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Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago Chapel, University Chapel
Structure in General
- The carillon tower contains 72 cast bronze cup-shaped bells, the second largest such instrument in the world.
- In his last gift to the university on 13 December 1910, John D. Rockefeller requested that $1.5 million go towards the creation and furnishing of a university chapel.
- This was known as the "University Chapel" until 1937 when it was named for John D. Rockefeller by the university's Board of Trustees.
- In university architect Henry Ives Cobb's 1892 plan for the university, the chapel was to be located on the east end of the main quadrangle, on the 58th Street axis.
- At the time the chapel was initially planned in the late 19th century, university president William Rainey Harper called for it to be the "most beautiful ecclesiastical structure in the Mississippi valley.".
- The chapel was intended by Rockefeller to be "the central and dominant feature of the university" in order to proclaim that the university is "dominated by the spirit of religion".
- The chapel is used not only for ecumenical Christian worship, but also for guest speakers, teach-ins, musical programs, and occasional film screenings.
- Carillon concerts are given during the school year at noon on Sundays and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays, and can be heard from several blocks around the chapel.
- The design of the chapel is similar to that of Goodhue's Cadet Chapel at West Point.
- The exterior is adorned with sculptures of Christian apostles and martyrs as well as Plato, Zoroaster, and others who express the chapel's mission of religious inquiry.
- The architect Goodhue died before completion, and his associates placed a statue of him holding a model of the Cadet Chapel over the tower door.
- The construction budget was restricted because of inflation after World War I, and to save costs the tower was moved in the design from the center of the crossing to the east side of the transept.
- The associates of Bertram Goodhue who continued the design after the architect's death were commissioned by the university to design the Oriental Institute, which was built on the same block in 1931.
- Part of the original stipulation for the chapel's plan required that no building on the university ever be built higher than the tower, which stands 207 feet above the street (200 feet 8 inches above floor level).
- The cornerstone was laid on 11 June 1926, and includes copies of letters from John D. Rockefeller, a photographic portrait of him by John Singer Sargent, and a copy of the university's 1926 yearbook.
- At the dedication on 28 October 1928 the official address was given by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the chapel's namesake.
- In the main arcades of the nave, each unit of vaulting covers two bays in order to produce an impression of colossal size.
- Speakers at the chapel have included Martin Luther King, Jr., William Faulkner, Jane Addams, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Jesse Jackson, and John Kerry.
- Rockefeller Chapel has held the funerals for Olympic athlete Jesse Owens and poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
- On the balcony parapet over the front doors there are 8 kneeling angels alternating with the coats of arms of 9 universities: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford.
- Near the east transept door are images of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, along with the shields of Harvard and Princeton universities.
- The stone figures under the south gable represent "the march of religion across the centuries", progressing from left to right with Christ at the peak.
- In order to avoid distracting from the interior decor, the stained glass windows are predominated by muted colors, especially mauve, amber, and periwinkle.
- The vaulted ceiling over the nave is decorated with over 100,000 pieces of Gustavian tile in a representation of St. Francis' Canticle of the Sun by artist Hildreth Meiere.
- The only larger carillon in the world is in Riverside Church in New York City, which was also a donation of John Rockefeller.
- The E.M. Skinner organ in this chapel is considered one of the finest examples of a 20th century romantic organ.
- A majority of the deceased presidents of the University of Chicago have their ashes entombed in the niches behind the chapel's reredos.
- The stained glass windows are among the largest in the world.
- The canopied pulpit is adorned with sculptures of an angel, ox, lion, and eagle, representing the four evangelists.
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Who are my Mother and My Brothers? Correcting a Mistake, Recovering our Family
The Christian vocation is fundamentally about relationship and communion.
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you." He replied to him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"
CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - With the First Sunday of Advent, we begin, as a Church, to walk through the liturgical year again. The cycle is a constant reminder to us that every end is a beginning. In and through our liturgical seasons we mark our journey with the great events that constitute the Christian Mystery.
As Christians, we know that all time is a gift, given by God. There is no such thing as profane time for a Christian because time has been transformed by the Paschal mystery; the Incarnation, Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and Coming Return of Jesus Christ. The eternal entered into history and it, and we, are forever changed through His coming. He has come, He comes and He will come! He is coming right now for those who have the eyes of faith to see Him and are willing to make room for Him in their lives.
This Sunday we are invited to begin again. Throughout this season of preparation called Advent, two central figures are proposed for our reflection; John the Baptizer and Mary, the Mother of the Lord. I propose for our consideration a somewhat perplexing and often misunderstood encounter between Jesus, the crowds and His mother for us as we begin our Advent Journey.
"While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you." He replied to him, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matthew 12:48-50)
This biblical passage is too often misinterpreted. Some have argued that it stands for the proposition that Jesus was making a comment intended to lessen the importance of his earthly mother. This "mother is unimportant" interpretation is textually inaccurate and theologically mistaken. It runs contrary to the biblical context of the encounter and rejects the consistent, unbroken Christian tradition. Such a misreading ascribes a minimalist role to Mary in the Christian revelation and consequently in the life of every Christian.
More importantly, in so doing; it can also cause us to miss a profound truth concerning the Christian life and vocation. It can discourage us from digging deeper into the text and thereby grasping a profoundly important insight. This insight has great implications and can lead us to a deeper experience of the Christian life and vocation.
I stand with the ancient Christian tradition, rooted in the patristic literature (writings of the early Church fathers). The opposite of this "mother is less important" claim is what is being revealed through these words and in this encounter. Understood in this light, this passage reveals a framework for an authentically human and relational spirituality, a spirituality of communion. We are made members of the very family of God through Jesus Christ and His saving Incarnation.
Through our Baptism, we are all invited into the very family of God. When we choose to be obedient to the will and the Word of God; we enter into an eternal relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We actually become a part of the "family" of God; we become "mother" sister" and "brother" to the Lord. We enter into "communion" with the Trinitarian God through Him.
This interchange was recorded for all time for a purpose. Through it, Jesus teaches us something about the interior meaning of our personal redemption, the redemption of the whole human race and the redemption of the entire created order. The message is simple but profound; God is a God of love and relationship. He has invited us into an intimate and eternal communion of love.
"Behold your mother; behold your son". In His final act of Self-giving love, revealed for all eternity on Golgotha's Hill, Jesus actually elevated and expanded the importance of His mother and "brothers". We read about this encounter in the Gospel of St. John. Picture the poignant scene, right before He was to breathe His last breath:
"Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home." (John 19:26-27).
