes. So what if he was quitting a telecom job in a down market? He was only 46, and the job was killing him.
And yet, Xtera Communications was, he later recalled, "hands down, the most talented bunch that I had ever seen assembled in one place." But he was fed up with the start-up, tired of being seduced by its "dark side," as he called it, a side that convinced employees to work 12-hour days by offering them stock options and the sweet smell of a public offering. What was lost in this IPO madness, he thought, was the product itself, a long-haul transmission system that once designed would be sold to such telecom giants as Sprint and SBC and make their optical fiber networks run faster and more efficiently.
As senior compliance engineer, Paul Wooley tested the product to make certain it met industry and government standards. As the last person to touch the product before marketing, he also felt as though he were the fall guy for the company's unrealistic expectations.
But not today, not after the weekend he'd just spent with his family in Austin, where he and his mother had one of their absurd arguments--this one over an antique derringer missing from his family's gun collection. As usual, his sisters took his mother's side, and he left abruptly. Returning to work the next week, he changed the beneficiary on his 401(k) plan. It was his way of casting them out of his life--once again.
The morning couldn't have gotten off to a worse start: Already depressed about his family, Wooley discovered that materials he needed for an important off-site test had not been received in time. When he told his boss, Mark Hendricks, about the problem, Hendricks blamed him for mishandling the situation. Well, that's all it took. Wooley tossed his badge on the table and said, "Mark, you're an asshole. I quit."
He then marched to the human resources department and announced that he had resigned. After it became clear that Wooley didn't want to discuss the matter, HR Director James Simmons volunteered to help Wooley pack his belongings. Simmons would later claim that Wooley was "uptight, shaky and red-faced"; that when the two unloaded some company supplies from the bed of Wooley's blue pickup, Wooley called Hendricks several profane names and insinuated their paths had better not cross again. But Wooley left without incident, and no one who dealt with him felt threatened.
That would change as the day progressed. According to a police affidavit, "personnel at Xtera called the Allen Police Department with a concern about Paul Wooley after learning of the shooting in McKinney." While that concern may have stemmed from fear that Wooley presented a security risk to Xtera, it also alerted the McKinney police to Wooley's existence. Through a bizarre set of coincidences, hyped evidence and questionable police work, he became the prime suspect in a McKinney Police Department murder investigation. Two days after the shooting, he was arrested and formally charged with the murder of Amy Wingfield and the attempted murder of Alisa Stewart. He was placed in solitary confinement in the Collin County jail under a "suicide watch" that he claimed bordered on the barbaric. And even after the McKinney police knew they had the wrong man, contends his attorney Jeff Lynch, he was illegally kept in jail for three more days "to smoke out the true killer."
Xtera Communications employees and McKinney police declined to be interviewed for this story. The Allen Police Department didn't respond to interview requests, and the Collin County Sheriff's Office would not comment on the specifics of Wooley's incarceration. The Dallas Observer, however, has obtained their versions of events from more than 1,500 pages of depositions, court filings and police reports. Each entity maintains it was only doing its job: The McKinney police were following every possible lead, including the possibility that the murder was committed by a deranged sniper who might kill again. Xtera Communications was taking every precaution to protect its employees from a disgruntled co-worker. The Collin County Sheriff's Office was simply trying to protect an unstable prisoner from himself.
In December 2002, Wooley filed a lawsuit accusing Xtera of defamation and providing the police with "false, misleading and inaccurate information" that led to his wrongful arrest. Xtera denied the allegations. The McKinney police, argues attorney Lynch, manipulated that information, using it to build a weak case based more on character assassination than hard evidence.
Aside from asserting his constitutional rights, being emotionally distraught and having the worst possible damn luck, Paul Wooley did only one thing wrong: He picked the wrong day to quit his job.
Oklahoma border, near the Red River, May 16, 2002, 1:41 p.m.
It took Wooley only about 10 minutes to regret quitting. He had no prospects, no real money, and the high-tech bubble had already burst, so finding a new job would be hell. After leaving Xtera, he drove directly to his house in McKinney, where he tried to boot up his computer and search his e-mail list for job contacts. When the thing froze on him, Wooley lost it, kicking his computer to death.
His quick temper and brusque manner always seemed to cause him problems. For a big guy, he was all bluster, 260 pounds of it, but scratch the surface and there was a generous man who could go overboard with gifts on Christmas and birthdays and offer you a hand up without even being asked. Some people just didn't get him, though, not when he would pop off the way he did. "But there wasn't a bit of violence in him," says his mother, Doris Dees, except toward a few inanimate objects that got in his way.
Killing his computer made him realize that he needed to take an extended vacation. Giving little thought to what he packed, he grabbed clothes, camping gear, guns and ammunition. In a journal reconstructing the events of the week, he would write, "I did have a notion that I would go to a wilderness area and live on my wits for a few weeks, just to decompress."
He withdrew $5,000 from his credit union and refilled his heart-medication prescription. He phoned his mother, who says he sounded despondent and "threatened to drive to Colorado to end it all." This wasn't the first time he had phoned her threatening suicide, which seemed more of a play to make her feel guilty than anything serious.
Theirs was a difficult relationship. Wooley had been a rebellious son, bucking authority and quitting high school before graduating. His father was an unforgiving disciplinarian and never made things easy for Paul, who in turn never made things easy for himself. Because his mother was more interested in keeping the peace than provoking her husband, Wooley felt he never had his mother's love. "None of us thought he was ever serious about harming himself," says his sister Mary Cook. "The suicide threats were just his way of retaliating against Mom for feeling unloved."
Yet after his phone call, Wooley's mother phoned the McKinney police and asked them to check on him. A squad car was dispatched to his house at 12:47 p.m., but no one was home.
Even among work associates, Wooley would talk about suicide, although his interest seemed pitched more toward the philosophical than the personal. When he was depressed, which was often, he would tell friends about his empty life; he lived alone, had no children, no wife (he had divorced the same woman twice). At work, Wooley could be brutally honest, displaying emotions that seemed as big as he was.
During the World Trade Center bombings, everyone at Xtera sat glued to the big-screen TV in the "family room," horrified and saddened by the replayed images. Wooley seemed to fixate on the tragedy and became personally distraught over the loss of life. "He would think about it for hours," recalls Marvin Morris, his closest friend at Xtera. "He made me think about how those people on the airplanes must have felt."
Like many Americans who felt insecure after 9-11, he purchased guns to protect himself: a Glock .40-caliber handgun and a Bushmaster .223 rifle. A few times he brought the handgun to a local gun range for target practice. A friend who accompanied him said he was a terrible shot.
Like others, Wooley also bought food--beans and bottled water mostly--and placed them in a bedroom closet where he could retreat, he told co-workers, in case of a chemical or biological attack. Some thought he was paranoid, but Wooley said he was just listening to the warnings of government officials.
On May 16 at 1:41 p.m., eight minutes after the murder, Wooley placed a call on his mobile phone to Jill Smith, a co-worker at Xtera. According to her deposition, he told her he was near the Oklahoma border, but he was crying and sounded "irrational." Afraid that he might harm himself or get into an accident, she expressed her concerns to HR Director Simmons.
Wooley appeared to have regained his composure when he spoke to Marvin Morris a few minutes later. "I may have screwed up my life, but I finally quit," he told Morris, saying he had just passed an Indian casino across the Oklahoma border. He was headed to Maine, but who knows where the impulse might carry him. "I got the impression he was just taking an extended vacation," Morris recalls. "A few weeks in the outdoors would give him some time to think about what he was going to do next."
Although the shootings in McKinney had occurred nearly 20 minutes earlier, Morris had yet to hear about the tragedy. At the time, he focused on his friend, reminding him to take his heart medicine and making sure he was calm enough to travel. That someone might think him capable of going ballistic in a frenzied homicidal rage, well, that wasn't the Paul Wooley he knew.
