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The Earth from the Air for Children Concept & Photographs: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Text: Robert Burleigh Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ages: All Eight summers back, when we lived in London, we went to an open-air exhibition of giant-sized photographs at the Natural History Museum. The display was called 'Earth From Above'. To say that it was stunning would be an absolute understatement. Yann Arthus-Betrand, a French aerial photographer and environmentalist spent ten years on this UNESCO-sponsored project and of the thousands of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons, the best views of the planet were culled and blown up into large format versions (2.5m*1.5 m). The free exhibition has travelled to more than a hundred cities and seen by millions of people, including folks in Mumbai late last year. The photographs have been collected in a beautiful coffee table book called Earth from the Air. It has more than two hundred pictures each of which is accompanied by a narrative that tells us about the subject and also goes beyond the surface to highlight relevant features and issues. The book is clearly not a series of photographs, you can sense the creator's desire to draw attention to the fact that the Earth, our home, needs more than just our applause. His passion is of one who truly appreciates the richness of the planet and therefore cannot bear to see it being ruined. We spent many hours poring closely at the pictures in the book, fascinated by the extraordinary compositions. Some years later I found that there was a version called The Earth from the Air for Children and of course had to get it. My (then) 4-year old loved the endless possibilities of discovering details in the pictures. For a while it became my favourite birthday gift item and many of my friends' kids have a copy - you know thanks to whom. She has grown older and now enjoys the original big book version as well. The baby version has reappeared recently in our book shelf and is much-loved by the pre-schooler residing currently in these parts. The Earth from the Air for Children is introduced by Jim, Arthus-Bertrand's 8-year old godson. He tells the reader how the pictures were taken by his godfather - from a helicopter, and how exciting his journeys into the sky are. We are then taken on a fascinating trip via thirty carefully chosen photographs - for example, we see bird's eye views of elephants crossing a stream in Botswana, a flock of scarlet ibis in Venezuela, a camel caravan and its shadows across the sands in a desert in Niger, penguins preparing to plunge in icy waters from an iceberg in Antarctica, a volcano blowing its top in La Reunion (an island east of Madagascar), a hot spring in Yellowstone in the US and a whale in the deep waters off Argentina. We also see snapshots of human activity - a family sorting out dates in Egypt, a group of farmers moving their produce across a river in Mali, a tugboat hauling logs on the Amazon river in Brazil, a beautiful patchwork pattern formed by carpets laid out for sale in Morocco and many more. Each double-page spread is accompanied by an interesting account of what is in the picture - at a level palatable to the child reader, along with its location on the globe and a water-colour illustration by David Giraudon depicting yet another facet of the story. The pictures bring a unique perspective to the mind-bloggling diversity on Earth, compelling us to sit up and take notice of its splendour and perhaps gently persuading us to treat it with a little more care and respect. A fitting tribute to our beautiful planet. Posted by Choxbox Labels: Ages 12+, Ages 3 to 6, Ages 4 to 8, Ages 8 to 12, ChoxBox, Earth Day, Picture Books, Young Adult sandhya said... Speechless! Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:44:00 PM Uma said... I need a few copies - I know afew who would love this! Sandhya - saw this on Flipkart Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:57:00 PM the mad momma said... you know, i feel rather cheated. where was all this when i was growing up? i'd have had a different attitude towards studies! Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:32:00 AM Vibha said... I agree MM, I feel the same. Chox, where can I get this book from ? Thanks for introducing such a gem :) Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:31:00 AM Playing by the book said... I wonder if I walked past you at the original exhibition outside the natural history museum! I love the sound of the kids' version and I can see why it's become a favourite gift to give - I might just borrow that idea, starting with giving it to me and my kids! sathish said... Yves photos had come to Bangalore too I think - courtesy Alliance Francais. But, I missed it. Choxbox said... Sandhya: As Uma says, flipkart has it. Uma: Will you believe this - I have bought a total of 16 copies of the book! Practically every one of my kid's friends have it and it is universally liked. MM: Totally :) These days textbooks are just one of the many resources kids have access to. They are blessed. Vibha: My pleasure! Flipkart! PbtB: Did you?!! We'd gone again several times when it was displayed in South Bank and any visitors from India/US who came in that period were dragged off to see the exhibition :) Sathish: Mumbai I knew of - it was part of the Bonjour France festival. Bangalore - I'm not sure.. bt hey if it does ever come here, do let me know okay?! Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:13:00 PM Sheela said... How wonderful, Choxbox! Echoing the mad momma... learning is so much fun when filled with a sense of wonder and discovery - and this is one book that's going on my wishlist. Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:33:00 AM Praba Ram said... Incredible! The book sure sounds like a collector's item. Wonderful photography based coffee table books can be very inspiring indeed! :) Monday, May 10, 2010 7:47:00 AM Sunita said... I have seen that picture of the earth in a poster gallery covering an entire wall. It looked awesome and I kept wondering if it would do justice on a wall in the drawing room. Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:07:00 AM

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Underrated TV on DVD #17: The Kingdom Series: “The Kingdom”, originally “Riget” in Denmark Years: 1994 and 1997, 2 seasons, four 70-minute episodes each Creators: Lars Von Trier Stars: Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen The Concept: The goings-on at a Danish hospital are already contentious enough, but they only get worse when it starts to seem that good and evil forces are laying down the battlelines for some coming spiritual warfare. How it Came to be Underrated: Even with all of Von Trier’s fame, this didn’t get a DVD release here until recently. Instead, it showed in arthouse cinemas in two five-hour showings for hardcore movie-goers only. Luckily the show is so involving and creepy that we all had a fun time. Sample Episode: 1.1, The Unheavenly Host Writer: Tomas Gislason The Story: Perpetual malingerer Mrs. Drusse bluffs her way into the hospital by faking a brain disease, but she decides she has to find a way to stay when she communes with an angry sprit in the elevator. She comes up against a visiting Swedish surgeon with little sympathy for mysticism, but he has ghosts of his own he’s trying to outrun. Von Trier already had a swiftly rising film career when he took this sidetrip into TV, but his inspiration was clearly David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks”. There were lots of American attempts to copy the creepy charm of that show but nobody got close. Only in Denmark could they recreate the magic. Unfortunately it also had something else in common with that show…The second season, like the first, ends on a cliffhanger, and the third season was supposed to wrap it up, but the two main stars both died a year after the second season wrapped, so it looks like that will never happen. That’s a bummer, but given how weird Von Trier is, isn’t it pretty likely that we wouldn’t have gotten much closure anyway? What we have is still a very satisfying show. What makes it all work is that there’s enough sturm und drang to fill a normal hospital drama, plus a healthy heaping of comedy. All of the horrific spookiness is just icing on the cake. It’s nice to finally to finally have this on DVD, but it’s crazy to think to that it arrived ahead of the greatest hospital show ever, “St. Elsewhere”—another show that wasn’t afraid to get seriously weird. Only the first season of that show ever made it to DVD, even though it has Denzel Washington in it—speaking English. How Available Is It?: The whole thing is now available to watch instantly as well as DVD. What the Remake Did Wrong: I have four words for you: “Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital” But Don’t Take My Word For It: Posted by Matt Bird at 12:06 AM Labels: TV, Underrated, Underrated TV

Little Girl Lost Richard Aleas Reviewed by: Nancy Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York s seediest strip club? It s up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend s secret life as a striptease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers, until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever. Little Girl Lost begins with private investigator John Blake scanning the headlines and learning of the brutal death of his high-school sweetheart, Miranda Sugarman, who was most recently working as a stripper. When they were in high school 10 years ago, she had ambitions of attending college in Los Alamos and eventually working as an ophthalmologist. John Blake is young and idealistic, a refreshing change from the traditional hard-boiled, world-weary, cynical older detectives so prevalent in this genre. His youthful and clean-cut looks are out of place in the violent, sordid and grimy urban environment he has to work in. John encounters a lot of unpleasant characters while he is investigating this case, but he also has help from some good people, his boss, Leo, who is a former cop, and Susan, a stripper who knew Miranda and demonstrates a strong aptitude for detective work. This was a very well-written, suspenseful, and atmospheric crime thriller. Some of the clues were a little too heavy-handed, making it relatively easy for me to figure out who the murderer was, but I enjoyed revisiting the city I grew up in, the characters, the situations, and John’s strong sense of justice and deep feelings for the woman he once loved. This is the first Hard Case Crime book I read, and I look forward to more. Also posted at Goodreads. Posted by Nancy at 5:00 AM Labels: 4 star review, Crime Fiction, hard case crime, Nancy

Why do we heat treat tool steel? Without proper heat treatment, tool steel will not serve its' intended purpose. It will be too soft to withstand the forces applied to it during most manufacturing processes. Most tool steel is supplied to the toolmaker in the annealed or soft condition. In the soft condition, tool steel does not offer any usefulness to the end-user. It is provided in the annealed condition in order to facilitate ease of machining by the toolmaker. In the annealed condition, tool steel has a high degree of toughness, however, it has insufficient hardness to withstand the rigors of any of the common manufacturing processes. It also lacks sufficient wear resistance for these applications. Most tooling applications required that the tooling has a high degree of hardness in order to withstand the pressure that will be applied to it in the manufacturing application. During the manufacturing process, the tools are exposed to many repeated cycles, wether it is metal stamping, plastic molding, rollforming or powder metal compaction, wear resistance is required to resist erosion of the tool. For the complete heat treating procedure, including tempering charts, tips and tool steel data sheets, see our "Tool Steel Simplified" book.

Arrivederci, au revoir, see ya! By DAVE KIFFER Monday PM (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Usually, when you read those words in a headline, it means the column writer is heading on to greener pastures. No such luck! I am not going anywhere, at least not this week. What the headline really means is that I have noticed a significant number of folks absconding from Our Fair Salmon City these days and I thought we should take note of it. In the past, I have often written of prominent locals who have passed on to the Great Rainforest in the Sky, but in this case it’s people who are moving on to greener pastures in the living world. That is certainly a good thing for them, but for us, as a community, not so much! It shouldn’t come as a surprise, demographers note that most communities in Southeast Alaska are “highly transient.” In fact, during the height of the timber/fishing era, census gnomes determined that every five years just about 50 percent of the Ketchikan population came and went. That is indeed “highly transient.” I grew up knowing that many of my playmates would not be around that long. They were logging families, fishing families, Coast Guard families, Forest Service families and “just plain sick of the rain” families My son has learned a similar lesson as many of his young friends have gone elsewhere. For every “old time” Ketchikan family that has been here for generations, there are three or four or five or six families for whom Ketchikan is just a short blip on their radars. It’s sad, but it’s inevitable. So, I suppose I am a little surprised that I am surprised by what seems to be a current exodus of folks that I know. In many cases, people come to Ketchikan and then leave without really making much of a splash. They come here, live here and leave here. They understand Ketchikan is a transition and any roots they put down are fairly shallow. But then there are others - and these are the ones who interest me - who during their time here - be it two years or 20 - who decide to get involved and make Ketchikan a better place. They do that by adding something to our community rather than simply taking something. And it does surprise and sadden me that these are some of the people we are “losing” this Spring and Summer. For example, I will miss the outgoing Coast Guard base commander Wade Gesele and his family. Coasties are almost always short timers, but every so often there some who decide to get involved. The best example is the late Henry Keene and his family. They decided to stay here and forty years later, we are all the better for it (yes, even those who found themselves on the wrong side of Judge Keene later on). At any rate, Cmdr. Gesele and his family were active in a variety of local groups including Boy Scouts and Youth Soccer. They didn’t just mark time in their posting in Ketchikan. Another example of a government family that was also “involved” was Assistant DA James Scott and his wife and daughter. Assistant DAs by their nature generally tend to be pretty low key in the community, but that didn’t stop the Scott family from being involved in sports, dance, public radio and a variety of other local fundraising issues and events. Our loss is clearly Juneau’s gain. Kevin Gadsey has been a tireless advocate for Ketchikan’s physically challenged residents for quite a few years, but in doing so he has reminded us that when any of us are limited by society we are all limited. Kevin is going to Ireland for the next year or so and I’m sure that Galway will be encouraged to improve its own accessibility. For those of us who are into local history, we are facing the loss of two families. Museum Director Michael Naab and his wife Dianne, who is an artist, are heading south. Both the history and the arts communities will miss them, but they have easily transcended those narrow worlds into the Ketchikan world at large over the past decade and a half. Richard Van Cleave, the museum curator of collections, and his wife Deb Jepson, a public health nurse, are also leaving after more than two decades in Our Fair Salmon City. They have also been involved in numerous other groups over the years. Those of you who enjoy my occasional forays in local history will never know how important Richard was to them as the keeper of the archives, the room where anything worth knowing about anything Ketchikan is held. If he couldn’t find it for me, then I really didn’t need it! And last, but certainly not least, my good, good, good friends Bob Bloom and his wife Joann Flora. Both have been here since the 1980s. A short list of their involvements include Big Brothers Big Sisters, KRBD, Rotary, AA and just about every local musical aggregation you can name in the First City. Suffice it to say, the arts community in general would have been a very different place without them over the past 20 years. And it would not have been as good a place. They are also going to Juneau, which seems to be a bit of a trend. At least it is only a short ferry or plane ride away. I know that I am probably missing a few others who are leaving us and I apologize. I tried to keep a list but after the first few names, it just got too danged depressing. About the only good thing I can say about “transient Ketchikan” is that all the above mentioned folks did come here from somewhere else. Others who will make Ketchikan a better place will too, eventually. But just because the ebb and flow of people is the norm here in Ketchikan, it doesn’t mean we have to like it. More Columns by Dave Kiffer Historical Feature Stories by Dave Kiffer Contact Dave at [email protected] Dave Kiffer ©2013 Publish A Letter in SitNews Read Letters/Opinions SitNews ©2011

Category: Common Conditions Treated, Repetitive Use Injuries Tennis elbow often gets better on its own, but the majority of people who have persistent pain show improvement through non-surgical treatment. Tennis elbow is actually a misnomer in that it occurs in roughly only five percent of people who play tennis. Anatomically, the cause of tennis elbow is repetitive Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) has become one of the most widespread occupational health problems we face today. It affects millions of people a year, and with our growing reliance on computers there seems to be no end in sight.The syndrome is caused by pressure on the median nerve just above the wrist.

Dr. Fata poisoned patients with expensive chemotherapy for financial gain. ​Worse than Larry Nassar. Leads to this Support Ascension Hospital Shooter's AK-47 and two attached 30 round capacity magazines used in Feb. 1, 2018, twin murders in Taylor and Pontiac. Then fired at Michael Bouchard's deputies. Fortunately, this time deputies return fire downed the shooter before more were killed. Dr. Ted Golden has been a member since 1974. Does MSMS Support Dr. Golden's Health and Health Care Legislative Priorities? Health of Individual Some Of My Health Care Agenda Tanning Beds I am a dermatologist and I am very interested in the health of the individual. It is one of the foremost reasons that I am running to replace our current representative. Dermatologists know that tanning bed exposure by young people is causing malignant melanoma and other skin cancers due to the dangerous ultraviolet light (UVL) required for tanning. Dermatologists only recent political activity in Michigan has been trying to get legislation, which has been enacted in other states, to prohibit persons under the age of 18 from using commercial tanning beds. My short proposed legislation prohibiting persons under the age of 18 from using commercial tanning beds. On Dec, 18, 2015, the FDA issued proposed regulations that would ban individuals under the age of 18 from using commercial tanning beds. It is important that Michigan law prohibits people under the age of 18 from using commercial tanning beds in order to enforce the proposed FDA ban. Covid-19 and Public Health Policy Hopefully, covid-19 will not be a problem when this election takes place in Nov., 2022. However, the public should know where I stand on public health policy concerning covid. I will support the directives of our public health officials. They are the experts on public health, Dr. Fata In Michigan House District 45 (Rochester Hills) Dr. Fata fraudulently and criminally treated over 550 patients, most with poisonous chemotherapy. Tom McMillin and Michael Webber the recent term limited house reps were very quiet on this serious breach of medical care in their district. They should have been the ones leading the effort to make sure that there will not be future Dr. Fatas. Michael Webber's glaring lack of leadership abilities certainly failed this district in the time of their greatest crisis. Look at all of the protests and demands for action by Flint's reps due to the crisis in Flint because the state did not protect the people in Flint. The State of Michigan was informed about Dr. Fata in 2010, and allowed him to practice medicine until he was arrested by the feds in 2013. We do not know what the state did concerning the complaint filed against Dr. Fata in 2010 because the inadequate investigation is sealed due to privacy rules. Who was responsible and why? We should know what was done in order to facilitate changes to protect the public in the future. The responsible state agency stated that not enough was done concerning the Fata complaint, and steps have been taken so it will not happen again. What Steps??? Citizens of Michigan and especially the house rep of district 45 should not be complacent on this issue. I want to know how we will be protected from future Dr. Fatas. I want transparency and accountability at state agencies. There should be an appeals process of complaints that is handled outside of the medical licensing board. More has to be done to protect the public and quality of life in Michigan. Drug Overdose Deaths Drug overdoses accounted for 1,745 deaths in Michigan in 2014, 2,335 deaths in 2016, and 2743 in 2020 as the upward trend continues. Opioids such as heroin laced with fentanyl and painkillers are the big killers. In December, 2017, a new law was signed which required physicians to have a “bona fide” relationship with a patient who is prescribed a narcotic. The physician must use the Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS), which keeps track of opioid prescriptions and is time consuming to use. Hopefully, this will decrease narcotic prescriptions. Cheap heroin despite high demand indicates that too much of it is on the streets. More has to be done to clean our streets of heroin. Active heroin addiction should be classified as a severe emotional illness and public health problem that requires mandatory inpatient treatment and long term outpatient treatment. Heroin addiction is very hard to cure in spite of very good and intense treatment. The opioid antagonist naloxone (Narcan) should be an over the counter (OTC) product so that it is easy to obtain. The saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, certainly applies to this problem. Legionnaire's Disease The public was not informed of the spike in cases of Legionnaire's Disease and resulting deaths in Flint (Genesee County) in 2014 and 2015 until January of 2016. The health officials responsible for protecting the public covered up the outbreak of the deadly disease. At the time of the outbreaks no proper investigation was done to determine and eliminate the source of the bacteria, and now it is too late. Subsequently, there have been excuses and finger pointing among agencies that are suppose to protect the public. In 1996 Oakland County saw a spike of the disease, quickly investigated, identified, and decontaminated the source. The Macomb County Health Department publishes monthly updates and totals for several years of reportable disease information on its web site. As a member of the Macomb County Medical Society I see it on the last page of their bimonthly journal Macomb Medicus. Would the results in Flint have been different if the Genesee County Health Department had to monthly publish up to date reportable disease information on its web site and actively inform the public? Should this be mandated by law? Should new protocols be mandated for what public agencies should do when this type of problem is identified? More has to be done to protect the public and quality of life in Michigan. Tobacco 21 for Michigan – Ban Cigarette Sales To Individuals Under 21 Years Old The path to tobacco addiction starts at a young age and the deadly consequences are well known. California enacted legislation on May 4, 2016, becoming the second state that will not allow individuals under the age of 21 to buy cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and other tobacco products. Military personnel may continue to buy tobacco products if 18 or older. Hawaii was the first state with similar laws and some cities including New York City have a similar tobacco ban. Ann Arbor and Genesee County have passed Tobacco 21 laws, but are not in force due to over riding Michigan State law concerning the sale of tobacco products. Hopefully, this will get the entire state of Michigan on the same path. It is predicted that the long term health benefits from these laws will be enormous. I feel that Michigan should quickly follow California, Hawaii, and now Ann Arbor and Genesee County in raising the legal age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21. San Francisco voters approved on June 5, 2018, by a 70 to 30 percent margin a city ban on selling menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarette liquids to decrease smoking and attracting younger smokers. Michigan should have a similar ban. Protect Patients From Fee Gouging Fair Taxation of Health Insurance Premiums and Medical Expenses There is a tremendous disparity in health care in Michigan concerning whether health care is paid with pretax or after tax dollars. Those who self pay with after tax dollars incur a much higher expense. I would like all medical expenses to be treated equally. Michigan should allow all medical expenses that can be listed on the Federal 1040, Schedule A (and not limited by the 10% rule) to be subtracted from gross income prior to calculating the state income tax. Two Tier Office Visit Co-Pays Not Fair There is a disparity in office visit co-pays. Many health insurance policies have a two tier level of co-pays depending on what type of physician is seen. The out of pocket co-pay is higher when a specialist is seen and lower when a primary care physician is seen. The insurance company is dictating who the patient should see based on the differential in office visit co-pays. The insurance company is penalizing the patient based on the patient’s choice of physician, which is not right. The patient will incur the expense of two office visits if a primary care physician is initially seen because the patient is trying to save money based on office visit co-pays, and then a specialist has to be seen. The insurance company’s payment to the physician is based on the level of the office visit billed, and is not specialty based. I will sponsor legislation to prohibit this health care disparity. Health Insurance Benefits In An Easy To Read Format Health insurance benefits should be stated to subscribers in a standard easy to read format that can be presented to health care providers. Rules For Paying Claims Health insurance companies should not be allowed to formulate their own interpretations of medical billing codes in order to avoid paying claims. The current medical legal climate (ie. current tort laws known as Tort Reform) must be maintained and improved in order to contain medical costs. I have proposed that the Michigan Constitution be amended in order to preserve Tort Reform by giving certain powers concerning civil suits to the legislative branch that are now currently held by the Michigan Supreme Court. Physician fear of medical malpractice suits must be alleviated in order to reduce the expensive practice of defensive medicine. I applaud Gov. Synder for approving the expansion of Medicaid in Michigan under the Affordable Care Act better known as Obamacare. The Act gave states the option to expand Medicaid. Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) The Affordable Care Act is about 2,000 pages of Federal legislation, and a huge complex topic for the president, senators, and members of congress. State government does not formulate this type of health care legislation, but I will be happy to discuss my views. I am for a single payer healthcare system, but this will not happen for a long time due to a lot of reasons. Therefore, my first priority with the current system is to make all self paid medical expenses a subtraction from income item prior to calculating income tax at the state and federal level in order for everyone to receive the same, equal, and fair tax treatment concerning their medical expenses. Freedom of Choice, Competition in Health Care, Cost The patient will receive better care when the patient is able to choose physicians and health care facilities. The government and private insurance should not unduly restrict the patient's choice. Providers of health care will give better care and value if they are in competition with each other concerning both quality of care and price. The cost of prescription drugs should be controlled through more mandated competition among drug companies, and regulation at both the state and federal level. Ascension Hospital Ascension Hospital is house district 55's hospital, and a tremendous asset of the community. What is good for Ascension has to be considered by the house rep from district 55. Licensing of Physicians The practice of medicine is undergoing profound changes. What does it mean when you see that your physician is licensed to practice medicine in the state. The license does not mean that the state acknowledges that the doctor is a specialist. In Michigan a physician must renew the license every three years. The requirement of 150 continuing medical education (CME) credits must be met. This equates to the physician participating in roughly 150 hours of approved medical education activity hours every three years. The state does not dictate the content of CME or test the physician when the medical license is renewed. What about medical specialty board (MD and DO) exams which are very rigorous in showing competency concerning knowledge of the specialty, and are now required periodically by all medical specialty boards. The medical specialty boards also set tough ongoing educational and quality assessment requirements to qualify for taking the periodic exam. The requirements, programs, and exams by the medical specialty boards are called Maintenance of Certification (MOC). MOC is time consuming, expensive, and stressful to the physician. Should Maintenance of Certification if met supersede and replace the current state CME requirement for medical license renewal if desired by physicians on an individual basis? That is what I propose. A physician should not be burdened and stressed out by having to meet two sets of educational requirements. Physician Stress, Burnout, and Right2Care Physician stress and burn out is real and increasing due to a number of factors. More government and health insurance companies rules and regulations, recent change to ICD-10 coding, electronic health records, electronic prescriptions, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Maintenance of Certification (MOC) by medical specialty boards, MACRA, and financially penalizing physicians concerning compliance of the above are factors that are stressing out physicians and leading to burnout. Although proponents of these best practices(?) feel that they are improving patient care, the sum of what is being done is overwhelming the physician and increasing the cost of medical care. This could be detrimental to patient care in the long run. MOC requirements as stated above are causing much stress and anxiety among physicians. This has resulted in the action by Right2Care. It has proposed legislation in Michigan that would prohibit insurance companies and hospitals from terminating physicians who do not meet the standards of MOC. This is a complex problem with no easy solution. More information and opinions are needed from all sides and the public concerning this issue. Regardless of your position on what Right2Care proposes it is a sign that physicians are stressed out. Merging of MDs and DOs There were historical differences between DOs and MDs, but at this time both groups practice similar medicine. MDs and DOs practice together in your hospital. The two groups are slowly merging concerning residency training, specialty board exams, and professional societies. Should the two separate Michigan state licensing boards of MDs and DOs be merged? Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners These licensed healthcare professionals play an important role in delivering healthcare. However, they are not licensed physicians and should not practice independently of direct on site supervision of a licensed physician. Guns kill and are a major public health issue. Guns cause many homicides and even more suicides because of their lethal impact. Guns cause much grief and the public pays an economic price. However, guns are legal with rights to ownership firmly established by the Second Amendment. U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2008 and 2010 upheld the principle of the right to own a gun in the home for personal protection. The rulings left room for federal and state governments to regulate guns and rules for ownership. The right to stun gun ownership for personal protection was upheld by a 6 to 2 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. In that ruling the Court stated that the right to bear arms includes weapons not in existence in 1791. In an important ruling on June 9, 2016, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (California) concluded that the Constitution does not grant citizens the right to carry concealed firearms outside the home. The decision, Peruta v. San Diego, is likely to be the last word on this litigation. On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court left in place Connecticut and New York state law that bans the sale of certain types of assault guns and large capacity magazines. In my opinion more guns mean more killings and suicides. In March, 2016, Jamie Gilt the Florida mother, a strong advocate for guns and the Second Amendment, got shot in the back with her own 45 by her four year old son who was sitting in the back seat of her car. Are more individuals protected by guns or harmed and killed by guns? What can be done? Has the government's power to regulate guns, gun transactions, and deny some individuals the right of gun ownership reached its legal limits? American history, culture, law, tradition, attitude, violence, and the number of guns in the U.S. indicates that very little can be done to control or eliminate this serious public health issue. Certain types of guns and accessories were not designed as personal protection firearms, and have been involved in deadly mass shootings. I enjoyed watching Ted Cruz have fun firing assault weapons and machine guns at a firing range. A very good demonstration why these types of weapons and large capacity magazines should be restricted to firing ranges. However, at the active shooter awareness discussion at the Royal Park Hotel on January 27, 2016, the speakers indicated that prohibiting potent firearms would not reduce mass shootings because a shooter will use another available weapon. The shooting in Las Vegas proved that the speakers, especially Sheriff Michael Bouchard who told me after his presentation that he would not ban large capacity magazines, were very wrong about allowing military type weapons on the streets. The military type weapons the Las Vegas shooter used enabled him to kill and wound vast numbers of individuals. Again, these types of weapons must be banned. The audience favored more severe and enforced penalties for gun violations. I will advocate for that approach. I feel that property owners have the right to prohibit guns on their property. Michigan has good laws concerning gun ownership. However, loopholes concerning pistol permits and registrations should be eliminated. Some long guns should require permits and registrations. Shooters such as the one in Kalamazoo should be examined to determine if something could have been done to prevent those shooting deaths. With recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions the legalities concerning the Second Amendment and gun ownership have been firmly established. I agree with the recent Peruta v. San Diego ruling, and U.S. Supreme Court approval of state laws that ban the sale of certain types of assault guns and large capacity magazines. I would like Michigan's gun laws to be more like California, which bans assault weapons, large capacity magazines, and reduces concealed carry permits by requiring “good cause” for concealed carry. Citizens have Second Amendment rights to control who owns guns, type of guns, and how and where they are allowed outside of the home. I would like fewer guns in the community. Abortion - No More Back-Alley Butchers I was a medical student at the University of Michigan in the mid 1960s. At the time it was in most cases illegal to perform or have an abortion. I accepted the law until exposed to the consequences. In the 1960s it was estimated that over 1,000,000 illegal abortions were performed every year in the U.S.A. The illegal abortion policy was a failure, and women suffered. Many of those illegal abortions were performed by the back-alley butchers. In the ER during Ob-Gyn training at Wayne County General Hospital I saw the results of their work. Everyday sick hemorrhaging, infected, and septic women with a history of having fallen down the stairs and packed with dirty smelly bloody rags were treated. I would tell my mentors that the police should be called and the butchers prosecuted. Nothing was ever done. The response was, The case was not severe enough to get the police involved. Besides, the victims were not talking. I saw the same scene in the ER during my internship at Sinai Hospital of Detroit except the patient was more middle class. Twenty years latter I asked a neighbor who was a board certified Ob-Gyn physician and a Catholic why he performed legal abortions. Some women need abortions, he replied. It was scary when his home was picketed during a time when other abortion providers were being gunned down. Abortions are now a legal outpatient procedure usually without side effects and safe. The current licensing requirements in Michigan for abortion providers and clinics are adequate. The abortion patient should be treated with respect and dignity, and not be harassed and pestered. Abortion data indicates that in the U.S. 1,608,620 abortions were performed in the peak year of 1990, and an estimated 1,000,000 abortions were performed in 2013, and subsequent years. The decline in abortions is mainly due to fewer unplanned pregnancies, because the total number of pregnancies (live births plus abortions) has declined yearly since 1990 in the U.S. Fewer unplanned pregnancies are due to better use of birth control and a decrease in teenage sexual activity. A second factor is the decline in the rate of abortions compared to live births, which Right To Life feels is due to their activities. I do not approve of their legal harassment and pestering of the abortion patient. Although birth control does not work all the time the use of birth control and making it a health insurance benefit will reduce the number of abortions. I favor easy access to birth control pills by not requiring a physician visit or a traditional prescription. Planned Parenthood and similar facilities reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies and promote women's health. I fully support Planned Parenthood. About 1,000,000 pregnant women in the U.S. will need to have an abortion this year. It is their legal right to have an abortion, and they are entitled to unencumbered high quality medical care in their community. I do not want to go back to the days of the failed policies that treated women poorly and the back-alley butchers. Environment, Climate, Global Warming, and Health In the history of our planet a species has recently become aware of the fact that they are damaging mother earth. Other species have previously had profound effects on their surroundings, but some Homo sapiens are the first to have the cognitive ability to scientifically gather the facts and formulate the concept of cause and effect. What is the politics behind conservative Republicans denying global warming? Living better is a complex human endeavor of using earth's resources, but not killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The environment must be protected from too much adverse human activity for good health for all. The Flint Water Crisis raised the awareness of the dangers of lead poisoning. The standard for allowable exposure to lead should be as close to zero as possible for all citizens of Michigan. Drinking water has to be monitored and pipes replaced where indicated. Old lead paint in homes built before 1978 is still a significant problem, especially in the older sections of our cities where this lead becomes fine lead dust that is inhaled. These cities are aware of the problem and have programs in place to minimize the risks. The state should help with the funding. What about your home if built before 1978. Was lead paint used? If the answer is yes is the paint still firmly stuck to the wall or becoming fine dust? How will you know the answer to these questions? I am concerned!!! Unacceptable Today I grew up in Flint in a good house built in 1924. I would assume that it had lead paint. It had a steam heating system with radiators. The furnace and steam pipes were covered with asbestos wraps. The furnace was originally coal, but I remember oil. We were more advanced than the neighbors who were still burning coal. I remember coal trucks, coal chutes, coal bins, coal shovels, coal stokers, cinder pickup, dirt, and the foul air. It was difficult to take a decent shower because of the terrible water pressure due to corrosion and sediment build up in the pipes. The pipes were replaced in the early 1950s. The plumber showed me the old pipes. They barely had an opening. All the new pipes were copper joined together at the joints with a generous amount of lead solder. The shower had great water pressure. The water was straight out of the Flint River. The sewer was the old style combining sanitary with storm. The old pottery sewer pipe did not drain well because tree roots grew into it. The plumber was there on a regular basis to snake out the sewer drain. That crock of pottery for a sewer pipe was replaced in the mid 1950s. Flushing was then without fear of a backup. My older brother earned a PhD in toxicology from the U. of M. He says, Just think as kids we loved and survived playing with mercury. It was shiny, heavy, flowed very well, beaded nicely, and coated pennies well for a nice shine. My mother lived in our home for 62 years. All of my sibs are thriving. Ted Golden, M.D. Supports the Michigan State Medical Society's Legislative Priorities Keep Citizens Healthy Citizens have a responsibility to stay healthy for the good of society. Healthy behavior and life styles should be promoted and rewarded. The state must do more to keep its citizens healthy. It costs everyone a lot of money to treat unhealthy people. As a physician I believed that it was my duty to treat anyone who sought my services to the best of my ability regardless of who they were or their ability to pay. I enjoyed being able to give my patients good health. I believe in the dignity and sanctity of the individual, and so should the state. Unfair taxation of self paid medical expenses more likely to cause Sheriff Michael Bouchard, do you want your deputies to be involved in a shoot out against one of these? Dangerous Ultaviolet Light (UVL) Detect and Prevent Office visit co-pays should not be tiered. A heavy burden Did nothing to protect the public in Flint from deadly Legionella bacteria. Too much of this Physicians have to work hard to maintain their competence and medical license. Sheriff Bouchard, Please, advocate strongly to ban assult weapons, bump stocks, and large capacity magazines!!! Not good when it happens, but should be under legislative control. Time brings changes. Protect!!! This state allows all self paid medical expenses including health insurance premiums to be deducted from state income tax. Banning the above prevents melanoma Healthcare Competition. A major health hazard. In 6 minutes on Feb. 14, 2018 this type of gun killed 17 and wounded 17 at a high school in an up scaled Florida community. It is in your hands. Merge MD and DO Michigan State Licensing Boards . Teenage smokers have long term health problems that can be prevented by Tobacco 21. The patient wins Michigan Patient

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The "Transportation Issue" My friend and fellow MAST memeber Christian Milneil wrote a great Op-Ed for the Press Herald about MAST's new Zoom Proposal. The Press Herald wrote short editorial in support of the idea. Christian did a great job outlining a path to improved public transportation. I think that building a stronger public transportation system must be a top priority in the future, and while strong proposals are important, so is a strong rational. I would like to share my own rational for promoting public transportation. The reason we need public transportation is simply that not everyone can get around by car. For the last 70 years we (as Americans) have primarily been promoting car-centric development, but these development patterns leave out those too young to drive, those who can't afford to drive, and those who have disabilities that prevent them from driving. Our communities invested in public transportation in that past but as cars grew in popularity, support for public transportation wained. In the 50s my mom and her brothers would take a bus from Main Street Cumberland into Portland to go to the movies. Now, my grandmother still lives in the same family house but cannot drive or take a bus anywhere. We need to get the old transportation systems back. We all know the regular reasons to improve public transportation: reduced car emissions, reduced congestion in cities, improved health (if people walk or bike) and even reduced sprawl as development centralizes around transportation systems, but I see personal independence as the reason at the heart of the need for better public transportation. People need to feel self sufficient and able to meet their basic needs on their own, but it is hard to feel that way if there is no alternative to driving. As the baby-boomers age more and more people will be prevented from driving because of age related disabilities. As my parents get older (and believe me, they are not there yet) they will at some point have to decide not to drive. The prospect of losing such an integral mode of independence can be paralyzing to even think about. We need to start thinking about how they will be getting around now. In the Portland area we currently have a system to address this issue called RTP. This is a by-request-only pick-up service and people must apply to receive the service. While the RTP clearly helps many people, it does not not offer it's services to teens who are too young to drive, and it does not provide the personal independence that a frequent and dependable public transit system could provide. It is time again to make public transportation improvements as an investment in our communities, just as the interstate system was made an investment in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the railway system was made an investment in the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. The car has played out its course as the "only way" to travel, and it is time for us to reintroduce the kinds of public transportation that used to be essential to our cities. Our current road infrastructure will be sufficient for a long time if we just focus on not having SO many cars. The needs of our diverse populations are many, and we need a diverse transportation infrastructure to allow all of us personal independence in our modern world. at 3:28 PM Labels: city planning, commuting, environment, maine, thoughts, transportation

Regardless of how the markets may perform, consider making the following part of your investment philosophy: Diversification. The saying “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” has some application to investing. Over time, certain asset classes may perform better than others. If your assets are mostly held in one kind of investment, you could find yourself under a bit of pressure if that asset class experiences some volatility. Keep in mind that diversification is an approach to help manage investment risk. It does not eliminate the risk of loss if an investment sees a decline in price. Asset allocation strategies also are used in portfolio management. When financial professionals ask you questions about your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk, they are getting a better idea about what asset classes may be appropriate for your situation. But like diversification, asset allocation is an approach to help manage investment risk. It does not eliminate the risk of loss if an investment sees a decline in price. Patience. Impatient investors can get too focused on the day-to-day doings of the financial markets. They can be looking for short-term opportunities rather than longer-term potential. A patient investor understands that markets fluctuate, and has built a portfolio based on their time horizon, risk tolerance, and goals. A short-term focus may add stress and anxiety to your life, and could lead to frustration with the investing process. Consistency. Most people invest a little at a time, within their budget, and with regularity. They invest $50 or $100 or more per month in their retirement account or similar investments. They are investing on “autopilot” to help themselves attempt to build wealth over time. Consistent investing does not protect against a loss in a declining market or guarantee a profit in a rising market. Consistent investing, sometimes referred to as dollar-cost averaging, is the process of investing a fixed amount of money in an investment vehicle at regular intervals, usually monthly, for an extended period of time regardless of price. Investors should evaluate their financial ability to continue making purchases through periods of declining and rising prices. The return and principal value of stock prices will fluctuate as market conditions change. Shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. If you don’t have an investment strategy, consider talking to a qualified financial professional today.

