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Rick Heckman's '54 Studebaker
1953 saw some memorable automotive debuts. In addition to the birth of Rod & Custom magazine, it was the year of the first official NHRA drag race, and the introduction of the Chevy Corvette and the Studebaker Starliner. Fifty-four years down the road, three of those four milestones are still being produced. Today, it's up to guys like Rick Heckman to keep the Studebaker alive.
The Starliner (as well as the Starlight coupe) was Studebaker's shot at creating an American sports car, and the Raymond Loewy/Bob Bourke ahead-of-its-time styling was more sleek and slender than Chevy's chubby little two-seater. Rick first fell in love with the angular lines of the '53-54s when he was a teenager in the early '60s. Because of their limited production, he saw these cars mostly in magazine stories about Bonneville racing and dry lakes action. As the years passed by, the ones that showed up on the street were typically built as hot rods or Pro Streeters, but Rick always thought the body style would make a great late-'50s or early '60s mild custom. Not too long ago, he set out to prove it, adding some new angles to the lines he loved.
Finding one of the 9,342 Starliners built in '54 cost Rick a full year of dead ends and disappointments. When he finally did locate one near Chicago via the Internet, he bought it sight unseen and had it hauled to San Diego on an open trailer. It was a barely running stocker when it showed up, with rusty floors, rockers, fenders, and a thrashed mix 'n' match interior, but tons of potential. In keeping with the custom theme he was after, Rick found a local '62 Studebaker GT Hawk to serve as a donor car. He used the Hawk framerails as the foundation for a custom chassis, and borrowed many of the interior pieces to complete the Starliner's cockpit.
The imagination that went into the rest of the car continues under the hood. Rick figured that a small-block crate engine could be built to fit the era he was after, but it just wouldn't have the wow! factor for which he was looking. Remembering a youthful experience of being humbled by a tri-power 348-equipped '59 Impala that was one of the fastest cars around, he decided to load the Starliner with one of these cool-looking Chevy W-engines.
Collecting all the parts to build the engine, locating a capable builder willing to tackle the project, and getting the whole thing to fit in the much-tighter-than-an-Impala engine compartment was a huge challenge, but it paid off.
"In retrospect, a small-block would have been much cheaper to acquire and build, would have fit easier, and probably made more power," Rick said, "but when you raise the hood and see those W-shaped valve covers and the way it fills the engine compartment, there's no question it was the right choice." The looks on people's faces when they see his alternative powerplant pick confirms it.
The 20-month build was finished last September, and it made its 300-mile maiden voyage from San Diego to the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield a few weeks later. Since then Rick's been driving it whenever the weather is nice-which in San Diego is all the time-and is now talking about a road trip to Oregon in his recharged Stude custom.
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Rick Heckman
San Diego, California
'54 Studebaker Starliner Hardtop
Rick laid the Starliner on 'rails from a '62 Studebaker GT Hawk, fabricating custom-made body mounts and torque boxes to accommodate the '54 body. The independent front suspension includes a Fatman dropped frame stub, tubular stainless A-arms, coil springs and gas shocks, an antiroll bar, plus GM 11-inch disc brakes. In the rear, a narrowed '60 Thunderbird 9-inch with 3.00:1 gears, 11-inch Ford drum brakes, and Dutchman axles rides on stock parallel leaves with a single leaf removed and 2 1/2-inch blocks added to drop the rear.
The Chevy 348 W-engine is a 1958 first-year engine. Rick said it was tough finding a shop to build the engine, but Motorworks in National City, California, bored the block 0.060 over, and Greg Sadeau at GES Engineering in San Diego assembled the engine using 9:1 Egge pistons and stock heads with finned Offenhauser valve covers. Tri-power induction comes from Rochester 2G carbs on a stock manifold. Ed Hansen built the custom exhaust running from a pair of Sanderson headers to old-style Smithy's glasspacks. Walt-Built Transmissions in Oceanside put together the column-shifted TH350 automatic with a TransGo shift kit and a stock 11-inch converter. A custom driveshaft from Driveline Service in San Diego runs to the 9-inch rear.
Wheels & Tires
Swap meet steelies are still hard to beat when it comes to rolling stock for a traditional custom. These 15×6-inch smoothies with 3-inch backspacing have chrome outer edges and body-colored centers, and were dressed up with chrome center caps. Wide white BFG Silvertown radials are P215/70R15s and P205/70R15s.
Body & Paint
The lines of the '53-54s were about a decade ahead of their time. Mark Garant at Moore Street Auto Body in San Diego, along with Rick, did just enough bodywork to remove all the rust and bring out the car's shape. It was nosed, decked, and shaved of some trim and scripts. The grille trim was removed and the grille bars smoothed. The bumpers were also smoothed and the upright bumper guards eliminated. The headlights were replaced with tri-bar halogens and the rims painted. The red and silver 'flake paint is custom-mixed PPG acrylic urethane shot by Rueben Alcarez at Moore Street Auto Body. Robert Gagnon applied the 'striping on the nose and deck.
The '62 Gran Turismo Hawk, designed by Brooks Stevens, advanced the Studebaker's style even further into the future, especially in the interior. Rick used his GT Hawk donor car to furnish the bucket seats, door panels, dash, steering column, wheel, and door and window mechanisms on his '54. Leon "Smitty" Smythe and Jim's Auto Upholstery in San Diego put it all together, covering the cockpit with black and silver pearl vinyl. The stock gauges were replaced with Stewart Warner instruments. Rick installed a Clarion AM/FM/cassette system and Polk Audio speakers.


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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed his current diet plan on Twitter today. He's in training mode for his starring role in the upcoming film "Hercules." Oh, my goodness, there is a LOT of protein going on here.
My current 22 week diet for the role of HERCULES. Cardio & iron before going to set. (Lion blood is optional;) pic.twitter.com/HaklgWPJW0
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 24, 2013
And apparently this is what happens when you train really hard and eat like that. Oh, who are we kidding. Mere mortals will never look like that:
I'm in the mood for love (and by love I mean pancakes & lips)
AM training. On set workout trailer. #HERCULES pic.twitter.com/ouilVh0oKs
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 18, 2013

