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Why Teachers Quit: It's the Principal, Stupid
A new study published in the Elementary School Journal finds that the main reason new teachers leave the profession is not the insane workload or the lack of resources but, alas, their principals.
Peter Youngs, an associate professor of education policy at Michigan State University, and Ben Pogodzinski of Wayne State University, surveyed 184 beginning teachers in Michigan and Indiana on the factors that might influence them to leave or stay in the profession. Topping the teachers' list, the researchers found, was how well a school's principal works with the staff.
The quality of the relationship with their principal was a stronger predictor of the teachers' intent to remain in the profession than factors related to workloads, administrative duties, resource availability, or the frequency of professional-development opportunities.
Given that nearly a third of teachers quit or change schools in their first two years of teaching, the study's findings highlight a potential need for better training for principals in leadership and interpersonal skills, said Youngs, the lead researcher for the study.
"The focus," he said, "would be on how principals could increase their knowledge of setting a healthy, productive school climate and understanding ways that their actions and leadership can impact new teachers' attitudes and outcomes."


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RED SOX: Mike Napoli helps the Boston Red Sox beat the Blue Jays 5-3
FORT MYERS, Fla. >> Clay Buchholz is showing signs that he is ready for the season. Mike Napoli is proving to his new Red Sox teammates that he can be a durable addition.
Buchholz pitched four scoreless innings, and Napoli played in consecutive games for first time this spring training and had a run-scoring single and a double, helping the Boston Red Sox over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Tuesday.
"Everything is starting to fall together," Buchholz said. "I was able to go out there and execute pitches, like one after another, a little bit better than the last time out and the time before that. I feel like it's all coming together for the spring, getting up and down a little bit more and the next time when I go out it'll be five innings. It's starting to feel more real now."
Napoli, diagnosed with avascular necrosis in both hips during his offseason contract negotiations with the Red Sox, is batting .429 (6 for 14) with two homers and six RBIs.
Buchholz earned the win, going four scoreless innings, giving up three hits with a strikeout. In his recent side work, the Red Sox have tried to improve Buchholz's tempo.
"Better tempo once again, consistent with his last outing," Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
Eight of the 12 outs Buchholz recorded were on groundballs, including a double play to end the third with runners on first and second.
"I think any time we see Clay putting the ball on the ground, he's got a sinker, he's got his late action pitches working down in the zone," Farrell said. "And that was the case again today. Key double-play ball for him. And I think as we've seen his evolution as a starting pitcher, as he's gone to that two-seamer, it really puts him in a good position to not only be efficient but when he needs to, get a groundball double play as the case was today."
Toronto right-hander Justin Germano gave up two runs in three innings on five hits with no walks and two strikeouts.
"My last couple outings, I feel like there were just a couple plays that didn't go my way," Germano said. "But today I think I was down in the zone more consistently than I had been my last couple of outings and in return got groundouts."
It was Germano's first start of the spring after four relief appearances.
"Over the years I've learned how to get ready for the game as a reliever but my comfort zone definitely is starting to develop," he said. "I've done a lot better getting into the zone and I'm comfortable doing it. At first it was kind of a mess out there, a lot going through my head but I've been able to slow it down having to do it more."
The Sox added a run off Claudio Vargas in the fourth when Will Middlebrooks doubles to center, scoring on Ryan Sweeney's single to center.
Jim Negrych's two-run homer in the fifth off Boston lefty Andrew Miller closed the gap. But Boston got two runs off Chad Beck in the seventh. The Blue Jays scored a run off Allen Webster in the ninth.
NOTES: Right-hander Brandon Morrow was scheduled to throw four innings in a minor league game on Tuesday. ... Right-hander Marcus Stroman, the Blue Jays No. 1 pick in 2012, was scheduled to pitch in the same game. It will be the spring training debut for Stroman, who was suspended for 50 games in August for violating baseball's minor league drug program. ... Left-hander Darren Oliver is scheduled to pitch in an instrasquad game on Wednesday. ... Third baseman Brett Lawrie has returned to the Blue Jays from the World Baseball Classic. He strained his rib cage while with Team Canada but is expected to be ready for opening day. ... The Red Sox made a series of roster moves Tuesday morning. Outfielder Alex Hassan and right-handed pitcher Steven Wright to Triple-A Pawtucket. The club also reassigned first baseman/outfielder Mark Hamilton and outfielders Jeremy Hazelbaker and Juan Carlos Linares to minor league camp. The roster is now at 52 players in big league camp.Stephen Drew, who has had post-concussion symptoms since being hit in the helmet by a pitch on Thursday, has still not been cleared to play. The Red Sox are hoping he will be cleared by Thursday. ... Right-hander Kyle Drabek, who underwent Tommy John surgery in June for the second time in his career, is set to begin throwing off a mound this week. ... Red Sox minor league games begin Wednesday. Right-hander Alfredo Aceves, who returned from pitching for Mexico in the WBC, will pitch in a minor league game on Wednesday.


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Stronger BushingsThey say that a solid drivetrain all starts with solid bushings, and we couldn't agree more. That's why BMR Suspension is now offering owners of 2010+ fifth-gen Camaros and the 2008-09 Pontiac G8 these new Poly/Delrin Combo Differential Bushings. This particular combination uses a CNC-machined rear Delrin bushing to handle the highest load area and high-durometer, while the front poly bushings are there to control differential movement. It comes to you in a kit (PN BK046), and according to our friends at BMR, provides the best possible control without negatively affecting drivability. It utilizes a two-piece design that allows full contact on all six thrust surfaces of the subframe mount. BMR recommends this product for street-driven vehicles, as well as the occasional road course, dragstrip, and autocross aficionado.
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Accessorize Your LSThe crew at Holley Performance Products are making big waves in the LS-swap market, and you can go ahead and add one more notch on their belt with this new, Complete Accessory Drive for GM LS Engines. Like the name suggests, it comes complete with everything you need; including brackets, belts, pulleys, accessories, hardware, and you can even spec it out with an alternator, power steering pump, and an A/C compressor. Holley relies on big-name, reputable suppliers for their kits too; including Gates, Dayco, Sanden, Four Seasons, and naturally, General Motors. So if you're swapping an LS powerplant into your old-school B-body, G-body, F-body, 'Vette, pickup truck, or whatever it may be, hook up with Holley Performance for all of your LS-swap needs.
