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DEKALB, Ill. - The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage became erratic after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.The man, 27-year-old former student Stephen Kazmierczak, was also wielding three handguns during Thursday's ambush inside a lecture hall.
Two of the weapons — the pump-action Remington shotgun and a Glock 9mm handgun — were purchased legally less than a week ago, on Feb. 9, authorities said. They were purchased in Champaign, where Kazmierczak was enrolled at the University of Illinois.
A spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the other two guns were also legally purchased and traced to the Champaign gun shop, but the ATF was still determining when Kazmierczak picked them up.
Kazmierczak had a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card, which is required for all Illinois residents who buy or possess firearms, authorities said.
The gunman's father, Robert Kazmierczak, briefly came out of his single-story house in Lakeland, Fla., to talk to reporters.
"Please leave me alone. I have no statement to make and no comment. OK? I'd appreciate that. This is a very hard time. I'm a diabetic and I don't want to go into a relapse," he said before breaking down crying.
He then went back inside his house, which has a sign on the front door that says "Illini fans live here."
President Bush talked by telephone with NIU President John Peters and said people will be praying for the families of the victims and for the Northern Illinois University community.
Campus Police Chief Donald Grady said investigators recovered 48 shell casings and six shotgun shells following the attack in Cole Hall. The gunman paused to reload his shotgun after opening fire on a crowd of terrified students in a geology class, sending them running and crawling toward the exits. He shot himself to death on the stage of the hall. Sixteen people were injured.
Kazmierczak, whose first name was earlier listed as Steven, was taking some kind of medication, Grady said.
"He had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Grady said, declining to name the drug or provide other details.
Correcting information his office released earlier Friday, DeKalb County Coroner Dennis J. Miller said five students, not six, were killed in the rampage, in addition to the gunman. Miller said the higher victim total was the result of confusion over the fate of a patient taken to another county for treatment.
"There was a miscommunication," Miller said.
The motive of the killer, who graduated from NIU in 2006 but was a student there as recently as last year, was still not known. Grady said Kazmierczak was an "outstanding" student while at NIU and authorities were still trying to determine why he would kill. There was no known suicide note.
"We were dealing with a disturbed individual who intended to do harm on this campus," Peters said.
Witnesses said the gunman, dressed in black and wearing a stocking cap, emerged from behind a screen on the stage of 200-seat Cole Hall and opened fire just as the class was about to end around 3 p.m. Officials said 162 students were registered for the class but it was unknown how many were there Thursday.
John Giovanni, 20, of Des Plaines said the gunman calmly fired at the greatest concentration of students.
"He was shooting from the hip. He was just shooting," said Giovanni, who turned and ran so fast that he lost a shoe. "I was running but I was hurtling over people in the fetal position."
Peters said four people died at the scene, including three students and the gunman. The other died at a hospital. The teacher, a graduate student, was wounded but was expected to recover.
Miller released the identities of four victims: Daniel Parmenter, 20, of Westchester; Catalina Garcia, 20, of Cicero; Ryanne Mace, 19, of Carpentersville; and Julianna Gehant, 32, of Meridan.
Another victim, Gayle Dubowski, a 20-year-old sophomore from Carol Stream, died at a Rockford hospital, Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said.
The killer had been a graduate student in sociology at Northern Illinois as recently as spring 2007, Peters said. He also said the man had no record of police contact or an arrest record while attending Northern Illinois, a campus with 25,000 students about 65 miles west of Chicago.
The gunman was a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Chancellor Richard Herman said. The university is about 140 miles south of Chicago.
Lauren Carr said she was sitting in the third row when she saw the shooter walk through a door on the right-hand side of the stage, pointing a gun straight ahead.
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle," said Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I said I could get up and run or I could die here."
She said a student in front of her was bleeding, "but he just kept running."
"I heard this girl scream, 'Run, he's reloading the gun!'"
More than a hundred students cried and hugged as they gathered outside the Pi Kappa Alpha house early Friday to remember Parmenter. Flowers, candles and small notes were left in the snow near Cole Hall. Flags were flying at half-staff. At a house across the street, a hand-drawn banner made out of a sheet said: 'NIU We Pray 4 U'
The campus was closed on Friday. Students were urged to call their parents and were offered counseling at any residence hall, according to the school Web site.
