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This is the AOIT website for parents and students looking for information on the academy. Any news about AOIT will be added to this page so check often.
AOIT Senior Presentations
If you are an AOIT senior and you have not signed up for you Senior Presentation you need to do so immediately. This is a requirement to complete your internship and graduate from the academy. To sign up click here.
Academy of Information Technology honored nationally
The Academy of Information Technology was honored nationally with the Sanford I. Weill Academy of Excellence Award. This award was given for exhibiting the highest standards for public-private partnerships for the benefits of the students. In addition, the academy was one of thirteen schools nationallly to earn the National Academy Foundation "Distinguished" status this year.
Congratulations to the AOIT Advisory Board, staff and students for collaborating to earn this recognition!
Click HERE to view description of the award from Mr. Sanford I. Weill himself.
Click HERE to view the Wake County blogpost!
AHS AOIT Recognized as "Distinguished"
View the video shown at the 2012 NAF Next Conference
Congratulations to AOIT alumni, students, parents, teachers, administration and advisory board for being named one of only thirteen NAF academies nationwide to reach "Distinguished" status! Read more at naf.org. Mr. Wight and Mrs. Oster received a banner and check for $5000 at NAFNext in Washington DC in July for this designation..
Also at NAFNext, four AOIT students presented their mobile app as part of the Lenovo partntership. Lena McCord, John Boezeman, Louis Le, and Lane Shoffner presented their Shop Local Raleigh app. Read this article by US News for more information and to see the students after their presentation with Mike Schmedlen from Lenovo.
Lenovo/National Academy Foundation Announce Partnership
Apex High School AOIT hosted a press conference on Tuesday, January 24th to announce a partnership and AOIT's participation in a mobile app development pilot. Governor Perdue and Superintendent Tata spoke along with representatives from Lenovo and NAF. We are looking for industry volunteers with Android app development experience to assist as group mentors. Follow the links below for more information about the partnership and pilot.
WCPSS news release
National Academy Foundation/Lenovo news release
WRAL story and video
ABC 11 video
NBC 17 video
News & Observer article
NAF Chairman on The Early ShowSee Sandy Weil's interview on The Early Show from 10/22/11.
Alumni Group on Facebook
An AOIT alumni group has been created on Facebook. Alumni should search AOIT Alumni and request to join.


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Oh, come on! How is this humanly possible? I love the work of Zeloot so much. Inventive, colorful, wild, loopy, retro and tomorrow in equal measure. I give up.
Dammit Zeloot. What the Hell?
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Vertonghen nets winner for Belgium in Korea win (From Enfield Independent)
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Tottenham Hotspur defender Jan Vertonghen scored Belgium's winner to set up a last-16 tie with the USA
12:20am Friday 27th June 2014 in Sport
Tottenham Hotspur defender Jan Vertonghen scored the winner as Belgium beat South Korea 1-0 to set up a last-16 tie with the USA.
The centre-back scored from close-range in the 77th minute to give Belgium maximum points from Group H.
Midfielder Moussa Dembele played the full 90 minutes for Marc Wilmots' side and was booked, whilst Nacer Chadli was a 60th minute replacement for Manchester United's Adnan Januzaj.
The Red Devils were reduced to ten men when midfielder Steven Defour was dismissed for a high tackle on Kim Shin-wook in the 45th minute but went on to win their final group match.
Belgium will now face Group G runners-up, USA, in the second round after Jurgen Klinsmann's side finished runners-up to Germany.
Elsewhere in Group H, Spurs midfielder Nabil Bentaleb helped Algeria qualify for the second round with a 1-1 draw against Russia.
The 19-year-old started and played the full 90 minutes for the Desert Foxes.
Aleksandr Kokorin opened the scoring after six minutes but Islam Slimani equalised on the hour to give the Africans the point they needed to confirm their qualification.
Algeria will now face Germany in the last 16.
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I see a lot of users that would like a seamless backup & synchronisation tool. Dropbox offer a service with 50GB of server space for $99/year. But in any enterprise it is always preferable to have control of possibly sensitive data on your own servers and to run your own backup & retention policy on that data. My idea is essentially similar to the dropbox service except you would be able to backup to your own server rather than pay dropbox to use theirs.
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While Dropbox functions as a storage service, its focus is on synchronization and sharing. Dropbox synchronization uses SSL transfers with AES-256 encryption, and it supports revision history, so files deleted from the Dropbox folder may be recovered from any of the synced computers. Dropbox's version control also helps users know the history of a file they may be currently working on, enabling more than one person to edit and re-post files without complications of losing its previous form. There is no limit to file size for files added via the Dropbox application, but files transferred through the web interface are capped at 350 MB. Dropbox uses Amazon's S3 storage system to store the files.
Dropbox creates a shared folder that is automatically replicated between computers that have the client installed and is also uploaded to the 'cloud' so files can be accessed and recovered wherever you are working.
Users install a client on their computer (Windows/Linux/OSX) this monitors a given folder (such as My Documents or their Home drive). Any files placed here will be indexed and hashed (compared to other files on the server). If the file does not exist on the server it is uploaded to the server then replicated to any other computers the user has installed with the client. There should also be a web interface to enable access to files while at other computers.
Probably use SVN or GIT for indexing & version control (needs to be automatic)
Some sort of Scripting with suitable GUI can be used as a client
Server (Webdav?) with configurable user quota
Single Instance Storage
Branding for your School / Workplace throughout
Emphasis should be on ease of use for the user
Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
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'Wedding by Hurricane Productions' is about delivering great music and stunning visuals. Read more
Hurricane Productions is hiring sales, entertainers and creative talent
Hurricane Productions is currently seeking sales associates, dancers, DJs and emcees, photographers, videographers and other creative talent to join its team.
All talents must have their own, reliable transportation.
Below is a brief description of each position. To apply, please send a headshot (a nice Facebook photo will do) and resume to [email protected]. Please remember to put what position you're applying for in the subject field.
Sales Associate:
Associates will foster and maintain relationships with venues and business around the tri-state. This is a commission-based position with incentives and stipends for travel and supplies.
Party Motivators/Dancers:
Want to be the life of the party? Come be a dancer for Hurricane Productions. Hurricane takes only the best, most energetic and talented dancers in the industry. If you love to meet new people and explore new opportunities, Hurricane is the place for you.
DJs and Emcees:
Hurricane is always on the lookout for talent. Whether you're new to the scene or are looking for a fresh start with a growing company, Hurricane wants to hear from you.
Emcees are the focal point at Hurricane events. If you're an eloquent speakers with stage presence, this is the right fit for you. Aside from entertaining guests, Emcees coordinate with the venue and guide the event through the evening's activities.
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned DJ, Hurricane wants DJs that are versatile, have an extensive knowledge of music and can read any crowd. Hurricane only chooses DJs that can mix live. Serato DJ software is preferred.
Photographers, Videographers and Editors:
Check out Hurricane's Facebook albums or watch our videos on Vimeo. All of Hurricane's photo and video work is produced in-house with exclusive talent.
Hurricane is seeking photographers and videographers who own DSLR-quality cameras to shoot at private events and expand their portfolios.
