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Former Prime Minister Salim Hoss speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 29, 2011. (The Daily Star/Mohammad Azakir)
BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss blasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday over his remarks on the Palestinians' right of return, saying: "We wish he would remain silent, he who has nothing to do with restoring the dignity of Arabs." "No one, whether Palestinian or Arab, has the right to abandon a single inch from the land of Palestine or a single right of its people's rights," the former prime minister said in a statement. Speaking during an interview with Israel's Channel 2 television Friday, Abbas explained that he would not try to regain his childhood home in the northern town of Safad, today located inside Israel. "I want to see Safad," he said in English. "It's my right to see it but not to live there." Hoss said that in the forefront of Palestinians' rights was the right of return for around 6 million Palestinian refugees. "Palestine is all Palestine, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] River, with Jerusalem as a capital," Hoss added. "Enough with free concessions ... enough with relinquishing the rights of Palestinians and Arabs, let him remain silent."
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Pre-registration closes at midnight on 9/26. Racers can still register the morning of the race from 8:30 – 9:30.
The course marking will occur on Thursday and Friday, wrapping up at noon on Friday. If you want to pre-ride the course there will be 'red' arrows that will indicate the turns and nearly all the race barriers will be in place by Friday at noon. Gravel roads will be marked early Saturday a.m.
The Hickory Ridge singletrack will be showcased, and we believe the trails to be some of the finest in the state. We continue to work on expanding the trail system, highlighted by our latest addition, Burnt Wagon. We hope you enjoy the trails in the race and return to ride them more often. Be sure to thank our local County Forest & Parks person at the race for the continued cooperation with CORBA.
Upon your arrival on race day, please park first and then proceed to registration. We will use the field for parking and not the roadway. The township road will remain open to traffic. Registration will take place at the Dog Island Cabin (NW of the parking area). The start will be an ATV paced rollout on the paved township road. The finish line will be near the south end of the parking area, across the road, on the ski trail.
Following the conclusion of the race, racers, volunteers and spectators are invited to enjoy food and beer at the Dog Island Cabin. An awards presentation will commence as soon as the final racer has finished, and results have been finalized.

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Did you hire an attorney for your initial filing?
No. However I had a one-hour meeting (free of charge) with an attorney who specialized in SS Disability. She said SS doesn't care about symptoms or diagnosis--they want to know why you can't work. She gave me copies of her forms and I used those for my claim.
Did you hire an attorney for your appeals?
I did not need to appeal
Did you win your claim?
Yes! The first time I filed and without having to hire an attorney.
How long did the entire process take?
It took about three months to do all the research, meet with an attorney, get evaluated by a specialist, get the reports back from my doctors, and complete the paperwork. Two and a half months after I submitted the paperwork, I had a phone call from Social Security telling me I had been approved.
How I Prepared
I researched the subject on the Internet and read several books. I had one free meeting with an attorney who specialized in SS Disability. The attorney told me to include a report from a doctor specializing in CFS/fibro. I had three medical doctors, a psychiatrist, and a therapist submit reports regarding my condition. Four of the five had been caring for me since I got sick so they knew how disabled I was. The 5th was the M.D. specializing in CFS/fibro who had been recommended by the attorney. I fervently prayed!
The Filing & Appeals Process
One thing I saw in the books I read about the process was to be sure and meet with the Social Security people in person--as is our right--when I submitted my claim. My husband took me to that appointment as I was too ill to drive. The morning of the meeting, I did not take my amphetamines or pain pills so they could see how really sick I was. The woman who interviewed me was very nice. I think this was one of the things that helped me win my claim the first time. Another thing that may have helped was the report my husband completed. In simple terms he explained how my illness had affected both our lives, our marriage, our children, etc. It was very touching.
Lessons Learned
- Research the subject
- Talk to an attorney who specializes in SS disability. Ask for copies of the forms he or she uses.
- Have more than one professional providing you with care and get reports from all of them
- Be sure one of your doctors is a specialist in the area of your disability
- When completing the forms, emphasize why you cannot work
- Submit your application in person. Let them see how sick you are and don't disguise your pain or fatigue with medication
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Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film, starring Robin Williams (who also served as co-producer) and Sally Field and based on the novel Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Although the film received mixed reviews during its original theatrical run, subsequent reevaluation has been more positive: the film was placed 67th in the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies, a list of the 100 funniest movies of the 20th century, and was also rated No. 40 on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies of All Time. The original music score was composed by Howard Shore.
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Crying Freeman is a 1995 action film, directed by Christophe Gans, based on the "Portrait of a Killer" arc of the best-selling manga of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami. The film was shot in British Columbia in October 1994.
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Mayor Quan hits the ground running in Beijing
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Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at 5:32 pm in Jean Quan, Oakland City Hall, Port of Oakland, Uncategorized.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan wasted no time reaching out to Chinese officials in Beijing when she landed there Saturday to embark on a three-city trade mission with Oakland City Council President Larry Reid, Port of Oakland Executive Director Omar Benjamin and other of the Port's seaport and airport officials.
Quan met with the chairman of the HNA Group, which owns Hainan Airlines, hotels and other businesses. She wants to try and bring the airline to Oakland, and perhaps convince the company to build hotels and use Oakland as its hub for for foreign tourism to Northern California.
Quan said her meeting with Mr. Tan was was the "first of many conversations with business and political leaders in China about investing and trading with the Port of Oakland. The Port currently exports red wine, organic produce and other goods to China, and we're hoping to strengthen that relationship," Quan said in her FaceBook posting.
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Media Create posted its game sales figures for the week of July 17-23 today. Nintendo's classic ode to two-dimensional gaming, New Super Mario Bros., and Motto Nou o Kitaeru Otona DS Training both bobbed back up after suffering slight setbacks last week.
The prominent role of non-gaming titles on the Nintendo DS continues to mark the handheld's presence in Japan--the market can't seem to get enough software titles that mix education with entertainment. This week, two new such titles made appearances on the charts. At No. 2, Shaberu! DS Oryori Navi sold 126,000 copies, while Minna no DS Seminar: Kanpeki Kanji Ryoku barely missed the top 10, ranking in at No. 11 with 23,000 copies sold.