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Ninety-one percent of Americans are suffering in the post-election period without a daily polling fix, according to projections based upon my computer analysis of a nonexistent Gallup poll.
Other key findings in the average of all polls not conducted: 92 percent of college-educated adults hate polls, but spent an average of 43 minutes per day during the presidential campaign reading poll results and sharing them via social networks. The figure is almost two points higher among unemployed, gay, female Latinos in swing states.
Roughly two-thirds of all Americans say they no longer rely on individual polls, preferring instead the analysis by aggregators like Nate Silver of The New York Times and Dick Morris of the planet Zebulan. Of that group, half say they don't read the aggregators work directly, but rely on aggregated summaries of the aggregators' findings on websites such as The Huffington Post, or LiberalsareScum.com.
In a yet-to-be posted blog, Mr. Silver projects that if the 2016 election were held today, polling companies would lose 98 percent of total revenue that they expect to collect from news organizations and political parties during the next four years.
How desperate are we for polling data? In an actual poll taken just before the election — and I apologize for mixing fact with fiction, although it seems routine among many pollsters — the Des Moines Register asked Iowans, "Why do you go to Dunkin' Donuts?" A solid 22 percent said they go for the doughnuts, but a staggering 45 percent said they don't go to Dunkin' Donuts at all.
My analysis of this data reveals an unmistakable shift in America — from that of a predominantly white, middle-class population, to a nation of stat-starved poll lovers.
Immediately following the election, pollsters scurried to fill the polling void by conducting surveys on the most obscure questions.
Gallup issued this actual news release: "Americans spend less time doing what they do best on Sundays compared with other days of the week — averaging 6.7 hours compared to 7 hours on most days." In a startling revelation, Gallup's crack analysts determined that "Americans use their strengths the most on Thursdays."
Full disclosures: Gallup says the margin of error in its poll of the days on which Americans "do best" is 1.2 percent, although no one seems to know what that means. Also, Nate Silver found that Gallup's projections in the recent election were the worst among two dozen polling organizations he evaluated.
In another actual piece of landmark pulse taking, Bill O'Reilly polled his viewers on Fox News Channel on the question of whether his program had been "fair" in covering the election. A stunning 80 percent of O'Reilly's own audience said the coverage was, indeed, fair. The remaining 20 percent should be ashamed of themselves for even thinking that O'Reilly's program contains some sort of political bias.
My own poll, conducted by email between Nov. 6 and 8 among 14 self-described independents, with a sampling error of plus or minus 14, shows that 91 percent of Americans are suffering during their withdrawal from political polls, while another 91 percent say they couldn't care less that polling has subsided following the election.
Asked to explain this apparent contradiction, Dick Morris would undoubtedly say, "We experts refer to this as being 'six of one and half a dozen of another.' It's why Americans don't care if polls are right are wrong — they just love getting the data. Trust me."
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Yet, isn't it true that all new ideas arise out of a milieu when ripe, rather than from any one individual? (Busa, 1980, p. 84)
Reading through the immense literature available about the early history of modern computing, it is tempting to consider the historiography of modern computing as a battle of firsts. Often, the chronicles of technical evolutions are used to put a forgotten pioneer in the limelight or to contradict or corroborate one's claims of originality and invention. It is indeed true that each design or machine, whether it is an analog or a digital, a mechanical or an electronic computer, can always claim to be the first in its own kind or the first at something which is now generally considered as essential for the design of the modern computer. But since reinvention and redefinition are at the heart of the history of modern computing, real firsts hardly exist. This doesn't mean that the alleged firsts can't be true influential pioneers, or as Maurice Wilkes put it: 'People who change the world stand facing two ways in history. Half their work is seen as the culmination of efforts of the past; the other half sets a new direction for the future.' (Wilkes, 1995, p. 21) Additionally, history shows that the same technology can develop independently on different places at the same time. This is true for ideas, hardware, as well as for applications. Charles Babbage's (1791-1871) revolutionary idea to use punched cards both for numerical storage and control, for instance, is generally acknowledged as an essential step in the evolution of stored-program computers, and Babbage is fully credited for it. However, Babbage adopted his idea from the silk weaving industry where punched-card programmed weaving is attributed to Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) around 1801. (Menabrae, 1961 [1842], p. 232; Lovelace, 1961 [1843], p. 264-265) But Jacquard had predecessors in France as early as the 1720s. Research by the Austrian computer pioneer Adolf Adam (1918-2004) has shown that programmed weaving was also invented in Austria between 1680 and 1690. (Zemanek, 1980, p. 589) In the nineteenth century, Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) rediscovered, patented, and popularized punched cards as data storage media when he built his tabulators for the US Census of 1890. Babbage's original double use of the perforated media for both data storage and operation control, however, was rediscovered by Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973) for application in his Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), later to be referred to as the Harvard Mark I – not to be confused with the Manchester Mark I. Programs were read from paper tape, and data was read from IBM punched cards. The ASCC was built by IBM (International Business Machines), completed in 1943, and publicly announced and demonstrated in 1944. The wide news coverage marks that event as the beginning of the computer age for some historians of technology and computing. (Ceruzzi, 1983, p. 43) But in Germany, Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) had managed to build a working automatic and programmable calculating machine independently of any British or American project by December 1941. Isolated by the political reality of that time, Zuse had conceived and built his machine – later to be called the Z3 – on his own and with his private money. Data was directly input by a numerical keyboard and the calculator could run programs from perforated 35mm movie film. But the direct and demonstrable influence in the use of perforated media from Babbage over Hollerith to Aiken is absent in the work of Zuse, who always claimed that he had no knowledge of Babbage nor of his work at that time (Zuse, 1980, p. 611).
For other historians, the invention and description of the stored-program principle marks the beginning of the history of modern computing. But that beginning can't be defined precisely either. The stored-program principle states that the 'operating instructions and function tables would be stored exactly in the same sort of memory device as that used for numbers' (Eckert and Mauchly, 1945 cited in Ceruzzi, 2003, p. 21) and is generally called the von Neumann architecture. John von Neumann (1903-1957) described this principle in his notorious First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC in 1945. (von Neumann, 1993 [1945]) Von Neumann had joined the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering where a team led by J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995) and John Mauchly (1907-1980) were designing and building the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) from 1942 till 1946 and the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator) from 1945 till 1951. The report undoubtedly reflected their joint ideas but because of the draft status of this report it lacked the acknowledgements and cross-references that would have been present in a final version of this report, and it bore von Neumann's name only. This has been interpreted as a deliberate claim by von Neumann of the stored-program principle as his original idea. When von Neumann tried to file an Army War Patent for himself on the basis of this draft, this was declined because of possible conflicting claims from Eckert and Mauchly. The patent office ruled that the draft report had been circulated widely before any patent claim on the EDVAC and therefore the material was considered in the public domain and thus unpatentable. (McCartney, 2001, p. 146-147) So officially, von Neumann never made his claim, and the draft was never turned into a final report. Historians of modern computing, nowadays, agree that Eckert and Mauchly deserve equal credit for the von Neumann architecture. (See e.g. Wilkes, 1995, p. 21-22; McCartney, 2001, p. 177-128; Ceruzzi, 2003, p. 20-24) However, it was undoubtedly von Neumann's international reputation as a mathematician that offered a wider reach to this idea. Arthur W. Burks (°1915), who was on the team that developed, designed, and built the ENIAC, has claimed that Eckert and Mauchly 'invented the circulating mercury delay line store, with enough capacity to store program information as well as data.' and that von Neumann 'worked out the logical design of an electronic computer' (Burks, 1980, p. 312) and that they did not know of Konrad Zuse's work at that time. (Burks, 1980, p. 315) Konrad Zuse's 1936 patent application (Z23139/GMD Nr. 005/021) stated, after a description of data storage in the memory of the Z1, that 'Auch der Rechenplan läßt sich speichern, wobei die Befehle in Takt der Rechnung den Steuervorrichtungen zugeführt werden' (cited in Zuse, 1999) and this can be interpreted as the description of a von Neumann architecture with program and data modifiable in storage. In 1947 in the former USSR, Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev (1902-1974) probably came to the stored-program architecture he used in building the MESM (Small Electronic Calculating Machine) independently of any Western effort, (Crowe and Goodman, 1994, p. 11-13) and the M-1 designed by a team led by I.S. Brouk () at the Soviet Institute of Energy in 1950-1951 stored programs in its main memory without any knowledge of the EDSAC report. However, the role of Soviet computer developments in the history of modern computing is generally been overlooked by Western historians. In Australia, Maston Beard (d. 2000) and Trevor Pearcey (1919-1998) also claim to have laid down the basic ideas of their vacuum tube stored-program computer (CSIRAC) in 1946-1947 independently of the early computer research projects in Britain and the US, except for the ENIAC. (Beard and Trevor, 1984, p. 106-108)
At least one other characteristic of the Z3 is interesting in the light of the alleged battle of firsts. Already in 1935, Zuse had decided to use binary floating-point number representation instead of the decimal system which was later used by, for instance, the ENIAC. The Z3 design relied on relay binary circuits, instead of the faster but much more expensive vacuum tubes. (Ceruzzi, 1990, p. 205) Binary relay circuits were also used in the ASCC design and in the designs of George R. Stibitz' (1904-1995) Complex Number Computer (CNC) at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1935 onwards. Suekane (1980, p. 576) reports on a similar invention of the relay binary circuit by Mr. Shiokawa in Japan in 1938 and on Dr. Ono's idea to use a binary system in his statistical computer in 1939. It is highly unlikely that the Japanese knew of the developments in Germany and the US, and Zuse and Stibitz definitely did not know of each other. Consequently, Zuse's calculators cannot be considered as direct ancestors to the modern digital computer, and his work has not had much influence in the world of computers. However, as Paul Ceruzzi pointed out, 'their overall design and their use of binary numbers and floating-point arithmetic make them resemble the modern computer far more than an ancestor like the ENIAC does' (Ceruzzi, 1983, p. 40) and 'it remained for others to rediscover his fundamental concepts of binary, floating-point number representation and separation of memory, arithmetic, and control units.' (Ceruzzi, 1990, p. 206-207)
A fourth and last example of the simultaneity of inventions that is so characteristic of the history of modern computing is the invention of the integrated circuit, better known by its popular name 'the silicon chip'. On February 6, 1959 Jack St Clair Kilby (1923-2005) filed a patent on his invention of 'miniaturized electronic circuits'. Working on microminiaturization at Texas Instruments in the summer of 1958, Kilby had realized that when all individual components of an electronic circuit such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors would be made out of germanium or silicon, an entire circuit could be created out of one block of semiconductor material. At another company, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Robert S. Noyce (1927-1990) came to the same conclusion in January 1959 and filed a patent on his 'semiconductor device-and-lead structure' on July 30, 1959. Noyce used a piece of silicon instead of germanium as semiconductor material. Noyce was granted his patent on April 25, 1961 (US Patent 2,981,877) and Kilby got his patent only on June 23, 1964 (US Patent 3,138,743). Both companies started court cases over the inventions which lasted for a decade. In the meantime they had agreed to grant each other licences and equally share the credit for the invention between Kilby and Noyce. However, in Britain Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (1909-), a British engineer at the UK Royal Radar Establishment, came up with the original idea of a monolithic circuit in May 1952 when he wrote: 'With the advent of the transistor and the work in semiconductors generally, it seems now possible to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires.' That block could be made, according to Dummer, 'of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying materials'. (cited in Wolff, 1976, p. 45) In 1957 Dummer himself is reported to have demonstrated a metal model of a semiconductor integrated circuit using silicon crystals, but his efforts were a dead end, because the technology was simply not there yet. (Idem) Looking back on his invention of the integrated circuit against the background of both Dummer's and Kilby's work, Noyce commented once: 'There is no doubt in my mind that if the invention hadn't arisen at Fairchild, it would have arisen elsewhere in the very near future. It was an idea whose time had come, where the technology had developed to the point where it was viable.' (cited in Wolff, 1976, p. 51)
This is perhaps true for all technological inventions and developments, as the four examples above clearly illustrate. Instead of trying to answer the question who really invented the electronic digital computer it is probably more relevant to try to grasp an insight into the period and the forces which enabled the development of the modern electronic digital computer, and hence offered attentive scholars the opportunities to start thinking about the use of the computer in non-mathematical applications such as humanities research. Early Humanities Computing efforts were highly dependent on the availability of computing devices and computing time offered to them by private companies or non-humanities academic departments. Nowadays, scholars select the devices and configurations that serve their project best and have quasi non-stop access to several computer processing units at the same time. In the pioneering years, scholars had to adapt their projects to the specificity, availability, limits, and operation modes of the machine and had to accept that the possibility of their work was owing to the three underlying factors that were quintessential to the shaping of the computer industry as it emerged and their interaction with each other. These three factors were technology, the customers, and the suppliers (Pugh and Aspray, 1996). Among the customers and the suppliers we see a clear distinction between government and government-funded organizations and commercial business. Both groups built and used computers for either scientific or administrative purposes. Among the main customers were the national security services, space, engineering, computer science, and meteorological departments, and commercial businesses such as insurance companies. The suppliers were universities, government agencies, academic spin-offs, start-up companies, or new departments of existing companies. The technology was spread via academic journals, monographs, professional conferences reports, newsletters, and visits, or via patents, cross-licensing, and sales and was in constant flux depending on the supplier, the intellectual capital and the investment capital available to the research, design, and manufacturing organisations. It has been argued that the necessities of the Second World War – calculations of trajectories, radar development and improvement, cryptologics and cryptanalysis (Snyder, 1980), and research into war technology such as the atomic bomb – boosted the development of early computers in war waging nations like the US, the UK, and Germany, whereas scientific research was directly and indirectly halted in the occupied countries (Van Oost, 1999, p. 199) where a 'war-weariness prevented exploitation of electronic applications'. (Dummer cited in Wolff, 1976, p. 53) The development of computers in the Netherlands, for instance, happened completely independent of any military funding, use, or purpose, and was targeted specifically at scientific research, business administration, organisation, and development. (Van Oost, 1999, p. 128) The application of computing to automate operation and the process of making things in commercial business, introduced by the Jacquards of their time, was named automation in the 1950s – a lexical incorrect abbreviation for automatization – and popularized in 1952, for instance, by John Diebold's book Automation. The Advent of the Automatic Factory. (Diebold, 1952)
Nevertheless, the individual efforts of brilliant engineers and scientists can hardly be underestimated in the interaction of technology, customers, and suppliers, and historiography is always looking for the person behind the machine. Many of them have been adorned with the epiteth 'Mother' or 'Father of the (modern) computer'. A quick, unscholarly search on the World Wide Web using the Google search engine named Grace Murray Hopper and Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace as mothers of the computer and returned the following list of pioneering fathers: Howard H. Aiken, John Vincent Atanasoff, Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, George R. Stibitz, Alan Turing, and Conrad Zuse.


