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Was David Williams IV a terrorist? Or was he just out to make an easy score by scamming the government's informant?
By Graham RaymanMarch 2 2011 VillageVoice.com
On March 24, David Williams IV and three other Newburgh, New York, men face possible life prison sentences for plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military airplanes at Stewart Airport.
The Newburgh 4–ringleader James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen–were found guilty in a six-week trial based largely on the work of an FBI informant, Shahed Hussain, who posed as a wealthy Pakistani businessman with ties to an overseas terror group as part of an elaborate government sting operation.
The trial showed that Cromitie had made anti-Semitic and anti-American statements, that he concocted attack plans with Hussain, that the four defendants met to view an anti-aircraft missile, and that they planted what they had been told were bombs at two Riverdale synagogues on May 20, 2009.
The evidence, which included secretly taped conversations, painted a picture of four men who wanted to strike a blow for radical Islam. After the verdict, one juror told reporters, "We considered what they did a serious crime."
Defense lawyers tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury that the government had actually entrapped the four, but none of the defendants testified on their own or gave interviews.
Photographs by J.B. Nicholas, Christopher Sadowski Splash news/News.com From left: James Cromitie, David Williams, Laguerre Payen, and Onta Williams.… Continue reading
In a recent interview with Iran's Press TV, leading American intellectual and political dissident Noam Chomsky stated that the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks are "criminal" and noted that no evidence was provided that al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks.
Chomsky told Press TV: "The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban… they requested evidence… and the Bush administration refused to provide any. We later discovered one of the reasons why they did not bring evidence: they did not have any."
In the years since 9/11, Chomsky has often been at odds with activists seeking accountability for the attacks, which have been used as justification for an ongoing global "war on terror" and continuing infringement of civil liberties. Chomsky has at times derided the cause and accused 9/11 activists of distracting from more important issues. In 2008, Chomsky added his name to a petition started by 9/11 family members calling for the release of classified documents relating to the 9/11 attacks.
Watch a clip of the Press TV interview with Noam Chomsky, courtesy of oumma.com:
by Missy Comley Beattie
September 10, 2010
Our experiences and what we do with them shape and determine our trajectory.
Often, they change us gradually; sometimes, they are immediately life altering.
So much so that months, even years later, a thought, a song, even an aroma can
transport us, abruptly, into the past. Some events are wonderful. Others are
The phone call from my sister, telling me that Chase was killed in Iraq, is
among the brutal.
My nephew, Chase Comley, died a little over five years ago. He enlisted in
the military because he believed our freedoms were in jeopardy, a message George
Bush gaveled into the American psyche after 19 hijackers used planes as weapons
to attack US symbols of power on 9/11.
This week, we mark the ninth anniversary of that turning point, the day that
invokes images of death and destruction, and the date that heralded our post-9/11
world with its increased militarism/imperialism resulting in more death and
destruction, mainstream media failure, the Patriot Act, a surveillance state,
torture, indefinite detention, military tribunals, corporatism, economic collapse,
and Islamophobia.
I have just watched 9/11 Press for Truth at the urging of Jon Gold, a friend
and fellow member of Peace of the Action. Gold has worked diligently to bring
justice for 9/11 families.
Less than two minutes into the film, George Bush says: "Today our fellow
citizens, our way of life, our very freedom, came under attack."
Members of the Bush Administration tell us there… Continue reading
Sydney's Sept 11 Protest Calls for End of Afghan War!
August 24, 2010
By John Bursill
John Bursill's Blog at visibility911.com/
So why should we believe that "9/11 Truth" can stop the war in Afghanistan and bring the "War on Terrorism" to an end?
I will lay out below the non-conspiratorial reasons why it is vitally important that we continue to demand accountability from our governments, on why it is they went to war on our behalf in 2001. I will also argue why I am correct to strongly assert that the pursuit of 9/11 truth and a criminal investigation of those events is the only practical path to peace today. Details of an upcoming Sydney "9/11 Truth for Peace" Protest on September 11th, 2010 are at the bottom of this article.
On the 11th of September 2001 the world entered a very dark chapter of its history! We were promised a 100 years of war in this "New American Century" fighting "the terrorists" wherever the American Empire deemed they were, and at the time of their choosing. We were told that this "New Pear Harbor" event carried out on 9/11 by the CIA born Al-Qaeda was a fair and reasonable reason to carry out a preemptive strike against their supporters the Taliban, by the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
The vast majority of the world's population and its governments rallied behind the US determined to fight Islamic terrorism together world wide. Although some more skeptical… Continue reading
David Ray Griffin
There are many questions to ask about the war in Afghanistan. One that has been widely asked is whether it will turn out to be "Obama's Vietnam."1 This question implies another: Is this war winnable, or is it destined to be a quagmire, like Vietnam? These questions are motivated in part by the widespread agreement that the Afghan government, under Hamid Karzai, is at least as corrupt and incompetent as the government the United States tried to prop up in South Vietnam for 20 years.
Although there are many similarities between these two wars, there is also a big difference: This time, there is no draft. If there were a draft, so that college students and their friends back home were being sent to Afghanistan, there would be huge demonstrations against this war on campuses all across this country. If the sons and daughters of wealthy and middle-class parents were coming home in boxes, or with permanent injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome, this war would have surely been stopped long ago. People have often asked: Did we learn any of the "lessons of Vietnam"? The US government learned one: If you're going to fight unpopular wars, don't have a draft — hire mercenaries!
There are many other questions that have been, and should be, asked about this war, but in this essay, I focus on only one: Did the 9/11 attacks justify the war in Afghanistan?… Continue reading
June 10, 2010
By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has forcefully put Yemeni citizen Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini on the path to freedom after eight years of incarceration at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In a 36-page opinion formally released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. called Odaini's continued detention "unlawful" and said he'd "emphatically" grant Odaini's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
The ruling issued secretly last month but published Thursday sets the 26-year-old Odaini up for potential release, though when and where he'll go remains unclear. The ruling also represents the latest defeat for U.S. officials in their efforts to keep Guantánamo detainees behind bars.
"(U.S.) officials kept a young man from Yemen in detention in Cuba from age eighteen to age twenty-six," Kennedy wrote. "They have prevented him from seeing his family and denied him the opportunity to complete his studies and embark on a career."
Pointedly, Kennedy added that "the evidence before the court shows that holding Odaini in custody at such great cost to him has done nothing to make the United States more secure."
