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CU-Boulder encourages the use of social media technologies to enhance communication, collaboration, and information exchange in support of CU-Boulder's mission.
As the technology evolves, these guidelines will evolve, but in general terms, these guidelines define regulatory principles for use of these technologies by CU-Boulder employees. The use of social media technology follows the same standards of professional practice and conduct associated with everything else we do. Common sense and sound judgment help avoid the most vexing issues.
Definition: "Social media" and "Web 2.0" are umbrella terms that encompass the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and content creation. Social media use many technologies and forms, such as blogs, wikis, photo and videosharing, podcasts, social networking, mashups, and virtual worlds.
Protect confidential and proprietary information. Do not post confidential or proprietary information about CU-Boulder, students, staff, faculty, or alumni. Employees must still follow the applicable federal requirements such as FERPA and HIPA, as well as NCAA regulations. Adhere to all applicable university privacy and confidentiality policies. Employees who share confidential information do so at the risk of disciplinary action or termination.
Respect copyright and fair use. When posting, be mindful of the copyright and intellectual property rights of others and of the university. For guidance, consult CU-Boulder's Copyright resources and facts: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/copyright/
Direct questions about fair use or copyrighted material to the copyright and intellectual property to the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology: (303) 492-5094.
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Respect university time and property. University computers and time on the job are reserved for university-related business as approved by supervisors and in accordance with the Use of Computing and Network Resources document.
Terms of Services. Obey the Terms of Service of any Social Media platform employed.
If you post on behalf of an official university unit, the following policies must be adhered to in addition to all policies and best practices listed above:
Be transparent. If you participate in or maintain a social media site on behalf of the university, clearly state your role and goals. Discuss with your supervisor when you are empowered to respond directly to users and when you may need approval.
Be connected. If you have been authorized by your supervisor to create an official CU-Boulder social media site or a video for posting in locations such as YouTube, please contact University Communications for an approved logo and other images and to ensure coordination with other CU-Boulder sites and content.
Be respectful. As a CU-Boulder employee, you understand the university's commitment to respect the dignity of others and to the civil and thoughtful discussion of opposing ideas. Some online communities can be volatile, tempting users to behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't. Your reputation, and CU-Boulder's are best served when you remain above the fray.
Use common sense and common courtesy; Make sure your efforts to be transparent don't violate CU-Boulder privacy, confidentiality and legal guidelines (See Privacy Statement policy).
When disagreeing with other opinions or someone disagrees with your post, keep it appropriate and polite. Feel free to contact University Communications for advice and /or to disengage from the dialogue in a polite manner that reflects well on CU-Boulder.
Be thoughtful. If you have any questions about whether it is appropriate to write about certain kinds of material in your role as a CU-Boulder employee, ask your supervisor before you post. Remember that policies such as FERPA Compliance and Privacy Statement policy apply to social media.
Know the rules. Become familiar with the terms of service and policies of sites and networks in which you participate. Pay attention to updates. If the legal language is hard to follow, follow a respected blogger or two who discuss service changes in their posts.
Keep your personal views separate. Uphold the university's mission and values. Don't include political comments or comments on social issues except in support of positions CU-Boulder has already taken. This includes changes to your photo or avatar in relation to political or social issues.
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This section applies to those posting on behalf of an official university unit, though the guidelines may be helpful for anyone posting on social media in any capacity.
Think twice before posting. Privacy does not exist in the world of social media. Consider what could happen if a post becomes widely known and how that may reflect both on the poster and the university. Search engines can turn up posts years after they are created, and comments can be forwarded or copied. If you wouldn't say it at a conference or to a member of the media, consider whether you should post it online. If you are unsure about posting something or responding to a comment, ask your supervisor for input or contact University Communications.
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This page presents emission-related information about heavy-duty highway engines, such as those used in trucks and buses. Much of this content is focused on diesel engines, but requirements also apply for gasoline-fueled and other spark-ignition engines. The requirements apply to engines installed in all vehicles with Gross Vehicle Weight Rating above 14,000 pounds, and to some engines installed in vehicles with Gross Vehicle Weight Rating between 8,500 and 14,000 pounds. This page describes the emission standards and related requirements for criteria pollutants -- NOx, HC, CO, and PM. See Greenhouse Gas Standards for requirements that apply for CO2, N2O, and CH4.
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- Health Assessment Document for Diesel Engine Exhaust
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- See "2015 Amendments" for more information.
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- Final Rule (PDF) (20 pp, 325K, published August 8, 2014)
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- See the June 2012 Proposed Rule for information supporting the July 2014 Final Rule.