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Cool ShiftingWhen one company makes amazing products, others will notice. That's why our friends at Summit Racing now carry Flex-O-Lite products; including their full line of transmission coolers with cover guards. Most people know and understand the significance of a transmission cooler; it's self-explanatory, really. They typically help keep your transmission's operating temperatures 20-degrees cooler than the normal operating temps. But a minute detail that many overlook is the cover guard feature; it protects from potential damage found on the road and even the track; rocks, random road/track debris, and in the event something rattles and/or breaks loose from your vehicle. That's why Flex-O-Lite offers their line of TransLife coolers with a 1⁄8-inch thick aluminum cover guard. It protects the cooler without adding tons of unnecessary weight, while also allowing the transmission cooler to do its job with its vented design. Flex-O-Lite products are available directly, or over the counter at Summit Racing in different varieties.
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The murder hornet problem has maybe been solved! One down, hundreds of other problems to go.
We are BACK with Science Fair, your guide to all things science happening in the Zoomiverse. If you want your event featured email email@example.com! We'd love to hear from you. Please. I'm so lonely.
Do you remember a time when "roasting" was simply a cooking method and not dissing another person? Me neither. Not to roast this entire year, but 2020 brought us words and phrases whose default meanings
Face it, you're tired of using Zoom to chat with your friends because it reminds you of your 8:40 seminar and all those times you've been in an awkward breakout room. It's time to switch
"Oh, to be as carefree as a newborn infant," is a thought Bwogger Sydney Contreras has at least 5 times a day. But besides 10-15 years and enormous amounts of stress, is there actually a
Yes. I know most of us wish we were back on campus. We would even put up with the Hartley bathrooms if it meant coming back. But, let's feel better about our situation by naming
New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art and now with so much of it online for free, there's never been a better time to experience it first-hand. "Where Art Thou" is
Making a new constitution would take a lot of planning especially during COVID-19, but some things are worth the effort.
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President Beilock has announced the creation of a new health and wellness center for the Barnard community, the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being, in an email shared this afternoon.
Against all odds, Bacchanal 2021 will be the best Columbia has had in years, thanks to yours truly.
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Research in Motion surges 10% while Apple tanksJanuary 14, 2013: 12:38 PM ET
Oh, how the tables have turned in the smartphone world ... at least when it comes to stocks.
Apple shares continued to take a tumble, while shares of Research in Motion rallied again. Traders on StockTwits could barely contain themselves.
$AAPL breaks below $500. Meanwhile, $RIMM up nearly 25% in less than 2 trading days.
Yes, RIM (RIMM) shares jumped more than 10% Monday. And the mighty Apple (AAPL), the most valuable tech company in the world, fell 3.5%.
Apple shares fell after reports, citing unnamed sources, indicated the company had cut orders for certain iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand for the device.
Shares of Apple have been under pressure since the stock hit an all time high above $700 a share in September, when the iPhone 5 came out.
While the company has predicted record sales for its most recent quarter, Apple has been facing increased competition from rival smartphone makers such as Samsung, Nokia (NOK), HTC and LG.
RIM could be a viable new threat soon as well. It is set to release its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new smartphones on Jan. 30. That would be a year behind schedule, but it's better late than never, right?
A pioneer of smartphone technology, RIM has seen its share of the market decimated by Apple's iPhone. The stock has been pummeled during the past few years due to concerns that the company could eventually go out of business if it does not turn its fortunes around.
But investors now appear wiling to bet that new Blackberry devices could help to stabilize RIM.
Fundamentally its seems that $AAPL sales have peaked short term, while HOPE that BB10 will boost $RIMM shares aided the recovery.
Some investors were encouraged by the growing number of apps for the new Blackberry, an area where it has struggled to match Apple.
It's becoming clear that developer support for BlackBerry 10 is in full swing as over 15k apps get submitted in just under 2 days. $RIMM
But Apple purists -- and presumably Blackberry haters -- weren't buying it though. One trader said the rally Monday was driven by investors covering short positions in RIM stock.
$RIMM there is no rationale to this run other than possibly short covering. Announcement on Jan 30, in store Feb 28, give me a break!


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E-Hawk JV?Falls To Spirit Lake
Emmetsburg's E-Hawk Junior Varsity boys lost a tought contest to the Spirit Lake Indians last Tuesday by a 36-40 tally. The game was close throughout, as the E-Hawks trailed 12-16 at the half before falling by the same margin in the final.
Joe Jackson led Emmetsburg with 10 points, while Greg Wesley added six points nd Jacob Kibbie tallied five points. Luke Jackson scored four points, with Aaron Bird, Cooper Hofstad and Zach Anderson each adding three points and Brandon Elbert scoring two points.
Emmetsburg connected on 10 of 18 shots inside the arc, while Spirit Lake make 10 of 19. From the three, the E-Hawks hit four of 12 and Spirit Lake hit six of 12 shots. At the free throw line, Emmetsburg connected on four of eight shots with Spirit Lake getting just two of six attempts.
The E-Hawks would collected 13 rebounds against 27 for the Indians and committed 10 turnovers while Spirit Lake made 16. Emmetsburg also collected 10 steals to the Indians five steals.
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It is time to celebrate the complete revolution of our planet around the sun by assigning to it an arbitrary number based on a Western belief system. Happy New Year, humans!
What you're seeing here is the launch on December 20 of the Ariane rocket from Kourou space center in French Guiana. Its payload was two Eutelsat communications satellites, Hot Bird 9 and W2M. Hot Bird 9 will beam television signals to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa while W2M will service central and eastern Europe as well as Indian Ocean islands.
We're sleeping today. But we'll be back tomorrow!
If you need a little reading material, check out the io9 2008 year in review!
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David McWilliams, one of Ireland's leading economic commentators, spoke during the lunchtime keynote Thursday at the 2012 Strategic Investment Conference, jointly hosted by the alternative investment firm Altegris and Millennium Wave Investments in Carlsbad, Calif.
The broadcaster and bestselling author began his discussion of what ails Europe by telling the audience, "You know it's a strange time in Europe when the Pope is German and the head of the ECB is Italian."
McWilliams (left), who says he was the first economist to see that the Irish boom was nothing more than a credit bubble and was one of the very few to accurately predict it would all end in a monumental crash, said his perspective is fueled by having lived through a civil war, four different currencies and two financial meltdowns.
"The key to what's happening in Europe right now is Germany," he said. "It reminds me of the four guys in 'The Hangover.' Germany wakes up and realizes they've been sleeping with the Greeks, and the Italians realize they've been drinking with the Irish."
Ireland and Greece borrowed too much, he added, and were surprised when Germany came knocking and asked for it back.
"Jack Welch once told me that in any crisis, you must first define your reality not as you would like, but as it is. You then do something about it. Once you define the problem and do something about it, you realize it's not half as difficult or traumatic as you initially thought."
The question for today, he said, is whether or not Germany has defined its reality.
