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An enjoyable music game that's obviously more fun with friends around. This title boast some interesting features: in addition to the in-game store that links directly to your PSN ID, you can record photos and movies with the Playstation Eye as well as your vocal tracks from the songs.
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Police officers from the Special Crime Unit have arrested a man who has been posing as a senior police chief in Rift Valley.
The suspect, who has been posing as an assistant commissioner of police, is being held at the Naivasha police station. He was found with police uniforms. The incident has left the police service baffled.
In a daring move, the suspect joined the current Rift Provincial Police Officer John M'bijiwe in visiting Suguta Valley where more than 40 police were ambushed by suspected Turkana militia and killed.
The imposter flew in a police helicopter to Baragoi and even attended a high powered security meeting to discuss the massacre.
In another incident, the impersonator sacked more than 10 police officers in various police stations that he had visited in Rift Valley,
before he was exposed.
According to a source privy to the investigations, the suspect, identified as Joshua Karanjahi Waiganjo, fleeced people money by posing as a senior police officer.
"The man has been posing as an assistant commissioner of police and has even been visiting several police stations in Rift Valley," said the source.
Some of the 'sacked' officers visited Naivasha police station where they expressed their shock on learning that the man had never been a police officer.
"After the Suguta meeting, investigations started and the officer was cornered in full police uniform of an assistant commissioner of police," the source said.
He added that initial investigations had revealed that Waiganjo had for years engaged in robberies on the Nairobi-Nakuru road. Naivasha police boss Charles Kortok said the police recovered police uniforms from the suspect's houses in Gilgil and Njoro.
Kortok saidhey were investigation how the suspect got genuine police uniforms which had the rank of an assistant commissioner of police.
"He shall be charged in court with robbery with violence, impersonating a police officer and being in possession of police uniforms," he said.
Kortok added that the police from the Special Crime Unit were still investigating the matter and may prefer more charges on the suspect.
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The Phoenix, EMU's literary and visual arts journal, is not just a medium for students and staff to share their artistic capabilities. It's a thermometer that displays the intensity of EMU's creative talent.
Kevin Seidel, Language and Literature professor and advisor of The Phoenix, has been the journal's advisor for the past five years.
During his time in this position, Seidel has seen it flourish under the leadership of Seniors Lani Prunés and Hannah Patterson, co-editors of The Phoenix.
Seidel provides logistical help and primarily corresponds with the editors via email to provide support from the shadows.
The real power behind the scenes comes from Prunés and Patterson and the staff they select to work with them.
Patterson has been an editor since her sophomore year, and Prunés since her first year.
In their four years of combined leadership, they have had the opportunity to mold the journal to their pleasing.
The opinions and viewpoints the two of them bring offset each other in a way that creates a unique feel to the literary arts journal.
Last year, according to Patterson, the final product was superb, and she expects the same this year.
Seidel remarked that Prunés and Patterson have been paramount in creating the quality product they now have. But, apart from the solid leadership, Seidel speculated that the newly formed writing major has sparked an increased literary interest in the journal.
In the production process of the Phoenix, unique to the current leadership, all submissions are anonymous in order to decrease the chance for bias in the selection process.
Each submitter is assigned a number and their submission(s) assigned a letter. Prunés and Patterson then send the categorized submissions to the other members of staff who, in turn, critique them and convene at a meeting.
At this meeting, each submission is voted on, and each member of staff assigns the given piece a number value between one and five, five being outstanding. Ones and twos are usually discarded, and the controversial selections are talked about for further consideration.
Following the selection process – roughly 18-25 literary pieces and about 20 photos and other art qualify each
year – the editing team turns to the layout portion of the process, usually a two week endeavor. From there, the journal is sent to the press.
The Phoenix is an opportunity for students to express their voice on campus, and it's well read. Two years ago, Prunés mentioned, they had to print 600 extra copies because of increased interest in the journal.
This year, The Phoenix will be available towards the beginning of April, followed by an open mic event in Common Grounds where excerpts will be read by the authors themselves.
Patterson envisions a day when the Common Grounds reading will be accompanied by a show of The Phoenix's best pieces in the Margaret M. Gehman Art Gallery.
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Senator [William] Roth; Ambassador [to Germany, John] Kornblum; Deputy Secretary [John] Hamre; Generals [Eric] Shinseki [US Army], [Lt. General Ralph E.] Eberhart [USAF], and [Lt. General Terrence] Dake [USMC]; members of the armed forces; ladies and gentlemen. First of all, let me thank you for joining us this morning to pay a brief tribute to an enduring figure who, in so many ways, is regarded as one of the most consequential leaders of our time. A man that all of you know who yesterday President Clinton paid tribute to by awarding the Medal of Freedom.
For the past five weeks, the forces of the NATO Alliance have been standing up to the brutal repression in Kosovo. And for first time in nearly a century, United States and German forces are standing together in a conflict as brothers-in-arms. That the nations of NATO remain united is a testament to our shared values. That our two nations remain undaunted, and that our forces serve so well together, is a testament to our shared vision. Few in this century have done more to advocate and advance those values and that vision than the leader we honor today.
In the shorthand of history, Chancellor Helmut Kohl will be remembered as the leader who reunited a Germany once thought to be permanently divided; the leader with the wisdom to find the perfect moment for the boldest of moves; and the leader with the will to forge ahead for the sake of Germany's future.
But the legacy of Helmut Kohl will be the larger dream he fulfilled -- to build, not a Fortress Europe, but a Europe that, in his own words, would be a "weather-proof house:" a home where Europeans would be secure from the cruel winds of conflict; a home where Americans would have a permanent welcome. Indeed, Germany as a nation is a true friend of America today, in large part because Helmut Kohl as an individual has been a true friend of America.
So it is fitting indeed, on this 50th anniversary of NATO, that we should honor one of its greatest champions. Because if you were to line up the leaders who have been stalwarts of Europe and loyal friends of America, two figures would stand as the bookends of this era of NATO: Winston S. Churchill, the man who first warned the world of the Iron Curtain; and Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the man who hastened its demise. Both men, like so many prophets, were regarded in their youth as improbable leaders. Both men, like so many legends, went on to accomplish what were regarded as impossible feats.
With Chancellor Kohl, we share a mutual affection grounded in years of goodwill and generosity. In fact, one of Chancellor Kohl's most vivid memories of Americans comes from his childhood in the aftermath of World War II. It is the image of American soldiers coming through the post-war rubble of Germany's villages and towns to deliver CARE packages. To this day, he says, "I have never forgotten that."
We are here today, Chancellor Kohl, because we have never forgotten, and we never want the American people to forget, your integrity and your determination to build a future of peace and goodwill. And in a sense, his legacy follows in the steps of a role model who is remembered in the churches of Germany on this very day, Saint Conrad. An ordinary man who displayed an extraordinary devotion to his sole calling, St. Conrad touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of Europeans. He was a doorkeeper, who, day in and day out for 40 years, welcomed thousands of pilgrims to shelter at the end of their long journey.
