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Delaware Technical Community College (previously  Delaware Technical & Community College, also known as DTCC, Delaware Tech, or Del Tech) is a public community college in the U.S. state of Delaware. Delaware Tech is an open admission institution accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

The college offers more than 100 associate degrees, diplomas, and certificate programs. Of these programs, 48 are accredited degree programs with articulation agreements with 61 other higher learning institutions. It is the only community college in the state.  The four-component campuses that make up the college are the Jack F. Owens Campus in Georgetown, Delaware, the Stanton Campus in Stanton, Delaware, the Charles L. Terry Campus in Dover, and the Orlando J. George, Jr. Campus in Wilmington, Delaware.

History

The Delaware General Assembly created Delaware Technical Community College in 1966 with the approval of House Bill 529, signed into law by then-Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. The first Delaware Tech campus opened its doors in Sussex County in September 1967 with Dr. Paul K. Weatherly serving as the first president. Three hundred sixty-seven students enrolled in the first year. Enrolment doubled in the second year, and the construction of new laboratories and classrooms began. The Southern Campus was renamed in 1995 to the "Owens Campus" in honor of its first campus director, Jack F. Owens. In 1968, a Northern Campus was opened with 375 full-time students enrolled in the first year. A multi-campus facility was created, and the Stanton and Wilmington locations were opened in 1973 and 1974, respectively. With a Delaware Tech campus in both Sussex and New Castle Counties, it was determined that 47% of high school juniors and seniors in Kent County said they would be interested in a Kent County branch of Delaware Tech. In response to this need, Kent Campus was established in Dover in 1972, and the name was later changed to "Terry Campus" in honor of Governor Charles Terry, who was a motivating force behind the establishment of the College. The President's Office, located adjacent to the Terry Campus, functions as a central office by providing various services in support of the campuses.

Campuses

The college's campuses include:
 Charles L. Terry, Jr. Campus in Dover - It was named after Governor of Delaware Charles L. Terry. The  facility is on a  property, in northern Dover. The campus also has the Del-One conference center located inside
 Owens Campus in Georgetown. It has  of land.
Stanton Campus in Stanton, an unincorporated area (Newark postal address)
 Stanton Gymnasium
 Orlando J. George, Jr. Campus - Wilmington
 Middletown Training Center

Athletics
The Delaware Tech Athletic Department operates under the guidance of the Dean of Student Services and follows all bylaws and regulations established by the National Junior College Athletic Association Region XIX. Students interested in athletic participation must meet NJCAA eligibility requirements.
 The Owens Campus hosts the softball and baseball team practices.  The baseball team won the 2001 NJCAA D2 World Series. Although the men's and women's cross country team practices at all campuses, home meets are typically held at the Owens campus, and the team wears blue uniforms.
 The Stanton campus hosts both men's and women's basketball team practices and women's volleyball team practices. The team colors are green and white.
 The Terry Campus hosts the men's lacrosse team practices.

Academics

Delaware Technical Community College has "Connected Degree" agreements and programs with other higher education institutions in the state. Individuals may earn an associate's degree at Del Tech and then transfer previously earned credits to other Delaware institutions at a possibly lower cost to the student. Of the more than 200 connected degree agreements, most are with are with the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, and Wilmington University.

In the 2019–2020 school year, 14,029 students were enrolled in Delaware Tech. The gender ratio for that year is ~0.65 female and ~0.35 male. Students out-of-state can be expected to take classes at 2.5 times the cost as in-state students. Although a more expensive option for out of state residents, in-state students are eligible to apply for the Delaware SEED Scholarship, which is intended to reduce the burden on the student to just books and course fees.

In 1987 the Delaware Tech established the Academic Challenge Program. It included University of Delaware until 2016 though existing University of Delaware students remained.

Notable former faculty
 Dr. Jill Biden – English instructor, current First Lady of the United States

Notable alumni

 James Hutchison – Mayor of Dover, Delaware (1994–2004)
 Harvey Kenton – Delaware State Representative (2011–2019)
 Ruth Ann Minner – Governor of Delaware (2001–2009)
 Trinidad Navarro – Insurance Commissioner of Delaware
 Montrell Teague – Harness racing driver
 Dennis P. Williams – Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware (2013–2017)

See also
Del Tech Stanton Gymnasium

References

External links

Garden State Athletic Conference
Community colleges in Delaware
Buildings and structures in Wilmington, Delaware
Educational institutions established in 1966
Education in New Castle County, Delaware
1966 establishments in Delaware
NJCAA athletics


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La cappella di Santo Staso (variazione dialettale del nome Eustachio) è un ex luogo di culto cattolico rurale di Acquaviva delle Fonti, nella città metropolitana di Bari. È sita in via Sant'Eustachio, nell'omonima contrada.

Storia
Le prime testimonianze dell'esistenza della cappella di Santo Staso sono alcuni documenti notarili dell'Archivio del Capitolo di Acquaviva del XV e del XVI secolo.

Come si evince dallo Stato delle Chiese di Acquaviva nel 1717, già nel 1717 la cappella non era più adibita al culto. Nel medesimo testo è documentata la presenza, all'interno del sacello, di affreschi murari, sebbene già in stato di logoramento, di un altare con un'immagine di sant'Eustachio, anch'essa dipinta sul muro, e di una copertura a cupola.

Essa è ancora citata nel 1729 nella Breve Storia delle Chiese di Acquaviva nell'anno 1729, scritta dal canonico Gerolamo Tommaso Rosa, e tra alcuni beni di un catasto onciario del 1751.

Successivamente è stata adibita a deposito agricolo, mentre attualmente è in stato di abbandono.

Dell'ex cappella rimangono solo le pareti laterali. Infatti la cupola e l'abside, semidirute, furono abbattute definitivamente nel 1935. Inizialmente la cupola fu sostituita da un tetto a falda singola in assi di legno coperte da tegole, mentre oggigiorno la fabbrica è priva di copertura. L'originario ingresso fu murato, aprendone un altro dove prima era collocato l'altare, ovvero sulla parete opposta.

Descrizione
La struttura è a pianta centrale (nello specifico, quadrata).

All'interno tutti gli affreschi e l'altare sono andati persi.