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07 February 2012
Revision of UIC leaflets on combined transport
In June 2011, the International Union of Railways (UIC) has created a working group to revise its leaflets relating to combined transport. The Group consists of experts of DB, Infrabel, ÖBB, SBB, SNCB, SNCF, Trenitalia and UIRR. Work is currently under way to amend the following UIC leaflets:
|Leaflet 571-4
|Standard wagons - Wagons for combined transport - Characteristics
|Leaflet 591
|Roller units for horizontal transshipment - Technical conditions governing their use in international traffic
|Leaflet 592
|Intermodal Transport Units (other than semi-trailers) for vertical transshipment and suitable for carriage on wagons - Minimum requirements
|Leaflet 596-5
|Transport of road vehicles on wagons - Technical organization - Conveyance of semi-trailers with P coding or N coding on recess wagons
|Leaflet 596-6
|Conveyance of road vehicles on wagons - Technical organization - Conditions for coding combined-transport load units and combined-transport lines
In addition, the transposition of European standard EN 13044 providing the basis for the recently launched owner-code for the identification of European intermodal loading units (ILU-Code) (refer to paras. 16-17 of the 2011 WP.24 report) is under consideration. The objective is to finalize this work by the end of 2012 allowing the revised UIC leaflets to come into force in January 2013.
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It's been over a week since the Boston Marathon bombing, and as more details are released, federal authorities are under fire for failing to act on intelligence that could have prevented the attacks.
So when the State Department failed to send a representative to a House hearing on the subject today, Texas Rep. Ted Poe, chairman of the subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade, sounded off.
"American people want answers and so do I," Poe, a Republican from Humble, said. "It's unfortunate that no one from the federal government is here, even though they were advised to send at least one person."
Since the attacks, authorities have identified Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the lead suspects. The brothers, ethnic Chechens raised in America, are suspected to belong to a radical jihadist sect, influenced during a trip to Russia. Russian authorities warned the CIA of Tsarnaev's involvement with radical Islam, prompting the federal government to enter Tamerlan Tsarnaev into the terrorist watch database 18 months before the marathon bombing.
It's uncertain how and why Tsarnaev was taken out of the database, but he re-entered the country An unidentified U.S. Customs and Border Official is said to have received a warning that Tamerlan had re-entered the country after a trip to Russia, but there is no evidence that the official provided that information to the FBI.
Had the brothers not been caught, the situation could have been even worse. Yesterday, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the brothers were also plotting an attack on Times Square.
Two House subcommittees held a hearing to evaluate the threat of Islamist extremism in Chechnya this morning. The subcommittee invited experts in the field, including Russian Andranik Migranyan, who is the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation and an expert on Russia-U.S. relations. Poe said the federal government was invited to send a representative, but declined to do so.
"I'm a little irritated that the State Department is not here. This is an important topic," Poe said. "I think it's ironic that the Russian government helped us get a witness here to help us."
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., chairman of the House subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, said it was a shame that the State Department is "too busy" to send a representative to Congress. He applauded the Russian embassy for sending a representative to the hearing.
Migranyan said although the two countries have their differences, Russian President Putin wants to work with America against their common enemy. He said he hopes the events in Boston will alleviate the distrust between the two secret services.
"Unfortunately, the evident remaining distrust between the two countries and the doubts of the American side that Russia is indeed combating Chechen terrorism in the Caucasus must have caused the authorities to not take the warning seriously enough," Migranyan said.
Poe said a lot of questions are revolving around the older brother, Tamerlan's, recent trip to Russia. The panel agreed that the Chechen ethnicity doesn't raise as much of a concern as Tamerlan's recent trip to Dagestan, a nearby Russian state where Radical Islam is on the rise. Paul Goble, a professor at the Institute of World Politics, said he said the possibility of Tamerlan not being exposed to radical ideals in Dagestan is slim to none. Craig Albert, assistant professor at the Georgia Regents University Augusta, said that the amount of recruiting being done by Radical Islamists in Dagestan is something the U.S. should be concerned about.
Poe suggested the United States should be more concerned with the growing intelligence on extremism in Russia, and that this isn't something that should have been swept under the rug.
"The threat from terrorist attacks from around the world did not die with Bin Laden, we must be realistic and understand that, and find out specifically what is happening in Chechnya and how that effects the United States," Poe said.