The school was closed for one day during final exam week in December after campus police found threats, including racial slurs and references to shootings earlier in the year at Virginia Tech, scrawled on a bathroom wall in a dormitory. Police determined after an investigation that there was no imminent threat and the campus was reopened. Peters said he knew of no connection between that incident and Thursday's attack.
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Associated Press writers Carla K. Johnson, Michael Tarm, David Mercer, Martha Irvine, Nguyen Huy Vu, Sarah Rafi, Mike Robinson, Anthony McCartney in Lakeland, Fla., photographer Charles Rex Arbogast and the AP News Research Center in New York contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS RESTORES full name for ATF in 4th graf and number of injured in 10th graf; corrects fraternity in 31st graf to Pi Kappa Alpha, sted Phi; AP Video. Multimedia: An interactive that includes a timeline, campus map, photos from the scene and information about the victims and shooter is available in the _national/niu_shooting folder. It will be updated as more information becomes available. A timeline of deadly shootings on U.S. college campuses is in the _national/campus_shootings folder.)
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Over the last several months, the Austin Parks Department has been accepting public nominations for naming the new downtown Austin park on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake. Located west of the Palmer events center, just upstream from the Ann Richards bridge, the new city park features an ultra-cool high-tech fountain. ...
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Adrian Jaimes found safe last night in North Austin; police are still searching for his kidnappers. Whole Foods: "more interested in cheap tomatoes than the well-being of those working to get produce to the store." Parents from NYOS charter school met with school officials this morning to discuss death of student last week; memorial service for Tevin Park-Flowers tomorrow. Convicted rapist escapes South Texas prison by leaving through an unlocked door. Women targeting businessmen at fancy Dallas hotels, slipping them the Mickey Finn to steal their watches....
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Spiral follows a lonely, nerdy telemarketer who sketches portraits as a hobby. But when he begins sketching a hot new ladyfriend (Amber Tamblyn), shocking secrets from his past begin to emerge. If the reviews on the Fantastic Fest B-Side site are any indication, it's quite good....
Continue Reading "New Movie Releases: Spiral, In Bruges, Vince Vaughn"We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Austinist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Joe Jackson's Rain, available now on Amazon.com. UT's Harry Ransom Center, finding out if you're a Beatnik. Elsewares, where you can get a 10% off your order with the discount code "ist". Busted Tees, selling a special shirt to honor the New England Patriots. If you're interested...
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After eight years of having Texas be a no-contest state for all presidential hopefuls, this election year it could play kingmaker for one of the two Democratic candidates. The Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4 have already been dubbed Super Tuesday Two by many news outlets. Between the two states, close to 400 delegates are at stake. Texas with 126 and Ohio with 140 (not counting superdelegates). Austin accounts for 8 of the total Texas delegates....
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February 8, 2008
Sunday night may usually be time for relaxation, for winding down your weekend's bunch-o'-bliss and preparing for the drudgery of Monday and all the muck that follows it. Sunday night may usually mean propping yourself up with a stick, so exhausted from all yer football-inspired whoopin' and hollerin'. Sunday night may even be a time of penance. But this Sunday night, get ready for a change of gears and an old-fashioned opportunity to headbang, because Dead Meadow and Black Mountain are delivering a sea of drums and guitars and outright ferocity to this usually staid part of the week....
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Howdy istites. My name's Mike Dahmus, otherwise known all around various ratholes of the internet as M1EK, and I've been invited to write an honest-to-goodness post instead of a wimpy little comment. Normally, I crackplog ("crackplot blog") at my own place, M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile, which is "Mostly Austin. Mostly Transportation. Mostly Bile.". I served on the city's Urban Transportation Commission from 2000 to 2005, before Daryl Slusher gave me the boot for being insufficiently slavish to Mike Krusee's plan to screw Austin's rail fans forever. I've been writing that crackplog since about 2003, starting in the run-up to the commuter rail disaster. ...
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If you’re a fan of Okkervil River, the news keeps getting better. First there was an online release of an exclusive mix-tape titled Golden Opportunities last December. Then, the smaller matter of the recently announced SXSW gig with Roky Erikson at the Annual Austin Music Awards. Finally, we get to enjoy a live webcast of their show in Amsterdam tomorrow at the Paradiso -- hold your horses if you’re logging onto Orbitz already, it is sold out!...
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February 8, 2008
Six missing after refinery explosion in Georgia. Economic stimulus package ready for president's signature. Checks should start arriving in May. Border-control activists not fans of McCain's rise. Does this guy creep anyone else out?...