"Europe as a whole traditionally has not," McWilliams continued. "In each of the last four or five years their forecast has been revised downward. Each year they say, 'What do we do about [the crisis].' The answer always seems to be, 'the same as we did the year before.'"
The problem with Greece, he explained, is not that the country defaulted, but that it didn't default enough, meaning it will do so again.
"In Ireland, we spent too much. There's no money left. We are borrowing from tomorrow not to pay for today, but to pay for yesterday. When this happens economies contract and demand diminishes. Germany builds Mercedes and exports them to Ireland. The problem is that we then must borrow from Germany in order to purchase the cars that they send us."
Spain is experiencing 25% unemployment and the leaders in Greece and Italy were recently deposed and replaced with unelected technocrats.
"In these countries, there is too much debt, too little growth, not enough leadership and what leadership there is does not have legitimacy. This is a serious, existential problem for Europe that won't be fixed with fancy-schmancy financial engineering."
So how will it be solved?
"One thing to remember is that debt is often worse for the lender than the borrower," McWilliams said. "If you lend me money and I go down the street to a bar and blow it all getting drunk, who really has the problem? Not me."
The European Union has to go back to Germany and ask, "What do you want?" he said. "Germany wants a federal union that will lead to cheap currency for their industrial base that will in turn lead to lower unemployment. That's fine, but then the question becomes, 'What will they pay for it?'"
Germany, McWilliams said, will have to open "a big dumpster and throw all of our bad stuff in; bad mortgages, bad loans, etc. That will be the price they pay."
See complete coverage of the 2012 Strategic Investment Conference on AdvisorOne.


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Welcome to the romantic and timeless studio of The Vintage Spool.
Emphasizing on unique heirloom pieces, artist and quilt designer, Verna Mosquera specializes in creating patterns that combine yesterday�s inspirations with today�s fabrics. The endless details in her designs truly set them apart. Included in each pattern are accurate, easy to follow instructions, detailed diagrams and full size pattern pieces.
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Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, EmpireThis gallery is about the movement of people, goods and ideas across and around the Atlantic Ocean from the 17th century to the 19th century. The connections created by these movements changed the lives of people on...National Maritime Museum - Royal Museums Greenwich | 1 November 2013 — 1 November 2020


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Adding accessibility support to Adobe PhoneGap
Last week, at the 2014 CSUN Conference, we were able to give a demonstration of the new accessibility API we've been working on for Apache Cordova, better known as Adobe PhoneGap.
The accessibility of PhoneGap apps can actually be fairly good, depending on the underlying code used to build it. That's because mobile browsers already come with a lot of accessibility support on their own, that these apps can use to their advantage. What they can't do, that other mobile apps can, is ask the operating system if, for example, a user has large fonts enabled, or has colors reversed, or whether the screen reader is running. That's why we built a Mobile Accessibility plugin, which feeds that information to PhoneGap apps, including notifying those apps when it changes. This plugin allows PhoneGap apps to look and feel even more like native applications by taking into accounts the preferences of the person using the device.
We've developed this API publicly on GitHub, so people can poke at it and give us feedback, but also to encourage more development. We started by building support for iOS and Android because, having built-in screen readers, magnifiers and other features, they had the most existing work we could integrate. But there are other platforms, like Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry OS, which run PhoneGap apps and have accessibility APIs of their own, and which could have their own support in PhoneGap using this plugin. It's on our to-do list, but if you have a more pressing need, you can follow the iOS and Android versions as a model for developing (and hopefully contributing) your own.
If you don't have software development kits for mobile operating systems installed, but you have a free Adobe ID, you can still try your hand at developing a mobile app of your own. Try PhoneGap Build, our new service that lets you upload the code you want to turn into an app, then builds it for multiple platforms at once. You can even install it onto your test devices simply by entering a URL or snapping a QR code.
If you already use PhoneGap Build, we have even better news: the Mobile Accessibility plugin is now supported in Build, so you can use it like any other core plugin. Documentation is on GitHub, and we'll be working on other ways to show developers how to improve the accessibility of their applications as time rolls on.


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Research Spotlight on Out-of-Field Teaching
NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education
As Richard Ingersoll (2003) says, "few would require cardiologists to deliver babies, real estate lawyers to defend criminal cases... or sociology professors to teach English."
This phenomenon of out-of-field teaching – teachers teaching subjects for which they have little education or training – has long been and continues to be an important issue in our public schools.
Much of the problem in out-of-field teaching can be attributed to selective shortages of teachers, as well as misplacement of teachers. The data show (Ingersoll, 2003) that each year some out-of-field teaching takes place in more than half of all U.S. secondary schools, and each year over one fifth of the public 7th-12th grade teaching force engages in this practice. And, in schools whose students come from low-income households, the percentage of teachers teaching out of their field is much higher.
With rapid growth in student enrollment and a high teacher attrition rate, school systems now realize they need to take some prescriptive measures to address this issue. Here are some recommendations from Glori Chaika (2000) to insure the finding and keeping of those teachers certified to teach subjects for which they have been educated and trained:
- Providing financial incentives to colleges to steer potential teachers specifically toward shortage areas
- Offering hiring bonuses to attract – and annual stipends to retain - teachers who have certification in shortage areas
- Offering stipends for mentor teachers to assist those new to the field – perhaps targeting teachers in special needs areas especially during the critical first or second year of teaching
Related Links
- Out-of-Field Teaching and the Limits of Teacher Policy (CPRE, 2003)
( PDF) Richard Ingersoll research paper referenced above.
- All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching (Education Trust, August 2002) ( PDF)
- Out-of-Field Teaching: How Qualified Is Your Child's Teacher? (Education World, 2000)
- Research Spotlight on Best Practices in Education
Other Spotlights from NEA.
