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09-10-2010, 02:33 PM #16
George Hawkins, was my grandfather. I began searching for what happened to him, nearly 8 yrs ago. I have struggled with putting anything on the internet, asking for help, for obviously many years, and don't take this lightly. You have to understand, that nearly 50 years later, my mother, my aunt, and myself, sleep in a type of fear that I pray non of you ever have to imagine.
Grandpa had a limp, yes. Not from polio, but from osteomylitis. An injury to his leg after being thrown from a horse as a teenager. He was a Campbell Co., KY Constable, and in all rights, disappeared in the line of duty. I pulled many newspaper articles, and such from the time of his disappearance, and then went to the authorities that handled his case. Neither the local, nor the KY State Police, who handled his case, had ANY records of his disappearance. They all simply vanished. I spoke with a man who knew him, and in my interview with him, he told me things like the Old General Store that they owned, had been shot up on more than one occasion. My mother has told me that my grandmother, aunt, and herself (my mother) slept in the bathtub on many nights because of people being in the store long after it had been closed. A wonderful newsreporter did a story in the Cincinnati Post, and also contacted this same gentleman that I did. He refused to talk to her, and said the only reason he spoke to me, was more or less, to put my mind at ease. He did tell me though, that he knew it was the mob. He refused to tell me much other than funny or delightful stories of my grandfather. Another gentleman, who had pictures of himself and Jimmy Hoffa, turned white, nearly had a heart attack, when I mentioned my grandfather's name, also still afraid 50 yrs later, refused to speak of it, to me, or anyone again. I did not push the situation, because I couldn't live with myself if something happened to this frail poor man.
This is what happened on the day he disappeared:
He hugged and kissed my grandmother, mother, and aunt goodbye. He had around $600 that was supposed to go to the bank that day (profits from the store), he never made it to the bank, nor was the money ever recoverd. He picked up a family friend to take her into Newport so she could do some shopping, and dropped her off. They were to meet at the corner of Monmouth St at 5 pm. He went to the hardware store and picked up paint for my aunt's house that was being built. He went to Charlie Lester's, his attorney, for consultation on an IRS audit. He never met the girl whom he dropped off, she called her daddy at 6 pm to come and pick her up. His car was found in Dayton, KY, which is not far from the Ohio River, wiped out with a muddy rag, with NOTHING but the key inside. He disappeared on Monday. Payday from the mob was Tuesday.
Here's a few things I have learned:
Charlie Lester: was not only his attorney, but the MOB'S attorney.
Johnny "TV" Peluso: received his nickname for fixing tv's around newport, and being paid hefty sums of money to do so. He was a crook, and was privy more to the "goings on" than most probably thought he was. He supposedly heard Red Masterson order the hit on my grandfather.
Big John Harris: Runner of the Highlight Club; met with my aunt and told her to "go home and leave it alone".
Frank "Screw" Andrews; was "helped" out of a 3rd floor story hospital room in the 1970s
My grandfather has been called the Eggman. People say that he would stop on the way to town at local farmers, buy eggs, and then sell them at 200% profit or more to the local clubs such as The Beverly Hills Supper Club, Highlight Club etc. My family tells me, they NEVER saw any type of such money, nor can they find it in their hearts to believe my grandfather was a crook. No money of any kind was ever found. Whatever he was, he was their father, husband, and my grandfather. In my heart, I find it hard to believe he just took off and left them. With nothing. I wonder sometimes though if he was a crook. Maybe intentionally or unintentionally. Getting caught up in the limelight, the money, and being a constable who could do nearly anything he wanted. Either way, a man was taken, a family destroyed, and never an answer.
At this point, we don't want to "stir any feathers'', we just want to bring peace to a man, and peace to family. The not knowing is the worst.
09-10-2010, 03:04 PM #17
Welcome to WS Kysleuth. I'm very sorry that your Grandfather has been missing so many years. My Prayers are with you and your family, that you find resolution soon.
I grew up in Kentucky. It was common knowledge and spoken of frequently that the city of Newport KY had Mob members that practically ran that town.
In fact, I don't think there was a clean up and a general getting rid of them until well into the 1980's.
I don't doubt for one minute if you say you think your Grandfather was murdered by the Mob there. Don't worry about stirring feathers IMHO the feathers that could possibly have been stirred (other than your family, if it bothers them to talk about it) are probably long deceased or have moved on from the area.
The Beverly Hill supper club burned down. I had two Great Aunts by marriage that died in that fire.
09-10-2010, 03:07 PM #18
Some background info for those that aren't familiar with Newport KY and it's organized criminal activity.
09-10-2010, 05:27 PM #19
I was just a baby when The Beverly Hills Supper Club burnt down. I have been down to the bottom of the hill and seen the plaque they put up. It's not possible to go up there now, and on the anniversary I know family members are allowed up to pay their respects. It is now, though, nothing but a green field. No remnants remain. So sad. I am sorry for your loss as well.
09-10-2010, 05:46 PM #20
An article about my grandfather. You'll have to scroll down some.
09-11-2010, 08:20 AM #21Registered User
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Here is an updated link to The Doe Network: Case File 1261DMKY. It has two good photos of Mr. Hawkins.
09-12-2010, 03:37 AM #22
But hun, we had them to bury. We knew what happened to them and they were laid to rest. I was fairly young when that happened. So I don't remember it having so much of an impact on our family.
You, however, have been missing a very important person in your family for a very long time.
I can't imagine the pain that your family has gone though, not knowing.
I wish there was something I could say or do to make it better. I can't. I can just say I will pray for you and your family and that you will have resolution soon.
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09-18-2010, 09:49 PM #23
Do you have any ideas on who to talk to? Where to go? Or anything that would help give the man and the family peace? Should I continue my search, or leave it alone? We KNOW he died that day. I just want to give my mom and aunt closer, but at the same time the fear is still there. I have a family, two small kids, and I need to be here for them too. History does repeat itself. Any suggestions?
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09-19-2010, 12:45 AM #24
No don't leave it alone. Do what you can. Don't neglect your family to do this.
I really don't think you have anything to fear as far as your own safety or the safety of your loved ones. I really don't.
I'll come back and post.
09-19-2010, 05:55 PM #25
I've given it some thought. I have never had to do this before so I'm just going to give a basic outline on how I would approach it having learned from reading here on WS.
1. You will need to contact the local LE entity that investigated your Grandfather's murder. Ask them if your Grandfather's case is open or inactive or closed.
2. If it is still open and active you will need to begin contacting them on a regular basis (the detective that holds the cold case) in a polite manner, letting that detective get to know you and your family and how important it is to you all to have some resolution.
3. If it is inactive or closed, then you will have to ask them to reopen. You will need to know each of the LE entities that may have been involved in the investigation. You find that out by just asking. Start at the local LE level and move your way up. You may even have to go to your Senator of Governor.
Here is my advice that I strongly suggest you do having dealt the bureaucracy within the Military as a Military wife.
1. Keep what is known as a memorandum for record. You will want to make notes of each phone call you make: 1. The date and time of the call. 2. Who you spoke with 3. Short notation of what was said during that call.
Include every call you make even if the call is to just leave a message for a return call. You will want to keep a record of if they called you back or not.
Keep a hardcopy of each and every single letter you write and create a file. We can easily lose things that are on computers or flashdrives. If you have to move up the chain of command (local LE to State LE to Mayor to Congressman----etc.) you will want to include a copy of all the letters you have written with those letters you write to the LE or the Government officials.
It's been 49 years. I was born the year that your Grandfather was murdered. The actual individuals that murdered your Grandfather are more than likely deceased themselves or are elderly at this time.
Although, at one time there were men to fear in Newport, they are no longer there and their activities from 49 years ago are of no interest to anyone who works in organized crime at this time. What I'm trying to say is that although there was a branch of the mob that did work in Newport, not only are they gone, BUT they weren't from the huge "families" that we always hear about. They were small town crooks. JMHO.
Let us know how this goes for you, good luck, and justice for your grandfather.
09-20-2010, 12:00 PM #26
Several years ago, I started by pulling the newspaper articles that covered his disappearance. I learned that it was the Newport PD that initially investigated it, and then that the family had called in for State Police help. I started by going to the NPD, and although the officer I spoke with said that he considered it a still open and unsolved case, there were no files to look at. With that, he directed me to a news reporter who did some digging, and published an article in the Ky Post April 24, 2004. I then contacted the State Police. I went to Frankfort personally. They said they had to look in their Cold Case files. Several weeks went by, and I received a letter that stated that they could not find any such file on my grandfather. Although I had the name of the officer who investigated it, when contacted, he said he couldn't remember the case. I found him to be aloof and uncaring. With all that said, I suppose the next thing for me to do, is to see if I can track down some of the people from the day that I know are still around. I would like to keep in touch with you, however I don't feel comfortable leaving an email address on here. I will see what I can do, maybe a yahoo account or something, and be in touch soon. Thank you for you ideas. I will mull them over, and please say a prayer for our family that time hasn't run out, and someone who does know something, will speak up. I know that the men who did this are prob. dead, but more than one knew of it. With that said, thanks again. Be in touch soon.
10-26-2010, 09:37 PM #27
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03-08-2011, 05:48 PM #28Registered User
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April 3rd will mark 50 years since George Hawkins went missing. Looking forward to seeing any "anniversary" articles and to hear any updates.
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Mark DeNittis lands at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts -- as the Director of Culinary Curriculum
Meet your new (badass) Director of Culinary Curriculum at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts: Mark DeNittis.
If you're Mark DeNittis, you don't wallow in pig shit when the USDA pulls the pork from underneath your livelihood. Instead, you pick yourself up, eat a sausage or ten (and porchetta, to boot) and map out a future that brings you back to what you love most: the classroom.
You know the story: Late last year, DeNittis, the founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, shuttered his artisan salumi plant under duress from the USDA, which claimed, says DeNittis, that his dry sausage production process "didn't show proof that the pathogens for salmonella were being properly addressed -- that we weren't addressing the steps to kill the pathogens." In November, DeNittis called it quits, closing the sausage plant that had made him a household name in the culinary world.
But before opening Il Mondo Vecchio in 2009, DeNittis was an instructor at the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales, a position he held for ten years. It was a job, too, that allowed him to start a meat club -- independent of the university -- which is when he began to cure meats. And if he has his way, he'll do that again in the future, but for right now, DeNittis has another, more immediate focus: He's now the director of culinary curriculum at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, a (big) job that he started just last week.
But DeNittis isn't new to Cook Street. For the past two years, he's been teaching an intensive, state-certified, ACF-accredited professional butchery program, an eight-day course, taught twice a year, that he describes as an "introduction to the basics of meat fabrication, both from a theoretical standpoint and a hands-on standpoint." Those who complete the program receive continuing-education points -- and walk away with the know-how to butcher whole beasts safely, effectively and quickly.
His new role, however, will be much larger. "I oversee all of the professional and recreational culinary programs, as well as the faculty and all of the culinary events," says DeNittis. And the position, he continues, expands even further: "Part of my job is to make sure that the current curriculum is relevant and rigorous, and that students of both programs walk away with the tools and resources to be successful."
He'll continue to teach, as well, both for professional students and the rest of us, who simply just want to learn from the one of the best. "The professional program is meat-focused, but there's also an emphasis on techniques and methods, while the recreational classes are meat-focused and geared toward those who cook at home," he explains.
And at some point down the line, reveals DeNittis, he'd like to teach pastry classes and complete his level-one sommelier certification, as well as his ACF executive-chef accreditation. "With this job comes so many amazing opportunities," says DeNittis, who tells me that he accepted the position for several reasons, one of which is the enviable student-to-teacher ratio: eight students to every one instructor. "I love the small class sizes," he says.
He admits, too, that he's wanted to return to the education sector ever since leaving Johnson & Wales. "I'm truly and sincerely excited to be back in a culinary classroom, and I have the best of both worlds, because I'm also still heavily involved in the industry sector, too," he notes. He's partnered with Anderson Meats, a local company, to help with sales and marketing, and he's consulting with Justin Brunson, the exec chef of Old Major, on sanitation operating procedures and a HACCP plan for Brunson's charcuterie program.
And, says DeNittis, Il Mondo Vecchio may one day resurface. "We're looking at ways to possibly revive our salumi program (he's retained a lawyer and launched an investigation), but we don't know if it'll return as Il Mondo Vecchi, or as something else, but if we do go back into production, it will be on a much larger scale," he reveals.
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Thank you also to the parents who helped plan the event and the ones who went to pick up the gifts. Thank you to all who worked all night, and most of all, thanks to all the students for being so well behaved and so much fun to be with. it was a pleasure to spend the evening with you.


