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Mainstream Media Ignore Hersh's Shocking Reports on Benghazi, Syria Atrocities
The major U.S. media have ignored for the most part Seymour Hersh's blockbuster column April 4 reporting the Obama administration's deceptive accounts of notorious killings in Benghazi and Syria.
Several major U.S. outlets reportedly declined to publish his column The Red Line and the Rat Line. That is their right, of course, and he proceeded to publish his source-based allegations in the London Review of Books.
But at some point, failure to raise questions to authorities and publish criticism smacks of a cowardly self-censorship, not mere fact-checking.
I have monitored reaction to his revelations in part because I reported similar findings in my fall 2013 book Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters and on this site seven months ago.
One of Hersh's most explosive claims is that Turkey, a NATO member and U.S. ally in the fight to overthrow Syria's government, helped plan a sarin gas attack Aug. 21 that reportedly caused more than a thousand deaths in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus.
The deaths, a war crime if proven, nearly prompted a massive U.S. bombing attack on the grounds that Syria's government had crossed a "red line" set by President Obama against use of chemical weapons.
The silent treatment helps authorities foster secret military actions worldwide for regime changes that arguably violate international law.
Reasonable people can differ on what constitutes adequate sourcing to publish claims even by such a noted reporter as Hersh, especially if his sources are anonymous. Hersh said in an interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman that he respects a decision by the Washington Post not to publish his report that Turkey was behind the sarin attack. He is shown in a screenshot from a Democracy Now! video.
But if an iconic reporter like him cannot get his findings published in a major outlet in his home country or otherwise make a significant impact, who can?
Hersh cited anonymous sources, as I did in Puppetry, to describe how the infamous Benghazi attack in 2012 grew out of covert U.S. arms smuggling organized by the CIA from Libya via Turkey to NATO-supported rebels in Syria.
The smuggling violated official statements that the United States was providing merely non-lethal aid to rebels. Hersh named the smuggling route through Turkey "The Rat Line" in his column. My book described the arms and fighter smuggling as being under the command of CIA Director David Petraeus in 2012, whose role has long been obscured by both major political parties and an increasingly timid corporate-controlled media.
On April 4, Hersh also reported that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey, left, led a joint chiefs effort to dissuade President Obama from undertaking a bombing campaign against Syria beginning Sept. 2 as reprisal for crossing the president's "red line" with sarin gas attacks two weeks previous.
Hersh reported the evidence of Syrian complicity was too disputed for easy answers, and so the president needed to obtain congressional approval at the minimum. Hersh's report thus amplified his column Whose Sarin? published by the London Review of Books Dec. 8.
Those findings by Hersh are congruent with those I made Sept. 3 in a report here on the Justice Integrity Project site about Dempsey's role. My report was based primarily on anonymous sourcing. So was an independent report Sept. 1 by former Navy intelligence analyst Wayne Madsen, who broke the story two days before me.
The mainstream media did not report these matters to my knowledge.
Instead, they misled the public by portraying a White House and Pentagon unified in decision-making, albeit with bomb planning that shifted from a presidentially ordered bombing attack to a bombing plan requiring congressional approval.
InThe Red Line and the Rat Line, Hersh described the tense White House internal debates late last summer in much more detail. He confirmed that Dempsey played a key role in persuading Obama to seek congressional approval for any attack.
Support for an attack failed to materialize in Congress. Russia proposed a face-saving plan whereby Syria would destroy its chemical weapons and avoid allied bombing.
The White House photo at right shows President Obama and his top national security advisors on Aug. 30. It illustrates the seemingly united front at the White House as authorities described Syria's guilt in the sarin attacks, and White House determination to bomb Syria in reprisal.
My column today summarizes Hersh's findings and interprets the implications. The gist is that the news blackout symbolizes the continued erosion of the media's willingness to report government operations -- aside from obedient stenography of misleading government announcements.
The Justice Integrity Project has frequently reported this dire trend, especially regarding the crackdowns by authorities on government employees who communicate with the media without approval. The Hersh experience is a case study on how the problems get worse the more important the story.
Bush Backers Prep for 2016 Race Despite Dynasty's Scandals
Momentum is building for the nomination of Jeb Bush to become president despite the family's record of secret and scandalous actions enriching themselves and their cronies.
Developments abounded this month of positive media treatment of Bush family gatherings and announcements. Shown below is a sample of recent clippings. Several are from the Washington Post, including After years in the political wilderness, Bush family returns to the spotlight.
This influence with the media at the owner level is part of Bush family's dynastic power that is unmatched by rivals. The connections make Jeb Bush the overwhelming favorite for the nomination. We at the Justice Integrity Project have long predicted that Bush will be the nominee regardless of the widespread disapproval of George W. Bush by the end of his term in 2009.
The photo shows the family gathered at the White House in 2005 to celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary of former President George H. W. and Barbara Bush. At their right and left are, respectively, their children George and Jeb.
The family's secrets are a major focus of my recent book, Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters.
In three chapters beginning with "The Roots of the Bushes," Puppetry documents the family's central positioning within the banking, military, intelligence, energy and media sectors. The book connects the dots.
New Book Documents Christie's 'Ruthless Ambition'
A hard-hitting new book skewers New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as a career-long bully, opportunist and phony.
Ruthless Ambition: The Rise and Fall of Chris Christie by former New Jersey State Assemblyman Louis Manzo, left, credibly portrays the onetime early favorite for the GOP 2016 presidential nomination.
"How could a man like Chris Christie get within shouting distance of a seat in the Oval Office?" Manzo asks. "What does this say about our justice system, and about us? If you think you know the whole story of Christie's rise and later fall from grace, think again."
His book is a template for a new level of scrutiny for Christie -- and for the media megaphone that enabled the New Jersey governor's election to two terms. After winning by a large margin in November Christie also began in January a term as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Polling and pundits listed him then as a front-runner for his party's nomination for president in 2016.
Ruthless Ambition shows that the recent bridge closing scandal was typical of the Christie's team's style of operation.
Manzo's book thus constitutes a blow to Christie's political career no matter who takes the blame in the end for the specifics of the September traffic tie-ups on the George Washington Bridge.