- NEA Reports & Statistics
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Where in Asia? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Where in Asia? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Asia Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message PaulCJoined: 15 May 2003Posts: 5Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: Where in Asia? Where in Asia can I find: - A job preferably teaching adults, or at least high-school age students - A job that doesn't invlove working too long hours or split shifts, or weekends - A job that pays reasonably well I'm currently in South Korea, and thinking of moving out - soon! I am drawn to Thailand, but I know that the salaries are not too great..... is it worth thinking about countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam, or any others as alternatives? Also - I'm not really too keen to go to Japan or China. Money isn't really the most important factor - I don't have debts to pay off..... it would be nice to save some cash, but provided I could get by and have a good standard of living, I'd be happy. I have an MBA, but no teaching qualification... although I do have some teaching experience Suggestions and comments welcomed Back to top geckoJoined: 11 Apr 2003Posts: 42 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:22 am Post subject: You might want to consider going to VietNam. I hear that the salaries are higher than Thailand, by about 30%. The only problem is there is very little real information out there and schools don't advertise much. If you want to go there it may just be a case of turning up and looking for work when you get there. Good luck Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:26 am Post subject: You want a good-paying job teaching high school age students or higher without long hours, and you don't have a lot of teaching experience or a Masters/PhD in a teaching related field? Hmmm. Let's consider Japan's options... Private high schools are out. You have to work weekends and long evenings with extracurricular activities. Public schools no longer work weekends, but I can't vouch for the extracurriculars or pay. Universities are out because you are not qualified (in Japan anyway). Language schools typically work from noon to 9pm, and they cater to children and adults. Some rare places cater to adults only, but you still have the same hours, and the pay is still bottom of the barrel. Business (Corporate) opportunities are few and far between, even though they usually earn the most money. However, you may still have to work evenings and/or weekends just because that's the name of the game when you cater to people who work all day long. I just don't see what kind of business/school options are even remotely possible for your desires. You're going to have to lower your sights (in Japan). Maybe these reasons are why you wrote that you weren't too keen to go to Japan. Back to top WolfJoined: 10 May 2003Posts: 1245Location: Middle Earth Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:14 pm Post subject: Not Korea, Not China, Not Japan, Not Vietnam, Not Indonesia? I think I understand, PaulC. Teaching adults in Korea is a 6am - 10pm or so thing with the split shifts I hear. The altenative is children, not admitedly for everyone. Glenski gave the lowdown on Japan pretty well. The only thing more I might add is JET (which won't take anyone til next July, if I understand correctly.) Also, in Japan if you work for a converational school, it's almost guaranteed you'll work weekends. China is on your rather long Not list. But in the PRC a postgrad degree (I assume you've got an undergrad one too) plus some expereince will get you a job. You've got good chances at uni jobs in some regions, and they'd be hiring about now for September. You'll live quite well on what you'll make here. 8000 RMB salries are more an more common. Thing is that's about US$1000, so it's all relative to what you mean by reasonably good pay. Taiwan I noticed wasn't on your Not list. You might want to make an inquiry on their forum. Salries OK, but it sounds like a mixed bag of hammers over there. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize - I was asking myself a very similar question last year. Realistically, you might need to comprimize somewhere. 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"People always say, 'This is my family. This is a very Armenian play. This is a very Greek play. This is a very Jewish play.' That always makes me feel good because you want to be universal," she said. "You're only universal through specificity."
Chen said her plays are never strictly autobiographical, but every single character she creates comes from some part of her, from things that she has thought or felt at some point, or is loosely based on someone she knows. She takes creative license with the rest, and the result is a play that deals with real-life situations in a highly funny way.
"Humor and comedy are for me the saving grace. It saved my life, and if you can make somebody laugh, I don't think there's anything better," said Chen.
Though the subject of her plays differ, she has realized that, though unintended, a central theme runs through her plays: the desire for individual freedom, to break free of the ties that bind, all the guilts, fears, injunctions and taboos.
"I think maybe that's why we envy animals so much, because they don't worry about pleasing their parents," said Chen. "They have that natural ability to be themselves."
She admits she had a complicated relationship with her family growing up. Because nobody really talked to each other, Chen talked to herself a lot, which she speculates is the reason she developed an affinity for dialogue and ultimately chose to write plays instead of novels. Plays are for her a way of having dialogue with the audience.
She believes this lack of necessary conversation with the family is why worlds collide when Chinese-Americans start taking cues from the Western world on how to define themselves.
"We do what we see, which is the way Americans are, and then the parents get totally freaked out and they don't know how to talk to you," said Chen. "They don't know how to say 'I want you to be like this,' because Chinese don't do that."
As a college student, she studied mathematics and was expected to get her PhD, but Chen, a self-described autodidact, decided to pursue other interests. She taught herself how to act and, eventually, how to write plays.
Chen's career actually began in acting, and though she was successful for awhile, she later felt limited by the invisible glass ceiling that was lined with stereotypical Asian roles.
"At that time a lot of the young women were Susie Wong-types. They wanted you to be sexy and glamorous, and I was a little too intellectual for all that," said Chen with a chuckle.
She left acting and began a 35-year career in medical editing, which paid well and supported her as she sought to create roles in which Asians were the central figures, not peripheral characters. She also found that she gravitated toward writing roles for older people, another neglected category in the acting community.
Twenty years of playwriting and five full-length plays later, Chen is ready to foray into acting once again. The passage of time has presented an abundance of new opportunities for baby-boomers, and she has already received several callbacks for commercials.
Of course, it doesn't mean the curtains are closing on her time as a playwright. One of the reasons she left acting initially is that she wanted to flex her creative muscle, and it seems she has done that, learning a lot about herself and about people in general.
"My plays are not about Asian-ness. They are just about trying to be human, trying to be the best human being you can be, a happy human being," said Chen. "We all have so much in common, and that's what I really want to explore, the commonality and not the differences."
Kitty Chen's "Rosa Loses Her Face" is playing at Queens Theatre in the Park now through December 13. It is the Theatre's first production that began as a reading and is now being performed as a full-length play.


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The New Collectors by guest: Brooke Reynolds
It appears that my collecting gene has been passed on to my two children
(shown above). Children love to stop and stare at all kinds of things as
they wander around: bugs, leaves, sticks, etc. As I wrap up my week
here, I leave you with one last collection that is not mine. This one
belongs to my 4 year old son. He's been picking rocks up for a few years
and keeps them in a shoebox in his closet.
I've loved being with you all week. A big thank you to Rachel for
letting me share a few of my collections. I know there are so many
others out there who collect odd bits of things, maybe I'll start a
regular column over on inchmark where people can share what they collect
and why. I'd love to see what you all have stashed in your desk drawers!
Make it a lovely weekend!
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A big shout out and thank you to Brooke... hasn't this week been so fun seeing all of her fantastic collections? Inchmark is definitely one of my few must-read daily blogs, I am inspired by Brooke and all of her wonderful projects. I think this is an excellent last post for the week, I echo Brooke's sentiments of making it a lovely weekend! Have a great one everyone.


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I have an idea for feeding my bees during a time of nectar dearth. Near us, there is a small garden and produce store where i sell my honey. The owner of the store decided that he would dest how far my bees would actually fly. Now, there happened to be a nectar dearth at this time. He cut open an old watermelon and laid the two halves outside behind his store. By the end of the day, all that was left was the rinds. my bees had completely emptied the watermelon. My question to you is this: Would it be ethical to feed the bees old sugary fruit during a time of nectar dearth and call the resulting product "watermelon honey" or "honeydew melon honey" or "strawberry honey?" I would use old produce from the supermarket, especially high-sugar fruits such as strawberries, melons, and the like. This wouldn't be like selling sugar syrup as honey, but could i really call this honey or not? Thanks,


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'Shin Megami Tensei IV' a refreshing change of pace (review)
The "Shin Megami Tensei" series is the most popular Japanese role-playing game that Americans don't know about. Despite being on par with "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Quest," it's been fairly unknown stateside. That's starting to change as the "Persona" spinoff gains traction and other works by the same team are discovered.