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For over 60 years, Supreme Memorials has been providing New York with custom cremation memorials that have helped families remember their loved ones forever. Throughout the years we have preserved the same values and skills that our founders based the company on. Between our locations throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island we're proud to be one of the largest gravestone, mausoleum and columbaria provider throughout New York!
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Your private entrance to your family eternal estate can be enhanced by different mausoleum door options, granite benches, planters, steps, vases, sculptures, and art. We can even add marble sculptures and marble artworks if the cemetery allows. We can inform you if these options are available to you depending on the cemetery restrictions of the plot where your family mausoleum will be placed. Stained glass windows for the entranceway of your mausoleum can also be created.
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|A spicy marinade of chili sauce, hot sauce, citrus vodka, horseradish, celery, garlic, sweet onion, and Cajun seasoning, tossed with shrimp for a fantastic appetizer.
Spicy Marinated Shrimp AppetizerThis Spicy Marinated Shrimp Appetizer recipe is another great adult appetizer for a party, where you can serve it in tall shooter glasses, on a bed of lettuce in martini glasses as pictured above, or simply scoop it over crackers for yourself. If you tailgate with it, or serve it at a party, just be sure that you are clear with your guests that it contains vodka! As always, consume responsibly.
The recipe is written with a bit of a bite, but not overly so - adjust that up if you like more fire. Pop by and check out my Pickled Shrimp recipe too!
Here's how to make this spicy marinated shrimp appetizer.
|Heinz Chili Sauce is a tomato based product, containing tomato puree, onion, garlic and other seasonings.
Recipe: Spicy Marinated Shrimp Appetizer©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 20 min |Inactive time: 24 hours | Yield: About 1-1/2 quarts
- 2 pounds of peeled and deveined shrimp
- 1 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste
- Olive oil to coat bottom of skillet
- 2 shots of citrus vodka
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 1 celery stalk (rib), chopped
- 4 large garlic cloves, chopped
- 1/2 cup of chopped Vidalia, or other sweet onion
- 1 cup of chili sauce
- 1 tablespoon of hot sauce
- 2 teaspoons of horseradish
- 1 tablespoon of chopped fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to tastePinch of granulated sugar
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
Pat the shrimp dry with paper towels and sprinkle with the Cajun seasoning. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat, add shrimp and saute just until pink, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a glass bowl with the pan juices to cool. Add the vodka, lemon juice and lemon zest to the shrimp. Let sit for 15 minutes.
In a separate bowl, mix the chopped celery, onion and garlic, with the chili sauce, hot sauce, horseradish, parsley, Cajun seasoning, and sugar. Add the shrimp, mix and taste; season with salt and pepper and adjust other seasonings as desired.
Transfer to two quart sized Mason jars, seal and refrigerate 24 hours. Spoon onto crackers, serve in a shooter glass, or on a bed of shredded lettuce in a martini glass.
Cook's Notes: Okay to omit the citrus vodka, adding extra freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste, only if desired.
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Ham, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich from Cup and Saucer in Chinatown
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
I didn't know what to get for breakfast at Cup and Saucer until I spotted a photo of their Ham, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich ($3.50) on the menu's cover. It spoke to me. It said, "You're so tired you think a sandwich is talking to you." And it was just what my groggy brain wanted: a fried egg with a semi-gooey yolk, a slice of cheese, and a few slices of fried ham neatly stacked together on a well toasted, soft and chewy roll. The salty trinity of egg-cheese-pork briefly jump-started my brain, but ultimately brought me to the cusp of a food coma. Yup, that's a good breakfast.
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Cornelia Street Crusader Speaks, Has Ice Statue Made of His Dog
Yesterday, we introduced you to successful eye surgeon Dr. Emil Chynn. You read the 2,7000 word email litany he wrote detailing his West Village neighbor's sins. Today, we learn he once commissioned an ice sculpture of his Corgi, Hershey.
Dr. Chynn ("The only laser surgeon in NYC who is a certified Genius.*") loves his dog as much as he hates the brokedown building at 33 Cornelia St. he rants about in his email. In fact, one reason behind Chynn's years-long cleanup crusade is that the place is full of rats "the size of cats" that he's afraid will eat Hershey. ("And he is the block mascot, by the way, so people would go crazy if anything happened to him.") Dr. Chynn loves his dog so much that this is what he brought to a 2008 Cornelia St. block party, according to a tipster:
(Apparently, it was Hershey's birthday!)
Tonight, Chynn added some context about Hershey's role in the neighborhood in an email. "Many people (not primarily myself) refer to Hershey as the mascot of the block or even the "junior mayor." Oh, and also his war on 33 Cornelia St. and its negligent owner, pharmaceutical heiress and philanthropist Kathe Sackler. He begin his very long email with an apology, of sorts:
Dear Adrian,
I am in Europe giving a lecture to some eye surgeons here on how to perform the more advanced, safer, non-cutting LASEK procedure that they do not perform here yet, since I have performed more LASEKs now than any other eye surgeon in NYC. Therefore, I will not be available until next week for your phone interview.
We made fun of the scary comprehensiveness and shouting capitalization of Chynn's first email. But Chynn asks us to "put yourselves in my shoes for a minute." Chynn argues that if we had "bought a house for over a million dollars," we would not sit idly by while our bad neighbor let kids tag her building. If we walked down posh Cornelia St. in his shoes, writes Chynn, "your gawker posting would probably take a different tack; not 'why is Dr. Chynn blowing a gasket?' but 'why would my neighbor worth hundreds of millions of dollars let her property fall apart...?'" We are indeed curious about why rich Kathe Sackler doesn't give a crap about her expensive property. (Info? email us.) But, still.
Chynn has a heartfelt message for the mysterious Dr. Kathe Sackler, since thus far he has only been able to communicate his complaints through her lawyers:
I have absolutely nothing against you as a person... I admire your family's dedication and generosity to supporting the fine arts throughout the US, as yours is one of the major patrons in this field. However... they say charity begins in the home, by which I think is meant one has as strong an obligation to one's family and neighbors as to the larger community.
(See: The Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian art.) And he promises that after she removes the graffiti from her property, he will remove his hot tub from hers with the help of "a half-dozen of my nice neighbors." All-in-all, it was a reasonable email completely free of crazy caps.
But before we give you the impression that Chynn is too reasonable, consider his justification for the intense strain of crazy that ran through his infamous anti-neighbor rant:
The more observant reader would probably figure out that it was indeed my intention to make my diatribe so over-the-top that some on-line media would pick it up, thus forcing Dr. Sackler to listen to her neighbors, and remove the graffiti. Let's see if my prediction comes true. Thanks for your help in this process.
Here is a tip for the future, Dr. Chynn. Nothing good comes of getting your "over-the-top" diatribe picked up by "on-line media". Especially Gawker. Especially when you have an extensive history of acting crazy in front of people. They will start emailing in about your strange craigslist ads. Like one tipster who wrote "OMG, this is the guy who did the craziest Craigslist roommate posting I've ever seen. I did a screengrab of it so I could email it to friends after the post expired, it was THAT crazy." Another tipster actually saved what appears to be one of these ads. (Chynn signed his name.) And, well, it was one of those situations where a female might receive free rent in exchange for being a successful eye surgeon's "personal assistant"—helping with dishes and cooking—someone who is "into yoga or massage or some other stress-reducing thing i could partake in." An ad that reads: " I AM NOT LOOKING FOR A GIRLFRIEND OR SEXUAL FAVORS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. Actually, I am looking for a girlfriend, but not for this free rental person to be my girlfriend! :)"
A number of other commenters share the opinion that Dr. Chynn is an excellent eye surgeon, but sort of a strange dude. Commenter skseim once interviewed Dr. Chynn for a "fun" article and "received multiple THREATENING EMAILS INSTRUCTING ME HOW TO WRITE THE STORY from him. Dude must go through ten Caps Locks keys per annum." And Love Parade gets weird: "I've walked past [Chynn's house] and seems real creepy to me. I heard from a friend that there's a lot of suspicious late night activity in and out of the building. Some kind of secret society or something." (Tips: email them!)
We even got an email from Chaunce Hayden, the editor of the terrible Jersey nightlive magazine Steppin Out. Subject: "RE: Dr. Chynn is fucking insane." Hayden says that after he arranged to barter advertising in his magazine for discounted eye surgery, Chynn told him "he wants me to bring 15 people to the surgery because he invited the press and he wanted it to look like a party." Then, he demanded that Hayden "interview him every single week for several weeks" for his magazine. (Though, chances are, Hayden is making stuff up like he always does.
So, everyone learned something tonight. Dr. Chynn learned not to use online media to settle his neighborhood disputes. We learned maybe Dr. Chynn isn't as insane as he appears on email (...or, maybe he is?) And we learned about Hershey! One thing we didn't learn: Who is the enigmatic owner of 33 Cornelia St.? Who is absentee landlord Kathe Sackler, and why can't she use her pharmaceutical money to take care of her property? For Hershey's sake.
(Sackler's representative hasn't responded to our emails. She is the middle woman in this group dedicating Columbia's Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology.) [h/t andyrobertson]