To recap, Christie's gubernatorial team intentionally tied up traffic on the world's busiest bridge for three days last September for unknown reasons. The bridge carries commuter and long-distance traffic between New Jersey (via the borough of Fort Lee) and the New York City borough of Manhattan. Christie has denied wrongdoing. His team has suggested that former appointees Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein are primarily responsible.
The two previous books about Christie, 51, both written by New Jersey journalists, flattered his leadership. The slant typified Christie's extended honeymoon with the media during his career as U.S. attorney and as governor.
Until recently, most journalists have portrayed Christie as a centrist who is well-suited to state and national leadership, at least within the GOP, because of his persona as a blunt-speaking fighter for the middle class.
That view is counter to our experience at the Justice Integrity Project. For more than four years, we have reported Christie's abuses of power as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey from January 2002 until the end of the Bush administration nearly seven years later.
Our research drew from the experiences of Manzo and his 44 co-defendants in a major corruption prosecution that Christie initiated. Manzo fought back and won dismissal of all charges from three indictments by both Republican and Democratic prosecutors.
Authorities in both parties showed an unseemly desire to convict Manzo, his co-defendants and thus vindicate Christie and their other brethren in the tight-knit, bipartisan law enforcement community.
Ryan Lizza, a political writer for the New Yorker Magazine, published over the weekend a long profile: Crossing Christie, What the bridge scandal says about the Governor's political style, and his future.
The article closely tracks the approach in Manzo's book, which had been distributed electronically to selected media such as the New Yorker for two weeks. Ruthless Ambition publication was announced this week, with sales to the public moved up to next week after publication originally scheduled June 1. Amazon.com lists the paperback, 396-page book as a best-seller based on pre-orders.
On a radio interview April 9 on the WNYC, Lizza told host Brian Lehrer and the audience, "If you readers are interested in this subject, Manzo has a sort of a Ph.D. on this at this point and his book is very interesting."
Media Shirked Duties As Alabama Jailed Journalist Fought For First Amendment
The nation's media provided remarkably little support to an Alabama journalist jailed for five months while he fought against prior restraint of his investigative reporting.
A part-time state judge freed blogger Roger Shuler March 26 after Shuler spiked columns alleging an affair between a reputed congressional candidate and a lobbyist.
With rare exceptions, journalism groups and news outlets failed to protest the flagrantly illegal treatment the hand-picked judge inflicted on Shuler and his readers.
Abuses included the writer's arrest and beating at his home Oct. 23 after regionally prominent lawyer Robert Riley and a lobbyist Liberty Duke filed civil suits claiming Shuler libeled them when he wrote they had had an affair. Judge Claud Neilson then ordered Shuler held without bail on two contempt of court charges for failure to spike his columns. The defendant is shown below in his mug shot.
The case undermined multiple legal precedents protecting freedom of the press and due process.
For example, the judge ordered the docket and courtroom sealed for the first months of the case, including the major hearing. The defendant, who had no lawyer, was kept shackled at wrists and ankles during a secret proceeding in which he had no ability to produce witnesses or legal research.
Shuler's treatment exemplifies the national media's increasingly bizarre behavior. Leading organizations are combine self-righteous First Amendment rhetoric in their public statements with timid reactions to the Shuler jailing.
The recent experience of New Yorker columnist Seymour Hersh illustrated the pattern further. On April 4, Hersh published The Red Line and the Rat Line, which alleged misleading statements by high-level Western leaders regarding civil strife in Syria and Libya. Hersh's column appeared in the London Review of Books, a second time in recent months he has used it instead of mainstream United States publications.
Hersh disputed official chronologies and causes of the Benghazi killing of four Americans in 2012 and the gas attacks last summer that nearly prompted a massive United States bombing attack on Syria in early September.
Hersh's "fascinating essay" rewrites the official record of the sarin gas attack on Ghouta, near Damascus last August, according to commentator Jonathan Cook. "As usual," Cook continued, "Hersh uses his sources in the US security establishment to throw light on what really took place. The bottom line: Turkey was almost certainly the party responsible for the attack, hoping it would force Obama to honor his threatened 'red line' if Assad used chemical weapons."
The public should worry about how timidly our media outlets and professional societies responded for the most part to the gas attack, Shuler's treatment and many other such issues.
But good news can come out of this. Such poor performance by the establishment media can help us spot similar shortfalls on many other important stories.
For example, my initial study of Shuler news coverage overlapped in time last fall my research for an 11-part "Readers Guide" to the books, films, articles, videos and events about the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination. I found that mainstream JFK coverage deferred to a shocking degree to disputed conventional wisdom, including the core findings of the Warren Commission.
Many major questions remain about the commission findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK from behind with three shots allegedly fired from the Texas Book Depository. With prompt, strong backing from the establishment media that continues to current times, the commission also found that the fatal bullet killing Kennedy also hit Texas Gov. John Connally in two places before the bullet was found in near-pristine condition on a hospital gurney.
Pressure Mounts For Report On Alleged Saudi Role In Supporting 9/11 Hijackers
Three members of Congress plus a former Senate chairman this month urged President Obama this month to declassify 28 pages of the joint congressional inquiry on foreign involvement in the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Reps. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, Massachusetts Democrat Stephen Lynch and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie spoke at a press conference on Capitol Hill March 11 in support of proposed House Resolution 428.
As shown below, three representatives of 9/11 families accompanied them and spoke also in support of making the material public.
Former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Graham, the Florida Democrat who co-chaired the the "Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001," provided a video supporting release of the information. Graham and the three congressman have read it but are forbidden by government secrecy law to describe it.
'Moral' Civic Reform Movement Spreads Across Deep South
One of the nation's most innovative and so-far successful social justice reform movements in recent years is spreading in the Deep South -- including in a major test scheduled for March 25 in Alabama.
A new Alabama "Moral Mondays" group that mixes advocacy and civil disobedience plans its public launch at noon on the state capitol's front steps in Montgomery. Moral Mondays takes its name from weekly demonstrations that have occurred on Mondays during recent legislative sessions in North Carolina.
The movement draws its strength from the pain and anger widespread in the Deep South, including on legal and social justice issues.
It draws heavily from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and also uses "moral" and "constitutional" language similar to that of recent conservative groups. It emphasizes non-partisan "fusion" politics while opposing what its leaders call extremist policies by conservatives.