With "Shin Megami Tensei IV," the franchise is poised to take another step in the public consciousness. The latest entry throws players into the unusual kingdom of Mikado, which looks like a cross between medieval Europe and feudal Japan. But they quickly will discover anachronisms that make the world more than what it seems, and they take players to locales such as a post-apocalyptic Tokyo.
It's this unusual setting that separates the franchise from its peers and may explain why its past entries have steadily gained ground. The genre is burned out on the same Japanese role-playing game motifs of yesteryear. The "Shin Megami Tensei" series offers a different take. As Flynn (or whatever you name the protagonist), players build a squad of monsters by sometimes talking to enemies and persuading them to join their side.
But that's easier said than done because the creatures -- called demons -- have their own personalities, and sometimes they may con players a few times before they're recruited. The learning curve is steep for newcomers, but once they get a group running, it becomes familiar as they learn the finer
points of the turn-based combat, such as finding an opponent's weakness to gain an extra attack.
That's as conventional as the gameplay gets. Players have to figure out the other part of building a menagerie of monsters -- fusing them to create more powerful creatures. That's done via the Cathedral of Shadows, and it adds endless depth. Players will spend hours rearranging their demons, comparing them and figuring out the right combination for the quest.
Because players only control the protagonist and his monsters, this sets up a fluid scenario for each battle. Characters won't fall into a specific role in each scenario. During many fights, the hero will change hats -- from offensive juggernaut to healer to commander who dismisses and summons recruits. That's one of the hallmarks of the franchise, and it's part of the reason it will delight those coming into the series.
Players don't need to know the story behind the past entries. Despite the bare-bones overworld (it's just a series of menus and bland pictures), "Shin Megami Tensei IV" manages to engross players in its strange universe, where class warfare starts bubbling up and the protagonist faces daunting choices. It's a refreshing change of pace from the usual fantasy fare.
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Full name: Sigmund Esco Jackson
Date of birth: May 4th, 1951
Children: (with Enid Spann) Siggy (1977) Brandi (1982), (with Emily Jackson) Jaylen and River (2014)
Jackie was born Sigmund Esco on May 4, 1951 in Gary, Indiana exactly on Katherine's 21st birthday. Because he is the oldest son, he was most aware of the start and success of the Jackson Five. His childhood was taken away, but Jackie enjoyed this way of life also. Jackie had fun on the contests they joined.
Sports was another hobby of Jackie. When he was 19 he gave up a promising American Football carreer for music. Besides, the incredible huge success of the Jackson 5 and The Jacksons.
Even though Jackie plays instruments like guitar and piano, he only sings on songs by The Jackson Five and The Jacksons. He is the lead singer on songs like "Wondering Who" and "Wait".
Jackie also made some solo albums. In 1973 Motown released his solo debut called simply Jackie Jackson. This album was a rare piece of recording by Jackie, apart from the Jackson 5. It took Jackie 16 years to make another album. In 1989 Be The One was released. This album contains the singles "Stay", "Be The One" and "Cruzin". In 1989, The Jackson brothers made a comeback with their album 2300 Jackson Street.
Jackie listens to music of other artists very much. He adores old soul but also modern music. Jackie is concerned about the fact everybody can be a star. The fact you need to be good looking to star in a video. Nobody's making real music anymore.
Jackie married Enid Spann in 1974. They divorced in 1987 and Enid died several years ago. They have a son Siggy and a daughter Brandi. Brandi did some modeling. Jackie married again in 2006 to Emily and became the parent of twin boys Jaylen and River in 2014.
In 2002, Jackie founded Futurist Entertainment, and Jesco Records is a division of that company. He's trying to launch new stars, as well as his son Siggy aka Dealz who makes his hip-hop and rap music.
In 2011, Jackie released another solo single called "We Know What's Going On". In 2012 Jackie and his brothers Tito, Marlon and Jermaine reunited to get back on the road with the Unity Tour.
With The Jacksons:
With The Jackson 5:
Be The One
Polygram Records, 1989
1. Stay
2. Be The One
3. Fun
4. Who's Loving You Now
5. Cruzin'
6. Fine Fine Lady
7. Stuck On You
8. Don't Rush It
9. Broken Heart
10. Stay (12" Remix)
Jackie Jackson
Motown Records, 1973
1. Love Don't Want To Leave
2. It's So Easy
3. Thanks To You
4. You're The Only One
5. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind
This Time)
6. Do I Owe
7. Is It Him Or Is It Me
8. In My Dreams
9. One And The Same
10. Bad Girl
Jackie Jackson contributed with vocals to the following tracks
Life Ain't Easy - Dealz feat. Jackie Jackson (2012)
That's How I Feel - Dealz feat. Jackie Jackson and Jermaine Jackson (2011)
We Know What´s Going On - Jacques Terreblanche feat. Jackie Jackson (2011)
All I Wanna Do - Dealz feat. Jackie Jackson (2010)
This Is It | Michael Jackson, This Is It (2009)
We Are The World | USA for Africa (1985)
Love Song | La Toya Jackson, My Special Love (1981)
Don't Stand Another Chance | Janet Jackson, Dreamstreet (1984)
We Are The World | USA for Africa (1985)
White Heat | Madonna, True Blue (1986)
Freedom | Tramaine Hawkins, Freedom (1987)
|That's How I Feel
Dealz feat. Jackie & Jermaine
Siggy Music, 2011
|We Know What's Going On
Jackie & Jacques Terreblanche


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Get a good look at the super-powered lady who is going to stir up all sorts of hell for our newly bearded Superman in Man of Steel. Mattel's Movie Masters figures have provided the first good look at the evil character Faora (played by Antje Traue) and her strange half-lycra, half-steampunk ensemble. Which is infinitely better than the blurry shots of Faora in her cape from the Man of Steel set.
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In the latest issue of O former General Electric CEO Jack Welch's latest wife Suzy diagnoses the five types of hateful co-workers — the Star, the Slider, the Self-Promoter, the Boss Hater and the Pity Party — in what would be a decent column if any space were given to the different ways men and women assume these roles, like how sometimes women become cloying, ubersexualized versions of themselves when they're around powerful men and that's how they get ahead in their careers (And hello: break up marriages! Not that Jack probably needed help in the infidelity department.) You know those women? They're a "type". The ladies who make their gender, like, the central focus of their corporate identities.
