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Originally posted at The NY Post by Paul Sperry on 10/5/14
At least three eyewitnesses spotted al Qaeda hijackers casing the security checkpoints at Boston's Logan Airport months before the 9/11 attacks. They saw something and said something — but were ignored, newly unveiled court papers reveal.
One of the witnesses, an American Airlines official, actually confronted hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta after watching him videotape and test a security checkpoint in May 2001 — four months before he boarded the American Airlines flight that crashed into the World Trade Center.
The witness alerted security, but authorities never questioned the belligerent Egyptian national or flagged him as a threat.
"I'm convinced that had action been taken after the sighting of Atta, the 9/11 attacks, at least at Logan, could have been deterred," said Brian Sullivan, a former FAA special agent who at the time warned of holes in security at the airport.
The three Boston witnesses were never publicly revealed, even though they were interviewed by the FBI and found to be credible. Their names didn't even appear as footnotes in the 9/11 commission report.
But what they testified to seeing — only revealed now as part of the discovery in a settled 9/11 wrongful-death suit against the airlines and the government — can only be described as… Continue reading
Originally published at Dig Within by Kevin Ryan on 7/27/14
After becoming Director of the CIA (DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh, Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar's home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the Agency. The CIA's Saudi specialists only learned about Tenet's dealings with the Saudi authorities inadvertently, through their Saudi contacts. It seems that Tenet was operating within a network that surpassed the interests of the American public. Therefore the unsolved crimes of 9/11, attributed largely to young men from Saudi Arabia, should be considered in light of Tenet's actions.
As Deputy Director for the CIA, in 1996, Tenet had worked to install one of his closest friends and confidants, John Brennan, as CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia. Brennan is now the DCI but, in his previous role, Brennan often communicated directly with Tenet, avoiding the usual chain of command. At the time, as an apparent favor to the Saudis, CIA analysts were discouraged from questioning Saudi relationship to Arab extremists.
The unusual relationship that both George Tenet and Louis Freeh had with Saudi intelligence (and George H.W. Bush) recalls the private network that was created in the mid-1970s to accomplish covert… Continue reading
Originally posted at Portland Press Herald on 3/31/14 by Tom Bell
A producer for the National Geographic Channel is coming to Portland this week hoping to interview people who encountered Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, the al-Qaida terrorists who spent about 12 hours in Portland before joining the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
But there's one problem with the project: There's hardly anyone in Portland to interview.
With the exception of one retired ticket agent who lives in Scarborough, nobody else will come forward to talk about any encounters with the terrorists, said Erik Nelson, president of Creative Differences, a Los Angeles production company that is producing the film for National Geographic.
"We have one guy," he said. "But where is everybody else? It's like they dropped off the face of the Earth."
The Portland footage will be part of a two-hour documentary focusing on the 24 hours prior to the moment the first plane crashed into the North Tower at the World Trade Center in New York City. It will air in September.… Continue reading
Originally posted at the Herald-tribune by Michael Pollick, last updated 5/14/14
When the FBI investigated a Saudi Arabian family that abruptly left Sarasota weeks before the 9/11 terror attacks, it found "many connections between the (redacted) family and individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01."
The description, included in documents released Friday as part of a federal lawsuit against the agency, comes as the FBI is working to comply with a federal judge's order to produce 27 boxes of materials.
To date, the agency said it has moved the boxes to the U.S. Attorney's office in South Florida, and spent many hours trying to delineate for U.S. District Court Judge William Zloch which documents are top secret by inserting 822 page markers into the boxes.
The agency also explained an earlier discrepancy that resulted in four additional boxes of documents. David M. Hardy, the FBI's section chief in charge of records management, said the agency used a smaller box size to comply with the order. That and the marker pages resulted in more boxes overall.
"An 80,266 page file was received from Tampa, and the 80,266 page file was produced," Hardy wrote.
The FBI also shipped a CD… Continue reading
Originally published at the Herald-Tribune on April 8, 2014
Instead of following the law and producing documents that could show whether or not Saudis living in Sarasota provided aid and assistance to the 9/11 terrorists, the FBI, a federal judge recently found:
• Provided records with "apparent" and unexplained chronological "gaps."
• Presented to the court "located documents" that "seem incomplete."
• Submitted "summary documents" that "do in fact seem to contradict each other."
The FBI's handling of requests for documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which had links to locations and venues in Sarasota County, is unacceptable.
We and anyone interested in knowing more of the truth about 9/11 are grateful that U.S. District Court Judge William Zloch has steadily sought to require the FBI to adequately search for, find and release to the court documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
In contrast, it's troubling that the nation's top law-enforcement agency would not only be intransigent but would submit documents with gaps and contradictions to a federal court. The fact that the documents sought are relevant to one of the United States' greatest domestic tragedies compounds the concerns.
The background:
In September 2011, two independent reporters writing for BrowardBulldog.org reported that a family from Saudi Arabia, who lived in Sarasota County's prestigious Prestancia development prior to September 2001, had connections with individuals associated with terrorism.
The report, reprinted three years ago by the Herald-Tribune, cited documents showing phone calls to the… Continue reading
Originally published at the NYPost by Paul Sperry on 12/15/13
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.
But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress' investigative report on 9/11 dealing with "specific sources of foreign support" for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.
It was kept secret and remains so today.
President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn't just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this story by comparison is about 1,000 words).
A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are "absolutely shocked" at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.
Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) can't reveal the nation identified by it without violating federal law. So they've proposed Congress pass a resolution asking President Obama to declassify the entire 2002 report, "Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001."
Some information already has leaked from the classified section, which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government officials — not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and… Continue reading
Originally published at MadCow Morning News by intrepid investigative journalist Daniel Hopsiker on 9/12/13
If the Bush Administration lied to justify waging a war against Iraq, what truths still lie buried beneath the official explanation for what happened on September 11 2001?
Before discussion about 9/11 was squeezed—in a pincer movement worthy of Hitler's Panzer divisions—between the so-called "official story" and the subsequent campaign of disinformation that gave conspiracy a bad name, there were some promising avenues of investigation where definitive answers might still be possible.
Here are a few that remain at the top of my list. There are many others.
On the 12th anniversary of the Sept 11 attack there has still been no official investigation into the murders of almost 3000 people that day. The Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee investigation, which met in secret, delivered a report famously containing 28 blank pages.
And anyone looking to the 9/11 Commission for answers had already been disillusioned, even before they issued "findings," because they were charged only with identifying what might have been done differently to prevent a future attack.
