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A sedan is a vehicle body style that has front and rear seats with a closed cabin. To be called a sedan, a car typically must have enough cabin space to comfortably fit four or five adult occupants. This requires a sedan to include a full-height roof that extends all the way to the back of the cabin. Popular sedan body styles on the American auto market today include the Honda Accord, Volkswagen Passat and Chevrolet Impala.
2-Door and 4-Door Sedans
The majority of sedans are of the 4-door variety. However, if enough rear-passenger room is available in a 2-door vehicle, it may be classified as a sedan. According to the Society of Automotive Engineers, a 2-door vehicle must have at least 33 cubic feet of rear cabin space to be classified as a sedan. Vehicles with smaller cabin volumes are typically classified as a coupe. The inclusion or absence of a B-pillar between the front and rear side windows may also contribute to the ultimate classification of a vehicle. Oftentimes, a car manufacturer will use this styling choice to determine which category a particular vehicle falls into, regardless of rear cabin volume. The presence of a B-pillar traditionally leads to a sedan classification.
Sedan Subcategories
The sedan body style is a flexible category that includes several different styling variations. Some distinct types of sedans include:
- Hatchback Sedans: This type of sedan incorporates a hatchback design while maintaining the cabin size requirements detailed above. These vehicles include a trunk design that requires the entire rear roof area of the vehicle to lift upward in order to access the cargo/trunk area. The 4-door 2008 Volkswagen GTI is an example of a hatchback sedan.
- Fastback Sedans: Sedans that include a continuous slope from the roof to the base of the decklid (trunk lid) are called fastback sedans. However, these vehicles differ from hatchback sedans in that they incorporate a traditional trunk. The Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class meets the requirements to be called a fastback sedan.
- Notchback Sedans: A traditional "3-box" sedan is called a notchback. Vehicles in this category include a steep drop-off from the rear roof to the trunk. From the side, this visually splits the vehicle into three sections - the engine, passenger area and trunk (thus the 3-box terminology). The Lexus LS is an example of a notchback sedan.
- Hardtop Sedans: Sometimes called sports sedans, these vehicles incorporate frameless door glass that typically requires the elimination of the B-pillar.
International Sedan Equivalents
The term of sedan is used North American English and American Spanish. Australia and New Zealand also refer to this type of vehicle as a sedan. In other regions of the world this type of body style takes on several different titles, including: Saloon (Great Britain) Berline (French) Berlina (Spain, Portugal, Romania and Italy) Limousine (Germany)

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I'm pretty sure Darth Vader wore black Ugg's right? Or at least he wanted to…either way the Darth Vader that lives in our house sure did.
Hope you had a good and safe Halloween! I'm picking out the strawberry tootsie rolls as we speak…love them.
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Foley buys Stoplite buildingBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | January 19,2013Albert J. Marro / Staff Photo
The former Stoplite Lounge building at 156 West St. in Rutland has been bought by Mark Foley. The bar has been closed since last September, but the upstairs apartments are rented.Developer Mark Foley has added the former Stoplite Lounge to his collection of downtown properties.
Foley closed on the West Street building for $94,200, according to municipal records, buying it from the estate of its late owner, Amelia Blanchard.
I dont have any plans for it at the moment, Foley said. We thought it was an opportunity. We didnt have a specific purpose in mind for the purchase its just an investment.
The bar closed last year following a challenge to its license by the city.
A fight outside the bar in June prompted Rutland City Police to ask the Board of Aldermen, which also serves as the Board of Liquor Control Commissioners, to recommend that the state suspend the Stoplites license.
Police said a woman who was arrested for disorderly conduct had been over-served and that a crowd of patrons who added to the tension of the situation were not adequately controlled.
Following two committee hearings, the board voted to recommend a two-week suspension and the bar closed its doors some time later.
Meanwhile, Foley is working with Small Dog Electronics to prepare the space that company will use in the Gryphon building later this year. Foley recently re-branded the building as The Shops at Gryphon Square and said the Small Dog announcement has generated strong interest in the buildings remaining available retail space.
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tazevil1 from Johnston, RI, USA reviewed the Gaston, the Climbing Gothic Gargoyle Statue: Medium
Bottomline: Yes, would recommend to a friend.
Comments: I have had this outside the entrance to my home for about 5 years now. I love the looks I get from strangers as they approach. He has faded a bit after being out in the weather for 5 years, but no signs of cracking or decay.


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Negotiation in China: How Universal?
Tao Zhigang; Shangjin Wei; Penelope Chan
Price: $6.93
This is a fictitious case in which Universal Studios, a major US theme parks and resorts company, has to negotiate with China's central government to build its first theme park in the country. Students are divided into groups, and each student is assigned a role as one of the negotiators or as an observer. The topics covered in the negotiation include the new theme park's location, ownership structure, size, nature of theme zones, local employment and hospitality training programmes. The case allows students to experience the difficulties of conducting negotiations in a cross-cultural setting.
Learning objective:
1. To understand the influence of cultural background on negotiation style. 2. To experience cultural barriers in global negotiation through a hands-on workshop. 3. To discuss potential misunderstandings in verbal and non-verbal communication by Americans in negotiating with their Chinese counterparts. 4. To discuss appropriate strategies for foreigners in negotiating with Chinese negotiators.
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Business & government relations; Communication; Cross cultural negotiations; Cultural adaptation; Negotiation
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Korn to Headline Rockville in Jacksonville this April
Korn will be topping the bill at this year's Rockville Festival in Jacksonville, FL April 29th at Metropolitan Park.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The fifth anniversary of the massive immigration raid on the tiny northeast Iowa town of Postville prompted hundreds of people to march through the streets of Cedar Rapids on Friday.
The event called "A Walk for Justice" was a march from U.S. District Court in downtown Cedar Rapids to a church about a mile or so away. Participants included groups that rode buses for hours to take part in the call for immigration justice.
Postville's ordeal began on May 12, 2008 when federal agents descended on the Agriprocessors plant, then the country's largest kosher meatpacking facility. Agents arrested and detained 389 Agriprocessors workers. A good number in the country illegally were eventually deported. It was an action that tore apart families in that community.
Organizers of the march and prayer vigil wanted to remind Iowans that even five years after the raid there's still a lot of broken families in Postville and unanswered questions about U.S. immigration policy.
One marcher, Connie Hutchison from Cedar Rapids, had a simply answer when asked why she participated.
"Justice to be donefor immigration, yes," Hutchison said.
Marchers gathered up 389 roses at the start of the procession at the federal courthouse. Each symbolized one of the workers arrested by federal agents in what remains one of the largest single-site immigration raids in the nation's history. Many of those arrested were bused to a makeshift federal courthouse in Waterloo. A number pleaded guilty to identity theft charges, served a short time in jail and were deported to home countries.
Samuel Lopez was luckier than most who worked at the plant. He had a day off, but his brother was arrested and eventually deported to Guatemala. He came to the prayer vigil and march to remind people how families like his were broken and devastated.
"I think the government, the president, they don't see the effect on the families they deported," Lopez said.
