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Must meet the band before show...
Hi Guys,
I have been to see Korn 8 times now and next March when they come to the UK will mark the 10th year since I first saw them. Along with a friend, I will be going to see all 4 UK mainland shows. I know it's a long shot, but as a long standing die-hard fan, is there any chance of a meet and greet following any of the 4 shows ( London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow)? If there was a choice in venue, it would be Glasgow as we are both Scottish...
I've never requested anything like this before, and most likely will never again. It would mean so much to us if our request was granted. Please, please consider this seriously...
PS. I will even be visiting Bakersfield, CA next year with my wife as we tour Cali, that's how committed as a fan I am!
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RE: Re: Must meet the band before show...
YES! YOu can read the details of the the packages on this site...click tours+ VIP for the show you would like to attend and the details are there. The meet and greet is short and sweet but you will meet the band but I would definitely buy a VIP session package if you would like to spend a little more time with them... GOOD LUCK! KEEP BANGIN!
I checked out VIP list and THERE IS NO VIP for the Russia D:
What a shame! Oh, probably I just have to go to some other country to meet my favorite band :(
Anyway, I'm not too sad, because I will buy a ticket which give an opportunity to be very close to stage, so I can still enjoy KoRn :3
You are so lucky that you can go to see KoRn any time you want..
Making fairytale become true!
RE: Must meet the band before show...
You should probably check again later, it may be they have not worked the details out to post a M&G yet
"Practice gratitude"
RE: Must meet the band before show...
I swear I saw a Russian VIP on a ticketing site. It had 8 choices of tickets (tables as well?) I had to use google translator to make sense of it, and so I'm still not 100% sure...but it sure did say there were different VIP options, but I didn't see what you get other than specific seating arrangements. It wasn't on GroundCtrl, which would be why the same VIP options aren't listed.


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Van der Sloot pleads guilty: Closure for Natalee Holloway's family?
Story | Jan 11, 2012
Joran Van der Sloot admits that he is a murderer. He pleads guilty to killing a young Peruvian woman precisely five years to the day he became a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

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No. 8 Buckeyes Tally Season-Best 432.200 on Senior Day
Ohio State wins three individual titles and three events as a team vs. Michigan
No. 8 Ohio State Battles No. 5 Michigan on Senior Day
Team set to recognize seven seniors post-meet
No. 6 Ohio State Falls in Tri Meet to Oklahoma, Iowa
Buckeyes total season bests on rings, floor exercise
No. 6 Buckeyes Drop 434.400-431.700 decision to No. 3 Illinois
Buckeyes win four of six events as a team, earn two individual event titles
No. 6 Ohio State Hosts No. 3 Illinois at St. John Arena
Buckeyes welcome Illini to Columbus for the first dual meet of season
2014 Scarlet & Gray Intrasquad
Photos from the 2014 Scarlet & Gray Intrasquad, held Dec. 13 at Steelwood.
MGYM: Photo Day
The men's gymnastics team held its annual photo day for the 2014-15 season on Wednesday. Photos by Kirk Irwin.
Athletic Accolades
Academic Achievements
2012 (Freshman Season): Competed in every meet of the season for the Buckeyes ... tied for second place on floor exercise (15.30) in his first collegiate meet at the Windy City Invitational (Jan. 14) ... followed that performance with a fifth-place showing on floor (15.000) against Oklahoma Jan. 21 and a fifth-place tie on vault (14.600) ... tied for first on floor with a 14.90 against Michigan and SUNY Brockport (Feb. 18) ... also tied for fourth on vault with a 14.70 ... set a career high on parallel bars Feb. 25 against Penn State with a 14.250 ... set a career-high 14.800 on vault against Illinois (March 2) ... placed third on floor (15.25) and fifth on vault (14.55) against Stanford March 9 ... set a career-high 15.40 on floor against Minnesota and Oklahoma (March 24), placing second ... qualified for the floor exercise event finals at the Big Ten championships (April 7), finishing fifth with a 15.10 ... qualified for the event finals at the NCAA championships (April 21), tying for sixth with a 15.05 to earn first career All-American honors.
Prior to Ohio State: Trained and competed for USA Flairs under coach Paris Bland ... two-time state champion in 2009 and 2011 ... claimed state titles in all-around, pommel horse, rings, vault and high bar events in 2011.
Personal: Son of Mike Steiner and Sheila Ainlay ... has one sibling, Katie ... plans to become an airline pilot after completion of undergraduate studies ... hobbies including spending time with friends and driving ... lists greatest sports thrill as becoming an All-American at Ohio State in 2012.


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Serious Eats' Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Sauce
Manhattan is home to many smells, but perhaps the most delicious is the chicken-y, savory scent that emanates from from the city's countless halal carts. Serving lunch to late-night, these carts dish up a container full of chicken rice that tastes like nothing else, crave-worthy and totally singular. To taste this particular chicken and rice you can get yourself to Midtown or try the home version, Kenji's Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Sauce, a spot on rendition of the street food classic. More


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Personal Bests Outdoor 100m 10.80 200m 22.30
2004-05: OUTDOOR-Joined the team for the outdoor season, competing in the 100m and 200m...Logged a season-best time of 11.30 in the 100m at the Mississippi Invitational...Ran his second-fastest 100m (11.34) time at the Jace Lacoste Invitational...Recorded a season-best time of 23.14 in the 200m at the Ole Miss Invitational...Did not compete in the C-USA Championships.
2004 (Bethel College): Was a member of the Bethel football team, playing defensive back.
PREP: Attended Covington High School...Ran track and played football, lettering three years in track and four years in football...Was track captain his senior year...Participated in a number of events, including the 100m, 200, 110m hurdles, 300m hurdles and 4x100m and 4x200m relays...Voted Newcomer of the Year his freshman year and Most Improved his sophomore year...Received the Most Valuable Runner Award and was named Best of the West in 2003...Played defensive back and wide receiver in football...Was a member of the Number One Club and FFA...Track coach was Joseph King.
PERSONAL: Born in Dyersburg, Tenn., on August 10, 1984...Full name is Jeffrey Odell Nix Jr....Son of Jeff and Jennifer Nix...Major is education...Plans to teach and coach after graduation...Chose Memphis because it is a good track program that is close to home and it is a level where, with practice, he feels he can compete.


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This document is an introduction to writing good autopilot tests. This should be treated as additional material on top of all the things you'd normally do to write good code. Put another way: test code follows all the same rules as production code - it must follow the coding standards, and be of a professional quality.
Several points in this document are written with respect to the unity autopilot test suite. This is incidental, and doesn't mean that these points do not apply to other test suites!
Unit tests are often used as a reference for how your public API should be used. Functional (Autopilot) tests are no different: they can be used to figure out how your application should work from a functional standpoint. However, this only works if your tests are written in a clear, concise, and most importantly expressive style. There are many things you can do to make your tests easier to read:
Pick Good Test Case Class Names
Pick a name that encapsulates all the tests in the class, but is as specific as possible. If necessary, break your tests into several classes, so your class names can be more specific. This is important because when a test fails, the test id is the primary means of identifying the failure. The more descriptive the test id is, the easier it is to find the fault and fix the test.
