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Mephistopheles played by Arthur Darvill
Doctor Faustus (2011)
Arthur Darvill played Lucifer's messenger, Mephistopheles, in the 2011 Globe production of Dr Faustus.
Mark Antony played by Luke Thompson
Julius Caesar (2014)
Luke returns to the Globe to play Mark Antony in Julius Caesar.
Luke trained at RADA.
Previous work for Shakespeare's Globe includes: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Blue Stockings.
Television includes: In the Club (BBC1) and The Suspicions of Mr ...
Mark Antony played by Mark Lewis Jones
Julius Caesar (1999)
Mark Lewis Jones played Mark Antony in the 1999 production of Julius Caesar. Mark also appeared in The Globe's opening season productions of The Winter's Tale and The Maid's Tragedy.
Marina played by Laura Rees
Pericles (2005)
Laura Rees played Marina in the 2005 production of Pericles.
Maria played by Paul Chahidi
Twelfth Night (2012)
Paul Chahidi revives his 2002 role playing the witty waiting woman, Maria, in this season's all male Twelfth Night.
Paul was also adopted as Maria back in 2002 - check out his past blog entries.
Maria played by Paul Chahidi
Twelfth Night (2002)
Paul Chahidi played Maria in the 2002 production of Twelfth Night, in his fourth season at Shakespeare's Globe. In 2001, he played the Porter/Seyton in Macbeth, and has previously appeared in The Comedy of Errors, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Augustine's Oak.
Marcus Brutus played by Danny Sapani
Julius Caesar (1999)
Danny Sapani played Marcus Brutus in the1999 production of Julius Caesar.
Malvolio played by Timothy Walker
Twelfth Night (2002)
Timothy Walker played Malvolio in the 2002 production of Twelfth Night, his first production at Shakespeare's Globe.


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UMC Appoints Interim CEO
LAS VEGAS (AP) — University Medical Center officials say the hospital's chief operations officer will be interim CEO, filling the vacant top spot since Lawrence Barnard announced his resignation. UMC's board appointed Mason VanHouweling (Van-HOW-ling) Friday. […]
UMC Chief Resigns Amid Changes
The chief of University Medical Center is stepping down to work for a rival firm.

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Lone Wolf, Self-Radicalized': Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists
Lone Wolf, Self-Radicalized': Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists
By Juan Cole | Feb. 12, 2015
Did a self-radicalized lone wolf white terrorist kill three young Muslim students in cold blood in Chapel Hill? It is a kind of a stupid question, but its stupidity is just more apparent when asked of someone with an English last name. What does self-radicalized or lone wolf even mean?
Craig Hicks constantly shared anti-Muslim and anti-Christian links on social media and proclaimed to believers, I have every right to insult a religion that goes out of its way to insult, to judge, and to condemn me as an inadequate human being which your religion does with self-righteous gusto I think we may conclude that he didnt like Muslims, and one of the victims told her father that before her death. While he may have been provoked to his rage by a parking incident and while he clearly is one egg short of an omelette, the new atheist discourse of believers as oppressive and coercive per se is part of his problem.
Terrorism has been racialized in the American press and law enforcement community, marked as having to do with Muslims but almost never used to refer to people of northern European background. A few years ago, when a police spokesman said that We have concluded that event was not terrorism, likely what he meant is that no Muslims were involved or that no cell or organization was.
Racializing dissent has an old genealogy in American politics. In the early twentieth century, Jewish-American immigrants were suspected of socialism and Italian-Americans of anarchism. In the Red Scare of 1917-1920, workers who joined labor actions were falsely accused of Communism and were targeted for mob violence, especially if they had foreign names. African-Americans who had come north to work in factories during the war, filling a domestic labor shortage, were likewise tagged as subversive. Somehow persons of English ancestry with names like Worthington even if they were blue collar workers were not assumed to be Communists or foreign agents or radicals. Russian-Americans were deported. In Illinois after the war, a mob attacked Italian-Americans and razed their homes.
Posted by unhappycamper | Thu Feb 12, 2015, 07:23 AM (12 replies)
War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why Americas Wars Persist
War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why Americas Wars Persist
By contributors | Feb. 2, 2015
By William J. Astore | (Tomdispatch.com)
1. The privatization of war: The U.S. militarys recourse to private contractors has strengthened the profit motive for war-making and prolonged wars as well. Unlike the citizen-soldiers of past eras, the mobilized warrior corporations of Americas new mercenary moment the Halliburton/KBRs (nearly $40 billion in contracts for the Iraq War alone), the DynCorps ($4.1 billion to train 150,000 Iraqi police), and the Blackwater/Xe/Academis ($1.3 billion in Iraq, along with boatloads of controversy) have no incentive to demobilize. Like most corporations, their business model is based on profit through growth, and growth is most rapid when wars and preparations for more of them are the favored options in Washington.
2. The embrace of the national security state by both major parties: Jimmy Carter was the last president to attempt to exercise any kind of control over the national security state. A former Navy nuclear engineer who had served under the demanding Admiral Hyman Rickover, Carter cancelled the B-1 bomber and fought for a U.S. foreign policy based on human rights. Widely pilloried for talking about nuclear war with his young daughter Amy, Carter was further attacked for being weak on defense. His defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980 inaugurated 12 years of dominance by Republican presidents that opened the financial floodgates for the Department of Defense. That taught Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council a lesson when it came to the wisdom of wrapping the national security state in a welcoming embrace, which they did, however uncomfortably. This expedient turn to the right by the Democrats in the Clinton years served as a temporary booster shot when it came to charges of being soft on defense until Republicans upped the ante by going all-in on military crusades in the aftermath of 9/11.
