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Bombings of the Nairobi, Kenya, US embassy (left), and the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, US embassy (right). [Source: Associated Press]Two US embassies in Africa are bombed within minutes of each other. At 10:35 a.m., local time, a suicide car bomb attack in Nairobi, Kenya, kills 213 people, including 12 US nationals, and injures more than 4,500. Mohamed al-Owhali and someone known only as Azzam are the suicide bombers, but al-Owhali runs away at the last minute and survives. Four minutes later, a suicide car bomb attack in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kills 11 and injures 85. Hamden Khalif Allah Awad is the suicide bomber there. The attacks will be blamed on al-Qaeda. [PBS Frontline, 2001; United States of America v. Usama Bin Laden, et al., Day 38, 5/2/2001] The Tanzania death toll is low because, remarkably, the attack takes place on a national holiday so the US embassy there is closed. [Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 195] The attack shows al-Qaeda has a capability for simultaneous attacks. The Tanzania bombing appears to have been a late addition, as one of the arrested bombers will allegedly tell US agents that it was added to the plot only about 10 days in advance. [United State of America v. Usama bin Laden, et al., Day 14, 3/7/2001] A third attack against the US embassy in Uganda does not take place due to a last-minute delay (see August 7, 1998). [Associated Press, 9/25/1998] August 7, 1998, is the eighth anniversary of the arrival of US troops in Saudi Arabia and some people will speculate that this is the reason for the date of the bombings. [Gunaratna, 2003, pp. 46] In the 2002 book The Cell, reporters John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell will write: "What has become clear with time is that facets of the East Africa plot had been known beforehand to the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and to Israeli and Kenyan intelligence services.… [N]o one can seriously argue that the horrors of August 7, 1998, couldn't have been prevented." They will also comment, "Inexplicable as the intelligence failure was, more baffling still was that al-Qaeda correctly presumed that a major attack could be carried out by a cell that US agents had already uncovered." [Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 195, 206] After 9/11, it will come to light that three of the alleged hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, Nawaf Alhazmi, and Salem Alhazmi, had some involvement in the bombings (see October 4, 2001, Late 1999, and 1993-1999) and that the US intelligence community was aware of this involvement by late 1999 (see December 15-31, 1999), if not before.
Entity Tags: Salem Alhazmi, Nawaf Alhazmi, Mohamed al-Owhali, Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, Khalid Almihdhar, Al-Qaeda, Azzam
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline
Al Gore (close left) and Bill Clinton (close right), in a Small Group meeting. Sitting at the table between them, from left to right, are George Tenet, Henry Shelton, William Cohen, and Sandy Berger. [Source: CBC] (click image to enlarge)In the wake of the embassy bombings (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998), top Clinton officials begin frequently meeting to discuss terrorism and continue to do so through the rest of Clinton's term. What is called the "Small Group" of cabinet-ranked principals involved in national security meets almost every week on terrorism. The lower level interagency Counterterrorism Security Group led by counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke regularly meets two or three times a week. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger will later say, "From August 1998, bin Laden was Enemy No. 1." However, terrorism still has to compete with other issues. For instance, US diplomats are reluctant to press Pakistan to do more on terrorism because of other competing diplomatic issues with Pakistan. The Bush administration by contrast will only hold two cabinet-level meetings on terrorism during the nine-month period spanning from January 2001 to September 11 (see September 4, 2001). [New York Times, 12/30/2001]
Entity Tags: Small Group, Pakistan, Sandy Berger, Counterterrorism and Security Group
After the Bush administration takes office in January 2001, it is slow to develop new approaches to Pakistan and Afghanistan. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice orders a new policy review for al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, but sets no deadline for it to be completed. State Department officials will later say that Secretary of State Colin Powell shows little interest in the policy review. It takes four months for the Bush administration to even nominate a new assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs. President Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf exchange formal letters with each other shortly after Bush takes office, but the letters have little impact. In January, US ambassador to Pakistan William Milam prepares two cables to brief the new Bush administration about Pakistan, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. There is no response from Washington and no request for further information, even though Milam is the point person for meetings with the Taliban. The US embassy is not consulted at all about the new policy review, indicating just how low a priority the review is. A senior US diplomat will later say: "Al-Qaeda was not on the radar screen in Washington. Nobody thought there was any urgency to the policy review. Papers were circulated, dates were made to meet, and were broken—it was the usual bureaucratic approach." The first significant meeting related to the review takes place in April, but little is accomplished (see April 30, 2001). The first cabinet-level meeting relating to the policy review takes place on September 4, just one week before the 9/11 attacks. US policy towards Pakistan is discussed, but no firm decisions are reached (see September 4, 2001). After 9/11, Rice will say: "America's al-Qaeda policy wasn't working because our Afghanistan policy wasn't working. And our Afghanistan policy wasn't working because our Pakistan policy wasn't working. We recognized that America's counterterrorism policy had to be connected to our regional strategies and our overall foreign policy.… Al-Qaeda was both a client of and patron to the Taliban, which in turn was supported by Pakistan. Those relationships provided al-Qaeda with a powerful umbrella of protection, and we had to sever that." [Rashid, 2008, pp. 56-60]
Entity Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Al-Qaeda, Bush administration (43), George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Taliban, William Milam
Richard Clarke. [Source: Robert Flores/ Defense Information Systems Agency]Counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke submits a proposal to National Security Adviser Rice and "urgently" asks for a Cabinet-level meeting on the al-Qaeda threat. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 230-31] He forwards his December 2000 strategy paper and a copy of his 1998 "Delenda Plan"
(see August 27, 1998). He lays out a proposed agenda for urgent action: Approve covert assistance to Ahmed Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] Significantly increase funding for CIA counterterrorism activity. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] Respond to the USS Cole bombing with an attack on al-Qaeda. (The link between al-Qaeda and that bombing had been assumed for months and is confirmed in the media two days later.) According to the Washington Post, "Clarke argue[s] that the camps [are] can't-miss targets, and they [matter]. The facilities [amount] to conveyor belts for al-Qaeda's human capital, with raw recruits arriving and trained fighters departing either for front lines against the Northern Alliance, the Afghan rebel coalition, or against American interests somewhere else. The US government had whole libraries of images filmed over Tarnak Qila and its sister camp, Garmabat Ghar, 19 miles farther west. Why watch al-Qaeda train several thousand men a year and then chase them around the world when they left?" No retaliation is taken on these camps until after 9/11. [Washington Post, 1/20/2002] Go forward with new Predator drone reconnaissance missions in the spring and use an armed version when it is ready (see January 10-25, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] Step up the fight against terrorist fundraising. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] Be aware that al-Qaeda sleeper cells in the US are not just a potential threat, but are a "major threat in being." Additionally, more attacks have almost certainly been set in motion (see January 25, 2001). [Washington Post, 1/20/2002] Rice's response to Clarke's proposal is that the Cabinet will not address the issue until it has been "framed" at the deputy secretary level. However, this initial deputy meeting is not given high priority and it does not take place until April 2001. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 230-31] Henry Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman until 9/11, says, "The squeaky wheel was Dick Clarke, but he wasn't at the top of their priority list, so the lights went out for a few months. Dick did a pretty good job because he's abrasive as hell, but given the [bureaucratic] level he was at" there was no progress. [Benjamin and Simon, 2002, pp. 335-36; Los Angeles Times, 3/30/2004] Some counterterrorism officials think the new administration responds slowly simply because Clarke's proposal originally came from the Clinton administration. [Time, 8/12/2002] For instance, Thomas Maertenson, on the National Security Council in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, says, "They really believed their campaign rhetoric about the Clinton administration. So anything [that administration] did was bad, and the Bushies were not going to repeat it." [New York Times, 3/24/2004; Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 3/25/2004] The Bush administration will finally address the gist of Clarke's plan at a cabinet-level meeting on September 4, 2001, just one week before 9/11 (see September 4, 2001). Clarke will later comment that the plan adopted "on Sept. 4 is basically… what I proposed on Jan. 25. And so the time in between was wasted."