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As the New York Jets continue their efforts to ship cornerback Darrelle Revis to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an unexpected name reportedly has bubbled up in trade talks.
ProFootballTalk.com reported Friday that discussions between the Jets and Bucs have included chatter of the Buccaneers "assuming the contract" of quarterback Mark Sanchez, who's set to make a guaranteed $8.25 million in 2013.
Two sources told NFL.com's Ian Rapoport on Friday that it's highly unlikely to happen. USA Today's Mike Garafolo doesn't dispute the Jets inquired, but he reported there's "no shot" the Bucs would take on Sanchez.
That feels about right.
Moving Sanchez would represent a financial masterstroke for Jets general manager John Idzik, by opening salary-cap room while dumping a player with whom the team basically is stuck.
It's impossible to imagine what the Bucs would see in the embattled Jets passer. Bucs coach Greg Schiano reportedly isn't sold on Josh Freeman as the Bucs' starter, but selling Sanchez to the fan base as an upgrade would fall on deaf ears.
Around The League's Gregg Rosenthal asked out loud whether Idzik would wait another year to bring in a new quarterback, when it's possible Jets coach Rex Ryan no longer would be in the equation and when new leadership could start from scratch.
That's a logical scenario.
Sanchez in a Bucs uniform? Not so much.
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Compagnia TPO: Blue!
May 2, 2014 - May 3, 2014
Gorecki Family Theater, CSB
Straddling the thin line between art and play, Compagnia T.P.O. weaves sound, dance, storytelling and visual spectacle into an immersive, magical, and hands-on theater experience for the whole family. Blue! begins on the idyllic Greek Islands amongst the stones, sea shells and whispers of ancient legends, wandering through bustling sea ports, and finally diving into the deep blue abyss populated by fish, seaweeds and mysterious ancient ruins of disappeared civilizations.
Compagnia T.P.O is a pioneer in utilizing new technologies to transform each show into an interactive experience. Throughout the performance, audiences are invited to enter and play within this enthralling world, where projected images react to their gestures and movements in real time. This show is great for all ages.
Compagnia T.P.O. is sponsored, in part, by Thomsens Greenhouse and Garden Center
|Compagnia T.P.O. - Blue! is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works program.


