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Strange Sleep of the Six-LeggedBy Ronlyn Domingue
January 05, 2010
The air fractures into filigree with the movement of wings.
Dragonflies, dozens, hundreds, emerge every March on one collective birthday, or so it seems.
They are one of Spring's heralds for my part of the world. I know this because I've kept a sporadic journal for several years. I record my bird and insect sightings—and there is undoubtedly a cycle. Cedar waxwings, rufous-sided towhees, giant swallowtails, and dragonflies followed by the rupture of leaf and blossom.
Before Easter, no matter whether it's early or late, there's at least one more freeze. Sometimes, it catches the critters by surprise.
One morning, Todd and I went outside to start our yard work. The window ledges that face north and east were lined with dragonflies. The sight was somewhat eerie, as if a plague had struck them on the spot. Why they chose those places instead of the protection of shrubs and trees, I don't know.
We lifted one dragonfly from its spot to see if it moved. It didn't, until Todd held it in his palm. Then it began to stir. The human radiant heat was strong enough to bring it back to life. We laughed. They were all too cold to budge. As the sun and temperature rose, they flexed their wings and shuffled their feet.
By late morning, they had all taken to the air.
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We were having a beverage on the patio when Todd noticed the nest.
Two wasps busied themselves under a hanging plant basket. I'd seen their work through my office window days earlier. The little abode had a slightly stout, conical shape. No doubt there was a brood to come.
"I need to get rid of that," Todd said. He'd had encounters with their angered brethren.
"No, leave it alone," I said. "If we don't go near them, they won't bother us."
I watched the cells get sealed with white papery membranes. Within weeks, some of them were torn and ragged.
On a sunny and chilly afternoon, I ventured outdoors and looked at the nest from a different angle. I put my face within inches of it. Was that…? Yes, I saw the pointed face of a wasp peeking from one cell and the antennae of a brood mate nearby.
Oh, it must be too cold for them to emerge right now, I thought. Touched by what I saw, I went inside to get the camera. Took a photo.
Days later, I remembered the nest and the young wasps. I peeked to see if they were gone. They hadn't moved.
They would never fly. They were stillborn.
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One November morning before I went to yoga class, I glanced at the patch of purple echinacea still blooming in the front yard. There was a tiny lump on spiky coned center. Frozen, figuratively, was a honeybee. Her wings were straight out at her sides, and her legs were curled inward, a slight cling to the top of the flower. I remembered our dragonflies' suspended animation and considered, maybe, she was too cold to fly. Todd had the camera that day, and I was left with no way to capture the oddly beautiful sight.
I thought about her last forage hours before. Had she been so occupied with her work—is that possible?—that she missed the sun's fade to black? Had the temperature dropped more suddenly than expected, imperceptibly to a human being, and left her stranded with her evening's bounty in her pouches and on her legs?
She spent the night without her sisters. Without their warmth. In cold weather, bees congregate in their hives and trade places with each other to keep the group comfortable and alive, wings in motion. The ones on the fringe of the cluster's center will eventually move inward. This constant activity provides enough body heat to get them all through the night. It seemed impossible that she could survive alone.
When I returned an hour and a half later, she was still there. My hypothermic honeybee. Sunlight hadn't reached the flower bed yet. I saw that she was leaning to her side. Oh, no, she's dead. I cut the flower and attempted to bring her and it inside. She fell off. A brief search in the leaves yielded her gossamer little body. I scooped her on a dead leaf and brought it all into the house. My intent was to take a photo later, the fragility of the bee, the leaf, and the flower too wonderful to ignore.
I placed them on the kitchen counter. Then I went about my morning's business. Two hours later, I passed the spot and saw the bee had moved. I'd stirred the air walking by quickly, I thought. But I stopped and peered. She was crawling. Her legs scratched along the leaf. The heat in the kitchen must have revived her.
She was still weak and couldn't clutch the flower or a leaf, but she flapped her wings. She fell three times on her back—I felt terrible, was I hurting her?—but she kept trying to get up. Her underbody was gilded with thick gold pollen. Finally, I carried her safely on a dry oak leaf to the flower bed where I'd found her. I left her on a brick in the sun.
An hour later, she was gone.
I choose to believe she brought her evening's treasure and a story of adventure back to the hive.
And that she visits the flower bed now and then.


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The HealthLine is Cleveland's first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, serving the Euclid Corridor. It connects the two largest regional employment areas, Downtown and University Circle, and extends to the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland.
With visitors from all over the world, RTA regularly showcases the $200 million HealthLine, the world-class standard for BRT. The HealthLine was named the 'Best' Bus Rapid Transit in North America by the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, and was recognized for having the best return on investment for a transit project, regardless of mode, in the country.
A "Gamechanger" for rapid transit.
In the latest available Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers (2017), the HealthLine is listed as a "Gamechanger" for rapid transit.
In fact, as calculated in 2018, the HealthLine delivered more than $9.5 billion in economic development along the Euclid Corridor -- a staggering $190 gained for every dollar spent on creating and launching the new service. The HealthLine:
- Includes 7.1 miles of roadway improvements on Euclid Avenue and a 2.3 mile transit zone Downtown
- Offers convenient, 10-minute frequency service during peak travel periods and operates 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-per-week.
- Replaced 108 bus stops with 36 conveniently spaced stations
- Reduced travel time from 46 minutes to 34 minutes.
- Provides stylized 63-foot hybrid-electric Rapid Transit Vehicles with five sets of doors, located on both sides of the coach.
More than a name
RTA was the first transit system in the nation to sell naming rights sponsorships to its assets. The HealthLine is sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, two world-class medical centers and major employers on Euclid Avenue.
Ridership is strong. The HealthLine posted a 48 percent increase in year one, and has served more than 4 million customers every year.