They're the ones who will tell you they always wear heels because they confer "power" only because they're not honest enough to tell you heels distract men by making them think of taking them doggy style while they're giving PowerPoint presentations, thereby shaming them into just approving whatever dumb project they were proposing. Whatever. (By the way, we learned this by reading Testosterone, Inc., just in case you got the wrong idea.) We hate these types. And not only because our boss isn't at all interested in fucking us.


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- Traditional Animation
- Filmation Associates
- Cartoon Characters: Sport Billy, Sport Lilly, Queen Vanda, Willy, Sporticus XI.
- Voice Actors: Lane Scheimer, Joyce Bulifant, Frank Welker.
- Directed By Ed Friedman, Marsh Lamore, Lou Kachivas, Kay Wright, Lou Zukor.
- Produced By Don Christensen, Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott.
- Animated By Robert Arkwright, William Pratt, John Armstrong, Don Ruch, James Brommett, Don Schloat, Kent Butterworth, Ernie Schmidt, Jeff Etter, Larry Silverman, Kennetha Gaibler, Nick Stern; more Animators ...
- Written By Paul Aratow, Jack Hanrahan, Paul Dini, Martha Humphreys, Dan Distefano, Coslough Johnson, Barry Gaines, Ted Pedersen, Tom Ruegger, Arthur Nadel; more Writers ...
- Music: Dean Andre, Jeff Michael.
- Editor: Joe Gall.
- First Aired on October 14, 1979.
- Originally Aired on NBC-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Color
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The mascot of an interplanetary sports team comes to Earth to teach people how to play fair in sports. His name is Billy, and he came from the planet Olympus (whose god-like populace was largely given, naturally, to good sportsmanship and fair play). Together... (more)
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Letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee
An abbreviated version of this letter to the editor was published in the Nov. 10, 2007, Sacramento Bee:
Giving gifts to universities
In his Nov. 6 commentary "No will power," Cal Thomas expresses concern for donors who "increasingly see their gifts used for purposes other than what they intended" and then Mr. Thomas mistakenly claims that Princeton University has "ignored donor intent" in carrying out the purposes of the gift that it received from Marie Robertson 46 years ago.
In fact, Princeton has used these funds solely for the purpose for which they were given and in accordance with the procedures established by agreement with the donor for administering the gift. The lawsuit that has been filed by some of the donor's children seeks to overturn these procedures, seize control of the gift, and redirect it to other purposes.
Mr. Thomas also makes the novel legal argument that after a donor makes a gift, and receives the tax benefits of making that gift, the donor, or his or her descendants or estate trustees, should have the right at some later point to change the purpose for which the gift was given. Under the law, when a charitable gift is made, the funds are transferred from the donor to the charitable organization, which then becomes solely responsible for them, in accord with the terms under which the gift was accepted. The descendants of the donor are not permitted to retain control of the funds or redirect their use, which is what the Robertson descendants are trying to do in their lawsuit.
If donors want to retain control over the use of their funds they have the option of creating a private foundation rather than making a charitable gift, with different tax consequences. Separate from their gift that was to benefit Princeton, the Robertsons did create such a private foundation (the Banbury Fund), and ironically the descendants are now using the assets of that private foundation to fund their lawsuit and an associated public relations campaign against Princeton.
Robert K. Durkee is vice president and secretary of Princeton University.


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The CIA proposes a policy of abducting Islamic Jihad militants and sending them to Egypt which will soon be approved by President Bill Clinton (see June 21, 1995). The Clinton administration began a policy of allowing abductions, known as "renditions," in 1993 (see 1993). At first, renditions were rarely used because few countries wanted the suspects. Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, is one of the architects of a 1995 agreement with Egypt to send rendered militants there. He will later recall: "It was begun in desperation.… We were turning into voyeurs. We knew where these people were, but we couldn't capture them because we had nowhere to take them," due to legal and diplomatic complications. The CIA realized that "we had to come up with a third party." Egypt was the obvious choice because the Islamic Jihad is the prime political enemy of the Egyptian government, and many Islamic Jihad militants also work for al-Qaeda, an enemy of the US. Turning a Blind Eye - However, the Egyptian secret police force, the Mukhabarat, is notorious for its torture of prisoners. As part of the program, the US helps track, capture, and transport suspects to Egypt (see Before Summer 1995) and then turns a blind eye while the Egyptians torture them. Scheuer claims the US could give the Egyptian interrogators questions they wanted put to the detainees in the morning and get answers by the evening. Because torture is illegal in the US, US officials are never present when the torture is done. Further, the CIA only abducts suspects who have already been convicted in absentia. Talaat Fouad Qassem is the first known person the CIA renders to Egypt (see September 13, 1995). But the number of renditions greatly increases in 1998, when the CIA gets a list of Islamic Jihad operatives around the world (see Late August 1998). These renditions result in a big trial in Egypt in 1999 that effectively destroys Islamic Jihad as a major force in that country (see 1999). [New Yorker, 2/8/2005] CIA, NSC, Justice Department Lawyers Consulted - Scheuer will say that lawyers inside and outside the CIA are intensively consulted about the program: "There is a large legal department within the Central Intelligence Agency, and there is a section of the Department of Justice that is involved in legal interpretations for intelligence work, and there is a team of lawyers at the National Security Council, and on all of these things those lawyers are involved in one way or another and have signed off on the procedure. The idea that somehow this is a rogue operation that someone has dreamed up is just absurd." [Grey, 2007, pp. 140-141] Leadership of Program - The rendition program does not focus solely on al-Qaeda-linked extremists, and other suspected terrorists are also abducted. Scheuer will later tell Congress, "I authored it and then ran and managed it against al-Qaeda leaders and other Sunni Islamists from August 1995, until June 1999." [US Congress, 4/17/2007 ] A dedicated Renditions Branch will be established at CIA headquarters in 1997 (see 1997), but the relationship between Scheuer and its manager is not known—it is unclear whether this manager is a subordinate, superior, or equal of Scheuer, or whether Scheuer takes on this responsibility as well. After Scheuer is fired as unit chief in May 1999 (see June 1999), his role in the rendition program will presumably be passed on to his successor, Richard Blee, who will go on to be involved in rendition after 9/11 (see Shortly After December 19, 2001). In a piece apparently about Blee, journalist Ken Silverstein will say that he "oversaw… the [Counterterrorist Center] branch that directed renditions." [Harper's, 1/28/2007]
Entity Tags: Mukhabarat (Egypt), Richard Blee, Islamic Jihad, Alec Station, Central Intelligence Agency, Egypt, Michael Scheuer
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Complete 911 Timeline
The CIA's Counter Terrorism Center creates a special unit focusing specifically on bin Laden. It is informally called Alec Station. About 10 to 15 individuals are assigned to the unit initially. This grows to about 35 to 40 by 9/11. [US Congress, 9/18/2002] The unit is set up "largely because of evidence linking [bin Laden] to the 1993 bombing of the WTC." [Washington Post, 10/3/2001] Newsweek will comment after 9/11, "With the Cold War over, the Mafia in retreat, and the drug war unwinnable, the CIA and FBI were eager to have a new foe to fight.… Historical rivals, the spies and G-men were finally learning to work together. But they didn't necessarily share secrets with the alphabet soup of other enforcement and intelligence agencies, like Customs and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and they remained aloof from the Pentagon. And no amount of good will or money could bridge a fundamental divide between intelligence and law enforcement. Spies prefer to watch and wait; cops want to get their man." [Newsweek, 10/1/2001] Michael Scheuer will lead the unit until 1999. He will later become a vocal critic of the US government's efforts to combat terrorism. He later recalls that while bin Laden is mostly thought of merely as a terrorist financier at this time, "we had run across bin Laden in a lot of different places, not personally but in terms of his influence, either through rhetoric, through audiotapes, through passports, through money-he seemed to turn up everywhere. So when we [created the unit], the first responsibility was to find out if he was a threat." [Vanity Fair, 11/2004] By the start of 1997, the unit will conclude bin Laden is a serious threat (see Early 1997).