Also, Hurricane is seeking any editors that are familiar with the Adobe Creative Suite and/or Apple products like Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Web-Designers, Social Media Ambassadors and Graphic Designers:
If you're reading this blog post, check out Hurricane's full website by visiting HurricaneProductions.com.
Also check out Hurricane's social media presence on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and more.
All of the web design, marketing strategies, graphic design, etc are created in-house. Hurricane does not subcontract any of its creative work so therefore it's looking for more designers to pitch in with their own style and idea.
Hurricane requires its designers to be familiar with the Adobe Creative Suite.
About Hurricane Productions:
Hurricane Productions is an integrated media organization and a recognized leader in social media. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content to live and online audiences. DJ entertainment, multimedia and web solutions are Hurricane's principal creative content and production activities. The company is headquartered in Red Bank, NJ.
Quinceanera by Hurricane Productions: DJ Entertainment, Lighting, and Design
A Quinceañera is a celebration of a girl's transition into womanhood on her fifteenth birthday. Family and friends come together to honor the traditional mass and party with food, dancing, and special ceremonies. Quinceañera by Hurricane Productions embraces the Quinceañera culture and delivers a flawless Quinceañera event.
Traditional Quinceañera ceremonies include a waltz, changing of the shoes, passing the doll and a father/daughter dance. Each ceremony represents the transition into womanhood in a different way and involve the most important people of the Quinceañera girl's life – her family and closest friends.
Quinceañera by Hurricane Productions honors these traditions with a keen attention to detail. Hurricane's bilingual emcees guide family and friends through presentations. When it comes to music, the DJs know how to mix salsa, merengue, bachata and reggaeton with club and top 40 hits.
Lighting is an important feature to any event, and Hurricane's lightshow and uplighting options create an elegant atmosphere. Spotlighting focuses attention during each Quinceañera ceremony while uplighting gives the ballroom a touch of color.
Hurricane offers professional photographers and videographers to capture every special moment. Using professional, high definition equipment, Hurricane photographers take formal portrait photos and candid event photos.
If you are interested in Hurricane Productions for your Quinceañera, visit the website or call 888.393.7066.
Rutgers Gardens weddings welcome same-sex couples
Only a short distance from the hustle and bustle of Rutgers' New Brunswick campus, the Rutgers Gardens is a series of mesmerizing gardens that host wedding ceremonies and receptions between March and October. Partnered with Twin Oaks Catering, Rutgers Gardens weddings are completed with dynamic entertainment from Hurricane Productions.
Hurricane Productions orchestrated a beautiful ceremony with a fun-filled reception for same-sex couple Christina and Shanna. The couple chose Rutgers Gardens for the beautiful, intimate location and trusted Hurricane Productions to have family and friends dancing the whole night.
Christina and Shanna picked the Art Rudolph Sun and Shade Garden for their ceremony, and celebrated afterwards under the newly built Lillian Koelsch Pavilion.
Hurricane Productions provided entertainment, lighting design and photography for Christina and Shanna. Entertainment services included intelligent lighting, uplighting and a custom-made "Name in Lights" gobo.
Wedding host Vincent Velasquez guided family and friends through the evening's ceremonies, along with musical stylings provided by DJ Andrew Schittone.
Hurricane's professional photographer David Costantini added his own playful spin in capturing all of the day's important moments.
Guests took full advantage of Hurricane's Instagram photo booth. Rather than line up and wait to use props with a backdrop, guests took pictures whenever, where ever and were able to have a copy printed instantly for them to take home.
Over 200 photos were tagged using a unique hashtag specifically designed for the couple throughout the day. Unlimited prints were framed for guests, and a stack of photos was for Christina and Shanna to take home.
To find out more information on Hurricane Productions' wedding entertainment, photography and video services, visit the website or call 888.393.7066.


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So what are the standards that you live by for/ while camping and climbing? Just the basic principals that you follow on a regular basis. For example... I vehemently camp in previously occupied spots; tent, fire and all other "wear" spots. Also, make the effort to go to the bathroom. Its worth that much more fresh air. Watch the Cryptobiotic soil, dogs included! Traditional pay camping (I.E. NFS/ NPS seasonal campgrounds)- you get what you get. Obvious boundaries exist. But you pay for the security of the site. Dispersed/ free camping is at least a 200 ft. rule, if its free and primitive and we should all be able to find our own. Lastly, dogs. Watch the damn dogs. Nobody wants to discipline your dog, and your ego might not like the way in which your cute little pooch is dealt with 100 yards away. Six points, in the vastness of being outside am I missing something? Besides the obvious rowdy fireworks and guns and Def Leppard. Actually, I'll keep the Def Leppard
Leave No Trace (www.lnt.org). "Nuf said.
^ Uh, no dude. Leave a fucking trace you're a human being using a recreational area how can you not. I try not to pound my tent stakes in when I know somebody is sleeping 10 feet away from me in another tent. Try not to blast music (death metal) too early in the AM. Try not to blow marijuana smoke through somebody's tent when they're sleeping. Shit where nobody will get into it, dogs included (this means bury it duh). Burn TP contain your campsite "squalor" to some degree.
^^ I like how you you claim leave no trace is dumb, then you proceed to describe leave no trace minded ideas. Perhaps you don't really get what "Leave No trace" means. If you were to apply the phrase "Leave no trace" to everything you do, your are 99% there. People get the moronic idea that in the wilderness, where no one is looking, they will be the first and only to crap in camp or leave trash behind, and that it won't hurt anyone else, a week goes by and 6 other parties do the same thing, then the whole area goes to pot. Sadly it takes 6 people practicing Leave No Trace to make up for 1 who disregards the whole process. So to reiterated the 2nd post. Leave No Trace.
I never play amplified music while camping. Ever. I can do that in the car for the ride down or listen to my iPod. Please do the same. Get a vibe for your camp neighbors. See if you can all share a campfire or at least agree to congregate at one in the evening to socialize. Have some drinks/food to pass around. Make it a party and then everyone feels like part of the same group. The loudness will matter less after that. It's always nice to make new friends like this while camping.
Whenever I toss my apple core into the brush at the base of a cliff somebody from Boulder, CO always pipes up and tells me "hey man leave no trace!" Then I laugh.
Totally agree with the music , and even loud voices . If I can see other folks I try to leave as small of a sound footprint as possible . Lastly , if there is a neighbor , I try to go say hi to them , a little small talk , share a beer etc . I've met some really interesting people like that . Maybe there's also some small hope that if that person 'knows' you , they would be less likely to steal from you , and perhaps look out for your stuff , and I would do likewise ... having stuff get stolen in Camp 4 comes to mind .
I've never heard of a 200' rule. Stay away from Jacks canyon in summer. It becomes more like 10' or so; I try to keep my distance but it isn't always possible. Besides, I like hearing the neighbors getting it on...
Leave no trace. Be considerate of others there & yet to come. Try to be f***ing ninja - it can actually be quite fun to disguise your presence.
I act fascist as hell and demand that everyone does what I say, I have found this technique is the best way to avoid conflict with me.