Starting Fresh Yesterday I put a girl out that showed up 20 minutes later, didn't pick up any work, then sat at her desk and refused to work. I gave her a few minutes to get it together, asked her if she wanted to chat, and gave her a choice between the assignment she didn't pick up and one that was more interactive. She disrespectfully declined. My reaction could have been better, but mostly I told her I wasn't in the mood to deal with her attitude today because it was hot and she was the only one not working, AND SHE WAS LATE ON TOP OF THAT. The important thing is that I'm not mad. She just needed to go. Today is a new day and I don't blame her for yesterday. Today we start fresh. Today there is a chance to learn. I'm excited to have her back in class and I believe today will be a better day. Happy Friday folks.

Iron Maiden Play First Show Since 2019: Videos, Set List Bryan Rolli Published: May 22, 2022 Iron Maiden resumed their Legacy of the Beast world tour Sunday, May 22 in Zagreb, Croatia, marking their first show since 2019. You can see fan-shot videos from the concert, along with the full set list below. The performance began with a trio of songs from Iron Maiden's 2021 album Senjutsu. This was the first time that the title track, "Stratego" and "The Writing on the Wall" had been played in concert. The night also saw the debut of Samurai Eddie, the latest incarnation of Iron Maiden's famed mascot (see tweet below). Further set highlights included classic Maiden tunes "Flight of Icarus," "The Number of the Beast," "The Trooper" and "Run to the Hills." The band closed their night with an emphatic rendition of "Aces High." Watch Iron Maiden Perform 'Stratego' in Croatia Frontman Bruce Dickinson suggested earlier this year that Maiden would play a few new songs when they resumed their tour but would largely stick to the same set list, and they would consider doing a Senjutsu full album tour in smaller venues at a later date. "We've talked about doing the entire album start to finish, but not this time around," Dickinson told the Talk Is Jericho podcast. "And we all appreciate that that is something that really diehard fans will probably love, [while] other people will go, 'I'm not gonna go see that.' So the answer is you play smaller venues so that they sell out with just your diehard fans." Dickinson said this decision was inspired partly by the fact that fans have already purchased tickets to the Legacy of the Beast tour with certain expectations, and partly because they've already constructed an elaborate stage show to accompany their performance. "People have all paid their money to see spitfires and flamethrowers and Icarus and everything that goes with," he added. “So they’re going to get all that. But the first three tracks are probably going to be the first three tracks on the album. ... Everybody should know the first three tracks." Senjutsu peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest chart position to date. It marked Iron Maiden's second consecutive double album behind 2015's The Book of Souls. Watch Iron Maiden Perform 'Senjutsu' in Croatia Watch Iron Maiden Perform 'The Number of the Beast' in Croatia Watch Iron Maiden Perform 'The Trooper' in Croatia Iron Maiden, Zagreb, Croatia, 5/22/22 1. “Senjutsu" (live debut) 2. “Stratego” (live debut) 3. “The Writing on the Wall” (live debut) 4. “Revelations” 5. “Blood Brothers” 6. “Sign of the Cross” 7. “Flight of Icarus” 8. “Fear of the Dark” 9. “Hallowed Be Thy Name” 10. “The Number of the Beast” 11. “Iron Maiden” 12. “The Trooper” 13. “The Clansman” 14. “Run to the Hills” 15. “Aces High” Source: Iron Maiden Play First Show Since 2019: Videos, Set List Filed Under: Iron Maiden Tony Hawk Shares Incredible Story of Iron Maiden Skateboard Painted by Kurt Cobain Rock + Metal Bands That Have Played Over 2,000 Shows Rockers Defend Vince Neil’s Teleprompter Reliance Telling Critics ‘Leave The Guy Alone’ Bruce Dickinson Explains Why He Left Iron Maiden in 1993 Iron Maiden Sharing Rare + Historic Photos to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of ‘The Number of the Beast’ Glenn Tipton Says Iron Maiden Are Influenced by Judas Priest #tbt Demolition Of The Bangor Auditorium In 2013

24HOURS UPDATES > Blog > Crime & Terrorism > Wife, 66, who ‘murdered’ husband with Benadryl then threw him overboard ‘made prior attempt’ to poison him Wife, 66, who ‘murdered’ husband with Benadryl then threw him overboard ‘made prior attempt’ to poison him In: Crime & Terrorism An Idaho woman accused of murdering her husband by poisoning him and then throwing his body over the side of their boat allegedly made a prior attempt on his life before she succeeded in killing him.As reported by local CBS News affiliate, KREM2, 66-year-old Lori Isenberg, who is charged with first-degree murder in connection to her husband Larry Isenberg’s death, had previously tried to poison him with the same drug that ultimately killed him. Larry, 68, was found dead in Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho on March 1, 2018 — 16 days after he was reported missing. His wife, who is currently serving a sentence on an unrelated embezzlement conviction, was indicted in March for his murder. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Now, court documents filed by the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney earlier this month detail new evidence found relating to the retired forester’s death. Court documents filed in early July detail research Lori Isenberg did before her husband was found dead in Lake Coeur d’Alene on March 1, 2018.As per local NBC News affiliate KHQ, Lori claimed her husband fell overboard into the frigid waters while trying to fix the motor during an early morning boat trip to watch the sunrise. Larry was presumed drowned, however an autopsy later showed his cause of death was actually a lethal amount of Benadryl. It showed no signs of stroke or drowning. New evidence in the case alleges that it was not the first time the Idaho woman had attempted to kill her husband by poisoning him.According to court documents obtained this week, Lori, in an attempt to hide her embezzlement from her husband to avoid a divorce, began taking steps to kill him. The 66-year-old had been stealing large sums of money from the non-profit organization helping low-income families where she worked. Read more See The Moment A Young Girl Was Flung Through The Air After Being Hit By Car In Shocking Accident Prior to their visit to Florida, she researched water depths, currents, tides, boating accidents, boat rentals and lake distances, according to the documents. She also allegedly tried to poison Larry with the same over-the-counter drug while in Florida. In the immediate aftermath of his death, Lori liquidated all of their joint accounts and transferred other community property to herself, her daughters and her sister, according to evidence presented by the prosecution.Following her arrest for her husband’s murder, friends and family said Lori had been living a “double life”, People reports. “For all intents and purposes, Lori and Dad had an absolutely perfect marriage,” Dean Isenberg, 39, Larry’s son from a previous marriage, told the publication. “If you believe in soulmates, they were soulmates.” Larry’s good friend Andrew Kern said he “trusted her completely, so we trusted her, too. But she was living a double life that no one knew about.”The Idaho woman is being held in the Kootenai County jail on $2 million bond. On Tuesday, a judge ruled that her trial will be delayed again due to the coronavirus outbreak. Previous Post: Shirtless California man chased down, arrested for breaking into home of 92-year-old woman with dementia and raping her Next Post: Father, 44, drowns while trying to save his two children – aged 17 and 12 – after they were swept out into Lake Michigan

Will Smith Resigns From the Academy Over Chris Rock Incident Matt Singer Published: April 1, 2022 Later this month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors is set to meet to vote on disciplinary actions for Will Smith over his behavior at last weekend’s Oscars. Slapping Chris Rock over a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair wasn’t just shocking and inappropriate, it may have also violated the Academy’s Standards of Conduct. On the basis of that upcoming vote, the group could have moved to suspend or even expel Smith from the Academy. Before they could, Smith has decided to resign from the group. In a statement, Smith announced that his behavior at the Oscars was “shocking, painful, and inexcusable” and claimed he wanted to “put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements” following a week in which Smith’s actions — and the Academy’s inaction — along with an ongoing debate about whether Smith was asked to leave and refused, has overshadowed pretty much every story coming out of the Oscars, including the surprising wins by smaller films like Coda. TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-OSCARS-SHOW While Rock did briefly address the incident on the opening night of his new standup tour, he’s largely avoided commenting in detail on the slap. According to Will Packer, the producer of the Oscars telecast, he went to Rock to see if he wanted Smith removed from the show, and Rock said no. Packer claimed on Good Morning America that Rock was also “dismissive” of the idea of arresting Will Smith over the incident, saying he was “fine.” After conferring with Rock, Packer told GMA he “went to the Academy leadership that was on site and I said: ‘Chris Rock doesn't want [to kick Smith out] ... Rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a bad situation worse.’” Even with Smith’s resignation, the saga is not over. The Academy board will still vote about the incident later this month, and could determine more penalties are warranted. (In his statement, Smith also said he would “accept any further consequences” they choose to impose.) Smith’s full statement about his resignation from the group is below (via Deadline): I have directly responded to the Academy’s disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home. I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work. I am heartbroken. I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film. So, I am resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will accept any further consequences the Board deems appropriate. The Best Oscar Best Picture Winners Ever More than 90 films have earned the title of Best Picture from the Academy Awards. These are the best of the best. Source: Will Smith Resigns From the Academy Over Chris Rock Incident Filed Under: Chris Rock, oscars, Will Smith Categories: Shreveport/Bossier City News More From News Radio 710 KEEL Andrew Garfield’s Sheepish Face and More of the Best Memes From the 2023 Oscars Someone Fell on the 2023 Oscars Red Carpet and Lady Gaga Rushed to the Rescue: WATCH Studios Are Reportedly Putting Will Smith Projects on Hold Internet Hilariously Reacts to O.J. Simpson Giving His Take on Will Smith & Chris Rock Situation Chris Rock Doesn’t File Police Report After Will Smith Oscar Slap Will Smith Announces I Am Legend Sequel With Michael B. Jordan Will Smith Pays $100,000 for New Orleans Fireworks Show