Today, at a time when homes are being burned and the doors of nations are being shut, we honor Helmut Kohl for building a Europe that is a stable and prosperous home for millions,
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Courses Taught: Introductory Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Survey of Human Diseases
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My main research focuses on the regulation of human N-cadherin gene expression. N-cadherin is a cell surface protein that is normally involved in cell to cell contacts called adherens junctions and desmosomes. These contacts hold like cells together in tissues and are required for tissue integrity. N-cadherin is normally expressed in neurons and other more mobile cells. Epithelial cells express E-cadherin, a related cadherin, and most human organs are formed from epithelial tissues. As it turns out, most human cancers also arise in epithelial tissues and when those tissues begin incorrectly expressing N-cadherin instead of or in addition to E-cadherin they become more mobile and are more likely to metastasize. As a result, I am very interested in understanding what proteins regulate the expression of the human N-cadherin gene with an eye toward understanding how it is incorrectly turned on in cancer cells.
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In recent years I have had students work with me on projects in four different realms.
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- West Nile virus - one student collaborated with veterinarians across the state to collect blood from dogs to detect West Nile virus exposure in dogs as an indicator of the spread of the disease. Another student worked on trapping mosquitos to quantify the size of the virus infected mosquito population.
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Land lessonsExperts offer agricultural land information at the recent Great Plains Land Expo in Fargo, N.D.
By: Mikkel Pates,
FARGO, N.D. — A Red River Valley-based auctioneering company staged a Great Plains Land Expo that drew some 450 people to Fargo, N.D., Nov. 30, including a range of people who either own land and are wondering about the future of their property and how to manage it, or people looking at it as a potential investment.
Event-goers heard an eclectic group of experts, ranging from Bill Wilson, a world renowned agricultural economist, to top drawer ag market gurus and regional experts on such things as wind, mineral and gas discussions.
Sponsorship was by Pifer's Auction & Realty, KFGO radio, Ag Country Farm Credit Services and The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, a sister publication to the Grand Forks Herald, which owns Agweek,
Kevin Pifer, Pifer's founding president and chief executive officer, said the event exceeded his attendance expectations. He said many landowners in the crowd may be looking for help in managing land that they own for its maximum potential return.
Wilson said oil markets and agricultural markets are strongly correlated today, and ultimately affect land values. Generally, the outlook is positive, with agricultural demands growing faster than productivity growth. But potential investors also must recognize the risks.
"Interest rates are a risk," Wilson said. "Policies on biofuels in the U.S. and Brazil are risky. China, and a change in the structure of their demand, is a risk. Another risk is how effective is biotechnology in increasing productivity. And the last risk is if other countries are capable of developing logistical systems at a lower cost than ours."
Interest rate risk
An increasing world population will demand some combination of more land and more technology to produce the food.
"Ultimately, that means labor-saving," Wilson said. "Anything in this country to save labor is a big deal in our country because of the changing demographics."
More automation and even unmanned technologies are a key to large-scale farming economies and more multi-year contracts with inputs and outputs, he added.
Wilson showed a map that indicated the largest increases in land values have come in states such as Nebraska, with values increasing nearly 90 percent since 2006. North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa are states where values have gone up more than 50 percent.
He noted that ag technology companies in such areas as farm equipment and food processing, also have seen market value gains in the past several years. Deere & Co., for example, has seen nearly 40 percent annual share value growth, and Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge, averaging returns of 20 percent per year.
"I think you have to recognize this big shift in the geography of ag production, worldwide as well as within North America," he said.
He noted cereal grains are shifting west, and the corn and soybean production moving farther north and west, and flows moving west to the Pacific Northwest ports.
One of the most accessible investment opportunities is on agricultural outputs — commodity markets. That is what spawned part of the Goldman Sachs hedge fund, Wilson said, but he also said there are investment opportunities in land and alternative technologies.
A baby bear year
Sue Martin, a Webster City, Iowa-based commodity markets analyst who writes a column for Agweek, was one of the speakers.
"We've had a very volatile year, and when I look at 2012 I don't see a year of volatility like we've experienced," Martin said. "I see things settling a bit. I'm still bearish (on) grains. I think 2012 is not a bull year," adding she doesn't expect the market highs to be in January and stair-step down through the year.
Ed Schafer, a former North Dakota governor who served as agriculture secretary in the final year of the George W. Bush presidency, welcomed conference-goers. He offered a relatively bullish overview of the agricultural future, noting that the principal problem in the world is inadequate food producing capacity, considering an expanding world population. He noted that the 1986 World Food Summit had a goal of cutting in half the world's undernourished people by 2015, but that by 2008 the undernourished actually had gone up.
Schafer said the U.S. must find ways to share its technology, including equipment, to help farmers around the world boost productivity.
"We must help them do what the American farmer has done for decades — just get better," Schafer said.
It is unclear what the impact of such an event had on its participants, most of whom paid a $95 registration for an event at Fargo's Ramada Plaza Suites. It didn't appear that the crowd had a direct conflict with the Northern Ag Expo or the big Steffes Ag-Iron auction, also going on in neighboring West Fargo, N.D.
Most who talked to Agweek declined to be quoted by name, or even location, but said they are hungry for information and insight into the strength of agricultural markets and their implications on land as an investment.
Five percent annual return
Nov. 29, Colvin & Co., L.L.P. of Minneapolis, offered an "ABCs" of land market program. Among other things, the agency said land investors should be able to expect a 4- to 5-percent return-on-investment in ag land —- before inflation — for some undefined future.
"If you figured 8 percent on inflation and 4- to 5-percent return on a cash rent return, if you're renting it out to a farmer, you have basically a 12 percent annualized return — if inflation continues," Pifer observed.
He said that is realistic considering performance in the past several years, although he's seen a range of 2 percent to 7 percent.
The Colvin crowd observed that farmers can go out with their equipment and realize a greater return on their farmland investment than the investor can because they can go out and work it themselves, "and they have this one piece of equipment they can spread out over 20,000 acres vs. 19,000 acres," Pifer said. "I think the returns are closer to 4 percent today than to 5 percent, on an average," Pifer said.
One Fargo man at the event in his 70s says he was there to learn more about investments he already has in farmland.
He grew up on a North Dakota farm and though he didn't make his career in farming, he has invested in both family and nonfamily farmland in the region through the past 20 years. Among his dilemmas was whether to buy more land or to cash out.
Land competition
Two other Red River Valley area veteran farmer/landowners said the Colvin & Co. people are working for absentee landlords — people in Connecticut or other remote areas who may own land in the North Dakota region.
"You don't find the first and second generation selling land, because they're still on the land," said one of the men. "But you take the third and fourth generation, and they can use cash for weekend recreation and other things. I've got some grandchildren I don't think have ever seen the farm, but they're going to be the ones that end up with it because I'm not going to let my in-laws have it."
The other farmer said a more realistic return on farmland is 3 percent because of relationship. One land sale in North Dakota's Cass County area went for $4,300 an acre and should have gone for about $3,000.
"If the fellas that bought that land for $4,300 borrowed money for 4 percent, which you can do, that is $172 an acre just in interest. Year-in and year-out if you can net $172 an acre, that's probably a pretty good year. It can be done, but it's a long-term deal, it's not no five-year fix."
Future focus
Figuring out the future is not an easy deal. One farmer said land in his area went for $1,200 an acre in 1980 and he bought land in 1986 at $500 an acre and at the same rate for the next seven years.
One of the statistics that surprised the veteran farmers was the Colvin statistic that 72 percent of Iowa farmland is held without any loans.
