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Ideas for Reclaiming 1.5 Miles of Manhattan
What is the High Line?
The High Line, a 1.5-mile-long elevated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side, was constructed in the 1930s as part of one of New York City's largest investments in transportation infrastructure, called the West Side Improvement Project. No trains have run on it in over 20 years. A lush urban wilderness, nearly seven acres in total, has seeded itself on the High Line's tracks.
What is the Vision?
Picture a hidden walkway lifted 30 feet above the streets on massive steel columns studded with rivets. On it you travel down Manhattan's West Side, overlooking the Hudson River, with views to the midtown skyline. It connects the Hudson River Park to the convention center to a new transit center to the new Penn Station. It carries you through West Chelsea, into the Meat Packing District. It is the future, and it is built on our past.
Saving the High Line
At one time a small group of real estate owners argued to tear the High Line down. But in 1999 neighborhood residents founded Friends of the High Line, a non-profit organization, with the mission of converting the structure to an elevated public space-a greenway or promenade. After three years of planning, advocacy, and legal work by Friends of the High Line, the Bloomberg administration was convinced: the High Line will be a compelling public environment and will stimulate economic growth. In December 2002, the City of New York took the first step in converting the High Line to a walkway through federal rails-to-trails legislation.
What will the High Line Ultimately Look Like?
In early 2003, Friends of the High Line launched a design competition to bring as many ideas as possible to the table. It was an "open" competition, which means anyone could enter, from anywhere in the world. It was an "ideas" competition, which means that the "winning" designs will not necessarily be built. Instead, the designs created by 720 entrants from 36 countries will lead to lively public debate about the ways to make the High Line as beautiful, vibrant, and original as the finest public spaces in the world.
Will the Winning Entries be Built as Proposed?
No. Because "Designing the High Line" was an "ideas" competition, its objective was to catalyze the development of truly original designs-but those designs did not necessarily have to be realistic or practical. Rather, they were meant to provoke public debate about what's best for the High Line and to make the ultimate selection of a design team a more creative process. The jury selected "winning" proposals that they felt, through the designs' ambition and originality, embodied the extraordinary range of possibilities that exists for the High Line's future.
From the 720 entries the jury awarded four designs monetary prizes of $2,000 apiece. Two special prizes were awarded: the JCDecaux Access Award, to the team whose design best addressed the issue of access; and the Lady Bird Wildflower Center Award, to the team whose design best incorporated the use of native plants and wildflowers. In addition there were 10 honorable mentions and 65 jury selections. We hope you will spend some time with this astounding assortment of creative visions and share your opinions about the ones you like best.
What are the Next Steps?
Friends of the High Line will hold an open workshop with members of the community in the Fall 2003, with a selection of the competition proposals serving as springboards for discussion. At the end of 2003, Friends of the High Line will incorporate the community's comments into a Request for Proposals, which will lead to the selection of a design team and the development of realizable designs. At the same time, Friends of the High Line will be working with the City of New York to ensure that a successful trail-use agreement is negotiated with CSX, the railroad that owns the High Line.
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A jury found three men guilty of two armed robberies that occurred on May 21, 2013 at and around Forsyth Park.
Devante Tyrell Bynes, 21, was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and harming a police dog. Devon Manuel Tarver, 23, was found guilty of two counts of armed robbery and Josephewa Sonny Ramsey, 28, was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and obstruction, according to a news release from the Chatham County District Attorney's Office.
On May 21, 2013, Det. William Bailey, of the Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Dept.'s Robbery Unit, was patrolling around Forsyth Park as part of an operation to deter armed robberies in the area. At about midnight, he saw three men surround another man. Bynes, Tarver and Ramsey ran when they saw Bailey. Bailey ran after them and Ramsey was taken into custody.
A K9 Unit tracked down Tarver and Bynes minutes later hiding on East Park Avenue and they were taken into custody. A K9 was injured in the struggle while Bynes was arrested. An investigation by police determined had items belonging to two men who had been robbed at gunpoint, in separate instances, earlier that evening, according to the district attorney's office.
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Here is the final installment of the Father's appreciation series...
As the 70's progressed, the Angels finally developed a team that was in contention in the AL West mostly by signing some big name free agents. Dad wasn't sure if he liked this method of improving the Angels, although he also didn't have his characteristic polarized reaction either. Actually, it seemed at the time like Dad was changing in a couple of ways.
First, he was becoming more mellow, and a bit more introspective. That was evident not only in reaction to free agency, but in other ways as well. He wouldn't get as angry over minor issues as he had in the past. Second, his passion for the Angels seemed to be declining. He didn't watch or listen to games as frequently. He didn't know the players as well as once had. In looking back, I now realize his life's focus was shifting.
In 1971, my parents purchased the business that had functioned as Dad's "2nd" job (it was an LA Times distributorship). It was stressful for the initial 3-4 years, but then the Times purchased all of the distributorships and converted the distributors to employees. This actually worked out very much to the benefit of my parents. They were relieved of the day to day responsibilities of running a business (payroll, taxes, payables, receivables, hiring, etc.) while actually netting substantially more income. The deal with the Times was so beneficial that Dad actually retired (a change from being fired!) from his job as a transportation foreman a couple of years later. Had the economic stress of providing for a family been a factor in his frantic support of the Angels? Was Angel fandom an outlet for those inevitable frustrations?
I am not sure, but his behavior had definitely crossed a threshold. My sister married a Dodger fan (family scandal) and my brother-in-law coaxed my Dad into attending a game at…that place he had banned us from calling Dodger Stadium. I was shocked to hear that he'd dare set foot in that place to see that other LA team, even though that GDOM was no longer running day-to-day Dodger affairs. That shock was nothing compared to how my bro-in-law convinced Dad to have a picture taken…wearing a Dodger cap! When I saw the photo, I gave dad a "What the Hell!" look, and he responded with a face that said "What's the big deal?" To my other brothers, this was just too strange for words. We would have been less shocked of he'd started wearing dresses.
He fully retired in 1983. Well, almost. He started volunteer work for a Catholic Services Meals-on-Wheels program in the Hollywood area. This actually became more stressful than regular work, due to the need to climb stairs in apartment buildings. His left knee – the one that had been partially crushed in the military – had given him intermittent problems through the years. Now, his knee appeared to be in constant pain. He limped noticeably, and when he sat long enough, he would start rubbing it. Go see a doctor? No, he didn't like doctors, and only saw them under the most severe distress. He relied instead on what had worked in the past, that steadfast determination to keep going, keep moving forward, don't stop, there's people counting on him to deliver.
Some of the recipients of the meals were AIDS patients. Now Dad wasn't an especially sympathetic person, and he might be described today as "homophobic". Regardless, he was truly touched by the AIDS patients he encountered. He told me on a couple of occasions of their deep gratitude for the delivery of these meals. He also told of how horrible it was to watch AIDS victims waste away relatively quickly from the ravages of the disease, once the virus became active. He added that these AIDS victims were so pleased just to have a 5-10 minute conversation. He was humbled to be able to give what he thought of as so little, yet enrich another so much.
Yes, baseball receded even more in importance in his life, to the where he would need to be prodded to enter a discussion on the subject. I felt fortunate that he attended the Spring Training game in 1987. I recall asking him during that trip if he was upset by the collapse of the previous year. He gave me a look like he didn't know what I was talking about. Finally, he seemed to barely remember what happened. He knew about the "Donnie Moore" game, but it was like some distant news…like a tornado in Nebraska or somewhere that…yeah was tragic and all.