Xtera Communications, May 16, 2002, 3:51 p.m. The companywide e-mail was terse:
To: Everyone
Subject: Please leave the building for the day immediately.
Importance: High
No mention was made of Wooley's resignation or the growing fears on the part of management that he might return to harm someone.
How the company reached the conclusion that its employees were in danger remains something of an enigma, but depositions and Xtera phone records paint a picture of a company unnerved by Wooley's resignation and far too willing to believe the worst. Simmons claimed he had no knowledge of the shooting when he first contacted the Allen Police Department at 1:53 p.m. He maintained that Wooley had left four messages on his voice mail around lunchtime, during the last of which he heard Wooley saying, "I am leaving my shit at my house and doing something radical." Simmons said he was so upset by the message, he phoned the Allen police to notify them about a disgruntled ex-employee. The Allen police didn't seem interested: Without more, an officer told him, there was nothing they could do.
In his deposition, Wooley admitted that while traveling on the afternoon of the murder, he phoned Simmons regarding his 401(k) benefits but denied saying he planned to do something radical.
Even if Wooley left the upsetting message, Simmons' reaction may have been motivated by more personal concerns. His wife was also a nurse, and she had previously worked with both victims in their same pediatric practice at North Central Medical Center. Fear for her safety may have sparked a subsequent call to the Allen Police, which phone records reveal was made from his extension at 2:31 p.m., nearly an hour after the shooting. He claimed he had first heard about the double shooting from the Allen police, but McKinney is a small town, and news of the shooting spread rapidly, particularly among personnel at the medical center who were ordered by police to remain inside the hospital complex. Later that evening, Randy Patterson, at the time an Xtera lab technician, phoned Simmons inquiring about his friend Wooley. Simmons said he couldn't talk, Patterson recalls. "He was with his wife, and she was upset about the shooting. He asked me to pray for him and his family."
The decision to evacuate Xtera was made by the company's chief operating officer, but it was reached only after conferring with Melanie Roark, who also worked in human resources with Simmons. Roark grew alarmed after she watched early news accounts of the shooting on the TV in the Xtera family room. "They said they were looking for a man in his 40s in a blue pickup truck," Roark testified in her deposition. "It scared me...the first person who I thought of was Paul Wooley."
Within minutes of the shooting, officers began the search for evidence and witnesses. One nurse said she saw a pickup truck on the dirt road behind the hospital, driving slowly several minutes after the shooting. She couldn't describe the truck apart from it appearing dark blue. A search later found two bullet fragments, which were delivered to the Texas Rangers crime lab for analysis.
Of more immediate concern were the victims: Amy Wingfield, deceased, and Alisa Stewart, in critical condition from a gunshot to her lower back. According to a police affidavit, the two close friends returned from lunch and shopping around 1:30. Wingfield was driving and parked her SUV in the lot behind the hospital. As she turned to close the door, an unknown assailant fired what was believed to be a high-velocity rifle from a long distance. The bullet entered her skull and exited an eye socket, killing her instantly. Stewart heard a loud popping sound and sensed something spew on the car window. She ran to her friend and saw her sprawled on the ground, blood pooling around her head. As she bent down to check, she felt a burning pain in her back. Her legs went numb, and she knew she had been shot. Hoping to call 911, she crawled toward Wingfield's cell phone. She started shaking uncontrollably, however, and could only cry out for help.
Although Stewart had no idea who shot her, lead detective Randy VanDertuin quickly began assembling a list of possible suspects. Stewart had intimate relationships--past and present--with three suspects: a former boyfriend, an ex-husband who was behind on his child support and a current live-in who was an avid hunter and drove a blue pickup. Her relationship with her current boyfriend was so volatile Stewart's family told the police he was their man. But all three had alibis, and her boyfriend passed a polygraph. Besides, it didn't seem logical that Stewart was the primary target when Wingfield took the first bullet. Also, the second shot ricocheted off the SUV before hitting Stewart, lending more credence to the idea that she was an afterthought.
Topping the list of remaining suspects was Amy's husband, Raymond Wingfield, an Allen firefighter and failing home builder. VanDertuin recorded conflicting accounts of Raymond's behavior at the hospital after he was informed of his wife's death. "Wingfield appeared to be displaying behavior consistent with an individual who had suffered great loss." He had even wrecked his vehicle after learning of the shooting, and then at the hospital he hit a wall and broke several bones in his left hand. But "Sgt. Collins [a Texas Ranger] suggested that Wingfield's actions seemed a bit extreme and had a concern that the extra emotion might be staged."
Oddly, at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the murder, McKinney reserve officer P.A. Schulte was approached by "a white male," who identified himself as an employee of Bob Thomas Ford in McKinney and handed the officer a set of keys saying, "A woman just came into our office, threw these keys on a desk and said, 'Those keys belong to the shooter's vehicle.'" The vehicle was the same gold Ford Explorer that had been wrecked by Wingfield, who had rented the SUV to test-drive earlier in the day. Although Wingfield was not ruled out as a suspect, not much was immediately done with this information. Whether that was because he was a local firefighter and one of their own, or whether he played the part of the grieving spouse with such aplomb that the police felt uncomfortable confronting him, other than a "rushed" interview on May 18 he would not be interrogated again until May 22, two days after his wife's funeral.
McKinney detectives weren't quite so deferential to the last suspect on their list: Paul Edward Wooley.
Amarillo, May 17, 2002, 1:53 p.m.
By the time Wooley arrived in Amarillo, he felt as though he was "on a trip to nowhere." The sharp pains in his chest had him believing he was going to die. While on the road, Marvin Morris and Charles Schmucker, another close friend of Wooley's at Xtera, told him that the company had been evacuated after learning about the McKinney shootings. He now felt that people he had worked closely with for the past 18 months believed he was capable of murder. Old thoughts of suicide began to resurface, and he asked the clerk at a La Quinta if he knew a priest. Rather than phone a priest, the clerk, worried about a potential suicide, called the cops.
When the Amarillo police arrived, Wooley felt calmer. He told the officers he was going to Alaska on vacation and assured them that he had no intention of harming himself. He had phoned his mother and spoken with her pastor and told the police he just had a lot on his mind. Officers wanted him to seek professional help and directed him to a psychiatric hospital in Amarillo. They confiscated a handgun, a rifle and a hunting knife but agreed to return them after he spoke with a counselor.
Meanwhile the McKinney police were working furiously to build a case against him, interviewing his friends, family and co-workers, trying to gather as much information as they could to secure an arrest warrant. At 10:30 p.m. on May 17, McKinney Detective Ida Wei contacted Randy Patterson, asking him to describe his friend. "I told her he could be kind and generous but could also get aggravated, going from one extreme to another," Patterson recalls. "I also said that he had bought two guns, and I used 9-11 as a reference point for when he made the purchases."
The language incorporated into the arrest affidavit, however, had Patterson describing his friend "as an extremist" who, after September 11, "began purchasing firearms." The affidavit also stated that James Simmons had informed police that Wooley "had been stockpiling food and guns," even though Simmons, when later deposed, said he had no idea whether Wooley possessed weapons; he had never even been to his home. Even if he had, a bag of dry beans and bottled water scarcely qualified as "stockpiling."
"I never said Paul was an extremist," says Patterson, who complained bitterly about the characterization both to the police and the press. "They were trying to paint him as some kind of violent gun nut who could randomly harm large numbers of people. Paul wasn't even a political person. I was just talking about personality extremes."
Around 10 a.m. on May 18, Schmucker met with McKinney detectives and wanted them to know "Paul did not do this." Wooley had phoned him on the day of the murder, just before the evening news. Wooley was just outside Oklahoma City and had apparently changed his direction: He was now heading to Alaska. Yes, Wooley was high-strung, but he was also a "teddy bear" who would never hurt anyone, Schmucker told the police. And yes, he had purchased a handgun and rifle a few weeks after 9-11, but he wasn't obsessed with guns--wasn't even a particularly good shot, judging from their few trips to the gun range. "On the early news they had a couple of theories about a man hiding in the trees and running across a field," he says. "I told the police there was no way in hell that was Paul. He was no marksman, had no scope on his rifle, and he was too out of shape [bad back and weak heart] to run across any field."