The FBI's ballyhooed 4000-man "largest investigation in history" lasted just a little more than three weeks, until someone—we still don't know who—mailed letters sprinkled with anthrax, changing the focus of the FBI investigation.
Days later, in an order describing the investigation of the terrorist hijackings as "the most exhaustive in its history," FBI Agents were ordered to curtail their investigation of the Sept. 11 attack. Officials said Robert Mueller, newly-sworn in… Continue reading
By Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 29, No. 1, July 29, 2013
For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances.
Since 9/11 however, constitutional practices have been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size, reach and budget, while traditional government has shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully vetted cadre – and its entirety…visible only to God.1
More and more, it is becoming common to say that America, like Turkey before it, now has what Marc Ambinder and John Tirman have called a deep state behind the public one.2 And this parallel government is guided in surveillance matters by its own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, which according to the New York Times, "has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court."3 Thanks largely to Edward Snowden, it is now clear that the FISA Court has permitted this deep state to expand surveillance beyond the tiny number of known and suspected Islamic terrorists, to any incipient protest movement that might challenge the policies of the American war machine.…
Continue readingBy Nafeez Ahmed
A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government's support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied the allegations yet gone to extraordinary lengths to silence her. Her critics have derided her as a fabulist and fabricator. But now comes word that some of her most serious allegations were confirmed by a major European newspaper only to be squashed at the request of the U.S. government.
In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior government officials with negligence, corruption and collaboration with al Qaeda in illegal arms smuggling and drugs trafficking in Central Asia.
In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's deputy at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between 1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as 'Gladio B'. Al-Zawahiri, she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.
According to two Sunday Times journalists speaking on condition of anonymity, this and related revelations had… Continue reading
Preface: This is not a partisan post. We have repeatedly documented that Obama is as bad or worse than the Bush administration.
In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the program of torture carried out by the Bush administration was specifically specifically aimed at establishing a false justification for war. Dick Cheney is the guy who pushed for torture, pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture was legal, and made the pitch to Congress justifying torture. (The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture policies).
The type of torture used by the U.S. on the Guantanamo suspects is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the the U.S. used Communist torture techniques specifically aimed at creating false confessions (see this, this, this and this).
According to NBC News:
In fact, the 9/11 Commission Report was largely based on third-hand… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
Revelations since 9/11 have confirmed Wright's claims. FBI management did little or nothing to stop terrorism in the decade before 9/11 and, in some cases, appeared to have supported terrorists. This is more disturbing considering that the power of the FBI over terrorism investigations was supreme. In 1998, the FBI's strategic plan stated that terrorist activities fell "almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of the FBI" and that "the FBI has no higher priority than to combat terrorism."[2]
A number of people are suspect in these failures, including the leaders of the FBI's counterterrorism programs. But at the time of Wright's written complaint, which was not shared with the public until May 2002, the man most responsible was Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI from 1993 to 2001.
Agent Wright was not FBI leadership's only detractor, and not the only one to criticize Freeh.…
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
A document declassified this week by the National Security Archive reveals that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a briefing to the Bush administration which directly contradicts former Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta visited an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague.
The document (PDF), dated Dec. 1, 2001 and delivered to the White House on the 8th, claims that Atta "did not travel to the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000," and adds that "the individual who attempted to enter the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000… was not the Atta who attacked the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001."
Despite this briefing, just days later on Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney told the late Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, that the meeting in Prague had been "pretty well confirmed."
Well, what we now have that's developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that's been pretty well confirmed, that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack. Now, what the purpose of that was, what transpired between them, we simply don't know at this point. But that's clearly an avenue that we want to pursue.
Cheney's claim was one of the strongest rhetorical links between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and Iraq in the administration's arguments for war,… Continue reading
A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
By Anthony Summers, Neil Tweedie and Dan Christensen in Miami
The Telegraph
Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife Anoud left three cars at their luxurious home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida — one of them new — and flew to Saudi Arabia in August 2001. The refrigerator was full of food; furniture and clothing were left behind; and the swimming pool water was still circulating.
Security records of cars passing through a checkpoint at the Prestancia gated community indicated that Mr al-Hijji's home, 4224 Escondito Circle, had been visited a number of times by Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 19-strong hijack team, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in 2001.
The logs also indicated that Marwan Al-Shehhi, who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, and Ziad Jarrah, who was at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, had visited the house.
All three men had trained to fly at Venice Airport, which is 19 miles from Sarasota.
A US counter-terrorist agent told The Daily Telegraph: "The registration numbers of vehicles that had passed through the Prestancia community's north gate in the months before 9/11, coupled with the identification documents shown by incoming drivers on request, showed that Mohamed Atta and several of his fellow hijackers, and another Saudi suspect still at large, had visited 4224 Escondito Circle."
The suspect was Adnan Shukrijumah, an al-Qaeda operative who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list, with a $5 million bounty on his head.A decade after the world's worst terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people, Mr al-Hijji is resident in London, working for the European subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state oil company.…
Continue readingby David Ray Griffin
Professor Paul Zarembka has written a critique of a chapter of my recent book, 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes against Democracy Succeed . 1 The chapter in question is entitled "Phone Calls from the 9/11 Planes: How They Fooled America." I thank Dr. Zarembka for taking my chapter seriously enough to write his critique. 2 However, I submit that my chapter not to be guilty of the charges he levels.
At the beginning of his critique, Zarembka states that I seem intent on "exposing just lies and only lies" — on "turning up stones everywhere with the word 'lie' written on them." A computer search shows that my chapter contains no instances in which I used the term "lie," "lies," or "lying." I certainly did, to be sure, suggest that various aspects of the official story are false. This would be grounds for reproach if these suggestions were based on errors, and Zarembka suggests that they often are. Indeed, to adopt his formulation, he seemed to be intent on turning up stones everywhere with the word "error" written on them. But the charge that my chapter is filled with errors cannot be maintained.
At the conclusion of Zarembka's critique, he said that he found "weakness" in my chapter's "internal logic." This charge by Zarembka, however, reflects the fact that he simply failed to understand the logic of some of my arguments, or certain facts relevant to those arguments.
Sliding Over Deena Burnett's Testimony… Continue reading
September 12, 2011
By Barbara Liston
The former co-chair of a Congressional inquiry after the September 11, 2001
attacks called on the U.S. government to reopen its investigation following
a news report linking the hijackers to a Saudi Arabian couple who lived in Florida.
Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham said he has no reason to doubt the news report,
which said the Saudi Arabian couple abruptly abandoned their luxury home in
Sarasota two weeks before the attacks, leaving behind a full refrigerator, clothes,
furnishings and a new car in the driveway.
