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by Kevin Ryan
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough answer is that the failure of the US air defenses can be traced to a number of factors and people. There were policy changes, facility changes, and personnel changes that had recently been made, and there were highly coincidental military exercises that were occurring on that day. But some of the most startling facts about the air defense failures have to do with the utter failure of communications between the agencies responsible for protecting the nation. At the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), two people stood out in this failed chain of communications. One was a lawyer on his first day at the job, and another was a Special Operations Commander who was never held responsible for his critical role, or even questioned about it.
The 9/11 Commission wrote in its report that — "On 9/11, the defense of U.S. airspace depended on close interaction between two federal agencies: the FAA and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)."[1]
According to the Commission, this interaction began with air traffic controllers (ATCs) at the relevant regional FAA control centers, which on 9/11 included Boston, New York, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. In the event of a hijacking, these ATCs were expected to "notify their supervisors, who in turn would inform management all the way up to FAA headquarters. Headquarters had a hijack coordinator, who was the director of the FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security or his or her designate.…Continue reading
A large number of new entries have been added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline at History Commons. Most of these describe events from the day of 9/11 itself, although a few entries look at pre-9/11 and post-9/11 events.
This is one of an ongoing series of irregular email alerts notifying the community of additions to a specific project.
New Entries Added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline
One new entry reveals that in April 2001, CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black warned that "something big [is] coming and that it very likely could be in the US." Then, about a month before 9/11, White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke visited Wall Street, to investigate the security precautions there.
Two new entries look at the time Ziad Jarrah, the alleged hijacker pilot of Flight 93 on 9/11, spent in Philadelphia. This included two days at a flight school, which refused to rent Jarrah a plane due to his inadequate piloting skills.
Some entries look at a little-known government agency called the National Communications System (NCS). The NCS happened to turn on a special backup communication system for use in emergencies for "exercise mode" the day before 9/11, and on the morning of 9/11, the CIA was briefing the NCS on the terrorist threat to the US's telecommunications infrastructure. The NCS's coordinating center subsequently played an important role in the government's response to the 9/11 attacks.
Entries reveal that special emergency transmitters carried by aircraft went off in… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
Foreign Policy Journal
Just after September 11th 2001, many governments began investigations into possible insider trading related to the terrorist attacks of that day. Such investigations were initiated by the governments of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monte Carlo, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and others. Although the investigators were clearly concerned about insider trading, and considerable evidence did exist, none of the investigations resulted in a single indictment. That's because the people identified as having been involved in the suspicious trades were seen as unlikely to have been associated with those alleged to have committed the 9/11 crimes.
This is an example of the circular logic often used by those who created the official explanations for 9/11. The reasoning goes like this: if we assume that we know who the perpetrators were (i.e. the popular version of "al Qaeda") and those who were involved in the trades did not appear to be connected to those assumed perpetrators, then insider trading did not occur.
That's basically what the 9/11 Commission told us. The Commission concluded that "exhaustive investigations" by the SEC and the FBI "uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions." What they meant was that someone did profit through securities transactions but, based on the Commission's assumptions of guilt, those who profited were not associated with those who were guilty of conducting the attacks. In a footnote, the Commission report acknowledged "highly suspicious trading on its face," but said that this trading on United Airlines was traced back to "A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda." 1
With respect to insider trading, or what is more technically called informed trading, the Commission report was itself suspect for several reasons.…Continue reading
Memoirs reveal former US president gave order to shoot down any hijacked planes before United Airlines flight 93 crashed.
by James Meikle
29 October 2010
George Bush initially believed the only plane not to reach its intended target during the 11 September attacks had been shot down on his orders, according to leaks from the former president's memoir of his two terms in office.
Bush reveals that he gave the order for any further suspected hijacked planes to be shot down after the first aircraft were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York during the 2001 terror attacks.
He at first thought the crash of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania had resulted from this instruction, although it later emerged that passengers had stormed the cockpit as hijackers flew the plane towards the Capitol building in Washington.
The memoir, Decision Points, is due to be published on 9 November, in the aftermath of the US midterm elections, and Bush is already lined up for interviews on the Oprah Winfrey and NBC Today shows.
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An Open Letter to Terry Allen, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, David Corn, Chris Hayes, George Monbiot, Matthew Rothschild, and Matt Taibbi1
by David Ray Griffin2
July 6, 2010
According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, some of its central claims, especially about the destruction of the World Trade Center, show its members to be scientifically challenged. In the opinion of some of these critics, moreover, claims made by members of this movement are sometimes unscientific in the strongest possible sense, implying an acceptance of magic and miracles.
After documenting this charge in Part I of this essay, I show in Part II that the exact opposite is the case: that the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center implies miracles (I give nine examples), and that the 9/11 Truth Movement, in developing an alternative hypothesis, has done so in line with the assumption that the laws of nature did not take a holiday on 9/11. In Part III, I ask these left-leaning critics some questions evoked by the fact that it is they, not members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, who have endorsed a conspiracy theory replete with miracle stories as well as other absurdities.
I. The Charge that 9/11 Truth Theories Rest on Unscientific, Even Magical, Beliefs
Several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, besides showing contempt for its members, charge them with relying on claims that are contradicted by good science and, in some cases, reflect a belief… Continue reading
David Ray Griffin
There are many questions to ask about the war in Afghanistan. One that has been widely asked is whether it will turn out to be "Obama's Vietnam."1 This question implies another: Is this war winnable, or is it destined to be a quagmire, like Vietnam? These questions are motivated in part by the widespread agreement that the Afghan government, under Hamid Karzai, is at least as corrupt and incompetent as the government the United States tried to prop up in South Vietnam for 20 years.
Although there are many similarities between these two wars, there is also a big difference: This time, there is no draft. If there were a draft, so that college students and their friends back home were being sent to Afghanistan, there would be huge demonstrations against this war on campuses all across this country. If the sons and daughters of wealthy and middle-class parents were coming home in boxes, or with permanent injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome, this war would have surely been stopped long ago. People have often asked: Did we learn any of the "lessons of Vietnam"? The US government learned one: If you're going to fight unpopular wars, don't have a draft — hire mercenaries!
There are many other questions that have been, and should be, asked about this war, but in this essay, I focus on only one: Did the 9/11 attacks justify the war in Afghanistan?… Continue reading
By John Byrne
May 11th, 2010
Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's latest nominee to the Supreme Court,
helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda
financiers responsible in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The suits were filed by thousands of family members and others affected by
the Sept. 11 attacks. In court papers, they provided evidence that members of
the Saudi royal family had channeled millions to al Qaeda prior to the bombings,
often in contravention of direct guidance from the United States.
But Kagan, acting as President Obama's Solicitor General, argued that the case
should not be heard even if evidence proved that the Saudis helped underwrite
al Qaeda, because it would interfere with US foreign policy with the oil-rich
nation. She posited "that the princes are immune from petitioners'
claims" because of "the potentially significant foreign relations
consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit."
In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer published Tuesday,
the mother of a man who was killed on United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania said
he didn't know why Kagan argued that the case not even be heard. By keeping
the case off the dockets, the Saudis were spared scrutiny of their finances.
"We had hoped she would be with us so that we could have our day in court,"
Beverly Burnett said.
