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Cherry Street Park in Yau Tsim Mong now open
Residents in Yau Tsim Mong District can now enjoy a range of new leisure amenities with the opening of Cherry Street Park.
Occupying an area of 4.25 hectares and bounded by Ferry Street, Cherry Street and Hoi Ting Road, Cherry Street Park is the latest addition to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's (LCSD) leisure venues. It opens daily from 6.30am to 11pm.
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"These facilities include a jogging path, foot massage path, Tai Chi area and fitness stations," the spokesman said.
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The park has a booking office, changing rooms and toilets. The booking office, operating from 7am to 10pm daily, allows users to hire not only the facilities in the park, but also LCSD facilities territory-wide.
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Hiring rates: $84 per one and a half hours without flood lights and $168 per one and a half hours with flood lights.
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Cherry Street Park is being built in two phases. The construction of the second phase will start next year (2006), and the facilities in the second phase will include a piazza, Tai Chi area, landscape and sitting-out areas.
Cherry Street Park is the third LCSD park in the Yau Tsim Mong District. The others are Kowloon Park and Lok Kwan Park.
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Reading is typically the way a student will begin to learn about a new topic. First, students must learn to read, but it is important that students soon become able to read to learn. Summarizing is an important skill for students to master in order to read with a purpose of learning new information. Through summarizing, readers can learn to pick out important ideas and details about what they are reading, allowing them to focus in on the information to learn. This lesson is going to teach students specific steps they can take in order to become skillful at summarizing large passages they read so that they can truly learn the information for which they are reading. Students will be introduced to the steps of summarizing and write these steps in a brochure that they will make. The teacher will then model how to summarize an article that is read aloud to the class and students will practice summarizing individually with a new article.
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1. Introduce summarizing to the students:
"Today we are going to be learning how to summarize. Summarizing is finding the main idea of something that you read. This skill is extremely important because it helps us as readers to find the most important information about what we are reading. In order to find the most important information to put in a summary, we need to delete any information that isn't important. Today we are going to practice finding the main idea, finding important details that support that idea, and removing any insignificant or unnecessary information.
2. Hand out one sheet of printer paper to each student to make a brochure for the steps of summarizing.
"First you are each going to make your own brochure that will list the steps of summarizing. You will keep this brochure in your reading folder so that it will be easily accessible should you forget any step in the process. The brochure will have three sections- one for each of the three steps of summarizing. Fold your brochure into three sections now".
3. Explain the three important steps of summarization:
"Like I said, there are three important steps to summarizing:
-First, you need to pick out all of the important details of the passage you are reading. Decide what the big ideas in the passage are, and underline them if you can mark on what you are reading.
-Second, you should find the any details that are repetitive or that aren't important to the big idea of the passage. You can cross out these details.
-Finally, you should organize the important information you have selected and make sure you have details that support the main ideas."
-On the back of your brochure, we will write important things to remember about summaries. One important thing to write is to remember that summaries should be shorter than the passage you are reading! A summary can simply be 3-5 sentences- a good, solid paragraph. Another thing to remember is that you want a good topic sentence. This will be one single sentence that states the overall main idea of the passage you read; this is sort of like a summary of your summary!"
4. Pass out a copy of the article, "Streaming Chemistry" to each student.
-"We are going to read this article I am giving you together as a class and practice the skills we have discussed on summarizing together".
-"First, though, I want to introduce a vocabulary word that will be important to your understanding of this article. The word is 'aquatic'. Raise your hand if you have heard this word before. Aquatic simply means something that relates to water. For example, in this article the word is seen where it says "aquatic life". This means that the author is talking about animals that live in the water. Who can give me a few examples of 'aquatic life'? (Answers could be dolphin, sharks, fish, whales, etc).
5. Read the article aloud to the class as they follow along with their own copy.
6. Model how to summarize this article
-"Now we need to summarize the article. How do we begin? Right, let's pick out important details and mark out unimportant details as we read the article again. To do this, we need to think about what subject seems to be mentioned more than once? As I read the first few sentences, I see that water is mentioned repeatedly and is very important and useful. This seems to be the main idea. So for my first sentence of my summary, I am going to write "Water is very important and useful in many different ways".
-"Picking out these main ideas is very important to figure out at the beginning of the summarizing process. After we do this, we have to decide what the author is trying to say about the topic. Let's look again at the first paragraph and I'll model what I do when I am summarizing. Now I am going to write "Every living thing needs water". That is a key point in what the author's message is about water."
7. Continue to go through the steps of summarizing this article about water. I will think aloud so that students can hear how I decide what information about water is important in this article and what is secondary, unnecessary information that can be marked out. Mark out useless information, such as information that is repetitive in the article or that describes a topic, and underline important information.
8. Pass out "Joys of Toys" article. Students will read the article and practice the steps of summarizing using the aid of the Summarizing Brochure. They will turn their summary in at the end of the lesson, after they have had plenty of time to read and write a good summary.
Students will be assessed at the end of the lesson on their summary that they did individually. I will use the checklist below to score each summary and gauge what areas each student needs practice in for future lessons on summarizing and picking out main ideas.
In his/her summary, did the student….
Delete unimportant/insignificant/repetitive information?
Select key information in the article?
Write a topic sentence that "summarizes the summary"?
Choose the correct main topic for the specific article?
Write 3-5 good, concise sentences?
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Shaugh Prior Primary School lies at the Southern edge of the Dartmoor National Park, seven miles from Plymouth. At the far end of the village, the rivers Meavy and Plym meet at the picturesque setting of ShaughBridge.
