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SS Support, Monday, March 26th - Sunday, April 1st
Happy Monday!
I got a wonderful surprise over the weekend. A gift from my "un"birthday pal Suzanne. It is a book titled "Chosen By a Horse" a ying yang bookmark clip and a gorgeous notecard of "Little Bit" one of Suzanne's beloved hens. I hope I got the title of the book right as I am at work now. That was such a pleasant surprise. The book looks like a very moving story and I plan to read that on my way to FL in April (if I can wait that long).
Suzanne - Thank you girlfriend.
I have to get busy at work, as I need to leave early to take DH for his colonoscopy this morning - the fun never ends.
Enjoy your day
Greetings all,
Happy Monday!
Marci sending well wishes, prayers and positive thoughts your way. Oh, and lots of (((((HUGS))))
Raeanne,I know you will that book! Hope all went with DH's colonoscopy! You are right, the fun never ends!! LOL
Maddie, it was so good to hear from you. I miss you and hope you don't disappear for too long!!
I had a good weekend and as usual didn't get enough done. I did get my horse trailer down to the dealer (over an hour away!) so it will be safe and ready to roll when the weather turns around. I am going to attend a clinic with Sweet Pea in April so we can start focusing on driven dressage. I am excited about having a new focus.
Well, where the heck is everyone?
Here I am! LOL I know that I am not everyone & I'm hoping that more will pop in & say hi to us. This has been very unusual to say the least.
Raeanne~It sounds like you had a very nice un-birthday. Are we going to be able to get together?
NH Suzanne~I know that you are looking forward to being able to ride again.
Marci~[[[[ H U G S ]]]] Sis! You know that we love you & miss you when you are gone. We never like it when something is happening to one of our sisters.
Donna NJ~[[[[ H U G S ]]]] How did things go for your Dad?
Has anybody heard from Tikanis? I am so worried about her. It isn't like her to stay away so long. Not much happening around here. Be good to yourselves b/c you deserve it. Patti :)
Good TUESDAY Morning!
Patti, I'm also worried about Tikanas. She is not posting on the Cooking Forum and I don't know where else to look for her. Did you send her an e:mail? I know that she was feeling stressed lately. Hope all is OK with her.
I was fine with eating yesterday until after dinner. I really need to get myself away from the kitchen once the dishes are rinsed and put into the dishwasher. I tried to get DH to do it, but I would find that some pots would remain in the sink overnight. Not a sight I want to see in the morning. Over the last week, I've been making lunches and setting the table for breakfast at night, so that I can make it out on time for my 6:15am walk. I need to stay out of the snacks when I do that.
DH still has too much foodie junk around the house! He loves those Frito Scoops dipped into sour cream before I get home from work. Last evening I gave me some whole grain crackers spread with hummus from Trader Joe's. He really enjoyed them, so I told him no more Scoops! That got me a "look", so I backed down! LOL!!!!
Sometimes you can't win.
Make today count!
I emailed Tikanis several days ago and haven't heard from her. If she doesn't check in this week I will try to call her.
Patti - the people we are staying with have already booked us with a boat trip and a stay near Captiva for 3 nights. When I get our full agenda I will let you know what it is and hopefully we can get together.
Dee - your DH and Rich are so similar. He insists that he will be happy eating the same stuff as I do, yet he always has a stash of cookies, chips and ice cream for after dinner. He is a gentleman though and always offers them to me - THANKS A LOT.
Its my day off and I need to get some household chores done.
Dee~Take a deep breath, Sis. Now, blow it out slowly. Is the stress relieved any? LOL I lost 11# but found most of it back. Not all of it. My downfall is that I found a no-sugar added coconut cream pie & I think that I have to eat it & lots of it. Arg...... The woe that I am doing does not allow grapes at any time. I guess that their way of thinking is that they have too much sugar. And Dave's way of thinking is that they are SO much cheaper than cherries, which are allowed. So, I don't know what to do.
Raeanne~I will call Tikanis if you have her phone #. She keeps giving it to me & I keep losing it. I don't know what is wrong with me. The last time that she gave it to me I said, "OK, now I have put it in a place where it won't get lost." Oh, brother, was I wrong or what? I hope that we have the chance to get together but if we don't I understand. Dave wants to take a trip to upstate NY & I should be able to meet a bunch of my SS sisters along the way. He was really hoping to this year b/c it is his 30th class reunion but he says that he doesn't feel like we will have the money to go. I'm glad that you got a day off. Don't spend all of doing household chores. Spend some time for yourself.
We are really trying to get all of the bills paid off so that we can move back to TX. But, he also thinks that if we move back to TX before we make this trip that we probably will never make it so I don't know what he will decide. His Dad is asking us to come back to Midland which is a "miracle" in the nth degree. Be good to yourselves b/c you deserve it. Patti :)
Happy WEDNESDAY!
Thanks for the advice, Patti. I have the "Learn to Relax" book that Raeanne got me in the magazine rack next to the bathtub. Now I just need to time to get the bubbles going and read it! haha
Raeanne, I got home late last night (dinner with my director) and found DH with a bag containing a meatball parm sub. We had spoken via cell phone twice between 5-6pm about what he was going to have for dinner. I told him "call your brother" or "call the Italian place across the lake and ask them to make you a meatball parm sub". He was so confused over this! He FINALLY picked up the sandwich at 8:30pm!!! When I went into the kitchen, I noticed about 3 empty bags of chips and cookies that he had 'snacked' on prior to making that call. Amazing!
If anyone has Marci's phone number, will you e:mail me? I'm worried about her.
AMERICAN IDOL TALK -- Jordin still rocks for me. I hope she makes the final 2. Sanjaya is smarter than he looks and acts. Lakisha has to bring it up much higher because she's being overshawdowed by Melinda and Jordin.
DeeMarie - I am here and I am OK. My Mom is home from the hospital and they are keeping an eye on her sugar. Everything with her heart checked out ok. I do appreciate the good thoughts though. It is nice to know that we can come here and lean on our friends once in awhile.
Raeanne - Thanks so much for the card. It really did brighten my day on a day when I needed it.
Now my Dad and my Mom both have to watch their sugar. I am having Easter at my house and this will give me incentive to not buy any Easter candy. I bought some sugar-free hard candy to put in all my pretty Easter candy dishes.
It is finally nice here. I really needed to see some sun. Funny how just one day of sun and the promise of more nice days to come can lift ones spirits.
Thanks again for thinking of me,
PS - I too am watching Idol this year. I really like Melinda and Jordan and Blake.
We goils...after last night & Sanjaya's "smart" mouth, I cointoinly hope that he will not last another week!!!!! He did sing better than he ever had but that hair & the mouth on him. I, for one, was not impressed. JMO.
Dee~Did you ever drink the wine & do it with the spices that we sent? What did you think about that? I was thinkig about things to help you relax when I sent that. LOL I'm sorry that you were here alone for awhile. I know how that feels.