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Staso
Acquaviva delle Fonti

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Free Picks » NBA Picks » Atlanta Hawks at Detroit Pistons NBA Picks & Predictions 2/14/2018
Atlanta Hawks at Detroit Pistons NBA Picks & Predictions 2/14/2018
by Josh Schonwald - 2/13/2018
Little Ceasars Arena
The Atlanta Hawks travel to Little Ceasars Arena to play the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. The opening line for this matchup has Detroit as 9 point favorites.
The Hawks come into this game with an overall record of 18-39. They are 5th in the Southeast Division. They currently have a point differential of -4.1 as they are averaging 104.0 points per game while giving up 108.1 per contest. The Pistons have an overall record of 27-29. They currently are 4th in the Central Division. They are averaging 103.4 points per game and surrendering 103.6, good for a point differential of -0.2.
Valuable Atlanta Hawks Betting Trends
The Atlanta Hawks are 29-26-2 against the spread
The Atlanta Hawks are 28-29-0 against the over/under
Important Detroit Pistons Betting Trends
The Detroit Pistons are 26-28-2 against the spread
The Detroit Pistons are 25-31-0 against the over/under
Key Atlanta Hawks Injuries
No key injuries to report
Key Detroit Pistons Injuries
12/27/17 PG Reggie Jackson Ankle is out indefinitely
11/25/17 F Jon Leuer Ankle is out for season
Kent Bazemore averages 12.9 points per game in 27.8 minutes per contest this season. He averages 3.6 assists per contest and 4 rebounds per game for Atlanta. His field goal percentage is 41% for the year while his free throw percentage is 80%. Dennis Schroder comes into this contest averaging 19.6 points per game while playing 31.3 minutes per night so far this season for the Hawks. He pulls down 3.1 rebounds per game and dishes out 6.4 assists per game as well. His field goal percentage is 44% while his free throw percentage is currently at 87%.
Blake Griffin averages 22.4 points per game this season and he sees the court an average of 34.4 minutes per contest. He also averages 7.9 rebounds per contest and 5.5 assists per game. His field goal percentage is 44% and his free throw percentage is 80%. Andre Drummond averages 15.1 points per game while playing 33.4 minutes per contest this year for the Pistons. He grabs 15.7 rebounds per game and has 3.7 assists per contest on the year. His field goal percentage is 54% and his free throw percentage currently is at 62%.
The Hawks allow 108.1 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 23rd in the league. They also allow a 47% shooting percentage and a 38% average from behind the arc, ranking them 24th and 29th in those defensive categories. Opponents average 43.2 rebounds a game which ranks 16th, and they give up 25.7 assists per contest which puts them in 29th place in the league. They force 15.9 turnovers per game which ranks them 29th in the league. Atlanta averages 104 points per contest this season, which ranks them 19th in the NBA. Their average scoring margin is -4.09 and their shooting percentage is 45% as a team, which has them ranked 21st. Behind the arc they shoot 37% which is good for 7th in the league. They average 40.7 rebounds per game and 23.9 assists per game, which ranks them 26th and 6th in those offensive categories. In the turnover department they rank 5th with 15.4 per game.
The Pistons surrender 103.6 points per contest, which ranks them 8th in the NBA. Their defense is allowing a 46% shooting percentage and a 37% average from 3-point range, ranking them 16th and 28th in those defensive statistics. They rank 27th with 24.6 assists allowed per contest, and 18th with 43.3 rebounds surrendered per game. The Pistons are 22nd in the NBA in forcing turnovers with 15.1 per game this season. Detroit is 23rd in the league with 103.4 points per game this year. They are 22nd in the league in shooting at 45%, while their average scoring margin is -0.21. They shoot 37% from 3-point range, which is good for 5th in the NBA. They are 19th in the league in rebounding with 42.8 boards per game and 13th in assists per contest with 22.8. The Pistons are 24th in turnovers per game with 13.6.
The Hawks are 20th in the league in defensive rating with 110.9, and their offensive rating of 106.7 is ranked 5th. They are 14th in the NBA in pace with 97.2 possessions per 48 minutes, and their eFG% of 52% is 16th. As a unit they are 14th in the league in true shooting percentage with 55% and they shoot 3-pointers on 35% of their shot attempts, ranking 8th in the NBA. Atlanta is 3rd in turnovers, as they turn the ball over an average of 14.1 times per 100 possessions while forcing 14.4 on defense. Their defensive eFG% for the year currently is 54%, which is 4th in the NBA.
Detroit is 24th in the NBA in turnovers, as they turn the ball over an average of 12.5 times per 100 possessions while forcing 14 on the defensive end. Their defensive effective field goal percentage for the season currently is 53%, which is 13th in the league. The Pistons are 18th in the NBA in offensive rating with 107.2, and their defensive rating of 107.4 is ranked 20th. In terms of pace they are 18th in the league with 96.3 possessions per 48 minutes, and their effective field goal percentage of 51% is 19th. As a team they are 23rd in the NBA in true shooting percentage with 54% and they shoot 3-pointers on 33% of their shots, ranking 18th in the league.
Who will win tonight's Hawks/Pistons NBA game against the spread?
Josh's Pick: Take Detroit -9
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Q: SWF Loader -> TypeError: Error #1009 (Null reference) I've read the previous posts of SO and it seems that some people's had the same issue as me - but none came up with a solution that helped my problem :)
I've designed 3 games that are their own SWF file, and I'm trying to load them upon a keypress in a container-program, sort of :).
I'm getting the TypeError 1009 null reference on all my SWF files though :( and they run perfectly when I load them from Windows. I've tried loading a SWF made by someone else, and that did work. So maybe my way of designing flash games is a bit off?
Everything takes place in frame 1 - that's maybe something that's off.
My loader code is:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeysDown);

function loaderFunction(swfFile:String):void {
    var loader:Loader = new Loader();
    loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
    loader.load(new URLRequest(swfFile));
}

function onComplete(e:Event):void {
    var movie:* = LoaderInfo(e.currentTarget).content;
    //Adding content to the stage
    stage.addChild(movie);
}

function reportKeysDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
    if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.NUMBER_1) {
        stage.removeChildren(1);
        loaderFunction("Card.swf");
    }
    if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.NUMBER_2){
        stage.removeChildren(1);
        loaderFunction("Puzzle.swf");
    }
    if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.NUMBER_3){
        stage.removeChildren(1);
        loaderFunction("BallGame.swf");
    }
}

And the error is

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
  object reference.     at BallGame_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

(I get these for everyone of the SWF's)
I'm not sure how to debug those games I'm loading since there's nothing wrong when I play separately.
Any ideas :)? Thanks!
Edit:
It started telling me which lines were acting up, and it seems to be the keyboard-listener, at least for one of the games. I'm reading keyboard into much like I am with the loader swf.
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);

Solution-Edit:
The problem is that the loaded SWFs are using the "stage" property, and when they're loaded into another SWF the stage isn't theirs to own. That's what's causing the errors :) @BotMaster
Solution-Solution Edit:
You can still look for keyboard inputs (like I was doing) in a nested SWF, if you're using the
Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE

Like this, for instance :)
this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAdded);
function onAdded(e:Event):void{
    trace("added");
    stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);
}

@null

A: stage only becomes available (it's not null) when the DisplayObject is added to the display list.
The only exception to that rule is the main file or the first file that is opened in the flash player.
That's why each of your games plays fine individually.
You should only use stage property if it is available. To do this, listen for the Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE event. This will be dispatched when something is added to the stage. In the handler function, you can safely use stage.
You still should add the listener to the stage but only if it is available to you.

Please read the documentation about addChild(). You should basically never add anything to stage. In general, take a look at the basics of the display list and how it works.

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Luminary, located in Finland, is a multiform high rise building with very strict tolerance demands. The challenges have to do with its complexity and the number of elevations, tall building methods, and the changing wishes of future residents. Success relates to model-based design and collaboration as well as sharing and utilizing model data on site. Luminary is the winner of the commercial category of Tekla Global BIM Awards 2018.
The building mainly consists of precast concrete units, but the lowest floors are cast in place. The roof structures, monorails and exit stairs are all made of steel. Facade maintenance has been carefully designed using the 3D model. A maintenance cradle on the roof circles the building on a monorail and its reach for window cleaning and facade trimming has been ensured using the model.
A-Insinöörit Suunnittelu is carrying out the structural and building unit design of the project. They also delivered geotechnical design, including level design and acoustical design, such as studies of the audio-technical qualities of the stairways. Precast manufacturer Parma participated in model-based* cooperation. The IFC models and architectural DWG files from other design disciplines were used as references. The Tekla model produced 3,070 drawings in total, of which 1,550 were for the precast units. Including the Delta beams, hollow core slabs and floor slabs, the project consists of 2,580 units, and the Tekla model contains about 220,000 objects.
Luminary is a challenging hybrid structure for designers, builders and fabricators alike. Its complexity and the number of elevations, tall building methods, and the needs of future residents have all had a hand in its planning.
Because the plot will be filled to capacity, the supports and foundations have posed a challenge. Existing buildings on both sides, street elevations and other city infrastructure had to be taken into consideration in the design. The foundations feature various levels, and the complex cast-in-place sublevels are heavily reinforced including, equipment, penetrations and connections to municipal infrastructure.
A special challenge was matching the two different frame solutions: the business section contains a beam-to-column frame, while the apartments include load-bearing internal walls. Regarding the CIP contractor, the casting areas were large with many complex shapes, and there was very little storage space on site.
Strict tolerance requirements for tall buildings posed a challenge for precast manufacturing. The windows and doors were installed on the units at the factory, and the precast detailer modeled these parts using Tekla Structures in order to accurately manage the weights and centers of gravity. The design was more demanding than usual, partially because the wall elements include large openings and loads. However, it was possible to model all units in detail and produce the drawings directly from the model.
The units' electrical equipment was modeled based on the electrical designer's IFC files. The temporary bracing and steel connections of thin-shell panels were modeled in exceptional detail. Additional joint parts, like welding plates, have also been modeled.
The project was successful because of its very high quality and accurate model-based design, seamless collaboration and extensive on-site model use. The design team was able to work seamlessly together utilizing and producing high-quality, accurate models. With the Tekla Model Sharing, the builders and the precast manufacturer were able to access the model in real time in a more accurate and visual form compared to a shared IFC model.
Among other benefits, accurate modeling made fully model-based construction layout possible for all prefabricated structures and precast producer to transfer data to their production management system directly from the structural model.
Betonirakenne Oinas Oy, the concrete contractor worked model-based and utilized structural engineer's models as a base for their work. The contractor used models all the way from estimation, pour planning, rebar detailing and documentation to the on-site work management. On-site, the model has been used in a versatile way by managers and employees alike – for example, to visually aid installations and carpentry, at the BIM kiosk.
In this project, the positions on site were measured based on the structural model, a first which made work significantly easier and faster. The Tekla models were was widely used on mobile devices with the help of Field3D, and so far, it has been shared among 50 users. Attention has been paid to the occupational safety of the units during the design, and the contractor modeled solutions for fall protection. The structural designer modeled the transportation supports of the door openings plus all the other structures needed to support the units of various shapes.
The support points for the cranes and elevators for construction work were also modeled. The safety of the lifts was ensured carefully, and the model was utilized as a visual aid. Perhaps the most particular work-time structure modeled is a temporary support for the crane on the 15th floor as requested by the builders. They needed to find out the exact center of gravity of the very complex support in order to design and install it horizontally, safely and accurately.
Precast and Steel detailers coordinated structures to ensure flawless connections between different materials.