Entity Tags: Henry Hugh Shelton, Northern Alliance, Richard A. Clarke, Condoleezza Rice, Clinton administration, Al-Qaeda, Bush administration (43), Central Intelligence Agency, Thomas Maertenson, Taliban, Ahmed Shah Massoud
In 2005 (see February 10, 2005), it will be revealed that of the FAA's 105 daily intelligence summaries between these dates, 52 mention bin Laden, al-Qaeda, or both. Most of the mentions are "in regard to overseas threats." None of the warnings specifically predict something similar to the 9/11 attacks, but five of them mention al-Qaeda's training for hijackings and two reports concern suicide operations unconnected to aviation. [Associated Press, 2/11/2005] One of the warnings mentions air defense measures being taken in Genoa, Italy, for the July 2001 G-8 summit to protect from a possible air attack by terrorists (see July 20-22, 2001). However, the New Jersey Star-Ledger is virtually the only newspaper in the US to report this fact. [New Jersey Star-Ledger, 2/11/2005] Despite all these warnings, the FAA fails to take any extra security measures. They do not expand the use of in-flight air marshals or tighten airport screening for weapons. A proposed rule to improve passenger screening and other security measures ordered by Congress in 1996 has held up and is still not in effect by 9/11. The 9/11 Commission's report on these FAA warnings released in 2005 (see February 10, 2005) will conclude that FAA officials were more concerned with reducing airline congestion, lessening delays, and easing air carriers' financial problems than preventing a hijacking. [Associated Press, 2/11/2005] The FAA also makes no effort to expand its list of terror suspects, which includes only a dozen names by 9/11 (see April 24, 2000). The former head of the FAA's civil aviation security branch later says he wasn't even aware of TIPOFF, the government's main watch list, which included the names of two 9/11 hijackers before 9/11. Nor is there any evidence that a senior FAA working group responsible for security ever meets in 2001 to discuss "the high threat period that summer." [New York Times, 2/10/2005]
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Federal Aviation Administration, 9/11 Commission, US Congress, Al-Qaeda
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Around this time, intercepts from Afghanistan warn that al-Qaeda could attack an American target in late June or on the July 4 holiday. However, the White House's Cabinet-level principals group does not meet to discuss this prospect. This group also fails to meet after intelligence analysts overhear conversations from an al-Qaeda cell in Milan suggesting that bin Laden's agents might be plotting to kill Bush at the European summit in Genoa, Italy, in late July (see July 20-22, 2001). In fact, the group will only hold one meeting on terrorism before 9/11 (see September 4, 2001). [New York Times, 12/30/2001] According to 9/11 Commissioner Tim Roemer, before 9/11 the principals group met 32 times on other issues, such as Iraq, Russia, China, the Middle East, and missile defense. [Editor & Publisher, 10/1/2006] By comparison, the principals group met to discuss terrorism around once a week between 1998 and 2000 under Clinton (see Late August 1998-November 2000). [New York Times, 12/30/2001]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda
Abu Hamza al-Masri. [Source: BBC]The Italian Secret Service SISDE records a meeting in the Finsbury Park mosque, in northern London, Britain. Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri (an Afghanistan war veteran heading a radical Islamic group), Mustapha Melki (linked to al-Qaeda member Abu Doha—see February 2001), and a man only known as Omar talk to each other. Notes of the meeting state, "Abu Hamza proposed an ambitious but unlikely plot which involved attacks carried by planes." This is apparently a reference to an attack on the upcoming G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, scheduled in several weeks (see July 20-22, 2001). But unlike other reports of an al-Qaeda attack on that summit, this refers to an attack using more than one plane. The notes of the meeting conclude, "The belief that Osama bin Laden is plotting an attack is spreading among the radical Islamic groups." [Discovery News, 9/13/2001]
Entity Tags: US Secret Service, Mustapha Melki, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Al-Qaeda, Italian Secret Service, Osama bin Laden
In 2002, Newsweek will report: "The White House acknowledged for the first time, [President] Bush was privately beginning to worry about the stream of terror warnings he was hearing that summer, most of them aimed at US targets abroad. On July 5, five days before the Phoenix memo (see July 10, 2001), Bush directed [Condoleezza] Rice to figure out what was going on domestically." [Newsweek, 5/27/2002] In 2004, President Bush will explain why he requested this: "[T]he reason I did is because there had been a lot of threat intelligence from overseas. And part of it had to do with the Genoa [Italy] G8 conference that I was going to attend." [US President, 4/19/2004] Though he does not mention it, the chief security concern at the late July 2001 conference he mentions is intelligence that al-Qaeda plans to fly an airplane into the conference. This threat is so widely reported before the conference (with some reports before July 5 (see June 13, 2001 and Mid-July 2001) that the attack is called off (see July 20-22, 2001). For instance, in late June, Time magazine mentioned a German intelligence report of an Osama bin Laden plot "to fly remote-controlled model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens"
(see June 20, 2001). Bush will later claim that this request is specifically for the later-famous August 6, 2001 briefing entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" (see August 6, 2001), although the CIA analysts who draft it will deny this (see July 13, 2004). [US President, 4/19/2004]
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Al-Qaeda
Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet in the White House. This picture is actually taken on October 8, 2001, and President Bush is elsewhere in the room. [Source: Eric Draper / White House]CIA Director George Tenet finds the briefing that counterterrorism chief Cofer Black gave him earlier in the day (see July 10, 2001) so alarming that he calls National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice from his car as he heads to the White House and says he needs to see her right away, even though he has regular weekly meetings with her. [Washington Post, 10/1/2006] Tenet and Black let a third CIA official, Richard Blee, who is responsible for Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, brief Rice on the latest intelligence. Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke are also present. [McClatchy Newspapers, 10/2/2006] 'Significant Attack' - Blee starts by saying, "There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months!" He argues that it is impossible to pick the specific day, saying Osama bin Laden "will attack when he believes the attack will be successful." He mentions a range of threat information including: A warning related to Chechen leader Ibn Khattab (see (July 9, 2001)) and seven pieces of intelligence the CIA recently received indicating there would soon be a terrorist attack (see July 9-10, 2001); A mid-June statement by bin Laden to trainees that there would be an attack in the near future (see Mid-June 2001); Information that talks about moving toward decisive acts; Late-June information saying a "big event" was forthcoming; Two separate bits of information collected "a few days before the meeting" in which people predicted a "stunning turn of events" in the weeks ahead. This may be a reference to intercepts of calls in Yemen, possibly involving the father-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar (see June 30-July 1, 2001). Multiple, Simultaneous Attacks in US Possible - Blee says that the attacks will be "spectacular," they will be designed to inflict mass casualties against US facilities and interests, there may be multiple, simultaneous attacks, and they may be in the US itself. He outlines the CIA's efforts to disrupt al-Qaeda by spreading incorrect word that the attack plans have been compromised, in the hope that this will cause a delay in the attack. But he says this is not enough and that the CIA should go on the attack. Blee also discounts the possibility of disinformation, as bin Laden's threats are known to the public in the Middle East and there will be a loss of face, funds, and popularity if they are not carried out. Blee urges that the US take a "proactive approach" by using the Northern Alliance. [Tenet, 2007, pp. 151-4] Author Bob Woodward will later write: "Black emphasize[s] that this amount[s] to a strategic warning, meaning the problem [is] so serious that it require[s] an overall plan and strategy. Second, this [is] a major foreign policy problem that need[s] to be addressed immediately. They need […] to take action that moment—covert, military, whatever—to thwart bin Laden. The United States ha[s] human and technical sources, and all the intelligence [is] consistent." [Woodward, 2006, pp. 80; Washington Post, 10/1/2006] Richard Clarke expresses his agreement with the CIA about the threat's seriousness, and Black says, "This country needs to go on a war footing now." Rice's Response - There are conflicting accounts about the CIA's reading of Rice's response. According to Woodward: "Tenet and Black [feel] they [are] not getting through to Rice. She [is] polite, but they [feel] the brush-off." They leave the meeting frustrated, seeing little prospect for immediate action. Tenet and Black will both later recall the meeting as the starkest warning they gave the White House on al-Qaeda before 9/11 and one that could have potentially stopped the 9/11 attacks if Rice had acted on it (see July 10, 2001) and conveyed their urgency to President Bush. (Tenet is briefing Bush on a daily basis at this time, but he will later say that Rice has a much better rapport with the president.) Black will say, "The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head." [Woodward, 2006, pp. 80; Washington Post, 10/1/2006] Rice says that Bush will align his policy with the new realities and grant new authorities. Writing in 2007, Tenet will say that this response is "just the outcome I had expected and hoped for," and recall that as they leave the meeting, Blee and Black congratulate each other on having got the administration's attention. Nevertheless, Rice does not take the requested action until after 9/11. [Tenet, 2007, pp. 153-4] Rice Concerned about Genoa - Clarke will recall in 2006 that Rice focuses on the possible threat to Bush at an upcoming summit meeting in Genoa, Italy (see June 13, 2001 and July 20-22, 2001). Rice and Bush have already been briefed about the Genoa warning by this time (see July 5, 2001). Rice also promises to quickly schedule a high-level White House meeting on al-Qaeda. However, that meeting does not take place until September 4, 2001 (see September 4, 2001). [McClatchy Newspapers, 10/2/2006] Rice also directs that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft be given the same briefing, and they receive it a short time later (see July 11-17, 2001). Meeting Not Mentioned in 9/11 Commission Report - The meeting will not be mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report (see August 4, 2002), and there will be controversy when it is fully revealed in 2006 (see September 29, 2006, September 30-October 3, 2006, and October 1-2, 2006).