In fact, since opening in October, 2008, the HealthLine has served more than 44 million customers. Annual ridership has increased about 60 percent over the previous Number 6 bus line, which was RTA's highest ridership bus line and was replaced by the HealthLine
Rail-Like image: "Fast, simple, safe, first-class"
- High-frequency service
- Every 10 minutes, peak
- Every 10-15 minutes, off-peak
- 24/7 span of service
- Dedicated right-of-way with higher travel speed limits
- Precision docking
- Level boarding stations
- Traffic signal prioritization
- Off-board fare collection
- Real-time information displays
- Emergency call boxes
- Rail-like bell/horn
HealthLine features
- 36 stations (reduced from 108 bus stops)
- 24 hybrid-electric vehicles with doors on both sides
- 90 percent fewer emissions than standard buses
- Bike lanes between CSU and CWRU
- Landscaping/hardscape treatment with 1,500 irrigated trees
- Integrated/stand-alone public art
$9.5 billion in economic development along the Euclid Corridor
The HealthLine has been credited with having the highest return-on-investment of any public transit project in the nation, leveraging $190 for every transit dollar invested. Included is:
- $200+ million at East Ninth and Euclid Avenue
- $380 million invested by Cleveland State University
- $370 million invested by University Hospital
- $350 million invested by Cleveland Museum of Art
- $1.3 billion invested by Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- 8,800+ new residential units
- 1,800 + new dorm rooms
- 1,300 + new hotel rooms
- 23 million square feet in total development
- 13,000 new jobs
- Grand Award: American Council of Engineering Companies, 2010
- Award for Excellence: The Americas: the Urban Land Institute, 2011
- Best in North America: Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, 2013
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"Bus rapid transit...can not only spur development, but can do so far more efficiently than light rail and streetcars, according to a study due out later this month from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy."
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For media inquiries about the HealthLine, please contact:
Linda Scardilli Krecic, 216-356-3104.
How the Project was financed
Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA)
- $82.2 million, FTA New Starts Grant
- $600,000, FTA Rail Modernization Funds
- $50.0 million, Ohio DOT / TRAC Funds
- $17.6 million, RTA / Local Funds
- $10.0 million, NOACA (MPO)
- $8.0 million, City of Cleveland
- $168.4 million Total
Non-FFGA funding
- $25.0 million, ODOT
- $3.75 million, RTA
- $2.85 million, Cleveland Clinic, for working on the part of the project in their area
- $31.0 million, Total, non-FFGA
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For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor of The Harvard Law Review and his Chicago activist years, culminating with the excitement and fervor of the historic 2008 Democratic National Convention. The unfolding drama of Obama's life and political career is cinematic in scope, and never has it been presented so compellingly. In addition to a powerful array of photographs that were taken by many of the country's greatest photographers (and some that were snapped, in the quiet moments, by Obama family members themselves), this book also includes a Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, an incisive narrative biography and original essays by some of our finest writers, including Gay Talese, Charles Johnson, Melissa Fay Greene, Andrei Codrescu, Fay Weldon, Richard Norton Smith, Bob Greene and several others. Many readers will find a new understanding of Obama. All readers will feel that they are bearing witness to a singular, undeniably American story.


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The stats: is Dawn Metcalf's first novel, and is set to hit bookstores on June 30!
The gist: After an episode of vertigo in a mall, Consuela finds herself able to remove her skin and cloak herself in elemental skins crafted from water, fire, and air. She falls into the Flow, a world where she is surrounded by other teens with extraordinary abilities (which they use to save people from dying before their time, in the real world). She soon finds, however, that the Flow is not as peaceful as it first seems when someone—or something—starts killing off her newfound friends.
Our favorite part: Every time you think you have the story figured out, a new secret about the Flow and how Consuela fits into it all is revealed. The last hundred pages are especially intense, so set aside time to finish it all at once, because you won't be able to stop reading! Plus, we love how even with all the guys swooning over her, Consuela stays a strong, independent girl who doesn't need a man to protect her from danger!
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La Jolla, CA – Every neurobiology textbook invariably states that nerve cells communicate with each other through synapses, the specialized cell-cell contacts found at the end of the cells' threadlike extensions. In this week's journal Science, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the University of California at San Diego report that nerve cells, or neurons, may not have to rely on traditionally defined synapses to "talk" to each other.
The new study indicates that nerve cells can also release neurotransmitters outside of synapses. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that nerve cells use to shuttle outgoing signals to adjacent neurons. Salk scientists refer to the release of neurotransmitters outside of synapses as "ectopic neurotransmission".
Cell-cell communications in other parts of the nervous system may also rely on ectopic neurotransmission, the new study suggests. This finding is an additional challenge to the descriptions of neuronal signal transmission found in neurobiology textbooks.
"Our results opened up the possibility that neurons can communicate many other ways not just at the traditional places that are defined by their anatomy," says lead investigator Terrence J. Sejnowski, who heads the Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology at the Salk Institute. To investigate cell-to-cell communication in the nervous system, Sejnowski and his colleagues developed a computer model simulating signal transmission at a particular synapse in chick embryos. The computer model convinced Sejnowski and his collaborators that it may be time to rethink cell-to-cell communication in the nervous system.
In the past, the suggestion that neurotransmitters could be released and find their targets outside of clearly defined synapses, was considered an almost heretical notion.
A unique collaboration between anatomists and physiologists at the University of California in San Diego and theoretical neurobiologists at the Salk Institute was needed to rethink the standard model of neurotransmission. Darwin Berg in the Biology Department provided the physiological data upon which the model was based and Mark Ellisman in the Department of Neuroscience created a high-resolution reconstruction of the structure using high-voltage electron microscopy.
"In addition to the discovery of ectopic transmission this is the very first time that all these elements have been brought together," says Sejnowski. "Combining mathematical modeling with physiological, anatomical and behavioral data is the future of neurobiology. It allows us to draw conclusions that we could not have reached in any other way."
According to textbooks, nerve signals are transmitted from cell to cell only via specialized junctions. The transmitting neuron has a slightly swollen terminal point, which houses small vesicles that are filled with neurotransmitter. Upon arrival of a nerve signal, the vesicles spill their content into the narrow space between two cells. The released neurotransmitter molecules flow across the gap to the adjacent nerve cell and bind to specific receptor proteins on the receiving cell's membrane. If the receiving cell is a neuron, the binding of the neurotransmitter will generate an electrical impulse that travels along the length of the cell. If the receiving cell is a muscle cell, it will be stimulated to contract.
