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By Michael Kane, March 27, 2004
Case study: How the Commission went easy on Rumsfeld, Myers and Wolfowitz
"I had no idea hijacked airliners would be used as weapons."
So said Rumsfeld, in his opening remarks to the Kean Commission on March 23, 2004. His final statement on the topic while under oath was, "I plead ignorance."
Officials at NORAD have said that when the hijackings first occurred, they initially thought it was part of the Vigilant Guardian drills running that morning. Despite some confusion, once Flight 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:45 AM, everyone should have known this was not a test.
Former White House terrorism adviser Richard Clarke's testimony, one day later, was interesting, but amounted to little more than a distraction. There were more cameras on Clarke than on anyone else during the two-day national broadcast of the commission hearings. In reality, his testimony was nowhere near as interesting as the joint appearance by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Myers the day before. I do not question Clarke's sincerity at this time, just the timing, which he did not choose. His book was released at a time chosen by the White House, and the testimony depended on the book. He had finished it well over 6 months before, but it was held up by the White House security clearance.
As a result, the book came out on the eve of Rumsfeld's sworn testimony to the 9/11 Commission. Very clever if intentional, because it distracted everyone from two issues completely ignored by the commissioners, and overshadowed by Clarke and his book when they questioned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
ISSUE #1 On the morning of September 11, 2001, NORAD was running war games involving the scenario of hijacked airliners, while the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was running a drill for the scenario of an errant aircraft crashing into a government building, at the exact same time as an identical scenario was perpetrated in reality.…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
On the morning of September 11, Secretary Rumsfeld was having breakfast at the Pentagon with a group of members of Congress. He then returned to his office for his daily intelligence briefing. The Secretary was informed of the second strike in New York during the briefing; he resumed the briefing while awaiting more information. After the Pentagon was struck, Secretary Rumsfeld went to the parking lot to assist with rescue efforts…
At 9:44, NORAD briefed the conference on the possible hijacking of Delta 1989. Two minutes later, staff reported that they were still trying to locate Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice Chairman Myers [acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on that day]. The Vice Chairman joined the conference shortly before 10:00; the Secretary, shortly before 10:30. The Chairman [Gen. Hugh Shelton] was out of the country.
— The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 37-38
NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2004 —
The official investigation of the September 11th events has failed to explain or even to ask why the top officials in the U.S. military chain of command were missing in action during the attacks, AWOL.
Long a subject for 9/11 researchers, the riddle of the absent leadership was highlighted in new articles by author Gail Sheehy in this month's Mother Jones and last Saturday's Los Angeles Times.
George W. Bush was moved to present a renewed defense of his actions on Sept. 11 in an interview published in last Thursday's WashingtonPost.
Some background…
The first of the… Continue reading
A new book by Michael C. Ruppert
foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts
New Society Publishers
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert is a detective story that gets to the innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at the center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named individuals in preparation for Peak Oil: an economic crisis like nothing the world has ever seen.
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies the key suspects and persons of interest — finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government — by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks occurred and produced the desired result.
In describing the contents of the book he has spent two and a half years researching and writing Ruppert said:
"In my new book I will be making several key points:
1. I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate Command, Control and Communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC [National Military Command Center], or the White House Situation Room.
2. I will establish conclusively… Continue reading
by Joel Warner
Boulder Weekly
October 21 – 28, 2004
Tim Gale became a believer one day last January. He was prowling the Internet when he came across a video of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing on Sept. 11, 2001. It was likely a video Gale had seen before, but this footage was in slow motion. As Gale watched the tower's 110 floors begin to crumble, he noticed something unusual.
Right before the tower dropped into a cloud of debris, the windows on the upper levels of the towers blew outwards, one floor at a time, like clockwork. That wasn't caused by the plane slamming into the tower or the ensuing fire, Gale told himself.
There were bombs in the World Trade Center.
"It blew my head off," says Gale. "I started searching like crazy."
What Gale found, in countless websites, books and films, was a vast network of information questioning the official story of what happened on Sept. 11. The 42-year-old Boulder resident was inundated with decades-old memos, foreign newspaper clippings, engineering studies and national-defense policies. And he discovered the collapse of the World Trade Center was just the beginning – he believes he's witnessing the collapse of the American society.
"I was being confronted with the raw fact that the U.S. government was complicit in the mass murder of its own citizens for geopolitical purposes," says Gale. "It's too much to bear in the confines of your mind."
Gale began spending six to eight hours… Continue reading
by Michael Kane
January 18, 2005 (FTW) – In an argument of over 600 pages and 1,000 footnotes, Crossing the Rubicon makes the case for official complicity within the U.S. government and names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the crimes of 9/11. Since the publication of this book (to which I had the privilege of contributing a chapter), many people have asked to hear the case against Cheney argued "short & sweet."
I will make it as short as possible, but it can never be sweet.
There are 3 major points made within this book that are crucial to proving Cheney's guilt. I shall first list them and then go on to prove each point as laid out in Crossing the Rubicon.
Defining existential politics.
by Byron Belitsos
With the inauguration of George W. Bush for a second term, we enter a nightmare phase of American history, a descent into the era of what might be called "deep politics."
In this short essay I reach out for an expanded definition of a phrase first coined by the distinguished author Peter Dale Scott. In Deep Politics and the Death of JFK1, Scott refers to the "underlying continuities of deep politics" displayed by the apparent convergence of the covert interests of military, rightwing, intelligence agency, and organized crime conspirators that coalesced in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Veteran journalist Jim Marrs points in a similar direction with his Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, as does the Oliver Stone movie based in part on that book. Marrs then works out the implications in later books, including Rule by Secrecy and Inside Job2, an expose of US government collusion with the 9/11 plot. Big-picture writers like Scott, Marrs, and investigative journalist Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon3, have succeeded in synthesizing a growing body of evidence that support the notion that America now inhabits a surreal realm of deep politics, where amoral, Machiavellian, covert action directs (or conditions) the agenda of the overt world, and cover stories are spun by self-deceived politicians, "pundits," and mainstream media.
Meanwhile, the truth and the facts about the black-budget world of covert action migrates to isolated ghettos inhabited by independent… Continue reading
Editor's Note:
There has been so little journalistic attention to 9/11 truth that glaring factual contradictions in the "official narrative" can go unremarked in the media for months if not years. In the following letter, 911truth.org co-founder Kyle Hence urges Richard Clarke (former counter-terrorism 'czar' for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Author, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror) to deal with the fundamental inconsistencies between his writing and testimony regarding 9/11 and the version released as gospel by the 9/11 Commission. Clarke has yet to respond but Kyle's letter is an education in itself.
Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke
From: Kyle Hence
February 23, 2005
Subject: Pertaining to accounts in Clarke's book Against All Enemies, neither retracted or refuted, regarding 9/11 war games and the participation of General Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld in a video conference managed from the White House Situation Room by Richard Clarke with the assistance of his Deputy, Roger Cressey.
Note of Explanation: This letter/email was presented (via email or in person) to Mr. Clarke on four occasions without a response of any kind to the specific questions raised regarding the actions (or lack of) from our military and top officials in positions of responsibility on 9/11. Given no response, and Rep. Cynthia McKinney's attempt to raise the issue at February 16th Armed Services Committee hearing, CitizensWatch is taking the step of making this letter public.