Home Alleged Hijackers Launching the US Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Deep Politics Launching the US Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Peter Dale Scott Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence The engineering of a series of provocations to justify military intervention is feasible and could be accomplished with the resources available. – Report of May 1963 to Joint Chiefs of Staff1 On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be called the “Terror War,” one in which terror has been directed repeatedly against civilians by all participants, both states and non-state actors. It should also be seen as part of a larger, indeed global, process in which terror has been used against civilians in interrelated campaigns by all major powers, including China in Xinjiang and Russia in Chechnya, as well as the United States.2 Terror war in its global context should perhaps be seen as the latest stage of the age-long secular spread of transurban civilization into areas of mostly rural resistance — areas where conventional forms of warfare, for either geographic or cultural reasons, prove inconclusive. Terror War was formally declared by George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, 2001, with his statement to the American nation that “we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”3 But the notion that Bush’s terror war was in pursuit of actual terrorists lost credibility in 2003, when it was applied to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a country known to have been targeted by terrorists but not to have harbored them.4 It lost still more credibility with the 2005 publication in Britain of the so-called Downing Street memo, in which the head of the British intelligence service MI6 reported after a visit to Washington in 2002 that “Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”5 False stories followed in due course linking Iraq to WMD, anthrax, and Niger yellowcake (uranium). This essay will demonstrate that before 9/11 a small element inside the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit and related agencies, the so-called Alec Station Group, were also busy, “fixing” intelligence by suppressing it, in a way which, accidentally or deliberately, enabled the Terror War. They did so by withholding evidence from the FBI before 9/11 about two of the eventual alleged hijackers on 9/11, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, thus ensuring that the FBI could not surveil the two men or their colleagues. This failure to share was recognized in the 9/11 Commission Report, but treated as an accident that might not have occurred “if more resources had been applied.”6 This explanation, however, has since been refuted by 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean. Asked recently by two filmmakers if the failure to deal appropriately with al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi could have been a simple mistake, Kean replied: Oh, it wasn’t careless oversight. It was purposeful. No question about that .… The conclusion that we came to was that in the DNA of these organizations was secrecy. And secrecy to the point of ya don’t share it with anybody.7 In 2011 an important book by Kevin Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, demonstrated conclusively that the withholding was purposive, and sustained over a period of eighteen months.8 This interference and manipulation became particularly blatant and controversial in the days before 9/11; it led one FBI agent, Steve Bongardt, to predict accurately on August 29, less than two weeks before 9/11, that “someday someone will die.”9 As will be seen, the motives for this withholding remain inscrutable. At one time I was satisfied with Lawrence Wright’s speculations that the CIA may have wanted to recruit the two Saudis; and that “The CIA may also have been protecting an overseas operation [possibly in conjunction with Saudi Arabia] and was afraid that the F.B.I. would expose it.”10 The purpose of this essay is to suggest that the motives for the withholding may have had to do with the much larger neocon objective being imposed on American foreign policy at this same time: the consolidation of U.S. global hegemony by the establishment of U.S. forward-based bases around the oil fields of Central Asia. In short, the withholding of evidence should be seen as part of the larger ominous pattern of the time, including the malperformance of the U.S. government (USG) in response to the 9/11 attacks, and the murderous anthrax letters which helped secure the passage of the Patriot Act. I am now persuaded by Fenton that Lawrence Wright’s explanation, that the CIA was protecting a covert operation, may explain the beginnings of the withholding in January 2000, but cannot explain its renewal in the days just before 9/11. Fenton analyzes a list of thirty-five different occasions where the two alleged hijackers were protected in this fashion, from January 2000 to about September 5, 2001, less than a week before the hijackings.11 We shall see that in his analysis, the incidents fall into two main groups. The motive he attributes to the earlier ones, was “to cover a CIA operation that was already in progress.”12 However after “the system was blinking red” in the summer of 2001, and the CIA expected an imminent attack, Fenton can see no other explanation than that “the purpose of withholding the information had become to allow the attacks to go forward.”13 Fenton’s second sentence would imply that a homicidal crime was committed by members of the Alec Station group, even if the crime was one of manslaughter (unintended homicide) rather than deliberate and premeditated murder. One can imagine benign reasons for withholding the information: for example, the CIA may have been tolerating the behavior of the two Saudis in order to track down their associates. In this case, we would be dealing with no more than a miscalculation – albeit a homicidal miscalculation. The Terror War and the Rumsfeld-Cheney-Wolfowitz Project of Global Dominion But in the course of this essay I shall dwell on the activities of the head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit, Richard Blee, in Uzbekistan as well as Afghanistan. Uzbekistan was an area of concern not only to Blee and his superior Cofer Black; it was also in an area of major interest to Richard Cheney, whose corporation Halliburton had been active since 1997 or earlier in developing the petroleum reserves of Central Asia. Cheney himself said in a speech to oil industrialists in 1998, “I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.”14 I shall suggest that the purpose as well as the result of protecting the two Saudis may have been to fulfill the objectives of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) neocon group for establishing “forward-based forces” in Central Asia.15 We shall see that a phone call on 9/11 from CIA Director Tenet to Stephen Cambone, a key PNAC figure in the Pentagon, apparently transmitted some of the privileged information that never reached the FBI. This neocon agenda was partially to maintain American and Israeli domination of the region for security purposes, and (as we shall see) to create the conditions for future unilateral preemptive actions against unfriendly states like Iraq. In particular it was designed to establish new secure bases in the Middle East, anticipating Donald Rumsfeld’s predictable announcement in 2003 that the U.S. would pull “virtually all of its troops, except some training personnel,” out of Saudi Arabia.16 But it was partly also to strengthen American influence in particular over the newly liberated states of Central Asia, with their sizable unproven oil and gas reserves. Fenton’s alarming conclusion about CIA actions leading up to the 9/11 attacks makes more sense in the context of this agenda, and also in the context of three other revealing anomalies about Bush’s Terror War. The first is the paradox that this supposed pursuit of al Qaeda was conducted in alliance with the two nations, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, that were most actively supporting al Qaeda in other parts of the world. In this essay we shall see U.S. and Saudi intelligence cooperating in such a way as to protect, rather than neutralize, Saudi agents in al Qaeda. The second anomaly is that although the CIA may have been focused on crushing al Qaeda, Rumsfeld and Cheney were intent from the outset on a much wider war. In September 2001 there was no intelligence on 9/11 linking the attacks to Iraq, yet Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, supported by his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, was already observing on September 12 “that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets.”17 Rumsfeld’s argument was supported by a Defense Department paper prepared for the ensuing Camp David meetings of September 15-16, which “proposed that ‘the immediate priority targets for initial action’ should be al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Iraq.”18 Iraq had been a target for Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz since at least 1998, when the two men co-signed a PNAC letter to President Clinton, calling for “the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power.”19 But Iraq was not the only target in the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz agenda, which since at least 1992 had been nothing less than global U.S. dominance, or what former U.S. Colonel Andrew Bacevich called “permanent American global hegemony.”20 It was a high priority for the neocons. Even before Bush had been elected by the Supreme Court in December 2000, Cheney was at work securing key posts for the 1998 letter’s cosigners (including Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Richard Perle, along with other PNAC personnel like Stephen Cambone) in the White House, State, and Defense. The terror war from its outset was designed as an instrument to implement this objective. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on September 24 “raised the issue of state sponsorship of terrorism: ‘What is our strategy with respect to countries that support terrorism like Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Sudan?’”21 In his memoir, General Wesley Clark reports that the question had evolved by November into a Pentagon five-year plan: As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.22 At about this time, former CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht published an article in The Weekly Standard about the need for a change of regime in Iran and Syria.23 (Gerecht continues to warn in The Weekly Standard about the menace of both nations today.) In the Clinton era Gerecht, like Cheney and Rumsfeld, had been part of the Project for the New American Century, a hawkish group calling both for action against Iraq in particular and also more generally for an expanded defense budget that would “increase defense spending significantly” in “the cause of American leadership.” The PNAC report of September 2000 – Rebuilding America’s Defenses had much to say about Gulf oil and the importance of retaining and strengthening “forward-based forces in the region.”24 It is relevant that by the end of 2001, in the wake of 9/11 and the Terror War, the United States had already established new bases in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and was thus better positioned to influence the behavior of the newly liberated governments in the huge oil and gas region east of the Caspian. In the course of this essay we shall see that the 2001 agreement to use the first and one of the most important of these bases, Karshi-Khanabad or K-2 in Uzbekistan, grew out of an earlier Pentagon arrangement, supplemented by a CIA liaison agreement negotiated in 1999 by Richard Blee of the Alec Station Group, a central figure in this essay. Most Americans are unaware that on 9/11 U.S. Special Forces were already at K-2 on an Uzbek training mission, and that by September 22, two weeks before a formal U.S.-Uzbek military agreement, “the CIA was already flying its teams into the massive Karshi-Khanabad, or K2, air base in southern Uzbekistan, where U.S. army engineers were repairing the runway.”25 Map showing US bases including Karshi-Khanabad A third anomaly is that the Terror War led to a dramatic increase in the resort to terror, and even torture, by America itself, including against its own citizens. In this context it is relevant that Cheney and Rumsfeld, through their participation in the Defense Department’s super-secret Doomsday Project, had also been part of Continuity of Government (COG) planning for undermining the U.S. Bill of Rights by the warrantless surveillance and detention of dissenters.26 These plans, dating back to the fear of Communists in the McCarthyite 1950s, have been the underpinnings for the elaborate plans in the Pentagon and elsewhere for dealing with antiwar protests against the Pentagon’s plans for global domination. As I have argued elsewhere, the U.S. is now spending billions every year on Homeland Security in no small part because of the belief, articulated by Marine Colonel Oliver North, that the Vietnam War was lost in the streets of America, and that this deterrent to U.S. military operations needed to be dealt with.27 Cheney and Rumsfeld, as part of the so-called Doomsday Project for Continuity of Government (COG) planning, had been part of this effort also.28 In short, 9/11 fulfilled agendas long contemplated by a small group of officials for radical new policies both in Central Asia and also inside America. The homicidal crime suggested by Fenton’s meticulous research is one both difficult and painful to contemplate. America is in a crisis today because of the activities of the Banks Too Big to Fail, which, as has been pointed out, were also Banks Too Big to Jail – for to punish them as criminals would endanger America’s already threatened financial structure.29 This essay, though detailed, is dealing with something analogous, what may have been a Crime Too Big to Punish. 9/11, as will be developed in this essay, has other points in common with the John F. Kennedy assassination. The Cover-Up of 9/11 and of the CIA’s Role in Letting It Happen After ten years it is important to reassess what we know and do not know about the events that culminated in 9/11, particularly the actions of the CIA and the FBI and the denial of critical information to the 9/11 Commission. Today, we can confidently say: 1) the most important truths still remain unknown, in large part because many of the most important documents are still either unreleased or heavily redacted; 2) the efforts at cover-up continue, if anything more aggressively than before; 3) In addition to the cover-up, there has been what former 9/11 Commission staffer John Farmer has called either “unprecedented administrative incompetence or organized mendacity” on the part of key figures in Washington.30 These figures include President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, NORAD General Richard Myers, and CIA Director George Tenet. They include also President Clinton’s National Security Advisor, Samuel Berger, who prior to testifying on these matters, went to the National Archives and removed, and presumably destroyed, key relevant documentation.31 In his book, Farmer has in effect endorsed both of these alternatives. George Tenet receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush Farmer’s first alternative, of “unprecedented administrative incompetence,” is in effect the explanation offered by the 9/11 Commission Report, to deal with a) striking anomalies both on 9/11 itself, and b) the preceding twenty months during which important information was withheld from the FBI by key personnel in the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit (the so-called Alec Station). But thanks to the groundbreaking new book by Kevin Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, we can no longer attribute the anomalous CIA behavior to “systemic problems,” or what Tony Summers rashly calls “bureaucratic confusion.”32 Building on earlier important books by James Bamford, Lawrence Wright, Peter Lance, and Philip Shenon, Fenton demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was a systematic CIA pattern of withholding important information from the FBI, even when the FBI would normally be entitled to it. Even more brilliantly, he shows that the withholding pattern has been systematically sustained through four successive post-9/11 investigations: those of the Congressional Inquiry chaired by Senators Bob Graham and Richard Shelby (still partly withheld), the 9/11 Commission, the Department of Justice inspector general, and the CIA inspector general. Most importantly of all, he shows that the numerous withholdings, both pre- and post 9/11, were the work of relatively few people. The withholding of information from the FBI was principally the work of the so-called “Alec Station group” – a group within but not identical with the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden Unit or “Alec Station,” consisting largely of CIA personnel, though including a few FBI as well. Key figures in this group were CIA officer Tom Wilshire (discussed in the 9/11 Commission Report as “John”), and his immediate superior at Alec Station, Richard Blee. The post-9/11 cover-up of Wilshire’s behavior was principally the work of one person, Barbara Grewe, who worked first on the Justice Department Inspector General’s investigation of Wilshire’s behavior, then was transferred to two successive positions with the 9/11 Commission’s staff, where, under the leadership of Executive Director Philip Zelikow, she was able to transfer the focus of investigative attention from the performance of the CIA to that of the FBI.33 Whether or not Grewe conducted the interviews of Wilshire and other relevant personnel, she “certainly drew on them when drafting her sections of the Commission’s and Justice Department inspector general’s reports.”34 Grewe’s repositioning from post to post is a sign of an intended cover-up at a higher level. So, as we shall see, is Wilshire’s transfer in May 2001 from CIA’s Alec Station (the Osama Bin Laden Unit) to the FBI, where he began a new phase of interference with the normal flow of intelligence, obstructing the FBI from within it.35 The pattern begins with intelligence obtained from surveillance of an important al Qaeda summit meeting of January 2000 in Malaysia, perhaps the only such summit before 9/11. The meeting drew instant and high-level US attention because of indirect links to a support element (a key telephone in Yemen used by al Qaeda) suspected of acting as a communications center in the 1998 bombings of US Embassies. As Fenton notes, “The CIA realized that the summit was so important that information about it was briefed to CIA and FBI leaders [Louis Freeh and Dale Watson], National Security Adviser Samuel Berger and other top officials.”36 Yet inside Alec Station Tom Wilshire and his CIA subordinate (known only as “Michelle”)37 blocked the effort of an FBI agent detailed there (Doug Miller) to notify the FBI that one of the participants (Khalid al-Mihdhar) had a US visa in his passport.38 Worse, Michelle then sent a cable to other CIA stations falsely stating that al-Mihdhar’s “travel documents, including a multiple entry US visa, had been copied and passed ‘to the FBI for further investigation.’”39 Alec Station also failed to watchlist the participants in the meeting, as was called for by CIA guidelines.40 This was just the beginning of a systematic, sometimes lying pattern, where NSA and CIA information about al-Mihdhar and his traveling companion, Nawaf al-Hazmi, was systematically withheld from the FBI, lied about, or manipulated or distorted in such a way as to inhibit an FBI investigation of the two Saudis and their associates. This is a major component of the 9/11 story; because the behavior of these two would-be hijackers was so unprofessional that, without this CIA protection provided by the Alec Station Group, they would almost certainly have been detected and detained or deported, long before they prepared to board Flight 77 in Washington.41 Fenton concludes with a list of thirty-five different occasions where the two alleged hijackers were protected in this fashion, from January 2000 to about September 5, 2001, less than a week before the hijackings. In his analysis, the incidents fall into two main groups. The motive he attributes to the earlier ones, such as the blocking of Doug Miller’s cable, was “to cover a CIA operation that was already in progress.”43 However after “the system was blinking red” in the summer of 2001, and the CIA expected an imminent attack, Fenton can see no other plausible explanation than that “the purpose of withholding the information had become to allow the attacks to go forward.”44 Wilshire’s pattern of interference changed markedly after his move to the Bureau. When in CIA he had moved to block transmittal of intelligence to the FBI. Now, in contrast, he initiated FBI reviews of the same material, but in such a way that the reviews were conducted in too leisurely a fashion to bear fruit before 9/11. Fenton suspects that Wilshire anticipated a future review of his files; and was laying a false trail of documentation to neutralize his embarrassing earlier performance.45 I believe we must now accept Fenton’s finding of fact: “It is clear that this information was not withheld through a series of bizarre accidents, but intentionally.”46 However, I suggest a different explanation as to what those intentions originally were, one which is superficially much simpler, more benign, and also more explicative of other parts, apparently unrelated, of the 9/11 mystery. The Liaison Agreements with Other Intelligence Agencies Initially, I believe, al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi may have been protected because they had been sent to America by the Saudi GID intelligence service, which would explain why after their arrival they were apparently bankrolled indirectly by the Saudi embassy in Washington. The facts are well summarized by Paul Church in Asia Times Online (February 11, 2012): [B]etween 1998 and 2002, up to US$73,000 in cashier cheques was funneled by [Saudi Ambassador Prince] Bandar’s wife Haifa – who once described the elder Bushes as like “my mother and father” – to two Californian families known to have bankrolled al-Midhar and al-Hazmi. … Princess Haifa sent regular monthly payments of between $2,000 and $3,500 to Majeda Dweikat, wife of Osama Basnan, believed by various investigators to be a spy for the Saudi government. Many of the cheques were signed over to Manal Bajadr, wife of Omar al-Bayoumi, himself suspected of covertly working for the kingdom. The Basnans, the al-Bayoumis and the two 9/11 hijackers once shared the same apartment block in San Diego. It was al-Bayoumi who greeted the killers when they first arrived in America, and provided them, among other assistance, with an apartment and social security cards. He even helped the men enroll at flight schools in Florida.”47 If the two Saudis were in fact sent by the GID, they would almost certainly have been admitted to the U.S. under the terms of the liaison agreement between the GID and the CIA.48 Prince Turki al-Faisal, former head of the GID, has said that he shared his al Qaeda information with the CIA, and that in 1997 the Saudis “established a joint intelligence committee with the United States to share information on terrorism in general and on…al Qaeda in particular.”49 The 9/11 Commission Report adds that after a post-millennium review, the Counterterrorism Center (which included Alec Station, the Bin Laden Unit) intended to proceed with its plan of half a year earlier, “building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.”50 This was a Blee specialty. Steve Coll reports that Richard Blee and his superior Cofer Black, excited about the opportunities presented by liaison arrangements for expanding the scope of CIA reach in critical regions, had flown together into Tashkent in 1999, and negotiated a new liaison agreement with Uzbekistan.51 According to Coll and the Washington Post, this arrangement soon led, via Tashkent, to a CIA liaison inside Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance.52 Thomas Ricks and Susan Glasser reported in the Washington Post that, beginning after the embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998, “The United States and Uzbekistan have quietly conducted joint covert operations aimed at countering Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime and its terrorist allies …, according to officials from both nations.”53 This involvement in Uzbekistan was part of a wider regional pattern. Beginning in 1997, the U.S. had begun a series of annual military maneuvers with Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek forces, as exercises for possible deployment of combat U.S. forces in the region. CENTRAZBAT ’97, as it was known, was clearly a test of America’s ability to project power into the Caspian basin in the event of a crisis. “There is no nation on the face of the earth that we cannot get to,” said General Jack Sheehan…the highest-ranking officer to attend the exercise. And, lest anyone doubted the nature of our interests in the region, a deputy assistant secretary of defense accompanying Sheehan, Catherine Kelleher, cited “the presence of enormous energy resources” as a justification for American military involvement. The 1997 operation was the first in an annual series CENTRAZBAT exercises designed to test the speed with which Washington could deploy U.S.-based forces directly to the region and commence combat operations.107 In other words, the Pentagon had been active in Uzbekistan for four years before the public Rumsfeld-Karimov agreement of October 2001. Speaking as a former junior diplomat, let me observe that a liaison arrangement would probably have required special access clearances for those privy to the arrangement and sharing the liaison information.54 This would explain the exclusion of the FBI agents who were not cleared for this information, as well as the behavior of other non-cleared CIA agents who proceeded to collect and disseminate information about the two alleged hijackers. Alec Station needed both to protect the double identity of the two Saudis, and to make sure that they were not embarrassingly detained by the FBI. Ali Mohamed Almost certainly the CIA had relevant liaison arrangements, not just with the Saudi GID and Uzbekistan, but also with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, as well as the intelligence services of Egypt, and perhaps Yemen and Morocco. In particular there is reason to think that Ali Mohamed, a double agent who was protected by the FBI from being detained in Canada, thus allowing him to help organize the al Qaeda embassy bombings of 1998, was permitted under such arrangements to enter the US as an agent of foreign intelligence, probably Egyptian.55 Ali Mohamed figures both in the content and as source of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) of August 6, 2001, in which the CIA warned the president, “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.”56 According to Mohamed’s FBI handler, Jack Cloonan, “all that information came from Ali,” while the PDB itself attributes its key finding to what “an Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an [—] service.”57 (Ali Mohamed was definitely EIJ, and this service was probably Egyptian.) But when Mohamed, like al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, was inappropriately admitted to the US, it was reportedly not by the CIA, but possibly by “some other Federal agency.”58 This was very possibly a Pentagon agency, because from 1987 to 1989, Ali Mohamed “was assigned to the U.S. [Army] Special Operations Command [SOCOM] in Fort Bragg, the home of the Green Berets and the Delta Force, the elite counterterrorism squad.”59 SOCOM, which includes JSOC (the Joint Special Operations Command), has its own intelligence division;60 and SOCOM is the command that first mounted the Able Danger program in 1999 to track al Qaeda operatives, and then, inexplicably, both shut it down before 9/11 and destroyed its database.61 In addition SOCOM was working in Uzbekistan with CIA operatives as a result of the liaison agreement negotiated by Cofer Black and Richard Blee of the CTC. Cofer Black For this and other reasons, I suggest reconceptualizing what Fenton calls the anomalous “Alec Station group” as an inter-agency liaison team (or teams) with special access clearances, including Alec Station personnel, collaborating personnel in the FBI, and possibly SOCOM. (One of these collaborators was FBI agent Dina Corsi, who according to Fenton withheld vital information from fellow agent Steve Bongardt even after the NSA had cleared it for him.)62 Background: the Safari Club and William Casey These arrangements can be traced in one form or another, at least back to the 1970s. Then senior CIA officers and ex-officers (notably Richard Helms), who were dissatisfied with the CIA cutbacks instituted under Jimmy Carter’s CIA director, Stansfield Turner, organized an alternative network, the so-called Safari Club. Subordinated to intelligence chiefs from France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and (under the Shah) Iran, the Safari Club provided a home to CIA officers like Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines, who had been marginalized or fired by CIA Director Turner. As Prince Turki later explained, the purpose of the Safari Club was not just to exchange information, but to conduct covert operations that the CIA could no longer carry out directly in the wake of the Watergate scandal and subsequent reforms.63 In the 1980s, CIA Director William Casey made key decisions in the conduct of the Afghan covert war, not through his own CIA bureaucracy but with the Saudi intelligence chiefs, first Kamal Adham and then Prince Turki. Among these decisions was the creation of a foreign legion to assist the Afghan mujahideen in their war against the Soviets – in other words, the creation of that support network which, since the end of that war, we have known as al Qaeda.64 Casey worked out the details with the two Saudi intelligence chiefs, and also with the head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the Saudi-Pakistani bank in which Adham and Turki were both shareholders. In so doing, Casey was in effect running a second or back-channel CIA, building up the future al Qaeda in Pakistan with the Saudis, even though the official CIA hierarchy underneath him in Langley rightly “thought this unwise.”65 In American War Machine, I situated the Safari Club and BCCI in a succession of ”second CIA” or “alternative CIA” arrangements dating back to the creation of the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) in 1948. Thus it is relevant that CIA Director George Tenet, following Casey’s precedent, met with Saudi Ambassador Bandar around once a month, and would not tell CIA officers handling Saudi issues what he had discussed.66 Fenton himself invokes the example of the Safari Club in proposing the possible explanation that Blee and Wilshire used a “parallel network” to track al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi inside the United States. In his words, “Withholding the information about Almihdhar and Alhazmi only makes sense if the CIA was monitoring the two men in the US itself, either officially or off the books.”67 But a third option would be that the GID was monitoring their movements, a situation quite compatible with Saudi Prince Bandar’s claim that Saudi security had been “actively following the movements of most of the terrorists with precision.”68 Joseph and Susan Trento heard from a former CIA officer, once based in Saudi Arabia, that “Both Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi agents.”69 If so, they were clearly double agents, acting (or posing) as terrorists at the same time they were acting (or posing) as informants. In espionage, double agents are prized and often valuable; but to rely on them (as the example of Ali Mohamed illustrates) can also be dangerous. This was particularly the case for the CIA with respect to Saudi Arabia, whose GID supported al Qaeda energetically in countries like Bosnia, in exchange for a pledge (negotiated by Saudi Interior Minister Naif bin Abdul Aziz with Osama bin Laden) that al Qaeda “would not interfere with the politics of Saudi Arabia or any Arab country.”70 Pakistan’s ISI was even more actively engaged with al Qaeda, and some elements of ISI were probably closer to the ideological goals of al Qaeda, than to Pakistan’s nominally secular government. But in all cases the handling of illegal informants is not just dangerous and unpredictable, but corrupting. To act their parts, the informants must break the law; and their handlers, knowing this, must protect them by failing to report them, and then, all too often, intercede to prevent their arrest by others. In this way, handlers, over and over again, become complicit in the crimes of their informants.71 Even in the best of circumstances, decisions have to be made whether to allow an informant’s crime to go forward, or to thwart it and risk terminating the usefulness of the informant. In such moments, agencies are all too likely to make the choice that is not in the public interest. A very relevant example is the first World Trade Center bombing of 1993 – relevant because Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, was one of the 1993 plotters as well. The FBI had an informant, Emad Salem, among the 1993 plotters; and Salem later claimed, with supporting evidence from tapes of his FBI debriefings, that the FBI deliberately chose not to shut down the plot. Here is Ralph Blumenthal’s careful account in the New York Times of this precursor to the mystery of 9/11: Law-enforcement officials [i.e. the FBI] were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said. The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City’s tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court in that attack.72 What makes the 1993 plot even more relevant is that Salem, according to many sources, was an agent of the Egyptian intelligence service, sent to America to spy on the actions of the Egyptian “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman.73 This raises the possibility that the F.B.I. supervisor who had “other ideas” about how to use Emad Salem, was a member of a liaison team, with special knowledge he could not share with other FBI agents. It may have been, for example, that the Egyptian intelligence service declined to let Salem’s cover be blown. This suggestion is both speculative and problematic, but it has the advantage of offering a relatively coherent explanation for otherwise baffling behavior. This explanation does not at all rule out the possibility that some officials had more sinister motives for allowing the bombing to take place and covering it up afterwards. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman was at this very time a key figure in a sensitive Saudi program, signed on to by U.S. officials as well, to supply mujahideen warriors in Bosnia against Serbia (including some, like Ayman al-Zawahiri, who were later accused of the 9/11 plot).74 It is clear from both investigative and prosecutorial behavior that a number of different US agencies did not want to disturb Rahman’s activities. Even after Rahman himself was finally indicted in the 1995 conspiracy case to blow up New York landmarks, the US Government continued to protect Ali Mohamed, a key figure in the conspiracy. Worse, the performance of the FBI in allowing the bombing to proceed was only one of a series of interrelated bungled performances and missed opportunities, climaxing with 9/11. The first was in connection with the murder in New York of the Jewish extremist Meir Kahane. The FBI and NY police actually detained two of the murderers in that case and then released them, allowing them to take part in the WTC bombing of 1993. A key trainer of the two men was Ali Mohamed while still in U.S. Special Forces, whose name was systematically protected from disclosure by the prosecuting attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald. Then in 1994, when Ali Mohamed was detained in Vancouver by the Canadian RCMP, the FBI intervened to arrange for his release. This freed Mohamed to proceed to Kenya, where he became the lead organizer of the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Nairobi.75 Ali Mohamed was finally detained by the Americans in 1998, but still not imprisoned. He was apparently still a free man when he readily confessed to his FBI handler, Jack Cloonan, that he not only knew at least three of the 9/11 alleged hijackers, but had helped instruct them in how to hijack airplanes.76 According to Ali Soufan, in a book released in September 2011, Ali Mohamed was still awaiting sentencing in 2011, twelve years after his guilty plea in May 1999.77 We have to conclude that there is something profoundly dysfunctional going on here, and has been going on since before 9/11, indeed under both political parties. The conditions of secrecy created by special clearances have not just masked this dysfunctionality; they have, I would argue, helped create it. The history of espionage demonstrates that secret power, when operating in the sphere of illegal activities, becomes, time after time, antithetical to public democratic power.78 The more restricted the group of special planners with special clearances, the less likely are their decisions to conform with the dictates of international and domestic law, still less with common morality and common sense. Add to these conditions of unwholesome secrecy the fundamentally unhealthy, indeed corrupt, relationship of U.S. intelligence agencies to those of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. This has been profoundly anti-democratic both at home and in Asia. The US dependency on Saudi oil has in effect subsidized a wealth-generated spread of Islamic fundamentalism throughout the world, while what the 99.9 percent of ordinary Americans pay for oil and gas generates huge sums, which Saudis then recycle into the financial institutions of the one tenth of one percent at the pinnacle of Wall Street. In like manner, America’s fraught relationship with the ISI of Pakistan has resulted in a dramatic increase in international heroin trafficking by the two agencies’ Afghan clients.79 In short the bureaucratic dysfunction we are talking about in 9/11 is a symptom of a larger dysfunction in America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, with Pakistan, and through them with the rest of the world. Liaison Agreements and the Protection of Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi Even without the suggestive precedent of the 1993 WTC bombing, it is legitimate to posit that liaison agreements may have inhibited the roundup of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. Let us consider first Fenton’s finding of fact: “It is clear that this information [about the two men] was not withheld through a series of bizarre accidents, but intentionally.”80 This finding I consider rock hard. But we cannot be so confident about his explanation: that “the purpose of withholding the information had become to allow the attacks to go forward.”81 I believe that in fact there are a number of possibilities about the intention, ranging from the relatively innocent (the inhibitions deriving from a liaison agreement) to the nefarious. Before considering these, let us deconstruct the notion of “letting the attacks go forward.” Clearly, if the alleged hijackers were not detained at the airport gates, people would probably have been killed – but how many? Recall that in the Operation Northwoods documents, which envisaged planning “false flag” attacks to justify a U.S. military intervention in Cuba, the Joint Chiefs wrote “We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign” in which “We could sink a boatload of Cubans.”82 Would the loss of four planeloads of passengers have been a qualitatively different tragedy? Operation_Northwoods Of course 9/11 became a much greater tragedy when three of the planes hit the two Towers and the Pentagon. But it is possible that the liaison minders of the two Saudis did not imagine that their targets were capable of such a feat. Recall that their flying lessons, even in a Cessna, were such a fiasco that the lessons were quickly terminated. Their instructor told them “that flying was simply not for them.”83 Let me suggest that there are three separable ingredients to the 9/11 attacks: the hijackings, the strikes on the buildings, and the astonishing collapse of the three WTC buildings. It is at least possible that the Alec Station liaison team, as a group, contemplated only the first stage, without ever imagining the two stages that ensued. A minimal, least malign initial explanation for the withholding of information about two of the alleged hijackers would be the hypothesis I proposed in the case of Emad Salem – the restricted access created by the special clearance for a liaison agreement. But just as in 1993, the secret power created behind the wall of restrictive clearances may have been exploited for ulterior purposes. The dangerous situation thus created – of potential would-be-hijackers being protected from detention at a time of expected attack – may have inspired some to exploit the resulting conditions of secrecy as an opportunity to plan an incident to justify war. One important analogy with the 1964 false Second Tonkin Gulf Incident that was used to justify attacking North Vietnam is the same presence of a powerful faction – in 2001 the PNAC clique inside government – that was bent on unilateral military action.84 One clue to this more sinister intention is that the pattern of withholdings detailed by Fenton is not restricted exclusively to the two Saudis and their CIA station handlers. There are a few concatenating withholdings by other agencies – above all the Able Danger info that was destroyed at SOCOM and the withholding – apparently by NSA — of an important relevant intercept, apparently about the alleged hijackers and Moussaoui.85 If the NSA was withholding information from relevant officials, it would recall the role of the NSA at the time of the second Tonkin Gulf Incident in August 1964. Then the NSA, at a crucial moment, forwarded 15 pieces of SIGINT (signals intelligence) which indicated – falsely – that there had been a North Vietnamese attack on two US destroyers. At the same time NSA withheld 107 pieces of SIGINT which indicated – correctly – that no North Vietnamese attack had occurred.86 NSA’s behavior at that time was mirrored at the CIA: both agencies were aware of a powerful consensus inside the Johnson administration that had already agreed on provoking North Vietnam, in hopes of creating an opportunity for military response.87 We know from many accounts of the Bush administration that there was also a powerful pro-war consensus within it, centered on Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the so-called cabal of PNAC (the Project for the New American Century) that before Bush’s election had been lobbying vigorously for military action against Iraq. We know also that Rumsfeld’s immediate response to 9/11 was to propose an attack on Iraq, and that planning for such an attack was indeed instituted on September 17.88 It is worth considering whether some of those protecting the alleged hijackers from detention did not share these warlike ambitions.89 Did Richard Blee Have an Ulterior Motive for Withholding Information? Fenton speculates that one of those seeking a pretext for an escalated war against al Qaeda may have been Richard Blee. We saw that Blee, with Cofer Black, negotiated an intelligence-sharing liaison agreement with Uzbekistan. By 2000 SOCOM had become involved, and “U.S. Special Forces began to work more overtly with the Uzbek military on training missions.”90 In the course of time the Uzbek liaison agreement, as we saw, expanded into a subordinate liaison with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. Blee, meeting with Massoud in October 1999, agreed to lobby in Washington for more active support for the Northern Alliance.91 Panjshir valley, area of Northern Alliance dominance After the USS Cole bombing in Aden in 2000, Blee was pushing to expand the Uzbek military mission still further into a joint attack force in conjunction with the Northern Alliance forces of Massoud. There was considerable objection to this while Clinton was still president, partly on the grounds that Massoud was fighting Pakistani-backed Taliban forces with Russian and Iranian support, and partly because he was known to be supporting his forces by heroin trafficking.92 But in the spring of 2001 a meeting of department deputies in the new Bush administration revived the plans of Blee and Black, (supported by Counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke) for large-scale covert aid to Massoud.93 On September 4, one week before 9/11, the Bush Cabinet authorized the drafting of a new presidential directive, NSPD-9, authorizing a covert action program along these lines in conjunction with Massoud.94 In the new Bush administration Blee was no longer a minority voice, and six weeks after 9/11 he would be named the new CIA station chief in Kabul.95 Fenton reports that in this capacity Blee became involved in the rendition of al Qaeda detainees, and suggests that the motive may have been to obtain, by torture, a false confession (by Ibn Shaikh al-Libi) to Iraqi involvement with al Qaeda. This false confession then became part of the “fixing” of evidence, and “formed a key part of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s embarrassing presentation to the UN to support the invasion of Iraq.”96 Did SOCOM Have an Ulterior Motive for Closing Down Able Danger? What ensued after 9/11 went far beyond Blee’s program for paramilitary CIA involvement with the Northern Alliance. The CIA component in Afghanistan was soon dwarfed by the forces of SOCOM: George Tenet reported that by late 2001 the US force in Afghanistan consisted of about 500 fighters, including “110 CIA officers, 316 Special Forces personnel, and scores of Joint Special Operations Command raiders creating havoc behind enemy lines.”97 In the Bush administration Stephen Cambone, who earlier had collaborated with Rumsfeld and Cheney in signing the PNAC’s statement, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, became one of the active promoters of using SOCOM special forces to operate covertly against al Qaeda, not just in Afghanistan, but “anywhere in the world.”98 It is possible that anything Blee may have done in Alec Station to prepare the way for 9/11 was only one part of a larger inter-agency operation, in which an equivalent role was played by SOCOM’s shutting down of the Able Danger project. This might help explain a handwritten notation around 10 PM on 9/11 by Stephen Cambone, then one of Cheney’s PNAC appointees under Rumsfeld in the Pentagon, after a phone call with George Tenet: AA 77 – 3 indiv[iduals] have been followed since Millennium & Cole 1 guy is assoc[iate] of Cole bomber 2 entered US in early July (2 of 3 pulled aside & interrogated?)99 The “guy” here is probably al-Mihdhar, and the “Cole bomber” probably Khallad [or Tawfiq] bin Attash, a major al Qaeda figure connected not just to the Cole bombing but also to the 1998 embassy attacks. One wants to know why Tenet was sharing with a hawk in the Pentagon information that has apparently never been shared by anyone outside the CIA since. And is it a coincidence that Cambone, like Blee, oversaw a program – in this case staffed by SOCOM special operations personnel – using torture to interrogate detainees in Afghanistan?100 Just as Blee was reportedly a special protégé of George Tenet at CIA, so Cambone was notorious for his fierce loyalty to first Dick Cheney and later Donald Rumsfeld in the Pentagon. It is not known whether he was associated with the Continuity of Government (COG) planning project where Rumsfeld and Cheney, among others, prepared for the warrantless surveillance and detention measures that were (as I have argued elsewhere) implemented beginning on the morning of 9/11 and continuing to today.101 Nor is it known if he was associated in any way with Cheney’s Counterterrorism Task Force in the Spring of 2001, which has been alleged to have been a source for the war games, including rogue plane attacks, which added to the disarray of the US response, on 9/11.102 Deep Events as a Repeated Pattern of U.S. Engagement in War I want to conclude with a little historical perspective on the dysfunction we have been looking at. In a sense 9/11 was unprecedented – the greatest mass murder ever committed in one day on U.S. soil. In another sense it represented an example of the kind of signature event with which we have become only too familiar since the Kennedy assassination. I have called these events deep events – events deeply rooted in illegal covert activity in various branches of US intelligence and with a predictable accompanying pattern of official cover-ups backed up by amazing media malfunction and dishonest best-selling books. Some of these deep events, like the Kennedy assassination, Tonkin Gulf, and 9/11, should be considered structural deep events, because of their permanent impact on history. It is striking that these structural deep events – the JFK assassination, Tonkin Gulf, and 9/11 – should all have been swiftly followed by America’s engagement in ill-considered wars. The reverse is also true: all of America’s significant wars since Korea – Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan (twice, once covertly and now overtly), and Iraq – have all been preceded by structural deep events. As I wrote in American War Machine, a J-5 Staff Report of 1963 reported to the Joint Chiefs that “The engineering of a series of provocations to justify military intervention is feasible and could be accomplished with the resources available.” Tonkin Gulf, 9/11, and even the Kennedy assassination itself can all be seen as events that were indeed “engineered,” along the guidelines set out in 1962 in the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposals for Project Northwoods. In two recent books I have been slowly persuaded, against my own initial incredulity, to list more than a dozen significant parallels between the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. Thanks to Kevin Fenton’s brilliant research, I can list a further analogy. The CIA files on Lee Harvey Oswald, more or less dormant for two years, suddenly became hyperactive in the six weeks before the Kennedy assassination. Fenton has demonstrated a similar burst of activity in FBI files on the two Saudis in the weeks before 9/11 – a burst initiated by Tom Wilshire, at a time suspiciously close to when the alleged hijackers settled on a final date for their attack. Then in both cases there were also strange delays, leaving the files open at the time of the deep events.105 The Impact of 9/11 on U.S. and International Law Throughout this essay we have seen two different and indeed antithetical levels of U.S. foreign policy at work. On the surface level of public diplomacy we see a commitment to international law and the peaceful resolution of differences. On a deeper level, represented by a long-time Saudi connection and covert arrangements to control international oil, we see the toleration and indeed protection of terrorists in fulfillment of both Saudi and American secret goals. We should see the actions in 2000-2001 of the “Alec Station group,” with respect to the two alleged hijackers al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, in the context of this long-time Saudi connection, as well as of the secret consensus in 2001 – just as earlier in 1964 – that America’s oil and security needs (along with those of Israel) required a new American mobilization for war. Horrendous as it was, the murder of over 2000 civilians on 9/11 was not the only major crime of that day. 9/11 also initiated a series of on-going onslaughts on both international and domestic U.S. law. Law and freedom go together, and both had been significantly enhanced by the founding documents of the United States in the 18th Century. The world benefited; written constitutions soon appeared on every continent; and the Young Europe movements, inspired by America’s example, began the long difficult process towards today’s European Union. Starting in 2001, both law and freedom have been progressively eroded. International comity, which depends on each state not doing to others what they would not want done to them, has been supplanted, at least for a while, by U.S. unilateral military engagement without constraint, acting without fear of retribution. Drone killings in far corners of the world have now become routine, causing more than an estimated 2000 Pakistani deaths, the vast majority of them untargeted civilians, and over 75 percent of them under President Obama.106 The preemptive war against Iraq, despite being proven both unwarranted and counterproductive, has been followed by the preemptive bombing of Libya, and the prospect of still further campaigns against Syria and Iran. Writing as a Canadian, let me say that I believe in American exceptionalism, and that at one time America was truly exceptional in its unprecedented replacement of authoritarian with limited constitutional government. Today America is still exceptional, but for its percentage of citizens who are incarcerated, for its disparity in wealth and income between rich and poor (a ratio exceeded among large nations only by China), and for its wanton use of lethal power abroad. Only the last of these trends began with 9/11. But 9/11 itself should be seen as a dialectical outcome of America’s imperial expansion and simultaneous decay — a process inevitably afflicting those superstates that amass and retain more power than is necessary for the orderly management of their own affairs. Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and War, The Road to 9/11, and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War. His most recent book is American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan. His website, which contains a wealth of his writings, is here http://www.peterdalescott.net/q.html Recommended citation: Peter Dale Scott, ‘Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia,’ The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 12, No 3, March 19, 2012. 1 A shorter version of this paper was presented at the International Hearings on 9/11 at Toronto, September 11, 2011. It can be seen on line at here. 2 But perhaps no single act of terror committed in the last decade, whether by Qaddafi in Libya or Assad in Syria, has surpassed or even come close to the U.S. devastation of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. 3 “Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation,” September 11, 2001, here. On September 20, 2001, Bush said in an address to a joint session of congress, “Our ‘war on terror’ begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.” 4 On this point see the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004), 66: “To date we have seen no evidence that … Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States.” 5 Sunday Times (London), May 1, 2005; Mark Danner, The Secret Way to War: the Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s buried history (New York: New York Review Books, 2006). 6 9/11 Commission Report, 266-72 (272). 7 Rory O’Connor and Ray Nowosielski, “Who Is Rich Blee?” 911Truth.org, September 21, 2111, here; Rory O’Connor and Ray Nowosielski, “Insiders voice doubts about CIA’s 9/11 story,” Salon, October 14, 2111, here. O’Connor and Nowosielski add corroboration from former Counterterrorism Chief Richard Clarke. “Clarke said he assumed that ‘there was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share that information.’ When asked who might have issued such an order, he replied, ‘I would think it would have been made by the director,” referring to Tenet — although he added that Tenet and others would never admit to the truth today “even if you waterboarded them.’ 8 Kevin Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots (Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2011). 9 9/11 Commission Report, 259, 271; Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Knopf, 2006), 352–54; Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), 203. 10 Lawrence Wright, “The Agent,” New Yorker, July 10 and 17, 2006, 68; cf. Wright, Looming Tower, 339-44; discussion in Peter Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008), 355, 388-89. 11 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 383-86. 12 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 48. Cf. Lawrence Wright, “The Agent,” New Yorker, July 10 and 17, 2006, 68; quoted approvingly in Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine, 399. 13 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 371, cf. 95. 14 Lutz Kleverman, “The new Great Game,” Guardian (London), October 19, 2003, here. 15 Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century: A Report of the Project for the New American Century, September 2000, here, 17, 27. 16 “US Pulls out of Saudi Arabia,” BBC News, April 29, 2003, here. 17 Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: inside America’s war on terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 31. 18 Bradley Graham, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld (New York: Public Affairs, 2009), 290. 19 PNAC, Letter to President Clinton on Iraq, January 26, 1998, here. 20 Gary Dorrien, Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana (New York: Routledge, 2004). Bacevich was speaking of a 1992 memo drafted by Wolfowitz for then Defense Secretary Cheney, calling for America to retain the power to act unilaterally. See Lewis D. Solomon, Paul D. Wolfowitz: visionary intellectual, policymaker, and strategist (New York: Praeger, 2007), 52; Andrew Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2002), 44. 21 Bob Woodward, Bush at War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 131. Much earlier, on the afternoon of September 11, DOD official Stephen Cambone recorded notes from his conversation with Rumsfeld : “Near term target need — Go massive Sweep it all up thing related and not” (here). 22 Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars (New York: PublicAffairs, 2003), 130. 23 Nicholas Lemann, “The Next World Order,” New Yorker, April 1, 2002, here. 24 Rebuilding America’s Defenses — Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century: A Report of the Project for the New American Century, September 2000, here, 17, 27. 25 Ahmed Rashid, Descent into chaos: the United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (New York: Viking, 2008), 70, 69; citing Ahmed Rashid, “US Builds Alliances in Central Asia,” Far Eastern Economic Review, May 1, 2000: “The CIA and the Pentagon had been closely collaborating with the Uzbek army and secret services since 1997, providing training, equipment, and mentoring in the hope of using Uzbek Special Forces to snatch Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan, a fact I discovered on a trip to Washington in 2000.” 26 Peter Dale Scott, “The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, November 21, 2011, here. 27 Scott, The Road to 9/11: wealth, empire, and the future of America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 9. 28 Estimates of annual spending on Homeland Security range up to a trillion dollars. See Stephan Salisbury, “Weaponizing the Body Politic,” TomDispatch.com, March 4, 2012, here. 29 Cf. Simon Johnson, “Too Big to Jail,” Slate, February 24, 2012, here: “The main motivation behind the administration’s indulgence of serious criminality evidently is fear of the consequences of taking tough action on individual bankers. And maybe officials are right to be afraid, given the massive size of the banks in question relative to the economy. In fact, those banks are bigger now than they were before the crisis, and, as James Kwak and I documented at length in our book 13 Bankers, they are much larger than they were 20 years ago.” 30 John Farmer, The Ground Truth: the untold story of America under attack on 9/11 (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009), 288; quoted in Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, The Eleventh Day: the full story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden (New York: Ballantine, 2011), 147. 31 Summers , 383-84; cf. Farmer, Ground Truth, 41. Although a Democrat, Berger was subsequently protected by the Republican Bush Administration from having to testify to Congress about his behavior (a condition of his plea bargain). 32 Summers, Eleventh Day, 334. 33 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 72-79. Grewe subsequently left government to work at the Mitre Corp., a private firm doing CIA contract work with the CIA and another private firm, Ptech. Questions about Ptech and Mitre Corp’s work on FAA-NORAD interoperability systems were raised in 9/11 testimony presented some years ago by Indira Singh; see Scott, Road to 9/11, 175. 34 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 78. Kirsten Wilhelm of the National Archives told Fenton,(p. 78) that “It appears Barbara Grewe conducted the interviews with ‘John’ [Wilshire] and Jane [Corsi],” another key figure. Wilhelm could find no “memorandum for the record” (MFR) for the Wilshire interview, which Fenton understandably calls “about the most important interview the Commission conducted” (p. 79). Summers, also citing correspondence with Kirsten Wilhelm, disagrees, saying that the report of Wilshire’s interview exists, but “is redacted in its entirety” (Summers, Eleventh Day, 381, cf. 552). This is an important point to be focused on in future investigations. 35 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 225. 36 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 38; citing 9/11 Commission Report, 181-82. 37 Michelle has since been identified on the Internet, but so far basically by only one source. 38 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 42-45; summarizing Justice Department IG Report, 239-42; cf. Wright, Looming Tower, 311-12. 39 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 50; summarizing Justice Department IG Report, 242-43; cf. Wright, Looming Tower, 311. 40 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 45. 41 I do not know whether in fact they boarded the plane. However I am now satisfied that al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi acted as if they intended to hijack, as evidenced by their al Qaeda contacts in Malaysia and elsewhere, their attempts to learn to fly, etc. 45 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 239-42, 310-22. Fenton notes that Corsi worked at FBI HQ, which coordinated “liaisons with foreign services” (Fenton, 313). 47 The 9/11 Commission Report discounted the importance of al-Bayoumi (217-18); but the Report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 (173-77), even though very heavily redacted at this point, supplied corroborating information, including a report that Basnan had once hosted a party for the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdurrahman, involved in the first World Trade Center bombing of 1993. 48 At first I suspected, as have others, that the two men were Saudi double agents. Another possibility is that they were sent as designated targets, to be surveilled by the Saudis and the Americans separately or together. One of my few disagreements with Fenton is when he calls al-Mihdhar “one of [the hijackers’] most experienced operatives” (Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 205). My own impression is that he was either an inexperienced and incompetent spy, or else someone deliberately exposing himself to detection, in order to test American responses. 50 9/11 Commission Report, 184. 51 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2004), 456-57. 52 Thomas E. Ricks and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, October 14, 2001, here. 53 Ricks and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, October 14, 2001; cf. 54 In 1957, I myself, as a junior Canadian diplomat, acquired a special access, higher-than-top-secret clearance to access intelligence from NATO, a relatively overt and straightforward liaison. 55 For the Ali Mohamed story, see Scott, Road to 9/11, especially 151-60. 56 Scott, Road to 9/11, 158; citing John Berger, “Unlocking 9/11: Paving the Road to 9/11” (here): ”Mohamed was one of the primary sources for the infamous Aug. 6, 2001, presidential daily brief (PDB) entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’” The PDB, often cited as an example of the CIA’s good performance, is in my opinion more probably another example of the Bin Laden Unit salting the record in preparation for post-9/11 scrutiny. The PDB, without naming Ali Mohamed, refers to him no less than three times as a threat, despite the fact that at the time he was under USG control awaiting sentence for his role in the 1998 embassy plots. The PDB, in other words, appears to have been a performance for the record, analogous to Wilshire’s performance in the same month of August at the FBI. 57 John Berger, Ali Mohamed, 20 (Cloonan); 9/11 Commission Report, 261 (PDB). 58 James Risen, New York Times, October 31, 1998; in Scott, Road to 9/11, 346-47. 59 Raleigh News and Observer, November 13, 2001; in Scott, Road to 9/11, 347. I have added the word “Army.” The HQ for USSOCOM itself is at Fort MacDill Air Force Vase in Florida. 60 Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, “‘Top Secret America’: A look at the military’s Joint Special Operations Command,” Washington Post, September 2, 2011, here. 61 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 168-69; Summers, Eleventh Day, 371, 550. 63 Scott, American War Machine, 161; Scott, Road to 9/11, 62-63. 64 Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven CT: Yale UP, 2000), 129. 65 John Prados, Safe for Democracy, 489; discussion in Scott, American War Machine, 12-13. 66 James Risen, State of War: the secret history of the CIA and the Bush administration (New York: Free Press, 2006), 188-89. 69 Joseph J. and Susan B. Trento, in Summers, Eleventh Day, 399. Since I presented this paper at a conference in Toronto on September 11, 2011, “Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat who served on the … 9/11 Commission, [has] said in a sworn affidavit … that ‘significant questions remain unanswered’ about the role of Saudi institutions. ‘Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued,’ Mr. Kerrey said” (“Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say,” New York Times, February 29, 2001, here). 70 Wright, Looming Tower, 161; in Summers, Eleventh Day, 216. 71 Such corruption is predictable and very widespread. In the notorious cases of Gregory Scarpa and Whitey Bulger, FBI agents in the New York and Boston offices were accused of giving their mob informants information that led to the murder of witnesses and other opponents. Agents in the New York office of the old Federal Bureau of Narcotics became so implicated in the trafficking of their informants that the FBN had to be shut down and reorganized. 72 Ralph Blumenthal, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast,” New York Times, October 28, 1993, emphasis added. The next day, the Times published a modest correction: “Transcripts of tapes made secretly by an informant, Emad A. Salem, quote him as saying he warned the Government that a bomb was being built. But the transcripts do not make clear the extent to which the Federal authorities knew that the target was the World Trade Center. 73 Scott, Road to 9/11, 145. 74 Peter Dale Scott, “Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, July 29, 2011, here. Evan Kohlmann has described how a Zagreb office in support of the Saudi-backed jihad in Bosnia received “all orders and funding directly from the main United States office of Al-Kifah on Atlantic Avenue controlled by Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman” (Evan Kohlmann, Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe, 39-41; citing Steve Coll and Steve LeVine, “Global Network Provides Money, Haven,” Washington Post, August 3, 1993). 75 Scott, Road to 9/11, 153, 347; citing “Canada freed top al Qaeda operative,” {Toronto} Globe and Mail, November 22, 2001, here. 76 Scott, Road to 9/11, 151-59. 77 Ali Soufan, The Black Banners, 94-95, 561. 78 The corruption appears to be inevitable in superpowers – states which have accumulated power in excess of what is needed for their own defense. The pattern is less discernible in less powerful states like Canada. 79 “America’s Afghanistan: The National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, #20, 2009, May 18, 2009, here. Cf. “U.S. looks into Afghan air force drug allegations,” CNN, March 8, 2012, here: “The United States is investigating allegations that some members of the Afghan air force have used their planes to transport drugs, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday. Investigators want to know whether the drug-running allegations, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, are linked to the shooting deaths last year of eight U.S. Air Force officers at the airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul. ‘The allegations of improper use of AAF aircraft is being looked into,’ said Lt. Col. Tim Stauffer, referring to the allegations that Afghan air force equipment has been used to illegally ferry drugs and arms.” 82 Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Courses of Action Related to Cuba (Case II),” in Scott, American War Machine, 196. 83 Washington Post, September 30, 2001; in Summers, Eleventh Day, 293; cf. 9/11 Commission Report, 221-22. 84 See Scott, American War Machine, 199-203. 85 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 360-61, 385. There was also apparent withholding of information at a high level in the US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM): “One official who attended the DO5 [a USJFCOM intelligence unit assigned to watch terrorism against the US] briefing was Vice Adm. Martin J. Meyer, the deputy commander in chief (DCINC), USJFCOM ….. But despite the red flags raised during the briefing, Meyer reportedly told Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, the commander of the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), and other high-level CONR staffers two weeks before the 9/11 attacks that ‘their concern about Osama bin Laden as a possible threat to America was unfounded and that, to repeat, “If everyone would just turn off CNN, there wouldn’t be a threat from Osama bin Laden”'” (Jeffery Kaye and Jason Leopold, “EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress’ 9/11 Probe,” Truthout, June 13, 2011, here). 86 Scott, American War Machine, 201. 87 Scott, American War Machine, 200-02. 88 Clarke, Against All Enemies, 30-33; Summers, Eleventh Day, 175-76; James Bamford, A Pretext for War, 287. 89 Mark Selden has described the pattern of “arousing nationalist passions as a result of attacks out of the blue” as one which has “undergirded the American way of war since 1898” (Mark Selden, “The American Archipelago of Bases, Military Colonization and Pacific Empire: Prelude to the Permanent Warfare State,” forthcoming, 2012, International Journal of Okinawan Studies). 90 Thomas E. Ricks and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, October 14, 2001, here. Significantly, the proposal for a joint attack force with Massoud’s Northern Alliance was also resisted by Massoud himself (Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, 597-98, 796n25). The problem of Massoud’s resistance to an American troop presence vanished when he was assassinated on September 9, 2011, two days before 9/11. 91 Coll, Ghost Wars, 467-69. 92 Coll, Ghost Wars, 513, 534-36, 553. 93 Coll, Ghost Wars, 558. 97 George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: my years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 255. 98 Jeremy Scahill, “Shhhhhh! JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs,’” Nation, August 25, 2010, here. 99 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 127-30; Summers, Eleventh Day, 387-88. 100 Jason Vest, “Implausible Denial II,” Nation, May 31, 2004, here. 101 Peter Dale Scott, “Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution? Continuity of Government Planning, War and American Society,” November 28, 2010, here. 102 Scott, Road to 9/11, 216-18. 103 Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Courses of Action Related to Cuba (Case II),” Report of the J-5 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 1, 1963, NARA #202-10002-10018, 21, here; discussion in Scott, American War Machine, 193, 196. 104 Scott, American War Machine, 195-205; Northwoods document, Joint Chiefs of Staff Central Files 1962-63, p. 178, NARA Record # 202-10002-10104. 105 Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, 283-355; Scott, War Conspiracy, 341-96. 106 Jason Ditz, “Report: CIA Drones Killed Over 2,000, Mostly Civilians in Pakistan Since 2006,” AntiWar.com, January 2, 2011, here. Cf. Karen DeYoung, “Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war,” Washington Post, December 19, 2011, here (“hundreds of strikes over three years — resulting in an estimated 1,350 to 2,250 deaths in Pak). 107 Michael Klare, Blood and Oil (New York: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt, 2004), 135-36; citing R. Jeffrey Smith, “U.S. Leads Peacekeeping Drill in Kazakhstan,”Washington Post, September 15, 1997. CF. Kenley Butler, “U.S. Military Cooperation with the Central Asian States,” September 17, 2001, here. VIAThe Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 10, Issue 12, Number 3 SOURCEPeter Dale Scott Able Danger Donald Rumsfeld George Tenet Khalid Al Mihdhar Nawaf Al Hazmi Richard Blee Previous articleWe Were Lied to about 9/11 Next articleIAVA to Host First Ever Commander-in-Chief Forum http://www.peterdalescott.net/ Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and War, The Road to 9/11, and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War. His most recent book is American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan. Justice Rising: Live Conference Tulsi Gabbard: Release documents related to Saudis and 9/11

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You’re Not Entitled To Our Emotions or Advocacy Is it possible to care about something without caring about it? This sounds like an odd question to ask, but to me, it makes perfect sense. There is always tragedy happening around the world and with the growth of the internet, we all know about some of them. Logically and abstractly, I care about if people are hurt or dying unnecessarily. I would never cheer on their demise; however, I don’t care. The phrase “I don’t care” sounds extremely harsh to say in response to tragedy because we aren’t allowed to vocalize this anymore. There used to be a time when someone else’s issue was just that, their issue. For example, if there is some conflict happening in the Middle East, I don’t like that there is a conflict and people may be dying unnecessarily, yet I still don’t care. Saying “I don’t care” in this situation is the shorthand way of saying “I don’t care enough to get emotionally invested”. This is vastly different from being okay with the outcome. With the growth of social media, we now get to hear about every demographic’s issues and how it affects them. We are supposed to constantly care about everyone else’s outcomes, but this care tends to come at a cost. We pay an emotional tax every time we fight arbitrary battles that have nothing to do with us individually. Every demographic believes that their issue is the primary issue and we all need to stand for their issue, but they can never really answer why someone should care to the level that they do when it doesn’t impact them. Is it simply for the goodness of your heart? If that’s the case, the goodness of my heart only has so much capacity and I choose not to deplete it with every bleeding-heart moment that exists in our society. What makes these situations more difficult is that not only do you have to decide which tragedy to care about, but now which offensive situation you’re supposed to be outraged over. If you do not clutch your pearls when they do, then your character will be challenged because saying you don’t care is no longer acceptable. Advocacy is a personal choice, and no one is entitled to our advocacy. The problem is when people’s emotions are running high, they become selfish about the desires of their demographic and we don’t have the stomach to tell someone who is offended that this is not our fight. I am but one person and I cannot fight every battle that lays before me. If I choose to, you may get my momentary sympathy, but you are not entitled to my advocacy. It is the exercising of this choice that becomes more offensive than what originally offended them. With the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle’s latest standup “The Closer”, an acquaintance of a particular demographic took major issue with one of Dave’s jokes. They were insistent that what he said was absolutely wrong & unforgivable. When they looked at me to see my outrage, unfortunately for them, there was none. I simply don’t care. I gave my momentary sympathy, but their fight is not mine and they are not entitled to have me as a soldier fighting alongside them. This was not enough for them and they made the swift decision to end all communication moving forward. What this person did not understand about me is that I’m a damn near absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech. If I don’t like what someone says, I ignore them and move on with my life. I do not have the desire nor energy to enroll myself into the “word police academy”. I would much rather leave room for people to say vile things that I disagree with for us to see who they truly are and fight their terrible ideas with better ideas. There is this assumption that we have this imaginary power to stop people from being who they are by believing if we just get one more person to be emotionally invested, we can stop them forever. People who practice “cancel culture” tactics believe that silencing someone is akin to socially killing them, but they are still alive and far angrier than before. I have no desire to cancel Dave Chappelle, just like I have no desire to cancel David Duke. I am principled in believing and wanting people to speak their minds, no matter how vile it may be. You can’t combat bad ideas if people never speak and the more we shut down people’s voices, the thinner the margins become for what will be considered “hate speech”. No one is entitled to my emotions in any circumstance. No one is entitled to my advocacy in any circumstance. My decision to be emotionally invested alongside you or not is based on my personal principles and not on your personal entitlement. Mark Christenson Feb 28Liked by Adam B. Coleman Thanks for so well articulating something I’ve felt for years. Sep 14, 2022Liked by Adam B. Coleman This is a good read. Thank you for sharing.