Entity Tags: Richard Blee, Stephen J. Hadley, White House, Osama bin Laden, Richard A. Clarke, George J. Tenet, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Cofer Black, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft
Anti-aircraft stationed around the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. [Source: BBC]The G8 summit is held in Genoa, Italy. Acting on previous warnings that al-Qaeda would attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders, Italian authorities surround the summit with anti-aircraft guns. They keep fighter jets in the air and close off local airspace to all planes. [Los Angeles Times, 9/27/2001] The warnings are taken so seriously that Bush stays overnight on an aircraft carrier offshore, and other world leaders stay on a luxury ship. [CNN, 7/18/2001] No attack occurs. US officials state that the warnings were "unsubstantiated," but after 9/11, they will claim success in preventing an attack. [Los Angeles Times, 9/27/2001] According to author Philip Shenon, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is involved in discussions about the precautions, and this is the only time she focuses on al-Qaeda threats in the summer of 2001. Shenon will add: "There is no record to show that Rice made any special effort to discuss terrorist threats with Bush. The record suggested, instead, that it was not a matter of special interest to either of them that summer." [Shenon, 2008, pp. 154]
Entity Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Philip Shenon, George W. Bush
The Bush administration holds no high-level meetings prior to 9/11 to discuss the 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US' Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) given to President Bush on August 6, 2001 (see August 6, 2001). Counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke will later suggest that 9/11 might have been stopped "if [National Security Adviser] Rice and the president had acted personally, gotten involved, shaken the trees, gotten the Cabinet members involved when they had ample warning in June and July and August that something was about to happen.… [Rice] said that the president received 40 warnings face to face from the director of central intelligence that a major al-Qaeda attack was going to take place and she admitted that the president did not have a meeting on the subject, did not convene the Cabinet. She admitted that she didn't convene the Cabinet. And as some of the [9/11 Commissioners] pointed out, this was in marked contrast to the way the government operated in December of 1999, when it had similar information and it successfully thwarted attacks." [ABC News, 4/8/2004] Former CIA official Larry Johnson will similarly comment, "At a minimum, the details in the 6 August PDB should have motivated Rice to convene a principals' meeting. Such a meeting would have ensured that all members of the president's national security team were aware of the information that had been shared with the president. George Bush should have directed the different department heads to report back within one week on any information relevant to the al-Qaeda threat. Had he done this there is a high probability that the FBI field agents concerns about Arabs taking flight training would have rung some bells. There is also a high probability that the operations folks at CIA would have shared the information they had in hand about the presence of al-Qaeda operators in the United States." [Tom Paine (.com), 4/12/2004] There will be one cabinet-level principals meeting to discuss terrorism on September 4, 2001, but no evidence has been released suggesting the PDB or the possibility of al-Qaeda attacking the US was discussed (see September 4, 2001).
Entity Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Richard A. Clarke, George W. Bush, Larry C. Johnson
President Bush's cabinet-rank advisers discuss terrorism for the second of only two times before 9/11. [Washington Post, 5/17/2002] National Security Adviser Rice chairs the meeting; neither President Bush nor Vice President Cheney attends. Counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke later says that in this meeting, he and CIA Director Tenet speak passionately about the al-Qaeda threat. No one disagrees that the threat is serious. Secretary of State Powell outlines a plan to put pressure on Pakistan to stop supporting al-Qaeda. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld appears to be more interested in Iraq. The only debate is over whether to fly the armed Predator drone over Afghanistan to attack al-Qaeda (see September 4, 2001). [Clarke, 2004, pp. 237-38] Clarke's earlier plans to "roll back" al-Qaeda first submitted on January 25, 2001 (see January 25, 2001) have been discussed and honed in many meetings and are now presented as a formal National Security Presidential Directive. The directive is "apparently" approved, though the process of turning it into official policy is still not done. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004] There is later disagreement over just how different the directive presented is from Clarke's earlier plans. For instance, some claim the directive aims not just to "roll back" al-Qaeda, but also to "eliminate" it altogether. [Time, 8/12/2002] However, Clarke notes that even though he wanted to use the word "eliminate," the approved directive merely aims to "significantly erode" al-Qaeda. The word "eliminate" is only added after 9/11. [Washington Post, 3/25/2004] Clarke will later say that the plan adopted "on Sept. 4 is basically… what I proposed on Jan. 25. And so the time in between was wasted." [ABC News, 4/8/2004] The Washington Post will similarly note that the directive approved on this day "did not differ substantially from Clinton's policy." [Washington Post, 3/27/2004] Time magazine later comments, "The fight against terrorism was one of the casualties of the transition, as Washington spent eight months going over and over a document whose outline had long been clear." [Time, 8/12/2002] The primary change from Clarke's original draft is that the approved plan calls for more direct financial and logistical support to the Northern Alliance and other anti-Taliban groups. The plan also calls for drafting plans for possible US military involvement, "but those differences were largely theoretical; administration officials told the [9/11 Commission's] investigators that the plan's overall timeline was at least three years, and it did not include firm deadlines, military plans, or significant funding at the time of the September 11, 2001, attacks." [Washington Post, 3/27/2004; Reuters, 4/2/2004]
Entity Tags: Taliban, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Al-Qaeda, Northern Alliance, Donald Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Richard A. Clarke, Condoleezza Rice
During the 9/11 Commission's twelfth public hearing, Commissioner Jamie Gorelick is sharply critical of NORAD's failure to protect the US on 9/11. NORAD failed because it "defined out of the job," she says. "[W]here was our military when it should have been defending us?" she asks General Richard Myers, who was the acting Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman on 9/11. "And the response… is that NORAD was not postured to defend us domestically unless someone was coming at us from abroad.… That's why I come back to this word posture, we were postured against an external threat." But, says Gorelick, the military's own directives clearly state that NORAD has an "air sovereignty" mission that is not limited to watching the borders. "[T]he foundation documents for NORAD, they do not say defend us only against a threat coming in from across the ocean, or across our borders. It has two missions, and one of them is control of the airspace above the domestic United States, and aerospace control is defined as providing surveillance and control of the airspace of Canada and the United States. To me that air sovereignty concept means that you have a role which, if you were postured only externally you defined out of the job." Posse Comitatus - Gorelick also dismisses the Posse Comitatus Act of 1876, which prohibits the military from acting in a law enforcement capacity, as one of the reasons for the military's failure. When Myers invokes the act, she quickly interrupts him. Myers says, "What we try to do is follow the law, and the law is pretty clear on Posse Comitatus and that is whether or not the military should be involved in domestic law enforcement." Gorelick replies: "Let me just interrupt, when I was general counsel of the Defense Department, I repeatedly advised, and I believe others have advised that the Posse Comitatus says, you can't arrest people. It doesn't mean that the military has no authority, obligation, or ability to defend the United Sates from attacks that happen to happen in the domestic United States." Unanswered Questions - Gorelick then pointedly asks Myers, a former NORAD commander, how the military came to neglect its air sovereignty mission: "[B]y what process was it decided to only posture us against a foreign threat?… [I]s it your job, and if not whose job is it, to make current assessments of a threat, and decide whether you are positioned correctly to carry out a mission, which at least on paper NORAD had?" She adds that on several occasions, such as the 1996 Olympics (see January 20, 1997) and the G8 summit in Genoa (see July 20-22, 2001), the government had prepared for air attacks. While Myers offers a general assurance that the US military is now better prepared for "non-traditional" attacks, he does not provide specific answers to Gorelick's questions. [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004]
Entity Tags: North American Aerospace Defense Command, Jamie Gorelick, Richard B. Myers, 9/11 Commission
In an interview, former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke says that the CIA purposefully withheld information from him about two future 9/11 hijackers for over a year before September 11. The interview was taped in October 2009, but is released now by documentary makers Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy ahead of a forthcoming podcast entitled "Who Is Rich Blee?" about the intelligence failures before 9/11. Clarke indicates he found out the CIA failed to pass information on to him not long after 9/11, but assumed the information had been honestly missed by a single junior officer. However, when he later learned at at least 50 officers accessed the information, he began to question this theory. (Note: the news that the information was accessed by at least 50 officers broke in August 2007—see Mid-January-March 2000 and August 21, 2007). According to Clarke, information of the sort the CIA had on two of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, was automatically forwarded to him, but he never heard their names before 9/11. Clarke, who admits he cannot prove his allegation that the information was withheld deliberately, says the best explanation he can come up with is that the CIA was attempting to turn the two hijackers into double agents, which is why nobody was told outside the agency. Clarke points out that alleged Saudi intelligence operatives working in the US (see January 15-February 2000 and Spring 2000) who knew the hijackers could have helped with this. Clarke mentions four officials who would have been involved in a decision to withhold information: CIA Director George Tenet, who followed information about al-Qaeda in "microscopic detail," Counterterrorist Center chief Cofer Black, Alec Station chief Richard Blee, and his deputy Tom Wilshire. Clarke also expresses wonder that the information was not mentioned at a key meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in July 2001 (see July 10, 2001) when Tenet, Black, and Blee were trying to get her to take strong action against al-Qaeda, because what they had on Almihdhar and Alhazmi was the "most persuasive piece of evidence" they had. He also does not understand why the CIA told the FBI in late August 2001 that the two hijackers had entered the country (see August 21-22, 2001). Clarke adds that the CIA presumably did not mention the fact that the two men were in the US at a meeting of high-level officials on September 4, 2001 (see September 4, 2001) because it would have angered Clarke and this would have led to an investigation in CIA "malfeasance and misfeasance" in concealing the information. However, he thinks the US authorities would have caught the hijackers with a "massive sweep" even if he had been told as late as September 4. Clarke also comments that he never asked Tenet and the other CIA officials about what had happened, as the facts became known to him over time. He also says that Tenet, Black, and Blee have got away with what they did, as they were not held to account by the Joint Congressional Inquiry or the 9/11 Commission. [John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, 8/11/2011; Truthout (.org), 8/11/2011] Tenet, Black, and Blee received an advance copy of the interview and issued a statement in response (see August 3, 2011).