-Drive a very fuel efficient car. -Park in the existing dirt spot. Don't expand the parking area by parking and camping on the border of the already disturbed area. Bring a tarp to cover the dirt. - I have not tried this but anyone ever have a fake campfire? just use a rechargeable led lamp, maybe with a lava lamp effect. And wear very warm clothes.


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Beginning this month, Pepsi has decided to revamp Diet Pepsi by adding a second artificial sweetener. According to PepsiCo, the company is adding a "very small amount" to the beverage, with the exact amount varying based on the the region where it's purchased. There's no telling what effect—if any—this will have on Pepsi's sales, but it's an interesting move.
Sometimes, you have to roll the dice.
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'Missing out' on big hemp industry
REGIONAL Victoria is missing out on hemp seed trade due to a ban on sales for human consumption, advocates say.
Farmer fire fighting force
FARMERS and landholders would be equipped to quell bushfires under a bold plan.
SA dairy arm back on the team
SOUTH Australia's dairy lobby group has returned to the national organisation Australian Dairy Farmers.
Escapees prove costly
FARMERS are risking prosecution and hefty fines for escaped livestock due to poor fencing.
We're all getting 'fracked'
KEY crossbench senator John Madigan urges government to focus on "ordinary" Australians.
Grim rain outlook
THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued grim rainfall outlook for Victoria.
Russell's new role a big hit
FORMER Merrigum dairy farmer and orchardist Russell Speed is still hesitant making cappuccinos.
Salinity on rise
SALINITY is again threatening some of Australia's most productive farmland.
Trio's 900-sheep cancer pledge
THREE brothers are attempting to shear 300 Merino ewes each today near Bridgewater.
Shaun the sheep gets clipped
SHAUN the sheep has had his first ever haircut at the ripe old aged of six.
Foreign investment pitch
FARMERS are being urged to change their attitudes towards foreign ownerships of Australian farmland and agribusiness.
Iseki's power bloom
SIETZA Baas looked for a replacement for his old Kubota and chose an Iseki TG5470 compact utility.
Golden fields in full bloom
THE paddocks near Heathcote are golden with canola crops in full bloom.
John's found the plot
LESS than two decades ago this 21ha Yarra Valley property was a neglected trotting stud.
All foreign to the Nats
AUSTRALIA'S farmers are equal to the world's best.
An urge to burn, but not to learn
BIGGER fuel reduction burns won't save more lives, writes PHIL INGAMELLS
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Hawks fly high
TATYOON proved its premiership credentials with a 102-point demolition of Hawkesdale-Macarthur on the weekend.40
Sales, Aug 25
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MG suppliers in share deal plan
THE cost of purchasing Murray Goulburn shares for a supplier could be determined by a sliding scale.
That's a lot of jumpers
A MERINO sheep has been found wandering around a tree plantation in Tasmania carrying a 25kg fleece.
The New 'It' Drink Is... Camel Milk??
Step aside, goat's milk. A new milk option is available for the U.S. consumer... and it's camel's milk. Charles Passy joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero for a taste test. Photo: Videoblocks2:51
Secrets of a Great Steak
Ever wonder why steakhouse steaks are so tastyand costly? WSJs Tanya Rivero takes you behind the curtain at NYY Steak Midtown, where Chef Alex Garcia reveals his secrets. From the meat, to the cut, to the dry aging and the prep, well show you what it takes to make amazing steaks.3:32
Farmers China FTA fight
AUSTRALIA'S farmers are launching a campaign to win support for a free-trade deal with China.
SA dairy arm back on the team
SOUTH Australia's dairy lobby group has returned to the national organisation Australian Dairy Farmers.
Little town blocking miners
A NSW Hunter Valley town says it will be wiped out after a Chinese firm won conditional approval to build an open-cut coal mine there.
Hay, Aug 27: Heading south
CATTLE went south from Hay's store market today as the divide in the season played its hand.
Latest livestock sales
THIS week's cattle, sheep and dairy sale dates.
Bairnsdale, Aug 22: 1200 yarded
PRICES for Angus steers were solid at Bairnsdale today where medium weights reached 200c/kg.
Peace of mind with VDO system
THE ABILITY to see everything around a big machine can provide peace of mind for the operator.
On-farm storage solution
VICTORIAN grain growers are casting new shadows on their farms with silo installations.
Best in Claas to go on show
THE Claas Electronic Machine Optimisation System will be featured at upcoming machinery field days.
Cats say points a problem
LINDENOW Football Club will call for the East Gippsland league's player points system to be scrapped at season's end.
Hanna best of Aussies at WEG
AUSTRALIA'S dressage riders scored well in their World Equestrian Games tests in France on Monday and Tuesday.
Crib Point holds off rich rivals
CRIB Point president Darren Adams says the club's moneyball strategy could topple its cashed-up rivals.
Former juniors lift Buln Buln
PRESEASON optimism doesn't always translate into performance, but Buln Buln Football Club has risen to the challenge.
Joyce brings banks to the table
AGRICULTURAL Minister Barnaby Joyce is bringing banks and debt-laden farmers to the table.
Nigel loves to watch grass grow
NSW livestock producer and Poll Merino stud breeder Nigel Kerin is known as a forward-thinker.
Steve bends the rules
THERE was no crisis or yearning for a creative outlet that triggered Steve Tobin's career change.
Welcome a frog in your pond
IF you haven't even seen any frogs in your garden lately, start worrying.
Get passion in spades
IF you want to learn quickly how to grow vegetables, get yourself a passionate teacher.
Brawn and beauty camellias
ONE day there was a massive, healthy camellia in bloom, then fire came.
Asparagus season closes in
ASPARAGUS comes into its own during the spring-summer months.
Koutsantonis rallies behind Beer
SOUTH Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis has come to Maggie Beer's support.
Fix up the leek
EVERYONE has probably heard of the soup resulting in the combination of leek and potato.
A pub with no... food?
BAD luck if you were hungry and in need of a meal at the Lake Boga pub last week.
Golden Steph gains support
GOOD to equal opportunity working well in the Victorian Nationals team.
Some dogs refuse to share
MOST pooches love a sleeping partner and they're not fussy if it's another dog or a cat. Except this one.
Down town to funky town
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Foodies all about travelling
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A haven of calm at Narbethong
KIM Rycroft proudly shows off Saladin Lodge, built after Black Saturday bushfires.
You can watch the river run by
LYING in bed watching the river will be an option for the next owners of this Elmore property.
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text: Curiosity's main science target, Mount Sharp, seen shortly after landing, on August 6, 2012. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes. Rising up in the distance is the the distance is the highest peak Mount Sharp, at a height of about 3.4 miles. The Curiosity team hopes to drive the rover to the mountain to investigate its lower layers, which scientists think hold clues to past environmental change. (Reuters/NASA-JPL-Caltech)


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I've never sold any gold. I've heard that some jewelry stores will give you a good deal because they use gold in their craft. So buying from owners is cheaper for them and may net more for you. Just try calling around.
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Legal Ethics
Lawyer Accused of Faking Judge's Signature
Posted Oct 16, 2007 7:23 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A lawyer has been accused of faking a judicial order to persuade his clients that their suit over a neighbor's pool was proceeding swimmingly.