From antiquity, the Fathers of the Church have correctly and uniformly taught that this encounter was also about more than the relationship between the Apostle John (whom sacred scripture calls "the beloved disciple") and Mary the mother of the Lord. It was -and is- about the expanded family of the Church, the community that Jesus came to found - and of which He is the Head - and we are the members.
As a final gift, right before He died, He gave His mother to His whole family, through giving her to the beloved disciple John. This was a gift for all of us, an exchange, an expansion of His family. In this exchange, the tradition has long taught, He also entrusted all of us to her maternal care.
Something of the interior meaning of this exchange, this gift, is what is truly revealed in the passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew with which we began this discussion. Jesus was not minimizing His relationship with His mother through these words given in response to the crowd, He was expanding it. He hungers, through Divine love, to include all of us in the "family circle" of God. In doing so, He invites us on the journey home to the Father's house.
In this exchange, Jesus opens up the interior importance and meaning of the motherhood of Mary - and through that relationship - the interior meaning of all family relationships. He gives to those with ears to hear and eyes to see, a key insight - familial relationships touch upon, model and make present an eternal mystery into which each of us who are baptized into Him, are invited! The Church is a family. Understanding this insight, and living it, is a key to the spiritual life. The Christian vocation is fundamentally about relationship and communion.
All who are incorporated into the Body of Jesus Christ through Baptism begin even now to experience the intimacy, (expressed in family relationships), that is the essence of the very life of the Trinity. Through His life, death and Resurrection (the "Paschal mystery"), He opens a way for every man, woman and child, who chooses to do the will of His Father, to enter into the very family circle of God through truly living our lives in Him.
His Father becomes our Father as we enter, through Him, into the inner life of the Trinity. He underscores this truth right before He ascended when He instructed Mary of Magdala to tell the disciples "I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' (John 20:17). Understanding this "mystery" requires prayer and revelation. Our Advent season presents us with such a time as a gift. Let us use it fully and grow in our Christian faith as members of the very Family of God.
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Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for January 2015
General Intention: That those from diverse religious traditions and all people of good will may work together for peace.
Missionary Intention: That in this year dedicated to consecrated life, religious men and women may rediscover the joy of following Christ and strive to serve the poor with zeal.
Keywords: Mary, Mother of God, John the Baptizer, Church, Holy Trinity, marriage, family, conversion, communion, Incarnation, Advent, Deacon Keith Fournier
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9 months ago
I disagree with the commentary that says these verses are about brotherly love. It is unclear what Jesus was saying to the people at the gathering before his mother and brothers approached . It is clear they interrupted Him however. As in other parts of the new testament it is clear that familial lines don't always grant salvation. We are told for instance that in some cases mother will be against daughter and son against father regarding the belief in God the Father and his Son Jesus. For instance, if you worship Allah or Shiva and your son or daughter find life in Christ, there will be a division with parent against child in this case. For the child it is more important to stay rooted in what scripture says about salvation and disregard what his parent says about their faith and their god. If the parent will not convert and the child is unsafe living with this family the person must leave the family. Islam has mercy killings for example of heretics.
Getting back to the verse about Jesus and his mother. He does not elevate her or demand that a path be made so she can sit by his side. What He does do is make the statement that those that are obedient and faithful to God the Father through Jesus are his family where unbelievers are not part of His family. We are not saved by birthright. We are saved by the Fathers Grace through belief in Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection. Nothing else saves us.
1 year ago
I have nothing against catholics, but breaking that culture and tradition was the greatest gift! Love god pray to god and god only, in the name of the father the son and the holly spirit amen.
3 years ago
@ No Way- "Mary did a good thing" does not quite cover her role as the mother of Christ, nor of the importance of what she did. " Christ is God and no one is more important or equally important than God" ignores what Christ himself says, and who he prays to. Clearly Christ is teaching the importance of love one another, but also of doing the will of our Father in heaven. I do not believe in all the catholic teaching concerning the blessed mother, not because I pick and choose what I want nor that I'm a catholic in name only. It's simply that I do not understand. Whether you are catholic or not and do not believe in the catholic teachings of the Blessed Mother and the saints, everything else Keith Fournier says here is accepted by most all christian religions. We should ignore these differences, and focus on doing the will of the father.
3 years ago
I disagree with the "Behold your mother/son" interpretation laid out here. What Christ is saying here is a re-iteration of the new covenant to "Love one another." He clearly shows that he meant business when he stressed the importance of brotherly love to each other. This claim is more in line with the teachings of Christ than the one in this write-up. Mary did a good thing, but Christ is God and no one is more important or equally important than God.
3 years ago
Those who claim it lessens the importance of his earthly mother clearly misunderstand. It raises the importance of God, and reminds us that we are all part of His family. Those who argue over the doctrine of Mary his mother miss the point completely. Come to my church go to heaven, go to that church go to hell. It's not about us individually/selfishly, " whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matthew 12:48-50), it's about God. Those who would claim anything else, those who want to divide us over doctrine, have also forgotten Jesus prayer, "May they all be one" John 17:21
3 years ago
Deacon Keith has said it well "Jesus gave His Mother(Mary) to us through His beloved disciple John". John himself can be considered as the beginning of this generation . The beauty of Christ is that He was born of the woman as per the law, such that she first come in Christ followed by the first family & relates to the bible in Chapter revelations which states - The seed of the woman who keep the commandments of GOD & have the testimony of Jesus Christ. IN His statement regarding His Mother & brothers he was emphasizing His first Love - THE FATHER in eternity, which ought to be ours too, through Him. For as the Bible states, before the foundations were laid GOD chose each one in His Christ, which Christ Jesus is the only way, life & Truth to The Father, without exceptions.
3 years ago
I love ur good works keep it up.
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Cataclysm Class Changes: Hunter analysis {WoW}
Apr 9th 2010 7:51PM I know it's very early, but my biggest concern so far is not just in my hunter class, but the new abilities the other classes have gotten so far and their pvp implications. And how they all seem to work against my necessity to stay at a distance due to a deadzone. So far it seems like it's going to be even easier for Rogues and Warriors and maybe even DK's to get into and keep us in melee range. We don't know anything about Ret yet. Yet none of the new hunter abilities seem terribly useful in pvp and appear to be a bit more aimed at PvE variety. Disengage only makes matters worse. The change to focus and apparent reliability on a 1.5 second cast gives the impression that I'll have the ability to get off two shots then run around doing nothing praying I can out run that melee class, while waiting for slow focus to regen, because I'll never get the chance to stand there and pump steady shots into a Warrior. Of course it's too early to tell how things are going to work, but if I can only dump two shots into a target, then can't even disengage, steady shot isn't going to do anything for me. I'd almost like to see a system were defensive cooldowns such as Disengage, Master's Call, Deterrence, Wing Clip, and even Concussive Shot shot may be better served costing no Focus, or just a very very small amount of Focus and be put on cooldown. I also have questions on Hunter's Mark and Misdirect. It's going to be really hard to ask hunters to cast Misdirect if it's costing us valuable focus in a system where Focus already feels like it's going to be at premium.