- Fact Sheet: EPA Grants Relief for Fire Trucks and Ambulances; Proposes SCR Maintenance and Short-Term Relief for Nonroad Equipment (PDF) (4 pp, 560K, EPA420-F-12-025, May 2012)
- Direct Final Rule (PDF) (19 pp, 603K, published June 8, 2012)
- See Nonroad Diesel Engines for more information about similar rulemaking changes for nonroad engines.
- Nonconformance Penalties for On-Highway Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines (published September 5, 2012)
- 2011 Amendments (published September 15, 2011)
- Final Rule (PDF) (409 pp, 4.90MB)
- See Heavy-Duty Greenhouse Gas Rule for more information.
- 2010 Technical Amendments -- In-Use Testing Revisions (published November 8, 2010)
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- Direct Final Rule (PDF) (9 pp, 219K)
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- Technical Support Document and Summary and Analysis of Comments (EPA420-R-05-008, June 2005)
- See Proposed Technical Amendments for the proposed rule and supporting documents (published September 10, 2004)
- Final Rule: 2007 and 2010 Model Year Standards (published January 18, 2001)
- Fact Sheet: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards and Highway Diesel Fuel Sulfur Control Requirement (PDF) (4 pp, 120K, EPA-420-F-00-057, December 2000)
- Fact Sheet: Introduction of Cleaner-Burning Diesel Fuel Enables Advanced Pollution Control for Cars, Trucks, and Buses (PDF) (3 pp, 172K, EPA420-F-06-064, October 2006)
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Andrea Hewitt 26th after the swim. Carn NZ.
The swim got ridiculously spread out. I'm worried about how far ahead that lead group is already.
Hewitt up to 15th after the first cycle lap! And the leaders' gap has almost halved.
Falling off a bike with so much skin exposed. Respect for these athletes.
So much respect for Triathletes, got to be such a tough sport to train for.
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
Both kiwis right in there. Guns.
Woops, a third kiwi in the chase pack. Might be hard for her to recover from there. Hope she puts in a good performance nonetheless.
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#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Jenkins, who's apparently the favourite, is really well placed. Hewitt's still close enough.
Come on Jenkins, start us off on what is set to be a glorious weekend.
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IS-IS is a link-state routing protocol, meaning that it operates by reliably flooding topology information throughout a network of routers. Each router then independently builds a picture of the network's topology. Packets or datagrams are forwarded based on the best topological path through the network to the destination.
IS-IS uses Dijkstra's algorithm for identifying the best path through the network.
IS-IS was developed at roughly the same time that the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF was developing a similar protocol called OSPF. IS-IS was later extended to support routing of datagrams (aka network-layer packets) using IP Protocol, the basic routed protocol of the global (public) Internet. This version of the IS-IS routing protocol was then called Integrated IS-IS (RFC 1195).
OSPF had achieved predominance as an IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) routing protocol, particularly in medium-to-large-sized enterprise networks. IS-IS, in contrast, remained largely unknown by most network engineers and was used predominantly in the networks of certain very-large service providers.
IS-IS has become more widely known in the last several years, and has become a viable alternative to OSPF in enterprise networks. Detailed analysis, however, tends to show that OSPF has traffic tuning features that are especially suitable to enterprise networks while ISIS has stability features especially suitable to ISP infrastructure.
While OSPF is natively built to route IP and is itself a Layer 3 protocol that runs on top of IP, IS-IS is natively an ISO network layer protocol (it is at the same layer as CLNS), a fact that may have allowed OSPF to be more widely used. IS-IS does not use IP to carry routing information messages.
IS-IS routers build a topological representation of the network. This map indicates the IP subnets which each IS-IS router can reach, and the lowest cost (shortest) path to an IP subnet is used to forward IP traffic.
IS-IS also differs from OSPF in the methods by which it reliably floods topology and topology change information through the network. However, the basic concepts are similar.
Since OSPF is more popular, this protocol has a richer set of extensions and added features. However IS-IS is less "chatty" and can scale to support larger networks. Given the same set of resources, IS-IS can support more routers in an area than OSPF. This makes IS-IS favoured in ISP environments. Additionally, IS-IS is neutral regarding the type of network addresses for which it can route. OSPF, on the other hand, was designed for IPv4. Thus IS-IS was easily adapted to support IPv6, while the OSPF protocol needed a major overhaul (OSPF v3).
The TCP/IP implementation, known as "Integrated IS-IS" or "Dual IS-IS", is described in RFC 1195.