Actually, the defendants had never been served with the suit, according to an opinion last month that gave the plaintiffs more time to effect service, the New York Law Journal reports.
Laurence Jurman of Dix Hills, N.Y., pleaded not guilty last week to criminal possession of a document with a forged signature—that of a New York judge, the legal newspaper says.
The plaintiffs have filed an ethics complaint against Jurman and have hired a new lawyer. Their suit contends their neighbor built a retaining wall and berm, creating drainage problems that caused water damage to their property.
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There has been a lot of left-wing teeth-gnashing over the policies of the United States' fake-progressive president Barack Obama. Left-progressives' anger with the Obama administration is understandable given the new White House's actions to (for example):
* Significantly expand the reach and intensity of imperial violence (replete with the mass slaughter of civilians and the related escalation of targeted assassinations) in South Asia.
* Promote a notorious assassin and death-squad leader (Lt. General Stanley A McChrystal – former chief of the military's special Joint Special Operations Command) to the position of Commander of U.S. Forces in the newly merged "Af-Pak" war theater. [1]
* Sustain the criminal occupation of Iraq beneath rhetoric of withdrawal. [2]
* Increase "defense" (empire) spending, consistent with the following statement in a report issued by the leading Wall Street investment firm Morgan Stanley one day after Obama's presidential election victory: "As we understand it, Obama has been advised and agrees that there is no peace dividend."[3]
* Revive military commissions.
* Continue the practice of renditions.
* Maintain secret prisons for persons "held on a short-term, transitory basis."
* Continue the unspeakable torture of prisoners by an "extrajudicial terror squad" (Jeremy Scahill's description of the Pentagon's sadistic "Immediate Reaction Force" in Cuba) at Guantanamo Bay. [4]
* Advance the policy of "indefinite detention" (potentially permanent incarceration) for Guantanamo prisoners for whom no legally compelling evidence can be marshaled.
* Intimidate England (with a threat to withhold intelligence data on potential terrorist attacks!) into preventing a Guantanamo victim from having his day in court on the Bush administration's torture practices. [5]
* Sustain the Bush administration's abrogation of habeas corpus rights in regard to the roughly 600 "enemy combatants" kept at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan (where people rendered out of other countries like Yemen and England can be considered "war [-zone]" prisoners!. [6]
* Advance nauseatingly specious legal and moral arguments ("better to look forward than backward") to prevent serious federal investigation of the Bush administration's human rights crimes.
* Sustain George W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program.
* Invoke the "state secrets" (akin to the divine right of kings) doctrine to prevent disclosure of evidence in response to lawsuits emerging from Bush era rendition and surveillance policies.
* Suppress photographic evidence of U.S. torture practices.
* Justify all this and more in the name of the supposed "global war on terror" that was supposedly launched in legitimate defense against the supposedly unprovoked jetliner attacks of September 11, 2001.
* Disregard qualified progressive defenders of civil liberties and human rights from consideration for appointment to succeed Supreme Justice David H. Souter and to thereby counter the hard right leanings of the court's conservative majority. [7]


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Ground Lyrics
Could you sleep tonight
And be dreaming tight in your heaven?
Your warm heaven
Would you be feeling right
When children cold outside
dream in rain?
Dream in rain
Would you come down
From your pedestal?
Could you try and touch the ground?
Every day the mirror
stares you in the eyes
of your face / see your face
Can you watch television?
Ain't it like the mirror?
See disgrace / see your face.
Would you come down
From your pedestal?
Could you try and touch the…
Maya on the dying tree,
The cockfight honesty
The sidewalk vendor's
glorious symphony
Could you stare
Would you care,
would you Save your prayers
Save a prayer
Say a prayer
For the children of the rain
Lyrics taken from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/rivermaya/ground.html


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Darren Van Impe seems to be always in the right place- his positioning has been impeccable so far. I'm only like halfway through the first period, and he's made three really nice defensive plays already.
So today my Netflix sent me a DVD that was in my queue from the Islanders Greatest Games DVD set: Game 4 of the first round series versus Toronto. This series was probably the most exciting playoff series any of my teams has played in.
I can't wait until this new Islanders team is back to the days like this, with the rally towels and the "Steve Webb" chants, etc.
Alexei Yashin just scored to make it 1-0 in the first period; they just showed highlights from 1998 of him as a star in Ottawa and spoke about it as if it was yesterday. Freaky that it's been so long...
I know Mike Milbury is arguably the worst GM in NHL history, but Mark Parrish really wasn't so bad this year. I've been impressed by his play in the corner, going up against Roberts, and his assist on the Yashin goal was sweet. Kvasha, on the other hand,...
Darcy Tucker is seriously crazy (and for that matter, so is Shayne Corson). Too bad netflix can't send game 6; I'll have to go to youtuve to watch them get KO'd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdQBZGQiBKo (LOVE the fistbump).
Chris Osgood= Clutch.
Anyone else on here have any good memories from this playoff series? I remember after game 4 running into the Coliseum lobby to find my dad (I sat with my cousin and he sat with my uncle), and run into none other than Mad Mike Milbury. I waved and said "Mike! What a game!" and he just nodded and walked, looking pretty stressed for such a happy moment. Share your 2001-2002 Isles moments!!


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only richard hammond would buy a car like this lol0 0
April 27, 2009 3:23 pm
Looks great.0 0
April 26, 2009 9:22 pm
For some reason I do not belive that Morgan is real car with its rear lights from Lancia Thema.0 0
April 26, 2009 3:56 pm
Who would buy one of these besides Richard Hammond.0 0
April 26, 2009 7:51 am
I'm in love - the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket. But I can see why one wouldn't like it. It's a very love/hate car. I, for instance, hate that steering wheel. And the stereo. And the alloys don't seem right for such a car. And that rear deck looks a bit dodgy. And the Mini headlamps make it look cheap. But in spite of all this... I love it.0 0
April 26, 2009 4:38 am
Hmmm for that money i would go buy something intersting. Or maybe even 2 interesting cars.0 0
April 25, 2009 1:53 am
I would want one because it seems like the kind of car that's great to cruise around in the New England countryside. The steering wheel needs to be changed, and not only are those mini cooper lights, but they are on the wrong sides (the light on the left should be on the right and vice versa).0 0
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yea i was just going to say that i spot mini cooper headlights... not flowing well, the aeromax and gt3 were better executed, looking better than the lifecar look though0 0
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I think the recent Aero models actually look better because they switched from Beetle headlights to Mini headlights. Now its much less cross-eyed, I think thats a big improvement over the first Aero models.0 0
April 24, 2009 10:19 pm
Do we need another one of the cross-eyed cars? They just keep getting uglier. And it costs 127k? I'd rather get something better looking.0 0
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Super 8 Films
Ahh, the wedding video….originally not part of my wedding plan, but after seeing one shot in 8mm, I was hooked. Super 8 films are becoming the big rage apparently, and I definitely think its the way to go….your film will have a nice, vintage grainy quality, and will always look classic. Depending on who you go with, packages can start at $3000 and go all the way to $12,000! Fifty Foot Films, Super 8 filmsters to the stars, has now come out with a sister company called Paper Tape Films…you'll get the same quality for a fraction of the price, and in locations all over the US. If I could show a clip here, I would, but just trust me, bring a tissue to the computer when you click the links.