The new movement is characterized by mass arrests during peaceful protests at state legislatures. It expanded last week to Georgia and South Carolina. It moves next to Alabama, one of the reddest of Red states and locale of many of the nation's iconic civil rights struggles from five decades ago.
Today's column is a first-hand report on how Alabama's Saving OurSelves (S.O.S.) coalition affiliated itself March 8 with the Moral Mondays movement. My photo at right shows the organizational meeting in Selma, with the Alabama River and the city's Edmond Pettus Bridge in the background.
The main leader is the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter. In my March 8 photo above showing Alabama planning, Barber was just to the right of Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford, who was dressed in a red Tuskegee University sweatshirt as he spoke in favor of the new coalition. Barber is shown also in a file photo below.
The Moral Mondays message attacks as extremist conservative policies such as opposition to Obamacare extension of Medicaid health insurance to the uninsured -- a decision largely in the hands of states.
Yet the movement's messages go far beyond specific policies and thus are "transformative, not transactional," Barber likes to say.
Such messages mean, on close examination, that the movement threatens traditional politicians and special interest groups of many kinds, including those on the left that are organized on single-issue rhetoric, party politics, and wheeler-dealing with hidden agendas. Implicit in the Moral Mondays movement is that it opposes those on the left who are accustomed to celebrity-driven, top-down leadership -- and fund-raising that crosses a line in terms of self-dealing or "pay to play" arrangements.
This Moral Mondays movement impresses me as bold, creative and seemingly likely to achieve significant goals. As our work at the Justice Integrity Project has found, many people are hurting, angry -- and looking for new and better ways to achieve dramatic civic reform.
I was one of the few reporters to attend the meeting, which was part of my five days at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee from March 6 to 10 in Selma commemorating "Bloody Sunday."
That name comes from police brutality on March 7, 1965, when approximately 160 Alabama state and local police viciously beat and gassed 600 peaceful protesters on the Pettus Bridge. The marchers had intended to walk from Selma to Montgomery to protest near-complete lack of voting rights for blacks in majority black Dallas County and the police killing of a local resident, Jimmie Lee Jackson. The overall brutality, including the fatal clubbing of Wyoming-born Rev. James Reeb by racists in Selma, led to the national public outrage, two follow-up marches, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The new Moral Mondays coalition for Alabama was created in Selma during the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which retraces the steps of the first marchers. This year, a core group of 50 also traveled in a modern Freedom Ride from Selma through five Southern capitals to Washington, DC for rallies, including protests at the U.S. Supreme Court and Capitol.
The week of protests, church services and educational events I attended were powerful. There were many eloquent speeches, historical recreations and special events (including a mock trial and a play) repeatedly framed by prayer and music. Yet such scenes are best appreciated in person or by video. Therefore, my goal below is to focus in words on a summary of the movement, its allies, challenges and prospects.


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It's too early
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(Carotid Ultrasound, Vascular Ultrasound Study, Carotid Artery Doppler Sonography)
A carotid artery duplex scan is a type of vascular ultrasound study done to assess the blood flow of the arteries that supply blood from the heart through the neck to the brain. There are two carotid arteries, each of which divides into two more: the right internal and external carotid arteries and the left internal and external carotid arteries.
A carotid artery duplex scan is a noninvasive (the skin is not pierced) procedure. The term "duplex" refers to the fact that two modes of ultrasound are used--Doppler and B-mode. The B-mode transducer (like a microphone) obtains an image of the carotid artery being studied. The Doppler probe within the transducer evaluates the velocity and direction of blood flow in the vessel.
A probe (also called a transducer) sends out ultrasonic sound waves at a frequency too high to be heard. When the probe is placed on the carotid arteries at certain locations and angles, the ultrasonic sound waves move through the skin and other body tissues to the blood vessels, where the waves echo off of the blood cells. The transducer picks up the reflected waves and sends them to an amplifier, which makes the ultrasonic sound waves audible. Absence or faintness of these sounds may indicate an obstruction to the blood flow.
A related procedure that may be performed to further evaluate the carotid artery and its branches is carotid arteriogram. Please see this procedure for more information.
A carotid artery duplex scan is used to assess occlusion (blockage) or stenosis (narrowing) of the carotid arteries of the neck and/or the branches of the carotid artery. Plaque (a buildup of fatty materials), thrombus (blood clot), and other substances in the blood stream may cause a disturbance in the blood flow through the carotid arteries.
When the carotid arteries become blocked, symptoms may include dizziness, confusion, drowsiness, headache, momentary blindness in one eye, and/or a brief loss of ability to speak or move. These symptoms may indicate early warning signs of a possible stroke (brain attack, or cerebrovascular accident [CVA]).
A carotid artery duplex scan may also be performed when no symptoms of occlusion are present, yet an abnormal blood flow sound called a bruit (pronounced "BROO-ee") is heard with a stethoscope over the artery. This may indicate a possible condition of abnormal blood flow in the artery.
Additional reasons for the procedure include, but are not limited to, the following:
There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend a carotid artery duplex scan.
There is no radiation used and generally no discomfort from the application of the ultrasound transducer to the skin.
Be sure to discuss any concerns with your doctor prior to the procedure.
Certain factors or conditions may interfere with the results of the test. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
A carotid artery duplex scan may be performed on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your doctor's practices.
Generally, a carotid artery duplex scan follows this process:
The technologist will use all possible comfort measures and complete the procedure as quickly as possible to minimize any discomfort.
While the carotid artery duplex scan procedure itself causes no pain, having to lie still for the length of the procedure might cause slight discomfort.
There is no special type of care required after a carotid artery duplex scan. You may resume your usual diet and activities unless your doctor advises you differently.
Your doctor may give you additional or alternate instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation.
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This page contains links to other websites with information about this procedure and related health conditions. We hope you find these sites helpful, but please remember we do not control or endorse the information presented on these websites, nor do these sites endorse the information contained here.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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National Library of Medicine
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Electromyography (EMG)
Electronystagmography (ENG)
Endovascular Coiling
Evoked Potentials Studies
Gamma Knife
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Prior training and experience:Barbara L. Robinson, M.D. joined the Georgia Health Sciences University, Obstetrics and Gynecology faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Section in August 2012. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1997 where she completed the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps and was honored as the Distinguished Military Graduate.