Despite his desire to help, Schmucker provided police with at least one statement it would use against Wooley in his arrest affidavit: "When Schmucker asked if Wooley had heard of the shooting in McKinney, Wooley reportedly stated something to the effect of, 'They don't think I did it, do they? If they do, I'll turn myself in at the nearest police station.'" The police interpreted his spontaneous response as a guilty one. What Detective VanDertuin omitted when he drew up his affidavit was the context of the conversation: that Patterson had already told him about the shooting as well as Xtera's reaction to it. Wooley would later maintain that when he responded he was just connecting the dots. "Since something was going on, and it was happening in my direction--that is why I said what I said."
Schmucker faults the police for distorting the truth. "They weren't looking for objective information. They were looking for information they could pick and choose among, twist it any way they want to go and then turn it over to the press."
The arrest affidavit painted a picture of a man on the edge: a suicidal, bipolar, gun-crazed extremist who snapped when he quit his job and became "irate, screaming profanities," and was threatening to "do something rash [not radical, as Simmons had said]."
What police sorely lacked was evidence, something--anything--that might connect Wooley to the murder. They knew a blue truck was spotted at the scene as much as 10 minutes after the shooting, and Wooley drove a blue pickup. They knew Wooley was traveling with a .223-caliber rifle and that bullet fragments found at the crime scene came from a high-velocity weapon. These tenuous facts were among a "myriad of circumstantial evidence" that police Chief Doug Kowalski would later claim justified Wooley's arrest.
But McKinney detectives were faced with a fluid situation: The Amarillo police had no cause to hold him (his mental commitment was voluntary, and he wanted out), and the McKinney police viewed him as a "flight risk," an armed traveler who was about to take himself and his rifle, which might be evidence, to parts unknown. Most frustrating of all: Wooley refused to cooperate with the police. Upon advice of his Dallas attorney, Ed King, Wooley refused to speak to the police; he even invoked his right against self-incrimination when detectives asked if he wanted dessert. "Mr. Wooley was charged with the crime because of his basic failure to cooperate with us," Kowalski frankly stated in his deposition.
"I think the McKinney police panicked," says attorney King, a former Dallas County felony judge. "They were trying to make sure that no one left the area who might be a suspect. That's good police work, but it's not constitutionally sound."
On May 18 McKinney police obtained an arrest warrant for Wooley. Searching his home in McKinney, detectives found it suspicious that his computer had been destroyed. They found no stockpiles of weapons or food, but rather a video series titled The Men Who Shot Kennedy. Since police were investigating what appeared to be "a sniper shooting," they seized the tapes.
The following day, three McKinney detectives retrieved Wooley from Amarillo and escorted him first to McKinney police headquarters then to the Collin County jail, where he was placed under a suicide watch. At police headquarters, King met with his client, then with detectives. "They told me they would sure like to talk with Paul and polygraph him," he says. "I told them they had the wrong guy."
McKinney police headquarters, May 21, 2002, 2 p.m.
When the McKinney police announced they had charged Wooley with murder and attempted murder, their "media release" sounded as weak as the circumstantial evidence on which they built their case: "Paul Wooley is one of several suspects identified by the McKinney Police Department in connection with these offenses," the release stated. "The department, working in conjunction with the Texas Rangers, will continue to look at other possible suspects."
If the police were tentative about their freshly arraigned assailant, the media held no similar compunction. Cameras captured his "perp walk" and broadcast Wooley in blue jail togs, shamefully hiding his face from view. Reporters were handed the arrest affidavit, which gave them full license to write about Wooley's mental condition. Neighbors were solicited and offered stock responses: He lived alone; he kept to himself; he was a complainer.
Yet even in their media release, the police maintained that their investigation was not closed. Evidence had been submitted to laboratories for forensic analysis, and the results, they said, would take several days to complete.
Deposition testimony and police records suggest that the preliminary results of these tests had already exonerated Wooley. On May 20, the day before the press release, a McKinney detective brought the bullet fragments recovered at the crime scene to the Department of Public Safety laboratory in Tyler and, according to a police affidavit, "Firearms Examiner Wade Thomas advised that the projectile was not a .223-caliber [the caliber of the rifle seized from Wooley] but was more consistent with a .270 or a 7mm."
While the lack of a ballistics match created doubt about Wooley's guilt, intelligence gathered by McKinney Detective Terry Morrison absolved him. Morrison analyzed Wooley's cell phone records, which revealed the time of his calls, their duration and location. Within 10 minutes of the murder, Wooley phoned co-worker Jill Smith from somewhere "right around the Red River...proving that it would have been impossible for Paul Wooley to be in McKinney at the time of the shooting," according to police reports.
Exactly when the police determined this remains a point of contention. Wooley's civil attorney, Jeff Lynch, believes the police had this information as early as Sunday, May 19, three days before his release, and chose not to act on it, using his client's continued incarceration to flush out the real killer. In his deposition, Chief Kowalski admitted his department had "preliminary information that indicated he [Wooley] may have been at a different location." While detectives were awaiting final confirmation of this information, they were stunned by a dramatic breakthrough.
McKinney police headquarters, May 22, 2002, 12:30 p.m.
It had been a week since the shootings, and Raymond Wingfield had yet to provide police with a complete accounting of his whereabouts on the day of his wife's murder. Detectives never ruled him out as a suspect, and their interviews with friends, family and others revealed a man whose business and marriage were failing and whose honesty was in question. An avid hunter, an expert marksman and an ex-Marine--if anyone were stockpiling weapons, it was Wingfield.
When Corporal Drew Caudell interrogated Wingfield in the early afternoon of May 22, it was obvious he had no alibi. Rather than working as a firefighter on May 16, he dropped his two children at day care and ran errands for his home-building business. He spoke to his wife, Amy, several times that day, both before and after lunch. According to police records, he recalled being on Highway 289 driving from Frisco to Celina when he got a call from his wife's office telling him she had been hurt.
At the close of the interview, Caudell asked Wingfield if he would take a polygraph. Although Wingfield agreed to be tested the next day, the officer noticed "he dropped his head" and "his hands started to shake."
At 5 o'clock that same afternoon, Wingfield went to his wife's grave, intending to kill himself, he would later say, because of his grief. Concern over his two small children caused him to change his mind. As he drove away from the cemetery--or so he claimed--a man in a gray SUV fired two shots at him, shattering the windshield of his pickup and sending him careening into a ditch. Apart from some superficial face wounds, he wasn't hurt. He flagged down a passing motorist who brought him to the Celina Police Department. He had no idea who might want to harm him, he told the police, but thought it might somehow be connected to his wife's slaying.
Collin County sheriff's investigator Mitch Selman just wasn't buying Wingfield's story after he brought him back to the sheriff's office for further questioning. According to police records, "Inv. Selman found it significant that there were no glass fragments...on his [Wingfield's] clothing, skin, hair or shoes." The cuts across his face also appeared to be self-inflicted. Selman accused Wingfield of staging the shooting to take the focus of the homicide investigation away from him. At first, Wingfield denied the accusation, but then without saying why, he admitted he had shot his truck.
A team of McKinney detectives continued the interrogation, which lasted more than six hours. But Wingfield remained adamant: He did not murder his wife. Detective Marco Robles, searching for a less resistant path, turned his attention to Alisa Stewart. Repeatedly, he asked Wingfield whether shooting Stewart was intentional or just an accident. Wingfield finally broke down, claiming he shot her accidentally--and he never intended to shoot his wife either. It might seem premeditated--renting a Ford Explorer on the day of the shooting so he wouldn't be recognized. But he just meant to scare her by firing above her head. It was his way of taking her mind off their financial problems. He aimed to miss. Only somehow he didn't.