3. Support Our Troops as a substitute for thought. Youve seen them everywhere: Support Our Troops stickers. In fact, the support in that slogan generally means acquiescence when it comes to American-style war. The truth is that weve turned the all-volunteer military into something like a foreign legion, deploying it again and again to our distant battle zones and driving it into the ground in wars that amount to strategic folly. Instead of admitting their mistakes, Americas leaders have worked to obscure them by endlessly overpraising our warriors as so many universal heroes. This may salve our collective national conscience, but its a form of cheap grace that saves no lives and wins no wars.
4. Fighting a redacted war. War, like the recent Senate torture report, is redacted in America. Its horrors and mistakes are suppressed, its patriotic whistleblowers punished, even as the American people are kept in a demobilized state. The act of going to war no longer represents the will of the people, as represented by formal Congressional declarations of war as the U.S. Constitution demands. Instead, in these years, Americans were told to go to Disney World (as George W. Bush suggested in the wake of 9/11) and keep shopping. Theyre encouraged not to pay too much attention to wars casualties and costs, especially when those costs involve foreigners with funny-sounding names (after all, they are, as American sniper Chris Kyle so indelicately put it in his book, just savages).
Posted by unhappycamper | Mon Feb 2, 2015, 05:59 AM (6 replies)
The United States Is Open for Business in Iraq
"Every mistake by Washington is a boon for future arms sales," writes Van Buren.
The United States Is Open for Business in Iraq
Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:15
By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch | News Analysis
The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into a campaign to protect Americans in-country, became a plan to defend the Kurds, followed by a full-on crusade to defeat the new Islamic State (IS, aka ISIS, aka ISIL), and then... well, something in Syria to be determined at a later date.
At the moment, Iraq War 3.0 simply drones on, part bombing campaign, part mission to train the collapsed army the U.S. military created for Iraq War 2.0, all amid a miasma of incoherent mainstream media coverage. American troops are tiptoeing closer to combat (assuming you don't count defensive operations, getting mortared, and flying ground attack helicopters as combat), even as they act like archaeologists of Americas warring past, exploring the ruins of abandoned U.S. bases. Meanwhile, Shia militias are using the conflict for the ethnic cleansing of Sunnis and Iran has become an ever-more significant player in Iraq's affairs. Key issues of the previous American occupation of the country -- corruption, representative government, oil revenue-sharing -- remain largely unresolved. The Kurds still keep winning against the militants of IS in the city of Kobani on the Turkish border without having won.
In the meantime, Washingtons rallying cry now seems to be: Wait for the spring offensive! In translation that means: wait for the Iraqi army to get enough newly American-trained and -armed troops into action to make a move on Mosul. That city is, of course, the countrys second largest and still ruled by the new caliphate proclaimed by Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. All in all, not exactly inspiring stuff.
You can't have victory if you have no idea where the finish line is. But there is one bright side to the situation. If you can't create Victory in Iraq for future VI Day parades, you can at least make a profit from the disintegrating situation there.
Posted by unhappycamper | Sun Jan 18, 2015, 06:54 AM (2 replies)
An Elephant (the US) in a China Closet (the world)
An Elephant (the US) in a China Closet (the world)
OpEdNews Op Eds 1/5/2015 at 12:25:45
An Elephant (the US) in a China Closet (the world)
By Joseph Clifford
Imagine unleashing an elephant in a large room filled with precious antiquities collected from around the world over the millennia. The elephant would destroy, smash, and break, priceless artifacts that had survived thousands of years. Now imagine the elephant as the United States as it conducts its foreign policy around the world. We have smashed, broken and destroyed, ancient civilizations that had survived for thousands of years. We have destroyed infrastructure, health care systems, and entire cultures, on our rampage around the world. Iraq, known for thousands of years as the "cradle of civilization" has been smashed to pieces, its economy destroyed, the rule of law is gone, and over a million people have died since the elephant began its stampede in Iraq. We are the elephant, and we did this to the birthplace of civilization. We reduced it to its present state of 50,000 deaths in 2014 because the elephant unleased the worst weapon possible; sectarian hatred, in a formerly stable country. Even the name and the boundaries of the former Iraq have been wiped from the maps of the world forever. Iraq as a nation is gone and in its place is a lawless, death filled, area of a now primitive society.
But the elephant is on a rampage and the he continues to smash other cultures and civilizations in that area of the world. Libya was "helped" by the elephant and Libya is now a failed state characterized by tribal warfare and a completely non functioning government. The elephant spent 2 billion dollars bombing Libya for 90 consecutive days, pretending to "help" the people of Libya. Government has all but disappeared, and rival tribal chieftains kill for control. The elephant did this to Libya. Mainstream media no longer covers Libya, but rest assured it is almost as bad as Iraq, and will only get worse as the rule of law continues to erode with no one able to restore a semblance of order. The French Defense Minister is now saying Libya is becoming a "terrorist sanctuary" and the weapons that flooded Libya are being sent to other nearby countries to be used in spreading more death. Libya, like Iraq has been destroyed, smashed, and broken by the rogue elephant, and Libya just like Iraq is no longer a country. Its boundaries will disappear in the next few years as the anarchy continues.