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Parkesia är ett fågelsläkte i familjen skogssångare inom ordningen tättingar. Släktet omfattar endast två arter som häckar dels i norra Nordamerika, dels i östra USA, vintertid till Västindien och norra Sydamerika:
 Nordlig piplärksångare (P. noveboracensis)
 Sydlig piplärksångare (P. motacilla)

De fördes tidigare till släktet Seiurus, men DNA-studier visar att de är endast avlägset släkt.

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Thanks a million for the SSC Eng Pass sullabus. Its been a great help for me. I could come to the decision whether to sit for Honours or Pass this year with the help of it. Thanks again.
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In SSC TIER II exam English Section plays an extremely important role in your Success . There will be 200 questions from English and more than 50% questions are directly based on grammar or its applications.
We've decided to help you with Grammar. We'll cover all the important Grammar rules and tricky scenarios in the form of "ENGLISH STUDY NOTES". Today in this post we'll introduce CONJUNCTIONS: ALL TRICKY SCENARIOS.
Ex.-God made the country and man made the town.
Three and three make six.
She must work hard, or she will fail.
Rule-1 when 'as well as', 'along with', 'together with' , 'No less than', 'In addition to' and 'Not' and 'with' join two subjects, the verb will be according to the first subject.
Rule-2'A great many' is always followed by a plural noun and a plural verb.
Ex.-A great many students have been declared successful.
Rule-3 If two subjects are joined by 'Either-Or', 'Neither-Nor', the verb agrees with the subject that is near.
Rule-4'One of' always takes a plural noun after it.
Ram is not only handsome but also intelligent.
Not only India but also Pakistan is poor.
He ate not only bananas but also apples.
Rule-6 'Scarcely' and 'Hardly' are followed by 'WHEN' and not by 'THAN'.
Ex.-I had Scarcely entered the room WHEN the phone rang.
Hardly had he seen his father when he stopped smoking.
Scarcely had he entered the room when the light came.
Hardly had he reached the school when it began to rain.
Rule-7 'Though' is followed by 'yet' and not by 'but'.
Although he is rich yet he is miser.
Though he is lame yet he can walk fast.
Rule-8 'No sooner' is followed by 'than'.
Ex.-No sooner had I entered the class than the students stood up.
No Sooner did I step out than it started raining.
No Sooner had I reached the station than the train departed.
Rule-9 'Lest' must be followed by 'should'.
Run with care lest you should fall.
Rule-10 'Such' is followed by 'As'.
Ex.-Such a boy as I know is at the party.
He is Such a writer as everybody should read his books.
Rule-11 'So' is followed by 'That'.
Ex.-He is so weak that he cannot walk.
He is so handsome that every girl will be ready to marry him.
Rule-12 'UNLESS' expresses a condition, It is always used in the negative sense. Thus 'NOT' is never used with 'unless'.
Rule-13 'Until' expresses time. It has a negative sense and thus 'not' should never be used with it.
Rule-14 'Since' indicates a point of time and 'for' stands for the length of time.
Ex.-He had been reading the book for two hours.
It has been raining since Monday last.
Ex.-15 'As if' is used to convey the sense of pretension.
When 'as if' is used in this sense, 'WERE' is used in all cases, Even with third person singular.
Ex.-Ram is both tall and handsome.
Since he is my father, I respect him.
I respect him because he is my father.
Rule-18 'OR' is used to introduce an alternative.
Your purse 'OR' your life.
We must hasten or night will overtake us.
He may study physics or chemistry or Biology or he may enter into trade.
While there is hope there is life.
While he was sleeping, an enemy entered in the house.
Ex.-A very pretty woman, only she squints a little .


Including a probationary period clause in an employment contract can help both the new employee and the employer to focus on what needs to be done to ensure that the employee performs well in the role.
The clause should set out the length of the probationary period. The appropriate length will depend on factors such as the seniority of the employee.
If the employer intends that probationary employees will not have certain contractual rights or that certain policies will not apply during the probationary period, it should consider including this in the contract clause.


Calder Creek runs through an ugly culvert behind a chain-link fence in Ives Park in Sebastopol.
Our proposal to the City is this: Daylight the creek from Ives Park to the Laguna. Plant a greenway along the Creek. Add an extension of the multi-use trail along Calder Creek to the park beneath Petaluma Ave. and Main Street. If the city-owned parking lot between Petaluma Ave. and Main Street is sold to a developer to construct first-floor commercial along with second story residential, some of the cost of daylighting the creek could be born by the developers. It would be an ideal location for both residents (close to the park, Laguna and business district) and business (near the commercial district). A greenway across the highway would be useful for attracting tourists to stop, dine and shop in Sebastopol. It can promote events in the park and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. It could provide environmental education for students of the Charter School adjacent to the Creek.
If you would like to help with this project, contact Rick Coates at rcoates@sonic.net.