Continue Reading "News Bits and Celebrity Suck Fests!"February 7, 2008
Police on the lookout for Adrian Jaimes and his three abductors; his older sister recognized one of the abductors as someone who had harassed her and her brother in January on their way home from school. Sorry, Texas GOP Primary voters planning to vote for Romney! He's dropped out so that his campaign won't help the terrorists win. Or something like that. A lot of Texas GOP voters not happy about having to vote for McCain....
Continue Reading "Extra Extra: Romney Is Outta Here"
Austin Water Utility’s Free Toilet Program is back! If you’re an Austin Water Utility customer whose toilets were installed before 1996 you may be eligible for a new, high-performance toilets for free. The new high-performance HETs (high-efficiency toilets) use only 1.28 gallons with each flush. New flapperless technology means these toilets get the job done in just one flush with even less water than some modern toilets....
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Emo’s, as always, powers our evenings with a good amount of solid shows this weekend. Zookeeper and Zykos bring heartfelt indie-rock to the outside stage on Friday while Ume and Haunting Oboe Music take on the inside crowd with belligerent, experimental rock n’ roll....
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The coalition is a community of Florida farmworkers from various immigrant backgrounds who strive for fair wages and fair treatment and work to end modern-day slavery. One of the activists from this Coalition, Lucas Benitez, will be delivering the opening address at UT's 28th Annual Student Conference on Latin America tonight. ...
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"Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni R. Yilmaz Esq Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive nerd habits like I do, also consider a visit to: http://www.myspace.com/tales_of_mere_existence...
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Skating, art and music has always been a big part of Warren McKinney’s life. The Austinite is sharing his passion for all three this weekend during Art on Deck, a special exhibit of rare skateboards, a skate demo and concerts at United States Art Authority....
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Apparently, though, when other people hear the word wrestling, they think of something entirely different. They think of big scary men and faked-breasted women, the entire lot of them sporting spray-on tans, dangerous smirks, and very stretchy articles of “clothing” as they hurl each other around inside of a ring while thousands of mesmerized spectators, many of them apparently just having raced on over from Walmart and/or on furlough from Fashion Prison, scream their approval....
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Tags: lineup announcement, sxsw, sxsw music
February 7, 2008
Austinist Weekend Music Preview: Beard & Moustache Competition + Valentine Prom Extravaganza! + more
Emo’s, as always, powers our evenings with a good amount of solid shows this weekend. Zookeeper and Zykos bring heartfelt indie-rock to the outside stage on Friday while Ume and Haunting Oboe Music take on the inside crowd with belligerent, experimental rock n’ roll....
Continue Reading "Austinist Weekend Music Preview: Beard & Moustache Competition + Valentine Prom Extravaganza! + more"
The coalition is a community of Florida farmworkers from various immigrant backgrounds who strive for fair wages and fair treatment and work to end modern-day slavery. One of the activists from this Coalition, Lucas Benitez, will be delivering the opening address at UT's 28th Annual Student Conference on Latin America tonight. ...
Continue Reading "Coalition of Immokalee Workers Activist to Speak at UT Tonight"
"Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni R. Yilmaz Esq Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive nerd habits like I do, also consider a visit to: http://www.myspace.com/tales_of_mere_existence...
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February 7, 2008
Skating, art and music has always been a big part of Warren McKinney’s life. The Austinite is sharing his passion for all three this weekend during Art on Deck, a special exhibit of rare skateboards, a skate demo and concerts at United States Art Authority....
Continue Reading "Thrashed: Art on Deck Skateboard exhibit"
Apparently, though, when other people hear the word wrestling, they think of something entirely different. They think of big scary men and faked-breasted women, the entire lot of them sporting spray-on tans, dangerous smirks, and very stretchy articles of “clothing” as they hurl each other around inside of a ring while thousands of mesmerized spectators, many of them apparently just having raced on over from Walmart and/or on furlough from Fashion Prison, scream their approval....
Continue Reading "I Am So Popular: Taking It to the Mat"
APD just released an Amber Alert for 5-year-old Adrian Jaimes, who they say was kidnapped around 7:45 this morning from his home in Northeast Austin. Jaimes was last seen wearing a green jacket, black t-shirt and blue pants, is about 4 feet tall, weighs about 50 pounds and tends to have a bloody nose because of allergies....