Now the elephant is rampaging through Syria, once again tearing that society apart and breaking all in its path. The rogue elephant decided to "help" Syria by getting rid of a leader the elephant did not like, and in an effort to rid Syria of the leader we don't like, we have escalated an already brutal civil war by flooding the country with weapons of death, and by bombing whomever we feel should be bombed. An estimated 76,000 deaths have occurred in 2014, and possibly millions have been displaced. The US bombing has slowed as of late because the elephant has run out of targets, but that won't stop the elephant for long. He will turn around and smash his way through already destroyed areas to insure total devastation. Syria in the next few years will disappear as a nation, and the same kind of lawlessness society will emerge where the rule of the jungle is in effect, yet another country completely destroyed by the elephant will be reduced to anarchy, death, and despair.
Under the guise of "helping", the elephant has completely destroyed Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and the elephant is not done his work. Two ambitious targets are still in the room with the rogue elephant. Already the elephant has the scent of Iran and Russia, and knows the road to Iran must go through Damascus which explains why Syria is being destroyed. Syria leads to Iran. Once Tehran is destroyed, the elephant can turn his attention to the biggest prize, Russia. The rogue elephant might just have met its match in the taking on Russia, for she too is a large elephant, and everything in the arena will be destroyed in the clash. Wake up folks. US foreign policy has been co opted by a group of sub humans who thrive on anarchy and destruction. If you believe the architects of foreign policy have just made ignorant mistakes your wrong. No one could be this stupid; this is all by design. If you don't make an effort to contain the rogue elephant you're going to be trampled in the great fight to come.
Posted by unhappycamper | Tue Jan 6, 2015, 08:10 AM (1 replies)
National Shame: 50,000 Homeless Veterans Nationwide
ABC News |
ABC News Bob Woodruff travels the country examining new efforts end homelessness among US veterans.
Posted by unhappycamper | Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:10 AM (12 replies)
Like Taking Candy From A Baby
Let's start with the basics: where does military money come from?
The answer is the discretionary budget.
What is the military doing that eats up 57% of all discretionary spending in the United States? This artist's concept illustrates where the bucks go in the US Navy:
An artist concept of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) and both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship using the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP). Lockheed Martin image
First up: the USS Gerald R Ford
The USS Gerald R Ford is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers. The USS Gerald R Ford is the first Naval warship I can recall being delivered UNFINISHED. Yup, UNFINISHED.
Navy Aircraft Unfinished For Launch, Will Require A Billion Dollars More
Jonah Bennett
A government watchdog report sheds light on the disaster that is the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. Not only will the Navy carrier be incomplete at launch date, but completing construction will cost upwards of $998 million dollars.
The aircraft carrier stands at only 80 percent complete, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which began the study at the behest of a Senate report. Not only have costs risen 20 percent since 2006, but the launch has been delayed a year. It was supposed to be cleared for a September 2015 date, but now has been pushed back to March 2016. Even still, some of the most important features of the carrier intended to separate it from older models will remain dormant while on display. Current total costs are estimated at $12.9 billion dollars.
With the shipbuilder embarking on one of the most complex phases of construction with the greatest likelihood for cost growth, cost increases beyond the current $12.9 billion cost cap appear likely, the watchdog agency said. Delayed construction, the Navy argues, is an effort to avoid going over the cost cap. Satellite communication will have to wait. Defects will be present, too, until almost a billion dollars more is spent to correct the errors.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain wasnt buying the Navys statement on cost overruns.
Next up: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
The Arleigh Burke-class of guided missile destroyers (DDGs) is the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations. The class leader, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime.
They were designed as multi-role destroyers to fit the AAW (Anti-Aircraft Warfare) role with their powerful Aegis radar and anti-aircraft missiles; ASW (Anti-submarine warfare) role, with their towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, and ASW helicopter; ASUW (Anti-surface warfare) role with their Harpoon missile launcher; and strategic land strike role with their Tomahawk missiles. Some versions of the class no longer have the towed sonar, or Harpoon missile launcher. Their hull and superstructure were designed to have a reduced radar cross section The first ship of the class was commissioned on 4 July 1991. With the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, Cushing, on 21 September 2005, the Arleigh Burkeclass ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers; the class has the longest production run for any postwar U.S. Navy surface combatant. Besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service by 2013, up to a further 42 (of Flight III) have been envisaged.
With an overall length of 505 feet (154 m) to 509 feet (155 m), displacement ranging from 8,315 to 9,200 tons, and weaponry including over 90 missiles, the Arleigh Burkeclass ships are larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers.
It's big, it's bad, and it costs $2 billion dollars.
Next up: Zumwalt-class destroyers.
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)
See also: Zumwalt-class destroyer § History
Zumwalt 's deckhouse in transit on 6 November 2012
Many of the ship's features were originally developed under the DD21 program ("21st Century Destroyer"). In 2001, Congress cut the DD-21 program by half as part of the SC21 program. To save it, the acquisition program was renamed as DD(X) and heavily reworked. The initial funding allocation for DDG-1000 was included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007.
A contract worth $1.4 billion was awarded to General Dynamics on 14 February 2008 for the construction of Zumwalt at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
Full rate production officially began on 11 February 2009.
As of July 2008, the construction timetable was for General Dynamics to deliver the ship in April 2013, with March 2015 as the target for Zumwalt to meet her initial operating capability. However, by 2012, the planned completion and delivery of the vessel had slipped to the 2014 fiscal year.
The first section of the ship was laid down on the slipway at Bath Iron Works on 17 November 2011. By this point, fabrication of the ship was over 60% complete. The naming ceremony was planned for 19 October 2013, but was canceled due to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013.
Despite rumors that the launch of Zumwalt would be delayed until early 2014, the vessel was launched from its shipyard in Bath, Maine on 29 October 2013.
