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A flexible covered stent having a stent covered on a first surface by a first layer of biocompatible material and on a second surface by both a second and third layer of biocompatible material, the first and second layers and the first and third layers of biocompatible material being bonded to one another through openings in a wall in the stent. The first layer of biocompatible material is longer than both the second and third layers of biocompatible material such that at least a portion of the second surface of the stent is not covered by either second or third layer, imparting flexibility to the stent.
1. A flexible covered stent, comprising:
a stent having a wall defining a luminal surface and an abluminal surface;
a first tubular layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, substantially covering said abluminal surface of said stent;
a second tubular layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene having a length less than a length of said first tubular layer and covering a first region of said luminal surface of said stent, wherein said second layer is bonded to said first layer through openings in said wall of said stent; and
a third tubular layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, having a length less than a length of said first tubular layer and covering a second region of said luminal surface of said stent, wherein said third layer is bonded to said first layer through openings in said wall of said stent;
wherein a third region of said luminal surface of said stent is located between said first and second regions of said luminal surface of said stent, said third region not being covered by either said second or said third tubular layer.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/412,138, filed Apr. 11, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,740,115 B2, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/430,154, filed Oct. 29, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,579,314 B1, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/118,269, filed Feb. 2, 1999, and which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/401,871, filed Mar. 10, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,124,523. The entirety of each of these applications is expressly incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
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Stents and similar endoluminal devices are currently used by medical practitioners to treat tubular body vessels or ducts that become so narrowed (stenosed) that flow of blood or other biological fluids is restricted. Such narrowing (stenosis) occurs, for example, as a result of the disease process known as arteriosclerosis. While stents are most often used to "prop open" blood vessels, they can also be used to reinforce collapsed or narrowed tubular structures in the respiratory system, the reproductive system, bile or liver ducts or any other tubular body structure. However, stents are generally mesh-like so that endothelial and other tissues can grow through the openings resulting in restenosis of the vessel.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has proven unusually advantageous as a material from which to fabricate blood vessel grafts or prostheses, tubular structures that can be used to replace damaged or diseased vessels. This is partially because PTFE is extremely biocompatible causing little or no immunogenic reaction when placed within the human body. This is also because in its preferred form, expanded PTFE (ePTFE), the material is light and porous and is readily colonized by living cells so that it becomes a permanent part of the body. The process of making ePTFE of vascular graft grade is well known to one of ordinary skill in the art. Suffice it to say that the critical step in this process is the expansion of PTFE into ePTFE. This expansion represents a controlled longitudinal stretching in which the PTFE is stretched to several hundred percent of its original length.
Apart from use of stents within the circulatory system, stents have proven to be useful in dealing with various types of liver disease in which the main bile duct becomes scarred or otherwise blocked by neoplastic growths, etc. Such blockage prevents or retards flow of bile into the intestine and can result in serious liver damage. Because the liver is responsible for removing toxins from the blood stream, is the primary site for the breakdown of circulating blood cells and is also the source of vital blood clotting factors, blockage of the bile duct can lead to fatal complications. A popular type of stent for use in the biliary duct has been one formed from a shape memory alloy (e.g., nitinol) partially because such stents can be reduced to a very low profile and remain flexible for insertion through the sharp bend of the bile duct while being self-expandable and capable of exerting a constant radial force to the duct wall.
Cellular infiltration through stents can be prevented by enclosing the stents with ePTFE. Early attempts to produce a stent covered by ePTFE focused around use of adhesives or physical attachment such as suturing. However, such methods are far from ideal and suturing, in particular, is very labor intensive. More recently methods have been developed for encapsulating a stent between two tubular ePTFE members whereby the ePTFE of one-member touches and bonds with the ePTFE of the other member through the mesh opening in the stent. However, such a monolithically encapsulated stent may tend to be rather inflexible. Therefore, there is a need for a stent covered to prevent cellular infiltration and yet still flexible to ensure ease of insertion and deployment and to accommodate extreme anatomical curves.
The present invention is directed to covered stents wherein flexibility of the stent is retained, despite the use of encapsulation techniques. Encapsulation refers to the lamination of a stent between an inner and an outer layer of a plastic material. Compared to a fully encapsulated stent enhanced flexibility can be achieved by encapsulating limited regions of the stent, while leaving a significant portion of the stent—usually a middle portion—covered by a single layer of the plastic material. In this way the limited encapsulation fixes the plastic covering onto the stent with no need for sutures or similar labor intensive mechanical attachments.
It is an object of this invention to provide a stent device that has improved flexibility compared to a fully encapsulated stent, yet maintains its impermeability to infiltrating tissues.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide a stent device that shows minimal profile when loaded into insertion systems and can be deployed using forces that are reduced compared to those used with fully encapsulated designs.
These and additional objects are accomplished by embedding or encapsulating only portions of the stent between two layers of biocompatible material. This is accomplished by covering either the luminal or abluminal surface of the stent with a layer of biocompatible material, preferably ePTFE, while also covering limited sections of the opposite surface of the stent with the biocompatible material, thereby fully encapsulating only the limited sections. A preferred design fully encapsulates only the end regions of the device. By leaving a middle region of the stent unencapsulated, the stent is free to flex much like a bare stent, increasing overall flexibility and reducing the necessary loading and deployment forces.
In the present invention, a stent is partially encapsulated using the configuration mentioned above. One means of accomplishing this configuration is to place rings (radial strips) of ePTFE on a mandrel at positions corresponding to each end of the stent. The stent is then placed over the mandrel and the rings in registration with the ends of the stent. Finally, the stent (supported by the mandrel) is covered on its abluminal (outside) surface by a tubular ePTFE graft. The resulting structure is then subjected to heat and pressure so that the regions containing ePTFE on both surfaces become laminated or fused together (e.g., a bond is formed). This yields a stent with substantially its entire abluminal surface covered by ePTFE. Regions near the ends of the stent are fully encapsulated (e.g., these regions are covered by ePTFE on their luminal surfaces as well). The fully encapsulated area serves to attach the abluminal covering to the stent.
A more complete understanding of the partial encapsulation of stents will be afforded to those skilled in the art, as well as a realization of additional advantages and objects thereof, by a consideration of the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. Reference will be made to the appended sheets of drawings, which will first be described briefly.
The following detailed description should be read with reference to the drawings, in which like elements in different drawings are identically numbered. The drawings, which are not necessarily to scale, depict selected preferred embodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The detailed description illustrates by way of example, not by way of limitation, the principles of the invention. This description will clearly enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention, and describes several embodiments, adaptations, variations, alternatives and uses of the invention, including what is presently believed to be the best mode of carrying out the invention.
The present invention satisfies the need for a covered stent device that is virtually as flexible as an uncovered stent. This is accomplished by covering a stent on a first surface while limited regions are covered on the opposite surface to ensure fixation of the first surface covering. Referring now to the drawings,
It will be apparent to those of skill in the art that at a covering over at least one of the surfaces (luminal or abluminal) of the stent is necessary to prevent tissue ingrowth. Furthermore, the covering must be bonded to the stent to prevent it from coming detached and perhaps forming a blockage in the vessel. Although ePTFE has numerous favorable properties, it is relatively difficult to attach it to a stent. Mechanical fasteners such as sutures have the disadvantage of interrupting the integrity of the ePTFE sheet so that leaking can occur. Although ePTFE does not adhere well to a stent, it can be made to bond to itself. Therefore, one effective method of affixing the ePTFE cover is to place ePTFE covers in contact with both the abluminal and luminal surfaces of the stent so that one ePTFE covering can bond to the other where the ePTFE coverings touch through the openings in the stent. The drawback with this approach is that the structural members of the stent are tightly surrounded and held by ePTFE. When the stent bends or expands, the stent structural members must move relative to each other. This movement is resisted by the tightly adhering ePTFE (or other covering material).