Kennedy's ruling brings to 36 the number of Guantánamo Bay detainees who have successfully challenged their detentions through U.S. court proceedings. Over the Bush administration's objections, a divided Supreme Court two years granted the Guantánamo detainees the right to file habeas corpus challenges.
In a decision striking both for its extensive redactions and its occasionally passionate language, Kennedy noted that Odaini's story has remained consistent… Continue reading
by Prof David Ray Griffin
Originally Published at Globalresearch.ca
In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? 1 Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001. (Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers, 2 and it even provided the basis for a BBC special. 3 ) Pointing out that the only evidence to the contrary consists of "messages from bin Laden" in the form of audiotapes and videotapes that have appeared since 2001, I devoted one chapter to an examination of the most important of these tapes, showing that none are demonstrably authentic and that some are almost certainly fakes.
In the chapter preceding that examination, I discussed two videotapes containing purported interviews of Osama bin Laden in the fall of 2001, when the issue was whether he had been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. I suggested that both of these tapes, in which bin Laden allegedly admitted his responsibility, were fakes. If they were, I pointed out, this fact would increase the likelihood that all of the "Osama bin Laden tapes" appearing in the following years – when the question of whether he was still alive was added to that of his responsibility for 9/11 – were also fakes.
The clearest example, I argued, was the most famous of the so-called bin Laden confession videos. Having allegedly been found in a private home in Jalalabad,… Continue reading
by Jason Leopold
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda.
Additionally, Justice has backed away from claims intelligence officials working in the Clinton administration had also leveled against Zubaydah, specifically, that he was directly involved in the planning of the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.
Zubaydah's name is redacted throughout the 109-page court document, but he is identified on the first page of the filing by his real name, Zayn Al Abidin Muhammad Husayn. He was the first detainee captured after 9/11 who was subjected to nearly a dozen brutal torture techniques, which included waterboarding, and was the catalyst, the public has been told, behind the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" program. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has publicly admitted that personally approved of Zubaydah's waterboarding.
His torture was videotaped and the tapes later destroyed. The destruction of 90 videotapes of his interrogations is the focus of a high-level criminal investigation being conducted by John Durham, a federal prosecutor appointed special counsel in 2008 by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In recent months, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign promoting his book, "Courting Disaster," in which he defended the torture of Zubaydah, claiming, among other things, that he reviewed classified intelligence that revealed Zubaydah's torture produced actionable intelligence… Continue reading
by John Pilger
The New Statesman
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'."
Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions, failed states, diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude. To the people of Afghanistan, which the US has invaded and occupied, he said wittily: "We have no interest in occupying your country."
In Oceania, truth and lies are indivisible. According to Obama, the American attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was authorised by the United Nations Security Council. There was no UN authority. He said that "the world" supported the invasion in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks. In truth, all but three of 37 countries surveyed by Gallup expressed overwhelming opposition. He said that America invaded Afghanistan "only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama Bin Laden". In 2001, the Taliban tried three times to hand over Bin Laden for trial, Pakistan's military regime reported, and they were ignored.
"Hearts and minds"
Even Obama's mystification of the 9/11… Continue reading
January 6, 2010
by Ray McGovern & Coleen Rowley
Yesterday, a blogger with the PBS' NewsHour asked former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to respond to three questions regarding recent events involving the CIA, FBI, and the intelligence community in general.
Two other old intelligence hands were asked the identical questions, queries that are typical of what radio/TV and blogger interviewers usually think to be the right ones. So there is merit in trying to answer them directly, such as they are, and then broadening the response to address some of the core problems confronting U.S. counter-terror strategies.
After drafting his answers, McGovern asked former FBI attorney/special agent Coleen Rowley, a colleague in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to review his responses and add her own comments at the end. The Q & A is below:
Question #1 – What lapses in the American counter terrorism apparatus made the Christmas Day bombing plot possible? Is it inevitable that certain plots will succeed?
The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more helpful answer would address the question as to how we might best minimize their prospects for success. And to do this, sorry to say, there is no getting around the necessity to address the root causes of terrorism or, in the vernacular, "why they hate us."
If we don't go beyond self-exculpatory sloganeering in attempting to answer that key question, any
"counter terrorism apparatus" is doomed to failure.… Continue reading
The Hyperrealilty of a Failing Corporate Media System
By Andrew Hobbs and Peter Phillips
Hyperreality is the inability to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Corporate media, Fox in particular, offers news that creates a hyperreality of real world problems and issues. Consumers of corporate television news–especially those whose understandings are framed primarily from that medium alone–are embedded in a state of excited delirium and knowinglessness.
Corporate Media hasn't acted as a cohesive, protective "fourth estate" in several decades, instead gilding lilies such as the Iraq war, torture and the true extent of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Contemporary corporate news is best seen in a post-modern context of hyperreality. The news from US networks is based on the presentations of partially factual stories framed inside socio-emotional story lines that juxtapose "evil" with patriotism and Christian fervor. There are multiple examples of this, but we will examine two distinct cases.
The bias towards hyperreality inherent in modern media is so rampant, consumers only need turn on the TV to be exposed to the spin. Two notorious, controversial modern figures will be examined here to explain what we mean by a hyperreality of knowinglessness. News coverage of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh are unique examples, primarily because of their perceived opposing views and their unapparent similarities. But they are similar in that both should have little operable relevance to American policy, at least domestically, as one is an entertainer and the other is the leader of another country.…Continue reading
Times of India
LOS ANGELES: The CIA has paid millions of dollars to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since 9/11, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget, says a media report.
The ISI also collected "tens of millions of dollars through a classified CIA programme", which pays for the capture or killing of wanted militants, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday citing current and former US officials.
An intense debate has been triggered within the US government due to "long-standing suspicions that the ISI continues to help Taliban extremists who undermine US efforts in Afghanistan and provide sanctuary to al-Qaida members in Pakistan".
But US officials have continued to make the payments as ISI's assistance is considered critical: "Almost every major terrorist plot this decade has originated in Pakistan's tribal belt, where ISI informant networks are a primary source of intelligence."
The report went on to say that the payments to Pakistan are authorised under a covert programme initially approved by then president Bush and continued under President Obama.
The LA Times article mentioned is available here: CIA says it gets its money's worth from Pakistani spy agency: It has given hundreds of millions to the ISI, for operations as well as rewards for the capture or death of terrorist suspects. Despite fears of corruption, it is money well-spent, ex-officials say.
And for more reading on the ISI connection to 9/11 (and utter failure by the 9/11… Continue reading
by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
New Internationalist.org
Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports.
Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of the Cold War, bin Laden turned against the West and we no longer had any use for him. His persistent terrorist attacks against us for more than a decade, culminating in 9/11, provoked our own response, in the form of the 'War on Terror'. This is the official narrative. And it's false. Not only did Western intelligence services continue to foster Islamist extremist and terrorist groups connected to al-Qaeda after the Cold War; they continued to do so even after 9/11.
The CIA's jihad
The story begins in the summer of 1979, six months before the Soviet invasion, when the CIA had already begun financing elements of an emerging Islamist mujahidin force inside Afghanistan. The idea, according to former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former CIA Director Robert Gates, was to increase the probability of a Soviet invasion, and entrap 'the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire'.1
Osama bin Laden arrived in the country later that year, sent by then-Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal, where he set up the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) which helped finance, recruit and train mujahidin fighters.2 Bin Laden, the MAK, and the Afghan mujahidin in total received… Continue reading
by Prof. Peter Dale Scott
October 21, 2009
The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIA's defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by its public engagements with Lee Harvey Oswald, just a few weeks before Oswald allegedly killed Kennedy. For over six years a former Washington Post reporter, Jefferson Morley, has been suing the CIA for the release of these documents.1
Sometimes the way that a news item is reported can be more newsworthy than the item itself. A notorious example was the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers (documents far too detailed for most people to read) on the front page of the New York Times.
The October 17 Times story was another such example. It revealed, perhaps for the first time in any major U.S. newspaper, that the CIA has been deceiving the public about its own relationship to the JFK assassination.
On the Kennedy assassination, the deceptions began in 1964 with the Warren Commission. The C.I.A. hid its schemes to kill Fidel Castro and its ties to the anti-Castro Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil, or Cuban Student Directorate, which received $50,000 a month in C.I.A. support during 1963.
In August 1963, Oswald visited a New Orleans shop owned by a directorate official, feigning sympathy with… Continue reading
The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening
Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland
By JOHN V. WALSH August 26, 2009 Counterpunch.com
A funny thing has happened on Cindy Sheehan's long road from Crawford, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard. Many of those who claim to lead the peace movement and who so volubly praised her actions in Crawford, TX, are not to be seen. Nor heard. The silence in fact is deafening, or as Cindy put it in an email to this writer, "crashingly deafening." Where are the email appeals to join Cindy from The Nation or from AFSC or Peace Action or "Progressive" Democrats of America (PDA) or even Code Pink? Or United for Peace and Justice. (No wonder UFPJ is essentially closing shop, bereft of most of their contributions and shriveling up following the thinly veiled protest behind the "retirement" of Leslie Cagan.) And what about MoveOn although it was long ago thoroughly discredited as principled opponents of war or principled in any way shape or form except slavish loyalty to the "other" War Party. And of course sundry "socialist" organizations are also missing in action since their particular dogma will not be front and center. These worthies and many others have vanished into the fog of Obama's wars.
Just to be sure, this writer contacted several of the "leaders" of the "official" peace movement in the Boston area — AFSC, Peace Action, Green Party of MA (aka Green Rainbow Party) and some others. Not so much as the courtesy of a reply resulted from this effort – although the GRP at least posted a notice of the action.…Continue reading
August 12, 2009
by Jeremy R. Hammond
Shahid R. Siddiqi contributed to this report
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the U.S., Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilize Pakistan, and charges the U.S. and its allies with responsibility for the lucrative Afghan drug trade.
Retired Lieutenant General Hamid Gul was the Director General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1987 to 1989, during which time he worked closely with the CIA to provide support for the mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Though once deemed a close ally of the United States, in more recent years his name has been the subject of considerable controversy. He has been outspoken with the claim that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were an "inside job". He has been called "the most dangerous man in Pakistan", and the U.S. government has accused him of supporting the Taliban, even recommending him to the United Nations Security Council for inclusion on the list of international terrorists.
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, I asked the… Continue reading
July 31, 2009
Before you hear what she has to say, you should know a little about Sibel Edmonds' background.
Edmonds is a former FBI translator, who the Department of Justice's Inspector General and several senators have called extremely credible (free subscription required).
Some of Edmonds allegations' have been confirmed in the British press.
Now, Edmonds is saying that Osama Bin Laden worked for the U.S. right up until 9/11, and that that fact is being covered up because the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years.
Is there are confirmation of Edmonds' claim?
According to one of the most reputable French papers, CIA agents met with Bin Laden two months before 9/11, when he was already supposedly wanted for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.
Two days before 9/11, Bin Laden called his stepmother and told her "In two days, you're going to hear big news and you're not going to hear from me for a while." US officials later told CNN that "in recent years they've been able to monitor some of bin Laden's telephone communications with his [step]mother. Bin Laden at the time was using a satellite telephone, and the signals were intercepted and sometimes recorded." Indeed, before 9/11, to impress important visitors, NSA analysts would occasionally play audio tapes of bin Laden talking to his stepmother.
So American forces had many opportunities to capture Bin Laden, and yet failed to do so.
Indeed, even after… Continue reading
By Luke Ryland
July 31, 2009
Against All Enemies blog
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.
Control of Central Asia
The goals of the American 'statesmen' directing these activities included control of Central Asia's vast energy supplies and new markets for military products.
The Americans had a problem, though. They needed to keep their fingerprints off these operations to avoid a) popular revolt in Central Asia ( Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), and b) serious repercussions from China and Russia. They found an ingenious solution: Use their puppet-state Turkey as a proxy, and appeal to both pan-Turkic and pan-Islam sensibilities.
Turkey, a NATO ally, has a lot more credibility in the region than… Continue reading


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Time for another round up of new Field Notes retailers and the list has gotten pretty big so I will break this up into two posts. Thanks to good folks at St. Johns College Bookstore, we now have our first retailer in New Mexico in lovely Santa Fe. Jumping over to Corpus Christi TX and saying hi to the cool kids at Produce. Over on the East coast, welcome to The Paper Tyger in Falmouth, MA and the Cape Cod Pantry in Provincetown MA which opens Memorial Day weekend for the summer. Next we head overseas to the UK and Folk with two locations in London and Found in Bath. We have our first retailer in Sweden with Krig & Fred in Stockholm and another white dot in Denmark with Cold Rice Social Club in Copenhagen. We've added a retailer in Munchen, Germany with UmWerk and our solo retailer in Singapore at Strangelets and last but not least, Bay of Fire Wines in Tasmania, Australia. A very big welcome to all and thanks for carrying Field Notes!