This letter (see below) with questions pertaining to 9/11 (wargames, sworn testimony by Rumsfeld & Myers) was first sent as an email in June of 2004 to Mr. Clarke via his consulting company, Good Harbor. This note and these questions were presented personally to Mr. Clarke a second time on October 6, 2004 – and via email (3rd attempt) directly to his personal email box on October 15. When presented with a second opportunity in person (4th attempt) to respond to these queries backstage at a December 7th function at the Institute for Ethical Culture in New York City, Mr. Clarke refused to acknowledge the author and instead quickly left the room.
Receiving no response despite repeated attempts I am now releasing this to the public as an 'open letter' in the hopes responsible members of the press, family members and/or dedicated investigators will follow up publicly and personally with Mr. Clarke and the Commissioners who failed to examine the glaring discrepancies between Clarke's accounts and those offered in public statements and in sworn testimony by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld.
It should be noted that Richard Clarke is the only member of the Bush Administration to publicly apologize to the 9/11 families. While generating controversy at the time, his testimony before the 9/11 Commission regarding the warnings and plan for dealing with Al-Qaeda that he presented to Condi Rice and the Bush Administration in January of 2001 has been recently bolstered by the release of an unclassified version of his January memo to then National Security Advisor Rice.
This controversy could pale in comparison, however, to what could be revealed in sworn testimonies before the appropriate Committee regarding Sept. 11th war games (including "Vigilant Warrior" mentioned by Gen. Myers on the morning of Sept. 11th), changing NORAD timelines and the testimony already offered by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld regarding their whereabouts and actions taken in the first and most critical minutes immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center. {see pages 1-7; Against All Enemies)
This is being made public now in an effort to force this issue into the public's eye and ultimately to see full accountability and disclosure. Another 9/11 commemoration must not pass without these issues being addressed forthrightly and honestly before the American people; either in Manhattan before an AG Spitzer or DA Morganthau-convened Grand Jury or public hearings, in Albany before the appropriate Committee or on Capitol Hill. We offer this in hope that those with integrity in a position of responsibility will rise to this challenge. In this case above all others we must not allow the truth to continue to be veiled or obfuscated.
Kyle F. Hence
Co-founder, 9/11 CitizensWatch
February 23, 2005
October 29, 2003
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. GARRETT). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 7, 2003, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. PALLONE) is recognized for 60 minutes.
Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month Congress approved an $87 billion supplemental for the war and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. While I believe it is critically important that we get our military troops all the resources they need to safely complete their mission in Iraq, I do not support rubber-stamping this legislation so the Bush administration gets a free ride from Congress.
The Bush administration must account for its war strategy. The Bush administration must also answer the tough questions regarding questionable no-bid contracts, contracts that benefit Vice President DICK CHENEY's former employer, an employer that continues to pay CHENEY hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in deferred salary, contracts that are free of any oversight from Congress.
Yet another 9/11 "Cui bono?" (who profits?) alert: This is almost ancient news by now if anyone was listening, but this is one of the clearest earliest Congressional examinations of rampant corruption in Iraq. It was a typical after hours empty chamber exercise, but the intrepid Marcy Kaptur did get Cheney's continuing possession of 433,333 Halliburton stock options and his consequent millions in war profits into the public record at last.
Mr. Speaker, right now Halliburton holds a monopoly on Iraq. The company's no-bid contract was first negotiated in secret and originally intended for… Continue reading
By Michael Shnayerson
Vanity Fair
Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company's profits of war.
This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning contracts, writing caveats on them in her spidery script, wanting to know why Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR (formerly known as Kellogg, Brown and Root) should be thrown billions of dollars of government business while other companies, big and small, were shut out.
And Bunny Greenhouse wasn't that easy to ignore: she was the highest-ranking civilian at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Specifically, she was the officer in charge of ensuring that any work contracted out by the Army Corps to private industry-from help in building bridges and dams and highways to support for wartime troops-was granted in a fair and aboveboard way. For two years, Greenhouse had asked hard questions about why the head of the Corps, to whom she reported directly, kept giving exclusive, non-compete contracts to KBR that now amounted to roughly $10.8 billion. Greenhouse was fearless, and she was blunt. In the Corps's male hierarchy, it probably didn't help that she was a woman-or that she was black.
On October 6, 2004, Greenhouse was summoned by… Continue reading
Dear Secretary Mineta
On May 23, 2003 you testified before the 9/11 Commission in public hearing as to your experience on the morning of 9/11/01. During your testimony you stated that you arrived at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) underneath the East Wing of the White House "at about 9:20 a.m.", at which time Vice President Richard Cheney and other staff was already present in the center, with Mr. Cheney clearly in command. You also state in your testimony that you had believed based on a conversation that took place between Mr. Cheney and an unnamed "young man" that a shoot down order had been given by the Vice President prior to your arrival, because, in your words…
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"There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out, "the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand.
By Ward Reilly
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
— Samuel Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
— Thomas Paine
My friend Dennis Kyne wrote a song that we recorded together while he was staying at my home in January. He was in Baton Rouge in order to attend, and to speak at, the "Jazz Funeral For Democracy" in New Orleans, a counter-inaugural demonstration that activists from south Louisiana had organized.
The song is called "All We Want Is the Truth."
Dennis is a Gulf War vet, and was a medic with the front-line 24th Infantry in 1991. I am an older volunteer infantry vet, one who spent 32 months overseas, from 1971 to 1974, serving this country as an occupation soldier. We are patriots.
The truth. It's not too much for a soldier or vet to ask for, particularly when the subject is whether or not our nation goes to war.
As many of us – those who actually tried to stop the occupation of Iraq before it got started – watched this tragedy unfold, what we saw… Continue reading
by Matt Everett
The Journal of Psychohistory Volume 32, No. 3
Winter 2005
If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind bars.
– Andreas von Bülow, former German government minister and author of "Die CIA und der 11. September"
At the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised: "What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before." The invasion that ensued was, like all wars, destructive and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Yet Baghdad fell in a mere three weeks and just six weeks after the invasion commenced, President Bush announced: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Despite the death and destruction, it was hardly a war of a 'force,' 'scope' and 'scale' beyond what had been seen before.
Extensive excerpt from Everett's absorbing psychohistorical analysis of movers and motives behind the 9/11 tragedy. Everett is a research colleague of Paul "Terror Timeline" Thompson and documents his work with painstaking rigor.
However, before it began, there were indications that some people wanted a far more destructive war than that which ensued. For example, ridiculous as it may now sound, it was suggested that Britain and America might use nuclear weapons against Iraq. As The Guardian reported at the time:
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"From last year's US defence review and the testimony of the Defence Secretary, Geoffrey Hoon, to the defence select committee last March it was clear that a major change in the US and UK nuclear policy was taking place.For the first time Britain and America were contemplating using nuclear weapons against an enemy using only chemical or biological weapons.
by Thomas Hansen, Ph.D.
It is nearly a year since the 9/11 Commission report was finished and the investigation of the events of 9/11 officially came to a close. But unofficially, many Americans have unanswered questions, and at least some of this hesitancy to close the book on 9/11 is because of the long-standing connection between the Bush Administration and the man who was the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Dr. Philip Zelikow.
In a new book by Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin of the Claremont School of Theology (The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, Olive Branch Press, 2005), the case is made that the staff of the 9/11 Commission acted as gatekeepers who followed the official explanation of events of 9/11, rather than acting as true independent investigators. Griffin gives detailed and abundant evidence that he feels shows Philip Zelikow and his staff did not thoroughly investigate information that was contrary to what the Bush Administration had already accepted as the facts of 9/11.
