PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.
St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple's story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said. April Moylan, 39, was arrested Tuesday and was in the process of being charged with attempted murder, Mascara said.
Moylan, 45, woke up at 4:30 a.m. and thought he had suffered an aneurism or that his wife had elbowed him in his sleep, authorities said. That's right honey, I elbowed you!
His wife drove him to the hospital where doctors said a bullet had lodged behind his right ear. Authorities obtained a search warrant for the couple's home, located in an upscale gated community, and later arrested the wife, Mascara said.
Evidence indicated that Moylan had been shot at close range by someone in the house and it was clear there were inconsistencies with the couple's story, Mascara said. April Moylan eventually told authorities she accidentally shot her husband. It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.
Nor was it immediately clear if an attorney could help her.
"Honest, it was an accident. She couldn't sleep and decided to clean her gun in bed."
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Sleep shooting.
I'm sure that will soon be recognized as a disease and government benefits will be made available to this obviously tormented woman...
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I'm reminded of the woman who kept her inhaler and her gun underneath her pillow. In the middle of the night she had an asthma attack, groped for her inhaler, and got the wrong one. Oopsie. She lived, though. Maybe it's something like that.
Guess who is bitching about this apart from no one else?
Sania Mirza hopes her decision to renew her doubles partnership with Israel's Shahar Peer at Wimbledon does not stir up another religious storm.
"We're playing tennis, we're not making statements. We're just here to play tennis and we're here to perform and be the best we can be," the Indian number one said on Thursday. "Me and Shahar are playing just like the way me and (Eva) Birnerova played the French Open, just like the way I played with anyone else the last six weeks. It doesn't make any statement."
The last time Mirza, a Muslim, joined forces with Peer at the 2005 Japan Open, their association was short-lived. Under pressure from militants furious over a Muslim and a Jew playing together, Mirza called for some time out.
She hopes their second stab at success will be remembered more for their on-court exploits. "We've grown up together. We're great friends. So we said, why not?" said Mirza, who comes from Hyderabad. "We were both very lucky to find each other because it's someone who suits each other's game. I have a big forehand, she has a big backhand. We've done well in the past.
"We really don't care whether she's from Israel or I'm from Pakistan. At the end of the day it matters whether we win a match or not."
Doubles partnerships between Muslim and Jewish players have not gone down too well in the past. In 2002, Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi was threatened with a suspension from Pakistan's tennis federation when he entered the Wimbledon men's doubles with Israel's Amir Hadad.
The partnership won the duo a humanitarian award from the organisers of men's tennis but Mirza does not want any similar recognition. "I'm here to play tennis and so is she. That's the end of that. It has nothing to do with anything else," she said.
The 16th seeds face American Lisa Osterloh and Sweden's Sofia Andersson in the first round.
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Amtrak issued a statement saying it followed company policy in escorting Sims off the Sunset Chief Sunday night at Williams Junction during a regularly scheduled stop. It said police were called, and that a conductor waited on the platform with Sims and his luggage for officers to arrive, and when they did, it says Sims ran into the nearby woods.
A classy and wonderfully talented woman. I've always admired how she cared for her disabled daughter and son while still presiding as the leading soprano of her day, then as an influential music director and leader of the City Opera, then the Lincoln Center and finally the Met. She'll be missed.
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Quite simply, a loss. While I've never been a big fan of opera, as a vocalist, composer, musician and public performer I've always kept a sense of respect for those who entertain with class and skill. This increasingly deprived world will be a poorer place without her.
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Beverly Sills at seven: just starting her training and already going strong! link 1
Somewhat later, with Danny Kaye link 2
Her last performance, the final song link 3
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1) Zen, do you use any wooden instruments during your performances?
Absolutely. The first woodwind I learned to play was a German tenor recorder that trained me to become more fluent upon the silver flute and saxophone later on.
The instruments I play consist of:
Tenor Flute
Alto Flute
Bamboo flute (several registers)
Sakuhachi Bamboo Flute
Penny Whistle (several registers)
Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Soprano Saxophone
Alto Saxophone
C-Melody Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Classical Guitar
Steel String Guitar
Solid Body Electric Guitar
Hollow Body Electric Guitar
Electric Bass Guitar
Piano
Electronic Keyboard
Electronic Synthesizer
Tenor Recorder
Alto Recorder
Soprano Recorder
Sopranino Recorder
Harmonica
Steel Drums (Lead, Second Lead, Soprano, Cello, Guitar and Bass)
Jews Harp
I own most of the instruments mentioned above. I've led and produced open microphones featuring a wide range of musical styles. I also compose in classical, jazz, rock, rhythym & blues, blues, hard rock, acid rock, baroque, Rennaisance, Indian, Arabic, folk, Irish and other styles. Please let me know if I've left anything out.