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Lots More White Dots! (Round One)
April 27th, 2010 by Michele Seiler
Lots More White Dots! (Round Two)
April 27th, 2010 by Michele Seiler
Whew! So many new stores we had to make a second post to fit them all in. Starting off in sunny CA we say hi to Juxtaposition Home in Newport Coast and Heritage in Roseville and then move on to Driftwood, ReForm School and Lawson-Fenning in LA. Moving on up the coast to Seattle and The Elliott Bay Book Company and Spindle Shop. Heading into our territory in the Midwest, we say welcome to Space 519, opening May 1st in Chicago, IL, the Bureau of Urban Living in Detroit MI and the super nice folks at the Northwoods Rescue Sanctuary in Pine City, MN. Finally, a big welcome to our first retailer in Kentucky, Vespa Lexington in Lexington. Thanks to all for carrying Field Notes!
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Good Company Indeed
February 4th, 2010 by Michele Seiler
We got a nice package in the mail today from our friends at J Crew, their latest catalogue. When we got to pages 94-95 and saw that our Field Notes Memo Books were featured with such iconic brands as Timex, Sperry, Ray Ban, and Belstaff, we just about fell over. J Crew has been with us for a long while, they started by carrying us in their awesome men's shop, The Liquor Store in Tribeca and we sure do appreciate their support. Oh and our kids dig them too.
More White Dots For Our Map!
January 8th, 2010 by Michele Seiler
It's time for another roundup of our newest retailers! First, we head west to Santa Cruz to say hi to CAMERON MARKS. Staying in sunny CA, we move over to Newport Coast and welcome JUXTAPOSITION HOME. Next up, we've added a retailer in Nashville, TN, CALDWELL COLLECTION. The sweet storefront pictured above is our newest retailer in Tokyo, Japan, INAHO. In Brooklyn NY we say hello to BY AND BY and finally, let's jump across the pond to greet THE PERFECT PAD which is located in Norwich, UK. (Link is temporary while they build their new site, fyi) Phew. Welcome to all or new friends and Happy New Year to all the dots on our map.
December 10th, 2009 by Michele Seiler
Here's a decidedly global post to welcome our newest retailers: First, we head over to Kuala Lumpur in Malayasia where we say "hi and welcome" to CZIPLEE. Next up, Reunion Island, an "overseas département" of France 120 miles off the coast of Madagascar, is the home of another new retailer, HIP ISLAND. The storefront pictured above will soon be carrying FIELD NOTES, welcome to LE LIÈVRE DE MARS located in lovely Marseille, France. Finally, we head on back to the States to Seattle, where we say "hi" to two new retailers, BLACKBIRD and THE FIELD HOUSE. Welcome to all!
If you don't happen to live near Reunion Island, you can find a retailer near you here.
Big welcome to our newest retailers!
November 13th, 2009 by Michele Seiler
Say howdy to our newest members of our Field Notes retail family! Hello to Good Press in Charlottesville, VA, opening this Spring, the fine folks over at The Rhode Island School of Design store in Providence, RI, purveyors of fine men's clothing in Portland, ME David Wood, over in London UK, YMC, and in Seattle, WA, the University Bookstore. Welcome!
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Coinkydink in Brooklyn
October 14th, 2009 by Bryan Bedell
This weekend we got two emails, one from my old friend Zach Matthews, and one from Jim's old pal David Sutton. Both were wandering the streets of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and saw our Mackinaw Autumn FIELD NOTES in a shop window. Both of them were thoughtful enough to send us an eerily similar photo (David's is on the left, Zach's is on the right). The shop in question is dijitalfix, which you may remember from Michele's Brooklyn Field Trip. Thanks, David, Zach, and dijitalfix!
Limited-edition FIELD NOTES COLORS "Mackinaw Autumn" 3-Packs sold out in presale via our email list, but there are still a few available at selected retailers or via subscription.
Big welcome to our newest retailers!
October 6th, 2009 by Michele Seiler
Give a big welcome to our latest additions to our Field Notes retail family! Say hi to the nice folks at UNIV in Encinitas, CA, Flotsam and Jetsam in Grey Lynn, New Zealand, Fresh in Salt Lake City, UT, Sign With Prestige in Fort Collins, CO, Engineered Garments in Tokyo, Japan, and old-school Mr. Lee's General Store and Haberdashery in Vancouver BC. Welcome!
Welcome to our newest retailers…
a whole lot of them
September 14th, 2009 by Michele Seiler
Photo courtesy of Beanbag Amerika, Thanks, Bean!
We've been super busy adding new retailers in the past month or so, so busy that this welcome is going to be a big one! So, here we go, say hello to the nice folks at Igloo in San Diego, Service Menswear in Austin, Traders Pop in The Netherlands, Analogue Books in Edinburgh, New High (M)art in LA, Glazer's Camera in Seattle, and opening the end of September, The Paper Deli in Madison, Wisconsin. Moving along, yep, there's more! Welcome to Criminal Records in Atlanta, Papeterie Nota Bene in Montreal, Haus Interior in NYC, old-school Ernie's Hardware and General Mercantile in Sour Lake, Texas, Shft in Copenhagen, Pomeranza in Berlin, Enid in Fredericksburg, Texas, and just added in the last 24 hours, Blackbird Corner in Cooks Hill Australia. Thanks to all the great folks that are now a part of the Field Notes retail family!
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August 11th, 2009 by Michele Seiler
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So a few weeks back, I was in NYC for the fab Capsule Show. FIELD NOTES had a booth there and we met a ton of really cool people and are now carried in a bunch of new stores. So long as I was there I decided to take a trip over the Brooklyn to visit some of our retailers as a follow up to a trip I made in May to stores that carry Field Notes in Manhattan.
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China continues to be one of the most misunderstood and for some, dangerous places in the world. Still, there is no doubt that without China, our lives in the west would be much different. And no, I'm not talking about the loss of the millions of inexpensive products that have become synonymous with companies like Target and Walmart.
I'm talking about the iPhone and other iThings.
Scientific American has released an infographic that shows just how much companies such as Apple rely on the world's most populous nation to create products such as the iPhone. As you can see, China provides 90 percent of the so-called rare-earth materials that go into the production of Cupertino's most popular product.
Nine rare-earth minerals specifically provide the color screen, glass polishing, phone circuitry, speakers, and vibration unit of iPhones. These include elements such as Praseodymium, Terbium, and Europium.
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This infographic, while new, is based on information collected by CNET last fall. We thought that our readers would want to see it.
Chalk this up as another reason Tim Cook likes to visit China.