Based on high-resolution electron microscope images, research fellow Jay S. Coggan and scientist Thomas M. Bartol, the co-first authors of the Science paper, created a highly accurate computer model simulation of the giant chick embryo synapse that connects nerve fibers originating in the brain with the neuron that controls the size of the pupil and the shape of the eye lens. This particular synapse is a favorite model for the study of synaptic transmission since the neurons forming what is known as the ciliary ganglion are rather simple, easily accessible and nerve impulses can be recorded from either the presynaptic or the postsynaptic element or both.
Such recordings of nerve signals tipped off the researchers to the possibility that receptors outside of the synapse were routinely activated. But where did the necessary neurotransmitter molecules come from?
Coggan and Bartol then simulated the release of neurotransmitter from single vesicles located within synapses as well as from vesicles located outside traditional synaptic junctions in what they called "ectopic release". Next they compared their predictions with actual recordings from living cells. "We could only match the physiological results when we allowed 90 per cent of the release to occur outside of synapses," says Bartol who remarks in a philosophical aside: "Ectopic release is an interesting term because it means 'out of place', but of course in nature nothing is out of place."
"I think it challenges how we define synapses. There might still be synapses that fit the old definition but that might not be the only way that cells communicate," adds Coggan.
The necessary machinery, for one, has always been there. Scientists had known for a long time that all over the nervous system neurotransmitter-filled vesicles, SNARE-complexes responsible for fusing vesicles with cell membranes and neurotransmitter receptors were sitting outside of synapses but nobody knew what their function was. "A lot of the signals we recorded from the ganglion indicated that receptors that were considered perisynaptical were being activated in large numbers," remembers Coggan. "For me it was very gratifying when the computer model verified our suspicions."
Coggan points out that traditional and ectopic neurotransmission might simply serve different functions since acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter bridging the synaptic gap in the ciliary ganglion, activates two different types of nicotinic receptors: Alpha7-acetylcholine receptors (alpha7-AchR) and alpha3- acetylcholine receptors (alpha3-AchR) that differ in their biophysical properties and their spatial distribution. alpha3-AchRs cluster at synaptic sites on the cell body whereas alpha7-AchRs are found in perisynaptic areas. Ectopic transmission activates almost exclusively the latter.
"We are just beginning to appreciate the diversity and complexity of signaling in the brain. In the past we have been guided by very simple model systems like the neuromuscular junction. But in the brain there is an enormously more complex set of connections and demands that the system has to be able to perform. Evolution could have created entirely new possibilities," says Sejnowski.
The Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, funded by a generous gift from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, uses computer-based computational methods to mine the enormous amount of data on the composition of genes and proteins in the brain as well as the neural networks that regulate information processing. The ultimate goal is to generate theoretical models that explain how the brain works.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to fundamental discoveries in the life sciences, the improvement of human health and the training of future generations of researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio vaccine all but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the March of Dimes.


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When exploring into today's unsettled housing marketplace it can help to understand whenever possible about home foreclosures. The privileges of your borrower, the mortgage lender, and the ultimate customer are based on foreclosure laws, and they laws fluctuate by status. Regardless of the vast different versions in state regulations home foreclosures can be collected into 2 types. Knowing the differences between the two types is vital in being familiar with foreclosures.
The two types of foreclosures are judicial and non-judicial. While not every single status permits non-judicial foreclosures, every express has judicial foreclosures. A judicial real estate foreclosure usually takes its label from the reality that it really is taken care of by the status court program. A judicial home foreclosure typically ends using the residence being sold with a sheriff's sale.
A non-judicial real estate foreclosure avoids regarding the courts. Rather, a power of sale clause from the mortgage loan deal provides the mortgage lender the authority to foreclose directly in case the express will allow. Low-judicial home foreclosures typically lead to an public auction very much like a sheriff's sale. The sheriff only receives included if the eviction is necessary.
There are various items that have the distinction between these two types of home foreclosures important. First is recourse. Recourse is definitely the legal right in the mortgage lender to recover extra cash in the customer when the purchase of your residence is just not enough to repay the home loan. Typically recourse can be obtained to home loan lenders in judicial home foreclosures however, not in low-judicial foreclosures. A client whose house worth has fallen below their home loan harmony can not be intended to spend the money for big difference in a no-judicial foreclosure in numerous claims.
The second crucial difference may be the borrower's ability to treat the default. Non-judicial foreclosures regulations are more likely to permit a borrower to cure a go into default before their residence is sold. Healing a normal usually means spending any overdue monthly payments as well as any past due charges, rather than paying off the full harmony. It is also normally enabled even with the property continues to be advertised for auction.
A number of good examples will assist illustrate these dissimilarities. California, as one instance, enables both judicial and no-judicial home foreclosures. However, the state will not permit recourse on non-judicial foreclosures. When this occurs a borrower can walk away through the unpaid mortgage loan financial debt. Also, in the non-judicial home foreclosure, the client has until five times prior to the home foreclosure public sale to cure their normal.
Ohio, on the flip side, is similar to many says because they have only judicial home foreclosures. Ohio permits loan companies recourse, so consumers might be presented at fault if the home foreclosure public sale breaks down to pay off their mortgage. Also, when the clerk of courts has detailed a foreclosed property available for purchase it can be past too far for your borrower to stop any standard.
It could be difficult to sum up the laws and regulations of all fifty suggests, specifically since some claims are transforming their laws and regulations responding to today's real estate market. Any person going through property foreclosure, or any person contemplating purchasing a residence in real estate foreclosure, has to make contact with an lawyer or attorney familiar with the regulations for the reason that state.
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OK, you all know I'm Google+'s biggest fan, right? For the past five months I've poured almost all my time into my Google+ account, which has paid off with a fun community and a lot of followers.