For the first time in a while, a Nintendo GameCube game made the top 10. Combining Dragonball, Once Piece, and Naruto characters into a single fighting title proved to be a successful formula for Battle Stadium D.O.N on both the PlayStation 2, at No. 4, and the GameCube, at No. 8.


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49ers go 3-3 in pool play at Sand National Championships
April 27, 2012
Gulf Shores, Ala. - Long Beach State began their time at the AVCA National Championships today, as two pairs participated in the pools portion of the individual national championship.
Caitlin Ledoux and Tara Roenicke won two matches but lost to Frederick and Hill of Pepperdine, while Haleigh Hampton and Chelsea Cabrajac went 1-2, defeating Jane Croson and Ashley Lee of Hawai'I 21-19, 9-21, 15-11.
In pool B, Ledoux and Roenicke won their first two matches of the day. The pair defeated Chubb and Theesfeld of the College of Charleston 21-9, 21-15, before topping Melville and Bassett of Stetson 21-15, 21-11.
Hampton and Cabrajac had two losses on the day. The pair lost 21-17, 21-11 to Shelton/Kolich of the College of Charleston, but pushed the top team in the group, Newgard/Tiegs of Florida State, to three sets, falling 18-21, 21-17, 15-8.
The team championship begins tomorrow in a four-team, double-elimination format. Long Beach State will start play against Florida State, while Pepperdine takes on the College of Charleston.
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Best alternative to the traditional desk chair
Humanscale's Freedom Saddle Stool was our only test chair that made it past our long-term sit test and was the only chair that was recommended as an alternative to the desk chair. The casters allow for ease of movement, the saddle seat is comfortable enough to sit in for long periods to time, and its height-adjustable and ergonomic qualities enhance posture. A majority of testers preferred this chair to their normal desk chair.
Best collaborative side seating
The Steelcase Buoy chair was our winner for collaborative side chair. Its lightweight design (complete with handle) is made to move around and support collaborative behavior. Its 360-degree swivel and height adjustability is very intuitive and moves with your body. Plus it's small enough to tuck under a desk when not in use.
Best sit-to-stand
With standing meetings becoming popular, the Via Muvman is a great sit-to-stand option. The user perches or leans on the seat to use. Although it's too tall for use at a normal workstation, it supports a wide range of motion and has a handle for easy transport.
Best active seating
If movement is the goal, then the Via Swopper was the best "active" seating option. With 360-degree swivel and spring bounce, the chair looks as fun as it is. It has multiple adjustments, although some of our testers found it too tall.
Whether you're trying to ease an achy back or be more active at work, there are many options to choose from. Just be sure to test chairs thoroughly to ensure you have the right height, maneuverability and comfort.


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If you want to find sermon video from Sovereign Grace leaders, the most complete online archive available at present is the Sovereign Grace Ministries Vimeo page. Here are some of the collections we offer there:
The Vimeo archive is still fairly small, so if there are any old sermons you would love to see prioritized as we build it please let us know in a comment on this post.
We also have a Youtube channel which we use primarily for videos related to Sovereign Grace Music, such as music videos for our songs or training videos for worship leaders.
Sovereign Grace Music finished another training video, this one for "Hail the Day" from Risen.
Our Pastors Conference registration opened this week. This year we have the honor of Sinclair Ferguson joining C.J. Mahaney, Dave Harvey, and Jeff Purswell as a main session speaker.
And on a lighter note, Crossway Community Church (Charlotte, NC) shared about the world's first "openly shallow small group."
Desiring God just announced the details for their 2011 National Conference, which will focus on the church's mission to bring the gospel to unreached and unengaged people groups. Here is an introduction to the topic from John Piper:
Dave will give one of the messages in the church planting track. You can read more at Desiring God's website.
In his message at Plant, Mark Dever zeroed in on what is created by church planting–a church. And a church means shepherds caring for community of sheep. In this clip Mark surveys the need for shepherds and the need for sheep to be connected in community with one another.
On Thursday we mentioned an evangelism story from our church in Addis Ababa. Also active in Ethiopia is Covenant Mercies, a ministry of Covenant Fellowship Church (Glen Mills, PA). Check out their website to learn about their orphan sponsorship program. Doug Hayes, who leads the ministry, also just posted some thoughts on the gospel and mercy ministries.
Bob Kauflin recently interviewed Anglican worship leader Jamie Brown about his upcoming seminar at WorshipGod11, "Leading Surgically While Thinking Liturgically."
For parents wondering how to help younger kids engage with the sermon, Steve Bice (Bloomington, MN) shared an idea that he has seen work well in his church.
For those of you who prayed for the regional leadership retreat this week, thank you! It was a fruitful time and several of the guys from the team will be sharing about different things they discussed there in the coming weeks.
We recently got some exciting news from our church in Ethiopia, Covenant Life Church Addis Ababa. Senior pastor Mo Adugna spearheaded an effort to hold preaching and evangelistic meetings in the Millennium Hall, a large auditorium in Addis Ababa. Mo and his church set the date for April 13, advertised the meeting, worked with area churches, arranged worship, drama, and preaching. But even they were surprised when 22,000 people showed up.
There were so many people that the police eventually had to turn people away. Wondy Getahun, another pastor at Covenant Life Church Addis Ababa, wrote to us,
Our main aim was to preach the gospel and also to impact the city with the Word of God. And the Lord did it. There were many unbelievers who came, and we believe they were touched; they said they could come again. We also felt the impact on our Sunday meeting: we had to rent more chairs that day, and on the Sunday following our meeting at the Millennium Hall, 24 new people wanted to learn about the gospel and gave their lives to Christ….The Lord has opened an unbelievable door.
We got a lot of encouragement from evangelical churches….We were very happy because we believe that what matters most is the local church. All of this work goes hand in hand with the local church….
Please pray for Mo, because he is shouldering a very heavy burden, but we know that it's for the glory of Jesus.