A friend, Joanne Enyart, said many people in Postville saw the effect of broken families after the raid first hand.
"Anybody in school, they have classmates, they know families who were broken up. They knew classmates who had to leave. So yeah, it's impacted everybody in town in one way, shape or form," Enyart said.
At Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, speaker after speaker talked about the pain inflicted that day and the need to insure the federal government doesn't resort to such mass immigration raids again. Several said the experience of families and friends there is a prime example of why immigration reform should be a priority.
Pedro Lopez, a Postville resident who graduates high school this year, agreed with that thought. His mother was deported for a year before she was allowed to return to Iowa.
"It is priority one," Lopez said adding "there is no doiubt about it. We just have to get it done or else like I said it'll be forgotten and I don't want anything like this to happen again."
Counting the people detained and taken away that day in May, Postville lost a fifth of its population in just a few hours. Participants said the town has begun to heal, but it's a slow process and it's not complete.
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Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected 305 305
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hypnosec writes "Entire cities in the World of Warcraft have been destroyed with no one spared, not even the NPCs. About 13:00 GMT, forums on WOW started getting the first comments from users regarding players and NPCs dying on the Ragnaros-EU realm in Orgrimmar. Users of the online game started reporting that Draenor had a similar sight to offer. Some of the other realms where this was reported include Tarren Mill, and Twisting Nether." Also at Joystiq, and (with more screenshots) at WCCF Tech, which reports that "it appears the damage is most severe in World of Warcraft European servers."


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American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
- Dates: May 7, 2010 through August 1, 2010
American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, one of America's earliest and greatest collections of fashion design. Comprising more than twenty-five thousand items dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, it was formed over the course of nearly a hundred years through the collective efforts of generations of Museum personnel, donors, and benefactors. While the initial goal was to provide inspiration for the American design and fashion industries (see nearby Design Lab label), a dual focus developed in the mid-twentieth century as fashionable clothes were increasingly recognized as aesthetic objects to be displayed for the enjoyment of the public. Today the collection is especially known for its rich holdings of works by the great designers of Europe and America, artists whose clothes were the ultimate expression of style for the American women who wore them.
In January 2009, the Museum entered into a landmark partnership that transferred ownership and care of the collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art while at the same time preserving its identification with, and availability to, the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition celebrates the collection, the people who formed it, and the innovative arrangement that will ensure its preservation.
Because a celebration calls for bringing out the best, the pieces on view here are extraordinary examples of their type. The exhibition is made up of six groupings that represent the collection's major areas of strength: three showing works by significant individual designers and three including works by several different but related designers. Footwear, also a major component of the collection, is interspersed throughout the exhibition, as are pieces designated as "rarities"— unique objects that, while they come from other areas of the collection, are of such distinction that the exhibition would be diminished without their inclusion.
Jan Reeder
Consulting Curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The House of Worth
Charles Frederick Worth is a key figure in fashion history. Using innovative ideas and mid-nineteenth-century technological advances such as the transatlantic steamship and the sewing machine, he was the first to build a dressmaking business of international scope. In so doing he established the blueprint for the great French couture houses of the twentieth century. One of his most significant contributions was to transform the perception of dressmaking from craft to art by raising aesthetic and technical standards and identifying himself as an artist.
The House of Worth continued for nearly a hundred years (from the 1850s to 1950s) under the leadership of three successive generations. Worth's sumptuous clothes were the gold standard for an American and European clientele of royals, aristocrats, and social elites in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Opulent textiles were the single most outstanding feature of Charles Frederick Worth's garments. They represented the highest quality and sophistication the renowned French luxury textile industry was producing at the time.
The first Worth garments to enter the Brooklyn Museum collection, donated in 1926, were twelve ensembles, dating from 1887 to 1905, from the wardrobe of Emma Frink Perry (1848–1926), wife of William Alfred Perry, a member of the Pierrepont family of Brooklyn. Two of those ensembles are displayed here. Other gifts followed, including the largest, from Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt (see Donor Spotlight).
French Couture, 1900-1940
The term haute couture means, in its narrowest sense, "finest sewing," a reference to the technical virtuosity that is the essence of couture clothing. More broadly, throughout the twentieth century, it referred to the clothes themselves and to the vast French fashion system organized around the individual couture houses that produced them.
Clothes by the great French couture houses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are considered the pinnacle of fashion's art, and costume curators prize them highly. The elements at the heart of couture fashion are innovative design, custom fitting, specialized handwork, and materials of the finest quality. Clients have been willing to pay the considerable extra cost involved for the comfort, flattering line, and sense of exclusivity that a couture gown or suit imparts.
While Worth and several other smaller houses constituted the couture industry between 1860 and 1890, many more houses opened between 1890 and 1914. The prominent designers represented here (called couturiers or couturières) all began their businesses during this period.
The Brooklyn Museum's holdings of early couture were transformed from adequate to outstanding by a 1967 gift comprising more than 300 fashions and accessories dating from the 1860s to the 1940s from Virginia Mitchell Prince (Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Jr.).
Elsa Schiaparelli
French couturière Elsa Schiaparelli is best known for the iconoclastic bravado and unrestrained, at times brazen, originality of her work. Her career spanned more than two decades and was at its height between 1934 and 1940. While her contemporaries Gabrielle Chanel and Madeleine Vionnet set the period's standards of taste and beauty in fashion design, Schiaparelli flouted convention in the pursuit of a more idiosyncratic style. As much an artist as a dressmaker, she incorporated into her work themes and imagery associated with Surrealism, the artistic and philosophical movement originating in the 1920s that, in part, explored the unconscious through works depicting dreamlike imagery of a bizarre, illogical, and provocative nature. Distilling these ideas through her own creative process, she imbued her designs with thematic elements inspired by contemporaneous events, erotic fantasy, traditional and contemporary art, mythology, and her own psyche. Her repertoire of inventive devices included experimental fabrics with pronounced textures; bold prints with unorthodox imagery and colors; opulent embroideries; outsized and exposed zippers; and distinctive buttons and ornaments that ranged from the whimsical to the bizarre.
American Women Designers, 1920-1980
The eight women whose work is displayed here were the most prominent of the female designers whose careers began in the United States between the two World Wars. Three of them, including Elizabeth Hawes, had established their own custom businesses by the early 1930s. They created luxurious, high-style made-to-order clothing for affluent private clients. In the same period, Eta Hentz designed expensive, custom-finished ready-to-wear clothes made in standard sizes.
A second wave—Bonnie Cashin, Carolyn Schnurer, Vera Maxwell, and Claire McCardell—rose to prominence during the 1940s. Working within the structure of the bustling ready-to-wear garment industry centered on New York's Seventh Avenue, they honed their innovative skills in response to wartime restrictions and matters of practicality and comfort. Collectively, the work of these four originated the uniquely American sportswear aesthetic that was to become the country's most important contribution to twentieth-century fashion.
Owing to the associations that most of these women had with the Brooklyn Museum's Industrial Division and later the Design Lab, the Museum's holdings of their works is unparalleled in scope and quality. Maxwell, Cashin, Hentz, and Schnurer each made multiple donations of their creations over a span of forty years.