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AEK Says:
July 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am
check out Well Spun Wedding. Quality and very reasonable.
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I love the idea of these. I will have to check them all out when I have an extra moment.
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Also check out My Wedding Film. More Super 8 New Skool.
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Absolutely beautiful, I wish I had an unlimited budget…
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we had our wedding shot in super eight and we LOVE it!!!!
we've got the film on our website: http://www.timhalberg.com and I think the videographer has the film on his site at http://www.bonvivantcinema.com
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I just watched my girlfriend's video by Wideangle Weddings and was blown away. Usually I can't wait for these type of videos to be over , but the blend of little audio moments and beautiful imagery made me think again about hiring a videographer for my wedding!
I went to their site, which is very cute (wideangleweddings.com) and found a bunch of options. I also saw that they, too, offer Super 8 which I think I'll have to convince my fiancé we need!
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CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Claire's Inc., one of the world's leading retailers of fun, fashionable accessories for young women and girls, announced today the "Katy Perry PRISM Collection," an assortment of jewelry and fashion accessories designed in collaboration with Perry. The collection is exclusive to Claire's and will debut to coincide with the start of Perry's PRISMATIC WORLD TOUR in May 2014 and latest album PRISM.
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Included in the exclusive "Katy Perry PRISM Collection" will be limited edition items, seasonal novelty pieces, collectables and product inspired by the lyrics and titles of Perry's greatest hits. Regular updates in the Katy Perry Collection will keep the assortment fresh, giving the Claire's girl a new way to amp up her look and express her individuality each season.
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Joss Whedon, creator and writer of the 1990s series and movie 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', is not thrilled about the new film reboot that is in the works.
It was announced recently that Warner Bros. is co-producing the new "Buffy" movie, which will be based on a screenplay by Whit Anderson.
"This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths - just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my "Avengers" idea that I made up myself," Whedon told E! News, making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the current film he is directing that is based on the Marvel comic books.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" the series starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, slayer of vampires and all evil things, while the 1992 movie featured Kristy Swanson in the title role. The show ran between 1997 and 2003 and became a cult classic.
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Using the X-Series Signal Analyzers to Navigate Today's Economic Climate
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Navigating today's economic climate is no easy task, especially for those companies developing, integrating or manufacturing electronic products. On top of any engineering challenges they face, the global economic downturn is now forcing many to also confront a dynamically-changing business environment. To remain competitive, companies are reshaping and adopting new business strategies in the lab and around the globe. Their capital budgets are being squeezed and every purchase request highly scrutinized. And, they are being forced to make business decisions today that will impact whether or not they emerge stronger tomorrow. One key decision companies face pertains to test equipment. While the purchase of test equipment might seem like a trivial concern given the state of the economy, it can be a highly strategic decision. Selecting the right test equipment allows companies to not only satisfy their business requirements today, but in the future as well, while garnering them a significant competitive advantage. The signal analyzer, a critical tool used for measuring and characterizing signals in a range of applications, including aerospace/defense, cellular base station and handset, digital video, wireless networking, general purpose, consumer electronics and education, offers a prime example of this point. By carefully selecting the right signal analyzer, a company gains greater confidence in the longevity of their decision, even in the face of shifting external forces (e.g., the economy or competition).
Many companies now find themselves at the proverbial "fork in the road." Decisions they make today regarding which signal analyzer to purchase will not only have a huge effect on their current success or failure, but also determine how they emerge from the tough economic downturn in the future. Complicating that decision is a litany of challenges, such as continuing time-to-market pressure, downward pressure on prices and increased global competition from nimble upstarts rapidly making inroads with emerging technology/standards. Some of the key technical challenges facing companies today include:
- Rapid pace of technology change. Technology, especially wireless communications technology, changes at a rapid rate. Nowhere is this seen more clearly then in the cellular industry where new mobile phone standards continue to emerge and change (e.g., LTE, LTE FDD, TDD), some of which will fall only to see new versions or standards emerge. On top of this, different countries may opt to use their own unique variants of a specific standard. China, for example, employs TD-SCDMA instead of CDMA.
- Multi-format devices. The wireless industry is continually moving toward multi-mode, multi-band and/or multi-functional wireless communications devices that can be enhanced using software upgrades to accommodate standard changes or market needs. Engineers therefore, require the ability to test a wider variety of functionality/standards that accommodate a wide range of cellular and wireless networking technologies. They need a signal analysis platform that not only has the performance and measurement features they need today, but the ability to add additional combinations of measurement applications as well in the future.
- Technology refresh. Evolution of processor/connectivity technology/speed, measurement science and constantly evolving measurement standards conspire to force companies to refresh existing development and manufacturing environments. This places new demands on equipment specifiers to pick solutions with excellent reliability that allow a seamless migration path from legacy test systems to the newly refreshed systems through code compatibility. They must also ensure that the technology refresh can be done as quickly as possible to prevent any significant scheduling impact.
What exactly do these challenges mean for test equipment and, in particular, for signal analysis? Essentially, it requires that test assets be future-ready. Of course, finding a signal analyzer that delivers on this promise is the hard part and it demands a new approach to signal analysis--one that is evolutionary in nature and that successfully spans, instrumentation, measurements and software. The instrument must be flexible enough to satisfy a company's business and technical requirements across multiple products and programs in the lab and around the globe--both now and in the future, and provide a consistent framework that enables design teams to move at a faster pace.
Agilent Technologies' X-Series signal analyzers--born out of decades of amassed expertise in test and measurement and a rich legacy of industry-leading test equipment--represents an evolutionary approach to signal analysis that is future-ready. In contrast to the distinct individual signal-analysis products available today, Agilent's X-Series spans instrumentation, measurements and software. Its scalable hardware architecture and open Windows® XP Professional software platform evolves with changing customer requirements. As a result, companies can easily renew/upgrade their X-Series signal analyzer as the pace of PC technology (e.g., CPU, memory, connectivity, drive type/capacity) advances.
The X-Series approach to signal analysis covers signal analyzers, advanced measurement applications and Agilent's industry-leading 89600 Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) software. All X-Series signal analyzers run the same library of more than 20 advanced measurement applications (available soon across all four instrument price performance points), including the VXA vector signal analyzer measurement application that integrates VSA capability into the analyzer. Agilent's 89600 VSA software provides the broadest range of standards-based measurements for performing comprehensive signal visualization and analysis in the time, frequency and modulation domains (Figure 1). Together, the 89600 VSA software and advanced measurement applications support over 70 signal standards and modulation types, allowing customers to mix and match the X-Series signal analyzers with different measurement applications to fit their specific test and measurement needs. Other analysis capabilities can be accessed by running MATLAB®, Agilent Signal Studio or Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) within the X-Series' open Windows operating system. No external PC is required.
Figure 1: Running on the X-Series signal analyzers, Agilent's 89600 VSA software offers premier analysis and troubleshooting.
Agilent's X-Series is now comprised of four models spanning the new flagship PXA, the existing MXA and EXA solutions, and the new low-cost CXA.
