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Interactive Archive
I remember many years ago my big sister moving to London and seeming so cosmopolitan: she did things like grab a quick bite from Pret, or go to the theatre, or eat sushi. She also carried with her at all times something called The London A-Z map in her handbag which she consulted in doorways when it was raining, or as we were rushing along busy pavements. It seemed so thrilling, but at the same time quite daunting: I wasn't confident at map-reading and was nervous about having to rely so heavily on this minuscule printed map that had different parts of London on entirely different pages and expected you to match them up.
You've already seen Sir Peter Blake's contribution to this year's Liverpool Biennial; a giant dazzle ship in pop-art colours sailing down the Mersey. But why should Peter have all the fun creating technicolour tug-boats? Well that doesn't have to be the case anymore. The inspired folks over at Studio Hato have busied themselves recently working with the Biennial curators to create an online resource where maritime enthusiasts can make your own dazzle ship. It's not a real ship obviously – just a digital one for the internet – but the joy of building it online is just as good.
Bad news guys, I've got a new game to tell you about that's going to eat up all your free time and turn you into one of those dopey phone-tapping lunatics that stare at you all bug-eyed when you ask them to "Get the hell out of the WAY!" on the morning commute. I've not had this kind of crippling addiction since Monument Valley, but this one's bitten me hard.
I can't remember the last time that an online ad left me open-mouthed and staring blankly at my computer screen, but this from 18 Feet and Rising for Skoda managed it. Easily. The campaign, called Fight For Attention, uses pupil-tracking technology to measure the way the viewer interacts with a 90 second-long split-screen film in which two cars, a white and a blue Skoda, literally vie for your attention. It then creates a personalised infographic to show you which held your attention for longer, identifying the details you missed and creating a percentage measure of which won. It's space-ace in its accuracy.
Find yourself losing your wallet a few times too often? On the bus after a couple of shandies? No longer in your pocket at a festival? On the cistern of a toilet? Yeah, me too. Luckily we live in the age of technology, so people all over the world are making sure dummies like us can keep track of our personal bits. Where's Wallet has just made its online debut, and looks fantastic: "Thanks to cutting edge technology, each wallet features a thin, unobtrusive sensor, so you never have to replace your wallet, or its contents, ever again." Sounds good to me! Before you get your shit old wallet out to actually pay for one of these babies, check out the brilliant interactive website for it illustrated by Harry Bloom. The Where's Wally? aesthetic of the site asks you to locate lost items, and play fun quizzes about tech. Bash that auctioneer's gavel down, I am s-o-l-d.
This is fantastic. An interactive, well-designed web article about Tod Papageorge, who photographed Studio 54 in its heydey, with accompanying photographs of said photographer by one of my favourite photographers Jeremy Liebman. And that's not all, as you scroll down this slick, smooth site and learn about the glitter-smeared naughtiness of the club that notoriously only let in people with "high energy" and was once referred to as the best party in the world, ever, you are treated to soundbites from an interview with Tod about his new book.
Publishers are almost unique in that when it comes to their birthdays they give everybody else a gift, rather than demanding one themselves. Kind eh? Especially in the case of Penguin, which has announced that to celebrate its 80th birthday it will be launching a new range of 80 books, entitled Little Black Classics, to be sold for a mere 80p each. 80p, you cry! That's madness! Well yes. And even more excitingly for some, the series is accompanied by a fun little interactive website, designed by freelance designer Mathieu Triay, which invites readers either to shake their phones or to drag the penguin across their screens in order to discover the titles and quotations from the books included. Whoever claimed that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" evidently has much to learn from the publishing house, which appears to be getting progressively more exciting with each passing year.
Ever lay back wondering how your sex life and masturbation habits compare to everyone else's? Well wonder no more. London agency Nice and Serious has created an interactive, infographic-packed site for the Wellcome Collection, running alongside its current Institute of Sexology show.
I very rarely struggle to start writing a post – but I have hit a bit of a wall with this. Bear with me while I try and get across the magnificence of this game. I just spent a while playing A Way To Go – a web game created by Vincent Morisset with the help of Caroline Robert, Philippe Lambert and Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit. I knew it was going to be super special before the gameplay started and it informed me that it "is an interactive experience for human beings between 5 and 105 years old. Maybe it lasts six minutes. Maybe it lasts forever." Then it asks you to pretty much abandon your mouse. Abandon my mouse?! Are you crazy?! But you do, because you trust it. And then you're in the forest and the game says to you: "Go on, make your way. Stop to see the smallest things. No one's waiting, no one's keeping score."
Remember Tampon Run, the brilliant game designed by two teenage girls at coding camp to address inequality in the tech industry AND the taboo surrounding periods at the SAME TIME? It remains one of my favourite things we've every posted on It's Nice That, so you can imagine my delight when Andy Gonzales and Sophie Houser, the brainboxes behind it, got back in touch last week to announce that they'd teamed up with a tech company to develop it even further and make it available as a mobile app, so you can kiss goodbye to your bus journey boredom.