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Michael Scheuer, Alec Station, Al-Qaeda, Counterterrorist Center
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline
Imagery of bin Laden's Tarnak Farms compound prepared for the aborted operation. [Source: CBC]In 1997 and early 1998, the US develops a plan to capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. A CIA-owned aircraft is stationed in a nearby country, ready to land on a remote landing strip long enough to pick him up. However, problems with having to hold bin Laden too long in Afghanistan make the operation unlikely. The plan morphs into using a team of Afghan informants to kidnap bin Laden from inside his heavily defended Tarnak Farm complex. Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, calls the plan "the perfect operation." Gary Schroen, the lead CIA officer in the field, agrees, and gives it about a 40 percent chance of succeeding. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 220-221; Washington Post, 2/22/2004; Vanity Fair, 11/2004] The Pentagon also reviews the plan, finding it well crafted. In addition, there is "plausible denialability," as the US could easily distance itself from the raid. Scheuer will comment, "It was the perfect capture operation becauase even if it went completely wrong and people got killed, there was no evidence of a US hand." [Shenon, 2008, pp. 192] However, higher-ups at the CIA are skeptical of the plan and worry that innocent civilians might die. The plan is given to CIA Director George Tenet for approval, but he rejects it without showing it to President Clinton. He considers it unlikely to succeed and decides the Afghan allies are too unreliable. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 220-221; Washington Post, 2/22/2004; Vanity Fair, 11/2004] Additionally, earlier in May 1998, the Saudis promised to try to bribe the Taliban and try bin Laden themselves, and apparently Tenet preferred this plan (see May 1998). Scheuer is furious. After 9/11 he will complain, "We had more intelligence against this man and organization than we ever had on any other group we ever called a terrorist group, and definitive and widely varied [intelligence] across all the ends, and I could not understand why they didn't take the chance." [Vanity Fair, 11/2004] There will be later speculation that the airstrip used for these purposes is occupied and will be used as a base of operations early in the post-9/11 Afghan war. [Washington Post, 12/19/2001]
Entity Tags: George J. Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, William Jefferson ("Bill") Clinton, Michael Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, Alec Station
Apparently, this surveillance photo of a C-130 transport plane from the United Arab Emirates plays a key role in the decision not to strike at bin Laden. [Source: CBC]Intelligence reports foresee the presence of Osama bin Laden at a desert hunting camp in Afghanistan for about a week. Information on his presence appears reliable, so preparations are made to target his location with cruise missiles. However, intelligence also puts an official aircraft of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and members of the royal family from that country in the same location. Bin Laden is hunting with the Emirati royals, as he does with leaders from the UAE and Saudi Arabia on other occasions (see 1995-2001). [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004; Vanity Fair, 11/2004] According to Michael Scheuer, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit, the hunting party has "huge fancy tents, with tractor trailers with generators on them to run the air-conditioning." Surveillance after the camp is established shows the "pattern of bin Laden's visits—he would come for evening prayers or he would come for dinner and stay for evening prayers." [Shenon, 2008, pp. 192] Local informants confirm exactly where bin Laden will be in the camp on February 11, and a strike is prepared. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004; Vanity Fair, 11/2004] But policy makers are concerned that a strike might kill a prince or other senior officials, and that this would damage relations with the UAE and other Persian gulf countries. Therefore, the strike is called off. Bin Laden will leave the camp on February 12. A top UAE official at the time denies that high-level officials are there, but evidence subsequently confirms their presence. [9/11 Commission, 3/24/2004; Vanity Fair, 11/2004; Shenon, 2008, pp. 192] Scheuer will claim in 2004 that "the truth has not been fully told" about this incident. He will claim that the strike is cancelled because senior officials at the CIA, White House, and other agencies, decide to accept assurances from an unnamed Islamic country that it can acquire bin Laden from the Taliban. "US officials accepted these assurances despite the well-documented record of that country withholding help—indeed, it was a record of deceit and obstruction—regarding all issues pertaining to bin Laden" in previous years. [Atlantic Monthly, 12/2004] This may be a reference to Saudi Arabia. In mid-1998, the CIA called off a plan to capture bin Laden in favor of an ultimately unfulfilled Saudi promise to bribe the Taliban to hand bin Laden over (see May 1998). Many in US intelligence will be resentful over this missed opportunity and blame a conflict of interest with the Emirati royals (see Shortly After February 11, 1999).