"That's hard to believe," one farmer said.
They both said that 70 percent of the farmland ownership is going to change hands in the next 10 years because of the aging farm population. They agreed that farmers in their 60s have been farming longer than they might have planned because of $6 and $7 per bushel corn.
"What's going to escalate the thing the fastest? Four dollar corn. Our John Deere dealer tells us that a lot of guys wanted to quit farming but when they got $6 and $7 corn, why would we quit farming?" one farmer said.


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Designed in 1927 by nationally recognized landscape architects Frederick Law and John Charles Olmsted, the "Washington State Capitol Campus has one of the most extensive and intact Olmstead-designed capitol landscapes in the nation". This free horticulturalist guided tour will introduce visitors to the many varied historic trees and significant plantings of this nationally recognized design. The tour is 75 minutes of standing and walking and is ADA accessible. Appropriate for fourth graders and older. Tour begins at the flag circle on the north side of the Legislative Building (aka Capitol Building).
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Sale barns face uncertain futureIn about the last half-century, there was a steep decline in the number of farms in South Dakota. In 1959, there were 55,727 farms in the state, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. By 2012, that number had fallen nearly 43 percent to 31,989.
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BURKE, S.D. — In a pair of black-and-white photos, a young Donivan Lambley watches from behind the auction block as cattle are guided by men on horseback through the ring at Burke (S.D.) Livestock Auction.
"It was a lot different then," Lambley, 52, says.
Lambley's father, Herris, bought the Burke Livestock Auction in 1967, continuing a long tradition for the family, which had already been involved in the livestock auction business for generations.
"It took a while to become part of the community," says Lambley, who had barely started school when the family moved to South Dakota after his father bought the sale barn.
"He (Herris) was an outsider for several years."
Lambley and his two sons, Chisum, 29, and Dillon, 25, now run the Burke Livestock Auction, which sits on the outskirts of the town of about 600 people. Herris, 75, still owns the business, works in the front office and even occasionally rides in the auction ring. Other family members are involved in the business in other ways, either in the front office or in the cafe.
"It's in the blood, I'll put it that way," Lambley says.
At one time, the Lambleys' sale barn hosted a hog sale every Tuesday, but as the industry changed in favor of larger farming and ranching operations, that sale was eliminated.
"The bigger conglomerates have sucked up the hogs and the dairy cows," Lambley says.
In about the last half-century, there was a steep decline in the number of farms in South Dakota. In 1959, there were 55,727 farms in the state, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. By 2012, that number had fallen nearly 43 percent to 31,989.
"To stay in business we've had to increase our beef sales," Lambley says. "It was a difficult change to make."
Similar situations
Many small sale barns across South Dakota have faced similar challenges in recent years. In Tripp, a town of about 630, a long-established sale barn recently closed.
Gregory Livestock Auction, which has been in existence since the 1930s, still sold cattle in the 1990s and early 2000s, but now only offers a once-a-month horse sale, says Jack Clark, 78, who has owned the facility since 1986.
"Buyers aren't going to come where there are just a few cattle," he says. "They're getting bigger and bigger, and they like to go to places where there are a lot more cattle for sale."
With the emergence of video and online auctions, Clark says, sale barns — especially in small towns — will continue to be challenged to stay competitive. Of the 40 sale barns listed on the South Dakota Department of Agriculture's website, 12 are in towns with fewer than 1,000 people.
"It's just a matter of time for most of the small sale barns," Clark says.
Cattle are sold nearly every Saturday at the sale barn in Burke, with between 1,700 and 4,200 head of cattle sold at a typical feeder sale, depending on the time of year, Lambley says. A recent sale was attended by at least 300 people, with buyers from 11 different states and more than 65 people working at the sale barn.
The number of cattle in South Dakota totaled 3.65 million as of Jan. 1, down 5 percent from Jan. 1, 2013, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. That follows a national trend as the number of cattle in the U.S., the world's largest beef producer, fell 2 percent in that same time, down to 87.7 million. That's the smallest total since 1951, when the nation's herd totaled 82.1 million.
A blizzard that hammered western South Dakota in early October and killed an estimated 43,000 head of livestock has forced more buyers from that area to look for cattle at sale barns farther east than is typical, Donivan Lambley says.
Buyers will always come to markets that have the best cattle, Lambley says, no matter the size of the community.
"They know the quality of cattle that we have," he says. "If they want to buy cattle, they come to the area that has the good cattle."
As video and online auctions grow in popularity, Chisum Lambley worries that trend could continue to hurt small sale barns. The loss of a sale barn, typically one of the largest businesses in small towns, would be devastating, he says.
"If people stay behind it, the barns will keep going," he says. "It's still a more competitive market."
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Fire crews attend two chimney fires in Devon
FIRE crews in Devon were called to two separate chimney fires this evening (February 19). read more
Multi-thousand pound investment to be pumped into flood prevention works
AROUND £60,000 is being invested by Devon County Council in a number of schemes to address flooding issues across the county. read more
No explosives found following Torquay search
Two people are being interviewed by police after streets in Torquay were condioned off yesterday. read more
Fire chiefs consider merger with Avon to limit impact of grant cuts
FIRE chiefs in Somerset could merge with colleagues in neighbouring Avon to limit the impact of multi-million pound grant reductions over the next two years. read more
Devon author in Duchess of Cambridge 'shop-window mannequin' row
Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has been reported as 'attacking' the Duchess of Cambridge as a "shop-window mannequin" with no personality, whose only purpose is to breed. read more
Jewellery stolen in Mid Devon house burglary
SEVERAL items of high value jewellery were stolen in a house burglary at Ellerhayes, near Hele in Mid Devon. read more
Singing group donate £5,000 to Tiverton MS charity
KENTISBEARE-based singing group The Wyndham Singers celebrated another very successful fund raising year by handing over a cheque for £5,000 to the Tiverton branch of the MS Society. read more
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16-Year-Old Arrested and Expelled After Her Science Experiment Explodes
After conducting what was purported as a harmless science experiment, an official police report states that star pupil and honor student Kiera Wilmot was charged with two felonies: possession/discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device.
According to the Miami New Times, Kiera and a friend mixed aluminum foil and toilet bowl cleaner in a small plastic bottle early Monday morning on Bartow High School grounds in Bartow, Florida. The reaction created pressure inside the bottle, blowing the cap off, and according to witnesses, it sounded like firecrackers being set off, creating a small amount of smoke. No one was hurt by the explosion. Later that day, Kiera was handcuffed, arrested, and expelled from school.
Administrators at the Polk County School District maintain that Kiera was in direct violation of the school's code of conduct, which requires immediate expulsion for any "student in possession of a bomb (or) explosive device ... while at a school (or) a school-sponsored activity... unless the material or device is being used as part of a legitimate school-related activity or science project conducted under the supervision of an instructor." Wilmot told police that she did the experiment to prepare for an upcoming science fair, but when police spoke with her science teacher, he claimed to know nothing of the experiment.
Combining aluminum foil and toilet bowl cleaner is a commonly performed science experiment, and scientists around the world are showing support for Kiera by tweeting about the mayhem that they got into as kids, including explosions and fires.