His motive for the crime seemed as obscure as it was absurd. A husband had executed his wife, a loving mother of two, because he wanted her to stop worrying about their bills? He had maimed her close friend, permanently disabling her, by accident? The confession guaranteed that Raymond Wingfield would be sentenced to at least 60 years in the penitentiary. But it offered little solace to anyone except Wooley. He was released from custody 30 minutes after it was signed.
1410 Meadowbrook Drive, McKinney, May 23, 2002, noon
Wooley appeared quite corporate in his blue suit and blue tie, a far stretch from his portrayal by the media as a homicidal maniac just two days earlier. Standing in his front yard, he stared directly into the TV camera, looking calm and comfortable. "They came into my cell and said, 'Go home, we've got him,'" he recalled. "I didn't even know there was another him until then."
"What did you think?" asked the reporter.
"Yippee." He laughed loudly, half-apologizing. "I still haven't slept in a week..."
The reporter said that when Wooley was told earlier that the police had arrested the victim's husband, Wooley just rolled his eyes. "How is it that they could make a mistake of that magnitude?" asked the reporter.
"I still haven't figured all that out yet," said Wooley, although he was contemplating litigation to find out. For now, though, he just wanted to clear his head and find a job.
Wooley had no luck finding work. Even if the telecom industry hadn't tanked, he felt as though his name had been stained by the false murder charge. His bouts of depression lingered longer and deeper, and his civil lawyer sent him to therapy, partly to help his client, partly to document his emotional damage. Psychiatrist Lisa Clayton began treating him in August 2002 and believed he was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome brought on by what she described as the "public humiliation" of his arrest and what he described as the barbaric conditions of his incarceration.
In the Collin County jail, Wooley was placed on a "suicide watch," purportedly for his own protection. Immediately following his release, he claimed he was subjected to psychological torture aimed at breaking him down to coerce his confession. Placed in solitary confinement, he was stripped of his clothes and forced to wear what he described as a "Velcro wrap." Between the music he said was constantly being piped into his cell, the thin plastic mat he was forced to sleep on and the drafty 60-degree temperature, Wooley contended that he was deprived of sleep and taunted by guards and nurses who threatened him with the death penalty if he didn't confess.
In discussing its "suicide watch" policy, the Collin County Sheriff's Office noted "that certain inmates would only be allowed to have a suicide gown, a suicide blanket and a mat." A department spokesman also added that temperatures in the facility were kept, according to "state jail standards," "between 65-85 degrees" and it's "against policy and we do not" engage in taunts, humiliation or sleep deprivation.
If Wooley was exaggerating how badly he was mistreated, he certainly had his family and physicians fooled. "Paul was totally and single-mindedly focused on what they did to him in jail," says his sister Mary. "His self-absorption was not healthy, but a year after it happened, it was as fresh as if it happened that day."
Legal fees ate through what little savings he had. He sold his home and lived off the generosity of friends and family, staying in their homes as he searched for a job. What would begin with the best of intentions, a chance to reconnect with relatives, would end in an argument over some perceived injustice. Invariably he would wear out his welcome and be forced to move on.
In September 2002, he made one weak attempt at suicide. Staying with his half-sister in Euless, he grew frustrated when he accidentally damaged the plumbing in a bathroom. The next morning he informed her that he had overdosed on pain medication. He would be all right, though. He had changed his mind and already called the paramedics.
He would tell Dr. Clayton that he had no reason to get out of bed in the morning. He would tell attorney Lynch that when he sat in a restaurant, people would suddenly leave, and when he entered a bank, police officers would suddenly appear. If he seemed paranoid, it may have been for good reason. A police officer claimed that Wooley, while still in jail, had threatened James Simmons and his wife. After the shooting, the company immediately beefed up security and hired off-duty Allen police officers to protect them from Wooley. Xtera's renewed fear proved as groundless as it was in the first instance.
"Paul didn't want to harm anyone at Xtera," says his criminal attorney Ed King. "He wanted to sue them."
In December 2002, he did just that, suing Xtera Communications in federal court after he relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana. Attorneys for Xtera would insinuate in depositions that Wooley only moved to another state to take advantage of federal diversity jurisdiction. But Wooley claimed he had no money, no prospects, no home and no choice. In Shreveport, he attended truck-driving school, but his career as a long-distance hauler came to an abrupt end when he flipped a truck in Peoria, Illinois, and lost his job. He seized another opportunity to teach hardware compliance in China, but his contract ended, and he returned to Dallas.
Living in an inexpensive motel, he would have been destitute and in the streets if not for the advances he received from his attorney. The only thing that kept his life from spinning totally out of control was the pending litigation. "I thought we had a good case," says Lynch, who also intends to sue the McKinney and Allen police departments as well as the Collin County Sheriff's Office. "Nobody deserved what happened to him--even if they were guilty."
Lynch sued Xtera first, hoping he could "pop them for a quick settlement" because they might feel guilty about what had happened. On the contrary, says Lynch, Xtera was "astounded Paul would sue them" and vigorously denied any wrongdoing. But Lynch was tenacious, and in a matter of months got the case primed for settlement.
On Friday, December 12, all the parties met at the Admirals Club at DFW airport. After six hours of trading offers, they managed to negotiate a confidential settlement. At the end of the marathon session, Wooley was exhausted, seemed to be fighting a cold and was bothered by his perennial bad back. Nonetheless, he was pleased with the outcome, envisioning it as an opportunity to restart his life. "Quite honestly," Lynch says, "it was the first time since his arrest that he had a moment's peace."
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On Monday, a friend grew concerned when he couldn't reach Wooley by phone. The friend called the motel directly and asked the clerk if she would check on the man in Room 108. The clerk didn't recall seeing Wooley since midafternoon on Saturday, December 13, and she went to knock on his door. When he didn't answer, she entered the room and found him lying on a bloodstained bed, dead.
An autopsy was performed, the results of which indicated the cause of his death was the "toxic effects of oxycodone," a prescription drug he took to alleviate his backache. The Medical Examiner's Office ruled the manner of his death was "undetermined."
These findings will certainly become relevant when Wooley's heirs, as planned, sue the various police agencies who they believe illegally arrested and incarcerated him. Until then, whether Paul Wooley finally made good on his threats and took his own life, or just wanted to stop his pain and took too much medication remains a mystery.


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Sesshu Toyo and historical art in Japan (1420-1506)
Sesshu Toyo and historical art in Japan (1420-1506)
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Sesshu Toyo during his lifetime was highly revered in Japan and China because of his artistic talent related to the visual arts. He was educated with the intent of being a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest and the importance of interaction between China and Japan was the norm in this period for the elites within society.
Chinese Song Dynasty landscape art was very important to Sesshu Toyo unlike Ming Dynasty art which didn't have the same creativity according to him. However, other aspects of the Ming Dynasty appealed to Sesshu Toyo and this notably applies to temples built in this period.
His art work titled "Sansui Chokan" (Long Landscape Scroll) highlights the richness of Sesshu Toyo. However, with the psyche of culture being very different from Western norms whereby individual artists desire to highlight themselves, this logic did not enter the mindset of many Japanese artists because of cultural differences in this period.
Therefore, many art pieces may state Sesshu Toyo by bearing his signature or seal but many of these paintings were done by his pupils or were copies of his work. This complicates things for art lovers who are lay people but the discerning eye of experts have distinguished his artwork based on several factors.
Xia Gui and other Chinese artists influenced Sesshu Toyo but he had a distinctive style despite this. This applies to a more pronounced variance related to light and shadow and his lines were heavier. Other areas were notably different and this applies to the depiction of space and dimensional attributes.
My personal favorite piece is the "Huike Offering His Arm to Bodhidharma" because you have a clear spiritual dimension. This stunning artwork was done in 1496 and is based on the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma, and below him is Huike who became the second patriarch.