The school serves the villages of Shaugh Prior, Wotter, and Lee Moor and the outlying areas. The villages of Wotter and Lee Moor are central to the China Clay Industry. Each village has a hall for local events. Wotter has a hotel, doctors surgery and a Methodist Chapel. Lee Moor has a large public hall and a recreation area. In the middle of Shaugh Prior is St Edwards Church and a Public house.
The school is part of the Moorsway Federation which is made up of three primary schools. We have one governing body and one Executive Headteacher. By being part of a Federation it allows the children to have wider experiences and work alongside other children.
Please use our website to find out more about us or contact the school directly. Contact details can be found through the contact button on this site.
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Three stones were set. They planted [the first stone], Jaguar Paddler, Stingray Paddler. . . . He planted the [second] stone, First Black Chak(?) . . . . The [third] stone was set [by] Great Itzamna. . . . It happened at Lying Down Sky.
The beginning of the long count in 3114 BC, long before the rise of Maya civilization, marks the date of Creation. But on the handful of Classical monuments that memorialize events of the mythic age, Creation is written 184.108.40.206.0, the completion of 13 baktuns, a period of about 5125 years. This suggests that the present age followed an earlier world that endured 13 baktuns. An inscription at Coba records even earlier epochs, counting back for some 13 x 2021 years.
The Popol Vuh preserved this tradition of successive creations or world orders. According to the Popol Vuh, the gods created humans to honour them: There would be "no high days and no bright praise for our work, our design, until the rise of the human work, the human design". But their first three efforts were failures. The third failed race, people fashioned from wood, were destroyed in a universal flood.
The antediluvian world was lorded over by Vukub-Cakix, "Seven Macaw," who took the place of the sun. To prepare for the creation of the true humans, the rule of Seven Macaw had to be ended. This was achieved by the Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh, who shot Seven Macaw from his tree.
The Quiche still identify the seven stars of the Big Dipper with Seven Macaw. At sunset on August 13, the Milky Way is nearly erect, and the Dipper is visible in the the northern sky in the Maya area. But as the heavens rotate, the Milky Way turns away from its upright position, and the Dipper dives toward the horizon. About two hours after sunset, the Dipper sets: Seven Macaw is knocked from his perch atop the World Tree. Dennis Tedlock reports that among the Quiche, the mid-summer descent of the Dipper just after sunset marks the beginning of the hurricane season, the time of flooding.
The sky of the old order fell when Seven Macaw was knocked from his perch and the deluge destroyed the wooden people. The sky of the new world could only be raised by an act of sacrifice. The gods created the new world through their sacrifice. Their blood nourished the World Tree. Ritual renews the world, recapitulating the ordering of the cosmos at Creation. The Maya, like other Mesoamerican peoples, believed that blood sacrifices offered by humans repay their debt to the gods.
Although Maya creation accounts differ in detail, most tell of the defeat and sacrifice of one or more gods by the lords of the Underworld. In the Books of Chilam Balam, the gods of the thirteen heavens are captured and sacrificed by the nine gods of the Underworld. In the Popol Vuh, the maize god, Hun Hunaphu, the father of the hero twins, journeys to the Underworld, where he is defeated by its rulers in a ritual ball game and sacrificed. In the Dresden Codex, sacrifice of the maize god appears to be the very act that raises the sky of the new world. In the Popol Vuh, he is rescued by his sons, and it is his resurrection that renews of the world.
The Milky Way/World Tree is the route between the heavens, earth, and Underworld. On the sarcophagus of Pakal at Palenque, the dead king is shown falling along the World Tree, named here sak be, "white road." The Quiche still call the Milky Way Xibalba be "road to the Underworld;" The Chorti Maya call it Camino de Santiago.
By midnight on August 13, the Milky Way runs across the sky from east to west. It now represents the fallen sky. A great dark bite is visible in the Milky Way, which Schele sees as the maw of the crocodile at the foot of the Izapa World tree, a gateway to the Underworld. This is the "cross-roads" at which Hun Hunaphu disappeared when he took the "Black Road" to Xibalba.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The Secret War on Social Security and Medicare
Certainly you recall that back in 2004 and 2005, then-President Bush put all the substantial muscle of his office into Social Security "reform." He and his surrogates spent more than year flitting about the nation spreading lies that Social Security was in "crisis," that it was "broke."
The solution to this non-problem, he said, was to privatize Social Security. Younger workers would be allowed to divert a portion of their Social Security contribution into private accounts and invest it as they chose.
Ignoring Wall Street history that includes a decade-long, ruinous Depression and several painful recessions, the president blithely suggested that everyone would be millionaires by the time they retired.
Sensibly, the people of the United States overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's privatization scheme, and if anyone had any doubts about its dangers, they were washed away in the crash of October 2008.
That should have been the end of attacks on the most successful social program in the history of the world. But no.
There is a growing drumbeat, mostly under the media radar, to cut not just Social Security benefits, but Medicare and Medicaid too. Several previous attempts at what is being called "entitlement reform" have faded away, but the pressure for it continues and is increasing.
Now, there is a proposal from Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (Dem. N.D.) and Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire to create an "entitlement commission" and to do it soon.
The idea this time, as in similar past efforts, is to force major changes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (read: benefit cuts) by tasking the commission of appointed members to create legislation to cut costs and then force an up or down vote in Congress without scheduling time for debate or an allowance for amendments.
Last week, the Senate Budget Committee heard testimony on the Conrad/Gregg commission proposal. All ten witnesses support the creation of this commission; none who oppose it were invited. Among the supporters who spoke was David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation who, like most proponents of the commission, seeks to conflate the current recession with the cost of entitlement programs:
"...we must recognize the reality that key factors that contributed to the recent mortgage-related sub-prime crisis also exist in connection with the federal government's own finances," said Walker. "These factors are: first, a disconnect between the parties who benefit from prevailing policies and practices and those who will pay the price and and bear the burden for today's fiscal irresponsibility."
