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The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Shooter identified, formally charged Police have charged Nicholas A. Horner of Altoona with two counts of criminal homicide, robbery and criminal attempt of homicide for the shootings late Monday afternoon in the Eldorado area. Horner entered the rear entrance of the Subway restaurant at 100 58th St. around 5 p.m. Monday, police said. He first shot Scott Garlick, 19, of Hollidaysburg and then went to the front of the store and shot another employee, Michele Petty, in the hip/pelvic area causing her to fall to the floor, police said. Garlick later died from the wounds he received. Petty was listed in critical condition but was expected to recover, police said. Horner demanded money from another Subway employee at the counter, police said. The employee took money from the register and put it into a Subway bag and handed the bag to Horner, police said. Horner then ran out the back of the restaurant and ran west in the area of the 6000 block of Maryland Avenue, where he shot and killed Raymond E. Williams, 64. Williams was going to check his mail from his apartment at 6005 Maryland Ave. Horner was apprehended by police as he was running from the vehicles in the apartment complex parking lot, police said. A Subway bag with money in it was removed from Horner's right front pants pocket and he had pieces of U.S. mail covered in blood and addressed to Raymond Williams.

State office: Man can’t sue Drug Court judge The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said an Altoona man cannot sue the administrative judge in charge of Blair County Drug Court over a decision to fund an abortion for a program participant. Attorney A. Taylor Williams, representing Blair County President Judge Jolene G. Kopriva, who oversees Drug Court, said in papers filed with the Blair County court administrator that Drug Court has immunity from lawsuits just like other judicial agencies. Williams also argues that the Altoona man, Donald Bowers, has no legal standing to file a petition concerning the abortion issue. State objections to Bowers' lawsuit are in the hands of Blair County Deputy Court Administrator Patricia Gildea, who will be requesting an out-ofcounty judge to hear the case. Bowers filed his complaint in early March after it was revealed that a 10-member Drug Court review team had recommended a participant who was struggling to overcome her heroin addiction have an abortion. Money for the abortion was transferred to the woman from a Drug Court fund comprised of payments from participants. An anonymous donor then refunded the $270.

The money was appropriated Feb. 5 and repaid Feb. 11, according to financial records released after a Right to Know Law request was presented to Blair County Judge Tim Sullivan. Bowers asked that the incident be investigated by District Attorney Richard Consiglio and the results be turned over to Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett. He also is seeking the appointment of a noncourt person to the review team, suggesting that a local pastor become part of the group. The state court's office replied by asking that Bowers' petition be dismissed because of the concept of "sovereign immunity." The attorney for Kopriva and the Drug Court said no federal, state or local tax dollars were used for the abortion. It is also contended that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the only entity that has the power to investigate "the practice, procedure and the conduct of all courts." Bowers also filed a right-to-know request to view the minutes of the review team. That request was denied because judicial records are not subject to the new state law, Sullivan said.

Nazi war criminal avoids jail ACCUSED Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai has avoided jail while specialist medical evidence is sought to present to court. The 87-year-old Perth man is wanted by Hungarian authorities who allege he was one of three men who killed Jewish teenager Peter Balazs in Budapest in November 1944. Last month Justice John Gilmour cleared the way for his extradition in the Federal Court, saying he was eligible for surrender to Hungary. Justice Gilmour gave Mr Zentai seven days to provide specialist medical advice to show why he should not be held in custody while he waits for a final decision on his extradition. Mr Zentai's lawyer, John Fiocco, told the court on today the medical advice would not be available until on or about May 4 and asked Justice Gilmour to continue the stay until May 8. "In the circumstances it's appropriate that the stay continue for that amount of time," Mr Fiocco said. Justice Gilmour granted the stay, which was opposed by Darren Renton, representing the Republic of Hungary. Mr Fiocco said he was as confident as he could be the results would be available by May 6.

Justice Gilmour extended the stay until May 11 but told Mr Fiocco if the results were available earlier to notify the court.

Boy Killed by Pen Following a fight, a 13-year-old boy repeatedly stabbed with a pen has died from his wounds. Allegedly, he followed the aggressor to his home near a trailer park when the fight broke out and led to the stabbing. The local police chief said "They just started fighting and at some point began to stab the victim." Prior to the incident, school staff said the boys were known as friends. Family members said he was stabbed 6 or 7 times in the chest and stumbled back to his home. The aggressor is also 13 and is currently being held at a juvenile hall. Due to the involvement of a minor no names are being released.