IS-IS differs from OSPF in the way that "areas" are defined and routed between. IS-IS routers are designated as being: Level 1 (intra-area); Level 2 (inter area); or Level 1-2 (both). Level 2 routers are inter area routers that can only form relationships with other Level 2 routers. Routing information is exchanged between Level 1 routers and other Level 1 routers, and Level 2 routers only exchange information with other Level 2 routers. Level 1-2 routers exchange information with both levels and are used to connect the inter area routers with the intra area routers. In OSPF, areas are delineated on the interface such that an area border router (ABR) is actually in two or more areas at once, effectively creating the borders between areas inside the ABR, whereas in IS-IS area borders are in between routers, designated as Level 2 or Level 1-2. The result is that an IS-IS router is only ever a part of a single area. IS-IS also does not require Area 0 (Area Zero) to be the backbone area through which all inter-area traffic must pass. The logical view is that OSPF creates something of a spider web or star topology of many areas all attached directly to Area Zero and IS-IS by contrast creates a logical topology of a backbone of Level 2 routers with branches of Level 1-2 and Level 1 routers forming the individual areas.


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So I noticed a dead pixel on my screen today. Wait no, it's not a dead pixel! It's simply the Metro Internet Explorer!
The dead white pixel appears wherever you are in metro Internet Explorer. It doesn't appear anywhere else in Windows 8. That's a pretty big fail lol.
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so , you have a dead pixel that simply cannot render a specific color (white/red/blue/green) and Metro, simply just had to actually put a white pixel right there ...
man, you made my day .... my cam (sony w200 has the same issue ... it has some dead pixels and in black it shows red, but in all other colors work fine) .. damn you science
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The pixel shifts position (sometimes it's lower sometimes it's 20px higher). It's NOT a dead pixel. It's something with Internet Explorer, and appears on other sites (You can see in in southparkstudios).
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Most likely an issue with your graphics card driver.
What resolution is your screen? I have a feeling this is an ad control (as I mentioned earlier) that you're spotting, but because of the Modern UI behavior you can't right click to verify.
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Nope it's not a graphics card driver issue. Fully closing IE and opening it again made it disappear. It's definitely caused by IE, seems to be extremely random that's all.
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When Fear Threatens Freedom
Throughout American history, whenever the United States has felt threatened, our response has been repression. In hindsight we come to realize that the nation was not made any safer from the loss of civil liberties. This is a crucial lesson to be remembered as the country deals with the terrible tragedy of Monday's bombings in Boston. The impulse to take away constitutional rights to gain security must be resisted because, in reality, complying with the Constitution is not an impediment to safety.
If history repeats itself, there are likely to be calls to make it easier for police to search people and their possessions without warrants or probable cause or even reasonable suspicion. Once more, there will be proposals to allow the authorities to detain individuals, even indefinitely, on suspicion of their supporting terrorism. There are sure to be calls to allow law enforcement to more easily intercept electronic communications, even of those conducted entirely within the United States.
The pattern of responding to threats by curtailing rights began early in American history. In 1798, when the future of the country was in doubt, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Act, which made it a crime to falsely criticize the government or government officials—men were sent to prison for speaking ill of certain individuals and decisions. Thomas Jefferson ran for president in 1800 on a platform that stressed the need to repeal the Alien and Sedition Act, and when elected, he pardoned those who had been convicted. A century and a half later, the Supreme Court decided that the "court of history" had declared the act unconstitutional
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, even though the president has no authority to do so under the Constitution. Habeas corpus allows federal courts to give relief to those who are held in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States. Hundreds of people were imprisoned, with no recourse, just for their speech criticizing the war.
During World War I, Congress passed two laws, in 1917 and 1918, which among other things, made it a crime to speak out against the draft. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction and a ten-year sentence for a man who did no more than circulate a leaflet that argued that conscription was involuntary servitude in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. Socialist leader Eugene Debs was imprisoned for telling an audience that they were good for more than "cannon fodder."
In World War II, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were uprooted from their homes and placed in what President Franklin Roosevelt called "concentration camps." Race alone determined who would be free and who would be placed behind barbed wire. This did nothing to make the nation safer; not one Japanese-American was indicted or convicted of a crime against national security.
The McCarthy era was the age of suspicion; the mere suspicion of communist sympathies was enough for people to lose their jobs and sometimes their freedom. In the midst of this era, the Supreme Court held that people could be imprisoned for "conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government" without any need for evidence that their speech was likely to have any effect.
On April 19, 1995, a bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City took 168 lives. Congress responded with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which substantially increased law enforcement power to gather information about individuals without warrants and which imposed unprecedented restrictions on the ability of federal courts to grant habeas corpus, even to those who are innocent.