I find this reprehensible," said Kristen Breitweiser, another family
member whose husband was killed in the 9/11 attacks, said
at the… Continue reading
City Room Blog – NYTimes.com
by Jennifer 8. Lee
Jeff Clark used pager message data released by WikiLeaks to created a visualization of the events of the day. The words, which are sized to their overall frequency over a 24-hour period starting from 3 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, brighten and fade in the video depending on how often they were used.
Programmers are introducing tools to analyze the hundreds of thousands of pager messages, supposedly dating from Sept. 11, released last week by WikiLeaks, an organization that releases sensitive documents and materials.
More than half a million messages were released by WikiLeaks, which has not disclosed who turned over the messages. Jeff Clark, a data visualization research who is not involved in WikiLeaks, interpreted the data in the aggregate, creating a video that shows the most commonly used terms that day, like "complex has evacuated" or "possible terrorist act." The words grow brightest when they hit their peak and are sized by how frequently there were used.
"I recognize the pager data was very much like Twitter data, because it's basically a time stamp with a bit of text," said Mr. Clark, who had done work with Twitter.
He also created small time lines showing when certain key phrases hit their peaks, and then ordered the phrases by the peak time to create a moving narrative of the day.
Over the weekend, another programmer, Colin Keigher, created a searchable database of the messages, which makes them much easier to parse than the original 40-megabyte file.…Continue reading
November 29, 2009
News: The Fifth Estate
'The Unofficial Story: Eight years after 9/11, why are doubts growing about
the official record of that day?'
This documentary was originally broadcast on November 27, 2009 on Canada's
CBC and will be available for viewing at www.CBC.ca (or below, if you are not in Canada).
On September 11, 2001 the world watched in shock and disbelief as planes flew
in to New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, and Americans
realized they were under attack. But by whom? What really happened? In The Unofficial
Story, the fifth estate's Bob McKeown introduces us to people who believe the
real force behind the attacks was not Osama Bin Laden, but the U.S. government
Emerging from the dust and debris that day was a movement, known these days
as 9/11 Truth or "truthers" — people who believe that 9/11
was part of a vast conspiracy and cover-up by a criminal faction within the
U.S. government. As the fifth estate reports, public opinion polls now show
that the majority of Americans believe the Bush Administration had advance knowledge
of those attacks and somehow allowed them to happen and that one-third of Canadians
share the same belief.
In The Unofficial Story, Bob McKeown explores why these questions and theories
are growing in popularity.
You'll meet some of the leading proponents of "truther" theories:
Richard Gage, an American architect, explains how the WTC twin towers and the
lesser known 'Tower #7′ could only have crumbled as they did due
to explosive charges placed inside the buildings.…
By emptywheel
Saturday November 14, 2009 7:51 am
A senior counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, has written a book exposing the degree to which our response to 9/11 was disorganized and outdated, geared to respond to an attack from Russia rather than from terrorists. Most significantly, Farmer reveals that FAA and NORAD altered their chronologies of the day only after a briefing at the White House.
Perhaps nothing perturbs Farmer more than the contention that high-ranking officials responded quickly and effectively to the revelation that Qaeda attacks were taking place. Nothing, Farmer indicates, could be further from the truth: President George W. Bush and other officials were mostly irrelevant during the hijackings; instead, it was the ground-level commanders who made operational decisions in an ad hoc fashion.
Yet both Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney, Farmer says, provided palpably false versions that touted the military's readiness to shoot down United 93 before it could hit Washington. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Northeast Air Defense Sector had been informed of the hijacking, United 93 had already crashed. Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and NORAD records to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that "fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney."
We've known for a long time that the… Continue reading
2009 Truth Statement
We STILL Want Real Answers About 9/11
[Signatures have been closed as of March, 2010]
On August 31, 2004, Zogby International, the official North American political polling agency for Reuters, released a poll that found nearly half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of those in New York state believe US leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9/11 attacks and "consciously failed" to act. Of the New York City residents, 66% called for a new probe of unanswered questions by Congress or the New York Attorney General. Since that time, multiple professional polling organizations have obtained similar results in polls conducted nationally and internationally.
In 2004, 911truth.org assembled a list of notable Americans and family members of those who died who signed (see that list of signatories, below) a 9/11 Statement, calling for "immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, in spite of Americans having elected the "other" party in hopes it would deliver on its promise of a change in direction, we find ourselves asking these same questions and encountering the same resistance to transparency. The ensuing wars have destroyed countless lives, our civil liberties (including habeas corpus) are in tatters, posse comitatus is history, and our economy lies essentially in ruin. Meanwhile, thousands of 9/11 responders who rushed to stand with America in its time of… Continue reading
Aidan Monaghan
June 22, 2009
According to a Freedom of Information Act reply from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the last known pre-9/11 flights for three of the four aircraft involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 took place in December, 2000, nine months before the attacks, while no pre-9/11 final flight information was provided for American Airlines flight 77 (N644AA).
However, a discovered searchable online BTS database produces the following search results for three of the four 9/11 aircraft on September 10, 2001:
AA 11 departs San Francisco (SFO): AA 09/10/2001 0198 (flight number) N334AA (tail number) BOS (destination) 22:04 (wheels-off time)
UA 175 departs San Francisco (SFO): UA 09/10/2001 0170 (flight number) N612UA (tail number) BOS (destination) 13:44 (wheels-off time)
UA 93 departs San Francisco (SFO): UA 09/10/2001 0078 (flight number) N591UA (tail number) EWR (destination) 23:15 (wheels-off time)
May 29, 2009
Statement On Behalf of the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism
In Response to the Solicitor General's Refusal to Support The 9/11 Families'
Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court
(In Re: Thomas E. Burnett, Sr., et al. v. Al Baraka Investment & Development
Corp., et al., Case No. 03-CV-9849 (RCC) In Re: Terrorist Attacks on September
WASHINGTON, May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a statement
of 9/11 Family Members: Mike Low, Father of Sara Elizabeth Low, AA Flight 11;
Bill Doyle, Father of Joseph M. Doyle, WTC North Tower; Tom & Beverly Burnett,
Sr., Parents of Thomas E. Burnett, Jr., UA Flight 93; and Terry Strada, Wife
of Thomas Strada, WTC North Tower on Behalf of the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt
Terrorism in Response to the Solicitor General's Refusal to Support The 9/11
Families' Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court:
Today the Obama Administration filed in the Supreme Court a document that expressed
the Administration's decision to stand with a group of Saudi princes and against
the right of American citizens — 9/11 family members — to have our day in
court. Let there be no doubt: The filing was political in nature and stands
as a betrayal of everyone who lost a loved one or was injured on September 11,
We are deeply dismayed by this decision, filed by the solicitor general of
the United States in response to the Supreme Court's February 23, 2009 invitation
for the government to express its views in the 9/11 families' request to appeal
a portion of the case to the Court.…
by Shoestring May 26, 2009 911blogger.com
Langley Air Force Base was the second military base that launched fighter jets to defend America in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Three of its F-16s were ordered to take off toward Washington at 9:24 a.m. that morning, but by the time they were airborne, more than 40 minutes had passed since the first attack on the World Trade Center, and almost half an hour since the second.
Furthermore, the pilots were hindered by an extraordinary combination of confusion, communications problems, conflicting orders, breaches of protocol, and other difficulties. Consequently, when the Pentagon was hit at 9:37 a.m., the jets were further away from it than they'd been when they took off. According to witnesses on the ground, fighters did not arrive over the Pentagon until around 10:40 a.m.–more than an hour too late to protect it from the attack.