In January 2014, Zumwalt began to prepare for heavy weather trials. The trials will see how the ship and her instrumentation reacts to high winds, stormy seas, and adverse weather conditions. The ship's new wave-piercing tumblehome hull configuration is made to reduce her radar cross-section. Tests will involve lateral and vertical accelerations and pitch and roll. Later tests will include fuel on-loading, data center tests, propulsion events, X-band radar evaluations, and mission systems activation to finalize integration of electronics, currently 90 percent complete out of 6 million lines of code. These all culminate in builders trials and acceptance trials, with delivery for U.S. Navy tests in late 2014 with initial operating capability (IOC) to be reached by 2016.
Here's what really frosts my ass about the ship.
in the last century battleships with 16-inch guns were king. Missouri-class battleships were the top of the line and they cost $100 million dollars each.
In contrast the USS Zumwalt costs $5.6 billion dollars each. That's 56 Iowa-class WW II battleships.
Last up: Littoral Combat Ships.
According the Navy's Bluewater program from the 90s, Littoral Combat Ships were supposed to cost $200 million each. LCS#1 (second from bottom) cost $584 million dollars, LCS #2 (bottom) cost $784 million dollars.
From top to bottom:
$12.9 billion dollars (UNFINISHED)
At least $1 billion dollars to FINISH
$2 billion dollars
$5.6 billion dollars
$1.2 billion dollars
$22.7 billion dollars ($22,700,000,000)
And we haven't talked buying ammo and aircraft for these things. Ka'ching.
Posted by unhappycamper | Tue Dec 9, 2014, 08:41 AM (2 replies)
Who You Callin' An Organizing Principle?!?!
Washington's ISIS War Drums: Do Stupid Stuff, Do It Now!
Who You Callin' An Organizing Principle?!?!
By William Boardman
General News 9/14/2014 at 15:10:49
As Hillary Clinton was widely quoted as saying recently, "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."
Maybe others have pointed out that this is a pretty stupid statement, but that's far from the conventional wisdom. Think about the levels of stupidity here. Only "Great nations"? What, small nations don't need to get their acts together? And who says the United States is a "great" nation and in what sense is it great and isn't spouting a version of the American exceptionalism cliche just another way of doing stupid stuff? As organizing principles go, "Don't do stupid stuff" is a great place to start. Then all you need to do is figure out what's stupid and don't do it: like not voting for war in Iraq in 2002.
What does the aspiring President Clinton offer for her own organizing principle? In her book Hard Choices, she writes: "Making policy is a balancing act. Hopefully we get it more right than wrong." That means even less than "Don't do stupid stuff." That pretty much means: "we're bound to do stupid stuff but we hope we won't do too much stupid stuff."
Of course that makes good political sense coming from the woman who, as Senator Clinton, voted to go to war in Iraq. As if that wasn't totally knowable, in advance, as doing stupid stuff, really stupid stuff. That vote was a clever trap for intimidated Democrats, afraid to stand up to stupid stuff. Senator Clinton was not alone in that rush to war. She, along with Senators Kerry, McCain, Biden, Hagel, McConnell, Reid, and 70 other Senators, voted to support the administration lying us into that war on transparently dishonest evidence. It's kind of cute, in a darkly disastrous way, that these same wrong-headed people are again among those braying most loudly for more war now. It makes a sort of amoral sense, since today's mess is a continuation of the war they voted for because they presumably didn't think it was stupid stuff that would last more than a decade.
Like lemmings, our politicians are drawn to war and those fuckers take us with them.
Posted by unhappycamper | Mon Sep 15, 2014, 05:43 AM (0 replies)
Analysis Of Volunteer's Metadata Stream Reveals His Life In Detail, Allows Passwords To Be Guessed
Analysis Of Volunteer's Metadata Stream Reveals His Life In Detail, Allows Passwords To Be Guessed
from the not-"just"-metadata dept
by Glyn Moody
Fri, Sep 12th 2014 7:39pm
Three years ago, Techdirt wrote about how German politician Malte Spitz obtained six months' worth of basic geolocation data for his mobile phone. He then gave this to the German newspaper Die Zeit, which produced a great visualization of his travels during this time. That showed clearly how much was revealed from such basic data. Since then, of course, metadata has assumed an even greater importance, as it has emerged that the NSA routinely gathers huge quantities of it about innocent citizens. More chillingly, we also know that people are killed purely because of their metadata. But what exactly does metadata show about us? We now have a better idea thanks to the generosity of Ton Siedsma from Holland. He has allowed researchers to access not just the geolocation data of his mobile phone, but all of its metadata:
From one week of logs, we were able to attach a timestamp to 15,000 records. Each time Ton's phone made a connection with a communications tower and each time he sent an e-mail or visited a website, we could see when this occurred and where he was at that moment, down to a few metres. We were able to infer a social network based on his phone and e-mail traffic. Using his browser data, we were able to see the sites he visited and the searches he made. And we could see the subject, sender and recipient of every one of his e-mails.
That's very similar to the sort of thing governments around the world are now routinely demanding. Here's what the researchers were able to find out about various aspects of his life as a result. The basics:
Ton is a recent graduate in his early twenties. He receives e-mails about student housing and part-time jobs, which can be concluded from the subject lines and the senders. He works long hours, in part because of his lengthy train commute. He often doesnt get home until eight o'clock in the evening. Once home, he continues to work until late.
His work:
Based on the data, it is quite clear that Ton works as a lawyer for the digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom. He deals mainly with international trade agreements, and maintains contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a few Members of Parliament about this issue. He follows the decision-making of the European Union closely. He is also interested in the methods of investigation employed by police and intelligence agencies. This also explains his interest in news reports about hacking and rounded-up child pornography rings.