Last fall I had a conversation with Zelikow, which I feel supports the ideas and evidence of Professor Griffin's book. But before I go into what… Continue reading
The Complete 9/11 Timeline hosted by The Center for Cooperative Research recently published a revised set of entries on the military exercises of September 11 , providing a goldmine of well-sourced information. Compiled by Paul Thompson, the 9/11 Timeline long ago became the leading resource of mainstream news reports about September 11. Available in book form as The Terror Timeline (2004), it continues to evolve online.
The latest material for the first time casts light on what may have been the day's master wargame: Global Guardian, run out of Offutt Air Force Base by the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) under Admiral Richard Mies ( official bio ). He has since retired and taken up a gig as the CEO of Hicks & Associates, a "strategic consultant" to the federal government dealing in "military transformation."
Our New York correspondent, Nicholas Levis, has written a review.
UPDATE: Filmed in January 2000, and aired on 3/4/2001, the makers of "The Lone Gunmen" show that the idea of crashing planes into buildings isn't anything new. As a matter of fact, their representation is eerily familiar given what we know today about the Wargames taking place on September 11th, 2001. (The Lone Gunmen Clip: Click Here )
Aug. 2005:
As the day dawns over the East Coast on September 11th, 2001, the US Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska is on full alert, busily dispatching warplanes around North America in a rehearsal for Armageddon.
Stratcom directs the US nuclear arsenal. A number of interrelated air-defense wargames are underway around the country, under the overall umbrella of Global Guardian.…Continue reading
by Ted Rall
On the first anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge delivered a speech at the site of the disaster in western Pennsylvania. "Faced with the most frightening circumstances one could possibly imagine," he told grieving relatives of the passengers and crewmembers aboard the fourth plane hijacked on 9/11, "they met the challenge like citizen soldiers, like Americans." He recited the now-familiar story of passengers learning by phone about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, deciding to fight back and breaking into the cockpit–a heroic act that led to their own deaths while sparing countless others in Washington.
"The terrorists were right to fear an uprising," Ridge rhapsodized. "The passengers and crew did whatever they humanly could–boil water, phone the authorities, and ultimately rush the cockpit to foil the attack."
Ridge's boss repeatedly used United 93 to close his standard stump speech. Calling the passenger revolt "the most vivid and sad symbol of them all," George W. Bush said: "People are flying across the country on an airplane, at least they thought they were. They learned the plane was going to be used as a weapon. They got on their telephones. They were told the true story. Many of them told their loved ones goodbye. They said they loved them. They said a prayer; a prayer was said. One guy said, 'Let's roll.' They took the plane into the ground."
The legend of Flight 93 had everything a… Continue reading
W. David Kubiak thought the 9/11 attacks would be a "wake up call."
"Once you could accept 9/11, you could say, 'I've really got to look at the world again with new eyes,'" he said during a recent phone interview with The Wire .
Kubiak is a member of the steering committee of 911truth.org , a group formed "to investigate, unearth, and widely publicize the full truth surrounding September 11th, 2001."
It's been three years since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, and while supporters and detractors of the war continue to debate the causes of and solutions to that conflict, one fact is almost indisputable: the long, bloody journey in Iraq began on Sept. 11, 2001.
I say almost indisputable because, in the world of the 9/11 truth movement, everything from photographic evidence to offhand statements and individual words are up for debate. The term "conspiracy theory" calls to mind images of a spider's web. That's an accurate description for the complex and intricately constructed narratives found in any number of conspiracy theories, but the actual building of conspiracy theories, the steady accumulation of new evidence, new proof, new witnesses, is more like sedimentary rock. A pebble here, a pebble there and, after a number of years, a looming monument to suspicion and paranoia.
But, as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. We've got plenty of reason to be suspicious. Most recently, President George W. Bush has been stumping… Continue reading
Mar 30, 2006:
Lost in last week's hubbub over the media breakthroughs for 9/11 truth was the latest twist in the Sibel Edmonds saga. The FBI whistleblower last Thursday filed a court motion demanding that the federal judge hearing her First Amendment case be recused for deliberately hiding his financial background.
The judge, Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. Edmonds is seeking to show Judge Walton is in violation of federal law (The Ethics in Government Act) because of his refusal to meet financial disclosure provisions.
A few months after September 11th, the FBI hired Edmonds as a translator for Farsi and Turkish. She says she discovered that documents already translated (and suppressed) prior to 9/11 had contained details of a pending attack on the US with airplanes. In addition, one of her colleagues attempted to recruit her as a spy for a Turkish lobbying group. When she spoke out about these experiences – and other finds suggesting corruption, money laundering and drug deals at the top levels of the US government – she was fired. Attorney General John Ashcroft slapped Edmonds with a gag order under the seldom-used State Secrets Act. In the most bizarre and Orwellian twist, Ashcroft "retroactively classified" many of the statements Edmonds had already made. This included information published in the press prior to the gag… Continue reading


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Initial update on Students Rebuild Japan blog.
Guess whose paper cranes are finalists for "Most Effective Awareness Campaign" for the 2012 Classy Awards!
Check out the story here, and don't forget to VOTE! Voting closes on JULY 26, and the initiative is facing stiff competition from the likes of Kony 2012 and several other worthy orgs. But we feel like our story might have had the most visible (and colorful) impact.
Stay tuned as the first project in Tohoku, Japan breaks ground July 17: the equally-inspiring Kitakami "We Are One" Marketplace and Youth Center.
For those who are new to the Paper Cranes for Japan Challenge (or if you want to be re-inspired by the journey of two million cranes), check out this film by Students Rebuild:
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Women's Basketball Off to Early Start for Upcoming Season
Tigers back in the gym in preparation for their first season in the American Athletic Conference.
Women's Basketball Closing Out Three-Game Swing Wednesday
Tigers play at UT Arlington Wednesday night.
Women's Basketball Announces 2012-13 Slate
Tigers open season at home, Nov. 9th, in Preseason WNIT.
2013 Women's Basketball Photo Day
As the 2013-14 Memphis athletics season approaches, the women's basketball team is already called in for their team photo day. During the shoot, we talked to Ariel Hearn and Mooriah Rowser about their summer workouts and the upcoming season in the new American Athletic Conference.
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Episode 39: Jeff Brightwell sits down with first year Memphis Women's Basketball Assistant Coach Erin Grant and talks about past games with UT-Arlington and Prairie View A&M. Also talk about Coach Grant's background as a coach and a player.
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The Annual Memphis Madness to kick off the start of Tiger basketball season.
Behind the Scenes: 2012 Women's Basketball Photo Shoot
This year the Memphis Tiger Network went behind the scenes of the 2012 Memphis women's basketball photo shoot. We had a chance to meet a lot of new faces on the team this year and talk to some of the veterans. Lets just say that when the camera started rolling, we got a chance to see the team in a whole different light. Enjoy!
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Women's basketball vs. Illinois
Erin Grant, a four-year letterwinner at Texas Tech from 2002-06, joined the University of Memphis women's basketball coaching staff in May of 2012. The former point guard still holds the Texas Tech and Big 12 Conference career assists record (844) and oversees the development of the Tigers' perimeter players.
"Erin brings a wealth of knowledge and very high-level experiences to the University of Memphis," head coach Melissa McFerrin said. "As an elite level point guard at Texas Tech and in the WNBA, she understands the game from the players' perspective. She played for an outstanding high school coach and for a Hall of Fame coach in Marsha Sharp at Texas Tech. She acquired her knowledge of the game from some of the game's very best.
"She has high-level recruiting and coaching experience from her time in Texas and New Mexico and is a dynamic, charismatic and confident personality. She really is the complete package and is a great part of our staff."
In her first season at Memphis, Grant helped develop freshman point guard Ariel Hearn into a C-USA All-Freshman team honoree. Hearn led Memphis with 109 assists in her first collegiate season, becoming the first Tiger freshman since 1982-83 to dish out 100 or more assists in a season.