He continued delivering meals for a couple more years. One morning, the nun running the program called home and asked my Mom why Dad didn't show up that morning. My Mom thought he had already left for "work". She discovered him in bed, comatose. It turned out he had suffered a major stroke. He died 13 days later on August 12, 1990. During those 13 days, he never really regained consciousness.
There's a lot of his behavior I have left out. He was far from a perfect being. Since this is a baseball blog, the focus here is on baseball and the Angels, and I've tried to retain that focus through this series. There aren't too many days that pass without thinking of him. He's not physically here, but he's far from "dead" to me or to my life. Though his interest in the Angels had faded over the years, he was the first person I thought of after the World Series victory in 2002.
So Dad, wherever you are Happy Father's day to you. I hope you are able to enjoy the day with your own Dad and other loved ones. Thanks for all that you did for me and the other 4 "knuckleheads". I love you. Take care, Dad.
Special thanks to Rev Halofan and to SBN for allowing the posting of these memories on this website.
And for all you younger Dad's out there, be good to your kids. At some future date, they may be writing about you anonymously on some blog or other website.
Now, go out and have a great Father's Day!


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And the beat goes on... Installment number 6 of the S&A "10 Questions With A Black Filmmaker" series... catch up with the first 5 if you need to: Barry Jenkins HERE, Seith Mann HERE, Victoria Mahoney HERE, Rodney Evans HERE, and Ava DuVernay HERE.
Up next on the list of filmmakers who thankfully took time out of their busy schedules to engage in a bit of frivolity (although, not really) is
Leila Djansi, the
award winning Ghanaian filmmaker (now based in the US
whose last feature film, Sinking Sands, won 3 trophies at the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (was nominated for 9),
and was endorsed by UNIFEM, Ghana, as a resource in its Say NO! to Violence campaign. Leila is
currently prepping her next film for release, Ties That Bind, a multi-million dollar production co-starring Kimberly Elise,
Ama K Abebrese and Nollywood's Omotola Ekeinde.
If you've been reading S&A for the last 6 or so months, you should be familiar, because we've written about her and her films a number of times, including Wendy's interview with her at Cannes earlier this year, which you can watch HERE.
Ties That Bind
is expected to premiere at the National Theatre in Accra on Dec 30th; and I'm sure we'll be writing some more about it in 2012, as it travels.
In the meantime, get to know her a little more below, via her answers to my 10 randomly-selected questions:
1. If you could recommend 2 movies newly released in 2011 that everyone should see, they would be these (not including yours)…
That would be The Help and Mother and Child.
2. I own every single album (or should own every single album) by this musician…
Oh gosh!!! I'm not too much into music. I don't even have a favorite musician. :(. But, I do like Salvador.
3. I want my tombstone to read…
Hehehehehe, I came, I saw, I hope, I conquered!!
4. Earliest movie memory...
I think I was 6 years old and it was Clash of the Titans; the 1981 version. The Kraken gave me a fever for a week. My mum never made me watch movies again for a while.
5. If I weren't a filmmaker, I'd be this...
I'd be Nancy Drew!!!! I wanted to be an OBGYN and then a forensic scientist
6. Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Omnivore who doesn't do red meat.
7. I'd kill to work with this actor (or these actors)…
I really don't have a hit list of actors but, Kate Winslet is someone I'd love to work with. It will be a challenge to see her embrace something I'll create.
8. The view outside my bedroom windows looks like this…
The withering roses on my patio. They're adorable in the spring though.
9. I do most of my movie watching: at the theater, at home on a TV screen, on my mobile device (PDA, iPad, etc)
At home on a TV screen!
10. I'm a director, but if I were to act, I'd love to be directed by this director.
Bernardo Bertolucci
That's all folks! THANKS Leila!
Ebbe Bassey Manczuk | November 22, 2011 12:23 PM
I have dealt with Leila Djansi on a professional and a personal level; she is anything but banal, boring and shallow. She is a very intelligent, introspective, personable, fair, kind, generous, sensitive, creative individual who takes her craft seriously! She is a excellent role model for young ladies especially my young African sisters who are NOT encouraged in their creative lives at all. What exactly about her few responses which probably don't even amount 500 words makes her come off as shallow? She's shallow because she doesn't listen to a lot of music? Or because she wanted to be an obgyn or forensic scientist? She's banal because she watched Clash of the Titans at 6 and the Kraken scared her? She's boring because she would love to work with Kate Winslet (an amazing actress by the way) or because she's addressed serious issues in her film such as slavery, child molestation, adoption, domestic violence? I think this was meant to be a very light hearted, on the spot, spit-it-out-quick interview. I knew the vein of the interview and didn't expect some earth shattering, life changing, heaven moving, deep into the earth responses! It was meant to be F.U.N.
It is very easy to sit behind a computer screen and toss quick judgments about a person's character. U of I Alum, I would rather have read a constructive, helpful critique of the lady's work such as the Sinking Sands which you've stated you did not like but instead you came off as flippant, dismissive and judgemental.
U of I Alum | November 15, 2011 1:19 AM
Micah, your words carry an authority and levelheadedness that I must respect and heed. Point well-taken. I'm done. Thanks for making me see the error in my logic, and doing so in a way that made your words clear and easy to accept. I hear you. I apologize. I accept your logic and thank you for the time and effort you took to set me straight. Sincerely.
Micah | November 15, 2011 12:44 AM
@ U of I Alum
Mark, I appreciate your desire to hold black filmmakers to a high standard and except them to excel. I do feel that you are taking way too much much from an extremely lighted hearted interview. This is why it may seem like your response is a poor reflection on you to many of us. If someone is asked light-hearted questions and gives light-hearted answers, that doesn't strike me as a character flaw. It definitely isn't enough to give me insight into that person's directorial abilities or deeper personality. I'd be more concern if it she were asked thought-provoking and hard hitting questions and she gave frivolous answers that truly addressed nothing. If someone asked you what your favorite color is in an interview and you said blue would that really be enough information for people to attack your filmmaking abilities and character?
Angela | November 15, 2011 12:30 AM
U of I alum, you have issues. She's banal, she's shallow and boring therefore you won't watch her movies. That's your opinion. others dare to differ, because yes I have met her and heard her speak so I'm more informed that you are. But, since you must win, have it your way. Hopefully you do something apart from come online to spew hate and Tambay can ask you question too and you can share you omnipotent depth of knowledge with us shallow folks. Goodnight.
Angela | November 14, 2011 11:20 PM
it seems the Leila haters have followed her to a civilized blog. you should have said so from the beginning that you know her and your comment comes from a biased view point. why not state your name please? I don't think filmmakers make movies expecting everyone to like it. Whether you will like her new film or not, others will like it and have liked it and have given it great blurbs like the one I read here on shadow and act from Rick Berman.
you don't know Leila, that is why you think she is banal. you were asked the right question, what did you want her to say? she didn't say she doesn't LIKE music, she said she is not into music. There are people who don't get excited about music and, she thinks people should watch the help. that makes her shallow? was Viola Davis shallow to act in The Help? I've seen the help, not because its a great film, but because I see two black women in the spotlight and not taking off their clothes or being ghetto.
if anything, you are the shallow one. Drawing conclusions about someone from a shallow point of view. I found her answers to have a lot of depth. especially what she wants written on her grave :I came, I saw, I hope I conquered". that's deep!! and wanting to be directed by Mr. Bertulucci. That is enough depth for me. try google and come back to say Leila Djansi is banal. she is the most outspoken African filmmaker going places.
Tambay did not ask her deep questions. I'd have loved to know what she'll say to a studio head.
