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Day of destiny beckons for Basingstoke RFC (From Basingstoke Gazette)
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Basingstoke RFC must beat East Grinstead in their final game of the season to have any chance of avoiding relegation
12:00pm Friday 11th April 2014 in Sport By Graham Merry, Sports Reporter
ONLY victory in their final league game will do for Basingstoke RFC, if they are to stand any chance of avoiding relegation from National League Three London.
Even then, they still have to hope Barnes suffer defeat at Westcombe Park as well, on the last day of the season.
Last weekend, 'Stoke slipped into the bottom three for the first time since the early part of the campaign, after a 41-32 defeat at Tonbridge Juddians.
Meanwhile, Barnes, victors at Down Grange a fortnight ago, climbed out of the drop-zone thanks to a 31-22 win against Guernsey.
This Saturday (kick-off 3pm), Basingstoke entertain third-placed East Grinstead.
Barnes, who now have a three point advantage over 'Stoke, have the easier-looking fixture, as they travel to 10th-placed Westcombe Park.
Despite the odds being stacked against them, 'Stoke will give it their best shot for one final 80 minutes of league rugby this season.
Challenge Basingstoke RFC's director of rugby James Croker believes his team are up for the challenge.
He said: "We know what we have to do and then we just have to hope that the rugby gods are on our side.
"Barnes have invested heavily in making sure they stay up. That is the sort of thing we are up against playing at this level."
Turning his attention to Saturday's opposition, Croker is able to take heart from past results.
He said: "Last year, we lost to Grinstead on the opening day and then drew with them at the end.
"This year we lost to them in the first game, but since then both sides have changed so much."
'Stoke will be boosted by the return of captain Freddie Gleadowe from injury and he is sure to inspire others around him.
Croker said: "We are going to have to make some tough decisions on selection this week as I felt every guy did really well at Tonbridge.
"I know the team I put out will give their all and hope we will have the backing of the town in what is a big game for us."
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Buy American. It matters when choosing seafood.
North American fisheries are among the most regulated and most sustainable in the world, especially when it comes to fish farming. Almost without exception, buying American seafood -- as opposed to fish and shellfish from other countries -- is the better choice in terms of freshness, health and sustainability.
Let me say at the outset that Canada and New Zealand do an excellent job with most of their fisheries, too, so in many cases Canadian or Kiwi seafood is also a good choice. In fact, there are examples where Canadian fisheries are better managed than those in the United States; Pacific rockfish is one.
Why Buy American? Start with jobs. There was a little flurry of advertising surrounding the Gulf shrimp industry after the hurricanes that destroyed New Orleans, but that has since drowned under a wave of cheap imported shrimp from Southeast Asia. Every shrimp you buy from Vietnam is one that could have helped a Louisiana or Mississippi shrimper get back on his feet.
Imported shrimp are perhaps the worst thing you can buy as a consumer, especially imported farmed shrimp. Shrimp farms in India, Vietnam, Malaysia and the like are horrible for the environment and should be avoided.
Farmed shrimp in the United States are more rare, but these shrimp farms are heavily regulated and the pollution they create just isn't in the same league as that seen in Southeast Asia.
Ditto for farmed tilapia, which is redundant because nearly all tilapia is farmed. Tilapia farms in Asia are more polluted and the fish are fed a poorer diet than those in the Southern states -- this means that Asian tilapia can have a nasty, muddy taste. American tilapia is often fed corn, which has its own health problems associated with it. But at least US tilapia farms are cleaner, as is the taste of their fish.
Farmed salmon is in the same boat. Salmon farming is illegal in most coastal states here, because these farms can potentially damage wild salmon stocks. Most of those that do have permits are in closed farms that don't connect to the sea. Canadian farmed salmon is problematic, but Chilean farmed salmon -- which is mostly what you see in markets -- is a disaster.
How about bay scallops? If you've eaten Chinese calico scallops, you probably won't ever want to again -- they are treated with a witch's brew of chemicals to keep them looking fresh. Buy American bay scallops when you can find them, and buy something else when you can't.
Likewise with tuna. Much of the tuna steaks you see coming from Vietnam or other places in the developing world has been treated with pure carbon monoxide. That's right: Your tuna could have been treated with carbon monoxide. So what? Well, doing this will keep a piece of tuna looking lovely even after it has spoiled. It is deceptive marketing, nothing more.
Swordfish stocks have rebounded in the US, but they're hurting in many other parts of the world. The national campaign to give swordfish a break worked here, so you can eat American sword with a good conscience.
The Bottom Line. Look at the label to see where your fish comes from. Cheaper isn't always better; in fact, it almost never is.

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By Cade Fowler - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Antonio Seay and Shernard Smith remain in the Dougherty County Jail despite being granted $32,000 bonds.
The two have been jailed since February for starting a fight which prosecutors say led to the shooting death of 20 year old LaSheldon Stanford, and they are charged with his murder.
"Of course the state opposed the bond, and in the whole of the process the judge makes the final decision in whether bond is granted and in what amount," said Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards.
Police questioned several people in the case and made five arrests, but it still isn't clear who pulled the trigger in the early morning hours of Valentine's Day outside Brick House Productions.
Edwards says, considering the crowd, someone must know who the killer is.
"In this case, we know that there were dozens of person at that location. And I know that there are persons that probably haven't come forward at this point," said Edwards.
It was the death of Stanford, an out of town visitor from Butts County, that led city officials to shut down Brick House Productions once and for all.
Right now Shacoby Seay and Jacory Butts remain in jail on aggravated assault and gang participation charges stemming from the shooting. But the real victory in this case would be finding the actual shooter.
Despite no indictments yet, prosecutors think they have a pretty good case.
"At present, we believe we have sufficient basis number one, to bring the charges and bring justice to the situation," said Edwards.
If Antonio Seay and Shernard Smith do post bond, they will be forced to wear an electronic monitoring device while they await trial.
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What most level-headed O's fans have been hoping for the last month has been confirmed - Jeremy "St. Guts" Guthrie is indeed the Opening Day starter for your 2008 Baltimore Orioles.
From today's The (Baltimore) Sun:
Guthrie and veteran Steve Trachsel appeared to be the two finalists. Trembley said he notified Guthrie before the right-hander made yesterday's start in Jupiter, Fla.
"I thought about the entire situation for a long time and I just think at this particular point and time, it's well-deserved," Trembley said. "The guy certainly showed us what he could do last season, he's had a tremendous spring and I think it's the right thing to do. I think it sets up our rotation the best possible way for us."
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The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center to Host Diverse, Dynamic South Florida Book Festival on July 26 and 27, 2013
- Meet authors from a wide range of literary genres along with special guest Earl "The Pearl" Monroe -
: June 6, 2013
: Steve Vinik and Rinata White
: 954-357-6210
National best-selling African-American writers and two world-renowned basketball player are heading to
Fort Lauderdale
on Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27, 2013 for the South Florida Book Festival hosted by the
African-American Research Library and Cultural Center
(AARLCC), located at 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, and sponsored by the Urban League of Broward County, the Friends of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center and Whole Foods Market.