Pick Good Test Case Method Names
Similar to picking good test case class names, picking good method names makes your test id more descriptive. We recommend writing very long test method names, for example:
# bad example:
def test_save_dialog(self):
# test goes here
# better example:
def test_save_dialog_can_cancel(self):
# test goes here
# best example:
def test_save_dialog_cancels_on_escape_key(self):
# test goes here
Write Docstrings
You should write docstrings for your tests. Often the test method is enough to describe what the test does, but an English description is still useful when reading the test code. For example:
def test_save_dialog_cancels_on_escape_key(self):
"""The Save dialog box must cancel when the escape key is pressed."""
We recommend following PEP 257 when writing all docstrings.
Tests should test one thing, and one thing only. Since we're not writing unit tests, it's fine to have more than one assert statement in a test, but the test should test one feature only. How do you tell if you're testing more than one thing? There's two primary ways:
- Can you describe the test in a single sentence without using words like 'and', 'also', etc? If not, you should consider splitting your tests into multiple smaller tests.
- Tests usually follow a simple pattern:
- Set up the test environment.
- Perform some action.
- Test things with assert statements.
If you feel you're repeating steps 'b' and 'c' you're likely testing more than one thing, and should consider splitting your tests up.
Good Example:
def test_alt_f4_close_dash(self):
"""Dash must close on alt+F4."""
self.assertThat(self.dash.visible, Eventually(Equals(False)))
This test tests one thing only. Its three lines match perfectly with the typical three stages of a test (see above), and it only tests for things that it's supposed to. Remember that it's fine to assume that other parts of unity work as expected, as long as they're covered by an autopilot test somewhere else - that's why we don't need to verify that the dash really did open when we called self.dash.ensure_visible().
Make sure your tests test what they're supposed to. It's very easy to write a test that passes. It's much more difficult to write a test that only passes when the feature it's testing is working correctly, and fails otherwise. There are two main ways to achieve this:
- Branch unity trunk.
- Write autopilot test that reproduces the bug.
- Commit.
- Write code that fixes the bug.
- Verify that the test now passes.
- Commit. Push. Merge.
- Celebrate!
- Branch unity trunk.
- Write autopilot test that reproduces the bug.
- Commit.
- Merge code that supposedly fixes the bug.
- Verify that the test now passes.
- Commit. Push. Superseed original merge proposal with your branch.
- Celebrate!
Tests should be short - as short as possible while maintaining readability. Longer tests are harder to read, harder to understand, and harder to debug. Long tests are often symptomatic of several possible problems:
- Your test requires complicated setup that should be encapsulated in a method or function.
- Your test is actually several tests all jammed into one large test.
Bad Example:
def test_panel_title_switching_active_window(self):
"""Tests the title shown in the panel with a maximized application."""
# Locked Launchers on all monitors
self.set_unity_option('num_launchers', 0)
self.set_unity_option('launcher_hide_mode', 0)
text_win = self.open_new_application_window("Text Editor", maximized=True)
self.assertThat(self.panel.title, Equals(text_win.title))
calc_win = self.open_new_application_window("Calculator")
self.assertThat(self.panel.title, Equals(calc_win.application.name))
icon = self.launcher.model.get_icon_by_desktop_id(text_win.application.desktop_file)
launcher = self.launcher.get_launcher_for_monitor(self.panel_monitor)
self.assertThat(self.panel.title, Equals(text_win.title))
This test can be simplified into the following:
def test_panel_title_switching_active_window(self):
"""Tests the title shown in the panel with a maximized application."""
text_win = self.open_new_application_window("Text Editor", maximized=True)
icon = self.launcher.model.get_icon_by_desktop_id(text_win.application.desktop_file)
launcher = self.launcher.get_launcher_for_monitor(self.panel_monitor)
self.assertThat(self.panel.title, Equals(text_win.title))
Here's what we changed:
- Removed the set_unity_option lines, as they didn't affect the test results at all.
- Removed assertions that were duplicated from other tests. For example, there's already an autopilot test that ensures that new applications have their title displayed on the panel.
With a bit of refactoring, this test could be even smaller (the launcher proxy classes could have a method to click an icon given a desktop id), but this is now perfectly readable and understandable within a few seconds of reading.
Test docstrings are used to communicate to other developers what the test is supposed to be testing. Test Docstrings must:
Good Example:
def test_launcher_switcher_next_keeps_shortcuts(self):
"""Launcher switcher next action must keep shortcuts after they've been shown."""
Within the context of the test case, the docstring is able to explain exactly what the test does, without any ambiguity. In contrast, here's a poorer example:
Bad Example:
def test_switcher_all_mode_shows_all_apps(self):
"""Test switcher 'show_all' mode shows apps from all workspaces."""
The docstring explains what the desired outcome is, but without how we're testing it. This style of sentence assumes test success, which is not what we want! A better version of this code might look like this:
def test_switcher_all_mode_shows_all_apps(self):
"""Switcher 'show all' mode must show apps from all workspaces."""
The difference between these two are subtle, but important.
The most important attribute for a test is that it is correct - it must test what's it's supposed to test. The second most important attribute is that it is readable. Tests should be able to be examined by themselves by someone other than the test author without any undue hardship. There are several things you can do to improve test readability:
Bad Example:def test_launcher_switcher_next(self): """Moving to the next launcher item while switcher is activated must work.""" self.launcher_instance.switcher_next() self.assertThat(self.launcher.key_nav_selection, Eventually(GreaterThan(0)))
This leads to a shorter test (which we've already said is a good thing), but the test itself is incomplete. Without scrolling up to the setUp and tearDown methods, it's hard to tell how the launcher switcher is started. The situation gets even worse when test classes derive from each other, since the code that starts the launcher switcher may not even be in the same class!
A much better solution in this example is to initiate the switcher explicitly, and use addCleanup() to cancel it when the test ends, like this:
Good Example:def test_launcher_switcher_next(self): """Moving to the next launcher item while switcher is activated must work.""" self.launcher_instance.switcher_start() self.addCleanup(self.launcher_instance.switcher_cancel) self.launcher_instance.switcher_next() self.assertThat(self.launcher.key_nav_selection, Eventually(GreaterThan(0)))
The code is longer, but it's still very readable. It also follows the setup/action/test convention discussed above.
Appropriate uses of the setUp() method include:
- Initialising test class member variables.
- Setting unity options that are required for the test. For example, many of the switcher autopilot tests set a unity option to prevent the switcher going into details mode after a timeout. This isn't part of the test, but makes the test easier to write.
- Setting unity log levels. The unity log is captured after each test. Some tests may adjust the verbosity of different parts of the Unity logging tree.
Bad Example:def test_showdesktop_hides_apps(self): """Show Desktop keyboard shortcut must hide applications.""" self.start_app('Character Map', locale='C') self.start_app('Calculator', locale='C') self.start_app('Text Editor', locale='C') # show desktop, verify all windows are hidden: self.keybinding("window/show_desktop") self.addCleanup(self.keybinding, "window/show_desktop") open_wins = self.bamf.get_open_windows() for win in open_wins: self.assertTrue(win.is_hidden)
In contrast, we can refactor the test to look a lot nicer:
Good Example:def test_showdesktop_hides_apps(self): """Show Desktop keyboard shortcut must hide applications.""" self.launch_test_apps() # show desktop, verify all windows are hidden: self.keybinding("window/show_desktop") self.addCleanup(self.keybinding, "window/show_desktop") open_wins = self.bamf.get_open_windows() for win in open_wins: self.assertTrue(win.is_hidden)
The test is now shorter, and the launch_test_apps method can be re-used elsewhere. Importantly - even though I've hidden the implementation of the launch_test_apps method, the test still makes sense.