Vanessa | November 14, 2011 10:42 PM
I liked her answers. I wish someone asked you those questions on the spot U OF I ALUM. Jeez.
Much luck to Leila!
to u of i alum | November 14, 2011 7:51 PM
what did you want her to say? the questions are light and don't need any dramatic answers so what exactly should she have said? go and read her other interviews and you'd get a better insight. there is no winning with some of you people.
great job Leila. can't wait to watch your new film.
Kia | November 14, 2011 5:39 PM
Interesting responses and although I was thrown off by the answers to Q1 minus Mother and Child, best of luck to Leila on her feature film. Keep em coming Tambay!
Cynthia | November 14, 2011 4:46 PM
Great answers!


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A local man is charged with drug possession, with intent to distribute, after authorities found approximately 60 marijuana plants at a home he resided in on Williams Drive.
On Monday, Oct. 1, around 9 p.m., Det. Jason Clark knocked on the door of a home on the 20000 block of Williams Drive in Culpeper. Upon answering the door and seeing officers, Peter I. Gates, 34, slammed the door shut.
Clark, along with a joint street crimes unit, entered and secured the residence. The officers later executed a search warrant and seized approximately 60 marijuana plants in a garage on the property.
Clark and the officers found several ounces of packaged marijuana that had an estimated street value of $2,000. Also seized at the scene were two handguns, an assault rifle and more than $3,000 in cash.
As a result of this incident, Gates, of Culpeper, is charged with possession with intent to distribute more than five pounds of marijuana. He is also charged with possession of a firearm while in possession of more than one pound of marijuana.
Gates resided at the home on Williams Drive with family members. Investigators described the scene in the garage where the marijuana plants were found as an "elaborate grow operation." The street value of all of the plants combined is estimated at $180,000.
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A marvellous, witty, enigmatic read. It is difficult to know what happened- is the protagonist really time-travelling or suffering depersonalisation and flashbacks in PTSD? It is astonishing that this book is essentially a war novel about the disgraceful events at Dresden, yet still manages to be funny with the main character ending up dressed in ridiculous clothes.
I remember it as a very experimental book. The style is refreshing, by times shows what can be done with language.
At the same time it's very realistic, based on war experiences. Humor used to cope with injustice I suppose.
Its dark satire makes it related to Céline and its wild fiction (read about the characters at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five) to Burroughs (I only read parts of him, saw Naked Lunch)
I liked it a lot at the time, it's very teasing and entertaining, but I don't remember much of what it's about now. I'll have to reread it.
The science fiction parts of the book do not hide the powerful anti-war message.
I put this book on my Classics list because I've never read anything written by Vonnegut. How do I begin to describe this book? It's about war. It's about mental illness. Its about death. It's about aliens.
This story toggles back and forth between the character Billy Pilgrim's experience of World War II as a prisoner of war and forward to 1960 as his life as a family man and optometrist. As one of the few survivors of the Dresden fire Billy wants to write a book about the war but struggles how best to put the events on paper. He visits his war buddy to help him and his wife, rather appalled at the idea, tells him not to glorify the war. Billy promises not to and in doing so dedicates the book in her name.
While Billy lives his life in what seems like an average and normal way he then reveals he's been abducted by aliens which resemble upside down toilet plungers. When this happens he is able to see into the future and knows how and when he'll die. The aliens don't dwell on death as humans do because they are able to time travel within their life thus view death as rather mundane. Throughout the book the phrase "and so it goes" is repeated after every mention of death to emphasize this point. Once his concept of time changes and is no longer linear one might think this is his battle with post traumatic stress disorder.
This was a very bizarre and disjointed read as well as one outside my normal realm and liking, however, there is a reason why we read the Classics. There are important messages and themes to ponder, reflect upon and thus learn. I would recommend this book to someone looking for an interesting and thought-provoking read or to anyone studying the after effects of war.
This is book #4 read of my Classics Club Book Challenge.
How I acquired this book: Husband bought this book for me on Mother's Day on our visit to Moe's Books in Berkeley, California.
Shelf life: 3 months
Let me say right out that my initial enthusiasm for this book was tempered by the fact that it promptly put me in a deep blue funk for a week or two. It's a dark, pessimistic, yet rather funny book about a man who learns to become "unstuck in time."
Billy, the main character, is abducted by a race of aliens called Tralfamadorians, from the planet Tralfamadore. This race is very special because, although we humans can only see in three dimensions, the Tralfamadorians see in a fourth - time.
In fact, the idea that humans cannot freely "see" in time is so dumbfounding to the aliens that they compare our situation to that of a man who is locked in a box on a rail-car who looks at a mountain range through a very small viewport. While anyone else could simply view the mountains in all their splendor and from any angle, this man can only see one small isolated point at any given time, and is limited to a single plane of motion - back and forth.
Thus, freewill is an illusion - even to the Tralfamadorians. Everything that will ever happen has already happened, and everything that has ever happened is happening now. Incidentally, the aliens know how the universe will end - they destroy it when experimenting on a new type of starship engine. They agree that it's a little sad, but there's nothing they can do.
A good portion of the novel follows Billy's adventures (or, rather, memories of adventures, since he's on a track, remember?) back and forth through time, from his time in the army during World War II (in fact, the concentration camp he was kept in is the eponymous Schlachthof-fünf - Slaughterhouse-Five) to his post-military domestic life to his life on the public speaker circuit, right up to his death at the hands of an unknown gunman. After that, it's nothing but shades of purple.
Billy is, while a somewhat pathetic character, the only truly sane one in the novel. For example, in the military, he meets a cruel man who blames his accidental death on Billy. Both he and the rest of his troop (save for Billy) are only to eager to pretend that their tour of duty is just as romantic as in all the movies. Without spoiling too much, this leads to some pathetic, tragic, and ultimately rather funny scenes.
This is ultimately what put me in my aforementioned funk - everyone is pathetic, including the main character. Absolutely nothing matters because the illusion of freewill and higher purpose has been dropped like an old toy. Life is no longer enjoyable because it inevitably repeats itself in an endless loop. And even in spite (or perhaps because) of all of this, aggression abounds; the only good things, or even potential good things, are destroyed by war or childish anger or foolish pretense.
I eventually got out of my little case of the blues, but the impression is a lingering one. We should do more to combat the state of events portrayed in the novel, but we don't. Sometimes we can't. We're locked in our little box on our own rail-car and that pin-prick view of the mountain is our entire reality, and we can rarely, if ever, help it.
So it goes.
It is a novel about war and what men do to each other in the name of holy causes.
Which is not to say it is anywhere near "The Naked and the Dead" or "From Here to Eternity." Vonnegut fights his wars with feathers rather than with jackhammers. "Slaughterhouse-Five" is funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund and at the bottom-line, simply stoned-out-of-its-mind.
An agonizing, funny, profoundly rueful attempt by Vonnegut to handle in fable form his own memories of the strategically unnecessary Allied air raid on Dresden... few modern writers have borne witness against inhumanity with more humanity or humor.
"Slaughterhouse-Five" is an extraordinary success. It is a book we need to read, and to reread. It has the same virtues as Vonnegut's best previous work. It is funny, compassionate and wise. The humor in Vonnegut's fiction is what enables us to contemplate the horror that he finds in contemporary existence. It does not disguise the awful things perceived; it merely strengthens and comforts us to the point where such perception is bearable.
It sounds crazy. It sounds like a fantastic last-ditch effort to make sense of a lunatic universe. But there is so much more to this book. It is very tough and very funny; it is sad and delightful; and it works. But is also very Vonnegut, which mean you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner.