But yesterday Google+ rolled out brand pages. Here's all the relevant news about that on Techmeme.
I wish I had never heard of them.
Why not?
Well, when you work for a public company anything you post as a representative of that company needs to be done very carefully (I work on the media team at Rackspace, going around the world studying the bleeding edge of the technology industry). The problem is that there's no editorial tools for anything posted to our Google+ account. Google+ brand accounts are woefully inadequate for public companies' needs. Let's discuss some of the limitations:
1. Only one person can "own" or "post to" an account. There's no way for a social media team, or a customer service team, to split up duties. Heck, and that's assuming that only one team inside a company will want ownership of such an account. What if the marketing team wants to post to the team owned by the customer service manager?
2. If one Gmail account was used to build the public account, and it's shared between multiple people, there's no way to know who is posting to that account.
3. If there are rules against posting inside a company to a company account without getting several people's approval (as there is within Rackspace) it makes it unbearable to post content that has any "life" in it. Why? Because there's no process for signoffs, so now we're stuck coming up with some new publishing system that isn't built into the tool itself.
4. There is no way to add Team members to this account without getting them to follow the account first.
5. There's no way to see who is following such an account if you are the owner. (UPDATE: some people say I can see this, but it's hard to find).
6. It is extremely easy to post something by accident to your company account if you are the owner. Just ask Google employee Steve Yegge about that one.
7. If I, as owner of the Rackspace Hosting account, were to die tonight for some reason, how would ownership get transfered over to someone else at Rackspace?
So, let me get this straight, only one person, working on one team, can post to a social networking account? So, if the brand needs to say something to customers in a high-touch, high-service business like ours (we have customer service people posting and answering phones and talking on chat 24 hours a day 365 days a year) they will need to wake me up to get me to post something? Really? Google, did you really think this through?
Yes, Facebook didn't have those features for its brand pages at first either but then when Facebook first came on the scene no one thought they would use it for business. Heck, when I first heard about Facebook it was still for college students only.
Yesterday I registered Rackspace Hosting thinking "of course they have features to let me transfer the account to other people, and of course they have features to let me add other people as managers." After all, it's been five months since Google+ launched and I figured that Google had worked with big brands to make sure that those features were there.
But when I was signing up for the brand page, was there any warning that "hey, you will be the only one allowed to post to this page right now." Nope.
It was quickly added to Google search and then it was too late to turn back.
But now I'm realizing just what a mess I stepped into. I now have to be extremely careful about what I post to that account. I have to even be very careful about who that account follows (already I added two people and their posts are showing up on the feed, which means that whoever I add can probably mess up someone's experiences in the future). Not to mention that I can't see who else works at Rackspace (like I can on Facebook) and I can't even see who is following the account, so I can easily pick from those people to follow back.
Even commenting on this account is very scary. I still don't know how to see whether I'm posting as "Robert Scoble" or as "Rackspace." This is NOT simple enough and if it's scary for me (someone who has posted thousands of times on Google+) I imagine it's terrifying for some junior employee who is getting whipsawed by corporate policy and politics.
Because there's no way to work on a publishing process, now I'm talking with my coworkers about using a tool, like Trello, to build a publishing process so that there's some way for us to figure out together what to post (we also use Salesforce Chatter). Not exactly what I wanted to be doing this week. But I started one anyway.
Even worse, I'm up early this morning to upload a video, with the founders of New Relic (very cool new company that our customers will want to know about) and now I have to decide where to post that content. Do I post it to Rackspace's new account, or do I post it to my own personal account? Or do I post it to both (which will look spammy to customers who follow both of us). Yet another reason why I wish I had never heard of Google+ brand accounts: I can't post content to multiple places. Grrr.
Did anyone really think these things through? Why did they take five months to get done?
Anyway, this is just a way for me to tell anyone thinking of signing up their company for a Google+ brand account to think twice. You might, because you signed your company up for such a thing, get saddled with an entirely new job that you might not like one bit. One that you'll find that Google didn't equip you for success in.
UPDATE: of course we're discussing this over on Google+ too.


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Today is the day. The curtain has been raised and the confetti has fallen. Windows 7 is here. After the problems with the launch of Windows Vista– both real and perceived– many users are cautious about jumping on Windows 7 too quickly.
Windows 7 offers little more than incremental improvements and cosmetic enhancements over Windows Vista, and Windows Vista users may be wise to simply hold off until its time for a new PC. But the majority of users are still using Windows XP and even Vista users have reason to embrace Windows 7. Let's look at 5 reasons why you should make the switch to Windows 7 today.
1. Vista haters. Whether you are one of the nearly 19 percent of consumers who are actually running Windows Vista and don't like it, or part of the larger crowd of those who hate Windows Vista purely based on anecdotal stories and 'I'm a Mac' ads from Apple, Windows 7 is not Windows Vista.
The two most common complaints about Windows Vista are poor device driver support and annoyance over the UAC (user account control) pop-up alerts. Windows 7 has vastly superior device support, and Microsoft has modified the functionality of UAC to provide the user with more control over the alert prompts.
2. XP diehards. Security is arguably the best reason for a Windows XP user to make the switch. A lot has changed since the Clinton-era. Windows 7 has UAC, ASLR (address space layout randomization), and DEP (data execution prevention) in addition to improved operating system kernel protection. Certain versions of Windows 7 also include BitLocker and BitLocker-to-Go encryption.
There are also a number of improvements in the user interface that make it simpler and more intuitive to work with the operating system. The Windows Action Center, improved data backup, Blu-ray disc support, and jump lists stand out as good reasons to make the switch.
3. Home networking. Networking Windows-based desktops together in the home has theoretically been possible since Windows 3.11. However, it has been easier said than done and has come with certain security tradeoffs depending on which version of Windows you're trying to network.
Microsoft is offering Windows 7 in a family pack with 3 licensed copies to allow families to upgrade all of the systems in the home at a discount. If you take advantage of that, you can also take advantage of Home Groups which greatly simplify the process of sharing data and other resources between Windows 7 systems while also providing better protection to prevent guests or unauthorized users from being able to access those same resources.
