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'Little Gitmo'
July 21, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.
By Christopher S. Stewart
File: Yassin Aref. (Photo: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union) |
July 11, 2011 "New York Magazine" — - On August 4, 2004, Yassin Aref was walking along West Street in a run-down part of downtown Albany. It was about 11 p.m., and he had just finished delivering evening prayer at the storefront mosque around the corner, where he had been the imam for nearly four years. Caught up in his thoughts, he might not have noticed the car parked across from his two-story building if a man hadn't called out his name.
Aref instantly recognized the FBI agents inside the darkened vehicle. They had been monitoring him for years now, maybe longer. Sometimes they stopped and asked questions about his views on Saddam Hussein or the mosque. As part of Bush's war on terror, the FBI had been talking to other Muslims in Albany, too. When Aref climbed into the back seat, he figured that the agents simply wanted to talk some more. Instead, they told him he was under arrest.
It took a long time for this to settle in. Aref was silent as they drove to FBI headquarters, a fortlike concrete-and-glass building on the south side of town. The agency has spoken only vaguely about what happened when they questioned him, and there are no recordings, though Aref would later describe the time as the "hardest, darkest, and longest night of my life"—scarier, he said recently, than the hardships he and his wife suffered as Kurds in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
His hands and feet were chained. One of the agents spoke some Kurdish. Aref heard questions about terrorism, money laundering, a missile launcher. He refused a lawyer, believing that he had nothing to hide. "It is against my religion to lie," he told them. The interrogation lasted much of the night. He says he never heard specific charges. At some point they told him his house and mosque were being raided, and all he could think about was his wife and three children, who had arrived in Albany with him as U.N. refugees in 1999.
When morning broke, he was loaded into another car, bleary-eyed and weakened, and taken to the federal courthouse. As the vehicle moved through the streets, Aref was astonished by the sudden commotion. Helicopters swarmed overhead. There were scores of local and national news reporters, cameras angling to get his picture. He saw snipers.
During his three-week trial in 2006, he learned that he was the target of a controversial FBI sting, which involved a Pakistani informant with a history of crime. In the end, he was convicted of, among other things, conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He spent weeks in solitary confinement, days shackled in different vehicles, which shuffled him from prison to prison. Time coalesced, became unrecognizable, until, in the spring of 2007, Aref landed at a newly created prison unit in Terre Haute, Indiana, that would change his life again. It already had a nickname: Little Gitmo.
Aref didn't know anything about Little Gitmo, or a Communication Management Unit (CMU), as it's formally called. Once a death-row facility where Timothy McVeigh was executed, the Terre Haute CMU was quietly opened by the Bush administration in December 2006 to contain inmates with links, in particular, to "terrorist-related activity." A year later, another unit opened in Marion, Illinois.
Although inmates and guards refer to CMUs as Little Gitmos, the comparison to Guantánamo is imprecise: The units are not detention centers, and the inmates inside have already been convicted of crimes in the U.S. legal system. But what differentiates CMUs from all other facilities in the U.S. are the prisoners. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) estimates that 66 to 72 percent of them are Muslims, a staggering number considering that Muslims represent only 6 percent of the entire federal-prison population.
As of June, there are 82 men in the two CMUs, according to federal-prison officials, including a man convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the American Taliban John Walker Lindh, and the lone survivor of an EgyptAir hijacking in 1985. All inmates are kept under 24-hour surveillance in near-complete isolation. "If the government has intelligence that links you to terrorist activity, then that's something that the prison authority should be able to take into account," says Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, in defense of the measures. "We give them an array of privileges that most other places in the world are shocked by."
Legal activists agree that restrictive rules can be applied to high-security prisoners, but many in the CMUs, they say, are low-security inmates. One Muslim man was placed in a CMU for perjury, while another was locked up, in part, for violating U.S. sanctions by donating to a charity abroad without a license. According to CCR, many don't fully know why they ended up in the segregated units or how they might appeal their placement. In the words of Kathy Manley, one of Aref's defense attorneys, the CMUs are a "quarantine," and Alexis Agathocleous, a lawyer at CCR, calls them "an experiment in social isolation." "There is this story being told in this country now about the threat of homegrown terror and of radicalization related to Muslim prisoners, and the CMU is a story about law enforcement controlling that dangerous threat," says Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer at CCR. "An allegation that someone is somehow connected to terrorism, without evidence and without an actual conviction [for terrorism], allows them to be treated in this whole different system of justice."
To gather intelligence from CMU inmates, correspondence is combed through by a counterterrorism unit in West Virginia. Regular group prayer is prohibited, and communications must be in English unless there's a live translator. Phone calls are limited to two fifteen-minute conversations a week (most maximum-security prisoners get 300 minutes a month). Immediate families of CMU inmates can visit only twice a month for a total of eight hours (general-population prisoners at Terre Haute get up to 49 hours of visits a month), and those conversations are monitored, recorded, and conducted through Plexiglas. Physical contact is forbidden, a permanent ban not imposed on most violent felons in maximum-security prisons.
As a result, critics say, those familiar markers—family, language, and religious identity—are being stripped away. "This is more than just being cut off from the world," says Nina Thomas, a psychologist-psychoanalyst at NYU who has studied the CMUs. "Inmates are being shut into a very narrow universe."
While the stated purpose of the CMUs, according to prisons spokesperson Traci Billingsley, is to "protect the public," Meeropol thinks that they "spread fear." Shamshad Ahmad, a physics lecturer at the University of Albany and president of Aref's mosque, says that CMUs "send a message that the whole justice system [is] geared to take revenge of the events of 9/11 on anyone belonging to the Muslim community"—a message that, essentially, any Muslim could become Aref.
And especially because Aref's conviction is itself a matter of controversy, CCR has chosen the imam to become its lead plaintiff in a case against the CMUs, one of the major lawsuits, including the ACLU's in Indiana, meant to challenge the units and change the way they operate. Along with five other plaintiffs, Aref now sits at the center of a civil-liberties battle against the prison system. To a growing number of supporters in Albany—who have rallied to get him out; have published his pre-CMU memoir, Son of Mountains; have raised money for his family—he is a symbol of the inequities Muslims still endure as collateral damage in the war on terror.
Aref was born in a mountain village in northern Iraq, where he lived through Saddam's genocide on the Kurds and met his wife, Zuhur. They fled to Syria, where he finished his religious studies, worked at the office of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (IMK), and had three kids. Under a U.N. asylum program, the family learned in 1999 that they were going to Albany, a place the 29-year-old Aref had never heard of.
Although he couldn't speak or understand much English, he managed to support his family as a hospital janitor for more than a year before he became the imam of Masjid As-Salam, the city's only mosque. During his four years as imam, Aref regularly discussed his anti–Iraq War sentiments and grew to represent the spiritual voice of many Albany Muslims. "People hesitated to criticize the government publicly," says Ahmad. "But he didn't."
It is believed that the FBI decided to target Aref in the summer of 2003, after the American military stormed an armed camp in Iraq and discovered a notebook with his name and number in it, along with the word kak, which the FBI translated as "commander" (the prosecution would later admit that the term actually translates to "mister"). The camp was alleged to be affiliated with Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist organization founded by Mullah Krekar, who was once a member of the IMK, where he had met Aref. Aref's backers argue that the camp was filled with refugees and that the notebook could have belonged to anyone. Aref claims that he met Krekar only in passing and that he left for Albany long before the mullah founded Ansar al-Islam.
That Aref had a past connection to Krekar was perhaps enough to attract the FBI's attention, though likely not enough to mount a legal case against him. So, working with expanded surveillance powers, the FBI went about setting up an operation.
Since 9/11, the FBI had begun relying more heavily on informants, under a controversial policy of preemptive prosecution—taking down those thought to possibly become terrorists in the future. It has resulted in the conviction of more than 200 individuals, including four Muslims in Newburgh convicted of plotting to bomb two Bronx synagogues; a 19-year-old Somali charged with attempting to blow up a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon; and a man caught plotting an attack on Herald Square. "These types of operations have proven to be an essential law-enforcement tool in uncovering and preventing potential terror attacks," Attorney General Eric Holder said at a dinner this winter in defense of the tactics.