Breakfast Topic: World PvP {WoW}
Apr 8th 2010 9:16AM When world pvp works, it's incredibly exciting and engaging.
I remember getting into a epic fight in the Train station in Stormwind with my geared Prot pally and a not as geared druid and rogue. I was going from one city to the other for whatever holiday festival made me run that corpse hop. It was by far the most engaging epic fight I've ever been in including raids. We almost got each other several times, the fight lasted well over 5 mins. At one point I hopped on the train and they jumped on to follow. Right as the train started moving I jumped off leaving them for a little visit to Ironforge. It felt like something out of a movie. Eventually the fight ended, and the druid created a horde character just to tell me about his soda covered screen from that maneuver. It was a moment in game I'll never forget.
When world pvp does not work it's the most frustrating, annoying, pain in the you know what. How many times have you been camped over and over and over again? How many times could you not even dare go into STV for you knew you'd spend more time running back to your corpse than actually fighting mob?. Blizzard has even stated they won't do a world boss because of world pvp issues. Personally I'd like to see a system where world pvp is active, but you have to be within say 3 or 4 levels of each other. There's nothing more annoying that a lv 80 Rogue camping and ganking a lv 45 character to the point where you have to log off. What about those fun exciting players who will stand on the roof of a building in a neutral town and blow you to bits where you can't react or retaliate? Yes you can try to call for help or get a geared lv 80 alt over, but you really shouldn't have to.
Scattered Shots: Dreaming of awesome ammo {WoW}
Feb 25th 2010 2:41PM Simply ingenious. Blizzard has long said they wanted the game to be more flexible with more personal customizable options and this is exactly the way to do it. in addition, this idea can be expanded to other classes. Why do Sigils, Totems, Idols, etc have to be so boring? Give Warriors, and Rogues their own ammo that allows them to customize thier class in such a way. From some of the examples listed in the article and in the comments, this could be achieved. Leave gear choices up to what's best for my class, but allow the ammo, sigil, etc slot be available for more fun and interesting choices. Could it conceivably cause balance issues? Sure, but the potential success makes this an idea that's worth serious consideration by the devs.
The Queue: The Kweh {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 6:30PM That was it! Everything worked just fine for a long time, I'm not sure why they added it to the filters, but thank you for the help. You are a lifesaver!
The Queue: The Kweh {WoW}
Feb 19th 2010 4:24PM Has there been any word on why the Armory suddenly won't show talent specs in Firefox? Seems to have been broken with the most recent upgrade, and it's rather annoying to have to copy/paste into IE whenever a new member apps to the guild. Even a simple "we're aware of the issue" would be nice.
Season 8 armor sets unveiled {WoW}
Jan 27th 2010 6:35PM I'm not sure why I was still holding out hope that the hunter set wouldn't be the ugliest. Silly me. Seriously, why does the art designers seem to hate hunters so much? They appear to spend so much time on every single other set, then break out the crayons for hunters. Oh, and yea mage set = pretty badass.
Ghostcrawler on AoE tanking: "The paladin method...is probably too good" {WoW}
Jan 26th 2010 8:45AM But you're missing my point entirely. My point is that every tank has a certain niche, and the argument to nerf the one niche that pallies fill leaves them void of the other abilities the 3 other tanks have. Paladins are known for having the best aoe agro. Druids have the best survivability, Warriors have the most flexibility with the largest toolbox, and DK's well, they need some work. And there's nothing wrong with having tanks fill different niche's. But if you take away the one thing the pally is best at, then what do they have left? This screams of a qq nerf, one that's a nerf for nerf's sake.
Ghostcrawler on AoE tanking: "The paladin method...is probably too good" {WoW}
Jan 25th 2010 4:03PM While I do agree that Pally Tanks are the kings of AoE threat, they also seem to fail to realize that Warriors,Druids and DK tanks have a lot more tools in their tool box. Other than Divine Protection, Ardent Defender, and Judgments of the Just, Pallies can't really do much to a boss and typically get thrown on adds. I'd like to tank a boss too! It's also worth noting that Vindication and Divine Guardian are low enough in the talent trees that many Ret and Holy pallies have access to these abilities, therefore reducing our uniqueness.
We don't have Sunder Armor, Shield Bash, Last Stand, Vigilance, Devastate, Disarm, Counter Attack (Revenge), Intervene, Demoralizing Shout/Roar, Intimidating Shout, Faerie Fire, Closing the gap abilities such as Feral Charge, Survival Instincts, Unbreakable Armor, Icebound Fortitude, Strangulate, Anti-Magic Shell, or AoE Taunts.
So if you take away the best part of being a pally tank, our aoe tanking abilities, then you'd better give us several things back. Excuse me for not feeling sorry for Warriors who can't aoe tank as other tank classes, yet have the biggest tool box to deal with a variety of situations.
Blood Sport: Protection warriors overpowered? {WoW}
Jan 12th 2010 10:16AM "Kiting shouldn't exist. It's stupid. It's not fun for either side. There is no middle ground. There is no skillful dichotomy of play.
Melee needs to be on their target.
Overemphasizing the importance and effectiveness of kiting/distance."
Takes a look at his bow, his best friend Crabby McPinchy, and his 5 yard deadzone and softly weeps in the corner.
I suppose in your world, arena matches are all offense all the time, no cc, no heals, just melee on melee 30 seconds matches. Sounds exciting and full of skill! And kiting is absolutely completely skill-less, especially a jump shotting hunter, working tirelessly to keep himself out of melee damage.
The Daily Quest: Guild switching {WoW}
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The Oscars: Strong Euro, Weak Pound
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Despite European performers claiming all four of the year's acting Oscars for the first time since 1965, perception isn't entirely rosy on the other side of the pond—particularly among bloggers at The Guardian. Maybe he was just cranky staying up past his bedtime, but Ken Levine offered one of the more acerbic, compulsively readable awards recaps available anywhere:
I thought I was watching three hours of the United Nations general assembly. Every speech was like Borat but not funny.