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I thought this book was really exciting. I thought it was exciting because it was about a carrier pigeon that was used during the War, the pigeon's name was Gay-Neck. My favorite part was when Gay-Neck got shot. I liked this part because Gay-Neck lives and he got shot three times! This story reminds me of when my dad was in the Vietnam War, and also when I was in Europe. It reminds me of when my dad was in the war, because Gay-Neck was in a war too! It reminds me of when I went to Europe because because Gay-Neck was born in the mountains and one of the places that I went to had a lot of mountains!
I recommend this book to others, if they like adventurous books, they'll like this book. It's also fun, exciting, scary, different, and it's about a carrier pigeon. I also recommend this because I am very picky about the books I read!


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Wanna See Hick in His PJs?
As I recall, they're red flannel.
How do I know? Because I was one of the 500 who attended the inaugural Pajama Party at the Residence Inn Denver City Center, a fund-raiser for which there's literally no need to dress up.
Sage Hospitality operates the hotel, and boss Walter Isenberg came up with the clever idea to celebrate the opening of this all-suite venue at 1725 Champa St. while raising money for Denver's Road Home, an initiative to end homelessness in Denver within the decade.
The party was such a smash that Isenberg decided to do it again. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Residence Inn; the goal is to raise $100,000 for Denver's Road Home.
Mayor John Hickenlooper will be there in his pajamas; so, too, will Andrew Hudson, whose Mistura Fina Jazz Band will provide the music.
Tickets are $50 each, but for a $250 donation you get admission for two and an overnight stay at the hotel. All tickets include a martini bar, comfort food buffet, valet parking and a pajama contest. If yours are too ratty for a public outing, buy a new set at Octane, Violet or Eve in Larimer Square and the owners will donate 10 percent from each sale to the cause.
Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or email@example.com. Last year, she wasn't sure if anyone would actually show up in pajamas so she attended the party in her work clothes. After seeing how many did come in their nighties, she bought some leopard-print PJs and plans to wear them on Thursday night. Or maybe not.


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|Welcome to REED'S BREEDS
My husband and I raise healthy, happy, quality Boston Terriers in our Ohio home. We
raise Boston Terriers for the love of the breed. We do not sell to pet stores or brokers.
My love for the Boston Terrier started over 27 yrs ago with a little female named Midge.I looked at this beautiful little girl
and fell in love with her. She was my constant companion for over 13 yrs. I will never be able to replace the love that she gave
to me. Midge passed away in the fall of 2004 but will always have first place in my heart. She was the first Boston to come
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have lost many of my sweet babies over the years but Midge, Sassy and Little T hold a very
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Each one of our Bostons is special and unique. They are part of our family and our household revolves around them.
Our Bostons are first and foremost our companions. They bring us great
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Our dogs have all been certified healthy and show no signs of health problems common to Bostons.
All of our Bostons receive yearly vaccinations/checkups.
We receive frequent updates and pictures of many of our pups. Several of our Bostons compete in Agility and Conformation
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Two of our Bostons are shown in the book Bostons Terriers for Dummies during agility trails,
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|We strive to raise healthy, quality AKC Boston puppies. Prospective parents
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They are well socialized, handled daily and all have great temperaments.
Puppies are given two series of shots and are dewormed three times before
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Quote of the Week December 11, 2007Posted by awatcher in Uncategorized.
Tags: GJ Sentinel, Independence Institute, Lawsuit against freeze, Mesa County, Property Tax Freeze, Steve Acquafresca, TABOR
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The Grand Junction Sentinel is reporting on the decision by the Mesa County Commissioners support the Independence Institute in its quest to enforce TABOR:
County commissioners, by a vote of 2 to 1, approved joining a lawsuit last week to stop the freeze. Acquafresca does not favor joining the suit, which is being spearheaded by the Libertarian Independence Institute, based in Golden.
"Frankly, this lawsuit, it doesn't look like a great case," he said. "The Independence Institute doesn't care what a great case it is. Their job is just to rattle the Democrats."
And a mighty fine job they do! If Democrats would simply follow the Constitution, there wouldn't be a need for an Independence Institute.