His social networks:
From a social network analysis based on Ton's e-mail traffic, it is possible for us to discern different groups to which he belongs. These clusters are formed by his three e-mail accounts. It may be the case that the groups would look a bit different if we were also to use the metadata from his phone. However, we agreed to not perform any additional investigation, such as actively attempting to discover the identity of the user of a particular number, so as to protect the privacy of those in Tons network.
Posted by unhappycamper | Sun Sep 14, 2014, 06:54 AM (1 replies)
Former CIA Lawyer Defends Torture in Der Spiegel Interview
Former CIA Lawyer Defends Torture in Der Spiegel Interview
By Eric London
OpEdNews Op Eds 8/27/2014 at 14:42:34
In the interview, Rizzo, who worked at the CIA from 1976 to 2009, declares that although the torture programs he approved "seemed harsh, even brutal," he does not regret his support for their implementation.
"I was certainly an architect of the interrogation program, even if I didn't originally come up with it," he says, adding, "I was the legal architect of the proposed list of techniques and played the lead role in obtaining legal approval for their use."
He goes on to tell Der Spiegel, "I can't honestly sit here and say I would have made any different decisions than the ones I made back in early 2002," even as he asserts, "I am confident that, If I had chosen to, I could have stopped (the torture programs) before they started."
At one point in the interview, Rizzo refers to an interrogation technique on the initial list provided by the Counter Terrorism Center that was "even more chilling than waterboarding." He claims it was never used.
Posted by unhappycamper | Thu Aug 28, 2014, 06:02 AM (0 replies)
Obamas budding Cambodia Policy in Syria
Obamas budding Cambodia Policy in Syria
By Juan Cole | Aug. 23, 2014
Former British ambassador to the United States Sir Christoher Meyer is advocating that the US and Western Europe stop advocating the overthrow of the Baath regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and instead coordinate with it to move against the so-called Islamic State, which controls some predominantly Sunni Muslim desert towns on both the Syrian and Iraqi sides of the border.
The Obama administration is also talking about hitting IS in Syria. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that the IS cannot be defeated without taking it on in Syria. For US fighter jets to fly over Syrian air space and avoid being shot down by Russian-supplied anti-aircraft batteries of the Baath government, the US would have to in some way coordinate with Damascus in this aerial bombing campaign. Typically this arrangement is made by sharing Identify Friend or Foe signal codes that the jets send out so that they can be seen as friendlies. Since the stated US position is that al-Assad should resign or be overthrown ASAP, such an arrangement would be, as Meyer says, the mother of all U-turns.
Meyer, however, is advocating not just a tacit recognition of strategic and tactical common interests with the Syrian Baath but an actual military alliance, which is unlikely.
British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond pushed back against Meyers amoral Realism. Hammond challenged the notion that you needed to coordinate with Damascus to do bombing runs on eastern Syria on IS positions. The foreign minister, however, is wrong about that. There would be a danger of setting off Baath Army anti-aircraft batteries unless there was at least minimal behind the scenes coordination.
Posted by unhappycamper | Sun Aug 24, 2014, 06:24 AM (0 replies)


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RenWeb Staff
By RenWeb
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
RenWeb Staff is an iPhone and iPod Touch app that allows teachers to perform their most common duties without having to log into RenWeb School Management Software on their computer. This includes adding and editing assignments and grades, taking attendance and placing lunch orders.
Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
What's New in Version 6.2
Added Student Alerts
iPhone Screenshot
Customer Reviews
This is what my administrator calls a time waster
The iPhone version is useless. I don't need to take attendance with my phone (that's pretty much all you can do). I need to be able to email parents a quick note or post a class announcement on the run. Nothing looks more professional than fiddling with my phone during morning drop off! (Dear parents, I'm not texting, I'm taking attendance). I have computer access for morning attendance. Although, the computer version isn't much better- 30 seconds to take attendance on paper/15 minutes to login, find the right section and fiddle through different codes. 2 1/2 minutes lost each week versus an hour and fifteen minutes...
P.S. administrators- do you want the teachers to teach kids or blog about the work we can't get finished because we're on the computer writing updates...
Decent, but could be better
Most aspects are good. One big problem is that when I enter grades and switch from one student to another student by clicking on them, the page scrolls all the way to the bottom where I can't see any students. It works well if I click the 'next' button and enter the students in order, but when I do them out of order, the page jumps all the way to the bottom. It would be nice to have this fixed.
The lesson plans are working well. It would also be nice to see the procedures, teacher notes, and materials tabs.
Can't find pick up list
Since I updated to the newest version I can't find the pick up list for who can pick up my students. My co-worker's app has it on her Samsung phone, but on iPhone the option either isn't there or not easily findable. Going under directory and looking up the child's name only tells me who their parents are. And there are no buttons for family, medical, emergency contact or pick up. This is a huge issue for me since I often work the desk for Aftercare and I don't have anything to tell me who is allowed to pick up my students.
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: Sep 08, 2013
- Version: 6.2
- Size: 2.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Wilcomp Software L.P.
- © Copyright 1998-2011 Wilcomp Software L.P. RenWeb School Management Software All Rights Reserved.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.


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CINCINNATI (AP) — Munchie Legaux has a defining drive to go with that familiar name.
For the first time in his career, the junior quarterback had to lead his team the length of the field in the final minutes to pull out a win. He pulled it off by throwing a 39-yard touchdown pass with 13 seconds left for a 27-24 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday.