A two-hour speed-learning workshop, for those who play on their nerves and need to learn some proper moves. In Stage Two of How to Play Killer Chess Malcolm Pein will explore the nuances of white opening, black opening, basic tactical ideas, and how to use chess software to stretch your game.
Your form will improve as the lesson advances, and you’ll walk away with a new-found enthusiasm and ability to win games you would previously have lost. You’ll also be provided with details on ways to continue your progress.
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(October 10, 1997) Anti-Nuclear scientists and activists Mycle Schneider and Jinzaburo Takagi are two of the five winners of the prestigious 'Alternative Nobel Prize', the Right Livelihood Award. The award honors individuals for their contributions for a sustainable future. The Award will be presented on December 8 in the Swedish parliament.
(479.4752) WISE Amsterdam - Mycle Schneider (France) and Jinzaburo Takagi (Japan) are being honored "for the scientific rigor of their research and the effectiveness of their dissemination of its results, which have'alerted the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life, and empowered many to resist the misinformation and the secrecy whereby the plutonium industry imposes these dangers on the public". The Award recognizes in the founder of WISE-Paris, and the founder of the Tokyo-based Citizens Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), a unique partnership in the struggle to rid humanity of the threat posed by the manufacture, transport, use and disposal of plutonium.
The 1997 Right Livelihood Award of SEK 1,800,000 (about US$240,000) will be shared by five outstanding individuals from three continents for their contributions to a sustainable future for humanity. The Award -- commonly known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" -- will be presented at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden, on December 8, 1997. The other three winners are:
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo from Burkina Faso "for a lifetime of scholarship and activism that has both laid out the history of Black Africa and identified the key principles and processes by which Africans can create a better future".
- Michael Succow from Germany for "an exemplary commitment to safeguard important ecosystems and areas of outstanding natural value for future generations".
- Cindy Duehring from the USA who experienced a reaction to toxic chemicals when she was in her early 20s is honored "for her extraordinary courage and determination to put her personal tragedy at the service of humanity by generating the knowledge that can help others understand and combat the risks that toxic chemicals present to human life and health".
Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards were introduced 'to honor and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today". The idea came from a Swedish-German philatelic expert, who sold his valuable postage stamps to provide the original endowment. He felt that the Nobel Prizes today ignore much work and knowledge vital for the future of humankind.
Mycle Schneider was born in 1959. Interested in the civil and military use of nuclear energy and concerned that there was little international information available in France, in 1983 he set up WISE-Paris, as the French connection of the World Information Service on Energy (WISE) International. Further he has written a lot of papers and articles on energy and environmental issues. For example in 1992 he was one of the authors of the Worldwatch/Greenpeace/WISE-Paris "World Nuclear Status Report". Schneider, who considers the plutonium industry being "the single most threatening industrial activity for mankind and the environment", produced in 1995-96 a series of reports on the connection of Japanese, Belgian, Dutch and German plutonium as well as Canadian uranium with the French nuclear weapons program. Over the last years, Schneider has put considerable efforts into highlighting the risks of the shipments of used nuclear fuel -- in particular from Germany and Japan -- to La Hague for plutonium separation. In 1991, he went to Japan at the request of Jinzaburo Takagi to participate in an International Plutonium Conference. The two men started working together on the issues of waste and plutonium shipment between the two countries, a collaboration that still continues.
Jinzaburo Takagi came to these issues as associate professor of nuclear chemistry at the Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU). After graduation in 1961, he spent four and a half years working for the nuclear industry and another four years for the nuclear institute at the University of Tokyo. In 1967 he won the Asahi Scientist Encouragement Award. When he left TMU in 1975 to set up the non-profit Citizen`s Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), he stepped off the ladder to top nuclear status within the nuclear elite. Takagi has written many books and innumerable articles on nuclear issues, environment protection and peace, with special emphasis on the fight against the nuclear threat as well as human rights. Takagi and CNIC have concentrated since 1988 on the Japanese plutonium program. Beneath various activities on this issue Takagi has produced the Proposal for a Moratorium on Japan`s Plutonium Utilization Program.
When, in December 1995, the Japanese prototype fast breeder had a serious accident which the authorities tried to cover up, Takagi and CNIC were constantly quoted in the press as the scientists who could be trusted. Tagaki reported: "With all cover-ups revealed, the (nuclear industry) has now lost public confidence completely...." Together with Schneider and other independent experts, he started an intensive two-year international research project called A Comprehensive Social Impact Assessment of MOX (Uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel) Use in Light Water Reactors.
In 1997 Schneider and Takagi were proved right about the problems of the fast breeder program when France shut down its Superphenix FBR, and also when, after another accident, the Japanese MOX program was looking shaky. Takagi is allowing himself some optimism for the first time: "I now think for the first time in my life that we'll be able to relieve Japan and the world from the plutonium nightmare."
Source: Right Livelihood Award Foundation, Press release, 1 October 1997
Contacts: Mycle Schneider, WISE Paris; 31-33 rue de la Colonie, 75013 Paris France
Tel: +33-1-4565 4793; Fax: +33-1- 4580 4858
Jinzaburo Takagi, CNIC; 1-58-14-302 Higashi-nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164 Japan
Tel: +81-3-5330 9520; Fax: +81-3-5330 9530