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Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor.
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Good news, everyone! It's the 15th anniversary of Futurama! To celebrate, we're airing the first and last episodes back-to-back, today at 5/4c.
Meanwhile, over on the show's Facebook page, you can see special messages from the cast and crew.
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Rockford now requires landlords to register into a city-run database in exchange for awareness about criminal activity on their properties. Those who support this law say the Residential Quality Support Ordinance helps responsible landlords, exposes negligent ones and protects good tenants.
It passed 10-3 at Monday night's city council meeting, with Aldermen Hervey, Thompson-Kelly and McNeely opposing. They're not the only ones against this idea. Some lawyers also question it.
"I'm disappointed that the city council decided to move forward with the ordinance." -says Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Staff Attorney & Skadden Fellow Emily Werth.
Landlords will submit information into a database. Rockford Apartment Association President Paul Arena says this computer program costs just under $5,000. When police are called to one of their properties they'll get notification through the software saying officers were present. After three incidents dealing with problems like felonies, property owners have options. They and their tenant can sit down with a voluntary 5-member mediation board, made up of individuals like neighborhood group members and citizens at large, to work out solutions which could include penalties and evictions. Arena says acts of domestic violence are not covered under this ordinance, to protect victims from fines or being kicked out of their homes if they live with their abusers. Werth thinks it could actually increase the chance of eviction.
"What the abuser ends up getting arrested for may not be domestic violence or sexual violence. It may be resisting arrest, it may be breaking and entering, it may be criminal damage to property. Those are things that would still trigger the ordinance." -she says.
After four years of discussions, Arena's glad to see this get going. If it was voted down, he would have been done trying.
"We went beyond just talking about a problem, we're taking action. It might not be perfect, everybody might not be completely happy with it. I think from our perspective we gave and compromised on it." -he adds.
Also at Monday's meeting, the 2013 budget was laid over in full council until next week and part of a project designed to boost sports tourism, Reclaiming First, moves forward. Aldermen approved the engineering and design agreement for turning the downtown Ingersoll building into an indoor sports complex.
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The 2014 Pontiac Firebird convertible has all the expression of its hardtop sibling: vertical fog lightweight channels, a front air splitter, a ventilated hood.
Inside, the show car's suede steering wheel and manual shift knob ought to keep your hands pasted down, and also the Tremec shifter's short throws feel nearer to the Firebird V-6's Aisin unit than the Firebird bulkier Tremec.
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BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - The family of the suburban Houston couple killed on Thanksgiving Day last year in a 100-vehicle pileup on a foggy stretch of Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas has settled a lawsuit it had filed.
The Beaumont Enterprise reports (http://bit.ly/1bozUsE ) details of the settlement are not being made public.
The family of Vincent Leggio Sr., and his wife, Debra, of Pearland, had sued a trucking firm, a truck driver and two other motorists. The suit alleged the trucker was driving too fast for conditions when the crash occurred west of Beaumont. Some 80 others were injured.
The settlement came on Monday after testimony in the lawsuit's civil trial in Beaumont had ended.
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Drake.edu > College of Arts & Sciences > Department of History > Welcome to the History Department website at Drake University.
Welcome to the History Department website at Drake University.
We want to introduce ourselves as a department and invite prospective and enrolled students to consider the History Major and the 27 + 12 Track History Double Major. This track enables students majoring in another discipline to count 12 credit hours from that discipline toward a 39-hour major in history.
The History Department is composed of nine full-time faculty members and approximately 90 majors. This ratio of one faculty member to ten student advisees promotes meaningful faculty-student interaction. Every faculty member in the department has earned the Ph.D., the highest degree awarded in the field. Every student majoring in history works closely with our accomplished teacher-scholars. We are committed to providing exceptional learning experiences for students that combine knowledge and skill acquisition with pre-professional training and career development. Our graduates become scholars and teachers, lawyers and doctors, writers and journalists, politicians and public servants, small business owners and community organizers. In recent years, Drake University history majors have gained admission to pursue advanced graduate and law degrees at Harvard, Georgetown, Baylor, Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota, Marquette, and Washington University, St. Louis. Their success owes much to the distinctiveness of their Drake history education.
The discipline of history lies at the core of liberal education. Knowledge of the past is key to understanding the present. To think historically is to think critically but with the advantage of contextualizing and interpreting the present in light of the past. It is what every informed citizen does when formulating an opinion or facing an important life decision, especially in times of profound change.
At a time when the average college graduate will work in four or more different professions during their lifetime, our program prepares and empowers students with modular and transferable skills. Mastering the information of the "information age" requires students to read, write, think, speak, and analyze data proficiently, but students must also possess the flexibility and adaptability to function in an ever-changing global economy. This is, in part, why even famous history majors, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, W.E.B. Dubois and General John Abizaid, Ed Norton and Steve Carell, Conan O-Brien and Lauryn Hill, Chris Berman and Wolf Blitzer, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, all pursued different career paths. They were all history majors before they won their presidencies, commands, Emmys, Grammys, Oscar nominations, Olympic medals, and national championships.
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It seems just about every time we run a story of late, Michael Fassbender is tied to it or at least mentioned as a possibility. His star has certainly been on the rise this year and top directors -- from Quentin Tarantino to Steven Soderbergh to David Cronenberg and, of course Ridley Scott -- are all clamoring to work with Fassy.
This afternoon The Playlist caught up with Fassbender during promotional rounds for his role as Freud protege Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method." During the course of our chat, we tried to garner any additional nuggets we could on the highly secretive prequel/not a prequel/maybe a prequel, "Prometheus."
"I'm an android, you know that," Fassbender told The Playlist with a smile. "There's an android in the original. So that would make me the connection. That's all I'm gonna tell you. I don't want to be the one who spills the beans, man. They'll come after me."
Fassbender has been working almost non-stop since last year, which he isn't complaining about. "It was 'Haywire,' 'Jane Eyre,' 'Dangerous Method,' 'X-Men,' 'Shame,' 'Prometheus.' It's good because I don't have much time to dwell on them. I finish one and then it's right onto the other. It's sort of like learning for a specific time and then just discarding it and diving into the next one."
The actor has been linked to a slew of projects including the very intriguing potential Jim Jarmusch-led vampire flick. "I'm not sure what's going on there, to be honest," Fassbender admitted. "Nothing is set in stone yet for next year. Until I'm on set and working on it, I'm not going to sort of say anything about it." Fassbender had also been offered the part of the crime thriller "Prisoners," earlier this year, but clearly he's not taking the part. "I don't know anything about 'Prisoners,'" Fassbender said with a shrug.
He will be returning to work with "Shame" director Steve McQueen for a third pairing next year. " '12 Years A Slave' is with Steve and I think it's pretty much out there."
As for Fassbender's most infamous role, as Erik Lehnsherr (a.k.a. Magneto) in "X-Men: First Class" the actor is game for returning to the character. "We're pretty proud of [the first film]. It was a great bunch of people," he said. "I was speaking to James [McAvoy] just before I came out here and we're very eager to get together with Matthew [Vaughn], if he wants to do a second one, and with the writer and start getting in there early and working from the roots of the second script if it's going to happen. Hopefully it will."
Fassbender can next be seen in Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method" November 23rd and his second film under the direction of Steve McQueen, "Shame," on December 2nd.
jingmei | November 13, 2011 1:38 AM
Bet it's been recorrected, dare to say everyone gets hand slippings sometimes, it's also the reason i'm into reading the blogs here. ;p Good to see this Brit hottie takes every shootings as learning processes.