In the present invention movement of the stent members relative to each other is facilitated by limiting the region of the stent in which the structural members are surrounded (encapsulated) by ePTFE. In a preferred embodiment the regions of encapsulation, which ensure attachment of the covering to the stent, are limited to areas near the ends of the device. For a relatively short device these end-encapsulated regions are more than adequate to afford attachment of the covering. If necessary one or more additional regions of encapsulation could be added along the length of the device if it is found necessary for stability of the covering. Clearly, the greater the percentage of length of the device that is fully encapsulated, the more the flexibility of the overall structure will be impeded.
An additional advantage of the limited encapsulation of the present invention is the possibility of enhanced healing. It is known that living cells will infiltrate sufficiently porous ePTFE and that microcapillaries may form within and across the ePTFE wall so that a living intima is formed along the luminal surface. Where two layers of ePTFE surround the stent, it may be significantly more difficult for cellular infiltration across the wall to occur. Although the figures show the continuous covering placed on the abluminal surface of the device, the present invention also lends itself to placement of the continuous covering on the luminal surface. The configuration choice may depend on the precise application of the device. In some applications, for example large vessels having a high rate of blood flow placing the covering on the luminal surface may result in advantageous lamellar flow of the blood (ie., blood flow without significant turbulence). There is some evidence that contact of the blood with a metal stent may result in local, limited thrombosis. While this may be detrimental, there is also some evidence that such limited thrombosis results in enhanced healing. An advantage of using a full luminal covering could be improved anchoring of the device within the duct or vessel afforded by interactions between the bare abluminal stent and the duct or vessel wall. Therefore, the optimal configuration will have to be empirically determined in many cases.
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Again, it is important to note that while the continuous tubular layer of ePTFE 20 is shown on the abluminal surface of
Once the appropriate ePTFE covering is placed onto the luminal and abluminal surfaces, the ends 22 of the stent graft 10 are encapsulated by connecting or bonding the luminal covering to the abluminal covering. Encapsulation can be accomplished by a number of methods including sintering (i.e., heating), suturing, ultrasonically welding, stapling and adhesive bonding. In the preferred embodiment, the stent-graft 10 is subjected to heat and pressure to laminate (bond) the tubular ePTFE layer 20 on the abluminal surface to the two rings of ePTFE 30 on the luminal surface.
An additional advantage provided by the present invention is that the retraction force necessary to deploy the stent-graft 10 using a coaxial deployment system is drastically reduced in comparison to a fully encapsulated stent. This is due to the reduction in amount of covering material. Furthermore, by reducing the amount of covering material, the overall profile of the deployment system is reduced, allowing a wider range of applications. Another advantage enjoyed by the present invention is its ease of manufacture compared to stent-graft devices that place multiple stent rings over ePTFE tubing. Finally, an advantage over stent-grafts with a single layer of biocompatible material over the entire graft length is that because a strong bond is created in the encapsulated region, it is possible to transmit a pulling force from one end of the stent of the present invention to the other via the covering, making it possible to load into a sheath using pulling techniques. The preferred bare stent designs (chosen for flexibility and low profile) do not permit transmission of a pulling force in a longitudinal axial direction. This is because flexibility is increased and profile reduced by removing connections between longitudinally neighboring struts. The limited number of longitudinal connections has inadequate tensile strength to transmit the pulling force without failure. In the case of a true single layer covering (without use of adhesive, etc.) pulling on the covering causes the covering to slip off the stent. In the case of sutured single layer device pulling on the covering may cause the sutures holes to enlarge and even tear.
Two memotherm (shape memory alloy stent, product of Angiomed, Division of C. R. Bard, Inc.) biliary stents (S1 and S2), partially encapsulated according to the present invention, were loaded into a 10 French delivery system used for a standard covered biliary stent. The stents were 10 mm�60 mm. The pulling force necessary to load the stents (the force between the outer sheath and the stent) was measured as follows:
In comparison, the loading force for a fully encapsulated stent is approximately 50N. After loading the samples S1 and S2 into a pullback delivery system, both were deployed into a glass biliary duct model placed in a 37� C. water bath. All deployment went smoothly and no significant covering damage was observed. Thus, the partially encapsulated stents could be loaded employing a much-reduced force without being compromised structurally.
Three prototypes (P1, P2, and P3) were built using a Gamma 2 (Flexx) design memotherm stent, 12 mm�120 mm. These prototypes were partially encapsulated according to the present invention. More particularly, the abluminal surface of each stent was covered with a tubular ePTFE material, leaving the regions near the stent ends uncovered (to flare outward and anchor the device). The luminal surface near each end of the stent was covered by a 9.95 mm�0.05 mm ring of ePTFE material. The stents were then subjected to heat and pressure so that the overlapping ePTFE material on the luminal and abluminal surfaces was bonded together. The prototypes were then loaded into a 10 French delivery system and were deployed into a glass biliary duct model (45�, 25.4 mm radius) that was placed in a 37� C. water bath.
The prototypes were loaded according to the standard loading technique used for loading fully encapsulated stents. This loading technique consists of compressing the stents by pulling them through a funnel using specially designed hooks. When loading the fully encapsulated stent, a backing mandrel and core are used to create a uniform folded pattern in the compressed stent. In loading P1, no backing mandrel and core inside the stent were used, resulting in an unacceptable load due to the presence of folds. P2 was loaded using a backing mandrel (9.2 mm diameter) and a core (1.25 mm diameter), resulting in a successful load with no folds. P3 was loaded in the same manner as P2. Loading forces between the funnel and the stent and pulling forces between the stent and the outer sheath were measured as follows:
The loading force and pulling force necessary to load and deploy the prototypes were much smaller than that necessary for a fully encapsulated stent. Thus making it possible to load and deploy the prototypes with either a manual pullback or a pistol handgrip deployment system.
In the case of a biliary stent an especially tortuous delivery path must be used. There are two main techniques for such delivery. If the stent is deliver transhepatically, it is inserted through percutaneous vasculature, through the bulk of the liver and down the hepatic duct where it must make a bend of around 45 degrees between the hepatic and the bile duct. If the stent is delivered endoscopically it enters the bile duct via the papilla and must pass through multiple bends, the most sever of which is about 90 degrees with a 10 mm radius. Clearly an extremely flexible stent is required. To further illustrate the deployment of the prototypes,
The "Flexx" stent used in these experiments is a specially designed stent configured for the present invention. Stents of this type are cut from tubes of Nitinol shape memory alloy and then expanded on a mandrel. The size memory of the device is set on the expanded form. The device is then compressed to the approximate dimensions of the original tube for insertion into a patient. Once properly located in the patient, the device is released and can self-expand to the "memorized" expanded dimension. Although the entire device is a single unitary piece, as shown in
These two factors account for the unusual suitability of the Flexx design in the present invention. The use of a covering of ePTFE or other biocompatible material prevents tissue infiltration despite the very open nature of the Flexx design. The use of end encapsulation (as opposed to encapsulation over the entire length of the device) preserves most of the inherent flexibility of the design. The use of only a single layer of covering over much of the stent results in a low profile in the compressed configuration so that the device can be inserted through small bile ducts and other restricted vessels. The use of only a very limited number of joining points 64 provides the lateral flexibility required for insertion through tortuous bile ducts and other similarly twisted vessels.