- Write a custom matcher. As long as you follow the protocol laid down by the testtools.matchers.Matcher class, you can use a hand-written Matcher just like you would use an ordinary one. Matchers should be written in the autopilot.matchers module if they're likely to be reusable outside of a single test, or as local classes if they're specific to one test.
- Write custom assertion methods. For example:def test_multi_key_copyright(self): """Pressing the sequences 'Multi_key' + 'c' + 'o' must produce '©'.""" self.dash.reveal_application_lens() self.keyboard.press_and_release('Multi_key') self.keyboard.type("oc") self.assertSearchText("©")
This test uses a custom method named assertSearchText that hides the complexity involved in getting the dash search text and comparing it to the given parameter.
Early autopilot tests relied on extensive use of the python sleep call to halt tests long enough for unity to change its state before the test continued. Previously, an autopilot test might have looked like this:
Bad Example:
def test_alt_f4_close_dash(self):
"""Dash must close on alt+F4."""
self.assertThat(self.dash.visible, Equals(False))
This test uses two sleep calls. The first makes sure the dash has had time to open before the test continues, and the second makes sure that the dash has had time to respond to our key presses before we start testing things.
There are two solutions to this problem:
Tests should use the Eventually matcher. This can be imported as follows:
from autopilot.matchers import Eventually
The Eventually matcher works on all attributes in a proxy class that derives from UnityIntrospectableObject (at the time of writing that is almost all the autopilot unity proxy classes).
The Eventually matcher takes a single argument, which is another testtools matcher instance. For example, the bad assertion from the example above could be rewritten like so:
self.assertThat(self.dash.visible, Eventually(Equals(False)))
Since we can use any testtools matcher, we can also write code like this:
self.assertThat(self.launcher.key_nav_selection, Eventually(GreaterThan(prev_icon)))
Note that you can pass any object that follows the testtools matcher protocol (so you can write your own matchers, if you like).
Proxy classes are not test cases, and do not have access to the self.assertThat method. However, we want proxy class methods to block until unity has had time to process the commands given. For example, the ensure_visible method on the Dash controller should block until the dash really is visible.
To achieve this goal, all attributes on unity proxy classes have been patched with a wait_for method that takes a testtools matcher (just like Eventually - in fact, the Eventually matcher just calls wait_for under the hood). For example, previously the ensure_visible method on the Dash controller might have looked like this:
Bad Example:
def ensure_visible(self):
"""Ensures the dash is visible."""
if not self.visible:
In this example we're assuming that two seconds is long enough for the dash to open. To use the wait_for feature, the code looks like this:
Good Example:
def ensure_visible(self):
"""Ensures the dash is visible."""
if not self.visible:
Note that wait_for assumes you want to use the Equals matcher if you don't specify one. Here's another example where we're using it with a testtools matcher:
Autopilot uses the python-testscenarios package to run a test multiple times in different scenarios. A good example of scenarios in use is the launcher keyboard navigation tests: each test is run once with the launcher hide mode set to 'always show launcher', and again with it set to 'autohide launcher'. This allows test authors to write their test once and have it execute in multiple environments.
In order to use test scenarios, the test author must create a list of scenarios and assign them to the test case's scenarios class attribute. The autopilot ibus test case classes use scenarios in a very simple fashion:
Good Example:
class IBusTestsPinyin(IBusTests):
"""Tests for the Pinyin(Chinese) input engine."""
scenarios = [
('basic', {'input': 'abc1', 'result': u'\u963f\u5e03\u4ece'}),
('photo', {'input': 'zhaopian ', 'result': u'\u7167\u7247'}),
('internet', {'input': 'hulianwang ', 'result': u'\u4e92\u8054\u7f51'}),
('disk', {'input': 'cipan ', 'result': u'\u78c1\u76d8'}),
('disk_management', {'input': 'cipan guanli ', 'result': u'\u78c1\u76d8\u7ba1\u7406'}),
def test_simple_input_dash(self):
self.assertThat(self.dash.search_string, Eventually(Equals(self.result)))
This is a simplified version of the IBus tests. In this case, the test_simple_input_dash test will be called 5 times. Each time, the self.input and self.result attribute will be set to the values in the scenario list. The first part of the scenario tuple is the scenario name - this is appended to the test id, and can be whatever you want.
It is important to notice that the test does not change its behavior depending on the scenario it is run under. Exactly the same steps are taken - the only difference in this case is what gets typed on the keyboard, and what result is expected.
Scenarios are applied before the test's setUp or tearDown methods are called, so it's safe (and indeed encouraged) to set up the test environment based on these attributes. For example, you may wish to set certain unity options for the duration of the test based on a scenario parameter.
Scenarios are very helpful, but only represent a single-dimension of parameters. For example, consider the launcher keyboard navigation tests. We may want several different scenarios to come into play:
- A scenario that controls whether the launcher is set to 'autohide' or 'always visible'.
- A scenario that controls which monitor the test is run on (in case we have multiple monitors configured).
We can generate two separate scenario lists to represent these two scenario axis, and then produce the dot-product of thw two lists like this:
from autopilot.tests import multiply_scenarios
class LauncherKeynavTests(AutopilotTestCase):
hide_mode_scenarios = [
('autohide', {'hide_mode': 1}),
('neverhide', {'hide_mode': 0}),
monitor_scenarios = [
('monitor_0', {'launcher_monitor': 0}),
('monitor_1', {'launcher_monitor': 1}),
scenarios = multiply_scenarios(hide_mode_scenarios, monitor_scenarios)
(please ignore the fact that we're assuming that we always have two monitors!)
In the test classes setUp method, we can then set the appropriate unity option and make sure we're using the correct launcher:
def setUp(self):
self.set_unity_option('launcher_hide_mode', self.hide_mode)
self.launcher_instance = self.launcher.get_launcher_for_monitor(self.launcher_monitor)
Which allows us to write tests that work automatically in all the scenarios:
def test_keynav_initiates(self):
"""Launcher must start keyboard navigation mode."""
self.assertThat(self.launcher.kaynav_mode, Eventually(Equals(True)))
This works fine. So far we've not done anything to cause undue pain.... until we decide that we want to extend the scenarios with an additional axis:
from autopilot.tests import multiply_scenarios
class LauncherKeynavTests(AutopilotTestCase):
hide_mode_scenarios = [
('autohide', {'hide_mode': 1}),
('neverhide', {'hide_mode': 0}),
monitor_scenarios = [
('monitor_0', {'launcher_monitor': 0}),
('monitor_1', {'launcher_monitor': 1}),
launcher_monitor_scenarios = [
('launcher on all monitors', {'monitor_mode': 0}),
('launcher on primary monitor only', {'monitor_mode': 1}),
scenarios = multiply_scenarios(hide_mode_scenarios, monitor_scenarios, launcher_monitor_scenarios)
Now we have a problem: Some of the generated scenarios won't make any sense. For example, one such scenario will be (autohide, monitor_1, launcher on primary monitor only). If monitor 0 is the primary monitor, this will leave us running launcher tests on a monitor that doesn't contain a launcher!