Barbara B. Kennelly, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, translated that (intentionally?) murky testimony into English in a letter to Congress [pdf]:
"[W]e are surprised to see the federal deficit and the federal debt cited as the reason a commission needs to be established to make cuts in Social Security."
That the head of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation testified in favor of the commission should raise a bright red warning flag to all of us. For years, Peterson has used his influence and his money – he endowed the Foundation with $1 billion from his personal fortune – to crusade for the dismantling of Social Security and Medicare. Earlier this year, William Greider further deconstructed Peterson's message:
"It is a frightful message," wrote Greider. "Peterson describes a '$53 trillion hole' in America's fiscal condition - but the claim assumes numerous artful fallacies. His most blatant distortion is lumping Social Security, which is self-funded and sound, with other entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid.
"Those programs do face financial crisis - not because the elderly and poor are greedily gaming the system but because the medical-industrial complex has the profit incentive to drive healthcare costs higher and higher. Healthcare reform can solve the financing problem only if it imposes cost controls on private players like the insurance and pharmaceutical industries."
So what we have is a well-connected, billionaire activist who has no need for Social Security and Medicare using his fortune and influence (he was Secretary of Commerce under President Nixon, founder of the Blackstone Group and former chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations) to set up a 15-person commission within Congress that would remove control from and the responsibility of ALL of Congress to make decisions about Social Security, Medicare and much of the entire tax system.
A substantial number of Congress members appear to believe this is a good idea, and it is more dangerous than President Bush's privatization scheme because it is moving forward without attention from major media. If the plan succeeds, decisions about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social programs will be made by a cabal of legislators and unelected appointees behind closed doors rather than in open Congress.
Not only would Congress at large have no say beyond a yes/no vote on commission-created legislation, there would be no opportunity for we the people to let our representatives know where we stand. I won't stand for that and neither should you.
There are, of course, more details than there is room to explain here. If you are as interested and alarmed as I am, here are some links – in addition to the ones above - to help you understand what's going on.
Passing the Buck to an Entitlement Commission
17 November 2009
13 November 2009
Senators Discuss Creation of Panel to Control Health Costs
11 November 2009
Fast-tracking Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
10 November 2009
Senator Gregg's Comments in Congress [pdf]
13 May 2009
Checking America's Balance Sheets
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Posted by Ronni Bennett at 02:38 AM | Permalink | Email this post
Thanks for pulling together all these links and information as I've read only small print scattered pieces about all this. Infuriating, dangerous and clearly requires a lot of publicity and action to prevent this railroading job.
Thanks!!!!!! These are a terrific resource.
It is very upsetting what they are doing and when you hear right wing bloggers talk about the problem with entitlements, you ask if they mean Social Security and Medicare, and they don't answer. The undefined entitlements is being done trying to keep it from revealing what it will mean to old people. It's so ironic that Republicans talk about the damage to grandma of being able to go to a doctor and discuss end of life options and how people will die if they have access to doctors; and yet they want to do this. It's rather like their rah rah for veterans while they cut their benefits.
Already they have cut SS just by limiting its increase which will soon make it worthless for living costs. They tie it to a cost of living index that is rigged against showing the true cost of inflation on real living expenses.
This whole thing is an ongoing battle where they seem to support corporate interests and the people are just in the way of what is 'best' for the nation.
I think to change any of this and get leaders we can trust, it's going to take getting rid of the lobbying system that weights all reforms and ideas toward the ones with the money. That won't be easy. It might take electing an all new Congress made up of people with that belief (if they don't get there and immediately change their minds).
Ronnie, as usual, has hit the political nail on the head. Creation of an entitlement commission, repackaged now as a deficit commission, is the biggest threat to Social Security and Medicare since privatization.
And this is very much on a Congressional fast-track (purposefully). The commission proposal could be offered during the debt limit debate in December as a quid-pro-quo "we won't raise the debt limit if you don't give us a commission" or even as an amendment to get blue dog support for health care reform in the Senate.
Either way, this vote is likely to come quickly and quietly before most seniors even knew what hit them. And what's worse, many Democrats believe a vote for a commission shows they're serious about the deficit when in reality it sub-contracts their voice to the likes of David Walker and Pete Peterson, who have never met a Social Security or Medicare cut they didn't like.
This is what $1 billion dollars in lobbying gets us.
In addition to being an attack on the Social Security and Medicare (as if it needed even more to be utterly wrong!), the drumbeat that Peterson et al. are raising about "the federal deficit" is just stupid in current conditions. When the people can't spend, the government has to or we'll really be mired in a Depression. Government spending in such a time keeps people in jobs and thus makes future growth that will get us out of deficit possible. We aren't going to have inflation when people don't have the money to buy things!!
These people, the social security cutters and deficit hawks, are just selfish millionaires. They got theirs --screw the rest of us.
Thanks Ronni.
I feel like going back to bed and hiding under the covers when I read of this. Write, call, fax your representatives today. Send a copy of this to everyone on your mailing list and ask them to kick up a fuss.
The fast track aspect of this is scary. Perhaps if we wrote the heads of all news departments and demanded that they covered this issue it would help. At the least, write letters to the Editor of all your publications.
I'm dumbfounded as to what to do about this, but not shocked. Thanks, Ronni for, once again, bringing a very important issue to our attention.
I think we just have to keep reminding ourselves, we ARE entitled to this money---we paid in advance, remember? It's ours to collect. It's no hand out!