Chloe Sullivan has come a long way from her days as a reporter at Smallville High's student newspaper, The Torch. In the past six years she has dealt with more freaks then you can shake a stick at, earned and subsequently lost a column at The Daily Planet, discovered Clark Kent's secret identity, tussled with the Luthors, and found out she had superpowers of her own. It seems Chloe my have found love as well, as the most recent season of "Smallville" ended with the-man-who-would-be-Superman's own pal Jimmy Olsen asking her to marry him, just before she was arrested by government officials.
The actress who has played Chloe Sullivan, Allison Mack, has come a long way as well. Acting for over twenty years, Mack is going to take the leap behind the camera this season and direct an episode of the hit CW series. CBR News got the chance to talk with Mack at last month's San Diego Comic-Con about the brand new season of "Smallville," which begins in September.
Even though Mack is returning for her eighth season on the show, she is still very excited about the series and part of the reason why is that she'll expand her repertoire by directing an episode. "I am directing this year so that's a totally new beast to tackle," Mack explained, "so I'm looking at the show in a very different way. Also, there's something so wonderful about the family that we've built so coming back just doesn't feel like I am coming back to work on 'Smallville,' it really feels like I am coming home in a lot of ways. It's really nice to come back and enjoy that kind of fall into the warm embrace of the family that's being built there."
Mack feels it's her job and responsibility to be excited about being back on "Smallville." "What I mean is [that] as an actor it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new and if I am not doing my job well then I am stealing," she said. "So coming back, I think it's important to keep it fresh and [it's] important to be excited because I think that's part of why I get paid."
As for the episode Mack will be directing, that is still not set in stone. "It's either [episode] thirteen or fifteen, I'm not sure," she said. "I don't have the script and I have no idea what it's going to look like other then it's not going to have a lot of Chloe in it." This wasn't the first time Mack was slated to direct an episode of the show, as she was scheduled to direct an episode last season before the writers strike. "I followed around a couple of directors and was there every day sitting in the chair just asking questions and writing things down," Mack said. "Now that it's been confirmed again, I come in and I have my directing homework and I go over it with James Marshall, Marizee Almas -- who's our First [Assistant Director] -- and Glen Winter, who's a director of photography. I'm trying to learn as much as I can, it's amazing. Making a TV show is incredible, the things that go into it and the amount of work oh my god it's amazing."
Wanting to move behind the camera came naturally for Mack, who saw directing as an evolution of her career. "I've been acting for twenty-two years," Mack said. "And I love film so much and I love the whole process of making film, this is just sort of the next step of understanding it on a deeper level. I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can and directing is really just understanding learning a different element of that storytelling process."
Fans are curious if Chloe will make a return to The Daily Planet, where she used to write a column. "Well I visit the Daily Planet," Mack confirmed. "I don't know, she's really diving head first into the Isis and she's really taking on the job of being the mentor and the kind of place of solace for all the meteor-infected. So I think that that's really going to see her be focused and she's pretty angry at Lex Luthor so she's going to stay as far away from him and his cohorts as possible"
As Mack evolves, so does the character of Chloe Sullivan, and Mack is looking forward to explore some other aspects of the character this season, like cutting the apron strings with Clark. "It's time for him to grow up a little bit and not rely on Chloe so much so that Chloe can go off and forge her own path," Mark remarked. "She's been his shadow for a really long time and [while she] has been doing things of great importance I think it's really exciting to see her start to see her kind of forge her own way and figure out what she's passionate about separate and aside from Clark. You really start to see her do [that] at the Isis Foundation and she's really narrowing down her scope of what she wants to focus on, which is really to try and help that part of the population in the world and I think that's really cool."
One of those people Chloe will be helping is Bette, aka Plastique, another character from the DC Universe who will be making her explosive debut in episode two of the new season. "I think Chloe is really taking on the whole Mother Teresa kind of thing that's been looming around since she started her superpower of healing a couple of season ago," Mack said. "She's got such a huge heart and she is recognizing that there are more people that need her other than Clark Kent. Which is another reason I think she sort of starting to cut the apron strings and let Clark venture into his own sort of thing cause she is really seeing how many people need her help and Bette is just the first of I think many."
Between Jimmy Olsen proposal, the introduction of Davis Bloome " aka Doomsday -- and as always Clark Kent, Chloe has her hands full when it comes to the men in her life. "I know I have such a stable to choose from now, it's really so horrible." Mack joked. "Obviously, my relationship with Clark is still going strong and we're kind of always trying to find our footing and figure out if we're in love or just friends or what's going on. Then she's got Jimmy, who's just this beautiful, amazing, supportive, stable, realistic man who I think she really seeks to find solace in and kind of use this as a way to ground herself in some sort of sense of stability so she goes to him a lot when things feel kind of crazy. But now she has this new hero paramedic Davis guy who's pursuing her pretty actively, is incredibly attractive, and very kind and interesting and also a little dark. So she's really got three to choose from and you know there is [always] the Green Arrow and he's just fun to play with."
With Doomsday, having a potential suitor who ends up killing Superman just fuels the excitement Alison Mack feels for this coming season. "It's awesome," she said. "I'm learning more and more about the comics as we go, cause I don't know a lot about the Superman comics, so just finding out a couple of weeks ago that Doomsday actually kills Superman in the comics and being a part of the struggle between the dark and the light side again I think is really exciting. So I'm really looking forward to it and Sam [Witwer] is a wonderful actor and he's so charming so I'm having a lot of fun playing with him."
What Mack finds the most enjoyable about playing Chloe Sullivan is the fact that since she is not in the comic book universe, her character's future isn't set in stone. "My part as this character has not been anything secure," Mack explained, "so we've really been able to work in quite an equal partnership -- the writers, myself and the fans -- in shaping who this character is going to be and shaping the direction she is going to go. So I really like the fact that everything is new and that we're really molding a brand new character together."
Though DC did say they were gong to add Sullivan to the Superman comic books, apparently the time was not right, although Mack is still looking forward to the day that she can see the four-color version of herself. "What an amazing honor to have a character written after you," she said. "I think that it's so cool. So I am thrilled at that opportunity, and that possibility, and I hope to see it come to fruition. I mean, who gets to show their kids like this is me, this is a character I built and that's awesome?"
The new season of "Smallville" has found itself a few cast members short, as Michael Rosenbaum, who portrayed Lex Luthor, and Kristin Kreuk, who portrayed Lana Lane, have both left the show. "They are still very much part of our lives," Mack said. "We're like a train, we just keep going, forging ahead and we miss them dearly and we love them and we talk about them and think about them all the time, but you know we are making a show so we can't slow down." Though Mack did add one cryptic note, smiling as she said, "We'll see that bald head again, he's not gone for good."
As this may indeed end up being the final season of "Smallville," Mack turns her eyes toward the future. "John Glover said to me once that a good part is a good part no matter what the venue, and I go where the good parts are," Mack said. "I've always had so much respect for him and his career and his choices as an actor I think he's just amazing. So I would like to stay doing that and really listen to him and follow in his footsteps in that respect."
Mack added that she would love the opportunity to work in film and theater but that there was "so much amazing television" being done that she would hate to limit herself. But her passion for creating art doesn't stop there. "As far as behind the scenes I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things," Mack said. "I want to get into helping put together different venues for all artists so figuring out more what it means to put on art shows and film festivals and music festivals and things like that because I am passionate about any form of creative expression."