Europe-IMF bailout, social cuts announced in Greece
3 May 2010
In a nationally-televised May 2 cabinet meeting, the Greek government of Prime Minister Giorgios Papandreou announced massive social cuts worked out last week in negotiations with European and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials. In exchange for these austerity measures, the European financial ministers' summit in Brussels decided to implement a €110 billion bailout package enabling Greece to pay its creditors.
The announcement came after tens of thousands of Greek workers marched on May Day to protest the government's decision to seek a bailout loan. Polls show that 61 percent of the population opposes Papandreou's decision to seek a bailout. There are widespread expectations of violent clashes as the government moves to enforce the cuts.
Papandreou warned the Greek population that it would be forced to make "great sacrifices" and that his government's goal was to "avoid bankruptcy." The Greek government is seeking to reduce the budget deficit from 14 percent to 4 percent of Greece's gross domestic product (GDP), which stands at roughly €245 billion. A proportionate reduction would amount to $1.4 trillion in government spending cuts in the US, or €241 billion worth of state spending cuts in Germany.
As it absorbs the impact of these cuts, the Greek economy is expected to contract by 4 percent this year—compared to previous estimates of a contraction of 0.3 percent.
After the cabinet meeting, Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou gave some details on the further cuts the government will demand. Public sector workers face a 15 percent cut in their official wages: wages traditionally paid as "13th" or "14th" monthly salaries will disappear, replaced by a bonus capped at a maximum of €1,000 per year, available only for workers with monthly salaries under €3,000. Wages will then be frozen until 2014. Other bonuses—a large portion of public-sector workers' total pay—will be cut by 8 percent, on top of previous cuts of 12 percent.
Pensioners also face massive cuts. The retirement age—65 for men, 60 for women—will be increased and indexed in relation to life expectancy, while the pay-in period to receive a full pension will increase from 37 to 40 years. Pensions will be calculated from the average yearly salary a worker has earned over the course of his working life, and not the last yearly salary he received.
In the private sector, a new minimum salary will be put in place for young workers, and the government plans to scrap legislation barring companies from firing more than 2 percent of their total work force in any given month, while loosening guidelines on severance packages.
Sales taxes—which fall most heavily on the working class—will be increased by 2 percent, to 23 percent, after a two-percent increase in March, with a further 10 percent increase on fuel, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products. Property taxes will also increase, and Athens announced a one-time tax on "highly profitable" companies.
Athens also plans to privatize mass transit and utilities—moves that will doubtless dramatically increase user fees, just as workers face plunging wages and rising unemployment. There will also be large cuts in spending on hospital equipment and medical care.
Social Affairs Minister Andreas Loverdos said: "This is the most difficult moment the country has faced since 1974"—that is, the end of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Commenting on Loverdos' remarks, the Financial Times noted fears that the government might "lose political control" of the two million workers who are members of the ADEDY public-sector and GSEE private-sector unions, and that "protests could turn violent."
Antonis Samaras of the right-wing opposition New Democracy (ND) party criticized Papandreou's cuts as "a genuine Waterloo of the government's forecasts and policies.... They had assured us that the Stability and Development Program was fully adequate for this year. Now they admit that it has essentially failed and are imposing new, much more drastic measures, with new increases in indirect taxes and additional salary cutbacks in the public sector."
Trade union officials also criticized the cuts. ADEDY president Spyros Papaspyros announced protests today and tomorrow, in addition to an already-planned May 5 joint national strike with the GSEE. He said: "The measures will set off a volcanic eruption in terms of public reaction. Our income is being further cut, there will be thousands of layoffs and the cost of living will increase through the new taxes."
Stathis Anestis, spokesman for the GSEE, promised a "decisive and dynamic" reaction. He called for changes in EU labor regulations: "We are asking all Europeans to think again: what kind of Europe do they want? What kind of society? What kind of employees?"
The unions' comments are aimed at containing popular hostility to Papandreou's policies and preventing it from taking a politically independent direction. The strikes they organize, presented to workers as an attempt to pressure Papandreou and Greece's creditors to pass cuts that are "fair," have not stopped the social-democratic PASOK party government from carrying out one wave of cuts after another.
In fact, as the Greek daily Kathemerini reported, the current cuts were worked out in consultation with "senior labor union officials." Much of the top ADEDY and GSEE leadership consists of members of Papandreou's PASOK party. Based on their pro-capitalist, pro-government perspective, the unions view Papandreou's cuts as a necessity to repay Greece's creditors. (See: "The Greek trade unions: Partners in the government’s austerity program").
Kathemerini added, "At his meeting with union officials [on April 29], Papandreou made it clear that the IMF and EU have allowed Greece very little room to maneuver and are attaching tough measures to the 45 billion euros in emergency loans that Greece wants this year. Sources said he asked the unionists to appreciate this point and not to try to make political capital from the situation."
A special meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels approved the €110 billion package yesterday evening.
European governments decided to fund a bailout largely out of fear that a Greek default might lead to a new financial crisis and the bankruptcy of other countries, such as Portugal and Spain. Credit rating agencies recently downgraded both countries' debt. The social-democratic governments of Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero in Spain and Prime Minister José Sócrates in Portugal announced plans for further austerity measures last week, as the interest rate Spain and Portugal pay on new borrowing surged.
After its credit downgrade, reports also emerged that Spain's official unemployment rate recently topped 20 percent, having risen 11.45 percent since January 2008. Eighty percent of the jobs lost were held by men, particularly in the construction industry. Santiago Carbó, economics professor at the University of Granada, said: "Most of the 20 percent is structural. It's here to stay."
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the German government would soon put the Greek bailout to a vote in parliament: "we have a good chance to finalize the legislative process in Germany by Friday," May 7.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would push for the approval of €8.4 billion in loans to Greece, the first installment of an expected German contribution of roughly €25 billion. Merkel called the bailout "absolutely necessary" to "return the euro to stability." France's National Assembly is expected to vote today to approve a €6.3 billion loan, part of a total expected contribution of €20 billion from France.
There are also fears of a new banking crisis as the value of Greek bonds—held as collateral by major European banks—collapses. Eurozone country banks hold €164 billion of Greece's roughly €300 billion in state debt, including €28 billion held by German banks, €50 billion held by French banks, and €20 billion held by Italian banks. Caja Madrid recently announced a 79 percent fall in quarterly profits, due to "shifts in sovereign bond markets."
According to a report appearing today in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed Berlin to rapidly agree to a bailout: "There was considerable American pressure applied on Germany to agree to the rescue package. Geithner demanded from Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Washington last week that Germany drop its resistance as fast as possible."
Tens of thousands of workers marched in Greece's major cities on May Day to demonstrate their opposition to the cuts being prepared by the ruling class.
In Athens, 80,000 workers—20,000 according to police—marched behind banners reading, "No sacrifice, the plutocracy must pay for the crisis." Several hundred younger marchers carrying red flags clashed with riot police after they attempted to bar the road to the Parliament building, and a police van burned after protestors threw Molotov cocktails. Marchers converged on Athens' Syntagma Square, chanting "No to the IMF's junta"—a reference to Greece's 1967-1974 military dictatorship.
Protestors heckled Apostolos Kaklamanis, a lawmaker and former parliamentary speaker of the ruling social-democratic PASOK party, then threw plastic water bottles at him and kicked him, before police rescued Kaklamanis.
Roughly 5,000 protestors marched in Thessaloniki. Some marchers attacked storefronts and cash machines, clashing with riot police.
The May Day protest came just before a May 5 nationwide general strike called by ADEDY and GSEE. According to a poll published on April 30, 51.3 percent of Greeks intend to participate in street protests, should the government continue with plans for social cuts and the European-IMF joint bailout.
The Times of London interviewed law students at Athens University. Thanos Petrou, 21, said: "If I get a job as a trainee lawyer, I'll only earn €300 a month. How can anyone survive on that?" The Times added, "Some are already referring to a 'lost generation' who will never find jobs or security."
Demonstrators cited in press reports stressed the devastating effects social cuts will have on workers' living standards. Nikos Diamantopoulos, marching in Athens, denounced the cuts being prepared by the Papandreou government: “These measures are death. How people are going to live tomorrow, how they’re going to survive, I do not understand."
Virginian Kalapotharakou, an accountant who had joined striking sailors and dockworkers at the Piraeus port, called Papandreou's cuts "very reactionary. They're trying to do away with all the rights we gained through struggles in previous years."
Tassos Anestis, a shipyard worker, told the Financial Times: “We are going to suffer because of measures imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund … but it is those who ruined the economy that should pay."