Our main aim was to preach the gospel and also to impact the city with the Word of God. And the Lord did it. There were many unbelievers who came, and we believe they were touched; they said they could come again. We also felt the impact on our Sunday meeting: we had to rent more chairs that day, and on the Sunday following our meeting at the Millennium Hall, 24 new people wanted to learn about the gospel and gave their lives to Christ….The Lord has opened an unbelievable door.
We got a lot of encouragement from evangelical churches….We were very happy because we believe that what matters most is the local church. All of this work goes hand in hand with the local church….
Please pray for Mo, because he is shouldering a very heavy burden, but we know that it's for the glory of Jesus.
In May, they held another Wednesday meeting that drew 16,000 people. Please pray that the Lord continues to draw people to himself through the gospel, and to build ever-increasing unity among the churches of Addis Ababa.
Mo and Wondy both attended our Pastors College before moving back home to Ethiopia in 2003 to plant Covenant Life Church Addis Ababa. For more on the church and their vision for Ethiopia, check out this video we produced in 2008 as part of our annual Mission Presentation.
From Tuesday to Thursday this week, we will be gathering with our regional leadership team for their annual retreat. C.J. Mahaney and Jeff Purswell will be joining us for part of the retreat this year. The men on that team all live and do ministry in different areas of the USA and abroad, so this retreat is one of the most strategic opportunities of the year to pray and talk about the ministry, enjoy fellowship, and build together relationally.
The regional leadership team's role is to help Sovereign Grace Ministries facilitate church planting and church care, as well as international ministry, so those are the areas of our ministry that we'll be looking at together. And because we'll all be together, the retreat will also provide a context for the regional team to give invaluable counsel and feedback to C.J., Jeff, and me.
If you think of it, would you please pray that God would enrich our time together, giving us wisdom and faith to know and do his will? Here are some of the things we'll be talking about and need God's help in:
As an aside, I'm also going to present some follow-up material to the message on "Durable Partnerships" that I presented at last year's Pastors Conference. I hope to share some of that material here on the blog after the retreat, so stay tuned. And thanks for praying for us!
Resources from Next 2011 are available: recommended books for developing a biblical worldview, the worship songlist, main session audio, and breakout audio.
Should we play music behind people speaking or praying in church? Bob Kauflin answers.
Audio from workshops at the Gospel Coalition National Conference is now available, including C.J. Mahaney on "Pastoring with Discernment" and Joshua Harris on "Humble Orthodoxy."
Audio is now available from the breakout sessions at last month's Next conference in Orlando. The first four listed below cover general worldview topics, and the rest discuss how a biblical worldview affects a Christian's approach to different vocations.
Vern Poythress teaches New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from California Institute of Technology, a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, and a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary, Master of Letters in New Testament from University of Cambridge, England, and a Doctor of Theology in New Testament from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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Nathan Sasser is a third-year Ph.D student in philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He received bachelor degrees in English and in Philosophy from North Carolina State University, and a Masters of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary.
Peter Williams is the Warden (CEO) of Tyndale House, Cambridge, England, a world-leading evangelical center for biblical research. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he received his Masters and Doctorates, later teaching Hebrew and Old Testament at the university. He became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, before becoming the youngest Warden in the history of Tyndale House.
Kevin DeYoung is no stranger to regular attendees of Next. He is the Senior Pastor of University Reformed Church, across the street from the main entrance to Michigan State University. He is humorous, but more importantly—and why we so appreciate him—Kevin is passionate for truth and its application to daily living.
Malcolm Wright received his undergraduate degree in physics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and his doctorate from the University of New Mexico. He now works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab developing laser based communication systems for future NASA flight projects.
Kirk Whitworth was a political appointee in the Bush administration from 2002-2007, serving most recently as Director of Communications for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. He is now a pastor at Grace Community Church in Ashburn, Virginia.
Nelson Cooney is the Managing Director of Blue Sand Securities, a financial company devoted to raising capital for hedge funds. He has a Political Science degree from the University of South Carolina and a master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He has previously worked in government, non-profit, and technology.
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The current dynamic between the US and China poses challenges for Delhi
The informal California summit over the weekend between the US and Chinese presidents,Barack Obama and Xi Jinping has unveiled a new phase in great power relations and demands a significant recalibration of Indias recent foreign policy assumptions. Although the summit did not produce any major breakthroughs,its very conception is based on the American recognition that a measure of political understanding with China is necessary for the management of the challenges confronting Asia and the world.
Any talk of US-China collaboration makes India rather nervous. Two recent occasions come to mind. In June 1998,barely weeks after the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests,presidents Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin declared the intent to build a strategic partnership and promote non-proliferation in the subcontinent. New Delhi went into a paroxysm denouncing the prospects for a Sino-US condominium in Asia.
In a Beijing summit in November 2009,Obama and Hu Jintao declared their commitment to seek stability in the subcontinent. Travelling to the US three weeks later,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought assurances from the US president that Washingtons partnership with Beijing will not be at the expense of Delhi. Looking back a little further,in the early years of the Cold War,India continually urged America and the Soviet Union to end their confrontation and seek peaceful coexistence. When America and Russia sought to achieve precisely those objectives in the 1970s,Delhi became anxious about superpower hegemony and protested nuclear agreements between them that constrained Indias strategic options.
The current dynamic between America and China will pose even greater challenges to Delhi. In the 1970s,Delhi neutralised the impact of Sino-American rapprochement by a tighter embrace of Soviet Russia. Today,Moscow is much closer to Beijing and is not eager to balance a rising China.
Even more important,communist China,unlike Soviet Russia,is the second largest economy and the largest trading partner of the United States and all its major allies. China,then,has far greater leverage over America than Russia ever did in the Cold War.
Indias response to the new Sino-US engagement must be based on a number of factors. For one,Delhi must recognise that China today is at the very top of the international power hierarchy. Three decades of rapid economic growth has made China the second most important power in the world and given Beijing unprecedented influence on global affairs. While Washington is under pressure to explore common ground with Beijing,it will not be easy constructing a comprehensive accommodation between a rising China and a US that has shaped the international system since the middle of the last century. The American version of the G-2 is not the same as the Chinese conception of a new type of great power relationship. Given the deep contradictions between the interests of the dominant power and the rising one,the process of reconciling them will be a long and difficult one.