Music is my life. The day job just pays for the instruments.
The explosion at Acme Industries Demag Riggers and Cranes in Williston on Tuesday that killed a worker was caused by powerful fireworks stored in a safe, Williston police said. Anthony Boisvert, 20, was using a cutting torch Tuesday to open the industrial safe when it exploded.
Williston Police Chief James Dimmick said he was able to trace the events leading to the blast. The trail started more than a decade ago. The safe had been in an abandoned shed in Winooski since at least the mid-1990s. The safe was locked, the owner of the safe didn't know the combination and didn't know what was in it, Dimmick said.
A man used the safe 10 to 15 years ago and stored M80s in it, Dimmick said. The man, who now lives in North Carolina, left the explosives in the safe when he moved, Dimmick said. The owner of the Winooski property was doing renovations and wanted to get rid of the safe. Demag often moves safes, gains access to them and refurbishes or disposes of them, Dimmick said. This particular safe was big, about 3-by-6-feet. Boisvert cut into the safe to gain access to it, unaware there were explosives inside. Sparks from the torch ignited the M80s, the safe exploded and Boisvert was killed instantly. "The man was just doing his job. It was a tragic set of circumstances," Dimmick said.
Police are investigating the incident, but are treating it as an industrial accident. Once the investigation is finished, Dimmick said he'll turn over results of his department's work to the Chittenden County State's Attorney's Office. The prosecutor will decide whether criminal charges are warranted, Dimmick said.
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Sheesh. Vermont.
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Next time use a cutting wheel.
And how do you restore a safe after you use a cutting torch on it?
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And how do you restore a safe after you use a cutting torch on it?
You cut a hole through the back of the safe to gain access to the back side of the door and the combo lock. Once you have it open, you can weld the back on, grind it smooth, slap a fresh coat of paint on it and you're good to go.
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A concrete saw works pretty good, opens em up in a jiff. Kinda loud tho, and lots of sparks too. Let's face it, there's just no good way to cut open a safe full of explosives.
FAA dress code a ticket to trouble up in the towers
By MICHAEL SANGIACOMO
Newhouse News Service
CLEVELAND An air-traffic controller in Oberlin, Ohio, was reprimanded because his aquamarine pants were "not gender-appropriate."
The dressing down came after the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a dress code for controllers, and the two sides have now added a fashion fight to their already-strained relationship. A few male controllers at another facility protested the crackdown by coming to work in dresses. Another wore an all-purple outfit save for white pants with purple snakeskin shoes.
"In light of all the problems facing controllers and the FAA, it seems silly that the agency has become the fashion police," said Melissa Ott, union spokeswoman for workers at the Cleveland Air Route Control Center in Oberlin.
FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the agency wants controllers to dress professionally. She said the union is overreacting to a simple dress code that would not raise an eyebrow in the business community.
Ott said the case of the veteran controller admonished about the color of his pants was just one of several incidents nationwide:
A New York controller was ordered to wear dress shoes, despite a doctor's note saying she needed to wear tennis shoes because of a knee problem. She fell, broke her elbow and injured her knee.
A controller in Oakland, Calif., was sent home to change because his pants were "too wrinkled."
In Miami, controllers were told they could no longer wear "tropical shirts," even though they have collars. Management later changed its mind and said tropical shirts with "muted colors" were permitted.
In Maryland, a supervisor shined a flashlight up and down a controller's pants. The supervisor said the pants had "jeans-like seams" and the controller could not wear them anymore.
Another Oberlin controller was disciplined because he wore an orange shirt that a supervisor said "looked like a highway traffic cone."
The man in the aquamarine pants was warned he would be disciplined further if he wore them again.
"He was angry. He said they were questioning his sexuality because of his pants," Ott said. "And aren't there laws against discriminating against someone because of sexual orientation anyway? Does that mean a woman can't wear brown because it's a 'guy' color?"
She noted that controllers work in a dark room in a secure building, far from the public. It's rare that members of the public ever get into the building and even more rare that they would get into the area where the controllers work.
"So, who are we dressing up for?" Ott asked.
The FAA wouldn't discuss specific dress-code violations. The code was part of the new rules imposed in September after contract negotiations broke down last summer. Since that breakdown, the FAA is enforcing things such as dress codes and a ban on all radios including weather radios that warn of tornadoes in towers.