Entity Tags: Michael Scheuer, Osama bin Laden, Alec Station, United Arab Emirates
The failure to strike at bin Laden in February 1999, despite having unusually good intelligence about his location (see February 11, 1999), causes strong resentment in the US intelligence community. It is believed that the US held its fire because of the presence of royalty from the United Arab Emirates(UAE), but some felt those royals were legitimate targets as well since they were associating with bin Laden there. Further, intelligence at the time suggests the planes carrying these royals to Afghanistan were also bringing weapons to the Taliban in defiance of United Nations bans. Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit at the time, is particularly upset. He reportedly sends a series of e-mails to others in the CIA that are, in the opinion of one person who read them, "angry, unusual, and widely circulated." His anger at this decision not to strike at bin Laden will apparently contribute to him losing his position leading the bin Laden unit a few months later (see June 1999). Some resentment is directed at counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke, who voted against the missile strike. Clarke was known to be close to the UAE's royal family. He'd negotiated many arms deals and other arrangements with them, including an $8 billion deal in May 1998 to buy F-16 fighters from the US (see Early February 1999). [Coll, 2004, pp. 447-450] In March 1999, Clarke calls Emirati royals and asks them to stop visiting bin Laden. However, he apparently did not have permission from the CIA to make this call. Within one week, the camp where the Emiratis and bin Laden met is abandoned. CIA officers are irate, feeling that this ruined a chance to strike at bin Laden if he made a return visit to the location. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 138]
Entity Tags: Taliban, Richard A. Clarke, Michael Scheuer, Alec Station, United Arab Emirates
Michael Scheuer.
[Source: Publicity photo]CIA Director George Tenet removes Michael Scheuer as head of Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit. Scheuer had headed the unit since its inception in 1996 (see February 1996), and was known as a strong advocate for more government action against bin Laden. The full name of the new head of the unit has not been released and little is known about his performance. [Vanity Fair, 11/2004] Deputy Director of Operations Jack Downing tells Scheuer he is being fired because he is "mentally burned out" and because of a recent disagreement with the FBI over whether the deputy chief of Alex Station, who was detailed to the CIA from the FBI, could release information to the FBI without Scheuer's approval. Downing tells Scheuer he was in the right, but that the criticism of his subordinate "should not have been put on paper", and the FBI's management is angry with him. Downing says he will get a medal and a monetary award, but should tell his subordinates he has resigned. Scheuer refuses to lie to his officers, signs a memo saying he will not accept a monetary award, and tells Downing "where he should store the medal." [Scheuer, 2005, pp. 263-4; Wright, 2006, pp. 313] According to author Steve Coll, Scheuer's CIA colleagues "could not be sure exactly [why Scheuer left] but among at least a few of them a believe settled in that [he] had been exiled, in effect, for becoming too passionate about the bin Laden threat…" In particular, he was angry about two recent missed opportunities (see 1997-May 29, 1998 and February 11, 1999) to assassinate bin Laden. [Coll, 2004, pp. 449-450] Scheuer will write in 2004 that, "On moving to a new position, I forwarded a long memorandum to the Agency's senior-most officers—some are still serving—describing an array of fixable problems that were plaguing America's attack on bin Laden, ones that the bin Laden unit had encountered but failed to remedy between and among [US intelligence agencies]… The problems outlined in the memorandum stood in the way of attacking bin Laden to the most effective extent possible; many remain today." Problems include poor cooperation between agencies and a lack of experienced staff working on the bin Laden issue. Scheuer never receives a response to his memo. [Atlantic Monthly, 12/2004]
Entity Tags: Michael Scheuer, Jack Downing, George J. Tenet, Alec Station, Central Intelligence Agency, Osama bin Laden
Following the replacement of Michael Scheuer by Richard Blee as chief of Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit (see June 1999 and June 1999), the relationship between Alec Station and its FBI counterpart headed by John O'Neill does not improve. The relationship between Scheuer and O'Neill was extremely stormy, but Blee's arrival does nothing to calm matters. As O'Neill is the FBI manager most knowledgeable about al-Qaeda, the combative nature of the relationship may hamper interagency counterterrorism efforts. Author James Bamford will write, "The epicenter of the clash between the two cultures [of the FBI and CIA] was the relationship between [Blee] and John P. O'Neill, the flashy, outspoken chief of the FBI's National Security Division in New York." An associate of O'Neill's will say of Alec Station staff, "They despised the FBI and they despised John O'Neill." A CIA officer will add, "The working relationships were very difficult at times." [Bamford, 2004, pp. 217-8]
Entity Tags: Richard Blee, John O'Neill, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Alec Station, James Bamford
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
The FBI's most senior representative at Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, develops cancer and is forced to resign, meaning no FBI agent assigned to Alec Station has the power to release information from the CIA for months. A key cable informing the FBI that hijacker Khalid Almihdhar has a US visa will fail to be released to the FBI around this time (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000). The representative, who is referred to in documents as "Eric", is deputy chief of Alec Station. He has the power to release information to the FBI having acquired this power in a row with former Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer (see June 1999). The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General will say Eric left the unit in mid-January, which would have given him over a week to give the FBI information about Almihdhar discovered during the surveillance of an al-Qaeda summit held from January 5-8 (see January 5-8, 2000). It is known Eric accessed a cable related to the Malaysia summit on January 5 and discussed surveillance photos taken of the summit with CIA officer Tom Wilshire (see (Mid-January 2000)). Author Lawrence Wright will comment: "None of the… FBI agents remaining in Alec had the seniority to release information, and consequently had to rely on the agency to give them permission for any transfer of classified cable traffic." [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 241, 320 ; Wright, 2006, pp. 313]
Entity Tags: Office of the Inspector General (DOJ), "Eric", Alec Station, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency
Michael Scheuer, former head of Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit (see February 1996), returns to the unit to serve as an adviser, but is not allowed to debrief detainees. Scheuer, who was fired from the unit in 1999 (see June 1999), remains with Alec Station until 2004, when he resigns from the CIA and authors Imperial Hubris, a book critical of the CIA and the US government's fight against terrorism in general. He had finished his first book, Through Our Enemies' Eyes, before 9/11, and it is released in 2002. He will later complain that he is given a job title but no official duties. Other CIA officers seek out his services, but these requests are blocked, apparently by James Pavitt, the Deputy Director of Operations. Scheuer comments: "The CIA knew that Through Our Enemies' Eyes was respected by Islamists and that, as the author, I would be an effective debriefer. Mr. Pavitt, however, put burying my career above using me to elicit information to defend America." [Scheuer, 2005, pp. 264; Scheuer, 2006, pp. xvii]
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Scheuer, Alec Station, James Pavitt
CIA official Michael Scheuer says that the CIA's bin Laden unit, Alec Station, is still effectively less than 30 people strong. Scheuer was head of the unit until 1999 (see June 1999, and he says this was about the size of the unit when he left. Technically, the unit has hundreds of employees, but Scheuer claims this is not really true. He says: "The numbers are big, but it's a shell game. It's people they move in for four or five months at a time and then bring in a new bunch. But the hard core of expertise, of experience, of savvy really hasn't expanded at all since 9/11." [Guardian, 8/20/2004] There were about 35 to 40 people in the unit at the time of the 9/11 attacks (see Just Before September 11, 2001). The unit will be closed down altogether one year later (see Late 2005).
Entity Tags: Alec Station, Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Scheuer, Osama bin Laden
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, War in Afghanistan
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