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Breaking her Silence
Former dispatcher Louise Charlene Taylor says Sheriff A.C. Gilless demanded sexual favors from her for a full decade. In an exclusive interview, she talks about her nightmare at 201 Poplar.
by Phil Campbell
he says she has nightmares every night. Sometimes she doesnt sleep at all, pacing the floors of her modest Bartlett home as if they were a treadmill on medium speed. Shes gone back to smoking, especially when she talks about it. She has high blood pressure. Her stomach is easily upset. Her anxiety is so great that sometimes she finds herself clawing at her face, as if, by tearing away the skin on her cheeks, she could remove 10 years of
regret. She cries for no apparent reason. On weekends and weeknights she rarely leaves the house, not seeing any particular reason to even get out of bed. The images of angels, flowers, and fruit that decorate the interior of her softly lit house are supposed to bring her some sense of solitude and tranquility, but they are little comfort against the specters of her subconscious. Her little poodle, Taco, seems to be absorbing and channeling all her negative energy; he never stops running, barking, and pawing at the air while she sits nervously on the couch.
And those nightmares.
She wont elaborate on them, but describes them as dark and twisted. This former dispatcher for the Shelby County Sheriffs Department now draws a special medical disability pension. Her psychiatrist diagnosed her as having severe depression. County-paid therapists, in a separate evaluation, had to concur. She doesnt work now; shell be collecting her tax-exempt pension for another 13 years, when, at the age of 65, she is officially retired from the department.
Sitting in her home, Louise Charlene Taylor tries to talk about it but cant. She cant even say Sheriff A.C. Gilless name, referring to him alternately as the sheriff, the second-highest man in the county, and the man on top of the department. She will talk incessantly about how she was denied a promotion last year. The emotional scars, however, have more to do with what happened to her behind closed doors while she was alone with Gilless.
The 52-year-old Taylor claims that she was an unwilling participant in the sheriffs demands for sexual favors. She says the situation lasted a full 10 years.
About a year ago, she broke down completely, finally succumbing to the emotional trauma. Breaking her side of the out-of-court confidential settlement agreement with the county and the sheriff, and arguing, through her lawyer, that the county had already broken that settlement agreement, Taylor has decided to tell her story for the first time to someone other than her lawyer, her family, and her psychiatrist.
Breaking the Silence Clause
Having won reelection last August, Gilless waited two months before he agreed to pay $77,862 out of his own pocket approximately 80 percent of his annual salary to prevent Taylors claims from becoming a federal sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuit. An additional $50,000 was paid directly by the county.
The $50,000 that Shelby County Mayor Jim Routs administration contributed to the Taylor settlement was the maximum it could contribute without approval from the county commission. That would have made the case public and undoubtedly an embarrassment for all involved.
Taylor has been bound by the terms of the settlement agreement since it was signed on October 20, 1998. Gilless, too, committed to the contract, as did the county, as represented by assistant county attorney Brian L. Kuhn.
A reporter from The Memphis Flyer visited Taylor at her home the week after the Flyer broke the story of this negotiated deal in early December. Taylor wouldnt comment. How I wanted to say something then, she says now. She bristled at being referred to as another Monica on the radio talk shows, but there was nothing that she could do.
Instead of speaking out, however, Taylor clipped articles from local papers to find out what was being said about her. As the stories piled up, she and her attorney became convinced that the county was violating its side of the confidentiality clause.
Taylors attorney, Kathleen Caldwell, works on North Second Street, not far from 201 Poplar Avenue, where the Shelby County Sheriffs Department is headquartered. She explains the legal decision to break the settlement agreement completely and make Taylors story public. I have tried mightily to abide by the confidentiality provision, and I thought it was in everybodys best interest, Caldwell says. Everything was essentially disclosed, not by us, but by the county.
None of the terms of the agreement were supposed to be disclosed, but apparently the agreement was turned over to [the media]. As were revelations about Taylors psychological condition, and comments about her during a county pension board meeting.
The fact that shed been at Lakeside, the fact that shed been treated for various problems thats her business, Caldwell says. She didnt need that amount of pain. And here we are.
By signing the settlement agreement, the county had put itself into an impossible dilemma. While it had agreed to not communicate, discuss, or otherwise make reference, express or implied, whether directly or indirectly, about any aspect of the Taylor case, it still had to comply with the Tennessee Open Records Act if someone asked specifically for the countys files. When the media came knocking, County Attorney Donnie Wilson tried to balance this conflict by opening all available files and notes on the case without verbally discussing it.
Taylor and Caldwell, however, believe that the spirit of the agreement has been broken. As a result, Taylor made the unsolicited decision to talk to the Flyer.
The Details
No one else could have hurt Gilless more during last years election than Louise Charlene Taylor. She could have been coldly calculating, timing her news bombshell just a few weeks before the balloting, turning Melvin Burgess lackluster opposition campaign into a better-than-the-philanderer vote, perhaps converting his 9-percent loss into a victory. Not only that, but the 22-year veteran dispatcher has enough insider knowledge of the Sheriffs Department that she could have made her news appearances into something more than a personal story; she could have given a blisteringly negative critique of the department, which might have further helped doom her boss at the polls.
But she didnt. Reporters from WREG-TV Channel 3 and WPTY-TV Channel 24 actually had the story first. They called her when she was in the middle of negotiations with Gilless and county attorneys. She declined to comment, effectively killing their stories. The coverage that came after the settlement was signed ended as quickly as it had begun, and the media had given up pursuing the matter by mid-January.
Ask her again and again why she chooses to talk now, and shell give the same answer. I thought it would be better for me to go on and settle [the legal claim] and to begin my life over, Taylor says. I cant do that. And this is why Ive talked to my psychiatrist, and this is why Ive agreed to talk with you. He thinks that, maybe, if Im given a chance to say my piece, that might make me feel better and help me move forward.
Even now, Taylor isnt really talking. Theres a place in her mind where she wont or cant go right now. This much she does say: Taylor claims that she was forced to have a sexual relationship with A.C. Gilless, a hush-hush office affair that went on at the sheriffs whim and pleasure for 10 years. It all took place behind closed office doors on the 9th floor of 201 Poplar. The relationship occurred on a sporadic basis. Sometimes it was once a week, sometimes it was once a month. Sometimes there would be a long break before she would be called, once again, out of the dispatchers area to a closed office for more sexual favors. Gilless, a married man who lives in Arkansas, never completely stopped asking for her. According to EEOC guidelines, an incident of sexual harassment has to have taken place within the past year in order for the victim to ask for standing to sue. Apparently, Taylor could cite such an incident, because thats what she did in May, when an attorney from Caldwells office escorted her to the EEOC branch in Midtown.
The subject is sexual harassment, but, as the details pour out in a disjointed, fragmentary, elusive fashion, it becomes obvious that the topic is really about sex itself. With Oprah and Springer and Internet porn and frank talk about safe intercourse and Lewinsky and Clinton and blow jobs and oral sex being used straight-faced by all the networks and The New York Times, its easy to forget that this stuff used to be mentioned only in the context of a dirty joke, a locker-room snicker, or a vaguely obscene note passed between classmates in high school.