Nightmare Attack A late-night stop for a bite to eat left a beautiful student nearly blinded when she turned down a lecherous thug's come-on and he responded by punching her in the face at an Upper East Side pizza parlor, officials said. Cops say the savage beating took place at John & Tony's Pizzeria on First Avenue at 60th Street at 3:50 a.m. on March 20. Dzemal Kolenovic, 31, of Brooklyn approached the victim as she was eating with a pal and began hurling pick-up lines at her. When the woman and her friend stepped outside, the hot-headed thug allegedly began throwing punches in an explosion of violence. Her friend tried to dial 911 on her cellphone, but Kolenovic smacked it out of her hands into her face, leaving the friend with a fractured jaw, police said. He then turned his fury back on Christine as she cowered on the pavement and beat her unconscious. As she lay unconscious, Kolenovic and his friends hopped into a car and fled, police said. "I don't remember the ambulance ride and woke up in the hospital," Christine said. She was taken to New Haven Hospital where she was treated for "bruising and substantial pain to both eyes as well as blindness in [the] left eye," according to the criminal complaint. Her vision has since returned although she may require several surgeries, she said. "I just went inside for a slice of pizza. I don't even know the guy. He just came out of the blue and beat the crap out of me." Cops were able to track down Kolenovic via restaurant credit-card receipts, sources said. He turned himself in to police last Wednesday and was charged with two counts of felony assault, said a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Kolenovic was released on $5,000 bail and is due back in court today. His lawyer declined to comment. Kolenovic has a rap sheet with a 2001 arrest for disorderly conduct for which he served four days in city jail and a 2005 arrest for a motorvehicle infraction in Queens.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Community saddened by family crypt vandalism The eve before the Ides of March, vandals desecrated the Cobb family crypt. A door was cracked and a crypt within was defaced, roses and gas lanterns which would have been in the foreground were damaged. --Submitted photo The Cobb family is a widely respected family and have been productive members of New Haven and its civil community since the town was founded. Tobias Cobb was noted as being saddened by the event and desecration of the resting places of his family’s ancestors. In fact many members of the family were heartbroken to discover the graves had been vandalized, and some of the items placed on the graves had been stolen. None of the family could be directly interviewed by the press and they have not yet issue a formal statement. Local police shed terse statements that “This type of activity has become all too common. The perpetrators do not consider how their actions may affect the still grieving family members.” The two dozen red roses left there the day before had their blooms plucked off and all that was left were the bare thorny stems. The blackening stems are still there. The New Haven County Sheriff's Office had been contacted; and they went out there and took a look around, but there wasn't much they could do. Of greater concern though is evidence that shows the vandals also attempted to enter the main house. At the time of this report is unclear if they succeeded at removing anything from the house. Beyond suspicions it seems likely the sheriff’s department would stop referring to the offending criminals as vandals if they had gained access to the house.

Hate on the Rise IF you think there are no consequences to hysteri cal, anti-corporate grandstanding in Washington, pay attention to what's happening across the pond: "This is just the beginning." So warned a public letter signed this week by a vigilante group called "Bank Bosses are Criminals." The thugs claimed responsibility for vandalizing a former financial executive's home and car in Edinburgh, Scotland. The bank official, Sir Fred Goodwin, had been excoriated by UK politicians for refusing to give up company pension benefits dubbed "obscene," "grotesque," "unjustifiable and unacceptable." The vigilantes were stoked by a former newspaper editor, one Max Hastings, who wrote a diatribe exhorting citizens to violence: "The time has come to address the entire robber banker culture. Investment banks have been run not for the benefit of society, customers or even shareholders, but exclusively for the advantage of the bankers themselves . . . This is why we must stand outside their homes throwing rocks through the windows until they do." This is no marginal movement. Some 3,000 protesters from around the world are expected to

wreak havoc on the G20 summit next week in London. What happened at Sir Fred's house is a mere dress rehearsal. Bankers are being told to dress down to disguise themselves and avoid becoming riot targets.

U.S. equities markets were down roughly 2 percent as a prominent analyst warned the bank sector's problems have further to run and as the potential collapse of a takeover of Sun Microsystems hurt sentiment in the technology sector.

Demonstrators are threatening to hang effigies. Protest organizer and university professor Chris Knight vowed worse:

Oil prices have been tracking equities markets closely in recent weeks as energy dealers use stock index performance as a gauge of sentiment around the economy.

"We are going to be hanging a lot of people like Fred the Shred from lampposts on April Fools' Day, and I can only say let's hope they are just effigies. To be honest, if he winds us up any more, I'm afraid there will be real bankers hanging from lampposts, and let's hope that that doesn't actually have to happen." How soon before we see this same kind of anarchic domestic terrorism on this side of the Atlantic? It's already here. Animal-rights terrorists have firebombed researchers' homes, Molotov cocktail-bombed their cars, and been convicted of inciting threats, harassment and vandalism against employees of a private company engaged in animal research. Environmental terrorists have set private real estate developments on fire.

Oil prices have gained roughly 40 percent since mid-February as equities markets rose and OPEC producers cut output, though oil's gains have been limited by continued weak global demand and rising inventory levels. U.S. commercial crude stockpiles are running at a 16-year high, according to the Energy Information Administration. Oil analysts said they expected this week's EIA data to be released Wednesday to show yet another increase in inventories due to high import levels and weak demand from domestic refiners. Goldman Sachs said in a note received by Reuters on Monday that crude oil price rallies would be short-lived until the second half of 2009 because of weak fundamentals.

And self-proclaimed "bank terrorist" Bruce Marks of the government-supported Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, whom I reported on last March, has been threatening bank employees in their homes and harassing their children for years.

It said recent oil price rallies had been fueled by optimism over future stabilization in the financial system and in global economic growth, but for the time being these rallies were unlikely to be sustained.

Last weekend, of course, the radical ACORN mob and its corporate shakedown allies chartered a bus - with twice as many outrage-stoking mainstream media photographers in tow -- to menace AIG executives at their homes.

"We continue to expect that a more stable demand environment, reinforced by the likely need for the industry to restock during second-half 2009, will help push the oil market into a sustained deficit later in the year," it said

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank shrugged off testimony from AIG CEO Edward Liddy concerning death threats leveled against the company's employees. Left-wing billionaire George Soros' ground troops in the ANSWER coalition waved signs decrying, "Capitalism Is Organized Crime! Stop AIG!" GOP Sen. Charles Grassley recklessly called executives who accepted retention bonuses commit hara-kiri. And 85 House Republicans, by Minority Whip Eric Cantor, abetted demagoguery by voting for the retroactive percent bonus tax.

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Pundits on both sides of the aisle demonized the business people whose sin was continuing to work for a company that accepted taxpayer funding from Chicken Littles in Washington who forked it over in a blind frenzy. Washington scribe Mort Kondracke joked about boiling the execs in oil.