If this benefit cutting process gets traction, perhaps a million (or more) senior "march on Washington" is in order? Ronni, call me if you need help orgazniing it.
I remember watching those privatization SS hearing on TV. Bush and his boys sent some guy from the Cato Institute to do their bidding, as I remember. He was up against credible experts on the other side. I wasn't even close.
The Cato guy made no sense. It was just an attempt to destroy SS. And, in many ways, it put President Bush out to dry. It was an awful thing to do. Either he was too dumb to know what he was doing, or he was just being told what to do at that time. Either way, it was an awful period to experience.
I still remember the cry, "Don't mess with Social Security." I hope that cry continues to ring true. Remember that the SS Trust Fund is due $2.5 trillion, as part of the Intergovernmental national debt. That is ton of excess money deposited so that it can be used when needed.
good to see some people know what's going on.
if it helps, know that the cost of closing the Social Security actuarial deficit amounts to an average 20 cents per week increase in the tax per year per worker.
look up the NASI website for more information.
it is VERY troubling that the "high end news sources" ALWAYS tell the Peterson version of the story. It is even more troubling that the Democratic Party seems to be in on the scam. Try contacting your local Democrats and see what happens.
if it would help to know the details of Social Security financing, i might be able to help.
The attempt to privatize Social Security and Medicare, this after destroying the private pension system and retiree health plans, is the most perfidious scam ever attempted against a nation. It began with Milton Friedman in 1962, who got his chance to privatize Social Security in Chile when Nixon and Kissinger had General Pinochet overthrow (and murder) the democratically elected President of Chile, and was followed up in the 80's by Reagan's Chief of Staff and then Treasury Secretary, Don Regan, formerly head of Merrill Lynch, who saw in it a chance for his former company to make billions in unnecessary commissions, fees and transaction costs. In Chile those costs amounted to some 18% of every contribution.
The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation and other political operative extreme right-wing groups are arms of the top leadership of the Republican Party, as scurrilous and harmful a group as ever took over a national political party.
The proper way to fix Social Security is to make it real defined benefit pension system instead of the fake Potemkin Village one it is now.
You do this by (1) changing the PayGo way we finance it with Actuarial Advance Funding, and (2) adding strong laws with teeth that protect the assets and the past service accrued benefits from being cut back.
In 1762 British actuaries invented Actuarial Advance Funding and in 1912 it was adapted to defined benefit pension plans in America by the very first independent pension-consulting actuary, George Buck, whose firm is still in existence. He placed many large pension plans on a sound long term financial and actuarial basis, such as NY City's municipal employees pension plan and Bell Labs.
It is impossible, mathematically and actuarially, to ever have a decent, affordable, pension plan, retiree medical plan, Social Security, Medicare, or medical care system, unless monies are set aside, long in advance of their being needed, with part of that money invested collectively in private securities by experts, with the key asset class being common stock. The investment returns compounded over time will pay for the bulk of the promised benefits.
This is done through an annual actuarial valuation using an Actuarial Cost Method called The Entry Age Normal Cost method. It is a systematic, mathematically rigorous, highly disciplined, and self-correcting system that also stabilizes the cost as a percent of pay and develops the right cost--the Entry Age Normal Cost, level as a percent of pay---without which you can never know if the system is affordable in the long term once the initial unfunded past service liability has been calculated and amortized, just as you would a home mortgage.
This methodology is also necessary, but not sufficient, to fix Medicare and medical care, the latter once we get around to having a universal national health care system, that is.
I know it works because I did it for most of my career as an actuary.
Of course it has to be done by an experienced independent pension-consulting actuary, one that places the public interest above private interests whenever there is a conflict.
Alas, there are only a handful of us out there any more, many actuaries having sold the nation and it's people down the river for money.
George Fulmore, you write "Remember that the SS Trust Fund is due $2.5 trillion, as part of the Intergovernmental national debt. That is ton of excess money deposited so that it can be used when needed."
So just where are these funds deposited? They are actually nowhere. They are Treasury debt owed the Social Security Trust Fund. When Social Security collects from the Treasury, where does the Treasury get the funds to pay the debt? They have only one place to get it, general tax revenue. That is they must get the money from you and me, the tax payers.
There is no real trust fund.
The only way to save any semblance of future Social Security is to allow private accounts. Why can't you people understand this?
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The most detailed statements of the hypothesis have come from physicist Steven Jones, architect Richard Gage, software engineer Jim Hoffman, theologian David Ray Griffin, and author Webster Griffin Tarpley. Proponents argue that the aircraft impacts and resulting fires could not have weakened the buildings sufficiently to initiate collapse and that the buildings would in any case not have collapsed as completely, and quickly as they did without an additional source of destructive energy to undermine their structure. Various sources of this energy have been proposed; the use of thermite, explosives, or some combination thereof is the most common suggestion being made today. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, has rejected the hypothesis that collapse due to fire would be impossible, as has the engineering community. Members of the 9/11 Truth movement have filed Requests for Correction to the NIST report,. Only one of their requests resulted in a change to correct an inconsistency between two parts of the NIST report. This resulted with another appeal from the 9/11 Truth movement.
Engineers were in fact initially surprised by the collapses and at least one considered explosives as a possible explanation. The broad outlines of an explanation that did not involve such explosives quickly emerged, however, and took its current shape in the 2005 NIST report. It has come to be known as "the official account" among proponents of controlled demolition.