Entity Tags: George J. Tenet, Cofer Black, Tom Wilshire, Richard A. Clarke, Central Intelligence Agency, Ray Nowosielski, John Duffy, Richard Blee
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Take Your Next Best Step
Wondering What's Next? You're not alone . . .
Guest Blogger, Beverly Berner, Mid-Life Coach & Strategist
Many of us who were born in the late 40's, 50's and early 60's are gradually moving into a new (and different) phase of our lives. We are no longer at the beginning of our career and many of us find we are ready to take our best next step.
By this time most of us have enjoyed at least some degree of professional success. We have had careers and positions we really loved — and most likely a few . . . well, maybe not so much. By this age, most of the kids are grown and (hopefully) launched. It's a whole new world out there and we are looking at it from a different vantage point. For many of us, this is the first time we have had the luxury of time and energy to really think about what that best next step will be.
Perhaps it's time for you to think about what would make the next phase of your life rewarding, enriching, even fun! As a professional coach, I would like to encourage you to be "self-full". Being "self-full" is not the same as being "selfish". When someone is selfish, it usually means someone else will suffer. By being "self-full" you are simply allowing yourself to take a good look at the years that have passed and do some deep self-reflection on what makes you happy and fulfilled vs. what drains energy from you. Now is the time to to "take your next best step" and use that information to help you make a plan for the future.
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A classic example of a "used but not abused" MG YA four door saloon which has a lovely "patina" from being constantly used for nearly 20 years.
A classic example of a "used but not abused" MG YA four door saloon which has a lovely "patina" from being constantly used for nearly 20 years by its previous owner. The MG drives really well and always starts on the button and shows no signs of any mechanical defects at all. As can be seen from the pictures on my web site, the interior trim and roof lining is still very respectable, the seats are still in good order, the dash panel is respectable, the speedometer works, the oil pressure gauge shows a good reading of 60lbs when the engine is idling.
As can be seen the engine has not been cleaned and is still in its original as driven condition. There is no slipping clutch and no problem with the gearbox. In the last few years the MG has had a new battery,new clutch bearing, clutch plate and clutch assembly and new brake linings. Although the MG won "Pride of Ownership" at Brands Hatch in 1986, it could at a later date benefit from a respray if the new owner wished to enter the MG in for competitions, but it's still very respectable.
The chassis and all the related chassis components (including the cars in built jacking system) are still in respectable condition.This is not a concours car but a very usable car which could be used on a daily basis without having any worry about getting it dirty. The MG comes with a comprehensive history file and receipts going back over forty years. The MG is being offered for sale with a full years MOT.
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Ross Pelton, RPh
Ross Pelton began his career in the health sciences by graduating from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy in 1966. Ross worked as a pharmacist for a number of years before joining the Peace Corps in 1972. As a pharmacist, he is an expert on pharmaceutical drugs and their life-altering side effects. As a certified clinical nutritionist (CCN), he counsels clients on diet, nutrition and natural therapies for a wide range of health issues. As a health care professional, Ross helps clients utilize and integrate the best of both worlds to achieve a healthier, longer life.
With over 30 years of research and scientific experience, Ross Pelton has turned his passion for educating people on their health into a legacy for thousands of clients around the world. Whether its tackling tough subjects like Safe Natural Therapies for Menopause, Preventing the Side Effects of Oral Contraception, Natural Therapies for Acne or Depression, Ross covers a myriad of subjects and speaks frankly about what you need to do naturally to take charge of your life.
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Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook
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2:55 Ross's Journey to Natural Solutions: He used to be a standard American diet kind of guy. In 1979 he stumbled upon a yoga class. Once he started doing yoga, he was surrounded with people who were into improving health. It ignited his passion. Using his background in pharmacy and medicine, he has been researching, learning, teaching and writing about health ever since.
5:00 Ross Pelton's Books: He has authored more than 10 books. His first book, Mind Food and Smart Pills, was one of the first books ever written about enhancing intelligence with drugs and nutrition, and the prevention of brain aging. He wrote Alternatives in Cancer Therapy: The Complete Guide to Alternative Treatments after he had spent years as the chief administrator for an alternative cancer treatment center in Baja Mexico. Then came How to Prevent Breast Cancer, which he co-authored with his wife. He then wrote Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook, which has become a classic reference book for medical professionals. It explains which nutrients are being depleted by prescription drugs. Since the reference book would not be used by as many professionals as they would like, he and his co-author rewrote the book so it could be used by the general public. Nutritional Cost of Prescription Drugs goes into detail about the importance of nutrients, as well as health problems from nutrient depletions caused by drugs.
7:31 The Pill Problem: Ross wrote this book to teach women to prevent the side effects from birth control pills. Oral contraceptives are the largest class of prescribed drugs that cause the greatest depletion in nutrients. Oral contraceptives deplete vitamin B-12, folic acid, coenzyme Q10, tyrosine, selenium and magnesium, which are all required for energy production. After years on the pill, women can experience extreme low energy.
8:54 Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms Appear Gradually: Nutrient depletions have a gradual onset of actions. People do not connect these actions with their medications. Most drug side effects happen quickly. Ross would like to see drug companies do testing on nutrient depletions as part of the drug approval process.
12:09 Chemicals: There are 70,000 chemicals manufactured in the US every year. Only 1,500 have been studied for toxicity. Even with glyphosate in Roundup, it is challenging to get enough data to create a campaign against it. Chemicals are generally tested for how much it would take to kill you, not on general effects upon your body.
13:42 Neurological Effects of Birth Control Pills: Oral contraceptives deplete vitamin B-6, which is required for serotonin production. Women taking birth control pills also have lower levels of tyrosine, which is a precursor for dopamine and norepinephrine. Both neuropathways are interrupted or inhibited. Women on birth control pills are several times more likely to be depressed or have anxiety than women who have never taken them. The side effects from anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs are horrible. In animal studies, with human equivalent doses, these drugs cause brain damage. Forty to 60% of their serotonin receptors were destroyed. We don't know if these receptors come back. Drug companies call this loss Downregulation. He wrote the book The Pill Problem, so women could compensate for these nutrient depletions.
17:02 The Hormones in Birth Control Pills: These steroidal hormones are very powerful. A woman's body was not designed to ingest them. Ross thinks that these strong chemicals damage sensitive receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, causing a problem with the absorption of nutrients.
18:23 Drugs Given for Acne: Women are put on birth control pills to control acne or they are up on antibiotics. These things harm the health and the lives of women.
18:55 Depletion of Critical Nutrients for Cognition: Magnesium, B-12, folate, and coQ10 are all involved with energy production. The heart and the brain are the most energy-demanding organs in the body. These deficiencies negatively impact energy at the cellular level, have a negative influence on how messages are sent along the neurons. Many people who are suffering from early stages of Alzheimer's are actually suffering from a vitamin B-12 deficiency. Sometimes a weekly intramuscular injection of vitamin B-12 can dramatically improve cognition in the elderly.
21:10 Preventing Accumulation and Enhancing Elimination of Toxins: The most important way to improve detoxification is by elevating levels of glutathione. Glutathione is the master antioxidant and the master detoxifier in our bodies. When you take it orally, it is broken down and destroyed by your metabolism or it is oxidized and no longer functional. There is a new strain of probiotic called lactobacillus fermentum ME-3, called ME-3 for short. It produces glutathione. In human clinical trials with ME-3, there has been a substantial reduction in oxidized LDL cholesterol, which means that you are lowering cardiovascular risk. There are also lower levels of 8 isoprostane, which is another marker of free radical damage related to unsaturated fats. There is a 49% increase in the ratio of reduced glutathione to oxidized glutathione, so you are dramatically increasing the active levels of glutathione. It causes a 26% increase in total antioxidant activity. This probiotic is a game-changer in health and medicine by being able to significantly increase glutathione levels. This means that you can detoxify heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic and mercury, as well as organophosphates, and other agricultural pesticides and insecticides.