Having thus described a preferred embodiment of the covered stent with encapsulated ends, it will be apparent by those skilled in the art how certain advantages of the present invention have been achieved. It should also be appreciated that various modifications, adaptations, and alternative embodiments thereof may be made. For example, while Flexx stent designs partially covered with ePTFE have been illustrated, it should be apparent that the inventive concepts described herein would be equally applicable to other types of stent designs and biocompatible covering materials. Moreover, the words used in this specification to describe the invention and its various embodiments are to be understood not only in the sense of their commonly defined meanings, but to include by special definition in this specification structure, material or acts beyond the scope of the commonly defined meanings. The definitions of the words or elements of the following claims are, therefore, defined in this specification to include not only the combination of elements which are literally set forth, but all equivalent structure, material or acts for performing substantially the same function in substantially the same way to obtain substantially the same result. The described embodiments are to be considered illustrative rather than restrictive. The invention is further defined by the following claims.
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By William Fisher
NEW YORK, Sep 27, 2010 (IPS) – Hundreds of people who believe they were falsely detained and imprisoned by the Department of Justice in the wake of the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks are now seeking redress through the U.S. courts.
The exact number of detainees is unclear, as no lists were ever released publicly. But according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General in 2002, 475 9/11 detainees were arrested and detained in New York and New Jersey. Hundreds more were arrested across the country.
Some of these men are plaintiffs in a federal class action lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top officials in the administration of President George W. Bush (2001-2009) who were responsible for their illegal roundup, abuse and detention.
The suit charges that the detainees were kept in solitary confinement with the lights on 24 hours a day; placed under a communications blackout so that they could not seek the assistance of their attorneys, families and friends; subjected to physical and verbal abuse; forced to endure inhumane conditions of confinement; and obstructed in their efforts to practice their religion.
Some of the abuse included beatings, repeated strip searches and sleep deprivation. The allegations of inhumane and degrading treatment have been substantiated by two reports of the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, and several defendants in the case have been convicted on federal charges of cover-ups and beatings of other prisoners around the same time… Continue reading
August 06, 2010
RT filmed this emotional footage of 9/11 first responders pouring their hearts out at a speech just blocks away from where the twin towers fell. The rally was in response to Congress defeating a federal bill that would have provided billions of dollars in health care for those sickened by toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11, 2001.
"As the tragic deaths of the 343 members of the New York Fire Department on 9/11 make plain, America's first responders are on the front line of this war," McCain said.
"Whatever happened to supporting our nation's heroes?" the video asks before dissolving into a scene of President George Bush at ground zero.
They passed symbolic legislation to honor first reponders:
That the House of Representatives supports first responders in the United States in their efforts to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, and affirms the goals and ideals of National First Responder Appreciation Day to honor and celebrate the contributions and sacrifices made by all first responders in the United States.
And yet, first responders have had to fight for medical help for more than a decade:
Many of the rescue and recovery workers who labored at Ground Zero… Continue reading
An Open Letter to Terry Allen, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, David Corn, Chris Hayes, George Monbiot, Matthew Rothschild, and Matt Taibbi1
by David Ray Griffin2
July 6, 2010
According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, some of its central claims, especially about the destruction of the World Trade Center, show its members to be scientifically challenged. In the opinion of some of these critics, moreover, claims made by members of this movement are sometimes unscientific in the strongest possible sense, implying an acceptance of magic and miracles.
After documenting this charge in Part I of this essay, I show in Part II that the exact opposite is the case: that the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center implies miracles (I give nine examples), and that the 9/11 Truth Movement, in developing an alternative hypothesis, has done so in line with the assumption that the laws of nature did not take a holiday on 9/11. In Part III, I ask these left-leaning critics some questions evoked by the fact that it is they, not members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, who have endorsed a conspiracy theory replete with miracle stories as well as other absurdities.
I. The Charge that 9/11 Truth Theories Rest on Unscientific, Even Magical, Beliefs
Several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, besides showing contempt for its members, charge them with relying on claims that are contradicted by good science and, in some cases, reflect a belief… Continue reading
Sunday, June 6, 2010 – Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark will be speaking at the University of Calgary. For more information see (http://canadiandimension.com/articles/3054/)
Clark will speak about his relationship to Splitting the Sky, the man who attempted a citizens' arrest on George W. Bush in March 2009. Splitting the Sky was Ramsey Clark's client in the 1970s after his involvement in the Attica Prison debacle. Splitting the Sky will go to court on Monday, June 7th to hear the judge's verdict in this historic case.
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Web Exclusive: Canadian Man Could Be Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Implementing the Law
Joshua Blakeney
May 31, 2010
Canadian Dimension
"George Bush hasn't suffered at all over the monumental suffering, death, and horror he has caused . . . no matter how many American soldiers have died on a given day in Iraq (averaging well over two every day), he is always seen with a big smile on his face that same or next day." Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, 2008 (1)
Ramsey Clark will arrive in the Canadian oil-patch city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, this coming June 6th and 7th, mounting pressure on Judge Manfred Delong, who is presiding over the sentencing process in an epochal trial which some have dubbed"The trial of Splitting the Sky versus George W. Bush." Splitting the Sky (STS) on the advice of legal experts Ramsey Clark, Gale Davidson and Anthony J.…Continue reading
by Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal , 21-2-10
In July 1987, during the Iran-Contra Hearings grilling of Oliver North, the American public got a glimpse of "highly sensitive" emergency planning North had been involved in. Ostensibly these were emergency plans to suspend the American constitution in the event of a nuclear attack (a legitimate concern). But press accounts alleged that the planning was for a more generalized suspension of the constitution.
As part of its routine Iran-contra coverage, the following exchange was printed in the New York Times , but without journalistic comment or follow-up:
[Congressman Jack] Brooks: Colonel North, in your work at the N.S.C. were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?
Both North's attorney and Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democratic Chair of the Committee, responded in a way that showed they were aware of the issue:
Brendan Sullivan [North's counsel, agitatedly]: Mr. Chairman?
[Senator Daniel] Inouye: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that?
Brooks: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American… Continue reading
From NewsFocus.org
May 17, 2010
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A short production of news clips detailing George W. Bush's 9/11 inaction, including his post-attack foot dragging on establishing an independent investigation into the worst attack ever on United States soil.
Bush was clearly negligent in his duty on 9/11, not only as President, but also as our Commander in Chief. His inaction alone is reason enough to re-open the 9/11 investigation. Throw in the fact that Donald Rumsfeld was not at his post directing a defense for this country, and that Dick Cheney tracked the Pentagon attack "vehicle" from over 50 miles out and still did not shoot the object down, and you have negligence and dereliction of duty at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Don't just ask for a new investigation. Ask for a real 9/11 investigation.…Continue reading
by Michael Collins
There they are, the people who brought you every bit of the action in the WikiLeaks video and all of the other horrors flowing from invasion of Iraq. Madeleine Albright (far right, above), former Clinton Secretary of State, is a good place to start. From 60 Minutes:
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it. —60 Minutes (5/12/96)
An exhaustive study found that 227,000 children under five (table 13) died during the George H.W. Bush – Bill Clinton regime of total sanctions against Iraq from 1990 through 2000.
Albright is distinguished as the most direct spokesmodel for senseless death and suffering that's characterized our engagement with that battered country.
But others carry much greater responsibility. The Bush administration had top secret plans to invade Iraq as early as February 2001. First hand witnesses in the prewar White House were unable to name a point when the decision to invade was made. It was a fait accompli.
Prior to the war authorization from Congress, the various intelligence agencies submitted a report that claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Many nations had WMD. The report had to find that Iraq was an imminent danger to the… Continue reading
February 25, 2010
By Paul Craig Roberts
The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper's website for the past three days was the "Inside the Beltway" report, "Explosive News," about the 31 press conferences in cities in the US and abroad on February 19 held by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization of professionals which now has 1,000 members.
I was even more surprised that the news report treated the press conference seriously. How did three World Trade Center skyscrapers suddenly disintegrate into fine dust? How did massive steel beams in three skyscrapers suddenly fail as a result of short-lived, isolated, and low temperature fires? "A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7," reports the Washington Times.