Grant would help another Memphis freshman shatter that mark just one season later, guiding Breigha Wilder-Cochran to an American Athletic Conference all-freshman team nod after handing out 125 assists and ranking third in one of the premier women's basketball conference in assists per game with 4.2 assists a night.
Grant came to Memphis after spending one season as an assistant coach at New Mexico, where she helped the Lobos make a run to the Mountain West Conference (MWC) Tournament championship game. As a guards coach at New Mexico, Grant helped junior Caroline Durbin to her first career All-MWC first team honor, after the guard led the league in three-point field goal percentage.
Prior to her one-year stint with New Mexico, Grant was an assistant coach for four seasons at Texas-Arlington, where she helped the Mavericks to the program's second WNIT appearance in 2009 while working primarily with the guards and assisting in recruiting and film breakdown. That 2008-09 UT-Arlington team defeated Memphis in the Fun in the Sun Shootout in the Bahamas, and eventually finished the year with a 22-11 overall mark.
Before joining the coaching ranks, Grant was a standout point guard at Texas Tech. She played for legendary coach Marsha Sharp, helping the Red Raiders compile a mark of 93-36 in her four seasons. She was a three-time All-Big 12 Conference honoree, including first team accolades in 2005 and 2006. Grant was also a three-time Big 12 All-Academic first team selection and was the Big 12 co-Freshman of the Year in 2003 when her 228 assists led the league and became the freshman single-season assists record.
Three of her seasons at Texas Tech remain in the Big 12 record book. Her 228 assists in her freshman season rank third in the Big 12 single-season record book and her 3.30 assist-to-turnover ratio from her junior season is still a Big 12 single-season mark.
As a freshman, she helped Texas Tech to the NCAA Elite Eight and played in the 2003 World University Games for Team USA. She also represented Team USA in the 2005 World University Games, winning a gold medal.
As a senior in 2006, Grant was a Kodak/WBCA All-America finalist and an Associated Press (AP) All-America honorable mention selection. She played in the WBCA All-Star Challenge following her senior campaign and was the 39th overall pick in 2006 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm. She also played overseas, helping the Stockholm 08 team to the Swedish Championship and earning the championship's MVP award. Grant completed the 2006 season with the WNBA Houston Comets before beginning her coaching career with UT-Arlington in the 2007-08 season.
A native of Arlington, Texas, Grant graduated from Mansfield High School, where she played her prep basketball under head coach Samantha Morrow from 1998-2002. When Morrow was hired as the UT-Arlington head coach in the spring of 2007, she added Grant to her staff following the conclusion of Grant's WNBA career later that same year.
At Mansfield, Grant led the Tigers to an unprecedented four consecutive state championships, and when she graduated, she was the only girls basketball player in Texas high school basketball history to win four-straight class 5A state championships. A McDonald's All-American, she posted 1,055 career assists in her prep career.


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The Ballardi
Made for my good friend Mitch Ballard at WV Magic Design, this savory cocktail has won over the palate conscious and adventurous East Nashville neighborhood night after night for the past few months. See what you think!
The Ballardi
2oz Haymans Old Tom gin
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
1/2oz Mata Hari absinthe
3 dashes Bitter Truth Celery Bitters
Barspoon black peppercorn
Shake the holy living snot out of this as to break up the pepper as much as possible. Pour neat into a coup, lemon zest garnish.


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Buxton is a town in North Carolina, this is why everytime you will see the name of this town, you will see it next to the N and C letters, representing the North Carolina state. If you need for information regarding the numbers that are in this area, you can simply access the number 411 and get more direct with the representatives. If you like to search for yourself, you can access this link, where you have to know the name of a person to find out her or his number. Write the first name and then the last name, the city in which that person lives or the area, which is already written, if you look for Buxton on Google and then select the state in which that city or town is located. Normally, the state is already selected, but if there are more cities which have the same name, and there are, you have to select the
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But you can search vice-versa as well. I mean if you know the number of a person who keeps disturbing you, then you can write that number and see what is the name of the person who is calling you day and night. My opinion is that in that situation, you better call the police and change the phone number that you have, by saying to your phone company that the number is the obsession of a person and they should not use that number for a long time from then on. This is something moral and ethical. You may or may not act this way.
If you are tourist visiting Florida and need a phone number for a state agency, company, restaurant, lodging and accommodation or any other type of information you can dial 411 and request a specific number or search online either at the given website or on any search engine typing Florida phone directory in the search box. At 411 you will be greeted by an information officer that will assist you in any way he or she can and will try to provide you with the information you seek, regardless of what it is, thus trying to ensure an excellent Customer Service and Support. The Florida Phone Directory covers all state cities including the most important ones: Hialeah, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando or Tampa. If you choose to search online you need to enter either the name of the business or the person you are looking for in the specified search box and later select either a state or a city where the search should take place. Some online search relating to Florida Phone Directory, require you to also input a zip code for a specific area, but this is not widely the case so if you don't know a zip code it's not a problem.
If you don't know how to write the number that keeps bugging you, then you will be told how exactly to write the number, and where is the appropriate time to use a line between the numbers, because you cant write the number 0123456 and expect that you will find the name of that person. You need to write for example, 555-1234-5678 or something like this.
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Still watching the evening news on a console TV with a wooden case? "Well the picture is crummy, but at least the sound is bad!" We think it's time for an upgrade.
Tired of dragging around your accordion-looking camera with the dark sheet, and the magnesium flash stick, out with you for the evening? "The magnesium burns last longer than the photos!" We think it's time for an upgrade.
Are you reading this blog entry on a typewriter? Actually, that one's kinda neat, how did you pull that one off? Well, it's probably time for an upgrade.
That's why we've compiled for you the top 10 tech deals in this week's latest edition of Brad's Tech Tuesdays. Just send your old equipment to the e-cycler, and check out this week's offerings.
1) HP Dual Core Desktop $280 Shipped: This desktop is a great replacement for the typewriter situation outlined above. (Seriously though, how did you make that work?) It has 500GB of hard drive space for storing lots of music, movies, or what have you. Plus, you get the mouse and keyboard. Just add in a monitor, stir gently, and enjoy!
2) Garmin nuvi 1100LM3.5" GPS $72 Shipped: Do you get lost all the time? Are you directionally-challenged? Do you find yourself calling out for help, only to realize that you're alone in the car, and the people in the other cars on the road are looking at you funny? Solve all of that with this GPS, priced right, with lifetime map updates to keep you up to date...for once in your life!
3) Refurbished Sony 40" Bravia HDTV $400: This HDTV drops 100 bucks, making this the best deal we could find on a refurb like this one by $130. Plus, it brings with it Sony quality, which is something that your wooden console TV probably can't match. Caution: when transitioning from a console TV to an HD Sony Bravia, it's best to view the image for the first time with one of those eclipse viewers you made in grade school. Your retinas, and brain stem, will thank you!
4) Samsung 14MP Camera $70 Shipped: This camera is far more portable, and less likely to cause a fire, than your old camera. Plus, the subject of your photos doesn't need to sit still for a half hour to keep the image from ghosting. "Now blow out your birthday candles, Timmy...keep going...just 29 more minutes until the picture is done developing!" Get this new camera before poor Timmy passes out in a pile of frosting and melted candle wax.
5) Sony Playstation 3D Display Bundle $300: Playing video games in 3D is just a natural progression for 3D technology, and this bundle brings it all to you in one swift purchase. Plus, this deal is $100 less than anywhere else, so save some scratch and invite over your buddy who hasn't evolved his gaming past Pong. "It's like I'm in the game!"