Abner | November 12, 2011 5:09 PM
I'd look up the definition of infamous, not sure that's the word you want.
R.R. | November 12, 2011 12:53 AM
Thanks Jeff for the interview. Love me some Fassbender, hope we get to see him play Magneto again.
Tiki | November 11, 2011 7:44 PM
Good god, have you guys ever heard of proofreading? You get names wrong ALL THE TIME. It's one thing to have simple spelling errors, but to come up with your version of first names/last names is so unprofessional. Rather than a new CMS, you need to invest in proofreaders. Pay me minimum wage and I'll sign up.
kenda | November 11, 2011 6:35 PM
i believe he was speaking to James McAvoy not McCavoy.


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Okay, that was heartbreaking. Well, maybe it wasn't heartbreaking, but it sure was a disappointment. Last night many of us had just finished completing week long prayers and sacrificial rituals to the NBA gods that the Jazz would somehow land a top 3 pick in this years draft. We still got a top 10 pick by landing the number 9 spot. All is not lost. In actuality, picking number 9 might be beneficial to the Jazz. We no longer would be distracted by the thought of landing Wall or Turner and we can focus on landing a big man we've been coveting for a few years.
Since being swept painfully into the offseason by the Lakers, I have begun to construct a wish-list of what I would like to see done this offseason. So, here is what I think would put the Jazz in a good position for years to come.
We have seven players currently under contract- Williams, Kirilenko, Okur, Millsap, Miles, Koufas, and Price. With these 7 players we are sitting around 55 million dollars tied up in contracts. Somehow we need to get 6 more players. The Soft Cap sits at 57 million and the luxury tax 68 million. So the idea is to try and land 13 players without trying to exceed 68 million dollars too much.
So here is my plan:
We resign some of our free agents. I would like to see the Jazz tie up Wes Matthews first and foremost. Something like a 2-3 year deal for 2- 2.5 million dollars a year with a team option for a fourth year. We then resign Gaines and Jeffers for one year deals of 1-1.5 million dollars.
This puts us above the soft cap and around 60 million dollars with 10 players. We let Korver and Boozer walk. We can't resign Boozer without hurting ourselves over the next few years financially. I think at the end of another deal with Boozer we are looking at another AK situation. Too much money in a player for what he's producing. Not only that, resigning Boozer would almost certainly cost us either Milsap, AK, or Okur. I'd rather not part with any of those three. I want Okur and Ak to finish their careers in Utah and I want to see what Milsap can do with a starting role. He costs about half of what Boozer does. It's just a smart move financially.
I hate the idea of losing Korver but he is going to want 4-6 million dollars and I really think CJ can step up with Korver gone. I will sorely miss Korver. If the Jazz really feel like they don't mind going over the Lux tax a little more than by all means try to keep Korver here.
The NBA draft, we have to try and get at least 1-2 players from the Draft that can contribute and get playing time.
With the number 9 pick I would like the Jazz to go after a defensive/athletic PF. I know, I know most of you are going to riot and say we need a Center. I'll get to that a little later though, trust me. With Boozer gone and Millsap starting we are thin at the PF position. AK can come in and play but I don't think he has the weight to hang with some of the bigger PFs for an extended time. He also would be playing the SF position.
I want one of four players: Patrick Patterson from Kentucky, Epke Udoh from Baylor, Greg Monroe from Georgia Tech, or Ed Davis from North Carolina. There are other players I could live with, such as Cole Aldrich, Hassan Whiteside, or even Solomon Alabi. However I think any of the first four players could come in and contribute behind Millsap. Not only that getting playing time would help them develop. (We saw how the Fes and Koof experiment of barely playing worked). There will be later time to argue and compare who is better but I think one of these 7 players is who the Jazz land most likely, one of the first four I believe would be best.
With the 55th pick I would like to see the Jazz go after a SF. Lazar Hayward from Marquette (played with Matthews), Charles Garcia from Seattle (he's 6'10 but played SF/PF in college, he could be another Odem), Darrington Hobson from New Mexico, or Luke Harangdony from Notre Dame, could all be there at our pick. Draft a SF would allow from the loss of Korver and possible trade of AK midseason to hurt less. It would give us more depth behind CJ miles (we know how streaky he is).
Undrafted Rookies can also be a huge lift if you land a diamond. We landed Wes Matthews last season. Is there another rookie that could possibly contribute as much as he had in this years class? I would seriously consider Millsap's younger brother. Elijah Millsap is a 6'6 small forward, If he's anything like his brother turned out to be he could be a steal (He is a rebounding machine). Another possibility is the 7-4 behemoth Boban Marjanovic. He's another big European whiteboy, we seem to love them. He's raw but could be developed into something. Jon Scheyer the PG/SG from Duke would also be an interesting play.
This is the most important aspect. Up to this point after the draft we'd have 11-12 players on the roster. We are at around 62-3 million or so if we sign 2 rookies. The rookie at 9 would be around a 2 million dollar contract and the 55 would be the minimum contract of around 500,000.
The hard cap is at 68 million dollars this leaves the Jazz with more or less of 5-6 million dollars to offer a Mid Level contract to a free agent……
I really, really, really, really, really, really
Want the Jazz to try and sign Brendan Haywood. Brendan Haywood is a 7'0 Center who played the last half of the season for the Mavericks after being traded from the Wizards. Brendan Haywood averaged 2 blocks a game last year with both the Wizards and Mavericks. He averaged 8-9 points a game and 7 rebounds.
Brendan would be the defensive center we have craved for a few years now. We could sign him to a 2-3 year deal with a player option 4th year (this would make the contract more lucrative). Brendan made 6 million dollars last year. However he is getting older and had a relatively poor performance in the playoffs. His stock is dropping seeing as he will be turning 31 in November. However, he still has the defensive prowess to block shots. He ranked 3rd this season in blocked shots behind Dwight Howard and Andrew Bogut all while fouling LESS than both of them. He obviously knows how to position his body and use his length to alter shots without fouling. He would be a devastating 1-2 punch with Okur at the Center position.
He would get playing time while Okur recovered and Okur could come off the bench for the Jazz after he fully recovers to cause matchup issue. Brendan's length in the paint would allow for Millsap and AK to roam freely on their man and block more shots as well. His length would and presence would allow for perimeter defensive to be better because we would have to double team less.
Best of all. It's not a huge contract and keep us relatively close to the Luxury cap. It gives us a good defensive center at a decent price and he would be an asset that could be traded in a later season. It would allow us to have more flexibility next year when AK's contract comes off the book. It allows us to resign most of our guys this season while improving the team as a whole. It also allows for our rookies to get playing time in the SF and PF positions. Plus we get to keep AK, Okur, and Millsap! Hooray! Maybe even Korver too!
Plus, imagine this lineup against the Lakers.
Williams, Matthews, AK, Okur, Haywood. Okur is lounging around the perimeter forcing Gasol or Bynum to leave the paint to play defense on him. Haywood underneath, against the other seven-footer. AK and Matthews slashing to the basket on a give and go from Williams…. Mmm that paint is a whole lot easier to attack now.
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Since we passed Dont'a Hightower. Here's a look at potential picks at 36 in no particular order.
After moving from 25 to 31 and passing on Hightower :( ..... we netted 126, a late fourth. I thought that was too little of compensation! Got short-changed. Then we move from 31 to 36 and gave 126 and gained 101. So essentially we moved from 25 to 36 for 101. I think that we really didn't get the best price. We gave both teams a bargain.