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In Miami, controllers were told they could no longer wear "tropical shirts," even though they have collars. Management later changed its mind and said tropical shirts with "muted colors" were permitted!!
Free the Hawaiian shirt seven!!!
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Long ago and far away, when I was paid not-so-big bucks for my labour, I discovered the hard way that when I didn't dress seriously, I couldn't work as seriously. There is definite games playing on both sides because the contract negotiations broke down. *Both* sides need to grow up.
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A controller in Oakland, Calif., was sent home to change because his pants were "too wrinkled."
In Maryland, a supervisor shined a flashlight up and down a controller's pants. The supervisor said the pants had "jeans-like seams" and the controller could not wear them anymore.
I think the supervisors need to get a fucking life. I mean, really, what the hell are they trying to prove? Beyond simply "I have authority, you don't, so I'm going to tell you what to do".
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Firmin Emolo, to be buried on Saturday, is one of the most unusual casualties of the war in Iraq. Specialist Emolo, a member of the 82nd airborne division, was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in April - just like hundreds of other US soldiers. But Emolo's origins, as his name suggests, were not in Detroit or San Francisco, but in Ivory Coast. The 33 year old was a close cousin of Nanan Boa Kouassi III, king of the Agni ethnic group in the east of the West African country.
So how did a member of an Ivorian royal family end his days as a US soldier? "Like many of our young men, he went to America to study," explains family friend and local member of parliament Boa Thiemele Edjampan. "Then he married an American, got American nationality, and joined the military." Freedom is seductive, for those who can handle the responsibility.
Unusually, the US military flew Specialist Emolo's remains back to Ivory Coast, so he could be buried in his home town of Abengourou. US Major Gen David T Zabecki accompanied the body as it arrived at Abidjan airport and paid tribute to the Ivorian-American soldier.
"As a soldier Specialist Emolo was one of the best. Other paratroopers he served with remember him as always vigilant in his duties, one of the most physically fit soldiers, extremely proud to be in the army and even prouder of becoming an American citizen."
US soldiers in crisp green uniforms carried his coffin onto a plinth bearing an Ivorian flag, a potent symbol of the young man's dual loyalties. Some 100 friends and family members wept at the airport gathering, as trumpets played in his honour. Sabine Emolo, Firmin's sister, spoke, in a voice that trembled slightly with emotion, of the money Firmin sent home to his family, and his pride in being a soldier. "I can't regret him joining the army," she told the BBC. "I can only regret that he went so soon."
Firmin Emolo's great objectives in life were to become American, and serve in the military. He achieved them both, but he didn't live long enough to enjoy the achievement. I would've said, he lived long enough to achieve his dreams, and find a wonderful woman to share them with. But then, I don't feel any need to protect the BBC narrative in the face of blatant reality.
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maybe we should start an exchange program across the world trading our haters here for ppl like this who actually want too come here and make a real difference in the world
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He achieved them both, but he didn't live long enough to enjoy the achievement.
Oh, he lived long enough. He died a warrior on behalf of one of the greatest and certainly the most generous civilization that has graced the planet. As for you dear BBC copyist as you fail to grasp that, as the character King Leonidas said in the movie "300", may you live forever.
The father of a Pakistani immigrant girl and three other male relatives went on trial in Italy on Thursday. They are accused of murdering her last year for adopting a Western lifestyle and having an Italian boyfriend. More than 200 women, mainly Muslim immigrants, held a vigil at the court in the northern city of Brescia in memory of the 20-year-old victim, Hina Saleem. One banner read, I am Hina. They were joined by the imam of Turin, Abdellah Mechnoune, who told reporters, Having Western customs doesnt violate any rule in the Quran. Prosecutors say the girl had her throat cut last August after her relatives decided in a family meeting her Western clothing and Italian boyfriend were unacceptable for them as Muslims.
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> for adopting a Western lifestyle and having an Italian boyfriend.
TriGuy Menschaert, guilty of murdering three people at the café at the swimming pool in Brakel in 1997, will be released in the autumn on probation. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2000. His lawyer Jef Vermassen managed to convince the court that the man feels remorse. His good behaviour and the Lejeune Act permitting early release did the rest. The survivors of the victims are astonished. "Menschaert can start a new life now, we have been sentenced to life," said Philip De Cubber, son of one of the victims. Menschaert had shot his ex girlfriend and two best friends in cold blood during the carnival in 1997. He boasted at the time of his sentencing that he "would be out in 10 years."
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There comes a point when you can no longer blame an insane justice system and you have to blame the relatives for not strangling this guy with their bare hands.
Hey, they would probably be out in less than ten years.