Oil Falls Toward $51, Tracking Stock Market Reuters NEW HAVEN—Oil prices fell nearly 3 percent Monday to near $51 a barrel as U.S. stock markets sputtered on worries over the banking sector and the dollar gained against the euro. U.S. light crude for May delivery fell $1.46 to settle at $51.05 a barrel. London Brent crude fell $1.23 to $52.24 a barrel.

Local hotel occupancy down to 54.3% HavenBusiness Journal Occupancy at Haven -area hotel rooms fell to 54.3 percent in February. According to data from the New Haven Regional Visitors Authority, that is down 14.2 percent from a year earlier. By comparison, hotel occupancy fell 10.1 percent in the United States and 11.2 percent in Pennsylvania in the same period. In February, the average daily rate in New Haven was $84.86, down 2 percent from a year earlier. Nationally, rates fell 7.8 percent in February. Haven-market revenue per available room was $46.04 in February, down 15.9 percent from the same month in 2008. It declined 17.1 percent in the United States and 13.5 percent in New Haven in the same period.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt GhostNet: Massive China-Based Internet Spy Network Unearthed On March 29, a Canadian research group unveiled a chilling report confirming fears that Chinese dissident communities have harbored for years—the presence of a vast, unrivaled online spy network that is able to track highly specific data and send it back to control servers based in China. The research was conducted by the Information Warfare Monitor, a public-private research group that comprises researchers from two institutes in Canada: the SecDev Group, an operational think tank based in Ottawa, and the Citizen Lab at the Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto.

their malicious code in order to avoid detection by anti-virus software,” the report said. The attackers used “social means” to spread the Trojan. For instance, “contextually relevant emails are sent to specific targets” and these e-mails, once opened, installed the Trojan on the unsuspecting user’s computer.

The Great UFO Hoax of 2009 If you prefer to keep a little magic in your life—by which I mean believing in the possibility of UFOs—then read no further. For I am going to tell you about the latest UFO hoax.

Scouting these control servers resulted in their finding a vast network of compromised computers across the world—the report counted “at least 1,295 infected computers in 103 countries.” Most interestingly, a large number of compromised computers were extremely high-profile targets: close to 30 percent of the compromised computers belonged to “ministries of foreign affairs of Iran, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Barbados, and Bhutan; embassies of India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany, and Pakistan; the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Secretariat, SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation), and the Asian Development Bank; news organizations; and an unclassified computer located at NATO headquarters.” Leveraging Social Means The researchers found that GhostNet spread by infecting computers with a trojan known as “gh0st RAT” that gave the attackers complete control over the infected system. They found that the Trojan was capable of “taking full control of infected computers, including searching and downloading specific files, and covertly operating attached devices, including microphones and web cameras.” Such complete takeovers would allow the attackers to even hear and see events happening on the compromised computers. The Trojans were obfuscated malware, resulting in their being difficult to detect in commercial antivirus and anti-malware programs. “Only 11 of the 34 anti-virus programs provided by Virus Total recognized the malware embedded in the document. Attackers often use executable packers to obfuscate

This was the pair’s main quarry, exposing the foolishness of UFO “investigators.” They write, “are UFO investigators simply charlatans looking to make a quick buck off human gullibility? . . . If a respected UFO investigator can be easily manipulated and dead wrong on one UFO case, is it possible he’s wrong on most (or all) of them? Do the networks buy into this nonsense, or are they in it for the ratings?” Nicely done, guys.

Marking Wall's Fall by Toppling Giant "Dominoes"

Their 53-page report, titled “Tracking ‘GhostNet’: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network,” documents their findings of a global online espionage network that relies on cleverly forged emails to infect target computers, control them, and then send reports back to control servers, most of which are based in China. The group reported that their work started when they began investigating computers in Tibetan exile centers in Dharmasala, India, for possible compromises. The work they did “led to the discovery of insecure, web-based interfaces to four control servers” which allowed attackers to control compromised machines.

the lead investigator of the show and the publisher of UFO Magazine, declared definitively that the Morristown UFO could not have been flares or Chinese lanterns.”

You may remember the January sightings of a UFO over New Haven, PAa. This event was blogged, podcasted about, and even captured on video and has been plastered across YouTube. It was all a hoax, writes Joe Rudy, who teaches science and gives private music lessons. He and Chris Russo, who works in sales, says they “intend to continue their quest to spread reason and truth, one pseudoscience at a time,” the two 20somethings were sitting around discussing pseudoscience and the many people who believe one or another form of it. “We had always had a strong interest in why people were so easily fooled by such irrational superstitions as psychic ability, spiritual mediums, alien abductions, and the like.” So they “set out on a mission to help people think rationally and question the credibility of so-called UFO ‘professionals.’” They cooked up a spaceship hoax “to show everyone how unreliable eyewitness accounts are, along with investigators of UFOs.” They used 5 feet of fishing line to tie flares to each of five 3-foot helium balloons and launched them from a field on January 5, 2009. “Once all five balloons were ready for takeoff (with our fingers on the verge of frost bite),” they write, “we struck the 15-minute flares and released them into the sky in increments of fifteen seconds,” filming the UFOs as they floated away. Media coverage was extensive. A lot of it featured Paul Hurley, a pilot, and his family, who appeared of several news broadcasts describing the strange lights they saw in the sky. (For some reason, reporters find pilots’ UFO sightings especially believable.) Rudy and Russo repeated the performance four more time, gaining media coverage for each. Conspiracy websites and radio shows covered the sightings, but “the icing on the cake came when the popular History Channel show UFO Hunters featured the Morristown UFO as their main story one week,” the duo recall. “Bill Birnes,