Kandinsky Wassily (2) Circle and Spot 77x67 cm, oil on canvas, 1929 Vassily Vassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe’s private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky “became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky” and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then “his spiritual outlook… was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society”, and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. Suns Titre 47x36,8 cm, paper, cardboard, watercolor, ink pen, pencil, 1941

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Paramedic Studies courses Paramedic Science Foundation in Coventry University About Paramedic Science Foundation in Coventry University A Paramedic provides specialist care and essential treatment to patients of all ages in a variety of dynamic emergency and urgent healthcare settings. Very often the first emergency service and healthcare expert on scene, they can administer a range of life-saving treatments and provide vital information and support to people suffering from a variety of traumatic injuries and/or medical problems. As a student Paramedic, this course will prepare you to face the challenges that come with providing emergency and urgent care to an ageing and diverse population in the pre-hospital and out-of-hospital environment. This course aims to equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge to become a Health and Care Professions Council registered Paramedic after two years of study. Successful completion of the course ensures that you achieve the required standards so that you are eligible to submit for HCPC paramedic registration. Half of your course will be spent establishing a sound academic base to work from within the University. You will also undertake a compulsory practice placement where you will be treating real patients and working alongside registered Paramedics and health care professionals. During your time at the University, we will concentrate on a number of core themes. We have the opportunity to learn about the communication and professionalism skills required of a Paramedic, while developing a sound underpinning knowledge of anatomy, pathophysiology and pharmacology, along with necessary clinical skills. All of this will be supported by evidence-informed practice and proven clinical decision-making tools. We will cover all of these themes over the full two-year course, with in-depth focus on the academic and clinical practice needed to meet HCPC registration. Coventry University is committed to preparing you for your future career and giving you a competitive edge in the graduate job market. Paramedic graduates from Coventry University are much sought after by NHS Ambulance Trusts and the majority of our graduates have previously secured Paramedic positions even before they have completed their course. We work very closely with the West Midlands Ambulance Service Foundation Trust and many of our graduates who choose to stay with the Trust choose to work within the West Midlands or neighbouring ambulance trusts. While most graduates initially choose to work in an NHS Ambulance Trust, the range of opportunities for a Paramedic is expanding. Careers available outside the NHS include event cover, forensic Paramedics and private ambulance services. The University's Careers and Employability team provide a wide range of support services to help you plan and prepare for your career. The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences’ own Employability and Placements Unit can help you to find suitable work placements and give you advice on how to get the most out of them. For those looking to continue their academic career, opportunities are available at Coventry for progression to a full BSc (Honours). Completion of this “top up” degree can be done at your own pace while in full-time employment. This can lead onwards to Masters, MPhil and PhD if you wish. Where our graduates work Paramedic graduates from Coventry University are much sought after by NHS Ambulance Trusts and the majority of our graduates have previously secured paramedic positions even before they have completed their course. We work very closely with the West Midlands Ambulance Service Foundation Trust and many of our graduates who choose to stay with the Trust choose to work within the West Midlands or neighbouring ambulance trusts. Our International Student Hub offers information on entry requirements for your country, as well as contact details for agents and representatives should you need more advice. English as a Foreign Language This course requires an IELTS of 7.0 overall, with no component lower than 6.5. Pre-sessional English is available if required. Concordia University Chicago Florida State University (FSU) The City College of New York (CCNY) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University of West of Scotland University of West of England

Something’s Rotten… Who’s mad, the cows or the Bush cronies who say our meat inspection rules are sufficient? So, it seems Bush is still eating beef. A little Mad Cow disease, the White House assures us, isn’t going to scare our red meat-loving leader. We suppose that’s supposed to make us all feel better, encouraging us to accept the USDA’s assertion that its inspection rules are sufficient. Somehow, we aren’t convinced. Maybe that’s because the meat from the diseased heifer slaughtered in Washington state wasn’t distributed in Texas, where the prez is spending his holiday. Maybe it’s because one of the key administration officials telling us everything’s okay is a former agribusiness lobbyist. Or maybe it’s just because we know that the meat industry and its allies in Congress have for years managed to kill every effort to reform the inspection and feed rules — including one that would have kept meat from this particular dairy cow from ever reaching anybody’s plate. We should remember, this is not a new fight. It dates back nearly a century, to Upton Sinclair and Teddy Roosevelt, uneasy allies who fought bitterly to get the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 through a similarly recalcitrant Congress. Ever since, cattle ranchers and meat packers have managed to water down or kill efforts to strenghten federal rules on meat inspection, slaughtering, and feed lot management. In that fight, the beef industry has been aided by scores of allies in Congress, lawmakers willing to oppose any measure that might make the meatpacking business less profitable. And with the arrival of Bush and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman — an agribusiness lobbyist before joining Bush’s team — the industry has been given red-carpet treatment. Now, the Madison Capital Times argues, the cost of such laissez-faire political favoritism is becoming unavoidably clear. “Veneman was put in charge of the Department of Agriculture by President Bush because he knew the longtime advocate for the genetic modification of food, factory farming and free trade policies that favor big agribusiness over family farmers and consumers could be counted on to choose the side of business interests over the public interest. Veneman did just that when she announced that mad cow disease had been found in the United States. Instead of offering a realistic response to the news, she was still doing public relations for agribusiness. She declared the case was isolated, praised the USDA for a ‘swift and effective’ response, and discounted any risk to human health. Unfortunately, because of the USDA’s lax approach to inspections and regulation, Venemen has no idea whether she is right.” In fact, the USDA has been more than lax — as John Munsell knows too well. As Mother Jones reported last month, the Montana meatpacker became a food inspection activist after meat ground at his family-run plant tested positive for E. coli. Munsell took his concerns to the USDA, and found out what the agency’s real priorities are. “Instead of tracking the contaminated meat back to its source, the USDA launched an investigation of Munsell’s own operation in Miles City, Montana. Never mind that the local federal inspector had seen the beef go straight from the package into a clean grinder — a USDA spokesman called that testimony “hearsay.” By February 2002, three more tests of meat Munsell was grinding straight from the package came back positive in USDA tests for E. coli. This time, as he would later testify in a government hearing, he had paperwork documenting that the beef came from a single source: ConAgra’s massive Greeley, Colorado, facility, which kills as many cows in three hours as Montana Quality Foods handles in a year. Munsell fired off an angry email to the district USDA manager, warning of a potential public-health emergency, and adding that if no one tracked down the rest of the bad meat, “both of us should share a cell in Alcatraz.” The agency moved immediately and aggressively — not to recall meat from Greeley, but to shut down Munsell’s grinding operation, a punishment that lasted four months. ‘I want the world to know what the real policies are,’ says Munsell, driving through Miles City, a ranching town on Montana’s eastern plain where the casinos compete with saddle shops on Main Street and the men don’t take their hats off for much. ‘The real policies imperil the consumer,” he says. “The USDA doesn’t want that out.'” There is plenty of evidence to support Munsell’s assertion. As James Ridgeway of The Village Voice writes, a study by the Center for Public Integrity found that “only 43 percent of all meat products recalled by their manufacturers from 1990-1997 was recovered.” “The rest of the meat—some 17 million pounds—was eaten by unsuspecting consumers. Yet Congress fought off efforts by the Secretary of Agriculture during that time to get the authority to issue mandatory recalls of contaminated meat. The investigation found that during the 1990s the highly exclusive meat business spent $41 million financing political campaigns of Congress members, more than one third of them from House or Senate agriculture committees. Among them: the majority and minority leaders of the Senate (Trent Lott and Tom Daschle), the speaker of the House and the House minority leader (Newt Gingrich and Dick Gephardt), and six past or present chairmen or ranking minority members of the Senate and House agriculture committees. The cattle industry during that period employed 124 lobbyists to work the Hill, 28 of them previously either lawmakers or aides to lawmakers. And it worked. ‘During the escalating public health crisis of the past decade,’ the Center reported, ‘the food industry has managed to kill every bill that has promised meaningful reform.’ In lieu of any serious rulemaking, the Clinton administration struck a weak-ass deal with the industry to allow cattlemen to do their own inspections and label their records “trade secrets” so the public can’t look at them.” There is little chance the industry’s friends in Congress will be able to keep their stonewalling record intact. Already, the USDA has announced it will ban the slaughtering of “downer” cattle — animals that cannot move on their own because of disease or some other ailment. The Washington state dairy cow that tested positive for Mad Cow, it should be noted, was a “downer”. Of course, Congress had repeatedly failed to adopt a similar ban — even though it was already embraced by some of the meat industry’s largest clients, Wayne Pacelle writes in the Seattle Times. “The fast-food industry — led by McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King — considers downer meat too dangerous for its customers and no longer buys it. So do mink farmers who refuse to feed it to their animals. Three years ago, the USDA banned it from the National School Lunch Program. Several states including California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Vermont and Wisconsin prohibit downers from being sold or killed at state-inspected abattoirs, but have no control over federally regulated slaughterhouses that process most of these disabled animals.” Still, there are other legislative initiatives in play, The Denver Post reports, including one measure making it easier to track infected beef from farms to markets. That bill was introduced a year ago, but has been blocked by the beef industry’s alllies on the Agriculture committee. But are such changes enough? John Stauber, co-author of Mad Cow USA, insists it is not. Writing on Alternet, Stauber argues that far more sweeping reforms are required. “The feed rules that the United States must adopt can be summarized this way: you might not be a vegetarian, but the animals you eat must be. The United States must also institute an immediate testing regime that will test millions of cattle, not the 20,000 tested out of 35 million slaughtered in the past year in the United States. Japan now tests all cattle before consumption, and disease experts like Dr. Prusiner recommend this goal for the United States. And of course, no sick “downer” cows, barely able to move, should be fed to any humans. These are the type of animals most likely to be infected with mad cow and other ailments – although mad cows can also seem completely healthy at the time of slaughter, which is why testing all animals must be the goal. Ann Veneman and the Bush administration, unfortunately, currently have no plans to do the right thing. The United States meat industry still believes that the millions of dollars in campaign contributions doled out over the years will continue to forestall the necessary regulations, and that soothing PR assurances will convince the consuming public that this is just some vegetarian fear-mongering conspiracy concocted by the media to sell organic food. Will the American public buy this bull? It has in the past.” Finally, while the current uproar is over a single cow, the problems with our meat inspection and feed rules aren’t limited to the beef industry, Geov Parrish reminds us in his latest column on Working for Change. The entire meat production business — dominated by huge factory-farming conglomerates — is plagued by dangerous and inhumane practices which need to be exposed, Parrish asserts. For the worst corporate violators, the ones actually inspected and found to be egregiously violating food safety laws, the penalties are slaps on the wrist. Many large operations consider such fines a cost of doing business, a pittance compared to the money they save through mistreatment of the animals, fouling of the environment, and careless handling of the meat. These issues are hardly confined to cattle — industrial pig farming has become notorious for its noxiousness — or to meat. The use of antibiotics on farm animals, pesticides on crops, and genetic engineering on anything agribusiness can figure out how to “improve” all carry risks right through the food chain into our bodies. The discovery of mad cow disease in one cow, out of nearly 100 million now living in the U.S., is hardly a major risk to the public. But the factors that made it possible — big agribusiness, lax regulation, and consumer ignorance — also fuel any number of far more common problems. For meat, such problems are usually avoidable by buying organic meat free of antibiotics and the ravages of factory farming. In fact, for nutrients and taste as well as food safety, organics in general are well worth the higher price.” In the meantime, while we wait for Congress and the Bush administration to take action, the carnivores among us can always follow the lead of the folks at Free Range Graphics — the animation jocks behind The Meatrix. Or we could embrace the vegetarian option. Apparently, producers of vegetable-based meat alternatives expect many of us will — Planet Ark reports several such companies expect their business is about to boom — just not in Crawford, Texas.

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Concert Photography, Concert Reviews, Music Photos + Review: Noel Gallagher @ Sony Centre Posted by Aesthetic Magazine ⋅ February 21, 2018 ⋅ Leave a comment Filed Under Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Oasis, Sony Centre, Toronto Photos by: Julian Avram – Review by: Adam Harrison – Follow @AdamRHarrison TORONTO, ON – FEBRUARY 20: Noel Gallagher performs at Sony Centre in Toronto on February 20, 2018. (Photo: Julian Avram/Aesthetic Magazine) Oasis legend, Noel Gallagher, stopped by Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts last night (Feb. 20th) with his High Flying Birds for an evening of rock n’ roll sing-a-longs. Now with a flock of almost a dozen musicians backing him up, the theatre was the perfect venue for such an experience. For a band that doesn’t move around much, the music did all the talking. Accompanied by some 70s-esque visuals on a large circular backdrop behind the band to keep your eyes peeled, the combination of sight and sound made for a memorable evening. Currently supporting his third album, Who Built the Moon?, Gallagher has more than enough material to put a well-rounded set together without relying on Oasis tunes to keep the audience engaged. In fact, the first five songs of the show showcased the power of the former Oasis guitarist’s latest record, including vocal exhibits like “It’s a Beautiful World” and “She Taught Me How to Fly.” For the first half of the show, Gallagher stayed quiet, with the odd mumble here and there. But eventually his quick wit would get the better of him as he began interacting with fans. One interaction with a man near the front who clearly wanted his attention, went something like this… “Yes, what do you want? How am I? In a word, sensational. How about you? Amazing? What makes you amazing? Me?… More people should be like you. Give this man a fucking job.” This led into the song, “If I Had a Gun,” in which Gallagher pointed at the man after lines like, “If I had a gun, I’d shoot a hole into the sun, and love would burn this city down for you.” It wasn’t until the halfway point in the set we got our first Oasis song in the form of “Little By Little.” The crowd was on cloud nine as they sang along to every word and even overpowered Gallagher’s vocals for the chorus build-up line, “But my God woke up on the wrong side of his bed.” It almost made you feel like you were at home in Manchester with the band. The main set wrapped up with Gallagher’s stripped down version of “Wonderwall” as well as one of his first singles with the High Flying Birds, “AKA… What a Life!” After a short encore break, the band returned and Gallagher warned us, “This song has never been performed before, you unlucky fuckers are the first to hear it,” before initiating “The Right Stuff” from their second album Chasing Yesterday. The following finale was a trio of covers including Oasis hits, “Go Let it Out” and perhaps Gallagher’s most recognized masterpiece “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” The voices of the sold out crowd of nearly 3,200 bounced off the walls in overwhelming fashion as they flew high with Gallagher and co. As we came back to reality, Gallagher and the Birds wrapped up with a surprising cover of The Beatles, “All You Need is Love.” Although an Oasis reunion is undoubtedly what the fans want the most, it’s great to see Noel Gallagher has adapted himself and his art successfully into this stage of his life and career. The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts was the perfect venue to showcase his matured sound proven by the number of smiling faces leaving the theatre at the end of the night. « WWE SmackDown Live: Recap, Reaction, Results (Feb. 20, 2018) Photos: Less Than Jake, Four Year Strong @ Phoenix Concert Theatre »

Rep. Aguilar Votes to Protect Access to Birth Control WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Rep. Pete Aguilar voted to pass the Right to Contraception Act (H.R. 8373), and enshrine the right to contraception in federal law. “Contraception is a fundamental, preventative form of health care relied on by millions of people,” said Rep. Aguilar. “After the Supreme Court’s decision stripping away the constitutional right to abortion, it’s clear that women’s fundamental freedoms are in jeopardy. I will fight to block these extreme proposals and champion legislation that permanently protects these rights.” The Right to Contraception Act: Makes access to contraception federal law, Federally ensures health care providers can provide contraceptives, contraception and information on contraception, Protects against any action to restrict access to contraceptives, Allows the Attorney General to bring civil actions against any state that attempts to restrict access to contraception, And creates a private right of action for individuals to enforce their right to get contraceptives. Over the month of July, Rep. Aguilar has voted to enshrine a number of constitutional rights into federal law. Rep. Aguilar voted for legislation restoring the right to an abortion (the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022), to protect a woman’s right to travel to another state to seek abortion care (the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act) and for legislation enshrining same-sex marriage into law (the Respect for Marriage Act). Rep. Aguilar serves as Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus and is a Member of the House Appropriations Committee.

SOS: the World Calls to Suspend #COVID19 Vaccine Patents to Save Millions of Lives G7 countries hoard enough vaccines to immunize their populations multiple times over, limiting vaccine access for low-income countries. Many countries, including Nigeria, Zambia, and Nicaragua, have only immunized a small fraction of their populations. Countries like Haiti, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo do not report a single vaccination¹. Donations of vaccines from wealthy to low-income countries, while welcomed, are not enough – COVID-19 vaccine patents must be suspended, and technology must be shared to accelerate worldwide production and distribution. Mexico City (June 10, 2021) The vast disparity between the number of immunizations in wealthy and poorer nations represents something equal to a crime against humanity, all but guaranteeing a death sentence for thousands, if not millions, of people in low-income countries. Yet, there are options available to the world to create enough vaccines to end the pandemic. In our continued advocacy for global vaccine equity, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls on members of the Group of Seven (G7) to stop guarding the interests of pharmaceutical companies and ‘Vaccinate Our World‘ by supporting the current proposal at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property (IP) protections on all COVID-19 vaccines and technologies. By granting patent waivers, generic vaccine production can be increased worldwide instead of being primarily centered in the US, Europe, and China. “This urgent call-to-action must be a priority and should be handled like a global S.O.S. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) allows for the protection of the common good and overall global public health through the waiving of IP rights and is what saved the lives of millions of people living with HIV through the generic production of antiretroviral medicines. We must utilize those same past lessons learned to fight COVID-19 today,” said Dr. Patricia Campos, Bureau Chief for AHF Latin America and the Caribbean. G7 countries have ordered enough vaccine doses to vaccinate their populations multiple times over, with European Union countries having secured 6.4 doses per person. However, Canada tops the list with 10.1 doses per person – and the UK and the US are not far behind with 7.7 and 3.7 doses per person, respectively, according to The Guardian². “While we would welcome donations of surplus vaccines, it wouldn’t be enough to solve the severe lack of vaccine access across the globe. Experts predict that the world needs 11 billion vaccines, and donated surpluses are not even 10% of what is needed to end the pandemic. G7 leaders need to suspend COVID-19 vaccine patents immediately. It’s the only way to boost vaccine production and distribution and limit new, more contagious variants of the virus which can become resistant to vaccines and potentially kill millions more people,” added Guillermina Alaniz, Advocacy Director for AHF Latin America and the Caribbean. Even though pharmaceutical companies argue they cannot give away their intellectual property, a tremendous amount of taxpayer funding has been invested in the development of most drugs, and COVID-19 vaccines are no exception. According to The Guardian, “At least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts…and less than 2%…came from private industry.³” In addition to waiving vaccine patents, the ‘VOW’ campaign urges other significant actions to ensure we can ‘Vaccinate Our World,’ including pushing nations with surplus vaccines to donate them to hard-hit countries and those with no access. Leaders of wealthy countries must also raise at least $100 billion to help ensure the production of at least 7 billion vaccines within one year. Additionally, international cooperation, not politics, needs to be significantly increased and should be the driving force for ending the pandemic, which must start by demanding that countries be 100% transparent and accountable. The ‘Vaccinate Our World’ call-to-action kicked off in April with a multimedia advocacy campaign, virtual media events, and demonstrations (where able) in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the US. AHF invites everyone to join the movement by pledging at VaccinateOurWorld.org and sharing the following hashtags on your social media: #VaccinateOurWorld and #VOWnow; In Spanish: #VacunarNuestroMundo; Portuguese: #VacunaNossoMundo; French: #VaccinateNotreMonde ¹ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html ² https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/05/share-vaccines-or-climate-deal-will-fail-rich-countries-are-told ³ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 1.5 million clients in 45 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare and Instagram: @aidshealthcare

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Marina de Van Name Marina Van Role Film director Education University of Paris Born 8 February 1971 (age 44) (1971-02-08) France Occupation Film director, screenwriter, actress Siblings Adrien de Van, Thomas de Van Nominations Cesar Award for Best Short Film, Cesar Award for Best Writing, Chlotrudis Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Movies Don't Look Back, Dark Touch, In My Skin, Sitcom, See the Sea Similar People Adrien de Van, Francois Ozon, Andrea Di Stefano, Padraic Delaney, Missy Keating Marina de van on her film in my skin media funhouse Marina de Van ([də van]; born 8 February 1971) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In My Skin A Film By Marina De Van In My Skin - A Film By Marina De Van See the Sea (1997) (writer) 8 Women (2002) (writer) In My Skin (2002) (writer/director) La clef (2007) (actress) Don't Look Back (2009) (writer/director) Le petit poucet (2010) (director/collaborating writer) Dark Touch (2012) (writer/director) Marina de Van Wikipedia Similar TopicsAndrea Di Stefano Dark Touch In My Skin Andrea Di Stefano

Neha Patil Love my family & adore animals! Always try to have a positive mindset Propaganda (band) Origin Düsseldorf, Germany Associated acts Die Krupps, Simple Minds, Act Past members Andreas TheinClaudia BrückenDerek ForbesBrian McGeeBetsi Miller Members Claudia Brücken, Suzanne Freytag, Ralf Dörper Record labels ZTT Records, Virgin Records Genres Electropop, New wave, Electronic dance music Albums A Secret Wish, 1234, Wishful Thinking, Outside World, Noise and Girls Come Out to Play Propaganda are a German synthpop group, formed in 1982. They were one of the initial roster of acts signed to Trevor Horn's ZTT label, between 1984 and 1986, during which they released the critically acclaimed album A Secret Wish. 198284 Early history 1985 A Secret Wish 198687 Split 198897 New line up 19982004 Reunion and second split 2005present Recent activity 1982–84: Early history Propaganda was formed in Düsseldorf, West Germany, in 1982, by Ralf Dörper (a member of the German industrial band Die Krupps). As a trio, with artist Andreas Thein and vocalist Susanne Freytag, the group made initial recordings in Germany which were destined for future release in the UK, where Ralf Dörper's early experimental recordings had received critical acclaim by radio DJ John Peel and journalist Biba Kopf. With the inclusion of classically trained musician and composer Michael Mertens and singer Claudia Brücken (who had worked with Freytag in her previous band, The Topolinos) music journalist Paul Morley signed the band to Trevor Horn's newly formed ZTT Records label. The group relocated to the United Kingdom and released the single "Dr. Mabuse", named after the fictional character made famous by filmmaker Fritz Lang. The single reached Top Thirty in the UK Singles Chart, and Top Ten in Germany. The group appeared on various TV shows in the UK, including Channel 4's The Tube. Here, as well as performing "Dr. Mabuse", the group also gave one of its few performances of a cover version of Throbbing Gristle's song "Discipline". Before the year was out, Thein was asked to leave the band due to musical differences. With Mertens now filling the gap left by his departure, the band forged ahead with recording its follow-up single and debut album. However both of these were to be delayed as a result of the unexpectedly huge success of ZTT's most famous signing, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. As the label was still in its infancy, ZTT was forced to spend all its limited resources on promoting and marketing FgtH, and this also meant that Trevor Horn was not available to produce Propaganda's album. Stephen Lipson, one of Horn's established studio engineers, took his place along with Andy Richards playing keyboards, but the delay meant that Propaganda's second single, the more pop-oriented "Duel", didn't surface until April 1985. Perhaps the band's most recognisable release, it was also their highest-charting single in the UK, reaching number 21. The band made its single appearance on the flagship BBC music programme Top of the Pops in June of that year. The song was also used as the theme music for the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2005, the alternate version "Jewel" having also been used as the theme music for the BBC's Top Gear RAC Rally Report programmes in the late 1980s. In May 1985, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood becoming tax exiles in Ireland, the band effectively headlined "The Value of Entertainment", a series of showcase gigs of ZTT signings, held at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The shows also featured Art of Noise, Anne Pigalle, Andrew Poppy and Instinct. Propaganda were joined on stage by former Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes and ex-Japan drummer Steve Jansen. 1985: A Secret Wish The first week of July 1985 finally saw the release of the band's debut album, A Secret Wish. After receiving considerable critical acclaim and some commercial success, it reached number 16 on the UK Album Chart. The album was followed by another single, "p:Machinery", in August 1985, which only reached number 50 in the UK, but becoming a bigger hit in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland and even being used in the hit US TV Show "Miami Vice". The 12-inch version of this release caused controversy (even within the group) as Paul Morley thought it was a good idea to have the sleeve feature a quote by writer J. G. Ballard praising the activities of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction. Ariola, who distributed ZTT's releases in Germany, refused to carry the 12" as a result, so the quote was changed on the German release to another by Ballard on the aesthetic perfection of German suburbs. The group spent the rest of the year on their "Outside World" tour, taking in Europe and America. They were joined once again by Derek Forbes on bass, with his fellow ex-Simple Minds colleagues Brian McGee on drums, and Kevin Armstrong on guitar, with backing tapes used for most of the keyboard parts. In the meantime a remix album, Wishful Thinking, was released in November 1985. Originally intended for the American club market, the album was also released in Europe, but against the wishes of the group themselves. The album peaked at number 82 in the UK. A remixed version of "p:Machinery" was also re-released as a single, only four months after its original release. In the UK, it too failed to make an impact and peaked at no.83, but was, again, more successful in France and Germany. 1986–87: Split After making a second appearance on The Tube in January 1986, things went quiet for Propaganda. In late 1985, its management had introduced the band to the London-based music lawyer Brian Carr of Compton Carr, who had helped to win the case between John Lydon (Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd.) and his management. Carr explained to the group members that under their current contracts with ZTT, they could go on making records for the rest of their lives and never make any money from them. Based on this information the band asked ZTT to renegotiate the contracts, which the company declined. Soon afterwards Claudia Brücken left Propaganda to pursue a solo career, remaining signed to ZTT. After a protracted legal battle, which saw the remaining members of Propaganda under an injunction by ZTT for fourteen months, they were finally released from their contract to ZTT in a hurried out-of-court settlement in the summer of 1987. Claudia Brücken formed the duo Act with Thomas Leer in 1988, and in 1991 she released a solo album (Love: And a Million Other Things) for Island Records. 1988–97: New line-up In 1988, the band (initially still including Ralf Dörper and Susanne Freytag) signed to Virgin Records, and began recording new material. Alongside Michael Mertens was the new line-up of American vocalist Betsi Miller, with bassist Derek Forbes and drummer Brian McGee (both ex-Simple Minds) who had both actually joined the band following their split with ZTT in 1986. The result was a new album, released in 1990 called 1234, produced by former Tears For Fears' associates Ian Stanley and Chris Hughes, Miller's future husband. Some of Dörper's lyrics were used and Freytag also made a guest appearance on the album. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd played guitar on what was to be the second single taken from the album, "Only One Word". The first single from the album, "Heaven Give Me Words", reached the UK Top 40, and the album peaked at number 46 in the UK. Although the album was not as successful as A Secret Wish, it gave Propaganda its only real No.1 hit, with "Wound in My Heart" becoming a big success in South America and reaching No.1 in Argentina in 1990. 1998–2004: Reunion and second split In 1998, Mertens, Brücken, and Freytag reunited, signed an options deal with East West Records, and began working on new material. Several tracks were completed, including one produced by Tim Simenon and featuring Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on guitar. A video for one song, "No Return", was produced in Morocco and directed by "Keyser Soze" in December 1998. Two minute clips of it, along with photos of the shoot, were released via the band's official website in early 2000. However, no album materialized and, in January 2002, Brücken announced, "The reunion was worth a try, but did not work out." In 2002, an untitled nine-track CD was leaked via file-sharing networks on the Internet. Track titles were "Ignorance", "Who's the Fool", "Beast Within", "No Return", "To the Future", "Turn to the Sun", "Dream Within a Dream", "Cloud 9" and "Anonymous". "Cloud 9" was later recorded by Brücken and former OMD member Paul Humphreys for their act Onetwo. It first appeared on their 2004 5-track EP Item; then appeared again in 2007 on their album Instead, together with the song "Anonymous". 2005–present: Recent activity In early 2005, Propaganda, now comprising Suzanne Freytag and Michael Mertens, started to release new material on the German independent label Amontillado Music. The 12" vinyl release "Valley of the Machine Gods" was sold out within 2 weeks. In November 2004, the original Propaganda line-up with Brücken and Dörper, but without Thein, performed "Dr. Mabuse" at the Wembley Arena showcase of Trevor Horn's lifetime celebration. In July 2010, a 2-disc Deluxe Edition of A Secret Wish, containing the varying tracks released on both the original vinyl album, cassette and CD versions, was released to mark the album's 25th anniversary. This edition also included unreleased 12-inch remixes and previously unheard demos. The booklet accompanying the release noted that "At the time of writing, spring 2010, Mertens, Brücken, Freytag and Dörper are back on terms and for the second time since 2000 they are considering working together." On 2 March 2011, Claudia Brücken performed at Scala in London and was joined by Ralf Dörper and Susanne Freytag for some of the tracks. Thomas Leer was also expected to perform but was unable to do so because of a throat operation. The gig was recorded for later DVD release and also featured Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 and Andy Bell of Erasure. However, in an interview around the same time, Brücken said that Mertens was unwilling to work with her any longer. Andreas Thein (born 1954) died on 30 May 2013 from cancer. A number of their tracks have been resurfaced on Art of the 12" CDs. Outside World (July 2002) Noise And Girls Come Out To Play (September 2012) DuelA Secret Wish · 1985 P:MachineryA Secret Wish · 1985 Dr MabuseA Secret Wish · 1985 Propaganda (band) Wikipedia Similar TopicsMy Way (2011 film) Manual of Love Raúl Quiroga My Way (2011 film)

Using Cultural Pluralism to Lower Unemployment August 8, 2014 by g-wingenbach Leave a Comment Namibia is a country that has a variety of cultures, landscapes, and wildlife. Since Namibia is a young country, there are still many issues that need to be resolved. Cultural pluralism is a concept wherein each culture seeks to respect others’ traditions, which may provide understanding as to why each culture acts in a certain way. If Namibia takes advantage of its diversities, it can become a powerful nation with plenty of employment and decent wages. The beauty of Namibia is that it accepts all cultures as they exist, rather than trying to assimilate them to one culture. It is an extraordinary country that is proud of its diverse makeup. It is amazing to travel from one region to another, seeing different sceneries, agricultural techniques, and cultures. The problem hindering Namibia from moving forward is an undeveloped infrastructure. It is a country with plenty of resources, a small population to land ratio, and a variety of employment, which could potentially improve Namibia’s economy. According to a working paper published by First Capital Research in Windhoek, rapid growth rates in youth population, education, and a rise in female labor participation contributed to high unemployment rates in 2008. In an interview with Mr. Bernd Schneider, Managing Director of Natural Destinations Tourism Co., he mentioned that from an employer’s view, there are three reasons for unemployment. The first is lack of adequate education, which makes people unemployable. Second was the quality of work, since most people were untrained for their jobs. Employers are hesitant to hire untrained people because of employers’ past experiences. Such as when employers train employees, who then quit their jobs, and work for someone who pays more. And third, the greatest reason mentioned for unemployment was the government. Since the government tends to offer work to international workers instead of employing local Namibians. Mr. Bernd Schneider also mentioned that there is really no reason for high unemployment rates. Since almost every region in Namibia has some sort of employment opportunity. In the north, Namibia has fertile soil, rainfall, water availability, and perfect weather conditions for crop farming. The south has mining and the coastal region has fishing. Other employment opportunities are available through tourism of cultural diversities, landscapes, research, and wildlife. A problem that hinders more people from working in agriculture is the lack of title deeds. If title deeds were offered it would help generate jobs and sustainability opportunities. By doing so people could obtain bank loans to buy needed equipment to farm. Another option would be to sell their land or start a tourism business. Therefore, people could invest more in their land and receive profit. Unemployment has lead many people to become criminals out of desperation, hunger, and spite. Currently the Namibian government is not implementing policies that can help people who are temporarily unemployed. Even when work is available it can be “disguised employment.” Meaning employers due not have enough work to keep their workers on a full-time status. Therefore, many people end up working less than 40 hours a week. However the greatest repercussion is that most Namibian families only have one or two people working in a large family, thus their salaries are not enough to buy the necessary foods for a healthy balanced meal. Having traveled through several regions of Namibia, I was able to see how Namibians yearn for a better life. Ben Affleck stated in a hearing in Washington D.C. on behalf of the Republic of the Congo, “Assisting people in developing countries is not a charity it is good business.” His statement relates to people in developing countries simply asking for a lending hand. Someone who will give them the necessary tools to help generate income which will uplift their economy. Filed Under: COALS Study Abroad, Namibia Tagged With: Namibia

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ATG 90: Curate and Crank Up Your New Playlist with my two favorite authors (my daughters!) September 12, 2022 Jon Acuff Season 1 Episode 90 Sep 12, 2022 Season 1 Episode 90 TikToks and Instagram reels go viral when they have the right soundtrack. Your thoughts are the same way. The loudest, catchiest, most played thoughts are the ones that shape the way we view ourselves, the actions we take, and the results that come from those actions. But what if the thoughts we listen to the most are broken soundtracks? What if the loudest thoughts we have about ourselves aren’t even true? As adults, we’ve all picked up bad soundtracks along the way, but the students in our lives are still curating their playlists for the first time. They’re still writing the soundtracks they’re going to listen to for the rest of their lives. That's why I wrote my new book, Your New Playlist with my teenage daughters, L.E. and McRae. They join me in a very special episode of All it Takes is a Goal to talk about why mindset is so powerful, how to ditch broken soundtracks, and how to build new ones that will help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals. Order Jon's new book, "Your New Playlist" and read the first two chapters!