A close examination of publicly available accounts raises the possibility that deliberate attempts were made to sabotage the ability of the Langley jets to respond to the 9/11 attacks, thereby paralyzing normal, well-practiced procedures. In this article, I focus on three particular aspects of the jets' response.
Firstly, I examine the initial order to launch F-16s from Langley AFB. Notably, instead of the usual two jets taking off, a third pilot took off in a spare jet. This left the unit with no supervisor of flying (SOF) to communicate with other agencies and pass on vital information to the pilots.… Continue reading
My lecture is entitled "9/11: Time for a Second Look." In suggesting that it is time for people to take a second look at 9/11, I have in mind primarily people who decided long ago that the attacks of 9/11 happened essentially the way the Bush-Cheney administration and the official reports about 9/11 said they happened, and who therefore decided that the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which disputes that account, is comprised of crazy conspiracy theorists with no capacity to evaluate evidence objectively. Having formed these views long ago, such people, including most journalists, have been impervious to any arguments presented by the Truth Movement. They simply roll their eyes and move on.
However, both the Truth Movement and the available evidence have changed dramatically in the past three years. Because of these changes, it is not rational to reject the claims of this movement out of hand, without taking a second look. If you are a person who has had such an attitude, you cannot, in the face of these changes, simply roll your eyes without exhibiting the very irrationality of which you accuse the people you dismiss as "conspiracy theorists."
My lecture is also addressed, albeit indirectly, to fellow members of the Truth Movement. Some members have decided that, now that Bush and Cheney are out of office and the Obama administration has reversed some of their 9/11-based policies, getting the truth about 9/11 revealed is no longer so important. Other members of the… Continue reading
The 2009 British Film Festival presents
The Reflecting Pool
Monday, May 4th, 4 PM
Custom Hotel
8639 Lincoln Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 900045
April 23, 2009
JAREK KUPSC — "The Reflecting Pool," trying to tell the truth, in America, through film.
anybody born and raised
behind the Iron Curtain,
it wasn't difficult to realize
what you were getting from
the television, newspapers
and the media did not exist
outside your house," Kupsc says.
"People developed other ways
to find what was going on."
JAREK KUPSC, 43, lives in Los Angeles, as of February 2009.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Jarek has been involved in independent film production
since 1983.
He studied art and history in his native Warsaw, Poland, learned Byzantine
Icon painting techniques in Greece, and received his B.A. in Film Writing/Directing
from San Francisco State University.
He authored and illustrated "The History of Cinema for Beginners,"
a comic film history textbook (Writers&Readers, New York/London, 1998).
As a writer/director/producer, Jarek completed numerous short films, including
the Rosebud Award-winning "Dog."
He debuted in 2001 with "Recoil" in the feature film category, following
with "Slumberland" in 2005 (Winner of Special Jury Prize, 2006 Gdynia
Film Festival, Poland; First Prize, 2007 Oskariada FF, Poland; Best Screenwriter,
2007 Young Film Festival, Poland.).
He is the writer/director of the 9/11 film "The Reflecting Pool."
"For anybody born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, it wasn't
difficult to realize what you were getting from the television, newspapers and
the media did not… Continue reading
By Joe Dwinell
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Three families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks head to court
today to plead with a federal judge to release a million pages of documents
detailing the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans.
Those secret papers, one Bay State family member told the Herald, are "so
bad you won't believe it."
"It was out control," Paul Keating, 45, said of security on Sept.
11, 2001, including at Logan International Airport in Boston where two ill-fated
jets left on a collision course with infamy.
"My mother went through the most public murder you could imagine . .
. and I've been putting up with this crap for seven years," Keating
said of his refusal to settle his case out of court.
Keating's 72-year-old mother, Barbara, a Framingham native, died aboard
American Airlines [AMR] Flight 11.
Keating is making legal history today, along with the families of Mark Bavis,
31, and Sara Low, 28, by asking Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Federal District
Court in Manhattan to lift the order keeping all the evidence hidden.
Low was a Boston-based flight attendant on Flight 11; Bavis of West Newton,
a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175. Both jets left Logan with hijackers
on board and were slammed into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
"Sept. 11 should not have happened," said attorney Donald A. Migliori,
whose firm represents all three families.
He said the secret papers include depositions of former Massport Executive… Continue reading
by Mickey S. Huff and Paul W. Rea
They say goldfish have no memory
I guess their lives are much like mine
and the little plastic castle
is a surprise every time
and it's hard to say if they're happy
but they don't seem much to mind.
–Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castles
For the past eight years, American culture has seen an outburst of media-driven mythmaking. Corporate mainstream media organizations, the pundits they sponsor, and politicians from both major parties have formed a new contextual chorus singing the same refrain: "On September 11th, 2001, everything changed." From cable TV to AM radio, from the blogosphere to the town-hall meeting, Americans repeatedly hear that "this is a post-9/11 world."
Although there is some truth to this platitude of pivotal change, independently minded citizens may also wonder whether such mass media messages have become self-fulfilling prophecies. This provides an interesting point of debate about what has or has not changed in America since 9/11.
This chapter concerns itself with the ongoing phenomena of media mythmaking and how, like many Americans surmised just after 9/11, everything has not changed. 1 Corporate mainstream media have resurrected powerful myths from America's past to shape public perception in the present. Through the prism of 9/11, one can see how the corporate mass media are in fact doing more mythmaking than news reporting. Here, the authors will examine central historic American myths the corporate media and even much of the alternative independent media have extended into the… Continue reading


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April 7th, 2008 #1
Chate Noire's Sketchbook (4/14)
Been contemplating opening a sketchbook for a while, and finally figured - why the hell not. I'm all hope having this corner will give me the motivation boost I so often need.
And since this is a sketchbook, a few pages from my rarely-used real-life one:
And a few girrabbits for good measure.
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April 7th, 2008 #2
you`re CRAZY telented, babe.
excellent stuff.
post more!
5 stars SB, indeed.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
-Bill Hicks
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April 7th, 2008 #3
Really like your style Chate Noire , an excellent start to your sketchbook!
The elephant/penguin creature design is simply stunning!
April 9th, 2008 #4
Thanks Pat
Quinn Simoes - thank you! Glad you like the elepenguin, he's fluffilicious.
My entry for a "twsited fairytales" challenge in an Israeli CG forum. It's Bearcub and the three Goldilocks...they're a scary bunch.
And some of the process:
And my llamcoon for Chuck,Mate's Confection:
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April 10th, 2008 #5
Hahaha.. The poor bear with three loving ladies around
I like the mood in your stuff! And the jokes that you put in them... My favorite is the one with the creature that is so tired and almost asleep on the branch
Waiting for more!
April 10th, 2008 #6
Haha excellent stuff!
You're talented for funny design!
I love this one!
Sketchbook :: Blog :: Gorilla Artfare :: Prints :: my Etsy
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i could kick an eggs ass if i wanted to
April 10th, 2008 #7
Rhett - thanks! Glad you liked the Diyu piece, I wasn't sure the joke got through...
Utopia - thank you. That creature's a combination of cheetah and sloth =)
Clochette, thanks, and I'm glad you liked the Elepenguin...
April 10th, 2008 #8
These are just great! You have a wonderful rendering style. I absolutely love the monkeys in space. More, more!
April 10th, 2008 #9
So much Character, life and Expression! Lovely! I just want moar!! Love Smythe and Sandelburg, great designs and the expressions look great!