BERLIN—Berliners plan to topple a two kilometerlong chain of giant "dominoes" along the path of the wall that once separated communist east from the west, to mark the 20th anniversary of its fall. "We want to knock over the wall once again," said Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin. Assembly of more than 1,000 styrofoam slabs, each 2.5 meters (eight feet) high and one meter (three feet) wide, is beginning this week. At a ceremony on November 9, the day in 1989 on which crowds of east Germans swept through the wall and began tearing it down, the slabs will be pushed over. The "dominoes" will be decorated by young people from Berlin and abroad in a myriad different styles. "I was given the opportunity to paint a map on this domino, which is great fun," said Mathieu Chergait, an exchange student from France as he worked on the slab with two Korean students. Another is decorated with a design portraying a multicolored brick wall being opened with a giant zipper to represent the ripping down of the barrier that divided the city for three decades. One of the sponsors, the Goethe Institut, said it planned to use the idea to spread around the world the story about how Germany overcame its division peacefully. "We want to take the dominoes to many countries, especially to those where there is still a division today, such as Korea, Yemen or Cyprus," said Hans-Georg Knopp, head of the Goethe Institute.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt The i-LIMB Hand The worlds first fully articulating and commercially available bionic hand. Touch Bionics is a leading developer of advanced upper-limb prosthetics (ULP). One of the two products now commercially available from the company, the i-LIMB Hand, is a first-to-market prosthetic device with five individually powered digits. This replacement hand looks and acts like a real human hand and represents a generational advance in bionics and patient care. The Touch Bionics i-LIMB Hand was developed using leading-edge mechanical engineering techniques and is manufactured using high-strength plastics. The result is a next-generation prosthetic device that is lightweight, robust and highly appealing to both patients and healthcare professionals. The i-LIMB Hand is controlled by a unique, highly intuitive control system that uses a traditional twoinput myoelectric (muscle signal) to open and close the hand’s life-like fingers. Myoelectric controls utilize the electrical signal generated by the muscles in the remaining portion of the patient’s limb. This signal is picked up by electrodes that sit on the surface of the skin. Existing users of basic myoelectric prosthetic hands are able to quickly adapt to the system and can master the device’s new functionality within minutes. For new patients, the i-LIMB Hand offers a prosthetic solution that has never before been available. Advanced Design The modular construction of the i-LIMB Hand means that each individually powered finger can be quickly removed by simply removing one screw. This means that a prosthetist can easily swap out fingers that require servicing and patients can return to their everyday lives after a short clinic visit. Traditional devices would have to be returned to the manufacturer, often leaving the patient without a hand for many weeks.

Geomagnetic Nightmare control? Looking for an explanation for recurring nightmares of leaving the house without your trousers on or losing your teeth? New research suggests you can blame the Earth's magnetic field, rather than a repressed childhood. Cole Neuhardt, a psychologist formerly at the Center for Space Medicine in Berlin, Germany, found a correlation between the bizarreness of his dreams, recorded over eight years, and extremes in local geomagnetic activity. Other studies have tied low geomagnetic activity to increases in the production of the melatonin, a potent hormone that helps set the body's circadian clock. So, based on anecdotal evidence that melatonin supplements used as a sleeping aid can cause off-kilter dreams, Neuhardt wondered whether local magnetic fields could induce the same effects. Bizarreness barometer Between 1990 and 1997, he kept meticulous records of his nightly reveries, amassing a total 2387 written accounts during his teenage years. "I always wanted to do science with them," he says. For the study, he devised a five-point scoring

system to rate the bizarreness of these dreams. On the low end are dreams completely representative of reality – "I am sitting at a table doing some math or physics homework," for instance. Dreams that scored a three could happen, but seemed unlikely. For example: "A friend is in the backyard of my house, building a wooden platform atop of 7-foot high stilts." The most bizarre dreams that Neuhardt recorded had little or no connection with reality: "I was stranded on a foreign coastline with a monkey that spoke English and a woman that suddenly became small, almost doll-sized. Then I was at home."

Institute for Cognitive Science in Lyon, France, used magnetic pulses to stimulate these areas in two people who had undergone double hand transplants. They found that muscles in the new hands responded to the stimulation, suggesting that the brain had accepted them

Dream result

Though both patients had been right-handed, the left hands were quicker to get this brain space back - and regain movement - than the right. In one patient, the left hand reacquired a "presence" in the brain after 10 months and the right hand took 26 months.

Neuhardt looked up daily geomagnetic activity in Perth, Australia – his home at the time. A scale called the k-index and he included only days that scored on the extremes of this index. The K-index quantifies disturbances in the horizontal component of earth's magnetic field indicating the relative severity of a geomagnetic storm. This whittled his dream log down to 66 days of low geomagnetic activity and 70 days of high activity. Using these figures, Neuhardt uncovered a statistical correlation between dream bizarreness and geomagnetic activity, with freakier dreams occurring on days with the least geomagnetic activity. By isolating the geomagnetic wave results Neuhardt claims that he can relieve undue suffering from people are plagued from nightmares. Treatment would consisted of main line psychological exposure to dream lucidity exercises and establish a custom resonant wave magnetic field. Heretofore, in test trials it has not clear what aspects of the treatment were responsible for the success of overcoming nightmares, though the treatment as a whole was successful. Psychologist Milan Klaus has explored the application of principles from narrative therapy with Nuehardt’s process reduces the impact not only of nightmares during sleep, but also depression, self-mutilation, and other problems in waking life. Klaus identified during therapeutic conversations that the lessening of distressing content of dreams, while the application of lucid dream treatment had marked therapeutic benefits.