There are two ways to get around this problem, and they both lead to terrible tests:
- Detect these situations and skip the test. This is bad for several reasons - first, skipped tests should be viewed with the same level of suspicion as commented out code. Test skips should only be used in exceptional circumstances. A test skip in the test results is just as serious as a test failure.
- Detect the situation in the test, and run different code using an if statement. For example, we might decode to do this:def test_something(self): # ... setup code here ... if self.monitor_mode == 1 and self.launcher_monitor == 1: # test something else else: # test the original thing.
As a general rule, tests shouldn't have assert statements inside an if statement unless there's a very good reason for doing so.
Scenarios can be useful, but we must be careful not to abuse them. It is far better to spend more time typing and end up with clear, readable tests than it is to end up with fewer, less readable tests. Like all code, tests are read far more often than they're written.
Calls such as select_many return several objects at once. These objects are explicitly unordered, and test authors must take care not to make assumptions about their order.
Bad Example:
buttons = self.select_many('Button')
save_button = buttons[0]
print_button = buttons[1]
This code may work initially, but there's absolutely no guarantee that the order of objects won't change in the future. A better approach is to select the individual components you need:
Good Example:
save_button = self.select_single('Button', objectName='btnSave')
print_button = self.select_single('Button', objectName='btnPrint')
This code will continue to work in the future.


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March 28, 2005
Dedham, Mass. - The Holy Cross men's track and field team competed in its first outdoor meet on Saturday, March 26 at the Snowflake Classic hosted by Northeastern University, at the Solomon Track.
Senior John Nieskens (Peterborough, N.H.) ran a very strong 10,000-meter winning with a New England Championship qualifying time of 31:53.85.
In the javelin, freshman Nathaniel Couture (Taunton, Mass.) qualified for the New Englands after throwing 55.30-meters. Couture's throw earned him third place at the meet and ranks as the best javelin performance by a Holy Cross athlete in over 15 years.
Junior Thomas Severo (Westford, Mass.) placed third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:04.62.
The Crusaders next compete at the Southern Connecticut State Invitational on April 2, in New Haven, Conn. At 11 a.m.


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Friday, July 27, 2007
Gotta Move On*
Last Friday I renewed my lease for a year. I went to the management office, then returned to work, where I received a phone call as described here. Well, they made the offer, and the salary is substantially more than I even hoped for and would be enough to maintain my current quality of life in large eastern city. In fact, if you compare my salary in September of last year with what I would be making in September of this year, you will see that I have doubled my income. Who does that? Amazing!
Except, there is that lease. So, now I'm waiting to hear from the management company about getting out of the lease. Otherwise, they will make me pay rent until the lease is up or I find someone to sublet. I'll probably have to do the latter.
I also dread telling my boss, the Big Pisser, because he has abandonment issues. (What is with these old, white-dude, academics and their fear of being left behind on something?) He has such abandonment issues that he now refuses to give credit to my predecessor on the three volumes that my predecessor worked for the past several years. Instead, he's giving me credit for the work that the other guy did, just for revenge.
This really bothers me. I'm pissed for the other guy, because he did all of this very detailed work for which he will not be getting even an acknowledgement. It also scares me because I'm being given credit for work that I did not do, opening me up for charges of fraud or plagiarism. Even if that is not the legal case, I feel as if it is the ethical case. The Big Pisser will also not give the other guy any recommendation despite the other guy having worked here for twenty years. Heck this Big Pisser still openly and viciously criticizes a job candidate for turning down the opportunity to work here. So, merely leaving is a burned bridge, and I hate burned bridges.
But that's not really what is on my mind. I'm writing about that -- a good thing that I am polluting with negative contingencies -- to avoid writing about what has me infuriated and has almost spoiled my joy at the job offer. That, of course, is related to this Local History Book that has become the bane of my existence.
As I wrote in the footnote to my last post, the press had sent my manuscript to this Nemesis without my consent and after I suggested another, more neutral reader. Understand, this is an author mill that has aspirations for being a scholarly press. Yet, they have not built in a referee or vetting process into their operation, nor do they actually edit anything, nor have they read my manuscript. Indeed, I did a Google search on the "editor" assigned to my book, and her background seems to be in interior design.
My book was offered up to this Nemesis by the editor as a means of schmoozing him to get him to support the book, which he is never going to do as I have seen him in action on this matter with other authors who have tried to write about the town. The editor offered up my book to him, and when I objected to him specifically because of my prior contact with him, and gave her another person to contact if they must do this, the editor agreed to use the other person.
Then, she called me this week to tell me that they had sent it to him and she had no memory of our exchange on the matter of him, told me that they would not publish the book without "his blessing," and then proceeded to tell me some of his objections, such as the "genocide" issue of my last post. They want him to "fact-check" the book, and will pay him for it. I agreed on the stipulation that I could reject any of his changes.
Today, I received an e-mail from her. Her message contained the text of his e-mail wherein he drew the connection between me living there for "one or two years" and his lifetime of work on the subject, wrote that "this was not the book that I would have written." Then, he requested a sum of $1600 "for his life time of knowledge" to read my manuscript. Guess who they want to pay half?
Now, I really don't mind input on my work. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. I do mind how this publisher keeps changing the rules. When I first asked about outside readers, they told me that they trust the expertise of their authors. Now they have brought him in, mainly for commercial purposes (and yes, I totally get that, but still), and have employed him as a "reader." They told me that he would not determine if the book was published or not, yet now they say that they will not publish it without his approval. The idea of employing him was theirs, yet they want me to pay for him.
So, I responded. "I myself, in good conscience, cannot agree to this. I consented, against my own judgment and at your instigation, to allow him to do what other publishers consider "referee" or "vet." Other publishers engage these outside readers, who remain anonymous, and include the readers' fees in their budgets, all in order to ensure an ethical process and produce a scholarly volume free from personal prejudices or charges of bribery. If I pay any amount to have him read this work, I feel as if I am engaging in vanity publication, thereby compromising the integrity of my work." Too bitchy? It's all true. Eventually, I hope to write a sane and rational post on the comparison between real, academic publishers, and these kinds of operations that feed off of the vanity of the poor schmucks like myself who need some outside validation of self, like a book.
I haven't heard back. I sense that this may be the end of the contract and that the Nemesis will be publishing a survey history of the town through this publisher within the next year or two. That somehow strikes me as off, but I can't say how.
In my fury, however, I had a revelation. I keep saying that this book has more psychological importance for me than anything else. Lord knows that may be the only importance that it has! Whatever the case, I have kept up this magical thinking that, once it is done, I will have had something positive to show for my hideous time at that place and I can move on.
Yet, every time I have to deal with this publisher, I have to relive the shame of having gotten myself involved with this joke of an outfit, and I go right back to the miserable situation that led me to make that choice. I experience the anger and the frustration and the hatred for what I experienced every time they make me cut the manuscript, every time their e-mails drop a fresh hell into my inbox, every time they lose something or forget something or bungle something else. The manuscript ties me to that place and ties me to that period of time. This is not healthy for me.
I need to release it.