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Bentley Map V8i Adds 3D to Infrastructure Software
The software comes in three editions to support editing/viewing, GIS/mapping professionals, and enterprise-scale users.
Bentley Systems, Inc., a company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, has released Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 2), the only desktop GIS software for infrastructure that is intrinsically 3D.
Used worldwide by designers, engineers, and geospatial professionals who map, plan, design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure, the software serves as a fully featured, universal GIS platform supporting the creation, persistence, maintenance, analysis, and sharing of 2D and 3D geospatial information. The new release provides time-saving, productivity-enhancing functionality that further reduces costs and risks of geospatial data sharing across infrastructure projects and enterprises.
Jean Pellerin, Quebec land surveyor, city of Montreal, said, “We are currently using Bentley Map for documenting the city of Montreal’s water network…. [The]feature engine allows us to easily create smart infrastructure objects, and we are able to create customized tools to improve data quality.”
The software's extended ability to work with the ProjectWise collaboration platform empowers multidiscipline project teams to easily manage, find, share, and visualize geospatial and CAD content, other project data, and Microsoft Office documents. ProjectWise facilitates fast access to even the largest files, manages change efficiently and effectively, and empowers distributed project teams to work collaboratively to eliminate wasted time and improve project quality.
Richard Zambuni, Bentley global marketing director, said, “Bentley Map has two outstanding qualities that set it apart: it delivers geospatial information meeting the demanding accuracy requirements of engineers working on infrastructure projects, and it makes no distinction between 2D and 3D data, handling both with equal and seamless virtuosity. Moreover, Bentley Map is perfect for the growing number of 3D City GIS projects around the world.”
Source: Bentley Systems


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Copula contagion index and its efficiency
A Copula Contagion Index (CCI) is established to measure financial contagion, based on the time-varying copula function. Empirical studies performed on the crisis spillover of US Subprime Mortgage Crisis demonstrate the efficiency of CCI. The empirical results from event study, change-point analysis, logitistic/probit regressions and the detection of the lead--lag relations by Baba, Engle, Kraft and Kroner (BEKK)-Vector Autoregressive (VAR)-Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) model show that, the index is efficient in detecting the financial contagions. Sensitivity analysis indicates that the index is robust. Besides, empirical results indicate that the developed markets rather than the emerging markets suffered more severely and quickly from the US subprime mortgage crisis.
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Beyond Textbooks 2010: American History Games
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This application helps students connect to the Social Studies content that they are about to learn through fun interactive games. The games are designed to get students warmed up and ready to learn.
For each chapter, students can play a mini-game: "Say What?" or "Clues to the Past" that has them interact with Virginia’s Essential Questions. When they complete all the topics, students unlock a bonus game: "Whacky History" or "History Hunter" that reinforces the concepts introduced in each chapter.
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Is Mike Huckabee burning bridges, or is the Anti-Defamation League? After a speech in front of the National Rifle Association in which Huckabee likened the “silence” around national debt (seems like not only is there plenty of noise about it, but it has eclipsed the concern for jobs) to the silence of good Germans towards the Holocaust during WWII, he was criticized by ADL head Abraham Foxman who said, “It is highly inappropriate to use America’s mounting debt crisis as another occasion to invoke Nazis and the Holocaust, particularly on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time dedicated to memorializing, not trivializing, the 6 million Jews and millions of others who perished at the hands of the Nazis.”
Huckabee then responded with anger: “Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have.” He has demanded a retraction and an apology from Foxman. So far, no retraction and no apology.
Some of Huckabee’s best friends are Jewish after all. Oh, you think he didn’t actually say that?
“Foxman’s remarks are not only factually wrong, but they are hurtful to me personally in light of my unequalled friendship with members of the Jewish community, and I ask Foxman to retract his statement as publicly as he issued it, and apologize for his lack of accuracy in issuing it and for the harm done by attacking the very strongest advocates for the Jewish people and Israel.”
You see, if you support Israel, it should exempt you from criticism from Jews about anything.
In her column linked above, Michelle Goldberg explains:
After all he’s done for Israel, Mike Huckabee does not appreciate being criticized for comparing American debt to the Holocaust. Thus on Tuesday, when the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman chastised him for doing just that, he responded with anger and a hint of menace, saying, “Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have.” Such words are unlikely to convince many Jews that Huckabee is their ally. The statement should serve as a reminder that the aggressive Zionism of the Christian right does not translate into sensitivity toward broader Jewish concerns.
Do you think?


Re: Updated XFS enabled boot-floppies (and oldworld fix)
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 08:16, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:17:07AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > to scan but not repair run mapcheck -n -v -a to repair remove the -n
> > > switch.
> > Looks like it's taking a couple hours to scan my / and /boot filesystems.
> > :/ I assume the files should only be repaired when running a fixed kernel?
> it takes about 3 minutes or so to scan about 70000 files on a G4 i
> take care of...
daenzer@tibook> df ~
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda12 25341072 21883288 3457784 87% /
/dev/hda11 46400 24676 21724 54% /boot
Questions? :) (I ran it with nice and it took well over an hour)
> > > the bug first appeared in later 2.4.18 CVS snapshots, and was fixed
> > > there a couple weeks later, it reappeared sometimes in the 2.4.19-pre
> > > stages in XFS CVS (definitly including -rc2 through final 2.4.19 split
> > > patches) its currently fixed in CVS, or i have the standalone patch
> > > against 2.4.19+split patches if your like my and prefer to stay at
> > > known snapshots.
> > I do, so I'd appreciate if you could make the patch available. I looked
> > through your files section but couldn't find it.
> the exact set of patches i apply to my 2.4.19 kernels is now in my
> files section (xfs-2.4.19)
Thanks! I also grabbed the xattr patch.
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast


The most noticeable thing about the new Standard for Program Management – Third Edition is that is has gone on a major diet! The 2nd Edition was 271 page long (plus appendix), the 3rd Edition is less than half the size at 106 pages plus appendix. Unfortunately the price has not moved in the same direction.
The Standard still provides a detailed understanding of program management and promotes efficient and effective communication and coordination among various project management groups. The major updates include:
- Program Life Cycle has been assigned its own chapter for the third edition to provide the details of the unique set of elements that makes up the program management phase.
- The third edition highlights the full scope of program management and clarifies the supporting processes that complete the delivery of programs in the organizational setting.
- A more detailed definition of program management within an organization is provided, including the fundamental differences between project management and program management.
The major focus of the revision seems to be removing a lot of the ‘project management’ information that is found in the PMBOK® Guide and focusing on the role of program management in organisations, the unique characteristics of program management work and the role of the program manager. A shift from process to principle, that is aligned with the Program Management Role Delineation Study that forms the basis for the PgMP examination.
The framework in the Third Edition is:
- Program Management Performance Domains
- Program Strategy Alignment
- Program Benefits Management
- Program Stakeholder Engagement
- Program Governance
- Program Life Cycle Management
- Program Management Supporting Processes
The relationship between the Program Management Performance Domains that makes up the bulk of the standard is illustrated below.
In addition to the core standard, Appendix X4 on Program Management Competencies, and X5 on Program Management Artefacts are very succinct and useful.
A couple of shortcomings in this version of the standard are firstly the limited recognition of the different type of program that organisations run. The PMI standard is very much centred on the ‘strategic program’ defined in the GAPPS typology discussed in our White Paper Defining Program Types. In particular the GAPPS ‘Operational Program’ typology has been largely ignored in the PMI standard.
The other is the classic confusion between the Enterprise level executive management responsibilities that are critical for the support and oversight of the work of the Program Manager and Organisational Governance, typical of documentation produced by working managers. What the standard describes as ‘governance’ is the critical management responsibilities of senior executives to adequately support oversight and manage the process of ‘program management’. Governance is the process of oversighting the whole management system, that is performed by the ‘governing body’ which is the Board of Directors in most commercial organisations and their equivalent in other types of organisation – governors govern, managers manage! For more on this critical distinction see: WP1084 Governance Systems & Management Systems. The contents of the ‘governance’ section are good, just miss-labelled.
Overall this is a significantly improved standard – a lot of duplication and redundancy has been removed, and the key functions and processes of program management and what organisations need to do at the enterprise level to support programs are well though through and laid out. This new standard is available in Australia from: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Books.html#PMI