The paper reports that the architects and engineers have concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided "insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction" and are "calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials."
The newspaper reports that Richard Gage, the spokesperson for the architects and engineers said: "Government officials will be notified that "Misprision of Treason,' U.S. Code… Continue reading
February 9, 2010
A reader asked whether the U.S. is still in an official state of emergency, and if so, what that means.
The answer is yes, we are still in a state of emergency.
On September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency. That declared state of emergency was formally put in writing on 9/14/2001:
"A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America,
by virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby declare that the national emergency has existed since September 11, 2001 . . . ."
That declared state of emergency has continued in full force and effect from 9/11 [throughout the Bush administration] to the present.
On September 10 2009, President Obama continued the state of emergency:
The terrorist threat that led to the declaration on September 14, 2001, of a national emergency continues. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September 14, 2009, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist threat.
Does a State of Emergency Really Mean Anything?
Does a state of emergency really mean anything?
Yes, it does:
The Washington Times wrote on September 18,… Continue reading
By Stephen C. Webster
Is Rudolph Giuliani's political career over?
The former mayor of New York City has been making his rounds in U.S. media this week, trying to explain away his false claim that there were no domestic terrorist attacks on the United States during the Bush administration.
For a man often mocked as "the mayor of 9/11," that's an awfully bold suggestion, and one that could spell the end of his relevance in U.S. politics, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
"The whole reason anybody ever thought of Rudy Giuliani as a potential national figure for the Republican party is because of his supposed expertise," Maddow said during a Friday broadcast. "The supposed expertise he had with terrorism and national security because he had been the mayor of New York City when it was attacked on September 11."
He later explained that he meant say no domestic terrorist attacks since 9/11.
However, in what Maddow called "a strange colique" with CNN host Larry King, Giuliani dug his hole deeper, suggesting that shoe bomber Richard Reid attempted his act of terrorism before Sept. 11, 2001.
It actually took place in Dec. of that year, well after the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
"Rudy Giuliani's whole brand as a politician is based on 9/11, something he appears to have exploited so much that he's lost the capacity to deal with it as a factual matter," Maddow opined.
"Could he have meant that there were no other attacks… Continue reading
January 6, 2010
by Ray McGovern & Coleen Rowley
Yesterday, a blogger with the PBS' NewsHour asked former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to respond to three questions regarding recent events involving the CIA, FBI, and the intelligence community in general.
Two other old intelligence hands were asked the identical questions, queries that are typical of what radio/TV and blogger interviewers usually think to be the right ones. So there is merit in trying to answer them directly, such as they are, and then broadening the response to address some of the core problems confronting U.S. counter-terror strategies.
After drafting his answers, McGovern asked former FBI attorney/special agent Coleen Rowley, a colleague in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to review his responses and add her own comments at the end. The Q & A is below:
Question #1 – What lapses in the American counter terrorism apparatus made the Christmas Day bombing plot possible? Is it inevitable that certain plots will succeed?
The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more helpful answer would address the question as to how we might best minimize their prospects for success. And to do this, sorry to say, there is no getting around the necessity to address the root causes of terrorism or, in the vernacular, "why they hate us."
If we don't go beyond self-exculpatory sloganeering in attempting to answer that key question, any
"counter terrorism apparatus" is doomed to failure.… Continue reading
Thursday, 17. December 2009
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
Podcast Show #16
The Boiling Frogs Presents Russ Baker
Russ Baker discusses his book, Family of Secrets, the first complete historic portrait of the Bush dynasty, and provides us with an overview of how this dynasty shaped our politics. He tells us about the shadow government in the US, the real players, elites, and power centers within each president's government, and the limitation on what and how much an American president can accomplish — considering the influence of these powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. Mr. Baker defines and explains the concept of Forensic Journalism, and talks about his nonprofit news organization WhoWhatWhy, the need for nonpartisan and independent journalism today, the current media landscape in… Continue reading
Kevin Ryan
Careful investigation leads one to notice that a number of intriguing groups of people and organizations converged on the events of September 11th, 2001. An example is the group of men who were members of Cornell University's Quill & Dagger society. This included Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Advisors Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley, Marsh & McLennan executive Stephen Friedman, and the founder of Kroll Associates, Jules Kroll. Another interconnected group of organizations is linked to these Cornell comrades, and is even more interesting in terms of its members being integral to the events of 9/11, and having benefited from those events.
After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), a company called Stratesec (or Securacom) was responsible for the overall integration of the new security system designed by Kroll Associates. Stratesec had a small board of directors that included retired Air Force General James Abrahamson, Marvin Bush (the brother of George W. Bush) and Wirt Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers. Other directors included Charles Archer, former Assistant Director in charge of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and Yousef Saud Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family.[1]
Yousef Saud Al Sabah was also chairman of the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm), which between 1993 and 1999 held a controlling share of Stratesec. The other owners of Stratesec were Walker and an entity controlled by Walker and Al Sabah, called Special Situation Investment Holdings (SSIH).[2] SSIH was said to form a group with… Continue reading
By Ray McGovern
November 17, 2009
Consortium News
As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators go to trial, the corporate media's embargo on the truth about the Bush years will be under great strain.
Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda.
"I think that we're going to shine a light on something that a lot of people don't want to look at" is how American Civil Liberties Union attorney Denney LeBoeuf put it, according to The New York Times on Saturday.
No problem, says Attorney General Eric Holder, who claims to have "great confidence" that other evidence — apart from what may have been gleaned from the 183 times Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded, for example — will suffice to convict him.
Maybe so, But what the Fawning Corporate Media (or FCM) have so far neglected is the likelihood that the testimony will be so public that they will have to break their studied silence about why Sheikh Mohammed and his associates say they orchestrated the attacks of 9/11.
For reasons that are painfully obvious, the FCM have done their best to ignore or bury the role that Israel's repression of the Palestinians has played in motivating the 9/11 attacks and other anti-Western terrorism.
It is not like there is no evidence on this key issue. Rather, it appears that the Israel-Palestine connection is pretty much kept off limits for discussion.…Continue reading
By emptywheel
Saturday November 14, 2009 7:51 am
A senior counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, has written a book exposing the degree to which our response to 9/11 was disorganized and outdated, geared to respond to an attack from Russia rather than from terrorists. Most significantly, Farmer reveals that FAA and NORAD altered their chronologies of the day only after a briefing at the White House.
Perhaps nothing perturbs Farmer more than the contention that high-ranking officials responded quickly and effectively to the revelation that Qaeda attacks were taking place. Nothing, Farmer indicates, could be further from the truth: President George W. Bush and other officials were mostly irrelevant during the hijackings; instead, it was the ground-level commanders who made operational decisions in an ad hoc fashion.
Yet both Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney, Farmer says, provided palpably false versions that touted the military's readiness to shoot down United 93 before it could hit Washington. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Northeast Air Defense Sector had been informed of the hijacking, United 93 had already crashed. Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and NORAD records to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that "fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney."
We've known for a long time that the… Continue reading
October 21, 2009 by Bryant Jordan Military.com
After seven years of forced silence, a government whistleblower is opening up on what she learned while working as a Turkish translator for the FBI in the wake of 9/11.
In sworn testimony to attorneys on Aug. 8, Sibel Edmonds described a Pentagon where key personnel helped pass defense secrets to foreign agents or provided them names of knowledgeable officials who were vulnerable to blackmail or co-option.
And firmly rooted in this espionage program in the 1990s, according to Edmonds' deposition, were two men who, with the election of George W. Bush as president in 2000, found themselves in the Pentagon: Douglas Feith, who would head the Office of Special Plans, and Richard Perle, who would become chairman of the Defense Advisory Board.