The report was published by BrowardBulldog.org., a nonprofit Internet news
site and was simultaneously published on the news website of the Miami Herald.
If true, it reveals another Saudi terrorism connection that was never disclosed
by the FBI to the public or to the 2002 joint Congressional intelligence committee
investigating the attacks, said Graham, who was co-chair of the committee.
The FBI office in Tampa issued a statement on Monday saying the Sarasota case
was one of many leads that "were resolved and determined not to be related
to any threat nor connected to the 9/11 plot."
Graham called the Sarasota case "eerily similar" to the FBI's failure
to tell the intelligence committee about a former Saudi civil servant, Omar
al-Bayoumi, who supported two hijackers while they were living in San Diego.
Graham said an investigator for his committee independently unearthed the information
about al-Bayoumi.
"Why did the U.S. government go to such lengths to cover up the Saudi
involvement?" Graham said.…
A congresswoman demanded details be revealed to the public about FBI
investigation into Saudi family with ties to hijackers in Sarasota.
By Dan Christensen
Special to The Miami Herald
A decade after the FBI found ties between a Saudi family living quietly near Sarasota and the 9/11 hijackers, a Florida Democratic congresswoman is calling on the House Intelligence Committee to investigate whether agents revealed their findings to Congress.
Kathy Castor said she was troubled over reports that federal agents discovered a luxury home where the family was living was visited by vehicles used by the hijackers and phone calls were linked between the home and the terrorists, but Congress was not told of the discovery.
The family abruptly left the home less than two weeks before the attacks, leaving a new car in the driveway, a refrigerator stuffed with food, toys in the pool — and an open safe in the master bedroom, according to administrators at the development.
"One of the great criticisms of the pre-9/11 intelligence operations," Castor wrote in her letter on Monday to the committee's two senior members, "was the lack of cooperation and information sharing among agencies."
The dispute over what Congress knew about the case emerged last week after The Miami Herald reported about the little known FBI investigation at the upscale development on Florida's west coast.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who chaired the congressional Joint Inquiry into the deadly hijackings, said he was never told about the case, while… Continue reading
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
WASHINGTON — US prosecutors compiled lots of evidence against the five men accused of having organized the September 11 attacks on the United States, but not until this week have details been fully revealed.
The indictment charging self-professed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others was unsealed when US Attorney General Eric Holder referred the case to the Defense Department for military trials instead of trials at a US federal court in New York.
Holder said Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi could have been prosecuted in federal court and blamed Congress for imposing measures blocking civilian trials of Guantánamo Bay inmates.
They will be tried in military courts in the US naval base in southeastern Cuba.
The now-public details show that the United States, nearly 10 years after hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reconstructed step by step the logistics of the five accused men.
They compiled bank transactions, flight records, visa applications, and dozens of telephone conversations to create the most comprehensive account of the chain of events before the attacks.
Implementation of the plan began in 1999, when Sheikh Mohammed (referred to as "KSM" by US officials) proposed to Osama bin Laden to use commercial airliners as missiles against US targets.
Until the last minute, according to the indictment, Sheikh Mohammed controlled the entire operation.
"From in or about December 1999, through in or about… Continue reading
By Catherine Herridge
Exclusive by Foxnews.com
A document obtained and witnesses interviewed by Fox News raise new questions over whether there was an effort by the Defense Department to cover up a pre-9/11 military intelligence program known as "Able Danger."
At least five witnesses questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General told Fox News that their statements were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report — or it left out key information, backing up assertions that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was identified a year before 9/11.
Atta is believed to have been the ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. Claims about how early Atta first tripped the radar of the Department of Defense date back to 2005, but those claims never made it into the Inspector General's report. The report was completed in 2006 and, until now, has been available only in a version with the names of virtually all of the witnesses blacked out.
Fox News, as part of an ongoing investigation, exclusively obtained a clean copy of the report and spoke to several principal witnesses, including an intelligence and data collector who asked that she not be named.
The witness told Fox News she was interviewed twice by a Defense Department investigator. She said she told the investigator that it was highly likely a department database included the picture of Atta, whom she knew under an alias, Mohammed el-Sayed.
The Defense Intelligence Agency has blocked a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger."
"When it came to the picture, (the investigator) he was fairly hostile," the witness told Fox News.…
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I stayed one night on my own and one day rate with a partner. The room was tiny I could barely walk in front of my bed because it was too close to the wall and I couldn't dead bolt lock my door. The type of people who stay there are unkempt. Thank god the sheets were clean. They were repainting and the floor was unfinished and sloppy.
Customer service was fantastic. From the second we entered, we were welcomed with amazing hospitality. Hotel is in a great location, around a 5 minute walk to Times Square and a few more minutes to Port Authority. Love that the hotel was keen on eco-friendly procedures.
Room was small and hard to move around but bathroom was set out well.
The customer service, the location, the beds, the breakfast, the hot chocolate, the price. overall a New York experience.
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Room was cozy for one. Couldn't imagine sharing though. It was very hot which made for a sleepless night.
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Great location, 5 minute walk from Times Square. We were on the 3rd floor facing onto 47th St, and weren't woken by any noise. I imagine facing onto 8th ave would be much more noisy. Water in the room on arrival, and iced water always available from the lobby. Good selection at breakfast.
The room was definitely cosy - had to rub yourself against the wall to get round the bed. The hotel was also very warm - we woke two nights so hot and with dry mouths, but there is air con available which although was a little noisy was worth it. I travelled with my sister and we're both in our twenties, we were happy with the hotel as all we did was sleep in it! Probably not the place to go if you're looking for somewhere luxurious and spacious.
It was so close to everything and all of the staff were all so friendly and very helpful
The room was very small, ok for one person but would be difficult to put a second suitcase in there as well.
Staff very pleasant, accommodating, and responsive, went out of their way to be helpful. They gave us an upper level room, just as we had requested, and were incredibly supportive with any needs we had. Location is perfect for seeing a show and is centrally located to do LOTS of walking! Clean, safe location, close to public transportation (subway).
Room was so tiny that we couldn't get to the other side of the bed without climbing over it. Breakfast area is very tiny, basically required SRO (standing room only) or taking flimsy plates back up to your room.
The staff were very pleasant and most helpful. The bed was very comfortable. The location was excellent.
We were in a room that was on the top floor which required a walk up of a flight of stairs from the top of the elevator. This was difficult for my elderly mother. It rained heavily one night and the sound of the rain on the air conditioning unit was quite loud.