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Himmel Branch Library 50th Anniversary
Transcript of Himmel Branch Library 50th Anniversary
4,103 square feet with over 8,000 books. Total cost of contruction = $76,240.
(Source: Tucson Citizen) 1961- Himmel Park Library holds the distinction of being the first branch of the Tucson Public Library. (Source: The Tucson Citizen) Dedication ceremony - June 25, 1961
Speeches from Vice Mayor F.T. Gobbons and
Chairman of the Library Board, Mrs. Alice Fulmer Dunham.
200 people came to the Open House.
(Source: The Tucson Citizen) 1968
A meeting room is added in memory of Judith Swander (young librarian-in-charge at Himmel who died in 1967). (Source:Tucson Public Library Annual Report 1967-1968) 1961
135,353 items checked out the first year!
(Source: Minutes of the Library Board of Tucson Public Library, 1962) 1968
175,957 items are checked out.
30% more than the year the library opened.
(Source: Tucson Public Library
Annual Report, 1968) 1973
Say it ain't so!
Tucson Public Library plans to close the Himmel Park Library in favor of a new location along Broadway near the El Con Mall.
(Source: The Arizona Daily Star, April, 1973) Himmel Branch Library
1961-2011 1970s 1973
Overwhelming outcry and support by
neighborhood residents and support by local officials
prevent the closure of the Himmel Park Library.
(Source: The Arizona Daily Star, April,1973) 1980s March 1982
A new public meeting room is added. 1986
220,592 items are checked out.
(Source: Tucson Public Library
Annual Report, 1985-1986) May 31,1986
The celebration in the park included live music, stories, a live petting zoo, and a hot air balloon! 1990s 1992
Grand reopening celebrates addition of new facilities - refurbished children's area, new signage, books, and furniture. 1992
94,602 items are checked out.
(Source Pima County Library
Annual Report, 1991-1992) 1999
A kitchen and a work space added for staff.
(Source: Himmel Park Library Facilties / Equipment Report, 2002) 2000s 2000
253,943 items checked out and Tucson's population reaches 843,746!
(Sources: Himmel Circulation Statistics, 2000; www.city-data.com/us.../Tucson-Population-Profile.html) 2006
Read to a Dog!
Children + dogs = happy kids + low stress = learn to read
Himmel Park Library is 1st branch to have this program. 2008
The Himmel Park Library undergoes a partial remodel which includes new bookcases, carpet, paint, and a new floor plan. June 25, 2011
The Himmel Park Library Celebrates its 50th Anniversary!! Class Visit
March13, 1968 1960
The seed was planted. AHOY What Lies Ahead
1964 Summer Reading Program Storytime outside 1996 Toddler Storytime October 1995 Brindlebeast Puppet show Himmel Park Quilters donate a handmade play quilt to be used at Baby Storytime.
June 29, 2000 Spamettes Halloween 1985 May 3, 1960 Tucson Daily Star Southwest Quartet
June 1995 Pirates Galore 1986 July 2006
Library system moves from being a City of Tucson department to a Pima County department. 2008
Chinese New Year Celebration Storytime Himmel Park Library Design 50 Fundraising for the remodel provided by the Lawrence Clark Powell Fundraising Campaign for Himmel Park Library.
(Source: Tucson Pima Library Announcement, 1992) 2005
Professor Dumbledore and Rubeus Hagid at the Harry Potter Program 2005
Dragonfly Childrens Book Club started and is still active today. 2007 Teen Manga Program 2010
Day of the Dead Altar and Sugar Skull Making Program 2005
First "Let's Speak English Conversation Group in library system starts at Himmel Library.


3 Questions to Ask Your Honey About Money
We all want it. We all need it. But for one reason or another, most of us find it difficult to talk about money – especially when the conversation involves our significant other. No matter how hard the talk is to have, the reality is that you can’t create a truly great relationship until you can openly communicate about money.
Think about dating relationships. Money is the one subject people will lie about most. People tend to stretch the truth a bit when it comes down to talking about the dollar. They do all kinds of things to influence how others perceive their finances. While some conceal their money so they can be certain they’re not being used, others spend money they don’t have trying to impress the object of their affection. This may work out with surface level interaction, but when dating becomes a full blown relationship, it’s time to get real. . . . And, here are a few questions to help you get there:
1. “How did your parents handle money?”
We all have a financial blueprint; the way we specifically interact with our money. For most of us, our financial blueprint was handed down to us by our parents almost like a strand of DNA. But, it’s important to remember that no one is born with a particular attitude towards money. We were all taught how to act and think about money matters. These conscious and subconscious beliefs, ideals, thoughts and actions are what create our financial blueprint.
Talk to each other about what you heard about money and what types of behaviors you witnessed regarding money and financial matters. Once you can understand the environment a person grew up in or the way their parents or other influential people in their life handled money, it’s easier and much less frustrating to understand a person’s money style.
Related Post: 5 Signs You’re Dating a Deadbeat
2. “What does money really mean to you?”
When it comes to our relationships, money is NOT the issue that many seem to believe it is. Money, that little green piece of paper in your wallet, in and of itself is powerless. It’s actually what the money represents to two different individuals that becomes problematic.
Money represents different things to different people. Money and material items might equate to love and affection for some. For others, it could represent the difference between control and dependency or safety and stability. If a person was brought up in a family, where expensive presents were given as a sign of love and affection, they might expect to get the same treatment from a partner even as an adult. But suppose their partner was raised to believe that working hard, saving money and providing a stable home environment meant love and affection? These are where two people who may mean well, can often bump heads.
3. “Despite our differences, how can we create and commit to shared financial goals?”
Here’s where the “So What, Now What?” attitude comes in. If you’re not going to break up over the fact that you’re a spender and he’s a saver, then it’s time to figure out what goals are most important to you, individually and as a couple. If it’s too early in the relationship to be considering goals like purchasing a home together, then create individual goals and hold each other accountable. Now that you know each other’s financial strengths and weaknesses, don’t use them as tools to condemn one another. Rather, use it as a way to empower each other to be better, do better and achieve more. After all, relationships, romantic or otherwise, should always leave you better than they found you. . . eh, well, we hope so!
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The UT Dallas Career Center is a member of National Association of College and Employers (NACE).
Read their recent article about top jobs for current graduates:
Among Class of 2011 graduates, accounting majors are receiving the most job offers, according to results of NACE’s Winter 2011 Salary Survey. Private (first) and public (third) accounting positions account for two of the top three spots on the list of top jobs for 2010-11 bachelor’s degree graduates.
Rounding out the top five spots are jobs in consulting (second), financial/treasury analysis (fourth), and sales (fifth).
Top Jobs for 2010-11 Bachelor’s Degree Graduates*
|Job Function||Average Salary Offer|
|Investment banking (sales and trading)||$65,291|
|Management trainee (entry-level mgmt.)||$43,297|
|*Where more than 20 offers were reported|
|Source: NACE Winter 2011 Salary Survey. Data represent job functions for which the most data were reported; all data are for bachelor’s degree candidates.|


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Skin: Head to Toe Safety
Almost everybody has skin marks such as freckles, age spots or moles. It's important to keep a close eye on them. A sudden change in a spot or mole is a possible warning sign of a serious skin condition.
When you notice an abnormality, see your doctor immediately. Many forms of skin cancer spread quickly to underlying tissue. This can be fatal if not treated early. If an early diagnosis is made, the condition is more likely to be benign or easily treatable.
- Skin tags (flap-like growths usually on the neck, armpits, upper trunk and body folds) that are red and irritated.
- Moles that are larger than a pencil eraser, odd-shaped or have shades of red, blue, white or black.
- Brown, black or yellow growths on the body that are slightly raised, gritty or waxy.
Call your doctor immediately if:
- Moles or spots show characteristics listed under warning signs.
- Spot or mole changes in size, shape or color.
- A spot or mole bleeds, itches or is painful.
- A skin tag is irritated or infected.
- Use a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of at least 30.
- Apply at least one ounce of sunscreen. One ounce is enough to fill a shot glass, and is considered the amount needed to cover the exposed areas of the body.
- Apply the sunscreen to dry skin 15 minutes BEFORE going outdoors. Reapply every two hours.
- Use water-resistant sunscreen if you are swimming or sweating a lot. Reapply often.
- Wear a broad-brimmed hat and breathable loose-fitting material that covers exposed skin.
- Seek shade when appropriate, remember that the sun's rays are strongest between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. If your shadow is shorter than you are, seek shade.
- Use extra caution near water, snow and sand, as they reflect the damaging rays of the sun, which can increase your chance of sunburn.
- Check your body for unusual moles, spots or changes in either.
- Eat a diet rich in vitamins C, E and beta carotene.
Taking these precautions will give your skin more protection from head to toe!
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FYH-74 (Rev. 6-2013)