No pain, no gain.
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You have such control aver what you do. A lot of emotion in these pieces. WONDERFUL! This is very inspiring.
A sage in training . . Not always so Sage-like
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April 10th, 2008 #11
so funny stuff. love your comix style. keep it up!
April 10th, 2008 #12
great talent, lovely cartoon style!
This one really made me laugh. very funny expression.
April 10th, 2008 #13
so much life!
amazing personality in your sketches.
specially enjoying all the animal hybrids.
really great job. keep it up!

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text: The Confrontation on the Smuggler's Moon wiki last edited by Renchamp on 03/30/13 01:06PM View full history Betrayed by their friends and pursued by everyone's favorite bounty hunter, Han and Leia try to escape from Nar Shaddaa. Meanwhile, the Rebels in combat over the planet Calamari receive aid from an unexpected source, and Luke falls deeper into the grip of the Dark Side!Overview:Han and Leia are greeted by Boba Fett, Dengar and Han's old friend Mako (who seems to have changed sides). Boba tells Han that he has waited a long time to kill him. Han and Leia blast their way out of the backdoor, and flee through the streets. Quickly they come to a dead-end, an abandoned spaceport of Nar Shadda. Han and Leia counter the bounty hunters' attack. Suddenly, a stray shot hits the passing floater of a hutt. The hutt falls off, and Han and Leia take this chance to get on the floater. They manage to evade the bounty hunters and fly upwards to find Salla Zend's ship and the Millennium Falcon attached to it.Han thanks Salla for the rescue, but it is short lived, because it seems that Boba Fett has already given chase in his Slave II spaceship. In the meantime, Leia opens the box given to her by Vima da boda. She finds an ancient but working lightsaber inside. As she activates the lightsaber, her force awareness is amplified temporarily. She visualizes Luke, now turned to the dark side, and in command of a fleet of Imperial starships. Leia tells Han that they must hurry.Elsewhere, over Mon Calamari, Lando and his Rebel troops are in crisis. Their captured Star Destroyer is in the grip of a World Smasher. More World Smashers have ascended into orbit for a full frontal battle with the Alliance. Suddenly though, the World Smashers start self-destructing. It is revealed that override signals from Byss were the cause.Over Byss, Salla Zend's Starlight Intruder makes it through the forcefield, using stolen Imperial Code , but Boba Fett's Slave II gets deflected. The Intruder makes it into the hangar, and the Millennium Falcon detachs itself to penetrate even more through the security net. Leia uses the Force to evade the security and the Falcon touches down in the inner hangar. As soon as Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C3PO get off, Salla and Ninx takes the Falcon out of the clutches of the Imperials. Luke's hologram appears before Leia, and the boarding party are escorted into the Emperor's inner sanctum. Luke reveals that the Emperor still lives.Inside the cloning laboratories, Luke confronts them, asking them to unhand their weapons. Leia draws out her lightsaber, and notices Luke missing his prosthetic right hand. The Emperor comes forward and deactivates Leia's lightsaber with a simple Force gesture. As he leads them to his cloning facility, Leia tries out her Force and breaks a heavy canister on the Emperor's head. But there is no effect. The Emperor seems elated by Leia's anger, and says that her time for training has come. With that, he sends out enough Force lightning to knock her out. Han is enraged, but Luke holds him at bay, saying that he will do whatever it takes to restore peace to the galaxy, even if it means his death.


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More People Are Cutting Back On Spending
September 19, 2011 7:51 PM
Anthony Silva
Anthony Silva is co-host of the WBZ Afternoon News heard each wee...Read More
BOSTON (CBS) – According to the latest financial security index from Bankrate.com, more people are cutting back on their spending.
Greg McBride at Bankrate says about 40% of those who responded say they have reduced their spending recently.
McBride tells WBZ those 50-64 were most likely to have cut back on their spending, and the under 30 set was least likely to have done so.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Anthony Silva reports


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The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (clann in Irish and Scottish Gaelic). The term is in use as a title in Ireland and Scotland where Gaelic traditions still survive.
In Ireland[edit]
In Elizabethan times, the position of Chief of the Name was more important to some Irish leaders than English titles. There are instances[1] where Norman lords of the time like FitzGerald, took to using the Gaelic style of "The" or "Mór" (great) to indicate that the individual was the primary person of his family in Ireland.
In the Tudor period the Kingdom of Ireland was established in 1542, and many of the former autonomous clan chiefs were assimilated by the policy of surrender and regrant. At the same time numerous mentions were made in official records of locally-powerful landlords described as "chief of his nation", i.e. head of a family, whether assimilated or not. Attempts were made by the English to make each "chief" responsible for the good behaviour of the rest of his family and followers. The Gaelic practice was for such a man to sign himself by the family surname only. A new practice arose where the English version of the surname was in many instances prefixed by "The", and so for example the head of the Mac Aonghusa clan in County Down would sign as "Mac Aonghusa" in Irish, and as "The Magennis" in English.
The downfall of the Gaelic order in the early 17th century led to a decline of the power of the Chiefs. Plantation efforts, the Wars of Cromwell and King James, meant that by the end of the 17th century, most of the Chiefships of the Name were living outside of Ireland, reduced to poverty, or lost forever.
Thereafter, the former kings or chiefs passed their titles down by primogeniture, whereas the usual practice in the Middle Ages was to elect a chief from a group of close cousins known as a derbfine. Their lineages were usually recorded by the Herald's Office in Dublin Castle, set up in 1552, not least because clans in the 16th and 17th centuries had been persuaded to enter the English-law system under the policy of surrender and regrant. Other manuscript genealogies were preserved and published in the 18th century by Charles O'Conor and Sylvester O'Halloran. The Irish nationalist and republican movements that developed after 1850 often harked back emotively to the former chiefs' losses, but without ever suggesting that they be reinstated.
The Irish Free State, founded in 1922, gave no special recognition, but in 1938, the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, at the inauguration of Dr. Douglas Hyde as President of Ireland, welcomed the incoming President with these words. "In you we greet the successor of our rightful princes and in your accession to office we hail the closing of the breach that has existed since the undoing of our nation at Kinsale". In 1948 the government suggested that there should be a "Council" of chiefs, accredited by the Herald, for emotive reasons. In Irish and English law a title is a possession, classed as an "incorporeal hereditament", but the 1937 Irish Constitution forbids the conferring of titles of nobility by the state, as well as the acceptance of titles of nobility or honour without the prior permission of the government.[2] Therefore the Council was also a means of allowing them to use their titles, but only as honorifics and without any political function. In 1943 the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) therefore agreed with Edward McLysaght, then Chief Herald of Ireland, that the titles would be known as "designations" made by the Herald's Office to avoid the constitutional ban. McLysaght deplored that anyone could perfectly legally describe themselves as "chief of the name" (such as The O'Rahilly) without having any written proof of descent, if nobody else claimed the very same title.
Effectively a dual system ran from 1948 to 2003, where the government recognised the chiefs as such, but not their other titles. In such a case, for example, The McDermot, Prince of Coolavin would only be known as "The McDermot" to the Chief Herald, but would be addressed also as "Prince of Coolavin" by his fellow-chiefs.