"They were 100 percent directly involved," Edmonds told Military.com. "They were not in the Pentagon [in the late 1990s] but they had their people inside the Pentagon." One of those people, she said, was Larry Franklin, an Air Force officer assigned to the Office of Special Plans who, in 2003, passed classified information to representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Office, or AIPAC. By then Feith was leading the OSP.
Edmonds cautioned that she does not know if these practices are continuing, since she was fired by the FBI in April 2002 after pressing for an investigation into an attempt by a colleague to recruit her for an organization that was itself a target of FBI surveillance.
Perle, today… Continue reading
by Jon Gold
This is dedicated to the 9/11 Truth Movement. – Jon
Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you're not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren't being given is "sinister" in nature. As Ray McGovern said, "for people to dismiss these questioners as "conspiratorial advocates", or "conspiratorial theorists"… that's completely out of line because the… The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT." When you think about everything the previous Administration did in 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something "sinister" is not crazy. In fact, it's the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why.
That being said, we have not proven it beyond the shadow of doubt. We do not have documentation that shows they planned it. We do not have a signed confession from someone. We have pieces of the puzzle, and to most of us that have been doing this a long time, those pieces point to more than just Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and 19 hijackers. If we could… Continue reading
2009 Truth Statement
We STILL Want Real Answers About 9/11
[Signatures have been closed as of March, 2010]
On August 31, 2004, Zogby International, the official North American political polling agency for Reuters, released a poll that found nearly half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of those in New York state believe US leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9/11 attacks and "consciously failed" to act. Of the New York City residents, 66% called for a new probe of unanswered questions by Congress or the New York Attorney General. Since that time, multiple professional polling organizations have obtained similar results in polls conducted nationally and internationally.
In 2004, 911truth.org assembled a list of notable Americans and family members of those who died who signed (see that list of signatories, below) a 9/11 Statement, calling for "immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, in spite of Americans having elected the "other" party in hopes it would deliver on its promise of a change in direction, we find ourselves asking these same questions and encountering the same resistance to transparency. The ensuing wars have destroyed countless lives, our civil liberties (including habeas corpus) are in tatters, posse comitatus is history, and our economy lies essentially in ruin. Meanwhile, thousands of 9/11 responders who rushed to stand with America in its time of… Continue reading

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In the words of our very own DJ Z, there are only three things guaranteed in this life: death, taxes and five minute long Joe Budden tracks. Wise words, but I'd also like to add slowly rhymed, hilariously inappropriate Cam'ron bangers to that list. The Dipset boss has been turning out grimier than grimy bars for over a decade now, and as new scorcher Motivation shows Cam's still going strong. Supa Stylez (not araabMUZIK, also known as the man with the fastest MPC skills in the western hemisphere), grabs a hard rock foundation for Motivation's beat, giving the former Mr. All Pink Everything all the…um…motivation he needs to get back on his paper chase with yet more "he just said what?" lines: "Yo, o 12 bang coupe, what a feeling y'all / It's a baby one button will make your ceiling crawl." I have no real idea what that means either, but it sounds dope, which I'm guessing is a sentence that will describe all of Cam and Vado's upcoming collaborative project Boss Of All Bosses 3, sure to hit the streets and interwebs on December 16.
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On March 27, 2014, the Wage Transparency Act (S1038) was passed by the New Jersey Senate. The act would require public contractors to report to the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development the gender, race, job title, occupational category, and total compensation of every employee employed in the state in connection with a public contract. The act would also require public contractors to provide the Commissioner with an update each time there is a significant change in any of the required information that the employer is required to report or other significant change in employment status (e.g., medical leave of 12 weeks or more, hiring, termination, a change in part-time or full-time status, or a change in "employee" or "contractor" status). A similar bill (A2345) was introduced in the Assembly and was referred to the New Jersey Assembly Labor Committee on February 6, 2014.
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Proverbs 3:18 (NLT)
Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her; happy are those who hold her tightly.
God wants me to be happy. I woke up with this thought this morning. He intends for me to have a joy-full life. No really, He does. Encircled by circumstances that may cause one to think that He does not see to look at us favorably, I know deep in my heart and mind that He is working diligently to turn all the details of my life (even the last three years) into something great. He works out the details (good and bad) for my benefit. (Romans 8:28) The Lord perfects that which concerns me. (Psalm 138:8) I love those promises. I have seen them come to pass more so now in the midst of this journey than ever before. How does one become convinced that God is for them? How do you know that He wants to make us happy rather than continued to punish us for our offense? These seem like simple questions to answer when things are going well. The Favor of God is a wonderful thing. But when life is not so gracious, how do we know that God is still pouring out His Grace? This morning it is well beyond dawn. It is dark outside and everything is quite but I know that in a couple of hours the sun will rise up in the sky and Saturday will spring to life all around me. I have no idea what today holds though I know my plans for the day. My confident hope is in the Lord. It remains there. When everything in our life fell apart on that dreadful day almost three years ago when the doctor told us holding back his own tears that our son had cancer, I lost it. Right then and there, the façade of control carefully created by structure and routine fell apart. But God had already built the safety net that would catch me and lift me up again. So, yes, I am happy.
Proverbs 8:22-31 (NLT)
"The LORD formed me from the beginning, before he created anything else. I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began. I was born before the oceans were created, before the springs bubbled forth their waters. Before the mountains were formed, before the hills, I was born—before he had made the earth and fields and the first handfuls of soil. I was there when he established the heavens, when he drew the horizon on the oceans. I was there when he set the clouds above, when he established springs deep in the earth. I was there when he set the limits of the seas, so they would not spread beyond their boundaries. And when he marked off the earth's foundations, I was the architect at his side. I was his constant delight, rejoicing always in his presence. And how happy I was with the world he created; how I rejoiced with the human family!"
Time began long before the Bible was ever written and its commentary began. It obviously goes on beyond the Book of Revelation. The complex being who is our God is far more than our simple human minds can ever fully conceive. The things that God does in my own life along tend to blow my mind. So the Word of God is all about that which concerns me. It is my guidebook to the life that God intended for me to have. I did not grow up in church but rather wandered in and out of it. When I was very young, my parents divorced. It was my visits to my grandmother's class when I would go to Mrs. Strock's second grade Sunday school class. In my mid-teens, my parents felt the Lord tugging at their heart to come closer so we began attending church once again. That's when I began to truly discover God's Love for me, but still struggled with the Word of God. I could understand its diction but not process its divinity. I walked away from the Lord to enter my own wilderness for many years. It was when I finally stumbled across my husband and we united with the intent to be married and know God more that it finally hit me that Jesus had been there all along. I wanted to know Him more. I just didn't know how. When I surrendered my whole life to Jesus Christ, we faithfully attended church, cleaned up our life, started tithing among other things to demonstrate our faithfulness to God. We became youth leaders. I volunteered at the church when our children were in school. Even though I studied each week to teach those kids the Word of God, I did not hunger for it as I do now. Five years ago, God laid it on my heart to begin blogging my daily encounters with God. I believe now that He was preparing me for the road that was ahead. The Lord knew I needed Him to be the foundation of my life so that I would not just survive this ordeal but thrive in the midst of it. He was right.
I do not remember ever seeing this passage at least understanding it in this context before. But I am so glad that I am reading it now. God made Jesus first. Before anything existed, He made His Son. God created everything through His Son. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. He wrapped His Word also known as His Son in flesh so that the Word would come to life for us and humanity could visibly see God's Love for them. Jesus was not a quick fix but God's Master Plan to save us from our sin so we could live a happy life. God had the foreknowledge that we would fall victim to sin and that such things as sickness and disease would become its byproduct. Before this world was created, God provided for that moment. The Lord says in this passage, "how happy I was with the world he created; how I rejoiced with the human family!" Even before Jesus came to this world, went to the Cross, overcame hell, and ascended to Heaven, He found joy in you and I. Think about that. Knowing the price that He would pay for us to have life, Jesus rejoiced in our creation. (Mind blown yet again but such love!)