Over a year ago, when the big, redheaded Amazon threatened to kick my ass over her boyfriend, I realized that I had to leave the place because it was a tiny little pond full of big fish, flopping all over and devouring one another. "This is so silly and petty," I thought. "Don't they know that this doesn't matter? That this place is nothing in the grand scheme of things? That this is a backwater and there are other places in the world?" My brain, my career, and my life suffocated in that tiny, closed environment. How could it not?
Now that I live elsewhere, a small fish in a bigger pond, and moving into even bigger ponds, I realize that every time I allow this book deal to pull me back into that anger and fury, allow it to be important, allow those people -- that Nemesis -- to tie me emotionally and destructively to that place, I legitimize that tiny, narrow-minded way of thinking. I become part of it and perpetuate it. I don't want to grant them any more power over me in any way. The book had become the magic talisman that would accomplish the break, but the book has only strengthened the tie.
So now, maybe the book won't happen -- and I will be upset, because it was my work. Better than the book, however, will be to just leave it all behind me and live the life I want. I have the means, and it doesn't have shit to do with the book.
I left there because I was better than them, and better than that place.
I still am.
*Apologies to GayProf for stealing his theme! (I'm totally crushing on GayProf. ** Go read his blog, Center of Gravitas!)
**Don't be jealous of GayProf, I crush on all of the blogs that I read! That's why I read them.
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It seems to me, knowing nothing but what I've read, that a third option is viable as well: stop allowing the publisher to add conditions -- publish as we agreed or not -- and if they call a halt, then you can put the thing on the shelf for a year or three. Then you can dust it off, when (if ever) it's not a source of PTSD style flashbacks.
- 10:33 AM, July 28, 2007
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Charley, you are so right. I have to take a look at the contract again, because I'm not sure if they have one of those blanket "and we can do whatever we want" clauses or not. In any case, this really has to stop. There are too many more interesting things to write about! Like moving to that Great Zoo on the Potomac!
- 11:43 AM, July 28, 2007
If, as you are guessing, the local guy will have his book out with the "publisher" in a year or two, youm ight want to do everything you can to "secure" your original work from plagiarism. Is there somebody/somewhere you can file it with so it's easy to prove what you wrote and when you wrote it?
- 12:34 PM, July 28, 2007
You type too fast :)
- 10:45 PM, July 28, 2007
- Hahn at Home said...
Look at you all belle of the ball! Congrats on your gig and maybe this time around, you'll be putting down some roots and settling in.
As to your publishing venture, ditto what anonymous said.
But, do you type too fast? Is there ever a "type too fast?"
- 12:51 AM, July 30, 2007
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Sometimes, my hands type faster than my brains!
Thanks Lori! The plan is to stick around for longer than a year this time...maybe even two, or three, or perhaps even long enough that my nephews can come visit for extra credit in their history classes!
- 11:01 AM, July 31, 2007
- Ed Darrell said...
There is yet another possibility. You had a contract with this publishing house, and they have breached it. The money damages are probably not great -- it's difficult to tell (before a jury a good lawyer will get the publisher to explain how all their publications do well, hanging them on their own words . . . but I digress).
Even if you just let the project drift for the moment, you may want to draft a nice, cheery letter going through the history of your work with the publisher. Note that you want the original conditions, that you've now put a lot of work into this project relying on their word that they'd do X and Y, and you're disappointed they now intend NOT to do X and Y "as they promised" but instead want to do "Z and AA." Urge them to return to the agreement.
I wish I knew a good writer's lawyer, but my own history with publishers isn't that great, and I don't sue as a general rule.
A couple of the chapters might make good fodder for the state historical society journal, no? Have you already signed away first North American rights, or can you select a chapter to publish elsewhere, too?
- 10:38 AM, August 01, 2007
- Claire said...
Blogger seems to have withdrawn its oppressive, patriarchal cockblock on my comments. I bet my latest post scared it. Anyway, congratulations. If you're moving where I think you're moving, it's a beautiful city. (I lived there for a year.) Also, can I be your #1 Crush? I hope you get recognition for you contributions to the book. I bet you'll get paid more and do more important work than those cockblocking publishers. I think it is a very good idea to write a letter detailing your work on the manuscript. I find that putting something in writing can sometimes work to make cockblockers back down.
- 11:38 AM, August 01, 2007
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Claire, this is all for you!.
On the book subject, things are still panning out, but I did write them a "strongly" worded letter saying, in essence, "fish or cut bait." They are probably trying to find a way that they can legally cut bait. A review of the contract has led me to discover that they have been skirting some of the conditions for a while now. Meanwhile, everyone has had wonderful suggestions and I cannot thank everyone enough for your support.
- 12:27 PM, August 01, 2007
- vuboq said...
doubled salary. good. book issues bad. gayprof crushes? back off, kitten, he's mine. *smooch*
- 9:53 PM, August 01, 2007
- Hahn at Home said...
But, now, I'm curious, after all these days, how the "telling the boss" thing went.
And, I probably lived there too...I've lived everywhere. Good luck with it all!
- 12:34 AM, August 02, 2007
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Vuboq! *Smooches* back at ya! Never fear, I know that I could never compete with the man who "Knows Too Much about GayProf." My crush must, alas, be from afar.
Lori, thank you! I told the boss man yesterday, drawing upon all of my "good girl" training to apologize profusely for being so ambitious and for never intending to hurt anyone by leaving and so forth, pouring a big ole vat of syrup over everything. (Acting was the second most useful class that I ever took, after all.) I also waited until he went out for his cigarette to tell him in order to use the reverie of his addiction to help my case. He was so shocked that he forgot to light up. Thus far, however, he is being surprisingly cool about it, as is my apartment complex. I'm not too sure how this all worked out so well!
- 10:25 AM, August 02, 2007
"cool about it, as is my apartment complex" - details, details???
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As Webster Tarpley notes, Zelikow is very important in the 9/11 cover-up. In 1998, Philip Zelikow published an article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, entitled "CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Imagining the Transformative Event." Nearly two years later, PNAC picked up the CFR-Zelikow language, saying that the desired transformation "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor…"
In part one of this series, we hear from author Webster Tarpley, Professor Graeme MacQueen (religious studies, McMaster University, ret.), Ken Jenkins (filmmaker), and Peter Dale Scott, author.
Zelikow, hired as a Bush II transition team member for his expertise on al-Qaeda (according to Karen Hughes), didn't want to hear anything about al-Qaeda from Richard Clarke, chief counter-terrorism expert on George W. Bush's national security council. Similarly, John Ashcroft at the Dept. of Justice didn't want to hear anything about al-Qaeda before 9/11 from Thomas Picard, acting director of the FBI. In these and other instances, Zelikow as executive director of the 9/11 Commission, suborned perjury, Webster Tarpley charges.
Tarpley reveals Zelikow's cover-up role in the Able Danger FBI effort to expose "al-Qaeda" cells. Prof. Graeme MacQueen calls attention to Zelikow's unique role in predicting then explicating the consequences of "the transformative event" as head of the commission charged with investigating the catastrophic terrorism of 9/11. Ken Jenkins and Peter Dale Scott note that Zelikow's expertise is in creating and exploiting public myths,… Continue reading
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September 11, 2007
9-11, Six Years Later
By Paul Craig Roberts
On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were false flag operations committed by some part of the U.S. and/or Israeli government.