Until 2003 an Irish "Chief of the Name" was a person recognised by the Chief Herald of Ireland as the most senior known male descendant of the last inaugurated or de facto chief of that name in power in Gaelic Ireland at or before the end of the 16th century. See Gaelic nobility of Ireland. The practice was discontinued in that year due to the "MacCarthy Mór" situation.
Abandonment: the MacCarthy Mór Scandal[edit]
After genealogical errors in the 1990s saw Terence Francis MacCarthy and other impostors receive recognition, the Irish Government decided in July 2003 to abandon this practice. This was partly because of concern that there was no proper legal basis for it. As this concern was backed by an opinion of the Attorney General, in 2003 the Genealogical Office discontinued the practice of recognising Chiefs. This decision was criticised by some, and was a cause for concern among the recognised chiefs.
Modern Irish clan organisations such as Clan Ó Lorcáin (Larkin) have elected honorary chieftains, where no Chief of the Name is known or yet to be proven. Many re-formed Irish Clans are affiliated with the "Finte na hÉireann" or "Clans of Ireland" the independent authority established in 1989 to provide recognition for Irish Clans.[3]
Present law[edit]
As the law has reverted to the pre-1943 situation, anyone can call himself a Chief of the Name. A 2009 example is the Clan Cian web page (see below), which includes: "Clan Cian is Headed by the recognized Ard Tiarna. F.J. O'Carroll, of Eile O'Carroll, Chief of Name". The group is not recognised by the Irish government or its chief herald, but must be self-recognising.[4]
Separately, outstanding genealogists who have studied clan ancestries can be awarded the Order of Clans of Ireland whose current patron is the President of Ireland.
Gaelic titles with principal claimants/recognition pending[edit]
Of verified pedigree[edit]
- Mac Carthy Mór, Prince of Desmond – Currently claimed by Liam Trant MacCarthy, a verified male line descendant of Tadhg na Mainistreach Mac Carthaigh Mór, King of Desmond (d. 1426).[5] It was into the pedigree of Liam Trant MacCarthy's family, known as the MacCarthys of Srugrena (among other names), that the impostor Terence MacCarthy inserted himself.[6]
- Ó Néill (Mór), Prince of Ulster – Claimed by the Prince of the Fews, Don Carlos Ó Neill, Marques de la Granja, Marques del Norte y de Villaverde de San Isidro, and Conde de Benagairde (Spain), but not applied for. The Prince of the Fews is a male line descendant of Art mac Aodha, King of Ulster (r. 1509-1513/4), grandson of Eóghan Ó Néill Mór, King of Ulster (d. 1456), however it is uncertain if Art was a paternal or maternal grandson, and whether his father Aodh Ó Néill descended from the Tyrone or Clanaboy O'Neills in the male line.
Pedigrees awaiting verification[edit]
- Mac Lochlainn
- Mac Shane
- Mac Sweeney Doe
- Ó Catháin (O'Cahan) – Claimed by Lt. Col. (USAR-Ret.) Leonard M. Keane, Jr., of Massachusetts, claiming to be a descendant of Seán Ó Catháin, The Ó Catháin (d. 1498). Keane submitted his application to the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in 2001, but no action one way or the other has been taken. The Genealogical Office has received no formal application from Keane.
- Ó Dubhda
- Ó Hara of Leyney
- Ó Higgins of Ballynary
- Ó Meehan
- Ó Maolaoidh (O'Molloy-Molloy) R. J. Molloy claimed surviving branch descendant of J. O'Molloy (d. cir. 1790). Third cousin branch, only surviving direct male line. Chief Herald has received inquiry and genealogical research, including 352 years of genealogical record, has been submitted, but no action has been taken.
- Ó Séaghdha (O'Shea) – Claimed by Malcolm Richard Archer Shee of Maryland (b. 1955), claiming to be the senior descendant of Elias Shee of Cranmore (+1613), younger brother of Sir Richard Shee of Kilkenny, the last to be described as "chief" in contemporary sources. Sir Richard Shee, a legal advisor to the Duke of Ormonde, died in 1608. No formal application has been made for recognition, but the line is well documented in Burke's Irish Family Records and earlier publications.
In Scotland[edit]
In general, the same pattern holds true of the Clan Chiefs in Scotland as for Chiefs in Ireland. Titles may vary, but a Chief of a clan is still the recognised leader within a Scottish clan. A difference is that in Scotland Clan Chiefs can be either male or female whereas in Ireland the Clan Chiefs are male. In Scotland it is The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs; in Ireland it is The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains (Irish: Buanchomhairle Thaoisigh Éireann).
See also[edit]
- Donal II O'Donovan, a notable historical case
- White Rod
- Irish name
- ^ State Papers of Ireland, Queen Elizabeth, 1210. vol. II
- ^ Bunreacht na hÉireann, Article 40.2
- ^ "Clans of Ireland website".
- ^ "Clan Cian list of officers".
- ^ Norroy & Ulster King of Arms, 9 July 2009, Reference R.P.09/192; Ellis, pp. 125–7
- ^ Ellis, p. 125, and passim
Further reading[edit]
- Burkes Peerage: See Irish and Scottish Chiefs; Peerages; and Titles
- Ellis, Peter Berresford, Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. Palgrave. Revised edition, 2002.
- Murphy, Sean J (2004) Twilight of the Chiefs: The Mac Carthy Mór Hoax. Bethesda, Maryland: Academica Press. ISBN 1-930901-43-7.
- MacLysaght, Edward (1996) More Irish Families. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 0-7165-2604-2.
- Nicholls, K.W. Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2003. ISBN 1-84351-003-0.
- Vanishing Kingdoms – The Irish Chiefs and Their Families, by Walter J. P. Curley (former US Ambassador to Ireland), with foreword by Charles Lysaght, published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2004. ISBN 1-84351-055-3 & ISBN 1-84351-056-1. (Chapter on O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, page 59).
- Nash, Professor C., Of Irish Descent, chapter 4. New York, Syracuse University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8156-3159-0
External links[edit]
- Clans of Ireland
- Clans and Chieftains in Ireland From More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght, First Chief Herald of Ireland
- Termination of the system of Courtesy Recognition as Chief of the Name Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland (.PDF file)[dead link]
- List of Scottish Chiefs and Clans
- Sean Murphy's website on the subject
- Article on Irish Chiefs on the Burke's Peerage & Gentry website[dead link]
- Irish Chiefs at The Doyle Page (Australia)


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Thanks to a huge decision out of a federal appeals court in Ohio, your email and the Fourth Amendment just got better acquainted. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that the police have to get a warrant to take a peek at the contents of your inbox. The court says that a 1986 law allowing law enforcement access to email with a simple subpoena — meaning a subject may never be notified about the search — was unconstitutional, violating the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures.
"This is a very big deal," writes law professor Paul Ohm. "[T]his is the opinion privacy activists and many legal scholars, myself included, have been waiting and calling for, for more than a decade. It may someday be seen as a watershed moment in the extension of our Constitutional rights to the Internet."
The case that led to the decision dealt with extensions of a different variety. The defendant that challenged the po-po's warrantless search of his email is Steven Warshak, the mastermind behind Enzyte, a questionable herbal supplement purported to increase the size of a man's erection. Sometimes, new constitutional protections pop out of the strangest places…
Sex — or the promise of making it better, in this case — sells. In 2004, Warshak's company did $250 million in sales, thanks mainly to its stimulating supplement. A good part of its growth in popularity was thanks to late-night television commercials featuring "Smilin' Bob." "The 'Smilin' Bob' commercials were rife with innuendo and implied that users of Enzyte would become the envy of the neighborhood," according to the opinion.