Friday's events begin with noted mystery writer
Angela Henry
conducting a workshop from to 2 to 4 p.m. on how to write mystery stories.There is a $10 fee for her event and only 20 seats are available. From 6 to 9 p.m., there will be an opportunity to meet featured South Florida Book Festival authors in a social setting at the library. The evening includes hors d'oeuvres, wine and live jazz, for a donation of $20, and tickets can be ordered on line via
Saturday, July 27, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., is family day for the South Florida Book Festival at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center. Special guest,
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe
- a legendary basketball player with the Baltimore Bullets and the New York Knicks - will talk about his book,
Earl the Pearl: My Story
. Known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree, observers of Earl the Pearl said that "watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling free-floating improvisations." Joining Earl the Pearl on stage is basketball star
Tim Hardaway
of the Miami Heat.
The morning session of the book festival will feature Christian fiction authors
S. James Guitard
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Victoria Christopher Murray
. The theme of their talk is: "Scandalous: Meet the Villains, Heroes and Heroines of Contemporary African-American Fiction."
The afternoon will feature Urban Fiction authors
Wahida Clark
Mary "HoneyB" Morrison
Clark created the "Thug Love Fiction" sub-genre of street lit. She was the first street lit author to write a series. She spent nine-and-a-half years in prison and was then released into a halfway house. She is now vice president of a non-profit organization called the Prodigal Sons and Daughters Redirection Service, which is a re-entry program for convicts and ex-cons. She also runs a publishing company, Wahida Clark Presents (WCP) Publishing. Clark is a
New York Times
USA Today
bestselling author.
In 1999, Morrison, left her job with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to become a writer. She wrote and self-published her first novel,
Soul Mates Dissipate,
which quickly became an
' national bestseller. Morrison has also written a self-help book entitled
Who's Making Love
, a book of poetry.
Justice Just Us Just Me
, and a number of fiction novels - more than 50 books in total. She lives in Oakland, California.
"Women Writers of Haitian Descent" is another literary subgenre represented at the South Florida Book Festival. Authors will include
Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel
Mahalia Solages
Michele-Jessica Fievre
Joanne Hyppolite
. Theodore-Pharel writes children's books and short stories; Solages authors picture books and women's fiction; Fievre writes mystery novels and children's books in French; and Hyppolite is a museum curator in Miami and author of children's novels and short stories.
Also on Saturday--next door at the
Urban League of Broward County
at 560 N.W. 27 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311--there will be two additional programs. International educator and author
A.K. Tosu
will discuss his book,
Proverbs of Alkebu-lan
[Africa], which helps people learn life-empowering lessons taught through ancestral proverbs. Following that presentation is Jamaican author, editor and publisher Suzette Farquharson-Morgan, president of
FarMor Group, Inc
. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, she holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master's degree in communication from the University of Central Florida. In 2002, she wrote her first book,
Living Testimonies
, which she self-published in 2005 through her company, FarMor Publishing. Four years later, the company became incorporated as FarMor Group, Inc. (FGI) and has released 10 books from local, national and international authors/poets. "Publishing a book is not as difficult as one may think," she says. "There are many avenues and resources available to produce a quality product."
This event has star power and enormous energy, and it promises to be fun and informative, with opportunities to get autographed copies of the featured authors' books.
The award-winning Broward County Libraries Division, founded in 1974, is the ninth largest library system in the nation by population served and one of the busiest, with more than 9 million walk-in customers visiting its
40 locations
annually. The library has more than 3.4 million items and 2,000 computers for public use and offers hundreds of events and programs to meet the needs of the Broward County's diverse community. The library continues its strong emphasis on literacy, after-school programs and electronic access. In addition to our comprehensive Web site,
, which provides information about library activities, links to online catalogs, reference information and databases, customers can visit
BCL WoW – Broward County Library Without Walls
– for free eBooks, music, audiobooks, apps and more. Customers may also follow Libraries on
. Libraries Division also administers the services, programs, collections and exhibits of the
Historical Commission
Release Properties
Libraries, District 1, District 3, District 5, District 6, District 7
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Release date: October 12, 2012
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Written by: Allan Loeb & Kevin James, Rock Reuben
Cast: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler
Rating: R; Running Time: 105 minutes
For a comedy looking at the concept of never giving up in the face of impossible odds, Here Comes the Boom echoes the kind of determination found in its lead actor Kevin James. Because no matter the string of flaccid flops, James kept going to the mat with such disasters as Zookeeper, The Dilemma, Grown Ups, Paul Blart: Mall Cop and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. Frankly, it's a wonder James kept showing up for work. But now, Chuck & Larry aside, we've got a pronouncement of our own: Here Comes the Boom packs quite the punch.
Though he's often employed his comedic writing talent to earlier films, here James successfully capitalizes on his charming, slightly sadsack everyman. Playing a biology teacher in an economically foundering Boston high school, James' Scott Voss has all but lost his fighting spirit in the classroom, and is as apathetic as his students. He shows up late and disheveled to class, not bothering to mask his disinterest … even his attempts to win over the pretty school nurse Bella (Salma Hayek) are half-hearted at best. But when his music teacher friend and colleague Marty (Henry Winkler) is about to lose his job due to lack of funding, Scott shakes off his top layer of apathy as he comes up with a plan. Since he once wrestled in college, the best he can do is try to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. And the more he gets involved in the sport, the more he starts to believe that he just might win.
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Dungeon Keeper
|Dungeon Keeper
North American box art for Dungeon Keeper
|Bullfrog Productions
|Electronic Arts
|Peter Molyneux
|Russell Shaw
|Dungeon Keeper
|Modified Magic Carpet engine
|PC (DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000 & XP)
|Release date(s)
|Real-time strategy, god game, dungeon management game
|Single-player, multiplayer
Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game developed by Bullfrog Productions under Peter Molyneux and released by Electronic Arts in July 1997 for the PC in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from invading 'hero' characters intent on stealing the player's accumulated treasures and killing various monsters. This was Molyneux's final project with Bullfrog before he left the company in August 1997 to form Lionhead Studios.
The player uses a mouse, represented in-game as a hand, to interact with a bar on the left-hand side of the screen, allowing them to select which rooms to build and which spells to cast. The player can also use the hand to pick up creatures and objects in the dungeon and carry them around, allowing for tactics such as gathering an assault force and dropping off the creatures en masse once a foothold has been established. The hand also allows the player to "slap" objects and thereby interact with them: creatures will hurry up when slapped, some traps will be triggered and prisoners in the Torture Chamber can be tortured.
The main game view is in isometric perspective; this view can be zoomed and rotated. The player also has the option of possessing one of their creatures, and seeing the dungeon from that creature's first-person perspective, as well as using their attacks and abilities. The map is divided into a grid of rectangles, most of which are invisible. A smaller part of the map is shown as a minimap in the top left corner of the screen.
A world map is also available, and at the beginning of the game the player is allocated one of the 20 regions of a fictional, idyllic country to destroy. As the player progresses through these regions, each of which represents a level of the game, the areas previously conquered will appear ransacked, twisted, and evil. Before starting a new level, the Mentor (voiced by Richard Ridings)[2] will tell the player about the current region and its attributes. After completing a level, the Mentor will talk about the "improvement" of the destroyed region: "The streets run with the blood of the slain. Screams of pain and howls of anguish rip the night air like a vengeful siren's song. This really is somewhere you can take the kids for the weekend."
The Dungeon Heart represents the Dungeon Keeper's own link to the world. If it is destroyed, the player loses the level, and must restart. Along with the heart, the player begins with a small number of imps, the generic work force for all dungeon activities: they can dig tunnels into the surrounding soil, capture enemy rooms and Portals, mine gold and gems, set traps, and even attack when desperate or threatened. Slapping creatures forces them to work faster for a while, but removes some of their health and happiness.