Now everybody wants to know everything, and they want to talk about it, too. And a news story just doesnt seem complete if it doesnt have all of the sordid details.
Taylor resists that pressure. Despite four marathon interview sessions, the former dispatcher wouldnt provide the kind of material needed to fill more than a few paragraphs in the Starr report.
She is 5-feet tall, a dark-haired, petite figure who has filled out a little with age. Stress and insomnia have added dark circles under her fading blue eyes.
She keeps her poise as best as she can. Born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana, Taylor considers herself a traditional Southern lady. She applies a tasteful amount of makeup even when shes only lounging around the house in sweat pants and a casual blouse. She doesnt think women should be police officers because they are not physically or mentally as tough as men. She prefers shopping at a small country store that does not accept credit cards. She is unabashedly proud that her daughter, an interior designer, has abandoned an interest in contemporary design styles in favor of more conservative ones. She will not invite you to call her Louise or Charlene if you are younger than she is.
What happened behind those closed office doors?
I was made to do things I didnt want to do. And I was afraid of retaliation in not doing them. Point blank. Period.
What things?
Sexual things, she says slowly, falteringly, of a sexual nature. Ive known that if you dont play, you pay. One way or the other. And, with that in the back of my head, seeing how retaliatory they were I was afraid. So, even they were against my better judgments and my feelings. There was no gratification on my part. And I dont like to talk about it.
The superficial details come out, haphazardly and abruptly. It was very sporadic, she says at one point. I might be asked to go into the office I never met anybody outside that office. It was not something that I was seeing someone and meeting them for drinks and having dinner. That was not done. It all took place on the job. Even though I was asked out of town and stuff like that, I never went. I declined. I would say my boy had a horse rodeo or something like that. I had no intention of doing that.
But, at another point, she blurts, It was very sporadic. It was just at his convenience. His will. And it was not sexually satisfying or gratifying for me. So it was definitely not a two-way thing. Its just that I was scared not to. I was scared that if I didnt play, I would pay.
Natural Skepticism
A rational person might question all of this. A woman claims 10 years of sexual harassment, the first two while she was married and when Gilless was chief deputy under Sheriff Jack Owens. The intimidation factor must have been tremendous, her will to protest extraordinarily weak.
But even if it meant losing her job, why didnt she just say no?
Its very difficult to refuse to go to your boss office, Caldwell says. She did say no, and she also avoided him. He [Gilless] would come around one corner, and she would go around another.
She said no, please no, she used all of the words that one should have to use. She always made excuses why she couldnt meet him elsewhere, why she couldnt meet him at his house in Arkansas. She was and is a legitimate person aggrieved by what happened to her at work, Caldwell adds.
Taylor paints the Sheriffs Department as a loving family, until you cross one of the male relatives. Then it becomes a menacing place. Its a brotherhood, where the senior brothers get what they want, whenever they want it. To say no to the man who heads such an organization is a big mistake.
Taylor was a part of that family for many years. Like a good employee, she volunteered during each incumbent sheriffs election, from Roy Nixon in 1974 to Gilless in 1994.
Taylor says she felt like she was making a sacrifice for her job and her second husband, Travis Taylor, a sergeant in the department. He loved what he did. How could I go home, if I loved him, and tell him this, and him being able to go to work the next day? So I shoved it.
Even after her divorce in 1990, she didnt believe she could do anything. There were also bills to pay, a son to feed, a middle-class lifestyle to maintain. I didnt want to pay any consequences, she says. I couldnt afford to. Eleven years after it all began, however, she asserts that shes paying heavy psychological consequences. She spends her days at home, unable to work, babysitting her granddaughter, watching the Home Shopping Network, and sleeping erratically. Im sorry now that I didnt [fight back] years ago. Thats one of my regrets, not standing up for myself years ago.
Job Discrimination
Had Taylor taken her claims to court, she actually would have filed not one but two lawsuits against the Sheriffs Department. The first would have been against Gilless, the department, and the county, and it would have been related to her sexual-harassment claims. The second lawsuit would have been against the department and the county for job discrimination.
An employee of the departments communications division since 1976, Taylors professional problems with the department began in 1990, two years after she claims Gilless began sexually harassing her.
The department sent her to a special school in Nashville. There, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), she was trained to be the departments Terminal Agency Coordinator (TAC). The TAC is responsible for acting as a liaison between the Sheriffs Department, TBI, and the FBI. Both TBI and the FBI maintain databases that archive closed crime cases as well as track active criminal cases.
For her position, Taylor was responsible for teaching others in her division how to input data into the FBIs nationwide database, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). She was also responsible for making sure that the people she taught werent inputting mistakes into the databases. Every two years, Taylor had to be recertified as the Terminal Agency Coordinator.
When she left the department last year, Taylor was making $38,000, and her title was dispatcher. The individual who performs similar duties for the Memphis Police Department holds the title of communications manager and currently gets paid $54,000 a year, according to the city human resources office.
Lt. Richard True, the Memphis Police Departments commander of communications, says TAC duties are just part-time. His communications manager has other supervisory responsibilities.
Taylor believes TAC duties are, in fact, a full-time job, If theyre going to do it the way it needs to be done, she says. But her jobs werent just related to TAC work. Actually, for a while I was doing three jobs, Taylor says. I was dispatching, I was instructing, and I was doing the Terminal Agency Coordinators duties, which is a lot of paperwork.
When Taylor started receiving specialized TAC training in 1990, she says that then-Chief Deputy A. Ray Mills promised her a promotion and a raise. Taylor wrote a proposal for the creation of a special unit in the communications division to handle TBI and FBI database entries, with herself as the supervisor. At first, this idea was well-received, she says. A corner of the communications room was even dedicated for the purpose of NCIC data entry, and Taylor says she was made the de facto supervisor over a couple of data-entry assistants.
But Taylor says she was then strung along for years by her superiors. Mills eventually was forced out of the department amid a federal indictment in the well-publicized jobs-for-sale scam. Deputy Chief Richard Almond eventually took over as Taylors supervisor, second only to Gilless. Taylors immediate supervisor was Sgt. Brian Douglas.
Every time I asked about this [promotion and raise], I was told just to hang in there, and, trustingly, I did. At one point she even bought a brand-new 1996 Chrysler Sebring in anticipation of the additional income. I have to blame myself on that, she admits. That was kind of like putting the cart before the horse.
Things came to a head early last year. Douglas told her that the department was taking her NCIC desk away from her. When pushed, she got an even greater shock. Deputy Chief Almond told Taylor that the county budget division had told the department that she could get her title change, but only if she accepted a significant pay cut.
I was told that the county had sent over an offer of $10,000 less than what I made, she says. I was already making about $11,000 less than what the city person [with the same position] was, even where I was. And they wanted to cut it by $10,000.
Despite her sexual relationship with Gilless at this time, Taylor insists that she never asked the sheriff for any special favors. The only time I got to talk to the sheriff was by going through the chain of command, she says. In this instance, when her salary was on the line, Taylor says she couldnt get an audience with Gilless.