Good location, air con in room, free breakfast, tea and coffee when ever you want
Very small room, can be noisy at times but you're in Times Square near the main road so it can't be helped.
Being so close to Times Square The wi fi The breakfasts Free beverages in the lobby The helpful staff Fresh towels and bedding
The small bed room - but it is New York!
a minute walk from times square, many pubs and restaurants in the area, barely used the metro all our stay. Staff is very nice, breakfast is satisfying.
Room is very small, not suitable for people who are used to luxury, but for people who just want a bed its great!
Location was great - near Times Square, stores, restaurants - all within walking distance Staff were friendly and very accommodating Basic breakfast was okay and water and coffee/tea are available 24/7 Great value for money esp. when you just want a place to sleep as the rooms are quite small (usual in NY though)
Only one elevator and is quite slow Wi-Fi access got deactivated even before our check-out time is up
The location was perfect, just two minutes away from Times Square. Excellent staff, especially Jessica, everyone else friendly and helpfull too. Good breakfast and small but very clean room.
It was in times sq just one avenue away so close to everything. free wifi in the rooms was a small hotel so not many guests
the rooms where tiny, they must have been 7ft in length could not get suitcases into the rooms had to leave in bathroom. you had to climb on top of the bed to get to the other side of the room. the bathroom was tiny you had to stand sidewards to get past toilet to the bath.
Close to Times Square, good wifi, clean room and bathroom. Very good value for money!
Small room, very simple breakfast
STAFF excellent
the hotel needs updating. rugs replaced
Friendly and helpful staff, breakfast included, good location and generally welcoming hotel. ATM in lobby, possibility to print. Functionning air-co and room windows with some view.
The rooms are small.
Great location and nice staff
Rooms are pretty tiny
Staff was knowledgeable, and friendly. The place was clean and close to all the action. Great place. Great value.
The location couldn't have been better. The rooms although small were clean. We were on the top floor. After the elevator stopped at floor 6 we climbed the stairs to the only room on the 7th floor which may well have been larger than some of the other rooms, but was still quite spartan, however, whether it was because we were on the top floor or not, but the shower barely had any force at all.
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Cosmo School of Music is proud to present an exciting line-up of music camps for students of all ages. Our camps are all led by professional musicians and are held in our fully-equiped music studios and performance hall. Join us for a unique musical March Break, Summer Camp, and PA Day experience for your children!
March Break Music Camps
New details are posted here February for March Break. Visit or call us today to speak with a Music Education Advisor to get started!
Summer Music Camps
New details are posted here April for Summer Music Camps.
Come and experience our extraordinary musical summer camps for the musician in your family. Each program is taught by professional musicians and educators, and are held in our new state-of-the-art facility featuring a performance venue right on site! All our camps run from 9am - 4pm, unless otherwise specified. We also offer extended care until 5:30pm for an additional $25/wk.
Previous Camps
SUMMER IN THE MUSIC GARDEN - Summer 2014
Ages: 4 - 5
Prerequisite: No previous musical training required
Let us inspire your child with the joy of music. Each day we discover new songs and stories, while introducing notation and exploring musical arts and crafts.
INSTRUMENTAL SAMPLER CAMP - Summer 2014
Ages: 5 - 12
Prerequisite: No previous musical training required
Is your child interested in music? Not sure which instrument to choose? Try our instrumental sampler camp! Campers will participate in group Piano, Violin and Guitar/Ukulele classes, and will also be introduced to hand drumming and singing. A perfect way to help choose which instrument will be the best fit for lessons in September.
GLEE CAMP - Summer 2014
Ages: 7 - 12
Prerequisite: No previous musical training required
Love to sing? Can't get enough of the hit TV show Glee? Join us for a week of singing, dancing and fun! Learn vocal harmonies and have fun in the spotlight! This week long camp will bring together singing, dancing and acting in a final performance in our Cosmopolitan Music Hall!
BEATZ BRIGADE - Summer 2014
Ages: 7 - 14
Prerequisite: No previous musical training required
Attention parents! Are you tired of your kids banging on anything and everything? This performance program that explores an exciting blend of movement and sound! Students will work with a variety of percussion instruments and learn choreographed movement to result in a final performance.
ROCK CAMP - Summer 2014
Ages: 10 - 16
Prerequisite: Minimum of 1 year private instruction
Want to play in a band? "Rock out" at Cosmo with our professional-level camp. Campers will work with a band of peers in preparation for a final concert on the last day of each week of camp. Workshops on songwriting, technique and musicianship will take your skills to the next level. Students of the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocals are welcome (minimum 1 year instruction required). Guitarists and bass players are asked to bring their own instruments. Drums, keyboards and amplifiers will be provided. Existing bands are welcome to join Rock Camp and work as a band. Our coaches will help you reach your full potential. This is a great way to get ready for the stage or the recording studio.


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Dr. Gowhar A. Khan graduated from the Gov't Med Coll Srinagar, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India in 1977. He works in Aurora, IL and 1 other location and specializes in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Khan is affiliated with Presence Mercy Medical Center. He speaks Arabic, English and Spanish.
Gender: Male
Years in Practice: 38 Years
Languages Spoken: Arabic, English, Spanish
Medical School: Gov't Med Coll Srinagar, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Graduation Date: 1977
Hospital Affiliations: Presence Mercy Medical Center
Specialties: Rheumatology, Internal Medicine
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LOCATION: Path began 2 miles north-northwest of Sweetser and ended north of the Grant/Wabash county line on CR 700 N, east of CR 600 E
DESCRIPTION: A NWS survey of damage in Grant county indicated a tornado, reaching a maximum intensity of EF2, impacted a several mile long path. The tornado touched down on County Road 00 South, west of County Road 900 West where a hog barn suffered some roof damage. The tornado moved quickly northeast and intensified where it caused damage to two residences near the intersection of County Roads 300 North and 600 West. A large portion of the front wall of a one story home to collapse with subsequent removal of adjacent roof. A nearby home lost its entire roof (DI: MHSW DOD: 6). The tornado continued to intensify further approaching EF2 intensity as it cause extensive damage to a garage with the roof being removed and walls pushed down. Projectiles from the garage were found in the roof of the residence. EF2 intensity was reached around the intersection of County Road 325 West and Frances/Slocum Road where the top of a two story home was nearly removed (DI: FR12 DOD: 6). The tornado slowly weakened the remainder of its track impacting other residences with decreasing amounts and intensity of roof damage. Trees also suffered varying degrees of damage. The tornado cross briefly into Wabash county west of Grant County Road 00 West/Wabash County Road 600 East. The tornado was on the ground for over 11.5 miles with winds reaching a maximum intensity of around 125 mph.