"You're walkin' a fine line, here, Private," the sergeant says. He's an intimidating man, with squinty eyes set deep in a square face, and a stubble-darkened chin. Right now he smokes a slender cigarette, the smoke curling and twisting like some slithering snake around his head.
You find yourself alone in the tent. The others have slunk out, sensing a heated argument broiling between you and the sergeant. He's the highest-ranking official on this side of the sea, you, the lowest.
"One more botched mission, kid, and we lose the whole damn war!" he paces now, hands flung into the air ruthlessly. The smoke slithers. "We lose to a bunch of damn zombies! Zombies!"
You want to correct him, tell him they aren't zombies, they're Infected, they're the Sickness, the Germ. Zombies are too human. But something in his snarling face shuts you up.
So you just nod, your scarred helmet visor bobbing up and down on your head. The uniform is the worst: fifteen pounds of high-energy, copyrighted crap about "protecting the nerves against the Germ", as if it's airborne, or something. A thick cotton under layer surrounded by synthetic rubber-based skin technology, or rubber skin, for short. The pads and foggy visor are just the tip of the paranoid, over-worn iceberg.
"Right," the sergeant sighs, suddenly deflated. "Right, get yer gun, kid, and some a those med kits, meet me outside the tent for the report." He rubs the back of his neck, and for a second, you can see a flint of anxious pain in his stony face.
You do as you are told. Your bunk is near cleared; just a few old comic books Batman, Thor) and a tiny, beaten transistor, which has long since ceased to give you news from home.
Ha! Home. That's a funny concept to you. Where is home, you wonder, as you quickly search your bunk for your rifle. Is it the dull gray countryside, plagued with the undead? Or is it right here, on the battlefield, surrounded by anonymous soldiers, and the rain-clogged horizon?
The rifle is next to the med kits, nestled in their shiny foil like some disturbed adopted egg. You take it in your gloved hands, and run a pinky on the shiny barrel of the gun. The surface is mottled slightly, and nicks and scratches color the metal.
Sounds of disaster radiate from beyond the cinched flap-door of the tent, making you jump as far off the ground as your uniform will allow. Your heart slides in your chest, and panic starts to sift through your cerebrum, ringing evil bells.
You take a second to steel yourself, take a second to calm. And then you shove through the flap-door, bracing your left arm against the tent pole, pushing off onto the float.
The tent itself is floating in the brackish seawater, supported by blocks of lab-grown foam, and protected by thick iron spikes protruding from the wood. You grab one of these spikes now, and for some reason, it's slick and warm, liquid dribbling slowly down its conical sides.
Sea foam whips through the black air, and you realize what exactly is secured to the spike. He smokes a cigarette, or rather, it hangs limply in his slightly open mouth. His eyes are gaping and wide, like broken windows, and his body, within the thick suit, is arched upward, his fingers splayed and grabbing.
There is no time for you to mourn the sergeants passing. They are coming, you are sure, they are coming and you're alone. Your rifle has seven bullets. Seven shots to save your damned life, floating like worthless flotsam and jetsam on a sea of death.
They come one by one. The first slithers on its tarnished stomach, red, sunburned arms, torn by teeth, grabbing at the spikes and hauling itself up. You take careful aim at it; you can't afford to miss this shot.
The bullet smacks it between the eye sockets, and it screeches, no, moans in compliance, vaulting off the float, and sinking into the sea. One down, hundreds to go.
Oh, and now there is a silence that hurts more than the panic. It sits on your chest anxiously, and you pull off your heavy uniform, rendering it useless, deciding it pointless. You stand on the wooden float, in only your sweats and your last t-shirt.
For a minute, an agonizing, excruciating minute, there is nothing but the lapping lull of the waves and your own stuttery breath.
From the dark water comes the second. It comes fast, bursting out and leaping, fingers splayed, towards the tent. It shreds the canvas as if it's made of filmy silk, and disappears within.
You don't wait. The silhouette of the Infected is like a cutout piece of wet paper. You peer quickly through the scope, and grit your teeth in expectance of the kick.
But you don't need to. Someone stumbles from the tent, blood painting their pale face. He's clutching a small knife, already stained scarlet.
"Who are you?" the darkness is too tight, too constricting. You know he can't see you, can't tell you from the diseased freak he just stabbed to death (again) in the shredded tent.
Your throat is clogged with phlegm, and your mind in numb with fear. You answer in silence. His eyes widen, and he jerks the knife above his head.
"You're one of them, aren't you?" he snarls. "One of those freaks who're twisted by the Germ," he starts to run, screaming and hissing, the knife protruding from his bloody fist.
Before he reaches you, you clear your frozen throat.
"I'm human! Human!" You shout, ducking just as his blade snaps through the air above your head.
He freezes, and stares down at you. His eyes are wide, and his face is pale and blood-specked.
You hold up your hands in apology, in surrender, and offer a tiny, forced smile.
"Private Thompson." You say, sticking out a hand. "That's my name. Annalisa Thompson."
The young man isn't a soldier. You're realizing this now, as you look at him. He's wearing civilian clothing, somewhat worn and stained. A Cal sweatshirt, jeans, red Converse high-tops. Spiky, short hair. He's skinny, but not rail-thin, and looks as if he would've had money if not for the war.
"Mark Lucey." He replies, not shaking your hand. You don't blame him. There is a sticky black substance on your palm. Wiping it hastily on your sweats, you tilt your head.
"How'd you get on this vehicle, Lucey?" you say, all business-like and formal. It was important, you thought, to let Mark Lucey the civilian know you were still in charge.
"Does it matter?" he counters irritably. He's crumpled into a defensive, crossed-armed stance and is looking around, frowning. "We're stuck on this stupid piece of crap until we either starve or get eaten by those Germ zombies."
"They aren't zombies." You sigh. "They're highly contagious, infected human beings who've gained cannibalistic qualities and are accustomed to blind acts of violence."
"Sounds like zombies to me." You give him a sideways look of exasperation. "Sorry. I'm sorry, it's just been a very stressful week for me, what with the near-death-by-being-eaten experience and all."
The water around you and Mark Lucey is still once more. The pulsating darkness has reminded you how tired you are.
"Alright, Mark Lucey," you say, clapping your hands. "This is what we'll do. I've got a loaded gun, some ammo, and experience. You've got–no offense of anything–nothing," you give him another sideways look. "Unless you've got training of some sort."
"My dad was CIA," he says, shoving his hands in his pockets. "But he never taught me any of that army crap." He scoffed. "Didn't talk to me much, ever,"
You nod. No time for pity.
"Right, I'll take first watch. Anything comes this way, anything at all, I shoot first, then wake you. Safest way. If I go down, my suit's got all the ammo you need. Just take my gun."
He gives you a sarcastic thumbs-up.
"Whatever you say, Private Annalisa Thompson," he says.
Ten minutes later, he's asleep on the float's splintered deck. You stand close by, your fingers growing numb from clutching the rifle's barrel to your body anxiously.
Questions have always come easily to you. Why was Mark Lucey here, and how did he get on this military-sanctioned, military-built float by himself, in the middle of the night, the middle of the infested ocean?
He looks more innocent when he's asleep. You stare at him for an unhealthy minute or two. He's actually good-looking, you decide, before slapping yourself with a shaking hand.
"Get real, Annalisa," you think. "You'll both be dead in twenty-four hours,"
But still, you look at him. It's been so long since you've been anywhere besides the float. Mark Lucey is refreshing. His normal outfit. His untouched accent and his deadpan slang. Refreshingly civilian.
Something slaps the float, and the wind slithers through the shattered tent. Brace yourself, Annalisa, you plead with yourself. Death isn't that bad, really.
But nothing comes. An hour, two. The moon shivers in a dusty corner of the sky. All is silent, all is steady but for the gentle rolling of the dark waves.
And then it hits you. He couldn't have swum hundreds of miles, alone to get here. Mark Lucey must be infected.
Your heart goes cold. Cold, and a little still for a moment.
You weigh the gun in your hand. One bullet. There's only one bullet left in the barrel.
You aim it carefully, and wrap a finger around the cold metal trigger. Through the scope you can see him still asleep. But is he really asleep? Can dead people sleep? And he looks so normal, so perfectly normal.
"Shit!" you shout again, hugging your rifle in your arms. You can't bring yourself to shoot him.
He wakes up. His pale blue eyes are much sharper than they should be.
"Something wrong, private?" he asks cautiously, sitting up.
"Yeah. You're a freaking zombie!" you shriek, brandishing your rifle like it's a scolding finger. "Where's your bite? C'mon, don't lie to me Mark. Or is that even your real name?"
He stands quickly, and raises his hands.
"I thought you said they weren't zombies," he says quietly. And still he stares at you with his flitting eyes.
You scoff, and edge a little closer to him. He takes a step back.
"I'm right, aren't I?" you say. You almost don't want to be right.
Mark Lucey narrows his eyes clenches his hands into fists. He glances behind you, and shuffles on his feet. Now you realize how slow and labored his movements are.
With a sudden burst of speed, he tries to sprint past you, and into the water. You swing your rifle around with the force of all your worn, wet muscles, aiming for his head. Instead, you make contact with his left arm.
"Ow!" he screams, stopping in his tracks, and falling to one knee. "Dammit! Ow…" he's clutching his arm, scrabbling at it. Bits of flaky skin have gathered around the tattered powder blue cotton of the sweatshirt, and they fall to the floor like tiny, fleshy snowflakes.
He looks back up at you with murder in his eyes.
"I hate you," he hisses. "It's just a scratch. I'm not a zombie. I hate you."
You lean on your rifle and bit your chapped lip. Yet again a feeling of painful longing erupts over you, and you find yourself wishing the float's synthetic fibers would rot and burn, allowing you to drown peacefully. Alone.
"You try to bite me, and I rip your pathetic head off, understand?" you say crisply, running a hand over your pulled-back hair.
He nods, tears in his eyes. You put out a hand, tentatively. He stares at it, disgusted, then pulls himself to his feet.
His words ring through your head, spinning and weary.
"I hate you."
It's the infection talking, you tell yourself, shivering slightly in the squeezing cool of the night. It's the fact that he's already dead, and soon to be undead.
"I hate you."
Morning is hardly welcome. Now whatever sick have waded within a mile of the float would be able to discern the gargantuan structure even without proper sight appendages. In these infested waters, you and Mark Lucey are practically done.
"Glad to see you haven't gotten hungry," you yawn, stretching your sore arms above your head.
He doesn't say anything, but instead shrugs, and pokes at a bit of rust gathered on the float, eyes downcast.
"So, how did you get bitten?" you ask, semi-casually.
He jerks up his head, and rolls his eyes at you. You notice how blood-shot they are.
"Great conversation starter, you are," he sneers. But even as he rubs a hand over the back of his neck and sighs heavily, he begins to tell you. "They swarmed Berkeley, a few weeks back. I was on campus, at a football game," he gestures at his Cal garb. "One or two managed to scale the stadium walls and get at a few fans. I was lucky–the others literally had their heads torn off their shoulders,"
He paused, looking downtrodden.
"Well, we all tried to get out, after the first went down, screaming. Football players, referees, little kids with their dads. Everyone pushing and screaming bloody murder, trying to get out. In the parking lot, one of them pulled me from my car, managed to chew off a bit of my arm. Would've gotten a lot farther, too, if the starting quarterback hadn't saved my ass by ripping off its head,"
This was when he started to get quieter, softer.
"Didn't get a chance to thank him. They took him down in two seconds, before turning on me again. I just ran. Swam out to the ocean, found out I could breathe underwater, ended up here." He smirked. "Damn shame too. We were winning."
"So they've taken Berkeley, too. California is gone."
You both realize how screwed you are. Nothing between you and Hawaii but ocean and death.
Suddenly, something rocks the float. The entire structure shivers and convulses, and sends you and Mark Lucey tumbling into one another. Black water rains down upon the floor.
"Watch out there's one coming!" you scream, peering over Mark's shoulder. You scoot away from him, poking your rifle in front of you desperately.
Before it reaches Mark, he spins around and does the strangest thing.
He jumps at it, tackling it, and taking it down in a single swing. Bleeding and flaking, it snarls and groans at him, clawing at his face and arms.
He leans over, and rips its arm off. Rips its damn arm right off its torso, and he's staring at it like he's afraid of himself, his eyes so wide and scared you can't believe they haven't exploded.
And he's got this strange look in his face.
"Mark," you say nervously, cautiously. "Mark, be careful…"
He twitches, and flinches, licking his chapped and cracked lips.
"Please, just kill me," he hisses, suddenly. "Just kill me before it does," he covers his face with his bloody hands, and shudders out a deep, weighty sigh.
"I've only got one more bullet left, Mark, this isn't the best way to solve this–"
"KILL ME!" he screams. "JUST EFFING KILL ME, ANNALISA!"
He crashes to the ground, flailing, and moaning. Then, with the force of some unknown phenomenon, he jerks his head up, and starts to crawl towards you.
Something in his eyes, once perfect, icy blue, triggers your weapon. Something cold and unreal, something inhuman. He is no longer Mark Lucey. Maybe he never was.
You have no time to mourn the passing. There are more coming over the lip of the spikes.
There will always be more.