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Cleaning out my old files and found an ode I wrote to a significant fixture in my twenty-first-century life.
You are not my Thomas Guide, you do not compute.
You don't check my email, you are not my flute
Because I can learn life skills without an app.
You don't update my Facebook or social media crap.
You are not my debit card, not an ATM.
You are not my TV nor a Walkman.
You do only what Alex G. Bell foresaw.
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Anna Nicole Smith's 6-Year-Old Daughter is the New Face of Guess: See Her Modeling Pics (PHOTOS)
Dannielynn Birkhead is following in her mom's modeling footsteps.
The six-year-old daughter of Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead has been selected as the face of Guess Kids for its spring 2013 campaign.
In the ad, Dannielynn poses on the beach in a denim skirt, white denim vest, and fedora. Only six years old and already more stylish than we are!
"Dannielynn has the same playful spirit that her mother had on a set," says Paul Marciano, Creative Director for Guess, Inc. "She is a second-generation Guess girl, which makes this campaign a first for us."
Her dad, Larry, says that Dannielynn enjoyed the shoot but is not a full-time model just yet.
"Dannielynn had fun paying tribute to her mom with the Guess ad campaign, but it is back to school for her, which is her focus," Larry tells Entertainment Weekly. "The first thing she asked is, 'When will I be on the shopping bags like Mommy?'"
"I know that Anna's looking at this and seeing how great this will be," he continues.
Anna Nicole Smith modeled for Guess in the early '90s, leading to a successful career as a film and TV personality. She passed away from a drug overdose in 2007 at age 39.
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Dr. Saliba Sarsar received the Award for Academic Excellence
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Provost Pearson and Professor Wang attend 60th year celebration at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST).
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The purpose of the class is to stimulate students' academic curiosity about world hunger and overall issues related to the world, and to help them as they transition into academic university life.
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During her visit, the First Lady received a donation of over 13,000 books for the people of Tanzania from the Monmouth University Library.
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Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" lights up the stage at Monmouth U
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Effective Trade Secret Protection: Speed is of the Essence
A recent ruling by the California Court of Appeal emphasizes the need for employers to act quickly when claiming misappropriation of trade secrets. Cypress Semiconductor Corp. v. Superior Court (Silvaco Data Systems), No. H032114 (Cal. Ct. App. May 30, 2008).
Cypress Semiconductor stemmed from the defection of an employee and the misusue of trade secret information. Silvaco Data Systems developed and licensed a software product known as "SmartSpice." An employee left Silvaco and began working for a competitor, Circuit Systems. The employee incorporated some of Silvaco's SmartSpice trade secrets into a Circuit Systems product known as "DynaSpice." Silvaco sued the former employee and Circuit Systems for misappropriation of trade secrets. At the time, Silvaco did not notify or take any action against Circuit Systems customers who had licensed DynaSpice.
Silvaco subsequently sued Cyprus Semiconductor, a company that had licensed DynaSpice from Circuit Systems, and continued to use DynaSpice in its own products. Silvaco's claim was brought under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act ("CUTSA"), Cal. Civ. Code §§ 3426 et seq. Cyprus Semiconductor asserted as a defense the three-year statute of limitation under CUTSA. It argued that because the lawsuit against Cyprus was brought more than three years after Silvaco learned about the former employee's misuse of Silvaco's information, it was time-barred. Silvaco countered that it did not know of misuse by third parties (Circuit Systems' customers such as Cyprus) until far later, and had started suit within the three-year limitations period of learning of that misuse. Therefore, it argued, the case was not time-barred.
The California Court of Appeals found that a misappropriation claim against a third party accrues when the plaintiff discovers that defendant's misappropriation. This does not mean, however, that the plaintiff must have knowledge of all facts supporting a winning claim before the statute of limitations "clock" begins to run. Rather, the statute of limitations begins to run when the plaintiff "discovers" a cause of action, i.e., when the plaintiff has reason to suspect the factual basis of a claim. Thus, the proper focus for purposes of the commencement of the statute of limitations is on the plaintiff's reasonable suspicions. To that end, the Court of Appeal stated, "[T]he plaintiff should not be expected to wait until he or she has direct proof of the defendant's mental state before filing the lawsuit."
Accordingly, the Court of Appeal found that the trial court should have examined when the plaintiff first had any reason to suspect that Circuit Systems' customers obtained DynaSpice knowing, or with reason to know, that the software contained the plaintiff's trade secrets. This question could not be answered as matter of law, and thus Cyprus Semiconductor was entitled to a jury determination on its statute of limitations defense. The court returned the case to the trial court.
A. Robert Fischer, Chair of Jackson Lewis's Trade Secret, Non-Compete and Workplace Technology practice group, notes that Cyprus Semiconductor points out a number of issues important to employers beyond that of the statute of limitations. According to Mr. Fischer, "Many employers don't necessarily think of their business information as being a trade secret. However, virtually all employers have information they would never willingly give to a competitor. That information, whether you think of it as being a "trade secret" or not, is entitled to protection. That protection can be greatly enhanced by fairly simple steps to identify and protect such business information, through agreements with employees, practical steps such as limiting the distribution of or access to certain documents, and requiring terminated employees to return everything from the employer they have, whenever requested to do so by the employer and upon the termination of their employment." Jackson Lewis attorneys are ready to assist employers protect business information, from drafting agreements and conducting training about employees' obligations to protect the information, to litigating claims for misappropriation.


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New intelligence information obtained by Israel and four Western countries indicates that Iran has made greater progress on developing nuclear weapons than the West had previously realized, according to Western diplomats and Israeli officials who are closely involved in efforts to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
A Western diplomat who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss intelligence information said the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Israel agree on that assessment.
According to the source, this assessment began to take shape in February, when Iran refused to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the base at Parchin, where it is believed Iran is carrying out part of the research and development of its military nuclear program. Visits of IAEA inspectors in Iran, and especially revelations of information the Iranians had been trying to hide, intensified suspicions that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons at a faster pace than it had previously seemed.
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Less than 20 km outside of Florence this Tuscan vacation home has a private pool and a cool refreshing pine forest - not to mention the panoramic terrace.