23:10 Glutathione: Glutathione is required in the metabolism of alcohol. It is required for the metabolism of Tylenol or acetaminophen, which is the number one cause of liver failure. All prescription drugs and some over the counter drugs require glutathione for detoxification. If glutathione is depleted, you build up more toxins and have more free radical damage, accelerating the aging process. By taking lactobacillus fermentum ME-3, in one pill you have 6 billion bacteria that are little glutathione manufacturing plants. Strains of a particular probiotic are unique. Lactobacillus acidophilus has 128 strains. Multi-strain probiotics are found to be more effective than single strain. Probiotics in the digestive system are now known to have over 20,000 different functions.
25:45 LactobacillusFermentum ME-3: It was found by scientists in 1995. It was isolated from the GI tract of a healthy 1 year old child. When they tested it for antioxidant activity, it was off the charts. In 20 years of study, scientists have discovered that ME-3 boosts glutathione by 3 different mechanisms: the bacteria themselves can synthesize it, the bacteria can extract it from the surrounding environment if it is available, and the bacteria will recycle oxidized glutathione back to its active reduced form. ME-3 also produces manganese superoxide dismutase, which is also a critical intracellular antioxidant. ME-3 upregulates a group of antioxidant enzymes, which detoxify organophosphates and other agricultural pesticides. ME-3 is being called a Broad Spectrum Biological Probiotic, because if affects every cell in your body. Glutathione is produced in every cell and its job is to provide antioxidant protection for each cell. It is a critical compound for health and longevity.
29:02 Organophosphates: They are the most widely used pesticides and insecticides in agriculture and residentially, in lawns and gardens. It is neurotoxic. It is much more damaging for children's developing brains and nervous systems when they are exposed. In a national nutrition survey in 2003/2004, 93% of children examined had metabolites of one or more organophosphates. These chemicals are in the food, not on the food. Eat organic foods to avoid pesticide exposure.
32:41 Overcoming Anxiety and Depression Naturally: Ross believes passionately that there are safe and effective natural therapies for anxiety and depression that work. As a pharmacist, he is keenly aware of the problems with prescription antidepressant and antianxiety drugs. They change the architectural structure of the brain as well as the biochemistry of the brain. These are long term problems that do not go away by stopping the drug. It is very difficult to discontinue these drugs. Once the brain and receptors sites change; you are addicted to the drug. Ross has a 4 hour online seminar which goes into great detail about the many natural therapies he recommends. He talks about serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine precursors, as well as methyl donors which are critical in the production of neurotransmitters. He talks about herbal agents that have positive effects. He talks about sugar and artificial sweeteners. There are long term studies that show that people who drink more soft drinks and consume more sugar have 3 to 4 times greater levels of depression. People on junk food diets have much higher levels of depression. Ross says that there are many effective therapies for mild to moderate depression, but not many for major depression. Exercise is an effective therapy on even major depressive disorders.
36:15 Healthy Aging: Maintaining muscle mass is the number one factor in healthy aging. It requires strength training in the form of weight lifting or resistance exercise to gain and maintain muscle mass, or you'll lose it. At 72 years of age, Ross is passionately involved in CrossFit. Exercise is a Keystone Habit. Once you start exercising, you start eating healthier foods, sleeping better and hanging out with healthier people.
38:52 The Effects of Exercise on Mitochondria: When you do high intensity weight training, will force your muscles to build more mitochondria. When you have more mitochondria in your muscles, you have more energy available. The heart is the most energy demanding muscle in the human body. About 70% of the volume of your heart muscle is mitochondria. Exercise affects every cell in your body. It was recently discovered that when you exercise your muscles to exhaustion, your body compensates by producing a protein that brings more oxygen and more nutrients into the muscle cells to compensate for fatigue. This accelerates muscle growth.
41:17 High Intensity Interval Training: Doing intervals on an elliptical or bike, or doing Tabatas, 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest, 8 repetitions until your muscles are fatigued, brings you much greater benefit in a much shorter amount of time. You get 90% of the benefit of your exercise out of the top 10% of your physical capabilities.
42:41 Exercise Motivation for the Over 50 Crowd: Anyone at any age can get involved in exercise and start to push themselves. A good trainer can work with you to design a program that works for your age and level of physical fitness. Start where you are and then push yourself. Even with walking, add intervals where you are walking quickly. There are inexpensive things that you can do that will change your life.
48:50: 5HTP or Serotonin Precursors for People on an SSRI: There is a dangerous condition called Serotonin Syndrome which happens when serotonin levels go too high. Adding these precursors is a delicate balancing act.
49:52 Optimal Health and Wellness: We should optimize brain chemistry and optimize the function of our bodies. Ross says that there are a multitude of studies that show that nutrient intake in levels higher than RDA recommendations produce significant benefits. RDA recommendations have nothing to do with optimal health and wellness. You want lots of extra antioxidants on board for chemical exposures, stress or other things that will require the expenditure of great amounts of antioxidants.
52:12 Ross's Morning Routine: He is an admitted mocha addict, so every morning he makes himself soy mocha. He often makes a fruit smoothie which includes freshly ground flax seed, and a scoop of good quality whey protein powder. Sometimes he makes an omelet with eggs and ground vegetables.
53:14 Ross's Favorite Nutrient, Herb, Botanical or Whole Food: For years his favorite nutrient has been coenzyme Q10. He feels it is the number one agent for life extension and antiaging. It prevents free radical damage in your mitochondria. But now that he knows about lactobacillus fermentum ME-3 and its ability to create glutathione in your body, it is his new favorite. ME-3 is being marketed in 3 products by Essential Formulas called Reg'Activ. There are 3 different formulas: Detox and Liver Health, Immune and Vitality, and Cardio Wellness. All three contain lactobacillus fermentum ME-3 along with support ingredients that are condition specific.
55:06 One Lifestyle or Health Tip for Americans: GMO foods and glyphosate/Roundup are the most damaging things facing mankind and they should be eliminated.


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I had a great opportunity to participate in the VYCR Program in Colusa all Saturday afternoon. My husband and I had time to explore the beautiful view of the Sacramento River. After having lunch with the council, they took us to visit a store owner whose father had a very similar history has my husband's father – coming from China at a fairly young age and working as a cook for the surrounding region in ranches. There's a very strong Chinese American history in Colusa – a hidden underground city, opium dens, then later cooks….a now a respected grocery store owner.
We attended the lecture by UC Riverside professor on science fiction in Colusa's firehouse. Very interesting and well attended. The rest of the afternoon was activities and exhibits including mine.
Roberta James did a fabulous job of pulling quotes out from "Fahrenheit 451" to match the paintings. We were impressed out it all fitted.
I want to thank the committee and particular Roberta and Elizabeth for all your effort in putting this program together so well.


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Lawmakers want to pass a law allowing slot machines in the state of Maryland. To do so, they're trying to get people to vote on changing the state's constitution. All of that because they can't control their spending.
I'm not a fan of slots. It's too slow. There's no action going on. I want to seize the moment and live, not just sit there pushing buttons like some automaton. For that, give me table games. Give me craps.
One of my greatest fears is that I have an addictive personality. I worry that I'm just a hedonist who enjoys pleasures. And I find craps to be immensely pleasurable. Living in Maryland means that I am limited from indulging myself in gambling and that I must resort to long trips to Las Vegas (where the odds are better than Atlantic City).
Ever since our trip to Sandia Peak on Friday, I've been noticing the signs for the Sandia Resort and Casino located on Native American Reservation lands. Just a few minutes from downtown Albuquerque and a stone's throw from Balloon Fiesta Park and I can be throwing dice, rolling numbers and making big money while the casino comps me with meals, hotel rooms and fast women. It's the American Dream.
I arrive at the casino around 10pm and I smell the scent of a bygone era. Cigarette smoke. How odd and how anti-American it seems nowadays. While I detest cigarettes, their smell reminds me of a bygone era when Americans were once free to choose how they lived and enjoyed an existence away from the police state that is America today. I inhale deeply, filling my lungs with secondhand smoke just because I can.
As I approach the craps table I notice the table is hot and maneuver myself into position. The Shooter is rolling numbers and everyone is making money. I'm a big time gambler, so I lay my forty dollars on the table and start betting. There's five dollars on the pass line and ten dollars on the odds bet. The point is five. After a couple of rolls, a five comes up and we all make money. It's happy-happy, joy-joy all around.
After a little while, I'm up by one hundred dollars and that's when the shooter sevens out. All is lost and we start again. Not wanting to walk away from the action of the table, I ride out the next couple of shooters and take a bath. After the fourth shooter, I walk away from the table with $44. I've just made four dollars in one hour.
I cash in my chips and walk around the casino to check it out. After learning craps several years ago, nothing appeals to me. Poker requires too much concentration. There's too many variables in blackjack. Roulette is just a big crap shoot. But craps is all action. You can win fast and you can lose fast. Time your free drink orders correctly because you might be wiped out by the time the cocktail waitress comes back.