In the new phase of the Sino-US relationship,which will see both conflict and cooperation,India must seek more intensive cooperation with both the US and China rather than less. In …continued »


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omg this was AMAZING!! u should write a sequel!!
Wow! This story made me fall in love with Draco Malfoy. Ginny was a little more sensitive then in the series, but it's really just the authors portrayal of her. Overall great story!
I really enjoyed your story. It gave me butterflies in my stomach.
This story was fantastic! I couldn't stop reading it! Please say you'll have a sequel?
This story was fantastic! I couldn't stop reading it! Please say you'll have a sequel?
!!!!I really can't say anythibng but I absolutely ador this story!!!:) and I kinda wish there was more but i don't know if that would wreck it. Either way I loveddddd it, so keep writing more!!!!
I loved this so much! It's my first time reading a Ginny/Draco fic, and man am I glad I picked this one. I really, really liked this. Well done! :D
In the End Notes you have 'Playfullll'? Love the story btw. :) The whole idea of the characters meeting and spending time in a resort is a terrible cliche, but your story keeps surprising. Only a few can take a cliche and make it enjoyable. Thank you. :)
And well, I forgot to write it- this was the one of few stories that I cried a bit reading it... Werid, but true ;p and you have really got a talent, really like the way you write!
(I started to read this at 10pm and ended up on chapter 17th at 2am, and now Ive read all of it ;p)
Hey, can't you write what happened after? ;p I mean, when everyone got to know, and how would they behave... I enjoyed reading this story very much, and I just love this pairing and how Draco changed during theese few years.
Wow, I think you have done an awesome job of staying within their characters while still haveing them behave like this. I kind of wish Ginny would have refused to make out with him though, it would have been a good wake-up call for Draco. I can't wait to read the next chapter! also, I am curious to see what the Weasley family's reaction is going to be like.
I haven't read the whole story yet, but so far I think the plot is very good.
Just some advice for another FanFic:
'I dare say', from Muriel gets a bit repetitive after a while.
And I think Ginny is acting more like Hermione than anyone else. Maybe for next time, try to make Ginny more GINNY, and less nervous, more headstrong, etc...
But other than that, great, fic!
great job!!!! so what is there kids names???
Author's Response: Well, that's a good question.. I'm sure none of them was named Scorpius, though. Ginny would have vetoed that one ;)
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Author's Response: Thank you :)
This story is one of the best i have read in a long time. The epilogue was especially good. :)
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IG Report Concluded That Whistleblowing Activities Contributed To Her Termination
For Immediate Release: September 22, 2004
For further information contact:
Mark S. Zaid, Esq.
(202) 454-2809
Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a Whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. The Complaint seeks to compel the release of a secret investigative report, and related documents, compiled by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General. The DOJ OIG investigated Edmonds' allegations for more than two years and has failed to abide by repeated promises – including provided to Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in June 2002 – to timely complete its investigation and release its findings.
On July 21, 2004, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, notified the Senate Judiciary Committee that the DOJ OIG had completed its investigation and concluded that Edmonds' allegations "were at least a contributing factor" in her firing. Additionally, DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine also concluded that the FBI failed to "adequately pursue" Edmonds' allegations of espionage against a co-worker. Although the DOJ promised the Committee that a declassified summary would be released, and notwithstanding the fact that Edmonds' FOIA request was granted expedited processing by the government in July 2004, to date not one page has been released.
"The Justice Department has continually sought to cover-up the FBI's misconduct with… Continue reading
On Friday, October 1st, 9/11Truth activists in New York hand delivered flyers to over 450 United Nations delegates and staffers. The response was incredibly positive. This page contains the text from one of two flyers that were handed out. You can also download the flyers in pdf format.
Download detailed flyer pdf
Did 9/11 Touch your Nation?
Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders "Consciously" Let it Occur
A Time for Global Questions
An Open Urgent Letter to All UN Missions in New York
Given the appalling state of US media, the following facts may be new to you, but these are truths your people should know:
Philip Zelikow, executive director of the Kean Commission, has compared popular doubts about the 9/11 Commission report to a dangerous disease. Nicholas Levis of 911Truth.org responds to his comments in the Washington Post of Oct. 7, 2004 …
An open Letter to Philip Zelikow and The Washington Post
By Nicholas Levis
[also featured at summeroftruth.org]
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2004 —
Philip Zelikow, a high-level national security adviser to both Bush administrations, acknowledges that America faces a new infectious disease: lack of faith in the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission report.
As executive director of the freshly-retired Kean Commission, Zelikow was a principal author of the 567-page document, which purports to explain everything that matters about September 11th, 2001.
Sales of the 9/11 report have far outpaced those of his earlier study in statecraft, "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed." He co-wrote that book in 1999 together with one of his closest associates from the original Bush White House, Condoleeza Rice.
Despite blockbuster sales for the 9/11 report, Zelikow tells the Washington Post he is alarmed by the concurrent spread of "conspiracy theories" about the attacks, which he describes as pathogens:
"Our worry is when things become infectious, as happened with the [John F. Kennedy] assassination," Zelikow says. "Then this stuff can be deeply corrosive to public understanding. You can get where the bacteria can sicken the larger body." (1)
It's too late, Dr. Zelikow. The "bacteria" are winning, and your own work is to blame.
Perhaps… Continue reading
Wolfowitz's New Laughing Matter
A Review of the 9/11 Commission Report
by David R. Griffin,
author of The New Pearl Harbor – Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions —
A Critique of the Kean-Zelikow Report
Many people have said that this Report "reads like a novel." It is indeed surprisingly good when judged in terms of criteria appropriate to works of fiction. But the 9/11 Commission was supposed to conduct a serious investigation into the question of who was responsible for the attacks of 9/11. Instead, it simply presupposed the official conspiracy theory, according to which the attacks were planned and carried out solely by al-Qaeda. The Commission entirely ignored all evidence for the alternative conspiracy theory, according to which the attacks succeeded only because of complicity by members of the US government.