I went in the following week, and [Deputy Chief Almond] said I could not talk to the sheriff. But then, Taylor says, Almond offered her the chance for something greater. Douglas was vacating the position as communications commander. She could apply for that post.
He said, Well, dont you think the communications commander will have to know a little bit about everything? And I said yes. And he said, Dont you? And I said yes. He said, Well, you can apply for [the position].
Well, in March, I had to attend a conference in Gatlinburg to keep my certification as the terminal agency coordinator and instructor. When I got back, they had promoted Libby Marti as the communications coordinator.
I never had a chance to apply for it, she says. They made their decision when I was out of town.
The Breakdown
Early in 1998, Taylors job was not only going nowhere, but it appeared to be taking a downward turn. When Taylor talks about repressing her feelings, she says she shoved them.
One way or another, it all had to come to the surface.
Taylor says she finally broke down when she saw herself outside of herself. Nothing seemed too unusual on that particular February morning in 1998. She had woken up around 5:30 a.m. She had driven her Chrysler Sebring from her home almost to the Tipton County line near Austin Peay Highway to drop her 17-year-old son off at a tutors house. Then Taylor turned around and headed toward downtown Memphis, to 201 Poplar, the Criminal Justice Building.
As she usually did, she prayed out loud while she drove, asking Jesus Christ for His divine help and blessings. By the time she got to the departments headquarters, Taylors short-term memory blanked out. The long commute was crowded out by the deep-seated depression that psychiatrists would later say made her a strong candidate for medication.
As usual, a long line snaked outside of the building, people with traffic tickets to contest, court hearings to attend, and relatives to bail out of jail. In her dispatchers uniform, Taylor walked past that line without thinking, gliding into an elevator and up to the 9th floor.
She got to her desk, but before she could sit down, she stopped. She says her seat was already occupied. Not five feet from where she was standing sat Louise Charlene Taylor, in her white uniform brass name tag, badge, and epaulets. Her black hair was neat and combed back. Her body double was solid in shape and form and busy completing NCIC paperwork. Moreover, she says, her body double was oblivious to her presence, moving through documents with the professional efficiency that Taylor admires in herself.
The funny thing was, no one else in the office seemed to notice that Taylor was staring at what appeared to be herself in the middle of the office. The dispatchers only conclusion was that she was going insane.
What she experienced, in psychiatric terms, is called depersonalization. Its similar to deja vu, but, if it recurs persistently, it can be far more damaging to ones psyche. My psychiatrist told me that it could progress to the point where I went outside myself and not come back, she says.
Later that day, Taylor called a county-paid therapist for help. The therapist referred her to a psychiatrist, especially after Taylor told her that she feared not only for her job, but for her life.
Shortly after that, Taylor contacted a lawyer. She then filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, articulating for the first time the reasons for her mental and emotional problems.
In mid-June, Taylor checked into Charter Lakeside Hospital for two weeks. And her life at the department started coming to an end even as Sheriff A.C. Gilless and his deputy chiefs attempted damage control. While her career was ending, Gilless problems had only begun.
Taylor says she found herself face-to-face with the sheriff about a week after she filed her EEOC complaint. Paneled on two sides by large windows and located in the center of the 9th floor of the Criminal Justice Building, the break room for employees has a fishbowl quality to it. One morning, Taylor says, she was in that break room with other communications employees having a meeting about standard operating procedures when Gilless walked in.
A smoke break was called. Gilless, a heavy smoker, joined Taylor on the elevator. There were other people on the elevator, so the sheriff and the dispatcher descended to the first floor in silence.
Once outside, Taylor says Gilless asked her to call the EEOC and tell them that her concerns would be handled internally. I had no idea what to say, she says. I felt intimidated.
Instead, she sidestepped the issue. I told him that it was just something that I would have to talk to my attorney about.
A few days later, Taylor says she was confronted by Deputy Chief Virginia Skinner. Taylor was at the departments training academy, which is near the Shelby County Correctional Facility in East Memphis. She was giving instructions on the NCIC database to a small class. Skinner, the highest-ranking woman in the department, caught up with Taylor in the hallway after the class.
She told me that I did not need to pursue this because of the sheriffs [re-election] race, Taylor asserts.
I felt humiliated, Taylor says. She came to me as a friend. This hurt me because Ive always been loyal [to the department]. To stand up for myself was being disloyal.
Taylor filed a follow-up complaint with the EEOC in June, claiming that Gilless and his chiefs were trying to intimidate her.
Taylor checked into Charter Lakeside and was prescribed Prozac and BuSpar, anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications.
Back at the office, Skinner was making all the employees in the communications division sign a paper agreeing that they would not contact Taylor with job-related questions. Skinner has said that she did that so Taylor would not be bothered with petty problems at the department.
But Taylor says the no-contact document was an effort to isolate her. They took my friends away from me, she says. They took away the power and the authority that I had. But the supervisors on the floor of dispatch didnt know anything about NCIC liabilities. They would still have to call me.
Despite the pressure, Taylor wouldnt back down. Gilless and the county now found themselves facing possible litigation, which could only create a lot of negative publicity for the sheriff during his reelection bid. Taylor and Caldwell, however, say they did not want to sling dirt.
We tried really hard not to politicize her claim, Caldwell says, and not to politically impact wrongfully an election. We did not see Charlene as a political ploy by anyone opposing Gilless. This is not what she was doing at all.
Early in the summer, lawyers for Taylor and those representing Gilless and the county agreed to attempt a settlement by mediation. Taylor went to the first mediation session at attorney Allen Blairs office on Front Street, accompanied by her lawyer and her therapist. Gilless went with his legal adviser, Don Strother; his number-two man, Chief Deputy Don Wright; and attorney Hite McLean, who represented Gilless, the Sheriffs Department, and Shelby County. Blair served as the mediator.
According to those involved, the mediation took place with Gilless and his representatives in one room and Taylor, Caldwell, and the therapist in another. Blair moved back and forth, relating messages, offers, and counteroffers, taking the edge off any insulting or sarcastic comments that might have been exchanged.
The session took place on August 5th, the day before Gilless election. The two sides were far apart: Gilless and the county initially offered Taylor $10,000. Taylor and Caldwell wanted $6 million.
The session lasted 12 hours and got nowhere. Taylor says she didnt think the sheriff or his cohorts thought she was serious.
A second mediation session about two weeks later lasted 8 to 10 hours, Taylor says. She and her attorney whittled their demands down to $350,000. The countys best offer that day was to acknowledge that the Memphis Police Departments communications managers were making more than Taylor. She would receive a commensurate raise. Gilless made no personal offer of compensation.
At one point, Taylor found herself facing Strother and Gilless during a break. They had all headed downstairs. Gilless and Taylor lit up cigarettes on the sidewalk along Front Street. According to the rules of mediation, they werent supposed to talk to each other, but, according to Taylor, they did. She says the sheriff again implored Taylor to drop the issue and return to the fold. He said that we didnt need to do this, that this would only hurt me and my children, Taylor says.