Critics, however, point out that in many operations, it's difficult to determine whether anyone is truly culpable—or inherently dangerous. And intentionally or not, it's very easy to round up Muslims. "There is a massive ideological, military, and intelligence infrastructure committed to the domestic and international wars on terror. These wars depend on maintaining Muslims as the primary threat to national security," says Amna Akbar, a senior research scholar at NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. "The U.S. government seems to rely on widespread use of informants … sending them into mosques and other community spaces without any concrete suspicion of criminal activity."
In order to pursue Aref, the FBI employed a Pakistani informant named Shahed Hussain, known as Malik, the same informant later used in the Newburgh trial and a man once described by the defense in that case as "an agent provocateur who earned his keep by scouring mosques for easy targets." Malik had made a deal to avoid years in jail and deportation for helping people cheat on driver's-license exams. He was also arrested in Pakistan on a murder charge. The operation, scripted by the FBI, started with Mohammed Hossain, a Bangladeshi immigrant who owned a local pizzeria and helped found Aref's mosque.
Over several months, Malik moved into Hossain's life, bringing his kids toys and expressing interest in religion. Malik, who claimed to be working for the Islamic terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, or JeM, eventually said he was buying a shoulder-firing missile launcher to kill then–Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf during a visit in New York City. To complete the purchase, he needed Hossain to launder $50,000 for him. In return, Hossain, whose business was on the skids, would earn $5,000.
Hossain then asked Aref to be the witness to the loan, a tradition in Islamic culture (as the only imam in Albany, Aref had notarized many loans). There were additional months of transactions where Aref documented Hossain's loan payments to Malik. During those months, Malik would occasionally mention the missile, using the code word chaudry. The government argued that this was evidence that Aref knew about Malik's terrorist connection, and the jury agreed. Aref was charged with ten of the 30 total counts, and the jury found him guilty of money laundering and supporting a known terrorist organization. "Did [Aref] actually engage in terrorist acts?" William Pericek, assistant U.S. Attorney, asked during a post-sentencing press conference. "Well, we didn't have the evidence of that. But he had the ideology."
"Family, language, and religious identity are being stripped away."
o outside observers of the case, the details that emerged during the trial were troubling. The FBI testified that Aref knew the code word, linking him to the conspiracy, but according to recorded conversations, there was no evidence that either Malik or Hossain informed him of the term. And though Malik had shown a fake missile to Hossain, the FBI decided against showing it to Aref because they worried that he would be "spooked."
The case, observers noted, ultimately lacked definitive evidence that Aref knew the true nature of the transaction, and the jury was directed to ignore the motives of the FBI's investigation. As Judge Thomas J. McAvoy instructed them, "The FBI had certain suspicions, good and valid suspicions for looking into Mr. Aref, but why they did that is not to be any concern of yours."
"I'm not only surprised that the jury convicted him, but I'm sure the judge was surprised too," says Stephen Gottlieb, a professor at Albany Law School and author of Morality Imposed: The Rehnquist Court and Liberty in America. "They basically turned two decent men into criminals."
Manley believes he lost on emotional grounds. "I think the fear got to [the jury]. They ended up convicting him out of fear that he might be some kind of shadowy bad guy." Steve Downs, another member of Aref's legal team, attributes it to what he calls "the Muslim exception." The emotion and politics of 9/11 had, they argue, altered the threshold for what constituted reasonable doubt.
In the years since Aref's trial, critics have identified a pattern. "A whole range of policing, prosecution, and incarceration policies seem to take as a starting point that Muslims pose a particularly uncontainable threat meriting extreme and exceptional treatment by the government," says Akbar. "Because national security has become an area in which the government is granted an extraordinary amount of deference, these policies are often allowed to stand without much scrutiny."
After the jury reached a verdict, two local papers published editorials asking for leniency. The editors at the Albany Times Union called the case "unsettling," with no clear answer to why the men were targeted, and wondered what lives Hossain and Aref would have "continued to lead if they had never been lured into a sting operation."
The judge sentenced Aref to fifteen years and recommended a local federal prison. Instead, he was sent to the CMU, with little explanation, no hearing, and no obvious way to appeal.
The first time Aref wrote to me, in a heavily monitored e-mail exchange, he said, "I am not spending my time, time is spending me. My family's situation is driving me insane and eating my patience." His world was falling apart at the CMU. "It's really hard for me to talk about what happened," he wrote.
When Aref was sent to the Terre Haute CMU in May 2007, he was 37 years old. "I arrived to find a small Middle Eastern community," he said. There were about twenty others inside. The idea of being called a terrorist sickened Aref. Every day he wondered why he was there, and he hoped someone would eventually realize that a mistake had been made. "I don't understand how the jury found me guilty," he wrote at one point.
His cell unlocked at 6 a.m., and he could circulate through the small unit comprising a few dozen cells and a common room. At 9 p.m., he'd be locked in for the night. On occasion, he heard screaming, and one day he saw a grown man drop to the floor and begin uncontrollably shaking and sobbing. When Aref asked a nurse later what had happened, she told him, "It's all fear and stress."
A peculiar loneliness consumed him. As an imam, Aref was naturally social. He helped solve people's problems and guide them through their tangled lives. But at Terre Haute, he became reticent, curled inside himself. It was hard to know whom to trust. The FBI was sending agents to the unit to ask questions, and new inmates came every few weeks or so.
All along, he felt his family drifting away. That one fifteen-minute phone call a week (a second call per week was added in January 2010) was never enough. What could you really say in fifteen minutes divided up among at least four people? He tried to be upbeat, avoiding talk of the CMU. With the kids, he spoke about school, a kind of dinner talk. When his wife got on, the reality of their separation was oppressive.
Zuhur "almost lost her mind," as Aref put it. The case had turned her upside down. Worried about wiretaps, she had disconnected the Internet, TV, and phone. She didn't have a job and relied on friends and the mosque to pay her rent and buy food. She rarely interacted with strangers, afraid that they might be informants setting her up.
Talking to Aref was a project that required a friend to lend a cell phone to the family on the days he called. And when he spoke to Zuhur, she mostly cried. In the four years that he has been at the CMU, she has cried during every single call.
One of the hardest things was thinking about his young daughter, Dilnia. She was born while Aref was in jail. All he was to her was an abstract concept. "Whenever anyone asks her, 'Where is your daddy?' she will point or run to the phone and say, 'That is my daddy,' " Aref said.
His two boys visited that first summer. With surveillance cameras zeroing in on them, it was difficult to be intimate. Salah was 10, Azzam 7. As Aref spoke through the Plexiglas, every word, every gesture was being mined for information.
His demeanor changed dramatically when his boys stepped away and Downs stepped in. Downs had made the two-day car trip with the kids from Albany. "They abuse me," Aref said. When Downs asked him to explain, Aref wouldn't. Then suddenly the meeting was terminated. According to Downs, a guard falsely claimed that he was using a pen "as a secret recording device."
"I'm convinced that they understood I was trying to get info about the CMU," Downs says. "And they did what [the CMU] was set up to do—prevent information [about the CMU] from getting out."
The entire family arrived in a minivan the next summer, in 2008. It had been roughly four years since they'd all been together. But seeing his 2-year-old girl on the other side of the glass gave Aref tremendous pain. She didn't recognize him.
The family spent a total of four hours together, and all seemed well until Zuhur suddenly snapped. In front of the kids, she made an announcement: She wanted to go back to Kurdistan. She felt her safety was at risk in America, even more than in the region from which she had fled.
Aref didn't want to argue. A part of him understood. "I am not dead in order for them to forget me," he said to me, "and not really alive to benefit them." That was the last time he saw his family. They didn't visit again. Zuhur wouldn't let them.
On March 27, 2009, at about 4 a.m., a guard entered Aref's cell and told him to pack. He was being transferred to the second CMU, at the state penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, which had opened a year before. Until recently, Marion had been one of the nation's only supermax facilities, replacing Alcatraz in 1963.
The move came at a particularly fraught moment for the CMUs. When President Obama came into office in 2009, many hoped the units would be shut down. The Bureau of Prisons wouldn't say if the new administration had reviewed the units, but they remained open, and their expansion soon inspired a fierce legal battle. In the summer of 2009, the ACLU's National Prison project filed a lawsuit on behalf of an inmate that disputed the legality of the creation of the units, among other things. Soon after, the ACLU of Indiana filed another lawsuit, about the restrictions on Muslim prayer.