Despite Huike cutting off his arm after being rejected many times by Bodhidharma you don't feel any warmth or reverence. Instead a battle of minds is at play and the aloofness provides a mystical aspect because while Bodhidharma is depicted with a different aura and power, this does not deter or infringe on the thinking of Huike. Therefore, does the real power belong to Bodhidharma or Huike?
Many interpretations can be given but in the painting it appears that Huike desires knowledge and he will do anything to obtain this. However, does he desire the knowledge in order to reach another dimension?
If Huike revered Bodhidharma then why doesn't he offer the arm with respect or at least seek eye contact and to express his piety by kneeling? It seems that the arm which was offered and the knowledge that Huike desires from Bodhidharma, is a means to an end and that he seeks to reach deeper into the spiritual world but seeks to surpass his master.
Of course, you will have many different interpretations and different cultural and religious thinking alongside individualism and other areas. However, the painting does not show "love," "piety" or "trust" but instead it shows realism and coldness.
Could it be that the depiction is a duplicate and in truth the meaning is far from what it is perceived to be? In other words, Bodhidharma is Zen Buddhism and Huike is Sesshu Toyo and the arm depicts his love of art.
This may appear far-fetched to many individuals but this artwork was done near the end of his life. Also, it is reported that he was punished for loving art more than studying Zen Buddhism when he was much younger. Therefore, while Zen Buddhism was a powerful reality within his mindset the pull of art was also deeply embedded within his soul and psyche.
Irrespective of personal views about this remarkable piece of art it is clear that Sesshu Toyo enriched this world.


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The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside was established in 1967 to provide affordable housing, revitalize communities, eliminate blight, and fuel economic growth through focused reinvestment of local funds back into local projects and programs that supported job growth and private investment.
There are six Redevelopment Project Areas throughout the City including Arlington, Casa Blanca, Merged Downtown / Airport Industrial / Hunter Park / Northside, La Sierra / Arlanza, Magnolia Center, and University Corridor / Sycamore Canyon (Project Areas). Over the years, the Agency was active in implementing housing programs, business incentive programs, commercial improvement programs, planning and development of projects, capital improvement projects, and property acquisition in the Project Areas. Additionally, the Agency funded other activities such as graffiti abatement, code enforcement, and design review activities to alleviate physical blighting conditions within the Project Areas.
On June 29, 2011, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1X 26 (AB 1X 26) eliminating redevelopment agencies throughout the State and Assembly Bill 1X 27 (AB 1X 27), allowing for a Voluntary Alternative Redevelopment Program by which Agencies could avoid elimination by agreeing to voluntary payments to the State. On July 18, 2011, the California Redevelopment Association and the League of California Cities filed a lawsuit against the State of California in response to the passage of AB 1X 26 and 27.
On December 29, 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the major provisions of AB 1X 26 and invalidated AB 1X 27 in its entirety. The effect of the ruling is that redevelopment agencies throughout the State have been abolished and will not be able to be resurrected under the provisions of AB 1X 27. As part of the Court ruling, certain time frames for dissolution activities were extended and the dissolution of the Agency became effective on February 1, 2012. The City of Riverside is the Successor Agency to its Agency pursuant to Council actions taken on March 15, 2011 and January 10, 2012. The Housing Authority of the City of Riverside is the Successor Housing Agency pursuant to actions taken on January 10, 2012.
While the wind down of Redevelopment has already been initiated through the cancellation of funding for graffiti abatement, code enforcement, new commercial improvement projects, and housing grants, there are still many active projects that must be completed. Additionally, the Agency has many properties that were acquired to eliminate blight and facilitate economic growth. These properties are either under contract for development, awaiting development, or are intended to be transferred to the City for their continued use as public facilities. The wind down activity will be overseen by an Oversight Board comprised of individuals appointed by various government agencies and the City of Riverside as Successor Agency to the former Redevelopment Agency.Click here for Request for Proposals


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Brighton woman gets bit with puppy probation
A Brighton woman accused of repeatedly injuring a 12-week-old puppy in September and October of last year pleaded guilty to animal cruelty Monday, authorities said.
Erin Renee Chartier, 22, was sentenced to three years' probation and 300 hours of public service and will have to pay more than $2,000 in fines and court fees after she allegedly abused her boyfriend's terrier/pit bull puppy, Ace.
She also pleaded guilty to aggravated cruelty to animals, a Class 6 felony and will receive a deferred judgement on the charge.
"The protection of animals has a direct correlation to protection of the public," District Attorney Bruce Brown said. "People who assume responsibility for owning pets must take good care of them. This is an instance where that trust was broken."
Chartier is required to participate in an animal cruelty evaluation and is prohibited from having contact with the dog.
The charges were brought after a local veterinarian reported Ace appeared to have been physically abused. An investigation revealed multiple vets had seen the puppy for various unexplained injuries. Ace had suffered widespread bruising, internal bleeding, bleeding in the eyes, multiple rib fractures, a broken tooth and fluid in his lungs and ears in September and October 2012.
"The abuse appeared to have happened during the times when (Chartier) was alone with the puppy," said Summit County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Tracy LeClair. Authorities say Chartier was living in Summit County at the time the dog was injured, but has since moved to Brighton.
Ace was impounded until his owner, Chartier's boyfriend who resides in Wildernest, posted a bond covering the costs of the dog's boarding and veterinary bills.
He is not facing any charges related to the abuse.
Ace appears to have recovered from his injuries, authorities said, and has grown significantly over the last several months.
"We're hopeful that he didn't have any long-term damage," LeClair said.
Chartier is also required to take an obedience class to learn how to properly discipline dogs.
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Juicy is the key word for new school New England IPAs, but one Connecticut brewery is taking it to the next level of juiciness — by actually adding juice.
Stony Creek Brewery of Branford, Connecticut, has announced the release of the Ripe 'n' Crazy Juice IPA series.
Each of the three beers will be Stony Creek's Cranky IPA brewed with fresh, cold pressed juice from RIPE Fresh Juice of New Haven, Connecticut.
The first in the series, to be released in four packs of 16-ounce cans on Oct. 1, will be the Ripe 'n' Cranky Orange, which is brewed with Valencia orange juice. Stony Creek will release three different Ripe 'n' Cranky Juice IPAs throughout the year.
Next in the series, to be released in winter, will be brewed with Costa Rican pineapple juice. And next summer Stony Creek will release one brewed with Ecuadorian passion fruit.
"Creating a beer in this way is super exciting," said Stony Creek brewmaster Andy Schwartz. "It really is the essence of creativity and flavor development. We are able to take the freshest cold pressed juice in the world and blend it with lush tropical hops to create the ultimate juicy IPA."
Along with the various fruit juice, the beers are all brewed with Jarrylo, Azacca, Calypso and Bravo hops and come in at 6.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV).
In other beery news, Devil's Purse Brewing Company of South Dennis has announced they have signed with Night Shift Distributing of Chelsea to sell its beers.
What that means is that more of Devil's Purse's beers will make its way to the area, as well as other parts of the state.
"The Boston metro-area and localities beyond Cape Cod are great craft beer-drinking communities, and the folks at Night Shift are uniquely positioned to introduce and sell our beers in this market," said Devil's Purse co-founder Matt Belson.
Night Shift will not only distribute the beers produced at the South Dennis brewery, it will also distribute the beers brewed at the Devil's Purse's partner brewery — Isle Brewers Guild in Rhode Island.
The first beers to be distributed will be cans of Handline Kolsch and Surfman's Check ESB. Other limited beers, such as Devil's Purse's IPAs, oyster stout and saisons will also be distributed in smaller amounts.
Finally, the Harpoon Brewery in Boston has added the latest beer to its UFO lineup of unfiltered wheat beers — the UFO Cranbeery.
UFO Cranbeery (get it, cranbeery, not cranberry because it's beer) is brewed with cranberries from Massachusetts-based farmer's co-op Ocean Spray Cranberries.