Having written a book that summarizes much of the evidence supportive of this alternative theory ("The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11″), I read "The 9/11 Commission Report" to see how it handled this evidence. I found that it simply omitted most of it and distorted the rest.
For example, the Report simply repeats the official story about the 19 Arab hijackers, failing to mention that at least six of the named men have shown up alive. It even suggests that Waleed al-Shehri, who visited the US embassy in Morocco after 9/11, stabbed a flight attendant on AA 11 before it… Continue reading
by Joel Warner
Boulder Weekly
October 21 – 28, 2004
Tim Gale became a believer one day last January. He was prowling the Internet when he came across a video of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing on Sept. 11, 2001. It was likely a video Gale had seen before, but this footage was in slow motion. As Gale watched the tower's 110 floors begin to crumble, he noticed something unusual.
Right before the tower dropped into a cloud of debris, the windows on the upper levels of the towers blew outwards, one floor at a time, like clockwork. That wasn't caused by the plane slamming into the tower or the ensuing fire, Gale told himself.
There were bombs in the World Trade Center.
"It blew my head off," says Gale. "I started searching like crazy."
What Gale found, in countless websites, books and films, was a vast network of information questioning the official story of what happened on Sept. 11. The 42-year-old Boulder resident was inundated with decades-old memos, foreign newspaper clippings, engineering studies and national-defense policies. And he discovered the collapse of the World Trade Center was just the beginning – he believes he's witnessing the collapse of the American society.
"I was being confronted with the raw fact that the U.S. government was complicit in the mass murder of its own citizens for geopolitical purposes," says Gale. "It's too much to bear in the confines of your mind."
Gale began spending six to eight hours… Continue reading
By Donna Marsh O'Connor, Liverpool, NY,
Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer,
WTC Tower II, 93rd floor
Friday 22 October 2004
On the Thirty-third Anniversary of My Daughter's Birth
Sometimes, Mr. Bush, it's the smallest of details that makes everything click. The smallest of details. Right now, Mr. Bush, I am looking at your watch. It's an item of clothing accessory and, unlike your other costumes, it is one that is particularly revealing.
On Halloween my daughter would be thirty-three years old. Her child would be almost three. Seven weeks before her twenty-ninth birthday, Vanessa, four months pregnant, ran from the falling towers of the World Trade Center. She did not make it. Her body, and in it the small body of her unborn child, was pulled from the rubble of the fallen towers on September 24th, just ten feet from an alley between towers IV and V. It is important for me to tell you that she was on the phone to her uptown office five minutes after the first plane hit tower I, explaining how she and others in tower II were "safe."
Here is what you did regarding specifically the events of that morning: You vacationed before, during and after August 6th, the day you were handed the presidential daily briefing that said very clearly Vanessa Lang Langer and many other Americans were not safe. After the first plane hit tower I, the fact of the PDB did not click in your mind, did not cause you to… Continue reading
NEW YORK CITY, NY (Oct. 26, 2004)(Updated Sep. 11, 2009) – An alliance of 100 prominent Americans and 40 family members of those killed on 9/11 today announced the release of the 911 Truth Statement, a call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur. The Statement supports an August 31st Zogby poll that found nearly 50% of New Yorkers believe the government had foreknowledge and "consciously failed to act," with 66% wanting a new 9/11 investigation.
Focusing on twelve questions, the Statement highlights areas of incriminating evidence that were either inadequately explored or ignored by the Kean Commission, ranging from insider trading and hijacker funding to foreign government forewarnings and inactive defenses around the Pentagon. The Statement asks for four actions: an immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Congressional hearings, media analysis, and the formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry.
The Statement's list of signatories includes notables spanning the political spectrum, from Presidential candidates Ralph Nader, Michael Badnarik, and David Cobb to Catherine Austin Fitts, a member of the first Bush administration, as well as Washington veterans like Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern. Other signers range from peace activists like Global Exchange's Kevin Danaher to former US Ambassador and Chief of Mission to Iraq, Edward L. Peck; from environmentalists like Randy Hayes… Continue reading
Report asks whether anyone should be held accountable, names individuals
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Ed. Note:The Cover-up Grinds On: Porter Goss slams shutters on CIA accountability (and no doubt further demoralizes any remaining honest underling spooks)
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has blocked, at least temporarily, the distribution of a draft internal report that identifies individual officers by name in discussing whether anyone should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, members of Congress from both parties said.
The delays began in July, at the direction of John McLaughlin, then the acting director of central intelligence, and have continued since Porter Goss took over as the intelligence chief last month, members of Congress said. The delays have postponed the next step in the process, which calls for the draft report to be reviewed by affected individuals.
It is not known who is named in the report, conducted by the CIA's inspector general, an independent internal investigator.
The review was sought in December 2002 by the joint congressional committee that investigated intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. The purpose, that panel said, should be to determine "whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable" for any mistakes that contributed to the failure to disrupt the attacks.
In a Sept. 23 letter to McLaughlin, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan… Continue reading
To: National Desk
Contact: David Kubiak, 207-967-2390, Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715 or 212-243-7787 or firstname.lastname@example.com; both of 911truth.org
News Advisory:
A coalition of 9/11 victim family members, survivors and advocacy groups will deliver a formal complaint requesting a new criminal investigation of 9/11 events to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer this Thursday following a 2:00 PM press conference outside the Equitable Building (corner of Nassau and Cedar Streets). The Complaint petitions the Attorney General to launch an independent in-depth criminal and civil probe of evidence suggesting grave official misconduct including criminal negligence, criminal facilitation, and accessorial abetment of murder, insider trading, obstruction of justice, and other violations of New York law.
The Complaint asks the Attorney General to seek justice for 9/11 crimes by applying New York State law to recover damages incurred by state and local governments from corporations and individuals whose conduct furthered the criminal conspiracy. The Complainants, including victim family member Bob McIlvaine who lost his son, maintain that few if any of these charges or supporting evidence were adequately investigated by the 2002 Joint Intelligence Inquiry or the 9/11 Commission which released its final report last July.