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I've been enjoying my new life in Alabama!
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I have been on a polish kick lately with the change of seasons coming soon. I always seem drawn to "reds", and can't seem to have enough of them...I have an eye for any red with a twist, ie. mixed with shimmer, blended with colors, or just a unique red......This was probably the first polish that caught my eye out of the entire collection. It stood out to me like a lttle jewel..The other MUA folks have pretty much summed up anything I could say about it, but I will say it again...Ladies, it's a GOREGOUS red. It will look stunning on a pedi and also lovely for mani's..I wish the winter would hurry and get here just so I can wear this....I am NC20-25 but truly think most skin tones can pull this off...Also those of you who like your "reds" Sugar Sugar" by Sinful is a gorgeous red with shimmer, not glitter, also quite lovely...I agree with the reviewer that said get it while you can because once the holidays hit this will be harder to get your hands on... :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE. I am not typically a glitter polish-wearer. HOWEVER, this red is absolutely to-die for. The red is rich and the glitter is just perfect. In addition, it goes on smoothly and the glitter particles are the perfect size. I love it
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This looks exactly like if you took a swatch from Dorothy's shoes and put them on your fingertips. That's the best way to describe it. It really and truly does look just like Dorothy's ruby pumps. On my NW25 skin, it is the perfect red.
Thin formula, but I found 2 coats sufficient. Some slight pooling with application. The glitter is not chunky, but super fine and not gritty feeling. Cleanup is tedious, however that is to be expected with red/glitter polishes. I absolutely adore this color. Will definitely repurchase.
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This is my HG red polish. perfect amount of glitter, great formula. Can't stop staring at my nails when I'm wearing this! IMO, every girl needs to own this.
If you like keeping your nails red during December/Feb, etc., then you FOR SURE need to go buy this NOW. You will not be able to find it in a few months. The color is AWESOME, especially on toes. :-)
Best glittery red polish EVER! I can't stop admiring my nails. I don't think there is anything I could add to the revews that hasn't already been said. Its a beautiful ruby polish with glitter swimming all through it. Certainly not lacking in the glitter department! I found 3 coats were required to get true to bottle look. It was a nice thin(er) consistency. Not so much that it pooled, but just enough that it sort of leveled itself out as brushed on. Oh how "Dorothy" would love this color of polish! I really don't think this polish is OVER hyped...its worthy of all its praise! I would buy this time and time again. I can't be without it now. This will be a wonderful color during the coming holidays!
Love this red glittery polish! It really does remind you of Dorthy's red pumps! =) This shade is perfect for the holidays. I normally don't wear reds on my nails but this color is gorgeous! I deff. recommend.
I love, love, love red shimmering polishes!! This is one of the prettiest ones I own. I always keep a shimmering red as my go to polish, such as Revlon's Frankly Scarlet. This is more of a festive type. Really does make me think of Dorothy's ruby slippers :) A plus - got it today on sale for $3.99 at Sally's. Very happy!!


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Winter Love with the New Petzval Art lens
-29 °C and your fingers sticking to the beautiful copper lens. Is there a better way to start the new year? A couple of shots, tips, and a mini video edit from a freezing day with the New Petzval Art Lens. -
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This August, we bring you back to your roots and explore the wonders of nature! First, we cook up a storm with a film soup experiment. Followed by nature photowalks at beautiful scenic parks in Singapore to unearth the tips & tricks of trouble exposure, as well as the unique methods to perfect our macro shots. To cap off the learning month, we'll gather on a cozy Friday night for a new special sharing series by the Lomography Community -- with Sharing Session #1: Nature. -
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Michael Liot, Fabienne Débarre and William Serfass make up alternative indie-electro Parisian trio We Were Evergreen. They have recently been signed to Island records and their debut album "Towards" was released on May 5th. We decided give them a La Sardina and a Lomokino to capture their rise to stardom! Let's meet them. -
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The training of more than 10,000 racers of all ages is put to the test this weekend during the City of Lakes Loppet Festival.
The festival features 21 events, ranging from the ski marathon to skijoring to snow bicycling races and a snow sculpture contest in the Uptown area.
Hoigaard's Classic and Puoli Loppet racers set off Saturday morning.
The Hoigaard's Classic is a 42 kilometer (about 26.2 miles) point-to-point marathon race that starts in Wirth Park and finishes in the Loppet Village in Uptown. The Hoigaard's Classic is a classic/diagonal stride only.
The Puoli Loppet Classic runs from Theodore Wirth Park and ends in Uptown like the other big events, but skips most of the hardest hills. The Puoli Loppet Classic is designed as a 20K course.
Saturday's biggest event is the Luminary Loppet, which is a candlelit trek around Lake of the Isles. It is expected to draw roughly 6,000 people. Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is expected to kick-off the race.
Snowshoeing and dog sledding have been added to the schedule for the first time this year.
Sunday's events include more dogsled races, cycling and skijoring.
Officials expect the event to draw 20,000 spectators, overall.
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Yoko Ono turned 81 on Tuesday. That, combined with February being declared Beatles Remembrance Month in most of the United States, is reason enough to recall the Bed-In.
The Bed-In was such a '60s thing, an event that might, in hindsight, seem silly, frivolous and self-indulgent.
It was silly, frivolous and self-indulgent. But it was John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and in 1969 telling John and Yoko that they were being silly, frivolous and self-indulgent was one sure way to knock yourself out of any hip lineup you might have aspired to.
Back then, in the spring of the '60s finale, there was that ongoing embrace of a separate reality that was so cool it didn't have to make sense. It had only to provide an alternative to being normal.
There was a lot of that going around in 1969 — lots of alternatives to being normal. Pop prophets going to bed for peace was nothing to sneer at.
John and Yoko had had a honeymoon bed-in in Amsterdam two months before they settled in at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in May 1969. They had wanted to do it in New York, but a Lennon pot bust was used to deny him a visa.
So they extended the pillow talk tour and went to bed in Canada. For days. They had signs on the wall that said "Hair Peace" and "Bed Peace." Ask for an explanation and you could be asked to forfeit your copy of the "White Album."
B-list celebrities came to pay court. The Beatle and his lady stayed in bed. No one could find the words to describe it.
It was all about peace, I think. It was about protesting the war in Vietnam. It was performance art, and it was so much more comfortable than getting all sweaty and defiant with a bunch of cops in the street.