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With a somewhat fantastical and very contorted plot, The Grown-Up opens serenely, with young Kai listening to a story his grandfather tells him. And then, through events that neither he nor the audience entirely understands, he is whisked away to other places and times by the powers of a magical doorknob.
After that, the seats of the Bingham Theatre ought to be equipped with seatbelts, because the audience is in for a frenetic and turbulent ride.
Playwright Jordan Harrison is clever at every turn in this, his fifth Humana Festival offering, poking fun at current events, alluding to contemporary cultural happenings, and even playfully panning his own work.
This is “a story with too much plot,” the characters say several times throughout the whirlwind 70 minute performance. Though this is said in reference to other events in the play, it is no doubt meant about the play itself as well.
And the characters are correct. This is a story with too much plot. But The Grown-Up doesn’t apologize for that fact, or for the confusion that it can thrust upon its audience as they struggle to connect the dots.
But despite the multi-veined plotline, The Grown-Up has eloquent themes. Themes of resurrecting innocence; of the powers of imagination, and of not focusing on the little things—because life passes by all too quickly. And those aren’t difficult to decipher.
The skillful ensemble delivers with focused intent. The rapid-fire delivery of Harrison’s words is supported by the quick action and interplay between cast members who function both as multiple characters and as narrators for the voices inside other character’s heads. At times, the pace is too quick, resulting in the audience leaning forward in their seats, trying not to miss anything.
There is also some inconsistency with prop use in the production. Throughout most of the play, the use of mime is employed, save for one instance when a comb and nail clippers appear, and another when various garments are introduced. Perhaps the most unfortunate inconsistency in the production is at the end when the magic doorknob, seen up to this point only in the audience’s imagination, makes an actual appearance; and for a moment, the enchantment of the play is suspended.
Despite its minor imperfections, The Grown-Up is a rare treat. Because even as it barrages us with a multitude of storylines, it tells us to let go. To not get caught up in the particulars. To be in the moment, and let the play take us wherever it goes.
Come to think of it, that just might be a good way to live life too.
The Grown-Up is directed by Ken Rus Schmoll and features Matthew Stadelmann, Brooke Bloom, Paul Niebanck, Tiffany Villarin, Chris Murray, and David Ryan Smith. It is part of the 38th Annual Humana Festival at Actors Theatre and continues through April 6. Tickets may be purchased online or through the Actors Theatre box office by calling 502-584-1205.
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PARKERSBURG -Since the age of 7, water seemed like a natural fit for Audrey Sweeney.
The senior from Parkersburg South remembers taking swim lessons at the YMCA when her mother was the aquatic director. Sweeney also enjoyed the competition at summer league meets.
"Swimming has always been a huge part of my life," Sweeney said. "I can't imagine anything without it."
That passion has led to success in the pool, and next year she will be taking her talents to the next level at Fairmont State University. All it took was one official visit to the campus and Sweeney was sold.
"About a month ago, I went on a visit, watched a meet and went on a tour of the campus- I knew right there I loved it," said Sweeney, who recently signed a national letter of intent to join a Fighting Falcons program coached by Patrick Snively.
"Patrick Snively is a USA swim coach and someone I've known for a while," Sweeney said. "I've heard so many good things about how he runs his program."
Sweeney's resume in the high school ranks includes top 6 finishes in both the 50 and 100 freestyle the past three seasons. This winter, she is bypassing on her senior year at Parkersburg South. Instead, she will focus on YMCA and USA Swim competition.
"I'm still swimming year round," Sweeney said. "All the girls from high school who usually finish in the top 6 in the finals are usually USA and YMCA swimmers, so they are the same girls that I will be swimming against this year."
Sweeney welcomes the opportunity to work under the tutelage of YMCA coaches Tom Phillips and Sarah Nicewarner, even if it means arriving at practice at 5:30 a.m. then returning for a second session after school.
"Tom has always believed in me and pushed me to be the best," Sweeney said. "He thought I had a great stroke and could go somewhere with swimming.
"Sarah is the type of person who will tell me to shut up and swim, and stop complaining. They both work in different ways and have gotten me to where I am now."
Away from the pool, Sweeney is an accomplished bowler. In fact, several years ago she was part of a team which placed fifth at a national event in Indianapolis.
"Bowling is just awesome - I still bowl on Saturday mornings when I am not practicing in the pool or not working," Sweeney said.
Sweeney, who is the daughter of Gary and Diane Sweeney, still is undecided in terms of her major at Fairmont State.
"With all these two-a-days and dryland workouts, I plan on getting stronger and making sure I get to every practice I can in order to get ready for college swimming," Sweeney said.