Brain renews link to transplanted hands A FINDING that hand transplants are eventually "accepted" by the brain is raising hopes that amputees may be able to recover full movement in their new limbs. Surprisingly, there are also hints that in right-handed people, the left hand is accepted sooner. In the brain, particular areas of the motor cortex develop links to different parts of the body. If sensory input from a limb ceases as a result of amputation, the corresponding part of the brain initially goes unused. To stop prime real estate going to waste, the brain then starts to rewire itself so that in a region once dominated by an amputated hand, the face and upper arm, say, start to "creep in". To find out if a transplanted hand can reclaim these brain regions, Angela Sirigu and colleagues at the

A previous study showed that stroking a transplanted hand triggers brain activity in the same region as in non-amputees, but this is the first demonstration that the new hand muscles are actually represented in the brain. "We can see the brain directly activating the new transplanted muscles," says Sirigu.

The researchers say this difference may be due to different brain regions acquiring different degrees of flexibility. Both patients used prosthetic hands before the transplant, using their right prosthetic more. As a result, the brain regions that had previously represented their left hands were commandeered faster by other parts of the body, a process that taught these brain regions flexibility. This meant that after the hand transplants, it was easier for these regions to adapt to receiving signals from the transplanted left hand than it was for those regions formerly responsible for the right hand to adapt to receiving signals from the right hand transplant. This suggestion should not stop amputees waiting for a transplant from using prosthetic limbs, says Sirigu: "A prosthesis reduces the chronic pain experienced by patients so we can't ask them to go without."

New technology to one day record your dreams, read your minds ATR, a research institute based in Kyoto, Japan, has developed a technology that is supposed to record dreams and thoughts and turn them into images. The subject’s brain is scanned with MRI scanners while looking at still images showing simple figures and letters in black, white and grey. The system then tries to reproduce what the subject sees visually. The scientists involved in the project are also thinking about using the technology to let us use our gadgets by our thoughts alone, effectively doing away with keyboard and buttons. The ATR is the same lab that helped Honda build its brain machine interface, which lets users control the Honda Robot Asimo by thoughts alone.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt THE RACIAL EUGENIC AGENDA

reported the famine under his own name in the Manchester Guardian.

In 1917 Vladimir Lenin was the principle leader of the Bolshevik Russian Communist Party when it overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and seized power. Lenin became the Chairman of the Communist leadership promising land, freedom, and prosperity for all.

Duranty denounced Gareth Jones in the New Haven Times. In a piece he wrote he described the situation under the title "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" as follows: “There appears from a British source a big scare story in the American press about famine in the Soviet Union, with 'thousands already dead and millions menaced by death from starvation.’"

It didn’t take long for the peasants that gave the needed muscle for the revolution to realize they had been lied to and used.

In an August 24, 1933 article in the New Haven Times, he claimed "any report of a famine is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."

In the following years many rejected the communist rule and a peasant revolt led to an all-out civil war. Lenin saw the need for a crackdown that history calls “The Red Terror.” An estimated 9 million people died under Lenin’s iron fist. Furthermore, socialist ideology led to collective farming policies and the seizure of crops that caused a famine leading to over 10 million pointless deaths.

Muggeridge, who had secretly been in Ukraine for The Guardian, later called Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism."

The Useful Idiots

Under the iron fist of Joseph Stalin things only got worse. With the world watching, how did people of the time feel about this hyper-violent form of government? Astonishingly enough, many believers in Karl Marx’s creation of socialism/communism denied the deaths ever happened. As unbelievable as it may sound, a staggering number of western, so-called intellectuals claimed that communism aims for nothing more than a peaceful utopia where everyone lives in peace and harmony. While it is true the ultimate “goal” of the movement was a peaceful utopian outcome, many never ask how the Proletariat deals with those that don’t accept their elitist leadership or how to achieve that utopian outcome. Obviously the stage of the “Violent Revolution,” professed as a prerequisite to a Utopian state by Marx, was overlooked by these people. Unfortunately, many became victims of the very leaders they helped prop up. As Lenin and later Stalin heard what these western communist sympathizers and journalists had to say, they referred to these ill-informed but helpful do gooders as what can be translated from Russian as “Useful Idiots.” Walter Duranty was possibly the most famous of these Useful… people.

A Great Liar Duranty worked for the New Haven Times and in 1921 received his coveted job at the Moscow bureau where he worked for twenty years. In the entire time he spent in the Soviet Union not a single negative report was made against the communist state, or against communism, for that matter. In addition, he denied the most horrendous atrocities of the Soviets, including that of the famine. He denied it ever happened and assured westerners abroad that something like that never would. In 1932, reports of famine in Ukraine started appearing throughout the western media. Journalists such as Gareth Jones of The Times and Malcolm Muggeridge of The Guardian attempted to inform the rest of the world of what was happening. Both men defied travel restrictions and secretly went to view conditions in Ukraine to get their story. In the spring of 1933, Jones left the Soviet Union and

It wasn’t until decades later before the first serious scholarly study of the Ukrainian famine was written. It was spearheaded by Robert Conquest of the Hoover Institution, always identified in left leaning circles as "right-wing." Yet when the Soviets' own statistics on the deaths during the famine were finally released, under Mikhail Gorbachev, they showed that the actual deaths exceeded even the millions estimated by Prof. Conquest.

The Bloodlust of Karl Marx Let us consider a few of Marx and Engels’ thoughts. On peaceful Movements: "May the devil take these people’s movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful.’" On Terrorism: “There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terrorism.” On Dictatorships: “Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.” On Democrats: "Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace." On Authoritarianism: "Revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannon" On the Russian Soviets: "In the Russian vocabulary there is no such word as honor."