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Todd F. Davis, Ph.D. Professor, English and Environmental Studies Hawthorn Building, 208 Todd Davis is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry—Coffin Honey, Native Species, Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe—as well as of a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow. He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and co-edited the anthology Making Poems. His writing has been featured on the radio by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac and by Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry. His poems have won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been published in such noted journals and magazines as American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, North American Review, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Orion, West Branch, and Poetry Daily. He is a former fellow in the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Penn State Altoona. Contemporary American Literature Appalachian Literature Ph D, English, Northern Illinois University MA, English, Northern Illinois University BA, English and Education

Tag: Mark 3 In the morning let us prepare for the new day with the words of the New Testament and in the evening let us reflect on how God moves in the lives of his people. Morning Reading from the New Testament: Mark 3: 22-35 Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath. Great crowds followed him. He... Continue Reading → In our evening readings we move into the book of Numbers. As we continue through the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, we learn the original instructions given from God to man. These instructions address daily activities, worship, and many other topics. While the circumstances of life have changed, the instructions still hold great... Continue Reading → In the morning let us prepare for the new day with the words of the New Testament and in the evening let us reflect on how God moves in the lives of his people. Morning Reading from the New Testament: Mark 3: 1-21 Jesus heals man's hand, heals many by the sea, appoints 12 disciples,... Continue Reading →

HomeInterviewsInterview: Bronwynne Brent Interview: Bronwynne Brent March 20, 2017 Peter Churchill Interviews 0 Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, Bronwynne Brent has recorded two albums, the 2011 Deep Dark Water and 2014’s Stardust. Her music and songs have an air of self-confessed melancholy that are delivered with a wonderfully distinctive voice that has been described as sounding like Southern sunshine. Bronwynne topped the female artist category in both 2015 & 2016 Americana-UK polls beating off the likes of Kacey Musgraves and Lucinda Williams so she certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed over here. I caught up with Bronwynne Brent before her show at the Ritz Acoustic Club in Burnham on Sea. She was accompanied by Johnny Sangster who as well as playing with her on this tour also played on and produced her 2014 album, Stardust. On venues and audiences It’s my third time in England. It’s like walking into a movie set, a Sherlock Holmes picture, every time we come over here. We don’t have places like this. We don’t have pubs. We love it! At home there are listening rooms and house concerts where people will actually listen but mostly it is festivals and bars where people aren’t really listening, they are just having a good time. I have either found an audience over here that really likes to listen to my music or people are generally more interested in listening to the songs over here. I haven’t worked out which yet! I was just playing coffee shops until I had a CD to promote. It was really difficult touring the first album (Deep Black Water, 2011). I am not on a label so everything is out of pocket. I moved to Austin, Texas to try to do music but the town was so saturated with music that I could play gigs with absolutely no audience. I felt ridiculous. It was terrible. I grew up into a musical family. I have two older sisters – Eden Brent is a blues boogie-woogie piano player and Jessica Brent who sings country and folk. Mum sang, Dad loves to play guitar. I used to watch my older sisters play and as I got older the three of us would sing 3-part harmonies. I am the quiet one in the family. They are noisy and loud. My subsequent and on-going low self-esteem with regard to my music may be due to that! How does the quiet one with low esteem get up in front of an audience? It is not good for my health! I have terrible stage fright. My palms are sweating, my heart is pounding. It’s terrifying. It does gets a little easier as the performance progresses. My sister always told me to keep going, that it will get easier as I get older and have more experience. It hasn’t yet! It also depends on the comfort level I feel at each venue. For instance, my stress levels went through the roof at a recent BBC Radio session I did in Scotland. Listening to my sisters’ records growing up was my first exposure to artists such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. I have always listened to older music though, I have never really listened to contemporary music particularly and I can’t really cite anybody as an influence in particular. The first album Looking back, I really have no idea how that came about! I didn’t tell anyone in my family that I wanted to make an album at the time. I sent my demos. I drove to Austin Texas to try to get it done. I had heard a Heartless Bastards album and I liked the sound of it so someone said why don’t you get that guy to produce your record. That guy was Mike McCarthy so I sent him my demos. He must have liked what he heard as he got back in touch with me and he said he had a little studio I could record in. It went from there. I was 37 years old then and still did it all without telling my family! What were you doing up till then? I was still writing and playing music but I was doing all sorts of things. Sorry, I have a really bad memory! I was an anthropology student. Then I studied art. Took philosophy classes. I moved to New Orleans but if you aren’t doing the New Orleans signature sound that is demanded there it is a very hard city in which to break through that scene. They also don’t want to hire you unless you can bring in a certain number of customers through the door. To be fair I think I also gave up a little too easy. Reaction to the first album? There were some good reviews but they weren’t exactly Rolling Stone reviews you know! I sent my record to radio stations all over the country with a sweet little letter. I pushed that record for a really long time. I thought that I had this good record which would be all I needed to get reviewed and played and I would be fine. I think they all put it straight into the trash! It changed when I sent my record to this guy my sister knows and he gave a me a good review and that got the ball rolling to a certain extent. But it was when Bob Harris played it people really started to buy it. It makes such a huge difference when someone like Bob picks up on your music. Coming to UK I got a showcase at the International Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas City. They have these panels one of which was called The Griddle. They play 59 seconds of your song before each member on the panel gets to critique it. Loudon Temple was on the panel. My heart was pounding. My blood was rushing so fast. I have anxiety but that was something else! The song was Already Gone. Loudon said he wanted to talk to me. I knew he had an agency somewhere over here (Bloody Great PR), Scotland I think. I really wanted to go somewhere different. I wanted to try somewhere apart from the States. So, I sent him my CD and he booked me for a tour without even having seen me perform live. Working with Johnny Sangster on Stardust I always want to do something different. I had heard a song by Maggie Bjorklund called Summer Romance and I thought wow, I love that sound, who produced it? I found out it was Johnny. I looked him up and saw that he had a studio, Crackle and Pop, in Seattle. I watched some interviews of his and he seemed a really down to earth guy which I like. I sent him my first CD and some demos of new songs. Johnny was totally blown away by the voice. (Johnny’s words!) What ambitions for any new record? A Grammy would be great! It’s like when I buy a lottery ticket, every time I think I’m gonna win! It is always such a let-down when you don’t but you always have a little hope, you know? I think I am too old to be really famous, I know that now and I wouldn’t like all that attention anyway because I am too shy and reserved, but maybe a song in a movie or a commercial would be cool. Enough income to support me would be good! That’s all I’m asking. It doesn’t do that at the moment. I am still trying to get it out there. Sometimes I don’t know what drives me…. but something is! The UK Tour The tour is going well but as far as making money there is still a way to go before the economy flips and you start bringing home money to support yourself. CD sales on the night are really important to us. We are mid-way through the tour. We are playing quite small venues but that’s okay as I love small places with intimate crowds that make it feel like we are sitting in someone’s living room. As long as people are having fun that I don’t care how many people are there! Song writing I am not very disciplined. When something happens in my life I want to write. I think it is a release. Like a cathartic experience. A lot of my songs lean towards the melancholy. That’s when I like to write but it is not always like that. Sometimes I just pick up a guitar and find a melody and words follow. I do get some inspiration from my own experiences and from personal events in my life but I also get that from other lives too. It is not always about me. I think there is a mix in most songs of made up and real experiences flowing into some kind of a story. Getting heard I am very picky with music. It takes a lot of luck to get on and get heard in this industry. Some get it, some don’t. I just don’t worry about what anybody else is doing. I don’t see this as a competition with other artists, I just enjoy making music because that is what I love. Your time will come. I wish everyone the best with their music but I just don’t see it as competition. It is so much easier to make music with now, it is so easy to share music on line. It is the public that are saturated with choice. There is so much for them to hear that they can get desensitised. That’s who we need to worry about. That is why Johnny is on the tour with me. He is in Seattle, I am in Louisiana and it is really hard to get together and prepare so the tour gives us time to look at the songs, tweak them, sort through what works. There is a ton of ideas and this time is great for us. We are looking to record in May in which case the album release will be autumn 2017. If that doesn’t happen then the time frame will slip back and release probably won’t be until about this time next year. Maybe we will be over for another tour next year to promote it. I love what I am doing. This is what is going on in my life. I am putting everything into this. About Peter Churchill 151 Articles Lover of intelligent singer-songwriters; a little bit country; a little bit folk; a little bit Americana. Devotee of the 'small is beautiful' school of thought when it comes to music venues. Video: Chris Jamison “Mindless Heart” Hear track from new Dylan album – Listen

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Nutraceuticals for Migraine Treatment How to use non-pharmacologic treatments for migraine Vitamin and mineral supplements can be found almost anywhere, promising to treat all kinds of ailments from the shelves of your pharmacy to the virtual aisles of Amazon. These alternative treatments, called nutraceuticals—a portmanteau of the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceuticals”—are food-derived products that may potentially have therapeutic benefit. While studies have shown some nutraceuticals to be effective and safe for people with migraine, others carry additional risk. Dr. Abigail Chua, a neurologist at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group, explains what to look for when using supplements for migraine treatment. Nutraceuticals and Migraine Treatment Studies have shown that 80% of people with headache disorders have used some form of alternative medicine, including nutraceuticals, for headache treatment, said Dr. Chua. And there is some value to moving forward with this option. Multiple studies have been conducted evaluating non-pharmacological treatments for their efficacy and safety. The most common are: Magnesium—a mineral used to prevent migraine attacks Riboflavin—a vitamin also known as B2, which in high doses has been shown to prevent migraine attack Co-enzyme Q10 (CoQ10)—an antioxidant that, when taken regularly for migraine prevention, has been shown to reduce frequency and intensity of migraine Feverfew—a plant that can be used as a preventive treatment for migraine—is another commonly used nutraceutical, but its effectiveness has not been well-proven in studies. Other alternatives often cited for migraine treatment include butterbur, tree bark, lavender, peppermint, and ginkgo biloba, and there are “tons and tons of others” out there, Dr. Chua said, but there is less evidence available that supports their efficacy. Are Nutraceuticals Safe? Many studies have been conducted to explore the potential benefits of nutraceuticals both for migraine prevention and acute headache treatment. It’s important for people with migraine to do their homework before incorporating anew therapy into their treatment plan. “When it comes down to it,” Dr. Chua said, “we want to make sure that we’re using treatments that have some sort of scientific backing.” It’s important to recognize that not all studies are created equal. Some studies may be more vulnerable to bias; others may not include enough participants to prove a significant benefit, or the results just may be too incomplete for doctors to determine whether a treatment is a good option for people with migraine. Your doctor can help you understand if a specific supplement is right for you. How are Nutraceutical Regulated? “Nutraceuticals in the United States are considered food, not medicine, so they don’t fall under the same regulations,” says Dr. Chua. “While companies have a responsibility to conduct responsible, safe, and ethical business practices, they don’t really have to conduct research proving that their product is safe or effective at all.” Dr. Chua points to one example that shows just how unregulated the U.S. supplement industry can be. “In 2005, products from four major vitamin distributors were found to not only contain none of the herbals that they said were on their labels, but also had no medicinal properties and were mostly filled with fillers, like powdered rice.” When doctors like Chua recommend certain nutraceuticals—such as magnesium, riboflavin, and CoQ10—it’s because high-quality studies have demonstrated their efficacy and safety, and because they are available from trustworthy supplement providers. What are the Risks of Taking Nutraceuticals? When taking any supplement, especially without first consulting your doctor, there is always a chance that the supplement will simply be ineffective—but in the worst-case scenario, they can actually be harmful. The problem is that many people add nutraceuticals to their treatment plan, thinking they are more like vitamins, rather than medications that could have potentially harmful side effects. “Natural’ does not necessarily mean safe,” said Dr. Chua. For people interested in trying nutraceuticals for migraine, Dr. Chua says it’s important to do your research. Before anything, be sure to talk to your health care provider about your goals for treatment and whether supplements should be a part of your therapy plan. Don’t be afraid to mention alternative treatments to maintain an honest dialogue with your health care provider. The most important thing to remember about nutraceuticals in migraine treatment is “to have an open dialogue and honest conversation with your health care provider,” Dr. Chua said.

Tag: Dick Durbin Show Grid Show List Thoughts on the US Senate hearing on hate violence September 21, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh On Wednesday, as many had, I watched the webcast of the US Senate hearing “Hate Crimes and the Threat of Domestic Extremism” in which testimony was given by various government agencies and representatives of points of view in relation to hate violence. Among those providing testimony was Harpreet Singh Saini, one of the sons (his brother Kamaljit Singh Saini was also in attendance) of victim Paramjit Kaur, who was killed in the shooting rampage at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, […] Categories: Civil Rights, Events, Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Daryl Johnson, Dick Durbin, extremism, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Harpreet Singh Saini, hate crimes, Hate Crimes & the Threat of Domestic Extremism, Herb Kohl, Kamaljit Singh Saini, Oak Creek, Paramjit Kaur, Richard Blumenthal, Wisconsin U.S. Senate to hold hearing on hate crimes next week Next Wednesday, the Unites States Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on hate crimes in Washington, D.C. The meeting will be chaired by US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who has a history of supporting the civil rights of religious minorities in this country. The hearing will bring to the national stage a discussion about domestic hate groups in this country. From the Sikh Coalition: (New York, New York) September 12, 2012 – In the wake of […] Categories: Civil Rights, Events, Politics • Tags: Dick Durbin, Hate Crimes & the Threat of Domestic Extremism, hearing, Oak Creek, Sikh Coalition, United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Human Rights, Wisconsin SALDEF campaigns for support of End Racial Profiling Act October 20, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh Many people would have received a notice from SALDEF (Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund) asking to support the passing of Senate bill 1670 – End Racial Profiling Act of 2011. Stand up against Racial Profiling! Tell your Senators to vote for the End Racial Profiling Act NOW! http://t.co/wuULZJrk — SALDEF (@SALDEF) October 20, 2011 SALDEF provides information about the bill and provides an easy way to contact your relevant senators to ask them to support the bill. The bill has been introducted […] Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits, Politics • Tags: Ben Cardin, Dick Durbin, End Racial Profiling Act, John Kerry, Racial profiling, SALDEF, Senate, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Workplace Religious Freedom Act, WRFA The American “Muslim” hearings: radicalization takes different forms March 30, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh “Regrettably, while nearly a decade has passed since 9/11, we continue to see a steady stream of violence and discrimination targeting Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South-Asian communities. In each city and town where I have met with leaders of these communities, I have been struck by the sense of fear that pervades their lives – fear of violence, of bigotry and hate. The headwind of intolerance manifests itself in many different ways.” — an excerpt of Assistant Attorney General Thomas […] Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, News Bits, Politics • Tags: civil rights, Dick Durbin, hate crime, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, Peter King, SALDEF, Sikh American Legal Defense Fund, Thomas Perez, United States Department of Justice, US Attorney General

AmeriCorps CEO Statement on the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mar 09, 2023 President’s Budget Invests in National Service Agency’s Key Priorities WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The Budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share—all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes. “For the last 30 years, AmeriCorps has tapped the unwavering spirit of the American people to meet the country’s toughest challenges through sustained, results-driven service opportunities,” said AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith. “To continue advancing this mission, the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2024 provides $1.479 billion to support AmeriCorps and its state, local, and tribal partners in meeting important issues of our time, reducing barriers to service by increasing living allowances and volunteer stipends, and continuing to improve agency financial management and operations through investments in systems, technology, and staff. “Additionally, the budget proposes legislation to strengthen pathways to education and employment, including the elimination of the tax on education awards, so that members can realize the full benefit of their award after service.” The Budget makes targeted investments in the American people that will promote greater prosperity and economic growth for decades to come. At AmeriCorps, the Budget will: Support more than 200,000 AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers and its state and local partners in addressing public health needs, responding to disasters and extreme weather events, and expanding education and economic opportunity in urban and rural areas. Improve the experience of AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers by strengthening pathways to education and employment, removing barriers to service, and providing increases to the member living allowance to the equivalent of $13 per hour and volunteer stipend to $4.50 per hour so that service is a viable opportunity open to Americans of all backgrounds. Support targeted investments in historically underserved communities, build the agency’s evidence and evaluation capabilities, enhance AmeriCorps’ efforts to recruit a diverse corps that reflects the communities they serve. Make investments to support ongoing efforts to strengthen the agency’s financial management controls and processes and more effectively steward federal resources. Increase funding for additional staff capacity, strengthen workforce diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; build the evidence and evaluation capabilities; and invest in leadership training and development. Building on the President’s strong record of fiscal responsibility, the Budget makes these strong investments that will build the economy from the bottom up and middle out. Further, the Budget reduces deficits by asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share. For more information on AmeriCorps FY 2024 budget, visit AmeriCorps.gov/cj. For more information on the President’s FY 2024 Budget, please visit: Whitehouse.gov/omb/budget. AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, provides opportunities for Americans to serve their country domestically, address the nation’s most pressing challenges, improve lives and communities, and strengthen civic engagement. Each year, the agency places more than 200,000 AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in intensive service roles; and empowers millions more to serve as long-term, short-term, or one-time volunteers. Learn more at AmeriCorps.gov. AmeriCorps offers opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds to be a part of the national service community, grow personally and professionally, and receive benefits for their service. Learn how to get involved at AmeriCorps.gov/serve.

Holiday and Christmas Tree Fire Safety The weekend after Thanksgiving marks the traditional start of the holiday season. It’s the time when people across the country begin decorating their homes for the holidays. That includes putting up Christmas trees and decking homes with festive holiday lights. While Christmas trees and holiday lights are lovely to behold, they can also be dangerous. Each year approximately 240 home fires involve Christmas trees while approximately 150 home fires are linked to holiday lights or other types of decorative lighting, according to data compiled by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). These fires cause about 21 deaths and cost $25.2 million in property damage. Shorts in electrical lights, or open flames are most often the root causes of tree fires. A well-watered tree poses very little risk because the moisture content of the needles limits ignition. A dry tree can easily ignite when exposed to a flame. Watch this video to witness the flammability of a wet tree versus a dry tree: http://bit.ly/1uq3KLp A monitored home security system is the best defense against protecting your family in the event of a fire, but here are some tips from the U.S. Fire Administration to prevent a holiday fire from happening in the first place. Select a fresh tree with green needles that are hard to pull back from the branch. Do not place trees close to a heat source, including fireplaces or heat vents. Heat can dry out the tree quicker, making it much more susceptible to being ignited by heat or flames. Keep the tree stand full of water at all times. Do not leave the tree up for longer than two weeks. When the tree starts to dry out, discard it quickly. Your local city hall can tell you if there’s a recycling facility for holiday trees, or if the city offers a pick-up service. Inspect holiday lights every year before using them. Look for frayed wires, broken sockets, or other excessive wear. Only use lights that are labeled approved by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. Never connect more than three light strands, unless the directions specifically state it’s safe. You want to avoid overloading electrical circuits. Do not leave holiday lights turned on if you’re going to be away from home or after you go to bed at night. Check that all holiday decorations state they are flame retardant. Place trees and decorations so that they do not block exits in case of a fire or other emergency. Do not burn wrapping paper in a fireplace as it can result in a large fire, which may release sparks and embers and cause a chimney fire. Do not use lit candles for decorations, particularly on a tree. If you choose to decorate with candles, be sure they are set in stable holders on a flat surface, at least 12 inches from anything that could catch fire. Never go to bed or leave the room when a candle is lit.

Australian Citizenship and Passports Posted on August 19th, 2009 August 19th, 2009 by Antonios A very odd state of affairs recounted in Bruce Moore’s Speaking our Language: The Story of Australian English: In 1949, Labor Prime Minister Chifley, in the Nationality and Citizenship Act, created the term ‘Australian citizen’ (prior to this Australians were merely British subjects), and created an Australian passport to replace the British passport that Australians until then had carried on overseas travel. In 1949, incoming Liberal Prime Minister Menzies revoked the Australian passport, and until 1973 Australians continued to carry a passport labelled ‘British passport’. ← Eco the Bibliomane Fred Wesley at the Hi-Fi Bar on the 8th of August, 2009 →

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Who was the President of the European Council? On 19 August 2019, Johnson wrote a letter to the EU and asked for the removal of the "backstop" accord, which had previously been agreed and signed by Theresa May during her premiership. The proposal was rejected by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. On 26 August 2019, Johnson said that Britain would not pay £39 billion for the withdrawal agreement were the UK to leave without a deal on 31 October. The European Parliament Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt said there would be no further negotiation on the trade deal unless the UK agreed to pay the entire sum. Which newspaper reported the "Night of the Blond Knives"? Johnson appointed his Cabinet on 24 July 2019, describing it as a "Cabinet for modern Britain", with The Guardian branding it "an ethnically diverse but ideologically homogeneous statement of intent". While forming his government, Johnson dismissed 11 senior ministers and accepted the resignation of six others, a purge described by Johnson's ally Nigel Evans as "not so much a reshuffle as a summer's day massacre". The mass dismissal was the most extensive Cabinet reorganisation without a change in ruling party in postwar British political history, exceeding the seven Cabinet ministers dismissed in the "Night of the Long Knives" of 1962, and was dubbed the "Night of the Blond Knives" by The Sun. Who stated that Boris Johnson is a genuine liberal? Johnson's biographer and friend Andrew Gimson said that while "in economic and social matters, [Johnson] is a genuine liberal", he retains a "Tory element" to his personality through his "love of existing institutions, and a recognition of the inevitability of hierarchy". His liberal stance on matters such as social policy, immigration and free trade were also commented on in 2019. In 2019, Al Jazeera editor James Brownswell said that although Johnson had "leaned to the right" since the Brexit campaign, he remained "slightly more socially liberal" than much of his party. In 2019, former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party Michael Heseltine said Johnson "has no right to call himself a one-nation Conservative" and wrote: "I fear that any traces of liberal conservatism that still exist within the prime minister have long since been captured by the rightwing, foreigner-bashing, inward-looking view of the world that has come to characterise his fellow Brexiters". When was it announced that Boris Johnson tested positive for COVID-19? On 27 March, it was announced that Johnson had tested positive for COVID-19. On 5 April, with his symptoms persisting, he was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London for tests. The next day, his condition having worsened, he was moved to the hospital's intensive care unit; Dominic Raab was appointed to deputise for him. Johnson left intensive care on 9 April, and left hospital three days later to recuperate at Chequers. After a fortnight at Chequers, he returned to Downing Street on the evening of 26 April and was said to be chairing a government coronavirus "war cabinet" meeting. Where was the Olympics held in 1936? Johnson has backed a more aggressive policy toward Russia. Following the March 2018 Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, an act which the UK government blamed on Russia, Johnson compared Vladimir Putin's hosting of the World Cup in Russia to Adolf Hitler's hosting of the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Russia's Foreign Ministry denounced Johnson's "unacceptable and unworthy" parallel towards Russia, a "nation that lost millions of lives in fighting Nazism". Johnson described the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany as "divisive" and a "threat" that left Europe dependent on a "malign Russia" for its energy supplies. Which website does Michael Hirsch work for? Writing for Prospect, Philip Collins suggested that Johnson and other Brexiteers in the Conservative Party were "British Gaullists" who were "drawing on a conception of the nation in which the dormant spirit of liberty is being reborn." He suggested that this was a form of nationalism, albeit not of the "chauvinistic" variety. In Politico, Michael Hirsch compared Johnson to Trump, suggesting that both were advocates of a "New Nationalism". Johnson responded that he is "not a nationalist if by that you mean I'm a xenophobe or someone who deprecates other countries and cultures".

2 Best Movies by Diane Kruger On Rokuchannel actor › Diane Kruger 1. The Infiltrator, 2016 Bryan Cranston, best known for his role as Walter White in the Breaking Bad series, stars as Robert Mazur, a federal agent, who goes undercover to infiltrate the trafficking network of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. With the film based on Mazur’s memoir, Bryan Cranston gives an impressive lead performance that captures the intense distress that deep cover can bring. Besides Cranston, co-stars Benjamin Bratt, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan, and an exceptional John Leguizamo are entirely persuasive and make the film experience enjoyable and intense. The Infiltrator is entertaining and maintains a good pace, with a great cast that makes it a true joy to watch, especially for those who enjoy stories based on real criminals. 2. In the Fade, 2017 In Fatih Akin’s In the Fade, Katja is seeking justice after the killings of her Turkish husband and their young son in a terrorist bomb attack. Diane Kruger in the role of Katja delivers a powerful and rather grueling performance, for which she was awarded Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival. Her grief is vivid and forces viewers to bear witness to her inescapable pain. In the Fade also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, beating astonishing films such as Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless. This moving story about a fearless woman determined to take justice into her own hands to fight the cruelty of others delivers a message that needs to be heard. Diane-kruger

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Home / Magazine / Apologies from the Ground Up Apologies from the Ground Up Timothy Donnelly Timothy Donnelly’s books include The Problem of the Many and The Cloud Corporation (both Wave), which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and the chapbook Hymn to Life (Factory Hollow). He is the Director of Poetry in the writing program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Purdue University Fraternities and Sororities collection Identifier: MSP 159 Scope and Contents The Purdue University Fraternities and Sororities collection documents the history and activities of the fraternities and sororities at Purdue. Contained in the collection are numerous fraternity and sorority newsletters and magazines. There are some records provided by the Dean of Students Office in 1995 and include correspondence and financial information sheets. Among the other material in the collection are petitions for membership, constitutions and by-laws, membership directories and... Dates: 1885 - 2008; Other: Majority of material found within 1995 Names: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority X

Showing Collections: 21–40 of 139 Subject: American literature -- 20th century X Storage location: Stored offsite X Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 138 Manuscripts and Archives 1 Danish 1 Finnish 1 Swedish 1 Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 6 Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 5 Pound, Dorothy 5 Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 5 Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 5 Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 5 Yale University 4 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc 3 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943 3 Corman, Cid, 1924- 3 Herbst, Josephine, 1892-1969 3 Lauterbach, Ann, 1942- 3 Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943 3 Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 3 Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 3 Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 2 Thomas Caldecot Chubb Papers Overview: The Thomas Caldecot Chubb Papers consist almost entirely of manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs of Chubb's published works, including Aretino, Scourge of Princes; Letters of Pietro Aretino; and Dante and His World. Barnaby Conrad papers Overview: The papers consist of writings, printed material, photographs, and artwork by and relating to the American author and artist Barnaby Conrad. Material relates primarily to Conrad's published works Fun While It Lasted (1969); La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953); Matador (1952); and Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961). Among the papers are unsorted typescript and handwritten drafts of writings. Alfred Corn papers Overview: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, audiovisual material, and printed material, documenting aspects of Alfred Corn's work as a poet and writer as well as his relationships with other poets and writers. Julien Cornell papers relating to Ezra Pound Overview: The collection contains correspondence and professional files relating to Cornell's representation of Ezra Pound in the initial stages of the U.S. government's case against him for treason. In addition to Ezra and Dorothy Pound, correspondents include T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Arthur Moore, Omar Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Olga Rudge. Topics include Pound's physical and mental condition in 1945-46; the treason charge against him; the efforts to have him declared mentally... Norman Cousins Collection of Henry Seidel Canby Scope and Contents: Correspondence, drafts and printed versions of writings (box 7), manuscript notes, printed ephemera, clippings, photographs (box 2), and contractual agreements by or relating to the professional activities of Henry Seidel Canby. The collection features approximately 983 pieces of correspondence dating from 1940 through 1949 (boxes 1-6). Incoming letters and typescript carbon copies of Canby's outgoing letters concern professional matters chiefly, addressing publications by Canby during this... Josephine Boardman Crane papers Overview: The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, event files, and personal papers that document Josephine Boardman Crane's role as a socialite, patron, and philanthropist. These materials record Crane's daily activities, including a broad range of cultural events and numerous social contacts. Judson Crews papers Overview: The Judson Crews Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional life of American poet Judson Crews between 1930 and 1991. The papers document Crews' career as a poet, printer, and small-press publisher, and consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers. Crews and his wife Mildred Tolbert, a photographer and writer, were members of the artistic community in Taos, New Mexico in the mid twentieth-century. There is also some material relating to Crews' friendship with Henry... Philip Everett Curtiss papers Overview: The Philip Everett Curtiss papers contain writings, printed material, correspondence, and other materials documenting the literary career of Connecticut native Philip Everett Curtiss. Writings consist chiefly of drafts for novels and shorter works, such as articles. Printed materials include journals and clippings containing printed versions of writings by Curtiss and material by, about, and relating to Curtiss. Correspondence consists chiefly of incoming correspondence from publishers, further... James Joseph Daly papers Overview: Collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and professional activity of poet and playwright James Joseph Daly. Correspondence in the collection consists chiefly of incoming correspondence from writers, journal editors, publishers, and others, but also includes drafts and carbons of outgoing letters and writings and enclosures. Correspondents include Elizabeth Ames at Yaddo, Kenneth Burke, John Cheever, Padraic Colum, Malcolm Cowley at The New... Charles T. Davis papers Call Number: JWJ MSS 91 Overview: The collection contains correspondence, research and teaching files, and personal papers documenting the life of American academic Charles T. Davis. Correspondents feature literary scholars and African-American artists, writers, and cultural figures, including Doris Alexander, Anthony Appiah, Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, John Blassingame, Michel Fabre, Leon Forrest, Athol Fugard, Henry Louis Gates, Leon Higginbotham, Ishmael Reed, Jean Toomer, and others. Correspondents also include colleagues... Peter Davison papers Overview: The Peter Davison Papers provide evidence of the career and personal life of author and editor Peter Davison. In addition to documenting Davison's professional and literary circles, the papers also provide insight into Davison's creative output, including his books of poetry (such as The Breaking of the Day and Other Poems and Walking the Boundaries: Poems, 1957-1974) and his autobiography... Clarence Day collection Overview: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, and printed material documenting the career of Clarence Shepard Day. The collection provides insight into Day's work as an author, illustrator, and humorist, who often poked fun at upper class New Yorkers. The collection also documents Day's experience as an undergraduate student at Yale University in the late nineteenth-century. Correspondents include: Alfred A. Knopf and Vira Whitehouse. Agnes de Lima collection of Alyse Gregory Overview: The collection consists chiefly of letters from Gregory to de Lima, concerning their friendship; Gregory's writing and her life in Dorset and Devon; her interest in the New School for Social Research; and Randolph Silliman Bourne, Sigrid de Lima, the Powys family, and other literary friends. Other letters include correspondence between Gregory and Sigrid de Lima and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, and letters to Agnes de Lima from literary friends and publishers concerning Llewelyn Powys's letters... The Difficulties Records Overview: The Difficulties Records contain correspondence, production files, drafts of writings, and printed material relating to the production and publication of journal issues. Leonard W. Doob papers relating to "Ezra Pound Speaking" Scope and Contents: The collection contains background materials, research notes, drafts, and galleys relating to psychologist Leonard W. Doob's work as editor of "Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II. The subject of the book is American poet Ezra Pound's collaboration with Rome Radio in Italy from 1940 to 1943, in which Pound created and broadcast fascist propaganda expressing anti-Semitism and criticism of the United States and the United Kingdom. His... Walter Prichard Eaton writings Overview: The writings consist of manuscript and typescript drafts of various works by Walter Prichard Eaton. Included is a typescript draft of The Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in the 90's by Charles Morris. T. S. Eliot collection Overview: Contains letters from T. S. Eliot to various individuals, drafts of writings by Eliot, and writings on Eliot by Helen Gardner. Portions of the collection are photocopies and photostats of material held by other repositories. Esquire correspondence concerning The question of Ezra Pound Overview: The collection consists of alphabetically arranged correspondence between readers of Esquire Magazine and the magazine's editors concerning an article by Richard Rovere on the question of Ezra Pound's possible release from his continuing incarceration in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane. Respondents include John Dos Passos, Robert Graves, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, and Richard Wilbur. Estate of Sinclair Lewis records Overview: The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, and personal papers relating to Sinclair Lewis, his wives Grace Hegger and Dorothy Thompson, and the Lewis family. Included are divorce decrees, custody and alimony agreements, wills, tax and real estate records, powers of attorney, and contracts pertaining to Lewis's novels Ann Vickers, Dodsworth, and Elmer Gantry. The collection also... Brian Evenson papers Content Description: The collection documents the writings, translations, academic work, and life of Brian Evenson. The papers consist of writings, including drafts for books including Altmann's Tongue (Knopf, 1994), Din of Celestial Birds (Wordcraft of Oregon, 1997), Dark Property (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002), The Wavering Knife: Stories (Fiction Collective, 2004), Aliens: No Exit (Dark Horse, 2008), Contagion and Other Stories (Astrophil Press, 2011), and The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press, 2016), as well as...