Marci~Sorry to hear about your Mom & Dad. And, I know that no sun can really get you down. I am bad about staying in my house & never opening up the shades. Then, I have a tendency to let myself get depressed. It is my own fault.
I heard from NJ Donna. Her Dad's report wasn't that good so she said that she might not post for a few days. Please give her good thoughts. [[[[ H U G S ]]]] NJ Donna
I went to the dr. for my foot today. Did I tell you that I fell again when we went to NM? He is putting me back in my foot brace & I'm going back for therapy. But, he x-rayed it & nothing was broken. Just disturbed the nerves in there that were already tender. That's about all that I know at this time. Come back & post SS sisters. Zig, are you reading but just not posting? Joanne, are you lurking about, too? Milkdud, how about you? Be good to yourselves b/c you deserve it. Patti :)
Good morning all,
Marci, (((((HUGS))))) I am glad that things checked out okay with your Mom. That's an unfortunate incentive for no sugar but it has a good side too! We can all do with alot less sugar.
Donna ((((HUGS)))) to you and your father. Please check in when you get a chance. We are here for you. I am sending prayers and positive thoughts your way!
Dee what an ordeal over a sandwich! Men!! LOL
Patti, take care of that foot! I am not an idol fan so I can't comment!
Okay you MIA's........come out, come out! John?? Where for art thou brother?
NH Suzanne~I may only last one more week as an idol fan & then give it up. I don't think that this year they are going by talent but I think that it is being "rigged". I hate to watch the more talented people go & know that Sanjaya has not even ever been in the bottom three!
I hope that everyone is doing all right today. Where are our posters? Be good to yourselves b/c you deserve it. Patti :)
I'm here! Just backed up with meetings today. A rather long one with my UK director on 2007 objectives and developments. Another even longer one (but more enjoyable) as a member of our corporation's community outreach team. We decided to spend quite a bit of $$$ to help lots of local folks.
What can I say about Idol? It's really not a singing contest if they let the public vote. It will continue to be entertainment for those who call and can keep Sanjaya on. The good news for Chris Sligh is that he will be on tour with the group.
Must run; we are going out later to hibachi with stepdaughters to celebrate oldest's 27th birthday. DH is really old! LOL!!!! (actually, I'm 6 months older than he is!)
Donna, I'm holding good thoughts for you and your family. Sending prayers your way.
Make today count!
Patti - I emailed you Tikanis' phone number.
Dee - I love Hibachi. I hate to tell you but having a 27 year old does not make you old - I know this for a fact LOL.
Donna - Hugs and prayers coming your way.
Marci - you had your hands full, glad things are better.
I have no comment on Idol. I live by if you don't have anything good to say don't say anything LOL.
Enjoy your evening.
Good Evening,
I have a lot to say about AI, however I will not. I will say that I think it is unfortunate that people like Howard Stern and whomever is behind that website feel as though they need to make a mockery of something they do not enjoy. Many of us do enjoy the show. I also think that it is unfortunate that all of this mockery is being made at the expense of a 17 year old boy. Yes, I do think he should be voted off. There are people on the show that are far more talented, but lets face it. It is not only a singing competition. It is a popularity contest as well. I know that there are some Howard Stern fans on this thread, I am not one of them, so I don't listen to him and never will. The same goes for the TV. If you don't like what you are watching, then turn it off! Did I say that I was not going to comment on this subject?????????
Anyway, my diet has just gone done hill. I don't know why. I do know that on the days that we had nice weather, I ate so much better, got outside and moved around. So maybe my attitude will change once it gets warmer. I can dream can't I?
Donna, positive thoughts are being sent to your Dad.....and Marci, to your Mom.
Patti, hope the foot is doing better. I didn't know that you were moving back to TX. Any date set?
Raeanne, just took Feng Shui living out of the library. I'm trying to get motivated to clean.....again. Does it never end?
Dee, how great to work for a company that is so giving to the community. I really like that.
Maddie, don't stay away!
BJ, if you are lurking, I think of you often.
Have a great evening,
Love, Besh
Besh - I went to VFTW and read their reasons behind the site. They don't fly with me. They said - "During the initial auditions, the producers of Idol only let certain people through. Many good people are turned away and many bad singers are kept around to see Simon, Paula, and Randy so that America will be entertained."
I say so what! Doesn't every audition turn away some talented people in search of the "right" person for the job. Let's face it, AI is an entertainment program. Their job is to pick people who will entertain their audience.
Here's another VFTW complaint - "American Idol is not about singing at all, it's about making good reality TV and enjoying the cheesy, guilty pleasure of watching bad singing."
Again, I say so what! The initial auditions are funny. Yes, I do think Simon can be cruel and I don't agree with his methods, but did anyone see William Hung crying on the way to the bank? Some of those people know they are bad and are just looking for their fifteen minutes of fame. And I disagree about the comment that the singing is bad. Except for Sanjaya, I am enjoying this year's batch.
Howard Stern has a huge following. He knows he has power and he enjoys flaunting that power. He thrives on it. But I also think that all this publicity that VFTW is getting, will just give him more power and feed his ego. Howard Stern loves to laugh at the expense of others and yet that is exactly what the VFTW site is complaing that AI does. Does anyone else see the irony in this? (Can you tell that I am not a fan of Howard Stern either? No offense to those that do like him.)
AI needs to change their voting procedure. Dancing With the Stars allows online voting and only keeps the phone lines open for 1/2 hour after the show. It works for them and AI should think about changing their system or VFTW may win this round.
Now I will also step off my soapbox and go to bed! LOL
We SSer's take our AI very seriously don't we hehehe.
I have said from day 1 that there should either be a way of only allowing you to vote once or that you vote for the person you want off not for the person you want to win. This may sound mean spirited, but they don't have to divulge how many votes were given and the show is a little bit mean spirited anyhow. Sanjaya is more than aware of what is going on and if he doesn't like it he should leave or his family should encourage him to leave. He's got a ton of young fans that adore him - how bad can that be for any 17 year old boy?
Marci - I also like this years singers - there is a good assortment of people. I really think Blake nailed it the other night and I know people don't like Phillip but he was also another one of my favorites the other night. You almost don't want the best one to win, because you know they will end up with a recording contract with someone else.
I don't agree that it works for Dancing with the Stars. I am not a regular watcher of the show, but I remember seeing a couple really bad dancers that were kept on just because of their huge fan base - wasn't one a rapper?
I am also curious to see how many of us vote. I don't - so I really don't feel I have the right to complain.
What is VFTW?
PS: I am a Howard fan but I agree that he uses his power for evil at times LOL
Dee - you must feel so good to be able to help so many people locally. How was the birthday dinner?
Suzanne - what do you have planned this weekend? You must be itching to get SP out there - is it very muddy by you?
Besh - good luck with the cleaning - it can be a vicious cycle. You know that once you declutter how good it will feel.
Good morning all,
Wow, such sentiment over a television show! Beware the power of TV. Now, TV that is evil IMHO! What is VFTW?