H/T Mrs. Greyhawk
It's been a few weeks since we last heard from Lt. Col. Matt Green, the former Fort Lewis officer who for several months now has been leading a team of advisers to an Iraqi National Police commander in Baghdad. This piece was written June 21 but was held up due to a communications blackout.
About two weeks ago I had an interesting conversation with a few Iraqi men down in one of our market places. A few middle-aged men had approached me and were skeptical about the work we were doing and said he wished that he could trust the Americans, but he just couldnt bring himself to do so. I asked if things had gotten better since February when we had arrived. He admitted that they had, but reminded me that that was only four months out of four years. I agreed, and talked about some of the positive civic improvements that were going on around him. He said he would try and be hopeful, and maybe he could meet me there in a few more months and tell me if his mind had changed.
His friend, who had remained silent broke in and asked, why is it that when you invaded Kuwait, the country was fixed in just a few months, and is now once again very rich and prosperous?
An ending not to be missed, so go read the long article, it's well worth it
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Thanks Sherry, as per usual you contributed another 1st rate jem, Ima gonna save parts of this one.
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His friend, who had remained silent broke in and asked, why is it that when you invaded Kuwait, the country was fixed in just a few months, and is now once again very rich and prosperous?
I choked up on my bat, ready to knock this one right out of the park.
Well sir, that is pretty easy. None of the Kuwaitis ever shot at us when we tried to help them. More importantly they didnt waste time attacking each other. Four years later, you all cant seem to put your weapons down long enough to build anything!
He was stunned, and silent. A third man, a bit older, had said nothing during the exchange. He put his arm on the second and said something in a low voice. Bahaa was mounting back up so I had to make my apologies and leave before hearing what he said....[snip]
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[snip]... Sir, do you remember the conversation we had in the market earlier today, about rebuilding Kuwait?
Yes, I replied.
Do you know what the third man said to his friend as we were leaving? He told his friend that you should not ask American officers questions, when you know the truth of the answer will break your heart.
Often ridiculed by Muslim clerics at home but admired abroad, Malaysia's controversial director Yasmin Ahmad says only God will stop her from making movies. The religious authorities in mainly Muslim Malaysia has taken exception to the award-winning Yasmin's "Muallaf" (The Convert), after her lead actress, a Muslim, shaved her head for the role and acted beside a Chinese Christian, saying it was unIslamic.
But the outspoken 49-year-old, one of Malaysia's best story-tellers, remains defiant. "We have nothing against them. We wish they will stop attacking us," she told Reuters in an interview. "Only God can deter me," Yasmin, herself a Muslim, said as she sat outside a sound studio, smoking a cigarette.
Yasmin's plight underlines a deepening Islamic fervor sweeping the country. Many Muslims are dismayed by a rising tide of conservatism that has changed the face of this modern but moderate Muslim society. Music, dance and now films have suffered because they are frowned on by the strict interpretations of Islamic laws.
In Muallaf, 21-year-old actress Sharifah Amani plays an intelligent young teenager who runs away from her abusive father. A Catholic schoolteacher later befriends Sharifah's character and is irresistibly drawn to her. Yasmin defended the controversial head-shaving. "It is either that or I show her father sexually abusing her. It's about parents who strip their children off their dignity."
But some senior Muslim clerics were not amused. "Unlike Muslim men, going bald for women is forbidden in Islam. It is also sinful for men to act or behave like a woman and vice-versa," said Mohamad Tamyis Abdul Majid, mufti from the central Selangor state. "As Muslims, we should not sacrifice our religion for the sake of wanting to be popular," said Harussani Idris, his counterpart from the northern Perak state where Muallaf was shot.
Muallaf, which cost one million ringgit to make, is due to be released in Japan in October, but Yasmin said she would not be surprised if the film was banned in Malaysia.
"I never look for trouble, just making a film," said the director who counts Charlie Chaplin as an inspiration. "Chaplin always infuses humour with great drama. I think that what life is. Life is never just humorous, never just tragic."
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The father of a Pakistani immigrant girl and three other male relatives went on trial in Italy on Thursday. They are accused of murdering her last year for adopting a Western lifestyle and having an Italian boyfriend. More than 200 women, mainly Muslim immigrants, held a vigil at the court in the northern city of Brescia in memory of the 20-year-old victim, Hina Saleem. One banner read, I am Hina. They were joined by the imam of Turin, Abdellah Mechnoune, who told reporters, Having Western customs doesnt violate any rule in the Quran. Prosecutors say the girl had her throat cut last August after her relatives decided in a family meeting her Western clothing and Italian boyfriend were unacceptable for them as Muslims.