- PXA: The PXA is Agilent's new industry-leading, high-performance RF and microwave signal analyzer up to 26.5 GHz (Figure 2). As the X-Series flagship solution, the PXA helps enhance current designs and accelerate future innovations by delivering exceptional performance that reduces measurement uncertainty and reveals new levels of signal detail. It features super-wide IF technology and outstanding measurement accuracy, ±0.19-dB accuracy and a low noise floor DANL of -172 dBm with preamp (-160 dBm with no preamp) at 2 GHz for superior useable dynamic range. The analyzer also includes extensive code-compatibility features that make it easier to replace existing Agilent or HP high-performance signal analyzers.
Figure 2: The PXA is a high-performance signal analyzer designed to replace today's performance signal/spectrum analyzers.
- MXA: Agilent's MXA offers the best performance in a mid-performance analyzer, allowing flexible analysis measurements of wireless communication devices to current and emerging standards. It features the industry's fastest speed--up to 300% faster than other spectrum and signal analyzers in its class, an all digital IF, 0.23-db absolute amplitude accuracy, and available multiple frequency range options up to 20 Hz to 26.5 GHz. Its fast speed dramatically accelerates a product's move from design to manufacturing to the marketplace. Its flexibility enables customers to quickly adapt it to their evolving test requirements.
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- CXA: As the lowest cost member of the X-Series, the versatile CXA provides more than one might expect in this price class, including superior RF performance, measurement speed and a rich suite of general-purpose applications for essential signal creation (Figure 3). It supports a growing list of X-Series advanced measurement applications and VSA solutions making it both scalable and expandable. Given this functionality, the CXA helps accelerate product testing and development on multiple levels, including: cost reduction, throughput, design enhancement, and more.
Figure 3: The CXA's measurement configuration includes: 3.0- or 7.5-GHz frequency models, optional full range preamplifiers at 3.0 and 7.5 GHz, a fine step attenuator option, and basic EMC functionality.
The Agilent X-Series signal analyzers offer a number of key benefits for companies developing, integrating or manufacturing electronic products. Its scalability, for example, allows companies to protect their investment. Each X-Series signal analyzer features expansion slots that enable the addition of wider bandwidths and measurement hardware; upgradeable PC technology to keep test assets current. The software-implemented measurements applications and signal analysis intellectual property is also upgradeable.
Other key benefits provided by Agilent's X-Series include
- The ability to satisfy business requirements now and in the future. The X-Series provides companies the flexibility to satisfy their business and technical requirements, regardless of the technology they are pursuing and the X-Series signal analyzer they choose to use (PXA, MXA, EXA, or CXA). They can optimize price, performance and functionality today and easily move up or down in price/performance tomorrow by interchanging the signal analyzers and without having to rewrite test code. In fact, test margins can be optimized at each test station in the lab, manufacturing line or in the field by simply choosing the required level of hardware performance.
- The ability to accelerate projects with a consistent framework across performance. With the X-Series signal analyzers, time-to-productivity savings comes from the fact that each analyzer uses the same user interface, firmware and software; one button context-sensitive help system, and one button auto-tune setup. Each X-Series signal analyzer also shares the same library of more than 20 advanced measurement applications and therefore, a unified or familiar user interface. This saves money, and boosts efficiency and productivity when redeploying staff between projects and technologies, since learning one X-Series signal analyzer means the engineer has effectively learned all X-Series signal analyzers.
Full code compatibility between X-Series analyzers allows the engineer to leverage test-system software from R&D to design verification to manufacturing. Common algorithms and available identical measurement applications across all signal analyzers ensure consistent, repeatable results across the X-Series and with legacy PSA and ESA spectrum analyzers. Available transportable and trial licensing enables the sharing of advanced measurement applications across the different members from EXA to PXA; ensuring that the engineer has access to first-to-market emerging standards-based applications as they are introduced.
- The ability to exceed user's needs with a new level of flexible asset management. By utilizing the same signal analyzer software and robust, modular hardware/PC architecture, the X-Series realizes greater reliability, enhances analyzer longevity and ensures flexibility in moving test assets across the lab or around the world.
The global economic downturn has forced many companies to re-examine their current and long-term business strategies. It has also prompted added pressure to reduce cost of test and risk, and speed the time-to-market for new designs and products. The X-Series' evolutionary approach to signal analysis provides a unique means of addressing these challenges by providing four choices in signal analyzer performance, all sharing the same measurement applications and VSA software. Together this mix provides the flexibility companies need to satisfy their business and technical requirements both today and in the future, across multiple products and programs.
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5 Reasons Why You Should Buy...: The World's Most Hardest MC Project: "If You Not F*ckin' W/ It, Then Don't F*ck W/ It 'Cause It's For A Certain Crowd"
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[Ready to take fans and veterans back to real, hardcore hip-hop, not filled with lies, Styles P recently dropped his latest album, The World's Most Hardest MC Project. Focused on the fact that the LP is needed in today's hip-hop culture, The Lox member broke down the top five reasons people need to cop this project. Check it out and get a chance to win your own copy!]
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It's needed because it's different from everything that's out. There's a lot of good sh*t out, but there's not a lot of hard sh*t out. It's something to get if you're looking for a certain type of hip-hop.If you're looking for something that's not the norm then it's something you might be interested in. I'm not really trying to sell it to those who are not looking for that type of music.
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I'm just giving you under the underground, hardcore lyrics, like just straight forward, MC, hardcore lyrics. If you're not looking for that then I don't suggest you get it. The project's pretty self-explanatory, so if you're into that or you wanna hear what that sounds like, or [are] curious as to what's the real version of that then here it is. If you not f*ckin' with it, then don't f*ck with it 'cause it's just a certain type of hip-hop that's poppin for a certain crowd.
3. It's MeI'm the kinda person that's not gonna lie to a person. [The album] is really just me gettin' my fans a project from an all-hard point of view. Usually when you do a project or you do an album or you do a mixtape you have different variations of you. You might hear Kiss and Sheek on it, and a couple D-block people, but no other features other than that.
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I'm letting you know this is just really just hard, even my different point of views--every point of view I'm using is gonna be the hard version ... and I tried to give it the best of both eras. I try to give the best of this era hard-wise and the golden era, the '90s era, hard-wise.
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With the backing of the community, Stephen Trinkaus has begun work to expand the Bellingham Public Market.
Construction began earlier this month for the market to move into the vacant 11,000-square-space at 1530 Cornwall Ave. that was once Tube Time. This will nearly double the size of the market, which is home to the newly renamed Terra - Organic & Natural Foods (formerly known as Terra Organica) and several other tenants.
Earlier this year Trinkaus made a public request to raise around $300,000 through donations and loans for the project. He got enough response from the community to allow the expansion project to move forward.
"I think people want to invest locally," said Trinkaus, adding that he was grateful for the response from the community.
Trinkaus expects the expansion project to take 3 to 6 months to complete, with Terra focused on reusing as much material as possible. The Terra grocery store will be reorganized and products will be put into departments based on 12 attributes, including whether it is organic or is made with genetically modified ingredients.
The store plans to add a variety of products, including fresh meat and seafood.