The hypothesis was first suggested in October 2001. An early book-length treatment of the hypothesis inspired both David Ray Griffin's critical inquiry as well as the Popular Mechanics investigation of 9/11 conspiracy theories. In late 2005, Brigham Young University Professor of Physics Steven Jones made his own pursuit of the hypothesis public. Even before publication of the article in 2006, his interest in the hypothesis brought a measure of media exposure to the theory. BYU responded to Jones' "increasingly speculative and accusatory" statements by placing him on paid leave in September, 2006. Shortly thereafter, Jones accepted BYU's offer of early retirement.
Proponents of the controlled demolition have questioned the "pancake collapse" hypothesis originally suggested by FEMA which the NIST also rejected and finally replaced with the current column failure theory.
In its final report, NIST stated that it "found no corroborating evidence for alternative hypotheses suggesting that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition using explosives planted prior to September 11, 2001" and posted a FAQ about related issues to its website in August of 2006. The major elements of the hypothesis have been rebutted in mainstream engineering scholarship, where its proponents are considered "outsiders".
A 2006 poll found that 6 percent of Americans considered it "very likely" that "the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings", while another 10% found it "somewhat likely". 77% found the demolition hypothesis "unlikely". A 2007 poll found that 67% of Americans fault the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the collapse of World Trade Center 7. An August 2007 Zogby poll found that 4.8% of Americans believe that "certain US government elements actively planned or assisted some aspects of the attacks".
In June 2008, Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson delivered a letter to the office of U.S. Senator John McCain asking him to meet with a group of professionals to discuss the events of 9/11. She also gave a speech on the floor of the Arizona Senate that included her support for the demolition theory, its proponents, and its relevance to current foreign policy in the US. Johnson said in her speech:
"You don't have to embrace every theory about 9/11. Indeed, there are some that should be soundly rejected. But if you believe, as these scientists, architects and engineers do, that the buildings were brought down by explosive demolition, then you must also agree that we need a new investigation. I have no preconceived notions about who did it and I am not pointing the finger of blame at anyone. But I do think that the worst attack on U.S. soil in American history deserves the best investigation possible."
7 World Trade Center was a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper that stood across Vesey Street north of the main WTC complex. Its tenants included Salomon Smith Barney (which leased 44% of the available office space), ITT Hartford Insurance Group (8%), the Securities and Exchange Commission (8%), the Secret Service (5%), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Regional Council (3%). Smaller tenants included the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense, though these shared a single floor with the IRS. Altogether, U.S. local, state, and federal government agencies occupied 11 of the overall 47 floors, or about 28% of the available 39 floors of office space. Though damaged by fires which burned for seven hours, it was not hit by a plane, and collapsed at about 5:20 p.m. EDT on the evening of September 11, 2001.
Some journalists commenting on the nature of the collapse of WTC 7 said that it resembled a controlled demolition, although the explanation that fires in the building, started by falling debris from the collapse of WTC 1, had caused the structure to fail, quickly emerged. No steel-frame high rise had ever before collapsed because of a fire. BBC News reported the collapse of WTC 7 twenty minutes before it actually fell. The BBC has stated that many news sources were reporting the imminent collapse of WTC 7 on the day of the attacks.. Jane Staley, the reporter who announced the collapse prematurely, called it a "very small and very honest mistake" caused by her thinking on her feet after being confronted with a report she had no way of checking.
Proponents of controlled demolition often emphasize the collapse of WTC 7 because its collapse looked like a bottom-to-top conventional controlled demolition, as opposed to the more explosive top-to-bottom collapses of the two main towers. Support for this theory comes from features argued to have been visually observed in the collapse--the speed of the collapse, the way it fell down vertically and symmetrically, the rapid onset, and the way the center of the roof fell first. Steven Jones claims that the presence of sulphur is evidence that indicates the use of explosives such as thermate, along with reports of molten metal and extremely high temperatures in the rubble. However, metallurgist Prof. Richard Sisson asserts that the sulfur came from gypsum in the wallboards, an opinion which was also given in the NIST report.
In the PBS documentary America Rebuilds, which aired in September 2002, Larry Silverstein, the owner of WTC 7 and leaseholder and insurance policy holder for the remainder of the WTC Complex, recalled a discussion with the fire department in which doubts about containing the fires were expressed. Silverstein recalled saying, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". "They made that decision to pull", he recalled, "and we watched the building collapse." Some proponents of the controlled demolition hypothesis have taken the remark as a confession that he ordered the building to be demolished. Silverstein issued a statement that rejects this interpretation, asserting that it was the firefighting team, not the building, that was to be pulled.
Hugo Bachmann and Jörg Schneider, professors emeritus of structural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, believe that WTC 7 was intentionally demolished based on video footage. The 9/11 Family Steering Committee also asked what happened to WTC 7 in their 'Questions Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview of Mayor Rudy Giuliani,' asking, "On 9/11, no aircraft hit WTC 7. Why did the building fall at 5:20 PM that evening?"
In 2002 the National Institute of Standards and Technology began a general investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center but soon made a decision to focus on the collapse of the Twin Towers first. A draft version of its final report on the collapse of building 7 was released in August 2008. The agency has blamed the slowness of this investigation on the complexity of the computer model it is using, which simulates the collapse from the moment it begins all the way to the ground, and notes that the time taken on the investigation into building 7 is comparable to the time taken to investigate an aircraft crash. The agency also notes another 80 boxes of documents related to WTC7 were also found and had to be analyzed. These delays fueled suspicion that the agency was struggling to come up with a plausible conclusion.