1) VM Innovations: 5% off via exclusive code PDAYBRADSDEAL
2) Picaboo: Buy 1 Photobook, Get A Copy Free via code MEMORIES
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LINCOLN - Janine Nassaney, 84 of Lincoln, died Tuesday at the Mansion Nursing Home. She was the wife of the late Harvey Nassaney.
Born in France, she was a daughter of the late Raoul and Marie (Despessailles) Joly.
Mrs. Nassaney was a former co-owner of NAYCO Family Store in Lincoln. She was a member of St. Basil Church Sodality and taught religious education.
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LINCOLN: James M. Wright, 83, passed at home on July 29th. He was the husband of Beverly E. (Brooks) Wright.
Born in Lincoln, a son of the late William J. Wright Sr. and Henrietta (McCaughey) Wright. James was a history teacher at Lincoln and Foster-Gloucester school systems for 25 years. He also served as the basketball coach in Foster-Gloucester. He was an Army Veteran of the Korean War, a life member of the VFW Post 602 and also the American Legion Post 14.
CENTRAL FALLS ŌĆö Calling it a ŌĆ£very sad situation,ŌĆØ state Sen. Elizabeth Crowley said Wednesday that election officials are making it more difficult for residents of Forand and Wilfrid manors ŌĆö the cityŌĆÖs two largest elderly high rises ŌĆö to vote.
While even Crowley acknowledges that the polling places are being moved only a short distance away from those spots, the senator nonetheless likens the action to ŌĆ£disenfranchisingŌĆØ the elderly residents who live in those two buildings.
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Storage vendor FalconStor has closed its Australian offices after just 18 months, CRN has learned.
The US-owned firm, which also provides virtualisation and data protection, shut its Australian offices, said FalconStor's South Asia marketing manager, Seetha Subramany.
"Yes, we decided to close down the office in Australia. It really is a corporate decision," Subramany told CRN.
FalconStor's North Sydney office was opened in 2012. Four employees were made redundant due to the closure.
Subramany said the closure was part of the company's efforts to cut costs. "They wanted to do some rebalancing, so they closed down offices in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong."
The company will continue to maintain an Australian presence through its distributor, DataStor.
"The company decided to appoint a distributor in each country so that all fulfilment and support will be done by a local distributor," Subramany said.
DataStor was not available for comment.
The offices were shut in October, Subramany said. "We notified all the existing customers with a letter, giving them all of the information about who they need to contact."
Ongoing losses
FalconStor is undergoing a restructure as the company looks to put an end to continual losses and return to profitability.
In its most recent NASDAQ earnings report, FalconStor declared a net loss of US$2.27 million for the three months ending 30 September, which was an improvement over the US$3.6 million loss declared during the same period in 2012.
For the nine months ending 30 September, the company declared an operating loss of US$12.5 million, slightly worse than the US$12 million loss incurred for the same period in 2012.
In 2009, the company's stock price peaked at $5.57. In August 2013, it slouched at 0.8861 per share.
In its third quarter filing, the company wrote: "We have eliminated costs, or identified costs to be eliminated in the coming months, totalling $15 million to $18 million on an annualised basis across all regions and functions of the business. These costs consist of both personnel and non-personnel expenses which we identified as not being core to our going forward business plan."
The company plans "to continue to wind down certain costs during the fourth quarter".
FalconStor's share price has since lifted to $1.66 at the time of writing.
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We love Billy goat soap, as it helped our son with his eczema. Soaps like johnsons & johnsons, Gaia, aveda, mustela did nothing for him! Other goat milk soaps didn't seem to help either. How was your son with the cortisone creams?ReplyDelete
At his peak, our son was on three different cortisone creams. They did wonders for his skin, but until we finally eliminated the causes, the rashes always came back. Interesting to know though - our specialist told us we should use the cortisone creams for 3 days after the rash has cleared. This is to make sure the skin beneath is cleared. Otherwise, the original rash still comes back.ReplyDelete
I have heard good things about goats milk soap. Unfortunately our son's milk allergies extends to all animal milks, including goats. Glad it makes your kids more soft and cuddly though.


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There's been a lot of interest recently in my Q and A session with Marcus Pabst, a flight dispatcher with Lufthansa German Airlines. Some readers have been surprised — as was I — that airlines must pay "overflight charges" to governments to fly over most airspace.
The overflight charges on the flight I detailed, Lufthansa flight 456 from Frankfurt to Los Angeles, weren't so pricey. They added up to a little less than $9,000 for a trip that went through Germany, Irish and Canadian airspace, among others. The general idea is to reimburse countries for the aviation-related infrastructure required to handle international flights.
But some countries are considerably more expensive than others. And when it's feasible, airlines will avoid them. Take Lufthansa's daily flight between Frankfurt and Buenos Aires. Sometimes, Pabst told me, the plane will fly slightly out of the way.
"We can choose a route over the Atlantic avoiding two important airspaces," he said. "First is the Canary Islands. Those are Spain, and Spain means Euros. Very expensive. And also Cape Verde. It's expensive. The normal route, for one flight, is $2,400 for the Canaries. And the same, or similar for Cape Verde. So for one flight, (if both countries are avoided), we can save $4,700."
Sometimes, the new route takes a bit longer. But much of the time, Pabst said, it's worth it.
"Obviously, if we fly 10 minutes longer, we need 10 more minutes of fuel," he said. "And comparing the prices, sometimes it's cheaper to fly 10 minutes longer, as long as we come on time to the destination."
Lufthansa, of course, is not the only carrier that uses this approach. Last week, I was speaking with a senior executive at another airline who told me his carrier also tweaks its routes from Los Angeles to South America in order to avoid certain countries.


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AFTER looking specifically at the Michael Vick situation, I have to say, I've changed my mind on how I originally felt about a lot in regards to this team. I'm not thinking division titles (yet anyway), but perhaps there's still an ounce of sanity in the brain trust and the team won't have to change its name to the Philadelphia Laughingstock after all.
By "specifically" I mean in terms of looking at Vick as an option in 2013. That means Vick vs. Nick Foles/Vick vs. the cap/Vick in a new system tailored to what he does, instead of the other way around… Up until recently I wasn't really looking at any of this stuff because I thought it was a fore drawn conclusion that Vick was gone. I was wrong about that. We all were.
On January 6th, I was as surprised as anyone that Vick was part of any discussion regarding the future of the Eagles. I was surprised and so I put up this post: http://www.yardbarker.com/forum/3/57/discussion/vick_to_remain_the_2013_starter/12591970
Up until VERY recently I was certain that #7 was no longer a reality in Philadelphia. However, the more time passes, and the less the Eagles say about Vick, the more likely it is that he'll not only be here, but that he'll also be our starter.
A) If they wanted him gone, he could have been cut by now.
B) He won't take a pay cut. Why would they have asked him to take a cut, if they're just looking to boot him?
C) If they know they're leaning towards cutting him just to save some money, just cut him and then come back and try to grab him at whatever the market dictates he's worth.
D) If they wanted to trade him, then it would make sense to talk him up, right? His leadership, athleticism, competitiveness, blahblahblah, right? Even if it's all bull, you talk up your trade bait, right? The Eagles? Almost dead silence.
Stay or go you try to make this work for you if you're the Eagles, right? Go is easy. Just cut him. Stay is harder. Stay is making him more affordable, making sure he fits, making sure he still has his teammates support. Stay takes time. The Eagles are taking time.