In the meantime, "balancers," as CMU guards call them, were reportedly blended into the population—environmental activists, sexual predators, bank robbers, people who, prison officials claimed, "recruit and radicalize"—in order to address the criticism that CMUs were housing only Muslims. The Bureau of Prisons says it doesn't use race or religion to decide placement, and it rejects claims of adding balancers, though Muslim inmates continue to be in the majority.
In April 2010, CCR, with Aref, filed its suit, challenging the constitutionality of the place: the harsh restrictions on phone calls and visits, the ban on physical contact, the alleged absence of due process, and cited growing evidence suggesting that prisoners were being targeted for their religious and political beliefs.
To CCR, Aref's case was especially poignant. "Aref came to the United States as a refugee and was then subject to a dubious conviction," says Agathocleous. "Despite the fact that he engaged in no violence, that the prosecution acknowledged at trial that it was not seeking to prove he was a terrorist, and that his conduct in prison was spotless, he has been subject to these incredibly restrictive conditions at the CMU … It just doesn't make any sense."
In Marion, Aref's single cell was just as small as the former one, and his family was just as far away. But something had changed. He began to dread the phone calls with his family. "For many prisoners, the phone call is a big relief, and they get strength from it," he said. "But each time I call and hear my wife crying and I learn what my children are going through, it stresses my mind."
"I am not spending my time, time is spending me."
After a motion for a new trial was dismissed and the appeal to his original case was rejected, a part of him became resigned to the situation, friends say.
Then on April 13, I received a surprise e-mail from Aref. "How are you doing?" he asked. And then he told me the news. "For real, I am no longer in CMU!"
"My father is a very religious man," Aref's 15-year old daughter, Alaa, says one recent summer night. "He has a beard and wears Arab clothes and has an accent. But when you talk to him"—she pauses as if conjuring her father—"you know he's not a terrorist." She has trouble saying this word. Terrorist. It doesn't sound right in her mouth. And she tries it another way. "Baba didn't hate anyone."
On this June night, Aref's four kids sit barefooted on the carpet of a classroom on the second floor of the Central Avenue mosque in Albany, where their father was once the imam. Some of the doors are still broken from the FBI raid almost eight years ago.
The two boys, Salah, 14, and Azzam, 11, sit on either side of Alaa. Dilnia, who is now 5, sits off to the side, reading a book with a family friend. Zuhur stayed home. "She sometimes is depressed and doesn't go out," Alaa says.
Friends of the family say that Zuhur still talks about returning to Iraq, though she doesn't have the money for a plane ticket or travel documents. Her crying hasn't abated. When she does leave the house, she occasionally visits Aref's lawyers and asks, "What did Yassin do wrong?" or "When is he coming home?"
Since being placed in a general-population prison, Aref remains cautious. Without much explanation, he was moved out of the CMU, where he had been separated from the world for four years, and he could just as easily be moved back, like officials had done recently to an environmental activist named Daniel McGowan. Aref's lawyer speculates that my requests to visit Aref in a CMU and the CCR lawsuit had placed pressure on prison officials, which might have had something to do with his sudden transfer out. (It's a tactic that's worked for CMUs in the past. With one of the ACLU lawsuits, a plaintiff was moved from a unit to a general-population prison and the case was dismissed.)
Last April, four years after the first CMU opened and days following CCR's suit, the Bureau of Prisons began a public discussion of the units, a move, advocacy groups say, the prison system was legally obligated to make before the CMUs ever opened.
Many of the comments that flooded in focused on the lack of meaningful appeal—that inmates are stuck in the units—and in particular, how the units were ruining the men and their families.
Once Aref entered the general-population prison, he assumed that things would get better—that he would be able to embrace his wife and hug his kids, and that he might even be transferred again to a prison closer to home.
But so far, none of that has changed.
The FBI investigation and the CMUs have so alienated his family, especially Zuhur, who has still not visited her husband since his transfer. She hasn't allowed the kids to go, either—though supporters are working to set up a trip for this summer.
None of Aref's kids know exactly why their father is in jail.
Azzam, playing with the yellow gum in his mouth, says, "Money laundering or something, right?"
"It was an FBI sting," Alaa says. "They kind of set him up for missiles or something."
Salah, who looks most like his father in his long white shirt, nods.
"I miss him," Alaa says. Turning to Steve Downs, who has been sitting quietly against the wall, she asks, "When my father gets out, they can deport him right away?"
Downs nods. Aref will be deported the day he is released from prison. Among them, Dilnia is the only American citizen, which means that all the others could be deported on that day too, or shortly after. Zuhur was recently denied citizenship.
Alaa will turn 18 before her father is released, and she could apply for citizenship. If it's granted, she could become the guardian of the others.
I ask whether what's been done to their father makes them angry. The boys are silent. "I'm upset," Alaa says. "But my dad taught us never to hate."
Imam Yassin Aref Transferred from CMU
April 21, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Karin Friedemann, TMO
In a surprise move by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Albany, New York's Imam Yassin Aref, who was serving a ten year sentence inside the Communications Management Unit (CMU) in Marion, Illionois, has been moved to the general prison population. Aref stated in an email to his friends dated April 13, 2011:
"Finally and thankfully they accepted my request and agreed for me to come out of CMU. Now I am just a regular human – I mean regular prisoner! I am no longer in CMU, so if any of you come and visit me I promise I am going to hug him! Hopefully after six months they will transfer me to somewhere close to my family so I can see my children but as for why and how? Believe me I don't know anything more than you! They just told me to pack up. 25 days before that I had a team review. I asked for transfer as usual and they told me they would do the recommendation for me but the decision its not theirs. When I called my son Salah, he told me, "Daddy how is it they let you out?
What has changed?" I told him I am still Yassin and they did not tell me anything. However, I am very thankful they allowed me to be in the regular general population."
Aref was inside the CMU in Terre Haute, Indiana from May 2007 until March 2009, when he was transferred to the Marion CMU. As of April 10, 2011, Aref is in the same prison building but in a different unit. Now he has more space to walk and more recreational activities. He has more lenient social, visitor and phone call rights. There are some African American Muslim brothers in his new unit and they pray the Friday prayer together. Whenever he leaves his unit to dine, go to the yard or library, and to visit the chaplain, he walks by the door of the CMU. Imam Yassin describes his past experience:
"After spending about 20 Months in total solitary confinement at a county jail, I arrived at CMU Terra Haute, Indiana to find a small Middle Eastern community where inmates from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen among others were already there. In CMU, most inmates are Arab or Arabic speakers.
"We are separated because of our nationality and religion. Of course they deny that, but the reality in the CMU proves this segregation is the whole point of a CMU. Otherwise what did I do? Why am I classified as a high risk inmate? How can it be dangerous if they allow me to hug my children? Why do they need to limit my communication? Who I am going to call besides my family?
"All my life in Iraq I was treated as a second degree citizen and half human because I was Kurdish. I left my country to regain my humanity and live free, not to be targeted, imprisoned and placed in a CMU.
When I learned CMU prisoners don't have the same rights like other prisoners in the BOP, and I found that 65 to 75 percent of the inmates in CMU are Muslim and another 8 to 15 percent are Spanish speakers, I became sad and it seemed like this country is going backward to the dark days of its history when Black people were slaves or treated like slaves. Many inmates in CMU are not criminals. They are political prisoners and victims who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Some like me never committed any crime. Yet they treat us as the highest risk inmates!
"My youngest daughter is still a child and she was born while I was in jail. I never carried her or kissed her and I could never buy a candy for her. She doesn't have any memory with me. Until she was four years old she used to think 'daddy' means the phone! That's because whenever I used to call home, her brothers and sister would run to the phone saying "Daddy, daddy!" So, she thought daddy means phone! Whenever anyone asks her, 'Where is your daddy?' she would point or run to the phone and say, 'That is my daddy!' It's heart breaking but I am laughing. In Arabic they say the worst trial is the one which makes you laugh!
"Thank God with all of these unjustices still my heart is full of peace and Love. My faith saved me from hate. I believe God allowed this to happen and that is why it happened. I look for His reward for all my pain and all of what my family going through."