Proverbs 8:32-35 (NLT)
And so, my children, listen to me, for all who follow my ways are joyful. Listen to my instruction and be wise. Don't ignore it. Joyful are those who listen to me watching for me daily at my gates, waiting for me outside my home! For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the LORD.
The character of Jesus Christ does not allow us to know Him and remain ignorant of His Word. The more that I discovered that the written book of God's Instruction was ultimately for my benefit, I became interested. Those who know what the Lord is after, His True Intentions, will make every effort to know the Word to find His Favor. Wisdom leads us to the Favor of God. Those who follow my ways are joy full. Such people do not need their situation to change for happiness and contentment to find them because they know it is coming. Confidence in God is strengthened through our faith in Jesus Christ who is the Word of God. The more we know the Word the more we know Jesus. The more that we know Him the more we want the Word. They are the same thing – you cannot have one without the other. It would be like wanting my head and giving away my body. I cannot exist in such a form. When we follow His Way, we have joy. When we listen to His Word, we have peace. When we do what it says, we find His Favor. When we live in anticipation of His Return, we find life. Oh yes, I am happy today and you can be too.
Proverbs 15:13-16 (NLT)
A glad heart makes a happy face; a broken heart crushes the spirit. A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash. For the despondent, every day brings trouble; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast. Better to have little, with fear for the LORD, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.
Are you hungry for knowledge of God today? Hunger is produced by one's physical need for food in a natural sense. Spiritual hunger is developed by those who taste and see that the Lord is good and decide that He is a daily requirement. When we whet our appetite for the things of God by meeting Him at His Table each day to feast on His Goodness, Grace, Mercy and Love all outlined in His Word – we begin to see what He is doing in our life and take hold of the fact that just because things don't seem to be going the way that "I" think they should go, doesn't mean that God is not faithful or uncaring but intent on making me happy! Each morning I spend about two hours with God. I have a full-time job and family not to mention the other added responsibilities with our son and his healing process. I have a home to take care of and daily duties just like everyone else. I go to the gym four or five times a week and even have time here and there to do other things that I want to do. When people ask me where I find the time to study and write, I tell them the truth. I get up two hours early each day. I cannot tell you how many people respond that won't work for them because quote "I need my sleep." I didn't begin getting up two hours early each day – I used to get up thirty minutes early and think it was killing me. That is until I got in the Word on a consistent basis and it came to life in me. My Spirit has taken the Word of God working it all through my life until it became a safety net and trampoline for me. On the days I am crushed and brokenhearted, it catches me in mid decent. His Love catches me and lifts me up in His Word because it tells me what is coming. I gain insight into God's Plan. He speaks to me through His Word. I am happy! Even in the midst of sorrow and many of them, I always have joy and peace that God is with me and working it all out. I found such truth in His Word. I need Jesus Christ more than I need sleep. Trust me – you do too! It is most definitely better to have little (sleep) with respect for the Lord than to have a long slumber to wake up tired and cold. The more I know Him the more I want of Him. He has given me a happy heart.
John 14:27-29 (NLT)
"I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid. Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am. I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe."
Are you happy? Do you have joy and peace today? The Lord left it for you. He said, "I am leaving you with a gift – peace of mind and heart!" Contentment is found in the knowledge of God and His Word – Jesus Christ. If you don't understand this statement, I was right there with you for many, many years. I can tell you how to make my family's favorite dish. I can show you all the ingredients. I can carefully write down each step to its creation and completion. But if you don't make it that way – it will not turn out the same. There are many tired and weary Christians who have missed a key ingredient in producing God's Promises in their life. They do not prosper in the Favor of God so they doubt Him when they are to blame. God gave us the Word. His Name is Jesus Christ but like any other unopened and unused gift – He is no good to you if you don't have enough faith in Him to believe that He is worth having, knowing and using in your life. God wrote a love story and gave it to us. When that didn't work, He wrapped in flesh so that we could see, feel and touch it. We killed Him. But God's Unconditional and Unfailing Love did not stop there. If we will believe in Jesus Christ, we will be saved. If we choose to know Him, we can have everything God promised us from the very beginning before sin became a factor. Choosing to follow Him allows us to walk in according to God's Purpose and Plan for our life which is always good! Such a way leads to everlasting joy and overwhelming peace so much so that I cannot help but be happy in every circumstance that I face. Are you happy? God wants you to be.
Philippians 4:4-7 (NLT)
Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice! Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon. Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.


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Jagged Edge - You Look Good With Me
Artist: Jagged Edge
Producer: Brian Casley and Brandon Casley
Album: The Remedy
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Some couples look like they were made for each other – you know, the ones who get mistaken for husband and wife despite having met only hours before. OK, I don't think that happens much outside of romantic comedies, but you get the picture. On You Look Good With Me, the follow-up to reader-acclaimed Remedy lead single Tip of My Tongue, veteran R&B foursome Jagged Edge let a special lady know just how brightly she shines when they're together. Backed by the Casley brothers' mellow, piano-led beat, which features cameos from a few of the percussion family's more obscure members (Flexatone, anyone?), Brandon, Brian, Kyle and Richard deliver silky-smooth harmonies sure to have R&B-lovers head over heels – I was going to say "drippin' all over like a ball of wax," but that sounds really weird out of context. In any case, Jagged Edge devotees and new fans alike can hear more on the babymaking music masters' hotly-anticipated comeback LP, scheduled to hit record stores and online retailers May 18.
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Ranbir Kapoor is going single! For a film, that is. Ranbir is playing Roy in a film of the same name. There are conflicting reports from sources whether Roy is an expert thief or an undercover cop! The film is to be directed by first-timer Vicky Singh and will also star Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Rampal. While the two of them are cast opposite each other, Ranbir has reportedly no lady by his side, for a change.
Sibling bonding
Akash Chopra is making his acting debut in his home production Rabba Main Kya Karoon, directed by brother Amrit Sagar. He belongs to Bollywood's Sagar family best known for the epic Ramayana and other mythological serials. He has trained at the National School of Drama and has composed music under his banner for several shows, including Hatim and Prithviraj Chauhan. He was also the music director for the National Award-winning film 1971, directed by his brother. The two brothers have also worked together on a one-act Hindi play earlier.
Lessons in acting
Meanwhile, another producer's daughter, Zoa Morani, who made an unsuccessful debut in Shah Rukh Khan's home production Always Kabhi Kabhi, is getting ready for her next release. Titled Bhaag Johnny, the film stars Kunal Khemu and Mukul Dev besides Vikram Bhatt as a genie! We hear that Zoa, meanwhile, has decided to brush up on her acting by doing a workshop with theatre artiste N.K. Sharma.
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I've been asked to take some pictures at an event and, whilst I usually take black and white (with 1600 or 3200 speed film), I thought that this time I'd try colour as well.
To this end I've bought a few rolls of Fuji Pro800Z; which I hope will be fast enough (although I prefer not to use a flash, I will have one if necessary!).
My past experience of using colour (slide) film indoors has been of a colour cast due to the tungsten lighting; this time I want to think about correcting for it!!
Is it generally better to correct for colour defects at taking time (I have the appropriate blue filter according to the Cokin reference book), or should I just wait until printing time and colour correct then (note that these will end up being printed digitally - I don't do colour darkroom stuff! - so colour correction would be done in the computer).
The advantage as far as I see it of not using a filter on the camera is the film speed is maintained - looking at the datasheet for the film, I would lose two stops.