Up until recently I was sure he was gone, but with them deciding to do due diligence first, it made ME take a closer look at the situation. Now, with all things having been considered (that includes the 2013 Draft, Free Agency and anything but a big trade), I hope Vick opens the year as our Starter.
As you stated due diligenceis what they are doing, and that doesn't mean he will be back. This idea that Vick is some great option is laughable to me. Have you people been watching the games the past few years or just playing Madden or something? REALISTICALLY Mike Vick in the last 4 years as an Eagle is 18-16 as the starter. He has not played one full season. His touchdowns have dropped to nearly half of his 2010 mark while his interceptions have nearly doubled. Mike Vick doesn't make the Eagles better. He makes them the laughing stock you claim you don't want them to be. If they bring Vick back the joke will be on them. This idea that Vick fits Kelly's system is also a joke. Kelly needs a guy who makes quick decisions (not Mike Vick), durable (Not Mike Vick), and who can protect the football (still not Vick). Just cause Chip Kelly isn't on the airways trying to shine a turd for trade purposes doesn't mean he isn't doing it behind the scenes. Rather the Eagles are. I don't see any of the same going on with Tebow or Alex Smith either and both are likely to be traded. I wouldn't over think this Vick thing. The past few seasons you were watching the real Mike Vick. Just to make it clear in the six seasons Vick was in Atlanta he won 38 games. That averages out to about 6 wins a season as he usually spends time injured. In his 3 years in Philly (if you take away the first season as the wild cat crap) he averages 6 wins a season. He averages about 5 losses for both too. Mike Vick isn't the answer. Before you go into some snarky "it's the Eagles decision" kind of response I will point out the fact that you stated you want this guy back which places you in league with Hollywood a guy you claim to have nothing in common with. As such you want the Eagles to fail like Hollywood.
Exactly what system is Chip Kelly running? Oh you say you don't know? Why not?
Perhaps it's because Chip Kelly hasn't said what system he's running. Sooooo, armed with NO INFORMATION, how can you say that Vick will or won't fit Kelly's unrevealed system?
The simple answer is YOU CAN'T. Especially if Chip Kelly seems to think there's possibility that he could fit, or is willing to build something around Vick.
And that Atlanta stuff is all the stuff that made me NOT want him when we first got him, so you're preaching to Jesus with that. Not even sure where you were trying to go with that. Fact is, this team lost nearly every game Vick didn't play in over the last 2 years. So it's not like it was better without him.
Vick didn't give up 28 points a game. Vick doesn't blow coverage assignments and give up easy TD's. Vick didn't get Nick Foles sacked 20 times in only 6 games. Vick didn't name Juan Castillo DC. Vick isn't responsible for dismal kick returns or kick coverage. Vick isn't the reason the Eagles can't draft a decent Safety.
There was a LOT of blame to hand out on this team. It's already cost our old coach his job. The new coach's job is to BUILD a winner, not CUT away at his team just to satiate fans seeking their pound of flesh.
Vick may not be back as the starter but if he is, does that mean that Chip Kelly wants the Eagles to fail as well?
First off "Atlanta" Mike Vick and the guy playing for the Eagles is the same person except maybe the Philly guy no longer participates in dog fighting. It's the dumbest comment anyone can make to protect Vick. The Mike Vick led Eagles averaged 16 points a game last season and Mike Vick DID CONTRIBUTE TO THE 28 POINTS PER GAME given up with his untimely turnovers and pick six touchdowns.
As far as what Kelly will run, well I have listened to what he has said, and to what his former players have said so I do have an idea of what Kelly wants to do. Tell me what coach despite his offense wants a guy who is injury prone, turns the ball over, and is indecisive with the football? You tell me the guy, and I bet he's been fired. I love the it's everyone else's fault argument people make when it comes to Vick. It has no grounds whatsoever, yet people continue to do it. MIKE VICK'S NUMBERS ARE THE SAME IN PHILLY AND ATLANTA! He averages 6 wins a season for his career not just in Atlanta. He's won more than 10 games once his entire career. Of course you will dance around the facts in a Hollywood esqe style to make your point of why we need Vick. Or maybe you will grade my punctuation this time. I mean anything to avoid the fact you are completely wrong in your thinking that Vick is answer to the problem, and not part of the problem.
I keep saying he may not be back. He's the best option on the roster, and the best available in FA (excepting Flacco), so yeah I hope he's back.
You disagree. Fine. But if the coach plays him then the coach plays him, and you'll have no choice but to root for Michael Vick alongside me.
You're angry at the wrong person here. I'm not the reason he's still here, and I won't be the reason he starts if does stay. (If he stays, he starts).
Save your anger for trying to get Kelly fired; because for as much as you harped on me for not liking the hire, YOU seem to be the one having the most difficulty with it.
You think I'm angry? This isn't about anger flip. It's about facts. The fact is Mike Vick doesn't make the Eagles better. How can anyone realistically make that argument? I can't truly state Vick is even the best option on the roster. Consider this: Mike Vick virtually had the same numbers as Nick Foles despite the fact Vick had more options around him. In other words Vick had most of the starters with him before they started to drop like flies. For a time Foles was missing all but one starter on the line, Jackson, McCoy, Celek, and I believe Avant. Vick with more talent and more games won only two more games than Foles. So who is to say Foles can't improve as a 2nd year quarterback? If Vick will cost anywhere from 8-16 mil next season so how is he a better option when his contract will prevent the Eagles from signing a potential free agent or two that could improve the team? Especially when you consider the fact his numbers were slightly better than Foles with better talent?
Vick was on a slide in 2010 before he even got that big contract. Since early 2011 news from camp leaked out by callers on WIP saying Vick looked horrible during camp and the hosts usually agreed. Even posters were worried and commenting about how bad he looked while watching the Eagles webcam this past year. We all know how pitiful he's looked in preseason which started our worries almost immediately going into the last two seasons. His bad play has carried over right into the seasons. Why anyone would want to go through that is beyond me. Under 16 points a game this year, and 10-13 as a starter with 30 TDs to 24 picks and he's put the ball on the ground 21 times (in 23 games) the last two years. Where's the draw (more importantly, where's the wins?)? A new coaching regime with the same quarterback who IS part of the problem kills some of the excitement for me and I would guess many fans feel the same way.
Ticket sales will tell the tales.
The Kelly hiring may be enough to keep the fans satisfied for now and if the Eagles show some improvement during the season they will hold onto the hope of an improving future (I just don't see that improving future with Vick...a so-so season with Vick won't cut it but one with a new quarterback would). You don't have to sell me on Philadelphia fans and their Eagles...hollywood is the one that thinks the FO BSs when it comes to ticket sales.
This response doesn't answer any of the questions (valid questions I would add) posed by green here. Also ticket sales Tell you nothing. They were already purchased to begin with. What tells the story will be the boos reigning down all over the stadium, followed by the silence from everyone leaving early. Still that's Lurie's bottom line, you can't speak for Lurie. You can only speak for yourself, and green is posing these questions to you. You are the one supporting Vick here. He's asking you why do you want to go through it again when you have seen this outcome twice already? Ticket sales have nothing to do with your response.
Flip's already answered that above, I just don't understand why he would want that. I just don't get why someone wouldn't want their team to search for better instead of settling for the MUCH less than stellar performances by Vick. Vick isn't a young man learning, he'll be 33 this year. Just like you stated Foles was just as effective as Vick and helped put more points on the board per game...why not see what the second year player (and cheaper option which would allow the team to make more improvements) can do and see if he can improve on what he has already done?