She subsequently completed four years in the U.S. Army as an Environmental Science Officer. Upon honorable discharge as an Army Captain, Dr. Robinson completed her medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2005. She then went on to complete her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Dr. Robinson's professional interests include prolapse and incontinence, robotic surgery, and sacroneuromodulation.


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Sheila brushed aside Rabul's bangs, which had grown too long, and looked into his dark brown eyes. "You know I love you right? More than pumpkin pie with ice cream? More than the number of birds that fly south in the winter? More than the fig tree has leaves?"
"Yes, Mom…" the angst ridden teenager would sigh and pat his hair back into place, but a little smile would be playing upon his lips
"Be safe!" she'd call behind him as he'd leave, his thin body looking rickety against the wind.
Rabul was a good kid. Never gave his adopted mom many problems growing up. A few pranks here and there, pants too low, hair too long sort of thing, but never anything serious.
Sheila had adopted Rabul from India – "long before Angelina Jolie and Madonna made adopting third world babies popular," she laughs. Her husband had worked for a telecom company and they had the foresight to tap into the burgeoning cell phone market in India. Steve and Sheila lived in Delhi and Bombay (now Mumbai) for almost ten years.
"The poverty there was – probably still is although I haven't been back in years except once – unbearable. Children with diseases and missing limbs would sit in dirty rags on the side streets and beg all day long. They broke my heart. When we were getting ready to move back stateside, we decided to adopt."
Sheila had been trying to get pregnant for some time, but the doctors weren't hopeful. He gently suggested that she consider adopting. Being in India, however, she knew her chances of adopting a child back in the States - her homeland - were slim to non-existent. "It wasn't until we were getting ready to leave that I realized how much I had grown to love India – her colors, her people. It truly was a second home to me. And remembering all those poor urchins begging day in and day out in the dirty water, it just felt right."
They went to a local adoption center and didn't tell them they were planning on moving back to the United States for fear it would hurt their chances. They adopted a young boy named Rabul, a tiny child whose parents had been felled from disease, who had melted their heart with his warm eyes and shy smile.
After adopting Rabul, they transplanted him back in the United States a year later. The transition was smooth and Rabul was growing stronger by the day, thriving in school and was an all around happy boy.
One day, when Rabul was fourteen, they received a letter from the orphanage that had adopted Rabul out. Apparently he had a sister, and she had come looking for her long lost brother. She had been taken care of by members of the family; it remained unclear how Rabul had ended up in the orphanage.
The one trip back that Sheila made was about fifteen years ago. Her husband Steve had been driving Rabul home from a dinner with a former work colleague when the unthinkable happened – a drunk driver hit the car and killed them both instantly. The driver of the other car walked away with barely a scratch, and had had five drunken driving arrests before. But this was in India, where a well connected citizen and a few Rupees can sometimes make police and law enforcement look the other way. The young man who killed them was from a wealthy family and never served a minute in jail for his crimes.
"We were supposed to meet his sister the next day. Rabul was so excited that he hadn't been able to sleep the night before. They went out to dinner with a friend of Steve's from the company while I visited some other friends, and they were both killed on their way back to the hotel. That day was the blackest day of my life."
Sheila had to meet the long-lost sister, Srilana, alone the following day and give her the devastating news. The young woman broke down into sobs and began wailing and tearing her hair out in the middle of the plaza. Sheila tried to comfort her, but she was so in shock herself that the two strangers clung to each other in the middle of the busy shopping area and howled at the injustice that had been forced upon them – the loss of their son and brother and Sheila's husband.
Rabul's sister took Sheila into her family where "I curled up into a ball into the corner and cried for the next three months." The family never pressured her to vacate their small house, treating her as family.
Eventually Sheila began to share stories of Rabul with the family and learned about her adopted son's family and life in India. The more she learned the more she felt she had done the right thing by adopting him, but also felt a strange feeling seeping in – guilt. She had removed him from his homeland and his culture and immersed him in hers.
Sheila stayed at the house for four months. After her grieving subsided just ever so slightly, she felt that she had imposed on her guests long enough and had to face the dreaded tasks of returning to the United States and finish up her family's affairs there.
"When I set foot off that plane, I felt as though the weight of the world rested on my shoulders. As though I had this, this black BEAST drooling on my back, sinking his fangs into my neck and laughing."
"Sheila and her husband had adopted Rabul from India – 'long before Angelina Jolie and Madonna made adopting third world babies popular,' she laughs."
Sheila stayed and sorted through her husband's estate. She buried him and Rabul in a quiet cemetery not too far from their house, and visited regularly. Inviting Srilana and her family to help fill up the large house seemed like a good idea that came to her one night after sitting on her porch, afraid to go inside to the emptiness. "I called her the next day and asked if they could come for a visit."
Srilana readily agreed, and they planned for a trip the following summer. Getting ready for her new friend, the sister of her deceased son, gave her a purpose. When the brood arrived, the house was suddenly filled with laughter and light again and as Srilana's children ran and shrieked through the house, Sheila could detect
Sitting on the porch sharing their thoughts over tea, Srilana confessed to Sheila that life was hard in Bombay. Her husband's business wasn't doing very well and they had five children, four of them girls. She was worried about their dowries and growing up. Rocking back and forth on the swing, Sheila began thinking.
Sleeping on it, the next morning she awoke "with a smile on my face for the first time in over a year. I knew what I had to do." Without telling anyone in the house, she was at her lawyer's office first thing in the morning. After that, she stopped at the realtor and put her house up for sale. Stopping by the grocery store she brought home food for lunch and was greeted by a cacophony of noise and little limbs bursting around.
She pulled Srilana into the kitchen and told her the news. Protesting madly, Srilana was finally persuaded to let her adoptive aunt help her family. Sheila explained that she had gotten a very large life insurance policy settlement, and with the sale of the house, Srilana's family could live like kings back in India.
Srilana called in her husband, who at first objected to such kindness, but eventually was made to understand the better life it would create for his children. Humbled by kindness, they stood before this woman, this American woman to whom they had only vague ties, and kissed each other in a mix of tears and gratitude.