Aref is involved with a civil rights lawsuit which questions why Muslim prisoners who are considered a low security risk are being put under high security communication restrictions without any legal recourse.
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Attorney Alexis Agathocleous told NPR, "Our clients were designated to the CMUs without due process or oversight, even though they have no significant history of disciplinary infractions."
However, Aref does not believe that his transfer has anything to do with the lawsuit.
The CMU Black Hole
August 6, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Muslims Isolated in special US prisons
By Karin Friedemann, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
Not much is known about the new federal prisons called Communications Management Units (CMUs), that house primarily Muslims and political activists, except that they are located in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois. Although the US government refuses to disclose the list of prisoners to the public, inmates include Enaam Arnaout, founder of Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, physician and founder of Iraqi charity Help the Needy, Ghassan Elashi, founder of Holy Land Foundation and CAIR Dallas, Randall Royer, Muslim civil rights activist, Yassin Aref, imam and Kurdish refugee, Sabri Benkahla, an American who was abducted the day before his wedding while studying in Saudi Arabia, and John Walker Lindh, an American convert to Islam who was captured in Afghanistan, plus some non-Muslim political activists. Most of these prisoners were falsely accused of terrorist offenses and then imprisoned for lesser charges but given sentences meant for serious terrorism-related crimes.
Carmen Hernandez, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers said, "The primary problem with the opening of (the CMU) is that no one knows the criteria used to send the person imprisoned to that unit." What the prisoners have in common is that they were well disciplined, studious, and often religious compared to those in the general prison population, they maintain strong commitments to various causes, and for some reason the government wants to keep them separate, to restrict their communication with the outside world.
Prison officials claim, "By concentrating resources in this fashion, it will greatly enhance the agency's capabilities for language translation, content analysis and intelligence sharing."
Attorney Paul Hetznecker stated, "These Communication Management Units are an expansion of a continued war on dissent in this country… of using that word "terrorism" to push a political agenda and to really dominate and to control–attempt to control these social movements."
Andy Stepanian, an animal rights activist who is the first to be released from a CMU, called it "a prison within the actual prison." He said that the prisoners "are not there because they harmed anyone. They're not there because they approach anything that most reasonable people would consider even close to being terrorism."
He further stated, "From what I observed, about 70 percent of the men that were there were Muslim and had questionable cases that were labeled as either extremist or terrorist cases. But when I grew to meet them, I realized that the cases were, in fact, very different… what it appears to be is that they don't want people that are either considered to be fundamentalist in Islam or more devout than your average American in Islam to be circulating amidst the regular prison populace in the Bureau of Prisons. Whatever their objective in doing so, I mean, that would have to come from the Bureau of Prisons. But one can surmise it's because they don't want the spread of Islam in the prisons or that they're trying to silence communications from these individuals, because perhaps their cases are in question themselves, and they don't want to allow them access to the media."
He concluded, "At the end of this prison sentence, … I'll look back on the fact that I had a tremendous opportunity to meet people from different cultures, to be exposed to the Islamic world and understand that it's not something to be feared, it's not something to be vilified."
Daniel McGowan, a non-Muslim political activist in "Little Guantanamo" wrote: "The most painful aspect of this unit, to me, is how the CMU restricts my contact with the world beyond these walls. It is difficult for those who have not known prison to understand what a lifeline contact with our family and friends is to us. It is our link to the world — and our future (for those of us who are fortunate enough to have release dates)."
The US houses 2.3 million domestic prisoners. Conditions are far worse in some of the other prisons. Within the CMU, Muslim prisoners are at least safe from violence.
However, the discrimination against prisoners at CMUs, in addition to the severe limitations on visits, phone calls and letters, includes a lack of access to vocational training and paying jobs that are available to other prisoners. More than half of the men face deportation after their release, and the difficulty in obtaining law books makes it difficult to prepare for an immigration hearing.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently filed lawsuits on behalf of several prisoners challenging the CMUs' "violation of federal laws requiring public scrutiny" as well as the prison's restrictions of Islamic group prayer. This legal struggle must be supported by increased activism on the outside to demand the release of the innocent either falsely convicted or intimidated into pleading guilty to bogus charges.
Karin Friedemann is a Boston-based writer on Middle East affairs and US politics. She is Director of the Division on Muslim Civil Rights and Liberties for the National Association of Muslim American Women.
Still: Secret Bush-Era Prisons
August 6, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By John C. Trang, New America Media (NAM)
NAM Editor's Note: Muslims make up 70 percent of inmates in two prisons the George W. Bush regime clandestinely established in the Midwest between 2006 and 2008.
Despite President Barack Obama's declaration that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam, government practices suggest otherwise.
In June, the ACLU filed complaints against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for illegally establishing secret prisons called Communications Management Units, or CMUs. The ACLU also alleged unconstitutional restrictions on Muslim inmates' right to religious freedom. As a law student investigating the CMUs, the existence of these secret prisons trouble me.
The first CMU was clandestinely established in late 2006 at the federal prison facility in Terre Haute, Ind. In 2008, another CMU was established in Marion, Ill. According to the government, CMUs were created to "house inmates who, due to their current offense of conviction, offense conduct or other verified information, require increased monitoring of communication between inmates and persons in the community in order to protect the safety, security, and orderly operations of Bureau facilities and protect the public."
Sounds mundane, right? But the fact is CMUs are a palpable and disconcerting product of xenophobia and the war on terrorism. Concocted during the Bush administration, CMUs are alarmingly reminiscent of McCarthy-era practices and the Japanese American internment camps.
Although the number of inmates placed at the CMUs has not exceeded 40, around 70 percent are Muslim. The likelihood of finding another prison in the United States with similar proportions of Muslim inmates is zero. There is only one other facility under U.S. jurisdiction with similar demographics: Guantanamo Bay.
With such a high proportion of Muslim inmates, civil rights groups expressed concern about constitutional violations of equal protection. BOP officials deny CMU placement is based on religious identity. According to one government document, criteria for CMU placement includes continued misuse/abuse of approved communication privileges; history of judicial threats; and being convicted of, or associated with, involvement in terrorism. This odd mix of criteria that warrants CMU placement is applicable to hundreds of the incarcerated. Therefore, how and why specific inmates are chosen for CMU placement remains unclear.
Unlike other prisons in the United States, information about CMUs remains scarce. Few publicly available government documents mention "Communications Management Unit." The secrecy is increased by restrictions on inmates' communications. All communications to and from inmates are examined. If a message is not approved, it is never transmitted. In fact, in some respects CMU inmates – all of who are categorized as low to medium risk–have more restrictive conditions than inmates categorized with higher security risk levels.
While the government describes CMUs in innocuous terms, many groups have alternate theories as to the actual purpose and nature of CMUs. Some believe CMUs were created solely to house terrorists since some, though not all, inmates have terrorism related convictions. However, even the terrorism related convictions are suspect.
Take for example ACLU's client and CMU inmate Sabri Benkahla. Benkahla, born in Virginia and a graduate of George Mason University, was studying Islamic law and jurisprudence in Saudi Arabia when he was abducted at Saudi secret police, flown back to America and charged with supplying services to the Taliban and using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence. He was found not guilty. Not satisfied with the acquittal, the U.S. government forced Benkahla to testify before a federal grand jury where he was accused and eventually convicted of perjury. Nonetheless, the presiding judge asserted Benkahla was "not a terrorist" and noted the chances of Benkahla committing another crime were "infinitesimal."
While some view CMUs as facilities for terrorists, a majority of news articles assert the common thread uniting inmates is their strong community support and their politically unpopular views. That is, CMUs are political prisons.
I am not convinced CMUs are traditional political prisons – the sort used to silent inmates. There is growing evidence CMUs were created to extract information from inmates for the war on terrorism. Since privacy rights are reduced for the incarcerated, increasing attention to prisoners as a source of information was a logical step for proponents of sustaining a war on terrorism. And by stretching what constitutes a terrorism related charge, the government could consolidate prisoners believed to possess desired knowledge and ignore even basic civil liberties afforded other incarcerated people by invoking "war on terrorism." To be sure, similar to the tenuous links to terrorism, the extent of any inmate's knowledge about terrorism is questionable at best.