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I'm a community organizer addressing men's violence against women within the South Asian immigrant community."We have to connect with women's organizations nationwide and learn about what they are doing. How do they speak to men and boys about this issue?" asked my supervisor. As I began to call my colleagues, I kept being directed to the same man who was an advocate on this issue.We spoke a few times over the phone but our first meeting was at a domestic violence conference where we had … [Read more...]
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Over the past 2 weeks, I've had a few conversations with folks who, upon hearing that I'm leaving an abusive marriage, asked "did he physically hit you?" and "what did he do?"I know these people are well meaning and didn't mean to come across in any particular way, but I am left feeling like I need to justify what happened to me. Perhaps I should just be grateful that at least they aren't asking me "what did you do to cause it?" which I've heard numerous times from some in my family. But rea … [Read more...]


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Local leaders feel that the Savannah River Site receiving more funding than its federal budget request will help stabilize Aiken's economy.
Last week, appropriations committees passed an omnibus bill that granted the Site $1.134 billion for the fiscal year – a significantly higher amount than the $1.09 billion requested.
Economic Development Partnership Director Will Williams feels the funding will provide balance to the SRS workforce and the local economy.
"The funding in the budget for SRS and the contractors provides some much needed stability for the Site, the employees of the contractors and the region for the foreseeable future," Williams said. "This stability will translate into stronger consumer confidence that impacts the businesses of the area."
In a recent letter submitted to the Aiken Standard, David Jameson – the president and CEO of the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce – praised several congressional delegates for their efforts in securing a budget. Among those was U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who voted yes to the omnibus bill. Graham also showed support for the South Carolina Ports Authority during the appropriations process, which helps the Port of Charleston.
"Everything that is said about his support of the Ports can be echoed about his support of SRS. Kudos to Graham. Disappointingly, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., voted no," Jameson stated in his letter.
In the House, Reps. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., and Tom Rice, R-S.C., also approved the bill. Reps. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C. and Mark Sanford, R-S.C., voted against it.
"We have repeatedly asked the South Carolina Legislative Delegation to unite behind a budget bill and to support the Savannah River Site's needs," Jameson added. "I feel that the Aiken Chamber's advocacy for SRS, along with the energy of many other organizations, has paid off."
One of those organizations is the SRS Community Reuse Organization. Executive Director Rick McLeod joined Williams and Jameson in a trip to Washington, D.C., last month to meet with members of the delegation.
Currently, the individual contractors at SRS are waiting on their budget numbers from DOE and may not receive as much funding as they desire. Still, McLeod believes the increase in the fiscal year 2014 request and House appropriations should be considered a "win" for the local community.
"While not all SRS contractors got their complete 'wish list' of funding, the designated funding will provide enough funds to move projects and cleanup forward and keep people working," he said. "Also important, is that it provides a sense of sustainability for the local workforce, at least for the next couple of years."
Derrek Asberry is a beat reporter with the Aiken Standard.
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text: News DVF Robbed 27 October 2009 Lauren Milligan Diane von Furstenberg © Marcio Madeira/VOGUE.COM Picture credit: Marcio Madeira/VOGUE.COM DESIGNER Diane von Furstenberg has been robbed whilst sightseeing in Madrid, and the news came straight from the designer herself via Twitter."Madrid. I just got robbed in the street in front of the Thyssen Museum," the designer Tweeted on Sunday morning. "My wallet, cash and all my credit cards!!"Von Furstenberg was then inundated with replies from worried fans whom she had to reassure twice."I am totally fine!! I hope it the worst thing that will happen to me. Getting a big prize tomorrow so going to sleep now," the designer Tweeted on Sunday afternoon, followed by another Tweet late last night: "Please stop worrying about me...I am fine!!"The designer was in the Spanish capital to collect an award from Spanish magazine Telva for Best International collection - and doesn't seem to have let her ordeal spoil her trip."Gorgeous day," she said yesterday. "Went for a walk in El Retiro park and did some interviews. Getting ready for my big Telva Award tonight."Catch up with the latest happenings with the designer @InsideDVFFOLLOW VOGUE.COM ON TWITTERSEE THE DIANE VON FURSTENBERG CATWALK ARCHIVEDO YOU REMEMBER: Who fell victim to Tom Ford's diva behaviour?


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Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale Antonio Ruberti - DIAG
Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Informatica e Statistica
Sapienza Università di Roma
Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy
email: deluca [at] diag [dot] uniroma1 [dot] it (or a [dot] deluca [at] uniroma1 [dot] it)
room A-210, tel +39 06 77274 052, fax +39 06 77274 033
Institutional homepage at my department
ISI-WoK ResearcherID: F-3835-2011; Scopus Author ID#: 7201948195; Google Scholar: my citations
Coordinator of the European IP project
Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (2011-2015)
A 15-minute presentation of the project
at CogSys 2012, Vienna (February 23, 2012)
- Download the slides of my lectures on Safe control of physical human-robot interaction, given at DIAG on June 18-19, 2014 (videos are not linked, sorry!). These lectures are part of the seminarial course on Great Ideas in ICT (2014), jointly organized by the three Sapienza PhD programs in Automatica and Operations Research, in Computer Science, and in Engineering in Computer Science.
- During the first semester of the academic year 2014/15, the lectures of the Robotics 1 course have been video recorded, as a first experiment at the department level. Thanks to the support of our technicians Luciano Grandi and Marcello Pani, the 30 videolectures are available in the Robotics 1 playlist of the Video DIAG - Sapienza YouTube channel. Please note that these are traditional lectures with the use of multimedia material, not prepared on purpose for an online offering (differently from MOOC courses).
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Master of Science in Control Engineering (Director)
- Office hours for students: see Teaching top menu
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel RoboticsLabSapienza. Selected results of my research are in the playlists:
- Kinematic control of redundant robots
- Motion control of the CyberCarpet platform
- Physical human-robot interaction


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Deepa H Ramakrishnan
Proposes to restore the 125-year-old building after the elections
CHENNAI: With effect from April 1, 2009, the Chennai Corporation has taken over the Victoria Public Hall that is situated near the Ripon Building.
With the Board of the Victoria Public Hall Trust resolving to hand over the hall and other related property to the civic body at a meeting held last month, it has paved the way for the Corporation to renovate the property.
Corporation sources said that the board members who met on March 11 unanimously resolved to hand over the property including assets, savings and deposits to the civic body.
The civic body proposes to restore the over 125-year-old building, which was designed as a town hall. The civic body would call for tenders after the election and the restoration work is expected to commence in July.
The Municipal Corporation of the city of Madras had leased out about 3.14 acres in the People's Park for 99 years to the Trustees of the Victoria Public Hall Trust beginning April 1, 1886, for the hall. The hall, built in 1887, hosted lectures, balls and stage performances.
The lease rent was eight annas a ground or Rs.28 for the property. The lease expired in 1985 and as the civic body did not want to extend the lease, a legal battle ensued. Now as a compromise has been reached in the matter, a petition to that effect would be submitted in the court. The Corporation is also likely to take action against sub-leases.


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the short film starts off as if you've clicked the wrong link and you have no idea how this accidentally got here however the video becomes interesting. The sweet alpacas demonstrate income inequality, All the alpacas set out to start their first jobs. The first alpaca, happy, was automatically granted a six figure job in a laid back area due to her fathers status. The second alpaca went to engineering school and was granted a low income job. The last alpaca wasn't even granted a job due to her not going to a fancy school. The video connects to AP gov. because the three alpacas were much like the trend of the economy and market over the years. One's views could be altered because how the economy works is revealed in a negative yet truthful way. The information could indeed be categorized as reliable due to its depth of explanation and several examples.