American Men Designers, 1930-1980
Two different generations are represented in this group of American men designers. Mainbocher, Norman Norell, and Gilbert Adrian established their careers in the 1930s and 1940s, while the others gained prominence in the postwar period. Nearly all designed for the high-end ready-to-wear market, with a few offering custom lines for private clients as well.
As a whole, the men's output represents a different point of view about dressing than that of the women designers. Their clothes put forward a polished, formal look for day and a glamorous aura worthy of grand entrances and the photographer's flash at night. Reflecting the postwar resurgence of French couture, precedence is given to luxurious fabrics, quality workmanship, and fashion-forward style over comfort, adaptability, and functionality. American culture changed in this period as well, and sportswear took its place alongside a structured yet decorative and feminine look appropriate for the American woman's expanding roles.
Clothes by these designers were donated to the Brooklyn Museum between 1954 and the late 1990s. Gifts from the sons of Millicent Rogers included some fifty items by Mainbocher, and the actress Lauren Bacall donated more than seventy works by Norman Norell.
Charles James
Charles James has achieved cult status in the field of fashion as much for his legacy of unforgettable creations as for the magnetic force of his complex personality and the unorthodoxy of his creative process. Not having had formal training in dressmaking, he developed his own methodology based on mathematical, architectural, and sculptural concepts. He worked in the pure couture tradition, creating new forms for some of America's most prominent women. The highly structured shapes of his evening designs of the late 1940s and early 1950s are what he is best known for. Yet his more subtle designs, reliant upon innovative seaming, precise cut, and skillful manipulation of fabric, are of equal importance in understanding his talent.
Charles James and Brooklyn
Charles James was closely involved with the Brooklyn Museum's design services in the 1940s and 1950s. Constantly seeking ways to pass on his work and knowledge to future designers, he collaborated with Museum personnel on several projects to develop patterns from his custom designs that could be reproduced for the mass market. One of those projects resulted in the inaugural exhibition of the Museum's Design Lab, A Decade of Design, which showed primarily clothing he had made for Millicent Rogers together with duplicates—created especially for the exhibition—of the patterns from which those fashions were derived.
James is largely responsible for the Museum's unparalleled holdings of his work. Because he considered it crucial that his clothing and related materials be available for study, he convinced many of his most important clients and benefactors—among them Austine Hearst, Millicent Rogers, and Dominique de Menil—to donate or purchase his designs for the collection.
Charles James Sketches
The more than 350 sketches by Charles James in the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection were purchased from James and subsequently donated to the Museum in 1957. Starting with three sketchbooks that cover the period from 1935 to 1940, the collection tracks James's design process from that early period to the mid-1950s.
Drawn on ledger, notebook, typing, lined, and graph paper, as well as menu backs and other unconventional formats, the sketches provide insight into James's restless creativity, which led him to the endless variations of the geometric and biomorphic forms that are the basis of his singular artistry in dress. Most of the sketches are annotated in his hand.
French Couture, 1946-1970
When Christian Dior established his house in 1947, he revitalized postwar French couture with his first collection, dubbed "The New Look" by the press. The decade that followed was known as the Golden Age of Couture. Clients were plentiful, and the decade's preeminent designers, such as Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga, Mme. Grès, and Jean Dessès, produced some of the most exquisite designs of their careers. The winds of change were blowing, however, and by 1960 the popularity of ready-to-wear boutiques and a youth-oriented style had begun to erode the couture industry's client base. In 1966, in response to this trend, Yves Saint Laurent inaugurated the first ready-to-wear line to be produced by a couture house.
At the time the clothes exhibited here were made, the Museum's reputation as a center for fashion research was at its peak, and it received donations of later French couture from many different sources. One of the largest and most important was from style icon and film producer Jane Holzer, who was also a member of the circle of New York personalities the artist Andy Warhol called his "Superstars."
Hawes Sketches
In 1942 the staff of the Brooklyn Museum Art Reference Library sent a questionnaire to seventy-five American designers requesting biographical data and sketches of their work in order to support the mission of the Industrial Division and the Costume and Textiles Department to provide resource materials to the design community. The enthusiastic response resulted in an extraordinary archive documenting American fashion design of the 1930s and early 1940s that continued to grow throughout the 1940s and 1950s. One of the many respondents, Elizabeth Hawes, contributed a sketch archive documenting her output through the 1940s. This sampling relates for the most part to Hawes garments held in the Brooklyn Museum Collection, including the "Diamond Horseshoe" and "Tarts" dresses on view nearby.
Footwear Collection
Footwear is introduced at four moments in this exhibition. Early examples are shown here, while later sections focus on the work of designer Steven Arpad and an extraordinary group of shoes collected by Charline Osgood. The Brooklyn Museum owes its extensive footwear holdings to the donations of many individuals, especially as shoes are frequently included in gifts from personal wardrobes. Yet there are four major shoe acquisitions that establish the footwear collection's unique character. In addition to the Arpad and Osgood donations, the Museum holds an extensive assortment of historic footwear assembled by Herman Delman, founder of the exclusive Delman shoe company, and later twentieth-century footwear given by the American shoe designer Beth Levine.
Steven Arpad Shoe Prototypes
Steven Arpad's 1947 donation to the Brooklyn Museum comprises an extraordinary group of more than seventy-five shoe prototypes accompanied by an extensive sketch archive that he produced in Paris in 1939. Arpad worked in Paris before the Second World War designing shoes for Balenciaga and the American firms Delman and I. Miller, while simultaneously operating Arpad Neccessoires, a jewelry design and embroidery business. He moved to New York in 1940 and continued his multifaceted career there. Ironically, five pairs of shoes known to have been designed by him entered the Museum in other ways. (Two of them were identified through the sketch archive.) Together, his sketches, prototypes, and finished shoes document his creative process.
The Osgood Footwear Collection
Charline Osgood was the director of the Kid Leather Guild, an organization of American manufacturers of this soft, pliable leather, also known as kidskin. In the mid-1950s, kid leather was used in America primarily for gloves. In hopes of persuading American shoe manufacturers to begin using kidskin, then routinely used in European shoes, the guild sent Osgood on several trips to Europe between 1954 and 1959 to collect the finest high-style examples. During her travels she collected more than 170 pairs of shoes, primarily by prominent Italian makers.
Upon her return Osgood gave presentations at trade shows outlining important shoe design trends. With her 1960 donation of her collection to the Museum, she included transcripts from three of her presentations. The transcripts and collection together provide an unusually detailed perspective on mid-1950s high-style European shoe design. This case presents a small selection of single shoes; a second group of footwear collected by Osgood is exhibited later in the exhibition.
Sally Victor
From the 1930s through the 1950s, when hats were an essential part of the well-dressed woman's wardrobe, Sally Victor was among the foremost American milliners. From the time she opened her firm in 1934, she sought to create hats that had the chic of French couture yet were affordable to the average American woman. An early participant in the design services offered by the Museum, she regularly and enthusiastically mined the depths of its vast collections for inspiration. She had a staggeringly varied repertoire of design sources ranging from African headwear to paintings by twentieth-century French artists. Between 1941 and 1964 Victor donated more than a hundred hats to the Museum. They represent not only her own creative output but also the American woman's changing preferences in fashionable headwear.