Ultimately, due to the secretive nature of CMUs, the real explanation continues to be a mystery. What is not a mystery is that the war on terrorism continues to be wrongfully conflated with Islam. This likely explains the disproportionate level of Muslim inmates. Although there are non-Muslim inmates at CMUs, at least one Muslim inmate claims that security guards have called non-Muslim inmates "racial balancers." Whether or not non-Muslim inmates are mere decoys is unclear. But such a claim should heighten our concern that the government is targeting inmates based on a racial perception of who is a terrorist.
Any selective targeting of Muslims inside and outside the prison system in the name of war and national security would be dangerously similar to the selective targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II. After decades of struggle, the government officially apologized to the Japanese American community and admitted that xenophobia and wartime hysteria contributed to discriminatory policies that should never be repeated.
Granted there are differences between Japanese American internees and CMU inmates. CMU inmates have been convicted of at least one federal crime, albeit often minor crimes such as incorrectly filing taxes. However, the prison system should not strip inmates of all their constitutional rights, or segregate them in highly restrictive prisons based on religious identity.
Almost eight years after the September 11 attacks, the Obama administration has set a new tenor on the war on terrorism. But the continuing operation of CMUs that began under Bush is reminiscent of anti-Japanese policies and McCarthy era witch hunts. National security is a real concern but it can never justify the practices reportedly involved at CMUs. To do so would be a betrayal of the nation's commitment to core civil liberties and freedoms.
John C. Trang is currently a law student at UCLA School of Law in the Epstein Public Interest Law and Policy Program with a Critical Race Studies Specialization.
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This is for yous guys: Alpha Sun Hat
I also have Gameshows Touch Our Lives, Tallahassee, and You Were Cool.
Also, Cotton and Dance Music from the in store in Seaside. Lemme know if you want to see any. I'd post them tonight but I'm tired and I have to drive to TN tomorrow. BOO.
please do! love hearing songs played in the places they're about, really wish i could have been there. atlanta doesnt seem as special, but its still lovely hearing going to georgia in my home state (athens was even better though at my first show)
Alpha Puppington
I don't want to hype it up simply because it was in my hometown and everything, but this is the greatest tMG show I have ever seen or heard. It was a truly special experience that will be remembered in Tallahassee for years to come.
Here is the setlist, which I typed in my iPhone as it was played:
In Memory of Satan
Old College Try
Lion's Teeth
Song for Lonely Giants
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
JD solo:
Alpha Sun Hat
Going to Dade County(!)
Twin Human Highway Flares
You Were Cool
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
Transcendental Youth
The Diaz Brothers
Never Quite Free
See America Right
No Children
This Year
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph of
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Anais was our tour guide and driver. She did an excellent job. She communicates well in both English and French. On our trip back to Avignon, my cousins and her played a "guess who" game that keep us awake and it was fun as everyone tried to guess who it was. We miss you, Anais!
I can certainly recommend this day trip from Avignon to Nice and Monaco. Our guide/ driver was very pleasant and informative and we certainly saw a part of the world that we would not have seen without this trip. Highly recommended. Good value for money!
Enjoyed seeing both Nice and Monaco. Our driver/guide was excellent. Unfortunately, a tyre blew out on the return trip and because no spare tyre was provided we waited 1.5 hours on the side of the road. Then we had to ride in the car, on the back of a tow truck to a Mercedes depot......... not an experience I'd want to repeat!
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This trip was just ok - nothing special; Nice and Monaco were a quick drive thru with an hour or so free time in each place. Wasn't worth the money spent and wouldn't have been worth the time except that it was a very rainy day and being stuck in a car for 6+ hours was reasonably acceptable given the fact that we didn't have to do the driving!
This by far was our most disappointing trip of our holiday. It was our fault for not realizing the tour pickup and drop off point was in Avignon which is 3 hours drive each way from Nice, Why? the tour is suppose to be of Nice and Monaco so why on earth would we want to be picked up from Avignon??? This makes no sense what so ever, consequently we had to cut our tour short by 6 hours because we were staying in Nice and the tour Guide came from Avignon to pick us up. Our tour guide was useless. He admitted it's been a while since he's done this tour so we consequently got lost driving through Monaco and spent a lot of our time in the car stuck in heavy traffic. For the life of me I cannot understand why he had to drive us into a car park looking for a parking space? which took over 30 mins.
Considering our tour is already cut short by 6 hours, and we spent most of our time stuck in a car in heavy traffic, looking out the window. Waste of money.


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A new Damien Hirst installation opened at the Oceanic Museum of Monaco earlier this month, and it features this mannequin (with a bun in the oven) that greets ships from her spot on the pier. Keep reading for a view of her better side. [Highsnobiety]
Artist Damien Hirst Shows Us Where Babies Come From
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Ballet-Inspired Styles
In contrast to the tomboys at 3.1 Phillip Lim and large black-and-white graphics seen on the Marc Jacobs runway, Donna Karan went soft and feminine with dresses that fit like ethereal ballet costumes. The trick with the tight tops and flowy skirts is finding a bra that fits perfectly and smooths everything over.
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I didn't have time last fall to take apart a flowering basket in which I wanted to save a Pelargonium. So, I overwintered it in my basement. SURPRISE...my million bells from last year is sprouting at the tips!! If I cut off the green tips...is there some way I can root them?? Thanks, Linda |
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Unlisted Brand • So...? Kiss Me • Fragrances
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Average Rating. | 4.7 |
Would buy this product again. | 92% |
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Elisalovesmakeup on 5/12/2014 1:52:00 PM more reviews by Elisalovesmakeup
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
i have bought this at least 5 times anf im running out so i am willy to pay around 2.99 love this!
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CookieMonster222 on 7/23/2012 4:50:00 PM more reviews by CookieMonster222
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
Seeing as this was the first fragrance I ever bought, I thought I might as well give it a review.
I first came across this scent in a small sample-type bottle as part of a set of various sample-sized fragrances. I received the set as a Christmas present from a friend one year, back in my first year of high school. I'd never really worn 'perfumes' before then so didn't really wear any of them other than to simply see what they smelled like.
However, out of this set the So...? Kiss Me was by far my favourite and as I progressed through high school, I do remember having worn it on several occasions until it finally ran out before I left.
Therefore this does remind me of being at school and does resemble something a young girl would wear when finding their first signature fragrance. In that sense I guess this holds some kind of sentimental value, which I'll probably still love it for even when I'm too old to wear it :) I say 'old' because I really wouldn't describe this as being a scent that would be worn by mature people. It is definitely a 'young' person's fragrance.
Now I hate all the aimed-at-10-year-olds fragrances as much as anyone but really don't let the teeny looking packaging and cheap price put you off! This has such a lovely scent that isn't really sweet and sickly like you would expect it to be. I don't know anything about distinguishing between the different notes so I can't help you with that! All I can say is, that this is a very attracting, flirty fragrance, perfect for anyone who's still young or not ready to grow old just yet!
I'm now in my twenties and I still love to wear this for special occasions and nights out. Basically any time I'm wanting to feel pretty and confident, this is my go-to fragrance.
If you're reading these reviews and you haven't yet tried it, go buy it. One bottle will only cost you around £6 so it's worth a try even if you don't like it :)
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emkazicstan on 12/16/2011 1:56:00 AM more reviews by emkazicstan
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Very Dry, Fair Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
LOVE IT. smells amazing! :)
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MeghAshley on 12/16/2011 12:58:00 AM more reviews by MeghAshley
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Medium Eyes: Brown
I adore the smell of this. I wore this scent all through highschool, so it really holds a lot of memories for me. I still wear it now on a fairly regular basis. It's a scent I can go to for practically anything. The only thing I wish was different about this product is the packaging. I wish they would make it a little more sophisticated and interesting looking. I hate the look of this bottle sitting on my dresser. I know it's cheap but does it have to look like it? Other than that, beautiful, unique scent for a variety of ages, not just tweens.