Most recently, the events of September 11, 2001, led to a series of restrictions on civil liberties, none of which likely have done anything to make the country safer. The Bush administration claimed the authority to indefinitely detain individuals, even American citizens apprehended in the United States, without any due process. Jose Padilla, an American citizen arrested in Chicago, was held as an enemy combatant and the Bush administration said that it could imprison him without judicial review. A total of 779 individuals who are not American citizens have been imprisoned in Guantanamo and 166 are still there, some now for over 11 years, even though virtually none have been tried or had any meaningful form of due process. Those at Guantanamo and those held at rendition camps were subjected to torture, which for the first time in American history was systematically implemented by the government.
The tragedy of September 11 led to the quick passage of the Patriot Act, which greatly expanded law enforcement's power to gather information without meaningful judicial checks. Section 215 of the Patriot Act, for example, allows the government to gather information about individuals, ranging from credit card records to library transactions, just on a request from the special agent in charge of an FBI office. Pursuant to President Bush's executive order, the National Security Agency engaged in massive electronic eavesdropping of American citizens without warrants and in violation of the Constitution and federal laws.
The litany America's civil liberties failings throughout history should serve as a reminder that we must respond with skepticism to proposals that aim to take away liberties for the sake of security after the bombings in Boston. There are sure to be such proposals; there always are in the fear that follows such an attack. But at times like these, we would do well to remember the words of the late Justice Louis Brandeis:
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Fri, 2013-04-19 15:05
The points here apply to a rush to "control" guns as well all other attacks upon civil liberties. There are very good reasons why the Framers included the "cartridge box" along side the "jury box," the "soap box," and the "ballot box" in their original design of our system of government--admittedly now much corroded by corruption.
Fri, 2013-04-19 15:09
I would add, too, that about the same time as the passage of the Alien and Sedition Act, the early Congress also passed legislation constricting firearm access to Native American ("Indians") and slaves. Generally, people in power wish to restrict the rights and opportunities of the dis-empowered to object---particularly their opportunity to object in the strongest possible terms.
Fri, 2013-04-19 20:46
Could not agree more with the basic thrust of this piece.
For historical clarification, though, it should be noted that while Jefferson campaigned in 1800 against the grotesque abuses of the Alien & Sedition Acts, once elected that eloquent aristocratic slave-owner & apostle of freedom and the common man,--actively encouraged local authorities to prosecute unfriendly editors.
Similarly, 'constitutional law professor' Barack Obama campaigned against torture and Gitmo--but once in office discovered the joys of unfettered executive power--and now claims an unchecked right to order assassinations of even US citizens.
I am very troubled that a major metropolitan area was basically shutdown and placed on lock-down while a small army pursued TWO suspects. That bit of martial law--imposed under the Administration of nominal political liberals Pres. Obama & Governor Patrick--is at least as terrifying as the original crime at the marathon.
Wed, 2013-05-01 10:12
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New questions on Boston bombing suspects' ties to US intelligence
By Andrea Peters
29 April 2013
Information continues to come to light raising questions about the relationship between American intelligence agencies and the Tsarnaev brothers, who are suspected of carrying out the April 15 bombing at the Boston marathon.
The brothers' parents continue to insist that their sons are innocent, with the mother claiming they were set up by the American state and "controlled" by the FBI.
US authorities have acknowledged that the Tsarnaev brothers were investigated by the FBI and CIA. However, they claim that at most the intelligence and security agencies are guilty of a "failure to communicate" what they knew about the two.
This is an echo of the "failure to connect the dots" explanation that was given for the failure of the CIA and FBI to prevent the 9/11 attacks, even though many of the perpetrators were known to these agencies and were being tracked. Despite the staggering security lapses that were acknowledged in the aftermath of 9/11, no high-level officials were fired. Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI in 2001, remains the head of the top federal police agency.
Details continue to emerge over the close surveillance by state intelligence agencies of the Tsarnaevs and their associates. In March 2011, the Russian federal security services (FSB) intercepted a call between Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers, and his mother, in which they "vaguely discussed jihad."
In another wiretapped conversation, Tsarnaev's mother spoke with someone in the Caucasus who is under FBI investigation, although the reasons for the investigation have not been revealed.
According to news reports, the recorded calls were one of the things that prompted the Kremlin to alert the FBI to the Tsarnaevs in 2011, and then contact the CIA about them later in the year, after the FBI dropped its investigation. The FBI claims that the Russian government did not say at the time why it was issuing these warnings and did not share the content of the wiretapped conversations.
The manner in which these issues are being handled testifies to the breakdown of democratic processes in the United States. None of these questions is being seriously investigated in the media or made the subject of public congressional hearings. Instead, the Boston bombings are being seized upon to argue for boosting the authority and power of the intelligence agencies.