Splendid deluxe vacation rental in Tuscany between the sea and the countryside with all modern comforts, pool and wonderful views
We loved the Villa Cecina. We represent one of the four couples who rented the villa in June- the villa was absolute beautiful - the setting extremely relaxing - the views from every window was iconically tuscan (including the hilltop 13th Century village) - the eternity pool most welcome with the 30C + temperatures. The original greeting and farewell meeting with the staff were friendly and professional. Our only two small complaints were that as North Americans, we are use to house-wide wifi, and access to wireless was only possible in the inside dining room and in one of the 6 bedrooms. Secondly, we thought that a villa with a pool should include pool towels as part of the basic linen for the villa (it was available, but for a fee). We hired an amazing tuscan chef for two nights to cook for us (Fabrizio )- that made the experience even more wonderful. We cooked the rest of the meals in the very well equipped kitchen with the only problem being which of the 3 dining room do we use.The availability of Cecina for supplies or ocean-side experience was a bonus. We were also very close to Volterra, Siena, Cassale Maritimo, Bibbona, etc. all a short drive from the villa. Dwight and Daniel
Noble residence with many comforts and a heated swimming pool, situated in a beautiful location near Pistoia, Florence and Lucca.
"Fabulous Vacation! The Villa is AMAZING and we cannot wait to go back!" Upon arrival Nedo and Davide met us at the Villa, gave us a tour, lists of info on groceries and restaurants, and some valuable sight-seeing advice! From this superb location we were able to visit Pisa, Cinque Terra, Florence, Siena, Volterra (Twilight Fans!!!), Pistoia, and Lucca......and we still enjoyed three full days of lounging by the pool! We shared the Villa with friends so in total there were 9 of us! The 5 kids (ages 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10) loved the jacuzzi, sauna, swimming and catching tadpoles in the babbling brook! The house is wonderfully quiet at night with light blocking shutters and the "thick" tuscan walls kept it cool and soundproof! So those of us that wanted to sleep-in were in heaven!! In the nearby town was a Coop grocery with a great butcher counter and deli for those days we stayed in to grill and enjoy the tastes of Italia!
Noble residence with many comforts and a heated swimming pool, situated in a beautiful location near Pistoia, Florence and Lucca.
"Great villa!" Picture perfect villa with everything needed for a family vacation.we were 5 adults and 10 kids . Davide and his father were very helpful and attentive. The rooms were very clean and comfortable. The pool and spa are amazing and the house is soooo beautiful.
Noble residence with many comforts and a heated swimming pool, situated in a beautiful location near Pistoia, Florence and Lucca.
"Just wow! Amazing villa, with all comforts and idealistic rooms and view. Located in a wonderfull area in the north toscany, not so touristic with warm temperature during daytime and refreshing mountain climate during the evening.pool and jacuzzi were the top! Possibility to share the huge villa with friends (5 rooms with private toilet) near by bar, restaurant. In 20 min, pistoia and in 40 lucca and Florence! Just perfect!
Noble residence with many comforts and a heated swimming pool, situated in a beautiful location near Pistoia, Florence and Lucca.
"Couldn´t be better!" 5 of 5 stars Reviewed 9 September 2012 My wife went to the villa in September 2011 with her lady friends and the first night when she phoned home I could hear she almost had tears in her eyes. She wanted me to see it for myself, it was so lovely. So this September we went there together with five good friends and it certainly exceeded my expectations. It´s a combination of the ancient history of the house, the tasteful restoration and the quality of it, together with the breathtaking forests and hills surrounding it that makes it so enchanting. And, as mentioned below, father and son Nedo and Davide took the best care of us from the start, informing us about everything worth to visit in the vicinity. I could definitely recommend a stay at this amazing villa and I already miss it:-)
Luxury Villa with heated indoor pool, AC and great views, private outdoor pool with breathtaking views, wellness area, near Cortona
Hello We just came back from the spectacle villa. Every one was very happy. The vacation was amazing. Thank you very much for every thing. I will send you some picture we took from the villa. 13.04.2015
Luxury Villa with heated indoor pool, AC and great views, private outdoor pool with breathtaking views, wellness area, near Cortona
The villa was great. It met all of our expectations and more!! The kitchen was fun to cook in and the pools outside and in were great
Typical Tuscan farmhouse in the Southern Tuscany, walking distance from a hill town, equipped garden, private pool, come and relax
We've spent a splendid vacation in this holiday house. The house is located in the country side and yet only 10 minutes walking to the city centre of Santa Fiora. Bedrooms are spacious and clean. Each bedroom has its own bathroom with shower and toilet!! The living room is rather small but there is a large terrace where you can sit and relax throughout the day. 3 bedrooms are connected to the living room, the other 2 bedrooms are connected through an outside door. Also the kitchen is connected through an outside door. It contains all you need during holidays. The pool is cleaned every day and situated about 20 meters away from the house. The owners are living next to the holiday house and are extremely discreet but also very helpful and attentive in case needed. They will recommend the best places to eat, shop and visit. Santa Fiora itself is a small city, but has a supermarket, butcher, bakery, tourist office, bank,... really everything you'd need. During our stay there was a music festival with performances in different locations in the city as well as other festivities.
Beautifully furnished accommodations perfect for large groups looking a central location and lots of comforts
Thank you for the pictures and such an enjoyable week at the villa nobile. I have just sent the pictures on to everyone who was with us. We had a wonderful time in Italy and especially at the villa. I think everyone enjoyed being there and understood why we came back. You, Fabrizio and Dante were so wonderful in helping us through the week with transferring many of us from Florence, then transferring us back at the end of the week and in the pouring rain. Fabrizio's dinners were excellent and the cooking class was fun and our dinner turned out to be very good. The tours and cooking class were interesting and fun. Liliana, you are a pearl and your smile and good cheer warmed our stay. I hope we shall all meet again because you feel like family. Love to you all and grazie, Caio, Patricia Connecticut USA
Country Tuscan farmhouse located in the green hillside between the coast and the landscape of Siena and Volterra
Monteverdi is a jewel nestled in the woods of Monteverdi M.mo. The small number of apartments, just 4, make it a truly unique reception facility, offering unforgettable moments of relax in close contact with the fresh and fascinating surrounding nature: walks in the wood and along the creek, peaceful moments in the large pool and for Kids carefree play on the lawns. An important feature of the restructuring has been the respect of the interior spaces, which now offers the ability of having large and comfortable apartments. Inside the property slowly flows the stream "Massera", along which is built a small embankment that creates a small basin with a waterfall effect in which you can swim. Borgo Il Massera is placed at the center of a beautiful triangle drawn by the quiet and suggestive villages of Suvereto, Monteverdi and Canneto, just 5 km from each. In those villages it is possible, moreover, to enjoy the culinary delights of Tuscany. In this regard we point out the nearest restaurants: - "Osteria del Ghiotto" Via del Lardarel 34 Loc. Canneto, Monteverdi Marittimo (PI) Tel: 0565.84435 - "Trattoria del Pettirosso" Via San Martino, 1 Monteverdi Marittimo (PI) Cell: 338.6778161 - "Pizzeria il Botteghino" Via Vittorio Emanuele, 8 Loc. Canneto, Monteverdi Marittimo (PI) Tel 0565.784432 Furthermore we point out the following activities for the purchase of typical Tuscan products: - Specialità MUCCI Monteverdi Marittimo (PI) tel.0565 784217 www.specialitamucci.it - La Bottega di Nannini Nico Via Roma 9 Canneto Monteverdi Marittimo (PI) Tel 0565 784378 – 334 8615417 The road links make Monteverdi particularly close to the sea (just 45 minutes by car), especially the location of Castagneto Carducci, with its sport and shopping centers. Furthermore, do not forget the easy reachaibility of the historic city of art and culture such as Bolgheri, Castagneto Carducci, Volterra, Massa Marittima, Pisa and Siena. Moreover, Piombino is the city from which ferries depart to Elba island.