I don't see the answer. I see a cop out. He makes a statement that he wants the guy here, tries to back it up by blaming others for the problems. Mike Vick will be Chip Kelly's decision!?! No sh!t Sherlock! I'm just curious why HE thinks Vick should be the starter. After all we are here to debate right? You tell me everyone else is the problem, but the facts say otherwise. You say Vick is the best option, but that debatable at best. So when you can't give a legit reason, you chalk it up to me being angry? I'm just looking for a valid reason to feel comfortable with Mike Vick being the starter. If he has one then share it. He doesn't have one, so why does he "hope Vick opens the season as our starter?"
Let's start with Michael Vick. CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman reported Kelly embraces the notion of keeping Vick at a reduced rate, according to a source familiar with the team's thinking. Kelly and his assistants have broken down film from Vick's 2012 season and view him as a capable quarterback -- but they still aren't certain what they have in the 32-year-old passer.
Here's the link.
It's not me man. Save your anger.
awwhaww ever try to figure most things out??? Ive tryed and the best way to handle it????? leave it alone....
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If Kelly keeps him here it will only be a matter of time before he sees the error of his ways. Whether its Vick going down to injury at the worst time, or he just plays to his standards. Chip will regret hopping on the Vick wagon. Truth is no one has a valid reason to keep Mike Vick other than the assumed idea that Vick is really the 2010 guy and not the guy from the past two seasons. Well they are correct. He is part that guy. He took the league by storm early, because so few teams had new data on him. As soon as they figured out how to play him he was pretty much done. He still gets fooled by the same simple blitzes. Mike played 11 games that year and 23 since. His numbers make it clear. He isn't good anymore.
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Nothing is special about vick anymore. lets cut the but bs and move on. It's time to star over and if Kelly wants fans to buy into his system risking another turnover filled disappointing season. Reid had the benifit of drafting McNabb as his future franchise QB his first year. Kelly may not have that option, he may not have a good option already on the team, or via free agency or even the option to trade for that guy. but i'd rather struggle with foles next season and see what he's got then suffer with vick and postpone cutting ties with him later. i have no grand illusions about this team winning the division this season or even next. the sooner the fans and staff realize that and start to rebuild the broken parts of this team.
Makes complete sense to me. If anyone thinks Vick somehow makes this team a contender they are fooling themselves. He will get this team to 8-8 at best, squander our chances at drafting a legit franchise quarterback (if Nick Foles isn't the guy), and take up unnecessary cap space that could be used to help improve this defense. Wanting Mike Vick by default means that person has no care for the future of the Eagles.
exactly... this is Chips year to take a chance as head coach. If you draft a guy or go with Foles or even bring in someone like dixon if they fail no one blames them no one would be expecting them to turn the franchise around in one season. with vick on the other hand people are already fed up with him. if foles or another guy take the team 8-8 it shows the team is rebuilding and making positive strides to turning things around. If vick goes 8-8 again its just another disappointing season with a washed up QB who people keep betting on for some reason.
8-8 is better than 4-12, right?
The fact is anyone with playoff expectations for the Eagles next season are being completely unrealistic. Not until all of the questions have been answered at least, and there are plenty when it comes to this Eagles team. Realistically I don't think one can make any predictions as to what the Eagles will be next season, and for that reason expectations should be low at best.
So what's wrong with 8-8 at best?
8-8 with vick at the helm doesn't show improvement we've already had that with him and last we had a lot of injuries. plus vick isn't going to get better as he ages. 8-8 with foles or someone new means a step in the right direction. its an improvment and something to build on, which i'm all for. thats why id rather move on from vick i'd rather have a year of growth with a young qb then another year in limbo with vick. at least if we move forward with lets say foles and go 4-12 it gets us another high round draft pick to build with. we have a young team who can be great if we make the right moves. giving vick the starting job doesn't help foles develop and if he goes 8-8 fans will get fed up with him and wonder why he was kept to begin with.
No one seems to care that most of the tools Chip Kelly will be stuck with, are already on the roster.
All this talk of trading for Alex Smith? What do you think it would cost the Eagles? Depends on what San Fran needs right? It also depends on what KC, Arizona, the Jets and god knows who else is willing to part with. The price will be steep. Even if it's just a straight up player swap, ask yourself, what does San Fran need? An every down RB to succeed Frank Gore? A WR who can stretch the field so Crabtree and Vernon Davis can work underneath?
Too steep? Okay let's go pick plus player. Maybe Maclin and the #4 pick then?
You get me? It's not like San Fran is LOOKING to trade with US. Smith could end up in a few different places, so counting on that is shaky.
What Kelly is working with in 2013 is likely already on the roster. FA is a wasteland at QB, and the Draft sticks you with a rookie coaching a rookie, in god only knows what system.
If Kelly's under pressure to win he really does have to go with his gut.
I agree with you about people undervaluing the price for Smith but I doubt any team would even think about giving up a high 1st rounder (especially 4) and a former first rounder for Smith. Way too steep of a price. I would guess it will be more of a McNabb type of deal...a 2nd and maybe a 3rd or 4th next year and that's only because of what you factor in...a decent amount of teams looking for a quarterback and only one in the draft and free agency that people think of as a franchise QB that may be able to step right in (and there is some debate over him).
You bring up Kelly possibly having pressure to win right away and with what we've seen so far I highly doubt he does. I hope Roseman and Lurie wouldn't put that kind of pressure on their guy with where this team has been. They know the offense will be using a new system, they know that Kelly is gearing up to change this defense to a 3-4 with very few players who have ever played in that system with no starting caliber nose tackle to boot, they know that many of these coaches have little to no pro coaching experience and last but far from least, they know that whoever Kelly picks as his quarterback there is no guarantee that he will be successful...especially in the first year. He either get's a quarterback who has been riddled with injuries, turnovers and poor play, a second year quarterback who doesn't seem to fit his system and is still a huge questionmark or someone that isn't even on the roster yet...any of these choices hardly scream playoffs.
No i completely agree that smith is going to go to the highest bidder and he is going to be overpriced just based on that fact the the 49ers don't have any big needs besides maybe depth and what you already mentioned. I think smith is better then anyone we have on the roster but i dont think he's worth what it would cost. I don't know who the answer is at QB but i have a gut feeling that going with vick.
honestly i'd rather see the team struggle this year with a young guy and rebuild this season and next offseason rather then keeping vick as a band aid. like i said before if we go 8-8 with vick this year all it means is he isnt the guy. if we go 8-8 with foles it shows he's got promise. if we go 4-12 with foles then we know he's probably not our guy and we get the benefit of a high draft pick again. I can get fully behind this team rebuilding for a year or two. this hasn't been a championship caliber team for some time and the idea that we are going to compete for one this year is unrealistic and unfair to put on the new coaching staff.
But there it goes again, when you say "honestly i'd rather see the team struggle this year with a young guy and rebuild" . And you aren't the only one to do this.
Fans KEEP dismissing that Kelly isn't being paid 6.5 million in 2013 (Reid was supposed to make 6.3), to struggle. Lurie and Reid are friends. You don't fire your friend to give his replacement unlimited room for error.
The question isn't how do WE feel, but how does an aging LURIE, coming off of a major life change feel? Because how HE feels will determine how much pressure Kelly feels. And THAT more than anything else will determine his decisions.
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THE National Airports Corporation (NAC) yesterday received newly acquired fire fighting and medical equipment worth K170 billion.
Government acquired the equipment from a United States of America (US) firm.
The equipment was handed over during at a ceremony held at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka and will be distributed to all international airports in Zambia.
Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Deputy Minister Mutaba Mwali said the equipment would make Zambian airports among the best equipped in the region with fire-fighting equipment.