4. Media sharing. Since the days of Windows XP a lot has changed in terms of digital media. MP3's are quickly replacing compact discs as the primary music format, and computers with TV tuners can act as DVR's (digital video recorders).
Windows 7 makes it fairly seamless and intuitive to share audio and video media between the various devices on the network. You can access and share libraries, play audio and video files to remote systems on the network, copy recorded shows from one system to another, and more with relative ease.
5. Go with the flow. When I was a teen lusting after my first computer, I wanted a Mac. The mother of a friend of mine worked for Apple so I got to play with the first-generation Mac at his house and that is what I wanted. My mother nixed that plan because she pointed out that they used PC's at her work, and my uncle was a programmer on a PC, and we had family and friends with PC's. The logic was that by getting a PC I would have more resources available to me than if I went with the obscure, albeit cooler, Mac.
Fast forward a few years and I was still trying to be a non-conformist even while using a PC. I ran the IBM OS/2 operating system on an AMD-based system (before it was the household name it is now). I used a non-HP printer and a non-Hayes modem. I made sure my sound card was not from Creative Labs. What I found was that all of that really just made my life more difficult trying to find drivers and make it all play nicely together.
So– reason number 5 to embrace Windows 7 is to go with the flow. Between Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, the Microsoft operating system dominates nearly 95 percent of the operating system market share. Now that Windows 7 is out, Microsoft and third-party software providers will be quick to drop support and development for Windows XP.
Tony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as @PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.com .


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White Bird Finale Preview: Paul Taylor, Circa, and the 2013–2014 Season
Partners Walter Jaffe and Paul King first moved to Portland in 1996 with the intention of going into the food business. After looking at starting a gourmet takeout joint (Elephant's beat them to the punch), they looked at buying a chocolatier. "I weighed 325 pounds," says King, who's a Cordon Bleu–trained chef. "So I was thinking, this is a bad idea…"
Jaffe had sat on the board of the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York, where they'd lived before Portland. In 1997, the company contacted Jaffe before a west coast trip to say that he and King should present a performance in Portland. Neither had any idea what to do, but they asked for help, created a logo, and bravely (foolishly?) booked the Schnitzer, hoping that if they scheduled it, an audience would come. Fourteen hundred people turned out, and White Bird Dance was born—although it took them five years to feel confident enough to add 'Dance' at the end, thinking all along that eventually the audience would stop showing up and they would turn back to chocolate.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Newmark Theatre
Apr 4–6
"Most organizations start off small—as a vision and a small core group that nurtures it from infancy to full grown," says King. "White Bird was full grown from the beginning. We were in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall—the size of Carnegie Hall. We always appeared to be an organization that had been around a long time, but in reality there were just two guys and a bird."
Feathered Follies
White Bird Gala
The Castaway
Apr 7
Over the past 15 years, the pair has presented over 160 companies. As we reach the grand finale of their 15th anniversary season with the return of the company that started it all, Paul Taylor, the White Bird name is now known and beloved in the dance community around the world. Indeed, as other dance presenters have disappeared—the total count in the US fell from 36 in the 1970s to just over a dozen now—Portland finds itself the lone (and lucky) American stop for many international companies thanks to King' and Jaffe's perseverance.
Newmark Theatre
Apr 10–13
If Sam Adams were still mayor, he would no doubt dub the upcoming week White Bird Dance Extravaganza Week. In addition to the Paul Taylor Company's run tonight through Saturday, White Bird hosts its first gala in five years, Feathered Follies, on Sunday to give its first awards: a lifetime achievement award to Taylor and the new $15,000 Barney Choreographer prize to Alonzo King. And then next week, it presents the virtuosic Australian circus troupe, Circa.
Jaffe and King sat down with me in their West Hills home, the downstairs of which houses the office, to take a little memory voyage through the past 15 years, before giving a preview of the season to come.
After the success of the first Taylor performance, Jaffe and King thought they'd try another: Steve Petronio (above: middle poster second to the right) at the Newmark in May 1997. Then they did the world premiere of Bodyvox (above: bottom right poster), which has gone on to be one of Portland's longest running and most successful companies. "We had 760 subscribers the first season," says King. "At the end of that first year, as a special event, we brought in two nights of White Oak with Mikhail Baryshnikov. We went from 760 to 1800 subscribers."
Their next big step came with the creation of their second subscription: the White Bird/PSU Dance Series at Lincoln Hall, which they started with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2000. "It was a very deliberate choice because of her close connections to the Northwest and here in Portland," says Jaffe. "She was very instrumental for dance at Reed. And one of the first performances of [her seminal piece] Set/Reset was here in Portland at the Portland Center for Visual Arts." Brown returned last October as another bookend in the anniversary season.
In 2001, White Bird gave a $40,000 commission to Brown to create her 9/11 piece, Geometry of Quiet. "We paid that off for a long time," laughs King. "But part of our mission is we believe in commissioning. Every Portland artist we do, we commission the work." In addition to Bodyvox, the lucky local artists have included Gregg Bielemeier, Skinner/Kirk, Northwest Dance Project, Teeth, and many others. Overall, the organization has commissioned 29 works, has a $100,000 commissioning fund, and just created the annual $15,000 Barney choreography prize.
Perhaps the pair's most ambitious early commission was 2001's Spirits by local puppeteer Michael Curry. "The dance wasn't so great, but the puppets were amazing," says Jaffe. "That really stretched us because we were producing that show instead of just presenting." With that season's addition of the PSU series, the pair had gone from six shows to 14, and they finally hired their first employee. "It was the most stressful year," says King. "I went back up to 290 pounds."
In 2008, Lincoln Hall closed for seismic upgrading, leaving the White Bird/PSU Dance series homeless. "We decided to move around to alternative spaces and renamed it White Bird Uncaged," says Jaffe. "That was a huge challenge and experiment in a way. We were doing extremely well—selling out. So what would it mean to go outside the boxes?" Uncaged started at Reed with Kidd Pivot, and then traveled across the city, from the Portland Opera's studio space to the YMCA to the dance pavillion at Oaks Park. In each venue, they had to bring in raisers, all the sound and lighting equipment, and, in some cases, even their own generators.