It was beyond the imagination of the NPR reporter and producer that there could be any substance to these beliefs, which were attributed to the influence of books by U.S. and European authors sold in bookstores in Egypt.
NPR's concern was that books by Western authors questioning the origin of the 9/11 attack have the undesirable result of removing guilt from Muslims' shoulders.
The NPR reporter, Ursula Lindsey, said that "here in the U.S., most people have little doubt about what happened during the 2001 attacks."
NPR's assumption that the official 9/11 story is the final word is uninformed. Polls show that 36 percent of Americans and more than 50 percent of New Yorkers lack confidence in the 9/11 commission report. Many 9/11 families who lost relatives in the attacks are unsatisfied with the official story. Why are the U.S. media untroubled that there has been no independent investigation of 9/11?
Why are the media unconcerned that the rules governing preservation of forensic evidence were not followed by federal authorities?
Why do the media brand skeptics of the official line "conspiracy theorists" and "kooks"?
What is wrong with debate and listening to both… Continue reading
December 27, 2007
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New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten is releasing a novel January
22nd which addresses the 9/11 stand down, the injection of false radar blips
into air traffic controllers' screens, PNAC, the 9/11 Commission whitewash,
the Anthrax attacks, and related issues.
Written in the exciting, cloak-and-dagger style of Tom Clancy, the novel —
The Shell Game — has a shot at educating a large segment of the American public
who would otherwise remain in the dark about some aspects of 9/11.
Alten is well-aware of media censorship of 9/11 truth (for example, he agrees
with this analysis, he also sent me an advance copy of the book), and is trying
to break through the media blockade using his resume as bestselling author to
spread his message.
I just finished reading The Shell Game, and caught up with Alten by email.
GW: I really like The Shell Game, Steve. It had me on the edge of my seat,
and I stayed up later than I should have a couple of nights to finish it.
SA: My books tend to be … page-turners. The Shell Game does that and adds
another twist … it's all real, or it predicts what may really happen unless
we stop the insanity. To stop it you must first be aware of it.
GW: If enough people read The Shell Game, it could bypass media censorship
regarding 9/11 and reach people… Continue reading
BRUSSELS, European Parliament, 26th February 2008.
Mark Dermul (www.911belgium) reporting.
On Tuesday 26th February, Europarliamentarian Guilietto Chiesa invited his colleagues and the press to attend the screening and debate of the Italian-produced documentary named 'ZERO, an investigation into the events of 9/11′. Object of the screening was to create political awareness of the faulty official investigation into the events by the 9/11 Commission.
Besides Mr Chiesa, the panel consisted of Japanese parliamentarian Fujita, Dr David Ray Griffin, film distributor Tim Sparke & the director and producers of the film.
After his opening statements, Mr Chiesa welcomed his guest speakers. Then he pointed out that he was unable to find any distributor in his native country of Italy and was happy to find a company in the UK, led by Mr Tim Sparke, to handle worldwide distribution of this important film. 'It is important to realize,' he emphasized 'that the movie was made thanks to contribution and donations of hundreds of citizens who feel a new investigation is more than warranted.' No less than 450 people worked on this documentary on a voluntary basis. They never received any kind of payment. Their reward is the movie itself, which they feel is an instrument to create awareness and a means to provoke a political debate in Europe.
Since the movie projector didn't work, Mr Chiesa invited the public to ask questions until the technical problems were solved and we could start watching the movie.
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Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game", delivers 9/11 Truth to Jim
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9/11 Truth (& False Flag Terror) FINALLY on CBS NATIONAL Radio
– Jim Bohannan Show !!
by William Douglas
March 6, 2008
(See Bill's suggested action item at end of this article, to get involved.)
STUNNING National CBS Radio Interview!
Bohannan is a right wing pro-military radio voice, who's audience has probably
NEVER been exposed to 9/11 truth issues. "The Shell Game" author,
Steve Alten, came on after an Oil Executive's interview, at about 39:50 in the
1.5 hour show. At about 54:56 it gets REALLY interesting when a caller calls
in to discuss 9/11 as a false flag attack. Which unleashes Alten into a deep
discussion of 9/11 truth issues.
All hell brakes loose in the next few minutes, as Alten enters the realms
of 9/11 truth, explaining to the stunned Bohanan and and his virgin (9/11 truth
issue) audience that there is a mass 9/11 truth movement in America that involves
engineers, police, private investigators, and many other experts challenging
the official 9/11 story.
Alten gives Bohannan some rope at the beginning, before he yanks it to give
Bohannan's virgin audience some powerful new issues to chew on. Alten takes
on the BIG OIL guest (and big energy's lies) that preceded him on the show,
as well as the rational for war in Iraq, BUT spends most of his time TAKING
ON THE 9/11 COVER UP, War… Continue reading
By Gary Wilson
Published Mar 19, 2008
Has Tibet become the front line of a new national liberation struggle? Or is
something else happening there?
The U.S. news media are filled with stories about events unfolding in Tibet.
Each news report, however, seems to include a note that much of what they are
reporting cannot be confirmed. The sources of the reports are shadowy and unknown.
If past practice is any indicator, it is likely that the U.S. State Department
and the CIA are their primary sources.
One frequently quoted source is John Ackerly. Who is Ackerly? As president
of the International Campaign for Tibet, he and his group appear to work closely
with the U.S. government, both the State Department and Congress, as part of
its operations concerning Tibet. During the Cold War, Ackerly's Washington-based
job was to work with "dissidents" in Eastern Europe, particularly
Romania in 1978-80.
A private international security agency in Washington, Harbor Lane Associates,
lists Ackerly and the International Campaign for Tibet as its clients, along
with former CIA Director and U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former Pentagon
chief William Cohen.
AP, Reuters and the other Western news agencies all quote Ackerly as a major
source for exaggerated reports about the clashes that have just occurred in
Tibet. For example, MSNBC on March 15 reported:
"John Ackerly, of the International Campaign for Tibet, a group that
supports demands for Tibetan autonomy, said in an e-mailed statement he feared
'hundreds of Tibetans have been arrested… Continue reading
When: Wednesday May 28th, 7:30 pm
Where: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Avenue @ 10th Street
(New York, May 22, 2008) – The New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign,
a non-profit, citizens based organization, whose goal is the creation of an independent
commission to lead a new investigation into the tragedy of 9/11, will be holding
a rally on Wednesday, May 28th at 7:30 PM at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery.
The campaign hopes to put the issue of a new investigation of 9/11 on the November
2008 NYC ballot as a public referendum. Come and learn about this historic effort!
Visit www.nyc911initiative.org for full campaign details.
Featured speakers include:
Wayne Madsen, investigative reporter, retired NSA analyst
John Feal, 9/11 first responder, Director of the Feal Good Foundation
William Rodriguez, 9/11 hero and last survivor of WTC1
Sander Hicks, 9/11 author/researcher, founder of Voxpop.net
Jesse Richard, founder of TVNewsLies.org
Karen Johnson, state senator from Arizona (by phone)
The event will be moderated by the Reverend Frank Morales.