Considering the events of the past few months around the nation, we have a certain level of understanding for the school wanting to crack down on any explosion-like activity. Unfortunately for Kiera, her seemingly innocent science experiment has cost her the rest of her high school experience and the ability to walk across the stage for her diploma.
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Battlefield 4's Battlelog gets an update
Battlelog, the online service used to track Battlefield 4 stats, progression, and achievements, has received an update today. The update includes a number of improvements and fixes, but the most noteworthy change is that newer versions of Firefox will now require you to actively allow the Battlelog plugin. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of features, improvements, and fixes -- all of which are detailed below:
- Improved the Server Browser filter to categorize maps per expansion pack
- You can now choose to share specific emblems with everyone, friends only or no one
- Changed emblem view and copy flow, so you are now redirected to a user's emblem page to view all the emblems a user has created, with a button to copy emblems if allowed
- Added support for Air Superiority and Capture the Flag in Live Scoreboard
- You can now sort servers by recently played on the servers History page
- Bigger images also added for vehicles in the sidebar now on Stats and Unlocks
- Improved Leaderboards overview page for viewing city, country and the world, making it easier to explore the top players in various regions
- Add a "view more" to forums in the Battlelog mobile app for viewing multiple pages
- The best top award for a player is now showed in the scoreboard details view in Battle Reports
- Added a "Set active kit" button when viewing specific kits in Loadout
- Viewing someone else's emblem now only fetches the image, so the emblem cannot be copied without consent
- You can now join mutual friends from the in-game Battlelog on Xbox One, when the friend is playing Battlefield 4 multiplayer
- Rush defender tickets are now properly shown in BattleScreen
- The error message bar in the bottom of the screen no longer closes automatically
- Fixed an issue where the progress bar and track button showed for unlocked weapons
- Fixed an issue where the Accept button didn't show up on tablet in the Missions invite friends popup
- If you try to join a server when logged out, the popup will now ask you to "Login" instead of "Get Battlefield 4"
- Fixed issues where the Unified Game Manager and user chats would overlap
- Banned users can no longer write texts when sharing Battle Reports
- Fixed an issue where emblems and clan tag would show in the in-game Battlelog for users with User-Generated Content turned off
- Made it less likely for the join messaging in the Unified Game Manager to appear if a popup is shown claiming you can't join the server
- Fixed an issue where pressing retry in a popup would open new instances, but the background dimming would never disappear
- Better error messaging for banned users when logging into the Battlelog mobile app
- Fixed an issue with map names not showing for certain Missions on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
- Fixed various minor Live Scoreboard issues
- Fixed various minor issues with Recommended Servers


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A new date was announced today for the Minneapolis ONACamp. The Online News Association will be bringing their intensive journalism training session to the University of Minnesota campus on Saturday, December 1, 2012. Registration and program details for the free, full-day workshop will be available next week.
ONACamps are courtesy of a grant from the Gannett Foundation; the Minneapolis event is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Journalism Center.
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Chief of naval operations, commandant speak at conference in Coronado
Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on a San Diego stage Thursday, the leaders of the Navy and Marine Corps sketched out drastic pictures of troops getting inadequate training and ships deploying without proper equipment if massive budget cuts become a reality.
The sea services would be forced to ground aircraft, close maintenance depots, and delay or cancel ship deployments — moves that would deeply affect San Diego, according to the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Amos, and the chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, speaking at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA, a trade group.
The cuts would have a disproportionate effect on the Marine Corps, the smallest of the Pentagon services, because of its small budget, Amos said.
In addition to a spending cap at 2012 levels until Congress passes a new appropriations bill, the military is facing more than a trillion dollars in spending cuts over the next decade — if the automatic rollback in military spending known as "sequestration" is triggered in March, on top of cuts the Pentagon previously instituted.
Amos put those numbers in perspective by noting that the entire Marine Corps budget for 2012, including money for the war in Afghanistan, is about $30 billion. The cost of refurbishing or replacing all its equipment now in the war zone is about $3.2 billion.
"That's the bill for the future readiness of the Marine Corps, and I am very concerned about that. That's what keeps me up at night," Amos said. "There is, in my sense, a lack of appreciation for the sheer magnitude of the cost."
As it stands, the Corps has been paying for forces deploying to the war zone by borrowing from operations and maintenance accounts. "They are going to get 100 percent of everything they need — people, equipment, training. We will mortgage everything for the forces that are in Afghanistan," Amos said.
"But that mortgage is being paid by home station readiness, home station equipment, equipment that is not going into depots, equipment that we are not buying to go into reset."
The Marines are considering shuttering maintenance depots later this year if sequestration takes effect. That would force the Corps to ground some tactical aircraft next year, including F/A-18 fighter jets and EA-6B Prowlers whose service life has already been stretched while the Marines wait for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet under development.
"If sequestration happens, San Diego is going to feel it," Amos said. "So is Norfolk, so is Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune."
The Corps is also getting squeezed by maintenance cutbacks for Navy amphibious assault ships that deploy infantry and aircraft assigned to Marine Expeditionary Units.
The Navy may have to find a way to reconcile about 20 percent of its operating budget, or $8.5 billion, if sequestration is added to the delay in approving a 2013 budget.
Greenert expanded on information released Friday about $219 million in San Diego shipyard work and $83 million in North Island Naval Air Station aircraft maintenance being in jeopardy if Congress doesn't pass a 2013 budget.


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Cuba: Castro regime detains 65 democracy activists in latest wave of repression
AFP reports that 65 human rights and democracy activists in Cuba were detained by the Castro dictatorship in the last 5 weeks during the regime's latest wave of violent repression:
Dissidents detained in Cuba: rights group
HAVANA — Dozens of opposition activists have been detained in Cuba over the past five weeks, an outlawed rights group said on Tuesday, blaming President Raul Castro for the crackdown.
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, known by its Spanish acronym CCDHRN, said at least 65 men and women have been arrested by secret police, 29 of whom remain in custody in the Americas' only one-party Communist-ruled nation.
"For five weeks the government has carried out violent political repression against women and other peaceful dissidents" in Santiago de Cuba province in the south of the island, according to a statement signed by the rights group's founder and spokesman Elizardo Sanchez.
"Most were totally unarmed and suffered acts of police brutality," it added.
According to the statement, several members of the "Ladies in White" group comprising wives and relatives of political prisoners were "beaten and arrested" on Sunday to prevent them joining a Mass in Santiago de Cuba.
A Ladies in White leader, Berta Soler, told AFP the group planned to meet Cardinal Jaime Ortega in Havana on Tuesday, and would ask him to intervene on behalf of dissidents, officially considered "mercenaries" in the pay of the US government.
A US State Department spokesman said Washington was "troubled by reports of increased violence by government-organized mobs against the Damas de Blanco in Havana and Santiago de Cuba in recent weeks.
"The use of government-organized mobs to physically and verbally abuse peaceful protesters is unconscionable," the US spokesman added, noting: "We call for an immediate end to the harassment and violence committed against the Damas de Blanco.
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Paul Craig Roberts
February 2, 2008
Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, 2003): "This investigation is now compromised." Even former FBI director Louis Freeh wrote in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 17, 2005) that there are inaccuracies in the commission's report and "questions that need answers."