As the events in Boston graphically demonstrated, this will only facilitate plans already well advanced for the imposition of dictatorial forms of rule. The Boston Marathon bombing was seized upon as the pretext for placing the entire city of Boston and a number of its suburbs under a police-military lockdown and carrying out house-to-house warrantless searches.
The American mass media have ignored an April 24 report in the Russian newspaper Izvestia that it is in possession of documents from the Georgian Interior Ministry revealing that Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a workshop in Georgia in the summer of 2012 sponsored by an organization called the Caucasus Fund, whose purpose was to recruit operatives in the northern Caucasus.
Based on statements by Colonel Grigoriy Chanturiya, a Georgian counterintelligence specialist, Izvestia claims that the Caucasus Fund was founded in 2008, after the Russo-Georgian war, in order to develop intelligence assets in southern Russia. According to Chanturiya's report, the Caucasus Fund had a monthly budget of about $22,000 and had spent approximately $2.7 million since it began operations.
In 2008, Russia and the US nearly went to war in the Caucasus, when the US-backed Georgian government attacked the Russian-controlled breakaway region of South Ossetia. Although the White House backed away from a full-scale military confrontation with the Kremlin, it had advance knowledge of the Georgian attack on Russian forces and did not stop it. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had visited the country one month prior to the attack.
According to Izvestia, the Caucasus Fund was shut down in late 2012 over concerns that it had attracted the attention of the Russian secret services. The former vice president of the organization told the newspaper that since January of this year it had ceased operating almost entirely. He did not say why.
The Caucasus Fund allegedly worked with the regime in Tbilisi and the Jamestown Foundation, a US think tank headed by a number of senior figures from the US political and military establishment, including former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has denied Izvestia 's allegations, insisting that Tsarnaev never set foot in Georgia and that no one named Grigoriy Chanturiya works for the ministry.
However, the Caucasus Fund has acknowledged holding a joint conference with the Jamestown Foundation in 2011. It wrote in an April 24 statement that it aims to "establish and develop scientific, cultural, and humanitarian relations between the peoples of the South and North Caucasus."
The northern Caucasus is a restive region in southern Russia, bordering the ex-Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southern Caucasus. It includes the republic of Chechnya, where a separatist movement has been active since the collapse of the Soviet Union and against which Moscow has waged two bloody wars. Chechen separatism has become increasingly intertwined with a burgeoning Islamic extremist movement in the Muslim-majority region.
Powerful sections of the American ruling class have long given support to Chechen separatism. The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC), sponsored by the right-wing organization Freedom House, has led such efforts for many years. A 2004 article in the British Guardian newspaper entitled "The Chechens' American Friends" noted that ACPC portrayed Chechen separatism as a "fashionable 'Muslim' cause," deserving and requiring US support.
The director of programs in the Caucasus for the Jamestown Foundation formerly worked for Freedom House.
In the US media, the Izvestia report has been mentioned only by a few foreign policy publications, which have dismissed it as a "conspiracy theory."
In fact, the close ties between the US foreign policy establishment and Chechen Islamist forces form a critical part of the background to the Boston bombings. By suppressing such information the media are denying to the public key information regarding not only the identity of possible forces involved in the bombing, but also the reactionary implications of Washington's ongoing collaboration with Islamist terrorist forces in the Middle East.
The US is working in alliance with Muslim extremists in Syria, who function as Washington's proxy force in the war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In this war, Chechen Islamists play a major role. The Muhajireen Brigade of foreign Islamists fighting as part of the Syrian opposition is led by an ethnic Chechen, Abu Omar al-Shishani, and reportedly includes many other Chechens.
Before his death last October, the Chechen Abu Bara was a brigade commander in the Al-Nusra Front, the Al Qaeda-affiliated group that is playing the dominant military role in the US proxy war against Assad.
The US government has a long tradition of cultivating ties with such reactionary forces. It played a central role in fomenting radical Islamism in Afghanistan before and during the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s, in an effort to undermine Soviet influence in the region. The emergence of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which evolved out of the organization that oversaw logistical support to the Islamist anti-Soviet fighters, was the direct product of this war.
The US intelligence community is so familiar with the consequences of losing control of its former assets that it has coined a term for it: blowback. However, the media have avoided raising any possibility that the Boston bombings might be an example of blowback, or an operation carried out with the tacit support or assistance of forces within the state.
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Mon, 2013-05-13 12:44
There risks in a free society. We will never be completely safe until the world is free from evil people. Not happening. Politicians pass laws, that's what they do. Many of them have good intentions and many are as evil as the terrorists they proclaim to protect us from. Our government is corrupt. We need less of it in our lives. A new law, now, is almost never a good solution to anything. Responsible , alert, hard working citizens will go much farther to making our society safer. Government will never adequately serve us.