Sheila did as she promised, and now travels the world visiting countries and donating money to foreign orphanages. Once a year she stops in India and spends some time with her "adopted" family together they honor the memory of their son and brother, Rabul, and Sheila's husband Steve, lost so many years ago.
Srilana's family (above) 'adopted' Sheila (below) after Rabul's death.Thank you Sheila, for sharing your Story with us. ~~~ Our Stories and pictures are the sole copyright of their Authors and may not be reprinted or used without their permission. © 2009 by Adara Bernstein and Story of My Life ®
Srilana's family (above) 'adopted' Sheila (below) after Rabul's death.Thank you Sheila, for sharing your Story with us. ~~~ Our Stories and pictures are the sole copyright of their Authors and may not be reprinted or used without their permission. © 2009 by Adara Bernstein and Story of My Life ®
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Mumbai and back.... i'm really sorry to hear about your son and husband. It's interesting to learn about kids and orphanages in other countries. I especially hear bad stories about female babies in India (and other countries). That was really nice of you to help Rabu's family too.
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The Money Pitch
The Widening gap between rich and poor teams means only a handful will have a shot at the World Series
Ken Shouler, Austin Merrill
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More and more, Major League Baseball resembles high-stakes poker. Bringing the most money to the table doesn't guarantee you a victory in poker tournaments. But you need a load of money to even get a seat with the big boys, ante up, and have a chance at winning. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has said that fans want to begin each spring with hope and expectation.
But as many as 15 of the 30 Major League clubs—possibly more—have virtually no chance of winning the World Series. Their dim prospects don't stem from a deficit in runs scored or high earned run averages or any of the standard statistical barometers for that matter. Their problem is more basic: they simply lack the cash to field a championship team.
Of the eight teams that made the playoffs in 2001, six spent between $75 million and $109 million on payroll. The only playoff contenders spending under $75 million were Houston ($60 million) and Oakland ($33 million). Both were eliminated in first-round division series.
Sixteen other teams spending under $75 million sat out the playoffs.
"From 1995 through 2001, only four teams from the bottom half of payrolls reached the postseason, and combined, they won a total of five out of 224 games," says Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Business of Our National Pastime, an award-winning study of baseball business from Civil War times to the present.
"There is a stacking of the deck; the most problematic part of that stacking of the deck is that there are teams at the top that spend so far above everyone else in payroll. There is clear evidence today that the problem is not just the Yankees, but it is the growing disparity between the top and bottom revenue teams.
"Just over a decade ago, in 1989, the revenue difference between the highest and lowest teams was around $30 million. By 1999, this difference grew more than fivefold, to more than $160 million. When you get to the top handful of teams, they are not spending five or ten percent more than the teams below them, they are not just spending 100 percent more, or 200 percent more."
The advantages of the rich teams reach to 300 and 400 percent and beyond. Last year, the Yankees and the Red Sox led the way with payrolls of more than $109 million each, while Oakland and Minnesota held up the rear at $33 million and $24 million, respectively.
At the outset of Major League Baseball's 132nd season, how dire are some teams' hopes of winning? Consider the numbers:
-The Minnesota Twins won the World Series in 1991, the last time a team with a payroll in the bottom half won a championship. The Twins were 17th in payroll that year, spending just $22.5 million.
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An exhibition organized by Gregory Salzman
Robert Adams, Tom Bamberger, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Vija Celmins, Robin Collyer, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Stan Douglas, David Driscoll, Olafur Eliasson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Will Gorlitz, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Roni Horn, Geoffrey James, Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky, David Korty, Justine Kurland, Matts Leiderstam, Clare Richardson, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Tokihiro Sato, Adrian Sciess, Maria Serebriakova, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marc Trivier, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Robert Wiens
May 12 to June 30, 2002 Presented concurrently at the Art Gallery of York University, The Koffler Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. September 12 – October 27, 2002 in Montreal, a reprise at the Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts.
Regarding Landscape is a survey exhibition of contemporary landscapes. Organized by Toronto-based independent curator Gregory Salzman, the exhibition will present a range of significant contemporary landscape work by established and emerging Canadian, American and European artists, across a variety of media – painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and video.
The curatorial premise of this project is to invoke landscape's multiple concerns. Equally, the show seeks to convey landscape's perennial satisfactions deriving from deep human attachments to nature. The intent is to treat the show itself as a landscape and through the selection and presentation of work to pay attention to certain parameters intrinsic to the experience of landscape both as reality and as an art form: distance, relations of foreground/background, space, scale, temporality, movement, light, tempo and rhythm, tone, texture, metaphor, memory. While the show intentionally lacks any central thesis that would artificially limit the natural scope of its subject, the question of what exactly qualifies a landscape as contemporary and why, correspondingly, certain landscapes resonate, is fully at issue here.
We read landscapes and we also experience them with all our five senses. Landscapes which connect the activity of reading and of sensing and in which different orders of information come together and reinforce each other are those which are likely to resonate in our mind and imagination. A catalogue in the form of a photo album which also contains many brief texts regarding landscape and the work in the exhibition will be published.
For further details please contact: Carolyn Bell Farrell, The Koffler Gallery (416) 636-1880 ext.268
Kathleen McLean, Art Gallery of York University (416) 736-5169
Camilla Singh, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (416) 395-7430
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By Edward Baig, USA Today Tech Columnist
NEW YORK - With all that is riding on today's global launch of BlackBerry 10, the folks at BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) couldn't afford to mess up. The BlackBerry Z10 - the first device to run the company's new operating system - not only had to make a stellar first impression, but it had to be markedly superior compared to the rival smartphones that put Canada's premier tech company in such a precarious market position. Either way would it be too late?
The buying public will ultimately supply the answer. My own verdict after testing the Z10 for nearly a week is that it's very much good enough to keep RIM in the game, but is still not very likely to help the company supplant the iPhone 5 or the Android-based Samsung Galaxy S III, or help the company recapture its past glory.