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1. "In the Box" - Blue Bloods S5 E16
When an emotionally distraught man holds Baez hostage at gunpoint in an interrogation room after she served him with a restraining order, Danny must try to meet his demands before he harms her. Meanwhile, Frank is faced with a personal and moral dilemma when Garrett asks for help in dropping charges filed against his son, on BLUE BLOODS, Friday, Feb. 20 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Dominic Fumusa guest stars as an emotionally distraught man. Pictured: Marisa Ramirez as Det. Maria Baez. Photo: Jeffrey Neira/CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Romney Plan 'Could Be Positive' for Oil Services, Drilling Cos
Rigzone Staff
Friday, August 24, 2012
Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's proposed energy plan could be positive for the oil services and drilling industry, with its goals of streamlining and improving the permitting process, opening up new areas for drilling and boosting overall drilling activity, according to a recent research note from Barclays Capital.
Seismic companies and eventually offshore drillers could benefit from Romney's plan to open acreage offshore Virginia and the Carolinas for exploration, Barclays analyst James C. West said in the Aug. 24 research note.
Barclays views as favorable Romney's plan for approving permits for seismic surveys to "immediately update decades-old information", as well Romney's call for collaboration with Canada and Mexico on geological data and requiring onshore domestic geological and geophysical data to be shared with the Interior Department.
"We view recently enacted and forthcoming regulations as supportive for stimulating offshore activity in light of the heightened safety conscious post-Macondo world, and see little scope for these to be overtuned regardless of the election outcome," said West, referencing an Aug. 21 research note.
In the Aug. 21 note, Barclays analysts said they expected high-spec equipment makers and drillers to benefit from recent regulatory developments, such as the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issuing its final drilling safety rule.
The final drilling largely cleans up the interim rule through minor edits, with minimal additions or material changes, noted West. The rule also removes language stating operators "must" adhere to certain American Petroleum Institute (API) suggestions, providing greater flexibility for interpretation and limiting adverse unintended operational consequences.
"We think this update will lead to operational improvements in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and less back and forth between regulators and operators," West said.
Barclays believes industry will keep moving forward with the implementation of its own set of best practices and standards for blowout preventers, even if BSEE misses the cut-off date for issuing a proposed rule this year.
Romney's plan to empower states to oversee energy production on federal lands – and including language for all-around increased state control – could elevate the fracking debate in the general election and, if Romney won the presidential election, would help quell questions surrounding hydraulic fracturing being regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, West said.
Two energy industry groups, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Western Gas Alliance (WEA) on Thursday applauded the plan.
API President and CEO Jack Gerard on Thursday said proposals such as Romney's that promote the safe production of more domestic energy are critical to the nation's economic future, providing economic stimulus and job creation.
"The proposals released [Thursday] by the governor will assist in encouraging that public conservation on how more North American made energy can be an economic game changer," Gerard said in a statement.
Gerard pointed to results from a recent API poll that showed more than 70 percent of U.S. voters favor increased access to U.S. oil and gas resources, believing it will lead to more U.S. jobs and lower energy costs.
Denver-based WEA applauded the plan, saying that Gov. Romney's plan "recognizes that empowering states, rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all government approach, is the right way to increase American energy, create jobs, and grow the economy" said Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of government & public affairs for WEA.
"By empowering states and modernizing bureaucratic processes, our nation can unlock energy resources on non-park, non-wilderness federal lands while achieving a better balance between economic growth and environmental protection," said Sgamma.
T. Boone Pickens told CBSNews on Thursday that he was disappointed that Romney didn't mention natural gas, noting that the United States has more natural gas than any other country in the world.
While Romney's proposed energy plan mimics efforts in Congress, the fact that Romney has tried to set tangible goals by specific dates sets it apart from other initiatives. However, it may very well be more talk than anything else, a trend also seen in Congress, said Andrew Schrage, co-owner of the financial website Money Crashers.
Schrage notes that Romney's promises of adding 3 million jobs, significantly reducing the unemployment rate and increasing the U.S. economy by approximately $500 billion, are long-term goals at best.
Romney's claim that opening government lands for drilling would result in trillions of dollars in revenue contradicts a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office that the revenues created by more access to federal lands would be closer to $7 billion.
Romney's plan to reduce government regulation should be easy to implement.
"In a nut shell, I think the general basics behind Romney's politics can be implemented," Schrage commented. "I'm just not quite sure they'll yield the lofty goals he's currently touting."
The proposed plan can only succeed when combined with some serious energy conservation on the part of Americans, something Romney has not yet discussed.
"And of course, his chance of success in implementing his energy policy also highly depends on who controls the House of Representatives and the Senate," Schrage noted.
Karen Boman has more than 10 years of experience covering the upstream oil and gas sector. Email Karen at email@example.com.


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Services will be held Thursday for Joe Diaz, 51, of Harrison, who died after falling off a boat on Saturday on Long Island Sound.
Visiting hours are from 9 a.m. to noon at George T. Davis Funeral Home at 16 Shea Place in New Rochelle. Burial will follow at Greenwood Union Cemetery at 215 North St. in Rye.
Diaz, who worked at a scrap metal yard in Port Chester, was pulled from the water early Sunday after about an hour of searching, Stamford fire officials said. He was pronounced dead at Stamford Hospital.
The other people on the boat noticed Diaz was missing from the 38-foot cabin cruiser as they approached the docks in Stamford Harbor, Stamford Fire Capt. Philip Hayes said in a statement. They had traveled from Westchester.
Stamford fire, police, and EMS were dispatched at 11:25 p.m. Saturday night, Hayes said, with help from the U.S. Coast Guard, Greenwich Police, and Darien Police.
The crew on the Stamford Fire Department's Engine 1 noticed a reflective object in the water off the public dock behind John Boccuzzi Park off Southfield Avenue, Hayes said.
The Stamford fire boat went to the location and found Diaz at 12:38 a.m. Sunday, Hayes said. He was pulled from the water and the crew began resuscitative efforts, he said.
He was transported by Stamford EMS to Stamford Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Diaz is survived by three daughters; three grandchildren, and his ex-wife.
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Mike Gaudino appeared in all 31 matches and 108 of 112 games as a junior ... heads into his senior season ranked fourth in Matador history with 97 career aces ... finished third in the team with a career-best 306 kills (2.83 kpg) ... was second behind Ali'i Keohohou in digs with 227 (2.12 dpg) which ranked 29th nationally ... was also second in aces with 43 (0.40 sapg) which ranks 10th on the Northridge single season list ... his aces total ranked second in the MPSF and 10th nationally ... was also second in total attacks with 709 and points with 393.0 ... added 78 total blocks (0.72 bpg) which ranked third on the squad and tops among non-middle blockers ... had five double-doubles on the season giving him seven in his career ... knocked down a career-high 24 kills in a career-high 45 swings against No. 2 Pepperdine (Apr. 1) ... added 19 kills, seven digs and a pair of blocks against Pepperdine in the MPSF semifinals (Apr. 30) ... reached double figures in kills 16 times ... dug 29 balls in two matches at No. 12 Hawai'i, including a season-high 16 in the Matadors' four-set loss (Jan. 31) ... posted a career-high nine blocks in Northridge's 3-1 win at No. 5 UC Irvine (Jan. 16) ... was named MPSF Academic All-Conference for the first time in his career.
Gaudino appeared in 29 matches and 100 sets as a sophomore, earning 23 starts ... finished fifth on the Matadors with 199 kills (1.99 k/s), 438 total attacks and 256.5 points (2.57 points/set) ... was second on the squad with 189 digs (1.89 d/s) and finished tied for third with 31 aces (0.31 aces/set) ... also posted 45 total blocks (0.45 b/s) which included eight solo blocks ... pounded double figures in kills eight times, including a season-high 12 against No. 8 USC (Mar. 7) ... hit a season-high .667 with nine kills in Northridge's 3-0 win over Hope International (Mar. 28) ... posted double figure dig totals in five of the final 14 matches of the season ... dug 34 balls in two Matador wins over No. 13 Hawai'i, including a career-high 18 digs in Northridge's 3-2 win on Mar. 25 ... had eight kills, eight digs and a career-best six aces in the Matadors' five-set win over No. 5 Pepperdine (Mar. 12).
Appeared in all 33 matches and 104 of 119 games as a true freshman ... was one of just three Northridge players (Isaac Kneubuhl, Eric Vance) to appear in all 33 matches ... finished sixth on the team with 120 kills (1.15 kpg) ... also finished second in aces with 23 and was fifth on the squad with 83 digs ... posted double figures in kills five times including a career-high 18 while hitting .389 in Northridge's four-game win over No. 11 Pacific (Mar. 31) ... also knocked down 16 kills against Quincy (Feb. 10) and recorded his first collegiate double-double with 15 kills and a season-high 14 digs against Long Beach State (Jan. 5) ... served a season-high five aces in a three-game sweep over NJIT (Mar. 14) ... put up two solo blocks (four total) at Pepperdine (Apr. 12).
Was a four-year starter and two-time team captain at La Cañada High School in La Cañada, Calif. ... was a two-time Rio Hondo League MVP, two-time All-Area MVP and second team All-American as an outside hitter ... Averaged 36 kills per match as a senior in 2006 ... the Spartans won the Rio Hondo League championship in 2006 for coach Brock Turner ... graduated in 2006 with a 3.0 grade point average.
Born March 9, 1988 in Burbank, Calif. ... mother is Jan Canfield and father is Tony Gaudino ... stepmother is Cris Gaudino and stepfather is Bob Canfield ... has one older sister, Kelly and one older brother, Greg ... says his greatest moment in sports was being named MVP at the Junior Olympics when he was 16 ... favorites include the Los Angeles Dodgers, actor Will Ferrell and In-N-Out Burger ... says he cracks jokes as a pre-match ritual ... major is Recreation Tourism Management.