Donor Spotlight: Sarah Hewitt (1858-1930) and Eleanor Hewitt (1864-1924)
The single largest donation of Worth garments to the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection came from the estate of the highly accomplished sisters Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt. They were the principal founders of what is now the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, which opened in 1897. The Hewitt sisters grew up in a home at 9 Lexington Avenue, and their privileged lives included trips to the House of Worth in Paris, where they were regular customers. Having had early collegial associations with the originators of the Brooklyn Museum collections, they stipulated that much of their clothing be donated to the Museum upon their deaths. The gift included twenty-two Worth ensembles ranging from simple cotton daywear to elaborate evening wear and dating from 1875 to 1902, a sartorial document of their fascinating lives.
Donor Spotlight: Millicent Rogers (1900-1953)
The Brooklyn Museum owes its extensive holdings of works by Elsa Schiaparelli, as well as by Charles James and Mainbocher, to the philanthropist, artisan, and arbiter of style Millicent Huttleston Rogers and her heirs. Rogers, a granddaughter of one of the founders of Standard Oil, had the means to buy fine couture clothing and the confidence and panache to wear even the most extreme examples. She was also an early advocate for Native American rights. Her important collection of Hispanic and Native American art, as well as the jewelry she interpreted from it, forms the collection of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico, founded in 1956 by her son Paul Peralta-Ramos.
Donor Spotlight: Austine Hearst (1918-1991)
Austine McDonnell Hearst was the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection's most devoted patron. For nearly forty years after Charles James introduced her to the Museum in 1952, she provided monetary, material, and personal support. Before and for a time after her marriage to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, Jr., in 1948, Hearst had a thriving career as journalist, social columnist, and radio show host, which included a program entitled "Leave It to the Girls," formatted not unlike today's "The View." A consummate woman of style, she was inducted into the Best-Dressed List International Hall of Fame in 1959. Between her first gift, in 1953, of material related to one of James's projects and her last donation, in 1991, of several Mme. Grès evening gowns, she contributed nearly two hundred outstanding fashions and accessories by important French and American designers.
Rarities: Russian Headdresses
These headdresses (kokochniks) are part of a large collection of Russian costumes and textiles acquired by Natalia de Shabelsky (1841–1905), a Russian noblewoman who was inspired to preserve what she perceived as the vanishing folk art traditions of her native country. Traveling extensively throughout Great Russia from the 1870s until the end of the century, she collected many fine examples of textile art, which included extravagant festive costumes worn by women from the land-owning peasant class. They represent the Russian sense of opulence rendered with creativity by the hands of prosperous yet common people. Much of the collection was brought to the United States in the 1930s to be sold on behalf of the Shabelsky family. The donor purchased a large portion of it as a gift to the Brooklyn Museum.
Rarities: Helen Cookman Uniforms
New York fashion designer Helen Cookman was known for interpreting masculine styles in her fashions for women. After designing the uniforms worn by Red Cross nurse's aides during World War II, she was commissioned to conceive eleven worker's uniforms for Reeves Brothers, Inc., a New York textile manufacturer specializing in fabrics used in the aerospace and automotive industries. Each of Cookman's uniforms is designed with task-specific features. The uniforms were worn not only to enhance functioning but also to signify membership in a specific group and convey its attributes. They offer insights into aspects of the social and cultural landscape of mid-twentieth-century America.
Rarities: The "Gratitude Train" Mannequins, 1949
In 1947 Americans sent food and clothing to France to help relieve hardships the French were enduring in the wake of World War II. Shipped in boxcars, this relief effort was dubbed the American Friendship Train. The next year the people of France organized a gift in-kind for America. The Gratitude, or Merci, Train was a set of forty-nine boxcars (one for each state, plus one to be shared between Washington, D.C., and the territory of Hawaii) filled with objects ranging from handmade children's toys to works of art.
For its contribution, the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, governing body of the French couture industry, opted to create a set of "dolls," or small mannequins, like the ones they had produced in 1947 for a promotion titled Théâtre de la Mode. The theme was the evolution of two hundred years of French fashion. Each of the couturiers invited to dress the mannequins chose a year between 1715 and 1906 from which to interpret a costume. Their sources included works of art, literature, and historic fashion plates. All the designers involved in dressing and accessorizing the dolls were French.
The original intention was to include one doll in each boxcar, but, recognizing the Brooklyn Museum's reputation as the country's most prominent center for the study of design, the Chambre Syndicale chose the Museum's newly opened Design Lab as the repository for them all.
The Design Lab
The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection was formed largely as a result of the Museum's early dedication to serving as a link between the art world and the industrial and design communities. This mission was manifested in various ways, starting with the Textile Study Room in 1918, followed by the Industrial Division in 1940, and culminating in the opening of the Edward C. Blum Design Lab in 1948. Each of these entities influenced American fashion designers and manufacturers by collecting a wide variety of costume and textile works and making them available to members for research. Funded primarily by the Brooklyn-based department store Abraham & Straus, the Design Lab was a state-of-theart facility housed in the Museum that included offices, exhibition space, and eight soundproof workrooms equipped with scientific and industrial equipment. In the 1950s and 1960s the Design Lab's growing renown as the country's leading center of fashion research acted as a magnet for many important donations, including much of what is on view in this exhibition. High fashion has historically been accessible only to a select few, and consequently the designs here represent just a small slice of the fashion world; another, broader story remains to be told.


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Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a mission of clan warfare, Genevieve finds that her spirit is bent but not broken. Still, her path toward freedom remains uncertain. Unable to bear the shame of returning to a family that believes her dead or to abandon others at the keep to an imposing new laird, Genevieve opts for the peaceful life of an abbess. But Bowen's rugged sensuality stirs something deep inside her that longs to be awakened by his patient, gentle caress - something warm, wicked, and tempting.
Bowen seizes his enemy's keep, unprepared for the brooding and reclusive woman who captures his heart. He's enchanted by her fierce determination, her unusual beauty, and her quiet, unfailing strength. But wooing her will take more than a seasoned seducer's skill. For loving Genevieve, he discovers, means giving her back the freedom that was stolen from her - even if it means losing her forever.
©2013 Maya Banks (P)2013 Tantor
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"Captivating story with superb narration..."
Just like every other historical romance that Maya Banks writes, I loooved it! I really liked the heroine of this story. She was kidnapped, repeatedly raped, her faced marked and mistreated for a year. Her body was broken but not her spirit. She found a way to be rescued and she even ended up saving the hero's life. Something I really like about this series is that the heroines all have some disability or imperfection and the stories talk about true beauty and love. The story is intense, sad, interesting, sexy and has the perfect ending!
Narration: Kirsten Potter is one of my favorite narrators. She can set fire to your ears when she narrates a love scene. She did an amazing job on this story as always.