Once the Imps are busily working, the player must then set up a basic infrastructure: Lairs for monsters, a Hatchery (where chickens, which serve as food for the minions, are bred), and a Treasury for storing gold. After connecting the dungeon to a "Portal", monsters will arrive. The types of monster that will arrive depends on the rooms possessed, and how large they are: the Bile Demon, for example, requires both a Lair and a Hatchery of at least 25 (5×5) units. As the game progresses, the player moves along a technology tree, unlocking further rooms.
Some creatures are only accessible through special means. Creating a Prison room and leaving friendly or enemy creatures in it will result in Skeletons. Having an enemy or friendly creature die in a Torture Chamber will result in a Ghost. Dead enemies taken to a Graveyard room will result in a Vampire being born (although it is possible to attract Vampires through the Portal in some levels).
The strongest creature is the Avatar (appears only on the last level) and the second strongest is the Horned Reaper. To obtain the Horned Reaper, a Dark Mistress, Bile Demon and Troll must be sacrificed in the Temple Room. If left doing nothing, Horned Reapers will become angry and start attacking the player's other creatures. This can be avoided by ensuring the Horned Reaper is busy at all times. They will only go berserk if left to their own devices. Researching, training, praying in a Temple and patrolling a guard post all keep the Horned Reaper happy. Some players like to create a separate lair, hatchery, treasure room and training room covered by a locked door in order to keep a Reaper for any length of time. They are excellent in battle and immune to lava.
The dungeon has a fleshed-out ecology: some creatures are natural enemies. Flies and Spiders are often found at odds with one another, while a Horned Reaper, if it has gone berserk, will attack all creatures in its path. The Horned Reaper does have one natural enemy though; if a lord of the land is seen by the Horned Reaper, the creature will, without any sort of regard for his allies (or his health for that matter), rush straight at him. At the same time, Warlocks find it incredibly annoying if other races wander through their library, and Warlocks above level 1 respond by attacking intruders. Warlocks particularly dislike Vampires. Skeletons and Bile Demons are also natural enemies, being opposites. Also Samurai (when controlled by the player) can cause fights with a Dark Mistress when resting in the same lair.
The goals for each level are fairly straightforward: they generally fall along the lines of eliminating the heroic force or destroying all other Dungeon Keepers on the level.
The final boss of the game, the Avatar, is the same Avatar from Ultima 8.
Sequels and expansions[edit]
The Deeper Dungeons[edit]
The Deeper Dungeons is an expansion pack that was released on 30 November 1997 in North America.[3] It features 15 new levels and an improved artificial intelligence for the enemies.
Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition[edit]
Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition was released 31 December 1998, in North America.[4] It was not a sequel but a repackaging. It contained the original game, Deeper Dungeons, 3D patches, a game editor, and a novella. The book recounted the story of a hero killed while exploring the dungeons. Most of the additions were put on Bullfrog's website. The Gold Edition was discontinued but later repackaged and redistributed by EA Digital Illusions CE.
Dungeon Keeper 2[edit]
Dungeon Keeper 2 was released in June 1999. It used a new game engine that natively supported hardware acceleration. Its predecessor supported Direct3D but only with an alternative executable. The sequel also used full-3D models for the creatures and enemies, rather than sprites.
Dungeon Keeper 3[edit]
Dungeon Keeper 3 was in development, but was later cancelled. Some Dungeon Keeper 2 CDs contained a trailer showing some features of Dungeon Keeper 3; among them were above-land battles. One member of Bullfrog Productions stated on his personal website that Dungeon Keeper 3 was going to be named War for the Overworld.[5] The project was discontinued because, according to Ernest W. Adams (one of the developers), Bullfrog had decided not to make any other real-time strategy games. The decision was, in effect, the end of Bullfrog as a brand; the company had already been owned by Electronic Arts for several years. EA laid off some employees and put the remainder onto other projects such as the Harry Potter line.
Dungeon Keeper Online[edit]
1 December 2008, NetDragonWebsoft Inc., a Chinese online game developer, announced it had partnered with Electronic Arts to develop a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Dungeon Keeper license.[6] The game is slated to appear only in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.[7]
Dungeon Keeper Mobile[edit]
In August 2013, EA and Mythic Entertainment announced that they were creating a "twisted take" on Dungeon Keeper for both Android and iOS mobile devices with a release date set for winter of the same year.[8]
On 10 October 2013, Dungeon Keeper Mobile soft-launched on Google Play and iOS App Store.[9] The program became fully available on 19 December 2013.[10] The game is free-to-play (Freemium).[11] EA provides an official website (http://www.dungeonkeeper.com) featuring among others a forum and in-game information.
On July 2, 2014 Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom) banned a Dungeon Keeper ad for misrepresenting the game.[12]
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Dungeon Keeper Mobile play style breaks from the original model. It is a long term tower defense game played over time similar to Clash of Clans.
Dungeon Keeper Mobile has received overwhelmingly negative criticism from game critics and reviewers, who cited its overuse of micro-transactions and unfaithfulness to the original franchise. Jim Sterling of The Escapist called it "A cynically motivated skeleton of a non-game" and "a scam"[13][14] with the game deemed unplayable without spending money to speed up progress.[15] It has also attracted criticism for its rating system mechanic. After a certain intervals, the player is asked to rate the game. Selecting the "5 star" option forwards the user to the App Store or Google Play rating page, while selecting the "1-4 star" option only gives the player the choice of emailing feedback to Electronic Arts. In order to give the game less than five stars through this prompt, the player must agree to give the game a full five-star rating and then give it a lower one once they reach the review page.[16] Critics have noted that the prompt's claim that "5-Star ratings from you help us provide free updates!" suggests that the games creators will stop providing new content if players don't give the game sufficiently high ratings.[17] As of 10 February 2014, the iOS version of the game has a "generally unfavorable" critical rating of 42/100 on the review aggregating site Metacritic.[18]
Due to the popularity and cult status of the series, many reviews of video games that have similar elements mention Dungeon Keeper as both an influence for the designers and a standard for comparison. These include:
- 1999's Lego Rock Raiders[19]
- 2001's Startopia[20]
- 2004's Evil Genius[21]
- 2006's Ghost Master[22] and Dwarf Fortress[23]
- 2007's Overlord[24] and Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman![25]
- 2011's Dungeon Overlord an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook.[26]
- The 2009 board game Dungeon Lords has been termed "a non-video game spiritual successor" to Dungeon Keeper.[27][28]
- 2013's Impire has been called "Dungeon Keeper with a side of Dawn of War."[29]
- 2013's War for the Overworld is a project held by its creators Subterranean Games as "a true spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper"[30] and has been endorsed by Peter Molyneux creator of the original game.[31]
- 2013's The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot has been called "A weird combination of Diablo and Dungeon Keeper".[32]
- ^ "Dungeon Keeper on PC". GameSpot.com. Retrieved 14 February 2008.
- ^ "Internet Movie Database: Richard Ridings".
- ^ "Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons on PC". GameSpot.com. Retrieved 14 February 2008.