My stroll takes me back to the same craps table where the dice have just been passed back to Jose, the original shooter. And Jose has his magic back. He starts hitting numbers. My five dollar world bet hits and money rains down on me. The shooter is making point and we're winning money again.
Truth be told, in spite of that odd five dollar world bet, I'm playing it very conservatively. Five dollar pass line with the maximum five times odds bet of $25. After reading the statistics, the pass line bet and odds bets are the safest bets on the table. The rest are just sucker bets that increase the house margin against you. That said, it is those sucker bets that make craps so darn exciting. Placing money on the numbers, pressing your winnings, bringing your bets back when the hards roll soft, C&E bets - all of these allow you to win big money, but they also allow you to lose big money.
After a little while, I'm up another hundred bucks. I'm making money. And once again, the seven comes up and we lose it all. But I'm still a hundred ahead...
"In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose and in the end, we get it all."
- Robert DeNiro as Ace Rothstein in Casino
And like a fool, I keep playing. I know this quote. It's in my head. I know that casinos are built because of people like me winning. They're built because people like me lose all their money. But I keep going because I'm lured by the action - even when the dice have turned cold and the shooters keep rolling sevens.
In the end, I walked away from the table with forty-nine dollars. In just under two hours, I had made about $4.50 per hour. I had made less than minimum wage.
But I had a great time doing it.
Next time, I just know I'm gonna hit it big...
Sunday, October 05, 2008
New Mexico: Not Quite Minimum Wage
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New Mexico: El Patio
New Mexican Style Cuisine at El Patio.
Before I left for Albuquerque, I asked former residents Bryan and Maria what was the one place that I had to try. El Patio was it. BTW, it's pronounced "patio" as in "outdoor patio" and not the Spanish styled "pah-tee-oh." To do so would be very un-New Mexican.
On the way there, I called Bryan and Maria to ask for menu recommendations. Maria recommended the red chile enchilada with extra potatoes and Bryan recommended the stuffed sopapilla. I would try both.
Tortilla chips, firery hot salsa and a Dr. Pepper.
I'm all alone at El Patio because Maria has flown back to Phoenix so she can go back to work tomorrow. It's a chilly night here in Albuquerque and Maria (Bryan's wife) said that I "had" to sit outside on the patio for full effect. It's no problem getting a table because everyone else is inside keeping warm. At least my server thanked me for sitting outside so she could "cool off" a little.
El Patio is located on a side street off Central Avenue (seems like everything is on Central in Albuquerque) and close to the University of New Mexico campus. Hold on a moment: "university" and "Mexican" together usually means something horrifically crappy but not here at El Patio. They keep things real here.
First up is an order of chips and red salsa. The salsa is smoking hot and I can't take too much of it without burning my mouth and rendering my tastebuds useless, but I want to eat more of it because it's that good.
For my meal, I decide not to hold back. Let me have both the enchilada and the stuffed sopapilla. Immediately, I realize that perhaps I've made a mistake. Both orders are huge. Even though the sopapilla is a side order and not the full dinner, it's massive. Puffy fried dough stuffed with spiced ground beef topped with green chile sauce and cheese - my God, who thinks of these things??? It's amazing. Delicious. The meat is delicately balanced with the spice of the chiles. The dough is chewy and I want to eat more but I mustn't.
Stuffed Sopapilla
The enchiladas are more of the same. One cheese and the other beef, drenched in red chile sauce. It's good. It's hot but the flavor is not as compelling as that of the green chiles. This seals it: I'm a green chile fan, not a red chile fan. The enchiladas come with refried pinto beans which are good, but it's the potatoes that rock the house. I should have ordered a double like I was instructed.
Done. I can't eat another bite.
The bottom line is that it's too much. I can't finish half of either dish. I'm defeated but luckily there are takeaway containers and I pile all my leftovers into the containers for some midnight eating later.
El Patio de Albuquerque
142 Harvard Drive SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
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New Mexico: I Scream Ice Cream
Maria and our ice creams.
I've been using publications like The Alibi to find interesting places to eat while in Albuquerque. It's those recommendations bolstered by the real world local input from Bryan and Maria (the other Maria) that helped us choose where to eat. Now, Maria's an ice cream hog and after our drive down from Santa Fe, she's in the mood for more ice cream. It's here where the people of Burque let us down.
Listed as the "best" ice cream in Albuquerque is Cold Stone Creamery? Cold Stone, really? What is this place, some sort of suburban backwoods? Is the "best" that Burque has to offer a national chain? We can't do national chains - not when we can get that same crap at home. When on the road, we want something different. Something real. Something that we can't get in the suburbs.
According to the articles, Cold Stone is the only ice cream business actually producing ice cream in New Mexico. All other ice cream production has moved out of state. How is this possible? This is the desert. There are no places that make their own ice cream - in the whole state???
Somewhere, out there on Carlisle Boulevard, not too far away from downtown is a place called I Scream Ice Cream. They don't make their own ice cream but they do have one of the larger, out of state dairies make a line of ice creams specifically for them and no one else. Plus the articles on I Scream tell of a magical place that's unlike any other ice cream parlor in the state and perhaps the nation.
Most importantly, it's local and it's not serving a national brand like Dreyer's - which seems to be quite popular at ice cream places out here.
Albuquerque is a land of strip shopping centers and I Scream falls into place in one. It's the typical concrete with glass and aluminum framing construction you've seen all across America, then you step in.
Along the right wall as you walk into the shop is the service line. A long bank of ice cream dipping cabinets offering all sorts of flavors. Velcro'd to the top of the cabinets' display glass are quarter pans of all sorts of toppings, from animal crackers to gummi bears to peanuts and more. Bill, the owner and one of his staffers are manning the counter and a couple with their two kids are just finishing their orders as we arrive.
Sounds like a typical ice cream shop, right? Not quite. The rest of the shop is jammed with posters, wall hangings, signs, placards, and lots and lots of toys. It's like children's paradise in here. This place is designed to allow kids to run amok. Go crazy. Get wild and dress up and play tea party. The amount of games, toys and costumes is bewildering. The toys range to satisfy all ages - there's even a few Darth Vader helmets in case Maria and I want to re-enact Star Wars (she's Chewbacca to my Han Solo).
It's quite an amazing sight. It's busy. It's jam packed. It's crazy but you suddenly feel overwhelmed with - how do I put this? You're overwhelmed with happiness. I want to grab some of those cars and drive them across the table tops with death-defying stunts and unbelievable aerobatics. Oh yes, my robber will escape from those cops. Oh yes, they will.
After ordering our ice creams (Maria gets pumpkin pie and a berry of some sort with whipped cream, I get pumpkin pie and cookies & cream with animal crackers) we chat will Bill the owner a little while Maria splits her attention with the Colts game on the television (death to Colts, I say). Bill is a fun and welcoming guy to talk to and he tells us why his prices are so low.
I mean my ice cream cost less than three dollars. Bill says that he built this place so that families could come and enjoy ice cream for less than ten bucks. A family of four going out for ice cream for less than ten bucks? That's doing true community service in my book. And this place is jammed with toys so that the kids can play amongst themselves and the parents can let their guard down for a few minutes while here. I can't believe I hadn't thought of this.
Everyday, each and every toy is scrubbed clean by Bill and his staff. Considering how many toys are in this place, I can't imagine how long it would take to do so. If it were me, I'd install some sort of room sterilization machine to do to the work for me, but this place is truly a labor of love for Bill and it shows.
The cookies and cream ice cream is good, but the true winner is the pumpkin pie. It tastes just like real pumpkin pie and I can't get enough of it. I want to order more, but I decide to play it smart and hold back. Afterall, the night is still young.
The Colts are winning, our ice creams are finished and Maria's flight is leaving in half an hour, time to go. We leave Bill and company behind in the afternoon lull between children's birthday parties. No doubt that in just an hour's time, I Scream will be packed with screaming kids running amok once again.
I Scream Ice Cream
2000 Carlisle Boulevard NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
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New Mexico: Football!
Maria reading the sports pages before the upcoming game.
About a week before our trip to Albuquerque, Maria calls me to check if I've got everything planned out. While she likes to travel, she's big into planning and knows that I have a penchant for last minute flights, hotels and car arrangements. I tell her a little white lie and say that everything is planned and ready to go.
Okay, it's not exactly a white lie. Everything is planned out. I've got the flights, got the car reservation and have the first nights' hotel reserved. It's just the other nights that haven't been reserved yet. I know where we're staying, I just need to inform the hotel that we'll be staying there. Either way, it's all good.
Of course, Balloon Fiesta is in town, which also means that the population of Albuquerque doubles, but I don't have any trouble securing us a room.
But the real reason she's calling is to negotiate an activity (or inactivity as it were). She's cool with going anywhere and doing anything, but she wants to know if we can take some time Sunday to watch the Redskins game on television.