We ended the writers' strike for this? Jesus! …
No Joan and Melissa Rivers this year. The red carpet equivalent of Mom and Norman Bates have run out of networks. Joan is doing a one-woman show in LA and for the first time ever on Oscar night is performing to more than 200 people. …
Daniel Day-Lewis finally won his Oscar for Gangs of New York. When he someday shuttles his mortal coil I'm sure the cause of death will be: choked on some scenery.
Meanwhile, in a rambling reader comment over at Green Cine Daily, regular Guardian contributor and all-around cinephile grump Ronald Bergan gets existential and referential while shooting down this year's ceremony—hell, every year's ceremony:
"If you can stand the fake sentimentality and the platitudes of the officials and the mincing elocution of the glamour queens; if you can do all these things with grace and pleasure, and not have a wild and foresaken horror at the thought that most of these people actually take this shoddy performance seriously; if you can do all these things and still feel next morning that the picture business is worth the attention of one single, intelligent, artistic mind, then in the picture business you certainly belong, because this sort of vulgarity is part of its inevitable price." Little has changed about the Academy Awards since Raymond Chandler penned the above in March 1948.
By the way, I think the Coen Brothers, whose work I once admired for their originality, and, in fact, whose biography I wrote, have made a hateful film.
Then there's greedy David Thomson wanting to know why There Will Be Blood couldn't coax more than Daniel Day-Lewis's Best Actor award from the Academy, and even resoundingly upbeat Guardian liveblogger Anna Pickard, immersed "like a D-list pearl in an A-list ocean" out in Los Angeles, seems disappointed that the Spanish half of Javier Bardem's acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor doesn't yield the subversive vulgarity she was craving. Such ingratitude! Don't think the Academy has too short a memory to remember this in '08. OK, they do, but still.
S.T. VanAirsdale is the founder and editor of the New York film blog The Reeler.


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Fall plant swap will be held October 2nd at 10am until 12pm at the Ag building on Fairchild in Winston-Salem, NC. Start potting up all those extra plants now to share with your friends. We've had great turnout the last couple of swaps and hope it continues to grow. This swap is open to the public from any county so invite all your friends.
The address is:
If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Responses to this message should be automatically forwarded to my email so I can answer. This swap is open to anyone that wants to trade plants, not only to Master Gardeners, so tell your neighbors and friends. If you have a plant to swap, you can attend. It is also not restricted to Forsyth County. Everyone is invited! All plants should be labeled with the botanical name, common name accepted if botanical name not known. You can write on a stick or even the side of the pot as long as it's labeled. The actual swapping will begin at 11:00AM, so get there early to set up your plants and look over all the others. The swap will go like this:
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by jdbheartease 7-NC (My Page) on Tue, Jul 13, 10 at 20:56
Vicky, Thanks for posting. I'm planning on coming and several of my gardening neighbors are coming as well. I'll help spread the word. Judy |
- Posted by rootdiggernc Z-7A NC (My Page) on Wed, Jul 14, 10 at 18:41
WooHoo! |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jul 30, 10 at 8:13
I have the following potted up for the swap so far: Pregnant Onions - Ornithogalum longibracteatum [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/ornithog1.jpg[/IMG] Jewels of Opar - Talinum paniculatum [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/TalinumPaniculatum040715.jpg[/IMG] Golden Rain Trees - Koelreuteria paniculata [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/golden_rain-435x326.jpg[/IMG] Angelina Sedum - Sedum rupestre 'Angelina' [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/Angelina-Sedum.jpg[/IMG] Golden Teardrop Sedum - [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/Sedum20lineare20Golden20Teardrop2.jpg[/IMG] Bloody Dock - Rumex sanguineus [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/bloodydock.jpg[/IMG] Sedum - Sedum teractinum [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/dtpforu/Plant Swap Plants/sedumteractinum.jpg[/IMG] |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jul 30, 10 at 8:15
well, i was trying to link pictures but it's not working. will work on it some more. |
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We've been having a lot of calls about the swap this year. it should be a good one. |
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Once you are finished going through all the menopausal symptoms, does the pain and pressure go away?
How about the mood swings and irritability? Is it just the "going through it" time frame with all the symptoms, and once you arrive.. it all goes away? Or, is this IT? This is life now? Thanks, I am curious, and hoping for the END of all this. |
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- Posted by secapps(email@example.com) onSat, Nov 17, 01 at 10:52
I am wondering the same thing. Maybe we will hear from some ladies who are considered to be through, or over menopause who will tell us what to expect. Sometimes I think once menopause starts it never ends, or just goes from one symptom to another. LOL |
- Posted by Ginger(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSun, Nov 18, 01 at 8:30
I would like an answer to this question too. Once the hormones have done their thing and we are no longer perimenopausal and into the big menopausal, do all the symptoms leave us? Will we be normal at any point again in the future, or is this the "schtick" from now on. Kill me if it is. |
- Posted by secapps(email@example.com) onTue, Nov 20, 01 at 9:37
Guess no one is through menopause, or maybe this is their way of telling us it is never ending. LOL |
- Posted by Kasey(email@example.com) onThu, Nov 22, 01 at 7:54
Hello everyone, I am 53 years old and have not had a "period" in about 11 1/2 months. I experience cramping in my abdomen and I was wondering if this is the pain and pressure you are talking about. Sometimes I think I am going to get a period for sure and then the cramps subside after a few days. I also still have painful breasts on occasion. I am not taking HRT in any form because of cancer in my family (my mom had ovarian cancer) My OB is not too pleased by my choice, but hey ladies, THIS IS MY BODY! I am wondering the same thing, does this pain ever go away. Well, it is Thanksgiving so I guess I better go take care of the turkeys (my hubby and the traditional thanksgiving bird too) Everyone have a wonderful day. Thank you to all who write back. |
- Posted by Juni-Per(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Nov 22, 01 at 20:05
It is Thanksgiving here too right now, and we are all done eating and I have the kitchen cleaned and everyone settled down and about to watch "Miracle on 34th Street" on American Movie Channel. I was hoping there would be an answer too by now. Yesterday, I made an appointment with the closest gynie that does "Menopausal" work as a main focus. That will be on January 8th. Hopefully, I will get some answers then. Anyone out there reading this? Hailing all Menopausal Brains to answer! |
- Posted by Joan(email@example.com) onThu, Nov 22, 01 at 20:28