"For many New Yorkers, AG Spitzer is the last hope for finding the truth about what happened on 9/11 and enforcing the law." noted spokesperson David Kubiak. "Because administration officials have classified evidence under the "state secrets" doctrine, preempting local probes and obstructing official inquiries, there has been no comprehensive, credible independent investigation of… Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize winner William Bunch uses an account from the book, "Behind-the-Scenes: Ground Zero," as one source for the claim that three black boxes from the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center were discovered by authorities during the recovery efforts in 2001-2002. This is contrary to the official story. (Philadelphia Daily News, Thursday, 10/28/04 – a longer version was published on his "Campaign Extra" weblog.)
We hope other newspapers – and broadcasters – will follow this important lead and endeavor to investigate other potential cover-ups relevant to the 9/11 investigation.
Update, Oct. 29: This breakthrough story has been picked up at OpEd News, Scoop Media, Yahoo PR Newswire and many other outlets.
Amid the enormous detail of loss, sorrow and recovery conveyed in "Behind-the-Scenes: Ground Zero," a New York City firefighter reveals that at least three of the four black boxes from Flights 11 and 175 were found by "Federal Agents" at the former World Trade Center site, during the clean-up efforts from September 2001 to March 2002.
At the time of the disaster, Nicholas DeMasi was a firefighter at Engine Company 261 in Queens. (The firehouse was shut down in 2003, after a century of operation.) In the weeks that followed 9/11, he joined an all-terrain vehicle crew (ATV Unit) at Ground Zero.
In "Behind-the-Scenes," he describes his experience as follows:
… Continue reading
"If you needed anything, go ask the ATV Guy, they're the gopher guys."
On page 108 comes the revelation:
"At one point I was assigned to take Federal Agents around the site to search for the black boxes from the planes.
Philadelphia, 10/28 — Bryan Sacks' and Nicholas Levis' breaking story on the amazing disappearing black box recorders from the WTC site was picked up and expanded by the Philly Daily News' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Will Bunch. Bunch ran the story, "9/11 'Black Box' Cover-up at Ground Zero?" on his popular Campaign Extra! political blog and promised it will see hard-copy in PDN soon.
Contact: David Kubiak, 207-967-2390, email@example.com
Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715, email@example.com
(This release, with pictures from press conference, also at Justicefor911.org.)
New York, NY (October 28, 2004) – On behalf of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Chief Investigator William Casey today accepted a Complaint and Petition from a group of New York City citizens including 9/11 family members, survivors and a Ground Zero triage physician. The Complaint demands that the AG open a criminal inquiry and/or grand jury investigation into the many still unsolved crimes of September 11, 2001 over which he has jurisdiction.
The complainants first held a press conference to explain the reasoning and desperation behind their unique Citizens' Complaint and Petition, which calls for criminal and civil probes into previously suppressed or ignored areas of inquiry identified by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, 9/11 CitizensWatch and many independent researchers.
The lead complainants currently include Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son Robert in the World Trade Center collapse; Patricia Perry, who lost her son John, a New York City Police officer; William Rodriguez, a WTC maintenance worker and rescue effort hero; Jenna Orkin, Chairwoman of the World Trade Center Environmental Organization; Dr. Faiz Khan, Ground Zero triage physician; and ambulance first responder,. Megan Bartlett, founder of Ground Zero for Peace (who was recently hospitalized with malignant reactions to toxic WTC dust and unable to attend).
In brief statements prior to signing the 20-page Citizens' Complaint, the complainants voiced their hope that the public… Continue reading
Editor's Note:
We are pleased on this evening of Nov. 1st to 2nd, known in Mexico as "The Day of the Dead," to publish the following exclusive: a Republican-meets-Democrat, one-two punch editorial by Cynthia McKinney and Catherine Austin Fitts, on "The Haunting of the White House." An earlier version of the piece was written in response to a request from editors of The New York Times. So far the Times has declined to publish, but other print publications are still considering it.
Meanwhile, you can feel free to forward it to the nine winds on the Web, with our thanks. – 911Truth.org Staff
Day of the Dead: The Haunting of the White House
By Cynthia McKinney and Catherine Austin Fitts
November 1, 2004
Something is rising from the ashes of September 11: the spectre of questions that will haunt our country until answered.
Months after the release of the official 9/11 Commission Report – even as Congress moves to implement its proposals for a radical centralization of security forces – growing numbers of Americans are doubting their own government's account of what really happened on September 11, and how.
From the first, the Bush Administration resisted investigation and disclosure. Families of September 11 victims were forced to lobby the administration and Congress for a full and independent inquiry. They fought for 14 months, blocked every step of the way by the White House.
The political games reached such a point that the survivors of the worst attack ever on American soil were forced to hold a candlelight vigil in front of the White House. A vigil for the truth.
The White House finally assented in December 2002 to the establishment of an independent commission, under former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. Still, the administration pushed for a hand-picked panel, with a narrow focus on intelligence failures and recommendations.
The families demanded a full investigation, posing nearly 400 questions to the Kean Commission. The commissioners said they welcomed these queries. But their final report ignored most of the unanswered questions. Still posted on the website of the September 11 Family Steering Committee, these questions are a stark reminder of the Kean Commission's failures.
Now these same questions have been submitted to the New York Attorney General. Last week, the New York City office of Eliot Spitzer received a citizens' complaint to open a legal inquiry into crimes still unsolved, more than three years later.
So begins the haunting of the White House. Continue reading
The ABC News website has finally acknowledged the existence of alternative research and popular doubts about what really happened on September 11, how and why. We welcome this breakthrough.
We are very pleased that the article by Dean Schabner, published today on the front page of the ABC News website, seems to have fairly quoted two persons among the many citizens pursuing alternative research and actions for justice and full disclosure around 9/11.
We hope that ABC News will follow up with televised broadcasts on this subject, and give a fair hearing to all points of view.
Even as we thank ABC News, we must unfortunately also note that its article adopts a dismissive tone toward doubts about September 11, in advance of full inquiry. The headline is mildly misleading; the unanswered questions about September 11 did not merely "surface" on the eve of Election Day, but have been the subject of untiring work by hundreds of researchers for more than three years and the subject of such best-selling books as The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin and the recent Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert.