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'I feel I belong': India's first trans-run dairy farm brings jobs and respect
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As head of India's first dairy farm run by transgender women, Bhoomika has finally found security, having spent years as a beggar after fleeing parents who taunted their sari-wearing son.
The state-backed Transgenders' Milk Producers' Cooperative Society officially opened its doors in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last month, providing 30 trans women each with an individual home, a cow and a shared business venture.
"I begged on the trains for five years. Life was difficult, everyone looked at us in a strange way," Bhoomika, who goes by one name, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
"We are still treated the same outside the dairy farm but inside I am able to lead a normal life, a life of dignity. I feel I belong," the 28-year-old said from the farm in Manthithoppu village, about 100km south of Madurai city.
The 1.5-acre farm, which sells 180 litres of milk a day, was the brainchild of local official Sandeep Nanduri, who tapped multiple state departments for housing, jobs, training and cash to realise the 17.5 million-rupee ($237,621) project.
It is rare for India's estimated 2 million trans population to find stable homes or incomes, with many forced to beg, dance at weddings or sell sex in the face of widespread discrimination that makes it hard to access education and jobs.
Since India's Supreme Court gave trans people "third gender" recognition in 2014, a growing number of companies have actively hired trans people and adopted more inclusive policies, such as unisex toilets.
Members of India's first trans-run dairy farm at work in Thoothukudi, India. Thomson Reuters Foundation/District Collector Thoothukudi
Trans people have also received charity and local government funding to start businesses such as take-out biryani rice joints or tattoo parlours, according to local media.
But Nanduri had greater ambitions.
"In the last couple of years, we have helped some trans people with loans to set up small shops but the idea this time was to empower the community … not just financially, but to make them entrepreneurs," he said.
"They face social exclusion so we kept the farm close to their residential space," said Nanduri, the administrative head of Thoothukudi district.
Nanduri was spurred into action by a well-known trans activist Grace Banu who had been lobbying local officials for six years – without success – to provide housing for trans women in the port city of Thoothukudi, where she grew up.
Unlike most trans women in India, Banu earned an engineering degree and now works as a mobile app developer in Chennai, and is a leader in the trans community.
"Housing is our biggest problem. If we rent homes, the owners treat us poorly and if we speak up, they ask us to vacate the house with no notice," said Banu.
In just over a year, Nanduri arranged loans for the women to buy cows and enlisted government agencies that taught them how to farm and built cattle sheds on the site, along with neat rows of green and turquoise, one-room homes.
"He was the first person to treat us with respect… he put in all the effort to meet our demand," said Banu.
"That is why we named our housing colony after him. We call it Sandeep Nagar," she said. The term nagar is often used to denote a town in India.
The women are paid by the litre and earn about 8,000 rupees ($109) each per month supplying milk to Tamil Nadu's biggest milk producers' union Aavin, which buys from about 170 farms in Thoothukudi.
"They are doing well compared to other dairies as they work as a community … they are attached emotionally and live together as a family," said Santha Kumar, manager with Aavin's procurement department.
"The fat content is 4.1%, better than the average fat content of 3.9% fat that we get, which means the cattle is being fed well and the quality of milk is good."
Bhoomika is confident the farm will continue to flourish, with plans afoot to add more cows and members.
When a local villager offered to buy her cow, she refused.
"This business has given us dignity," she said. "We have been trusted with this work and we don't want to break that."
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Patty Cakes
Terror, nostalgia and the SLA
By Gordon Young
AFTER PATTY HEARST was kidnapped in February of 1974, John McConnell wasn't taking any chances. Although only 6 years old, he knew who was responsible for the fate of the publishing heiress, and he was going to take appropriate measures to protect himself.
So he slumped down in his car seat, out of sight, each time his mom or dad drove by a particular building. He was sure it was home to a well-organized band of revolutionary soldiers. In a way, he was right. It was the local headquarters of the Salvation Army.
McConnell, now a 34-year-old researcher at UC-San Francisco, wasn't the only one confused by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Despite its uncanny skill at grabbing publicity, the SLA didn't exactly present a coherent message to the masses. Now, nearly 30 years since its well-documented declaration of war against the U.S. government and its infamous crime spree, the SLA is back in the news. And just as perplexing as ever.
On Jan. 16, former SLA members Emily "Yolanda" Harris, Sara Jane Olson, Michael Bortin and William "General Teko" Harris were arrested for the slaying of 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl during the robbery of the Carmichael branch of the Crocker National Bank on April 21, 1975. A fifth suspect, James Kilgore, remains a fugitive.
The suspects have all denied any involvement in the robbery in past interviews, but in Every Secret Thing, Hearst's 1982 autobiography, she accused Emily Harris of firing the shotgun blast that killed Opsahl. She also wrote that Bill Harris, Olson, Bortin and Kilgore were participants in the robbery. Hearst, who admits driving a getaway car, was granted immunity in the case years ago, freeing her to testify in the forthcoming trial but once again shining the spotlight back on her. The case could hinge on Hearst's credibility as a witness.
"Given that the only person naming anybody individually is Patty Hearst, her testimony seems to be a central issue in everybody's trial," said Stuart Hanlon, Emily Harris' attorney. "She's really, in many ways, the entire case."
The trial, which is expected to take place early next year, highlights all of the old contradictions associated with the SLA and Patty Hearst. Was the SLA a band of idealistic revolutionaries or just a gang of utlraviolent thugs? Was Hearst a willing convert to the cause or was she brainwashed and abused into cooperating?
From Angel to Outlaw: Patty Hearst at her First Communion.
The SLA never did a great job of clearing up these questions. Its members often resembled a pack of NRA gun nuts misinterpreting the ideals of the 1960s. It's hard to understand, for example, how assassinating Marcus Foster, Oakland's first black school superintendent, demonstrated the SLA's opposition to racism. Perhaps the SLA was practicing a literal form of guerrilla marketing, but by modern public-relations standards, they were a mess.
But the press was mesmerized. "In a matter of months, the Symbionese Liberation Army achieved a notoriety and visibility unparalleled among the extremist minisects, dominating the political extreme, imprinting the whole of the fringe with their own quixotic image," wrote Vin McLellan and Paul Avery in The Voices of Guns, an excellent history of the SLA. "It was they, finally, who gave a wholly American root to the word 'terrorist,' succeeding where so many others had failed. ... The SLA had a genius for public theater. They burst into the headlines on page one, on the network-news prime time, cover stories in magazines. Their fate was sealed, their plot insane, their image fit all the expectations of a public primed."
Ready for Her Close-Up: Made over for her 1975 mugshot, a brown-haired Emily Harris appears to show no remorse.
Kidnapper Crush
I'm not sure what I was primed for, but I, too, fell under some kind of SLA spell as a 9-year-old kid. I became obsessed with the Hearst kidnapping, reading everything I could find on the story. Friends have told me they fantasized about saving Patty from her oppressors. Even today, websites are filled with postings devoted to Patty with grown men waxing poetic about her beauty. Not me. I sided with the kidnappers.
I guess I had what you could call a presexual crush on Emily Harris, a Midwest sorority girl turned terrorist and rechristened as Yolanda in the SLA. Her mug shot earned a spot on my bulletin board, next to Fran Tarkington, scrambling quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, and some of my favorite Wacky Packs stickers. (I'd prefer not to speculate on what this says about my taste in NFL quarterbacks or women; Fran never won a Super Bowl, and Emily is an ex-con.)
On Jan. 17, I saw an older version of Yolanda staring at me from the front page of the Los Angeles Times after her arrest for the Opsahl murder. Harris still takes a good mug shot. She looks straight ahead, her face largely absent of any overt sign of emotion. But her eyes give her away. In both mug shots, separated by a generation, her eyes bore into you and say, "Don't fuck with me." Not what you'd expect from a straight-A Indiana University graduate who is now a successful computer consultant in Southern California.
While it's easier now to disagree with the SLA's warped methods, the passage of time and recent history have made it harder to dismiss its rationale. The core message that the country was racist and controlled by corporate interests seems by today's standards, frankly, like old news. And even leftists who distanced themselves from the SLA in their own time are complaining now that the arrests symbolize a vengeful sickness in America's current political climate.
"The long-gone and much-maligned SLA may seem irrelevant, but a conviction would set a troubling precedent in the event of further actions against other activists," wrote J.H. Tompkins recently in the liberal San Francisco Bay Guardian. "The onetime SLA members and their associates have paid for at least some of their sins, and all have forged new, productive lives. The turn of events is a kind of worst-case scenario for everybody."
I admit that I look back at the SLA with nostalgia, remembering the group as a fascinating exercise in current events, much the same way I fondly recall my collection of Encyclopedia Brown books and the Detroit Pistons wristbands that I wore to school.
Patty Get Your Gun: Pre-SLA days of backyard innocence.
The Patty Hearst kidnapping has become a pop-culture phenomenon, taking its place alongside pet rocks and bell bottoms. For me, I'd even say it's a happy childhood memory, almost quaint in comparison with today's terrorist events.
Revolutions don't have the same charm anymore. The Technological Revolution is simply boring, and the Islamic Revolution is downright frightening. It never dawned on me as a kid in Flint, Mich., that I should be afraid of the SLA. It was after rich fascists. That didn't apply to me. Plus, it was all happening in California, a place where weird things were supposed to happen--a place worlds away from my factory town. The SLA soldiers were like Evel Knievel: strange, spectacular and distant.
So my first reaction to the arrests was disgust. Don't we have better things to worry about nowadays than this case? After all, Emily Harris had rehabilitated herself. In many ways, she was the kind of person she had once railed against: a middle-class Altadena homeowner. Her former husband, Bill Harris, walked away from the SLA and was a respectable soccer dad living in Oakland. Can't we just let it go?
Jon Opsahl can't. He was only 15 when his 42-year-old mother was gunned down while depositing the weekend collections from the Carmichael Seventh-Day Adventist church. The homemaker and mother of four was taken to a local hospital, where her husband, Trygve Opsahl, worked as a doctor. He tried to save his wife, but she died that morning.
Jon was pulled out of his high school English class and taken to the hospital. After his father broke the news to him, the family ate the sack lunches Myrna had prepared for them earlier in the day.
Jon is now a doctor in Riverside with a wife and three children. He became a self-described "pest" as he lobbied prosecutors to pursue the case. For years, he didn't have much luck. From a legal standpoint, there wasn't much of a case to pursue. And as time passed, it seemed as if the murder didn't fit in with the almost comical, kitschy patina that the SLA had acquired. Many people who followed the SLA in the papers forgot the murder even happened. I know I did.