In the world that I'm used to living in, it's typically the man who's trying to negotiate with the woman for some football time, not the other way around. Truth be told, I really don't care for football. I almost never watch it on tv, and when I had season tickets to the Ravens, I almost never went to the games. There's more going on in my life than sitting in front of the tv on any day or night (much less Sundays) to watch anything - especially football. It's just not part of my reality.
But I'm an accommodating and affable chap and we find a place in Santa Fe to watch the Redskins on a big screen tv at the bar. She's got on her Redskins jersey and I offer to beat up the guy wearing the Eagles jersey just because. Luckily, she's not into violence which saves me from getting beat up (since I don't like to fight) by the rather large New Mexican local wearing the Philly jersey.
I'm cool with the Redskins, but she's a fan of the Colts and I can't support the Colts. As a true Baltimorean, I cannot support the team that sprinted away in the night back in 1983. I just can't. She's a Colts fan and a Ravens hater because she dislikes Baltimore, my home town.
Okay, I know I said that football really doesn't matter to me, but when you're a Colts fan and a Ravens hater because you dislike my city, we have a problem. Publicly, I'm feigning disinterest in the games surrounding us (we can see all three teams playing separate games). The Redskins are winning, the Colts are winning - hell, even the Ravens are winning.
Secretly, I'm hoping for a Ravens victory and Colts defeat so I can tell her to go suck it.
But no matter how much of a lead the Ravens may have in the first half of the game, those years holding season tickets taught me one thing: they can't hold the lead. Inevitably, the Ravens will falter and give up the lead and their victory, leaving us fans bitter and disappointed. And today, the Ravens stayed true to form losing to the Tennessee Titans 13 to 10. Crap.
Still feigning disinterest in Maria's glory that the Ravens lost and both the Redskins and Colts won, I pray to the football gods that my Baltimore Ravens will crush and destroy Peyton Manning and his Indianapolis Colts next Sunday so I can tell them all to suck it next weekend.
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text: Home > WATCH: Sandara Park guest stars on 'PBB' ABS-CBN News Posted at May 17 2014 11:24 AM | Updated as of Oct 12 2016 02:23 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MANILA - Korean pop star Sandara Park appeared on an episode of the reality television show "Pinoy Big Brother: All In" on Friday. Park, who is one fourth of girl group 2NE1, was asked to help out the housemates for a Korean-themed webisode, which was also the finale of the series entitled "Hmm Pak True Lab." "Natulala po ako kasi si Sandara Park po nandito. Sikat na sikat siya sa Korea, sikat na sikat siya sa Pilipinas," admitted Fifth Solomon, who was asked by Kuya for his reaction on the surprise celebrity house guest. The 30-year-old singer, who was wearing a bright red pullover dress, was met with similar awe from other housemates, with some blurting out introductions and amazement over Park's fluency in the Filipino language. Former child star Jane Oineza instantly recognized Park and shared that she once impersonated the pop star for a parody of the latter's hit song, "In Or Out." "Oh my gosh si Sandara Park. Ang ganda niya Kuya sa personal. Para siyang Barbie," said Oineza. After the shoot for the webisode, Park gamely traded stories with the housemates. She told celebrity house guest Alex Gonzaga that a Korean "friend" of hers wanted to say hi. "Si Ryan Bang ba yan?" asked Solomon --a question which seemed to startle the singer. "Crush niya ako," Gonzaga quickly added, much to the amusement of everyone in the room, including Park. In the episode, Park taught the housemates several Korean expressions, including one for "you are beautiful" and "how are you." She also showed off her dance moves when she performed to the tune of 2NE1's hit "Fire," with self-confessed K-pop fan Maris Racal. "Ang cute niya po sobra. Sobrang humble po. Nakangiti siya lang lagi," said Loisa Andalio in the house's "confession room." Park, before leaving the Big Brother house, shared that she would've loved to stay for a night if she had the time. "Kung wala lang akong work, matutulog ako dyan," she told Kuya. "Kaya lang baka magbabayad ako kasi may contract ako. May gagawin ako bukas," said Park, who will be at the Mall of Asia Arena this weekend for her group's "All or Nothing" tour. "Pero kung wala, mag-stay pa ako dito." Tops trending topics again Park's appearance, which was her second time for the reality television show, immediately dominated social media conversations on Twitter Friday evening. The episode's official hashtag #SANDARAinPBBALLIN reached No.1 in the list of worldwide trending topics on the micro-blogging site. 2 Worldwide trend! Thank you so much guys! @PBBabscbn @krungy21 @WeLoveDara #SANDARAinPBBALLIN #5YearsWith2NE1 pic.twitter.com/GePc0F7FDZ — Sandara Park (@PBBDara) May 16, 2014 Other terms such as "Hi Sandy" and "Bye Dara" were also part of the worldwide trends moments after the episode aired. This came as no surprise, however, as since her arrival last Thursday, Park and her several television guestings frequently topped both local and worldwide trends. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Entertainment,Editor's Pick,Pinoy Big Brother,PBB,Sandara park,2NE1,tv Read More: Pinoy Big Brother PBB Sandara park 2NE1


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The study of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender relations during the Middle Ages is a new area of research, with some of the first important books on the topics being published in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Since then many scholars have been examining how same-sex practices and relationships were viewed in the medieval period. For the most part, any homosexual behaviour was considered sinful by medieval society, and often laws against sodomy proscribed harsh penalties such as castration and execution.
On the other hand, research has revealed that at times, same-sex relationships were tolerated and that positive depictions about homosexuality can be found in medieval literature.
Special posts related to LGBT and Middle Ages
Intersex in the Middle Ages – A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.
How far did medieval society recognise lesbianism in this period? – by Catherine Tideswell
Mischievous Monks and Naughty Nuns? Scholar re-examines the illicit sexual accusations against monasteries in England during the dissolution
Gay Reformers? Why the Medieval Church Banned Priests from Marrying
Queer Pedagogy (A Roundtable) – report on a roundtable session from the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Holding it Straight: Sexual Orientation in the Middle Ages – Lecture by Dr Robert Mills, UCL History of Art
Here is a list of articles that are available online about same-sex relations in the Middle Ages:
The transformation of homosexual Liebestod in sagas translated from Latin, by David Ashurst
Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women, by Sahar Amer
"Lesbian-Like" and the Social History of Lesbianisms, by Judith M. Bennett
Two Women and their Monumental Brass, c. 1480, by Judith M. Bennett
The Cuckold, His Wife, and Her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, the Decameron, and the Libro de buen amor, by Sandra Bialystok
State power and illicit sexuality: the persecution of sodomy in late medieval Bruges, by Marc Boone
On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies, by David Lorenzo Boyd
Disrupting the Norm: Sodomy, Culture, and the Male Body in Peter Damian's Liber Gomorrhianus, by David Lorenzo Boyd
The myth of lesbian impunity: capital laws from 1270 to 1791, by Louis Crompton
The Heterosexual Subject of Chaucerian Narrative, by Carolyn Dinshaw
Queer Relations, by Carolyn Dinshaw
Bertilak Reads Brut: History and the Complications of Sexuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Heidi Estes
Gay Studies and Feminism: A Medievalist's Perspective, by Simon Gaunt
The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages, by Paul Halsall
Addressing the Issue of Lesbianism in a General Course on Women in the Middle Ages, by Sylvia Huot
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages, by Warren Johansson and William A. Percy
An Unknown Aspect in the Life of Al-Jahiz, by Mohammad Khalil
Between Monks: Tales of Monastic Companionship in Early Byzantium, by Derek Krueger
Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000, by Christine McCann
The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality, by Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran
Remarriage and Ass-F**king: Shifty Byzantine Views of Sex, by Stephen Morris
Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Society, by Stephen O. Murray
Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), by Helmet Puff
Personae, Same-Sex Desire, and Salvation in the Poetry of Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, and Hildebert of Lavardin, by Tison Pugh
Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia, by Sami Raninen
Homoerotic Liasons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria, by Everett K. Rowson
Representing the Negative: Positing the Lesbian Void in Medieval English Anchoritism, by Michelle M. Sauer
Brotherhood of Vice: Sodomy Islam, and the Knights Templar, by Mark Steckler
Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity, by Bruce Vernarde
(Un)Natural Love: Homosexuality in Late Medieval English Literature: Langland, Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain Poet, by Swaeske de Vries
More Articles
These articles are not online but are useful resources on the topic:
Uncovering difference: encoded homoerotic anxiety within the Christian eremitic tradition in medieval England, by Michelle M. Sauer, Journal of the History of Sexuality 19:1 (2010)
A river runs through it: disability, homosexuality queered/disabled discourse, and the Isle of Blandie in Bérinus, by Edward Wheatley, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19:3 (2007)
Homosexuality and marriage in a fifteenth-century Italian humanist comedy: The Debate between Cavichiolus and his Wife, by Neil Cartlidge, Journal of Medieval Latin, 15 (2006)
Knighthood, compulsory heterosexuality, and sodomy, by Ruth Mazo Karras, The Boswell Thesis: Essays on "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (2006)
Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-century France, by Matthew S. Kuefler, The Boswell Thesis: Essays on "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (2006)
Sermons of sodomy: a reconsideration of Edward II's sodomitical reputation, by Ian Mortimer, The Reign of Edward II: New Perspectives (2006)
The writable lesbian and lesbian desire in Malory's Morte Darthur, by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14:2 (2002)
The erased lesbian: sodomy and the legal tradition in medieval Europe, by Edith Benkov, Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (2001)