I am a Howard fan too and I am ambivilent about what is happening on AI but I do think the implications of the effect of his show is having on the masses is very interesting. Behold the power of the media!
Besh good for you for doing some decluttering. For me, it's a contsant process in which I am constantly losing the battle! LOL. It's funny because I was thinking about digging our my feng shui book the other day.
Raeanne, you are right sister I am chomping at the bit to get out there with SP. Yes, they are all mud puppies. The mud was really bad last week but with the high winds of the last few days it's dried out quite a bit. So much so that there are fire warnings in the eastern part of NH! Ever since I decided to do some dressage tests (driven) with SP I have been going nuts waiting for enough snow to melt to get the cart out!
What is everyone up to this weekend?
Suzanne, VFTW is "Vote for the Worst" a website dedicated to controlling who gets kicked off American Idol. Thousands of dedicated website devotees vote for the worst singer. It's worked. Apparently, they claim to have kept Taylor Hicks on board, but I really like his singing!
QOD: Tonight is a "Ladies of Laughter" fund raiser to benefit scholarship programs for the non-profit I volunteer for. We thought we might sell about 100 tickets to this comedy show/tricky tray dinner, but we sold out...289 tickets! Yahooooo!!! Should be fun. My sister is driving up with my oldest niece and stepdaughters are going to. We are looking forward to having a great time, followed by a PJ party at my place tonight.
Marci, hope you and your mom have a better weekend.
Besh, I also struggled these last few days. Last night was a BYO place, and I had two glasses of wine with dinner. (Raeanne, it was the wine you sent along with my birthday package....excellent!). Chilled out fine and no headache this morning, but I don't need the calories. It's gettting very tough for me to just maintain. Life gets a bit more challenging once you turn the big five-oooo!
Patti, hope you and Dave are feeling better. I did, in fact, drink that wine with my family on New Years' Eve. It was delish, thank you!
Hope everyone has a relaxing and safe weekend.
Take care, eat healthfully, and NEVER NEVER GIVE UP!
LOL - I am probably more "serious" about my intense dislike of Howard Stern than I am about Idol. I enjoy watching the show and listening to the different interpretations of the songs. That is as far as my interest goes. I don't vote. But I still don't agree with what the VFTW website stands for.
DeeMarie - I listened and still think Sanjaya can't hold a candle to the others. I do agree that he sounds better in that video than he does on Idol. JMHO
Raeanne - You are right. Master P (I think) stayed on DWTS longer than he should have. But at least teenie boppers can't vote over 100 times for a contestant like on AI. That is what I meant when I said their voting system works. I do vote on DWTS (at least I did last year) because you can do it online and it is so easy. I venture to say that a lot of adults who watch AI don't vote because of their voting system and the fact that the phone lines are constantly busy. I just think that more adults would vote on AI if the voting system were changed and maybe the outcome would be different. But then again, maybe the producers don't want the outcome to change. The adults are not their target market, the teens are.
Now enough about that! LOL
QOD - I am cleaning, cooking and getting ready for Easter. I neglected everything last week.
(((Donna))) - Hope you are ok!
Wow, I love a good debate. I watched the Sanjaya video (thanks Dee!) and yes he sounded better, but certainly not as good as some of the other contestants. I disagree with all the negativity surrounding him and I understand that he and his family could step up to the plate and say enough. I would have a hard time with it if it were my son being so publicly criticized. Maybe it is ok with them. DS told me there were 3 kids at the High School this week sporting a Sanjaya "faux hawk". LOL
I can't believe that Easter is next week. Thankfully my nephew is having it, I just have to show up with Quiche! Easy enough.
QOD: (I think this is kind of funny because I read back through this weeks thread and I couldn't find that anyone asked one, but we just answer it anyway!) Laundry, DS lacrosse game tonight, a Wake tomorrow and hopefully some reading. I didn't say that I was cleaning, I am just reading about it!!! LOL
Have a great weekend. :-)
Love, Besh
Good Morning Everyone.
QOD: My parents left this morning after a 5 week stay and I am bummed. DH took me the pier to cheer me up and we sat and watched boats and birds, fish etc and just enjoyed the morning with a cup of Mcdonalds coffee. We then went to a open air market (very small one) in our town. I bought herbs of mint catnip and plain catnip plants for my furbabies. I just love those little critters!!!!!!!! My one cat has bad breath (yes, I get close enought to their mouth to smell the breath) (LOL) so I am hoping the mint catnip will help her halitosis. hahahaha. So we are back home now just gonna relax today.
I too am an Idol fan and I agree with just about eveything that has been said. I am not a Howard Stern fan. He irritates me with his I can pick on you, but you cannot pick on me attitude. but I guess that is his thing and it has worked for him for so long. However, I did enjoy his movie about his life.
SANJAYA HAS TO GO!!!!!!!! JMHO too! LOL!
Take care everyone!!!
Who knew a little Idol talk would get everyone posting!Glad to see some action around here.
Lynn - sounds like you enjoyed your parents visit.
Besh - I was afraid that fuax hawk would catch on LOL. I haven't decided if it's a step up or down from a real Mohawk LOL.
Marci - try to take some time for yourself this weekend, you deserve it after last week.
QOD - I have nothing planned, but who knows what may happen - I am open to doing something LOL. I did buy some used DVD's the other day. I got Little Miss Sunshine, A Prairie Home Companion and I can't remember the 3rd one. I will probably watch one of those tonight.
First of all, thank you everyone for the hugs and good thoughts, my family and I are very grateful. The news we got was not what we had hoped for but what we expected. Now my dad has to meet with the oncologist and discuss his options which will probably be chemo and go on from there. He still intends to play bocci ball this summer and playing poker weekly. His outlook is fantastic!
If I am MIA for a few days here and there you will know why.
QOD: I bought the book You on a Diet and cleaning out my pantry and cabinets so I can go food shopping tomorrow for the right stuff. First day of a new month seems like a good time to try and get it together!
I love you all!!
April Fools!! Happy Sunday all. Raeanne you beat me to it too!
I am glad the AI thing has brought you all out! I love hearing from you.
Donna ((((hugs)))). My good friend is going through this very thing with her father. He has lung cancer and it's not pretty. I am thinking of you.
QOD: I went riding today and I am about to leave for another nice ride this morning! The days are so warm after noon and it's lovely!
April Fools! I already got DH this morning, now I have to get the kids! (hehehe)
Well, I am all defrosted finally. Went to DS lacrosse game last night. The almost full moon was beautiful, but boy o boy was it chilly. They won 11 - 3!!!
Donna, I pulled out my You on a diet book yesterday and am starting today. I gave up on WW (again). I kind of remembered a definition I heard once....Stupidity:doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. That is me on WW. It just does not work for me, not for the long term anyway. Good luck with your new eating plan. I am looking forward to detoxing my body!
Enjoy the day!