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Nirhtuc on 9/26/2011 12:59:00 AM more reviews by Nirhtuc
Age: 25-29 Skin: Very Dry, Dark, Warm Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
Something I would wear on a date. Very girly, flirtatious, and kind of sexy too. They've blended the notes very well, because I have trouble picking out specific notes. It just smells like a well-dressed young adult woman, wearing lipstick. Fruity and foody at once, but only slightly reminiscent of vanilla and musk- it doesn't resemble food. I would recommend this to women 30 and under, or older women who are young-at-heart!
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*TOP REVIEWER* alee26 on 7/15/2011 5:09:00 AM more reviews by alee26
Age: 19-24 Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
Another fan of this scent. Throughout high-school I must have gone through at least 5-6 bottles of this! It was quite popular with girls at my school too. The smell is a musky berry scent. It sounds awful if you read about it, but it's rather light and not heavy like a typical musk can be. There's slight sweetness from the berries without making it smell "sticky sweet". This does smell "young" and the lasting power isn't so great (think body spray), but I still love it and have a bottle in my bag to touch-up with.
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neelu12 on 6/19/2011 8:46:00 PM more reviews by neelu12
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
I go through bottles of this, and always carry it in my bag no matter what. The smell is lovely, like vanilla and musk. I just love it. I usually just buy the body spray, and like I said go though bottles of it. Im probably on like my 100th bottle, no lie!. Iv been wearing it since I was young, like in school, and I still love the smell. Its so fresh and young. maybe not for the older ladies, but for me its perfect! I cant see myself going off it for a looong time! I always get compliments from it aswell which is always a bonus :)
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hannah10 on 11/5/2010 4:40:00 PM more reviews by hannah10
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium Eyes: Blue
i love this fragrance. i got it in a spray container thingy and its lasted so long. its amazing. it smells kinda fruity , but really nice, hard to explain.! i love it.. would definitely buy it again :) THUMBS UP!
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*TOP REVIEWER* pxcrunnercat on 3/8/2009 7:17:00 PM more reviews by pxcrunnercat
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Red, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Green
FAVE perfume ever! Smells really fruity, sexy, and fresh. I think I could wear this every day and never get sick of it, only I save it for special occasions because I like it so much. I think this fragrance is best for teenagers and young adults, I wouldn't really describe it as "mature", but it has appeal all it's own. Awesome fragrance!
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*TOP REVIEWER* kristamb on 1/19/2009 4:31:00 PM more reviews by kristamb
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I bought this in a 3-pack on ebay really because I wanted the so...?desirable fragrance. I had smelled it at Walmart and liked it but all that was left was the tester. But, I got a great deal because I really like this scent too! This is my second fav. of the 3 I've tried (#1: So...?desirable, #2: So...?Kiss Me and #3: So...Wild). I am almost 30 years old and I think these are great, feminine (not too young-smelling) fragrances. And the price is a bonus--very reasonable!
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NBA All Star Betting Odds
This will be the 63rd edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and it will be played during the 2013–14 NBA season. This year 2014 NBA All-Star Game will be played on February 16th, 2014 at New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, at 7:00 pm EST.
State Farm All-Star Celebrity Saturday Night, an all-inclusive skills showcase, will take place on Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Centerin New Orleans and will be televised live by TNT at 8 p.m. ET. The event consists of the Sears Shooting Stars, a competition featuring NBA players, WNBA players, and NBA legends; the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, a contest of top guards working against the clock to complete a series of passes, free throws, layups and agility drills; the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest; and the Sprite Slam Dunk contest.
The All-Star competitions will tip off on Friday, Feb. 14th, as the league's top rookies and second-year players square off in the BBVA Compass Rising Challenge. The excitement will continue the next day with NBA All-Star Saturday Night, which includes Shooting Stars, a competition featuring NBA and WNBA players and NBA legends, Skills Challenge, a contest of top guards working against the clock to complete a series of passes, free throws, lay-ups and agility drills, and the Three-Point Shootout, where six of the best long-range shooters compete against each other and the clock in a test of accuracy. The evening's grand finale, the Slam Dunk Contest, will showcase some of the NBA's best athletes as they take to the air mystifying fans with their gravity-defying creativity.
2014 will mark the 30th year that Turner Sports will provide NBA All-Star coverage, and the 12th consecutive year the All-Star Game will be televised in prime time on TNT. The All-Star Game will be seen by a worldwide television audience in more than 200 countries and territories and broadcast in more than 40 languages.
NBA All-Star weekend offers basketball bettors a change of pace as sportsbooks roll out a wide variety of prop bets. Most professional gamblers avoid the NBA All Star game betting since the game is basically an exhibition. Let's look at some factors to consider in NBA All Star game odds. NBA All Star game odds have seen the Western Conference favored in recent seasons with the total in the 250's. The game is one in which no defense is played which leads to high scores. The problem with betting the over though is that the total is so high and the public is always betting that way. It is tough for many gamblers to look at the game and cheer against points being scored. The oddsmakers know this and set a high total every year for the NBA All Star game.
2014 All Star Break Schedule
THURSDAY, FEB. 13 ALL TIMES EASTERN (ET) 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | All Day Dunk-A-Thon | NBA TV 5 p.m. | The Starters | NBA TV 6 p.m. | NBA GameTime | NBA TV 7 p.m. - 2 a.m. | All Day Dunk-A-Thon | NBA TV 8 p.m. | Nets vs. Bulls | TNT 10:30 p.m. | Thunder vs. Lakers | TNT 1 a.m. | Inside the NBA | TNT
FRIDAY, FEB. 14 ALL TIMES EASTERN (ET) 10:30 a.m. | BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge Practice | NBA TV Noon | Basketball Hall of Fame announcement | NBA TV 12:30 p.m. | NBA All-Star 2014 Media Day | NBA TV 5 p.m. | The Beat | NBA TV 6 p.m. | The Starters | NBA TV 7 p.m. | Sprint NBA All-Star Celebrity Game | ESPN 9 p.m. | BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge | TNT 11 p.m. | Inside The NBA | TNT 12 a.m. | NBA GameTime | NBA TV
SATURDAY, FEB. 15 ALL TIMES EASTERN (ET) 11:30 a.m. | NBA Inside Stuff | NBA TV Noon | East/West Practice & player interviews | NBA TV 3 p.m. | 2014 NBA D-League All Star Game | NBA TV 6 p.m. | Open Court: The Dunk in Depth & Defined | TNT 7 p.m. | Adam Silver news conference | NBA TV 7 p.m. | TNT NBA Special, TBD | NBA TV 8 p.m. | TNT NBA Tip-Off | TNT 8:30 p.m. | State Farm All-Star Saturday Night | TNT Sears Shooting Stars (1st Event) Taco Bell Skills Challenge (2nd Event) Foot Locker Three-Point Contest (3rd Event) Sprite Slam Dunk (4th Event) 11 p.m. | TNT NBA Special, TBD | TNT 12 a.m. | NBA GameTime | NBA TV
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The first NBA All-Star Game that was ever played was in Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. Since then, the game has marched the best players in the Western Conference with the best players in the Western Conference.
There are two ways of choosing the participants for this game. The first is via fan ballot, with the leading vote recipients at each position starting the game, secondly the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches of each squad's particular conference. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players. The commissioner will select a replacement in case of an injury.
The coaches who currently lead the team with the most wins in their conference through the Sunday two weeks before the game will coach their respective conferences. However, the same coach cannot coach the team in consecutive seasons.
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This week, my local NPR station – WMRA – has been conducting its spring membership drive. And this time around, I'm ignoring it.
Even the most casual reader of this column might suspect that NPR's news coverage would suit my "informed" – not too "liberal" – predilections. Long-time readers of this column will know that I've long been an advocate of public radio.
Which is why I find myself surprised that I feel absolutely no inclination to make a contribution this year.
Now, to be sure, I've had to tighten my belt in recent years. Gone, for now, are the days when I could support my public radio station at the dollar-a-day level.
But this year, I can't even bring myself to cough up a nominal sum. I'm that fed up with what once passed for "must-listen" radio.
Here's my problem.
Like most public media, NPR started out as the indirect beneficiary of generous public funding. Taxpayer dollars subsidized local stations, which, in turn, subscribed to news and other programming from NPR and other content providers.
Over the years, public funding has been reduced – forcing public radio stations to seek additional support from individual listeners, non-profits, and – here's the kicker – corporate sponsors.