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
Phew - well I've just finished this harrowing Highland tale that tells of the darkest of cruelty and torment but also tells of the joy of redemption along with salvation as the acts of tenderness and forgiveness eventually brings healing and the deepest of love.
Maya Banks never fails in her role as an author to deliver to her fans a book that captivates you from the first chapter until the last and within those chapters she packs them full with great characters and conjures a story that is tragic, heartwarming, tender and sooo romantic. They never fail to reach your heart and you just know that this will be one you could easily revisit and will never forget because, for a short while, you lived amongst these Highland characters and felt their anguish, anger, torment, pleasure and passion.
The narrator did a great job too in breathing life and emotion to each of the characters and the situations that they found themselves in.
Worth a credit? Well, as long as Maya keeps writing these wonderful books then I'll happily keep buying them and then long for the next.... so I guess that's a big fat YES.
I've always been a avid reader so now I'm a avid listener. I prefer the paranormal genre but I do like to switch things up. It's boring if you don't have variety. Of course I do love the romance and the hotter the better. Also, you can't beat a good thriller filled with suspense and a ending you can't even guess at until the very end.
"A strong, intelligent, courageous woman"
Genevieve is a woman you will grow to love and admire. Bowen is just the man you'd want for your own. I love stories of a strong woman overcoming terrible hardships and a wonderful man who comes into her life. This is one and I enjoyed it. There's so much more I want to say but then I'd be spoiling it.
Great job Maya on your second book of the Montgomery's and Armstrong's.I think if you enjoy highlander romance that you'll like this one. A credit well spent.
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"Unconditional Love at its Best"
This book is captivating and I couldn't put it down. It was just as good as the first book (Never Seduce a Scot). Genevieve went through so much hardship and Bowen loves her no matter what.....who doesnt like a book like that?
I really love how Maya Banks wrote this book. It almost seems like its a continuation of the first book. So many times when there is a trilogy the author doesnt include many of the characters from the first book....or if they do they are only in a few pages and vague. This book is mainly about Genevieve and Bowen but the people from the first book (Eveline, Graeme, and other family members) are also included beautifully within the story. I loved that!
Loved it! A+
Busy mom who loves to read but doesn't always have the time. I enjoy YA, Romance and the occasional Best Seller.
"Can't wait for book 3"
Wow! Maya Banks is the queen of Highland Romance books. Even though it's not my favorite genre, I keep going back again and again to her books. I thought this second installment was even better then the first and I am anxiously waiting for book 3. (Brodie's story) If Ms. Banks keeps writing them I'll keep coming back for more.
"Oh boy, looks like I'm in the minority on this one"
I like Ms. Banks Highlander books and her Kelly family stories, but this one..not so much.
The heroine is horribly mistreated and survives this treatment bravely. Undoubtedly there would be emotional scars and skewed perspective. The author does a good job creating a character who elicits the reader's sympathy. The following points, however, ruined what could have been a really good story.
Spoilers here: (not that you won't know where this is going by the 20 minute mark or so)_
1) Genevieve, as we find fairly early on, is an amazing archer, She takes out four men in a battle with her custom fitted bow. It leads one to ask why she didn't use a bow earlier in her plight.
2) Even though the people of Genevieve's captor's clan disdain and mistreat her, curiously they take orders from her when the Montgomery/Armstrong forces show up. Then return to stoning her a few days later...go figure.
3) Okay..this point is really why I'm posting a less than positive review. Its just a romance novel..escapism. And the point is missed if one picks too much. I get that. But the scenario presented is this: the heroine is held captive for a full year, raped by an undisclosed number of men over that time; but after only a brief period with the hero, she's pregnant. No discussion of this irony. Harkens to the "legitimate rape" theory we were treated to during the last Senatorial elections. Seemed irresponsible and poorly reasoned, even for this genre.
The hero is a sweety, of course. Kristen Potter's performance is outstanding as always. She has a great voice that never grates and her accents add to the experience.
Can't really recommend this one.
Reading is a must-have ESCAPE...
"A Melodramatic Tale"
"Most Wanted" picks up where "Never Seduce..." leaves off. As other readers have already mentioned, this story is wrought with genuine emotional torment. This isn't the typical romance... this story delves into real personal pain. In the first edition, the reader is briefly introduced to the effects of the malevolent character of Ian McHugh. As the plot unfolds, we learn of Genevieve and all she endured during her year of captivity in the hands of the McHughs. Banks has a knack for truly disseminating personal bits of each character whilst unveiling the plot. Also characteristic of Banks, the reader is destined to take an emotional journey.
Kirsten Potter is an exceptional narrator... she wows the reader with her interpretation. Don't be surprised if Genevieve's experience makes you want to cry (especially near the end).
"Could not get into this one"
I have been a fan of Maya Banks' Highlander series, so this was an auto-buy. I've enjoyed all of her previous Highlander titles, especially Eveline's story in Never Seduce A Scot. But this one missed the mark entirely. There are so many things wrong with this book it's hard to know where to start!
Maya Banks spends a good deal of time inside her character's heads in all of her books, and you hear their thoughts and opinions. In this one, however, she went overboard. Thoughts on Genevieve's imprisonment and hopes/fears for the future from her perspective, Bowen's perspective, and during conversations were so tediously repetitive that I lost sympathy for her, just not wanting to hear it over and over and over. This was pretty much the entire book for about the first three hours of listening.
After all Genevieve had supposedly endured, she was still strong, physically and mentally healthy, no bruises/marks/fears/scars except the one on her face, so unrealistic. And yet while captive she apparently had free roam of the castle, and free access to a bow and arrows (with which she was an expert, of course) yet never used on her captor. Genevieve was singled out for abuse at the McHugh castle. This was never explained. And the demise of the villain was early in the tale and anti-climatic, in my opinion.
Her parents were represented as loving, caring, and protective, having given her a pleasant, safe childhood; yet they sent her away to wed someone, traveling with no one from her family in attendance, and an apparently small guard, who were all killed. You never hear who this mysterious betrothed man was, he was never apprised of the fact that she was alive, yet she had been on her way to marry him before the events of this book began.
Genevieve was not a healer, and yet it was she who stitched up the wounds of a man she had recently met, and nursed him, AND they let her stay with him, a relative stranger, alone with their injured clansman/brother. Do ya really think they'd be this trusting with a woman they hardly knew?? I'll stop here, you get the idea.
I just could not appreciate the main characters in this book or their decisions, and was so often annoyed by things that did not make sense. I love to read, to enter a different world for a while, but I couldn't stay in this one. Hopefully Maya Banks' next book in this series will be better.
I like her narration; she gives different voices to different characters, has a good Scottish brogue, engaging intonation, and has clear articulation. I enjoy hearing her Scottish accents as I listen.
I liked visiting with characters from the first Montgomery & Armstrong book.
"I found this story "trigger-y""
By "trigger-y", I mean that the experiences of the heroine made me a little uncomfortable and it was difficult at times for me to handle the brutal discussions/descriptions of what she'd been through. I don't think Banks handle things badly, however, if you're sensitive to issues of rape and sexual violence (especially to the extent this character experienced), you may want to reconsider.