CHIANTI: Lovely location in walking distance from a cozy Tuscan hamlet
Hi Manuela Oh, we had such a lovely holiday in your house and in your garden and all the splendid surroundings. Just lovely all of it. I miss the mornings with the coffee in the warm garden with the perfect view. Love love love. And here you spend all the year - such a luck
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People who handle asbestos material at their workplace:
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- People who work at sites where asbestos is found
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- Cough—the cough is persistent and nonproductive (which means no mucus is produced)
- Chest pain or tightness
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- Weight loss
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- Absence of other causes that may produce similar clinical pictures
- Chest X-ray—changes seen on the exam usually have a distinctive pattern
- CT scan —will detect changes more easily
- Pulmonary function test—a test that measures how well the lungs take in and exhale air. The test can show if the lungs have reduced ability to function properly.
- Oximetry is a noninvasive means to assess oxygen status.
- Prevent further exposure to asbestos
- Stop smoking; people who have asbestosis and smoke cigarettes greatly increase their risk of developing lung cancer
- Getting immediate treatment for colds and other respiratory infections
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) US Department of Labor http://www.osha.gov
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) http://www.ccohs.ca
The Lung Association http://www.lung.ca
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Jan 14 Amazon Rainforest
Got back to Quito, sorted out all of our stuff needed from lounging around on a boat stuff to riding two up stuff. Had
eft the bike and a ton of stuff in the ample storage of Casa Helbling. Now just leaving a ton of stuff.
Headed east for the town of Tena in the Amazon Rainforest. Going to a place called Hakuna Matata. At this time I have to give some big props to MotoTreks who directed me to both Hakuna Matata and Casa Helbling. It is a huge help when we can rely on other travelers experiences to identify the great places to go.
A spectacular road through the Andes. Ecuador is making a great effort to upgrade most of their main roads and are doing a wonderful job. Great pavement, great engineering and spectacular scenery. The only bad habit they have is to build these really nasty v-shaped ditches on both sides of the road so, very difficult to stop and get decent pics.
Strange having someone on the back of the bike everything is a bit different. But, we got along fine until the road into Hakuna Matata. It had started raining and the road was unpaved and a bit slick slick in places but quite rideable.
Came upon this little suspension bridge and we are going up the middle but I couldnt figure out why I seemed to be slowly veering to the left . . . towards the boards
cars which are raised a couple of inches. Looking back.
I glance at the suspension cable on the left which is low enough at that point that falling on it will do nothing but act as a giant fulcrum as we launch over the side into the river below.
Finally decided a combination of me going too slow and Mrs RB intently looking over my left shoulder worrying about the little holes in the bridge ahead were giving the steering a life of its own.
Woke up and gave it a little right hand and got out of there with no problem.
Noticed the rocks in the road are now a lot rougher than on the other side and were pretty slick from the rain and
on them
. Figured riding two up (which Im not particularly good at hell, Im not particularly good at riding one up . . . ) on these wet rocks wasnt a good idea. So, stopped to let Mrs RB off to let her walk up, my foot slips off the rock it's trying to cling to and promptly dumped her in the weeds see, told you I wasnt that good. (Sorry no pics)
Got righted again and hauled ass up the road no hay problema.
aited for her at the little Indian community
ways. She decided to walk the rest of the way to the resort that was probably a good idea.
I was checked in and unloaded when she finally showed up. She was yakking on about a snake she saw on the road along the way. We went down to the restaurant and had a look on Google for Ecuador Snakes and, I shit you not, this is the one she identified:
Mmmkay! Snigger
. . .
Showed it to one of the guides and amongst their sniggers, (I was guffawing by now
) he told us what she saw would likely have been one of the Giant Earthworms found in the area which look similar to this thing. Apparently the Indians cook them up and eat them . . . another delicacy I think Ill pass on.
Hakuna Matata turned out to be a delightful place. Nice big rooms, beautiful location in the jungle, great food and the altitude is just high enough to not have
They served an outstanding breakfast and dinner.
Decided we would do the Amazon Rainforest trip through the hotel. Pick us up along with our guide Fausto in a cab - typical cab for the area
and drive for about an hour to the edge of the N
River. Hop in one of these long, narrow river boats and head off down the river.
All of a sudden the Native boat driver starts acting weird and turns the boat around and starts to kind of howl
. .
. for a few minutes. We are drifting towards this island and we find out this is where he lives and he is calling his wife (Ill have to try that when I get home) to come out to the river. She finally shows and he throws her a couple bags of fish and we carry on.
The river gets quite shallow in places - it is hard to see in this photo but
there is proba
bly a good one foot drop off from the calm
er water in the foreground to the sh
allow ra
ranches seem to meander all over we finally head down one narrow branch that is so shallow that the boat is sliding down the rocks tough wood. This empties into a different and smaller river and we now head upstream. This seems like right out of the movies jungle right down to the shore, lots of jungle sounds.
Finally spot our first monkeys, Wooly Monkeys
These guys are pretty beefy
Then a bunch of little Squirrel Monkeys
Boat drops us off and we start hiking through the
jungle. Why they give us gum boots
The roots of this tree grow above ground and have some really
orns on them. The natives use these like a grater
for t
heir food
oison mushrooms
Fausto finds this very poisonous frog the red on the back is where the poison is
Finds some of these nasty Conga Ants whose sting is apparently worse than any other. They are al
most an inch long. I can now understand wh
y survival in the jungle can be difficult for the inexperienced.