In 2010, they returned to Lincoln Hall but kept the name Uncaged. "It wouldn't only mean alternative spaces, but that the work itself was uncaged," says King. "That's the mandate of the series: to try to find work that pushes buttons and that's provocative and exciting. The big challenge is how to remain uncaged and go back in the cage."
Besides commissioning new work, another primary focus for White Bird is community engagement and making dance accessible. This has taken the form of yearly curriculums developed in partnership with Portland Public Schools, which bring students in for regular free matinees, as well as the NEST program (No Empty Seats Today), which gives unused subscriber seats to health services nonprofits.
Their community engagement reached a new critical mass with the opening performance of this season, Le Grand Continental. Over 160 Portlanders of all ages, shapes, sizes, and skill levels spent multiple hours a week over 10 weeks to rehearse 30 minutes of choreography from Montreal-based choreographer Sylvian Émard. The result was the biggest line dance Portland has ever seen. "I was so proud of those 160 people that stuck with this," says King. "They became a family. We had people that said they were suffering from depression or a breakup, and that this really helped them. It's become like a really good cult."
For something that started as a happenstance, one-time risk, White Bird has grown into one of the country's most respected dance presenters, even winning the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' programming award last year. Looking forward to next season, which sees the return of many of the presenter's favorite companies as well as some ambitious new ones, it's clear that Jaffe and King have no intention of closing up the coop anytime soon.
"Wally and I, we feel very fortunate to work together—we've been together 31 years," says King. "This has become our life's work: we don't get a salary, we work out of our home, we're the biggest contributors to White Bird. It's a huge undertaking. You could say our collective middle name is excess. But we always said, if the audience doesn't want it, they won't come. It's the audience and the community that keeps us going."
White Bird Season 2013–2014 Preview
White Bird Dance Series
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Sep 25
This will be the third visit by this major, ballet-based contemporary dance company. The performance will include the work of the exciting young choreographer Norbert de la Cruz, who has worked with Northwest Dance Project.
Compagnie Maguy Marin
Oct 10–12
"We first presented Compagnie Maguy Marin in '01/'02, and it was probably the most divisive experience our audiences ever had," says Jaffe. "They basically had dancers in circles dressed in jeans who would walk over to electric guitars and make awful noises. Some audience left; other people said this was by far the best thing they'd ever seen. There were arguments afterward." Jaffe says Salves, this US premiere by the important French choreographer, is like a rollercoaster into a house of mystery—and far more accessible.
Sydney Dance Company
Oct 23
Oz's leading contemporary dance company returns after six years with a new artistic director, Rafael Bonachela, to perform in front of a pulsing LED matrix. "This is all out dance," says Jaffe.
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Feb 26, 2014
Called "the country's most innovative contemporary ballet troupe" by the New York Times, Cedar Lake returns after a prominent appearance in The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The company will feature work by two choreographers White Bird audiences know well: Canada's Crystal Pite, who runs the fantastic Kidd Pivot company that was at the Newmark last year, and Great Britain's Hofesh Shechter.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
Mar 4, 2014
Based in Taiwan, Cloud Gate is the most important contemporary dance company in Asia. For what Jaffe sees as one of the most exciting event in the series, the company will fill the Keller stage with three-and-a-half tons of rice for a performance evoking a spiritual pilgrimage that is sheer, breathtaking spectacle.
Ballet Hispanico
Apr 30, 2014
Returning after a ten year absence, New York's Ballet Hispanico, which focuses on dance from Spanish speaking countries, brings with it a new artistic director, Eduardo Vilaro, and company member Jessica Alejandra Wyatt, the daughter of one of Portland's most beloved ballet teachers, Elena Carter.
Uncaged Series
Lucy Guerin Inc.
Oct 17–19
Having been presented by PICA twice, this aussie's company makes its White Bird debut (she did, however, have work in Baryshnikov's White Oak show). "She's amazingly innovative," Jaffe says. "This piece is called Weather and is inspired by weather patterns."
Phillip Adams Balletlab
Jan 23–25, 2014
"We're calling this season an Aussie festival, because there're three Australian companies," laughs Jaffe. Inspired by the impact of the body under catastrophes and by crash victims, Adams's dance-theater piece, Amplification, involves skidding, sliding, and crashing into a world of body bags, pain, healing, reality, and unreality. "It's very abstract," Jaffe continues. "It will push people's buttons for sure."
Stephen Petronio Company
Mar 6–8, 2014
For his fifth White Bird performance, Petronio will present his newest work, Like Lazarus Did. Exploring themes of death and resurrection, the piece will rise from Petronio's athletic dancers, the Pacific Youth Choir, the composer Son Lux, and visuals from artist Janine Antoni.
Emio Greco|PC
Apr 10–12, 2014
Inspired by the 1960 Italian boxing film Rocco and His Brothers, the Amsterdam-based company will create a boxing ring on the Newmark stage and then give audience members an opportunity to sit ringside as four dancers perform as alter egos of the boxers.
White Bird Exclusive Events
Union Tanguera
Nov 21–24
Portland loves tango. This French tango company of mostly Argentinian dancer knows how to tango.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Apr 2, 2014
The men in tutus return to Portland for one night at the Schnitzer. "Inevitably they'll do the Dying Swan and their version of Swan Lake," says Jaffe. "They'll also do riffs on Cunningam and Jerome Robbins. But really they do classical ballet, they do it well, and they make it very funny."


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My husband was recently denied term life insurance because he has a criminal record from a long time ago. The good news is that, in a year, he'll be far enough removed from the incident that he'll be eligible for a policy. He has a whole life policy for $75,000 from before, which he doesn't plan to cancel. We have two small children, so is there another kind of policy he could get in the interim?