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In keeping with its aim of promoting exceptional artists to the unsuspecting masses, or “starting fires”, SureFire Media + Promotion presents an exciting line-up of local talent this Thursday at Antone’s. SureFire takes on responsibilities such as booking, publicity, and marketing for Austin acts with The Soldier Thread and The Mercers being just two of the bands on its roster. The Antone’s showcases are meant to bring a new set of local bands to the legendary venue -- according to SureFire’s Director of Media Relations, Stephen Tatton, “Antone's is really an Austin landmark, and I think that if we can do something there that helps everyone involved, then we've done our part.”...
Continue Reading "Austinist Show Preview: Til We’re Blue Or Destroy + more @ Antone's"February 6, 2008
Super Tuesday's results mean our state's primary actually has an impact on the Presidential nomination this year. Anyone remember the last time that happened? SxSW founder on unofficial SxSW parties: "Knowing that our continued existence is far from guaranteed makes us willing to fight (when we can) what we see as damaging to SXSW." Name of boy who died at Austin charter school has been released by his family; Tevin Park-Flowers was seven-years-old when he died on Friday. Update on a fall post: Parents who left their babies in the car while they enjoyed margaritas in Hutto have been sentenced to one year in jail....
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Modern art can baffle and delight, and sometimes leave you wondering, "What in the what was that artist thinking?"...
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February 6, 2008
If you crave constant flux, if you can’t stand it when a musician or band sticks with a formula for more than just one album, if you’re only happy when bands are being adventurous, exploratory, breaking new ground and taking risks; then Lucky might not be for you. But, if you’re content to be overcome by buckets and buckets of blinding harmonies and several wide smiles worth of hooky indie rock, then look no further. If too much pop sugar makes you gag and songs with repetitive choruses give you the shakes, then you're looking in the wrong place. But if this is you, what are you doing listening to Nada Surf anyway? Don’t say that you heard “Popular” and thought, “How innovative. I wonder what they’re going to come up with next.” ...
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Nothing quells the squabbling mass’s ire like a fat check. You want those three dudes who pissed in your gym locker to change their tune? Buy them off. You know what will impress the volleyball team? Bomb-ass circuses. What do all bouncers and voters in Florida understand when it comes to deciding whether they like someone or not? Bread. Dinero. Duckets. Dosh. Some-other-D-word-for-money. That’s a uni-goddamn-versal hand-shake that says “if you didn’t believe in my powers of affable superiority before, perhaps the fact that I can magically produce some money for your wallet will change your mind.” ...
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New York songstress Nina Nastasia stops by the Mohawk tonight at the near-beginning of what will become a sprawling world-wide tour, meeting up with Denton's well-liked Tre Orsi and the local Silver Pines in the process. Nastasia has garnered herself quite the underground momentum, moving from humble roots as an untethered musician wandering her way through the dimly-lit club scene, to an artist with international demand and the respect of idolized names such as producer Steve Albini and Dirty Three drummer Jim White. Her debut album, Dogs, is impossible to find and is futilely sought in a way not unfamiliar to Belle & Sebastian's debut cut, Tigermilk. But she's not just a machine for hype---she plays some pretty fine music, too, using her acoustic guitar and a knack for captivating storytelling to cut through the muck of singer-songwriter-dom to create a niche all her own. And that niche has her and her band being called everything from "remarkable" to "enrapturing" to "inspired" by critics....
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February 6, 2008
What’s the Deal: Austin’s own experimental electronic, post-whatever eclectica outfit The Black & White Years – Scott Butler, Landon Thompson, John Aldridge, Billy Potts – have an album arriving this month. They’re having an album release show at Stubb’s on February 22nd. They’ve brought on some comparisons to the Talking Heads, and their upcoming album was even produced by Talking Head Jerry Harrison. Even though it’s not exactly the most accurate comparison that could be made here, there’s still a little fingerprint present in the punchy, artful rock and funky, dance-heavy sounds. ...
Continue Reading "Le Diamant Brut: A Weather & The Black & White Years"
While the nation recovers from Super Tuesday, the University of Texas is gearing up for Super Wednesday, better known as National Signing Day....
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Thru 2/23, St Idiots Collective's You Are Pretty is about sex workers' struggles to find love within the harsh environs of a legal brothel. The yap about YAP is the megawatt heft behind it—the production is chock full of local luminaries. [tickets] // Thru 2/17, roving new kids NxNW Theatre are staging "wickedly funny" Five Women Wearing the Same Dress downtown at the Hideout. The titular characters do a little cussin' here, a little pot smokin' there, and cover topics with plenty of chops (religion, sexuality, AIDS). [tickets] ...