This last fact has been unfortunate. Whenever any entity – educational, artistic, or otherwise – becomes dependent on substantial corporate funding, it quickly learns that this funding comes with strings.
For public radio, the result has manifested itself in many ways. From my personal perspective, the two most egregious have been an almost total disregard of two issues: AGW (anthropomorphic global warming) and the increasingly disturbing ways in which our food supply is produced.
To be sure, the former issue is of far greater concern. If even the more moderate expert forecasts are true, our children and grandchildren will be living in a world drastically different – in ever more unpleasant ways – from the world we have known in our times, or indeed, since our ancestors climbed down out of the trees.
Our food supply would be of greater personal concern if I hadn't made the decision, some years back, to do a lot more actual cooking - increasingly using ingredients which are natural, and (when the price permits) organic.
Still, I wish more of my friends and fellow citizens were aware of the degree to which the things they consume introduce hormones, antibiotics, and actual toxins into their diets.
Sadly, nobody's going to learn much about climate change or the food supply from NPR news. In recent years, it seems, these issues have simply disappeared – and one can only conclude that this has come about as the result of public media's dependence on corporate dollars.
Which is not to say that NPR and other content providers have moved entirely into the conservative camp. For most public radio stations, listener dollars are more important than corporate support.
But liberally-minded listeners – like their conservative opposite numbers – can generally be contented with non-stop coverage of social issues. Thus, NPR's almost obsessive coverage of demographic issues – the politics and sociology of race, gender, gender preference, and immigration status.
Because the public radio audience contains a large number of aging Baby Boomers – members of a generation which refuses to grow old – recent years have also featured an increasing emphasis on pop culture and the latest technological gadgets.
On any given day, in morning or afternoon drive-time, you can be sure of hearing a stories about some manifestation of inequality in our society; about some new gadget, app, or website; and about some up-and coming band, singer, or other entertainer.
But you'll drive a lot of commuter miles between stories about AGW, much less – say – what your latest meal might be doing to your body.
Now look, no rational observer would question that Big Business – far more than Big Government – runs this country.
Moreover, most of the media – newspapers, radio and television stations, and online service providers - are owned by huge corporations.
As are nearly all of their advertisers.
Our elected officials are, especially since the abominable – and intellectually indefensible – Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC , almost entirely dependent on essentially unlimited campaign contributions from wealthy individuals and corporate sources.
With public radio, the strategy has been a bit more subtle. Deprive the stations of public funds – on the argument that they shouldn't be supported by taxpayer money – and then substitute corporate funding, on condition that these stations and their content providers "dummy up" on the issues most important to Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and our other corporate masters.
That strategy has worked. Perhaps I'm only playing into our corporate masters' hands by withdrawing my personal support. If others followed my example, public radio might gradually be transformed into another FOX News.
But I'm sorry. My heart just isn't in it this year.


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At least we are all together in the autistic boy's snowglobe. Like a family.
Guys, If I don't get a chance to comment later due to work commitments, I want to say to you all, it's been a pleasure and an honor.
IS ANYONE ELSE CRYING AT THE MEMORIES? Because I may or may not be sobbing grossly
I've been absent a bit recently, due mostly to work but also to shiny objects, but dudes, I have to say that I love this place, and I love all of you guys and Kelly and this news sucks.
Those goats made my life
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Now I'm just hoping that Patrick Stewart proposes to Ian McKellen during Waiting for Godot on saturday*.
*no I am not. I have paid entirely too much money to fly to New York to see a play to have it muddled by any of this public proposal nonsense. BE HAPPY IN PRIVATE, LIKE CIVILIZED ADULTS.
Aww! I loved that the girl was clearly not convinced that learning how to say 'spaghetti' is a worthwhile endeavor but willing to indulge the adults anyway.
I did not watch Girls. I have no reason to post now, since I cannot add to the discussion, but I wanted to feel like part of the group. Hey, fellow young people!
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That dog would get all the treats. After I wake up, which would be never. Sorry doggie.
Yay Tina and Amy. Yay for that being over so I can sleep! Good party everyone! Let's rest up and meet back tomorrow!
Fucking finally!
I would object to being murdered but it's warranted in this case.
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I want All of the actresses to win, but especially Cate Blanchett
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September 24, 2014
U.S. President Barack Obama will go before the United Nations General Assembly and seek specific promises of military, financial or humanitarian support from each country against the Islamic State.
September 15, 2014
The Jordanian government has confirmed that it issues temporary passports for Arab-Israeli passport holders to perform the Haj.
September 14, 2014
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry says the kingdom plans to reopen its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad once the situation improves in Iraq.
September 11, 2014
American officials say Saudi Arabia has agreed to a request from the US administration to provide bases to train foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government.
International experts expect to see more organizations in Saudi Arabia take action to make existing buildings more efficient.
September 10, 2014
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In the report, OPEC cut its 2014 global oil demand growth forecast for a third consecutive month and also reduced its assessment of the requirement for its members' crude oil.
Saudi Arabia has called a conference on counter-terrorism Thursday in Jeddah.
September 9, 2014
Saudis deny rumors that would allow direct flights from Israel for Haj
September 8, 2014
Five women, of whom four Saudis and one Yemeni, are set to be tried by a specialized criminal court for terror-related activities.
September 7, 2014
The new link is expected to consolidate economic, social and cultural relations and cooperation between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, of which Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are members.
Saudi Arabia tightened security along the borders with Iraq by announcing plans to build a five-layer security fence, amid growing threats for the Islamic State.
September 4, 2014
Saudi Arabia's Hajj Ministry released more low-cost slots for for the annual pilgrimage.
The projects include building a new airport at Jazan called the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Airport and the expansion of the airport in Arar.
September 3, 2014
The leading world developer of giant crystalline lagoons has unveiled a massive 8-hectare project in the Prince Sultan Cultural Centre to build hotels, a medical city, educational facilities, villas and apartments.


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tina this is nummularioides! beautiful!!!!! |
Hi Tina, Congrats! You just bought yourself a H. nummularoides! I got mine last year at Lowe's in full bloom like yours! It's blooming now (nummul. is a fall bloomer) and it has a nice fragrance but it can get strong at night. I can best describe it as a floral fragrance. Very sweet smelling. Brad AKA Moonwolf |
Ooo! Thank you both! I was hoping that is what it was. I am soo pleased with this beauty. Soo happy! Yay! I just love this little beasty. Well... Not little! LOL It's a monster! Haha! Truly it is! Huge! Thank you for letting me know for sure it was H. nummularoides. So pretty and yes, it does smell sweet. =) ~Tina |
Congrats on a beautiful blooming H. nummularoides! Enjoy the pretty blooms Tina! |
- Posted by eileen44_gardener 4 Central Vermont (My Page) on Wed, Nov 2, 11 at 20:27
Tina... what a fabulous find!.... It is gorgeous, your pics are wonderful... I esp loved #11... looks very professional.. I have to boast here for one second... being new to this "world".. as I looked at the pics I said ..to the comp screen... I think that's a numm....!.. since adopting the broken stem off the floor.. and since it is growing like a weed in it's plastic bag home.. I thought your new baby looked the same!... so I'm happy to have ID'd correctly!... but, the joy is yours... congratulations!.. wonder what that baby weighs!.. Eileen |
Hi Tina, I found this one loved a lot of sun. The more sun the more they have flower, I like that smell too. Congrats. |
I have hung this beastly monster in a NW window with lots of sunlight and it also gets lots of light from the lamp that is on as well. =) I'm unsure of the weight of this beast but it isn't light, that's for certain! Oy! And loads of sap on them as well, I'm grateful they don't drip everywhere though. And the scent is wonderful! I'm so pleased with this beautiful nummie! Eileen, do you mean the one right before the box picture? I'm terribly curious which image now... lol Thank you everyone! =) So happy I found this one. ~Tina |
ohhh tina i understand your happiness!!! this plant gives joy only to see it!! think how nice to have it!!! ( oh my english!!) i am really happy for you!! |
- Posted by eileen44_gardener 4 Central Vermont (My Page) on Thu, Nov 3, 11 at 7:12
Tina... the picture is against a solid background.. sort of "tan-looking" on the screen with a clear focus "up front" of the stem with bloom(s) and then a blurry view in background of a different stem not in focus!... I watched a tv program (public tv)just last week with professional photog taking pics outdoors of wildflowers and how he set the stage and having a clear focused shot with the "moving" or blurry in background was sooo beautiful!... so.. your pic said #11 at the top.. good job! and... Lalla! I actually love reading your posts... esp your english!... its refreshing and endearing! so no worries here. |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 4, 11 at 12:44
/Ament. Congratulations on your new plant! This one will always bloom this time of year. I love the Hoyas that bloom as the weather grows colder. It makes it easier to get over having to close up the windows. Great photographs too! And clever move linking us to the album to save on bandwidth. Personally, this one is my favorite: /Lalla. I agree with Eileen. Your English is so sweet. I only hope I sound as charming when speaking my second languages!! |
Ah Lalla! You speak just fine! =) We all understand you very well. So don't worry at all. This particular Hoya is still blooming like mad! Every morning when I wake, I walk into my living room to this heavenly hoyas scent. I just love that! Yes, the image you all enjoy so much is the one I love best so far. If you wish to, copy & save it girls. You are welcome to do so! And, if you prefer, email me and I can send you the original photo. It's HUGE and you can zoom in quite nicely and see the 'fuzzy' quality of this hoyas flowers and leaves. =) My camera takes spectacular pictures. ~Tina |
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• First Baptist Church in Quincy holds Sunday School each week at 9:45 a.m., followed by worship at 10:55. Sunday evening worship begins at 6 p.m. Sunday morning worship services are broadcast on Sunday events at 6 p.m. on 93.3 FM.