I was in Vietnam during the Bed-In. I'm not sure if hostilities eased as word of the event reached Hanoi. I don't even know if General Giap had "Rubber Soul" in his collection.
It is a period piece for sure, this taking to bed for peace. It happened during the twilight of the guru period. It was a time to sit at the feet, or the bedside, of deep and thoughtful people and close your eyes and nod — and listen to the sitar, perhaps, as a thought or two spilled out every few hours.
It couldn't happen today. For one thing, there's a real shortage of gurus. Look around. Who qualifies? We've had pointless wars going on for more than a decade, but no one has really stepped up to snuggle down for peace.
Who might do it? Who might see the promise in going to bed and waiting for people to show up and ask questions?
There's no one. Bill Clinton in his jammies? Don't think so.
At the end of the Bed-In in Montreal, there was a spontaneous recording of "Give Peace A Chance." Timothy Leary and Petula Clark were reportedly in the room. It was, apparently, very moving, and the song caught on.
But that couldn't happen either. Not now. This is not a time to call for peace because that would just be a dreary reminder that there's a war going on. We have moved past such things and gone shopping.
So, happy birthday one day late, Yoko. The Bed-In franchise is still yours.


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Rypple Work Better Rypple's online platform helps workers give and receive feedback. Picture it as Facebook for the office: Users can set up private projects, post comments, make their goals public, and even assign badges to one another's profiles. Supervisors can use it to track the progress of their employees, and there's a tool for coaching workers and managers. -
Zeo Sleep Better Zeo's headband measures the brainwaves that are correlated with sleep quality, and a bedside monitor presents users with a score in the morning. The display also shows the amount of time spent in various sleep cycles and how long it took you to fall asleep. If you're sleeping poorly, Zeo's online tools will ask you questions—Do your kids sleep in your bed? Do you have pets? Do you exercise?—then offer up strategies for better sleep. -
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GreenRoad Drive Better GreenRoad's in-vehicle display uses GPS and accelerometers to let drivers spot and correct risky or fuel- inefficient driving habits in real time. Red, yellow, and green lights on the dash warn drivers when they're making too many dangerous moves—like accelerating into turns or stopping suddenly. (The data is also posted online so supervisors can review employees' driving and see if certain routes or shifts are more hazardous for their drivers.) -
GreenGoose Liver Better GreenGoose uses wireless sensors and simple game mechanics to encourage behaviors like brushing your teeth, riding your bike, and walking your dog. Users get points as rewards for their everyday actions and bonus points for consistency. Starting this fall, people will be able to use those points in simple online games.
If there is one problem in medicine that confounds doctors, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies alike, it's noncompliance, the unfriendly term for patients who don't follow doctors' orders. Most vexing are those who don't take their medications as prescribed—which, it turns out, is pretty much most of us. Studies have shown that about half of patients who are prescribed medication take their pills as directed. For drugs like statins, which must be used for years, the rate is even worse, dropping to around 30 percent after a year. (Since the effect of these drugs can be invisible, the thinking goes, patients don't detect any benefit.) Research has found that noncompliance adds $100 billion annually to US health care costs and leads to 125,000 unnecessary deaths from cardiovascular diseases alone every year. And it can be blamed almost entirely on human foibles—people failing to do what they know they should.
David Rose is a perfect example of this. He has a family history of heart disease. Now 44, he began taking medication for high blood pressure a few years ago, making him not so different from the nearly one-third of Americans with hypertension. Where Rose is exceptional is in his capacity to do something about noncompliance. He has a knack for inventing beautiful, engaging, alluring objects that get people to do things like take their pills.
A decade ago, Rose, whose stylish glasses and soft-spoken manner bring to mind a college music teacher, started a company called Ambient Devices. His most famous product is the Orb, a translucent sphere that turns different colors to reflect different information inputs. If your stocks go down, it might glow red; if it snows, it might glow white, and so on, depending on what information you tell the Orb you are interested in. It's a whimsical product and is still available for purchase online. But as far as Rose is concerned, the Orb was merely a prelude to his next company, Vitality, and its marquee product: the GlowCap.
The device is simple. When a patient is prescribed a medication, a physician or pharmacy provides a GlowCap to go on top of the pill bottle, replacing the standard childproof cap. The GlowCap, which comes with a plug-in unit that Rose calls a night-light, connects to a database that knows the patient's particular dosage directions—say, two pills twice a day, at 8 am and 8 pm. When 8 am rolls around, the GlowCap and the night-light start to pulse with a gentle orange light. A few minutes later, if the pill bottle isn't opened, the light pulses a little more urgently. A few minutes more and the device begins to play a melody—not an annoying buzz or alarm. Finally, if more time elapses (the intervals are adjustable), the patient receives a text message or a recorded phone call reminding them to pop the GlowCap. The overall effect is a persistent feedback loop urging patients to take their meds.
These nudges have proven to be remarkably effective. In 2010, Partners HealthCare and Harvard Medical School conducted a study that gave GlowCaps to 140 patients on hypertension medications; a control group received nonactivated GlowCap bottles. After three months, adherence in the control group had declined to less than 50 percent, the same dismal rate observed in countless other studies. But patients using GlowCaps did remarkably better: More than 80 percent of them took their pills, a rate that lasted for the duration of the six-month study.
The power of the device can perhaps be explained by the fact that the GlowCap incorporates several schools of behavioral change. Vitality has experimented with charging consumers for the product, drawing on the behavioral-economics theory that people are more willing to use something they've paid for. But in other circumstances the company has given users a financial reward for taking their medication, using a carrot-and-stick methodology. Different models work for different people, Rose says. "We use reminders and social incentives and financial incentives—whatever we can," he says. "We want to provide enough feedback so that it's complementary to people's lives, but not so much that you can't handle the onslaught."
Here Rose grapples with an essential challenge of feedback loops: Make them too passive and you'll lose your audience as the data blurs into the background of everyday life. Make them too intrusive and the data turns into noise, which is easily ignored. Borrowing a concept from cognitive psychology called pre-attentive processing, Rose aims for a sweet spot between these extremes, where the information is delivered unobtrusively but noticeably. The best sort of delivery device "isn't cognitively loading at all," he says. "It uses colors, patterns, angles, speed—visual cues that don't distract us but remind us." This creates what Rose calls "enchantment." Enchanted objects, he says, don't register as gadgets or even as technology at all, but rather as friendly tools that beguile us into action. In short, they're magical.