- ^ IGNs Data Page [1] Retrieved 27 December 2008
- ^ Ernest W. Adams - Game Credits Retrieved at 04-11-07
- ^ NetDragonWebsoft - Dugeon Keeper Online Press Release Retrieved 02-12-08
- ^ Kotaku - EA Announce Dungeon Keeper MMO Retrieved 02-12-08
- ^ Mike Fahey. "Dungeon Keeper Returns... As A Mobile Game". Kotaku.
- ^ Tony Zhang. "Dungeon Keeper Soft-Launched on Google Play and Apple AppStore in some territories". AppsGoer.
- ^ "Dungeon Keeper EA Swiss Sarl - December 20, 2013".
- ^ Phillips, Tom (30 January 2014). "EA launches free-to-play Dungeon Keeper for iOS, Android". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (2 July 2014). "UK watchdog bans Dungeon Keeper ad, accuses EA of "misleading" customers". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ Sterling, Jim (2 February 2014). "Dungeon Keeper Mobile Review - Wallet Reaper". The Escapist. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ http://m.cultofmac.com/cultofmac/#!/entry/dungeon-keeper-really-wants-to-reclaim-its-former-glory-review,52eaa20fe56d0bb8534d198b. Missing or empty
- ^ Ward, Mark (7 February 2014). "BBC News - EA faces criticism over mobile Dungeon Keeper game". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ Matulef, Jeffrey (6 February 2014). "Dungeon Keeper Android's rating system filters out "1-4 star" reviews". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ Webster, Andrew (30 September 2013). "EA steers angry customers away from reviewing games at Google Play". The Verge. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "Dungeon Keeper for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "PC Lego Rock Raiders review".
- ^ "Startopia review".
- ^ "Evil Genius Review".
- ^ "Ghost Master review".
- ^ "Review:Dwarf Fortress".
- ^ "Overlord review".
- ^ "Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! is the Dungeon Keeper of this Decade". 22 October 2009.
- ^ "Dungeon Overlord Review: If You Loved Dungeon Keeper...".
- ^ "Dungeon Lords".
- ^ "Dungeon Keeper".
- ^ Fraser Brown (2 February 2013). "Impire is Dungeon Keeper with a side of Dawn of War". Destructoid.
- ^ "Update #11: Kickstarter Demo Release, New Video".
- ^ "A Message From Peter Molyneux, The Creator of Dungeon Keeper".
- ^ Jeremy Parish. "The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot: A Competitive Dungeon Crawler That Hates Archers". USGamer.
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U.S. health secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign, sources say
The announcement is expected to be made Friday. Ms. Sebelius, who steered the rollout of Obamacare, is leaving as the program tops its first-year enrollment growth.
(Bloomberg) -- Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary who steered the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health-care law, will resign just as the program topped its first-year enrollment goal, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The resignation of Ms. Sebelius, 65, is expected to be announced Friday, said the people who asked not to be identified because the decision is still private. A former Democratic governor of Kansas, Ms. Sebelius was an early backer of Mr. Obama's first campaign for the president. She spent five years running the Health and Human Services Department, presiding over the largest change to government health programs since Medicare and Medicaid began almost 50 years ago.
Ms. Sebelius's resignation closes the first major chapter of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The 2010 law is projected to eventually offer health insurance to 25 million more people in the U.S., paid for with changes to Medicare, taxes on health-care providers and a requirement that all Americans have insurance.
Her departure was unexpected by at least one person close to her, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, a Republican who has worked with Ms. Sebelius since 1991. Ms. Praeger said she was at a dinner where the health secretary spoke last week and that "she seemed like she was in it for the long haul."
Enrollment Troubles
Assessing Ms. Sebelius's work, the number of people who signed up for coverage through Obamacare may trump the difficulties in getting there when the new online insurance marketplaces started with flawed technology last October. In total, 7.5 million Americans signed up for health insurance coverage through the exchanges, half a million more than the government's most optimistic estimates.
That was despite numerous computer issues that stymied early sign-ups. People who tried to use the U.S.-run website healthcare.gov encountered delays, couldn't log on, or began an application only to see their data vanish in what the Obama administration termed "glitches." Ms. Sebelius was accused by Republicans of covering up or not knowing about the difficulties, which lasted from October until December.
"We can point fingers in a lot of different directions. I don't think it's fair to point them at her, solely," Ms. Praeger said.
Ms. Sebelius took the blame. "Hold me accountable," she said of the problems at an October congressional hearing.
Surging Sign-Ups
Enrollment began to surge in December as the deadline for coverage beginning Jan. 1 approached. That grew further in March, the last month when people could sign up for 2014 health plans, as the program matched, then beat its enrollment goals.
"She spent a lot of time going to states," Ms. Praeger said. "I think the HHS putting ads out—that were very good—the last month or so, resulted in a big surge the last couple of weeks."
She wasn't Mr. Obama's first choice to lead the department. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's nomination to the post stalled after reports had to pay about $140,000 in back taxes and interest, partly related to chauffeur services. Ms. Sebelius's nomination was announced on Feb. 28, 2009, and she was confirmed two months later.
Ms. Sebelius became the point person on Obama's effort with the new health law, a top campaign promise the president pushed through Congress while dealing with a financial crisis and strong political opposition.
State Flexibility
Ms. Sebelius, as secretary, repeatedly emphasized that the law gave states flexibility to implement it. That included letting them design and set up the marketplaces for people to shop for new insurance. Still, many governors in Republican-led states declined, leaving the U.S. to run more of the markets than it planned.
The insurance components of the law may have been the most debated yet were hardly the entire story. It also contains provisions to improve quality of care and to try and reduce financial incentives that drive up spending, which were just as important to Ms. Sebelius, said George Halvorson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, the nonprofit health organization.
"There's a fairly rich vein of quality-related elements that are pretty much invisible—important, but invisible," Mr. Halvorson said. "Those were things that she took very seriously and spent time on, to make sure the hospital infection rate reporting happened, for example."
Budget Share
The Health and Human Services Department is the biggest U.S. agency. It spent about $886 billion in 2013—a quarter of all federal dollars. The majority of that goes to Medicare, the U.S. health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for the poor.
Despite the law's current success, her successor faces challenges. Twenty-four states haven't agreed to an expansion of Medicaid under the law, which was a key part of providing coverage to the uninsured. The federal government runs insurance marketplaces in 36 states, more than the Obama administration anticipated, after most declined to take on that responsibility.
Before joining the Obama administration, Ms. Sebelius was elected as governor of Kansas for two terms, from 2003 to 2009. She also spent about a decade as the state's insurance commissioner, a role that would prepare her for the job running Obamacare.
She is one of six Obama cabinet members who have remained since the beginning of the administration, including Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
She is also the first daughter of a U.S. governor to be elected to the same post. Her father, John Gilligan, was Ohio's governor from 1971 to 1975, according to her biography on the health and Human Services website.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ROSWELL "MEMORY METAL" FOUND ON OFFICIAL FILM OF B-2 STEALTH? By Anthony Bragalia
Copyright 2011, InterAmerica, Inc.
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an advanced military aircraft that has unique capabilities that are far-ranging. Introduced in 1997 (with an alleged first flight in 1989) there are just 22 of them in the world. They incorporate low observable stealth technology. Some have speculated that they may even utilize anti-gravity technologies or that they possess other exotic features that are kept from public view.
But it may not always be possible to keep such features from outside detection. One officially released film of the B-2 Bomber in flight that is very "revealing" may have somehow escaped the scrutiny of US Air Force censors. A recently-discovered segment of this video appears to show another of the B-2 Stealth's capabilities: The ability to Morph.