Love, Besh


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NEW YORK (AP) – It's the first full week of trading in 2013 and the market is hoping to maintain its rally. On Friday, the S&P 500 closed at its highest level in five years. The broad index closed at 1,466, the highest since Dec. 31, 2007, before the financial crisis. That's a gain of seven points on the day. The index was up 4.6 percent last week after lawmakers passed a last-minute budget agreement that avoided a set of drastic tax increases and government spending cuts. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 44 points at 13,435. The Nasdaq rose just one point to end at 3,102, held back by a decline in Apple. Three stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume on Friday was higher than average at 3.4 billion shares.
BANGKOK (AP) – Asian stocks cooled off today as some investors sold shares to lock in profits following recent rallies. Stocks in Hong Kong, Australian, and elsewhere surged last week after U.S. lawmakers passed a bill to avoid a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases that have come to be known as the "fiscal cliff." Japan's Nikkei 225 got an additional boost from the yen's steady retreat against the dollar. Benchmark crude oil fell below $93 per barrel. The dollar gained against the euro but fell against the yen.
WASHINGTON – Investors will be looking this week to see how the economy fared in the waning days of 2012. Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve releases consumer credit data for November. In addition, Alcoa and Monsanto report their quarterly financial results. On Thursday, the Labor Department releases the weekly jobless claims and its job openings and labor turnover survey for November; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates; And the Commerce Department reports on wholesale trade inventories for November. On Friday, The Commerce Department releases international trade data for November; Treasury releases federal budget for December. In the banking sector, Wells Fargo & Co. reports its quarterly financial results.
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NEW YORK (AP) – After 16 hours of tense talks and a relentless push from a federal mediator, the National Hockey League and its players have finally reached a deal to end a lockout that's wiped out nearly four months of the season. The 10-year deal would see the players' share of hockey-related income drop from 57 percent to a 50-50 split and a lowering of the salary cap. It still needs to be ratified by team owners and the players. Fans are expressing relief that the lockout appears about to end, but also some bitterness. Paul Corrie of Manor, Pennsylvania, says he will be happy to see his beloved Penguins back on the ice, but he'll be watching on TV. Corrie says he won't spend any money on tickets or NHL licensed merchandise, at least for this season. Though he adds, his decision isn't likely to have much impact with money issues seemingly as much a part of pro sports now as the games themselves. Schedule issues still have to be worked out, but the NHL has developed plans for 50- and 48-game seasons.
JACKSON, Ohio (AP) – An atheist group is objecting to a portrait of Jesus that hangs in the hall at a public school in Jackson, Ohio. The image was presented to Jackson Middle School by a group of students in 1947. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation warned the district in a Jan. 2 letter that displaying the image represents the school's endorsement of a particular religion, potentially alienating non-Christian students. District Superintendent Phil Howard told WKKJ-FM of Chillicothe that he won't remove it without a school board or judge's order. He said the display resulted from a student initiative, which makes it permissible to display. The portrait hangs in the school's "Hall of Honor" among numerous other faces.
MIAMI (AP) – Sometimes, the buildup to a game can overwhelm what actually happens on the field. Certainly, Number 1 Notre Dame and Number 2 Alabama have a tough time living up to the hype for tonight's BCS championship. Before either team steps on the field in balmy South Florida, this is shaping up as one of the most anticipated games in years, a throwback to the era when Keith Jackson and company broadcast one game a week, when it was a big deal for teams from different parts of the country to meet in a bowl game. The coaches met with the media yesterday morning for the last time before kickoff, with each saying their teams were ready to play.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Kosmos Energy (KOS - Get Report) was falling -5.7% to $10.01 Thursday after announcing the pricing of a public offering of 17 million shares offered by Blackstone Group (BX - Get Report) and Warburg Pincus.
The company pried the offering of 17 million shares at $9.92 a share. The underwriters of the offering were given a 30-day option to buy up to 2.55 million more shares from the selling shareholders. The offering is expected to close on July 15, 2014.
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The qualifications and process below are for those who are not ordained ministers. If you are an ordained minister, see "Transferring into the EPC."
The office of minister: Those who fill this office should, according to the Scripture, have certain qualifications. They should be sound in the faith and have an aptitude for teaching. Their lives should reflect holiness and discipline which brings honor to Christ and which causes them to be well thought of by those outside the Church. They should have wisdom and discretion and should have adequate training to equip them for their task. (EPC Book of Government 10.2)
Assuming that one meets the biblical qualifications and has an inner sense of call, the process for becoming an ordained minister in the EPC involves:
- Being a member of an EPC congregation for at least six months
- Receiving Session endorsement as a person called to be a minister of the Word
- Applying to and interviewing with the appropriate presbytery committee
- Being examined by presbytery and approved as a Candidate Under Care
- Being under care of presbytery for a period of time (ordinarily a minimum of one year)
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- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
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- Sustaining written examinations in Theology, Sacraments & Reformed Tradition, English Bible, the Book of Order and the nature of the office of Minister of the Word.
- Sustaining oral examinations in all the areas above, Christian experience of the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ and progress in spiritual growth.
- Receiving an approved call
In general terms, EPC ministers are expected to hold a high view of scripture and be able to "receive and adopt the system of doctrine contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms of this Church as containing the system of doctrine taught in Holy Scripture." Those seeking ordination in the EPC must put in writing any exceptions they may have to the Westminster standards. Presbytery votes to disallow them or to allow them if they are not considered affecting the Confession's system of doctrine.
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Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (Arabic: فهد محمد علي مسالم, also known as Usama al-Kini) (February 19, 1976 – January 1, 2009) was a Kenyan terrorist conspirator, wanted in the United States[1][2][3] for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He was born in Mombasa.
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Msalam was charged with 213 counts of murder, other counts which apply specifically to attacks against American federal personnel and facilities, counts of using weapons of mass destruction, and various conspiracy counts.
Msalam once worked as a clothing vendor. He also played midfield for a local soccer team called the Black Panthers.[4]
Msalam was on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists since its inception on October 10, 2001. The United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, offered up to US$5,000,000 for information on the location of Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam.[2] He served as al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan.
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What is a hearing aid?
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Hearing aids need to be fitted by someone trained specifically in hearing problems. An audiologist or licensed hearing aid provider can make sure your hearing aids fit and work for your type and degree of hearing loss.
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The size of a hearing aid is not a good indicator of its sound quality.
You can wear hearing aids behind your ear, in your outer ear, or in your ear canal. The kind of hearing aid you choose depends on many things, including your degree of hearing loss, your doctor's advice, and what kind of hearing aid you want. See a picture of different styles of hearing aids.
- Behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid: Most parts of the BTE hearing aid are in a case that fits behind the ear. The case is connected to a plastic ear mold by a clear tube that wraps around the top of your ear. BTE hearing aids are used for all degrees of hearing loss, especially very severe hearing loss. BTE hearing aids can be made with special features, such as a telecoil that helps with hearing during phone calls and a directional microphone system that can help you hear voices in a noisy room. They may be better for children because of safety and growth reasons.