This approach to information delivery is a radical departure from how our health care system usually works. Conventional wisdom holds that medical information won't be heeded unless it sets off alarms. Instead of glowing orbs, we're pummeled with FDA cautions and Surgeon General warnings and front-page reports, all of which serve to heighten our anxiety about our health. This fear-based approach can work—for a while. But fear, it turns out, is a poor catalyst for sustained behavioral change. After all, biologically our fear response girds us for short-term threats. If nothing threatening actually happens, the fear dissipates. If this happens too many times, we end up simply dismissing the alarms.
It's worth noting here how profoundly difficult it is for most people to improve their health. Consider: Self-directed smoking-cessation programs typically work for perhaps 5 percent of participants, and weight-loss programs are considered effective if people lose as little as 5 percent of their body weight. Part of the problem is that so much in our lives—the foods we eat, the ads we see, the things our culture celebrates—is driven by feedback loops that sustain bad behaviors. But we can counterprogram this onslaught with another feedback loop, increasing our odds of changing course.
Though GlowCaps improved compliance by an astonishing 40 percent, feedback loops more typically improve outcomes by about 10 percent compared to traditional methods. That 10 percent figure is surprisingly persistent; it turns up in everything from home energy monitors to smoking cessation programs to those Your Speed signs. At first glance, 10 percent may not seem like a lot. After all, if you're 250 pounds and obese, losing 25 pounds is a start, but your BMI is likely still in the red zone. But it turns out that 10 percent does matter. A lot. An obese 40-year-old man would spare himself three years of hypertension and nearly two years of diabetes by losing 10 percent of his weight. A 10 percent reduction in home energy consumption could reduce carbon emissions by as much as 20 percent (generating energy during peak demand periods creates more pollution than off-peak generation). And those Your Speed signs? It turns out that reducing speeds by 10 percent from 40 to 35 mph would cut fatal injuries by about half.
In other words, 10 percent is something of an inflection point, where lots of great things happen. The results are measurable, the economics calculable. "The value of behavior change is incredibly large: nearly $5,000 a year," says David Rose, citing a CVS pharmacy white paper. "At that rate, we can afford to give every diabetic a connected glucometer. We can give the morbidly obese a Wi-Fi-enabled scale and a pedometer. The value is there; the savings are there. The cost of the sensors is negligible."


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5 AmazinChenman | 19/12/2010 | See all Chenman's reviews (1)The film was amazin can't wait to get the cd to relive it all againCher and Christina are both brilliant singerswonderful
5 Burlesqueangelwithhorns | 15/01/2012 | See all angelwithhorns's reviews (2)Went to the pictures with my best friend to see the film. Loved it so much I bought the DVD and now I want the CD so I can listen to it in my car and also on my MP3 player when I am out jogging. I am sure it will help me run further.
5 ExquisiteEckahBeckah | 23/11/2011 | See all EckahBeckah's reviews (1)An amazing, draglicious, camp, gay, beautiful and wonderful soundtrack.Had a burlesque theme for my birthday party and we were dancing around to this album. Two ballads on here are just beautiful.Love Xtina, Love Cher - what more could you want?!
5 Absolutely Amazing.friendsrules101 | 17/08/2011 | See all friendsrules101's reviews (11)When I saw this film I straight away fell in love with the music. Christina Aguilera steals 8 of the songs on the album, leaving the other 2 to Cher.I've always thought Christina had a beautiful voice, but she is definitely at her best on this album, especially in songs such as like 'Something's Got A Hold On Me', 'Tough Lover', 'Bound To You' and 'Show Me How You Burlesque'.Cher's balld 'You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me' is absolutely stunning and possibly my favourite song from the soundtrack. The song was also used as Cher's comeback single.Personal favourites are:'Tough Lover''Express''You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me''Bound To You''Show Me How You Burlesque'


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1 And Joseph falleth on his father's face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him; | 1 Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him. |
2 and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel; | 2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, |
3 and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days. | 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. |
4 And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, `If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, | 4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, "If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, |
5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;' | 5 'My father made me swear an oath and said, "I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.' " |
6 and Pharaoh saith, `Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.' | 6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do." |
7 And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, | 7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him--the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt-- |
8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen; | 8 besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. |
9 and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great. | 9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company. |
10 And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days, | 10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. |
11 and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, see the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad, and say, `A grievous mourning [is] this to the Egyptians;' therefore hath [one] called its name `The mourning of the Egyptians,' which [is] beyond the Jordan. | 11 When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning." That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim. |
12 And his sons do to him so as he commanded them, | 12 So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them: |
13 and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre. | 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field. |
14 And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father. | 14 After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father. |
15 And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.' | 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?" |
16 And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying, | 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father left these instructions before he died: |
17 Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him. | 17 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept. |
18 And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we [are] to thee for servants.' | 18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves," they said. |
19 And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for [am] I in the place of God? | 19 But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God? |
20 As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people; | 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. |
21 and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart. | 21 So then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your children." And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them. |
22 And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years, | 22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years |
23 and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third [generation]; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph. | 23 and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph's knees. |
24 And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' | 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." |
25 And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, `God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this [place].' | 25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place." |
26 And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt. | 26 So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. |
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:: E! Online reported on the dynamic in the judges' lineup: "Just like old times, then. Well, almost. Because if it were truly old times, then Cowell would be the most feared and acid-tongued judge on the panel. And judging by yesterday's auditions, that doesn't seem to be the case. Instead, that honor seems to go to L.A. Reid…"
:: The Wrap quipped on Paula's 11th-hour addition to The X Factor: "Abdul might not so much have been holding out for more cash, as much as she might have been considering whether she wanted to spend time with the famously cantankerous Cowell again."
:: The Daily Mail noted a fashion clash between Abdul and Cheryl Cole: "When the two met up for a photo op, fashion observers seemed to feel Abdul had a bit of an edge, even though her purple silk Yves Saint Laurent dress caught a wind gust when she stepped out of her car (leading to an embarrassing moment). Cole was clad in an orange ruffled blouse, turquoise belt and purple pants that, although on trend in terms of this spring's bright colors, were way too long and completely covered her feet."
:: The Stir stirred the ish up with this comment: "Basically, Simon Cowell has created a brand new version of American Idol, and he's cherry-picking the elements that worked best from his rival Simon Fuller's show. Which, of course, includes the is-she-high-or-isn't-she Ms. Abdul."
:: Celebitchy got a few straight-up digs in, as well: "Well Paula will certainly make things more interesting, if not harder to understand. Cowell needed a big name to join him on the panel and while Reid and Cole are both famous they don't have Paula's name recognition. I like her and find her very sweet, but she's definitely loopy as hell."
:: Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch had a prediction for Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole: "Cole will provide X Factor what Jennifer Lopez gives American Idol – a smart, sympathetic mentor who gets as much attention for her glamour as for her criticism."
:: UK-based blog That Grape Juice noticed a bit of an imbalance: "Though this is undeniably a coup for Scherzinger (as her Stateside career was in much need of the gig), something about the whole set-up is jarring to say the least. She's infinitely more talented and qualified than Cole, yet will stand there reading cue-cards, while her lessor sits judging talent. Like, really."
:: And then there's co-host Steve Jones. Who? Exactly. BBC News gave a crash course: "With his movie star good looks, Jones briefly flirted with an acting career, enjoying a small part in the British film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and a minor role as himself in two episodes of the Channel 4 television series Plus One."
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ABC News' John Berman Reports: Who would you rather have backing your campaign: The alleged Casanova of the can, the purported purveyor of prostitutes, or the alleged land-scam lawmaker?
For the presidential candidates this year, these are just some of the rather unfortunate endorsements they have received.
Today Republican Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona was indicted on charges of extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other matters in an Arizona land swap scam. Renzi is also one of the Arizona state co-chairs for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.
But McCain is hardly the first candidate this cycle to garner an endorsement he might like to give back.
Republican Senator Larry Craig was a big-time backer of former Gov. Mitt Romney, before being accused of soliciting sex in a Minnesota men's bathroom.
And Senator David Vitter was a big part of Team Giuliani, before his name turned up in the blackbook of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's. Vitter was forced to apologize for "a very serious sin in my past." (By that he mean soliciting prostitutes, not backing Giuliani.)
It is a bit if a conundrum for candidates. They obviously want as many endorsements as they can get, and they don't have much control what their supporters do when the lights are off and no one is looking.
But how they handle their relationship when the chips are down is a bit revealing. Today, McCain expressed more concern than anger when he learned of the Renzi indictment.
At a news conference in Indianapolis, he said, "I'm sorry obviously, you always feel for the family as you know he has 12 children. But I don't know enough of the details or anything to make a judgment, this kind of thing is always, is always very unfortunate. I rely on our department of justice and our system of justice to make the right outcome."
Mitt Romney on the other hand chose the nuclear option when dealing with the Larry Craig matter. He called Craig's reported actions, "disgusting."
This wasn't particularly appreciated by Senator Craig, who in an interview later said, " "I was very proud of my association with Mitt Romney. I'd worked hard for him here in the state. I was a co-chair of his campaign on Capitol Hill. And he not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again."
Maybe Craig had the last laugh. He is still a Senator, and Mitt Romney is no longer a presidential candidate.
Can anyone think of any other examples of endorsements candidates might like to give back?


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The burning question: Did the Cardinals quit?
It's easy to make the assumption that after a 58-0 drubbing at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks, the Arizona Cardinals quit Sunday.
Maybe the repeated losing during a nine-game losing streak was too much to take, and the Cardinals just took their ball and went home.
One such person is Larry Fitzgerald, Sr., father of woefully underused Cardinals wide receiver and writer for the Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder. Fitzgerald offered up this at halftime of the Cardinals' loss on Twitter:
Pathetic performance by Arizona Cardinals.38-0 Seahawks!8-5 Cardinals loss 9 straight can't do anything right.They beat this team week 1!
— Larry Fitzgerald Sr. (@FitzBeatSr) December 9, 2012
It's a serious charge, no doubt, especially when it implicates highly-paid professional athletes. One Cardinal, defensive lineman Nick Eason, did refute the accusations on Twitter:
@decaboto says we are quitters. We didnt quit. We didnt execute and make plays. It' was our worse game ever. It was embarrassing.
— Nick Eason (@njeason) December 10, 2012
Embattled head coach Ken Whisenhunt also talked about that very topic at his Monday press conference.
"It wasn't effort (Sunday)," when explaining what the issues were. "It was technique, it was gap fits and you've got to give Seattle credit, they played hard but we had more mistakes defensively than we've had this whole year and when you go against a team like that, you know you can't do that.
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The 58-point loss was the worst in Cardinals' history and was also the highest single-game point output in Seattle history.
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A county career that ended only last year will provide Michael Di Venuto with a wealth of relevant experience to pass on to Australia's batsmen about England after he was named the national team's fulltime batting coach.
Di Venuto, 39, will start his role on this month's tour of India, but his value to Ashes preparations figured prominently in his election, after more than a decade of first-class matches for Sussex, Derbyshire and Durham, with whom he retired as senior pro in July 2012.
The appointment follows a period in which Australia tried several batting mentors in the wake of Justin Langer's decision to become head coach of Western Australia, including the former Test batsmen Stuart Law and Dean Jones. It is also a further endorsement of Tasmania as a source of coaching and playing talent, as Di Venuto joins the man he replaced as the Tigers' assistant coach, Ali De Winter.
"We are delighted to have Michael on board," Australia's coach Mickey Arthur said. "We wanted a batting coach who was working within Australian cricket and who had also represented Australia as a player and Michael certainly brings those two aspects to the table, as well as a wealth of experience in first-class cricket.
"We felt it was important that the appointed person had demonstrated coaching experience. This aligns with our coaching pathway plans which is an Argus review recommendation. Michael spent some time around the Test squad while we were in Hobart ... we were impressed with the way he went about his work and we look forward to him joining us on a full-time basis."
Despite a prolific record as an aggressive first-class and limited overs batsman, Di Venuto's international career was limited to nine ODIs in the late 1990s, and was ended by Adam Gilchrist's rise to prominence as an opener in one-day matches.
More recently he represented Italy, the nation of his ancestry, in World Twenty20 qualifiers.
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1. Lupe Fiasco - "Jonylah Forever"
Lupe's been known to speak out against the violence that takes place in his hometown of Chicago. In wake of 6-month old Jonylah Watkins' death after being shot 5 times, Lupe weighs in with his lyrical opinion. The rapper took to his Twitter to express how he felt about the tradegy by writing, "She lives as long as we do. She will live forever. God bless your soul and the family you left behind. We Love You." The song features Lupe rapping about the possible future Jonylah could've had if she wasn't murdered. This goes beyond deep. Respect to Lu.


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NISKAYUNA -- Two people were taken to the hospital for their injuries following a two-car crash in Niskayuna.
It happened around 1 p.m. on Balltown Road Monday afternoon.
One of the drivers have to be cut out of the SUV.
No word yet on the conditions of both drivers or what caused the crash.