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Mother argues certain fairy tale promotes 'inappropriate sexual' message
A parent in England is taking great issue with an iconic fairy tale and is seeking to have it expunged from her child's school curriculum, according to the Chronicle Live.
Sarah Hall has two children who attend Northumberland Park where the book "Sleeping Beauty" is available for kids.
Hall says the book should be removed from the school, however, because its message promotes inappropriate sexual behavior. She believes that having the main male character kiss the princess while she is unconscious sends a message that it is OK to do so without someone's consent.
She said, "I think it's a specific issue in the 'Sleeping Beauty' story about sexual behavior and consent.
Hall is worried that children, including her 6-year-old son, will be given the wrong impression on how to treat others.
In a comment on her son's record book she wrote, "In today's society, it isn't appropriate - my son is only six, he absorbs everything he sees, and it isn't as if I can turn it into a constructive conversation. I don't think taking 'Sleeping Beauty' books out of circulation completely would be right. I actually think it would be a great resource for older children, you could have a conversation around it, you could talk about consent, and how the Princess might feel."
She continued, "But I'm really concerned about it for younger children, would really welcome a conversation about whether this is suitable material."
Hall says she was prompted to comment on the story because of recent media coverage of sexual abuse and consent.
"These are indicative of how ingrained that kind of behavior is in society. All these small things build up, and they make a difference."
While Hall believes the story needs to be taken off the shelves, Kate Edwards, who is the chief executive of Seven Stories, argues the opposite. She believes that stories such as 'Sleeping Beauty' serve as a lesson – an important cultural and traditional role to play that shouldn't be lost.
"The fairy tale tradition is rooted in moral instruction, telling children what's right and wrong," she said. "Of course, the cultural context and moral have changed hugely, so it's important that children are given cultural context - but you can do that without losing these stories."


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I have Fedora 12 and no wish to change. I want to play dvd videos, but these need VLC or mplayer, and they need rpmfusion.
There are many sets of instructions on installing rpmfusion, but they all fail with some mysterious extra requirement, or need Fedora 19, if I read it correctly, or some other arcane error.
The most likely help was at http://www.redips.net/linux/yum-install-mplayer-fedora12/ which said enter:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/pmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm !!!!! Now even more frustration: That's not what I typed! Although the full command line shows in the edit window for this post, half of it is missing in the preview. Grrrr....
But this command (the full thing of which only half shows above) gives:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
But I can't find or remove a 'newline' in the command. I've already spent most of the day on this -- Please can someone help?
Excuse my being fussy, but please no answers suggesting I change to another Fedora release, or not directly addressing the real problem, at least as a first step: how to get rpmfusion in Fedora 12 in a way that actually works.


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Gov. Rick Perry, who has left the door open for another re-election run in 2014 and another try for the White House in 2016, signaled afresh that his political ambition is undiminished in his convention speech.
Perry, who jumped on the tea party wave ahead of his successful 2010 re-election fight against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, lauded the movement and said they've got more work to do.
First came the praise, to cheers:
"When your voice becomes a clarion call it cannot be ignored. Nothing illustrates this more than concerned citizens who gathered on the 15thday of April 2000 and they declared loudly that we had been taxed enough already. The tea party made an impact."
Then the message that there's more work to do – and the role he sees for himself in the push for "taxpayer protection," budget reform, curbing spending and protecting "innocent life and traditional values:
"I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo. We're just getting started. …For me, continuing to serve as your governor is the honor of a lifetime And I'm not riding off into the sunset. I'm mounting up for the next operation."


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TV Station Apologizes For Running 'P.F. Chang' Graphic With Olympics Story
A TV station in Chicago had to apologize after they inadvertently aired an Olympics graphic that said "P.F. Chang 2018," instead of Pyeongchang, the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
According to Fox News, the graphic was used during an Olympic update on ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago on Saturday. Weekend anchor Mark Rivera read some of the top stories from the opening weekend of the Winter Games with the incorrect graphic sitting to the right of his head.
The station issued a statement apologizing for the mix-up. They said the graphic that was erroneously used during the sports update was created for a satirical piece that aired last Friday.
P.F. Chang's thought it was funny, and sent a tweet reminding people "Contrary to this broadcast, we're not hosting the games."


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If you're looking for an apartment in a city that's green, growing and good for the environment, then
you'll find it in Peoria.
Peoria apartments are located in the leading edge of the sunny West Valley. The city extends north to Lake Pleasant in Maricopa County. Dubbed the Jewel in the Desert and holding some 10,000 acres of water, it's the second largest lake in the state and is an excellent spot for bass fishing. The lake makes up the core of the regional park and offers a ton of activities, from camping and waterskiing to horseback riding and stargazing.
When you rent an apartment in Peoria, you'll never be bored. This city loves to play as can easily be seen by the number of entertainment venues around town. Dress to the nines and head over to the chi-chi Park West Mall on south end of town. This mall has the look and feel of a resort with 50 specialty shops to browse. Or get your game face on and head over to the Arrowhead Fountain mall where you'll find the Peoria Sports Complex, home to Major League Baseball spring training for the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners. After cheering on your team, slide in to the casually elegant Skye Restaurant, featuring live music and contemporary American dishes.
You'll enjoy clean air and clean living in your apartment. Peoria is committed to smart growth and sustainable practices. It even launched a web page explaining its green policies, such as buying cleaner vehicles, reducing water use, conserving energy and embracing green businesses. In addition, the Arbor Day Foundation named Peoria a Tree City USA for its planting and preservation of trees.
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