At 53, I'm not there yet, still having periodic visits. I have been told that it does get better, just not sure when. I know I have felt much better since beginning to use some soy supplement and progesterone creme. My guess is that whether its gets better or not you just cope and forget it. If it does get better why would you still want to visit a board like this? I suppose only if you wanted to share your experiences or didn't have anything else to do. I think peri is worse, first the denial, then the indecision, then with action you begin to feel in charge again. Good luck with your change in drs. I think I will change this year for the check up also. Haven't been impressed with the one I've seen the last 2 times. Need to make the appointment, just haven't. |
Huh? Well I certainly hope so. Wait...what was the question? Ummm.... I call it "meno-fog." :) I'm certainly hoping it gets better...there is a forum in the link below about post-menopause, you may check there. Carina |
Here is a link that might be useful: meno stuff
- Posted by Leigh(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Nov 23, 01 at 19:09
Because so many people confuse signs of aging with signs of menopause, it's impossible to answer this question with an unqualified yes or no. Yes the hot flashes go away or decrease to a level to where you don't really notice them much. The insomnia pretty much disappears. The "fog" disappears. You may find yourself more assertive and a little less willing to suffer fools patiently. The aches and pains that go along with an aging body won't go away though. The wrinkles and grey hair aren't going to go away. The above is true if you don't use exogenous hormone preparations. If you do use those you will not be post menopausal in a biochemical sense. Instead you will remain perimenopausal for as long as you take these drugs and hold back your body's natural transition to post menopause. I had my last period in Nov. of 1994. I still have a few mild hot flashes every day but I seldom even notice them now. I sleep reasonably well, have no memory or cognitive problems, and can honestly say that I've never felt better in my life. I take no drugs or otc supplements of any kind. |
- Posted by shelley_gardener (My Page) on Tue, Sep 16, 08 at 13:45
From my experience the pain doesn't. I am 55 and I have been going thru menopause for 8 years. I really had a pretty good grip on it by taking Trazadone to sleep, watching my health/diet/mild exercise etc...until they decided because of a BRACA test/family history to remove my ovaries.......WHOA. Three months and the body pain is hell, so much so I feel like I am 90. I have always been fit, a professional ballet dancer.....now I can barely walk 2 miles because the muscle recovery takes days. My 85 year old mother is doing better than I because she still takes estrogen and they won't give me any... Don't have surgery to prevent cancer it ruins the quality of one's life, makes you feel 90 inside too fast. I am going to find a way to get estrogen if I have to break into a pharmacy to do it....(kidding) S |
- Posted by western_pa_luann (My Page) on Tue, Sep 16, 08 at 14:30
"Don't have surgery to prevent cancer it ruins the quality of one's life" I know MANY BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene carriers who feel the opposite! |
hey when ya break in to get it give me some, Im in Illinois, ill drive you break.. now we can do it Thelma. Im Louise, are ya ready LOLLOL! vvvvvrrooooooooooommmm smash break. GOT IT! |
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BALTIMORE — The Red Sox won't know the Opening Day status of right fielder Shane Victorino until Monday morning.
After flying with the team to Baltimore on Saturday, Victorino traveled north to Boston on Sunday in order to get an MRI on the right hamstring he injured in the spring training finale. Victorino won't undergo a complete examination until Monday morning.
Manager John Farrell said there should be time for Victorino to get to Baltimore in time for the 3 p.m. start if he's ruled healthy in the morning. If not, he could open the season on the disabled list. Farrell ruled Victorino "questionable" for the Monday opener.
"You've got to remain aware that you might have to change on the fly," Farrell said. "But when he's on the field, we're talking about a Gold Glove winner in right field. … If he's not available to us, we'll certainly miss him."
Victorino's spring had been slowed earlier by his return from offseason thumb surgery and core-strengthening issues. The hamstring, which nagged him throughout 2013, had not been a problem until Saturday.
If Victorino can't play, the Red Sox can slide Daniel Nava to right field and start either Jonny Gomes or Mike Carp in left. (With righty Chris Tillman on the hill for Baltimore, Carp might be the safer bet.) If Victorino requires the full 15 days on the disabled list, Jackie Bradley Jr. would be the obvious call-up.
Since Victorino started a major-league spring-training game on Saturday, Boston would not be able to backdate a potential trip to the disabled list any earlier than that. That means a trip to the DL would keep Victorino on the sideline for the first two weeks of the season.
The real deal at last
For David Ortiz, Opening Day means an end to the tedium of spring training and the commencement of games that matter. For Jon Lester, Opening Day means a chance to set a tone for the rest of the pitching staff to follow.
For Farrell, Opening Day is a chance to put into action everything he and his coaching staff have preached for the last six weeks to the defending World Series champions.
"Over the last probably four or five games, there's been a little bit more of an edge that has been present in our dugout," the manager said. "Guys are eager to get going. We came in not entitled to anything. That goes from our work to what we expect as a group. That work continued to be strong throughout camp. We're looking forward to the challenges starting tomorrow."
"It's a different story now," said Ortiz, who had just two hits in Grapefruit League games. "It's the season."
By the end of April last year, the Red Sox were 10 games over .500 and had a six-game cushion on the Tampa Bay Rays. From May 1 onward, Tampa Bay actually had a slightly better record than Boston but couldn't overcome that early deficit.
The reverse was true in 2011. The September collapse is the legacy that team left, but even a 7-20 final month would have been enough to get those underachieving Red Sox to the playoffs had they not gone 11-15 in April.
October might feel far away now, but a poor start in March and April can all but preclude a run at the playoffs. Of last year's six division winners, only the Los Angeles Dodgers — reinforced by Yasiel Puig in early June — weren't at least four games over .500 at the end of April.
If the Red Sox are going to repeat as World Series champions, it starts Monday at Camden Yards.
"We don't know what the next 180 days are going to bring us, but we're looking forward to getting that started," Farrell said. "Tomorrow is a very special day."
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A year after starting the season at Double A, Xander Bogaerts will be the Opening Day shortstop for the Red Sox on Monday. This would be a remarkable leap, if not for the fact that Bogaerts has already been Boston's World Series third baseman. Opening Day is cool and all, but it's not exactly a milestone for the 21-year-old.
"Happy to be here from the start," said Bogaerts, who didn't join last year's big-league squad until August. "It'll definitely be a game like all the other ones; just a little more excitement to it on the first day of the year."
The biggest difference for Bogaerts will be where he lines up on the infield. The shift back to his natural position at shortstop brings a smile to Bogaerts' face.
"I did really well in spring training, so my confidence is pretty high, especially defensively. I'm ready for any ball that's hit to me," he said.
Credit that to a full spring with third-base coach Brian Butterfield, instead of the abbreviated one caused by Bogaerts' participation in the World Baseball Classic last year.
"Huge steps forward," said Bogaerts. "This year, I worked a lot, especially before the games, to prepare for when the game comes to just go with the flow."
Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks still have a bit to prove defensively as a young left side of the infield.
"There are going to be growing pains as they settle in, and probably more with Xander, only because he's in the very early stages of his own career," Farrell said. "More than anything, they're in a confident state of mind, and I'm looking forward to seeing them every day."
Farrell has been impressed time and again by Bogaerts' demeanor.
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The CIA and Iran
October 24, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
The CIA and the Iran Caper: How Petraeus Fueled the Plot
By Ray Mcgovern
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week's White House spy feature: the Iranian-American-used-car-salesman-Mexican-drug-cartel plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
In Thursday's column, Ignatius notes that, initially, White House and Justice Department officials found the story "implausible." It was. But the Petraeus team soon leapt to the rescue, reflecting the four-star-general-turned-intelligence-chief's deep-seated animus toward Iran.
Before Ignatius's article, I had seen no one allude to the fact that much about this crime-stopper tale had come from the CIA. In public, the FBI had taken the lead role, presumably because the key informant inside a Mexican drug cartel worked for U.S. law enforcement via the Drug Enforcement Administration.
However, according to Ignatius, "One big reason [top U.S. officials became convinced the plot was real] is that CIA and other intelligence agencies gathered information corroborating the informant's juicy allegations and showing that the plot had support from the top leadership of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the covert action arm of the Iranian government."
Ignatius adds that, "It was this intelligence collected in Iran" that swung the balance, but he offers no example of what that intelligence was. He only mentions a recorded telephone call on Oct. 4 between Iranian-American cars salesman Mansour Arbabsiar and his supposed contact in Iran, Gholam Shakuri, allegedly an official in Iran's Quds spy agency.
The call is recounted in the FBI affidavit submitted in support of the criminal charges against Arbabsiar, who is now in U.S. custody, and Shakuri, who is not. But the snippets of that conversation are unclear, discussing what on the surface appears to be a "Chevrolet" car purchase, but which the FBI asserts is code for killing the Saudi ambassador.
Without explaining what other evidence the CIA might have, Ignatius tries to further strengthen the case by knocking down some of the obvious problems with the allegations, such as "why the Iranians would undertake such a risky operation, and with such embarrassingly poor tradecraft."
"But why the use of Mexican drug cartels?" asks Ignatius rhetorically, before adding dutifully: "U.S. officials say that isn't as implausible as it sounds."
But it IS as implausible as it sounds, says every professional intelligence officer I have talked with since the "plot" was somberly announced on Tuesday.
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There used to be real pros in the CIA's operations directorate. One — Ray Close, a longtime CIA Arab specialist and former Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia — told me on Wednesday that we ought to ask ourselves a very simple question:
"If you were an Iranian undercover operative who was under instructions to hire a killer to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, D.C., why in HELL would you consider it necessary to explain to a presumed Mexican [expletive deleted] that this murder was planned and would be paid for by a secret organization in Iran?
"Whoever concocted this tale wanted the 'plot' exposed … to precipitate a major crisis in relations between Iran and the United States. Which other government in the Middle East would like nothing better than to see those relations take a big step toward military confrontation?"
If you hesitate in answering, you have not been paying attention. Many have addressed this issue. My last stab at throwing light on the Israel/Iran/U.S. nexus appeared ten days ago in "Israel's Window to Bomb Iran."
Another point on the implausibility meter is: What are the odds that Iran's Quds force would plan an unprecedented attack in the United States, that this crack intelligence agency would trust the operation to a used-car salesman with little or no training in spycraft, that he would turn to his one contact in a Mexican drug cartel who happens to be a DEA informant, and that upon capture the car salesman would immediately confess and implicate senior Iranian officials?
Wouldn't it make more sense to suspect that Arbabsiar might be a double-agent, recruited by some third-party intelligence agency to arrange some shady business deal regarding black-market automobiles, get some ambiguous comments over the phone from an Iranian operative, and then hand the plot to the U.S. government on a silver platter – as a way to heighten tensions between Washington and Teheran?
That said, there are times when even professional spy agencies behave like amateurs. And there's no doubt that the Iranians – like the Israelis, the Saudis and the Americans – can and do carry out assassinations and kidnappings in this brave new world of ours.
Remember, for instance, the case of Islamic cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was abducted off the streets of Milan, Italy, on Feb. 17, 2003, and then flown from a U.S. air base to Egypt where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year.
In 2009, Italian prosecutors convicted 23 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, in absentia for the kidnapping after reconstructing the disappearance through their unencrypted cell phone records and their credit card bills at luxury hotels in Milan.
Then, there was the suspected Mossad assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai on Jan. 19, 2010, with the hit men seen on hotel video cameras strolling around in tennis outfits and creating an international furor over their use of forged Irish, British, German and French passports.
So one cannot completely rule out that there may conceivably be some substance to the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador.
And beyond the regional animosities between Saudi Arabia and Iran, there could be a motive – although it has been absent from American press accounts – i.e. retaliation for the assassinations of senior Iranian nuclear scientists and generals over the last couple of years within Iran itself.
But there has been close to zero real evidence coming from the main source of information — officials of the Justice Department, which like the rest of the U.S. government has long since forfeited much claim to credibility.
Petraeus's 'Intelligence' on Iran
The public record also shows that former Gen. Petraeus has long been eager to please the neoconservatives in Washington and their friends in Israel by creating "intelligence" to portray Iran and other target countries in the worst light.
One strange but instructive example comes to mind, a studied, if disingenuous, effort to blame all the troubles in southern Iraq on the "malignant" influence of Iran.
On April 25, 2008, Joint Chiefs Chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters that Gen. Petraeus in Baghdad would give a briefing "in the next couple of weeks" providing detailed evidence of "just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability." Petraeus's staff alerted U.S. media to a major news event in which captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed.
Oops. Small problem. When American munitions experts went to Karbala to inspect the alleged cache of Iranian weapons, they found nothing that could be credibly linked to Iran.
At that point, adding insult to injury, the Iraqis announced that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had formed his own Cabinet committee to investigate the U.S. claims and attempt to "find tangible information and not information based on speculation." Ouch!
The Teflon-clad Petraeus escaped embarrassment, as the David Ignatiuses of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) conveniently forgot all about the promised-then-canceled briefing. U.S. media suppression of this telling episode is just one example of how difficult it is to get unbiased, accurate information on touchy subjects like Iran into the FCM.
As for Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, some adult adviser should tell them to quit giving hypocrisy a bad name with their righteous indignation over the thought that no civilized nation would conduct cross-border assassinations.