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Jason Aldean & Brittany Kerr's Wedding Album
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Village Harmony, Inc.,
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the direction of
Larry Gordon and Patty Cuyler. Our choruses include Village Harmony, Northern Harmony, Boston Harmony,
the Brooklyn World Music Chorus, the brand-new Chicago World Music Chorus,
and our many Village Harmony Summer Camp ensembles.
There are still spaces open in most of our 2015 singing camp sessions! Sign up today.
Go HERE to view a full list of our programs and find the links to our individual camp descriptions. Or go directly to our online registration site to apply now with this link:
Boston Harmony Concerts April 10-11, 18, 26
Boston Harmony will perform its end-of-season April concerts at four venuesin the greater Boston area and in western Massachusetts. Suggested admission (at the door) for all concerts is $12 for adults and $8 for students and seniors.
Information: 802-426-3210.
• Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM: Melrose First Baptist Church, 516 Main Street, Melrose, MA
• Saturday, April 11 at 8:00 PM: First Congregational Church, corner of Mason and Garden Streets, Cambridge, MA
• Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 PM: Wesley Methodist Church, 98 North Maple Street, Hadley, MA
• Saturday, April 26 at 11:00 AM: At the annual NEFFA festival in Manchester, MA
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A 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION ($40)
A wire-bound 186-page book, with accompanying mp3 CDR, compiled and edited by Village Harmony co-directors Larry Gordon & Patty Cuyler.
A priceless treasury of world music choral arrangements, with 97 scores contributed by present and past Village Harmony camp leaders and published to commemorate the organization's 25th anniversary. Traditional & composed polyphonic songs from the US, the Balkans, Caucasus Georgia, Ukraine, Corsica & more. Comes with an accompanying mp3 CDR disc with performances by Village Harmony and associated ensembles of nearly all of the songs in the collection.
More information→
25 Years of Village Harmony
- Take a lovely walk down memory lane with your own copy of an hour-log documentary film produced as a fundraiser for Village Harmony by Pawlet, Vermont teenager Tikko Frielich.
- For the past year, Tikko has been gathering footage and interviewing past and present Village Harmonites to weave together a heartwarming collection of stories and songs to commemorate the anniversary year. Tikko and her sister Ellis have been the happy recipients of scholarship support from VH and as a thank you, the proceeds from the sale of this film will go directly into the VH scholarship fund to support future singers.
- Commemorate the joy of 25 years of Village Harmony by ordering a DVD for just $10.
- Go here to order your copy now.
This was Tikko's promo for the DVD:
It's Village Harmony's
25th anniversary year!
Labor Day weekend witnessed a
4-day long music festival to celebrate the beginning of our 25th year, with over 250 alumni and faculty members in attendance. The long weekend was full of workshops led by present and past camp directors from around the world, and a Saturday evening concert with performances by Northern Harmony, Windborne, Tenores de Aterué, Washed Up Beulah Band, Starry Mountain Singers and Village Harmony founder Larry Gordon conducting Charpentier's Te Deum with chamber orchestra.
Watch video clips and read alumni postings from the weekend→
See video from the gala concert evening with alumni ensembles→
These new items & much more are available for purchase at our online store.
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100 Songs from the Northern Harmony Book mp3 CDR
Edited by Village Harmony founder Larry Gordon & Tony Barrand, the new Northern Harmony ($20)
is expanded from the old book, with 55 new songs--150 songs in all.
You can also buy our new 100 Songs from the Northern Harmony Book MP3 CDR ($10) to accompany the book, with recordings by Northern Harmony, Village Harmony, the Bayley-Hazen Singers and other associated ensembles.
South African and Georgian book + teaching dvd sets created by
Patty Cuyler & Mollie Stone in collaboration with veteran VH teachers Matlakala Bopape and Shergil Pirtskhelani, and members of Chicago Children's Choir.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—On the morning of Dec. 9, bleary-eyed baseball executives trickled into a large, second-floor ballroom at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort.
In the back of the room, general managers and reporters sipped from cups of coffee and chatted about the news of the day. The Boston Red Sox had just signed Carl Crawford. The Yankees were in pursuit of Cliff Lee.
No one seemed especially interested in what was happening at the front of the room, where lower-level front-office types walked up to a podium and called the names of players most people had never heard of. But for the Mets, it proved to be the most significant part of the winter meetings.
They selected two players in the Rule 5 draft, one of the most arcane events on the baseball calendar. And with only two days left in spring training, both players have all but officially made the team, a rarity in baseball.
Brad Emaus will start at second base. Pedro Beato will pitch out of the bullpen. And for a grand sum of $100,000, the bargain-hunting Mets will have filled two open roster spots.
"It's rare to carry one, much less two, out of the Rule 5 draft," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said. "You can interpret carrying two Rule 5 guys two different ways. One, great selections. Or two, not a lot of competition. But I actually think it's more the former than the latter."
It is probably a little bit of both.
In Emaus, formerly a Toronto Blue Jays prospect, the Mets found a player that fit the mold of the team Alderson wants to build. His plate discipline and on-base percentage are his greatest assets.
Five Who Survived
These well-known major leaguers were chosen in the Rule 5 draft.
In Beato, who was plucked from the Baltimore Orioles' farm system, the Mets found a live arm. The right-hander has thrown as hard as 96 mph this spring, with good movement on his pitches.
But their presence here is also indicative of the state of the Mets, who had many weaknesses to address and little financial flexibility last winter.