Laurie Hurson Laurie is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Psychology program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation explores students’ development of learning ecologies, networks of people, places, and technologies that connect the physical, social, and cultural environments that a student engages with throughout their learning process. Laurie is a fellow at the Teaching and Learning Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY and a Hybrid Coordinator in Baruch College’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Working with Dr. Shelly Eversley (Baruch College, English) she developed the Equality Archive, an open access resource about the history of sex and gender equality in the United States. She teaches psychology and digital media courses at CUNY. TeachOER.org

Tag: NECRONOMICON Announces Spring U.S. Tour w/ THE CONVALESCENCE 0 NECRONOMICON Announces Spring U.S. Tour w/ THE CONVALESCENCE · Music News · Necronomicon NECRONOMICON Announces Spring U.S. Tour w/ THE CONVALESCENCE Canadian blackened death metal masters NECRONOMICON will be embarking on an extensive North American tour this spring! The band will be co-headlining the run along with THE CONVALESCENCE and touring in support of 2019’s opus, ‘UNUS.’ The trek will kick off on April 29 in Kalamazoo, MI, and will then will circle the states and conclude on June 4 in Chesterfield, MI. The full run of dates can be found below. Tickets are on sale now! ​NECRONOMICON main man Rob the Witch comments: “I think I don’t need to mention how hard these last years have been for everyone, and it’s about time that we get back to a healthy music scene. We are more than happy to be back in the U.S. We really hope you guys will come and support us as we bring you ‘Vivus Verum’ on this run. Hail to all of you”​ ​NECRONOMICON will be supporting 2019’s ‘UNUS,’ which can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE. NECRONOMICON (w/ The Convalescence):​ 04/29: Kalamazoo, MI @ Papa Pete’s 04/30: Toledo, OH @ Main Street Bar & Grill 05/01: Chicago, IL @ WC Social Club 05/02: Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon 05/03: St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall 05/04: Sioux Falls, SD @ Big’s Bar 05/05: Denver, CO @ The Venue 05/06: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Loading Dock 05/07: Boise, ID @ The Shredder 05/08: Spokane, WA @ The Big Dipper 05/09: Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse 05/10: Portland, OR @ Dante’s Theater 05/11: San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge 05/13: San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick 05/14: Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live 05/15: Gallup, NM @ Juggernaut Music 05/16: El Paso, TX @ Rockhouse Bar & Grill 05/17: Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live 05/18: Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live 05/20: San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger 05/21: Houston, TX @ Acadia Bar & Grill 05/22: Crestview, FL @ Jimmy’s Jukebox 05/24: Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug 05/25: Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits 05/26: Winter Park, FL @ The Haven Lounge 05/27: Jonesboro, GA @ Furnace 41 05/28: Knoxville, TN @ The Concourse 05/29: Wilmington, DE @ Bar XIII 05/30: Worcester, MA @ Ralph’s Rock Diner 05/31: Portland, ME @ Geno’s Rock Club 06/01: Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall 06/02: Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedraft’s Brewing Co. 06/03: Fort Wayne, IN @ Rockstar Lounge 06/04: Chesterfield, MI @ Diesel Concert Lounge The album art for ‘UNUS,’ which was created by Simon Bossert, can be found below with the tracklist. Tracklist​ 1. From Ashes into Flesh (04:23) 2. Infinitum Continuum (05:27) 3. Paradise Lost (04:55) 4. The Price of a Soul (01:56) 5. Singularis Dominus (04:50) 6. The Thousand Masks (03:20) 7. Ascending The throne of Baator (04:54) 8. Fhtagn (01:59) 9. Cursed MMXIX (04:13) 10. Vox Draconis (04:13) Total playing time: 40:10 Montreal’s premier blackened death metallers are back with ‘UNUS’, the crushing and cinematic follow-up to 2016’s ‘Advent of the Human God’. With each record NECRONOMICON has created in the span of their 31-year career, the band has steadily evolved in both sound and power; ‘UNUS’ is no exception to this. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s legendary grimoire, NECRONOMICON was formed in 1988 by founding guitarist and singer Rob “The Witch” in the deep, northern part of Canadian province Quebec, Fjord of Saguenay. Since then, the band has carefully released each full-length without haste, allowing them to perfect every nuance before unleashing their sonic assaults upon the masses. In 2019, NECRONOMICON was presented with a certificate of honour for over 30 years of service via H.S. production/Tommy Tremblay, and the people of Saguenay Lac-St-Jean, making them the second band after VOIVOD to ever receive this honour. ‘UNUS’ is a searing cacophony of blistering riffs, machine-like drums, and a symphonic ambience, culminating in a sound that calls to various metal icons such as DIMMU BORGIR, SEPTICFLESH, BEHEMOTH, and DEICIDE. The record combines the furious elements of death metal with the orchestral prowess of black metal, creating the perfect synthesis of both genres. Standout tracks like “Paradise Lost” and “Singularis Dominus” only solidify NECRONOMICON’s ability to continuously produce high-quality metal that’s just as dark and brutal as it is elegant. ​Line-up​ Rob the Witch: Guitar/vocals Divider: drums Recorded at Sliver Wings studio, produced by Rob The WitchMixed and mastered at Darth Mader music studio by Logan Mader (Machinehead) ​Recording line-up:​ Rob the Witch: Guitar/vocals/bass ​Special feature: Geirlioz (Dimmu Borgir) on Piano in ”From Ashes Into Flesh”. ​Artwork: Dragon caducea design by Nestor Avalos, layout and artwork by Simon Bossert ​Style: Blackened Death Metal For more on NECRONOMICON, visit their official FACEBOOK, TWITTER, and INSTAGRAM. For more on SEASON OF MIST artists, visit our official WEBSITE, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, and TWITTER.

Orthopaedic Groups Endorse Changes to Registration for Senior Doctors Geraldj2017-11-06T18:02:49+11:00June 28th, 2011|News, Press Releases| The Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS) have come out in support of the Australian Doctors' Fund's (ADF) proposal to extend the active role of senior doctors in the health service. The ADF is putting forward a new category of Senior Active Medical Practitioner [...] Orthopaedic Surgeons Offer To Double Joint Replacements In NSW Public Hospitals Geraldj2017-11-06T18:55:14+11:00November 19th, 2005|News| NSW orthopaedic surgeons have offered to double the number of joint replacement operations they currently perform in public hospitals. Chairman of the NSW branch of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Dr David Wood said, "If the NSW government considers that there is a shortage of orthopaedic surgeons, we will double the [...]

AO Edited Castle Werdenfels Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church. Castle Werdenfels Wikipedia (Creative Commons) Top Places in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Partnachklamm (Partnach Gorge) Partnach Memorial Jutting ominously into the German sky, the preserved ruins of Castle Werdenfels are all that is left of a centuries-old holdfast that is steeped in legend and was partially torn down to build a new church. Built sometime around the 13th century, the castle is said to have been the site of a love triangle between Siglinda, the beautiful wife of the local lord, and his best friend. When the local lord went off to the Crusades, the nefarious best friend swooped in and tried to get Siglinda to give herself to him. She resisted, was thrown in the castle dungeon, and managed to hold out until the very day before her husband returned, tragically dying just hours before salvation. Later, in the 16th century, during the infamous Garmisch-Partenkirchen witch trials, the castle became the holding place of the accused, as it was the local base of the Prince Bishops of Freising. More than 80 supposed witches were kept for months in the dungeon, released only for bouts of torture. There is speculation that some of the accused were even executed at the stake in the castle courtyard. After the trials, the castle was partially dismantled and the stones were used to construct a Christian church in direct contravention of the hated black arts. Today, the ruins of the Castle Werdenfels still stand and are open to visitors who would like to wander the arches and courtyards where men and women were once tortured and burned. Accessible from the village of Burgrain by following the trail south-west off Werdenfelserstrasse. witchcraft castles ruins MikeStuchbery michaelstuchbery http://www.hotel-schatten.de/en/surroundings/sightseeing/ruins-of-werdenfels-castle.html http://www.gapa.de/Garmisch-Partenkirchen_Sights_Castle_ruins_Werdenfels http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Werdenfels Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 82467 Book a hotel on Kayak Michael Ende Kurkpark (Michael Ende Park) A park dedicated to the titular writer filled with references to his work. Celebrating the Eucharist, the day is a legal holiday in many parts of Germany. A memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives working in what is now a massive tourist attraction. Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen. Clonmacnoise, Ireland Clonmacnoise The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon. Quicena, Spain Castle of Montearagón Designed in the Romanesque style, this structure was once a fortress monastery. Pignataro Maggiore, Italy Castello Aragonese Calvi Risorta Once home to the episcopal curia of the local diocese. Cessford, Scotland Cessford Castle The ruins of a 15th-century castle that has seen its fair share of bitter feuds.

Check Out a Preview of 'Top Chef: Boston,' Featuring Ron Eyester Eyester is competing for 'Top Chef' glory. by Chris Fuhrmeister@ccfuhr Oct 8, 2014, 1:12pm EDT Share All sharing options for: Check Out a Preview of 'Top Chef: Boston,' Featuring Ron Eyester Top Chef: Boston, the 12th season of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo show, is set to premiere next week. Top Chef lifer and Atlanta expat Richard Blais is joining as a recurring judge, and Ron Eyester of Timone's, The Family Dog, Rosebud, and the forthcoming Diner, is getting in on the competition. Above, check out an extended clip of the 75-minute first episode. Eyester is proud to represent the non-hip population of the cooking industry: "I'm here to prove you don't need to wear skinny jeans, have tattoos, and have a fancy hair cut to win Top Chef." Blais, with plenty of competition experience, councils the new cheftestapants in the clip. "Competing on Top Chef was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do in my life —twice — but the rewards are enormous. Since I've been standing where you are, I've opened up seven restaurants, I'm a James Beard nominee. You have the ability to dramatically change your career and your life." Episode 1 of Top Chef: Boston is scheduled to air Wednesday, October 15, at 10 p.m. ET.

Dear Ukrainian family Today we are celebrating Shevchenko’s anniversary. Taras Shevchenko was born in the Ukrainian land, but is one of those people, whose ideas are close to all mankind. Although Shevchenko lived more than 150 years ago, the poet's words and thoughts are still relevant today. Shevchenko - is the one who lives inside us and around us - in the songs, the landscapes, in wishes of happiness and love, in struggle foe dignity. The main proof that poetry of Shevchenko is still alive and is need in the most difficult times is the image of the first hero of Heaven hundreds Sergei Nigoyan. Perhaps each of you remembers this young man with Kobzar in his hands, who became the first victim of the shootings on the Maidan. Why did he read Kobzar? What was he looking for? What has he revealed? He revealed the truth for struggle and for unity. Unity is most urgent testimony of the Great Kobzar. Our response to all threats must be in unity - the unity of the Ukrainian nation around the highest values - the establishment of a sovereign, independent, democratic and legal Ukraine.

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Ex-Muslim preacher loses copyright claim NewsBob Allen | May 15, 2014 By Bob Allen For the second time in a month, a Georgia Baptist college president has lost a legal battle to block the online posting of videos of him giving contradictory versions of a famous “Jihad to Jesus” testimony popular in Southern Baptist preaching circles after 9/11. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon in Lynchburg, Va., granted summary judgment May 14 against Brewton-Parker College President Ergun Caner’s copyright claim to two videos posted online by Jonathan Autry, a blogger who attended Liberty Theological Seminary while Caner was dean. Autry, represented by his brother, attorney Joshua Autry of Lancaster, Pa., claimed in his defense that he once supported Caner but lost confidence in him after blogs and news articles began casting doubts on the veracity of claims that he was raised overseas and trained as a terrorist before his dramatic conversion to Christianity prevented him from carrying out an act like the terrorist attacks against America on Sept. 11, 2001. Caner sued last August, claiming that he owned the copyright to videos of him speaking in training sessions to U.S. Marines about what they needed to know about Islam before being deployed in 2005, and that Autry and another blogger posted them online without his permission. The judge, however, determined that Autry’s posting of the material constituted “fair use,” because it was for the purpose of making “religiously based criticism against a public figure on a matter of public concern” based on Autry’s sincerely held religious beliefs that “it is morally wrong to lie, and especially wrong to lie in a church and to U.S. Marines.” Copyright is the right of an author to control the reproduction and use of a creative expression fixed in forms like paper or a computer disk. Not all unauthorized use of copyrighted material, however, is infringement. Courts have recognized a doctrine of “fair use” for purposes including criticism, commentary and news reporting, taking into account factors such as the purpose and character of use, nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of copyrighted material used and any effect on its market value. During an oral hearing April 30, Caner’s lawyer introduced an argument not in the written complaint that Autry was “not qualified” to make a fair use claim, because he is a disgruntled former employee motivated by revenge and using a copyright defense to hurt Caner financially by engaging in “cyber-terrorism.” Judge Moon called that an “astounding” claim that is “ludicrous on its face.” “The First Amendment’s protections, advanced by the fair use defense, have never applied to some bizarre oligarchy of ‘qualified’ speakers,” Moon ruled. “Excluding speakers who criticize public figures from protection due to the speaker’s social status, level of education or other nebulous ‘qualifying’ factors would nullify the broad protections the First Amendment is meant to provide and stifle the open discourse that stands against tyranny, intolerance and oppression.” The judge observed in a footnote differences in what Caner told Marines about his background in 2005 and what is published in a book that he co-wrote with his younger brother published in 2002. According to Unveiling Islam: An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs, the judge noted, Caner’s father and mother met at a university in Sweden, where Ergun was born in 1966, then moved to America, where his brother, Emir, “was born after we arrived in Ohio,” in 1970. The book said Ergun Caner attended a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, during weekend visits to his father after his parents’ 1978 divorce until he converted to Christianity at a friend’s urging in high school. In the Marine training session videos, Caner introduced himself as a Turk who was “taught that you hated me” through his training at a Muslim school in Egypt. Caner said he knew nothing about American culture except what he saw on American TV until he came to the U.S. at age 14. Caner said he lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was “sworn to Jihad” from age 9 until he became a believer in Christ at 18. For the purposes of his ruling, however, the judge said he did not consider whether or not the blogs criticizing Caner were true, but only that their posting was during a time when Caner’s remarks were under media scrutiny. By issuing summary judgment, a ruling in favor of one party determined without a trial, the judge determined that allowing further proceedings would only delay an inevitable outcome. “I find that more discovery would not give rise to a dispute of material fact preventing the entry of summary judgment,” the judge ruled. “Even if Plaintiff obtained the information he seeks, no reasonable juror could find for Plaintiff.” “I will not allow Plaintiff to strategically prolong this case through an unsupported request for further discovery,” Judge Moon said. A federal judge in Texas handed down a similar decision April 17, finding fair use by Jason Smathers, a blogger and Southern Baptist pastor who posted videos of Caner training Marines at New River, N.C., that he obtained from the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request in 2010. Smathers embedded new links to videos that YouTube restored after reviewing the court order on his blog, Witnesses Unto Me, on April 22. Judge says use of Caner video fair Tags:Ergun CanerLitigationpeople

Former Millwall FC Midfielder Phil Walker Dies At 67: Cause of Death Explained 09/07/2022 by sourabh Phil Walker, former Millwall FC Midfielder and uncle of current Southampton FC and England defender Kyle Walker-Peters, has passed away at the age of 67 years. The football legend breathed his last on Friday morning, July 8, 2022. Millwall FC has paid tribute to their beloved former midfielder via news release and Twitter. “Everyone at Millwall sends their condolences to the family and friends of Phil at this sad time,” wrote the club. Football fans, as well as players, have also filled social media platforms with tributes and prayers for the departed soul. They are remembering Walker as a great player and a very good guy off the field. How did Phil Walker Die? What was the cause of Phil Walker’s death? Phil Walker Early Life and Football Career Phil Walker Net Worth: How Rich was he? Phil Walker died in the morning this Friday. The former midfielder was 67 years old at the time of his death. His family is yet to release an official statement regarding the cause of his death. The incident was apparently natural and there was no foul play involved. A tribute to Phil Walker.#Millwall — Millwall FC (@MillwallFC) July 8, 2022 Walker was recently noticed struggling with old-age-related issues like back problems and knee pain. However, he wasn’t suffering from a chronic illness that might have played a key role in his death. The exact cause of Phil Walker’s death is unknown at this moment. Twitter users are wondering if the ex-midfielder got a heart attack and passed away due to cardiac arrest in the morning. However, such rumors are purely based on speculation and there’s no source to support them. We shall wait for the family members and friends to make the cause of Phil Walker’s death public. Once we get official words, we’ll update this post to let our readers know. Phil Walker was born on August 29, 1954, in London, and had an interest in football since his teenage years. He started playing for non-league sides like Epsom & Ewell and Cobham. In 1975, Phil joined Milwall FC alongside then team-mate Trevor Lee. The duo made their debut at The Den against Mansfield Town and instantly became instant heroes for the club. Phil went on to become a massive fan favorite with his fierce shooting and equally hard running. In his first season as a Lion, Phil registered 35 appearances that unveiled his exceptional abilities and remarkable consistency. He was a member of the squad that won the promotion in 1976. As a result of his performance, he attracted a mammoth offer from the neighbors. Charlton Athletic paid Phil a whopping sum of £120.000 to take him to The Valley in `July 1979. He remained there till 1983 and also had a loan spell with Gillingham. After that, he joined Eastern FC of Hong Kong. In 1985, he stayed with the likes of Leixoes and FC Maia in Portugal. For Millwall FC, Phil Walker players 167 games and scored 22 goals. He also introduced Carlos Fanguerio to the club in August 2005. He retired from professional football at the age of 41 years. Walker then returned to Englad and set up a Soccer School in Wandsworth, South London. Phil Walker was termed as one of the richest footballers of his era. At the time of his death, Walker reportedly had an estimated net worth of $1.5 million as per allfamousbirthday.com. Most of his fortune had come from his time playing football and later serving as a football coach. 9/7/1979 Charlton Athletic sign Phil Walker from Millwall for a club record fee of £120,000. #cafc pic.twitter.com/D0ZOX1qBrC — CAFC Facts & Stats (Stuart Court) (@CafcFacts) July 9, 2022 The revenue from his Soccer School is also included in Walker’s net worth. In 1979, Walker had signed a deal with Charlton Atheltic for £120.000 which put the limelight on his. He became one of the most famed footballers from England. The unfortunate news of his passing has shocked the entire world. We are saddened to hear the midfielder go so soon. We express our heartfelt condolences for the departed soul and prayers for his dear ones. Categories General News Subway Surfers Codes 2022 Updated List | How to redeem subwaysurfers.com codes John Gwynne dies aged 77″ What Was His Cause Of Death ? Lauren Branson Fatal Accident: Know Everything Her Life, Cause Of Death, Obituary And More The Mount St. Mary Academy community in Little Rock, Arkansas, is grappling with an immense loss after the tragic motor vehicle accident that occurred on Friday, March 17, 2023, involving one of their most beloved ... Happy mahashivratri 2023 Wishes & Quotes As a day to honour Shiva and Shakti As a tribute to Shiva and Shakti Mahashivratri is a season when female and masculine forces combine to bring about global peace. On this day, Lord Shiva ...

MLB news: Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves February 3, 2023 Taylor RichardsNews MLB News: Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball (MLB) is one of the most exciting and popular sports leagues in the world. Every season brings new storylines, teams and players to the forefront, and the 2020 season has been no different. Three of the most popular and successful teams this season are the Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Atlanta Braves. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at each team and the impact they’ve had on the league this season. The Chicago Cubs have been one of the most successful teams in all of baseball for the past few years. They’ve won the World Series twice in the last decade, and are a perennial contender in the National League Central Division. This season, the Cubs are off to a hot start, and currently sit atop the division with a record of 28-20. The Cubs have been led by the likes of Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Kyle Schwarber and Javier Báez. All four of these players have been key contributors to the team’s success this season, and have been instrumental in the Cubs’ strong start. Bryant is currently batting .289 with 17 home runs and 43 RBIs, while Rizzo is batting .281 with 17 home runs and 43 RBIs. Schwarber has been a key contributor in the outfield, batting .288 with 15 home runs and 45 RBIs, while Báez is batting .288 with 10 home runs and 31 RBIs. The Toronto Blue Jays are another team that has been making waves in the MLB this season. The Blue Jays are currently in second place in the American League East with a record of 28-22. The team has been led by the likes of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, and Cavan Biggio. Guerrero Jr. is batting .268 with 11 home runs and 46 RBIs while Bichette is batting .306 with 11 home runs and 37 RBIs. Biggio has been a key contributor as well, batting .250 with 8 home runs and 33 RBIs. The Blue Jays have also gotten strong contributions from their pitching staff, as the team’s ERA currently sits at a respectable 3.93. The Atlanta Braves have been a powerhouse in the National League East this season, and currently sit in first place with a record of 30-20. The Braves have been led by the likes of Freddie Freeman, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Marcell Ozuna. Freeman is batting .308 with 13 home runs and 49 RBIs, while Acuña Jr. is batting .277 with 10 home runs and 41 RBIs. Ozuna is batting .280 with 10 home runs and 33 RBIs. The Braves have also gotten strong contributions from their pitching staff, as their team ERA currently sits at 3.71. The team is led by ace starter Mike Soroka, who is 5-0 with a 1.68 ERA. Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves Outlooks All three teams have had strong starts to the season, and look to be in contention for the playoffs. The Cubs are in position to make a run at the National League Central title, while the Blue Jays and Braves are both looking to take the American League East crown. It will be interesting to see how these teams fare in the second half of the season, and if any of them can make a deep run in the postseason. Notable Players The three teams have been led by some of the top players in the league this season. The Cubs have been led by Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Kyle Schwarber and Javier Báez. The Blue Jays have had strong contributions from Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, and Cavan Biggio. And the Braves have been led by Freddie Freeman, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Marcell Ozuna. All of these players have had strong starts to the season and look to be key contributors for their respective teams moving forward. Off-Field News The three teams have also been making news off the field this season. The Cubs recently made headlines when they signed veteran outfielder Jason Heyward to a four-year contract extension. The Blue Jays were also in the news when they acquired starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker from the Los Angeles Angels. And the Braves made news when they acquired outfielder Marcell Ozuna from the St. Louis Cardinals. Injuries are always a part of baseball, and the three teams have had to deal with their fair share this season. The Cubs have lost shortstop Javier Báez to a thumb injury, while the Blue Jays have been without ace starter Marcus Stroman for most of the season. The Braves have also had to deal with injuries to key players, as both Mike Foltynewicz and Ender Inciarte have been on the injured list. Fan Support The three teams have also been enjoying strong fan support this season. The Cubs have sold out every home game this season, while the Blue Jays have had strong turnouts for their home games in Toronto. The Braves have also had strong attendance figures this season, as the team has sold out every home game since opening day. The Cubs, Blue Jays, and Braves have all had players who have been nominated for various awards this season. The Cubs’ Kris Bryant has been nominated for the National League MVP award, while the Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Cavan Biggio have been nominated for the American League Rookie of the Year award. The Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr. has also been nominated for several awards this season, including the National League MVP and Silver Slugger awards. The three teams have also been making an impact on social media this season. The Cubs have been one of the most active teams on Twitter, while the Blue Jays have been engaging with their fans on Instagram. The Braves have also been active on social media, as the team has been posting highlights and updates on their various social media accounts. The Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Atlanta Braves have all been making waves in the MLB this season. All three teams have strong rosters that have been led by some of the best players in the league. The teams have also enjoyed strong fan support, and have been active on social media. It will be interesting to see how these teams fare in the second half of the season, and if any of them can make a deep run in the postseason. ← MLB: Braves, Rays show extensions are new key to success Atlanta Braves: Grading the offseason moves and signings →

189+ Best H. L. Mencken Quotes: Exclusive Selection Henry Louis Mencken was a controversialist, humorous journalist journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. He powerfully influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s. Inspirational H. L. Mencken quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective. If you’re searching for life quotes and sayings that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of inspirational Hunter S. Thompson quotes, powerful Mark Twain quotes, and Ben Shapiro quotes. Most Famous H. L. Mencken Quotes For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. – H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. – H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. – H. L. Mencken Elections are futures markets in stolen property. – H. L. Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken Those who can’t teach – administrate. Those who can’t administrate – go into politics. – H. L. Mencken A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor – H. L. Mencken The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it. – H. L. Mencken Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. – H. L. Mencken On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable. – H. L. Mencken If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. – H. L. Mencken Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. – H. L. Mencken No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. – H. L. Mencken Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H. L. Mencken Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction–perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided. – H. L. Mencken [T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. – H. L. Mencken The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. – H. L. Mencken Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. – H. L. Mencken In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes. – H. L. Mencken On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women. – H. L. Mencken There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. – H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H. L. Mencken Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation. – H. L. Mencken Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H. L. Mencken For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. – H. L. Mencken Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people. – H. L. Mencken For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle. – H. L. Mencken No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution. – H. L. Mencken The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men. – H. L. Mencken I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse. – H. L. Mencken Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn – H. L. Mencken The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks. – H. L. Mencken I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding. – H. L. Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work. – H. L. Mencken When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before. – H. L. Mencken The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. – H. L. Mencken And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. – H. L. Mencken [Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man. – H. L. Mencken If you’re enjoying this article, you might also love 93+ EXCLUSIVE Brené Brown Quotes To Make You Unstoppable We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. – H. L. Mencken Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. – H. L. Mencken Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. – H. L. Mencken The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth… Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty – and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. – H. L. Mencken All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers. – H. L. Mencken The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals. – H. L. Mencken There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. – H. L. Mencken The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous. – H. L. Mencken The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads. – H. L. Mencken Change is not progress. – H. L. Mencken A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. – H. L. Mencken Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. – H. L. Mencken The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself. – H. L. Mencken The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. – H. L. Mencken The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. – H. L. Mencken It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly. – H. L. Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner – H. L. Mencken All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man. – H. L. Mencken Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. – H. L. Mencken Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H. L. Mencken No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man. – H. L. Mencken The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. – H. L. Mencken The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey. – H. L. Mencken A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. – H. L. Mencken The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. – H. L. Mencken School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not. – H. L. Mencken No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. – H. L. Mencken Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. – H. L. Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. – H. L. Mencken A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – H. L. Mencken Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. – H. L. Mencken There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.] – H. L. Mencken There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal. – H. L. Mencken Genius: the ability to prolong one’s childhood. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. – H. L. Mencken The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. – H. L. Mencken On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense. – H. L. Mencken Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. – H. L. Mencken Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. – H. L. Mencken If you’re enjoying this article, you might also love 72+ Best Robert Burns Quotes: Exclusive Selection The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. – H. L. Mencken The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. – H. L. Mencken The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. – H. L. Mencken Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. – H. L. Mencken People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist? – H. L. Mencken It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron. – H. L. Mencken The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H. L. Mencken Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. – H. L. Mencken For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. – H. L. Mencken It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. – H. L. Mencken The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. – H. L. Mencken Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true. – H. L. Mencken When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental – men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre. – H. L. Mencken Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H. L. Mencken The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. – H. L. Mencken It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone – that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. . . . The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge. – H. L. Mencken What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. – H. L. Mencken If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. – H. L. Mencken Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure. – H. L. Mencken There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.” – H. L. Mencken Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. – H. L. Mencken Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H. L. Mencken A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. – H. L. Mencken The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone – one which barely escapes being no government at all. – H. L. Mencken We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H. L. Mencken It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! – H. L. Mencken In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. – H. L. Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. – H. L. Mencken Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. – H. L. Mencken I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. – H. L. Mencken A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. – H. L. Mencken Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – H. L. Mencken All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. – H. L. Mencken No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. – H. L. Mencken Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. – H. L. Mencken A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. – H. L. Mencken Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H. L. Mencken The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. – H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. – H. L. Mencken It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. – H. L. Mencken There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. – H. L. Mencken Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. – H. L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest. – H. L. Mencken If you’re enjoying this article, you might also love 70+ Best A. A. Milne Quotes: Exclusive Selection Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too. – H. L. Mencken A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H. L. Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H. L. Mencken A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. – H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. – H. L. Mencken An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. – H. L. Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. – H. L. Mencken Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. – H. L. Mencken One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. – H. L. Mencken I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. – H. L. Mencken Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. – H. L. Mencken Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. – H. L. Mencken Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. – H. L. Mencken I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. – H. L. Mencken Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. – H. L. Mencken Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. – H. L. Mencken Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. – H. L. 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Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. – H. L. Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. – H. L. Mencken A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank. – H. L. Mencken Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. – H. L. Mencken The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. – H. L. Mencken The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose – for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. – H. L. 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Triste demais… sad news… I am incredibly saddened to see that Elinor Ostrom has passed away. She was an intense academic crush of mine, being a key figure in presenting and analyzing the evidence that the “tragedy of the commons” is not an inevitable or “default” case of what happens in human systems, but a very specific case. People can, have, and do organize in order to create and maintain sustainable systems, and have done successfully throughout history and into the present. There are plenty of examples where something like the “tragedy” happens, but it is not the simple result of “human nature” or anything so facile. Her work has been immensely influential, not just to my work but that of many, many, many researchers (she apparently chaired or served on over 130 dissertation committees) Lin Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009, the first (and only) woman to have ever done so. She will be missed… Posted in Economics, Goodbyes, News Prev Organic vs. Organic

Tag Archives: creepy Things That Give Me The Creeps! Posted on November 17, 2010 by Deb / Being Aunt Debbie After reading another blogger’s post of the things that give her the “heebie-jeebies” I was inspired to make a list of my own. There are many things that creep me out and some may be just plain silly to some but nonetheless, they still creep me out! Please feel free to comment but be nice because you wouldn’t want to hurt my feelings. Ha. Just kidding. Fire away. (These are in no particular order; I type as they come to me.) 1. Spiders. Any kind, shape or size. Poisonous or non-poisonous. Hair or no hair. 8 legs or missing a leg or two. Doesn’t matter. They scare the crap out of me. 2. Chainsaws. I hate the sound of a chainsaw. I get the creeps at the mere mention of a chainsaw. In fact, in my house we refer to a chainsaw as a CS. I think this fear of the CS is due to that good ol’ original movie “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” I took my sister to see it in the theater when she was in the 5th grade, which made me about a sophomore in high school. To this day my sister LOVES horror movies. I, on the other hand, DO NOT. 3. Maggots. The dreaded “M” word. Yep, we call it the “M” word in my house. I hate them. They are disgusting and just the thought makes me want to hurl. This stems from seeing some awful things with the “M” word that I do not wish to write about. 4. A certain Rock Star by the name of Steven Tyler. When I was in the 5th grade I started buying my own records (yes, they were records back then) and I frequently shopped at a little store called The Music Box in my home town of Lodi, CA. I would flip through the records to see if there was anything of interest to me and the very first time I saw Steven Tyler’s face on an Aerosmith album cover I wanted to run out of the store screaming! Don’t know why. To this day he still gives me the creeps. I cannot look at him. If his face pops up on tv I look away as quickly as I can. I just can’t do it. I had a dream not too long ago, with Steven Tyler in it. I couldn’t even look at him in my dream. I kept covering my eyes! How weird is that? I don’t think I’ve taken a good look at the guy since I was in the 5th grade. 5. People with crossed eyes, a lazy eye – or crooked headlights as my dad calls them. It’s so difficult to tell if they’re looking at me! Holy smokes. Just creepy. (I mean no disrespect towards anyone who suffers from an eye problem.) 6. The sound of bones crushing or breaking, blood gushing, heads or other body parts coming off….. Back to the horror movies….. Geez, they need to leave a little to the imagination in my opinion. When I see the CS, I know that something is coming off and I don’t need to see it fly off to get the idea. 7. Dwarfs, midgets. They just give me the creeps for some reason. Nothing against the little people, really. I knew a father and son a long time ago; both little people and they were very nice. 8. The thought of being buried alive, trapped in a water-submersed vehicle or in a burning building with no escape. What a horrific way to die. 9. Bridges…swinging footbridges, high bridges over deep water, narrow bridges, bridges longer than 100 feet or so. I have a recurring nightmare, not too often anymore, about being on a long, high bridge that’s over deep, rising water. In the dream, I get halfway across the bridge and then I turn around and around again. Suddenly the water is all around me and I’m left standing on the one dry part of the bridge and I have nowhere to go. I’m sure the reason for this dream and my fear of bridges stems from me not being able to swim. This leads to my next item. 10. Deep water in which I cannot see or feel the bottom. I want to see what’s under there. I want to have my feet planted on the ground. You just never know what’s under there lurking…. To Be Continued….possibly. Posted in Opinions | Tagged creepy, dreams, fears | Leave a reply I’m Watching Them…. Posted on April 9, 2010 by Deb / Being Aunt Debbie You’ve seen them. I’ve seen them. In fact, I see them every time I go somewhere with my daughter, S.R. They usually make me laugh. You know who I mean. Those men who stare at girl’s asses…. I’ve watched guys practically trip over their own feet, watching my daughter walk by. I’ve seen some run into other people because they are looking at her rear end. I’ve seen old men gawk. I’ve seen middle-aged men stare. I’ve seen guys in their 20’s (same as my daughter) watch in admiration as she walks by. I’ve seen men with their wives or girlfriends do the same, only to be elbowed in the ribs by their better half. I’ve even seen young boys, teens and even pre-teens, drooling as she passes by. I have ‘busted’ them all by laughing out loud at them in the store, on the street, wherever we may be. They usually look down or away quickly because they were caught! It’s actually quite funny, but at the same time disrespectful of women. But boys will be boys, I suppose. Tuesday, S.R. and I had some errands to run in W. Plains. We had just walked into Walmart, grabbed a cart and went on our way, when I noticed this creepy guy coming in the door. There was just something about him that caught my eye. When he saw my daughter, who happened to be walking away, her back to him, he was staring at her ass like….gosh I can’t even explain how he was looking at her. It was just plain creepy. It wasn’t funny or even slightly amusing like many times it is. It was just plain creepy. I wanted to punch him in the face. I started to walk a bit faster so I could be closer to S.R. I didn’t like this guy looking at her that way. He sure wasn’t letting up. When he finally looked away from S.R., he saw me looking directly at him. I was pissed. It took him quite a few seconds to take his eyes away from mine. I was glaring at him and as he passed me, I was shaking my head slowly from left to right, as if to say “don’t you even.” Of course, I didn’t realize I was doing this until after he was gone. I watched for him throughout the entire store, and even in the parking lot when we were finished. I was very uncomfortable, to say the least, wondering what this guy would do if he had opportunity….the pervert. I’m watching them. All of them. I hope you’ll watch them too. Protect your children, your mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, yourself….and protect your boys too. You just never know about people these days. Posted in Family/Friends, Humor | Tagged creepy, perverts, staring | Leave a reply

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Berkery Noyes Releases Software Industry M&A Report For Half Year 2013 2013-07-08 Berkery Noyes Releases Software Industry M&A Report For Half Year 2013 NEW YORK — July 8, 2013 — Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, today released its half year 2013 mergers and acquisitions trend report for the Software Industry. The report analyzes M&A activity during the first half of 2013 and compares it with the four previous six-month periods from 2011 to 2012. Berkery Noyes’ data showed that transaction volume decreased three percent in first half 2013. Deal value remained flat, totaling $29.56 billion year-to-date. The median revenue multiple moved slightly from 2.1x to 2.0x, while the median EBITDA multiple increased from 10.4x to 12.5x. The largest transaction in first half 2013 was the announced acquisition of BMC Software by a private investor group, led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital, for $6.81 billion. This deal represented a 3.1x revenue multiple and 11.2x EBITDA multiple. In addition, four of the industry’s top ten highest value transactions in first half 2013 were backed by private equity firms. The number of deals within the Business Software segment remained nearly constant at 146. Notable digital marketing transactions in the segment were Salesforce.com’s acquisition of ExactTarget for $2.25 billion and Adobe’s acquisition of Neolane for $600 million. Deal flow in the Consumer Software segment increased 24 percent, making it the fastest growing sector when examined on a half-to-half year basis. As for software used within specific vertical industries or “Niche Software,” transaction volume decreased ten percent. Four of the ten largest deals in first half 2013 occurred in the Niche Software segment. Along these lines, the largest strategic acquisition was Fidelity National Financial’s acquisition of Lender Processing Services (LPS) for $3.92 billion. LPS provides technology and services to the mortgage and real estate sectors. More than one-third of LPS’ revenue in 2012 was derived from the company’s SaaS and web based solutions, which is the reason for its inclusion in the report. The majority of LPS’ remaining revenue was divided nearly in half between its origination and default transaction services, respectively. Other noteworthy transactions in the Niche Software segment over the past six months were Trulia’s $289 million acquisition of Market Leader, a provider of real estate marketing software and technology; and Cisco’s $107 million acquisition of JouleX, a cloud-enabled energy management company. Deal volume in the Infrastructure Software segment declined six percent during first half 2013. Nonetheless, there were several large transactions in the segment’s cyber security subset, such as Vista Equity Partners’ acquisition of Websense for $942 million and McAfee’s acquisition of Stonesoft for $352 million. Vista Equity’s acquisition of Websense was the largest cyber security software deal backed by a financial sponsor since 2011, when Thoma Bravo acquired Blue Coat Systems for $1.15 billion. Regarding other active industry sectors, acquirers have been showing interest in Application Programming Interface (API) management tools. This can be attributed in part to the widespread expansion of SaaS offerings and the changing nature of information technology. Transactions by notable acquirers in the API market during first half 2013 included CA Technologies’ acquisition of Layer 7 Technologies and Intel’s acquisition of Mashery. “There are a few key takeaways from the data in this report,” said James Berkery, Chief Information Officer at Berkery Noyes. “First, companies that are going to market are receiving strong valuations, even though volume in the Software Industry stayed constant compared to the latter part of 2012. Second, financial sponsors are completing high value software transactions, a trend that indicates growing confidence in the marketplace as well as the macro M&A environment. And third, acquirers are especially interested in data management, security, and cloud-based solutions at the moment.” A copy of the SOFTWARE INDUSTRY M&A REPORT FOR HALF YEAR 2013 is available at the Berkery Noyes website. 8a3fdddc-c5ea-4385-959f-0ca26e6f1119