"After our delicious new summer seasonal UFO Huckleberry, we figured there was no better way to welcome the cozy fall weather than with the quintessential New England cranberry," said Harpoon Chief Brewing Officer Al Marzi. "UFO Cranbeery is tart but not too sour, slightly sweet without being overpowering and the perfect fruit infusion for this year's seasonal brew."
UFO Cranberry is available now in 12-ounce bottles and cans and in the UFO Leaf Peepin mix pack.
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Saw IV with nephew, I wanted to see Ratatouille...
TMNT with partner's nephew (the film looked great though)
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Miami Heat Player Bios
Years Pro: 12
College: Blinn
Signed as a free agent by the Miami Heat on February 8, 2013. Andersen has 14 career double-doubles and has appeared in 20 career playoff games (all with Denver). Began his professional career with Jiangsu Nagang of the Chinese Basketball League, where he averaged 17.0 ppg, 13.5 rpg and 2.50 bpg while shooting .536 from the field
Andersen showed off his colorful tattoos in PETA's "Ink Not Mink" ad campaign to protest the fur industry. Anderson placed 3rd and 4th in the NBA's slam dunk contest in 2004 and 2005. Nickname is the Birdman.
Years Pro: 11
College: Georgia Tech
Selected in the first round of the 2003 NBA Draft (fourth overall) by the Toronto Raptors and traded to the Miami Heat for a pair of first-round draft picks on July 9, 2010. Bosh is a seven-time NBA All-Star…has earned All-NBA Second Team honors and All-Rookie First Team honors once each…has been selected the NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week six times and Player of the Month once. Is the Raptors' all-time leader in points, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, free throws made, blocks, minutes, games started and double-doubles.
Has his own foundation called Team Tomorrow that helps community-based organizations. Was appointed editor at large for Ocean Drive magazine in 2010. Created his own used car salesman skit to reach the All-Star game in 2008.
Years Pro: 8
College: Michigan State
Drafted in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft (25th overall) by the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Heat are Brown's 8th different. Heading into the 2014-15 season, Brown has appeared in 403 career NBA regular season games (58 starts) and averaged 7.7 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 18.0 minutes while shooting 42 percent from the field, 33.1 percent from three-point range and 80.7 percent from the foul line.
Years Pro: 6
College: Kansas
Chalmers was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round (34th overall) of the 2008 NBA Draft, draft rights were acquired by the Miami Heat in exchange for two 2009 second-round draft picks and cash considerations on June 26, 2008. Heading into 2012-13 season, has averaged 8.3 points, 3.6 assists, 2.4 rebounds, 1.47 steals and 27.1 minutes while shooting 41.9 percent from the floor, 35.9 percent from three-point range and 78.1 percent from the foul line. Chalmers ranks among the HEAT's all-time postseason leaders in three-point field goals made (2nd), steals (tied-2nd), three-point field goals attempted (3rd), games (4th), assists (4th), minutes (5th), points (8th), field goals made (8th) and attempted (8th), free throws made (tied-8th) and attempted (8th), double-figure scoring efforts (tied-9th) and starts (tied-9th). Was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team.
Born in Alaska. Has his own charity called the "Mario V. Chalmers Foundation" encouraging youth development through sports and education. He hosts a golf classic and basketball camp in Kansas, where he went to college.
Years Pro: 3
College: Cleveland State
Cole was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the first round (28th overall) of the 2011 NBA Draft, draft rights were traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves along with the draft rights to Malcolm Lee and cash considerations in exchange for the draft rights to Nikola Mirotic on June 23, 2011, draft rights were traded from Minnesota to the Miami Heat in exchange for the draft rights to Bojan Bogdanovic (31st overall selection), a future 2014 second-round draft pick and cash considerations on June 23, 2011. Ranked among the NBA rookie leaders in free throw percentage (8th), assists (12th) and scoring average (17th). During the 2012 NBA Playoffs, came off the bench in all 19 games in which he appeared and averaged 1.8 points (.324 FG%, .778 FT%), 0.6 assists, 0.5 rebounds and 8.9 minutes.
His cousin, Trent Cole, is a defensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles. Graduated from Cleveland State with a degree in health science. Traveled to New Zealand in August 2009 as part of an Athletes in Action tour.
Years Pro: 10
College: Duke
Signed as a free agent by the Heat on July 15, 2014, Deng begins his 11th NBA season in Miami. A 2-time All-Star, Deng began his career as a first round draft pick (7th overall) of the Chicago Bulls in 2004. Deng has averaged 16.0 points per game in his career, peaking at 19.0 points/game as a member of the Bulls in 2013-15 before being traded mid-season to the Cleveland Cavaliers. A British citizen, Deng was born in what is now South Sudan before moving to Egypt and then the United Kingdom. Deng is a spokesperson for the World Food Programme which provides food to 90 million people per year.
Years Pro: 0
College: Duke
Dawkins went undrafted out of college and signed with the Heat on September 23, 2014. Dawkins appeared in 142 games at Duke, averaging 7.1 points, 1.6 rebounds while shooting 40.7 from three-point range.
Years Pro: 0
College: Long Beach State
Ennis was traded to the Heat after being selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the second round (50th overall pick) in the 2013 NBA Draft. Ennis appeared in 33 games with the Perth Wildcats of the Australian Basketball League and averaged 21.2 points and 7.2 rebounds in the 2014 season in which he finished third in the league's MVP voting.
Years Pro: 9
College: New Mexico
Granger signed a 2-year free agent contract with the Heat on July 14, 2014. Granger was selected in the 2005 NBA Draft (17th overall) by the Indiana Pacers and was named to the league's All-Rookie Second Team in 2006. A member of the 2009 NBA All-Star team during a season in which he averaged 25.8 points, Granger was named the league's Most Improved Player. Granger has averaged 17.6 points per game in his career. As a member of the US team that played in 2010 FIBA World Championships, Granger won a gold medal. Not only a great basketball player, Granger was offered admission to Yale University after graduating high school.
Years Pro: 1
College: LSU
Hamilton was a second round draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2013 NBA Draft before being tarded to the Miami Heat. Hamilton had played in Croatia, Latvia and the NBA's D-League before signing with the Heat and joining the team through the 2014 NBA Playoffs.
Years Pro: 11
College: Florida
Haslem was not drafted by the NBA out of college in 2002. Spent the 2002-03 season with Chalon Sur-Saone in France and signed by the Miami Heat as a free agent on Aug. 6, 2003. Has served as team captain each of the past five seasons. Led the NBA in 2009-10 in double-doubles off the bench (21) and is Miami's all-time leader in defensive rebounds and ranks among the Heat's all-time leaders in games played (2nd), minutes (2nd), total rebounds (2nd), double-doubles (3rd), offensive rebounds (3rd), starts (4th), field goal percentage (5th), field goals made (5th), field goals attempted (7th), points (7th), free throws made (7th), double-figure scoring efforts (7th), free throws attempted (8th), steals (9th), blocks (11th), free throw percentage (15th) and assists (19th). Was an NBA All-Rookie Second Team selection
Goes by the nickname: "U.D." Is a member of both the Miami High and University of Florida Hall of Fames. Started the Udonis Haslem Children's Foundation in 2005. Played Football until 10th grade when a knee injury forced him to the sidelines.
Years Pro: 7
College: Duke
Signed as a free agent on July 14, 2014, McRoberts played the past two seasons with Charlotte and was originally selected by Portland in the 2007 NBA Draft. McRoberts played in 78 games for the Charlotte, averaging 8.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 30.3 minutes and posted career highs in scoring, assists, games played and minutes played. McRoberts ranked second in the NBA in assists per turnover (4.0) and tied for 35th in assists
Years Pro: 0
College: Connecticut
Napier was Charlotte's first round pick (24th overall) in the 2014 NBA Draft before being traded on draft night to the Heat in exchange for the draft rights to P.J. Hairston (26th overall) and Semaj Christon (55th overall), a 2019 second-round draft choice and cash considerations in a draft night trade. Napier led the UConn Huskies to two national championships during his collegiate playing days and was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 2014 while averaging 21.2 points per game.