In case you didn't spend much time watching late night programs on Spike, here's one of the commercials:
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My wife signed an affidavit at our bank believing their were fraudulent charges on her account. It is the only account we have and it is in her sole name. My paycheck deposits into the account which accounts for 90% of all the income that revolves through the account. After doing some research it turns out that most, if not all, the charges were made by me. We didn't know this at the time as I am horrible about keeping a ledger/register and the fact that we rely solely on our online banking statement. This has become more and more of a problem recently as charges seem to shift and have different dates from everything we remember. What can we do to halt this affidavit process before it becomes a problem as we do not want to commit fraud and we didn't realize about the charges being made by me. No my name is not on the card or account, but it is is my paycheck and she is my wife. What can we do?
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Tell your wife to visit the bank and withdraw the affidavit.
She should say that she remembered that she (or you) made the charges and forgot to record them.
That should stop the investigation and eliminate any potential problems for either of you.
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December 22, 2008
Imagine a six-year-old going to a birthday party and not being able to throw off her shoes and jump in a bounce house or swing a bat at a rainbow-colored piñata, waiting blindfolded for that wellspring of candy.
"That's the day the fun stopped."
That day was Dec. 10, 2007, said Victoria, now 7, who was sidelined by the diagnosis of congenital scoliosis as a first-grader. This condition, which is an abnormal curvature of the spine, would ultimately require three surgeries recommended by Dr. Peter Newton of the Pediatric Orthopedic and Scoliosis Center at Rady Children's Hospital.
Dec. 10, 2007 was her first surgery, lasting approximately six hours, where Newton removed two abnormally-shaped vertebra and performed a limited fusion, which involves joining two pairs of vertebrae with screws and rods, called instrumentation. Victoria's condition was discovered when she changed pediatricians and was having a yearly check-up last year. Her mother, Jovita, admitted surprise as Victoria was her youngest and third child and didn't know much about this condition or signs or symptoms to look for. Victoria's type of scoliosis cannot be passed onto her offspring, said Newton.
After the first procedure, Victoria left the hospital after six days and was required to wear a thoracolumbar orthosis, known as a plastic fitted body brace to keep her spine aligned and allow it to heal. Jovita said she was required to wear the brace for eight to 12 hours per day. Victoria was allowed to choose the pattern of the body brace and elected her favorite colors of purple and pink hearts.
Despite the cheery-looking body brace, life as Victoria knew it instantly became non-existent. The once active girl, involved with dance, monologue and acting classes since age 3, and who used to travel with her mom to Los Angeles on auditions was now only offered the choice of swimming as an extracurricular activity. The vibrant brunette, who now flashes a jack-o-lantern smile, is represented by Abrams Artists Agency, had to immediately halt all trips to L.A. since her surgery.
Children are resilient, but so many new changes had taken place in Victoria's life recently. Her family had relocated from Santee to Eastlake. Changing neighborhoods, schools and doctors... now this? In fact, when Victoria's diagnosis happened, they were only given four months to wait for the first surgery date. There wasn't a choice of whether the surgery was going to happen, Jovita said, but when. (Newton said had the surgery not occurred, her growth would have continued "increasing deformity of her back and bent trunk.") But having two spinal surgeries within three months of each other? She expressed that had Victoria not been "so strong, brave and understanding" she doesn't think she could have been as strong as she was, too. She credits her close-knit family, including husband Jose, Sr. son Jose and wife Hivi, grandson Jaden, and son Danny with round-the-clock support during both recovery periods.
The second surgery was Mar. 10, where Newton changed the rods from the first surgery to plan for healing of the bone and fusion of upper spine when her growth is completed. Victoria was in the hospital only three days following this second surgery, which lasted 3 to 4 hours, her mom said. Victoria proudly admitted (and to everyone's surprise) no pain medication after this surgery!
According to Newton, her third surgery will involve another fusion with instrumentation (rods and screws) of her upper spine curve but this last surgery is "years" away from being scheduled. And that's good news for Victoria, who welcomed the fun back to her life on Aug. 20, 2008 when Newton reviewed X-rays and released Victoria from wearing her body brace. She won't have to wear a similar body brace after her third and final surgery, confirmed Newton.
Being sidelined with scoliosis allowed Victoria to redirect her energy to other pursuits, like swimming and reading. Her mom reported one day calling out for Victoria and when her daughter, an otherwise spirited and articulate child, didn't respond, she started to look for her around the house. Jovita discovered that her daughter had completely rewritten her favorite author, Seuss'tale, "Green Eggs in Ham," verbatim without the aid of the book. Dr. Seuss, it turns out, continues to be Victoria's favorite author as she enjoys her second grade year at Liberty Elementary School.
Long-term, Victoria has a healthy outlook, despite her spinal condition and recent surgeries, says Newton. He predicts limited trunk motion (flexibility) for Victoria when it comes to certain types of sporting activities, but acknowledges that she should otherwise have no limitations in future activities. So, Victoria's forecast for fun looks pretty bright!
Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Center helps surgeons improve patient care
The Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Center (OBRC), commonly referred to as the Biomechanics Lab, is not your average resource center. In fact, it's not for patients, but for doctors. But what it translates to is better patient care as surgeons at Rady Children's Hospital can try out new techniques or modify their own with this internal resource available at the Serra Mesa campus.
About 60 percent of the work performed at the Biomechanics Lab revolves around spinal deformity correction, explained Tucker Tomlinson, former OBRC director. (Arnel Aguinaldo became the director as of July 31.)
For example, Dr. Peter Newton, who performed Victoria's surgeries for her congenital scoliosis, (see main story) is working on research including minimally invasive-endoscopic fusion techniques, instrumentation system development for infants, small children and adolescents and non-fusion treatment strategies to eliminate or reduce the need to perform fusion (growth and motion maintained).
Research, like that of Newton's, is performed by approximately 95 percent of local surgeons, Tomlinson said. In addition to spinal research, the remainder of research is divided into sports medicine, knee, shoulder and other joints, he added.
Testing usually involves cadaveric tissue to examine the affects of two different repairs on a specific type of defect, according to Tomlinson. With the help of a sophisticated materials testing machine, doctors can apply the precise controlled load to each sample and see the end result or motion, he said.
"The analysis of these loading and motion patterns allow us to identify the relative advantages and disadvantages of each repair." Tomlinson said. "This information, in turn, allows the surgeons to make more informed choices of treatment taking into account the specific needs of each patient."
Colleen McNattOriginally published in Kids' NewsDay, San Diego Union-Tribune, October 7, 2008.
© 2010 Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego


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Looks to me like the ��s� in front of the source ip is missing. Not sure
if that is it.
I would write the rule like this:
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i <server-ip> -s 123.456.789.0/24 -j DROP
Your iptables will not survive a system reboot. You need to make a script
that adds the rules you want and run it at startup. It�s a good idea to
make the script from the beginning so you don�t have to type in the
commands over and over again.
Iptables apply the rules sequentially. You are able to deny all and then
only allow what you want.
In your example, you would probably allow all access to port 80, and then
drop all connections from the IP-addresses in your ban list. Of course,
depending on which list is bigger, your allow-list or your ban-list.
You shouldn�t be too worried about locking yourself out, as long as you
have local access. You will probably lock yourself out a bunch of times
while testing this out, which is why you don�t want to be doing it if you
only have remote access.