Y'know that dream of leaving London, forming a commune and living off the land? Well, creative studio Featuring Featuring has got it together and is doing just that. Designers on Holiday is an application-based escape, an opportunity to join a bunch of international designers working together to build a campsite that, once complete, will be run as a co-operative.
All over the world funny and loving music nerds who appreciate whale song, birds tweeting, technology and pizza are crying "Yay! Panda Bear!" The American musician who is currently residing in Portugal has just launched a brand new website, featuring an animated interactive slideshow to accompany the fizzing echoes of the music he makes. Just one tap on your computer keyboard and you can fly through strange, sometimes seizure-inducing audio and visual clips put together by Patakk, Marco Papiro and Danny Perez, with a little help from Seen Studio. Not totally unlike the freaky tunnel boat scene in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, this cunning album promo is a perfect accompaniment to Panda Bear's well-known and much-loved sound and vibe. You can read a really great interview with Noah Lennox himself over here on Pitchfork.
"Give me more digital gifts!" I always exclaim at Christmas. "Pack my stocking full of new and inventive coding experiments with a festive twist!" This year Ronai David, Damien Mortini and Aurelien Gantier heard my cry and put together Christmas Experiments, a digital advent calendar that reveals a new web-based treat every day throughout December. Each one is the product of a different developer and offers a unique take on Yuletide cheer. In one you're invited to navigate a wayward orphan through a dormitory, avoiding the flash of fairy lights as you go. In another you're Santa, tasked with navigating a gang of feckless elves through a complex floating maze where danger lurks around each corner.
In April this year UsTwo ruined a gig I was at by letting me trial a new game due to be released the following week. I was supposed to be seeing one of my favourite bands but instead spent two hours tapping away trying to navigate a little princess through a geometrically impossible world. A couple of weeks later everyone was obsessing over that same princess.
Berlin-based design studio Edenspiekermann has just completed work on an impressive new digital publishing platform called Blloon that offers a subscription service for eBooks in a similar format to Spotify's music service. The studio was given complete creative freedom to produce the UX and UI of the product as well as the branding itself, giving a beautifully coherent feel to the final result.
Full disclosure before I say anything about this new app: I'm terrible – TERRIBLE – at managing my personal finances. Wages come in at the start of the month, I pay my rent, bills and council tax and then I try not to look at my bank account until the next pay day. Sometimes there's a couple of quid left, mostly I've plundered the depths of my overdraft. So I had a look at Pennies with a great deal of skepticism; it's going to take more than an app to sort my money out.
The simplest ideas can often be the most powerful, and that's certainly the case with Eight Inc.'s new work for Cancer Research UK. Tomorrowww is a browser plug-in that removes the word cancer from your online experience, a practical yet potent way of visualising a future when the battle against the disease has been won.
See Nothing can only really be described as a kind of digital zine, a curation of graphic design experiments, visual puzzles and interactive mind-games for iPad and iPhone which touch on the theme of non-visibility and seeing nothing. The app, created by the Italian graphic design studio Jekyll & Hyde, brings together the work of around 20 different graphic designers and illustrators, whose work for issue 3 of See Nothing centre around the idea of what we see, how we see it, and most importantly what we don't see. Faceless figures, images that contort with a swipe of your finger, and hypnotic moving pictures are in abundance: this is an app where things are never what they seem.
There was a great deal of coverage of the 9/11 Memorial Museum when it opened last week, and on the whole the arts and design press focussed on the architectural angle. But museums are (or should be) much more than buildings; and Brooklyn-based interactive design studio Local Projects was tasked with bringing this complex and controversial chapter in contemporary history to life.
Interstate US Studio Public Library have just finished work on an app that we're very excited about indeed. 5 Every Day is a web and mobile platform that presents a curated selection of five daily events, exhibitions, activities and venues to explore in Los Angeles. All the research is done by the band YACHT, so you know their recommendations will be fun. Each list only lasts for 24 hours and then is completely refreshed, meaning every selection is unique and you won't ever repeat your day's activities.
For most of us the world of coding seems wholly impenetrable. We know how to navigate the internet and any number of applications but haven't the slightest clue how they're all built. In fact the very notion of building anything digitally seems frankly terrifying. But we've got news for you, it doesn't need to be like that – digital technology is here to stay and it's probably about time you got to know your front end from your back, your UI from your UX and your HTML5 from your CSS3.
If I'm honest I don't give two hoots about the gaming industry in general. When I was a kid I lost two years to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the N64, and I still have dreams about playing it; the characters I met in Hyrule, the tragic death of all the Zoran people and the battles I fought repeatedly until every one of the kingdom's races were freed from Gannon's wrath. My sense of nostalgia for that time is palpable. But then I found that no other game offered me the same escapism and abandoned the whole experience for good.