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A new release of the new Microsoft presenting tool... Sway
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Silk - Present your KPIS and figures. Export the data from your spreadsheet automatically.
tom jackson's curator insight, August 27, 2014 8:45 AM
Yes, Barb's insights are right on target. I have been using EdPuzzle and find it easy to use and providing a complete package for teachers who want to ascertain which students viewed the video, answered the embedded questions, which questions were answered correctly or what did they understand from the video! Highly recommend.
tom jackson's curator insight, August 27, 2014 8:45 AM
Yes, Barb's insights are right on target. I have been using EdPuzzle and find it easy to use and providing a complete package for teachers who want to ascertain which students viewed the video, answered the embedded questions, which questions were answered correctly or what did they understand from the video! Highly recommend.
Miguel Paul Trijaud Calderón's curator insight, September 1, 2014 6:04 AM
Edpuzzle -> Add voice or embed questions to ease your students understanding.
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looks like a great way to work with numerous groups as well as develop resources for the groups to use.
Rosemary Tyrrell's curator insight, August 22, 2014 10:47 AM
Great app for creating flashcards, quizzes and other study aids.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight, September 1, 2014 7:09 PM
Engage your students by using quizzes, mind maps, and other visual learning content. Now the official launch
Baiba Svenca's curator insight, August 6, 2014 12:27 PM
Office Mix is a new PowerPoint 2013 plugin which lets you enrich your PowerPoint presentations by adding a voice narrative, recording a video, creating and inserting quizzes or making a screencast.
Looks perfect for using in teaching!
Download Office Mix at https://mix.office.com/Home/GettingStarted
Tony Guzman's curator insight, August 11, 2014 11:34 AM
Office Mix beta is now open for the general public. I will be testing this add-on over the next couple of months but it looks like a solid tool for any educator to include within their Office apps.
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With this knowledge and insight into the world that's dawning. One world must be destroyed in order for the new world to come forth; one segment of society must give way to the new in order to facilitate and ease this transition.
The top of society is where and what determines the ease or the possibility of this transition. That is the point that needs to be altered in order to bring about this new dawn.
Unfortunately, it is the point in society that is least willing, although most capable of change. They'll cling to illusions and delusions of relative power over people and unsustainable material wealth than allow for everyone, including themselves, to realize something that could truly be wonderful for our lives, our well-being, and our health as living organisms. This is before we talk about the bottom-up resistance that will be experienced as well, especially if the transition is done badly by the people who are at the top of the given social unit. A shame that something so relatively simple can be so completely complicated and complex to carry out.
Silly world.
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Shelter: 22-year-old go-getter opts for Westmount
Mikey Colangelo Lauzon has lived through more experiences in his 22 years than most people twice his age. Lauzon was born almost seven weeks prematurely — on Christmas Day, no less — and he spent
Even unplugged teens can still savour Turkish delights
As I stood in the basket of the hot air balloon at dawn in the fantastical landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey, clutching my 13-year-old daughter's arm in terror, I realized that this is the very reason why travelling
$30 million raised at celebrity-filled French Riviera amfAR gala, but where was Sharon Stone?
CAP D'ANTIBES, France - Amid celebrity schmoozing, glamorous fashions, musical performances and the frequent banging of the auction hammer, the French Riviera's annual star-filled amfAR gala brought in its expected share of drama — with celebrity invitees including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sienna Miller and Adrien Brody.
Never mind the flashbulbs: Cannes' official artist captures glitz and glamour in watercoloursCANNES, France - Amid the wheelers, dealers, oglers and stars, a man with a sketchbook is capturing the carnival that is Cannes.
Prince William, wife Kate take newborn princess and son Prince George to their country homeLONDON - Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have packed up their newborn princess and their 21-month-old son Prince George for a stay at their country home.
Random Sampler: Recent real-estate transactions in Senneville, St-Laurent, Côte St-Luc31 Elmwood Ave., Senneville. Senneville 31 Elmwood Ave., cottage, 3 bedrooms, 1½ bathrooms, gourmet kitchen, wood stove, in-ground salt-water pool. Built in 1956 on 15,000-square-foot lot.
Housewarming: Draw attention to entrywaysIn the country, near the U.S. border, stands this 1959 house. The owners moved there in 2001, when they purchased this 20,000-square-foot property. Needless to say, attending to the lot is quite a task.
Dining review: Brasserie LucillesNew location joins the party in Westmount
Opinion: It's important to have a mandate, to make your dying wishes knownAs I said to my father, "Don't you want to make these decisions yourself? If you don't make them, someone else will, and there's no guarantee that someone else will respect your wishes."
Gallery: Shelter: Duplex in Centre-Sud is perfect for this coupleTake a tour of Marc Gilbert and Anna Takahashi's upper duplex in Centre-Sud. They bought the building in 2014. They live in the top unit and rent out the ground floor.
Gallery: 18th-century replica turns headsBuilt in 2002, this house in Terrebonne is designed to look like a typical 18th-century Quebec home. Everything, except much of the future, in new.
Driving: Let's face it, gender differences in driving existYes, it's true, gender differences exist behind the wheel. But let's lay off the grand, sweeping generalizations.
Lobster season gets rollingWith the East Coast lobster season underway, consider making one of these delectable creatures into a spring supper for four by filling your choice of bun with a mixture of freshly boiled, seasoned and buttery lobster meat.
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Diocese of Gallup, N.M., poised to file for bankruptcy protection
The diocese is the eighth U.S. diocese to file for bankruptcy protection in the aftermath of sexual abuse lawsuits.
The diocese is the eighth U.S. diocese to file for bankruptcy protection in the aftermath of sexual abuse lawsuits.
Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday will consider whether the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is a violation of students' rights.
Peter J. Coulchinsky arrived in the United States from Argentina in 1986 as a young man seeking a law degree. As his time in the U.S. lengthened, the more he decided he wanted to stay.
There was just one problem: He had only a student visa.
After graduation, however, he eventually obtained a green card, then his naturalization and an American passport, a goal for immigrants of many nationalities. Today, 27 years later, the Argentine global wealth adviser works at a financial services firm, Texas Legacy Wealth Management in San Antonio.
Vandals kicked in the basement door of the rectory to break into Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church for the second time this year, smashing statues and glass doors and spraying a fire extinguisher throughout the chapel.
The intruders left behind blood stains, fingerprints and a cellphone, police said.
When Fr. Christopher Gray arrived at 8:25 a.m., to prepare for the Sunday liturgy, he saw people standing outside, some weeping, and police cars all around.
"Things were not looking good," he said.
The pastor, Fr. Javier Virgen, was on vacation.
A Washington state consortium of labor, business, religious and government leaders have made public a set of five principles they say should be the foundation for immigration reform.
An influx of human trafficking victims seeking assistance is leading Catholic Charities agencies nationwide to develop a wider range of specialized service to enable victims to rebuild their lives.
From life skills and parenting classes to helping victims adjust to a life free of coercion and mistreatment, the agencies are adapting operations so those who have escaped a trafficking situation are not victimized again by unscrupulous traders in human lives.
To emphasize that the sacrament of baptism formally brings a person into the church of God and not just into a local Christian community, the Vatican has ordered a slight change of wording in the baptismal rite.
At the beginning of the rite, instead of saying, "the Christian community welcomes you with great joy," the officiating minister will say, "the church of God welcomes you with great joy."
The archdiocese of Philadelphia intends to market six nursing homes and one assisted-living facility to help achieve financial stability.
For many bored churchgoers, fiddling with smartphones or computer tablets is the 21st-century equivalent of playing tick-tack-toe or dozing off during services.
Opinion: Let's focus on what it means to be an evangelical church: For some time now, the church has been turning in upon itself.


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