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I've decided to out myself about something that will shock even my closest friends. Hell, it might even get me fired. Oh well. Here goes. All day, Monday through Friday, I listen to conservative talk radio on 590-KLBJ. Being a lifelong, card-carrying Democrat, some folks might guess my husband turned me on to it—but this is all me. It began about a year ago in a desperate move fueled by pregnancy hormones. A bona-fide Morning Edition junkie, I needed a break from the incessant negative news, so I decided to find out what the enemy was up to. Somehow...I got hooked. Here's a brief run-down of what life is like on the other side....
Continue Reading "It Ain't No Air America..."February 5, 2008
Lots of young people got their voter registration cards in on time. News?: Door-to-door magazine salesmen harassing Austinites. Farmer's Branch city leaders sued over their anti-(illegal) immigrant ordinance. Meat from abused cows in California sent to Round Rock and possibly Austin schools....
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"Both funny and emotional, both indie and Hollywood, both entertaining and political, both real and magical," is how SXSW Film Festival Producer Matt Dentler describes the palette of films being shipped into town March 7-15 for the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival. "It's a well-rounded slate of films, from both veteran masters and promising newcomers." With 113 new feature films, 64 of those being world premiers, there is truly something for...
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Deer Tick, or John McCauley, has fast made name for himself with a series of self-released records as well as 2007’s War Elephant on Jana Hunter’s Feow! Records. McCauley was raised in Providence, Rhode Island where he decided on a career in music at an early age, recording and even touring by the time he was in high school. McCauley’s voice demands attention, his songwriting shines through, and his work falls somewhere between Bright Eyes and Wilco. And he turned 21 last year. We caught up with McCauley recently to understand what exactly makes Deer Tick tick....
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As
everyone waits for the laundry list of over 1,500+ bands that SXSW
should release late this week or early next (going by last year), here
are a few bits of SX news to tide you over.
- This Crowe Has Flown: The Black Crowes
have canceled their appearance at Stubb's. This is likely because (a)
they have a record deal, (b) they have a loyal fanbase, (c) critics
have already judged them for better or worse, and thus, (d) there was
no reason for them to play SX in the first place.
- Okkervil River w/ Roky Erickson: In a move that will draw in some tourists along with the locals, the Austin Music Awards will feature Okkervil and Roky - playing together - as a headliner. Let's just say that this will be trippy and special.
... Continue Reading "SXSW News & Rumor Updates: 430 Bands, Full Line-Up Soon"
February 5, 2008
From KSAT: More than 1,000 calls poured into the Bexar County Elections Department on Monday from voters wanting to know where they could vote in Tuesday's primary. Problem is -- Texas isn't holding a primary on Tuesday, like more than 20 states are. "The voters think they're actually going to the polls (Tuesday) because it's Super Tuesday," said Bexar County Elections Commissioner Jacque Callanen. "It's all over the national media and the local media that...
Continue Reading "Note: "Giga Tuesday", "Tsunami Tuesday", "Tuesday of Destiny" Not For Us"
The Church of the Friendly Ghost is only scheduling two events this month, to make room for the No Idea Fest which starts on the 14th and goes through the 16th. But quality always makes up for quantity. The first of February’s Salvage Vanguard shows plans to be a doozy, with four acts starting at 9 p.m. ...
Continue Reading "Austinist Show Preview: The Plutonium Farmers, more presented by The Church of the Friendly Ghost"
Tonight's massive Super Tuesday election returns should make for some top notch TV watching, but there's no reason why you should spend the evening yelling at political pundits by yourself. Whether you're a hardcore democrat or republican, plenty of your like-minded brethren are getting together around town to watch the returns and collectively celebrate (or commiserate). Besides the formal meetup spots, you'll probably stand a decent chance of catching some prime time coverage at Brown Bar and the Cloak Room....
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February 5, 2008
It's time to play the name game! The Friends of the Austin Public Library and the Monster Book Store, located at 5th and Mary in South Austin, are moving and looking for a new, snappier name. They want to tap the collective creativity of Austin. Suggestions will be accepted through February 14th. ...