Jerel Worthy, DT Michigan State
Janoris Jenkins, CB North Alabama
Coby Fleener, TE Stanford
Courtney Upshaw, DE Alabama
Cordy Glenn, OG/OT Georgia
Stephen Hill, WR Georgia Tech
Johnathon Martin, OT Stanford
Kendall Reyes, DT Connecticut
Alshon Jeffery, WR South Carolina
Lamar Miller, RB Miami (FL)
Devon Still, DT Penn State
Josh Robinson, CB Central Florida
Lavonte David,LB Nebraska
Zach Brown, LB North Carolina
Bobby Wagner, LB Utah State
Peter Konz, C Wisconisn
Vinny Curry, DE Marshall
Brandon Thompson, DT Clemson
Mychal Kendricks, LB California
Lots of quality players left in round 2... who do y'all think we should take, and who we will take?


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2012 Free Agency List
With all of the talk about the Panthers weaknesses and next years draft, I thought it would be prudent to look at available free agents as well. This site has a comprehensive list which appears to be up to date. There doesnt appear to be a lot of help for either of our lines available in free agency, so these are definately areas to focus on in the draft. What do you guys think?


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VIP Meet&Greet: Clash of the Celeb Titans
For this week's VIP Meet&Greet, there's a chance to see not just one celeb in the flesh, but a whole team (or two to be precise), in the name of Sport Relief. In a 'Clash of the Titans' sporting challenge at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Friday 21st March, Sport Relief hero John Bishop and Olympic legend Sebastian Coe will go head-to-head with two teams of celebs taking on events such as rhythmic gymnastics, track cycling and swimming.
Lord Coe's team will consist of BBC Radio 1 presenter Greg James, pop star Olly Murs, comedy actress Sally Phillips and Winter Olympic skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams, while Olympic boxing gold medallist Nicola Adams, former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw, comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty and TV presenter Helen Skelton will make up Bishop's team.
In a night of sporting glory, the two teams will battle it out in front of a live audience and a television audience, as the event is broadcast live on the BBC. To book your place in the audience at Lee Valley Velopark or the London Aquatics Centre click here.
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Ok, it's Monday morning, we're 1-1, and we just got our teeth kicked in. We lost to the concensus best team in the country on the road with a true freshman quaterback. We didn't tackle well and Evan Royster had his second bad game.
But it's time to move on and look at the positives
For one, we're still ranked Ok, it doesn't mean much, but it's something.
Second, despite the rocky performance, our QB Bolden kept his composure* in a game where most true freshman QB's wouldn't. He threw two interceptions on third down in or near the red zone. Big deal.
Heisman hopeful Miami quarterback and Jacory Harris threw 4 picks, and he's a Junior. This was his first big test and it came early in the season, he will be better for it come Iowa/OSU.
Third, the defense didn't play all that poorly. That's the best RB by far that we will face this season, maybe the best RB we have faced in the last 5 years. And we faced 4 current NFL running backs in 2008. Our CB's played extremely well, and our defensive line got some pressure on the QB. If you're getting gashed like that the safeties are going to start creeping in and the passing lanes will open up, that was Alabama's whole game plan.
Finally, this game is not going to determine the winner of the B10 or who goes to the Rose Bowl. I think this team has it in them to share a conference title with Ohio State. I think this team has it in them to put a season in the books very similar to 2008 Ohio State, given that I believe Bolden is a better QB then Pryor was at this stage.
So there. Shake it off and move on.
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Check this out. It is a pretty interesting logical breakdown and deduction of the No Plane Theory of 9/11.
Why they didn't use planes
Sometimes people ask me "why would they use missiles or whatever and run the risk of being caught out ? If they're going to sell a story about planes, why not make it as convincing as possible and use real planes" ?
It's a silly question, because in the face of direct visual and forensic proof that they didn't use planes (mostly supported by what little witness evidence we have), speculations about their thinking and planning are meaningless.
Nevertheless, since we live in extremely silly times, I'm going to address this question on its own terms.
Put yourself in the position of the perps. You have to think through what could go wrong in each possible scenario and then decide which scenario poses the smallest risk.
You want to sell a story about hijacked planes.
At the first level of decision making, you have two choices.
1) Actually use planes.
2) Use missiles or whatever the blobs 11 thing is, and convince people that they were planes.
Lets first look at the second scenario. You have the media on your side to tell the story. What could go wrong?
1) Witnesses might see that they were not planes and report it.
Well this has actually happened, but it seems that nobody takes any notice. The myth of "thousands of witnesses" to a big plane strike keeps getting trotted out on the basis of a circular assumption. "Because big jets were there, then people must have seen them - because people saw them, that proves they were there."
Clearly the perps thought about how to minimize the problem of contrary witness reports, and came up with a simple but effective plan.
This problem is easy to minimize. The first strike happens, and because the object is small and fast and unexpected, no-one is too sure what it is, or whether they saw it correctly. A few witness reports go to air reporting missiles or small planes or no craft at all, but there is only an 18 minute window for this to occur before the whole world sees a big jet live on TV - using commercially available real time animation technology. This distracts the media from interviewing many witnesses to the second strike, because everyone is fixated on the video replay. Those few witnesses who might get a moment with the media, then lack confidence in what they saw, because once again, the object was small, fast and unexpected. Seeing the TV replay - which was instantly available - would make most people think that they just didn't see it properly. The few who remain unshakable in their belief that it was not a large plane are easily shouted down and drowned out by the endless replays. In addition the airlines release a statement saying that they've lost two big jets and any witness dissent is *instantly* - the moment the second strike happens - marginalized almost to the point of oblivion.
This is not speculation. Read through the transcripts of broadcasts as they unfolded between about 8.47 and 9.30 and you will see that this is *exactly* what happened. From the moment the second strike occurred, anyone who tried to say that it was not a large jet immediately had a TV replay shoved in their face.
What little witness evidence was gathered in the brief time available between the two strikes was not enough to do any real damage, and everything after that was corrupted by everybody having TV replays of the second jet shoved in their face as soon as they opened their mouths.
In that brief period between the two strikes, there was only one witness who said a large jet - and that just happened to be the vice prez of CNN, which of course is a major player in the scam - just as pivotal as the govt.
So we can see that the problem of contrary witnesses, while a minor inconvenience is easily overcome with some good planning.
Again, this is not speculation. The successful execution of this plan has been tested ion the real world - and it works. The scenario I have outlined exactly fits with the documented record of the events.
Once the sheeple factor sets in, everyone is chanting "what about the people who saw it ? " without ever bothering to check what those people actually did report. And if they do check, the numbers of reports are not high enough to inflict major damage on the official story. What little there is overwhelmingly supports something other than a big jet, but there wasn't enough time to gather enough numbers for this to be a significant evidence factor. And as for the ordinary person on the street - most of them would be easily convinced that they just didn't see it properly. Some might have lingering doubts or suspicions, but would be quickly silenced by ridicule and denial from the overwhelming pressure of the TV footage, and the whole world trying to convince them that they just didn't see it properly. Most would eventually come to believe that themselves.
So - that problem is easily dealt with. No cover story solves everything, and doubtless there are still some mutterings of doubt and suspicion amongst some people who were there, but it isn't enough to cause a serious problem.
Now to the other problem.
Someone might look at the videos and see what's really there. Which is exactly what Rosalee has done. And people just go into mind controlled denial. The alternative media is flooded with endless debunkers. The perps knew our collective psychology well. They certainly wouldn't be happy with the groundswell of awareness which Rosalee has kick-started, but it looks very manageable compared to the problems I'm about to outline with the strategy of using real jets.