The rally will be an opportunity for the press and public to learn about the 9/11
Ballot Initiative Campaign and to fill out petitions. Upon reaching 30,000 valid
signatures which are lawfully required to put the Initiative on the ballot, NYC
voters will be enabled to create a fact-driven investigation of 9/11, which will
be distinct from the former Kean-Hamilton Commission because this will go beyond
political agendas by exploring all possible scenarios, following the evidence
wherever it may lead. We have… Continue reading
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Thursday July 10, 2008
During a town hall event in Portsmouth, OH on Wednesday, John McCain was asked by a member of the audience whether his links to the parent organization of the Project for a New American Century explain why he has been reluctant to support calls for a new investigation of 9/11.
The questioner began, "I was curious about a document. Back in September of 2000, the Project for a New American Century, or PNAC, whose members included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, wrote a document entitled 'Rebuilding Americans Defenses.'"
As McCain turned and paced away from him, the questioner continued, "In it, they state, quote, "The process of transformation, even if it bring revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor."
"Now, many Americans believe that that 'new Pearl Harbor' event took place on 9/11," the questioner went on, as McCain grimaced slightly. "And according to a recent New York Times and CBS News poll, 84% of Americans believe that there were some criminal elements of our government involved in 9/11."
Calls of disapproval began to arise from the audience, but the questioner shot back, "Hold on!" and continued asking McCain, "Can you tell us about your role as — hold on — as president of the 'New Citizen Project,' founded in 1994, which served as a chief fund-raising and parent organization to PNAC? And is… Continue reading
By Bernard Weiner
Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
Each year around the anniversary of 9/11, I summarize what we ordinary citizens have learned since that awful day in 2001. This is the seventh annual look backwards, a 2008 update that contains new information and surmisings about those horrific events and what followed.
1. One 9/11 Size Fits All. What we now more fully understand is how the CheneyBush Administration utilized the murderous terrorism of 9/11 as the linchpin justification for their unfolding domestic and foreign agenda, much of it illegal, immoral and impeachable.
By and large, one can sum up that overall agenda as: Amass and control power in the U.S. and much of the world ("full-spectrum dominance"), and, in cahoots with their corporate supporters such as Halliburton and Blackwater, loot the federal treasury. All this was to be carried out secretly, with no accountability.
2. Iraq War Planning Began Before 9/11. We also know more about the nature of the lies (including forged documents) used by the Administration to sell the Iraq War, which attack already was in the planning stages well before 9/11.
The first faked document, by CIA forgers at the behest of White House officials, was a 2005 letter (back-dated 2001) supposedly coming from the then-Iraqi intelligence chief to his boss Saddam Hussein mentioning alleged "facts" that established a tie-in between 9/11, Al-Qaida and Iraq and about Saddam's supposed purchase of uranium. The official, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who had been an informant for the U.S. during… Continue reading
by Cindy Sheehan
September 10, 2008
The 7th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching and it seems like
a good time to reflect on what our nation has lost since that tragic day and
what we can do to go forward.
I do not think that anyone alive on that day will forget the shock that struck
our nation when the symbols of US capitalism and militarism were struck out
of the clear blue sky. I was in panic mode for a few days, because I did not
hear from Casey who was stationed at Ft. Hood on that day and his base went
into lock-down and he was too busy to call. Even though we mourn with our fellow
Americans, the loss of over 3000 innocent people and the pain their families
have had to deal with, the attacks of 9-11 have touched every American.
There are several ways to look at 9-11:
— 9-11 was planned and executed by the US government.
— BushCo did not plan 9-11, but they knew it was going to happen and
did nothing to prevent it and, in fact, may have allowed it to happen.
— 9-11 was planned and executed by a group of 17 terrorists (14 of them
from Saudi Arabia) without the foreknowledge of the US government and we were
attacked because the terrorists "hated our freedoms and democracy."
Whichever of the theories is true, one thing is for sure: the Bush regime's
response to 9-11 was woefully… Continue reading
By Tod Fletcher
September 11, 2008
In THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED , David Ray Griffin provides a brilliant and much-needed companion to his path-breaking and movement-building book on 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor (NPH; 2004). Now, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of those horrific events, Griffin surveys in detail all the main lines of evidence against the official account of 9/11 to have emerged during the last four years. THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED (NPHR) has been designed as volume 2 of a two-volume set with NPH as volume 1; together they provide a thorough and up-to-date case against the official conspiracy theory (they can be bought separately, of course).
Griffin has already published four other books that provide in-depth analysis of most of the evidence to have emerged since 2004. NPHR's main purpose is to provide an easily accessible survey of all of the new evidence, so that it is now possible for a beginner to the subject (including journalists and members of Congress) to master its enormous complexity simply by reading two books. NPHR is structured identically to NPH; each chapter in NPHR comments and builds on the corresponding chapter in NPH. Much of the content is entirely new; there are many facts and analyses in NPHR which Griffin presents for the first time, and which literally make the book an up-to-the-minute statement of the case.
In the Preface, Griffin explains why he undertook to "update" The New Pearl Harbor . In the Introduction he… Continue reading
by Carol Brouillet
Apocalypse (Greek: Apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil") is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to refer to the end of the world, which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton, which literally means "revelation at the end of the æon, or age.1
Carol Brouillet, longtime 9/11 truth and community currency activist, is also candidate for US Representative from California's 14th District. Following is her interpretation of our current financial meltdown, "Evolution of the Apocalypse: Empire's Demise, Human Renaissance," as well as her campaign statement and pertinent information. Video of her candidate statement is below.
Carol Brouillet is a longtime activist who organized three conferences on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy and (the first) marches on her Senators and Congresswoman in January 2002 to Demand a Congressional Investigation of 9-11. She publishes the Deception Dollars, and Co-Founded the 9-11 Truth Alliance, and the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance . She organized premieres of films, educational events, marches, rallies for 9-11 Truth, the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11, and produced the film Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush. She is also a mother of three boys and held a weekly Listening Project in downtown Palo Alto from October 2001 to October 2007, now she holds it once a month on the 11th, in solidarity with other… Continue reading
© Diana Ralph, Ph.D.Abstract
The 9-11 attacks were the pretext which sold the myth of evil Muslim terrorists imminently threatening Americans. That tale allowed the Cheney-led members of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) to implement their 1990 DPG plan for world control. The "war on terror" has nothing to do with protecting the U.S. and world's people from "terrorists", and everything to do with securing the American empire abroad and muzzling democracy and human rights at home. Designed to inspire popular support for U.S. wars of world conquest, it is modeled on Islamophobic stereotypes, policies, and political structures developed by the Israeli Likkud and Bush Sr. since 1979. To defeat this plan, we must overcome our Islamophobic fear of "terrorists" and stand in solidarity with Muslims.
1. Why a 9-11 Pretext?
…the War… Continue reading
By Jeremy Scahill
November 20, 2008
Click here to view this guide as a single page.
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. But the best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good.
Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton's White House. Although Obama brought some progressives on board early in his campaign, his foreign policy team is now dominated by the hawkish, old-guard Democrats of the 1990s. This has been particularly true since Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in the Democratic primary, freeing many of her top advisors to join Obama's team.
"What happened to all this talk about change?" a member of the Clinton foreign policy team recently asked the Washington Post. "This isn't lightly flavored with Clintons. This is all Clintons, all the time."