At the center of the controversy were the very policies of the communist movement and its methods of eliminating its enemies through genocide.

On Equality: “I used the expression "modern mythology" to describe the goddesses of "Justice, Freedom, Equality, etc."

Peaceful Casualties

On the Chinese: “It would seem as though history had first to make this whole people drunk before it could rouse them out of their hereditary stupidity."

One would have to be slightly less than compassionate, if one was obsessed with violence. For millennia humankind has attempted to find ways of resolving conflict with peace but has often resorted to war. Peace is truly a noble aspiration. However, there are those that have sought to seize power covertly and surrounded themselves with peaceful and well intentioned people in order to conceal their intentions. Unfortunately, these pawns of the power hungry are often discarded as soon as conveniently possible. Consider the promises of Chairman Mao to the socalled liberated people. Democracy for all, land, freedom, etc. To this day none of these promises have been fulfilled, yet the fact of over 80 million victims of this hyper-violent party of communism has not been adequately understood. The violence continues with the most current victims of the CCP’s anger being Falun Gong practitioners So how do such atrocities continue to be committed on innocent civilians to this day? Does communism stand for freedom, peacefulness, and democracy? Does it desire equality for all with the elimination of the classes? As a point of reference, the violent nature of the Communist Manifesto was never a secret to the world, as it has been in circulation since 1849. However, many don’t realize, or chose not to read, the published thoughts of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels that express their lust for violence… nor do many realize the stunning number of Marx and Engels' followers who share their bloodlust.

On Racial Genocide: “In Central Europe only Germans, Hungarians, and Poles counted as bearers of progress. The rest must go. The chief mission of all other races and peoples, large and small, is to perish in the revolutionary holocaust." All in all, socialism/communism is not what many think that it is. Even if one doesn’t consider the beliefs or pretexts of this “Blood Cult” but only considers its record in history, one can conclude communism truly is a way of life that must be cast off to the annals of history. Lying seems to be its strongest weapon—lying about its intentions as well as denial of its record. Take for instance the audacious statement by Marx when he said, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist." Truly the bolder the lie, the more people seem to strain at challenging it. However, these lies must be brought to light. In the history of the social engineers for population control and the desired Scientific Dictatorship, not all were useful idiots that were being lied to. Some were the liars holding the puppet strings. Consider this quote from Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, in 1939, “We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Hospital gains ER director with fund raising Expertise. Dr. Eveleen Hadlee is a quiet yet strong leader. She projects the calm risk taking reserve any good doctor must have but an ER doctor requires. She shapes the intent of my conversation with her without even trying, and it takes a good amount of this reporters reserve keeping her on topic essentially herself. It turns out that this is all Dr. Hadlee has ever done or has ever considered doing … she’s one of those honest to goodness altruistic types we read about but never believe. Not that I’m looking to set her up for a fall. After one conversation I can say I’m honestly hopeful that if I ever need the kind of care she doles out that I’ll have the good sense to go to her hospital.

Its necessary for her to run a tight ship being a short hop skip and a jump from the enigmatic and vaguely notorious Twilight Junction. She has been the head of the Emergency Room department of the Advanced New Kismet Hospital (ANKH) in New Haven, Pennsylvania, for the past 7 years. By her initiative she has remodeled most of the buildings and its administrative practices. She also serves as director of the Haven Advancing Life Outreach (HALO) program and is an adjunct for the Biology department at Marietta College. Although I have to keep my sources tight to my vest I can tell you I’ve seen the good doctor out of the taupe colored hallowed hallways of the major medical unit. Beyond the angel of mercy requirements of her profession and found her to be no less ethical in her pursuits.

Her extensive training includes Cardiology and Trauma expertise from Harvard University; Women’s Health and Care at John Hopkins University, and Psychology of High Emotion Workplaces also from Harvard University. Dr. Hadlee is one of the East Coast’s foremost authorities on Emergency Room technique from staffing to care for patients and advanced medical procedures.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Cemetery Wedding? New Haven, PA. - It's not the traditional "till death do us part," but David O'Reily and Lily Travis believe getting hitched in a graveyard is just thinking outside the box. This April, the couple expects to pledge their undying love among the remains of this cities ancestors at the Jack Hill cemetery, even though those who approved the request are dead set against seeing it become a trend. The wedding wouldn't be out of character for O'Reilly, 27, a computer expert for a financial company by day and rehabber of old hearses by night. The graveyard, he said, just has a certain tranquility and thriftiness for nuptials the young couple insists will be small, private and traditional — except for the bagpipes, O'Reily's refurbished hearse and the throng of eternally silent witnesses. "People are going to think how they want. I don't actively try to convince people that my interests are normal or logical," O'Reilly said. "I'm not a freak or Satan worshipper or cult member. It just goes with our theme." Deep down, the couple said, it just seemed right. O'Reily and Travis, became an item not long after they met in October 2005 at a Halloween party where Travis, 21, was set up as to be O'Reily's blind date. O'Reily showed up in a retooled hearse that caught Travis' eye. "I wanted a ride in it, but I chickened out at the last minute," she said. By their first date weeks later, on New Year's Eve, Travis knew O'Reily was the one. Not long afterward, she quit her factory job, moved out of the Overton Docks and in with O'Reily. O'Reily proposed last June, affixing to the side of the 1965 hearse — which the two call "Edgar" — a plate with a simple message: "Will you marry me?" Seconds later, the ring slid onto a crying Travis' finger. She received Edgar as an engagement gift and had only one stipulation: The wedding had to be outside, in a gazebo. Her worries were laid to rest while she and O'Reily drove to her dad's house. While traveling along the Interstate, Patterson spotted a gazebo on a hilltop, only to find it was in a graveyard. No worries.