Years Pro: 10
College: Marquette
Drafted by the Miami Heat in the first round (fifth overall) of the 2003 NBA Draft. Wade has been crowned NBA Finals MVP once and All-Star Game MVP once, is an eight-time All-Star (seven-time starter), has earned All-NBA First Team honors twice, All-NBA Second Team honors twice and All-NBA Third Team honors twice, has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team three times, was a unanimous All-Rookie First Team selection. Is the Miami Heat's all-time leader in points, field goals made and attempted, free throws made and attempted, double-figure scoring efforts, assists, steals, games played, starts and minutes.
Full name is Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. Started the Wade's World Foundation with a goal of helping education, family, and health service programs. Has written a book called "A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball."
Years Pro: 7
College: Memphis
Williams, a first round selection (17th overall) of the Indiana Pacers in the 2006 NBA Draft, signed with the Heat on August 1, 2014 after finishing last season with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League. Williams played in 36 games with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2013-14, averaging 5.6 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
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Shredded Pork Burritos
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Cook: 9 hours
Makes16 servings (2-1/3 cups sauce)
- 1 bone-in pork shoulder roast (5 pounds)
- 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, divided
- 4 teaspoons paprika, divided
- 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 can (12 ounces) cola
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 large sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 2 tomatillos, husks removed
- 3/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and cut into chunks
- 1 envelope ranch salad dressing mix
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 16 flour tortillas (8 inches), room temperature
- Cut roast in half. Combine 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 teaspoons paprika, pepper flakes, cumin and salt; rub over meat. Place in a 4-qt. slow cooker. Add the cola, broth, onion and garlic. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until meat is tender.
- Set meat aside until cool enough to handle. Remove meat from bones; discard bones. Shred meat with 2 forks. Skim fat from cooking juices and return meat to slow cooker. Stir in remaining brown sugar and paprika. Cover and cook on low for 1 hour or until heated through.
- Meanwhile, in a blender, combine the mayonnaise, milk, tomatillos, cilantro, jalapeno, dressing mix, lime juice, garlic and cayenne. Cover and process until blended. Pour into a small bowl. Chill until serving.
- Using a slotted spoon, spoon 1/2 cup filling off center on each tortilla. Drizzle with some of the tomatillo sauce. Fold sides and ends over filling and roll up. Serve with remaining sauce.
Editor's NoteWear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Nutrition Facts1 burrito: 370 calories, 24g fat (6g saturated fat), 77mg cholesterol, 451mg sodium, 14g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 24g protein.
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Nov 12, 2013
My large family LOVES this recipe (and we have some "food critics"!) I have doubled it using 7 qt crockpot and it works as well. If you want to increase the heat and add to the layers of flavor, add a few chopped up chipotle peppers in adobo sauce! The tomatillo sauce is heaven! This recipe is always a hit! Repeat, repeat, repeat! Adjust spice level according to guests -we make it mild by cutting down on peppers when grand kids present!
Aug 7, 2013
The pork is delicious, the sauce is amazing and when you put them together, it is like magic, we couldn't stop eating it!
Sep 17, 2012
The sauce for the burritos is maybe the best that I have ever had! I also put shredded cabbage in the burritos and they were great!
Oct 18, 2011
I really wanted to love this recipe. When I saw it in the Slow Cooker cookbook, I was very excited to try it.The pork smelled heavenly while it was cooking. But I found that the pork was very sweet when I was shredding it, and didn't even add the last bit of brown sugar, opting instead to put in extra cumin, which really helped with the sweetness. I would not add the coke at all if I made it again. And I might try it with beef since it has a bit stronger flavor to stand up to the rest.The flavor was good, but I wasn't wowed. I really wished it tasted as wonderful as it smelled when cooking.
Jun 7, 2011
Absolutely fabulous! I made this for Mother's Day & it was a huge hit. My husband's favorite kind of food is Mexican, so I'm always afraid to make something new. He loved it! The food was worth the effort.
May 4, 2011
The Cafe Rio Pork Barbacoa WITH the dressing?! My family loves it--heaven!! And THANK YOU!!!
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This is the 1st recipe I have ever rated on any website. Thats how wonderful this recipe is. I have made this 3 times in the last 6 months for family get togethers and it gets RAVE reviews. It is so easy. This was the 1st time I had ever used a tomatillo and we found the tomatillo sauce to be absolutely wonderful on just about anything so make extra and it can be made a day or two in advance. Most slow cooker meat recipes are dry and tasteless this one is tender, juicy and flavorful. You can adjust the spices for personal preference - I leave out the red pepper flakes because I don't like much spice.
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In order to promote access to online resources, the Wixom Public Library offers mobile Wi‐Fi hotspots as a part of its circulating collection. A mobile hotspot is a device that can be used anywhere to create a wireless network so patrons can connect any Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device, laptop, printer, digital camera or gaming device.
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Hotspots checkout for 7 days, with no renewals and no holds. Any Wixom Library cardholder who is 18 and older and has a card in good standing may checkout a hotspot. Patrons must sign the Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot policy prior to checking out a device.
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The hotspot checks out in a bag containing the following items: mobile hotspot, a case, a micro-USB cord, AC charger with USB port, instructions, a copy of the Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot policy and a copy of the Public Internet Access Policy.
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If the hotspot is overdue, you will be charged a $5.00 per day overdue fine and the device will be deactivated. If the device is lost or returned damaged, you will be charged a $70 replacement fee and $25 processing fee.
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Nehemiah Kish in rehearsals with Jonathan Cope for The Prince of the Pagodas © Johan Persson/ROH 2012
Former Royal Ballet Principal Jonathan Cope is currently in rehearsals with The Royal Ballet in preparation for the return of MacMillan's The Prince of the Pagodas. Jonathan performed in the role of the Prince alongside Darcey Bussell in the 1996 production, and now works with the company as répétiteur, teaching dancers.The ballet has not been performed at Covent Garden for 13 years, and includes some of MacMillan's most challenging choreography. We caught up with Jonathan ahead of opening night to find out more…
You last danced in The Prince of the Pagodas in 1996 alongside Darcey Bussell. How does it differ this time around?
For this production Monica Mason has had permission from the Britten Trust to cut the score, which is what Kenneth MacMillan wanted to do originally. Kenneth always said to me that there was a great ballet there, it just needed to be edited and sorted out. Now, many of the numbers that don't add much to the narrative, and are just a bit of padding, have been cut. The second act has been reduced and there has been some re-ordering – shifting numbers around to make more sense of the plot. As a result, the whole piece is tighter and more involving. In that respect, we hope as a ballet it will come to life.
Britten's music is quite inventive and exotic, and includes sections influenced by Balinese gamelan music. How do the dancers react to this?
It creates an atmosphere, particularly in Pagoda Land with the Salamander solo. When those instruments coming in, it makes the world seem quite alien and quite strange. The music is very effective from that point of view. I personally like the score – it's clever but very challenging. All the dancers are counting in nines and fives, and sixes and threes - it's all over the place!
Are there any particular sections you'd recommend watching out for?
Rose's three main solos are difficult. They're classic solos, but each with a twist. In particular, the one inthe second act with a violin solo is musically incredibly difficult. For the Prince, he has to bring across the contrast of being a salamander and changing quickly into the romantic prince. The Salamander is a lot of work on the floor – slithering and rippling, looking weird, strange and not very human, while the Prince is very normal – charming and handsome.
The piece is quite rare. How is it different to other ballets? What do you like about it?
It's different to other classical ballets as, even though the shapes are classical, it has a MacMillan twist. The choreography is arranged so that, rather than doing a conventional position, there's always a twist to it. For example, a hand will be on a shoulder instead of round a waist, or an arm will be twisted and behind you instead of rounded. Even though it's still within classical lines, it's not completely conventional classical ballet. It has a style that relates to MacMillan.