- "Mini" BTE (or on-the-ear) hearing aid: The mini BTE is a smaller version of the BTE hearing aid. The parts are in a case behind the ear, but the case is smaller. And the tube connecting the case to the earpiece is almost invisible. Some mini BTE aids can have a very small earpiece that doesn't completely fill the ear canal. These are called "open fit" ear pieces. These ear pieces are less visible than the ear molds used with BTE hearing aids. Also, they reduce the feeling of fullness in the ear and can be more comfortable to wear.
- In-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid: The parts of the ITE hearing aid are in a case that fits in the outer part of the ear. It can be used by people who have mild to severe hearing loss. ITE hearing aids can be made with special features, such as a telecoil that improves hearing during phone calls and a directional microphone system that can help you hear voices in a noisy room. ITE hearing aids can be easier to handle than the smaller ITC and CIC hearing aids. Children do not usually use them because the case must be replaced as the child grows.
- In-the-canal (ITC) and completely-in-the-canal (CIC) hearing aids: The parts of the ITC and CIC hearing aids are in a case that fits partly or completely into the ear canal. ITC and CIC hearing aids are used by people with mild to moderate hearing loss. They are made to fit the shape and the size of your ear canal. ITC hearing aids can be made with special features such as a directional microphone system that can help you hear voices in a noisy room. Both ITC and CIC hearing aids can be damaged by earwax and fluid draining from the ear, and their small size may be difficult for some people to handle. They are not recommended for children.
Special features can be added to your hearing aids to help you hear even better.
- Directional microphone: This feature can help you hear better in a noisy place. A directional microphone will make sound coming from one direction louder than other sounds. For example, a directional microphone will make a person's voice coming from in front of you louder than sounds coming from behind you. This can help you have a conversation in a noisy restaurant.
- T-coil: A t-coil lets you switch between normal hearing aid settings and a telephone setting. This will help you hear better on a regular telephone.
- Direct audio input: This feature lets you connect your hearing aid to a TV, radio, or CD player. You plug it directly into your hearing aid.
- Feedback suppression: This feature will control the high-pitched sound some people get with hearing aids (feedback). Feedback happens most when a hearing aid gets close to a telephone or if your hearing aid is loose in your ear.
Disposable hearing aids that you use for a short period of time are also available. They last for 30 to 60 days. They may be an option for those who have mild to moderate hearing loss.
Will it be hard to adjust to a hearing aid?
It may take from several weeks to months for you to get used to your hearing aid. You may find that:
- Sounds seem strange. It's good to remember that hearing aids will not make you hear like you used to. And nothing will ever sound completely normal. If noises are so strange or shrill that they are distracting you, tell your hearing aid provider before you leave the office.
- You hear things you haven't heard in a long time. For example, you may hear background noises (rustling papers, clinking silverware) much more clearly.
- You are more aware of sounds close to you. Your footsteps, heartbeat, or car motor may be much more noticeable. With time, your brain will get better at ignoring these sounds.
- Your hearing aid can be uncomfortable. But it should not be painful. Before you leave the hearing aid provider's office with your new hearing aids, make sure they fit. Your hearing aid should not hurt your ear or be loose in your ear.
- Sometimes your hearing aid will make a buzzing noise when you use a cell phone. This noise can be annoying, and it can make it hard to hear the person on the phone. If you use a cell phone, make sure your hearing aid provider knows. He or she can suggest hearing aids that work better with cell phones. And when you buy a new cell phone, buy one that is compatible with hearing aids.
Here are some general tips to help you adjust to your new hearing aid.
- Start by wearing your hearing aid when you are talking to only one person. These are the easiest conversations to understand. Slowly work up to conversations with more than one person.
- Continue to pay attention to people's gestures, facial expressions, posture, and tone of voice. Your hearing aid won't help you catch every word that is said, especially in a loud place.
- Wear your hearing aid. The more you wear it, especially at the beginning, the faster you will get used to it.
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Author: Monica Rhodes
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As a follow up to yesterday afternoon's decision in the WikiLeaks grand jury subpoena case, it is, shall we say, interesting that the New York Times today comes out with and editorial slamming democracies that use secret evidence and maneuvers to prosecute journalists.
The editorial is titled No Way to Run a Democracy and it doesn't spend one word of it on the rabid use of just those tactics in relation to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange (See here and here). Nor has there been any comparable outrage over the US actions against WikiLeaks journalists in any other NYT effort and/or article.
Now, make no mistake, the plight of investigative journalists in Turkey under threat from the administration of Prime Minister Erdogan is extremely troubling, and it is commendable that the Gray Lady has called it out. But it does make you wonder where the same outrage is in relation to the First Amendment eviscerating effort of the US Department of Justice toward WikiLeaks and Assange. An investigation which could, and if it is taken to its logical conclusion, should involve the Times itself.
Maybe it is because Bill Keller reached some agreement with the DOJ not to trash them in return for DOJ laying off the NYT during one of his endless tete a tetes with them over quashing news reporting, maybe Keller and the Times are fearful that they don't have some kind of secret agreement with the DOJ, maybe it is the product of the merging of the media and government in the US, or maybe it is because of Keller's irrational and unprofessional extreme dislike of, and contempt for, the "dirty" Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Whatever the reason, the stridence against the Erdogan government actions contrasted with the silence toward the domestic Obama government actions is telling.
In a 21 page opinion, US Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan of the Eastern District of Virginia District Court has just granted the United States Department of Justice subpoena demand for records in the WikiLeaks investigation.
Three people associated with WikiLeaks – Jacob Appelbaum, Birgitta Jonsdottir, and Rop Gonggrijp – had petitioned the court to vacate the subpoena and to unseal the court pleadings. The court held:
For the foregoing reasons, petitioners' Motion to Vacate is DENIED. Petitioners' Motion to Unseal is DENIED as to docket 10- gj-3793, and GRANTED as to the 1:11-dm-00003 docket, with the exception of the government attorney's email address in Twitter's Motion for Clarification (Dkt. 24), which shall be redacted. Petitioners' request for public docketing of the material within 10-gj-3793 shall be taken under consideration. An Order shall follow.
The three WikiLeaks individuals had argued the subpoena violated constitutional protections for free speech and association; the court disagreed. Appelbaum, Gonggrijp and Jonsdottir have already stated they will appeal.
You can read the full opinion here. I will be updating the post as I read the decision.
In December of last year, the US government, upon ex parte motion, moved the EDVA Court to enter a sealed Order ("Twitter Order") pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2703(d) of the Stored Communications Act, which governs government access to customer records stored by a service provider. The Twitter Order, which was unsealed on January 5, 2010, at the request of Twitter, required Twitter to turn →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
Wikileaks has posted the presentation three security companies–Palantir, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies–made to Bank of America, proposing to help it respond to Wikileaks.
In addition to the degree to which the proposal emphasizes the national security ties and military background of the employees of the company (particularly Berico), the presentation fleshes out what the companies proposed. Under potential proactive tactics, it lists:
Of particularly interest, they describe HBGary Federal's abilities to conduct INFOOPS, including "influence operations" and "social media exploitation."