The committee last month signed off on the couple's request despite concerns about the appropriateness of the setting for the occasion. Frank Burrows, head of the New Haven Historical Society, though, vows to introduce a measure to make O'Reily-Travis nuptials are the last among this town's tombstones. "Once the horse is out of the barn, you have to have an ordinance," he said. But Travis said she and O'Reily have respect for the living and the dead. "We're not going to do anything stupid or horrible. We just want to have a wedding," she said. "Some of the ladies I work with said, `Are you crazy? Why would you get married in a cemetery?' Does it matter where we get married, just as long as we get married, in a place we find beautiful surrounded by those who we love?"

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St. Bart’s was a beautiful church once. A small country affair that serviced the community at the turn of the century. As the city grew it saw less use until its use was discontinued 50 years ago. It has since been declared a Historical Landmark but due to budget problems renovation and restoration continually were put on hold. All that is moot now, the old church was set ablaze sometime around March 16th presumably around 2 am. Due to the church’s remote location the damage was extensive before firefighters were able to put out the blaze.

The Ghosts of Eden Station Every weekday, Ken Watson and Mike Ragu drive around the city in a red van, distributing bagels and sandwiches. Much of the time they work underground— in Eden Station, and in the nearby subway stations. They target the people who are most distrustful of the system, the ones who would rather sleep on the streets than in a shelter. Watson and Ragu make an unlikely team. Ragu, a 25-yearold Greenhills native, has a bachelor's from the University of Haven. Watson, 57, is a former telephone company employee who has been living in a shelter ever since a fire destroyed his Islin home. Both men work in jeans and T-shirts. Watson wears a gray braid down his back and a replica of a drive chain from a '52 Harley around his wrist.

"The view was just gorgeous," she said. "I said, `This is where I want to get married.'" The gazebo is going to be the centerpiece with guest seating forming interlocked rings around the couple as they swear their vows. When the couple called last fall for permission to use the Jack Hill cemetery, which dates to the Civil War, City Clerk Jo Ann Hoehne told them the local cemetery committee would have to decide. "When I spoke to them, they were just a normal young couple who wanted to have a wedding someplace they thought was nice and serene for a very small, intimate wedding," Hoehne said. "They weren't any cult group or anything like that."

Employed by the Partnership for the Homeless, Ragu and Watson help people get what they need— a shower, a free pair of pants, an application for an apartment. But it isn't easy to convince somebody who's been living on the streets for years to go to a

drop-in center or shelter. In some cases, it's impossible. Or it can require many months of work—of checking in and chatting, of free lunches, of coaxing and reminding. By now, Ragu and Watson know many of the people living around Three Rivers Stadium. "A homeless person isn't actually homeless," Watson says. "He has a territory he travels in—for lack of a better word, a migratory path. They know the good soup kitchens, the ones that are so-so. They know when the good clothes come in. It's a way of life." On a recent Friday afternoon, Watson and Ragu pull up in front of the 73rd station. Watson grabs a bag of bagels smeared with peanut butter and they head inside. It used to be easy to find homeless people here. All you had to do was walk down the steps and you'd see people leaning against the walls or sitting on the ground. "There were usually 12 to 20 men and women sitting here. This is the spot for users," Ragu says, pointing to the wall. Then he gestures back up toward the stairs. "The steps is usually drinkers." Today, the station is empty save for subway riders scurrying by. About all the missing people, Ragu says, "It sets us back because we lose our contacts. We have to see the same people over and over to build trust." Ragu and Watson have lost track of many clients over the last month. One of these people was a woman named Mary, who they had been talking to for months. Every time they saw her, she was in the same spot, seated on a box in the station, smoking a cigarette. She told them she was in her fifties, but they suspect she's at least 70. Many times they invited her to St. Peter's Place, a drop-in center on West 23rd Street, which caters to people over 55. "Of course I'll come," Mary always said. But she never showed up. They figured if they kept talking to her, eventually she would give in. That was, until several weeks ago, when they made their usual rounds and discovered Mary was gone. After looking around the 73rd station and finding nobody they know, Watson and Ragu leave, cross Seventh Avenue, and head down the escalator into Eden Station. The dozen or so people who used to sit along the perimeter of the Amtrak waiting area are not around. Even the three old ladies who were a fixture here, always standing near the Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street exit, have disappeared. After an hour underground, Watson and Ragu give up looking for familiar faces. Still carrying a full bag of bagels, they head up the stairs to the exit. They get back in their van and take off for Bryant Park. Later in the afternoon, they discover a former Eden Station resident sitting on a foldout chair at the corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. Noel, 62, is the leader of a loose band of street vagabonds. They take ease and rely upon the protection of numbers as they also have noticed the recent disappearances. However unlike the missing ones they don’t stay in one place for too long. Noel, a self made educated philosopher, says it’s the same old migratory patterns for today’s gypsies family.