See these termite nests all over the pl
ace - at first we thought they were burls
Stop at an animal rescue place and look at all the animals they have. Mostly seized from smugglers trying to get them out of the country. Of the animals they receive, a third die, a third are released into the wild and the remainder are unable to survive on their own and are kept in their sort of zoo facilities.
Came across this guy paddling a tr
Stop at a Amazon Native village. See how they make pottery, taro root drink and pan for gold.
They cook then mash up Taro root and let i
t ferment for a week or so then, party on. This lady had a
big cup of the fermented stuff and passed it around. Let's just say it didn't suit my taste. Fausto grabs the cup and do
wns the whole th
ing and seemed quite pleased with his score.
Pan for gold with wooden pans - can get a few grams a
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Some guys thought that the "new" win8.1 ISO's released by MS on GA is a new compilation to replace RTM build 9600.16384, some refer it as RTM-2. And most people, already installed 9600.16384 and added RollupA updates, tended to reformat and fresh install with the new ISO's, thinking that it is something new and different.
I have downloaded the win8.1Pro X86 GA edition, let's see what's in it:
First I extracted install.esd to a new drive, by going thru installation(in a VM) and kill the process after expanding files, all this time web connection was disabled so nothing to affect it. Windows\explorer.exe reported 9600.16408, and system32\ntoskrnl.exe reported 9600.16404
Now, when installation is completed, open Control Panel ->Windows Update -> Installed Updates
Since there is no restore point, the 4 updates could not be un-installed, I am quite sure if it could be done, it would simply roll back to nothing but build 9600.16384, nothing more, nothing less.
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The Anglican Church of Kenya recently hired an archivist, Mr. Julius Dondi to assist in re- establishing the archives to international records management standards.
The primary source material on the Anglican Church and Kenya as a country give an account of the progression, growth and development over the years.
Among them are documentation of key events in the country in form of photographs, print material, sermons and reference books, most of which are unpublished.
The materials are in the process of being arranged and classified according to archival principles to make them accessible on regular basis.
Through examination of existing records, the archivist will review the inventory and determine the materials' suitability for preservation or disposition.
Determining which records are viable for permanent or long-term preservation to justify the cost of storage is a challenging task.
With time, a comprehensive archives and documentation policy will be developed to ensure proper management of the records, and guide their use and retention.
Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or other publications for which mass production and dissemination is done.
The provincial archives will incorporate a private collection section which will feature personal records of distinguished members of the ACK.
"The collective memory of the Anglican Church in Kenya is indispensable; to understand our identity, we have to know where we come from to better comprehend our current status and where we are going," he said.
The archives seeks to provide adequate and appropriate conditions of storage, protection of archival collection and provide educational and outreach programming whenever possible to increase public awareness and appreciation of the ACK history.
"All dioceses, parishes and departments in the church should practice good record keeping to reduce historical content gaps in future," he said.
Scholars, researchers government agencies and interested groups will in future access the historical records of Kenya; a supplementary of Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services and National Museums of Kenya.
The Provincial archives has a collection of archival material dating back to the year 1844.


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Divine intervention? Priest appears out of nowhere, prays over girl involved in crash, disappears
CENTER, Mo. - The identity of a priest, who appeared at an accident scene, is a mystery.
Illinois rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get a 19-year-year old girl out of a car.
They were running out of options when a priest came out of nowhere, even though the road was blocked for miles, WEWS-TV reported.
"I went back and talked to the priest and told him we were worried she would think we'd given up hope. He said 'I just want to anoint her' and so we just let him come up to the scene," New London Fire Chief Richard Adair said.
"He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer. It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well. I can't be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter that was beside me, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle."
Moments later, rescuers were able to free the girl. The fire department took 80 photos of the scene, but none included a picture of the priest.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Data model diagrams for GTFS
As usual, Google has nice, succinct documentation for the GTFS format (which is a set of CSV files embodying an implicit data model). But I was surprised to find that they don't provide any kind of data model diagram showing the relationships between the various entities (files) in the model. I have a feeling that they think this would be "too technical" for users - or maybe they just don't believe in using a long-established body of theory?
So, to help my understanding of GTFS I put together a simple diagram of the data model. I used Google Diagrams, which is why this looks a little primitive. (Hmmm... maybe another reason they don't do diagrams is that they are religious about dog-fooding?)
After doing this I found the paper A Transmodel based XML schema for the Google Transit Feed Specification, which has a much more detailed UML model of GTFS:
The end goal of doing all this was to be able to transform a GTFS data feed into shapefile format. For this I used a simple JEQL script. But that's another blog post.
5 comments:
- James said...
hi there - do you have higher resolution pdf's of these that you can share? i'm having trouble reading it but i think it would be very helpful to have as i'm just starting on a project using gtfs as a db. thanks!
- June 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM
- Dr JTS said...
The diagram I did is pretty readable, I think. For the more detailed one, you'll have to contact the authors of the original paper.
- June 5, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- Patrick Sunter said...
Hi Martin - I put a link to this post in a page about GTFS I just created on the Appropedia appropriate/sustainable tech wiki :- www.appropedia.org/GTFS .
Would it be OK if I also upload and display your diagram on that page, as long as its attributed to you with a link to your blog?
Thanks, Pat Sunter.
- July 19, 2013 at 6:52 PM
- Dr JTS said...
Sure, Pat, that's no problem.
- July 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM
- Gestão Empresarial FGV said...
Hi there,
Thanks for the excellent diagram, it helped me so much. I'm modelling a public transport network as a complex network using graph theory, so is not easy to transforma the data files into relevant information, but this model made my work easy.
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League of Legends: The Community Needs Healed.
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Hello guys. I basically spent 45 hours on this thread. This is it:
This is another good conversation about the topic to bring into the picture:
How can we take the ideas from these posts about Tribunal and turn them into a successful Tribunal re-work?
A lot of negativity that wasn't logical. A lot of downvotes. Anyone have (edit) thoughts on this?
Edit: - This blog was created for the purpose of improving the League of Legends Tribunal System. If you're here to flame me or to be strictly negative, leave immediately. Otherwise, thoughts are greatly welcomed and appreciated, even if they are along the lines of negative, constructive feedback.
Thank you.
@demoskinos A Note About Links I've Provided: I am not a giantbomb.com member. So, when I hyperlink things, they send you to the front page if you simply click the hyperlink. DO NOT click the hyperlink. Simply copy and paste the URL I provide, put it in your browser's navigation bar, and press enter. That will take you to the correct links I believe. I was unaware that was happening, nice catch Demoskinos!