Amid the… Continue reading
Debunking the '9/11 Debunkers' With Stewart Bradley
by John-Michael Talboo
Debunking the Debunkers
John-Michael Talboo (JMT)-Q:
So Stewart, let's jump right into our shared passion of debunking the so-called 9/11 debunkers shall we? You have put together some great videos on the subject including, 9/11 Debunking for Dummies,
…Continue reading
December 8, 2008
by Carol Brouillet
December 8, 2008 – Pearl Harbor Day
Sixty-seven years ago, on Sunday, December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing over two thousand people and wounding over a thousand. The attack enabled FDR to enter World War II, and prompted huge numbers of Americans to volunteer for military service. In the book
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (2000), Robert Stinnett unveiled a memo outlining an 8 point plan to provoke Japan into attacking the US.
Admiral Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was removed from office and demoted, taking the blame for the losses at Pearl Harbor soon after the attacks. Researchers over the course of many years believe that critical information was withheld from Kimmel and that he was unjustly punished. One of those researchers was his grandson, Manning Kimmel IV, who persuaded the U.S. Senate in 1999 to pass a nonbinding resolution exonerating Admiral Kimmel and Army Lieutenant General Short.
In addition to shifting public opinion and gaining popular support for the US entry into World War II, Pearl Harbor was the justification for the passage of the National Security Act of 1947; the creation of the National Security Council, the CIA, and the Department of the Air Force; and the reorganization of the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the Defense Department. Manning Kimmel IV, who worked for the FBI and the CIA, noted that emblazoned on the CIA's walls is the reminder that the CIA was created "To Prevent Another Pearl Harbor."
Philip Zelikow, author of the US "Pre-Emptive War Doctrine," has studied and written about the use, and misuse, of history in policymaking, including "beliefs thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty)"…"Searing events that take on 'transcendent' importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene." In 1998 he co-authored the article Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy, which speculated that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded,
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Give a warm welcome back to Buck and Wanda Moosejaw, because Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan's (Emily Deschanel) redneck alter egos are about to make a big comeback on Bones.
B&B originally assumed Buck and Wanda's identities in order to infiltrate a circus back in Season 4, at which point they had amazing fake trailer sex. Sigh, memories! As you might expect, we're thrilled that Buck and Wanda are making their triumphant return during Season 8, Episode 8: "The Diamond in the Rough," where they'll compete in a dancing competition.
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UTSA formula racing team tests driving skills at local autocross event
(Nov. 2, 2011) -- UTSA's Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) formula team, Roadrunner Racing, had their first chance to showcase their driving abilities at the San Antonio Sports Car Association autocross event. The event was an opportunity for the engineering student team to refine their techniques in preparation for the international SAE competition next June. In the team's first year of participation, driver trainer and UTSA engineering student Jaypaul Smith placed 28th with a time of 46.950 seconds.
Smith led the team of UTSA engineering students at Blossom Athletic Center, where he helped the drivers and members prepare for their first autocross session this season. The autocross event consisted of two heats, a morning session and afternoon session. In each heat, drivers were given six laps to achieve the fastest time. It was the first opportunity for new members to experience the conditions of competition and the team drivers to shake off the rust as they navigated through obstacles such as slaloms and sharp turns.
As UTSA's fastest team, Roadrunner Racing showed San Antonio that it has some of the fastest drivers in the city. Team driver Robert Alaniz saw constant improvement each lap achieving a best 51.473 seconds in his 1994 Ford Mustang GT. Team driver Daniel Pinto had the next best time at 50.235 seconds. But, driver trainer Smith showed why he is a former karting champion and had a top-five finish at the International Kart Federation Road Race Grand Nationals finishing with the third best time of the day at 46.950 seconds in a 2004 Chevrolet Z06; he was bested by a tandem driving team (two drivers driving the same car) by three seconds in a Porsche Boxster.
Before racing, Smith and team drivers Pinto and Alaniz walked the course to become familiar with its twist and turns and to mentally prepare a plan of action for race time. But, walking an autocross course is different than driving it.
"Courses can seem easy to read while you walk the course before a race, but once you're strapped into a car doing 40-plus miles per hour, things can become difficult to read," said Alaniz. "So, with us racing our cars, we get better at reading courses, and this allows us to stay on track and produce our fastest times."
Each member had a chance to race his or her car and push it to its limits. While typical street legal cars are much larger and heavier than the smaller, lighter and nimbler FSAE car, the drivers learn the importance of drive-time experience and how to balance gas and brakes, steering control and cornering, and reading race lines.
"These skills are important to master, because other teams, especially from overseas, have members who race professionally, so Roadrunner Racing has some stiff competition," said Alaniz.
The UTSA team spent approximately nine hours together as they raced and helped out at the event. Pinto said he connected with San Antonio's racing community, built camaraderie with newer members and enhanced relationships with older members.
>> To learn more about the UTSA Roadrunner Racing team, visit the Roadrunner SAE website, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 210-363-0945.


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I try to refold recomb Hiv1p24 protein from E-coli (his tagged) The native protein is membrane protein of inner core of HIV Analysing literature concerning protein refolding I find two main strategies/ First one - is step dialys against refolding buffer and other one diluting unfolded protein in refolding buffer. The third way concerning on column refolding I've tried but it was not sucessfull. What kind of two previous technics is more efficient from the term of refolding mechanism.
The other question is about composotion of refolding buffer. My protein hydrohobic protein with one internal disulfide bridge and one C-terminal cystein.
As I know L Arginine is important to prevent aggregation. Is it important to add cosolvents 1,5M urea or 1M Gua-Hcl?
What kind of ox\redox system is may be efficient GSH-GssG or TCEP or DTT or BME?
What role play glycerine, MgCl2, EDTA , CaCl2 ( targeted protein is not dependent on metal ions)?
What play and extent of importance of PEG, ionic strength(concentration of NaCl) and buffer system for refolding Tris or NaP
Is it very important to make pH of refolding buffer far from pI and in what side?
What about Chaps addition into RB?
What about temperature of Refolding ( in literature I've seen from 4, 15 to 25 C. )
I know about kits for refolding - Novagen (iFold) and Pierce. There are different kit of reagents. For example Novagen suggest N lauryl sarcosine for solubilization of inclusion bodies and Pirce recommend to solubilize IB in 6M Gua-Hcl / Is it difference important and to what extent?
Thank you in advance!
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did you have any luck in refolding and how?
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Wow - you've done quite a bit of work in screening different refolding conditions. Keep in mind that there's also a second step that can get in your way: the properly refolded protein may aggregate as you store or concentrate it. Therefore you may want to carefully optimize it's solubility behavior. Finding the 'solubility sweet spot' can be done with protein solubility screening kits such as the OptiSol protein solubility screening kit from Dilyx.
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Our company ensures quality in every custom order because no request is impossible; we utilize innovative methods and materials without compromising the tradition of durability and excellence. This commitment has led to major metropolitan deals with such companies as Hudson Newsstands!
Since we focus on custom fabrication, we entrust our customers with design and concept creation. If you can design it, we can accommodate your needs. We offer several types of services: Stamping Parts Metal and Plastic
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Peter�s Plastics personally speaks to every customer. The effort we make to talk with our customers encourages quick turn around and on-the-spot service.
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