Preliminary investigations did not include the mechanics of the actual collapse, concentrating instead on the events leading up to it. However, the final draft report on the collapse of WTC7 by NIST provides a detailed investigation into the collapse timeline, starting with the failure of a critical column, Column 79 (initial failure event). 6 seconds later, the collapse of the East Penthouse on the roof was visible. The collapse of the core columns progressed from east to west for another 6.9 seconds (12.9 seconds total since the initial failure event). At this point, the report says, "all the interior columns had buckled" and "the remaining exterior structure above began to fall vertically as a single unit." To calculate the timeline of the collapse of the rest of the building, NIST focused on the time between the initial collapse of the roofline and the last position that the complete roofline could be observed before portions of it started to become obscured by dust, at the top of Floor 29. NIST calculated the timeline for this observable descent as 5.4 seconds and calculated the theoretical free-fall time for the same portion of the building as 3.9 seconds, and concluded that, "The actual collapse time of the upper 18 floors of the north face of WTC7 (the floors clearly visible in the video evidence) was 40 percent greater than the computed free fall time. This was consistent with physical principles.
Following a three year investigation NIST released a draft version of its final report on the collapse on August 21, 2008. Investigators used videos, photographs and building design documents to come to their conclusions. The report concluded that the building collapsed due to the effects of the fires which burned for almost seven hours. The fatal blow to the building came when the 13th floor collapsed, weakening a critical steel support column that led to catastrophic failure, and extreme heat caused some steel beams to lose strength, causing further failures throughout the buildings until the entire structure succumbed. Also cited as a factor was the collapse of the nearby towers, which broke the city water main, leaving the sprinkler system in the bottom half of the building without water.
NIST considered the possibility that the towers were brought down with explosives and concluded that a blast event did not occur. The investigation noted that no blast was audible on recordings of the collapse and that no blast was reported by witnesses, even though it would have been audible at a level of at least 130-140 decibels at a distance of half a mile. NIST also investigated the possibility that the collapse was caused by thermite and concluded that it is unlikely that the quantities needed could have been carried into the building undetected. The theory that fires from the large amount of diesel fuel stored in the building caused the collapse was also investigated and ruled out.
World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein said, "Hopefully this thorough report puts to rest the various 9/11 conspiracy theories, which dishonor the men and women who lost their lives on that terrible day." Richard Gage, leader of the group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth said, "How much longer do we have to endure the coverup of how Building 7 was destroyed?". James Quintiere, professor of fire protection engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, who does not believe explosives brought down the towers, questioned how the agency came to its conclusions, remarking, "They don't have the expertise on explosives. Following the NIST final draft on Building 7 in August of 2008, a group of demolition proponents submitted a response challenging several points of the draft.
The hypothesis suggests that the fires could not have been hot enough to weaken the steel structure of the two towers to the point of collapse. However, those who pursue the hypothesis emphasize evidence of temperatures well beyond those that, by general consensus, can be attributed to the fires. Molten metal streamed out of the south tower shortly before it collapsed. There are first-hand reports of claims that molten metal was discovered in the piles of rubble in the weeks following the collapses. Steven Jones has argued that the molten metal may have been iron, a byproduct of a thermite reaction. Thermite reactions can reach temperatures of up to 4500°F (2500°C), well beyond the temperature (approximately 1500°C (2732°F) required to melt structural steel.
In response, NIST has pointed out that cutting through the vertical columns would require planting an enormous amount of explosives inconspicuously in highly secured buildings, then igniting it remotely while keeping it in contact with the columns. NIST concluded that some of the observed molten metal may have been molten aluminum from the fuselage of the plane. Aluminum melts at significantly lower temperatures than steel.
The controlled demolition hypothesis is also offered to explain a belief that the towers collapsed close to free fall speed. Most estimates agree that the structures offered little resistance to the progress of the collapses and that they took about 50% longer than a free falling object dropped from the tops of the towers. Without explosives to destroy the internal support structure of the WTC towers, argue proponents of controlled demolition, the fall of the towers would violate the principle of conservation of momentum. Others say that these claims are only supported by intuition without any quantitative analysis. They point to their own analyses posted on a website suggesting that the fall may be explained without violating the principle of conservation of momentum and without requiring any explosives.
The NIST report provides an analysis of the structural response of the building only up to the point where collapse begins, and asserts that the enormous kinetic energy transferred by the falling part of the building makes "progressive collapse" inevitable once an initial collapse occurs. Supporters of the controlled demolition hypothesis often emphasize that NIST did not simulate the structural response of the lower parts of the buildings, which they find of primary interest, but do not analyze either. A paper by Zdeněk Bažant indicates that once collapse began, the kinetic energy imparted by a falling upper section onto the floor below was at least ten times greater than that which the lower section could support.
Engineers who have investigated the collapses generally deny that controlled demolition is required to understand the structural response of the buildings. While the top of one of the towers did tilt significantly, it could not ultimately have fallen into the street, they argue, because any such tilting would place sufficient stress on the lower story (acting as a pivot) that it would collapse long before the top had sufficiently shifted its center of gravity. Indeed, they argue, there is very little difference between progressive collapse with or without explosives in terms of the resistance that the structures could provide after collapse began. Controlled demolition of a building requires weeks of preparation, including laying large quantities of explosive and cutting through beams, which would have rendered the building highly dangerous and which would have to be done without attracting the attention of the thousands of people who worked in the building.
Several other common points underlie the Controlled Demolition hypothesis. First, proponents underscore similarities in video footage of the collapses of the WTC towers with footage of known controlled demolitions. One of the most commonly cited similarities are the tightly focused horizontal plumes of smoke and debris being ejected from the twin towers just before and during the collapse. While these plumes are attributed by demolition theory opponents to material ejected due to the compression of air as the floors collapsed, proponents claim that they may be evidence for exploding demolition charges ("squibs").