She was still getting adjusted to the medications, which were making her drowsy and disoriented. The days negotiations were costing her heavily in emotional strain. Her therapist wasnt by her side.
Still, she says, she looked Gilless in the eye and assured him that she and her children would survive. I knew exactly what I had to lose, and my children werent going to be the only ones embarrassed.
I didnt want to hurt him, she says. But I wanted a justification for me.
They went back into mediation. Again, however, it didnt appear as if they were getting anywhere. Her therapist wouldnt support Taylors returning to work, so the countys offer was a dead issue. I finally got fed up and told them that I was going home, she says. And she left.
After that, Taylor stayed out of the negotiations as Caldwell dealt with the attorneys. Once or twice a week for approximately three or four weeks, Taylor would receive an update at her Bartlett home. As time dragged on, it became increasingly difficult not to settle and be done with it. I was falling apart, Taylor says. My attorney advised me that it would be three years before we even got it to trial [if we sued]. After the appeal, it could be up to six years [before it could end]. In the end, Taylor took the special disability pension, and the $127,862 settlement. Of that money, Caldwell received $41,666.
Taylor now wrestles with how she will be portrayed. She repeatedly wonders aloud how this story will make her appear, as well as how the other media in town will react once her story becomes public. I want the public to realize that I was a victim for many years. I dont want the public to see me as a harlot or a kept woman, she says, as if she were talking to a biographer instead of a reporter. Her hands shake a little as she reaches for another cigarette.
I told my children that we might get a lot of mud thrown at us. My daughter said, Thats okay, momma, because mud washes off.
After her settlement, Taylor bought a brand-new car. She had traded in her Sebring for a Chrysler 300M. She paid in cash. The new car, though, is just a minor salve for all that Taylor says she has endured over the years. Last March, eight years after her divorce from Travis Taylor, she finally told him the story. I had to do that to protect my husband [all those years], she says. And that was going against my nature. Thats why I didnt like me.
Taylor hopes that, by telling her story publicly, she will help other women who have been victims of sexual harassment. You would not believe the women who have called me, she says. They have called going down the L. Taylors in the telephone book asking if I was the one who filed sexual-harassment charges against the Sheriffs Department. The public! Because they have been under the same circumstances. Most of these women worked locally in the private sector. A couple were employees of Gilless department.
Taylor says she misses her fellow employees at the Sheriffs Department, but, in the end, she thinks its better that shes not there anymore. There are too many people associated with that place she never wants to see again.
Getting Gilless Side
The Memphis Flyer informed Shelby County Sheriff A.C. Gilless of this story through Don Strother, the departments legal advisor. A reporter met with Strother a week before this issue went to press. A portion of Taylors audiotaped interview was played for him to show that she was speaking to the newsweekly on the record. Strother said that he would have to meet with the sheriff and other attorneys involved in the case before deciding how the department would respond.
Two days later, the Flyer called Strother. He said no one would respond to Taylors claims unless the department had copies of her audiotaped interviews. The Flyer declined to provide those, but did agree to provide written questions to Strother.
The Flyer asked Gilless 14 questions. It also asked eight questions of Deputy Chief Richard Almond, and three questions of Deputy Chief Virginia Skinner.
Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours before this issue went to press, the Flyer received a written response from Strother. On advice of legal counsel, Gilless, Almond, and Skinner declined to comment. To do so would be a violation of the confidentiality clause contained in the settlement agreement and a violation of the provisions for confidentiality as to all matters discussed during mediation, the response states. Appropriate legal action may be taken if it is established that any party has violated the terms of this agreement. P.C.
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WASHINGTON — The first comprehensive review of the medical care system for veterans found widespread scheduling abuses, data falsification and long waiting times at dozens of hospitals and clinics across the country.
WASHINGTON — The first comprehensive review of the medical care system for veterans found widespread scheduling abuses, data falsification and long waiting times at dozens of hospitals and clinics across the country.
In its audit of 731 medical facilities, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported Monday that 57,436 veterans have been waiting more than 90 days for an initial medical appointment.
Thirteen percent of schedulers told VA auditors that supervisors or other co-workers had instructed them to enter a different date in the appointment system than the one requested by a veteran.
"This audit is absolutely infuriating and underscores the depth of the scandal," Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a New York-based advocacy group, said in a statement. "Our vets demand action and answers."
The medical facility with the longest average wait time for a new patient to see a primary care physician was the VA medical center in Honolulu, at 145 days, while the VA hospital in Harlingen, Texas, topped the list for waits to see specialists, also at 145 days on average.
The VA hospital in Durham, N.C., had the longest average wait for veterans seeking mental health care, at 104 days.
Among other VA hospitals with long wait times for various types of care were the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C., and VA centers in Dallas and Fayetteville, N.C.
Eight percent of schedulers said pressure had been placed on them to bypass the VA's official Electronic Wait List system and maintain unofficial lists in order to make waiting times appear shorter than they actually were, according to VA interviews with 3,772 clinical and administrative staff.
Retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki resigned May 31 as head of the Department of Veterans Affairs after acknowledging that inordinate wait times and scheduling data falsification were more widespread than he'd believed.
Before his exit, Shinseki in mid-April directed the Veterans Health Administration to conduct the agencywide audit.
A key finding of the audit was that the 14-day target for waiting times Shinseki established in 2011 was unrealistic and "not obtainable."
That problem was exacerbated by tying hospital managers' bonuses to meeting the 14-day target.
Setting such an unrealistic waiting-time target and linking it to performance bonuses created "an organizational leadership failure," the audit found.
Sloan Gibson, named by President Barack Obama as acting VA secretary, said Monday that the agency is eliminating the 14-day scheduling goal and suspending all performance awards for senior executives of the Veterans Health Administration.
Gibson said the VA also will deploy mobile medical units to provide care to some of the vets who've been waiting a long time for care.
Gibson ordered a hiring freeze at the Washington headquarters of the Veterans Health Administration and at 12 of its regional offices, except for critical positions to be approved by him on a case-by-case basis.
"This data shows the extent of the systemic problems we face, problems that demand immediate action," Gibson said in a statement. "Veterans deserve to have full faith in their VA, and they will keep hearing from us until all our veterans receive the care they've earned."
Gibson said the VA has contacted 50,000 vets nationwide to get them off waiting lists.


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Gunmen injured at least two people before being shot dead during an attack at a Kabul hotel on Thursday.
The Serena hotel was widely considered the safest place for Westerners to stay while working in Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
The attackers apparently gained access through a rear door before opening fire in a restaurant, witnesses told Reuters.
Police entered the hotel and killed three gunmen before trapping a fourth inside a bathroom, Associated Press said. The militants smuggled weapons into the hotel by hiding them in their socks, according to AP.
Guests and staff remained safe after being rushed to safe rooms in the basement.
Agence France-Presse later said the fourth gunman was also killed.
"Four attackers who had managed to enter the Serena hotel are now dead. The area is now clear," Sediq Sediqqi, the interior ministry spokesman, told local TV, according to AFP.
Sediqqi also told reporters the gunmen appeared to be about 18 years old.