Both Kean and Hamilton have twice stated publicly, once in their 2006 book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, and again in the January 2, 2008, New York Times, that there are inaccuracies in their report and unanswered–or mis-answered–questions.
On the second day of this new year, Kean and Hamilton accused the CIA of obstructing their investigation: "What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the President, to investigate one of the greatest tragedies to confront this country. We call that obstruction."
In their book, Kean and Hamilton wrote that they were unable to obtain "access to star witnesses in custody who were the only possible source for inside information about the 9/11 plot."
The only information the commission was permitted to have about what was learned from interrogations of alleged plot ringleaders, such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, came from "thirdhand" sources. The commission was not permitted to… Continue reading
by Dr. David Ray Griffin
The official story of 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. One of these contradictions involves the question of how long President Bush remained in classroom in Sarasota, Florida, on the morning of 9/11.
Bush was there to publicize his education policy by being photographed listening to students read. He arrived at the school at 8:55 AM, at which time he reportedly first learned that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers. Dismissing the crash as an accident, Bush said that they would go ahead and "do the reading thing anyway."
Bush entered the second-grade classroom of teacher Sandra Kay Daniels at about 9:03. At about 9:06, the president's chief of staff, Andrew Card, came in and whispered in Bush's ear, telling him, Card later reported, "A second plane hit the second Tower. America is under attack."
What Happened Next
Thanks to Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, which came out in 2004, the world knows what happened next: Bush remained sitting there minute after minute after minute.
Journalists, however, had reported Bush's strange behaviour much earlier. On September 1, 2002, for example, Jennifer Barrs had reported in the Tampa Tribune that, after Card whispered in Bush's ear, the president picked up his book and read with the children "for eight or nine minutes." In his 2002 book Fighting Back, Bill Sammon, the White House correspondent for the Washington Times, said that even after the reading lesson was over, Bush… Continue reading
Op-Ed Contributors Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
Washington: MORE than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11 commission. The goal was to provide the American people with the fullest possible account of the "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001" — and to offer recommendations to prevent future attacks. Soon after its creation, the president's chief of staff directed all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the commission.
The commission's mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.
There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the C.I.A. — or the White House — of the commission's interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot. Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations.
When the press reported that, in 2002 and maybe at other times, the C.I.A. had recorded hundreds of hours of interrogations of at least two Qaeda detainees, we went back to check our records. We found that we did ask, repeatedly, for the kind of information that… Continue reading
Sat Dec 22, 2007
The CIA obstructed an official US investigation into the September 11 attacks
by withholding tapes of interrogations of Al-Qaeda operatives, according to
former investigators quoted in a report on Saturday.
A review of documents by former members of the 9/11 commission revealed the
panel made repeated, detailed requests to the spy agency in 2003 and 2004 for
information about the interrogation of members of the extremist network, but
were never notified of the tapes, the New York Times reported.
The review of the commission's correspondence with the Central Intelligence
Agency came after the agency earlier this month revealed it had destroyed videotapes
in 2005 that showed harsh interrogations of two Al-Qaeda members.
The review, written up in a December 13 memo prepared by Philip Zelikow, the
former executive director of the 9/11 commission, said that "further investigation
is needed" to resolve whether the CIA's failure to hand over the tapes
violated federal law.
The memorandum does not assert that withholding the tapes was illegal but states
that federal law penalizes anyone who "knowingly and wilfully" withholds
or "covers up" a "material fact" from a federal inquiry,
the newspaper said.
The revelation adds to pressure on President George W. Bush's administration,
already under fire over the affair by human rights groups and lawmakers who
allege that destroying the tapes covered up proof of torture.
Responding to the New York Times report, the CIA said the commission never
specifically asked for interrogation videos.
CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield told… Continue reading
by David Ray Griffin
Debunking 9/11 Debunking
Early in 2007, Interlink Books published my Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory . The stimulus for my writing this book was the appearance in August 2006—just before the fifth anniversary of 9/11—of four publications intended to bolster the official account by debunking the alternative view, according to which 9/11 was an inside job. The most explicit and well-known of these publications was a book by Popular Mechanics entitled Debunking 9/11 Myths .
My book's introduction and conclusion dealt with the irresponsible way the press, including the left-leaning press, has dealt with this issue. One of their failings, I showed, was simply to accept the official reports — especially The 9/11 Commission Report and the report on the World Trade Center put out by the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) — as neutral, scientific reports. They thereby ignored the fact that the 9/11 Commission was run by Philip Zelikow, who was virtually a member of the US. Bush administration, and that NIST is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce and hence of the Bush administration (which has distorted science for political purposes to an unprecedented extent).
The book's four chapters then demonstrated that none of the documents of August 2006 actually served to debunk the claims of the 9/11 truth movement. The first two chapters dealt with two documents—including a new book by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton,… Continue reading
911Truth finally hit progressive primetime on 9/11/07. Richard Greene, host of Air America program "Clout," welcomed four guests to the show to discuss 9/11 truth, while broadcasting live from the candlelight commemoration in L.A. Guests included "Jersey Girl" Lorie Van Auken , 911truth.org's Janice Matthews, Colonel Ann Wright , who resigned her State Department post in protest of the Iraq occupation, and Gina Belafonte, daughter of outspoken justice activist and 911truth supporter, Harry Belafonte.
At the end of the program, Richard tells listeners that demanding a congressional reinvestigation of 9/11 should become a "project" of Air America. many readers are aware that other Air America hosts, such as Thom Hartmann, have also been talking 911truth lately. Bravo to Mr. Greene for placing the issue in prime time.
On a related note, the People's Email Network issued a campaign to demand Congressional reinvestigation of 9/11 within days of this interview. Their text reads:
By the admission of the chairmen of the 9/11 commission itself, they did not get to the truth, and were deliberately impeded and deceived through their entire investigation.
We are not going to attempt in this alert to theorize about what the… Continue reading
Peter Tatchell — The Guardian
Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'.
September 12, 2007 10:30 AM
Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history.
What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of what happened on September 11 2001.
The chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, respectively Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, assert in their book, Without Precedent, that they were "set up to fail" and were starved of funds to do a proper investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the federal aviation authority; and that this obstruction and deception led them to contemplate slapping officials with criminal charges.
Despite the many public statements by 9/11 commissioners and staff members acknowledging they were repeatedly lied to, not a single person has ever been charged, tried, or even reprimanded, for lying to the 9/11 Commission.
From the outset, the commission seemed to be hobbled. It did not start work until over a year after the attacks. Even then, its terms of reference were suspiciously narrow, its powers of investigation curiously limited and its time-frame for producing a report unhelpfully short – barely a year to sift through millions of pages of evidence and to interview hundreds of key witnesses.…Continue reading
By Luke Ryland
September 11, 2007
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has made a number of disturbing claims about the 911 attacks, but perhaps the most disconcerting is her oft-repeated statement that the US authorities have covered up an entire organizational layer within al-Qaeda.
In the documentary, Kill The Messenger, Sibel says:
"They haven't mentioned anybody who actually is connected to Al Qaida, in mid or higher level."
Similarly, Sibel often says:
"And I would like to give an analogy – if you take the War on Drugs, imagine if they only went after street dealers and they refused to investigate the mid-level dealers or the drug lords. This is very similar."