Much of the new space will be for Terra, but the public market wants to add at least three new tenants.
The current tenants are the café Trapeze, Maki Zushi, Mount Baker Books and Living Earth Herbs. Juice It, which made fruit drinks at the Bellingham Public Market, has closed, but Trinkaus is looking for a new owner to continue that business. He is also working with Mulu Belay, the owner of Ambo Ethiopian Cuisine at the Bellingham Farmers Market, to establish a permanent spot in the public market.
For updates on the expansion project, check out the Terra Organica Facebook page.
A new co-working space will have a community open house from noon-7 p.m. Thursday, May 15.
It's called The Workspace and is on the corner of Potter and Ellis streets in Bellingham. Operated by Mimi Osterdahl, the goal is to provide low-cost, communal and convenient work facilities that foster a sense of community.
By gathering early stage businesses, entrepreneurs and other professionals, the idea is to create opportunities through a network of individuals, according to the company's Facebook page.
-- Flip, a new children's consignment store, was scheduled to open Saturday, May 10. It is next to ReStyle Consignment in the Meridian Plaza (near Denny's). According to a post on Facebook, Flip is currently taking consignment items.
-- Kulshan Brewery has applied for a building permit to add a new production area and tasting room to an existing building at 1538 Kentucky St.
-- Wander Brewing's Brew Hall is now open for business at 1807 Dean Ave. According to its Facebook page, hours are 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
-- The Star Club at 311 E. Holly St. is now open. According to its Facebook page, hours are 4 p.m. to midnight every day.
-- A state distillery liquor license was approved for a business called Strong Spirits, which is at 2120 Grant St., Suite C, in Bellingham.
-- Walker's Healthy Pet has moved into a new, bigger space at 4131 Hannegan Road. It had previously been in the Barkley District. It's open every day. For details about the company, visit walkershealthypet.net.
-- The Bellwether Market is now open on Bellwether Way, in the small standalone building near the Bellwether Hotel. It offers a variety of groceries, including sandwiches, beer, wine and soda to serve the area.
Reach Business Editor Dave Gallagher at 360-715-2269 or email@example.com. Read the Business Blog at bellinghamherald.com/business-blog or get updates on Twitter at @bhamheraldbiz.


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by DAVID AXE
"As of today, I would not say there is a war going on in Darfur," U.N. peacekeeping general Martin Luther Agwai said this week. "Militarily there is not much. What you have is security issues more now. Banditry … people trying to resolve issues over water and land at a local level. But real war as such, I think we are over that."
In Darfur, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people died in fighting between ethnic Arabs and ethnic Africans, over a five-year period. Nearly half a million Darfuris — Africans, mostly — have fled to neighboring Chad. Indeed, the flight seems to be a major factor in the gradual winding-down of the conflict. In Iraq, the "self-segregation" of Sunnis from Shias helped disrupt the cycle of violence that claimed tens of thousands of lives. The same might have happened in Darfur.
But that's not to say Central Africa is at peace. Far from it. Darfur represents just one front in a complex conflict spanning three countries. Chad still sponsors rebel groups in Sudan and Central African Republic. Sudan still sponsors rebels in Chad. Central African bandits still attack Chadian communities. Herdsmen in all three countries routinely slaughter each other, and any intervening government troops, in fighting over land and water.
Thousands die violently annually, but the causes and manifestations of violence are so diverse, and occur in such ugly, remote places, that they seem not to coalesce into anyone's definition of "war." Rather, they represent a "vortex of violence" that will continue as long as there too many people for Central Africa's dwindling land and water resources, and as long as ethnic and religious groups blame each other for the region's problems.
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After the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya I predicted that there would be a following up to this story. Unfortunately, I was right. Alexander Litvinenko's suspected poisoning has become a headliner this week, but rather in Britain than in Russia. Which is quite logical – the English people won't just stand and watch a political exile living in England under British asylum being dispatched.
A few days after the event Scotland Yard confirmed publicly that Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who was admitted to British citizenship only a month ago, was poisoned. On Friday November 24th he died. Alongside with this announcement, just as one would have expected, Litvinenko's employer, or at least sponsor in London, Boris Berezovsky hastened to name the main suspect – Vladimir Putin.
The assault on Litvinenko seems to be connected to the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya what makes the plot more twisted. The investigators believe that the former KGB agent was poisoned in a Japanese restaurant where he met with an Italian journalist who allegedly possessed data concerning the Politkovskaya case. After being interrogated by the British detectives the journalist fearful for his life took cover somewhere in Italy.
The whole situation could perfectly serve as a plot to a political detective novel. The rules of the genre dictate that the evidence will lead to the top of the power hierarchy; the number of victims will grow as the investigation will go on, but in the long run no charge will be filed though everything will be as clear as a day.
Litvinenko had accused the Kremlin and the Russian intelligence agencies of paving Putin's way to power by blowing up residential houses in Moscow. Some of the Litvinenko's arguments were quite convincing, some not enough. Anyway, the case of the house explosions in Moscow will never be solved just as the true story of the September 11th terrorist attack in the US or the murder of John Kennedy and many other high-profile cases of the XX century will never be revealed. There are a plenty of similar examples in history like the disappearance of two princes of York in the Tower of London in the mid XV century. The case had neither been properly investigated nor been solved. It is still a cold case.
As a rule, the official version loses its credibility with time while alternative versions lack evidence, and the authorities ostentatiously refuse to examine these versions, and thus to deflate them. Private investigations generate contradictory facts and speculations. But the verdict is delivered by the public opinion, which is always set against the powers that be.
Raising the ghosts of the past would be the most disadvantageous tactics for the Russian administration under the circumstances. Litivinenko, residing in London, was not a thorn in the side for the Russian authorities, all the more that his version of the explosions in Moscow in 1999 is just one in series and not the most convincing. But when the former KGB agent becomes victim of an attempt, his imputations gain credibility and the whole affair moves to the front burner. The Kremlin's foes will not miss a chance to use the poisoning of Litvinenko as one more argument against the authorities and to put it in line with such cases as the murder of Politkovskaya and the residential houses explosions in 1999. Moscow will again be seen from the West as a capital of the "evil Empire". But what's the Kremlin's use in all that?
It is only in "first approximation" that the renowned critics of the present regime seem to be the only victims of the current events. If we consider the situation in more detail, we will find that the authorities are extremely vulnerable to such developments. The blows hit the commentators of the Big Game, living the opposition leaders safe and sound. As a result the opposition gets its martyrs and the authorities are brought into challenge. Under these circumstances the pro-Kremlin analysts have all reasons to assure that Litvinenko's poisoning and the journalist's murder are mere provocations and that the opposition itself and Boris Berezovsky in person have organized the affairs in order to discredit the Kremlin's ruling elite.
For all that it's difficult to think of Mr. Berezovsky trying to kill his closest associate in London. However vicious he might be, he is not crazy. Mr. Berezovsky perfectly understands that once Scotland Yard finds out something, he won't get away with it.
The 1999 explosions in Moscow reflected the struggle for power within the ruling elite. The current murders and murder attempts have the same nature. Neither President Putin nor Mr. Berezovsky would contract such murders – for both of them the possibility of the backlash of the event is higher than possible revenues. I reckon there are other stakeholders at a lower level who pursue their own interests and use their own methods.