No basis whatsoever is given for the assessment of the ABC Polling Unit that the Zogby International survey of New York residents cited in the article (co-commissioned by 911Truth.org) is "not credible."
Using the same established methodologies as in other surveys regularly cited by ABC News and other major media, Zogby polled a representative sampling of 808 adult New York… Continue reading
Monday, November 8, 2004:
Today our Web site is receiving thousands of new visitors, presumably because The New York Times printed a story that reports, for the first time in "the Paper of Record," on:
– the complaint and petition to New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, demanding a new criminal investigation of unsolved September 11 crimes (available online at www.Justicefor911.org)
– and the Zogby International poll that found that one-half of New York City residents believe high government officials had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks and "consciously failed to take action." (The poll was commissioned last August by 911Truth.org together with Walden Three.)
The piece by Ian Urbina represents the longest hearing given to date given by The New York Times to skeptical theories about what really happened on September 11.
Urbina reports on an ongoing TV-ad campaign in the New York City area, financed by millionaire James W. Walter. The two commercials in the campaign promote the ideas that World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed due to an intentional implosive demolition, and that no full- size airliner could have caused the pattern of damage visible at the Pentagon. While not all staff members of 911Truth.org endorse either idea, we are especially convinced that the collapse of WTC 7 merits intense investigation.
We are archiving the Times article below, under fair use provisions.
We welcome all of our new visitors…
We invite you to explore 911Truth.org and the sites we link to, like… Continue reading
On Wednesday, November 10th, Anderson Cooper featured Kyle Hence and Jimmy Walter regarding the latter's TV ad campaign to expose 9/11 truth on WTC 7 and the Pentagon strike. Although Cooper also introduced "official story" apologist Gerald Posner to discredit the ads (with already stale and discredited excuses), the viewers were apparently not impressed and 89% of respondents to the show's online poll remain convinced there's been a government cover-up.
COOPER: Tonight we want to look very closely at a conspiracy theory that is exploding on the Internet and on the airwaves. A California millionaire has spent a lot of money running TV ads, suggesting that we don't really know the full facts of what happened on 9/11. Why World Trade Center building number 7 collapsed even though it wasn't hit by a plane. Why the hole in the Pentagon was so small.
In a moment you will meet the man behind the ads, an investigators who says there are answers to all those questions. But first here's Deborah Feyerick with a look at the ads, and the allegations.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The two ads suggest a government conspiracy and coverup, raising questions like why did a building two blocks from the World Trade Center Towers seem to implode?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was not hit by aircraft. It had no significant fire and no explanation for its collapse has been given.
FEYERICK: Another ad asking why plane parts at the Pentagon seem to have… Continue reading
"The buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of burning jet fuel." – Kevin Ryan
Friday, November 12, 2004
(911Truth.org news service — updated 11/13, 11/14)
An executive at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the company that certified the steel used in the construction of the World Trade Center, has questioned the common theory that fuel fires caused the Twin Towers to collapse.
In a letter dated Thursday (11/11, complete text below), UL executive Kevin Ryan called on Frank Gayle, director of the government team that has spent two years studying how the trade center was built and why it fell, to "do what you can to quickly eliminate the confusion regarding the ability of jet fuel fires to soften or melt structural steel."
Kevin Ryan is Site Manager at Environmental Health Laboratories (EHL) in South Bend, Indiana. This is a division of UL, the product-compliance and testing giant. Because UL certified the WTC steel for its ability to withstand fires, the steel's performance on September 11 is obviously of concern to the company.
While Ryan's letter does not constitute an official statement from Underwriters Laboratories, it suggests incipient disagreements between UL and NIST about the true cause of the WTC collapses.
Gayle is deputy chief of the Metallurgy Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and head of the "NIST and the WTC" team. A draft of the government agency's final report on the WTC collapses is due in January.
Ryan copied the letter… Continue reading
As of December 3, readers can use this space to post their thoughts about anything on the site.
Time permitting, we will sometimes respond. Please,
no spam, obscenities, slander or personal attacks – we will edit.
THE MAILBOX, Friday, 11/19/2004
Marcus Hildrebrandt writes to the Staff of 911Truth.org:
For all of you who have it made up in your minds that September 11th and the
death of over 3000 people was just a George Bush conspiracy, you people, or
should I say waists of skin, are the most disgusting things I have ever heard
of. It is so funny that you people are not even American citizens. You idiots
sit in your cushy little armchairs, in your snobbish little houses, somewhere in
Europe, because your too worried that if you popped your pointy little heads
into the United States of America, you'd get your tiny little snobbish, pompous
asses kicked if you even opened your mouth and let any of the crap spill out.
How on earth could you people think that this whole thing with the planes
crashing into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center (which by the way is just
a stones throw away from your beloved United Nations building that just happens
to be just as corrupt as you people are), was just a hoax to cover up the 2000
election? I am also just disgusted to hear your people question
whether a plane "actually" crashed into the Pentagon. Where the hell
is your brain?… Continue reading


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The Indian Express traces how Yasin Bhatkal,a class X dropout from a coastal Karnataka town,went on to become one of Indias most wanted and,until Thursday,elusive terrorists.
In Pictures: Yasin Bhatkal – The case file
As security dossiers go,this one looks like it was put together a few years ago by a bored intelligence officer in a nondescript back office somewhere in Delhi. The document,which is in a table format,lists the name of the fugitive as Mohammed Ahmed Siddibapa alias Ahamed alias Yaseer. It says he was born on January 15,1983,studied up to Class X and also Islamic issues,is 5 ft 6,fair,clean-shaven,wears pant shirt and moves with a laptop.
Nepal denies link but porous border made it haven for Tunda and Bhatkal
He is wanted for bomb blasts in Gujarat,Bangalore and Hyderabad. His associates are Riyaz,Iqbal,Sultan,Muyeed and Shabbir. He speaks Urdu,Kannada and Nawayati,a local dialect. He had a passport issued in Bangalore which was valid until June 18,2013. Present place of stay: Unknown. Bhatkal arrest: A wife who keeps to herself,a factory no one approaches
Police officers around the country,however,say they should not be faulted if they call this dossier a gross understatement. Siddibapa,who is more famous as Yasin Bhatkal,is for them the co-founder and operational commander of the Indian Mujahideen,its official bomb-maker,trained bomb expert and the mastermind of nearly a dozen bomb blasts across the country who has been named in almost every terror attack since 2007.