As we approach another 911 anniversary, it's time we learnt:
Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged woman in US history making it a little it difficult for us, the public, to have a detailed understanding of everything she knows about al-Qaida and the 911 attacks, but she has given interviews and written a number of great articles and letters which enable us to put some of the pieces together.
Immediately after the release of the 911 Commission report, Sibel wrote an open letter to Thomas Kean and the Commission in which she chided the 911 Commission panel for ignoring important issues related to the attacks, and she also made public some of her closed-door testimony to the 911 Commission.
by Tod Fletcher
Debunking 9/11 Debunking is a monumental accomplishment by David Ray Griffin. He exhaustively and definitively destroys the pretensions of four major "9/11 debunking" publications published in 2006, shortly before the fifth anniversary of the events. Although the book is organized into chapters dealing with each one of the four publications in turn, Griffin has such a broad knowledge of all the evidence pertaining to the events, and such command of logic and argument, that the book is thoroughly cohesive and progressively builds an integrated critique of all dimensions of the official theory. Debunking 9/11 Debunking will effectively serve as a veritable encyclopedia of not just the facts of 9/11, but of the best arguments to debunk the official (and semi-official) lies about the facts. Griffin, as usual, avoids speculation and focuses on showing that the official story of what happened that day cannot be true.
Before the four central chapters, Griffin provides an Introduction ("Conspiracy Theories and Evidence") in which he distinguishes between rational and irrational conspiracy theories and discusses the "double standard" used by the mainstream and left-leaning press, i.e., the confused (or self-serving) way in which they fail to make this distinction and then assert that critiques of the official account are "conspiracy theories" while completely obfuscating the fact that the official story is itself a conspiracy theory. He deals in detail with tendencies of human thought that make it difficult for people to look at unfamiliar and threatening evidence ("paradigmatic thinking" and "wishful-and-fearful thinking"),… Continue reading
by Robert Parry
In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of U.S. history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack only to have the conversation descend into meaningless small talk.
Alarmed CIA officials already had held an extraordinary meeting with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10 to lay out the accumulating evidence of an impending attack and had delivered on Aug. 6 a special "Presidential Daily Brief" to Bush entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."
"A few weeks after the Aug. 6 PDB was delivered, I followed it to Crawford to make sure the President stayed current on events," Tenet wrote in his memoir, At the Center of the Storm. "This was my first visit to the ranch. I remember the President graciously driving me around the spread in his pickup and my trying to make small talk about the flora and the fauna, none of which were native to Queens," where Tenet had grown up.
Tenet's trip to Crawford — like the July 10 meeting with Rice and the Aug. 6 briefing paper for Bush — failed to shock the administration out of its lethargy nor elicit the emergency steps that the CIA and other counterterrorism specialists wanted.
While Tenet and Bush made small talk about "the flora and the fauna," al-Qaeda operatives put the finishing touches on their plans.…Continue reading
– Re Local Calm amid the 'Path to 9/11′ Uproar
By W. David Kubiak
September 9, 2006
This last week 911truth.org has received many emails and phone calls asking why we are not at the frontlines of the protests against ABC's fictitious Clinton smear, The Path to 9/11. I don't pretend to speak for the organization, but having been close to the heart of this debate I'd like to offer a few answers of my own.
The bad answer is schadenfreude.
Many of us are in fact rather ironically enjoying the uproar as Democratic Party defenders of the 5-year cover-up are now finding their own ox gored. You will notice that most of the ruckus is not about 9/11 truth at all, but whose political mythology will prevail.
Once the GOP Rove clones recognized how easily they and their corporate media pals could sell the 9/11 Commission fantasy to protect their ass and defend their assaults on international law and the Constitution, what on earth could stop them from using that reality-fabricating power offensively to destroy a few measly Democrats?
Betrayals among criminal cliques are usually conducted at the point of a gun. Our ruling corporate parties seem to prefer media assassinations to get the same job done. Once the Democrats bought into the 9/11 lies and actually helped confect and sell the official story, they stepped over to the dark side where the strictures of truth, law and decency no longer are enforced. The Path to 9/11 mêlée is… Continue reading
by Sibel Edmonds & Bill Weaver
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
Published in CommonDreams.org
September 5, 2006
A wag once famously said that Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was a play where nothing happened . . . twice. The two former co-chairmen of the 9-11 commission report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have released a new book, "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9-11 Commission." This book goes Beckett one better — it is the third act of veneer over substance, self-aggrandizement over serious analysis, and cliché over perspicacity. It is another calculated attempt by the former commissioners to place themselves in the media spotlight, and to overcome the humiliation of their widely criticized and mostly debunked report. It is a vapid and substanceless attempt to claim moral high ground and present the co-chairmen as heroes of honesty. It would be a farce, except that it has no story line, save the aggrandizement of the authors. At least they are consistent in doing nothing and proclaiming that to be a sign of their devotion to the country and the government. Beckett once said that "habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit," and by this measure the chain restraining Kean and Hamilton is a short one indeed.
Image: CBC News: Sunday's Evan Solomon interviews Lee Hamilton , 9/11 Commission co-chair and co-author of the book "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission" .
Evan Solomon : Tell me why you felt the need, with Thomas Kean, to write this book "Without Precedent"?
Lee Hamilton : We felt we had an important story to tell, 9/11 was a traumatic event in our history, every adult in America will remember exactly where they were on that day when they heard the news. We felt that the Commission's work gave a lot of insights into how government works, and particularly how government in the national security area works. We had hundreds of people tell us, or ask us, how the Commission did its work, and so we responded by writing the book and tried to let people know the story, the inside story of the 9/11 Commission.
Solomon : Do you consider the 9/11 Commission to have been a success, and if so, under what ways do you measure that success? How do you call it a success?
Hamilton : The 9/11 Commission was created by statute. We had two responsibilities – first, tell the story of 9/11; I think we've done that reasonably well. We worked very hard at it; I don't know that we've told the definitive story of 9/11, but surely anybody in the future who tackles that job will begin with the 9/11 Commission Report. I think we've been reasonably successful in telling… Continue reading
By Russ Wellen
August 3, 2006
— In his Washington Post article, "9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon," Dan Eggen reported, "Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public. . ."
"We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us," Commission Chair Thomas H. Kean said. "It was just so far from the truth."
— According to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll, "More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East."
Still more surprising, 16 percent think the collapse of the World Trade Towers was expedited by controlled demolition while 12 percent suspect the Pentagon was struck by a missile, not Flight 77.
Eye-opening as these results are, they're not unprecedented. According to Scripps/Howard, "The level of suspicion of U.S. official involvement in a 9/11 conspiracy was only slightly behind the 40 percent who suspect 'officials in the federal government were directly responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy.'"
Kean's colleague, 9/11 Commission vice chair Lee Hamilton, conceded the results of the poll. "A lot… Continue reading
The Journey of a Wall Street Whistleblower
A 911truth.org Exclusive Report
By Michael Kane
"Ptech had all the markings," said Indira Singh. All the markings of a CIA front company.
"I think there is a CIA within the CIA," Indira told From the Wilderness (FTW). "I think there is a Shadow CIA that does the Iran-Contra type of things–they get funding from illicit methods–and that the Saudi's are in on it. They might have trained some operatives, and later it backfired – it was blowback within blowback, perhaps."