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Home Planet Moscow Fahrenheit 276 The Russian government is taking new steps to monitor citizens online. Planet Moscow Conor O'Reilly , August 21, 2017 Long a hot-button topic, freedom of information in Russia has been steadily eroding for the better part of a decade. A new law promises to restrict things even further. © REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin In late July, President Vladimir Putin signed law 276-FZ , which amended the federal law “on information, information technologies, and information protection.” With a stoke of his pen, he tightened the net of censorship in Russia even further. The law bans anonymous messaging applications and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), both of which are used to communicate and browse the internet free from government snooping. While wildly popular with young Russians, one such encrypted messenger was reportedly used by the perpetrators of April’s terrorist attack in St. Petersburg – and the Telegram app’s founder, Pavel Durov, has been locked in a power struggle with authorities, having refused to provide them with backdoor access to the app’s databases. There are therefore legitimate concerns over the role such technology plays in terrorist attacks. On the other hand, the timing and nature of Law 276 indicates a purpose beyond making life difficult for potential terrorists. In recent months, independent media outlets have also come under increased pressure: at the popular Vedomosti daily, a new editor-in-chief has been brought in from state-run TV, while the Moscow Times has also experienced editorial reshuffles. Such crackdowns had been relatively infrequent in the months prior, making these two all the more unusual. It would be naive to assume that these events are not linked. The government is facing a level of domestic unrest not seen since the 2011 protests at Bolotnaya Square. Populist firebrand Alexei Navalny is mounting a ferocious political campaign on an anti-corruption platform, organizing several marches throughout the country, and anti-regime bloggers have become so prominent that they are being doused with fluorescent antiseptic by pro-regime activists as a method of public intimidation. In light of this, two explanations exist for the introduction of this law. The most obvious is that the Kremlin has realized the need to re-assert its grip on the information sphere. From this perspective, Law 276 should be interpreted simply as updating the Kremlin’s legal toolkit. Packing editorial boards with cronies helps to control the narrative in print media, but there are few such boards in the deep web; the tech sector has inserted itself into the media and communication sphere, rendering almost useless the state’s previous playbook for controlling public narratives. Just as the SORM initiative was introduced as the internet exploded in popularity in the 1990s, Law 276 represents a riposte to the advance of technology in the late 2010s. Russia is far from alone in fighting against encrypted messaging – the pitched battle between WhatsApp and US law enforcement is evidence of this. Yet intelligence services are – or should be – loath to conduct their business in the open. If the FSB or CIA can access these ostensibly secure services, the public would surely not be informed; in any case, introducing new legal tools will not help the state to crack encryption. A Political Signal When viewed in the context of the boardroom-level struggles of recent months, it becomes clear that the Kremlin is not seeking to improve its snooping capability. Rather, the explanation lies in its desire to send a political signal. If existing ways of browsing anonymously are banned, it will surely not be long before new tools are invented. A truly determined terrorist will simply turn off his or her phone to avoid being tracked. On the other hand, a curious young Russian may not want to break the law simply to understand why Putin has a $1 million watch. The Russian public will appreciate seeing the state taking apparently concrete steps to combat terrorism. Meanwhile, protest movements – often organized through Telegram and similar apps – will now become harder to convene, with their leaders facing prosecution even before taking to a stage. This tells us two things. First, the state is getting increasingly worried about Navalny and his ilk. Anonymous messaging and browsing existed long before the horrific attack on St. Petersburg’s underground, and limiting them will be ineffectual in preventing further violence. This law, then, is a reaction to the increasingly vocal political unrest. Introducing new legislation is a relatively cost-effective way of discouraging Russians from engaging in investigative journalism at home. Such a tactic is also politically savvy, signaling to domestic audiences that the government is tough on crime and terrorism. Second, the Kremlin has made it clear that it is not giving up on the fight against encryption just yet. Even as it appears increasingly difficult to entirely ring-fence political opposition and limit their influence on mainstream Russian narratives, the pitched battle continues between a privacy-obsessed tech sector and a state which abhors being in the dark about its citizens’ browsing habits. For those who want anonymity online – terrorists and dissidents alike – Putin has a message for you: you’re being watched. Tags: Internet, Russia Three to Tango? The Autostate Conor O'Reilly is a London-based political analyst. Stefan Meister, June 22, 2015 András Rácz, July 3, 2020 Lower Thresholds, Greater Ambiguity Lucian Kim, August 11, 2016 Potemkin Village

Home / Entertainment / 5 Stars Who Turned Down "The Masked Singer" 5 Stars Who Turned Down "The Masked Singer" So many celebs have taken part in the reality singing show—but not every answer is a "yes." By Sage Young YouTube/The Masked Singer Now in its fourth season, the U.S. version of The Masked Singer is a certified reality competition hit. From its elaborately wild costumes to its wide variety of celebrity contestants, the show has several elements that make it pretty appealing for stars who are approached to participate. However, not every celebrity who's been invited to take part in the fun has been up for it. Some regret it, some perhaps don't—but they all had their reasons. Keep reading to find out which stars turned down The Masked Singer, and for some of our best guesses as to the identity of a current frontrunner, check out The Sun's Latest "Masked Singer" Performance May Have Given Her Away. Nadine Coyle Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock Nadine Coyle, a member of the former British girl group Girls Aloud, was approached to compete on the U.K. version of The Masked Singer. She told OK! magazine (as reported by Digital Spy), "It felt a bit too close to what I already do for a living. But it's such a fun and great concept!" Coyle also told the outlet that she knew her bandmate Nicola Roberts had taken producers up on their offer when she heard her voice in a commercial for the show. Roberts went on to win her whole season, so Girls Aloud were well represented despite Coyle's pass. And for more former groups you used to love, check out 11 Bands That Went on a "Hiatus" But Never Came Back. But wait, you may be thinking, wasn't Laila Ali the Panda in Season 2? She was! But the former pro boxer could have competed on the first season of The Masked Singer. In her exit interview with Entertainment Tonight, Ali explained that she'd been invited to be on the show in its first year on U.S. television, but that it didn't suit her schedule. That wasn't her only reason, however. Understandably, Ali said she "wanted to wait and see where things were to go anyway." The show became a huge hit almost immediately, Ali signed on to compete in Season 2, and the rest is history. For stars whose vocal abilities may have flown under your radar, check out 17 Celebrities You Didn't Know Could Sing. DFree/Shutterstock Like Ali, 90210 star Tori Spelling was a "no" before she was a "yes." In fact, she declined the offer to compete three times before finally singing on and singing as the Unicorn.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb "I was like, 'OK, why am I saying no? It's two of my biggest fears: performing and singing," she recalled to ET. "'I'm saying no immediately.' Yet I'm raising five children who I'm telling them, 'You can be anything you want to be. You can do anything!' And here I am already just shutting things down. So I'm just like, 'OK, I guess I have to do this!" For more entertainment insight sent right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock In 2019, Sharon Osbourne revealed in an appearance on The Talk (via People) that she was in discussion to be on the original judges panel for The Masked Singer, but that she ultimately had to turn down the job because of her commitment to The X Factor U.K. Then, she claims, X Factor boss Simon Cowell fired her from that show for being "too old." Originally, Osbourne had said that it was her decision to leave the British talent series. Fortunately, that wasn't the end of the reality TV matriarch's relationship with the wacky singing competition show. She's appeared on The Masked Singer as a guest judge, impressing fans with her savvy guessing skills. For the reality show stars who've flown the highest, check out The 30 Most Successful Reality TV Personalities of the Last 30 Years. Jerry Springer s_bukley/Shutterstock Some guessed that the Taco—who was revealed to be Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron—was actually talk show legend Jerry Springer. In a 2019 appearance on NBC's Access Daily, Springer (who also competed on DWTS) was coy about whether or not he'd been asked to do the singing show. Rumor has it though that he turned the gig down. And for more DWTS alumni you forgot about, here are 25 Celebrities You Won't Believe Did "Dancing With the Stars." Sage Young Sage Young is the Deputy Entertainment Editor at Best Life, expanding and honing our coverage in this vertical by managing a team of industry-obsessed writers. Read more Celebrities • Entertainment • Music • News • TV These "90210" Stars Got Into a "Fist Fight" Shannen Doherty and one of her co-stars came to blows when tensions boiled over. See "90210" Star Jason Priestley Now at 52 Check in on the man who played Brandon Walsh over 30 years after the teen soap premiered. See Nicky Banks From "Fresh Prince" Now Ross Bagley also played Buckwheat in the 1994 movie version of <em>The Little Rascals</em>.

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Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick. This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year. The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic. Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley. In the United States, the illness was first identified in military personnel in the spring of 1918. The second, deadliest wave peaked between September and November of that year — the final stages of World War I. Hospitals in some areas were so overloaded with flu patients that schools, private homes, and other buildings were converted into makeshift hospitals. In Chicago, where Rotary World Headquarters was then located, the number of new cases reached 1,200 a day at one point. Several district governors reported at the June 1919 convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, that war work and then the flu greatly interfered with club activities and their club visits — but not with the spirit of Rotary service. Illness and upheaval “prevailed all over the world,” Charles H. Brown, then governor for District 10 (Ohio), told the convention. “But throughout Ohio you will find the Rotary clubs, in every city where a Rotary club exists, in the foremost ranks of civic and social work, doing their full share toward serving our government and humanity.” Read more about the District response and timeline to the 1918 Flu Pandemic here, on Rotary International's website, Rotary.org. About Bettendorf Keep in touch, or reach out to us from via our social media websites! All materials and photos, unless otherwise specified, copyright of Rotary Club of Bettendorf.

Reed, D. Allen – Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible Posted by David Cox on January 25, 2023 Posted in Doctrine | Tagged With: gadsr Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible By David Allen Reed Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible is in 4 parts, God, Man, Sin and Redemption. Contents of Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible PART I–Concerning God. PART II–Concerning Man. PART III–Concerning Sin. PART IV–Concerning Redemption. Our promises: 1. Our goal is to bring you high quality Christian publications at reasonable and affordable prices. Therefore all of our works are complete and unabridged unless specifically stated otherwise, which means that unlike some other independent publications you get what you see and pay for. No unplesant surprises. 2. We endeavour to bring you updated editions of classic works. Therefore this work is not a scan, but is a completely digitized version of the original. 3. Unlike, many other independently published works, our publications are easy to read. Therefore you won’t find illegible, faded, poor quality photocopies here. Neither will you find poorly done OCR versions of those faded scans either, with illegible “words” that contain all kinds of strange characters like £, %, &, etc. Our publications have all been looked over and corrected by the human eye. 4. We can’t promise perfection, but we’re sure gonna try! As an instructor of laymen in an interdenominational school for the past seven years, I have striven to teach the fundamental doctrines of the Bible received by all evangelical denominations. Since this outline seemed to meet the need of my students, I have been asked to have it published that it might be used by the various Workers’ Training Classes, and Bible students generally, who desire a more thorough knowledge of these fundamental doctrines, but who cannot take the time necessary to read the larger works on theology. No pretensions are made to originality in the subject matter, but a free use has been made of works studied during the preparation of the outline, and I acknowledge especially the helpfulness of “Christian Theology for the People,” by Willis Lord, D. D.; “Introduction to Christian Theology,” by Prof. Henry B. Smith, D. D.; “Handbook of Christian Theology,” by Rev. Benjamin Field; and “Outlines of Theology,” by Archibald Alexander Hodge, D. D., from which works the part on Redemption was largely taken. I wish also to acknowledge the very valuable assistance of Rev. E. H. Knight in editing the book. If some earnest student of the Word, some humble disciple of our Lord, is strengthened spiritually, is better fitted for his life work in saving and edifying souls, I shall be more than repaid for my labor. DAVID ALLEN REED. School for Christian Workers, Springfield, Mass. September, 1893. Excerpt #1 PART I: Concerning God. A. HIS BEING, I. Attributes. 1. Self-existence. Life in Himself; underived; inexhaustible. Gen. 1:1, “In the beginning God.” Exo. 3:14, “I AM.” Psa. 36:9. Isa. 41:4. John 5:26. Acts 17:24, 25. Rom. 11:35, 36. 2. Spirituality. God is a Spirit. Gen. 1:2. Deu. 4:15-19, (R.V.) Psa. 139:7. Isa. 60:1. Eze. 37:14; 39:29. Joel 2:28, 29. John 4:24. Acts 17:28, with Heb. 12:9. Rom. 8:9, 15, 16. 1 Cor. 2:11. 2 Cor. 3:17. 3. Unity. The only God. Exo. 20:3. Deu. 4:35, 39; 6:4. 1 Sam. 2:2. 2 Sam. 7:22. 1 Kin. 8:60. 2 Kin. 19:15. Neh. 9:6. Psa. 86:10. Isa. 44:6-8; 45:22. Jer. 10:10. Joel 2:27. Zec. 14:9. Mar. 12:29. John 17:3. Rom. 1:21-23. 1 Cor. 8:4-6. Gal. 3:20. Eph. 4:6. 1 Tim. 2:5. 4. Eternity. Unlimited by time. Gen. 21:33. Exo. 15:18. Deu. 32:40. 1 Chr. 16:36, (R.V.) Neh. 9:5. Psa. 90:1-4. Isa. 44:6; 48:12; 57:15. Jer. 10:10. Lam. 5:19. Dan. 4:3, 34. Mic. 4:7. Hab. 1:12. Rom. 1:20; 16:26. 1 Tim. 1:17. Heb. 1:10-12. 2 Pet. 3:8. Rev. 4:8-10. 5. Immutability. Unchangeable in nature, or purpose. Exo. 3:15. Num. 23:19. 1 Sam. 15:29. Psa. 33:11. Pro. 19:21. Ecc. 3:14. Isa. 14:24. Eze. 24:14. Mal. 3:6. Rom. 11:29. Heb. 6:17, 18. Jas. 1:17. 6. Omnipresence. Unlimited by space. Gen. 28:15, 16. Deu. 4:39. Jos. 2:11. 1 Kin. 8:27. Psa. 139:7-10. COURSE OF THE ARGUMENT. 1. God is one. Unity is ascribed to God. 2. The Father is divine: a distinct person. 3. The Son is divine: a distinct person. 4. The Holy Spirit is divine: a distinct person. 5. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are classed together, separately from all other beings. E. THE WORK OF REDEMPTION AS RELATED TO THE BELIEVER. I. The Union between Christ and the Believer. 1. As to its nature. a. Christ as the second Adam (1 Cor. 15:22) assumes in the covenant of grace those broken obligations of the covenant of works which the first Adam failed to discharge, and fulfils them all in behalf of all His “sheep”–those whom the Father has given Him. b. Its spiritual and vital character. (1) It is a spiritual union. 1 Cor. 6:17; 12:13. 1 John 3:24; 4:13. (2) It is a vital union. John 14:19. Gal. 2:20. (3) It embraces our entire persons. 1 Cor. 6:15, 19. (4) It is an indissoluble union. John 10:28; 14:23; 17:21, 23. 1 The. 4:14, 17. 2. As to its consequences (in general)– a. Believers have a community with Christ in his covenant standing and rights. Rom. 8:1. Eph. 1:6, 11, 13. Phi. 3:8, 9. Col. 2:10. His mediatorial office embraces three principal functions:–(1) Prophet. In fellowship with Him the believer is a prophet. John 16:13. 1 John 2:27. (2) Priest. The believer is also a priest in Him. Isa. 61:6. 1 Pet. 2:5. Rev. 20:6. (3) King. In Him the believer is also a king. 1 Pet. 2:9. Rev. 3:21; 5:10. Download: Reed-fundamental-doctrines-of-the-bible « Stalker The Life of St. Paul Graves – The Biography of Satan »

Tag: Shannon Fay ARC Mini Review – External Forces December 15, 2022 biblionerdreflections2 Comments Hello, everyone! I’m slowly clearing out my backlog of ARCs from 2022. I’m not sure I’ll get to them all before the end of the year, but I’m going to try my best… The next one up is External Forces by Shannon Fay. A mage for the British royals matches wits with a power-mad old foe in a beguiling novel of enchantments and daring by Shannon Fay, author of Innate Magic. London, 1957. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It’s not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for warmongering reactionaries isn’t Paul’s dream for cloth magic. His road to success takes an even darker turn when the unexpected death of a member of the royal family plunges the country into chaos. The Virtuis Party is rising, its mysterious puppet master is gaining control, and Paul and his allies are prepared to do anything to protect the princess, the throne, and ultimately, the soul of the country. That means falling back on the innate magic Paul dreads using again. It’s illegal, dangerous, and so potent it can raise the dead. But as the fate of the entire nation hangs by a thread, dire times call for extreme magic. ***Thank you to 47North for providing a copy of the book via NetGalley. My review contains my honest thoughts about my reading experience.*** This was such an improvement compared to the first book, Innate Magic. I liked the first book, but its meandering plot felt like it was going nowhere for most of the story. External Forces, on the other hand, had a fairly tight and engaging main story with incredibly high stakes. There was quite a bit of action in this book, and the violence and torture were graphic enough to make me squirm in my seat while reading. The story also deepened the world-building and provided a lot of interesting information about the magic system that makes me excited to see what comes next for this series. The alternate 1950’s Britain was still a fun setting, and it allowed for the exploration of some timely topics, including queer and women’s rights and the fight against fascism growing under the guise of ‘safety.’ The characters, especially Paul, seemed much more mature in this book compared to the first. Paul felt less like the stereotypical bisexual man and more well-rounded. He had to grapple with severe challenges to his morals and handled all the crises with a surprising amount of grace. He still made plenty of reckless, selfish choices too, though. I guess he wouldn’t be Paul without them. lol. One thing I love about this series is that it centers a bisexual man who primarily pursues long term relationships with women (at least during the time we’re with him on the page). This representation is sorely lacking, and it was nice to get a story where the bi guy ends up with a woman even if the romance felt a bit forced at times. Most, if not all, of the bi male rep I’ve read has the bi man experiencing a bi awakening and choosing to pursue relationships with men. So, it was a nice change of pace to have Paul confident in his identity from the beginning and not shy away from relationships with women in an effort to make the story ‘more queer’ because bi men in love with a woman are just as queer as gold star gays. ***Steps off soap box.*** The only other qualm I had with this book was the large time gap since the first book. It felt like so much character growth happened during that time, and I was a little let down we didn’t get to see it on the page. Overall, I really enjoyed this story and am curious to see where it goes next. Therefore, I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars.

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Biographymask Lucas Till Lucas Till - Updated Mar 2023 Fort Hood, USA More Facts of Lucas Till Born Date: Horoscope: Lucky Number: Lucky Stone: Lucky Color: Best Match for Marriage: Sagittarius, Gemini, Aries Actress and Producer 5 feet 10 inches (1.78m) Taylor Swift, Kayslee Collins, and Carlson Young Carlton J. Kell High School John Mark Till Dana Lyn Nick Till Lucas Till Twitter Lucas Till Instagram Lucas Till IMDB Lucas Till Wiki View more / View less Facts of Lucas Till Lucas Till is an American actor and producer. Lucas Till has appeared in many television and film productions, including ‘X-Men: First Class,’ ‘House,’ and ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie‘. Apart from his achievements as an actor, he is also popular for his romantic escapades with famous personalities like Taylor Swift. Table of Biography 1 Early Life 2 Lucas Till – Relationship Status 3 Lucas Till – Body Measurement 4 Lucas Till – Career and Professional Life 5 Lucas Till – Net Worth 2023 6 Social Media The actor’s full name is Lucas Daniel Till. Lucas Till was born on August 10, 1990, in Fort Hood, Texas, USA, to John Mark Till and Dana Lyn. His father is an officer in the US Army. His mother is a chemist by profession. He also has a brother named Nick Till. Moreover, he holds an American nationality and his age is 32 years. Also, his zodiac sign is Leo. The actor was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta. He started imitating voices and movie characters at a young age. After noticing her son’s talent, Dana Lyn decided to enroll him in a local acting class to hone his skills. He started his career as a model at the age of 10. He continued his education while working as a child actor. In 2008, he graduated from ‘Carlton J. Kell High School’ in the ‘Cobb County School District’ in Georgia, USA. Caption: Lucas Till with his mom (Source: Instagram) Lucas Till – Relationship Status Lucas Till was in romantic relationships with many celebrities. He had a brief relationship with famous singer Taylor Swift. The actor started dating Swift after appearing in the music video of her song ‘You Belong with Me’ in which he played the protagonist’s love interest. Likewise, he has also been in relationships with model Kayslee Collins (2010-2012) and actress Carlson Young (2012-2013). In 2010, he had a romantic relationship with actress Debby Ryan. However, his relationship with Debby Ryan was never officially out. Caption: Lucas Till with Taylor Swift (Source: Instagram) In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Till voiced his discomfort while working under Lenkov, who was fired by CBS earlier this month as a result of toxic workplace claims. The 29-year-old actor said he was a victim of bullying, particularly body shaming, from the axed staffer. He said, “I’ve never worked this hard in my life, and I am fine with hard work, ” Till told the outlet. “But the way Peter treats people is just unacceptable. I was suicidal that first year on the show, because of the way he made me feel. But the way he’s treated the people around me—that’s just my breaking point”. Lucas Till – Body Measurement Regarding the actor’s body measurement, Lucas Till is 5 feet 10 inches tall and has a weight of 70 kg. The size of his chest is 41 inches, his waist is 32 inches, and his biceps are 12 inches. Moreover, his hair color is blonde and his eye color is blue. Being an actor, he has a well-maintained body and a perfect body figure with a dashing personality. That is why he has many girl fans. Lucas Till – Career and Professional Life At the age of 10, he began to appear in television and print commercials. While attending acting classes, he was spotted by a famous Atlanta-based talent agent Joy Pervis. Subsequently, Pervis got him his first assignment as a child model and actor. In 2003, he played Michael in a short film titled ‘The Lovesong of Edwerd J. Robble’. In the same year, he got a prominent role in the film ‘The Adventures of Ociee Nash’. Likewise, in the Kristen McGary-directed movie, Lucas was present as Harry Vanderbilt. In 2004, he was Chad in a short film ‘Pee Shy’. Similarly, in the same year, he was in the movie ‘Lightning Bug’. The film, which was out at the ‘Philadelphia International Film Festival’, marked Robert Green Hall’s directorial debut. In 2005, he was in his first major role when he was cast in ‘Walk the Line’. The movie is a biopic of legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Directed by James Mangold, ‘Walk the Line’ premiered at the ‘Telluride Film Festival’ in Telluride, Colorado. He played young Jack Cash, Johnny’s older brother. In 2006, he appeared in a television film titled ‘Not Like Everyone Else’. He played Kyle Kenney in the film, which was aired on ‘Lifetime Television’. In the same year, he was in the supernatural thriller movie ‘The Other Side’ in which he played young Samuel North. Directed by Gregg Bishop, the film premiered at the ‘Slamdance Film Festival’ in Park City, Utah. He played Jensen in the 2008 Direct-to-DVD zombie comedy film ‘Dance of the Dead.’ In the same year, he played Simon in an episode titled ‘Joy to the World’ in the acclaimed television medical drama series ‘House.’ In the 2009 Direct-to-video movie ‘Laid to Rest,’ he played a young store clerk. Similarly, in the same year, he was present in an episode ‘Things to Do in Phoenix When You’re Dead’ in the supernatural drama series ‘Medium’. In 2008, he had auditioned for ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie.’ He landed the role of Travis Brody in the movie, which released in 2009. The movie was a major milestone in his career as it was distributed by ‘Walt Disney Studios’ and starred the then-teenage singing and acting sensation Miley Cyrus. In the 2009 Direct-to-video movie ‘The Lost & Found Family’, he played Justin. In the same year, he was also present in a couple of episodes of the web series ‘Fear Clinic.’ He played Brett in the web series and appeared in episodes titled ‘Scotophobia’ and ‘Hydrophobia.’ More about her career In the 2010 action-comedy film, ‘The Spy Next Door,’ he played a Russian spy named Larry. Then in the same year, he appeared in an episode titled ‘The Legend of the Golden Arm’ in the television sitcom series ‘Blue Mountain State’. The year 2011 was an important one in his acting career as he was present in two big-budget movies that year. In the science fiction action movie, ‘Battle: Los Angeles,’ he played Cpl. Scott Grayston. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, the film became a huge box office success. Thereafter, he played Havok in Marvel Comics’ superhero action movie ‘X-Men: First Class.’ He reprised his role as Havok in the 2014 movie ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past,’ and in the 2016 movie ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’. Then, he appeared as Ben in the 2011 Direct-to-video superhero movie ‘All Superheroes Must Die’. In 2012, he appeared as Sam in the Direct-to-video movie ‘Dark Hearts.’ In the same year, he also appeared in a short film titled ‘Someone Like You’. He appeared as Chris Pitts in the 2013 British-American psychological thriller movie ‘Stoker’. ‘Stoker’ also marked South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut. He played Scott Norris in the 2013 Direct-to-video thriller film ‘Crush.’ In the same year, he played Toby in the Direct-to-video movie ‘Wet and Reckless’. In 2013, he played Kevin in the Robert Luketic-directed thriller film ‘Paranoia.’ He played Tyler in the 2014 thriller-drama movie ‘Sins of our Youth. ’ He also played important roles in the 2014 Direct-to-video films ‘Wolves’ and ‘Kristy.’ In 2015, he appeared as Josh Harvest in the Direct-to-video movie ‘Bravetown.’ He then played Bobby in ‘The Curse of Downers Grove.’ From 2016, he started playing the protagonist in the action-adventure television series ‘MacGyver.’ He played Ben in the 2016 horror movie ‘The Disappointments Room.’ In the 2017 action-comedy movie, ‘Monster Trucks,’ he appeared as Tripp. Caption: Lucas Till on Macgyver (Source: Instagram) Lucas Till – Net Worth 2023 Being an actor, it is sure that Lucas Till earns a good amount of money. As of 2020, he has a net worth of approximately $2 million. He has earned all this wealth from his career as a successful actor. Moreover, he could earn more money from his career as he works hard. Talking about his social media presence, he is quite active there. He has an Instagram and Twitter account. On Instagram, he has 411K followers, and on Twitter, he has 174K followers. The actor keeps on updating his social media accounts to be in touch with his fans and followers. His social media accounts are full of his work’s posts. It seems like he loves his current job and is trying to progress more. More Actor Sam Corlett Georgie Farmer Judd Hirsch Ke Huy Quan Lucas Till Fans Also Viewed Nikola Jokic Yang Po-Han Dan Jewett More August 10 Birthdays Brigette Lundy-Paine August 10 Birthdays More Leo Munro Chambers

Robert Shiller Can’t Decide if Bitcoin Will Collapse or Succeed By Mark Rohman Most people are seemingly convinced Bitcoin is in a bubble. If that is the case, the value of this cryptocurrency will collapse very soon. Nobel laureate Robert Shiller agrees with most of these statements. In his opinion, the world’s leading cryptocurrency will either implode or limp on while bleeding out. He also compares it to tulip mania, which is a comparison we have seen far too many times. So far, any statement like this has proven to be utterly wrong. Robert Shiller is not the first person to claim Bitcoin has no inherent value. More specifically, he claims there is only value due to a common consensus. It seems this individual forgets that is not only true for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It has been the basis for any financial asset or trading vehicle since Mankind first started using it. The money issued by a bank only has value because there is a consensus it has value. On its own, it’s not even worth the cost of the paper used to print these bills. Robert Shiller Seems Conflicted About Bitcoin Moreover, Shiller goes on stating how gold would have value if people didn’t see it as an investment. Back in the early days, gold had value in many different ways. It allowed miners and prospectors to pay for rented rooms, alcohol, and other earthly indulgences. To this date, it is still considered to be a payment option, albeit it’s a lot less popular. Gold is mainly a store of value, and it is possible Bitcoin will head in the same direction. A store of value still has real “value” to the people who consider it as such, though. Comparing Bitcoin to a tulip mania also makes no real sense. More specifically, the tulip mania created an interest craze which had nothing to do with a payment method. Tulip bulbs were never rare other than when the suppliers kept the quantity low. This was done artificially, whereas Bitcoin has a fixed supply from day one. Most of that supply has been brought into circulation as we speak. Bitcoin does tend to become cheaper and more expensive during certain times. This is the true nature of any financial asset. In the end, Shiller concludes Bitcoin might collapse soon. At the same time, he admits it may stick around for another 100 years. This conflicted opinion shows there’s a lack of understanding how Bitcoin works. Shiller has called Bitcoin a “fad’ before and the value only soared to new heights later on. He’s also intrigued by the revolutionary use of cryptography which powers Bitcoin. Being on both sides of the fence at the same time is impossible. Shiller will need to make up his mind instead of making vague references. Previous articleBitcoin Price Watch; Here’s Where We’re Looking Right Now Next articleCrypto Correction Hurts Investors in Overstock, Square, and Others

'Marketing And Finance Wizard' GENE SIMMONS To Release 'Me, Inc.' Book In October KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons will release a new book, "Me, Inc.: Build An Army Of One, Unleash Your Inner Rock God, Win In Life And Business", on October 21 via Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Official book description: "The quintessential self-made man, master of brand identity, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning executive — KISS' Gene Simmons —shares his manifesto for business success. "KISS did not become one of the most successful rock bands in history by accident. Long before they first took the stage, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley had a clear-cut operating plan for their business. Over the past forty years, KISS has sold over 100 million CDs and DVDs worldwide and manages over 3,000 licensed merchandise items. In addition to KISS, Simmons' lucrative ventures include two hit reality shows, a professional sports team, a restaurant chain, and a record company. A recipient of the Forbes lifetime achievement award, this brilliant executive runs all of his businesses on his own — no personal assistant, few handlers, and as little red tape as possible. "In 'Me, Inc.', the marketing and finance wizard gives aspiring entrepreneurs the critical tools they need to succeed. Simmons teaches you how to build a solid business strategy, harness the countless tools available in the digital age, network like hell, and be the architect for the business entity that is you. Inspired by 'The Art Of War', 'Me, Inc.' is organized around thirteen specific, easy-to-understand principles for success, drawn from Simmons' own triumphs and failures. From finding the confidence necessary to get started, to surrounding yourself with the right people, to knowing when to pull the plug and when to double-down, these principles can help you attain the freedom and wealth of your dreams." Although Simmons has long portrayed himself as the brains behind KISS, his bandmate Paul Stanley's memoir, "Face The Music: A Life Exposed", paints a different picture, with Stanley claiming that Simmons was always more concerned with the Gene Simmons business. According to Keith Spera's review of "Face The Music" in The Times-Picayune, Paul writes in the book that he, along with his therapist at the time, realized in the 1980s that KISS' financial managers were acting in bad faith. Other managers — not Simmons — encouraged diversification into a wide and lucrative range of merchandising opportunities. "I saw the term 'marketing genius' used in reference to Gene quite frequently . . . [and] it turned my stomach," Stanley wrote of Simmons. "Neither Gene nor I has had an active hand in any significant deals. "He was no marketing genius. He just took credit for things. It was unwarranted, selfish, and hurtful, and there was no way to excuse it. Calculated strategist? Sure. Genius? No." Despite the barbs directed at Simmons, Stanley said in a recent interview that his longtime bandmate and business partner "had no arguments with" the comments Paul made in "Face The Music". "We've always been very honest with each other," insisted Stanley. Find more on Kiss

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The Art of Motherhood 2 Comments / Art, Blog / By Lizabel Stella May 14, 2018 by Public Programs Is your mom stately? Or silly? Driven? Or down-to-earth? In honor of Mother’s Day, we took a look at the diverse works in our collection that depict women — including mothers — and found some that represented qualities we love best about the moms in our lives. Whereas one mother’s defining feature might be her glamour, as in Andy Warhol’s Farrah Fawcett, another might be most admired for her selflessness, as exemplified in Jacques Blanchard’s Charity. Do any of these examples remind you of a mother you know? You may be inspired to invite her for a stroll through our galleries to see the art in person after her Mother’s Day brunch… Madonna and Child, circa 1732 Oil on canvas. 48.3 cm x 40.5 cm (19 in. x 15 15/16 in.). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection. She’s like a mug of hot chocolate on a cold winter day. She quiets all worries with kind words or a warm embrace. The comforting mother offers emotional nourishment and security to her child. No matter the situation, she always finds the right thing to say or do to make her child feel at peace. Madonna and Child portraits often touch on these sentiments, and this work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is no exception. Oionokles Painter Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Container), circa 470 BCE Terracotta. 36.5 cm (14 3/8 in.). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund and the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation, 1980. The ambitious mother leads by example. Her goals in her personal and work life are lofty and she works hard to achieve them. Like Nike, the winged Goddess of Victory painted on this c. 470 BCE Greek vase, her strength and spirit lead her to success. She is a dedicated and inspiring role model for her children. Selfless Jacques Blanchard Charity, circa 1634-1635 Oil on canvas. 110.5 cm x 142.8 cm (43 1/2 in. x 56 1/4 in.). Physically and emotionally demanding, motherhood is far from a selfish pursuit. Jacques Blanchard painted the personification of Charity, who breastfeeds a child and tends to two others around her. Juggling the tasks of motherhood is a massive undertaking, but it is one that this devoted mother handles with calm and grace. Farrah Fawcett, 1980. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas. 101.6 cm x 101.6 cm (40 in. x 40 in.). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Bequest of Farrah Fawcett, 2010. The glamorous mother turns heads and enjoys the finer things in life. Like the iconic movie star Farrah Fawcett in this portrait by Andy Warhol, she is best known for her captivating presence and style. Bold and beautiful, she shows her children how to be cool and confident. Jean Charlot First Steps [Primeros pasos], 1937 Oil on canvas. 51.1 cm x 61.2 cm (20 1/8 in. x 24 1/8 in.). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Julie Day and Charles A. Pinney III, 1983. Jean Charlot’s First Steps is a touching depiction of a mother’s patience and encouragement as she leads her child into his first steps. This mom is her child’s number one fan and supporter in all endeavors. Her gentle nudges encourage her child to take risks and to explore the unknown, but with the assurance that she will always be there to catch them if they fall. William Gilbert Gaul The Land of the Free, circa 1900 Oil on canvas. 94.6 cm x 80 cm (37 1/4 in. x 31 1/2 in.). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Gift of C.R. Smith, 1976. The Sioux woman in William Gilbert Gaul’s The Land of the Free stands firmly and solitarily. Her gaze out across the wide landscape is reverent, contemplative. This type of mother possesses the wisdom that only years of experiences can cultivate, and she draws upon it to guide her child as they experience the world for themselves. Written by Emily Henderson, Marketing & Communications Intern at the Blanton Museum of Art and 2018 Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin 2 thoughts on “The Art of Motherhood” Stephanie Henderson I love them all! Well written Emily Henderson Martha Bradshaw My mother has taught me so much about kindness, love, generosity and patience. She is still a wonderful role model at age 87.