Elsewhere, in Jalalabad, 11 people were killed and 22 were injured on Thursday when Taliban militants engaged police in a gun battle in eastern Afghanistan.
United Nations staff and foreign observers have been using Serena hotel as a base to prepare for presidential elections in Afghanistan, Reuters said.
The hotel is also near the presidential compound and other important government buildings. It was attacked once before, in 2008, when seven people were killed by the Taliban. It was also hit by rockets in 2009 and 2010.
MT @jamiesonNBC Taliban spokesman tells NBC News the #Taliban claim responsibility for the attack in #Kabul's Serena Hotel.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 20, 2014
The Taliban has vowed to disrupt the elections which are planned for April 5.
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Defending The Republic with Dr. David Hogberg 02/22 by Southern Sense | Blog Talk Radio
Obamacare is being instituted already and do we really know what we are in for in this still untranslated legislation?
Listen in Friday, February 22nd between 2pm-3:30pm as we interview Dr. David Hogberg, health care policy expert with the National Center for Public Policy Research. You can catch the podcast immediately after the interview.
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- People can wrap themselves inside the Constitution, spew anything they choose to say, stick their tongue out in your face and declare you can't do anything about what they said. They have Freedom of Speech. Right? Yes! However, Freedom of Speech, comes married to the responsibility for ones own actions. If you say it, write it or draw it, be ready to defend it. Cower in silence, you abdicate your freedom and allow the bullies and censurers to win.
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East Meets West 12 - My Eyes Are Up Here
East Meets West, Nick and I talked about Canada's new Cabinet, how our applications to the Liberal Party are going, and follow up our conversation on toplessness. The episode makes me pretty happy.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Feature film of Johannes Grieser. Its premiere was performed in 2014, it is a production of Germany. You can watch Ein offener Käfig online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in German at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 16 users./
Runtime: 2 minutes
Oliver Mommsen, Martin Feifel, Anna Schudt, Ole Puppe, Catherine H. Flemming, Nicole Mercedes Müller, Nele Guderian, Rainer Piwek, Steffen Gräbner, Holger Kunkel, Max Valentin Wilczek, Moritz Michel, Ferdinand Grözinger and Georg Blumreiter.
2-minute film (full movie) directed by Johannes Grieser.
The original audio of Ein offener Käfig has dialogues in or German, it was produced in Germany.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Marco Rossi and Holger Joos.
Jürgen Carle.
Oliver Lehmann and Sabine Tettenborn.
This film was produced and / or financed by Südwestrundfunk (SWR).
Pidax Film.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Ein offener Käfig has a duration of 2 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or German in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Microsoft rolled out a cumulative update (Build 10586.36) to Windows 1nsiders on Windows 10 Mobile.
This will bump the build from 10586.29 to 10586.36 and brings various enhancements and improvements as well as bug fixes to issues found in previous build 10586.29.
This update already started rolling out to Windows 10 PCs and tablet earlier in the day and then hours later Microsoft rolled it out to Windows 10 Mobile phones. Both PCs and Phones are running on the same Build.
Microsoft noted that there will be no new builds until 2016 as most engineers are taking time off (festive season) to spend time with their families.
The last Build 10586.29 was released to those enrolled in Fast Ring but later got released a couple of days later to Lumia 950 and 950XL users who weren't on the Insider program. It would be interesting to see if the same happens with this new 10586.36 Build.
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There is important information to share about recent job opening for dynamic, talented and young candidates for various Group D posts as announced by Railway Recruitment Cell - Northeast Frontier Railway (RRC NFR), Guwahati, Assam. One has to qualify in the written test to enter for physical efficiency test that will be followed by documents verification and Medical Examination. It is on overall candidates performance at Written Examination, Physical Efficiency Test (PET), Documents Verification and Medical Examination that will finally settle one fitness for the post applied. The shortlisted candidate will be provided with call letter wherein the written examination and physical efficiency test schedule with venue details will be mentioned. You can clarify the details of recruitment process, schedule and criteria at RRC NFR official website: http://www.nfr.railnet.gov.in/
Desired candidates for the post must be 10th Passed or ITI Certifiied or its equivalent qualification from a reputed Board or Institute. One should not be aged below 18 years and above 33 years. This age limitation is not observed over SC, ST, PH and OBC candidates as per to the government norms.
On or before 23rd November one can make online registration for the desired post by downloading the application format from RRC NFR official link: http://www.nfr.railnet.gov.in/pers/Gr-D-Notification%202012.pdf
There will be imposition of Application Fee of Rs 40 (fee charge excluded from SC, ST, PH , Women, Minority Communities & Economically Backward Classes candidates) that could be paid in IPO mode that is drawn in favor of FA&CAO, Northeast Frontier Railway, payable at GPO, Guwahati. But the name and address should be mentioned at the reversal side of the IPO form.
It is important to submit on or before 23rd November the candidates filled application form, IPO photocopy, passport-size photo and attested documents of all required certificates in an envelope with atop mention as Applications for Gr. D Posts, Northeast Frontier Railway in addition referring to The Deputy Chief Personnel Officer, Railway Recruitment Cell, North East Frontier Railway, Station Colony, Guwahati, Assam 781001.
One can drop their orderly filled envelope in the drop box kept at Application Drop Room, Railway Recruitment Cell, North East Frontier Railway, Station Colony, Guwahati, Assam within the time frame of 1730 hrs. Specially for far end area candidates of Andaman and Nicobar as well as Lakswadeep Islands the application submission date is extended to 7th December.
If there is necessity for personal inquiry regarding application form process or others then you can directly approach the officials at the Registered Office address Northeast Frontier Railway, Railway Recruitment Cell, Station Colony, Guwahati, Assam 781001.


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As a child, I read books with ferocity (I miss that—too much to do and too much to write equals not enough time to fall into a book and read until my brain and body feel like happy mush) but I often found myself anticipating a certain feeling that some books I read might evoke, only for the book to take a different route—just as satisfying, but leaving me wondering where this elusive story was. I'm still searching, even in the books I write myself.
The closest I've come to finding it was in Hogwarts Castle, a major character (yes, character. Okay, setting) in JK Rowling's Harry Potter books. How I wish I'd thought of such an amazing place, and written it. I never in a million years would have, though. It's pure genius.
But I've loved castles for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a place that didn't have many very old buildings, the oldest existing for fewer than a couple of centuries, if that. I was in total awe when I first travelled to the UK and Europe and stepped into buildings—castles, cathedrals, even pubs—that had stood for more than a thousand years, lived in and used by many generations. I loved the layers of history, of castles in particular because of the records of who had lived there and what they had done, and the constant adding and rebuilding—layer upon layer. You can just sense the spirit of the place being soaked into the stone.
Short post today, and I'm going to end with some more old photos of Warwick Castle. Yes, I was in a hurry and I really did take photos of my photos in an album 😉
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My husband and I went on a tour of about five of the chateaus in the Loire Valley of France and saw a couple such as Burg Eltz along the Moselle River in Germany. There are no two the same, and all are fascinating.