As long as you have local access you can always flush the rules with the
following commands:
iptables -F
iptables -t filter -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -P FORWARD ACCEPT
It is a good idea to have your rules in a script from the beginning. Run
your script and test if it works. If something went wrong, you make
corrections to your script, flush iptables, and run your script again.
HTH and please correct me if I am wrong :)
> i think its..
> iptables -A INPUT -s 123.456.789.0/24 -p tcp -j DROP
> iptables -A INPUT -s 123.456.789.0/24 -p udp -j DROP
> though i haven't tried removing the protocol option.. you may want to
> test
> it..
> hth
> On Monday 15 May 2006 17:05, Cylar Z wrote:
>> Hey Linux gurus...
>> I'm running Fedora Core 5 and want to customize my
>> iptables firewall in order to bolster system security.
>> I have three separate questions that aren't being
>> answered by the tutorials I've read:
>> 1. I want to ban an entire range of IP address within
>> a given network, not just a single IP. There's got to
>> be a way to do that w/o typing out 256 or more
>> addresses and entering them in one-by-one! I typed the
>> following command, and this is what the system said:
>> -----
>> root# iptables -A INPUT -j DROP 123.456.789.0/24
>> Bad argument `123.456.789.0/24'
>> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
>> information.
>> root#
>> ------
>> Where of course 123.456.789.0 is the class C network
>> whose incoming packets I'm trying to stop at my
>> firewall. It is to be completely prohibited from
>> contacting the system in any way and any packets that
>> do arrive from there are to go unacknowledged. I don't
>> even want users on that network being able to view my
>> web pages.
>> Needless to say, I did as suggested and looked at
>> iptables -h, as well as the man page. No help there.
>> So what's wrong with my syntax? The tutorial I was
>> using swears up and down that the command *should*
>> work as advertised. Maybe iptables has changed since
>> it was written, so can anyone tell me the correct
>> syntax?
>> 2. I entered a long list of individual IP addresses
>> into the firewall using the command given above. I
>> confirmed that they'd been loaded by running iptables
>> -L. It showed me the rules as I expected to see.
>> HOWEVER, the rules were all gone when I rebooted the
>> entire system and ran iptables -L a second time. What
>> do I need to do in order to make the iptables rules
>> permanent so that they'll survive a system reboot?
>> 3. Lastly, I'd like to write a rule that says "Ban ALL
>> connections from ALL systems, except for the ones
>> explictly allowed to connect." I'd also like to write
>> a rule that says, "If a system wants to connect to
>> port 80, check the banned list. If it's not there, let
>> it in."
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2014 – A "clean audit" is the Holy Grail of U.S. military financial goals.
Generations of defense secretaries have pushed an unwieldy and confusing financial system closer to a clean audit, and today Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recognized DOD organizations that are at the forefront of this charge.
The Marine Corps and nine other defense agencies are leading the Defense Department in this effort. The Corps is the first military service to clear a financial audit; the other services expect to clear this hurdle later this year.
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The ceremony recognizing the organizations was in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. "I know it might seem a bit unusual to be in the Hall of Heroes to honor a bookkeeping accomplishment, but damn, this is an accomplishment, and I think it deserves a Hall of Heroes recognition," Hagel said.
The secretary specifically thanked Robert F. Hale, DOD's comptroller, for his work in making this happen. Hale is retiring later this year.
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Where the fae come out to Plae..
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"When the Mayhrim Armies secured the last woodlands of the Maylonian Empire, the bright faeries where driven into the sea. The dark faeries, whose manners are more compromising, yielded and were taken into slavery. Four hundred years later the Emperor, Nahrack II, granted them their freedom, but only on the promise that they would never set foot outside the yellow Bogs of Ethertaul."
"The Dark Faerie King's castle is situated in a vast barren wastlend, in giant canyons that lead to the bowels of the castle live millions of the kings minions, workers, servants and soldiers alike, all of them drones to the hierarchy."
"The Nore Clan was the weakest of the Seven Faerie Tribes. After the dust settled from the war that split the Faerie kingdom apart, they were forced from the canopies and into the edge of the woods. There, the clan's way of life decayed and rotted."
Justin Oaksford:
"The dark faeries thrive in the middle of Wardun, the capital of Sekuul, the Dark country. However, nearing the border with L'me Asse, the 'good faerie' region, where the grass is green and the skies are blue, the real estate is cheap. The faeries who just couldn't hack it in the city have to live out there. Once out there, their skin becomes lighter within years, disabling them from re-entering Wardun, or any other major Sekuulian city for that matter. When the Fakurr (inspection squad from Wardun) come out to investigate, they eliminate any faeries seen associating with the Light faeries. In this rare scene we see a dark faerie with a blue cape in open daylight- a member of a rebellion, returning home. It is likely the Fakurrs are waiting inside to ambush him."
"It's bit surrealistic but my intention was to go into direction of holocaust and Jewish ghetto in Warsaw which was last stop before extinction camp."
"The two Dark Faeries, brothers, are banned from their fairyship, and must venture out into the bright ghetto. They squint as the hellish orange radiance pierces through the very trees that once shaded them. The Dark Faeries, nurtured by the cool, soft, and blue shade, hate nothing more than the sunlight which burns creation into the earth."
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"I thought it said Dark Faerie GROTTO!"
"Hidden in the woods, accessed through a cave infested with killer bats lies the home of the meanest fairies, they all gave away their soul to the Stone God, whose sculpture is located in the middle of their town where they have dark parties every night to present their offerings and kill them."
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"an underground place where the cast out faires had made there homes."
"After the great Faerie Clan wars, the ancestors of the vanquished continue to exist segregated from the "superiors", clipped wings preventing any from attempting to traverse over the Separation Wall, from which hints of the lavish lifestyles of the victors may be seen..."
"druken fairy inn"
"Barred from the light by the great iron doors and the wizard's wall the inhabitants of the ghetto grew smaller and weaker every year. Soon even the the simplest glamorie was beyond their ability. Although some had wanted the separation from the land of mortals, they didn't realize that that bit of each of them that was mortal gave them the will to live and that by separation to their shadow realm they were bringing the end of their race forever..."
"The Fae when they are born are neither Dark nor Light. As they grow their true nature begins to assert itself, moulded by the choices they make, lured by the shadows, attracted by the light.
It is not till the Fae reaches Puberty does their path in life become clear. As their skin begins to darken to the deep blue of the night it is then they know they must leave their families and join the Dark Fae.
This is no easy journey for our Fae, for she must travel deep into the old forest and pass the Rat Riders to enter the Dark Faerie Ghetto."
"I wanted to do a neighborhood in a landfill, but I got stuck trying to turn a high-top converse shoe into a drinking establishment.
So I went with the ye olde medaeval faery plaece."
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the misty part of the forest became a hideout for the troubled fairies.
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September 4th, 2007 #2
I went ATA...though I do think bumskee was a very cool entry also. I forgot to mark mine final-and to give a discription-woopsie, ah well a lesson learned
September 4th, 2007 #3
voted Bumskee (ding, ding, ding)
September 4th, 2007 #4
voted for ata, defenetly had that darkness to it and it looked like a ghetto, also liked bumskee's but couldnt see a ghetto, only a mushroom forest,(pity, it had postential) also liked gaius, but i felt there wasnt enough dark feeling to it. it felt more like the forset was a dark place and the ghetto was the light. which is also a pitty, i think if it had been portrade the other way round it could have been a defenate winner
September 4th, 2007 #5
Cloister- interesting idea. nice colors.