Dear Dana,
If you can't get term life insurance, you can't get whole life. It's the same underwriting process. I only recommend term policies, but under these circumstances I'd keep the whole life in place because he's basically uninsurable.
There are a couple of things you can do in this kind of situation. One thing is to get a mortgage life insurance policy. These are usually available without any kind of major inspection, and they pay off your mortgage, in full, in the event of death. It's about 10 times more expensive than regular term insurance, but at least it will pay off the house.
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Report on equality between men and women, 2004
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Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 19 February 2004, "Report on equality between women and men, 2004" [COM(2004) 115 – Not published in the Official Journal].
In response to the request of the 2003 Spring European Council, the Commission has drafted, in collaboration with the Member States, an annual report to the Spring European Council on the progress achieved in promoting equality between women and men and on the approaches taken with a view to mainstreaming the gender dimension into the various policies.
The Member States and accession countries have undoubtedly made progress towards greater equality between women and men. The Commission report confirms a positive trend towards reducing inequalities between the sexes in several strategic fields.
For example, in most of Europe there are more females than males in secondary and higher education. Today, the majority of graduates are women, even if they are still in a minority at the highest level of education. Moreover, use of the Structural Funds, in particular the European Social Fund, has been found to have a catalyser effect on national gender equality policies.
However, the rate of progress observed tends to vary over time and from one Member State to another. Inequalities persist in most of the strategic areas, and slow progress is jeopardising Europe's competitiveness. According to the objective set at Lisbon, the European Union has committed itself to becoming, by 2010, the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. The active participation of women on the labour market and reducing the gap between the sexes in the various fields are vital if this objective is to be achieved.
The Commission therefore calls on the Member States, via the European Council, to redouble their efforts to promote equality between men and women in all areas of society and draws their attention to certain challenges.
Effectiveness of the Community's gender equality policy
The Commission emphasises the need to guarantee the rapid implementation in the Member States of recently adopted legislation and the correct transposition of EU law in the area of equal treatment in the accession countries.
For reasons of simplicity and legal certainty, and in the context of enlargement, the Commission plans to replace the existing legal texts with a single directive on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women in work and employment. The Commission also wishes to see the adoption, before March 2005, of the proposal for a directive extending the scope of equal treatment legislation beyond the labour market, to include, in particular, access to goods and services and the provision of goods and services.
Reducing inequalities on the labour market in employment and pay
The Commission notes that, although it has definitely narrowed, the gap between women and men in employment and unemployment rates remains considerable. However, they should be less pronounced after the enlargement of the Union. The pay gap between women and men is still wide, more so in the private sector than in the public sector. Women are still particularly vulnerable to poverty, especially when they are less well educated, suffering domestic violence, older or living alone with children.
It is vital for Member States to pursue their efforts to ensure equal treatment for men and women on the labour market and to meet the Lisbon objective of a female employment rate of 60% by 2010. The Commission would like to draw their attention to certain priorities: promoting the quality of employment, making work pay, combating pay cuts in occupations where the number of women is starting to rise and obtaining a real commitment from the social partners.
Work/home life balance
The opportunities for women and men to balance their career with their home life has a decisive impact on the success of strategies for increasing employment rates. The report shows that women perform the majority of domestic and family tasks. The Commission recommends the promotion of parental leave systems shared by both parents, particularly in order to ward off the negative impact of long-term maternity leave on women's employment. In order to allow women and men to continue to work, Member States should improve the supply of childcare services and care for other dependants, using sufficient, appropriate structures. It is also important to encourage men to shoulder a more equal burden of family responsibilities.
Promoting the balanced participation of men and women in decision-making
Women are still under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes, at European and national levels. Governments, political parties and all the social partners should therefore be mobilised in order to ensure balanced representation of men and women in decision-making in all areas of society. The Commission is also promoting a balanced representation of men and women in the elections to the European Parliament in 2004.
Implementation of gender mainstreaming
The Commission emphasises the need to step up the implementation of gender mainstreaming in all the relevant strategic areas, both in the Member States and at EU level. Moreover, equality between men and women must remain a priority in the use of all the Structural Funds, especially in the context of the new programming period for the Structural Funds. It is also important to strive for equality between men and women in the European Research Area.
Combating violence against women and the trafficking of women
The Commission is in favour of moving beyond the mere political recognition of the need to eliminate violence against women and the trafficking of women. The Member States and the accession countries must step up and broaden their efforts, formulate benchmarks and measure progress against them. Preventing and combating violence in the home is essentially a local and national matter, but may also come within the framework of the new programme Daphné II. The trafficking of women must be combated using a global approach which includes prosecution, victim protection and assistance, as well as preventive measures based on campaigns and cross-border and international cooperation.


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McCumber, Porter James, 1858–1933, American political leader, b. Crete, Ill. He began law practice in North Dakota and served (1885–89) in the territorial legislature. From 1899 to 1923 he was a Republican U.S. Senator. He actively supported the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906). As chairman of the finance committee he had a leading part in the framing of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. He was obliged to agree to high tariffs on industrial goods in order to secure protection for many farm products.
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By Larry Shaughnessy
The U.S. Navy has had eight ships named the Enterprise. The first was commandeered from the British in the early stages of the Revolutionary War by Benedict Arnold, before the America even had a navy and before he became America's most notorious traitor.
The seventh Enterprise was an aircraft carrier and a mainstay of the Navy's war in the Pacific during World War II. Three times the Japanese Navy said it had sunk "The Grey Ghost," but the Enterprise survived and is regarded as the most decorated warship in U.S. history.
But when the eighth USS Enterprise put to sea in 1962, it already had a place in American military history.
The ship's design replaced conventional boilers that had powered warships for decades with eight reactors, making it the world's first nuclear-powered carrier. It was longer, taller and faster than any warship the United States had ever launched.
A young fighter pilot named John McCain knew something about Naval history. Both his father and grandfather had been four-star admirals. He had previously served aboard the World War II-era carrier USS Interpid before ordered to the Navy's state of the art warship.