Castles- oh the fascination with them. Though I hear drafty too. LOL but beautiful places.
Hi Decadent, thanks for visiting my site 🙂
Love castles! Last summer my friend and I went to Scotland and it was a huge castle visiting journey. I think we saw 13 castles in less than 2 weeks. Some were in ruins and some were open to the public. I just adore them.
Oh, I'm so jealous! What a wonderful trip that must have been.
Thanks for stopping by my site, Michelle 🙂
We visited Warwick castle many (30+) years ago–what an adventure! A month in England and many many stops at castles. Fabulous! Have you seen many castles in Europe? Neuschwanstein? I'm really enjoying getting to see so many blog sites with this hop!
Hi Gail, thanks for visiting.
I've seen quite a few castles in Scotland, Wales, and England, but not Europe. It's on the bucket list, I guess 🙂


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With what has been done, I would suspect the motherboard. If its still in warranty contact ASRock. I had initial problems with a new ASRock Z77 Professional (Fatal1ty) motherboard (memory slots) and after back and forth with their support they finally agreed to replace it.
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With what has been done, I would suspect the motherboard. If its still in warranty contact ASRock. I had initial problems with a new ASRock Z77 Professional (Fatal1ty) motherboard (memory slots) and after back and forth with their support they finally agreed to replace it.
Ok thanks! I think I will have to give them a call.
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Cyclone Rotating LCD Watch Concept by Andrew
Andrew says:
The following watch design concept is for an LCD digital watch that has digits which spin / rotate around the screen in a clockwise motion. I call this design Cyclone. This watch uses an always on display: this means that the time is always being updated.
The time is displayed using LCD digits / numbers that do not remain static but spin around the watch face in order to display the time in a 24 hour format.
This watch uses digit that uses rotational animation make a change from other digital styled watch where the digits / numbers remain static.


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Since December 2007, we are proud to support Kholeka' s restaurant in the village. An amazing traditional cuisine will be prepared with love and pondo tradition. Breakfast, lunch and dinner - must be booked at least 2 hours in advance - ask our team upon arrival for more details.
Organic fresh products are available on site, or in the local shops.
PLEASE NOTE: Crayfish season closes from November to end of February
Bar: We hold a liquor license - yet we prefer you to support the local businesses.
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We begin this wildlife photo tour by heading north along the western boundary of the National Elk Refuge to Grand Teton National Park. Here we will travel along the southern park roads watching for wildlife and stopping frequently for photo-ops. You will see places like Antelope flats, home to historic homesteads and free ranging herds of bison and pronghorn. We will also show you the Moose-Wilson road famous for abundant flora and fauna. Wildlife we frequently encounter on this trip includes bison, elk, deer, moose, pronghorn (aka antelope) fox, coyote, bear, bald eagle, trumpeter swans, and if we're lucky wolves. If time allows we might choose to stop at the Jackson Visitor Center or the new Moose visitor center in Grand Teton National Park. The route varies seasonally based on group interest, road closures and wildlife migration.
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How often is a datafeed refresh necessary?
Seems as though when products are seasonal, this would be one time frame?
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depends on the products, daily, weekly, monthly
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I try and update mine daily to maintain the most accurate stocking and pricing information. But when I started out I only did it once a week or once every couple weeks.
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NASA Mystery: Scientists Baffled By Pluto's Intense X-Ray Emissions --"No Natural Means for Emitting Them"September 18, 2016
Something very odd is going on around Pluto. According to NASA scientists, the New Horizons' flyby of the former ninth planet has revealed an enigma: the icy world that orbits some 3.6 billion miles from the sun appears to be emitting x-rays—high energy radiation associated with gases with temperatures of a million degrees. That makes Pluto the furthest known x-ray source in our solar system.
"We've just detected, for the first time, X-rays coming from an object in our Kuiper Belt, and learned that Pluto is interacting with the solar wind in an unexpected and energetic fashion," said Carey Lisse, an astrophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) who led the Chandra observation team with APL colleague and New Horizons Co-Investigator Ralph McNutt. "We can expect other large Kuiper Belt objects to be doing the same."
"Before our observations, scientists thought it was highly unlikely that we'd detect X-rays from Pluto," added astronomer Scott Wolk.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2014 and 2015, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, imaged Pluto. No known objects in our solar system beyond Saturn emit x-rays. A cold, rocky, and non-magnetic body like Pluto shouldn't normally create X-rays, but it might be able to do so in interaction with the charged particles of the solar wind, except for the fact that there doesn't appear to be enough solar wind to create X-rays as bright as the ones Chandra detected.
While NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was speeding toward and beyond Pluto, Chandra was aimed several times on the dwarf planet and its moons, gathering data on Pluto that the missions could compare after the flyby. Each time Chandra pointed at Pluto – four times in all, from February 2014 through August 2015 – it detected low-energy X-rays from the small planet.
Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, a ring or belt containing a vast population of small bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. The Kuiper belt extends from the orbit of Neptune, at 30 times the distance of Earth from the Sun, to about 50 times the Earth-Sun distance. Pluto's orbit ranges over the same span as the overall Kupier Belt.
The team recently published its findings online in the journal Icarus. The report details what Lisse says was a somewhat surprising detection given that Pluto – being cold, rocky and without a magnetic field – has no natural mechanism for emitting X-rays.
But Lisse, having also led the team that made the first X-ray detections from a comet two decades ago, knew the interaction between the gases surrounding such planetary bodies and the solar wind – the constant streams of charged particles from the sun that speed throughout the solar system -- can create X-rays.
New Horizons scientists were particularly interested in learning more about the interaction between the gases in Pluto's atmosphere and the solar wind. The spacecraft itself carries an instrument designed to measure that activity up-close – the aptly named Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) – and scientists are using that data to craft a picture of Pluto that contains a very mild, close-in bowshock, where the solar wind first "meets" Pluto (similar to a shock wave that forms ahead of a supersonic aircraft) and a small wake or tail behind the planet.
The immediate mystery is that Chandra's readings on the brightness of the X-rays are much higher than expected from the solar wind interacting with Pluto's atmosphere.
Dwarf planet Pluto, as seen by NASA's Chandra x-ray telescope below. Dwarf planet Pluto, as seen by the Chandra x-ray telescope.
"Before our observations, scientists thought it was highly unlikely that we'd detect X-rays from Pluto, causing a strong debate as to whether Chandra should observe it at all," said co-author Scott Wolk, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "Prior to Pluto, the most distant solar system body with detected X-ray emission was Saturn's rings and disk."
The Chandra detection is especially surprising since New Horizons discovered Pluto's atmosphere was much more stable than the rapidly escaping, "comet-like" atmosphere that many scientists expected before the spacecraft flew past in July 2015. In fact, New Horizons found that Pluto's interaction with the solar wind is much more like the interaction of the solar wind with Mars, than with a comet.
However, although Pluto is releasing enough gas from its atmosphere to make the observed X-rays, in simple models for the intensity of the solar wind at the distance of Pluto, there isn't enough solar wind flowing directly at Pluto to make them.