The Front Page Tribune The Modern Gentleman’s Excerpt Fred T. LeCrone Jr. May 19, 1961 - April 4, 2009 Fred T. LeCrone Jr., 47, LeCrone Road, Altoona RR 6, died Saturday morning in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., as the result of an automobile accident. He was born in Altoona, son of the late Fred T. Sr. and Gail (Yeager) LeCrone. His parents were tragically killed in the same accident. Surviving are two sisters: Suzanne LeCrone of Altoona and Sharon LeCrone Payne of Bedford, Pa., and Jacksonville, Fla.; and a nephew, Cody Payne, all of Bedford, Pa. and Jacksonville, Fla.. He was preceded in death by his cousin, Scott A. Gunder. He was affectionally known by his nieces and nephews, whom he dearly loved, as Ni Chan. He was a very active family man who will be sadly missed. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church. Mr. LeCrone was employed as a Japanese translator in Nara, Japan, for 20 years. He volunteered annually for Habitat for Humanity, toured with Up With People, with whom he performed on the 1986 Super Bowl halftime show, was a past member of Altoona Community Theater and was active in the Kobe Union Church in Japan. Mr. LeCrone was a 1979 graduate of Altoona Area High School and a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. He was an avid photographer and informational technological expert and enjoyed various activities, including adventure sports such as scuba diving and water skiing.

returned to Buffalo and was promoted to sergeant major in the Reserve unit. Mr. Stahl was separated in May 1977 after 30 years maxi-mum allowable service under regulations adopted that year but re-entered the service in 1978 as operation sergeant major in Headquarters 221st Engineer Group, New Haven National Guard. He retired in 1985 and was immediately commissioned as a captain in the 4th Brigade, New Haven Guard, with primary duties as chief instructor, Branch School 5, Officer Candidate School, New Haven National Guard. He was promoted to major with secondary duty as communications/ electronics officer of the brigade. He retired as a brigadier general, State Reserve List, in 1996, with 38 years of federal military service and 45 years of state military service. Mr. Stahl also was a commissioner with the Boy Scouts. Surviving is his wife of 56 years, the former Ruth M. Hodson. Services will be at 4 p. m. Sunday in Kaiser Funeral Home, 1950 Whitehaven Road, Grand Island.

Wealthy Industrialist Dead at the age of 62. Gregor Petrovich was found dead in his home on March 7th. Petrovich is survived by his wife Illana and his two sons Mikhail and Yuri. Petrovich was the head of Petrov textiles and of the Odessa holding company. He was a long standing member of the community of New Haven and has been influential in a variety of community based initiatives around the city.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today, April 7, 2009, at Mauk & Yates Funeral Home Inc., Juniata. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at Grace United Methodist Church, 1422 Fourth St., Altoona, the Rev. Sharon A. Ludrowsky officiating.

He was found by his wife Illana who as of yet has refused commentary saying only that she wishes to be allowed to mourn in peace. Petrovich was buried in a private ceremony which included family and a few close friends.

At the family's request, floral gifts may be ordered from Sunrise Floral and Gifts, Altoona, 943-3111

Dutchman who turned Nazi debris into a dialysis machine

Robert M. Stahl, retired brigadier general in National Guard Oct. 22, 1925—March 19, 2009 Robert M. Stahl of Grand Island, a retired brigadier general in the National Guard, died Thursday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst. He was 83. Born in Buffalo, he began his military service in the Army Air Forces in 1943. An aviation cadet, he was a flight officer assigned as a B-29 flight engineer at the end of World War II. Six months after he returned from overseas, he reentered the service as a second lieutenant, heavy weapons platoon leader, in the 74th Infantry Regiment, New Haven Guard. In November 1953, Mr. Stahl entered the Marine Corps Reserve and reverted to enlisted rank as a master sergeant, assuming first sergeant duties. After serving active duty as a drill instructor at Parris Island, S. C., and in Washington, D. C., he

It was 1941. Willem Kolff, a young doctor, had watched in horror as the Nazis invaded his native Netherlands yet he refused to let the occupation stop his pioneering work on a new medical invention. In a cramped hospital room he was building the world’s first kidney dialysis machine and he was doing it with the most extraordinary collection of materials foraged from a war-torn countryside. There were parts from a downed Luftwaffe fighter aircraft and from the radiator of an abandoned Ford car. There were orange juice tins, an enamel bathtub, a wooden drum and thin, artificial sausage skins. The strange prototype would one day save the lives of millions. Kolff himself, an inventive genius who has died at the age of 97, would go on to become the driving force behind the first artificial heart as well as a man-made eye, an artificial ear and one of the first sophisticated prosthetic arms. He never patented any of his inventions because he believed they should benefit all mankind, not one individual.

Willem Kolff After the war, “Pim” Kolff emigrated to the US, working first in Cleveland, Ohio, and then as director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. From the start he pursued his dream of creating an artificial heart. In 1982 at Utah he succeeded, leading the team that implanted an artificial heart in retired dentist Barney Clark. Such was Kolff’s modesty that he allowed the heart to be named the Jarvik-7 after Robert Jarvik, one of the students who had helped him perfect it. The breakthrough was hugely controversial at the time – even many doctors felt it was unethical. Criticism grew when Clark died after 112 days. Yet the artificial heart became a significant bridge to the transplantation of human hearts. At Utah, Kolff also pioneered, along with William Dobelle, an artificial eye, stimulating points of the brain to give some light to blind people; and an artificial ear, stimulating the acoustic nerve. Neither has yet proved commercially viable. Yet after creating one of the first prosthetic arms, Kolff said: “Our artificial arm is so good that it can peel an orange, so strong it can crack a nut. It can move very fast, but when it comes close to your mouth it goes slowly suddenly, because otherwise you would knock your teeth out.” Kolff was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1985. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize several times, latterly in 2003 for the physiology or medicine award. In 2002, he received the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for inventing the artificial kidney. Kolff was still “tinkering” until shortly before his death. It was because she finally lost patience with his “constant tinkering”, that he and his wife of 63 years divorced in 2000, when he was 89. She died in 2005. Kolff is survived by four sons and a daughter.