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The Utter Reading Series is back tomorrow, with more pathos than Hillary, more transcendance than Barack, more grit than McCain, and more exposure (for local writers) than a bead-strewn balcony on Bourbon Street. As always, the reading is free and open to the public, and the audience is invited to join the readers afterwards for drinks and conversation at Opal Divine's on 6th....
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Alexis Taylor & Co. were almost laughably adorable when they warned us, "Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head," but with Made in the Dark they've lived up to their promise. The album begins with an ode to the low end, a sonic challenge to the listener, and the intensity doesn't let up: "Shake a Fist" asserts the band as much more than a smooth electronic dance outfit. As Todd Rundgren's goofy voice (how fitting) interjects midway through the track, we're asked to grab a set of headphones......
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Our Indieroke night returns this Tuesday to The Mohawk. What started out as a one-off fling with rock stardom has turned into a monthly gathering of like-minded folks craving that fleeting moment of exhilaration. If you haven’t made it to one yet, we strongly recommend getting there in a timely fashion to get your name and song on the list early…and often. (You know who you are!) We will have multiple song list books going forward to ease that pain....
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As
everyone waits for the laundry list of over 1,500+ bands that SXSW
should release late this week or early next (going by last year), here
are a few bits of SX news to tide you over.
- This Crowe Has Flown: The Black Crowes
have canceled their appearance at Stubb's. This is likely because (a)
they have a record deal, (b) they have a loyal fanbase, (c) critics
have already judged them for better or worse, and thus, (d) there was
no reason for them to play SX in the first place.
- Okkervil River w/ Roky Erickson: In a move that will draw in some tourists along with the locals, the Austin Music Awards will feature Okkervil and Roky - playing together - as a headliner. Let's just say that this will be trippy and special.
... Continue Reading "SXSW News & Rumor Updates: 430 Bands, Full Line-Up Soon"
By absolutely no account besides my own, the best rap song to come out of Texas in the last year– and maybe more – is J-Dawg’s “Ride On 4’s.” It does not feature T-Pain nor is there an accompanying dance, where one would hypothetically use their appendages to mimic the act of driving around on large tires with almost equally large rims. It was the second of two singles on last year’s debut from Slim Thug’s group, the Boss Hogg Outlawz, a project that didn’t ever figure out how to market itself nationally and was eventually overshadowed by the marketing push for Slim Thug’s second solo album. For all of these reasons, you very well may have heard this song in the last six months, but it’s also not surprising if you did not....
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Super Tuesday is the new Super Bowl; New York Times continues its mastery of the obvious. Oh, Obama. Bringing the Dead out of the grave. Is there anything you can't do? Move over, Zeus - archaeologists have found evidence of a pre-Jove deity in Greece. ...
Continue Reading "News Bits: Britney-Free On Purpose"USA WEEKLY NEWS EASY TO FIND HARD TO LEAVE YahooMail HotMailGMail AOLMail MyWayMail CNNWorld IsraelVideoNs INLNs NYTimes WashNs AustStockEx WorldMedia JapanNs AusNs World VideoNs WorldFinance ChinaDaily IndiaNs USADaily BBC EuroNs ABCAust WANs NZNews QldNs MelbAge AdelaideNs TasNews ABCTas DarwinNs USA MAIL By DEB RIECHMANN and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers 48 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush, personally intervening in the political crisis in Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday he must hold parliamentary elections soon and step down as army leader. "You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said, describing a 20-minute telephone call with Musharraf. "I had a very frank discussion with him." It was Bush's first contact with Musharraf since he declared emergency rule on Saturday and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush political dissent. "My message was very plain, very easy to understand, and that is, the United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled and take your uniform off," Bush said during a news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy held at George Washington's home in Mount Vernon, Va. For days, the White House has faced questions about why Bush was taking a softer line on Pakistan than he did, for instance, against Myanmar where military rulers cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in September. Bush defended his response to both governments, "Look, our objective is the same in Burma as it is in Pakistan, and that is to promote democracy," Bush said. "There is a difference, however. Pakistan has been on the path to democracy. Burma hadn't been on the path to democracy. And it requires different tactics to achieve the common objective." Musharraf, who has been promising to restore democracy since seizing power in a 1999 coup, has ousted independent-minded judges, put a stranglehold on the media and has put thousands of Pakistanis in jail or under house arrest since assuming emergency powers last weekend. Musharraf said his decisions to suspend the constitution and oust its top judge were necessary to prevent a takeover by Islamic extremists. "My message was that we believe strongly in elections, and that you ought to have elections soon, and you need to take off your uniform," Bush said. The White House would not disclose details of the call or Musharraf's response. "President Musharraf listened carefully and heard what President Bush had to say," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. He said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had talked with Musharraf on Monday. "The president felt like he should give him a call today and reiterate his position," Johndroe said. Sarkozy said France also was concerned about the rising instability in Pakistan and urged Musharraf to hold elections as quickly as possible. "Let me remind you that this is a country of 150 million inhabitants who happens to have nuclear weapons," Sarkozy said. "It is very important for us that one day we shouldn't wake up with a government, an administration in Pakistan, which is in the hands of the extremists." Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., said he expected Musharraf to lift the state of emergency soon. "It may go into a week or two, but I don't think more," he said. Musharraf "has made this commitment already. The emergency will be lifted, he will doff his uniform, and the elections will be held as soon as possible," the diplomat said on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." On Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte repeated U.S. criticism of Musharraf's crackdown, but described the Pakistani leader as a key ally. He said Musharraf has been so indispensable in the global war on terror that extremists and radicals have tried to assassinate him multiple times. "No country has done more in terms of inflicting damage and punishment on the Taliban and the al-Qaida since 9-11," Negroponte told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Their record is quite impressive." The Bush administration is reviewing its aid to Pakistan, but Negroponte said he hopes the U.S. will not have to punish Pakistan. "I think that the longer the situation goes on in its present form, the more difficult it's going to become," he said. Many lawmakers are skeptical. They say the U.S. should be more serious about penalizing Pakistan and that Musharraf should not be so readily praised. "Our foreign policy should not be faith-based," said Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., who heads the House subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia. The war on terror is at the forefront of U.S.-Pakistan relations. At the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs, said cooperation along the border is crucial to U.S. war efforts but that communication and cooperation with the Pakistani military along the Afghan border have not been affected by the political crisis. More than half of U.S. supplies to forces in Afghanistan go through Pakistan. "There's good communication between U.S. and Afghan forces on the one side and the Pakistan forces on the other. And we would certainly not want to see that jeopardized in any way," Ham said. Associated Press Military Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report. 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Andrew told INL News that he would campaign in any way possible to stop the CMC acting in such a corrupt manner...it seems that Andrew Maloney and his large legal firm at Bosscher are the right team for the job to force the lawyers running the CMC to start to act honestly. The Ryan & Bossher legal team consists of over 20 laywers in Queensland and New South Wales which include: PETER RUSSO
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The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Kallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others are accused of being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up serious crimes and wrongful acts commited by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their associates-
ANDREW MOLONEY
Managing Partner
Gold Coast office
Acc. Spec. (Crim.)
of Ryan Bosscher Lawyers
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CRIMINAL LAW
BRENDAN RYAN
Senior Partner
Brendan Ryan is the Senior Partner of the firm. Brendan was admitted to practice in Queensland in February of 1985 after completing his university degree at the Queensland Institute of Technology.
MICHAEL BOSSCHE Managing Partner
Acc. Spec. (Crim) QLD Acc. Spec. (Crim) NSW
Michael was born and raised in Melbourne and upon completion of his secondary schooling in the United Kingdom he arrived in Brisbane to undertake his university degree. Throughout the course of his degree Michael worked full time for the Crown Solicitor's Office as well as completing his degree on a full time basis at the University of Queensland
PETER SHIELDSPartnerAcc. Spec. (Crim.)QUEENSLAND
Partner Peter has been a sole practitioner in the area of criminal law for over 12 years and with the merge of Russo Lawyers and Ryan & Bosscher Lawyers is now a partner of the firm. Peter is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Peter has been involved in many high profile cases and he has a consistent track record of obtaining favourable results for his clients. Peter worked in the Magistrates Court for approximately 10 years whilst completing his studies with the Solicitors's Board. As a result, he is very familiar with that jurisdiction. Peter has a strong commitment to access-to-justice issues and is a member of committees that deal with these issues.
MITCHELL CAVANAGH
Acc. Spec. (Crim.) Managing Partner
Sydney and Parramatta
Crime and Misconduct Commission
Yes, the CMC protects corrupt police offices who live beyond their means and that can not provide any lawful evidence as to where their funds comes from, in particular large drug dealers that provide funds to support the employees of the Crime and Misconduct Commission to support our expensive life styles.. as the wages that the people of Queensland are simply not enough to pay for all our expensive life styles...