ATAnderson- I really like ur images, but this one looks a bit unfinished imo. Excellent colors and composition. I think that more details would make the picture perfect!
timothee- really original. I like it!
... and my vote goes to ATAnderson!
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September 4th, 2007 #6
Thanks Thalion! I appreciate the votes Justin, Nalot.
I didn't think too many people were gonna participate this time around, but alot of cool entries came out of the woodwork. A couple of my favs were ATAnderson, Gaius and Bumskee. I voted for Gaius because I really like the lighting and textures you used in the piece. Good work everyone.
September 4th, 2007 #7
Many nice Entries here. I voted for Gaius as I really liked your composition, particularly that it reads well and there is a lot of interesting activity going on.
ATAnderson - I liked the composition and lighting of this one as well, really great work.
Cloister - Pretty I wanted to vote for this one too - so hard to pick, great job.
timothee - Nice - I really like the style of this one. ONly critique, if I may say so, is I think the sign, and particularly the text, detracts from the image a little, would've tied in better I think if you had hand painted it in the same loose style as the rest of the image.
Bumskee - Your artwork is always nice to look at, nice work man
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September 6th, 2007 #9
voted for supialoctopod
saw your vid on u tube and had to vote for you
ps how do you make those vids??
September 6th, 2007 #10
i got nothing against supialoctopod or his image, but skunk you voted for him becouse you saw his vid on on utube? no offence, but that is so lame a reason,
September 6th, 2007 #11
BTW how can I find those vids on youtube ? If you make a promotion here at least do it good and give a link or something
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I vote for ATAnderson,
bumskee : i like your idea
Gaius: your work is really interesting, i like colours
September 8th, 2007 #13
Thanks very much for all the votes and nice comments folks, this was not the result I expected.
A very wide range of entries and ideas this round. My favourite finished piece is Gaius's but I felt the ghetto part of the brief was not answered that well. Manuel Calavera got my vote, he deserves more recognition than he recieved. You definately took the most visually unique approach to the ghetto. The acid green colour that is quite often in you work is well suited here and if that's a flame-thrower the guy is carrying then that leaves room for some horrible narrative indeed. Cloisters is very nice aswell, but a little underdefined and removed from the action, still you have created a nice form language. Good work everyone.


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When Bill and I were in New York a couple weeks ago, we happened upon a sweet little Christmas Bazaar at Columbus Circle. We had just been talking about the people we hoped to find gifts for on our trip, so we walked through. We found an ornament for my dad, the Yankee fan, but didn't have much luck with anyone else. Just as we were getting ready to leave, I spotted a sweet little knit narwhal in one of the booths and decided that he had to go in Henry's stocking.
I flipped over the narwhal's tag and saw that he was named Phil. Phil the narwhal! We looked at a few of the other animals in the booth, purchased Phil and went on our merry way. Later that night, Bill mentioned a hammerhead shark in the shop that was pretty cute. I pulled the shop's card out of Phil the narwhal's bag, looked up the website and saw that the hammerhead shark was indeed adorable and thought he'd be a good companion to Phil.
So, before we left on Sunday we went back over to Columbus Circle and adopted Reginald the hammerhead shark. He's a bit bigger than Phil, but hopefully they'll get along just fine.
Sweatertoys are made from recycled sweaters and are seriously the cutest things ever. They have tons more personality than your typical stuffed animal and I love that they are created from something old. Sustainable toys! I have my eye on the squid, the tapir and the duck (obviously). I think the Easter Bunny will have to bring Henry another one or two of these little guys.
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Keita leads charge in Timbers' 3-1 win over Battery
Keita recorded his eighth goal of the season, midfielder Alex Nimo logged a goal and an assist and midfielder Ryan Pore scored his third goal in three games to help Portland (11-1-9, 42pts) leap Charleston in the standings and join the Carolina RailHawks in a two-way tie at the top of the table.
With their second victory in three days, the Timbers extended their USL First Division record unbeaten streak to 20 matches.
In a matchup featuring the top two defensive units in the league, the Timbers broke through for three goals against a Battery backline that had allowed a league-low 10 goals entering the match. Saturday marked the first time Charleston allowed multiple goals in a league game this season.
Midfielder Stephen Armstrong scored his first on the season and midfielder Scott Buete logged a team-high five shots for Charleston (11-4-8, 41pts), who had a three-game winning streak come to an end with the loss.
Keita broke open the scoring in the 12th minute with a header from eight yards out. From a re-start just outside the box, Nimo received the ball inside the penalty area and served a pin-point cross to Keita near the spot. Keita leapt over the crowd and drilled a shot just under bar for his first goal since July 11.
Keita and Nimo linked up once again in the 41st minute to double the Timbers' lead 2-0. Portland worked the ball into the box to Keita high on the right side with his back to goal. Keita sent a pass out wide to Nimo down the right side. After slipping by his defender, Nimo curled a shot past Battery goalkeeper Keith Wiggans and inside the left post for his first goal as a member of the Timbers.
The Battery pulled one back in the 50th minute, taking advantage of a Portland turnover. Forward Randi Patterson won possession of the ball in the Timbers defensive third and pushed it immediately up field. He drew the Timbers defense and found Armstrong on a short pass inside the box. Portland goalkeeper Steve Cronin left his line to challenge Armstrong on the play, but Armstrong found an opening and finished the ball into an open net.
After placing an open shot right at Wiggans earlier the second half, Pore capitalized on a second chance at an open look inside the box in the 81st minute. Cronin started the play at the back, finding Keita near midfield, who then fed Pore on a run up the left wing. Pore out-ran a Battery defender tracking back and then rattled a shot off the near post and into the back of the net to sealing a 3-1 win for the Timbers with his sixth strike of the season.
Just five minutes from time, Battery midfielder Chris Williams was sent off by referee Andres Pfefferkorn, following an altercation near midfield. A scrum broke out after a hard challenge on Pore near the sideline from a Battery player.
The Timbers embark on a two-game road trip, starting Wednesday against the Montreal Impact at 4:45 p.m. (Pacific). Portland then visits the Rochester Rhinos on Saturday at 4:35 p.m. (Pacific). Both matches will be broadcast live on www.portlandtimbers.com, with a live video webcast available through USL Live at www.usllive.com. Saturday's game in Rochester will air live on 95.5 The Game.
Notes: The Timbers out-shot the Battery 16-12 … Midfielder Alex Nimo made his third start of the season for Portland Saturday … Armstrong's goal was just the third given up by Portland at home this season in league play … The Timbers are 9-0-0 this season when scoring in the first half … Former Timbers forward Dan Antoniuk started for the Battery against his former club.
POR: GK Cronin, D Hayes, D Keel, D Thompson, D Danso, D Claesson, M Claesson (Savage, 45), M McManus, M Nimo (Farber, 66), M Pore (Forrest, 86), F Keita, F Josten (Suzuki, 86)
CHA: GK Wiggans, D Akwari, D Marples, D Bermudez, D Sanfilippo, M Buete, M Williams, M Armstrong (Yoshitake, 77), M Hemming, F Antoniuk, F Patterson
Scoring Summary:
POR: Keita (Nimo), 12
POR: Nimo (Keita), 41
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