Intensification of the struggle for power is the result of their activity. The less stable the situation in the country is the more there is ground for the drastic changes in political life of the country. And undermining Russia's position in the world will permit the political elites to retain control over the new President, making him a hostage of those who have led him to power. Dirty and ineffective political tricks will make the successor more dependent on forces behind the Kremlin's throne.
The Big Game is on and it's not the presidential post that is at stake. It is the leverage of control over whoever gets this post.
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Director of The Institute for Globalization Studies


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Unite fight against North West job cuts
2:24pm Friday 17th January 2014 in News
THE Unite union's local authority members are forming a 'war cabinet' to help fight job and service cuts across the North West councils.
Representatives from the region will come together today at the Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool. The meeting will determine a battle plan against another proposed round of cuts revealed by Chancellor George Osborne last week.
Unite North West regional secretary Mick Whitley said: "The Tory chancellor is set on cutting more jobs and services – and we have to fight this head-on to stop these cuts in frontline services to our communities throughout the North West.
"This is about survival and mobilising communities.
"Our members are those communities – cleaners, cooks, refuse collectors – who work harder for less to maintain vital community services.
"The North West has already been hit disproportionately by the cuts imposed by this ConDem government. "The cuts must stop now. "This meeting is the start of a unified campaign."
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In the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island seemed the perfect place for the "escape proof" prison called "The Rock." It had held prisoners since the Civil War but was re-fortified into what was considered the most secure penitentiary in 1934. From that year until the year of its closing in 1962, 36 men attempted 14 escapes. Most were caught or known to have died.
However, the fate of three who attempted escape on June 11, 1962 remains a mystery.
On the morning of June 12, Lieutenant Bill Long ordered the morning count. Long noted that the guard for one area failed to come back to report it. Long walked toward that area and saw the guard hurrying toward Long, shouting, "Bill, I got a guy who won't get up for the count!"
Long said, "I'll get him up."
Long went to the indicated cell. A man appeared to be asleep. Long reached through the bars and hit the pillow on the cot, shouting, "Get up for count!"
A seemingly decapitated head fell to the floor!
Shocked, Long jumped. Then he realized it was a fake head. As BBC News comments, the head was "made of a mixture of soap, toilet paper and real hair." Pillows had been bunched under the covers to represent the prisoner's body.
He raced to the phone to sound the alarm.
It was soon found that Frank Morris and brothers John Anglin and Clarence Anglin were absent from their cells. Each of them had placed a dummy head at an end of the cot and bunched pillows under covers.
An investigation soon revealed that one escape conspirator, Allen West, was still in his cell. Like the others, he had planned to escape through a hole dug through his cell's vent. Robert D. McFadden writes in The New York Times that West could not open the vent because "he had used cement to shore up the crumbling concrete and it had hardened."
West readily talked to investigators about the escape plans. West claimed that in December 1961, he was cleaning a utility corridor and came across items wrapped in cloth. They were old saw blades, probably from a derailed escape project. He shared his discovery with the Anglin brothers and Morris, all of whom had adjacent cells.
The foursome enjoyed a natural affinity. West was a habitual car thief. The Anglins were born to impoverished farmers. McFadden writes, "The two brothers became inept burglars and were imprisoned in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, where they tried to escape repeatedly." After a 1958 hold-up, they were sent to the Leavenworth prison and then to Alcatraz. Morris had spent his childhood shuffling between foster homes and started his career as a robber when only 13. He was imprisoned in a Louisiana prison for bank robbery, escaped, was captured in a burglary, and sent to Alcatraz in 1960.
The conspirators fashioned a drill from a vacuum cleaner. With the makeshift drill and spoons stolen from the prison dining area, they dug through the concrete walls around the air vents so they could squeeze through them into the utility corridor. Inmate Darwin Coon did not plan to join the escape but years later said he helped John Anglin steal tools like screwdrivers and pliers. Coon worked in the kitchen and followed John's request that Coon deliberately break things so a friend of John's who worked in maintenance could come to fix them and "accidentally" leave tools behind that Coon smuggled to John Anglin in his cell.
The four plotters used cardboard and paint to conceal their work. Allowed the privilege of a musical instrument, Morris obscured the noise by playing his accordion.
They constructed dummy heads topped by actual hair collected from the prison barbershop.
Laura Sullivan writes for NPR.org that the conspirators "stole prison-issue raincoats to craft a boat and life vests." They used thread and cement to glue the raincoat raft together in a way they learned from Popular Mechanics magazine. They stole a concertina from an inmate to use as a bellows to inflate the raft.
West told investigators that he asked the other three to delay the escape until he could re-open the hole around his vent but they refused.
On the night of June 11, 1962, Morris and the Anglin brothers left the dummy heads on their cots, grabbed the raft and other materials, and then shimmied through their widened air vents to the roof. Carrying their materials, they managed to avoid being seen by those on the gun tower as they stole over the roof. Then they shimmied down a 50-foot wall through a kitchen vent pipe.
They climbed two 12-foot barbed-wire fences and headed for a part of the shoreline out of the range of gun towers and searchlights. The concertina inflated the raft.
They floated into the bay. Just how far they got and what happened to them is a mystery.
According to FBI archives, "Our office in San Francisco set leads for offices nationwide to check for any records on the missing prisoners . . . We also interviewed relatives of the men and compiled all their identification records and asked boat operators in the Bay to be on the lookout for debris."
The Coast Guard, the California Highway Patrol, and the police of many cities searched for the desperadoes.
Most observers believe the trio drowned. However, Sullivan writes, "Statistically, the majority of bodies that drown in the bay float to the top after a few days. In this case, not even one of the bodies surfaced."
J. Campbell Bruce reported for The Chronicle that on June 15, 1962, Coast Guard members discovered a "watertight plastic bag containing names and addresses the fugitives planned to contact" in water near the Golden Gate Bridge. James Burnett, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director at the time, remarked that authorities believed "they would not abandon these names, which they obviously carried for contacts, unless they were drowning."
Convinced the group probably drowned, the FBI closed its case on them on December 31, 1979.
However, the U.S. Marshals Service continues to investigate. Since the bodies of most people who drown in the bay surface within a week, it defies the odds that all three escapees would vanish. Darwin Coon is certain they successfully escaped, as are some who are impressed with the meticulous planning the men put into it.
That leaves open the question of what they did if they made it to shore on either the raft or by swimming. U. S. Marshal Michael Dyke remarked, "If they were able to steal a car, even though there was a nationwide manhunt, there's all kinds of roads they could be on where they would never have been seen. The other possibility is they would have went out of the country.
They would need civilian clothing and there were no reports of men's clothes stolen in the vicinity of California they might have reached.
One thing that makes it unlikely they survived is the fact that they have not been arrested for other crimes. It seems unlikely all three of these career criminals could have gone straight.
"Sometimes I hope they did escape because then I can catch them," Dykes wryly admits.
If the three elderly ex-crooks who escaped from Alcatraz still live, there are many people who would like their answers to questions about their escape and its aftermath.