In other words, in addition to proposing to conduct cyber attacks on Wikileaks' European-based infrastructure (complete with a picture of WL's bomb shelter-housed servers), the proposal appears to recommend that these companies be paid to troll social media, like Twitter, to not only "identify risky behavior of employees" but also, presumably, "push the radical and reckless nature of wikileaks activities." You know–the kind of trolling we often see targeted at Glenn (and in recent days targeted against David House, who was also listed in this presentation).
In addition, the presentation proposes to create a concern over the security of the infrastructure. Interestingly, when additional newspapers in Europe got copies of the State cables (including Aftenposten), some people speculated that the files had come from a hack of Wikileaks servers. (Note how the slide above notes the disgruntled WL volunteers.)
That doesn't mean we're seeing this campaign in process. After all, Glenn has a ton of enemies on Twitter. And if the intent behind leaking additional copies of the cables was to suggest WL's infrastructure had been hacked, that perception has largely dissipated as more and more newspapers get copies.
One final note: according to Tech Herald, the law firm pitching these firms, Hunton and Williams, was itself recommended to BoA by DOJ. As the presentation makes clear, these are significant government contractors. (Remember, we're getting these documents because Anonymous hacked HBGary Federal, which was offering what it had collected to DOJ.) To what extent is what we're seeing just an extension of what our own government is trying to combat Wikileaks?
Back in 2008, David Rose had a fairly explosive article on Condi Rice and Elliot Abrams' incompetent meddling in Gaza, which he compared to Iran-Contra. Here's how I summarized its revelations at the time:
The story explains how the Administration pushed an election for the Palestinians, not seeing what every sane observer saw–that Hamas would win. Immediately after the election, Condi started pressuring Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve Parliament. When he refused, the Administration started backing the Fatah strongman, Mohammad Dahlan, in hopes that he could strengthen Fatah and the Palestinian Authority's security organizations–which had been devastated by Israel during the intifada–sufficiently to overcome Hamas. This set off a civil war between Fatah and Hamas. To end the bloodshed, Saudi's King Abdullah brokered a national unity government, without warning the US he would do so. In response to Abdullah's unity government plan, the State Department developed its own $1.27 billion plan, what Hamas considered "a blueprint for a U.S.-backed Fatah coup." The US handed that plan to Abbas and had him adopt it as if it were his own. Hamas responded by taking over Gaza and capturing the Egyptian weapons intended to strengthen Fatah.
Central to the whole story is how the State Department could have been so stupid as not to see that Hamas would win a democratic election in Gaza in 2006.
Elections for the Palestinian parliament, known officially as the Legislative Council, were originally set for July 2005, but later postponed by Abbas until January 2006.Dahlan says he warned his friends in the Bush administration that Fatah still wasn't ready for elections in January. Decades of self-preservationist rule by Arafat had turned the party into a symbol of corruption and inefficiency—a perception Hamas found it easy to exploit. Splits within Fatah weakened its position further: in many places, a single Hamas candidate ran against several from Fatah.
"Everyone was against the elections," Dahlan says. Everyone except Bush. "Bush decided, 'I need an election. I want elections in the Palestinian Authority.' Everyone is following him in the American administration, and everyone is nagging Abbas, telling him, 'The president wants elections.' Fine. For what purpose?"
The elections went forward as scheduled. On January 25, Hamas won 56 percent of the seats in the Legislative Council.
Few inside the U.S. administration had predicted the result, and there was no contingency plan to deal with it. "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Condoleezza Rice told reporters. "I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas's strong showing."
"Everyone blamed everyone else," says an official with the Department of Defense. "We sat there in the Pentagon and said, 'Who the fuck recommended this?'"
But a Wikileaks cable released by Aftenposten may explain why State was taken by surprised.
They may have thought the election itself wouldn't happen.
The government has admitted to MSNBC that the Brig Commander at Quantico improperly put Bradley Manning on suicide watch last week.
The officials told NBC News, however, that a U.S. Marine commander did violate procedure when he placed Manning on "suicide watch" last week.
Military officials said Brig Commander James Averhart did not have the authority to place Manning on suicide watch for two days last week, and that only medical personnel are allowed to make that call.
The official said that after Manning had allegedly failed to follow orders from his Marine guards. Averhart declared Manning a "suicide risk." Manning was then placed on suicide watch, which meant he was confined to his cell, stripped of most of his clothing and deprived of his reading glasses — anything that Manning could use to harm himself. At the urging of U.S. Army lawyers, Averhart lifted the suicide watch.
So Manning allegedly fails to follow an order and the Brig Commander decides he loses his glasses and is stripped of his clothing?
Remember, Manning has not been convicted of anything yet.
The rest of the article describes that the government has been unable to link Manning to Julian Assange. Maybe that's why they took his glasses away.
Update: This certainly puts the events from Quantico yesterday in a different light. According to MSNBC, government lawyers realized last week Manning had been improperly treated. By preventing David House from visiting Manning yesterday, they made sure that he wouldn't have confirmation of that from Manning directly. But since Jane and David's comments said they'd be back next week, DOD realized they'd need to 'fess up themselves.
Mark Hosenball reports that aside from some pockets of short-term damage, the impact of the Wikileaks leak of diplomatic cables has been embarrassing, but not damaging.
Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration's public statements to the contrary.
A congressional official briefed on the reviews said the administration felt compelled to say publicly that the revelations had seriously damaged American interests in order to bolster legal efforts to shut down the WikiLeaks website and bring charges against the leakers.
"I think they just want to present the toughest front they can muster," the official said.
But State Department officials have privately told Congress they expect overall damage to U.S. foreign policy to be containable, said the official, one of two congressional aides familiar with the briefings who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"We were told (the impact of WikiLeaks revelations) was embarrassing but not damaging," said the official, who attended a briefing given in late 2010 by State Department officials.
National security officials familiar with the damage assessments being conducted by defense and intelligence agencies told Reuters the reviews so far have shown "pockets" of short-term damage, some of it potentially harmful. Long-term damage to U.S. intelligence and defense operations, however, is unlikely to be serious, they said. [my emphasis]
More important than yet another indication that the Obama Administration has oversold the damage done by Wikileaks is the reason given by Hosenball's Congressional source as to why they oversold that damage: to bolster legal efforts to shut down Wikileaks' website.
The Administration lied, says a congressional official, to make it easier to shut down Wikileaks.
Now that's important for several reasons. First, all this time the government has been pretending that the series of decisions by private corporations to stop doing business with Wikileaks were made by the businesses on their own. Surprise surprise (not!), it seems that the government was affirmatively trying to shut down Wikileaks.
Just as importantly, Hosenball's story seems to suggest, the government was going to service providers–the same service providers they routinely go to on terrorist investigations–and lying to get them to do the government's bidding. The government was making claims about the damage of the leak to convince service providers to shut down Wikileaks.