Proponents claim that eyewitness accounts made by firefighters and emergency medical responders of explosions just prior to the start of the collapse of the towers are suggestive of controlled demolition. However there are many causes of loud sharp noises that are not caused by explosives, and seismographic records of the collapse do not show evidence of explosions.
Additionally, the production and expansion of the enormous dust clouds that covered Manhattan after the collapses has also been taken as an indication of an additional source of energy, such as explosives. Some proponents suggest that the energy required for this expansion alone (ignoring the energy needed to slice the steel and pulverize the concrete and other materials) exceeded the gravitational energy available by 9.7 × 1012 J to 4.2 × 1013 J. This corresponds to extra energy of about 2000 to 10000 tons of TNT, or 40 to 200 times the yield of the most powerful conventional bomb. NIST attributes these clouds to the ejection of air from compressed parts of the building.
The debris removal process began shortly after the attacks, and concluded in May 2002. Some members of the 9/11 Truth Movement allege that engineers were not granted access to Ground Zero until most of the debris had been removed, while others allege that engineers were not granted access to Ground Zero or even the salvage yards at all. However, Robert F. Shea of FEMA testified to the House of Representatives that, "Because of the importance of the rescue effort at the World Trade Center complex, it was clear that information would have to be gathered without interfering with response and rescue activities. Based on this fact, the FEMA-ASCE team first visited the site on October 6, [2001] but gathered information from others who had been on-site before this date." Regarding access to the scrap yards, appendix D of the FEMA report states that, "As of March 15, 2002, a total of 131 engineer visits had been made to these yards on 57 separate days.
A call to action by Bill Manning, the chief editor of the trade journal Fire Engineering, is often quoted in this connection. Manning called the early ASCE investigation (which would later turn into the FEMA building performance study) a "half-baked farce" and said that "the destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately." He said that the cleanup of the WTC site differed in many respects from that of other engineering disasters. In defense of the decision to dispose of the steel, Mayor Bloomberg said: "If you want to take a look at the construction methods and the design, that's in this day and age what computers do." David Ray Griffin notes that this is exactly what Manning had worried about when he warned that "the investigation into the World Trade Center fire and collapse will amount to paper-and computer-generated hypotheticals."
However, allegations against a "speedy removal" of the steel hampering the engineering investigations appear to be unfounded, according to Dr. Gene Corley, head of the BPAT team and one of the lead engineers for the investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which began in September 2002. He testified to the House of Representatives in March 2002 that, "There has been some concern expressed by others that the work of the team has been hampered because debris was removed from the site and has subsequently been processed for recycling. This is not the case. The team has had full access to the scrap yards and to the site and has been able to obtain numerous samples. At this point there is no indication that having access to each piece of steel from the World Trade Center would make a significant difference to understanding the performance of the structures".
On February 28, 2007, NIST's conclusion that it "found no corroborating evidence for alternative hypotheses suggesting that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition using explosives planted prior to September 11, 2001" was challenged in a request for correction (per Section 515 of Public Law 106-554). The request was based on NIST's acknowledgement that it did not investigate controlled demolition nor look for evidence.
Thomas Eagar, a professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also dismissed the controlled demolition hypothesis. Eagar remarked, "These people (in the 9/11 truth movement) use the 'reverse scientific method.' They determine what happened, throw out all the data that doesn't fit their conclusion, and then hail their findings as the only possible conclusion. Finally, Leslie Robertson, who helped design the Twin Towers, debated the issue with Steven Jones on a radio program in December 2006.
In April 2008, a letter by advocates of the demolition hypothesis was published as a paper in an online civil engineering journal.. In July 2008, an article was published in an environmental journal.
The demolition hypothesis first entered mainstream media by way of negative press coverage of "9/11 conspiracy theories" or "9/11 myths". Critical articles in Popular Mechanics, which were later expanded into a book, and the popular magazine Skeptic presented rebuttals to the hypothesis for a mainstream audience. In 2006, a New York Magazine reported that, "A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of New York's most terrible day." The hypothesis has been cited by numerous popular actors, musicians and politicians, including Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Willie Nelson, Mos Def, and former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura. The hypothesis also features prominently in the controversial online documentary Zeitgeist, the Movie.


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earlier this year i started a list of goals that i want to accomplish at some point during my career. one of those wishes was to one day meet and photograph Cesar Millan, 'The Dog Whisperer'. i had no idea that my wish would come true so soon!
Cesar has been on tour in Canada with his live show. along with his tour, he is also promoting his new book 'Cesar's Rules'. on Sunday October 31, 2010 he appeared at the Pet Valu in Cabbagetown, Toronto for a book signing. i jumped when i got the call from Dogs In Canada to cover the event with the lovely and talented writer Alison Preiss.
to read Alison's amazing interview with Cesar (and to see more of my photos), please click here.