I enjoyed the story and I liked the characters, but there was a lot of repetition of regarding everyone's feelings which make the book seem 20% longer than it needs to be. Also, I'm now really tired of the word "flesh".
I'm a lover of books, both read and audible.
"Them Montgomery Lads"
I'm a huge fan of Maya Banks. When I read the first book of this series, I was touched by the affection portrayed between the hero and heroine. I have to admit that I didn't like Bowen in the first book. I wanted to hit him in the eye. But in this book, I downright feel in love with Bowen Montgomery. The strength and passion that he displayed throughout this book, made me feel in love with his story.
As always, Kristen Potter did a fantastic read and added just the right amount of emotion and depth to the characters. I was captive with this book from page one didn't remove my headphones until the final word was spoken.
I highly encourage this book, this series. Read and Enjoy.
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- PhD in Marketing at University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, 1996
- MBA in Accounting at University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1978
- BA in Psychology at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, 1973
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I offer many different activities for my students in order to keep them engaged and active in the learning process. Some of these activities include short lectures, group activities, videos, problem-solving exercises, case studies and group discussions. This kind of variety helps to keep learning exciting and also caters to a number of different learning styles.
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"The Rule of Law at Home and Abroad: Why It Makes a Difference to All Parts of Society," will be the topic of a Constitution and Citizenship Day presentation at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17 in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center, Washburn University. The public is welcome and no admission is charged.
The speaker will be James "Jim" Silkenat, president-elect, American Bar Association and partner, Sullivan and Worchster's New York office. He is a member of the firm's corporate department and his primary focus is on international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, project finance transactions (in developed and developing countries) and private equity investment funds.
Silkenat has substantive industry experience in energy, hotels, manufacturing, transportation and telecommunications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute; has served as a Fellow in the U.S. State Department Scholar/Diplomat program, and was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Upside down spicy radish and bean pie? Am I off my rocker? Probably so, but I have spent at least a week trying to work out something completely original to do with radishes! Most people just assume you can't cook them, but they're wrong! Sauteed, grilled or baked, radishes taste great. They still have that nice spicy bite to them raw or cooked, so thought this would be an easy and fun recipe for you to try.


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Originally posted here on 8/1/14
It's the kind of rare opportunity that members of the 9/11 Truth Movement wish would come more often.
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, was invited to bring the evidence for the explosive demolition of the three World Trade Center towers to viewers of C-SPAN today on its morning program Washington Journal. His 45-minute appearance — which can be viewed here by those who did not see it live — is enabling the 9/11 Truth message to reach a national television audience of millions.
Gage explained to viewers that his organization, representing more than 2,200 architects and engineers, is focused on the science of the event and on calling for a new, independent investigation. He encouraged viewers to visit the AE911Truth.org website and watch the landmark video 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out.
"Every one of our [C-SPAN] viewers today should be calling their Congressmen and Senators and finding out why they're not investigating the worst act of mass murder in U.S. history and the third-worst structural failure in modern history," Gage said. "This is an extraordinary and unacceptable situation."
Host Peter Slen told viewers that Gage was brought in as a guest because Washington Journal had received so many calls in recent months asking its other guests to address the issue of how Building 7 fell on 9/11 when it was not hit by a plane. The invitation shows that the continuing efforts of 9/11… Continue reading
Originally published at CNN by Ray Sanchez on 8/3/14
(CNN) — President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that the United States "crossed a line" and tortured al Qaeda detainees after the 9/11 terror attacks.
The comments at a White House news conference were the President's strongest on the controversial subject since he came into office denouncing what he described as the Bush years of torturing alleged terrorists, also known as "enhanced interrogation."
"When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line," Obama said. "And that needs to be … understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so that hopefully we don't do it again in the future."
In the remarks, Obama was referring to a soon-to-be-released Senate Intelligence Committee report detailing the CIA's controversial interrogation and detention program following the 9/11 attacks.
The document is a nearly 700 page summary of the full 6,800 page report that was approved a year and a half ago by a committee sharply divided along party lines.
Senators on the committee have said the report is critical of the CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects, saying it amounted to torture — an allegation CIA officials have denied. It also finds that those harsh interrogation techniques did not help disrupt future terrorist attacks as many in intelligence community have claimed.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said later Friday that the report's public release… Continue reading
Originally published at FOX13 by Ben Winslow on 7/31/14
SALT LAKE CITY — A trial over evidence and conspiracy theories from the Oklahoma City bombing wrapped up here, with a shocking twist.
As a trial over documents and videotape the FBI had from the 1995 bombing that killed 168 ended on Thursday, the man suing the federal government claimed one of his witnesses had been told not to show up — or else.
Jesse Trentadue said John Matthews, whom he claimed worked as an undercover government operative in the militia movement in the 1990s, had been contacted by an FBI agent and told "it would be best if he didn't show up to testify."
"He was told he should take a vacation and that if he did testify he should suffer from a case of the 'I don't remembers,'" Trentadue told U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups.
Trentadue told FOX 13 that Matthews had known convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and worked for the government in an operation targeting the patriot militia movement known as "PATCON."
"He was part of an operation the FBI ran for a decade during the '90s where they would infiltrate, and it's questionable whether they incited the right wing," he told FOX 13.
Lawyers for the FBI denied the allegation and said it was Matthews who had contacted them asking how he could get out of testifying. Matthews could not be located to testify, they told the judge.
"This is a serious accusation," Judge Waddoups said.… Continue reading
Originally published at The Guardian by Spencer Ackerman on 7/31/14
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials.
Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture.
Among other things, it was revealed that agency officials conducted keyword searches and email searches on committee staff while they used the network.
The admission brings Brennan's already rocky tenure at the head of the CIA under renewed question. One senator on the panel said he had lost confidence in the director, although the White House indicated its support for a man who has been one of Barack Obama's most trusted security aides.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd acknowledged that agency staff had improperly monitored the computers of committee staff members, who were using a network the agency had set up, called RDINet. "Some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between [the committee] and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to the RDINet," he said.
Asked if Brennan had or would offer his resignation, a different CIA spokesman, Ryan Trapani, replied: "No."
In March, the committee chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, accused the agency of violating… Continue reading
Originally posted by Human Rights Watch on 7/21/14
The 214-page report, "Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions," examines 27 federal terrorism cases from initiation of the investigations to sentencing and post-conviction conditions of confinement. It documents the significant human cost of certain counterterrorism practices, such as overly aggressive sting operations and unnecessarily restrictive conditions of confinement.
"Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the US," said Andrea Prasow, deputy Washington director at Human Rights Watch and one of the authors of the report. "But take a closer… Continue reading
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There has been a dramatic increase in the number of 9/11 rescuers and responders with cancer in the past year, according to a published report.
The New York Post says that Mount Sinai Hospital's World Trade Center Health Program reported 1,140 cancer cases last year. Now the number is up to more than 2,500.
Among the cancers being diagnosed at a much higher rate than the general population: prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, leukemia and multiple myeloma.