"It is my rare honour and privilege to preside over the official handover of the newly acquired fire fighting equipment that will make our airports among the best equipped in the region," he said.
The equipment included 12 titan 4—4 medium fire fighting foam tenders, five titan 6—6 major fire fighting foam tenders, nine trauma ambulances, four containers of assorted fire fighting and rescue equipment and 40 fire fighting uniforms and personal protective equipment.
Dr Mwali said Zambia was one of the State parties to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, (ICAO) Chicago convention of 1944 which contains standards and recommended practices that prescribed the physical and associated characteristics to be met at airports and to be used for international air transport operations.
"As a contracting State, the Government has demonstrated to the global aviation community and the public at large that it is committed to maintenance and achievement of safe air transport.
"This by making available huge resources and procuring state of the art airport fire-fighting equipment amounting to K170 billion (US$32,539,570) with a unit cost of a titan 6—6 major tender at K 10.6 billion (US$2,035,319.80) and the unit cost of a trauma ambulance at K 1.5 billion (US $285,655.00)," he said.
Robin Pickford, a representative of Albion Export Services Limited of the US, which supplied the equipment said he was happy to have partnered with Zambia on the fourth contract to supply airport equipment which dates back to 25 years ago.
Albion Export Services Limited provided training to the fire fighters on how to use the equipment and it will continue working with the Zambian technicians on the acquired equipment.


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The first Rolls-Royce showroom in Latin America has opened in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, located in the Av. Cidade Jardim. The Via Italia Group, headquartered in São Paulo, is Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' appointed dealer in Brazil.
The new 500 square meter showroom features a Customer Lounge. In the lounge you have bespoke-designed furniture and cabinets, includes leather, wood, surface finish and carpet samples from the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood, England and examples of the company's Bespoke programme. All Phantom and Ghost family models will be available for customer order.
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Microsoft declined to comment on Mr Persson's comments, however it highlighted an editorial featured on the Neowin tech site that accused the developer of being a "hypocrite".
"You have a very successful version of Minecraft on the Mac and iOS platforms. You didn't have a problem with Apple's closed systems policy when you launched the iOS or Mac versions," wrote Neowin's John Callaham.
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I had ideal college jobs. I worked at the Whitworth Post Office, sliding parcels into an impressive honeycomb of boxes. I worked at the library, re-shelving each book to its final decimal. I reveled in these positions, in their prime campus locations and their reputations as coveted college jobs. So how did I end up working for the Whitworth Phonathon in the final stretch of my college career, wrestling strangers from their dinnertime conversations? The answer is predictable: I had just returned from a semester-long study program and was broke.
My first night on the job, I found myself in a swiveling office chair, scanning a computer screen full of scripts and stats, wearing a fancy hands-free telephone headset I had always wanted as a kid, and navigating the complexities of automatic dialing. Look at me now, folks, [I thought;] just look at me now.
That night I talked to Becky, '78, elementary-ed major, teacher at Ridgeview Elementary School, in Yakima, former resident of Ballard, member of chamber singers, participator in intramural sports, wife to Todd and mother to Jake and Torrence.* Becky politely declined to donate. She and Todd were still making car payments.
I once had someone fake a disconnected line by rubbing tissue paper or bubble wrap against the receiver. On many occasions the intended callee told me I had the wrong number. One man hung up on me. Another said I should be ashamed to call on Sundays.
There was a time when I thought I couldn't make it any longer. It was a two-week period in which we called non-donor parents of students who had attended at least 10 years ago, and friends of the college -- those whose only connection to Whitworth was that they had given once in the past. Each night I left work feeling like a terrible person, that I had compromised my integrity. It was as if I was a solicitor not for scholarships, but shame. This is Whitworth we're talking about: Presbyterians and pinecones and pranks on the green. These were supposed to be nice people. Nice people don't hang up on you. Nice people say "please" and "thank you," or at least "I'm sorry" and "maybe next time."
The bigwigs gave us games -- incentives -- to keep morale high. For every pledge received, we got a trivia question; for every correct answer, we earned a point. Whoever had the most points at the end of the night was the winner. These games might be the only reason I ever raised any money for Whitworth. I'm just too competitive. It didn't matter what the prize was -- it could have been a pile of dirt -- I wanted it. I once won a $10 gift certificate to Chicken-N-More. That was a good night: I scored four credit-card donations.
Recent grads were my favorite alums to call, regardless of their shallow pockets. Warm memories of Whitworth were still at the forefront of their minds, and on these calls I liked to drive the message home with a hefty hammer. There were so many nails to hit! I knew their friends and professors; most important, I knew their language. I often "broke it down" for them, a technique that involved lowering my voice and using a lot of slang.
"I know what you're thinking -- I do. But this is so legit. Even five bucks makes a big difference, you know? Did Whitworth ever give you money for doing something, like being a leader? Where do you think that money came from?"
Last May as I walked home from the grocery store, a cluster of bags in tow, I got a call from a 509 area code. I rested the bags on the sidewalk and listened in half awe, half amusement as Stephanie,* an awkward sophomore, explained the exclusive benefits being offered to President's Club Gold members. She stuck to the script but did well to incorporate my college stats (Class of 2006, English major, former resident of Stewart Hall, former DJ at KWRS, former manager of Script) a mere 15 seconds into our chat. As she spoke, I thought about the four years that connected the San Diego street corner where I stood and the phonathon swivel chair where I once sat. I thought of Whitworth, and of how glad I was to have been a part of such a good community, to have received such thorough instruction.
Noting that I'd given in the past, Stephanie asked if I'd be willing to give again that afternoon. I smiled as I brought the phone closer to my chin and said, "Sure, but what's in it for you?"
Jordan Karnes,'06, is a freelance writer and editor living in San Diego. This fall she plans to attend California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, to earn an MFA in creative writing. Read more of her work at jordankarnes.com.
To meet the 2010 Whitworth Phonathon student-callers and learn more about the phonathon, visit www.whitworth.edu/phonathon.
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Recently, I attended a presentation done by Lacy Lueck, digital sales manager at WPTV NBC Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Fla., and she put together an impressive presentation that shows how WPTV is willing to embrace digital and work differently. Here are her main points, which would be relevant for nearly any other traditional media company as well:
1. Partner with ad agencies
Although somewhat late to the game of offering white label digital solutions, WPTV has gone way beyond any offering I have seen from other local media. The first and most welcome change is the willingness to reach out to advertising agencies and partner with them.
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By offering agencies the opportunity to resell these digital services and not take an aggressive competitive stance, they embrace an abundance mentality approach, as opposed to the 'scarcity' mentality we often see from other media.
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Not only are they partnering in a true revenue share relationship, they are also offering advanced digital solutions, and transparent support through their digital dashboard tool.
This dashboard is clean and easy to navigate, allowing agencies 24/7 access to log in and know exactly how each facet of the campaign is performing, as well as a holistic view. This was often a point of contention in the past, working with third party vendors and not being able to offer client performance reports during and immediately after the end of the campaign. Having the ability to go in and access the information yourself is a tremendous advantage.


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I'm about to get my own computer for school, and I would love to flash my i920, however, there is a problem. My computer will have neither xp or win7, it'll have vista. I've read every post and this thread and there is almost nothing on vista. And from what I can figure out, Octans is much more complex than flashing my old i910. Now that was easy. If anyone could tell me more about flashing with vista, that would be fantastic.
Octans looks almost exactly the same as the i910 flashing software...so no biggie there. But as for vista...I would assume you follow the same directions as Win7 since the two share the same kernel.