I do like the Z10 and BlackBerry 10, however, even with some flaws. The phone feels like the modern day BlackBerry that seems to have eluded RIM, especially as far sexier handsets emerged from Apple, Samsung and others. It's got a fresh touch keyboard that gets smarter as you go along and an inviting user interface built around touch gestures. Video chat is built into the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service. You come to appreciate BlackBerry Hub, a centralized repository for email, text, social updates and more. It even has a decent supply of apps for a newly-minted mobile operating system.
The new phone is a sturdily built black handset with a rubberized back that is comfortable to grip. A 4.2-inch LCD high-resolution display is generally easy on the eyes but loses a side-by-side comparison against the Retina display on the iPhone 5. A video from ESPN.com that perfectly reproduced on the iPhone was squished down and fuzzier on the BlackBerry. It has 2GB of RAM, 16GB of flash memory, and a microSD card slot hidden beneath the removable back lid for upping the memory by up to 32GB.
The Z10 is expected to fetch $199 with a two-year contract. My test device tapped into AT&T's LTE network, but not all carrier details were in place at the time of this review. In the U.S. phones are expected to become available from most carriers in March.
(Update from today's launch event: Various wireless carries around the world will sell the new Z10. In the U.S., prices are expected to cost $199 with a contract CEO Thorsten Heins says, from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. It's expected in March,with specific plan/pricing details to come.)
BlackBerrys have always provided the kind of security likely to cheer the people who police tech policy at your company. So it goes here. And I would expect the handset to mostly appeal to the legions of BlackBerry fans that, judging by the pre-launch interest, are still out there, despite declining market numbers. At least those devotees who are willing to transition to an all-multi-touch environment, and ditch the kind of physical keyboard which has been a longtime BlackBerry strength.
RIM put a lot of thought into its touchscreen keyboard. Like keyboards on other mobile phones, it tries to predict what you're going to type next. For example, if you often hit the letter "B" when you meant instead to hit the spacebar, the keyboard will learn to fix that mistake in short order, RIM says. The keyboard also serves up "predicted words" based on whatever you type. These words appear in tiny type over the next letter it anticipates you may strike. When I typed the word "emerging" in a text message, the keyboard correctly guessed the next word I wanted to type was "markets," even before I struck the "m." If you see the word you had in mind, you literally flick it up and it lands in place. The predicted words are awfully tiny though- I had to put on glasses to view them or at least make sure I was right on top of the screen.
Meanwhile, RIM has built in a number of handy keyboard tricks and shortcuts. You can delete an entire word, for instance, by rapidly swiping the delete key to the left.
Of course, some diehards will want to wait for the BlackBerry Q10, a BlackBerry 10 device with a physical keyboard, that is expected to become available in April. RIM has not yet supplied review units.
Those gravitating to the Z10 must also master a new series of gestures that RIM calls "peek" and "flow." I got the hang of these pretty quickly and came to like them. In the absence of a physical home button, for example, you swipe up from the bottom of the bezel to wake up a sleeping phone. You can swipe left and right to see icons for all your apps, and to see which apps are running at any one time - the handset is a whiz at multitasking. To quickly peek at the BlackBerry Hub from any screen, you swipe up and then to the right.
Inside BlackBerry Hub you can view your email accounts, made and missed calls, texts, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger messages, Facebook notifications, scheduled meetings and more. You can also view accounts individually. A blinking notification LED at the upper right corner of the device clues you in that there's something new in there to check out.
The BlackBerry 10 browser is smooth and fast. And it supports Adobe Flash though Flash is not turned on by default, and is a standard on mobile phones that is losing way to HTML5.
Still, I encountered deficiencies. The battery pooped out in the middle of a recent afternoon, way sooner than I would have wanted. RIM says the battery life will improve with full carrier support. The good news is that the battery is removable, so you can always carry around a spare.
Meanwhile, not all of the apps I tried behaved properly leading up to the launch, which RIM warned me about. RIM says there'll be about 70,000 apps in the BlackBerry App World at launch, a very respectable number for a completely reinvented operating system but a sum that still pales next to the iPhone or Android. RIM says it will have all the third party apps that most people want. A roster on my device includes Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Box, Angry Birds Star Wars, Flixster, Slacker Radio and yes, USA TODAY. Befitting RIM's roots, an app for Hockey Night In Canada was also on board. Skype and Rdio are said to be coming soon. Two of my other favorites on other devices, Spotify and Pandora, are among the missing apps at launch-though a BlackBerry 10 app called Apollo can deliver your customized Pandora stations.
RIM also says it will have a robust catalog of movies and TV shows (through Rovi) and more than 22 million songs from major and independent labels (and supplied through 7Digital). Alas, the very first TV show that I searched for, Downton Abbey, was not available in the store when I checked. You also can't preview TV shows you might consider downloading from the device though you can preview movies.
RIM very much has its bread and butter business customers in its sights. As with earlier BlackBerrys it comes preinstalled with the Documents To Go app that lets you create, view and edit Microsoft Word, and Excel files, view and edit PowerPoint files, and view Adobe PDF files. Documents To Go is from DataViz, a company now owed by RIM.
Enterprise customers can exploit a feature called BlackBerry Balance in which the technical administrators in your company can arrange to segregate your personal data from your work data.
You can find and remotely lock a missing or stolen phone through the free BlackBerry Protect service.
And you can now initiate a voice and video chat through the BlackBerry Messenger business messaging service. With a decent Internet connection, the video quality of the chats I exchanged with a RIM executive was excellent. Even better, one of the participants in a video chat can share his or her screen with the other, a boon for coworkers who are collaborating on a project or a tech support person who is trying to demonstrate how something is done. Incidentally, I was able to add BBM contacts by tapping my phone against another BlackBerry 10 device, all accomplished through NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.
But BlackBerry 10 isn't all work and no play. The Z10 has an 8-megapixel rear facing camera and a 2-megapixel front facing camera. The rear shooter can capture 1080p high definition video.
I had fun putting together a polished little movie of my son's birthday party using a BlackBerry app called Story Maker. You choose the videos and/or still pictures to include in the project, add a soundtrack and titles, and apply one of a half-dozen "themes" (vintage, black and white, etc.).