In terms of his importance on the list of Indias most wanted terrorists,he was up there with the most dreaded. And until Thursday,the most elusive.
Yasins journey into the world of terror is said to have started in the early years of the last decade. He had joined the Jamiya Islamiya in Bhatkal,his hometown in coastal Karnataka,and was allegedly attracted to jehadi ideology since his school days.
He,along with brothers Riyaz and Iqbal the three of who would go on to found the IM tried to attract Muslim youth towards their ideology before his family discovered his leanings and packed him him to Dubai in November 2005. His life in Dubai is a bit of a blur. Intelligence agencies claim he escaped from Dubai and was seen with al-Qaeda supporters in Abu Dhabi. They say he managed to return to India in 2007 and rejoined Riyaz and Iqbal in Mangalore and was trained in making nitrate bombs. His family claims he disappeared from Dubai in January 2007 and could not be traced.
Yasins progress from then until he became one of Indias most wanted terrorists is a story of travelling around the country to recruit youths and set up terror modules,procuring materials for bombs,making,supplying and planting them,taking refuge in remote areas,evading security agencies,even getting arrested once and being freed.
The attacks he allegedly planned and the bombs he made and planted during these years killed more than 250 people and maimed many more in Gujarat,Hyderabad,Jaipur,Delhi,Bangalore,Mumbai and …continued »
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I am much looking forward to future chapters. I believe you have built the story line and the characters well, and for this I commend you. Just one question though: at the moment is Calenuir a Thestral foal, or a full grown one?
Poor Harry got shot by an orc arrow, and now he does not even remember his own name...how sad and tragic!
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Author's Response: Thank you again for your comments, I am not sure if I am reading it right but it was not the arrow that did it. Still I look forward to further comments if you have the time.
A really great first chapter! Poor Harry, I wonder what hit his arm? I have to read the next chapter!
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wow! i sooo can't wait for an update!
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You don't need to sign your posts or include a link to your talent spec. That information is in your profile to the left.
I have found much of our healing, in Firelands, is done (as stated before) with multiple targets below 25% health. This then gave everyone the assumption that Mastery is a viable stat. It is, in the later Firelands boss fights. Of course it isn't in many other situations. With the boost to Crit, and much of our talents being based on Crit heals, I have experimented and come to the conclusion that getting Crit up at the expense of Mastery is not only viable, but I have better performance overall (Raiding 25man Normal Firelands). Crit seems to have constant throughput, and though there are situations where Mastery will beat it out slightly, Crit is constantly the best stat. I keep Haste at or above 1410 on all of my gear configurations, then go for Crit. I sometimes have to reforge Crit to Haste to keep the minimum Haste of 1410 on all of my gear configurations. I got 1410 as a break point from previous discussions here and elsewhere. It appears to be a viable number with my style of play. Telluric Currents seems to be a must with Crit building and gearing. With all of my research and experience, I have come to use my own HEP values for evaluating gear. When I begin doing Heroic Firelands, things may change as I meet the new challenges and possibly find weakness in my gearing and talent choices. My current state of thought will always be found on my HEP webpage (Best-in-Slot) and my build from the armory. I waited quite awhile to post here, not wanting to speak up until I had a grasp on things and did a great deal of experimentation. Trinkets are a wildcard and best suited to individual needs (I use at least one for mana regen).
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Draewind's "Best-in-Slot" page
(The links, on the page above, do not show reforging, but it is built into the item values by the method stated in the section on Gemming and Reforging.)
If anyone finds an item I may have overlooked, please let me know (using the "Error Report" link near the bottom of the page or in a private message). I will eventually get the page form based and allow individuals to enter their own HEP values for analyzing gear on a personal basis. Using the "Wowhead" links and adjusting the values there, is a good way of doing that now. (Item values on the page are normalized and match Wowhead values fairly closely for items without special procs or uses.)
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'Troubled Youth Such as You Burn in Hell'
During my freshman year of college, I had a roommate whose subversive sense of humor was rivaled only by my own. One day, while wandering around in a thrift store, she spotted a picture of Jesus with his arms around two forlorn teenagers.
My roommate bought the picture and penned an inscription at the top.
"Dear Wendy," the inscription read. "Troubled youth such as you burn in hell. Love, Jesus."
I suppose my roommate considered herself a lapsed Catholic, and I didn't consider myself much of anything. We joked a lot in those days about how we were both destined to wind up in hell but how we weren't worried because that's where all the cool kids were going to end up anyway.
My favorite part of the picture is the pretty handwriting she used to pen the note, and the addition of the word "love." Because there's nothing unloving about telling someone they're going to hell. Not when it's the truth. Not when Jesus is saying it.
After 20 years, I don't guess I fall into the "youth" category anymore. But I'm pretty certain a good number of people still think I'm heading to the underworld— what with my decision to write a public blog about raising kids without the many comforting images of heaven, eternal life and an almighty protector walking beside us on sandy beaches.
I guess I've always assumed that, if a benevolent god did exist, such a god would not punish skeptics or freethinkers simply for being skeptical or freethinking. But I suppose it's possible that I'm wrong. It's possible that somewhere, out there, a vengeful god is waiting to send me straight to hell, to burn alongside all those other poor souls who believed the wrong way.
Then again, all you guys are probably going to be there, too. So how bad could it be?


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Music Video: Incredibly intricate new Atoms For Peace video
First you'll try and work out how on earth Andrew Huang has managed to make the movement in this video so beguiling; stop frame? CGI? Magic? Then you'll start forgetting that and become completely enthralled by the beautifully undulating landscapes before finally feeling totally inadequate by the sheer quality of what you've just watched. Well, you will do if you're anything like me. Stunning stuff from a supremely talented director.


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