(SIDE NOTE: i was devastated and embarrassed that Cesar was unable to bring his dog Junior on tour with him to Ontario, because of our pit bull ban. just last week, i attended a protest in support of this issue).
it was a chilly fall day…and Cesar fans (human and furry, appropriately costumed) were brave enough to line up for hours around the block to get the chance to meet him.
when he arrived the crowd was cheering as he recorded his welcome with his video camera. inside the store it was warm and toasty. after the media held their press conference with Cesar, it was time for the fans to have their book signed and have their photo taken with their dog.
during our time inside the store, it began to snow outside. when i brought it to the attention of everyone in a very loud, "hey everyone, it's snowing!", Cesar looked at me with wide eyes and said, "i've never seen snow before!". being from Mexico and living in California, i can see how that is possible. welcome to Canada! (FYI: it was the first and only snowfall so far this season in Toronto).
i'm pretty sure it was kismet that there was a Mexican restaurant directly across the street. i told him that i want a photo of him in front of it in the snow. he seemed amused by my idea.
it was absolutely amazing to see how calm and well-behaved all the dogs were in his presence. he was like a kid, allowing himself to be pawed, sniffed and slobbered on by his furry fans (and a few human ones too…kidding!). Cesar was so gracious and charming and took time for everyone…bonding in spanish with a young fan, signing t-shirts, a cast, holding a dog purse, even talking on the phone to a friend of a present fan. he also signed a book with a special message for my mom "to Cathy, The Leeder of the Pack." (yes, my idea, totally cheesy, but i knew my mom would go nuts over it).
at the end of the signing, as his people were whisking him away, he thanked everyone and asked if there was anything else. so, i jumped in and told him that i still wanted that photo in front of the restaurant. he said, "you got it!" and quickly ripped off his winter vest and cosy sweater. stripped down to only his Lulu Lemon tighty-whitey t-shirt, we ran across Carlton Street. i had the pay duty cops stop traffic so i could get the shot. as soon as i got it, he thanked me and ran back across the street and into his car of people and they drove of. this all happened within 60 seconds and i was super impressed of how good of a sport he was. thanks Cesar!
(FUN SIDE NOTE: i recognized one of the pay duty officers, who ticketed me for my one and only traffic violation. i misread a sign that was a no left turn before 6:30pm. the font was small and i just saw the 6pm. it was 6:05pm. boy, was i mad that day. we have since made peace.)
i will be having a giveaway on the Marcia Leeder Photography Facebook Group for a copy of 'Cesar's Rules' when we reach 800 fans, so join the group and tell all of your dog-loving friends. anyone who comments on the blog below will receive an extra vote!
Cesar, next time you come to Toronto, my wish is for you to be able to bring Junior and his beautiful blue eyes with you. i would love to photograph you with your pack!
(100% of proceeds will go towards a very special dog charity project i am working on)
fans (both human and furry) lined-up for hours in the cold to have the chance to meet Cesar.
Cesar recorded the cheering crowd as he arrived.
check out his new book: 'Cesar's Rules'. Join the Marcia Leeder Photography Facebook Group to enter to win your own copy. commenting on the blog below gets you another vote!
many fans patiently waited outside for hours before it was their turn to come inside to meet Cesar.
everyone was full of smiles as Cesar was gracious to give everyone his time.
and the fans were happy to give him some love in return!
the NO BSL members represented.
all the dogs were so well-behaved at his feet.
Cesar even signed a book for my mom! (thank you Alison Preiss for the photo)
when he took me up on my offer to photograph him in front of the Mexican restaurant across the street in the freezing cold (wearing only a t-shirt) he made my day! Cesar you are such a great sport! Gracious! Por favor, visite de nuevo pronto!
FOR MORE PHOTOS from the event check out the slideshow below. make sure to comment below (especially if you see your dog) to be entered to win Cesar's new book!


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She may be rich and famous and able to communicate with wood nymphs and sacred moon beams, but Shailene Woodley is lacking one thing most of us all enjoy: a home. The Fault In Our Stars beauty, who's becoming better known for her weird "be sure to sun your vagina and eat clay"-isms than anything else, admitted to Jimmy Kimmel that not only is she homeless, all of her possessions can fit into a carry-on bag. Take a look…
- 1 pair of jeans
- 1 hoodie
- A few tank tops and t-shirts
- A few leggings
- 1 computer
- 1 burn phone given to her by her press team, with the phone number taped to the back
That right there darlings is my idea of hell. She doesn't even have the basics, like an ionic curling wand, a Diptyque Baies candle, or the La Mer skin care line! Nor does she have all of her supposedly indispensable homemade lotions and potions and natural deodorant made out of sea mud blessed by a Shaman during a full moon?
And how did she end up homeless? Well she does in fact own a lovely manse in LA but gave it to her grandmother and now couch surfs with friends when she's in town. I bet she smells great.
What do you think of Shai's minimalist life? Do you think you could get by on a bag full of basics or is your idea of freedom a walk-in closet with all the Loubs you could ever want?


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Pitwon, RCA; Hopkins, K; Milward, D; Muggeridge, M; Selviah, DR; Wang, K; (2010) Passive assembly of parallel optical devices onto polymer-based optical printed circuit boards. CIRCUIT WORLD , 36 (4) 3 - 11. 10.1108/03056121011087177.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the latest results from research and development into future optical printed circuit board (OPCB) interconnects and low-cost assembly methods.Design/methodology/approach - A novel method of high-precision passive alignment and assembly to OPCBs was invented and a full evaluation platform developed to demonstrate the viability of this technique.Findings - The technique was successfully deployed to passively align and assemble a lens receptacle onto an embedded polymer waveguide array in an electro-OPCB. The lens receptacle formed a critical part of a dual lens pluggable in-plane connection interface between peripheral optical devices and an OPCB. A lateral in-plane mechanical accuracy of +/- 2 mu m has been measured using this technique.Research limitations/implications - As this is a free space optical coupling process, surface scattering at the exposed waveguide end facet was significant.Originality/value - This paper details a novel method of passively assembling arbitrary optical devices onto multi-mode optical waveguides and outlines the procedure and equipment required. A lens coupling solution is also presented which reduces susceptibility of a connecting optical interface to contamination.
|Passive assembly of parallel optical devices onto polymer-based optical printed circuit boards
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|Optical instruments, Printed circuits, Polymers, Data communication equipment, WAVE-GUIDE BENDS
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