RIM is also reaching out to consumers with a clever if not always practical camera feature called TimeShift, which in theory ensures that each person in a group shot will pose properly. When you press the screen to shoot, the camera actually captures multiple images over a second or so. After shooting, you'll notice a box around a subject's face. Tap the face and a circle with a knob surrounds the face. As you drag the knob you can watch the facial expressions change, and tap the screen when the image of that mug is how you'd want it. The idea is to find a pose in which each person is smiling and has his eyes open.
Unfortunately, TimeShift doesn't do anything to improve focus, and taking the time to TimeShift means you can't quickly fire off more pictures. Another camera quibble: Unlike with some rival phones, you cannot capture a still image at the same time you are shooting video.
I didn't spend a lot of time testing BlackBerry Maps but the app's turn-by-turn directions didn't steer me wrong on my way to an appointment.
The Z10 also lets you incorporate voice commands to send texts, emails, BBM messages, call somebody, search the Web, schedule an appointment or make a note. But you won't mistake the voice commands on the BlackBerry for Siri on the iPhone (and that is meant as a compliment to Apple).
RIM has produced an excellent cellphone based on what appears to be a solid foundation. I just don't know if it will be enough to turn things around.
The bottom line
Price, $199 with a contract.
Pro. Excellent touch keyboard and user interface. BlackBerry Hub. Video chat and screen sharing in BBM. TimeShift camera feature. Removable battery.
Con. Battery life could be better. Fewer apps.


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Book your room at Savannah Marriott Riverfront
Standard RoomMax Occupancy: 4 adults
Deluxe Room, River ViewMax Occupancy: 4 adults
Savannah hotel with an indoor pool
Situated in the city center, this hotel is close to Washington Square, Forsyth Park, and Greene Square. Also nearby are Second African Baptish Church and Warren Square.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Savannah Marriott Riverfront features an indoor pool. Other amenities include bars/lounges and complimentary wireless Internet access.
Room Amenities
Plasma televisions come with premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature wireless Internet access (surcharge), high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge), and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Savannah Marriott Riverfront
- At your hotel
In addition to an indoor pool, Savannah Marriott Riverfront provides a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center, a technology helpdesk, and audiovisual equipment. Event facilities measuring 36,000 square feet (3345 square meters) include small meeting rooms and a ballroom. This business-friendly hotel also offers spa services, gift shops/newsstands, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Savannah Marriott Riverfront is a smoke-free property.
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Self parking
- Business center
- Express check-out
- Total number of rooms - 387
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- ATM/banking
- Audiovisual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Number of floors - 8
- Room service (limited hours)
- Restaurant
- Number of bars/lounges 2
- Business services
- Concierge desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free Wi-Fi
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 36,000
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 3345
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 24
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Swimming pool - outdoor seasonal
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Technology helpdesk
- Parking (surcharge)
- Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Park your car
Parking (surcharge), Self parking
- In your room
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hair dryer
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Climate control
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Iron/ironing board
- Cable TV service
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Plasma TV
- Down comforter
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Eat and drink
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Blue A Savannah Bistro - This bistro serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Blue A Savannah Bar - This restaurant serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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An indoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
The Fine Print for Savannah Marriott Riverfront
- When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
- How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: USD 16.05 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 12.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 18 per day


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The Nevada Highway Patrol along with law enforcement from West Wendover, Elko and White Pine County will join forces this weekend to monitor the thousands of NASCAR fans driving to Las Vegas to watch the races.
The week's special enforcement began Wednesday and will end with two major races. The NASCAR National Series Sam's Town 300 will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, followed by the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kobalt Tools 400 beginning at noon Sunday.
Too often, someone dies or is seriously hurt because they were driving too fast anticipating their arrival to the events, according to NHP Trooper Jim Stewart.
"Leave speed at the track," Stewart said. "There's quite a bit of traffic that comes through this area from up north. We just want to slow people down. They have the urge to go fast through this area."
Law enforcement, allowed by state statute to work across jurisdictions, will jointly patrol U.S. 93 and State Route 318 to reduce accidents and enforce traffic violations.
Officers will target speeders, those who follow too close, pass on a double line and fail to maintain a travel lane, among other violations.
The Reno, Sparks and Carson City region will not focus on NASCAR travelers per se, NHP spokesman Chuck Allen said, but troopers are always patrolling for speeders and distracted drivers, he said.
"Speeding is one of the many things we look for," Allen said. "We want to reduce speeding and we want people to focus on the road."
Northern Nevada law enforcement officers are still seeing drivers toying with cell phones while driving, Allen reported. Since cell phone use while driving became restricted to hands-free on Jan. 1, many citations have been issued. In January, NHP cited 337 drivers for cell phone use while driving.
Out-of-state drivers who might be unfamiliar with Nevada law need to be particularly aware of the change. The Joining Forces campaign, funded by the Nevada Department of Public Safety's Office of Traffic Safety, is conducted every year.
High winds and fatigue are other problems drivers have when traveling though the rural areas of Nevada, where speed limits can tend to be higher and the roads longer and lonelier.
"Be aware of your surroundings. Watch your speeds and road conditions when driving to and from the NASCAR races," Stewart said. "Driver distractions are major causes of crashes, and in rural Nevada we find many motorists falling asleep while behind the wheel."


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The Credit Union National Association (CUNA), based in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisc., is the premier national trade association serving roughly 7,000 federal and state-chartered credit unions.
Credit unions are cooperative financial institutions, owned and controlled by the people who use their services. These people are members. Credit unions serve groups that share a common characteristic such as where they work, live, or worship.
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The autumn political contest in Virginia began this year as it always does, with a Labor Day parade and festival in the Shenandoah Valley town of Buena Vista. The event featured appearances by the Democratic governor, Tim Kaine, and his predecessor, Mark Warner, another Democrat, who was then considering running for President in 2008. Senator George Allen, a Republican, who was also contemplating a Presidential race, rode the parade route on a jumpy horse called Bubba, and forecast a victory in his current reëlection campaign. Notably missing from the event was Allen's Democratic opponent, James Webb. To the consternation of some on his team, he had skipped the ritual opening of his first political campaign in favor of a private ritual, three hundred miles away.