Yes, the CMC supports criminal behavour by police officers in Queensland, in fact anywhere really, as long as they have some sort of police badge we make sure they can continue their criminal behaviour without being harassed in their activities...if anyone tries to expose these criminal activities we have unlimited powers to drag them and/or their families into secret hearings that cost about $2,000 a day to pay a lawyer to attend these hearings with them, as we have made the rules such that only a lawyer can attend with the person we get our corrupt police to drag off the street on only two days notice into these secret hearings.. at the same time we are all paid large salaries by the people of Queensland and the cash we receive on the side from our corrupt police mates and other other criminal mates...
Yes, the CMC supports misconduct as long as it is misconduct by any of our criminal mates employed in the Police Service and/or another Government Departments or other private criminals that are friends, who are prepared to offer funds to support our expensive life styles that the salaries we obtain from the Queensland Taxpayers do not cover... we specialise in supporting, protecting and encouraging the Queensland and Federal Police and others to import and sell illegal drugs and break and enter houses without a warrant to steal whole housefuls of furniture (as they did in Tallai) and steal the original manuscripts of books such as the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers) that was in the process of being published world wide by International News Limited in books and films and a TV series that would have brought a lot of world wide attention to our criminal behaviour of our corrupt police mates and expose our own criminal activities.. we simply had no choice but to break into that house with the help of our drug taking and selling mates and the Queensland Police, were we suspected this book could be stored.. after all we had to protect our livelihood and our business associates who provide our ability for ourselves to live beyond our means... we at the CMC of course can not be investigated as we are not going to investigate ourselves and we are the only ones with such power... we are simply untouchable and have a very protected monopoly in that regard
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Victorian Police corruption author
vindicated four and a half years later
Police corruption author vindicated
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Whistleblowers Australia draws attention to the fact that author Raymond Hoser's claims of corruption in the Victoria Police have been vindicated as true. In 1999 he published two extensive books on the subject, Victoria Police Corruption and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. Each book ran in excess of 700 pages and detailed extensively networks of corruption involving police, drug squad police, politicians and their friends they appointed to key judicial posts. In 2000, the Bracks government ordered the police to raid bookshops and seize books. They sent letters to bookshops in all Australian states telling them not to sell the books and stating that any person who sold Hoser books would be jailed. This week, the damning revelations of police corruption are no different to those detailed in the first of the two books. The secret is out! In fact the Ombudsman, Mr. Brouwer, himself previously denying police corruption has just published a report confirming the central Hoser claims … that is that the Police corruption now being reported is both systemic and all pervasive and been that way for many years! Whistleblowers Australia now calls on the Bracks government to concede that all the alleged conspiracy theories of Raymond Hoser are in fact true. Furthermore, Whistleblowers Australia calls on the government to compensate Hoser for losses arising from their illegal banning of the Victoria Police Corruption books. These books had been best-sellers before the government ordered them from the shelves. Hoser and his publishing company have itemized losses now running to several hundred thousand dollars. Author Raymond Hoser was quoted today saying "Denying the truth won't make it cease to exist. The news reports from this week, prove this more than adequately." At a public meeting at Melbourne University last year, Commissioner Christine Nixon said that she didn't have to worry about the Hoser disclosures as the government had effectively sent him broke and destroyed him. She said "Ray Hoser's allegations are no longer a threat to the police force". Hoser later said, that he was no threat to the police, especially the honest ones, but that the corruption he'd uncovered did pose a serious long term threat to both the honest police and decent law abiding people. The recent spate of murders in Melbourne, most now positively linked to corrupt police involvement proves Hoser's earlier statements to be correct. Further inquiries to:0412 777 211 (in Australia)
by R HOSER Tuesday December 16, 2003 at 02:20 AM
Today was a sad day for all Australians who thought that they lived in a free country where truth, justice and freedom of speech were meant to be rights of all citizens. In a case that's been suppressed in the mainstream media, or when reported, grossly misrepresented, Australia's leading corruption author has been declared guilty of "contempt" of court for publishing the truth about corruption in the legal system in two best-selling books.Corruption author stitched up for publishing truth about corruption in Australian legal system.
Truth on trial - Legal System scandalised by the Victorian (Australia) Attorney General (Rob Hulls) and his appointed Judges-click on above link to read more...
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