Fri, 2013-05-17 13:03
The founders were keenly aware of how easily liberty can be lost or given away. Benjamin Franklin once remarked "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." The resource Why is America Free? chronologically records what Ben Franklin and other founders and great Americans have said and written about the subject.
Thu, 2013-05-30 01:00
I am very troubled that a major metropolitan area was basically shutdown and placed on lock-down while a small army pursued TWO suspects. That bit of martial law--imposed under the Administration of nominal political liberals Pres. Obama & Governor Patrick--is at least as terrifying as the original crime at the marathon.
Henceforth, should we accept fascist measures--but only if approved by nominally 'liberal' pols???
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DRIVE TIME FROM DENVER 1.5 hours
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I'm not going to lie: Peering up at a tall mountain while simultaneously thinking about climbing it usually gives me vertigo. But from the parking lot, the summit of Mt. Bierstadt—one of the closest fourteeners to Denver—looks entirely attainable. I tell myself it's probably just the way the sunlight is hitting the treeless mountainside on this early July morning, but the 38th highest peak in the Centennial State is less intimidating than I expected. Which is maybe why, at 7:25 a.m. on a Monday, there are 60 other people layering up, lacing their hiking boots, checking that they have at least 1.5 liters of water per person, applying sunscreen, and taking a last (vault) potty break before they begin the ascent.
The first mile of the standard West Slopes route supports my idea that this might actually be a doable climb: It's a relatively flat walk, mostly on a dirt path that morphs into elevated boardwalks in some of the swamp- ier areas. My husband, our six-year-old boxer, and I cruise along, taking in views of nearby ponds and the Sawtooth ridge, which is intimidating and snakes all the way to Mt. Evans. Once the climb really begins, it doesn't let up. This middle part of the ascent is the most lung-busting, but there are some long switchbacks and great spots to pull up a patch of grass and snack on some oxygen. As a novice peak bagger, I am initially worried that my pace will be too slow, but as we climb higher it's apparent there's no need to rush. Afternoon thunderstorms are a real menace any time after 12:30 p.m., but the sky is still impossibly clear at 10 a.m.
From the outset, the trail is easy to follow and is mostly free of scree and boulder fields until we reach the final crest, turn left, and find ourselves looking upon a wide ridge that purses to the rocky summit. Before we make for the top, we look northwest to see Torreys and Grays peaks, peer down the dizzying backside of Bierstadt to spot Frozen Lake, and watch for small mouselike animals called pikas among the rocks.
The push to the summit does not have a well-defined trail. The landscape is a jumble of large boulders that will tax your already tired legs. My husband has to lend me a hand in a few spots, but the last 300 feet aren't a punishing cardio workout. We force ourselves to go all the way to the tippy top to make certain we actually hit 14,060 feet. The blown-open views make us happy we do. —LBK
WAKE-UP CALL Bierstadt is close enough to Denver that you don't have to camp near the trailhead to get an early enough start. We awoke at 5 a.m., left our Denver home at 5:55 a.m., and were hiking by 7:30 a.m. If you want to camp the night before, there are plenty of backcountry spots along Guanella Pass, or you can grab a spot at the nearby Burning Bear or Whiteside campgrounds ($16, two vehicles allowed).
DOG IS MY CLIMBING PARTNER Parts of the Mt. Bierstadt trail go through the Mt. Evans Wilderness Area, which requires dogs to be on leash. We took our four-legged friend, who managed the route better than we did. However, hikers need to be aware they are responsible for their animal's safety on the mountain. In August 2012, Colorado resident Anthony Ortolani took his dog Missy on a hike along the Sawtooth ridge and abandoned the five-year-old German shepherd after bad weather rolled in and the animal's paws were too cut up for her to descend. The dog languished on the mountain for eight days before volunteer rescue hikers found her and saved the dehydrated 112-pound shepherd. Ortolani pleaded guilty to a charge of animal cruelty in October and was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation and 30 hours of community service. Bottom line: Treat your pooch like any other hiker.
GETTING THERE From Denver, drive west on U.S. 285 until you reach the town of Grant. In Grant, turn north on Guanella Pass Scenic Byway and drive about 13 miles to the top of Guanella Pass. You'll see the parking lot for the trailhead on the right.
Should permits be required to climb our famed peaks?
Coloradans like to think of the Rocky Mountains as pristine wilderness, but the truth is many of the state's popular fourteeners—like Longs Peak, Mt. Bierstadt, Mt. Elbert—are experiencing overexposure. To combat the degradation and overcrowding, local wilderness officials have been discussing a permits system, which would decrease the number of people who climb Colorado's high hills. One such proposal surfaced in 2010 for the South Colony Basin, a spot known for its access to three fourteeners. The U.S. Forest Service began kicking around a $10 day-use permit to pay for necessary maintenance. The proposal met with resistance but is still under consideration, according to the U.S. Forest Service's Jim Bedwell.