And companies like Amazon, Visa, and PayPal complied.
So, to these companies, now tainted with cooperation in government censorship, was it worth it? Was it worth being branded as a collaborator, knowing you were lied to?
And to Philip Crowley, whom Hosenball quotes talking about "substantial" damage: given your critique of Tunisia's suppression of social media, and given that we now know you lied in the service of similar repression, do you still want to claim there's no disjunct between claiming to support free speech while squelching that of Wikileaks?
Five years ago, BabyDoc Duvalier applied for a passport for Haiti, threatening to return in a period leading up to elections. As a series of Wikileaks cables make clear, the US pressed hard–with apparent success–to prevent his return to Haiti. One cable shows the US asking France, on January 11, 2006, whether it could prevent Duvalier from leaving that country. Another shows the US raising concerns about Duvalier with Haiti Prime Minister Latortue that same day, and again on January 16. And the US raised the same concerns with the Dominican Republic, first (as far as we can tell from the cables) on January 11 and then again on February 7, 2006.
Over the course of those conversations, the US government tried the following methods to keep Duvalier from returning to Haiti and disrupting the elections:
All of which raises the question why, if the US prevented Duvalier from returning in 2006, they were either unable or chose not to prevent his return this time?
Interestingly, the Guardian provides some background of these efforts in 2006. But they focus entirely on one cable recording discussions with Dominican Republic (the rest of the cables were made available by Aftenposten, the Norwegian paper that somehow got its own set of cables). This has the effect of making it appear that US objections were equally to Duvalier and Aristide (both are mentioned in the cable, though it is clear Duvalier is the worry). Yet the rest of the cables make it clear that the US was panicked about Duvalier's return.
So is and was the US as concerned this time around about Duvalier's disruptive influence? Has it simply lost its influence with the various players (who might just be ready for a stronger influence in Haiti, given that country's problems)? Or did the US give tacit approval for Duvalier's return, either explicitly or by not making the same efforts this time around as they made in 2006?
Update: BBC and al-Jazeera report that Ben Ali has left the country and security forces have arrested family members at the airport.
The simultaneous (and related) unfolding of the uprising in Tunisia and the latest Wikileaks events reveals a great deal about our own country's support for democracy.
If you aren't already, I recommend you follow @abuaardvark (aka Mark Lynch) so long as this crisis in Tunisia lasts. Not only is Lynch following the up-to-the-minute events closely on Twitter–such as the news that dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali just sacked his government and will hold elections six months from now. But he also has chronicled the strange silence about this popular uprising in the US, particularly among the NeoCons who used democracy promotion as their excuse to launch an illegal war in Iraq.
Barely a month goes by without a Washington Post editorial bemoaning Egypt's authoritarian retrenchment and criticizing the Obama administration's alleged failure to promote Arab democracy. But now Tunisia has erupted as the story of the year for Arab reformers. The spiraling protests and the regime's heavy-handed, but thus far ineffective, repression have captured the imagination of Arab publics, governments, and political analysts. Despite Tunis's efforts to censor media coverage, images and video have made it out onto social media and up to Al Jazeera and other satellite TV. The "Tunisia scenario" is now the term of art for activist hopes and government fears of political instability and mass protests from Jordan to Egypt to the Gulf.
Perhaps they've had nothing to say simply because there has been little coverage of Tunisia in the Western media, and the United States has few interests or leverage in Tunis, making it a marginal issue for U.S. political debate. Tunisia is not generally on the front burner in American thinking about the Middle East. It's far away from Israel, Iraq, and the Gulf, and plays little role in the headline strategic issues facing the U.S. in the region. Despite being one of the most repressive and authoritarian regimes in the region, Tunisia has generally been seen as a model of economic development and secularism. Its promotion of women's rights and crushing of Islamist opposition has taken priority in the West over its near-complete censorship of the media and blanket domination of political society. Indeed, the United States has cared so little about Tunisia's absolute rejection of democracy and world-class censorship that it chose it for the regional office of MEPI, the Bush administration's signature democracy promotion initiative.
This is understandable, but hardly satisfying. I can understand the hesitation of U.S. officials to take a strong position on the side of either the protesters or the regime at this point, given the strategic complexities and the implications of taking any rhetorical stance. To my ears, at least, the U.S. message has been muddled, with some officials seeming to take the side of the protesters and warning against too-harsh repression and others seeming to avoid taking a stance. For what it's worth, I told a State Department official in a public forum yesterday that the absence of major U.S. interests in Tunisia and the real prospect of change there make it a good place for the Obama administration to take a principled stand in favor of public freedoms and against repression.
Click through for his update–a response to a WaPo column regarding such populist uprising as a threat.
With Lynch's comments in mind, consider two different versions of the role of Wikileaks in this uprising.
Elizabeth Dickinson has a piece that–perhaps too strongly–calls Wikileaks "a trigger and a tool for political outcry" in Tunisia.
Tunisia's government doesn't exactly get a flattering portrayal in the leaked State Department cables. The country's ruling family is described as "The Family" — a mafia-esque elite who have their hands in every cookie jar in the entire economy. "President Ben Ali is aging, his regime is sclerotic and there is no clear successor," a June 2009 cable reads. And to this kleptocracy there is no recourse; one June 2008 cable claims: "persistent rumors of corruption, coupled with rising inflation and continued unemployment, have helped to fuel frustration with the GOT [government of Tunisia] and have contributed to recent protests in southwestern Tunisia. With those at the top believed to be the worst offenders, and likely to remain in power, there are no checks in the system."
Of course, Tunisians didn't need anyone to tell them this. But the details noted in the cables — for example, the fact that the first lady may have made massive profits off a private school — stirred things up. Matters got worse, not better (as surely the government hoped), when WikiLeaks was blocked by the authorities and started seeking out dissidents and activists on social networking sites.
As PayPal and Amazon learned last year, WikiLeaks' supporters don't take kindly to being denied access to the Internet. And the hacking network Anonymous launched an operation, OpTunisia, against government sites "as long as the Tunisian government keep acting the way they do," an Anonymous member told the Financial Times.
Compare that the very weird logic State Department Spokesperson Philip Crowley uses in his speech to a class on media and politics the other day.
No one is a greater advocate for a vibrant independent and responsible press, committed to the promotion of freedom of expression and development of a true global civil society, than the United States. Every day, we express concern about the plight of journalists (or bloggers) around the world who are intimidated, jailed or even killed by governments that are afraid of their people, and afraid of the empowerment that comes with the free flow of information within a civil society.
Most recently, we did so in the context of Tunisia, which has hacked social media accounts while claiming to protect their citizens from the incitement of violence. But in doing so, we feel the government is unduly restricting the ability of its people to peacefully assemble and express their views in order to influence government policies. These are universal principles that we continue to support. And we practice what we preach. Just look at our own country and cable television. We don't silence dissidents. We make them television news analysts.