Three of a Kind: The FBI saw the SLA as capable of a long-running spree of crime and violence, and quickly made them America's most wanted.
We Love You, Tania
The SLA, which never counted more than a dozen soldiers in its ranks, emerged in Berkeley in 1973. Escaped convict Donald DeFreeze--who adopted the low-key title of General Field Marshal Cinque--led a gang of young, white, well-educated, middle-class zealots who pledged to stamp out "competition, individualism, fascism, racism, sexism and imperialism," according to one of the SLA's innumerable propaganda documents.
Even today's PR flaks and marketing execs. who convinced America that energy deregulation would lower electric bills and that buying dog food online would change the world, couldn't make the SLA palatable to the masses.
Obviously, the name was a problem. Potential converts like young John McConnell were confusing it with other armies with better name recognition. Plus, it was too obscure; people need to make some association with a name before they embrace it.
I confess to referring to the SLA as the Siamese Liberation Army in a grade-school class. I figured they picked the name because Siamese cats are so mean. How was I to know Symbionese was derived from symbiosis and referred to dissimilar organisms coexisting for mutual benefit? I hadn't taken biology yet.
The pithy sound bites popular today weren't the SLA's bag. It issued bewildering, long-winded taped communiqués--often recorded using fake black accents--denouncing "pig propaganda" and bragging about "the bad-ass tactics of SLA guerrillas."
It took several pages, including diagrams, just to explain what amounted to the group's anti-corporate logo: a menacing seven-headed cobra. The SLA's official motto was a marketer's nightmare, unless he happened to be promoting a pest control company: "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people."
Too long, too negative and too dated, even in 1974. This was simply no way to build a strong brand. Or a revolution.
"They were incredibly naive and simplistic," current Oakland School Board member Dan Siegal told the Los Angeles Times in January. Siegal was a Berkeley activist fresh out of law school when he met briefly with the SLA in the '70s. "They had an attitude or view of the world that reminded me of people who didn't read the newspapers or hadn't any sense of history. They actually believed that by carrying out these so-called revolutionary activities they were going to draw great support from a majority of the working class and poor people."
Rebel Without A Clue: A debate continues about whether Hearst was a victim or a willing accomplice.
The SLA may not have attracted many converts, but it always managed to garner media attention, especially when it kidnapped Hearst. She was an art-history major at UC-Berkeley who was living with her fiancé, Steven Weed, when she was abducted on Feb. 4, 1974. The 19-year-old resurfaced a short time later as Tania--a full-time urban guerrilla and sometime bank robber who had cast off her old, bourgeois life and joined the SLA.
Hearst quickly became the Bay Area's most famous "leftist," and posters of her wielding a sawed-off carbine in front of the SLA cobra popped up on kiosks and apartment walls throughout Berkeley. The caption read: "WE LOVE YOU, TANIA."
Hearst's conversion was a huge media coup for the SLA. The army had apparently wooed to its side a symbol of the hated ruling-class elite: the granddaughter of the Hearst publishing empire. And they had an unlikely sex symbol as well, who looked innocent and overcome with her own passions at the same time.
"I had a big crush on Patty; I wanted to be her knight in shinning armor," admits Tim Eagan, a 57-year-old former lawyer who is now a cartoonist and graphic artist living in Santa Cruz. "She had that good-looking, blonde rich-girl thing going. I'm a member of the proletariat, so I'm susceptible to that look."
When I mention that I had a crush on Emily Harris, not Patty, Eagan can't help but get in a few jabs. "Oh God, that's like having a crush on one of the Manson girls," he offers.
There's no denying that my fixation with Harris puts me in a distinct minority. Yolanda was largely forgotten, but Hearst become that peculiar American phenomenon known as a minor celebrity. She appears in movies as herself. She has websites devoted to her. She tells interviewers she'd like everyone to forgot her SLA experiences, not acknowledging that they'd also forget about her in the process.
Shades of Gray: During her trial for robbery of a Hibernia Bank, Hearst took the Fifth Amendment 42 times.
The pattyhearst.com website has a chat room where those who might politely be referred to as Patty aficionados (translation: kooks) can emote on a subject that's obviously near and dear to them.
One posting claims Patty was killed by her captors, buried at San Simeon and replaced by her older sister. Another alleges that Patty's husband is really a German count and provides this interesting tidbit: "Inspight [sic] of the extreme secrecy regarding the marriage, of which Ms. Hearst became a German Countess by marrying into the family, there was an assassination attempt on The Count's life with his friend, also a Count from Denmark."
The site is also a conduit for Tania lust. "Patty Hearst is an extremely attractive woman," reads one posting. "I've seen pictures of Patty and her appearance in the movie Pecker and she's got VERY SEXY LEGS!!!!!!!" Another takes a while to get to the point: "I would like to research and learn more about this army and the whole debacle concerning Ms. Hearst and one cannot deny that she is a true survivor and look at her now and what she has made of herself now. It is truly awe-inspiring. You can come back. Plus she's hot. She's soooooooo hot. Will be visiting this site often."
Cult film director John Waters was an admirer of Patty long before he cast her in several of his movies. "I was obsessed with Patty Hearst my whole life," he said in a 2000 Next Magazine interview. "I went to her trial. She didn't know me. I was a Patty Hearst fan." (See sidebar.)
The Berkeley apartment where Hearst was living when she was kidnapped is featured in California Babylon: A Guide to Sites of Scandal, Mayhem and Celluloid in the Golden State, by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus. The website leisuresuit.net includes director Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst on its list of "Hot Marxist Guerilla Chick" movies. In a review of the film, Jordan Hoffman complains, "Unfortunately, Patty Hearst has no scenes with any actual lesbian sex, but there are many references to it as well as wonderfully charged moments of lustful eye contact (which is probably more sexy than hard-core smut anyhow)."
Pardon Me: After being convicted of a bank heist, Hearst served 21 months of a seven year term, before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence. President Bill Clinton pardoned her before he left office.
The online auction site eBay is filled with Patty Hearst memorabilia--"WANTED" posters, books, T-shirts and posters--but Tim Eagan isn't interested. "I just mooned over her on TV," he says. "There was no capital outlay on Patty. My heart was there but not my wallet."
Turning Symbionese: Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart in film and music.
Prosecuting the Past
For her part, Hearst began arguing shortly after she was captured by the FBI in September 1975 that she couldn't have been a more inappropriate choice to be a celebrity revolutionary. Despite condemning virtually all aspects of her former life while on the run with the SLA, she began depicting herself as a serious student who was not interested in--and even ignorant of--the radical politics of the times. When lawyer F. Lee Bailey defended Hearst for her role in the robbery of San Francisco's Hibernia Bank, he portrayed her as a typical college student concerned primarily with her studies and her upcoming marriage.
The jury didn't buy the portrayal of her as a brainwashed innocent forced to participate in crimes by her revolutionary kidnappers. Hearst was found guilty of the bank heist and later sentenced to seven years in prison. President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence after she served 21 months, and last year, President Bill Clinton pardoned her shortly before leaving office.
Broken Bond: Hearst and Steven Weed, once engaged, broke up following the kidnapping by the SLA. He was there the night it happened.
Now Hearst is likely to be at the center of yet another SLA trial--this time as a star witness for the prosecution--as a result of the June 1999 arrest of alleged SLA member Kathleen Soliah, who was apprehended after being featured on an episode of America's Most Wanted.
Soliah had changed her name to Sara Jane Olson and was living quietly as a mother and homemaker in Minnesota. She was convicted in January for her role in planting bombs under Los Angeles police cars and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Olson's case helped rekindle the investigation of the Crocker National Bank branch robbery and the murder of Myrna Opsahl.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles contend that money from the robbery may have financed other terrorist activities, including the bombing attempts that earned Olson a conviction. They publicly called on Sacramento County prosecutors to pursue the case. They were joined by Jon Opsahl, who, over the years, had researched the case, met with investigators and created a website (myrnaopsahl.com) that highlighted his mother's life and laid out the evidence against Emily Harris. He had unsuccessfully pushed five consecutive Sacramento district attorneys to file charges.
The moral imperative to pursue Myrna Opsahl's killers was there, but a strong legal underpinning was not. Federal prosecutors already had tried one alleged SLA member for the robbery without success. In April 1976, Steven Soliah, Kathleen's brother, was acquitted in federal court in Sacramento. Prosecutors chose not to put Hearst on the stand, perhaps because her performance at her own Hibernia Bank trial had been so poor. Hearst took the Fifth Amendment 42 times, and her testimony was considered devastating to her case. But while the charges in the Crocker robbery largely correspond with Hearst's assertions in Every Secret Thing, new scientific analysis appeared to convince Sacramento County prosecutors to finally pursue the case.
"Using forensic testing procedures not available until recently, the FBI laboratory linked the lead pellets that killed Mrs. Opsahl to shotgun shells found in an SLA hideout in San Francisco," Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully said.
LawBreaker, HeartBreaker: Hearst and Bernie Shaw--still married--got their marriage license in 1979.
Attorney Stuart Hanlon, who calls Hearst's book "fiction," still believes she's the key to the prosecutor's case. "There is some circumstantial evidence, but at best it might attempt to tie a group of people to the event, not an individual," Hanlon said.
Hearst's reputation certainly has changed since her 1976 trial. Married to one of her former bodyguards, she lives in Connecticut and has two children. She has, in many ways, become the rich, respectable socialite she was raised to be. But it is Hearst's past that will matter most if she testifies.
"Patty Hearst was like everybody growing up in that time," Hanlon said. "She wanted something changed. She was probably very bored with her life and did a lot of things that young people at that time did."
Complicating the case is the fact that the Crocker National Bank robbers wore wigs and covered their faces with ski masks and scarves. This has led to conflicting accounts of who might have killed Opsahl, if the SLA was involved at all. A November 1975 story in Rolling Stone by Howard Kohn and David Weir claimed the FBI, "in leaks to the media," once considered Bill Harris the gunman.
More recently, the May 20, 2001, New York Times Magazine presented a more sensational scenario. "But sources familiar with the evidence in the case say that Hearst's book and her statements to the FBI are inconsistent with eyewitness reports at the scene," wrote Maryanne Vollers. "These describe a killer who looks as much like Patricia Hearst as like any other member of the gang. And soon after Hearst's robbery trial in San Francisco, her family quietly paid the Opsahl family $200,000 to settle the matter."
But Hearst was undeterred in a January 22 interview with CNN's Larry King. She accused the SLA of pursuing "their own little jihad" and seemed eager to testify. "You have to be honest," Hearst said. "That's why I published the book. I have never wavered from it. I don't have any skeletons in my closet. I'm not afraid to go in front of a jury."