The Obama administration, like its predecessor, has been dispatching armed drones to distant corners of the globe to kill Islamic militants, including recently U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki for the alleged crime of encouraging violence against Americans.
Holder and Obama have refused to release the Justice Department's legal justification for the targeted murder of al-Awlaki whose "due process" amounted to the President putting al-Awlaki's name on a secret "kill-or-capture" list.
Holder and Obama have also refused to take meaningful action to hold officials of the Bush administration accountable for war crimes even though President George W. Bush has publicly acknowledged authorizing waterboarding and other brutal techniques long regarded as acts of torture.
Who can take at face value the sanctimonious words of an attorney general like Holder who has acquiesced in condoning egregious violations of the Bill of Rights, the U.S. criminal code, and international law — like the International Convention Against Torture?
Were shame not in such short supply in Official Washington these days, one would be amazed that Holder could keep a straight face, accusing these alleged Iranian perpetrators of "violating an international convention."
America's Founders would hold in contempt the Holders and the faux-legal types doing his bidding. The behavior of the past two administrations has been more reminiscent of George III and his sycophants than of James Madison, George Mason, John Jay and George Washington, who gave us the rich legacy of a Constitution, which created a system based on laws not men.
That Constitution and its Bill of Rights have become endangered species at the hands of the craven poachers at "Justice." No less craven are the functionaries leading today's CIA.
What to Watch For
If Petraeus finds it useful politically to conjure up more "evidence" of nefarious Iranian behavior in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, Lebanon or Syria, he will. And if he claims to see signs of ominous Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons, watch out.
Honest CIA analysts, like the ones who concluded that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in late 2003 and had not resumed that work, are in short supply, and most have families to support and mortgages to pay.
Petraeus is quite capable of marginalizing them, or even forcing them to quit. I have watched this happen to a number of intelligence officials under a few of Petraeus's predecessors.
More malleable careerists can be found in any organization, and promoted, so long as they are willing to tell more ominous — if disingenuous — stories that may make more sense to the average American than the latest tale of the Iraninan-American-used-car-salesman-Mexican-drug-cartel-plot.
This can get very dangerous in a hurry. Israel's leaders would require but the flimsiest of nihil obstat to encourage them to provoke hostilities with Iran. Netanyahu and his colleagues would expect the Obamas, Holders, and Petraeuses of this world to be willing to "fix the intelligence and facts" (a la Iraq) to "justify" such an attack.
The Israeli leaders would risk sucking the United States into the kind of war with Iran that, short of a massive commitment of resources or a few tactical nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel could almost surely not win. It would be the kind of war that would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor skirmishes.
Ray McGovern was an Army officer and CIA analyst for almost 30 year. He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (Verso). He can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
A version of this article first appeared on Consortiumnews.com.
Questions Abound over Iran "Plot" to Kill Saudi Envoy
October 13, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Alistair Lyon
LONDON (Reuters) – You couldn't make it up — or could you?
U.S. allegations that an Iranian spy outfit attempted to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington in a convoluted plot involving a U.S. informant posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel seem bizarre to say the least.
Still, Washington says the drama justifies new international sanctions against Iran and Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief insists that "somebody in Iran" must pay the price.
"The burden of proof and the amount of evidence in the case is overwhelming and clearly shows official Iranian responsibility for this," Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal said.
The potential consequences are dire in a tense region where the United States and Israel reserve the right to attack Iran to stop it acquiring a nuclear bomb, a goal Tehran disavows.
For starters, the row could throttle any slim chance of resuming negotiations to settle the nuclear dispute.
Saudi-Iranian acrimony has ratcheted up this year, especially since Saudi troops intervened to help Bahrain's Sunni rulers crush protests led by the island's Shi'ite majority and fomented, according to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, by Iran.
From across the Middle East's Arab-Persian and Sunni-Shi'ite faultlines, Riyadh also accuses Tehran of inciting unrest among minority Shi'ites in its own oil-rich Eastern Province, and has often urged the United States in the past to attack Iran, according to diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.
The plot suspects are Iranian-American Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, arrested on September 29 in New York, and Gholam Shakuri, said to be a member of Quds Force, the covert, operational arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. He is thought to be in Iran.
U.S. evidence rests mainly on Arbabsiar's alleged confession that he had acted for men he thought were top Quds officials.
Yet questions abound over the putative plot, not least the classic ones of motive and means. Many analysts are skeptical.
What could Iran hope to gain from an assassination that would have brought fierce retribution? Why try to recruit a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel instead of using its own?
On the other hand, why would the United States, even with a presidential election looming next year, go public with such accusations unless they were well founded, knowing the impact they could have on an already volatile Middle East?
"Killing the Saudi envoy in America has no benefit for Iran," said independent Iranian analyst Saeed Leylaz. "Why should Iran create hostility when the region is boiling?
Dismissing the "very amateur scenario" as out of character, he said: "Iran might have conducted some political adventurism like denying the Holocaust, but an assassination attempt, particularly in America, is so un-Iranian."
It would certainly be a departure for Iran, although it has assassinated its own dissidents abroad since the 1979 Islamic revolution, and it has used Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and Shi'ite militias in Iraq to further its own aims.
Decision-making in Tehran is murky and factional rivalry is rife. But the idea that rogue Quds elements could concoct such a momentous plot seems a stretch. That Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would authorize it seems more so.
"The United States would not blame the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) without substantial evidence," argued U.S.-based global intelligence company Stratfor.
"However, this plot seems far-fetched considering the Iranian intelligence services' usual methods of operation and the fact that its ramifications would involved substantial political risk," it added.
Former CIA agent Robert Baer poured scorn on the reported Iranian conspiracy. "This stinks to holy hell," he told Britain's Guardian newspaper. "The Quds Force are very good. They don't sit down with people they don't know and make a plot. They use proxies and they are professional about it."
How this lurid episode in the adversarial relationships between Iran, the United States and its Saudi ally will play out in a Middle East already in turmoil is not yet clear.
Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, said the "fabricated allegations" were a U.S. bid to divert attention from Arab uprisings that Iran says were inspired by its own Islamic revolution which toppled the U.S.-backed Shah in 1979.
Tehran has watched in glee as popular revolts have ousted U.S. allies in Egypt and Tunisia, even if Islam has not been the overt driving force behind the surge of Arab unrest – it may have more in common with Iran's own street protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009.
Iran, however, is disconcerted by the upheaval in Syria, its only solid Arab ally and overland link to Hezbollah.
The fall of President Bashar al-Assad would damage Iran's "resistance" axis and perhaps strengthen Saudi Arabia and Turkey, its main Sunni rivals for influence in the Middle East.
Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, is already on a U.S. sanctions list for allegedly supporting Assad's violent six-month-old crackdown on dissent.
Nevertheless, it seems doubtful that any of the protagonists would want to use the alleged Iranian plot as a pretext for all-out confrontation in a region the world depends on for oil.
Given that no one was hurt, Iran, the United States and Saudi Arabia may avert any violent fallout — although Washington clearly intends to push for further international punishment of Iran for its defiance of U.S. policy.
"More U.S. sanctions will be about the limit of it," said Alastair Newton, a former senior British Foreign Office official and now senior political analyst for Japanese bank Nomura. "The U.S. case hardly looks solid, either, so let's wait and see."
U.S. officials have themselves acknowledged that the details of the plot smack of a Hollywood script, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jesting: "Nobody could make that up, right?"
(Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi in Tehran, Peter Apps and Dmitry Zhdannikov in London, and Washington/New York bureaux; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
"Game Over" for Gaddafi?
June 30, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Nick Carey and Adam Gray-Block
Stockpiles of ordnance inside a Gaddafi ammunition bunker which is now controlled by rebel fighters are seen approximately 40 kms (25 miles) southeast of Zintan June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Anis Mili |
(Reuters) – Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could fall within two to three months, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Tuesday, as rebels sought to build on a gradual advance toward Tripoli.
The ICQ's Luis Moreno-O campo, who on Monday announced an arrest warrant for Gaddafi on charges of crimes against humanity, is the latest international official to say the Libyan leader would soon capitulate to a NATO-backed revolt.
"It is a matter of time … Gaddafi will face charges," Moreno-O campo told reporters in The Hague, where the warrants were approved for Gaddafi, his son Said al-Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
He added: "I don't think we will have to wait for long…In two or three months it is game over."
The Libyan administration rejects the authority of the ICC and has denied targeting civilians, saying it has acted against armed criminal gangs and al Qaeda militants.
While there is little chance of Gaddafi being arrested if he remains in power, his foes have seized on the warrant to justify the three-month NATO bombing campaign and to try and bolster world opinion in support of the operation.
In Washington, a U.S. Senate panel backed a resolution to formally authorize continued U. s. participation in the NATO-led operation. Senators on the panel rebuked President Barrack Obama for not having sought congressional approval in the first place.
In comments that appeared to make any political settlement even less likely, rebels said after talks in Paris that even indirect contacts with Gaddafi were now excluded — hardening a line that until now acknowledged talks through intermediaries.
"I don't think there is any place for direct or indirect contact with Gaddafi," Mahout Sham, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTSC) said after meetings with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In its eastern stronghold of Benghazi, the NTSC hosted the foreign minister of Bulgaria, whose country along with Romania brought to at least 22 the number of states which recognize the NTSC as representatives of the Libyan people.
Rebels Closer to Tripoli
The rebellion against Gaddafi has made only slow progress since Western countries began bombing three months ago, but rebels say they are finally advancing closer to Tripoli.
Rebels based in the Western Mountains region southwest of the capital made their biggest breakthrough in weeks on Sunday to reach the town of Birr al-Ghanam, where they are now fighting pro- Gaddafi forces for control, their spokesman said.
The move took them 30 km (18 miles) north of their previous position and closer to Tripoli, Gaddafi's main power base.
A rebel spokesman said there had been further fighting on Monday. "Fighting broke out yesterday evening in Birr Ay and Birr al-Ghanem. The (government) brigades used Grad rockets. The fighting stopped later after strikes by NATO," he said.
A Reuters photographer said rebels tried to salvage weapons from a pro- Gaddafi arms depot some 20 km (13 miles) southeast of the nearby town of Zintan after it had been bombed by NATO, but they were prevented as fire broke out across the entire depot.
Elsewhere, rebels in Misrata said Gaddafi's forces struck at the Mediterranean coastal city some 200 km (125 miles) east of Tripoli overnight. Rebels said they blew up a vehicle laden with arms belonging to Gaddafi's forces in nearby Zlitan on Tuesday but were downbeat on the prospect of any imminent advances.
"Given our limited means, I don't see how we are going to make major gains," a rebel spokesman called Abdelsalam said.
The revolt has turned into the bloodiest of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic rulers across the Middle East, becoming a full-blown civil war with control of the country divided between the rebels and Gaddafi's government.
In London, a British minister told reporters a team planning for a post-conflict Libya had recommended Gaddafi's security forces be left largely intact after any rebel victory, avoiding an error made after the Iraq war.
"One of the first things that should happen once Tripoli falls is that someone should get on the phone to the former Tripoli chief of police and tell him he's got a job and he needs to ensure the safety and security of the people of Tripoli," said International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
The report of the UK-led team is to be presented at the next meeting of an international contact group on Libya on July 15.
"NATO Fig Leaf"
Reporters were taken on Tuesday by Libyan government minders to the town of Bain Wailed, a tribal stronghold about 150 km (90 miles) southeast of Tripoli to attend a pro- Gaddafi rally.
"We are here to show that all Libyan people love Gaddafi," said schoolteacher Halo Aimed, 20, one of 200 mostly female supporters, some of whom fired machine guns in the air, while two carried unloaded rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Bain Wailed is home to the Walhalla, Libya's biggest tribe, which originally announced its opposition to Gaddafi when the uprising began in February. The tribe's revolt was quickly suppressed by forces loyal to Gaddafi.
The launch of a third war in a Muslim country has divided U. s. public opinion while tens of thousands of troops are still deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. U. s. forces took the lead in the air campaign's initial days, but quickly turned command over to NATO, with most bombing carried out by Britain and France.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed a resolution formally authorizing U. s. participation in the operation but banning the introduction of U.S. troops on the ground.
Senators said Obama should have sought approval in Congress earlier. U. s. State Department legal adviser Harold Kohl said no authorization was needed because the U. s. role was too limited to be considered "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution, which requires presidents to seek approval for military action.
Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat and former U. s. Navy secretary, said any operation that lasts for months and costs billions could be defined as hostilities "even under the NATO fig leaf."
(Additional reporting by Maria Gorgonian in Benghazi, Michael Martian in Beijing, Susan Cornell in Washington, John Irish in Paris, Joseph Nash in Berlin, David Brainstorm in Brussels and Hasid Auld Aimed in Algiers; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Peter Graff)


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A decade before the 1929 stock market crash there was a booming real estate market in New York City that Assistant Professor Anna Scherbina says resembles the housing bubble of the 1990s and 2000s.
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