Bedwell concedes there are problems with permitting, including the cost and staff necessary to manage the paperwork and the patchwork system of organizations that would need to issue said permits. Lloyd Athearn, executive director of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI), shares those concerns (the nonprofit itself has no formal position on the issue), and adds limiting use doesn't always mean limiting damage.
That's why CFI and other similar organizations focus on building trails that can mitigate harm caused by thousands of footfalls. Athearn says a permits system could hurt his organization's efforts: Hikers who have to pay to climb may be less willing to donate to organizations like his, and more important, money from permits doesn't always necessarily go toward on-mountain maintenance—which means a permits system could be a detriment to the only solution anyone's found for rescuing our state's too-trampled fourteeners. —Dan England
Climbing lingo you'll need to know—and use.
ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS (AMS) Caused by low-oxygen environments (anything above about 5,000 feet in elevation), this usually minor medical condition is often characterized by headache, fatigue, nausea, and dizziness. AMS can become serious during extended stays at very high or extreme altitude (above 11,500 feet). Fluid can build up in the lungs (high altitude pulmonary edema, HAPE) or brain (high altitude cerebral edema, HACE), both of which require immediate descent to lower elevation.
CLASS Routes on Colorado's fourteeners are generally rated by class. Classes 1 and 2 are "hiking" routes and include easy to moderately difficult hiking on good to slightly less-well-maintained trails. Routes that are classified as 3, 4, or 5 are considered "climbing" routes, which can range from moderate scrambling (Class 3) and climbing steep and dangerous terrain (Class 4) to technical climbing that requires rope and belaying (Class 5).
CAIRN A noticeable pile of rocks placed by hikers to mark a trail, particularly when the trail is difficult to discern.
SADDLE A high pass between two or more adjacent peaks. SCREE Small, loose rocks that often make stable footing difficult.
SUMMIT As a noun, the topographically highest point of a mountain; as a verb, the action of reaching such a high point.
STANDARD ROUTE The most common—and often easiest—path of a particular climb; many fourteeners have multiple routes to their summits.
TRAVERSE As a noun, a section of a route that progresses in a horizontal direction; as a verb, the action of climbing in a horizontal direction.
TRAILHEAD ELEVATION 11,280 feet (Grays Trail standard route)
SUMMIT ELEVATION Grays, 14,270 feet; Torreys, 14,267 feet
HIKING DISTANCE 8.25 miles round-trip
TIME 4 hours up; 2 hours down
DRIVE TIME FROM DENVER 1 hour and 15 minutes
Half The Battle
Coloradans have a bad habit of being a little too flip about climbing fourteeners—I mean, c'mon, these are huge mountains!—and that's especially true with Grays and Torreys peaks. The mountains, which are a short drive from Denver, are wildly popular beginner fourteeners because their respective terrains are moderate and hikers can do both in a single day-trip. So…I try to be dismissive of the excursion as well. I know I will still have to schlep up two summits, but, as my friends remind me, the mountains are connected by a saddle, making it comparatively easy to hike up one and cross over to the other.
At least, that's the refrain I repeat to myself as we drive west on I-70 to begin our early morning climb. It's still chilly at 8 a.m. on a late-summer day when we layer up in Under Armour and sweatpants and strike out on Grays Trail, a dirt path that dissolves into gravel before larger rocks and boulders appear as we climb higher. Unlike many fourteeners, the treeless peaks of Grays and Torreys are visible from the outset. But as we ascend, the mountains don't appear to be getting any closer. They are, I decide, mocking me. But I am undeterred. We continue upward, the sun warming our backs on the wide-open trail. We curve left, then right, and back again as the grass-lined route undulates through the postcard-worthy valley. At the trail junction about two miles in—where hikers can choose to tackle Grays first or Torreys—we stop to rest, snack, hydrate, and de-layer. The summits still look painfully far away, but I am feeling good—enjoying myself even. Most of our fellow peak baggers—we are joined by a few hundred other hikers, though the trail never feels too crowded—head left toward Grays, so we venture right, putting Torreys squarely in our sights. Using rocks as stepping stones, we follow cairns to the saddle, which lies about 500 feet from the summit of Torreys. It is here, after spotting a family of mountain goats precariously balanced just off the path, that I notice a distinct change. The mountaintop looms large, but I'm losing my drive. I've consumed more than a liter of water, yet I notice a light throbbing in my head. I suddenly feel a little weak, sluggish. I know immediately I'm suffering mild altitude sickness.