This brief clip seems to demonstrate the craft's "morph" of the metal skin of its outer hull. This would allow it to "intelligently" perform critical functions (and perhaps to "self-heal" if damaged by enemy action.)
The remarkable film shown below comes from a broadcast by the Military Channel. The Military Channel is a distinguished specialty cable station that is owned by the media corporation that also owns the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet (as well as the "How Stuff Works" video series.) Started in 1999, the Military Channel is known to maintain a cooperative relationship with historical societies and with the US Government in obtaining original footage that relates to the military, warfare and military history. The "legitimacy" of their programming and the authenticity of their broadcast information is without question.
Re-broadcast on YouTube, the footage is entitled "B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber" and simply shows views of the Stealth on the ground and in flight from various angles for about 4 minutes. It is a "PR" film. But despite its garnering over 1,800,000 views, nobody appears to have made any mention in the "comments" section about the morphing metal hull.
Click here to see the video "MORPHING SKIN" OF A B-2 BOMBER IN FLIGHT
This film is 3:51 seconds in length. Viewing the entire film it becomes rather evident that it is a USAF-issued video.
At approximately the 2:40 second mark (and for a duration of about three seconds) one can clearly observe a "gape" or "opening" on the topside front of the craft that seems to "self-close" in a seamless and almost surreal way. If one looks very closely it appears as though the skin of the craft is "self-directed" and "intelligent" as if it were "remembering" its original shape, like Roswell's memory metal or a Nitinol actuator!
Of course I am not taking a definitive stance on the true nature of this phenomenon as revealed on this video. It could well be that there is some sort of "perception bias" or that it is a "trick of the light."
Thoughts from others are welcome on what they think about this enigmatic footage. And thanks are extended to Gilles Fernandez, Philippe from Lille, France and to Rich Reynolds for their keen observations and insight.
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Preceding the sequence are scenes of the B-2 dropping bombs. The sequence in question shows the bomb bays closing. Yes, they do look seamless when closed, but we are only looking at a 240 pixel wide, low-quality, highly compressed video on YouTube. You can't form any conclusions of seamlessness or self-sealing, morphing metal from that. I'd bet at that resolution, car doors would look seamless as well.ReplyDelete
I think Tony's talking about the sequence right after where there are eye opening closures on the top side of each wing, certainly not bomb bays there. The 90% titanium SR-71 had fuel tanks that leaked badly when on the ground and morphed closed when the plane reached cruising speed due to heat expansion. It also topped at at 2000 mph+ where the B=2 is subsonic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Hi Frank/David-ReplyDelete
Yes, I am referring to the sequence beginning at about 2:39-2:40 and continuing for 2 or 3 seconds.
I am not referring to the the sequence 2:34-2:37 which appears to be winglets or wing doors closing.
The sequence I am referring to is at the topside and to the upper right nearer the cockpit. Something strange is clearly going on.
Anthony Bragalia
Something closes off and it's over the air inlet for the jet engine . . .ReplyDelete
What specific purpose it serves I don't know, but I have to assume it's related to that. I would say it likely isn't morphing and is just some sort of hatch sliding shut and the plane is just so damn tight it looks like magic.
Looking a little closer at the beginning of the video, you can see those hatches open as a B-2 taxis and takes off. A friend I asked isn't positive but thinks it might serve a couple different possible purposes, maybe something of a spoiler hatch or a vent for an auxiliary power unit. But on a closer look, seems to be a practical hatch of some sort.ReplyDelete
OK, the closing hatches are topside, not bomb bays. But it doesn't matter. The video is of such low resolution that you aren't going to be able to see the seams, and that is the subject matter. It's not what is that hatch on top doing.ReplyDelete
Length of the B-2 bomber from tip to pointy trailing wing is about 70 feet. That means in a 240 pixel-wide video, which spans front to back in the sequence in question, each pixel is 3 to 4 inches. Even if the seam was an inch wide you won't see it. More likely the seam is something like 1/8" to 1/4", just totally invisible in such a lo-res video, especially throwing in compression which will blur the picture even further.
First, thank you so much for your thanks -sic- at the end of the article.
Just in order to precise that in any time I have NOT been in favor of "morphing". It is for my humble opinion an "illusion" due to the bad video resolution, the image compression and big "granularity" then + a "My side bias/confirmation bias".
The sequence on top of the engine pods are the "retraction" of the auxiliary air intakes which are needed to get extra air flow into the engines at low speeds/taking off/landing. You have too the shadow of one the "door" of one the intake which is hardly visible at first, because of its orientation to the light. When it closes, the disparition of the shadow increases imho the morphing illusion, but it is trivial and normal for an shadow. All of it is due to the low quality, compression and resolution in my point of view.
Gilles Fernandez
I agree with Frank and Gilles F..unfortunately this evidence such that it is does not qualify as hard evidence. As far as anti gravity devices, that is supercilious.Ion injection as a ignition booster is a suspect as far as exotic technology..but that is only a probability.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Tony Bragalia here...I am in agreement that the resolution of the film is unfortunately not ideal.ReplyDelete
But -to my eyes- one can still very easily make out (at 2:40) a very large opening or "space" that is "filled in" or almost "swallowed up" from every angle along the gap's perimeter. The effect is not one of a "hatch" opening or closing (as seen a few seconds before in the film) but something very "surreal."
The "moving metal" of the B-2's skin is not "sliding" or "unrolling" - rather, it appears as though it is a "closure" that is occurring from all sides. It almost appears to me like a CGI effect (though it is not.) The "metal movement" seems almost "living." It has the feeling of being "animated" without being animation.
This almost phantasmagorical effect is seen especially at the very,very end of the "closure" of the space, closest to the cockpit (on the 'wing bump'- and just before the camera switches abruptly to another view of the B-2 in flight.)
Though Gilles now believes in a hatch/illusion explanation- that was not his original thought on this. At first he was in agreement that the "effect" was very unusual. Then, after further emails to me with other ideas of what it could be- and after further viewings- he wrote back that he now felt the answer to be prosaic and that the effect is enhanced by "perception bias."
Gilles could be right. I am not "wed" to the video in any way. My interest is simply in obtaining others' thoughts on this. I have learned from Gilles that we can have cordial discourse yet still come to different conclusions. And we can agree on some things- the original video (hopefully with greater clarity) should be tracked down. I have a call into the Military Channel to see if one can be obtained.
Anthony Bragalia
Tony, there is a bad understanding probably due to my english.
I have never commented in favor on a morphing hypothesis. I have just stated that of course I saw the effect (bluffing illusion).
My first PM, at your question (when you have only the short french sequence) : Do you see this too?
I replied:
"Yes, I "see" it too at 0.02 second and at 12s to 15s and I'm abused too (at first readings !). But I think it it cause the bad "grain" or the bad definition of the film, then an "illusion". Dunno if I'm clear enough?"
To the second question :
2) Do you believe it to be a CGI (computer generated image) effect?
I replied :
"No. I dont think it is a fake or a CGI film. It is probably a copy of a copy etc, then a bad definition film giving some "illusions" if you are (no offense intended) to much focuzed on, culturaly prepared/biased to see what you want to see (memory alloys retro-analyzed from an ET crash and used in USAF relative best aircraft) . A sort of "confirmation bias/ myside bias" here due to a cultural ambiance. Sorry, I'm frank with you and no one desire to offense or to provokate you. Really.