Lisse and his colleagues – who also include SWAP co-investigators David McComas from Princeton University and Heather Elliott from Southwest Research Institute – suggest several possibilities for the enhanced X-ray emission from Pluto. These include a much wider and longer tail of gases trailing Pluto than New Horizons detected using its SWAP instrument. Other possibilities are that interplanetary magnetic fields are focusing more particles than expected from the solar wind into the region around Pluto, or the low density of the solar wind in the outer solar system at the distance of Pluto could allow for the formation of a doughnut, or torus, of neutral gas centered around Pluto's orbit.
That the Chandra measurements don't quite match up with New Horizons up-close observations is the benefit – and beauty – of an opportunity like the New Horizons flyby. "When you have a chance at a once in a lifetime flyby like New Horizons at Pluto, you want to point every piece of glass – every telescope on and around Earth – at the target," McNutt says. "The measurements come together and give you a much more complete picture you couldn't get at any other time, from anywhere else."
New Horizons has an opportunity to test these findings and shed even more light on this distant region – billions of miles from Earth – as part of its recently approved extended mission to survey the Kuiper Belt and encounter another smaller Kuiper. It is unlikely to be feasible to detect X-rays from MU69, but Chandra might detect X-rays from other larger and closer objects that New Horizons will observe as it flies through the Kuiper Belt towards MU69. Belt object, 2014 MU69, on Jan. 1, 2019.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Native American community is calling it disgraceful after graffiti popped up on pottery on I-40 between Eubank and Juan Tabo. They say it's not only disrespectful to the artist, but the entire Native American community.
The City of Albuquerque unveiled the brand new Native American pottery by the Jemez Pueblo back in 2005 as part of a median landscaping project. Tuesday, the pots were tagged with graffiti.
KRQE News 13 spoke to Native American students who say artwork like this takes time and it won't be an easy fix.
"I'm pretty sure it took more than a year and it's going to take more time to preserve it, and bring it back the original way it was," said Tyrese Ben, a Junior at Shiprock High School.
Each pot cost the city $10,000 and there are currently three pots in the median. The city spent an additional $500,000 for the landscaping around the pots. When graffiti appears on the artwork, the city has a way to remove it quickly without ruining the art.
"We've tested our cleaning solutions on the pueblo style art, and we found them not to have a negative reaction with the art," said Marco Holloway of the Solid Waste Department.
Holloway says the city attempts to clean all graffiti within 24 hours of being reported, but for these Native American students, they say tagging Native artwork is completely inconsiderate.
"Not only do they bring disrespect to that person, but it's like the whole tribe, because it's like a tribe giving a gift to somebody," said Marlyn Kaskalla, a senior at Shiprock High School.
"You're not disrespecting one person, you're disrespecting a culture, you're disrespecting the whole people of the native people," said Ben.
The graffiti has been removed and Holloway says if they catch the people responsible, they will be pressing charges.


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Seasoned parents know all too well what it's like to go through the obligatory daughter/wardrobe fight.
Sometimes the fights are ugly and sometimes they're hysterical.
The following story falls into the second category.
Unhappy with his daughter's penchant for wearing short shorts, Utah dad Scott Mackintosh decided to kick things up a notch by giving his daughter a taste of her own medicine, according to the Mackintosh's family blog.
And by that we mean he decided one night to dress like his daughter. In public. The results are hysterically awful:
The Mackintoshs were on their way out for a family dinner when Scott decided to take a pair of scissors to his jeans, the blog explains.
"As I walked out to the car I could see my daughter and her brother in the backseat with their heads down focused on their phones," Scott Mackintosh said. "Needless to say they didn't even notice."
Oh, but they noticed quickly enough — and there was nothing they could do about it.
Scott took his family out to dinner and then they played miniature golf. And just for good measure, he offered to get the family dessert a local ice cream joint.
"As I pulled into a stall, my daughter said, 'Uh, no! We are not going in!' I said 'Sure we are, let's go!' 'Let's go through the drive up,' she said. We went in, but she stayed in the car," Scott Mackintosh said.
He adds that he's not entirely sure if the lesson worked, but he's glad he at least tried to think "outside the box."
"I don't think my object lesson of 'modest is hottest' made the statement I had intended," he said. "But no matter if social media gets the story mixed up and twisted, my daughter will always know that her dad loves her and cares about her enough to make a fool out of himself."
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Does your home Wi-fi got you feeling bogged down even though you are paying extra for a high-speed internet service plan? If you are not getting the speed promised from your internet service provider, it could be you are suffering from internet congestion.
Like on a highway during rush hour, congestion happens on the virtual Wi-Fi lanes when neighboring networks are all sharing the same spectrum. Traffic can build up from demanding applications such as gaming, streaming video, and video chat. The traffic jams result in frustrating slow, lagging and unreliable Wi-Fi. And with the invisible traffic increasing greatly as the years progress, the problem is only likely to get worse!
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Portal Router -Solution to Internet Congestion
Ignition Design Labs, a veteran team of wireless networking engineers, developed Portal as a solution to the congested Wi-Fi dilemma. The Wi-Fi router is meticulously designed to thrive in congested Wi-Fi environments to deliver superior speed coverage and reliability. Unlike other consumer routers, Portal uses congestion management technologies to access additional airwaves. The innovative router received special FCC certification to operate in the entire 5GHz spectrum, opening the internet with newly created fast lanes to relieve congestion.
3 Times More Spectrum
"Ninety-eight percent of WiFi routers on the market today use less than 35 percent of the available spectrum," said Terry Ngo, CEO and Co-founder of Ignition Design Labs. "Our engineers created Portal to fundamentally redefine the consumer WiFi experience. We give you three times more spectrum for faster video downloads, elimination of buffering issues and an improved overall Internet experience."
What! No External Antennas?
At first appearance, Portal looks nothing like the usual unsightly routers with protruding antennas you are accustomed to. It's sleek, elegant shiny white design has you puzzled as to how it could possibly be powerful. Not one external antenna to be found! But inside the aesthetically pleasing router contains NINE internal antennas focused to provide the best possible signal path to and from the router.
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Portal screams simplistic. There isn't a bunch of distracting or confusing lights to be found on the router. The top contains one small round LED light the glows a steady green once connected (blue during setup and red when not connected). Nothing to try and figure out!
On the back of the router contains the DC -IN to plug in the power cord, WAN for connecting the modem, four additional Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 ports for accessories, and a reset button.
Quick Setup
The Portal Router offers quick and easy setup via the free Portal app (iOS | Android). I downloaded the app and followed the simple step-by-step directions within it. The Portal utilizes the power of Bluetooth and your connected without any downloads or jump-through hoops configurations. Basically, there is nothing to do except follow the app's guide. Pairing took less than 5 minutes to complete. If you already have a modem with a pre-installed router, connecting Portal replaces your existing router.
Within the Portal app's dashboard, you can personalize your SSID and assign it a password. There are also the options of enabling the wireless security mode, WebGUI, Bridge Mode, and change Compatibility mode. Additionally, you are allowed to setup a guest network for a duration of 12 hours on operating channels. This gives you ultimate security of not having to share your main Wi-Fi access password. The dashboard shows the number of guests connected along with how many devices.