The symptoms aren't subsiding after a five-minute break, but they're not bad enough to force me to stop. Not when I'm so close. Slowly, we trudge the final feet and reach the summit. We are greeted by a few dozen others, beers in hand, who arrived there before us; many of them have already ascended Grays. I look south toward the sister peak. It doesn't appear that far away—but my body simply won't let me do it. Instead, I descend and watch one of my companions skirt the saddle to crack a beer of his own at 14,270 feet. In my case, the Rocky Mountains won half of the battle, but as much as I wish I had been able to summit Grays, I am proud to say I conquered Torreys. —Daliah Singer
A FULL ITINERARY If you live in Denver, camping nearby the night before isn't necessary to hike Grays and Torreys. But if you want to make the fourteeners part of a weekend excursion, plan a hike to nearby Chihuahua Lake, outside of Keystone, which you can see from both summits. You'll want a four-wheel-drive vehicle to reach the trailhead.
FEEL THE BURN Up the adventure quotient on your fourteener quest by approaching Torreys Peak via the more technical Kelso Ridge. You'll follow Grays Trail until, at around 12,300 feet, instead of curving left you'll turn right toward some old mining buildings. The exposed ridge is a Class 3 scramble over hunks of granite. Some people choose to bring a rope and harness, though it's not required. Instead of the difficult descent, follow the traditional trail to conquer Grays or head all the way down.
GETTING THERE Take I-70 west to the Bakerville exit (221). Turn south onto Stevens Gulch Road/CR 321 and continue for about four miles—you'll see signs for the Grays Peak trailhead—until you reach a parking area.


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A male postal worker was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior after walking naked into an office to deliver mail in the 300 block of West Silver Spring Drive, at 1:10 p.m. Dec. 4.
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The 52-year-old Fox Point man, who was arrested at the North Shore Post Office, 5600 Lydell Ave., on Dec. 9, admitted he had delivered the mail completely naked and that he was sorry and it was a stupid thing to do.
The man said he told a 21-year-old female employee in that office that he would retrieve the mail from the business' post office box — something the woman usually does — and deliver it to her naked because she seemed "stressed out" and he wanted to "cheer her up and make her laugh."
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False Flags and Imperial Mobilization: The Middle East Explodes on 9/11 Anniversary
The annual 9/11 "remembrance" has become a yearly international holiday for the Big Lie
Every year, people commemorate 9/11 without having a clear understanding of the original event or the elite agenda that made it possible. This lack of comprehension persists, even as the world explodes in series of orchestrated "new 9/11s" on the eleventh anniversary of the original crime.
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The attacks of 9/11/01 was a false flag operation of the Bush/Cheney administration and CIA-affiliated military-intelligence assets (Al-Qaeda, etc.). The resulting "war on terrorism" of the Bush/Cheney and Obama administrations is built on false flag terrorism and propaganda. The "terrorists" are military-intelligence assets, acting on behalf of Anglo-American leaders and their allies.
9/11 is not history. It is now.
The overriding elite military and intelligence agenda remains the conquest of oil and gas resources. 9/11/01 was the first act of desperation among elites to control all significant energy-related geography on the planet, while preventing rival powers from doing the same.
Under the "war on terror", the world has suffered eleven continuous years of false flag terror. Bombings. Destabilizations. Assassinations. Coups and counter-coups. Controlled and co-opted popular revolts and "mob violence". Regime changes. Criminality beyond redemption.
As of this writing, new false flag terror attacks in various nations have been carried out by "terrorists" directly and indirectly connected to the CIA and Washington.
They have taken place simultaneous with mob action and grass roots street protests, likely stoked and guided by military-intelligence assets of the CIA and its affiliates.
The manner of the Benghazi attack suggests military-style coordination (also see here), and that the attack was allowed to happen.
The timing was politically convenient. The anti-Muslim film (allegedly by an American right-wing Christian zealot) that sparked riots, and its translated broadcast in Egypt, demand further inquiry. Popular unrest also appears to be guided and/or co-opted.
While the situation remains fluid, what is beyond question is that in the wake of this violence, there has been no attempt to negotiate peace. Instead, support is being drummed up for retaliation: new military attacks and aggressive US war policies, for either the "restoration of order" (Libya,), or new and long-planned regime changes (Syria, Iran, Pakistan, etc.) In the famous words of Zbigniew Brzezinski, such attacks would spur the masses to support "imperial mobilization".
This is not simply sudden chaos or reaction. Ignoring the multiple red herrings, the central war agenda has not changed in eleven years. It is simply being taken to a new level.