After, it seems it was the top of the wing sequence which was the more interresting. So, I asked a friend for help and he fastly analyzed the sequence and proposed there was a shadow of one the air intake "door/trap" due to the light condition (in green is the shadow after in the following JPG) :
When the door is closing, the shadow diseapear and it participated to give the morphing impression (an illusion), due one more time to the general bad resolution.
In essence, of course I agreed the 2 sequences were "bluffing" and I "saw" the illusion too, but that's all.
Well, I hope it would be maybe possible to find an original of the clip by the Military Channel, and to confirm or not all of that. But again, just an illusion for me.
Best Regards,
Gilles Fernandez
The skin is rubbery and malleable, made of thermoplastics and composites transparent to radar.ReplyDelete
Regardless of what this particular video does or doesn't show, there is no question the concept of morphing aircraft has attracted a lot of high-brow academic attention over the years . . .ReplyDelete
Oh and here's a good photo of that hatch opened on the B-2.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 12:22 AM
Here's a higher quality video that shows the same openings in flight at 2:25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfv65_luP4ReplyDelete
Based on the various links provided, the mystery hatch is an auxiliary air intake for the engines, used at low speed, then closed. Higher resolution pictures clearly show the various hatches and control services, usually distinguished by contrasting colors (not so much by seams, which would require even higher resolution to clearly make out). The "melting" or "morphing" mystery hatch was nothing but an illusion created by a very low-resolution YouTube video.ReplyDelete
"Of course I am not taking a definitive stance on the true nature of this phenomenon as revealed on this video. It could well be that there is some sort of "perception bias" or that it is a "trick of the light.""ReplyDelete
Why the unnecessary disclaimer? :)
Any one who would care to spend some time and look closely enough can clearly SEE that the top "square" opening closes diagnally from the top left corner down. It IS morphing.
Never expected to see something so exotic!
The question is - is the technology concept really from roswell (or some other crashed ufo) or nanotech?
Thanks for pointing that out. I came across your website by way of Nexus magazine.
hi there, iam a huge ufo believer but i know the roswell case never happened because the evidence never is the same. I have heard almost every version or story if you like and the eyewitnesses are the worst thing about that case because every time they speak they debunk there lies. And to be honest the people who say they witnessed something are really trying to genarate a income from in whatever way they can from this story. thanks for your time check out my ufo blogReplyDelete
While I do not think this video in any way demonstrates "morphing metal" apertures of either the upper supplementary air intakes (for taking off at slower speeds than normal cruise) or the lower landing gear doors, and essentially agree with David Rudiak's comments here about the illusion being based on the relatively poor resolution of the video concerned, and have privately expressed this conclusion to Tony, I thought it might also be helpful to better demonstrate this effect via a better quality, somewhat higher resolution video released recently by Northrup Grumman of the first (Sept. 30, 2011) cruise flight of the X-47B UCAS unmanned drone:ReplyDelete
See: http://tinyurl.com/78zomq7
In this video, you can more clearly see how the lower aperture doors close so tightly (primarily due to the extremely close fit required to maintain stealth characteristics) that they, too, appear to merge so perfectly with the overall body shape as to "disappear," but again, this, IMHO, is simply a question of the combination of the video resolution quality, the matching RAM paint overall, and the very tight fit such "stealthed" apertures must be manufactured to in order to reduce or eliminate potential radar returns from gaps, aircraft planform, or any other extruding surfaces which would otherwise potentially trigger a radar reflection and aircraft detection by hostile forces.
Although Tony has said he is not wed to the idea that the initial video linked here demonstrates "morphing," I think this most recent video of the same effect should help put this question to rest.
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2011 at 6:24 PM
Hi Steve-ReplyDelete
Thanks much for this link and your analysis.
The linked video does show how the B-2 footage "morph" could indeed be merely an "effect" created by low resolution. The drone video you provide reveals the vehicle to possess a remarkably seamless "fit" - that is reminiscent of the B-2 "effect."
But...it is (to my eyes at least) clearly still a hatch that is opening and then closing.
In the B-2 footage, it is not so much an "open and close" hatch-like movement as shown in this drone video- but rather an unusual "sliding effect" that emits from the perimeter of the open spaces to their center.
Unfortunately the Military Channel has yet to locate the original footage of the B-2 (which would hopefully be clearer and would clear this whole thing up.)
Anthony Bragalia
@james glen clarkReplyDelete
The Roswell case "must" have happened. I can say that because certain aspects of it match up with what I've read and discovered in different places. And I don't even live anywhere near the US.
For example, the Air Force Colonel who supplies info to Anthony Sanchez in his book UFO Highway, states that a high powered radar had accidentally brought down the roswell crafts not 1 but 2.
Project Serpo also claims that 2 crafts had crashed instead of 1. This matched up with testimonies from an old documentary I saw many many years ago.
Preston Nichols tells the same story of SAGE RADAR that brought down crafts at Roswell, in his Montauk interviews.
Just 3 sources that have no connection to each other whatsoever but have some similarities = some thing IS really true.
Just 1 eg but said in a very short cut manner.
One needs to understand that for a topic like UFOs you have to filter just about anyones claims but see the credible ones. You have to figure that out.
So research don't just make your mind up.
As Stanton Friedman said - "Don't bother me with the facts, my mind is already made up"
Don't do that..
Nor should you.
If you knew the byzantine and labyrinthine history of the Montauk tales of Preston Nichols, Al Bielek, Peter Moon, and others, and the quite fraudulent sources of the Serpo tales, such as one very notorious hoaxster, former USAF Sgt. Richard C. Doty (who also collaborated with William Moore and later others in creating and advancing the MJ-12 hoax and fraud), you might begin to gain sufficient insight into the facts to realize the sources you cite are themselves both fraudulent in their statements, backgrounds, and stories, and should not be believed any further than you could throw a dwarf star, which you can't, due to the immense weight (of prior dishonesty and fabrication these very sources have promulgated and promoted in the example of the persons you cite). And I am really not kidding.
I wouldn't trust their honesty or veracity even a nano of a micron, personally. Nor should you. Do some online research to see what I mean, like over at the Reality Uncovered website and many other places on the net.
Hopefully, if you do so, you'll see just how utterly untrustworthy and completely fraudulent those sources of UFO data really and truly are.
They are in the UFO Hall of Shame, sub-basement C, shelf X7, back there in the darkling corner, oozing the fetid slime of amateurish disinfo and deceit. To say the least. IMHO. YMMV. 8^}
P.S. -- [BTW, is your "hactic" pseud or "handle" in any way connected to the former Dutch hacker 'zine and collective originally co-headed by Rop Gonggrijp? He is an acquaintance of mine, now facing legal maneuvers by the DOJ ref. his twitter account, etc. and in regard to the Wikileaks / Manning / Assange kerfuffle. I just thought it oddly interesting to see someone using that particular pseud, is all.] / sgs
@steve sawyerReplyDelete
Hi, I'll check that.
Never thought anyone would notice, the pseud is from the Dutch hacker group "HACKTIC". It's memorabilia from many many years back.
Forgot to say.
As for MJ-12. It can't be a fraud. Have you seen SOM1-01? Now why would some one go to those lengths to forge/print it?
Don't think so.
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I've known Rop G. and Billsf of the original 'HACTIC' techno-anarchist hacker collective and 'zine for over 20 years, being a former phone phreak and hacker myself, so I thought it was kind of funny someone would have adopted "hactic" as a handle. Amusing coincidence, eh?