Since 1993, only six teams have had more than one Rule 5 draft pick make the Opening Day roster, according to Stats Inc. And only one of those teams finished with a winning record.
"Usually it's a team like the Mets that doesn't have many up and coming prospects for the upcoming season and has some holes on their roster," said Jim Callis, executive editor of Baseball America.
The Rule 5 draft is baseball's equivalent of a flea market. It has existed in various forms since the early 20th century as a way to prevent teams from hoarding top prospects. But teams almost never allow their best young players to become eligible for it.
Players who are not added to their team's 40-man rosters within a certain number of years after they signed— four years for players who sign at age 19 or older; five for those who sign at age 18 or younger—can be taken by other clubs for a $50,000 fee.
But there's a catch: The drafting team must keep the player on its active roster the entire following season. If it doesn't, the player must clear waivers and then be offered back to their original club for $25,000.
As a result, teams do more browsing than buying, just to see if, by chance, they can find some undervalued trinket worth keeping. Half the teams in baseball didn't even make a selection last year. And since 1993, only 32% of all players drafted have so much as appeared in a single game for the team that selected them.
"It's a way to get players, so it's a good way to take advantage of the system," Mets special assistant J.P. Ricciardi said. "But you have to have the right fit to take guys. The Yankees aren't going to take two Rule 5 guys because they're not going to make the team."
The draft itself, held on the last day of the winter meetings, is a low-key event. It is not televised. The atmosphere resembles that of a neighborhood bingo hall.
"Clubs are wondering who they're going to lose more than who they're going to get," Alderson said. And players are not exactly waiting in the green room.
Emaus was asleep in his hotel room in La Romana, Dominican Republic, where he was playing winter ball, when his agent called to tell him he had just become property of the Mets.
Beato wasn't anxiously tracking the draft, either. "I knew it was soon, sometime around that day, but I didn't know when it was going on," he said.
For the Mets, though, the draft was far from an afterthought. While Alderson was busy interviewing managerial candidates in November, a group of six lower-level baseball operations staffers scoured a list of nearly 3,000 prospects who were eligible for the draft.
They found about 50 who were worth a closer look. Using both statistical analysis and scouting reports, they knocked the list down to about 12 or 15 players going into the winter meetings. By the morning of the draft, they had settled on a list of four players worth taking, ranked in order of preference.
Emaus, a favorite of Ricciardi, was first on the list. The Mets took him with the 10th pick. Team officials wouldn't say where Beato ranked, but they were high on him from the outset.
The Mets selected him in the 2005 amateur draft but couldn't come to terms on a contract. Adam Fisher, the Mets' manager of baseball operations, had seen Beato pitch in the minors in 2010. They took him with the 18th pick.
When the draft was over, executives from each team spilled out into a hallway. Near the door, a media horde engulfed Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, looking for the latest on the Lee saga.
Over by a window, a smaller group surrounded Alderson, feigning interest in the relative merits of Emaus and Beato. They were far from splashy acquisitions, but at the very least, they helped Alderson make good on a pledge he had made just before he left New York to attend the meetings.
"If nothing else, we'll pick in the Rule 5 draft," he said, "just to say we brought a player back."


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Legislators have been called back to work on the budget next week, and one of the first things they are scheduled to do is consider a video gambling bill (HB 4927). Gambling is an unstable source of revenue, which cannot solve the State's budget problems.
The Senate hurriedly passed two bills to expand video gambling. The House is ready to vote on these bills and slots at racetracks when legislators come back in session:
HB 4927 expands video gambling at truck stops 24 hours a day, 7 days a week–a policy the Illinois Gaming Board rejected due to strong public opposition. HB 4927 allows those who have been operating illegal gambling to qualify for a license unless CONVICTED or litigation is pending.
HB 4182 expands video gambling to Off Track Betting parlors that lease space from bars. This is a "foot in the door" to legalize video gambling machines at ALL OTB parlors and racetracks.
SB 3146 legalizes slots and video gambling machines at racetracks. At the all-slots casino, "you're left with little more than the de-skilled, dehumanized extraction of money from individuals by corporations," according to Carlo Rotella, director of American Studies at Boston College.
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A large boat carrying passengers for recreational trips.
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The homeworld of Humanity, and a popular vacation destination for galactic travellers in-the-know. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines Earth as "mostly harmless."
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Originally intended to be a theme park/nature preserve for a menagerie of cloned dinosaurs, a catastrophic failure in the containment systems transformed the islands that make up Jurassic Park into a savage, untamed no-man's-land full of the most dangerous predators to ever walk the Earth.
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- As noted earlier, CM Punk tweeted that he was undergoing x-rays today. Punk has reportedly been working with an injured knee and has been seen limping around in recent weeks. - With Vince McMahon still overseas visiting United States troops serving in the Middle East, Triple H was in charge at Mondays RAW. There was a much more laid-back environment at RAW, with fewer rewrites. The general feeling backstage was that things will be less tense behind the scenes when Vince McMahon eventually steps down and hands the reigns over to Triple H and Stephanie. - WWE was very satisfied with The Shield's first promo on Monday's RAW, with Dean Ambrose standing out as the group's best talker. Roman reigns also came off as a star, with Seth Rollins still needing to improve his mic work. - WWE was also happy with Ryback's interview in the opening segment of RAW. Source: PWInsider
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The euro dropped below $ 1.20 for the first time since March 2006 on mounting concerns that Europe's sovereign-debt crisis would spread to global markets.
Panic sparked after a spokesperson for Hungarian Prime Minister said his nation's economy is in a "very grave situation." The U.S. and European equities and commodities retreated the most in a week.