"What I do know, what the money trails do show, is that the Saudi's are complicit. In other words, the ones that are extremely fundamentalist, the ones that promote Wahabiism-I'm not saying it's all of them, but parts of them–are working hand-in-hand, lock step with elements within American intelligence whether it's official or unofficial. There's proof of that."
March 2, 2005 (911truth.org): Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh has had her professional life ripped away from her because of keeping the promise she made to some 3,000 victim's who died at Ground Zero on 9/11. She made that promise at Ground Zero on 9/11 as a civilian EMT. Indira was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center that morning, but she was late. "I made a promise," said Indira during a lengthy FTW interview, "that if anything fell into my lap, I wouldn't look the other way–and I'm keeping that promise."
Something did fall… Continue reading
Gathering the best evidence developed by the September 11th research community
— Laying bare the fraud of the Kean Commission and its "9/11 Commission Report," providing questions that anyone can pose to the Kean Commissioners on their national tour.
— Drawing up a blueprint for a criminal investigation that does not exclude valid bodies of evidence as unthinkable, simply because they point to a circle of complicity within the U.S. and allied governments or among U.S. elites. DRAFT of Aug. 31, 2004
This online 9/11 Omissions Dossier aims to unite research with activism. We are in the process of adding links to the best articles or corroborating items for each of the items listed below. We will also be publishing new articles and dossiers on individual topics. This collection is being presented to the members of The Citizens' Commission on 9/11: A panel of citizens who are convening for "The Omissions Hearings" at the Symphony Theater in New York City on Sept. 9, 2004, to be chaired by the once and future congresswoman Hon. Cynthia McKinney. At the end of the day's hearings, the citizens' commissioners will be asked to recommend the most suitable venue or venues for future action from among the possible options (i.e., torts, court cases, articles of impeachment, petitions to international bodies, a truth commission, more informal or spontaneous types of political action, etc.). –911Truth.org and supporters
The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 172: "To date, the U.S. government has not been able to… Continue reading
Open Letter To Thomas Kean, Chairman Of The 9/11 Commission, from FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
August 1, 2004
Thomas Kean, Chairman
National Committee on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
Dear Chairman Kean:
It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on September 11; during which time we, the people, have been placed under a constant threat of terror and asked to exercise vigilance in our daily lives. Your commission, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, was created by law to investigate 'facts and circumstances related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001′ and to 'provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism', and has now issued its '9/11 Commission Report'. You are now asking us to pledge our support for this report, its recommendations, and implementation of these recommendations, with our trust and backing, our tax money, our security, and our lives.
Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations. Considering what is at stake, our national security, we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and/or omitted from the report.…Continue reading
NEW YORK CITY, May 16, 2004 – The Kean Commission was called to life in Nov. 2002, when the White House dropped its objections to an independent 9/11 investigation, after many months of persistent lobbying by September 11th families. At the time, this was seen as a victory for the relatives of those killed on September 11th, and for their allies in the fight for open government and accountability. As the Kean Commission nears the end of its work, it is informative to ask what those families are saying today.
"Mr. Bush, who approved the flight of the bin Laden family out of the United States, when all commercial flights were grounded?"
That is one of 23 explosive questions that George W. Bush and his subordinates must face in public testimony, under oath and pain of perjury–that is, if leaders of September 11 family groups get their way.
The question refers to private flights for Saudi royalty, cleared by the White House during the otherwise total civilian flight ban in the days immediately after September 11. Members of the Bin Laden clan, including two of Osama Bin Laden's many brothers, were allowed to leave the United States before federal investigators had a chance to question them.1
Despite confirmed reports dating back to September 2001, the story of the Bin Laden family airlift was denigrated as urban legend until April, when former White House terror adviser Richard Clarke and Secretary of State Colin Powell both confirmed it.…Continue reading


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analysisBy Stephen Grootes
The big story of our politics is not necessarily playing out within the formal structures of our politics. It is playing out, it seems, in other arenas. We see this on a daily basis at the moment, through the problems the union movement is facing, with the rise of AMCU, and even NUMSA.
At the same time, we know that there are millions of South Africans, in fact a majority of them, who did not vote in our recent elections. What appears to be happening is that those who feel failed by our politics are organising themselves, and the Establishment is beginning to feel the heat.
How it deals with this heat, could well determine the success or failure of SA, Inc. as a going concern. And so far, the Establishment is not dealing with it well.
The 2014 elections are likely to go down as the last of the elections dominated by what you could call the "post 1994 consensus". In other words, it may turn out to be the first, and possibly the last time our politics was really about the contest between two main parties.
We know now, with the rise of the Economic...


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Mystery Snail
Pomacea bridgesii
The mystery snail is the most popular of aquarium snails. They are common to the pet trade being the aquatic snail of choice for most freshwater fish tanks.
The original brown colour form is also known as the apple snail. It has been selectively bred into a golden variety that is usually more common.
When the golden mystery snail form is interbred with the original brown snails the resulting colour is often called tortoise shell. Black variants can also be purchased. In Australia these are the available colours but overseas further mutations have been developed. These ivory, blue, green and white mystery snails are not available because of the customs difficulties associated with importing snails into Australia.
Mystery snails are of tropical origin which should be taken into account if you keep them outdoors in a pond. They require the PH to stay above 7 for healthy shells.
In a perfect world these aquarium snails would exclusively prefer to eat excess fish food rather than aquatic plants. Unfortunately the mystery snail may devour aquatic plants as part of their diet also. Regular feeding can discourage these plant eating behaviours. Provide both spirulina pellets and protein fish food for a balanced diet.
A mystery snail can also be useful for controlling algae. If there is no fish food available the snails will graze on algae film. Mystery snails have a rasping mouth that can clean hard surfaces; however they may not be of any use for eating hair algae.
This family of snails is different from other aquatic snails in its breeding habits. They are not hermaphrodites; they show both male and female individuals within the species. Males can be identified by looking for a penile sheath inside the shell. This houses the male reproductive organ. It can be harder to distinguish in smaller snails. If you hope to breed your mystery snails choose at least 6 individuals and the odds of buying both sexes will be favourable.
A well fed mystery snail will produce eggs regularly in temperatures over 28°C. Although a truly aquatic animal, mystery snails will leave the water to lay eggs. After climbing up the side of the tank or a bog plant, a mass of over 100 eggs is deposited. The cluster will be pink in colour resembling a wad of chewing gum.
Hatching occurs in two to three weeks. During the egg maturation time some outer eggs may perish if they dry out. If this happens patches of the cluster will look white and flaky. Humid conditions are favoured but if any condensation forms on the snail eggs the humidity is too high. In an aquarium a good balance can be achieved by using a lid and adjusting the air gap.
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Laser Book (Paperback)
|Author: Tim Davison
Learn more about Laser Book:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Sku: 203368229
Publish Date: 4/16/2007
Pages: 128
Edition Number: 4
Age Range: NA
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|A completely revised, colour edition of THE Laser sailing manual giving essential information and tips for faster, smarter Laser sailing.
This book takes a complete beginner up to Club Champion standard. It teaches everything from the essentials of sailing theory and rigging, through faster upwind and downwind sailing, to racing tactics and how to outsmart the opposition.The essential skills that are covered in this book will also useful to radio controlled Laser sailors who will find that many of the areas of covered also apply to the RC Lasers, in particular faster sailing and racing tactics.