The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is expected to receive more claims by the Oct. 14 deadline. So far, there are 1,145 claims listing cancer.
Originally published at Dig Within by Kevin Ryan on 7/27/14
After becoming Director of the CIA (DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh, Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar's home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the Agency. The CIA's Saudi specialists only learned about Tenet's dealings with the Saudi authorities inadvertently, through their Saudi contacts. It seems that Tenet was operating within a network that surpassed the interests of the American public. Therefore the unsolved crimes of 9/11, attributed largely to young men from Saudi Arabia, should be considered in light of Tenet's actions.
As Deputy Director for the CIA, in 1996, Tenet had worked to install one of his closest friends and confidants, John Brennan, as CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia. Brennan is now the DCI but, in his previous role, Brennan often communicated directly with Tenet, avoiding the usual chain of command. At the time, as an apparent favor to the Saudis, CIA analysts were discouraged from questioning Saudi relationship to Arab extremists.
The unusual relationship that both George Tenet and Louis Freeh had with Saudi intelligence (and George H.W. Bush) recalls the private network that was created in the mid-1970s to accomplish covert… Continue reading
Originally published at the Guardian by Spencer Ackerman on 7/21/2014
Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says.
Some of the controversial "sting" operations "were proposed or led by informants", bordering on entrapment by law enforcement. Yet the courtroom obstacles to proving entrapment are significant, one of the reasons the stings persist.
The lengthy report, released on Monday by Human Rights Watch, raises questions about the US criminal justice system's ability to respect civil rights and due process in post-9/11 terrorism cases. It portrays a system that features not just the sting operations but secret evidence, anonymous juries, extensive pretrial detentions and convictions significantly removed from actual plots.
"In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act," the report alleges.
Out of the 494 cases related to terrorism the US has tried since 9/11, the plurality of convictions – 18% overall – are not for thwarted plots but for "material support" charges, a broad category expanded further by the 2001 Patriot Act that permits prosecutors to pursue charges with tenuous connections to a terrorist act or group.
In one such incident, the initial basis for a material-support case alleging a man provided "military gear" to al-Qaida turned out to be waterproof socks in his luggage.
Several cases featured years-long solitary confinement for… Continue reading
On May 20, 2009, four men from the impoverished and largely African-American city of Newburgh, NY, were apprehended for an alleged terror plot. They had no history of violence or terrorist ties, but had been drawn by a Pakistani FBI informant into a carefully orchestrated scheme to bomb Jewish synagogues in a wealthy New York City suburb and fire Stinger missiles at U.S. military supply planes. Their dramatic arrest, complete with armored cars, a SWAT team and FBI aircraft, played out under the gaze of major TV outlets, ultimately resulting in 25-year prison sentences for the "Newburgh Four."
Amidst the media frenzy surrounding the case, political figures extolled the outcome as a victory in the "war on terror" and a "textbook example of how a major investigation should be conducted," though others believed the four men were victims of FBI entrapment. THE NEWBURGH STING delves deeply into this case — one of many cases across the country where people have been allegedly drawn into a plot with extreme consequences.
The Imam and assistant Imam of Mesjid al-Ikhlas, Newburgh mosque, recall their first encounters with Shahed Hussain – an undercover informant sent to Newburgh by the FBI in 2008 on a mission to find domestic terrorists. Representing himself as a businessman, Hussain drove expensive cars and made inflammatory statements about women and jihad. Suspicious, the Imams told a few of their congregants to stay away from Hussain, but one man, James Cromitie, bought into his story. Cromitie, a low-level drug dealer… Continue reading
Originally published at Benswann.com by Joshua Cook on 7/16/14
In March Benswann.com reported that Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), , along with families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, urged the president to declassify 28 pages from the 9/11 congressional investigation report, providing more information to the general public.
On Friday Rep. Massie commented on his Facebook page:
"Before we involve ourselves in #Iraq, Congressmen and their constituents need to know more about the events leading up to 9/11. Understanding what enabled this tragedy to occur is fundamental to drafting a strategy for the Middle East.
That's why I joined families of 9/11 victims and Congressman Walter Jones and Congressman Stephen Lynch at a press conference to promote the release of 28 classified pages from an official 9/11 report. Based on my reading of the documents, I am confident that making these 28 pages public would not damage our national security."
During a press conference in March Rep. Massie said, "As I read it, and we all had our own experience, I had to stop every couple of pages and just sort of try to absorb and try to rearrange my understanding of history. "It challenges you to re-think everything. I think the whole country needs to go through that."
Originally published at WashingtonsBlog by Kevin Ryan on 6/26/14
Douglas Valentine's The Phoenix Program is vital for understanding the history of terrorism and its role in political warfare. Few other historical accounts provide as much detail on how the U.S. government and the CIA began to use programs for counterterrorism to implement political policy through secretive, coldblooded actions. Understanding such history is critical to making sense of what is happening in our world today.
Although implemented as a means of countering terrorism, Valentine shows how the Phoenix Program was in practice a CIA-controlled campaign of terror in Vietnam. Hidden behind terms like pacification and neutralization, Phoenix implemented a program of terror and psychological warfare against the civilian population. Under the guise of counterterrorism, tens of thousands of civilians were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
Valentine explains how the purpose of Phoenix was to terrorize the people into submission, not only causing them to fear any possible association with the enemy but also as a means to crush dissent. Unfortunately for many Vietnamese peasants, they were caught in a world in which they were terrorized by both sides in the long-lasting conflict. Using psychological warfare techniques, Phoenix promised to protect the people from terrorism while simultaneously terrorizing them.
The book describes the history of the program well. Phoenix and its precursor ICEX aligned the CIA-supported Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) with police and paramilitary programs to create a system for capturing or killing suspects in targeted ways. Once captured and brought in for… Continue reading
Originally published at CSMonitor by Warren Richey on 6/30/14
Thousands of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks have lost their bid to revive a class-action lawsuit against various banks, financial officials, and members of Osama bin Laden's family for allegedly providing material support to Al Qaeda.
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case examining whether lower courts properly dismissed a significant portion of their lawsuit.
The high court took the action without comment.
The justices had asked the Obama administration for its views on the case. US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said in a filing last month that the court should reject the case.
Lawyers for those killed or injured or who suffered property damage in the hijack-terror operation sought to pursue what they said were the "principal financial and operational supporters of al Qaeda" during the period leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
They included several Saudi banks, Islamic charities, three financial institutions in Liechtenstein, four of Mr. bin Laden's half brothers, and the family construction business, the Saudi Binladin Group.
A federal judge and a federal appeals court dismissed much of the case, ruling that the plaintiffs' lawyers had failed to show evidence that actions taken by the alleged Al Qaeda… Continue reading
Originally published at AP by Jack Gillum and Eileen Sullivan on 6/12/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire neighborhoods, The Associated Press has learned.
Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened in routine state public records cases and criminal trials regarding use of the technology. This has resulted in police departments withholding materials or heavily censoring documents in rare instances when they disclose any about the purchase and use of such powerful surveillance equipment.