Also: USS Enterprise sailing off to history's scrap heap
"It really was a quantum leap, as much as we love the Intrepid. Between the Intrepid, World War Two and the USS Enterprise, it was exciting and it was an incredible experience to be on the first air wing on the USS Enterprise," McCain told CNN.
In October of 1962, the ship had just finished its maiden deployment when the White House and the Kremlin sparred over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
"We'd only been back a couple of weeks and they said, 'get out to the ship.' Nobody knew what we were doing, so we flew our airplanes out to the carrier as we were headed south," McCain said.
The Enterprise was one of the first U.S. ships to establish a blockade around Cuba, according to Navy documents on the Enterprise's history.
"I was launched a couple of times just to fly around, but not towards Cuba," said McCain, now the senior senator from Arizona. "They made sure we headed away from Cuba so as not to spark anything."
After 13 days, the crisis eased and the Enterprise returned to its home port of Norfolk, Va.
By 1965, it had been moved to the Pacific's Seventh Fleet and began six combat deployments to Vietnam. On Dec. 2 in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam, the Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered warship in history to engage in combat. It launched 118 sorties against Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam.
While steaming off Hawaii en route to Vietnam, the Enterprise suffered its worst disaster on Jan. 14, 1969.
The flight deck was loaded with fully armed and fully fueled aircraft undergoing pre-deployment inspection drills. Sailor Michael Carlin called it "the single-most terrible and most glorious day in our history."
"An aircraft carrier, especially with fully fueled and armed aircraft on deck, if something goes wrong it's a floating fireworks factory," he said.
All it took was one mistake - an aircraft starter unit was parked too close to a rocket on a nearby fighter jet. The unit's exhaust heated up the rocket and it exploded, triggering disaster.
Carlin and his sailors ran to grab a fire hose.
"For the first time we're seeing all these guys that are down, of burns indescribable burns and wounds," he said.
But they couldn't help the wounded because the fire was spreading from jet to jet and the stern was full of F4 Phantoms. They each carried six 500-pound bombs and eight rockets and were loaded with 9,000 pounds of fuel.
All those munitions started to blow up. In minutes the entire stern was engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Exploding bombs blew huge holes on the flight deck and fuel poured to the areas below.
"I didn't get injured, I got blown down four times," said Carlin whose team was on the fire hose closest to the burning aircraft.
The fire was put out but 27 sailors had been killed and another 314 wounded.
Fifteen planes were destroyed and the ship was badly damaged. But after emergency repairs at Pearl Harbor, the ship was back off the coast of North Vietnam by the end of March conducting combat operations.
The quick, determined response is why Carlin said the disaster was a moment of glory.
"The ship and crew fought back and never quit fighting until the thing was finally beaten down," he said.
After dozens of deployments around the world over the next three decades, the Enterprise was leaving the Persian Gulf for home when the hijack attacks struck New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.
Without orders, the Enterprise turned around and steamed at maximum speed toward Pakistan. By October 7, warplanes on the Enterprise were among the first to launch retaliatory strikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
It was the first of the Enterprise's 10 deployments to the Persian Gulf region in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On Dec 1, the Enterprise will be deactivated and will make history again over the next three years. It will become the first nuclear-powered carrier ever decommissioned. After its nuclear fuel and eight reactors are safely removed, CVN-65, The USS Enterprise, will be cut up and sold for scrap.
But there's already a move underway to name CVN-80, a yet to be built carrier, as the ninth USS Enterprise.
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DA probes '86 Bishop investigation for 'elements of criminality'
Norfolk District Attorney William Keating said his office is probing the botched investigation of the 1986 Amy Bishop shooting to find out if "elements of criminality" were involved.
Investigators have discovered nothing to challenge the conclusion of Braintree and State Police 23 years ago that Bishop fatally shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth, accidentally.
But questions have arisen over why the 21-year-old shooter – now accused in an Alabama triple homicide – faced no consequences for allegedly pulling a shotgun on two men at an auto body shop while demanding a getaway car or for a brief armed standoff with police.
In a telephone interview on Thursday, Keating said retired State Trooper Brian Howe, who handled the case for the district attorney's office, told investigators this week he "has no recollection" of Braintree police telling him Bishop pulled a gun on the two workers at Dinger Ford's auto body shop. John Kivlan, the district attorney's top prosecutor in 1986, has also said he was not told of the incident.
Likewise, retired Braintree Police Chief John V. Polio said he was unaware of what transpired after the shooting until this week. Polio stressed that his department turned over the case to the district attorney's office.
Braintree police reports detail both incidents. Two separate reports describe in dramatic fashion how Bishop clutched a shotgun defiantly as two officers, guns drawn, ordered her to drop the weapon.
Another report recounts Bishop being questioned 11 days after the shooting by Capt. Theodore Buker and Detective Michael Carey of the Braintree Police Department, and Howe, the state trooper. Only a brief reference is made to what happened after the shooting.
"(Bishop) also added that she did not remember having a jacket on or running out of the house with the gun," the report reads. "Amy told us that she could not remember anything else until she saw her mother at the police station."
Lt. James R. Sullivan filed a report after questioning Bishop the day of the shooting. Bishop denied intentionally shooting her brother but stopped answering questions when her mother entered the police booking room and told police she wanted the questioning to stop.
No reference is made to Bishop's emotional state.
But in his final report on the case, Howe wrote that Capt. Buker told him it had "generally been impossible" to question Bishop because of her "highly emotional state." Howe makes no mention of an armed standoff or Bishop's alleged attempt to steal a car at gunpoint.
Keating said such "gaps" and "omissions" need to be explained.
"There have been mistakes in the handling of this case," Keating said, adding, "If there are any elements of criminality that can be prosecuted in the future, we will be doing it."
It is unclear how criminal charges could be filed against anyone in connection with the handling of the 23-year-old case because statute of limitations on any crime except murder has lapsed.
Asked directly if he believes the district attorney's office was deceived, Keating replied: "Well, we will find out."
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Quincy, who was Norfolk County district attorney in 1986, has been traveling in Israel since the investigation came under scrutiny last weekend.
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