At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, members of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, were preparing for deployment to Iraq. Among them was Webb's only son, Lance Corporal James R. Webb, known as Jimmy. Two years earlier, Jimmy had interrupted his studies at Penn State and enlisted. His father could hardly protest; Jimmy was taking up the challenge posed by Webb in countless speeches, books, and articles. To Webb, himself once a distinguished member of the Marine Corps, military service was not just a patriotic gesture but part of a test of honor and courage, an essential rite of passage.
Webb had gone to Vietnam in 1969, unburdened by ambivalence at a time when the narrative of the Vietnam War had turned irretrievably toward tragedy. His first novel, "Fields of Fire," published in 1978, was based on the war—"the finest of the Vietnam novels," according to Tom Wolfe—and Vietnam continued to be his point of reference, to the degree that even his friends wondered whether it had distorted his perspective. But Webb was shaped not so much by the war as by what he discovered when he returned.
The year 1969 was one of the bloodiest for Americans in Vietnam, with the weekly death toll averaging about two hundred and twenty-five. At home, it was the year of Woodstock, the takeover of the Harvard administration building by student radicals, the trial of the Chicago Eight, and the huge National Moratorium antiwar protest. It was also the year that President Richard Nixon used the term "silent majority" to describe those Americans who did not protest.
When Webb, debilitated by shrapnel wounds received in an action that earned him the Navy Cross, was forced to retire from the military, he enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center, and stepped directly into the culture divide. He hated his time at Georgetown, largely because of his encounter with an attitude that caught him wholly unaware. It seemed to him that many of his classmates had been untouched by Vietnam (except for a gain in self-regard, accrued from opposition to what they deemed an immoral war). Webb concluded that they not only had figured out ways to avoid the risk and sacrifice of military service but had convinced themselves, as they proceeded along their education and career tracks, that theirs was the true heroism of the time. Inspired by his rage, he decided to write "Fields of Fire," which included a series of withering cameo portrayals of Ivy League graduates who worked the system to avoid service. "Some day he will write speeches for great politicians," he wrote of one character. "Tim Forbes will confess his boondoggle, and we will admire his honesty. He only did what everybody else was doing." Webb could recite the minuscule number of men killed in Vietnam who, by his count, had matriculated at the élite colleges (Harvard, twelve; Princeton, six; M.I.T., two) compared with the vast numbers from public schools.
Webb returned to the subject repeatedly in his writing over the next twenty-five years, until he produced what amounted to his own ethnology. He saw himself as a creature of a pervasive but nearly invisible Scots-Irish subculture, descended from the warrior clans of Ulster who migrated to North America in large numbers in the eighteenth century. They came to live mostly in the Appalachian South—a stubborn, bellicose people, fiercely individualistic and egalitarian. They settled the frontiers, invented country music, and fostered a truly native form of American democracy. Most important, they bore the brunt of fighting the nation's wars. In 2004, Webb published "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America." He had found, he believed, the DNA of red-state America.
In Webb's world, manhood was a standing, to be earned. When he was a small boy, his father, a bomber pilot in the Second World War, would clench his fist and dare his son to strike it, taunting him to keep punching until the tears flowed. But Webb accepted that a father's highest duty was to prepare his son for manhood by teaching him to fight, to hunt, and to handle a weapon. He got his first gun when he was eight, and Jimmy did, too. In such a culture, going off to war is part of what Webb calls "the Redneck Bar Mitzvah."
During the week before Jimmy's deployment, Webb and his son were joined by José Ramirez, a former marine who is the boyfriend of Jimmy's sister Sarah, and Dale Wilson, a member of Webb's platoon in Vietnam, who is a triple amputee. Just before the departure of the transport bus that was taking the marines to the airfield from which they would leave for Kuwait, Jimmy and his father and their friends gathered in the parking lot. Webb had filled a Coke bottle with whiskey, which he poured into four cups. The three older men raised their cups to Jimmy, who offered the final toast: "To those who went before me. And to those who didn't come back. Now it's my time."


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Hotel with private beach, full-service spa
This Wilderness hotel is in a national park, situated on a private beach near area attractions such as Victoria Bay Beach and Wilderness National Park. Regional attractions also include Garden Route Botanical Garden and Redberry Farm.
Hotel Features
Catch some rays on The Pearl of Wilderness's private beach or spend the day relaxing at the full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature wireless Internet access (surcharge), high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge), and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Renovations & Closures
- Details
- Renovation work will only be conducted during business hours. Every effort will be made to minimize noise and disturbance.
Hotel Amenities
- General
Simply step outside to unwind on the hotel's beach. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at The Pearl of Wilderness like an outdoor pool and a children's pool.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. An Internet point is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This beach hotel also offers a health club, a steam room, and a sauna. Complimentary self parking is available on site. A total renovation of this property was completed in August 2012.
The Pearl of Wilderness is a smoke-free property.
- On private beach
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Swimming pool - children's
- Spa services on site
- Full-service health spa
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Concierge desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Free parking
- Business center
- Banquet facilities
- Audiovisual equipment
- Total number of rooms - 150
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Security guard
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 4
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Currency exchange
- Tour assistance
- Beauty services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Ballroom(s)
- Patio
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Event catering
- Exhibit space
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Hair salon
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Computer station
- Internet point
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- One meeting/conference room
- Tennis on site
- Room service
- Health club
- Shopping on site
- Laundry facilities
- Garden
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Medical assistance available
- Free self parking
- Terrace
- Conference center
- Year Built 1967
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Secretarial services
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge, Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Parking
Free parking, Free self parking
- Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Direct-dial phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Extra towels/bedding
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- Free movie channels
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Dining
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
GARDEN GRILL - Overlooking the ocean and garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required.
Room service is available.
- Recreation
A private beach and a health club are featured at the hotel. An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Golf - miniature nearby
- Motor boating nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Whale-watching nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Rafting nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Racquetball/squash nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Bird watching nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Playground nearby
- Bungee jumping nearby
- Swimming on site
- Tennis on site
- Volleyball on site
- Kite-surfing nearby
- Boat cruises nearby
- Spa
WILDERNESS HYDRO has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 10 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Minimum age to access spa is 10
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Debit cards not accepted
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- A city/local tax will be charged
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: ZAR 1 per minute (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: ZAR 1 per minute (rates may vary)
- Additional Details
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
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Quality Graded by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) – South Africa's official quality assurance organization.


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