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Lakeside Garbage Pickup
City Council awarded an exclusive franchise contract to IESI TX Corporation on February 28, 2012, for the collection, removal and disposal of solid waste in Lakeside. Residential customers are charged for trash pickup on their water bill monthly. The rate (including tax) is $18.63 per month, which breaks down as $15.21 for residential curbside collection twice each week, $2.00 for recycling pick up once per week, quarterly bulk pick up included, and $1.42 tax.
Trash Pickup Days and Other Information
- Pickup days are Tuesdays & Fridays. Trash will not be picked up on July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
- Garbage & Recycling must be at the curb no later than 7:00 A.M. Recycling is picked up on Friday by a separate truck
- *Limits of 6 additional trash bags at curb for pick up each trash day.
- Each resident will provide and use containers for trash that securely close in such a manner to prevent the scattering of the contents thereof and to render said containers inaccessible to insects, rodents and other animals. Cans and bags must weight no more than 50 lbs. and be no larger than 30 gallons in size. Items must be placed within six feet of the curb.
- Recycling Containers are available at Town Hall.
Large Item Pickup
Large Item pickup is done on a quarterly basis. Large items may be placed at the curb beginning the Saturday before the large item pickup Wednesday begin date. On the large item pickup day, the large items must be out no later than 7 A.M. The items can not exceed twenty (20) cubic yards in total volume or have any individual item exceeding fifty (50) pounds in weight. These items may include, but shall not be limited to, stoves, refrigerators and HVAC's (with verification that CFC components have been removed by a certified technician), water tanks, hot water heaters, washing machines, furniture, and similar waste materials other than Construction or Demolition Waste, Hazardous Waste, tires, dead animals or Stable Matter. The large item pickup schedule is as follows:
January 21, 2015 | April 15, 2015 | July 15, 2015 | October 21, 2015
Brush Pickup
Brush will be picked up at the curb on your normal pickup day if it is cut into four-foot lengths and bundled. Bundles should not exceed 50 pounds in weight.
Household Hazardous Waste
The Town of Lakeside has an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Fort Worth that allows citizens to dispose of household hazardous waste at the Environmental Collection Center (ECC) located at 6400 Bridge Street, Fort Worth, TX 76112. The phone number for the ECC is 817-392-3279. Citizens must pick up a voucher from Town Hall to take with them to the center. The fee is $47.
ECC Hours of Operation:
Thursday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Have any Questions or Concerns?
Phone: 817-237-1234 ext. 301
Fax: 817-238-9187


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At the Edward Neurosciences Institute, patients with aneurysms in the brain are evaluated by a team of specialists, including a vascular neurologist, neurointerventional surgeon and neurosurgeon. They review the results of each patient's CT scan and other tests to determine the best course of treatment.
Aneurysms in the brain occur when there is a weakened area in the wall of a blood vessel. An aneurysm may be present from birth (congenital) or it may develop later in life, such as after a blood vessel is injured. Atherosclerosis and infection can also cause aneurysms.
There are many different types of aneurysms. A berry aneurysm can vary in size from a few millimeters to over a centimeter. Giant berry aneurysms can reach well over two centimeters. Other types of cerebral aneurysm involve widening of an entire blood vessel, or they may appear as a "ballooning out" of part of a blood vessel.
About 5% of the population has some type of aneurysm in the brain, but only a small number of these aneurysms cause symptoms or rupture.
Risk factors include a family history of cerebral aneurysms and certain medical problems, such as polycystic kidney disease, coarctation of the aorta and high blood pressure.
For patients who experience symptoms, or have medium or large aneurysms that are expanding, surgical or endovascular treatment is recommended.
Not all aneurysms need to be treated right away. In some cases, like when the aneurysm is very small and less likely to break open, the Edward Neurosciences Institute's neurointerventional surgeon may determine it's best to monitor the aneurysm with advanced imaging to ensure the aneurysm is not getting bigger.
Some patients may be too ill to have surgery or it may be too dangerous to treat the aneurysm because of its location. In those cases, treatment may include bed rest and restrictions on activity, drugs to prevent seizures and medicines to control headaches and blood pressure.
Aneurysm Coiling
Aneurysm coiling is a minimally invasive technique to treat unruptured aneurysms in the brain. Aneurysm coiling is performed in a special neurointerventional biplane lab under general anesthesia or moderate sedation.
To treat a cerebral aneurysm using coiling, a neurointerventional surgeon inserts a catheter into the artery in the groin and threads it up to the brain. Using injected dye, the neurointerventional surgeon is able to see the artery and the aneurysm. The neurointerventional surgeon carefully inserts tiny platinum coils into the aneurysm, packing the aneurysm so that blood can no longer fill the space. The platinum coils seal off the aneurysm preventing it from rupturing. Remaining blood in the aneurysm forms a clot around the coils. That combination prevents further blood flow into the aneurysm.
After the procedure, patients receive care in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit where the typical stay for cases with no complications is two days.
Aneurysm Clipping
Aneurysm Clipping is an open brain surgery performed by a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon. The location and shape of the aneurysm will be evaluated to determine if this is the right treatment option. The patient is under general anesthesia. The surgeon removes a small portion of the skull to gain access to the brain (craniotomy), and then uses microscopes and small instruments to isolate the aneurysm and secure a clip at its neck. The delicate nature of the surgery requires the expertise of a cerebrovascular surgeon to protect healthy brain tissue and prevent compromising blood flow to other areas of the brain.
Following the procedure, patients spend an average of ten days in the Neuro Intensive Care and Neuro "Stepdown" Units. Highly trained Neuro ICU nurses monitor patients for changes in neurological function.
Doctors of the Edward Neurosciences Institute and the Neuro ICU nurses are especially on the lookout for vasospasm (constriction) of the brain vessels, which is a frequent complication following aneurysm surgery or aneurysm rupture. They use medications to treat vasospasm.
Beginning the first day after surgery, neuroscience-trained physical therapists and occupational therapists work with patients to assist them in returning to maximum function.
A small percentage of patients with aneurysms in the brain will experience a rupture, something that a patient may describe as "the worst headache of my life." A ruptured aneurysm is a medical emergency that requires immediate medical treatment. The combination of blood in the brain tissues – a subarachnoid hemorrhage – and elevated pressure inside the skull causes symptoms including nausea, vomiting, seizures, confusion and changes in neurologic function that can be as serious as coma.
Up to half of the patients who experience a ruptured aneurysm die within six months, 10-15% don't make it to the hospital. There's also a risk of re-rupture, so doctors treat the aneurysm either with coiling or clipping.
Recovery from a ruptured aneurysm is a lengthy process requiring complex care in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Mohammad Sajed, Medical Director of Edward Hospital's Neuro ICU, is a neurocritical care physician who's also board certified in vascular stroke neurology. Under his direction, critically ill neurological patients receive the latest in medical management, including frequent neurological assessments that can detect subtle changes in neurological function and potential for complications.
Patients require integrated care from the Edward Neurosciences Institute's team of neurologists, neurointerventional surgeons, neurosurgeons, skilled critical care nurses and rehabilitation therapists to maximize their functional recovery.
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