What is the role of a repetiteur? Do you help with technical steps or can you influence artistic expression as well?
I can certainly encourage the artistic expression. You're never looking for a carbon-copy of yourself and the way you expressed it, but you can certainly give them ideas. You're working as a team rather than dictating. They're all individual and they're all marvellous as artists. Obviously, the plot is there and you have to interpret it a certain way for the story, but there's so much fine detail that you can put in individually – the way you feel things.
As you previously danced the role of the Prince, are you protective of the role?
Not at all. If anything, I want it to move on now. I encourage the dancers not to dance the role like me – choreographically to use the structure, but to bring something more to it than we did; to bring the story a little bit more to life. When I danced it, we were young and focused on the technical side of it more than the artistic side. Now it is the opportunity to really let rip with those roles.
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It's Star Wars Celebration! As expected, the second trailer for Rogue One has debuted, but only for attendees of the event.
Our Bothan spy "Stormtrooper Harry" happens to be in London, and was able to witness the exclusive 1-minute trailer. Here's the description for all you freeloaders.
The screen opens up with a glowing technical readout of some kind. The crowd cheers.
Next we see a little girl, young Jyn Erso, running around a green landscape. She looks up as a black shuttle, Director Krennic's personal shuttle, roars overhead.
The scene shifts to the grown Jyn Erso, running again, this time in a chaotic tropical battlefield (likely the planet Scarif). In the background we see Cassian Andor and other rebel soldiers running alongside as explosions sprout all around.
Cue Jyn's voice over: "There isn't much time. Every day we grow weaker."
Cut to captured Rebel pilots in their orange jumpsuits, being marched down an alley with hands on their heads. Captain Andor in disguise observes the prisoner march.
"While the day grows grimmer…"
Grim Death Troopers stride over the verdant landscape of Jyn's childhood. Then the familiar close-up of a black trooper as something burns in the background, perhaps the Erso home.
Next, Mon Mothma and the rebellion high command looking up from the planning table in Yavin IV. Then black-clad troopers running through a jungle.
Back to Jyn: "We still have a chance. To make a real difference."
Quick shots in succession:
Regular stormtroopers wading through the idyllic surf on Scarif.
A couple of Imperial technicans, seated at what looks to be the Death Star's firing control panel.
Director Krennic in his familiar pose on the Death Star's bridge.
A ship flying through a desert canyon.
A huge four-winged shuttle folding its wings and coming in for a landing in a downtown alley, as a massive Star Destroyer looms overhead.
One of the Rogue One aliens cocking a blaster on Scarif, preparing for battle.
Then familiar scenes from the first trailer:
The four-winged shuttle blowing up.
Director Krennic striding through the water laden with dead bodies.
The hooded figure kneeling.
A bunch of stormtroopers and tank troopers running.
Baze fleeing from an explosion.
Jyn looking at the hovertank patrol.
Rebel soldiers trading fire with Death troopers.
A closeup of Chirrut, followed by the stick asskicking he gives to stormtroopers.
The Death Star superlaser dish being locked in place amid a flotilla of Star Destroyers.
Then a silence. A pause.
A blood-red technical readout is reflected off a gleaming floor. Standing in the middle is a foreboding figure, the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, as a familar breathing rasp fills the room.
The crowd erupts.
Title card: Rogue One. December.
Someone took a sly recording of the trailer itself! To shield us from the evil Disney Empire, watch it from a third-party site.
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Few things about the French are more irksome than their national superiority complex. Although I met a number of amicable Frenchmen and women while studying in Spain, their favorite topic was unfailingly how much they missed their native land, and they made no bones about telling me so.
However, in an essay published in the WSJ on Saturday, an American mom shows that the French may have some bragging rights when it comes to effective parenting, complete with an ex-Stanford professor to back up her claims.
The author, Pamela Druckerman, claims that French parents have figured out some parenting tricks that make their children much more peaceful and obedient than Americans, specifically by teaching their kids how to wait. One of her sources is Walter Mischel, who as a professor at Stanford in 1972 devised the famous "marshmallow test" to examine a child's capacity for deferred gratification. According to Mischel, in the U.S., "certainly the impression one has is that self-control has gotten increasingly difficult for kids."
Mischel would know. His marshmallow test offered 4- and 5-year-olds a marshmallow and said that they could have another if they waited for the experimenter to come back before eating the first. Only one in three resisted for the full 15 minutes that the experimenter was gone. The key, the researchers found, was that the good delayers were able to distract themselves. What is more, Mischel found in a follow-up study that these good delayers as adolescents were better at concentrating and reasoning, and they did not "tend to go to pieces under stress."
So how do French parents make their kids more patient? One method is enforcing a tight eating schedule, instead of providing snacks all day. Another is teaching children to play by themselves so that they require less supervision and maintenance. These observations sound like cultural generalizations, but they are backed up by data. For example, as part of her supporting evidence, Druckerman cites a 2004 study on the parenting beliefs of college-educated mothers in the U.S. and France. The American moms said that encouraging one's child to play alone was of average importance, whereas the French moms said it was very important.
As a Stanford student, parenting is not the first thing on my mind (or the second, or the third!). However, this article inevitably invited me to compare how I was raised with the French parenting model. I found that I was unwittingly raised in a rather French style, with a bit of American disciplining. Even though my brother and I fought almost non-stop as kids, my mom has told me that she loved being with us and valued raising us herself very highly. My brother and I also ate on a consistent schedule, and we spent a lot of time playing outside by ourselves. However, if I misbehaved, privileges or prized possessions were taken away. The worst part about being punished was that it was often in front of other people, which made it humiliating and more memorable. As a result, the fear of being disciplined became as powerful a motivator to behave well as the forces of habit.
Granted, French society provides some big advantages to which this article only pays lip service, including significantly better social services and child care than in the U.S. Also, Druckerman probably did not get a very big sample size for her observations on France, meaning that her conclusions would only apply to a set of well-educated, well-to-do families that do not explain the behavior of the entire French population. She may want to look into a movie called The 400 Blows, which is about a French boy who becomes a juvenile delinquent thanks to bad parenting, before calling it a day.
That said, rightly or wrongly, American children are notorious amongst foreigners for being spoiled and lazy. With big budget cuts going into effect in areas like education, the U.S. government is unlikely to improve the situation in the short term. That leaves the bulk of the job with American parents.
Perhaps they could take a few cues from the French, even if the advice comes with a big dose of hauteur.


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Abstract: The ERBE-like Monthly Regional Averages (ES-9) product contains a month of space and time averaged Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) data for a single scanner instrument. The ES-9 is also produced for combinations of scanner instruments. All instantaneous shortwave and longwave fluxes at the Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA) from the CERES ES-8 product for a month are sorted by ... 2.5-degree spatial regions, by day number, and by the local hour of observation. The mean of the instantaneous fluxes for a given region-day-hour bin is determined and recorded on the ES-9 along with other flux statistics and scene information. For each region, the daily average flux is estimated from an algorithm that uses the available hourly data, scene identification data, and diurnal models. This algorithm is "like" the algorithm used for the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). The ES-9 also contains hourly average fluxes for the month and an overall monthly average for each region. These average fluxes are given for both clear-sky and total-sky scenes.
CERES is a key component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions are a follow-on to the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument (PFM) was launched on November 27, 1997 as part of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit on board the EOS flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board EOS Aqua on May 4, 2002. The newest CERES instrument (FM5) was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011.
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Dennis Harding is an Australian landscape photographer with an inspirational collection of Tasmanian photographs. He has been publishing high quality work for more than 30 years, much of it evident in popular books like his best-seller and Galley award winner, Australia's Island State, Tasmania.
This fit, energetic and hardworking photographer began solo bushwalking in his early 20s. As a mark of his dedication he once climbed the formidable Frenchmans Cap from the Lyall Highway in a single day. "When I was young", he says, "nothing was too physically demanding".
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