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Met him and heard him play at the Jazz Workshop, downtown Boston on Boyleston St, back in 1972-3 timeframe. And now I’m heading over to youtube right now to listen to him again.... sad to hear the news.

“Immature students vote for immature candidate, what a shock.

Time for the grownups to vote.”

The students don’t “vote” their preference, they research and predict, extensively, what the electorate is going to do and how that will work through the process of picking the nominee.

I was there, BTW, it’s a remarkable experience.

You are confusing the globe and the herald.

I saw him perform at the Jazz Workshop, in Boston, with Chick Corea and the first version of “Return to Forever”, this was the pre-electronic, pre-fusion version.

Great show.

Also, on Youtubeyou can find him playing on the TV show “Night Music” with NRBQ, a classic version of NRBQ’s “Little Floater”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tHfCO16-g

Maybe this?

Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped

The mystery behind radio signals that have baffled scientists at Australia’s most famous radio telescope for 17 years has finally been solved.

The signals’ source? A microwave oven in the kitchen at the Parkes observatory used by staff members to heat up their lunch.

Simon Johnston, head of astrophysics at the CSIRO, the national science agency, said astronomers first detected the signals, called perytons, in 1998. The signals “were reasonably local, say within 5km of the telescope”.

Originally researchers assumed the signals – which appeared only once or twice a year – were coming from the atmosphere, possibly linked to lightning strikes.

Then on 1 January this year they installed a new receiver which monitored interference, and detected strong signals at 2.4 GHz, the signature of a microwave oven.

Immediate testing of the facility microwave oven did not show up with perytons. Until, that is, they opened the oven door before it had finished heating. “If you set it to heat and pull it open to have a look, it generates interference,” Johnston said.

Astronomers generally operate the telescope remotely and do not reside at Parkes. There were, however, a number of operational staff members who maintained the facility and used the microwave oven to heat their coffee or lunch.

Johnston said the “suspicious perytons” were only detected during the daytime and as they now knew, not during the evening when all the staff had finished their shift.

The signals were rare because the interference only occurred when the telescope was pointed in the direction of the microwave oven. And “when you only find a few it’s hard to pin them down”, Johnston said.

The findings have been reported in a scientific paper.

Key paragraph is the final paragraph. The three Americans were classmates, we knew, but I had read nothing about them meeting at a Christian School. Seems like the media just edited that part out of their stories.

Amazing that the media doesn't need to conspire, its automatic,they just all have the same prejudices.

“His sexual orientation makes no difference.”

Agree at this point, but clearly there’s more to this story and the MSM will not pursue it without being forced by gotnews and other outlets.

What do we know so far? He’s claimed amnesia, but:

(i) his head injuries (cuts) don’t appear to be consistent with the kind of trauma required and

(ii) the mayor of Philadelphia himself stated that he “declined” to cooperate with the police and would not submit to questioning — not that he was ‘unable’ to recall anything.

Again, its OK (one is within one’s rights) not to cooperate with the police, but unlike the MSM profile, the implication from the mayor is that he was unwilling, not unable, to cooperate.

If he won’t talk, his dream job as engineer is over forever. If he was not culpable and he elected to cooperate with authorities, he wouldn’t have sacrificed his career.

It all figures he has something to hide.

Turns out the Amtrak engineer is going to have some embarrassment explaining his compulsion to post pics online of -- see the posted site for yourself.

This doesn't explain the crash yet, but - I expect there's more to come.

I cant get past the fact that Huckabee was responsible, in the end, for McCain winning the nomination in 2008.

I cant get past the fact that Huckabee was responsible, in the end, for McCain winning the nomination in 2008.

“The budget isn't’t being cut 82%. Leave it to Bloomberg to carry this lie.”

Yes, this little bit of deceptive writing caught my eye:

“The governor's plans would cut the budgets for Louisiana's colleges and universities to the tune of 82%, according to Bloomberg.”

So “cut...to the tune of 82%” sounds like a cut of 82%, but carefully parsed means a cut of 18%.

I saw the video posted here. The shooting was unnecessary, over-reactive, and tragic. Like the Cleveland shooting of the 12 year old boy, the police were way too quick to go to shoot-to-kill mode.

Well said.

The Freeper poster of this article said it was a NY Times article, but the link shows the article is from the NY Post.

Also, the article goes on to give the nuns’ side of the story, that the neighborhood is no longer populated with poor working class families, and the litigious parents are rich Manhattan-ites, who have alternatives.

The school is re-examining its mission and its internal obligations, in other words.

The article is a nasty piece of writing, but the NYTimes is apparently not the guilty party.

I note she visited Tufts too - and Tufts may surprise and wait-list her, because they are tired of being known as the Ivy’s back-up school.

What do we know about Jacki?

1) She not only made up her attacker’s persona as a composite of a set of high school crushes, she actually assumed and inhabited the identity and texted with her ‘friends’ (a.k.a. catfishing) from the fake identity -— all in the futile attempt to catch and hijack the romantic attention of the unwitting boy she’d set her sights on.

2) Jacki’s rape counselor, Emily Renda, gave testimony before the US Senate using, in part, Jacki’s fake story. That testimony likely impacted the promulgating of Federal Title IX policies which in turn are being used to ambush male students in kangaroo hearings at many schools. see for one example, Washington and Lee, where charges were accelerated once the Rolling Stone article came out (but before it was disproven). By the way, Emily Renda also claims to have been raped and later taunted and assaulted by fellow UVA students for “speaking out” in a highly improbable story.

3)Jacki is just one point of presence for this phenomena. UVA College President Sullivan, in her first statements on the Jacki matter (before it was discredited) mentioned a UVA transfer student who had been raped — turns out that is also a false charge - the story is here: Silicon Valley Adventuress Plays the Rape Card at Stanford and UVA http://www.unz.com/isteve/silicon-valley-adventuress-plays-the-rape-card-at-stanford-and-uva/

4) In many of the stories about UVA a high-profile charge at Columbia University was described — now proven to be yet another false charge.

So - there is an epidemic under way at college campuses — just not the epidemic it was set out to be.

“Score! More billable hours!”

Not really. David Boies’ law firm is on the hook to bring these actions to a final final judgment, and they were paid a fixed fee, so they don’t bill additional hours.

I just watched the video — not only does she light up a cigarette on board, but she hides the still-lit cigarette in the magazine holder in the seat-back in front of her — which clearly could start a fire. Then she lies about it.

Unbelievable. I’m hoping this is grounds for firing, based on some conduct obligations in her contract. Her only defense would be that she was involuntarily high, i.e., she took some medication and took the wrong pill.

I noticed this in her resume:

Pennsylvania State University
Abington, Pennsylvania
Research and Teaching Areas: racial and ethnic inequality; capitalism and class; White and Black poverty; empire and imperialism; Central or Latin American studies; consumption; music scenes and subcultures; liberation theology; revolution; stigma; symbolic interaction; women and madness; marijuana; sociology of deviance; Marxist theory; postmodernist criticism; ideology

So she teaches racial inequality, and I noticed she won a Diversity Award in 2012.

Hmmm. Just a thought - has she pulled an “Elizabeth Warren” to get her position?

Also note the time — 6:36 pm — that’s still rush hour, presumably there might be other witnesses.