Federal involvement in local open records proceedings is unusual. It comes at a time when President Barack Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance and called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified federal surveillance programs.
One well-known type of this surveillance equipment is known as a Stingray, an innovative way for law enforcement to track cellphones used by suspects and gather evidence. The equipment tricks cellphones into identifying some of their owners' account information, like a unique subscriber number, and transmitting data to police as if it were a phone company's tower. That allows police to obtain cellphone information without having to ask for help from service providers, such as Verizon or AT&T, and can locate a phone without the user even making a call or sending a text message.
But without more details about how the technology works and under what circumstances… Continue reading
US intelligence agencies have made a fifth attempt to extend their bulk collection of American telephone records – more than a year after the controversial practice was first revealed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Despite repeated calls from Congress and President Obama for the mass gathering of private US phone records to be banned, a court has approved the request in secret, allowing the NSA to continue collecting metadata until 12 September 2014.
In a joint statement released late on Friday afternoon, the justice department and director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said it was necessary to continue seeking such legal extensions because the Congressional reform process supported by Obama was not yet complete.
"Given that legislation has not yet been enacted, and given the importance of maintaining the capabilities of the Section 215 telephony metadata program, the government has sought a 90-day reauthorization of the existing program," said the joint statement.
The 90-day blanket licence granted by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or Fisa court, is the fifth such extension that has been requested, and granted, since the Guardian first revealed the existence of the Section 215 program on 5 June 2013.
Similar 90-day reauthorisations were subsequently… Continue reading
Originally published at Dig Within by Kevin Ryan on 6/4/14
Both before and after 9/11, one private company had a greater impact on counterterrorism programs in the United States than any other. That company, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), also profited more from the events of 9/11 than any other. Its chief operating officer (COO), Duane Andrews, was a man who had expertise-level knowledge of the vulnerabilities that were exploited on 9/11. He also just happened to be a long-time, close colleague of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
SAIC feeds on terrorism, having won many of its record number of government contracts through the national security state that has arisen via the War on Terror. Through its numerous contracts and employee security clearances, it has become a private business that cannot be distinguished from a permanent form of government. In short, SAIC is "the fraternal twin of the intelligence establishment."[1]
With regard to 9/11, SAIC's impact cannot be overstated as the company:
Originally published at Washingtonsblog.com by Kevin Ryan on 6/4/14
Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official, has recently come out suggesting that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld should be charged with war crimes. Unfortunately, media outlets reporting this story have failed to examine Clarke's long relationship to Cheney and Rumsfeld and his record of having prevented the capture of Osama bin Laden. These omissions highlight that, although Cheney and Rumsfeld undoubtedly are guilty of post-9/11 war crimes, suspicions that they helped create the pretext for those crimes go unreported.
Clarke's history is regularly misrepresented in the media. It's often said that he started in his counterterror position under Clinton when he was, in fact, appointed to it by George H.W. Bush in 1992. Clarke is a right wing hawk who had close ties to Cheney and Rumsfeld going back at least another decade with his selection for a secret Reagan Administration project. Clarke, Cheney and Rumsfeld were among a small group that spent nearly 30 years practicing to takeover the United States government in the Continuity of Government (COG) program. Their secretive COG plan was implemented only once—on the morning of 9/11.
Considering the media's treatment of Clarke, it's no surprise that most people have little or no understanding of his relationship to Cheney and Rumsfeld. It's also not surprising that some people don't know why these men are primary 9/11 suspects, despite the many reasons to consider that Cheney and Rumsfeld were behind the attacks. Much… Continue reading
Originally published at Consensus911.org
June 2, 2014 – The 24-member 9/11 Consensus Panel – which includes physicists, chemists, engineers, commercial pilots, attorneys and lawyers – today announced three new studies confirming the controlled demolition of World Trade Center 7.
The studies scientifically refute the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim that, for the first time in history, fire caused the sudden and complete collapse of a large, fire-protected, steel-framed building on 9/11.
(Note that whereas the Consensus Panel uses a scientific methodology to peer-review its work, the NIST report was not peer-reviewed.)
The first Panel study deals with the NIST computer simulations, which purported to show that fire-induced thermal expansion caused a girder to be pushed off its seat at Column 79, thereby initiating a global collapse of the entire 47-storey building at 5:21 in the afternoon.
However, a recent FOIA request has produced WTC 7 architectural drawings showing that the NIST simulations omitted basic structural supports that would have made this girder failure impossible.
The second Consensus Panel study deals with NIST's claim that it did not recover any steel from this massive steel-frame skyscraper.
This is extraordinary, given the need to understand why a steel-frame building would have completely collapsed for the first time in history from fire alone, and to thereby prevent a recurrence.
We know now that some of the steel was recovered. Photographs recently obtained by researchers show the strange curled-up paper-thin WTC 7 steel, with a NIST investigator pointing it… Continue reading
Originally published at Washingtonsblog by Kevin Ryan on 5/22/14
When former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), he claimed that he had never heard of it. This was despite the unprecedented destruction of that 47-story building and its relationship to the events of 9/11 that shaped Rumsfeld's career. Although not hit by a plane, WTC 7 experienced free fall into its own footprint on the afternoon of 9/11—through the path of what should have been the most resistance. The government agency charged with investigating the building's destruction ultimately admitted that it had been in free fall during a portion of its descent. That fact makes explosive demolition the only logical explanation. Considering how WTC 7 might have been demolished leads to some interesting facts about Rumsfeld and his associates.
The one major tenant of WTC 7 was Salomon Smith Barney (SSB), the company that occupied 37 of the 47 floors in WTC 7. A little discussed fact is that Rumsfeld was the chairman of the SSB advisory board and Dick Cheney was a board member as well. Rumsfeld had served as chairman of the SSB advisory board since its inception in 1999. According to the financial disclosures he made in his nomination process, during the same period Rumsfeld had also been a paid consultant to the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet. Rumsfeld and Cheney had to resign from their CIA and SSB positions in 2001 when they were confirmed as… Continue reading


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HSE203 - Exercise Behaviour
Unit details
|2014 unit information
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|Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online)
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J Hnatiuk
HBS110 or ESH404 or EEH101 and EEH102
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Campus: Burwood (Melbourne) and Waterfront (Geelong) students - 3 hours (1 x 1 hour class, 1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.
Warrnambool students: 3 hours (1 x 1 hour class delivered electronically only, 1 x 2 hour seminar)
Cloud (online) students: weekly seminar readings and activities as self-directed learning, optional attendance at a one day seminar to be held at Burwood (Melbourne). Seminar will be scheduled on a weekend.
Note:You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin's online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.
This unit focuses on health-related physical activity. It examines the fundamental issue of why people are active, including how physical activity participation varies according to factors such as age and sex. The unit also considers sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity, and provides an introduction to theory and concepts important for understanding participation in physical activity at the individual and population level.
Examination (2 hours) 50%, assignment - conducted in two parts: part 1 - assignment plan/draft (25% of available marks for assignment); part 2 - complete assignment (75% of available marks for assignment) (2000 words) 50%
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