• Church services at Mt. Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church are held the first, second and fourth Sundays at 11 a.m., and at 8 a.m. on the third Sunday of each month. Church school begins at 9:45 a.m. each Sunday morning.
The 27th annual Black History Parade and Festival will be held Saturday in downtown Quincy.
Parade organizer Anthony Powell said there won't be any changes from last year's format. The parade, which features marching bands, floats, walking units and civic organizations, will begin at 11 a.m., with lineup at 10 a.m. at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and South Stewart Street.
Any individual or groups that want to participate in the parade can preregister or register on site.The is no cost to participate in the parade.
Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young didn't get the $500,000 he asked for during a county commission workshop last week, but commissioners did vote to give him $200,000. The money will be used to help the sheriff meet some of the operating costs at the jail that he says have caused his law enforcement budget to fall short.
"I've talked to the sheriff and he's fine with this. This is what we're doing and what we can afford. He knows the fiscal constraints this county is under," said Commission Chairman Eugene Lamb.
While county leadership awaits word on whether Gadsden County will receive any federal stimulus package funding and, if so, how much, governors throughout the country have expressed optimism that the package President Barack Obama has signed will provide some much-needed relief for states.
State leaders are saying that the money will prevent further budget cuts and unemployment rate increases.
Twelve-year county commissioner Sterling Watson, surrounded by his family, at top, was presented a plaque from Commission Chairman Eugene Lamb last Tuesday night during the regular meeting of the board. Former county commissioner Carolyn Roberson accepts a plaque expressing appreciation for her service as a member of the board. She was also joined by her family. Sammy Dowds was presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a clock for 35 years of service.
"There was a time when, if you talked about gangs, you could pretty much bet that they were in the inner city. All of that has changed," said Tony Parker, a minister who has devoted his life to helping young people make the right choices.
Agatha Muse Salters says she's more than just a Midway native – she's someone who loves the town enough to see its future, built on its strong past and supported by an ever-changing present.
Salters, who began working as the town's city manager in December 2008, interviewed for the position more than once, and when they called her back for another interview, she was hesitant. But after some reassurance that the town meant business, she interviewed a final time in November, and was offered the job.
DaVarick Ford struck out nine batters and allowed only two hits in six innings of work last Thursday, leading East Gadsden High School to an 8-4 win over Altha in the Jaguars' regular season baseball opener.
Of the four runs Ford gave up, only two were earned.
Camerson Jackson slapped two hits and drove in three of the Jaguar runs. Montez Fryson, John Price and Dominic Green also had run-scoring hits for East Gadsden.
John Warner, Ethan Byler and Tyler Huff had the Altha hits.
"I could not have been any prouder of a team," Coach Antonio Bradwell said after his West Gadsden High School boys basketball game Thursday in Franklin County. "We came in undermanned and played very hard."
The Panthers lost the Region 1-2A game 74-58, but not before hanging around against a talented and much taller Seahawk bunch.
Using a stall game early, West Gadsden held close until halftime with John Battles doing most of the early scoring for West Gadsden. Battles scored 12 of the Panthers 18 first-half points.
The Robert F. Munroe Lady Cats softball team lost a close one, lost a 10-run rule contest and won a close one all in the opening week of the season.
On a cool Monday night the team succumbed in the bottom of the seventh 9-8 at Rickards. Leading 4-1 in the third the Lady Cats gave up six runs, five on errors, and left the inning down 7-4.
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A Cleveland man turned himself in to law enforcement 13 hours after he reportedly ran from police.
Joshua Dwayne Burdin, 28, was charged with felony evading and other charges after he led Charleston Police officer David Spandau on a lengthy chase into McMinn County.
The incident occurred in the early morning hours Thursday, according to Spandau.
Spandau noted in Burdin's warrant for his arrest, that he observed a motorcycle traveling too closely to a tractor-trailer rig.
Spandau initiated a traffic stop and the rider of the motorcycle accelerated north on Hiwassee Street, traveling through the Charleston and into Calhoun.
Spandau said the pursuit led deeper into McMinn County and Calhoun police officers also got involved.
According to the warrant, the rider of the motorcycle passed numerous cars in an attempt to evade police.
Eventually, the rider stopped his motorcycle and fled into a wooded area where a foot-search was conducted. 10th Judicial Drug Task Force and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials also helped officers in an attempt to track the suspect, who had been identified as Burdin.
Various forms of identification and other evidence were collected, leading to his identification.
According to Spandau, Burdin was also charged with reckless driving, driving on a suspended license, resisting stop, halt and frisk and following too closely.
He was booked into the Bradley County Jail Thursday afternoon.
- A desktop computer was among items taken from an apartment located on Bell Street.
A report filed by deputy Anthony Liner named Diane Strong as the victim of the burglary.
According to his report, Strong returned home Wednesday morning to find someone had taken her Hewlett-Packard computer, assorted clothing and hair care supplies.
A possible suspect in the burglary was identified and the lead was passed on to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division for follow-up.
Strong estimated her loss at $1,080.


text: Our Teacher-Rangers Teacher-Rangers help connect Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and other national parks to schools. Under an agreement between the National Park Service and an area school district, Teacher-Rangers work at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site during the summer. In return they get experience preserving nationally important public lands and inspiration for innovative ideas in the classroom. NPS Photo Lynette Cummings 2012-present Lynette Cummings teaches chemistry, physics, and physical science at West Branch High School in Herbert Hoover's Iowa hometown. She and her students often use the park as their other classroom. Mrs. Cummings works at the historic site writing creative lesson plans so area teachers can use the park as a resource for learning projects. She wrote lesson plans about studying the effects of sounds on the historic site, household economics in the Birthplace Cottage, and the chemistry of the blacksmith's forge. NPS Photo Daniel Stevenson 2010-2012 Daniel Stevenson teaches 8th grade U.S. history in nearby West Liberty, about 10 miles from West Branch. As part of his summer ranger duties, Mr. Stevenson revised and updated Herbert Hoover: From Iowa to the World (PDF file), a curriculum guide for middle school students. Kristen Bergren Kristen Bergren 2008-2012 Among her summer ranger duties as a park ranger Kristen Bergren created the HEHO! Activity Worksheets for Educators and Students (PDF file), a package of pre-visit and post-visit activities for classes planning field trips to Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. As a third-grade teacher in the Moline, Illinois school district she also wrote National Park Fair: Kids Teaching Kids about our National Parks (PDF file), a guide for inspiring students and their families to discover America's best idea: our national parks. |


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Brand Name STARK 10
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Brief Description STARK 10, Non Systemic, contact and stomach insecticide, controls Bollworms, borers, and Diamond Black Moth etc of various crops
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