Hollywood Calling: Patty Hearst, the actress, in the John Waters film, 'Pecker.'
Meeting Emily
Emily Harris hardly had the résumé you'd expect of an urban guerrilla. She was the pretty, blonde-haired daughter of a wealthy engineer. She was smart and popular. When I read she had briefly been a teacher, I imagined her taking over my grade school class. Somehow, I envisioned an armed terrorist being an improvement over Sister Laurette.
Harris's middle-class work ethic re-emerged in prison. After she and Bill Harris were sentenced to eight years for kidnapping Hearst, she waged a hunger strike to land a spot in the computer-training program at the women's facility in Frontera. After her release, she divorced Bill and started a successful computer-consulting business. She bought a nice, four-bedroom house with her longtime partner in 1995 for $265,500. She was 54 when she was arrested.
Harris landed in the Sacramento County Jail, and bail was set at $1 million. I figured she wouldn't be going anywhere for a while, so I decided to try to talk to her. The SLA arrests were a great story, and I thought I just might luck into an interview that no one else had pulled off. If I succeeded, I didn't plan on mentioning my youthful fixation to her. I was sure her attorney wouldn't set up an interview for me, so I drove to Sacramento on Sunday, Feb. 17, and hoped for the best.
My girlfriend, Julie, drove down with me. She planned to do some shopping while I hung out at the jail. I figured it would take half an hour to get rejected, but the line inside the jail was unusually long. I found out the computer was down, and there would be no visits until 1pm. It was 11:35am.
While I was waiting, I noticed three kids making cards on the back of visitation forms with the short yellow pencils the jail supplies. "Dear Dad, You'll Get Out of Jail Soon." When I finally made it up to the desk to have my request processed, the deputy punched the information into the computer. "You can't see this inmate," he said, looking slightly surprised. "She made bail. She's getting out today."
"What?" I said. "Are you kidding?"
I'd had a conversation with a defense attorney at a party the night before. He said $1 million bails are set precisely so the defendant can't post it and stays in jail. So much for free legal advice secured at parties.
I then recalled seeing a woman with a reporter's notebook outside earlier. This would explain it. When I walked outside, she was standing with a photographer and another scruffy-looking guy with a beard. I figured they'd known all along. I walked up and tried to get some information, completely forgetting they might view me as competition.
"Hey, are you guys from the Sacramento Bee? Are you here for Emily Harris' release?"
"Who are you?" the reporter asked. She didn't look too happy. "We can't talk to you," the photographer added. The guy with the beard just looked away and didn't say anything.
I called my girlfriend on her cell, and she offered to bring lunch over. I waited about 10 minutes and went back to the reporters, telling them I wrote for an alternative weekly and my story might not run for another month or so. I wouldn't be stealing their scoop.
I felt like Columbo as I told them I was here attempting a long-shot interview and had stumbled onto Harris' release. I tried to build sympathy by telling them I just wanted to find out if they knew when she'd get out so I wouldn't have to make my girlfriend wait all day.
"How do we know you won't call some of your daily buddies in San Francisco?" the reporter asked.
"I don't really have any pals at the Chron," I told them. "I know some people at the Examiner, but I really don't think they cover things like this anymore." Mocking the Examiner is always a popular theme among reporters, and they laughed.
"We're not sure when she'll get out," the photographer finally said. "They told us it could be several hours. All we know is that it could be any time between 1pm and midnight."
Julie walked up carrying food, in a sense confirming my story. "My alibi appears," I said.
"You know, I was just thinking what a stupid idea this whole plan was when you called and told me she made bail," Julie said. That got more laughs, and I was really feeling like Columbo now.
"It was a stupid idea," I agreed. "The only way it would work out now is if Emily Harris walks out of the jail."
As I said this, I gestured toward the jail door, and there, unbelievably, was Emily Harris, wearing black pants and a purple moleskin blouse and looking like a well-coifed middle-aged shopper at Andronico's in Palo Alto. She was smiling, if not beaming, and appeared to be looking around for someone she knew.
We all kind of stood there for a second. Then the photographer started shooting. The reporter introduced herself and explained, "Stuart went to make a phone call." It finally dawned on me that the guy with the beard was Harris' attorney, Stuart Hanlon. He probably gave the Bee a scoop to butter them up in preparation for the trial.
"Well, I'm glad somebody recognized me the day I get out of jail," Harris said.
"You look good," Julie chimed in, surprised at how fresh and respectable Harris looked after a month in the can.
What the hell was going on? Reporters don't introduce themselves. Girlfriends don't compliment murder suspects on their outfits.
I asked Harris if she was surprised to make bail, and the Bee reporter scrambled to get her notebook out.
"It was a pleasant surprise, but I was always hopeful," Harris said. "It's definitely not a situation I take for granted, and I intend to make every day count, that's for sure."
Then Hanlon reappeared, walking down the sidewalk, holding his cell phone. Harris yelled, "Stuart!" and ran up and hugged him. I tagged along, but Hanlon said this wasn't a good time for questions. Then a black Lexus RX300 SUV roared up, followed by a teal BMW. "Get in the car!" a woman yelled from the SUV. Harris and Hanlon both jumped into the Lexus and roared off, followed by the Bee reporters in their white company cars.
Almost immediately, a slightly addled woman with bleach-blonde hair who I remembered waiting in line inside the jail came over and demanded change for the pay phones. "Who was that?" she asked me. "Somebody important?"
Man or Manson?: Bill Harris, Emily's husband, was arrested in Oakland in September 1975.
Childhood Ghost
Mareva Brown had the lead story in the Sacramento Bee the next morning, accompanied by a big photo of Harris hugging Hanlon. The Bee claimed to have landed an "exclusive interview," even though the second paragraph contained Harris' quote in response to the question I asked outside the jail.
Oh, well. I did get to meet Emily Harris. It was like bumping into a ghost from childhood. She brought back good memories, especially in contrast to my adult life. She reminded me of what I was like when I pored through Time Magazine reading about the SLA before a game of Whiffle Ball. The lyrics to a Camper Van Beethoven song about Patty Hearst called "Tania" suddenly made more sense to me.
Oh, my beloved revolutionary sweetheart
I can see your newsprint face turn yellow
It makes me sad
How I long for the days when you came
to liberate us from boredom
From driving around from five to seven
My beloved Tania
We carry your gun deep within our hearts
For no better reason than our lives
have no meaning
And we want to be on television
The feeling didn't last long, especially as I read more about the Opsahl family. Jon turned 42 this year, the same age his mother was when she was cut down by a blast from a double-barreled shotgun. He still regrets the way he left for school the morning his mother died, filled with adolescent anger that there were no pens around the house for him to do his homework.
"I left without telling her 'I love you.' It was kind of a low moment," he said.
Jon now works at the same hospital where his parents met. He expressed relief that charges have finally been filed, but he has no illusions about the possible outcome of the upcoming trial.
"It's not a slam-dunk, but all I've ever asked is that the known killers be held accountable to the state's best abilities," he said. "The conviction is secondary."
I soon realized I missed my chance to ask the question that really matters. The question that trumps reporter's intuition, childhood crushes, youthful nostalgia and pop-culture fixations. I should have asked Emily Harris who killed Myrna Opsahl.
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Documentary celebrates college football pioneer
Northington broke the color barrier in SEC football.
Considering how things used to be from way back in the day, major-college football in the Deep South has come a long, long way. Today, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is widely acknowledged as perhaps the marquee league in all of college football.
There's no disputing that black athletes have had a huge impact on the success of the conference. Many of the most high-profile black NFL players of the current era came out of the SEC ... Cam Newton (Auburn/Carolina Panthers), Julio Jones (Alabama/Atlanta Falcons), Patrick Peterson (LSU/Arizona Cardinals) just to name a few.
Even so, there was a time not so long ago, when the black presence in SEC football was non-existent. Nate Northington changed the face of college football in the Deep South when he signed with the University of Kentucky in 1965. Northington was the first black to play football in the SEC.
The CBS Sports Network will air a documentary about Northington during Black History Month.
Forward Progress: The Integration of SEC Football, will air on the network on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. (Eastern Time). To learn more about Northington and the documentary, please click on the link below.
CBS documentary celebrates college football pioneer
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Breaking college football's color line in the South
The CBS Sports Network presents Forward Progress: The Integration of SEC Football, a documentary about Nate Northington, the first black athlete to play football in the Southeastern Conference. The documentary examines the impact that Northington's arrival had on the University of Kentucky, the SEC, along with the sports and cultural landscapes in the U.S.
The one-hour documentary will during Black History Month on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
Forward Progress explores the coordinated effort to integrate SEC football, which started at the highest levels of state government before reaching Kentucky's athletic department. With the tense racial climate of the time serving as a backdrop, the documentary tells the story of Northington and examines the relationship between him and his classmate Greg Page.
Page was recruited to play alongside Northington and integrate the conference with him until he was critically injured during a preseason practice and died a month later.
The documentary features an in-depth interview with Northington, as well as coverage of him speaking to the Kentucky football team and being honored by the University. Northington chronicled his time at Kentucky in his autobiography Still Running, published in 2013.
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Three Palestinians arrested for eating in public by PA for 'desecrating the sanctity' of Ramadan
Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency | Jun 18, 2017
Headline: "The arrest of three people on charges of breaking the fast in public in Hebron"
"The police today, Sunday [June 18, 2017], arrested three people for publicly breaking the fast in the [Muslim fasting] month of Ramadan while they were on a public street in Hebron.
The notice of the police Department of Information and Public Relations explained that during a regular police patrol throughout the city in order to maintain the public security and order, it arrested three people on charges of breaking the fast in public and desecrating the sanctity of the month of Ramadan.
The notice added that the police officers noticed three people smoking, eating, and drinking cold drinks on a public street, in desecration of the sanctity of the month of Ramadan and disregard for the sensibilities of those fasting, and arrested them on the spot.
In the notice it was emphasized that the three that were arrested were detained for 24 hours and transferred to the attorney general to complete the legal proceedings against them according to the law."
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Q: Distance measurment by the GPS coordinates How to calculate the distance between 2 places by using the GPS coordinates?