In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium, by Dion C. Smythe, Desire and Denial in Byzantium. Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (1999)
Hrotswitha's attitude towards homosexuality, by Edoardo D'Angelo, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch: Internationale Zeitschrift für Mediävistik / International Journal of Medieval Studies 34:1 (1999)
Muhammad and male homosexuality, by Kim Wafer, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature (1997)
Twice marginal and twice invisible: lesbians in the Middle Ages, by Jacqueline Murray, Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996)
Ut cum muliere: a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth-century London, by Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd, Premodern Sexualities (1996)
Sexual deviation as heresy in the XII-XIVth centuries, by Michael E. Goodich, Modernité et non-conformisme en France à travers les âges. Actes du Colloque organisé par l'Institut d'Histoire et de Civilisation Françaises de l'Université de Haïfa (1983)
The pardoner's homosexuality and how it matters, by Monica E. McAlpine, PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 95:1 (1980)
Links to other resources
People with a History – the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people, edited by Paul Halsall
Homosexuality in Medieval Iberia – extract from the Encyclopedia of Medieval Iberia (2003)
The Questioning of John Rykener, A Male Cross-Dressing Prostitute, 1395 – from the Medieval Sourcebook
The 600 Year Tradition Behind Same-Sex Unions – by Allan Tulchin, History News Network


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I've gone through the note a few times now. I'm still confused as to the overall goals of the document and where the use cases are supposed to fit in. Rather than asking how we can improve the use cases, if we have the right twenty cases, or how we can link them to other structures, I think we should reconsider the use cases as a starting point. Are the use cases as they appear in this note are the right way to think about defining the problems we want to solve and evaluating solutions? It appears I'm not the only one who can't keep twenty use cases in my head at once. I think it's quite telling that we don't actually refer to a single use case anywhere in the document other than the location we enumerate them. I posit that if we had a good model for thinking about the problems we want to solve, we would be able apply that model elsewhere---such as when we talk about the failures and benefits of the status quo in solving these problems. Furthermore, I've not seen any proposal for how these use cases can be applied for evaluating solutions. Will we say that a proposal helps for use cases 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 19, and 20? We will evaluate proposals by counting the use cases they address? The structure I proposed was to replace the "actual interaction" in the use case dimensions with the threat trees. We keep the rest of the use case dimensions, but don't enumerate individual use cases until we need examples. Such a lazy algorithm will greatly reduce the number of cases we need to enumerate. While the use case dimensions and threat trees are far from ideal, they do provide more structure for scoping problems and understanding solutions. One can look at problems as branches and compare solutions by the portions of the tree they are intended to cover. Unlike the twenty use cases, I can immediately see how structured information would interact with the rest of the note. For example, in the section of the note on merits of the status quo, we could better explain the problems that existing solutions are intended to solve, and where they fall short, using the threat trees. == In [8.1] Widely deployed, strong cryptography "When SSL/TLS is active, cryptography and PKI work to mitigate the threat of man-in-the middle impersonation attacks (Threat 1.B) and network eavesdropping attacks (Threat 4)." In [8.4] Password management "Password managers enter passwords on behalf of users and associate passwords with domain names. They will not automatically enter a password for a user if the user is lured to an impersonation site with a different domain name (Threat 1.A)." ==Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:12:14 UTC
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Dear Jack,
My son is 16 and lives with his father, whose house is in a good school district. Almost two months ago, I bought my son a truck to drive to school and to his part-time job. He pays for his own gas and I pay half his insurance, his father pays the other half.
Last week, I learned that his father and older step-brothers have been driving the truck. They used it to pull his father's bass boat on their fishing trip. This fishing trip didn't include my son. Needless to say I was furious. True, he had to work that weekend and couldn't have gone on the trip, but I'm not sure they even asked if he wanted to go. They just took his truck and left him one of the step-brothers' junk cars, which broke down, which is how I found out because I had to go pick up my son from the side of the interstate.
I have told him that I don't want anyone else driving that truck. He says he doesn't mind them driving it, but I know how his father is. The man will take what he wants without even asking. The step-brothers bully him constantly. He's afraid to tell them no.
I'm tempted to take the truck back, but that will only hurt my son. If I say something to his father, the step-brothers are bound to hear about it and will make his life even worse than it is. I wish I could have him living with me, but that would mean changing to a different and much worse school - I can't afford to live where his father lives. So how can I stop them from driving the truck?
Angry Mother
Dear Mad Mom,
Your first mistake was buying your son a truck. If he were paying the notes on it, he'd be much less inclined to let anyone bully the keys out of him. I've had five cars in my lifetime. The first two were given to me and lasted a little more than two years each before they were ready for the pull-a-parts yard. I bought my third car myself and drove it for fourteen years, until the doors literally fell off. Then I had a windfall of money and bought a new car, which lasted less than a year before the lawyers confiscated it. I'm still driving my fifth car, which took me six years to pay off, thanks to the fact I no longer had a windfall. We value most what we pay for with our sweat. Also, ex-wives generally don't take eight-year-old Saturns in the divorce.
But now that you've given him the truck, you can hardly take it back. It's his to do with as he wishes. Just because you bought it doesn't mean it's still yours, even if you didn't buy it for his father to drive. Do you think my uncle, a contented old bachelor who worked like a dog all his life so he could retire to Spain and be dead within a year, would have willed me his fortune if he thought I would burn through it in less than a year on blow and hookers? Ok, so that's a bad example, though to be honest I only spent half of it. The other half was taken by my other half, even though she didn't know the man existed until the day the estate lawyer called from Barcelona.
You can't stop his father from driving the truck. The only card you have to play is your half of the insurance payments. You could offer to let his father pay the full cost of insurance. No doubt he will pass that cost along to your son. I doubt you want that to happen. All you can do is let your son know that you don't approve, and then drop it. Forget about it. Try to look at the good side - at least his bimbo isn't driving it, right? Life's too short to be obsessing over the actions of your former spouse. Don't let your continuing ill feelings toward the man damage your relationship with your son.
Also, if you really want your son to live with you, look into optional schools. He's old enough to drive himself to school, and now he has a truck to drive. Hopefully the optional school program will last long enough for him to graduate.
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SalesForce have long been considered one of the most innovative and best companies to work for in the world - and have the awards to prove it. Many of their programmes have become a staple in everyday business use, with their flagship CRM enabling companies to easily connect with clients and accurately keep track of their habits the world over.
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Rabia Chaudry is a wife, mother, attorney, and a 2016 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace, where she researched the intersection of religion and violent extremism. Her regions of interest are Pakistan and Sri Lanka. She is also the co-host and co-producer of the hit podcast "Undisclosed", with nearly 200 million downloads, and the podcast "The 45th".
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A.J. Langer played the party girl Rayanne on the cult teen drama My So-Called Life, but the actress, whose full name is Allison Joy Langer, has taken on a much more noble role in real life. The 41-year-old, who married British aristocrat Charlie Courtenay in 2004, was recently named Countess of Devon following the death of her father-in-law, the Earl of Devon, according to the Telegraph. Her husband, a lawyer, has now inherited the title and the family's 4,000-acre estate, Powderham Castle, near Exeter.
After her stint on the short-lived but critically acclaimed teen drama ended in 1995, Allison went on to appear in Baywatch before meeting her nobleman at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas in 2002. "He was wearing a kilt—on tour with London Scottish Rugby," she told website Breezy Mama in 2009. "We smiled at each other across the crowded room... I had no idea about the castle or titles or anything until he drove me up the driveway months into our relationship—which was good 'cause I wouldn't have known what to do with that information anyway." The couple now have two children, a boy and a girl.
After their wedding 11 years ago the American-born beauty was given the title of "Lady," securing her place in the British aristocracy. "It means more to some people and less to others. It definitely makes for interesting conversation, and an interesting story," she said in the interview. "If Charlie becomes the Earl of Devon, my title would become the Countess of Devon and our kids would be Lords and Ladies. But we don't use the titles in our daily lives. They are there and we respect the history that gave rise to them, but in our reality we're just a normal family."
Allison returned to acting after a six year break in 2011 to play Erica Warner on the hit ABC drama Private Practice, but the role ended after her character died. It's expected that Allison and her husband, 40, will now run the 600-year-old family estate.
Although it aired more than 20 years ago for only one season, My So-Called Life is still considered one of the best teen dramas ever produced. Allison's co-stars Claire Danes and Jared Leto may not have titles but have gone on to considerable fame.