Some in the human rights community in this country, and around the world, are questioning our commitment to freedom of expression, freedom of the press and Internet freedom in the aftermath of WikiLeaks. I am constrained in what I can say, both because individual cables remain classified, and the leak is under investigation by the Department of Justice. But let me briefly put this in context and then I will open things up for questions. WikiLeaks is about the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. It is not an exercise in Internet freedom. It is about the legitimate investigation of a crime. It is about the need to continue to protect sensitive information while enabling the free flow of public information. [my emphasis]
He sort of wanders back and forth between a discussion of press freedom and an insistence that persecution of Wikileaks is not a violation of that principle through the rest of his speech, at one point drawing a bizarre analogy between Coke's secret formula and Google's search algorithms and the US' diplomatic secrets, as if our diplomatic secrets are the essence of our identity.
Maybe that was his point.
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Given the past history of how newspapers have redacted (or not) Wikileaks dumps, I was very interested in an article that reveals what the Guardian (or one of its media partners) redacted in a cable on Kazakh corruption. The Guardian summarizes the cable this way:
Top Kazakh energy official reveals the four principal gate-keepers around President Nursultan Nazarbayev, including Timur Kulibayev, the favoured billionaire presidential son-in-law.
But read more closely, it serves to record Ambassador Richard Hoagland's judgment that KazMunaiGaz First Vice President Maksat Idenov is currently (on January 25, 2010) successfully ensuring that two big hyrdocarbon projects will be developed according to "international standards"–which seems to imply something about the level of bribery involved, but it's not entirely clear whether that implies less bribery or none at all. The big question, in any case, is whether President Nazarbayev's son-in-law, Kulibayev, will demand bribes associated with the projects.
But as Israel Shamir reveals in an article for Counterpunch (here's a Fast Company article with more background on Shamir) there are three details that have been redacted in the Guardian version, all of which make the role of bribery more obvious and point to much closer British, Italian, and US ties to that kind of bribery.
In the first instance, the Guardian version of the cable redacts an explicit reference–attributed to Idenov but not a direct quote from him–to the role of bribery in Kazakhstan and in capitalism more generally. (The bolded text is what is redacted in the Guardian version.)
According to Idenov, in Kazakhstan, market economy means capitalism, which means big money, which means large bribes for the best connected.
But it's not that analogy which seems to tie the US and Britain more closely to the culture of bribery in Kazakhstan. With two other redactions, the Guardian version of the cable hides the ties between British Gas Country Director for Kazakhstan, Mark Rawlings, and a US citizen recently acquitted of bribery because he had offered the bribes at the behest of the CIA.
When the Ambassador arrived, Idenov was barking into his cell phone, "Mark, Mark, stop the excuses! Mark, listen to me! Mark, shut up right now and do as I say! Bring the letter to my office at 10:00 pm, and we will go together to take it to (Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, MEMR) Mynbayev at his house." On ending the call, Idenov explained he was talking to British Gas (BG) Country Director for Kazakhstan Mark Rawlings who had missed the deadline to deliver a letter about arbitration on the Karachaganak super-giant oil-field project (reftel). Still clearly steamed, Idenov alleged, "He's still playing games with Mercator's James Giffin," the notorious AmCit fixer indicted for large-scale bribery on oil deals in the 1990s, whose case drags on in the Southern District Court of New York. "I tell him, 'Mark, stop being an idiot! Stop tempting fate! Stop communicating with an indicted criminal!'" Idenov asked, "Do you know how much he (Rawlings) makes? $72,000 a month! A month!! Plus benefits! Plus bonuses! Lives in Switzerland but supposedly works in London. Comes here once a month to check in. Nice life, huh?"
As Shamir explains in his article, Giffen was ultimately hailed as a patriot by the judge who dismissed most of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges against him in November 2010 (that is, ten months after this cable was written, and around the same time the US signed a new airspace deal with Kazakhstan). Main Justice provides background of how State Department considerations–they didn't want prosecutors to mention that President Nazarbayev was the recipient of the bribes Giffen was alleged to have arranged–and CIA stonewalling–they refused to provide the details of what Giffen claimed was his role in their "intelligence collecting" operations–led to the dismissal of most of the charges.
A number of outlets are reporting on the OMB memo requiring agencies to review their security procedures in response to WikiLeaks.
Now, this memo is explicitly a response to WikiLeaks. It's a follow-up on a memo sent in November that names WikiLeaks.
On November 28, 2010, departments and agencies that handle classified national security information were directed to establish assessment teams to review their implementation of safeguarding procedures. (Office of Management and Budget, Memorandum M-11-06, "WikiLeaks – Mishandling of Classified Information," November 28, 2010.)
And one of the questions it directs agencies to ask names WikiLeaks (and, in a sign of the government's nimbleness, OpenLeaks) specifically.
Do you capture evidence of pre-employment and/or post-employment activities or participation in on-line media data mining sites like WikiLeaks or Open Leaks?
But the delay–almost six months between Bradley Manning's arrest and the November memo, and another month until this memo, sort of reminds me of the roughly eight month delay between the time Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to set his underwear on fire and the the time a bunch of grannies started getting groped at TSA security checkpoints.
Why the delay?
And from a document usability standpoint, this list of questions designed to help agencies identify weaknesses is a piece of shit. Trust me. No matter how good a bureaucrat is, asking them to use nine pages of nested bullets to improve a process is not going to work. This is simply not a credible process improvement effort.
I also wonder why it took WikiLeaks to initiate this effort. Just as an example, Los Alamos National Labs has been losing both storage media, computers, and BlackBerries going back a decade. You'd think the vulnerability of one of our nuclear labs would alert the government to our overall vulnerability to the loss of data via computer medium. Yet losing data to–presumably–our enemies did not trigger this kind of no-nonsense vulnerability assessment, WikiLeaks did.
The Russians and the Chinese are probably bummed that WikiLeaks will make it a teeny bit harder for them to spy on us.
All that said, Steven Aftergood makes one curious observation about the memo: this unusable list of nested bullets suggests that agencies should monitor employees' contacts with the media.
Among other troubling questions, agencies are asked: "Are all employees required to report their contacts with the media?" This question seems out of place since there is no existing government-wide security requirement to report "contacts with the media." Rather, this is a security policy that is unique to some intelligence agencies, and is not to be found in any other military or civilian agencies. Its presence here seems to reflect the new "evolutionary pressure" on the government to adopt the stricter security policies of intelligence.
"I am not aware of any such requirement" to report on media contacts, a senior government security official told Secrecy News. But he noted that the DNI was designated as Security Executive Agent for personnel security matters in the 2008 executive order 13467. As a result, "I suspect that an IC requirement crept in" to the OMB memo.
I agree with Aftergood: it is troubling that an intelligence community requirement now seems to be applied to the federal workforce as a whole.
But isn't this, at the same time, rather telling?
If a memo instituting new security reviews, explicitly written in response to WikiLeaks, institutes a policy of reviewing contacts with the media, doesn't that suggest they consider WikiLeaks to be media?


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