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance
(Pythagorean theorem won't be enough because of earth's sphericity)


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@aaronjorbin I'm pretty sure #thanksJane will be less successful than #blamenacin though.
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CHARLESTON - A Roane County woman is suing Thomas Memorial Hospital after she claims it is responsible for her family member's death.
On Dec. 16, 2008, James Montgomery Jr. was admitted to the hospital for treatment and management of dehydration and confusion, for which he remained a patient for 37 days, according to a complaint filed Sept. 28 in Kanawha Circuit Court.
Twila Montgomery claims James Montgomery Jr. developed pressure ulcers and suffered from multiple falls during his stay at the hospital, which ultimately led or contributed to his death on Feb. 5, 2009.
The defendant failed to adequately monitor and assess James Montgomery Jr. for his risk of malnutrition; failed to provide him with appropriate nutrition and prevent him from becoming malnourished; and was negligent in its care of him, according to the suit.
Twila Montgomery is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is being represented by Andrew L. Paternostro and Jeff D. Stewart.
The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Charles King.


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Q: ASP.net Web Application Project directory structure I've recently converted an ASP.net 2.0 Web Site Project to an ASP.net 3.5 Web Application Project and I'm still getting used to the way the files are structured.
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If that is correct, is there some way to configure the Web Application Project to put the intermediary obj directory elsewhere, or is there something else I should be doing to handle this properly?

A: Just add in the .csproj_deploy file the following
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Stocks opened strong this morning as both the S&P500 and NASDAQ broke above their 50dma. But the real question is if this price action is driven by fundamentals or technicals? Has the market's outlook on the future materially changed, or is this simply structural buying as we are passing key levels, triggering autopilot buying from both bulls and bears? One is a sustainable phenomena, the other is temporary and will quickly run out of steam.
No doubt my judgement could be clouded by bias, but it seems not much light has been shed on the future protects of the economy or Euro justifying a run up in price. But we crossed several key technical levels that could explain the buying activity. My attitude at times like this is I would rather be out of the market wishing I was in, than in the market wishing I was out. Profit opportunities are like a city bus, miss one and another one will be along any minute, but losses are forever.
Two other aspects that could be driving the market is the Euro is staging a monster move today, weakening the USD. Over the last few years a weak dollar has often boosted the equities market. The other aspect is the Fed is meeting today and tomorrow and many traders are hoping for a QE3 announcement. But personally I don't expect the Fed to act because QE3 is the last arrow left in their quiver and using it now simply to please equity investors doesn't seem like a smart move on their part.
While my analysis of the market tends is a bit unconventional, a disciplined CAN SLIM trader should be testing the water with smaller positions from proper buy points, knowing his discipline and rules will minimize any losses if this FTD fails. Each individual trader needs to stick to their game plan regardless of what other people are doing around them. I'm not buying this FTD and could easily end up chasing the market above here, but that is what I feel comfortable with.