Again, this is not speculation. The way that both of these problems have been handled has been tested in the real world, fits exactly with the documented record, and the fact that I am even needing to write this, 3 years after Rosalee first busted the video evidence, is testimony to how wisely the perps judged the choice of strategy.
Now lets look at the other choice - using real jets.
This immediately splits into two sub-choices 1) Pilot them with suicide pilots 2) Remote control them.
The problem with the first choice is obvious and I think most people on this list have already accepted the absurdity and the monstrous difficulties of such a scenario, so I won't go into them here.
Remote control.
Before addressing the problems with that, the scenario splits into more -sub-choices.
1) Hijack a real flight with real passengers aboard. 2) Launch a plane from somewhere else and pass it off as a real flight.
Basically, the choices here split into the option of crashing a plane with passengers aboard or with no passengers aboard. Both possibilities create potentially insurmountable problems in the cover up - and a reduced likelihood of the crash being successfully targeted to begin with.
Let's look at the latter problem. While it's certainly feasible to remote control a large jet into the towers, it's a high precision targeting job for an aircraft with very limited maneuverability. There's a significant risk that the plane won't hit its target properly. That it will hit some other building, just clip its wing on the tower and crash into the streets or cause a cascade of damage on other non targeted buildings, miss altogether and finish up in the Hudson, still reasonably intact - all kinds of risks.
Whatever the calculated likelyhood of a successfully targeted crash, it would have to be significantly lower than that of a missile or blobs- thing, which is specifically engineered for such precision strikes.
Even the smallest increase in risk of the target not being hit properly would be completely unacceptable, given the easily manageable nature of any problems associated with the alternative scenario.
And missing the target is only the beginning of the problem. What about the aftermath ? Once it misses the target, there's a significant risk that the aircraft may crash in such a manner that it's reasonably intact. Rescue workers and emergency services who are completely innocent of the scam, and ordinary people wanting to help out are going to reach the wreckage before any perpsters, given that where it crashed couldn't be foreseen.
And what are they going to find ? Two choices. A plane with no -one in it. How are the perps going to explain that, huh ? Or a plane with passengers. This raises even more problems. Using a plane with passengers creates two more sub-choices.
1) Hope that all the passengers get killed in the crash, so there's no survivors to talk or hope that the perps can get to them first and knock them off before they do talk.
2) Kill them before the crash with a timed release of gas into the aircon system. Which of course leaves more forensic evidence to cover up, when the bodies are examined. Imagine the massive operation needed to get enough perps swarming over the wreckage quickly enough to control what the media,innocent rescue workers or survivors would start blabbing before the spin sets in. Far worse than anything a few witnesses could say in the 18 minutes between the two tower strikes.
These problems are not limited to the scenario of the aircraft not crashing as they were meant to. If the planes were successfully crashed into the towers, its still possible - although not very likely - that there could be survivors. Nevertheless, even assuming that everyone was killed, real crashes with real people leave real bodies, they don't just vapourize like in the S11 cartoon. So you have hundreds of retrievable bodies to worry about. If they were killed with gas prior to the crash, then you have the same forensic cover up nightmare as in the scenario where the plane misses its target.
And if you avoid this problem by hoping that everyone is killed in the crash, you face the horrible risk that there will be dozens of survivors to try to shut up - unlikely if the plane hits the target properly - but you don't know that for sure.
In addition, real planes leave real wreckage - unlike the S11 cartoon - which means real flight recorder boxes to be found and more stuff to hush up, involving more innocent officials to pressure. Of course, enormous pressure can be brought to bear, but the problem is how much would spill out before the spin gets into action. All of this is far worse than what a few witnesses could say in the 18 minutes between the strikes, and what a marginalized researcher can post on her website, hoping that people take notice.
As you can see, the scenario of using real planes creates a logistical nightmare compared to the piddling problem of a few witnesses to the craft, and easily marginalized conspiracy nuts analyzing video - easily suppressed by a compliant media.
In committing a crime, the idea is to leave as little mess as possible, because every bit of mess is a potential clue. Even in the event of a successfully targeted crash, real aircraft, scattering wreckage and bodies everywhere creates an enormous amount of mess to cover up compared to the relatively neat problem of a few witnesses and a few conspiracy nuts trying to tell people what the video shows.
The problems of the real plane scenario are enormously compounded by the possibility of a botched crash, which itself is a significantly increased risk when using big lumbering jets not specifically designed for that task as opposed to precision weaponry which is far more reliable. In the unlikely event of a missile going off course, there would be far less mess to leave clues, and an easier co-opting into a plan B story - like terrorists stealing missiles and firing them at NY.
This explanation should hopefully put an end once and for all to the plane hugging fantasy - but then, these are very silly times in which we live.
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11?
Check out what a Boeing rep said about the maximum speed of a plane at 700 ft. It starts at 8:00.
Here Ace Baker shows you how easy it is to duplicate the CNN footage of the 2nd plane hitting the WTC, with Apple Motion. Watch him duplicate the footage step by step exactly.
Chilling and disturbing isn't it? Too bad most people are afraid to consider the implications of this.
Here is what John Lear, one of the most experienced pilots in the world who holds every FAA certificate that exists, has to say about the planes on 9/11. It's very interesting.
Check out this FAQ about the No Plane Theory:
No-Plane Theory FAQ
Q. What about all the (hundreds, thousands, millions) of eyewitnesses?
A. If a real plane flew into the South Tower, there would indeed be thousands, if not 10's of thousands of eyewitnesses. But there are astonishingly few people who actually claimed to have seen and heard a plane. The extreme LACK of eyewitnesses speaks in favor of no planes.
There are a number of eyewitnesses, like David Handschuh, who were looking at the tower, and swear they didn't see a plane.
The few eyewitnesses that do exist are either (a) lying or (b) mistaken. The govern-media has trillions of dollars, and a hundred thousand secret agents. Manufacturing "eyewitnesses" is no problem. And let's not discount false memory. Many studies have conclusively shown that fake video alters eyewitness accounts.
Q. What happened to the passengers and airplanes?
A. The real planes took off as advertised, and were hijacked by special ops. The planes were landed at Stewart Air Force Base, and replaced on radar by false blips. The passengers and crew were executed, blood and body samples taken. These samples were then planted at the "crash" locations, "found", and then legitimate DNA testing was done.
Q. But I saw an airplane crashing into the tower on live TV!
A. No you didn't. On live TV, you were shown "Chopper 5" and "Chopper 7". Both of these video show a plane passing behind the edge of the tower, not hitting it. The video that show the plane penetrating the building came later, after there was plenty of time to edit them. They look fake, because they are fake.
Q. What about the airplane parts that were found on the street?
A. No parts were found BELOW the "impact" area, or in the gashes. The few parts that were found, were located BEYOND the tower, as if they made it all the way through and out the other side. I believe they shot an airplane part out of a cannon on the 80th floor of WTC2. That's what it looks like on the video. This would explain why the molten metal was seen pouring out of that location before the demolition. They had to melt down the cannon, lest it be blown clear during the demolition.
Q. What about the phone calls?
A. What phone calls? The only recording of any phone call is Betty Ong, early in AA11. That probably was a real phone call, after the real hijackers had taken over the plane, and before they landed it at Stewart AFB. As to the rest of the alleged phone calls, they don't exist. A "transcript" means nothing. What phone calls?
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11?
Check out this video of the 2nd plane that hit the WTC. Just before impact, the left wing disappears! Could that be indication of a holographic plane? lol
And here is live footage of the second explosion of the WTC that shows no plane approaching it?! Too bad no one has a better quality version of this footage.
Did Flight 93 land in Cleveland?