Anyway, to address your comments on MJ-12 and particularly the SOM 1-01 (Special Operating Manual)-- that publication, unfortunately, is also a known hoax, and you don't have to take my word for it. Extensive research into the SOM has been conducted over the past 15 years, as noted/detailed below.
While it may be an impressive piece of work, it is still an elaborate fraud. There are over 50 historic, continuity, and factual errors in the SOM 1-01 manual that establish quite well that it's a fairly sophisticated fake, but once you drill down into the details, it becomes quite apparent it is a fabrication, even if it may seem initially somewhat authentic.**
Just for your edification, I think you should check out the link below, and it's references to the origins of the MJ-12 mythos (and thus, to just how and why the SOM 1-01 is also a related, later hoax):
This link goes to a 2007 MUFON Symposium paper published by MUFON and written by Barry Greenwood [famed for the book "Clear Intent," now titled "The UFO Cover-Up," and co-authored with Larry Fawcett, and Barry is also the primary author & publisher of both the "Just Cause" and "UFO Historical Review" newsletters you can review at: http:// www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/], and Brad Sparks [see his article on the 1957 RB-47 UFO incident in Clark's "UFO Encyclopedia," vol. II--it's the best analysis extant] for the most through and detailed expose of MJ-12 (and in indirect reference to SOM 1-01), available.
This paper, in .pdf format, is 70+ pp. in length, and incredibly detailed in it's expose of MJ-12 is devastatingly thorough.
For further documentation, if needed, that MJ-12 (and specifically the SOM 1-01 manual) is a hoax,
See: http://tinyurl.com/dx8jh5a and
[click on "publications" tab, see all the "Just Cause" newsletters in the "new series" sub-section, and "UHR #3", all on MJ-12, etc.]
**There is some suspicion that the SOM 1-01 manual may have been created by USAF OSI elements as a kind of counter-intelligence [CI] ploy, to entice inquiries by Soviet agents, or others, about Roswell, etc., with the intent that such inquiries might thus surface hostile foreign agents, but it's more likely a publication created by William Moore and/or Richard C. Doty, et al.
If all of the above is still not convincing to you, I don't know what else to say than to be very careful what you believe, as it just might not be true or factual. As in the case of MJ-12 and the SOM, IMHO. Facts, not belief, are most important in the UFO field. I hope all of the above info links help elucidate and illuminate the issues involved--check them out and then get back to me with your opinion.
Caveat Emptor, indeed. 8^}
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OTOH, do I think there may have been or still is a kind of US government "secret UFO 'control group'"?
Yes, I do suspect that may be the case, only it's not "MJ-12," and my speculation is based only on circumstantial evidence, not proof or hardcore factual documentation or data.
See Tony's article on Alfred O'Donnell of EG&G here, and consider just who and why anyone would have presented such an arguably bizarre scenario to O'Donnell in the early 1950's (as outlined by Annie Jacobsen in her book "Area 51".
The scenario itself, noted in Jacobsen's book, of a Stalin/Mengele faked UFO with either surgically or genetically altered children portrayed as "aliens" or made to appear so, is untrue on its face, but if fabricated by USG military/intell elements to create such an impression on O'Donnell, and others, who may have been intentionally mislead to believe it, you have to ask who and why such a hoax might have been created in the first place, so early, just to persuade the five EG&G "special group" of engineers and scientists to either think or believe what they may have been told, unless O'Donnell may have made the entire story up out of whole cloth.
This is still a very ambiguous and gray area of controversy, but does deserve further investigation, if possible at this late date, and considering O'Donnell refuses to discuss the scenario he says he was confronted with, at least with UFO researchers.
Whether it was done, if in fact, for CI purposes, to test civilian and military employees' security trustworthiness by these means before introducing them to genuine "black projects," to establish a disinfo ploy about UFOs generally, or for other reasons is unknown, but it is highly suggestive, at least, of operational activities to control the interpretation and credibility of the UFO phenomenon in an essentially deceptive and intentionally misleading manner, which is the essence of CI and related psychological information operations, or generically, psyops.
There have also been some fragmentary, old references to a "control group," once referred to as the "unholy 13," and other names, but real evidence or documentation of such a UFO info suppression and supervisory group or agency element is, for now, still only speculation and unresolved, unfortunately.
So, I do not dismiss the possibility of some similar group operating within elements of the USG military and intelligence agencies, it's just that there is not sufficient evidence or proof of such an actual group to say one way or the other. It is, like many things in UFOlogy, a true unknown.
Oddly, it's also possible that "MJ-12" may in part have been a "double" USAF/OSI counter-intelligence ploy, by overtly suggesting such a group in a way and that would become discredited over time as it was investigated thoroughly, and thus misdirect or divert researchers away from the idea of any such actual "UFO 'control group'" being operational.
Neat trick, if true, eh?
Post postscript conclusion:ReplyDelete
As CIA CI chief James Jesus Angleton once said in regard to CI issues ref. the Soviets, we in UFO research are dealing with "a wilderness of mirrors," meaning that "the confusion of the world of intelligence and espionage...
consists of the myriad stratagems, deceptions and all the other devices of disinformation" that might be brought to bear on the national security problem of just whether UFOs constitute enough of an issue as to make it one that must be covered-up and denied for maintaining the continuity of authority of government institutions, as just one reason for any such deceptive ploys or disinformation that might be being employed.
See: http://tinyurl.com/c979e6f and
http://tinyurl.com/39gfwp and
Or, as Winston Churchill once said about Russia, the UFO phenomenon is "...a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key."
The key is what all serious, objective UFO investigation and research seeks, and perhaps, someday, we may find it. I wouldn't hold my breath over it, however--it is an indefinite quest for the truth. Good luck in your own quest for same... 8^}
Hi SS, thanks for all links and details. Yes what a synchronicity!ReplyDelete
I did check all links. Read through most of them and skimmed through mufon.
I have to say that I still don't think/believe that MJ-12 is a hoax. And I'm not ignorant. :)
What about the many docs at the majestic documents website?
And what about when Stanton Friedman found a MJ-12 memo in National Archives.
Now that means something, doesn't it?
The question that I usually ask my self when there's a great bit of detail for instance in say, SOM, is this - why would someone go that far to hoax something? What is the motive?
Some have such details that hoaxing would become so time consuming and costly.
MJ-12 may well be defunct/re-structured/under some other name or even be absorbed by some other organization.
As for MUFON/CUFON, I really wouldn't count on them. They cannot be trusted. Why? To me they seem to mechanized, too well organized and may well be control by some other org.
Just is the case for CSICOP.
There are so much rubbish on the net but then there are certain things (very few) that actually make you wonder and leave you at just that.
UFOlogy no doubt has become an extremely complex topic.
May be SERPO is a hoax, it being too far fetched so I could be wrong.
But for Roswell and MJ, there's far too much that just doesn't go away.
The key to me is background research of subtle details about someone/some event etc. But that's not possible via the net. It has to be done where all this events took place.
Another problem is that there's probably no modern data supporting UFO phenomena. Most is so old that just about every trace of it by know is wiped out.
Some thing definitely must exist within c-i-a.


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It's tough being a bed and breakfast cat and getting disturbed in the middle of my sleep!