The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Aging has changed its name to the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging. The name change for the university-wide interdisciplinary research center was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees April 12, 2013.
The new name reflects the comprehensive scope of the Center's mission, the interdisciplinary nature of its programs and its commitment to optimizing the health and well-being of all older adults and their families. The center is a world leader in creating and using knowledge that will optimize function, enhance management of illness and improve health for older adults.
More than 220 faculty members are affiliated with the Center, working collaboratively to pursue programs and activities in three broad areas: optimizing function, improving management of illness and improving health for all older adults.
Efforts in optimizing function include research and therapy in the areas of mobility, cognition, vision and continence. Center faculty are working to improve the management of illness in the complex older adult through research on the basic mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases, especially for those older adults with advanced problems and multiple chronic conditions. The Center is pursuing improved health for all older adults by eliminating or reducing disparities based on age, socio-economic status, race or rural residence.


Lu Lu, M.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
855 Monroe Avenue, Suite 515
Memphis, TN 38163
Phone: (901) 448-7557
Fax: (901) 448-1716
Lab: 521 Johnson Building
Email: Lu Lu
- M.D. Institution: Nantong Medical College, Nantong, China
- Postdoctoral: Columbia University, New York, NY; University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
I use recombinant inbred (RI) mice and microarrays to study the several brain-related genetic problems. RI mice are an excellent resource for these studies and allow us to examine multiple types of data in a reference population. In addition to using the currently available RI strains, we have recently developed 45 additional BXD RI strains using two advanced intercross lines between C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice as progenitors. In combination with the previously developed BXD strains this is the largest RI strain set in existence.
Many problems can be efficiently addressed using RI mice. One of these questions is the mechanism of genetic control over brain architecture. In order to study this issue we have collected extensive neuroanatomical and gene expression data in the brains of BXD strains. Because all animals are isogenic, we can collect data of the same and differing types from multiple animals and meaningfully relate each data set. This allows us to determine, for instance, whether steady state expression of a gene is related to an observed phenotype, for instance an aspect of brain architecture or a behavioral difference between strains.
Another fascinating problem that we are able to address with RI lines is the modulation of transcriptional control in response to environmental influences. Using the LXS and BXD RI strains we are examining the modulation of transcriptional control in response to alcohol, stress, and the combination of alcohol and stress treatments. By examining modulatory changes in response to these conditions, we hope to gain insight into the molecular substrates underlying differences in ethanol and stress responses?a question thought to be very important in understanding human alcoholism.
- Delprato A, Bonheur B, Algéo MP, Rosay P, Lu L, Williams RW, Crusio WE. Systems genetic analysis of hippocampal neuroanatomy and spatial learning in mice. Genes Brain Behav. 2015 Oct 9. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12259. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 26449520.
- Zhao W, Zhao T, Chen Y, Zhao F, Gu Q, Williams RW, Bhattacharya SK, Lu L, Sun Y. A Murine Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Model: The DBA/2J Strain. PLoS One. 2015 Aug 4;10(8):e0133132. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133132. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26241864; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4524617.
- Ashbrook DG, Williams RW, Lu L, Hager R. A cross-species genetic analysis identifies candidate genes for mouse anxiety and human bipolar disorder. Front Behav Neurosci. 2015 Jul 1;9:171. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00171. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26190982; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4486840.
- Xue Y, Li J, Yan L, Lu L, Liao FF. Genetic variability to diet-induced hippocampal dysfunction in BXD recombinant inbred (RI) mouse strains. Behav Brain Res. 2015 Oct 1;292:83-94. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.06.023. Epub 2015 Jun 16. PubMed PMID: 26092713.
- Cook MN, Baker JA, Heldt SA, Williams RW, Hamre KM, Lu L. Identification of candidate genes that underlie the QTL on chromosome 1 that mediates genetic differences in stress-ethanol interactions. Physiol Genomics. 2015 Aug;47(8):308-17. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00114.2014. Epub 2015 May 19. PubMed PMID: 25991709; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4525077.
- Ness KK, DeLany JP, Kaste SC, Mulrooney DA, Pui CH, Chemaitilly W, Karlage RE, Lanctot JQ, Howell CR, Lu L, Srivastava DK, Robison LL, Hudson MM. Energy balance and fitness in adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 2015 May 28;125(22):3411-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2015-01-621680. Epub 2015 Mar 26. PubMed PMID: 25814529; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4447859.


I fed this to my guinea pig Pierre and he got to the point where he would not eat anything else. I tried some of the "Vet recommended" higher priced pellets, but Pierre would not touch it! So, I just stuck to the Walmart "Small World" brand. Well, my little Pierre lived to be almost 7 years old!!! He had a long, healthy life!! Never did he have any health problems, he passed away from old age! So yes, I would recommend this food!!! I just got a new guinea pig (named San Pietro) and he loves it as well!!! :)
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Morning chaps, been having an issue (one of many) with our site in the serps, and I'm hoping one of you worldy lot can help...
We were hit by Penguin on 4th October, and lost a lot of ground over the following couple of weeks for most major traffic terms.
The specific point is this - for our main term, 'certain widgets' our homepage has ranked highest (we held no.1 spot for some years). Now however Google can't decide which of our pages to serve for that phrase. If I add new content to the homepage and fetch as Google in WMT, it will list for our main term for about a day, then will get replaced by other less relevant pages. Rinse and repeat.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? As part of a link cleanup, over the past 12 months we've lost a massive number of IBLs to the homepage in particular. Could this have sent Google into a tailspin with indexing our site?
Any input would be massively appreciated.


Wine Cellar Roundup – Episode #69
Mmm, what have I been eating this week, you ask? Milky ways, crunch bars, and more and more chocolate! The kids like the colorful sugar stuff and I’m happily eating the chocolate. I was tempted to eat it all… Did you see Jimmy Kimmel’s video about that? Besides some frightening kiddos, wait and watch the two cuties at the end. Priceless!
I’m starting my Christmas list and this handbag made for boxed wine just MIGHT be on it! (Okay, it won’t but it’s funny nevertheless!)
Some funny rules for behaving in a professional manner overseas from Alan Richman at GQ.
Should there be wine scores at wine retailers? When I’m picking out a wine, I like scores in front of me, personally. I need that validation that I’m going to pick a good wine, what can I say? Even if wine is subjective!
From the WSJ, an article on how to start a wine collection. What do you think about their tips?
Will you be hosting Thanksgiving dinner? If so, the Help Line is open! Good to know if you get into a tight spot.
Have a great weekend!


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August 20, 1921 in New Haven, CT. Daniel graduated from Weaver
High School at Hartford, CT. He enlisted July 27, 1942 in the
Army Air Corps for pilot training during his senior year in college.
That program was cancelled so he chose navigational/radar training.
He graduated as an Aviation Cadet May 19, 1944 from 2530 AAF Base
Unit Navigational School at Selman Field, Monroe, LA and was commissioned
as 2nd Lieutenant.
May 20, 1944 he attended AFTS in Boca Raton, FL in radar completing
in September 1944. In November, he completed Radar Observer School
at AFTS, Langley Field, VA.
B-29 crews were made up at SHAAF, Salina, KS he was assigned as
radar operator with P-15. After their twelfth bombing mission
the crew flew a "war-weary" plane to Muroc and received additional
radar training for two months.
P-15 had returned to North Field Guam. They were returning from
their thirteenth combat mission when they received the radio announcement
that Japan had surrendered. This was August 13, 1945.
P-15 had been very luck. Its members made up a great crew. After
some "of the bugs" were repaired or replaced, their B-29 performed
as they had hoped this special plane would.
was given an honorable discharge as First Lieutenant.
military service, Daniel returned to complete his interrupted
senior year at New York University School of Commerce, Accounts
and Finance and received a Bachelor of Laws Degree in June 1959
and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in August 1959.
practiced law in Fairfield County, Connecticut area until retirement
on March 31, 1997. For the period of 1981 through 1991 he was
a Chapter 13 Trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court at Bridgeport,
1948 to 1973 he was married to Sally Gruss. Two sons Robert William
Meister and James Eliot Meister, PhD; a grandson Jeffery Alan
Meister and granddaughter, Laura Elizabeth Meister, survive him.
1975 he married Jeanette J. Skidd of Westport, CT. During the
last few years they divided their time between Connecticut and
Florida. Daniel died May 22, 1999 shortly after returning to their
home in Stratford, Connecticut for the summer.
and affiliations were many and varied including American and Connecticut
Bar Associations, National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, Connecticut
Society of Certified Public Accountants.


Original recipe yields 18 servings
Based on a 2,000 calorie dietSee full nutrition
The only thing I changed was to adjust the time for my oven, which runs a bit hot. We all loved it and my boys ate big portions each! Me too. :) I was really surprised so little soda wetted out ...


Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
When I was a kid, my grandma had a garden with a courtyard, a bit like this one. She had wooden slats between the flagstones and when they rotted away over the years, rather than replacing them, she planted thyme in between so when you walked on them it smelled nice. I think those weeds can be fairly easily replaced with something nice and sweet smelling.
It would be pretty to grow someclimbing vines or roses or something over the table, or I suppose that the rod irons would also fit a canopy. L.J.A.
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