Fearing the worsening euro zone debt crisis might slowdown global economy, investors rushed to buy gold as an alternate place to park their funds, marketmen said.
Gold in global markets, which normally sets price trend on the domestic front, jumped up by 12.20 dollar to 1,220.00 dollar an ounce.
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I want to erect a "temporary" chimney just to try out a wood stove this winter. If the boss likes it I will erect a masonry one in the spring. My temporary one will consist of 8� of single wall pipe out of the house (through a 100% masonry wall), continuing on a 45 degree angle upwards for 10�, then make a 45 degree turn straight up for 12�, all will be 6" dia pipe. (SEE PIC). I�ve worked out all of the temporary steel supports and such, but I�m concerned that I may have draft issues due to a single wall pipe in the cold.
Should I insulate the exterior piping, or not? Has anyone done anything like this before? Any info is appreciated.
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One problem I'm having with a long chimney of single wall stovepipe is that the smoke cools to the point it drips (liquid smoke) out of the top where it makes quite a mess.
I am trying to heat a greenhouse with an old wood stove. The stovepipe travels about 25 feet from stove to chimney top. The whole length is single wall 8 inch pipe. There are a few bends in it (more than a pro would want). I don't have any problem with the draft, it pulls just fine but the amount of mess it makes at the far end makes me want to shorten the distance by half.
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"Treme's" Danai Gurira will play the iconic character from the comic, who first appeared in the final moments of Sunday's season-two finale as the hooded woman who saves Andrea from a walker.
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A month after casting David Morrissey as iconic Big Bad The Governor, AMC's The Walking Dead has brought in Treme's Danai Gurira as Michonne, the legendary heroine from the Robert Kirkman comic series on which the zombie drama is based.
The hooded, sword-wielding badass made her onscreen debut in the final moments of Sunday's season-two finale, saving Andrea (Laurie Holden) from an almost certain death when she arrived -- with a pair of armless and jawless walkers chained behind her -- to put down an approaching zombie.
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The hooded Michonne arrived on TV much the same way she did on the page. There, she saved Otis from a group of walkers and joined Rick and company in the safety of the prison, which was featured in the final scene of the season Sunday.
In an interview about the finale, Kirkman told The Hollywood Reporter that the series was "transitioning into a new world" where the survivors are "faced with more adversaries, danger and different kinds of threats" and that Michonne is a "big part of that."
"She saves Andrea and she's carrying a sword. This is a very strange visual for fans of the show," Kirkman told THR. "Fans of the comic book know all about her and I'm sure are very excited to see her. ... I like to think about how the audience that just watches the show takes that. I think that is such a bizarre and jarring image. It really speaks volumes as to what you're going to be seeing in season three."
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Fan favorite Michonne was introduced in Issue No. 19 of the Image Comics/Skybound series and continues to survive in the comics, which recently published its 94th installment. The character quickly earns Rick's trust and becomes his most valued ally as the group battles the sadistic Governor.
With Morrissey's casting, the sight of the prison in the fading moments of Sunday's finale and Michonne's arrival, the AMC zombie drama is poised to set up the heavily anticipated confrontation depicted in Kirkman's comic series.
Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara told THR last week that the character would be one the series makes its own, calling her "our vision" of what's in the comic.
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"We know that she's a loner, we know she kicks ass. But we have some other traits about that her that are not in the comic book that we'll deviate," he told THR. "There's an interesting process as we start to write this character and bring her to life. We see this character as a significant character, not just as someone who's in the mix. This is a major addition to the show."
Mazzara noted that the series was looking for "someone who inhabits the traits of the character" and didn't need to necessarily bring in a "name" actress for the part. "We really feel like we want an actress who's going to be identified with the character and bring the character to life," he told THR.
Gurira's credits include six episodes of HBO's Treme, playing Village Voice scribe Jill. Repped by Paradigm and Suskin Management, she also has appeared in episodes of Lie to Me, Law & Order and Life on Mars.
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Michonne's casting comes just days after Kirkman revealed the character's origin story in a six-page article that appeared in the April issue of Playboy magazine, which was released Friday. (View the first two pages here.)
The character's appearance was perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of the television season and came as Shane's death on the zombie drama leaked via casting reports and a spoiler-filled DVD ad well ahead of the episode in which Jon Bernthal's character was killed off.
Kirkman, Mazzara and Holden announced Gurira's casting Sunday on AMC's Walking Dead post-show series Talking Dead.
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in the long history ,china had been teacher ,but in the 20th century
A very complex equation floating in Asia.
Lets put it - Japan can no longer afford to ignore Asia as its trade equations are changing with the US and western trading partners. Its own growth is downward spiral and US is no more a promising economy. They cannot increase their GDP with their traditional friend. But then comes the Deffence umbrella which they cannnot afford to throw as the new Asian trading partner (china) is very unreliable in its intent.
SO its a very tight rope balancing act and a double edged sward. Say-to revive japanese economy only remeady is China and to ensure its soverignity its US. One can only be entertained at the cost of others.
I belive its a time for Russia to play a important role. During two consecutive terms Putin tried to creat a mulipolar world of power but now if we envisage the future, it appears that China would be the new economic supper power and pegging its deffence expenditure @2% of GDP, it would be the biggest military power too in next 20 yrs.
Promoting local talent to managerial positions is a great way to enhance market share. Needless to say, local talent will also be able to better localize marketing content to capture customers and market share. One thing that will still need further clarification is the creation of content. Should the local talent be called to create content? Or should it come from corporate headquarter?
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