Cam Newton Rumors: Patriots Worried More About QB's Shoulder Than Foot Injury Blake SchusterAnalyst IIAugust 20, 2020 Steven Senne/Associated Press Cam Newton's comeback attempt has drawn plenty of attention around the NFL as the former Carolina Panthers quarterback looks to claim the starting job with the New England Patriots. Since he's had a number of injuries over the past few years, observers are closely watching Newton's health—and one area in particular, per CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones: "Multiple sources I've spoken to have said if they're concerned about any Newton injury, it's his shoulder far more than his foot. Newton had surgery to repair a Lisfranc injury back in December, and that came after months of trying to avoid going under the knife again. His two shoulder surgeries came in March 2017 and January 2019, and I've been closing monitoring his throwing since." Newton has played 16 total games since the start of the 2018 campaign, including just two last season. While that's given plenty of teams cause for concern—indicated by the lack of interest in the former MVP until the Patriots signed him in July—Newton's supporters say that's one reason the quarterback could be in line for a big year. The time away from the field has given the 31-year-old's body more time to heal than he'd normally get after playing a full season. Per Jones: "A source close to Newton pointed out to me the number of hits Newton has saved himself from with his time off. Newton has played in just two regular-season games since mid-December of 2018, so he's more or less had a year and a half off from football. Even in the age where quarterbacks play well into their 40s, I don't think anyone has assumed Newton would make it to that point because of the way he plays the game and the hits he absorbs." Playing behind stronger protection should also help Newton in that area. The quarterback was sacked at least 29 times in each of his first eight years in the NFL. The Patriots, meanwhile, allowed just 28 sacks last season (sixth-fewest in the league) and only 21 in 2018. If that trend continues, and if it allows Newton's shoulder to remain healthy, the Patriots may have found a legitimate replacement for Tom Brady.

Do You Accept Credit Cards? Credit cards are a blessing and a curse! But for people trying to run a business, credit cards can open the door of possibilities far wider. If you’re like many people, you don’t have a lot of cash in your wallet. Many people have direct deposit paychecks and rely on debit and credit cards to handle their day-to-day transactions instead of handling cash. So in this day and age, if you run a business and want to make the most sales, you should have a way to accept credit card payments. As mentioned, lots of people don’t carry cash around, and even if they do, it’s limited. They may only have enough cash on hand to buy a few things from you. But if they have the option of using a credit or debit card they may purchase a lot more! Maybe you’re intimidated by the thought of setting up an account to accept credit cards. You may think, “It’s too expensive” or, “It will be too hard to set up.” But it’s actually not! It is very easy to get an account set up at a site like Sqaure.com. At Square they will even send you a free card reader you can plug in to your phone or tablet! Companies like Square.com or Stripe.com do take a small fee for your transactions, but the potential for a lot greater sales can easily outweigh the minor fee per sale. If you don’t take credit cards yet, how many more sales do you think you could make if you got that option set up? Why not get it set up today? Want to send text alerts to your customers to let them know when you’re live so you can help boost your sales? Check out our website at https://mobile-text-alerts.com/ for more details. 2 Essentials for Selling Online: Your Facebook Group and Consultant Site How to Set Up a Business Email Address Whether we like it or not, society is moving further and further away from cash. People in general just don’t carry much cash around anymore – They process most of their purchases through debit or credit... As someone who’s running your own business, you’re probably aware that you want to be professional. Coming across professionally can help you and others take your business more seriously, and can build trust... One of the best things about doing a direct sales business is the flexibility and freedom to work on your own time. That being said, this is also one of the dangers and downfalls of having that type of business –...

Pepsi's Branded Content Extends Brand Marketing To The Silver Screen How The Soda Company Is Creating Full-Length Feature Films PepsiCo has always kept their entertainment marketing strategy on the front burner. From numerous big screen cameos (Back To The Future, Home Alone, and Big, to name a few) to famous celebrity endorsement ads (think Beyonce, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and his sister Janet), the brand has been one of the most active in the entertainment industry. Now, PepsiCo looks to expand their empire into the business of making movies. After various viral video successes, the next logical step for them seems to be the silver screen. In this blog, Hollywood Branded looks at Pepsi's branded content plan to expand their brand marketing to the big screen. Who Is Uncle Drew? With the wild success of Kyrie Irving's character "Uncle Drew" in a series of ad spots and online videos, PepsiCo wants to capitalize on that momentum - and expand that character into a full-length film. "Uncle Drew" is a pot-bellied, white-bearded, older individual who is constantly talking about the golden days of basketball, when we was in his prime. But don't dare tell him he's not still in tip-top shape. Under the guise of a documentary about a player named "Kevin," Uncle Drew drops in on pick-up basketball games all over to the shock and surprise of the players and crwod. Filmed as a docu-series, the series follows Uncle Drew as he complains about the way things are nowadays and continuously shows up all the other players on the court with impressive free throws, dunks, layups and even team strategies. Uncle Drew is of course not an actual old man and is instead played by the point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kyrie Irving. Covered in prosthetics and makeup, however, the NBA All-Star is unrecognizable and becomes the old-man basketball prodigy in the Uncle Drew Pepsi series that has garnered almost 1 billion views total on YouTube. The character's wild success has offered Pepsi the unique opportunity to capitalize on it - and that's exactly what they intend to do. PepsiCo isn't the first brand to expand their brand marketing into the creative content world of the movies. Using renowned film directors for ad content is a growing trend among brands, from Wal-Mart's Oscars Marketing Campaign to the Coen Brother's Super Bowl Commercial for Mercedes Benz. However, Pepsi is taking the creative content part of their entertainment marketing strategy to a whole new level with plans to turn the Uncle Drew character into a feature-length film. The film will follow the adventures and story of the character that has captivated millions of online viewers. If you remember, this isn't the first time an ad has been turned into a film. Space Jam was based on the Nike ads featuring the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan. However Nike wasn't directly involved in the film whereas Pepsi will be. While the film has yet to have an announced release date, it is confirmed that it will be targeting widespread theatrical release. According to the company, however, their aim to expand further into the entertainment world doesn't necessarily mean all branded-content. The company is looking to become content producers, creating their Creators League team last year. This team works on scripted series, films, music recordings and reality series, much of which will be unbranded. Think more 'lifestyle' content, which appeals to their core demographics. This shows Pepsi's interest in the entertainment industry beyond just advertising. They hope to create a cycle of money flow between sales, marketing, and content production. Pepsi is just the next brand in a long line of brand marketers looking to expand their entertainment marketing by producing both orginal branded content, and original unbranded content, making them big players in the entertainment industry. This gives more opportunity for the brand to grow both creatively, and in turn as a company. Brands don't just settle for selling products nowadays, and more are turning to creative content. Do You Want To Get Your Brand Involved In The Entertainment World? Before you spend another dollar on traditional advertising, start thinking about ways to make your marketing more engaging to consumers. Watch our video to learn how to combat common advertising challenges marketers face daily! Topics: Celebrity Partnership, Sports Marketing, Digital Marketing

Avital and Nimrod: Sexual Harassment and “Campy Communications” at NYU By Jon Wiener 08/20/2018 08/20/2018 It’s not often that a literary theorist lands on page one of the New York Times. The August 13 story about Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comp Lit at NYU, who the Times described as “one of the very few philosopher-stars of this world,” was shocking: NYU was suspending her without pay for a year after finding her responsible for sexual harassment of a male grad student, Nimrod Reitman. He complained that for three years she had sent him unwanted emails referring to him as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod” — and insisted that he reply in kind. Avital, as she is known in the profession, defended herself in a statement quoted in the Times: “Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities. These communications were repeatedly invited, responded to and encouraged by him over a period of three years.” The Times page one story also quoted his description of an afternoon in Paris, the summer before he enrolled at NYU, when she invited him to her room and then, he said, “pulled him into her bed.” There she “put my hands onto her breasts, and was pressing herself — her buttocks — onto my crotch… She was kissing me, kissing my hands, kissing my torso.” That, he said, was sexual assault. He confronted her the next morning, he told the Times: “I said, look, what happened yesterday was not O.K. You’re my adviser.” But when he got to New York and started his graduate studies, he said, she didn’t stop: after Hurricane Sandy made her NYU apartment uninhabitable, in October 2012, she showed up at his apartment, he said, despite his objections, slept with him in his bed, and, the Times reported, “groped and kissed him each night for nearly a week.” The Times also reported that “Professor Ronell denies all allegations of sexual contact in their entirety,” quoting her lawyer, Mary Dorman. Avital said she did stay at his apartment, but at his invitation, and only for two nights. And she emphasized that NYU did not find her guilty of sexual assault on that occasion, or any others. The Times did not quote Nimrod’s emails to Avital, but a press release she distributed did: he had called her “Mon Avital, beloved and special one,” writing “You are the best, my miracle. Sending you infinite love, kisses, and devotion.” And “Sweet Beloved, I was so happy to see you tonight … our shared intimacy was a glorious cadence…thank you for these moments of togetherness and utter and pure love!” Avital took these emails as evidence that hers were not unwanted but rather reciprocated, and thus did not constitute sexual harassment. Nimrod insisted she had pressured him into replying in this way, citing emails she sent him. In one, for example, she wrote “‘I love you too’ does not cut it darling,” and “You occupy an immense place in my life, in my heart, and I need to hear from yours.” He said he hated seeing and writing her, but participated because she was his prestigious advisor with the power to make or destroy his career. A crucial element in the case is the emails he wrote at the time to friends, declaring that her demands made him “want to throw up from disgust and I am fearful about how I can continue like this… I feel caged here and don’t know how I can escape the New York prison.” In other emails he called her “the monster,” a “witch,” “evil,” “psychotic,” and a “bitter old lady” (she was in her 60s, while he was in his 30s). These quotes provide strong evidence her attentions were “unwanted” — but most of them were provided in her press release, which declared that “this duplicity undermines his claim to have been sexually harassed by her.” Avital offered an explanation for her emails in an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education: “He calls himself a thanatophile, which means he’s drawn to death,” she said. “He’d turn to me with his despair and his extreme anxiety. He’d say no one loves him. I’d write stupidly, because I had nothing to hide, ‘I love you.’ If he had a migraine, I’d say, ‘Let me stroke your head, calm you down.’ He’d say, ‘That’s magical — you’re a healer.’” Avital’s attorney says Nimrod never complained to any NYU officials, but his attorney says he did complain to the Vice Provost, an official Title IX officer required to report complaints of sexual harassment or assault. He is suing NYU for failing to act on his complaint. He didn’t file his own formal Title IX complaint with NYU — the one that led to the recent ruling — until two years after getting his Ph.D. Avital says that’s because he concluded he was not going to get a job as an assistant professor, and blamed her for that; his complaint was a form of revenge for his own failure on the job market. He says he delayed filing a complaint because he needed her support on the job market, but that she wrote a pro forma, generic letter of recommendation in retaliation for his “leaving” her, and at that point he decided to complain formally. Avital has many defenders, including prominent feminist literary scholars, and their response provided an irresistible focus for the New York Times story. What happens when a man tells a #MeToo story about being victimized by a woman? What happens, in the New York Times reading of this case, is that feminists defend the accused woman in the same terms that some men defended Harvey Weinstein — they believe the denials offered by the accused, and argue that the accuser’s lies are motivated by ill-will. As evidence, the Times pointed to a letter of support for Avital signed by several dozen leading literary scholars. The letter — published online by University of Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter at his blog, Leiter Reports, had been sent to the NYU president back in May, at a time when the evidence cited in the Times in August had not been made public — so the signers did not know about Avital’s emails to her “cock-er spaniel” or Nimrod’s complaints about being pulled unwillingly into her bed. I asked a dozen of the most prominent signers what they thought about the evidence in the New York Times, and whether it had changed their way of looking at the case. Those who responded had different arguments. Gayatri Spivak, University Professor at Columbia, wrote, “I’d rather not comment … Loyalty gets in the way of the law.” It’s a reasonable position: she’s not going to criticize a friend publicly. But of course not defending a friend implies the friend is guilty as charged — loyalty and the law would not be at odds otherwise. Slavoj Žižek, the “Elvis of cultural theory” who, among other things, holds the title “Global Professor” at NYU, published a piece on why he signed the letter. Because he was teaching at NYU while the Title IX investigation was going on, he wrote, “I DO know the details of the accusations against her, and I find them utterly ridiculous.” Avital was being persecuted by the “Politically Correct,” he wrote, people who didn’t understand her “mode of behavior and speech: … acerbic, ironic, shifting from funny remarks to precise perceptions of an injustice, mocking others in a friendly way.” But none of Avital’s emails to Nimrod cited in the court case were about “injustice.” Avital, he concludes, is guilty only of “a pattern of eccentric rhetoric, which was so excessive precisely because it was based on the understanding that there is no actual sex involved.” Sam Weber, Professor of German at Northwestern, said he signed the letter because “at the time I was told that NYU was about to either fire Avital or give her the option of resigning, and that this would take place in a matter of days … For me, the letter was meant to testify to the respect I have for Avital and her work, not to judge the merits of ‘the case.’” The letter they all signed, however, wasn’t just about the value of Avital’s work. It declared that the signers sought “to register in clear terms our objection to any judgment against her” [emphasis mine]. John Hamilton, Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures there, offered a similar explanation: “I signed the letter to support a friend I’ve known for 30 years and who always acted respectfully. Avital can be flirtatious and I could imagine her crossing lines in a campy way; usually it was nothing more than fun. Obviously this person didn’t feel that way, and these accusations have to be taken very seriously.” And yet the letter also declared that the student who filed the complaint was “animated” by “malicious intention,” despite the fact that most of the signers didn’t know anything about what “animated” Nimrod Reitman. Different drafts of the letter were circulated to different people; Sam Weber said he “asked that certain phrases relating to the former student in a judgmental way be eliminated, since I knew and know nothing about him and couldn’t sign on to that. I received a version where they were attenuated sufficiently for me to sign … I never saw the final version however.” Judith Butler, Elliot Professor in the Department of Comp Lit at Berkeley and President-Elect of the MLA, explained to me that “my first version was rejected for being ‘too weak,’” and that “about six people” contributed to the final version. But, she told the Chronicle, “We ought not to have attributed motives to the complainant, even though some signatories had strong views on this matter.” Jonathan Culler, Distinguished Professor of French and Comp Lit at Cornell, wrote, “I think that signatories to Judith Butler’s letter probably varied a lot in how much they knew about the accusations. I certainly don’t regret signing, because I don’t believe the accusations of sexual misconduct. Professor Ronell certainly does write over-the-top emails, as all her correspondents know.” He accepted her defense that Nimrod “reciprocated,” and pointed out that if Nimrod had been “upset” by the emails, “he could have chosen to work with someone else” — which indeed often happens with grad students. Another distinguished professor who asked, later, not to be quoted, was concerned about the lack of due process in the procedures under which Avital was found guilty of sexual harassment: “There was no ‘fair hearing’ by AAUP standards,” she said. “Once the student filed the complaint it was handled entirely by the NYU Title IX lawyers — not exactly a jury of her peers. This is generally true of Title IX hearings; they do not respect any established rules or practices of faculty governance.” Under the AAUP standards she supports, Avital would “confront” her student Nimrod before a committee of her peers, who would then rule on his complaint. Of course one can easily see the possibilities for abuse in such a process — that kind of confrontation would be intimidating and frightening to most students who had been sexually harassed by professors. The same professor was also concerned about the breach of confidentiality: the leak of NYU’s Title IX report to the Times “should make anyone who files a Title IX complaint think twice,” she said, “since confidentiality cannot be assured. NYU lawyers, who swore everyone to secrecy about the settlement, should be punishing the leaker — who had to have been a party to the negotiations.” Most observers assume the leak to the Times came from Nimrod’s side, though, and it is not clear that he can be punished by NYU for telling the world what happened to him as a student there. Emily Apter, Chair of Comp Lit at NYU, was less forthcoming about the letter of support she signed: “I am not able or willing to discuss the case,” she wrote, a bit cryptically. Cynthia Chase, Professor of French and Comp Lit at Cornell, responded by repeating verbatim the conclusion of the letter: “The allegations against Avital Ronell do not constitute actual evidence, but rather support the view that malicious intent animated and sustains this legal nightmare” — this despite the fact that “actual evidence” was now public in the form of Avital’s emails. The New York Times also published 943 comments on the article. One of the most striking was from “Lady Professor” in Los Angeles, who wrote “as a feminist … who has been teaching for more than 20 years.” She offered her advice: Q: Is it ever OK to get in bed with your advisee? A: No. It is never, ever OK to get in bed with a student. You should not get in bed with ANY student from your institution. If the student is in a class you are teaching, or is your advisee, you should refrain from getting in bed with them until they have graduated… Q: How about going over to my student’s apartment when my electricity goes out? A: Don’t you have other friends who can help you in this situation? Remember that your student and advisee does not have power in this relationship and cannot easily turn you away or ask you to leave. Don’t go there. I repeat: don’t go there… Q: I’m campy and flirty. I want to send campy, flirty emails to my advisee. A: DO NOT SEND FLIRTY EMAILS TO A STUDENT. EVER. Q: But I just want to say that he’s a sweet cuddly baby! A: Do not do it. NO. Keep it professional. Q: But we share culture and he will understand my sly and playful flouting of convention. A. What is wrong with you? So we have a student complaining of unwanted sexual attention and physical contact, which a powerful mentor pressured him to submit to and participate in; and we have a professor arguing that she thought the student’s participation in the relationship was consensual and welcomed, but upon learning that he was telling friends she was a “monster” who made him “want to throw up from disgust,” she concluded that he had been “duplicitous”: manipulating and exploiting her to advance his own career, then turning on her when his career failed to advance. But the real problem here is not deciding who was exploiting whom. The problem is the failure of this faculty member to keep her relationship with this student on a professional level. It’s the kind of case that led universities to prohibit sexual relationships between faculty and students, and, as Barbara Herman argues — she’s Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at UCLA — it’s precisely the kind of problem that universities intended to address with the sexual harassment policies that implement Title IX: not violent assault or abuse, but rather the acquiescence of students to the sexual demands of faculty members with power over them. The concern always was that an inappropriate faculty-student relationship would end up looking just like Avital and Nimrod. Nimrod now will have no career in academia. His advisor has been quoted in the New York Times describing the “incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument” in his dissertation (a 500-page work titled “On the Serious Motherhood of Men: Dissonance in Music, Rhetoric and Poetry”), and 50 of the top people in his field have signed a letter saying he was “animated” by “malicious intention” — they teach at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Berkeley, Cornell, Northwestern, Emory, Rutgers, Texas, many European universities, and include 11 from his own institution, NYU. Nimrod is calling it “retaliation,” which — if orchestrated by Avital — is a separate Title IX violation, and NYU is investigating that complaint now. (She denies the charge, but it raises the question: should all 50 of the signers be brought up on charges of retaliation?) Avital meanwhile will be back at NYU in a year. For grad students facing sexual harassment by faculty members, the message is frightening. Image: from Deutsches Haus’ Youtube Channel

Go to the University of Iowa Libraries home page Celebrating Open Access Week and a new resource for UI scholars Posted on October 24, 2022 October 24, 2022 by Anne Bassett Happy Open Access Week! We’re celebrating this year’s theme “Open for Climate Justice” with an Iowa Research Online featured collection of recent University of Iowa scholar-authored open access journal articles related to climate change. We’re also officially launching our Open Scholarship Toolkit, which is a resource for UI scholars in every discipline to share the results of their research freely and openly with the public and the academic community. Read on for more information about how we can help you or contact your liaison librarian for assistance. The UI Libraries supports models of open access publishing that are equitable for scholars and the general public, both at our institution and around the world. 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« The History of the Superman vs Flash races 20 Year Anniversary: Back to the Future Part III » Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back turns 30 years old today (via coografik) The Empire Strikes Back, the first Star Wars sequel, was released on May 21, 1980, 30 years ago, today. Empire was probably the best and most iconic movie in the entire Star Wars trilogy. From this movie we get Yoda, Boba Fett and the bounty hunters, Lando Calrissian, Obi-Wan’s ghost, Vader is Luke’s father, Luke gets his hand chopped off, Han says “I know” when Leia says “I love you”, Han gets frozen in carbonite and, in a throw away line by Yoda, revelation that there is another Skywalker (breathe!). It’s hard to believe that there is so much in this movie that defines the entire Star Wars saga and is what many fans identify with the series. All in one movie, possibly the greatest sequel in cinema history. Here’s the original trailer for Empire. Notice how everyone does the famous “turn to the camera” when their character name is called. Here’s an awesome fan made trailer for Empire as if it would have been made in 1950 (via Official Star Wars Blog) Star Wars.com is all gussied up for celebrating Empire’s 30th anniversary by skinning itself with a bad ass Hoth Vader image. While at the official site, you can see a bunch of cool candid photos from the set of Empire, see rare poster artwork and read about the 30th anniversary Empire screening which included Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew and Billy Dee Williams. On October 12, Random House will release the long awaited book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a sequel to the popular The Making of Star Wars released back in 2007. The book is chock full of rare photos and stories about the actual filming of Empire Strikes back in 1979. I haven’t bought the Star Wars one, but I would love to because it is awesome ($50 is a bit high for a hardback photo book, though). I would love to thumb through this Empire book to see some of the pics (and eventually buy it on the cheap). Crave Online did a great writeup on the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back script by Leigh Brackett dated Feb 1978. Learn who Luke’s twin sister was going to be (hint, not Leia) as well as Yoda’s original name. Fascinating stuff. Here’s the awesome Empire Strikes Back mural found on 20th Century Fox’s studio lot in Beverly Hills, CA. You can see the “Nakatomi Building” from Die Hard in the background. I was an IT consultant for 20th Century Fox back in 2000-2001. I spent lots of time on that studio lot during my lunch breaks. These are the four books that make up the awesome Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back manga series. The series was released around the time of the Phantom Menace in 1999. I have all four of these as well as the four volumes in the Star Wars: A New Hope series. For some reason I was never able to find the 4 volume Return of the Jedi series. The website JibJab has a section where you can put yourself into a condensed version of The Empire Strikes Back. If you click here you can see the Empire Strikes Back video I made which features me in every male role (Han, Luke and Lando) and my wife Steph as Leia. If you can watch it and tell me it’s not better than every single one of the Star Wars prequel movies then I’ll assume you’ve never even seen the prequel movies (well done, sir). So Empire is now 30 years old. Drink that statistic in and see if it doesn’t make you feel old. Most kids growing up today will never know a time when Vader wasn’t Luke’s father. Sobering thought, am I right? This entry was posted on May 21, 2010 at 8:00 am and is filed under 80s, Empire Strikes Back, movies, pop culture, Star Wars with tags anniversary, Empire Strikes Back, movies, pop culture, Star Wars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. One Response to “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back turns 30 years old today” bookworm Says: wow great video! *high five*

NBA 2K10 New Demo and Features Ronnie Singh Sr. Community Manager, 2K Games 71 Author Replies Hey NBA 2K fans, My name is Ronnie and I am the Community Manager here at 2K Sports. Many of you know me as Ronnie2K. I am the guy that gets to take part in the ridiculous stunts that we pull off here at 2K Sports. I attend all the athlete motion capture sessions (my buddy Andre Iguodala), put on events for fans across the country (Alex Ovechkin greeting fans from a Zamboni in the heart of Manhattan), interview the brightest stars that represent our company (shout out to James White, expecting a big year out of you sir!), and bring together and distribute the most exclusive 2K Sports swag. Being a huge basketball player in my time and getting to work for the best NBA simulation on this planet is truly out of this world. Do I really get paid for this stuff? But don’t get me wrong, I am the guy that’s just like any of you: a huge fan of our video games and our company and I want to give you guys a voice here at 2K Sports. Feel free at anytime to drop me a line, ask a question, or challenge me to a game. I am a pretty challenging NBA 2K10 match-up if I do say so myself. I wanted to discuss why NBA 2K10 is going to be the most realistic, simulation basketball experience to date. Our team has added all-new gameplay components, out-of-this-world graphics, even more realistic Signature Style animations, all-new presentation elements, and an unrivalled online system. The demo for PlayStation 3 will be out October 8th 15th. It will feature a one quarter match-up between last year’s NBA Finals opponents: pitting the Orlando Magic at the Los Angeles Lakers. You will get four of the most intense game play minutes to become familiar with the game and get a taste of why NBA 2K10 will be unrivaled in the basketball arena. It still amazes me how all ten of the players on the court match their real life counterparts, both physically and in their tendencies. I probably shouldn’t be surprised after watching all the development team’s motion capture efforts from the past few months. It is no surprise that the game’s artificial intelligence is more intelligent than ever and will give you the freedom to have complete control of the actual outcome and actions of your player and match-up. This season you won’t just play the NBA, you’ll TAKE OVER. I also want to take the opportunity to explain modes that you won’t see in the demo, but are among the finest features within the full game that hits stores everywhere October 6th. My favorite one is the new NBA Today integration. My biggest gripe over the years is that when it came to commentary, presentation, and overlays, a regular exhibition game was happening in a vacuum. There was nothing “real” about it. It was a fantasy matchup that had no real-world context and no impact. I had the pleasure of meeting both Kevin Harlan and Clark Kellogg and talked to them about this issue. It amazed me how deep their knowledge of the game was and how we didn’t capture that fully before. They could talk about what was happening in that particular game and they could talk about what happened last season. That was pretty much it. Now that your game and the NBA are in sync, the door is thrown open for dynamic commentary that’s based on what’s really happening in the real NBA. During the action, the play-by-play commentary is interspersed with real-life facts that touch on how the players and teams are doing during the season and how they played in their last outing. We spent hours recording thousands of lines of audio with Kevin & Clark, so that in game they can discuss a team’s previous real life win or loss, and what the determining factors were in that game. The commentary and presentation will constantly be changing throughout the season to coincide with the real league and transition from pre-season to regular season, and finally, to the postseason based on what is happening in real life. Obviously with no previous game context going into the demo game, there is no audio in the demo, but something that you should look for in the full version of NBA 2K10 that will bring your experience to a new level. Another great mode is My Player. You will get to build a budding NBA player and make a ton of decisions in his career that will influence him in his transformation to potential star. You will get to create and customize your player, both in terms of looks and play style, put him through intense drills to increase his skills and attributes, and play in games where he must fit within the team flow, while completing both Offensive and Defensive objectives and achieving career milestones. Doing so will put him on course to becoming the next icon in the NBA. In brief, My Player brings role-playing to basketball and allows you to create any type of player at any position. Should be great fun to see what you guys come up with! I am looking forward to how impressive I can make my 6’7” Athletic Small Forward that I built in the pre-release NBA 2K10: Draft Combine. I hope many of you got an early start on your career by grabbing the Draft Combine SKU. You will only get to take part in the NBA Draft if you work hard and go through the Combine. It’s available to download from the PlayStation Store if you want that early boost. I am partial to those two features because a career mode and realistic commentary/presentation have been my biggest gripes over my ten years playing NBA 2K basketball, but there are so many more cool features I didn’t even get into in NBA 2K10. Feel free to drop a question if you have one below. But grab the demo on October 8th 15th and make sure to get your copy of NBA 2K10! – Ronnie nba 2k10playstation gamesps2PS2

Andre Assous: The Face of Espadrilles Wedges by Michael Weingarten | Aug 18, 2014 | Designers | 1 comment Espadrilles have become the to go-to style for women during the summer months. The shoe has been refined and updated over the years to provide comfort and flexibility without comprising their unique style, and through this process Andre Assous has emerged as the “King of Espadrilles”. However, his rise to prominence wasn’t the simplest of journeys. A Break Into the Shoe Industry Originally a civil engineer from France, Andre Assous came to the United States in 1969. His career was a bit scattered living in California, but his break into the fashion industry was soon to come. After working in California for a few years, he learned of a department store that had recently sold 300 pairs of espadrilles. At the time, Assous had a French contact that was ready to import espadrilles, and Andre quickly approached the local buyer. With the popularity of espadrilles rising in the US, the buyer quickly placed an order for 2,000 pairs. A Growing Force Andre Assous officially formed his brand in 1979, where his own designs began to come into play. His wedges caught the eye of big-name retailers and brands, and Andre began designing and distributing some of his shoes as private label products. Between his own brand and private label business, he’s sold hundreds of thousands of shoes. Today, his personal brand has taken over the fashion footwear industry. He’s expanded his line to include various styles, including womens sandals and flats. All of his shoes are manufactured in Spain and Italy, providing fashion-focused customers with quality espadrilles for the last 40 years. His shoes now put a huge emphasis on comfort, and each product that hits the market is designed and tested to keep your feet looking great and feeling even better. One of our favorite aspects about Andre Assous is his devotion and love of independent retailers, like the The Shoe Spa. He shares not only our love of shoes, but also the belief that customers deserve a greater experience than many big-name department stores care to offer. Check out some of our favorites from our Andre Assous selection below: Andre Assous Erika Espadrille – Navy Dainty Espadrille – Beige Sandy Cain on March 27, 2016 at 1:56 pm I love these, espadrilles are so perfect for spring and summer! I especially like the Andre Assous Dainty Espadrille in Beige. It’s the perfect light neutral color, and the wedge is just the right height for me!

Some Surprising Benefits of GPS Tracking for Construction James House Jun 25, 2021 GPS tracking for construction equipment is an extremely useful technology for any construction business. GPS tracking gives you a comprehensive view of your fleet assets. The real value of GPS tracking, however, comes in the insights you get from that comprehensive view. GPS is more than a fun accessory, if you know how to use the data GPS trackers provide. When you've got a platform that gives insights to help turn GPS data into insights and savings, you learn that a GPS tracking system is a business necessity. By the end of this post, you'll know why GPS tracking can benefit your construction company, and how the right platform turns that GPS data into benefits. What is GPS Tracking? GPS tracking is a process that uses global positioning system (GPS) technology to track where something is. The GPS technology in question is a "constellation" of satellites overhead, and the device in your hand. If you've used Google or Apple Maps on your smart phone, you've used GPS. And if you've gotten directions on your phone, you know how helpful GPS tracking can be in your personal life. Fortunately, it can help your business even more. GPS tracking helps construction businesses track their fleet assets to save time and improve visibility and leverage related insights from tracking data to make key business improvements that can lead to savings. When applied via a plug-in tracking device, GPS tracking can collect a lot of data about your assets: where they spend their time, how they're used, how often, and how efficiently. Leveraging construction equipment GPS tracking for your construction fleet management can help contribute to much more than just location. If you want to tap into that your greater construction fleet data, you'll need a platform like Tenna's. How does GPS Tracking for Construction work? If you've heard of Space Force, you've heard of the people behind global positioning systems (GPS). The Space Force has a "constellation" of 31 GPS satellites in orbit at any given time, 24 of which are in use, making up the GPS system we all use. Of those 24? At least 4 are overhead at any moment. Your phone receives signals from these four satellites, compares those coordinates, and figures out where you are. How does this help your business? You get a better idea of your asset's exact location, thanks to the four satellites sending you information. Instead of one tracker sending a signal to a device at your headquarters, you get four satellites combining to give you a more precise sense of an asset's location. Tenna's solutions use GPS technology (among other technology) to give you the most up-to-date, thorough information possible. GPS locations are updated every two minutes when the asset is running (and every 23 hours when not running), so you aren't left wondering where your assets are at the end of the day (or even the end of the hour). The TennaFLEET Tracker is one example of how Tenna turns your data into business intelligence. The tracker is a small device that can plug into any vehicle's OBD II or JBUS interface that receives data from GPS satellites, and transmits it to the platform. It also tracks and transmits other information, like engine hours, diagnostic troubleshooting codes and vehicle speed. This information is all helpful to have and contributes to other key fleet tracking use cases for contractors such as utilization, maintenance, inspections, driver safety, ELD and IFTA compliance, and more. Why GPS Equipment Tracking Is More Than Just Dots on a Map GPS equipment tracking is a great way to automate compliance with regulations like ELD and IFTA. Both mandates require a dizzying amount of data collection. IFTA, for instance, requires you to keep track of not just total miles traveled, but miles traveled per jurisdiction. You’ll also need to distinguish between taxable and non-taxable miles, which makes for a confusing, multi-faceted problem. Tenna’s GPS tracking capability makes it easy to monitor how many miles you drove, where, and when. With Tenna, you can earmark assets that need to comply with IFTA. Tenna plugs the germane GPS data into reports that are organized by IFTA data. That way, you can view reports that organize data by jurisdiction, vehicle, or fuel type, removing the busy work from IFTA compliance. Tenna can combine with an ELD (electronic logging device) to help you get on top of your hours of service data. Because Tenna’s GPS capabilities monitor where, when, and how often your drivers operated a vehicle, keeping accurate track of hours of service is no longer an extra headache for your employees. Better yet, Tenna can provide automatic notifications when drivers need to take a break. Tenna’s automatic GPS data collection can also help with sensitive issues, like ensuring your drivers aren’t driving more (or less) hours than regulations allow. A platform that uses GPS data to provide notifications and alerts also helps make quick decisions and stay up to date on asset moves in the field. Tenna's GPS notifications and GPS tracking geofencing alerts for potential instances of theft. D. Guerra Construction out of Texas used Tenna to track and retrieve a stolen water truck, saving $40,000 by eliminating an unnecessary replacement. Tenna's platform also enables you to figure out where an asset is - never an easy task if you're managing multiple job sites. That was another challenge for D. Guerra Construction. “Our main [pain point] is finding the things," says Fleet Technology Analyst, Karlo Castillo. "Instead of calling around, I can look real quick in the computer and it tells me who had it," he adds. With Tenna's GPS location intelligence, D. Guerra does away with the need to make multiple calls to find out where an asset is. That's time, and money, saved. With Tenna's ability to track where an asset has been, you can determine which sites have used that asset most. You can also get a bird's eye view of all the assets associated with a site. Jodi Stone of Clark Equipment Rentals describes implementing Tenna's trackers as "a breeze." She adds that "the visibility on the maps for the tracking devices is spot on, and easy to see," and that even "setting a geofence is easy and quick." Where Clark’s previous attempts to get location intelligence had stalled due to difficult software, Tenna made it easy for Clark to turn GPS information into savings and earnings. This gives you the basic landscape of GPS tracking for your heavy trucks and other construction vehicles, but there are several other ways that GPS tracking can benefit your construction fleet management processes. To get started on your GPS tracking journey and find out more about how Tenna's solutions can help your business, reach out and book a demo. GPS asset trackers