You also can setup up the Portal Router without a smartphone. Once you are connected to the Portal you can access the web-interface settings by logging into myportalwifi.com in your favorite web browser. The default password is "password" and should be changed immediately to keep unwanted hackers out.
Issues with app
There are some issues with the app such as the number of devices is not correctly shown. I know I had several devices connected to the portal and for testing setup a guest network adding 1 device. The device count still showed 0. This is an already known issue for IOS users. However, I am using Andriod and the problem still occurs.
How it Works?
As with most technology things can become perplexing for those you are techie challenged. The easiest way to explain how Portal works is to imagine the channels on your router being highway lanes. When internet lanes are congested, the router auto switches the lane using newly created Fastlanes™ and Smartlanes to speed things up. Portal can achieve this by listening, learning and adapting with the changing Wi-Fi environment.
Portal's FCC-certified technology (FastLanes™) permits most existing WiFi devices to operate in a portion of the 5GHz frequency range that is designated primarily for use by weather radar systems. This frees up internet traffic jams by allowing WiFi networks with Portal to use six channels (80MHz), four of which aren't available to networks with ordinary WiFi routers. The results are a congested-free internet environment that promises consumers up to three times the radio spectrum, three times lower latency and up to 300 times the speed of conventional routers.
*Ignition Design Labs, Portal, SmartLanes, FastLanes and ClearLanes are pending registered trademarks of Ignition Design Labs, Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks are sole property of their respective owners.
What's in the Box
In the box you will find your new Portal Router, an Ethernet cable, a power cord, and the quick start guide.
Portal Router Features
FastLanes – Wideband DFS Spectrum access for maximum performance in real life, congested environments
SmartLanes – Dynamic channel steering, always stay in the fastest lanes
ClearLanes – Active traffic and interference monitoring
7 Operating Bands – Including full-band UNII-2 DFS
Portal Mobile App – Smart device-based management and security
Rolling Code Secure Guest Network – Supports multiple simultaneous guests with simple mobile app-based access requests
Flexibility – Control Portal using simple standard mode (app-based) or advanced mode (web GUI-based) to satisfy both normal and expert users
Adaptive Smart Mesh – An advanced mesh technology developed for enterprise and military networks. Layer 2 adaptation avoids interference and latency issues inherent in less sophisticated consumer mesh solutions. For extra-large homes you can set up two or more Portals together for extended range and coverage
Parental Control – App-based parental control that can be managed from anywhere in the world
Active Intrusion Detection and Smart Lock-Out – Prevents unauthorized access to your network and router settings
Wave-2 802.11ac with Multi-User MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output)
AC2400 Concurrent Dual-Band – Quad-stream 5GHz and Triple-stream 2.4GHz
Bluetooth Smart – Easy one touch app set up with advanced security
Speed Test
I conducted my own speed test upstairs away from the Portal Router using Speed Test.Wi-fi free app. The Portal greatly out performed my existing Motorola MG7750 16×9 Cable Modem with built-in AC1900 Wi-Fi Router on 5GHz.
If your internet sucks and you are paying for a high-speed internet plan, it's time to cut through the Wi-Fi congestion and get on the fast lanes with a Portal Router! The router is simple to setup using Bluetooth technology. No downloads or software to be installed or confusing configuration. The Portal app's step-by-step guide will have you connected in minutes.
Once connected, the smart-learning router will adjust to free up congestion using its patent-pending technologies that utilizes the entire 5GHz spectrum. The results are faster video downloads, better gaming, and an overall improved internet experience!
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Will There Really Be a Morning
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- 2009 26 May
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4 Stars
Style: pop/rock/modern worship; Michael Gungor Band, Robbie Seay Band, Newsboys
In a nutshell: Grammy-winning producer Dale Oliver (Casting Crowns, Josh Bates), gives this South Carolina quintet's three-song EP a professional leg up on the band's indie brethren. With memorable praise choruses and ultra-tight instrumentation, Jupiter Wind's potential is obvious on just three tracks.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/jupiterwind.
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Style: rap/hip-hip; compare to KJ-52, TobyMac, Paul Wright
In a nutshell: Subtitled "Spreading Kingdom Realities In Perilous Times," this sophomore CD is firmly grounded in the gospel. Still, the seeker-friendly rapper's strategy of evangelism keeps his lyrical bent closer to the streets than to the church.
For more information, visit www.benjimanmusic.com.
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US Representative Hakim Jeffries. Dr Martin Luther King's 88th birthday was commemorated at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with speeches from Mayor de Blasio, US senators Schumer & Gillibrand, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council member Laurie Cumbo, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, BAM President Katy Clark, interim Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez and keynote speaker, Opal Tometi, who was a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Speeches referenced the forthcoming inauguration of Donald Trump and cited the need for Dr King's lessons and methods to apply in modern times even more than at any time in the recent past (Photo by Andy Katz/Pacific Press)
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Matsumoto Araki-ryu was the provenance of the Toda family, of Matsumoto village in present-day Nagano. This village, near Matsumoto castle, was once held by the Hotta clan, referred to in the section on Sakura-han Araki-ryu. However, it is likely that Matsumoto Araki-ryu was probably brought by the Toda family in Bakamatsu or Meiji period, several hundred years after the Hotta left Matsumoto for Sakura.
The main focus of this line of Araki-ryu was grappling – however, they also concentrated on naginata and sword. The Toda family began practicing Araki-ryu around the beginning of the Meiji period. They had a very complex curriculum, filling up twelve scrolls. Within this curriculum were San Ii Gohou Ken, forty iai forms, ten forms of rope tying and 252 forms of "shiai taijutsu." The dojo was located in the Shinmachi area of Matsumoto village. At its peak, they had over 500 students. We have no lineage of this school, only finding a notation about it in a history of Matsumoto-shi bujutsu.


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Episode Summary: Sophia arrives at Norkia to parley with Disith commander Nestor Messina and reveals to him a copy of the peace offer lost in the Grand Stream ten years earlier. As a gesture of goodwill, Disith supplies Anatoray with a map of the Grand Stream's air currents and a recording of Exile's acoustic signature. Mullin decides to rejoin the musketeer squad and meets the female Disith musketeer, who introduces herself as Dunya Scheer. They are informed that the capture attempt of battleship Claudia units will occur on the Guild's Covenant Day,[Note 1] when 17-year-old youths pledge their allegiance to the Maestro. Before the Silvana leaves dock, Claus, Lavie, and Alvis say goodbye to Mullin. The formal alliance between Anatoray and Disith is signed at Sophia's coronation as Empress. Claus, Tatiana, Dio, and Lucciola arrive ahead of the Silvana to send congratulations, but Delphine's ship appears from the clouds above and rains down rose petals as a declaration of war. Dio, realizing that he has been found by his sister, panics and flies his vanship erratically. When Alex sees Delphine's ship above the site of the coronation ceremony, he immediately orders that it be destroyed, but his crew refuses to comply for fear of killing Sophia.


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