Listen to this 9/11 phone call by Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11. I can't believe how unemotional she sounds, as though she were "ordering a pizza" as the comments say.
Interesting video debunking the 9/11 hijacking myths.
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11?
What he has to say about space aliens and soul collectors on the moon is very interesting also, but it doesn't mean he's not full of poopy-cacka
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11? Interesting reasons and clues
Check this out. Here is the full version of Betty Ong's call from Flight 11 to some emergency number. It's very bizarre. She says that one person has been stabbed on the flight and that hijackers have gone into the cockpit and locked the door, yet she sounds bored and sleepy at the same time. Now I don't know about you, but if I was on a hijacked plane, and a guy was stabbed and hijackers were in the cockpit, I sure would not sound "bored and sleepy"! She sounds like she's ordering a pizza. WTF?!
Also, how come there are not excited passengers in the background during the call?
Furthermore, the emergency staff sounded retarded. They keep asking her to repeat her statements, like they got all the time in the world. Not even the 911 staff when you call them, act that nonchalant and robotic. They are usually engaging and quick to respond to emergencies. But this emergency staff that Betty Ong talked to sounded like a joke. They sounded like drones who are indecisive and don't care. WTF?! Very bizarre.
Also, here is video of the second plane that hit the WTC from another angle. Notice again how, just before the plane hits, one of the wings VANISHES! It's really bizarre. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Also, check this out. A guy named David Handschuh, a professional photographer, said in this interview that he stood right under the WTC when the second plane hit and saw NO PLANE!
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11? Interesting reasons and clues
Scepcop, have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, Muslim extremists flew planes into buildings on 9/11?
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11? Interesting reasons and clues
I can explain Betty Ong; all flight personell are trained to talk slowly and try to keep calm even if the wings are on fire....I can hear her fear which she contols by talking slowly.
The only problem with the Ghostplanes theory is what did they do with all the bodies of the passengers and the planes? Fly them out over the ocean and detonate them or was this an inside job and the planes were routed to some Air Force base? I've heard a lot of interesting arguments pro and con concerning 9/11 conspiracies, but this one is the strangest. Also, they might look lumbering, but commercial airlines can do some basic aerobatics*; they don't do them usually because of passenger safety.
ProfWag, to me there is still the question of if the guys who carried out 9/11 were Al-Queda or if they were Egyptian Islamic Jihad members paid for by Bin Laden. Al-Queda exists now, but there is the question, did the organization truly exist back then? I'm not the only one who asked this question; BBC documentarian Adam Curtis made that one of his points in his film "The Power of Nightmares."
*Loops, steeply-banked (60 degree +) turns, flying upside down, possibly doing split-S turns.
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11? Interesting reasons and clues
We've all considered that. But there is no evidence for that. Also:
1. Half of the hijackers have been found alive.
2. They didn't have the experience or skill to fly a 757. It's a lot harder to fly than you think.
3. It's aeronautically impossible for a 757 to move at 400 or 500mph at 700 ft. Call Boeing and ask them. It's common knowledge among pilots.
4. The hijackers names do not appear on the original flight manifests, only in later versions.
5. Hijackers cannot hijack planes with box cutters. The only guy who ever successfully hijacked a plane had a gun. Plus pilots do not usually give up the controls. And they are trained to hit the emergency transponder in the event of a hijack, so why didn't they?
Did you consider those things?
Why don't you consider that maybe the story is false? You agree that governments often lie right?
How do you know it was Muslim hijackers? You are taking it on faith aren't you? How is that any different than a Christian who believes that the Bible is infallible because they are told so?
Please answer directly without copouts please.
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Re: Ghostplanes on 9/11? Interesting reasons and clues
Anyone can say that. How are you going to "train" someone to remain calm in a life or death situation without actually putting them in a life or death situation? Simply telling them to remain calm isn't going to do it.
When the life and death situation comes, your body goes into fight or flight panic. Anybody would react with panic and adrenaline.
Betty wasn't just calm. She acted too casual. She kept repeating herself, and the operator was dumb and kept asking the same questions over and over again like someone who didn't want to pay attention.
Your question about the perps disposing of the bodies is a valid one of course. But do you really think it's impossible for the perps to kill all those passengers or murder them?
You gotta understand that these people are more evil than you think. They thrive on death and suffering. It's normal to them. The rulers of the Aztecs and Amazonians sacrificed their innocent people all the time. Some people thrive on torture, especially the ruling class. Why do you think the CIA tortured people in Iraq? These are hidden dark truths. Have you heard of "dark ecstasy"? See this video for a very disturbing explanation of it:
So you see, it's not really farfetched for the perps to murder innocent people. Anything is possible. We don't have the smoking gun about what happened to the passengers. But it's a possibility. Keep that in mind. Just cause it's too disturbing to you to think that the perps could murder those passengers doesn't mean it's impossible for them to. Do you understand that?
Also, another possibility is that those passengers were fictitious. Not impossible. Or they could be living in another country and paid off. Anything is possible.
So where is your skepticism of the official story? There are thousands of holes and implausibilities with it. Have you analyzed them? Many intelligent experts have and disbelieve it. Even Geraldo recently changed his mind. See the segment he did about Building 7 here.
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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05-04-2013 18:43:05 | More by brandoman63
4.1/5 rDev +7.3%
had outside on a beautiful Saturday late summer afternoon the beer was on tap and it came in a pint glass with a great head and just enough lacing it was medium in color but it had an assertive hop/malt character with a sweet ending that was dry ,,this was just another great tap/seasonal that i lucked into having while at MTHB..i followed by a delicious marsala mama..im so glad MTHB is in my backyard... another solid tap from the hall
09-23-2009 00:10:44 | More by gatornation
4.16/5 rDev +8.9%
On tap at the brewpub. Served in a standard shaker glass.
Appearance: Color is a clear pale yellowish golden orange with a moderate amount of bubbles. About two fingers of white head that slowly fade into a thin patchy layer. Leaves a lot of lace.
Smell: A bready biscuity malt forward aroma with some nice hints of earthy hops. Malts upfront with a pilsner malt scent along with hints of beady biscuit, wheat grains, cracker, straw, yeast, and a slight caramel hint. A little honey like sweetness. Solid presence of floral, spicy, and earthy Noble hops along with some hints of citrus lemon and orange. A very crisp and good smelling brew.
Taste: Follows the nose with a solid taste of bready biscuit malts with a solid presence of floral hops and citrus. Pale and pilsner malts with notes of bready biscuit, cracker, wheat grains, straw, yeast, and a little caramel. Some sweet honey in the mix. Floral and earthy hops giving a spicy and fairly grassy taste. Notes of citrus lemon and orange. A well balanced and tasty German style Kolsch taste.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Very crisp and smooth. Sweet but finishes somewhat dry.
Overall: A pretty solid take on the Kolsch style. Good use of malt and noble hops.
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Had this on tap before, and during the brewery tour this past weekend.
Poured into a standard pint glass, this is golden copper in color. Looks similar to other Kolsch's I've had as well as a typical macro. White head with ok retention but not much lacing.
The nose is light, and slightly sweet. I get sweet malt with a honey like character. Ever so lightly hopped to round out a pretty good smelling beer.
The taste just amplifies the nose. Sweet malts with a little roasted character, earthy hops with a light bitterness as well as honey and caramel.
Light mouthfeel with a nice carbonation bite. Great drinkability.
Overall, a solid offering from Town Hall. Even my girlfriend, a non craft beer drinker, enjoyed this one. A nice refreshing and crisp summer brew that I will undoubtedly enjoy again.
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