She was surfing on my couch again this morning and turned up some Flickr images of people snowboarding and skiing at the Ferguson Ridge Ski Area
They're all copyrighted images and she's a stickler about protecting personal rights, so she mumbled something about not including them in blog posts directly, but sending a link is okay:
I especially liked the snowboarding:
The whole group was here:
Gee, I'd love to meet Mr. Chesnimages (TimmTurrentine) and maybe talk her into buying some of his photography. I've seen alot of photos from my couch and these are some of the best action photography.
I hope we get some guests soon that like snowboarding. I wanna sniff around that equipment at the bed and breakfast--get some more ideas. [yawn] Feels like another nap coming on. . .


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The weather feels especially cold for the rising number of homeless in the Hub City. Experts say each night more than 300 people in Lubbock do not sleep inside. But some are offering help, and it comes in the form of a Friday night barbeque.
It's just after 6 p.m. Friday night and Jacob Finley, Lloyd Holder and friends set up for a cook out outside the Mahon Library in downtown Lubbock. "We're cooking beef fajitas," Jacob Finely said.
Christians Finley and Holder say they had a desire to serve others. Then nearly six months ago, their search to help lead Finley to the library. "I came here with my kids and saw them lying around," Finley said. "They were lying around so we got some food."
Since that summer day, Friday night barbeques have become almost a ritual with Finely, Holder and friends paying for the food out of their own pockets. "It's simple. If I run into you and if you are hungry and I'm eating a piece of banana, I just give it to you. It is not rocket science. It's just a love for human beings," Holder said.
But Finley and Holder are dishing up more than just food there. They also are serving up hope. "It's not necessarily hopelessness, which I know there is homelessness, but hopelessness. People who have lost their kids, jobs and lost family," Holder said.
"They don't just feed you, they sit there and talk to you, ask you how you are doing," Beth Miller said.
Miller is just 22 years old and homeless. Miller says she left an abusive marriage in Arizona and in her search for help, she landed here in Lubbock. But Miller says there is hope and it's evidenced in the food, prayer and friendship she finds nearly every Friday night outside the Mahon Library. "It shows someone cares about people less fortunate. You never know, you could wake up tomorrow and you could be homeless," Miller said.
If you would like to help, Finley says just come down to the Mahon Library Friday nights at 6 p.m.
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Six ski resorts in our region are already open for the season. Friday, three more open up.
Stowe, Sugarbush, Stratton Mountain, Okemo, Mount Snow and Killington have been open for at least a week now.
Friday, Smugglers' Notch, Jay Peak and Bromley Mountain will open up. Tourism officials say most aim to open by the holiday weekend if temperatures are cooperating, allowing them to make snow.
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I have over 18 years' experience providing clinical counseling, administration, and supervision in a variety of settings across the country, including private residential facilities, inpatient programs, and community mental health centers. During that time, I have worked with delinquent youth, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, substance users, and others. I've also provided counseling on race-based traumatic stress and mindfulness-based stress reduction. While spending my childhood and building a family in Oklahoma, I developed pride in my rural western background and my African American and Native American heritage, as well as a sensitivity to the particular mental health needs of poor and ethnic populations.
My work has included serving as clinical director for treating severely and persistently mentally ill adults, developing programs for adults and adolescents suffering from combined mental health and addiction disorders, training community professionals on multicultural counseling, and teaching/supervising graduate counseling students. I have also supervised and developed part of a national pilot project involving multidisciplinary collaborations among mental health, social work, criminal justice, and law enforcement agencies to provide more effective and holistic services for families recovering from drug addictions.
I have a particular academic, research, and clinical passion for infusing social justice advocacy into counseling services for minorities and underserved populations to improve their mental health care. Over the last four years I have facilitated "Living Free", a therapy group for students experiencing problems in their lives due to drugs and alcohol. I am also responsible for providing substance abuse screenings and psycho-educational classes for UC students who have been mandated by the university or the area courts to complete a drug and alcohol prevention program. In addition to my responsibilities as group therapy program coordinator at the UC Counseling Center, I work closely with the center director in assisting with the Counseling Center's growing holistic relaxation and wellness services.
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I use a blend of liberation psychology, multicultural counseling, cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, objects-relation therapy, and motivational interviewing techniques, resulting in a dynamic counseling style that provides a unique and effective experience. My therapeutic approach is one that identifies the individual's presenting problem as a result of his or her interactions in immediate, local and wider community relationships and how these relationships impact crucial aspects of one's life (e.g. economic conditions, culture/heritage, organizational policies, etc.) that may create cognitive and emotional discomfort. By emphasizing an individual's unique strengths and helping that person to reframe his or her life in a way that is empowering, clients frequently find it easier to develop healthy coping skills that not only improve how the individual perceives and feels, but are more successful at realizing one's personal visions and goals.
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I've heard Nirvana on a classic rock station. I watched Will Clark in an old-timer's game. But twenty Matt Williams rookie cards for $7.95, shipping included, makes me feel older than any of that. I used to collect these things as an investment, something to help me plan for my retirement. Now I'm only several decades away, and these suckers aren't gaining in value. C'mon, Matty! Make a comeback or something! I'm counting on you!


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GLEN BURNIE, Md. - I come prepared with a plan because I really know what I want.
Armed with her plan, and her purse packed with coupons, Zadia Hardy is ready to shop.
We went aisle to aisle with this self-pro-claimed Ms. Couponista. It didn't take long to see that she lives up to her name.
This will save me a dollar, just this sticky one right here, but I happened to check Target's website and I have a 1.50 off printable.
Zadia says it's a little known secret that at Target you can use a store coupon along with a manufacturer.
I see a 2.00 coupon I'm clipping it and I'm going put it in my coupon wallet and take it with me to the store and look for a deal."
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This is $2 off any Bic disposable razor. You're getting that for 69 cents. 69 cents for 10 razors.
We watched her find bargain after bargain after bargain. Zadia grew up in a frugal family.
99 cents essentially for each one.
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I love mobile. I always check these and try to find the deals.
And boy did it pay off.
I've actually faced 3 layoffs in my career. The most recent layoff was 2 years ago, and unemployment wasn't enough for me to pay my mortgage, let alone eat food with my dinner.
I had to find a better way to make ends meet, and I did that through coupons.
Now that she's a pro, and she can pack her cart for dirt cheap, I had to to know if she buys some things just because she has a coupon.
If I can get an item totally absolutely free with coupons than I will pick it up.
Couponing has saved her thousands. She saved more than 7-thousand dollars on her grocery bill. A trip like this one to Target she saves an average of 60 to 80 percent.
This game is normally 20 bucks, but it's on sale for 14.89. That's already a good deal but I check ahead. They are offering a Target web coupon for 2.00.
She came with another 3 dollar coupon and the game was half off.
Zadia gets excited about saving money and she says you can too.
Imagine if you could just save 25 a month. What if you could put that on the principal balance of your mortgage? You could put that toward your kid's college fund.
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The JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ART THERAPY is an online peer-reviewed publication sponsored by the Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy, within the College of Communication and Fine Art at Loyola Marymount University. The journal contributes to the knowledge base that supports the practice of art therapy within a systemic context. It is informed by community mental health practices, engagement in artistic processes and a broad understanding of diversity. By presenting scholarship and professional writing, the journal communicates and supports the work of clinical art therapists, augments their dialogue with adjacent fields and creates stronger field specific knowledge.CALL FOR PAPERS: Currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis for our second edition
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