It's a challenge creative agents are very familiar with; how do you best showcase an eclectic roster of talent in way that celebrates the particular abilities of each while maintaining some measure of coherence across the agency as a whole? Well London-based Visual Artists has given a masterclass in doing just that by way of their brilliant new site designed by Yes Studio. The use of imagery – both still and moving – creates a vibrant, dynamic and enjoyable user experience, the perfect platform to shout about the skills of VA's portfolio of creative excellence. I really like the pithy communication as well; short sharp bursts of information rather than self-indulgent artists's statements are the order of the day and keep the overall look and feel very visually-led. Top work all round.
If – as the saying goes – simplicity is genius, then the gang over at WeTransfer are probably in line for some sort of grant. You'd think as the main partners for our summer symposium Here, they'd be pretty busy psyching themselves up for a day of creative insight and inspiration, but they've found time to create an app for their hugely popular file sharing service.
Christmas is a time when us Brits break with tradition and make ham-fisted attempts to interact with our neighbours, leading to awkward evenings of cheap mulled wine and excruciating small talk. Luckily for us, one of our east London neighbours is ustwo, the digital design agency who combine high-tech brilliance with a wicked sense of mischief. The latest offering from their app game team (the same chaps who brought us the amazingly addictive Whale Trail) is Monument Valley, a stunning Escher-inspired game where you lead a princess through a beautifully-realised world of hidden paths and secret staircases. The teaser trailer and accompanying imagery are enough to whet our appetites and have us wishing away the festive period so we get closer to next year's release date.
Interactive artist and conceptual maverick Rajeev Basu's been involved in some unusual projects in the past, from illustrated commercial drones to a Facebook hack that turns your personal page into a mighty hawk. His latest offering is as tedious as it gets though, an anti-epic piece of computer-generated purgatory that sees you stuck in an endless queue with nothing but your own will to keep you going. Like Doom and its many derivatives you can jump and strafe to avoid your foes, but this time your foes really couldn't give less of a toss about you and the only weapon you have to stave off trouble is your own fist… which you have to use to punch ourself in the face…repeatedly. Good old-fashioned fun to get you going on a Monday morning!
Designer and art director David Rinman is still just a kid, but at 22 he's already produced more cool stuff than most of us could shake a stick at without getting really, really tired arms. The Swedish creative has just graduated from Forsberg's School of Design & Advertising and moved straight into a job with 25ah, an agency specialising in branding and commercial strategy.
New apps, new updates, new tech discoveries, none of those are really that exciting are they? They're just things that happen in our modern lives that we have to get on with. That's why when someone makes a really good promo with a beardy man in it for a really cool app that actually could make our lives easier, it sticks out as something we genuinely want to get involved in. In this case it's an app that lets you unlock your computer just by knocking on your phone in your pocket. Imagine your phone is a tiny door of a party you've just arrived at. Imagine your phone is a trunk with a crocodile inside. Imagine your phone is the door to a teenager's bedroom. You knock to unlock. Easy!
Everyone's always like, "Oh my god I would LOVE to run with the bulls in Spain!" when harping on about their bottomless bucket list. Really? Would you? After checking out this truly impressive interactive bull run that Volvo have set up, I think you'll find yourself drawing a line through that dream and setting off to buy some new underwear. The idea behind the latest Volvo campaign is simple: attach cameras to the truck, the driver, the runners and the helicopter and hey presto! A bull run without bloodshed or underwear soiling, straight from the comfort of your own chair. How's that for progress?
It's always interesting to see online editorial platforms trying new and interesting ways of presenting their content to make full use of the digital experience, and we've written before about Pitchfork's particular penchant for impressive visual journeys. In a slightly different media space, The New York Times is also keenly exploring different ways of bringing articles to life in the multimedia age, with their Snow-fall piece on the Tunnel Creek avalanche often cited as one of the best examples.
In 100 years, people studying our society are likely to be baffled by certain things. Combing through our cultural debris, historians and archaeologists will have to try and piece together what twerking was, or what a Jedward was used for. Chief among those cultural obsessions likely to stump them will be the apparent worship of a tiny Italian plumber, which will make no sense to anyone. Still in for a penny in for a pound we say and so perk up your Monday morning no end by spending some time at the Museum of Mario.
There's disappointingly few great interactive websites out on the world wide web, fewer still that communicate something truly meaningful, so it's an extraordinary pleasure to write about one that does both. Digesting Science is an interactive site created by the Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma at Barts Hospital, London that's designed to explain MS to children with parents that suffer from the condition. It discusses, with a refreshingly un-patronising tone, the causes and effects of the disease as well as the possible treatments.
This latest collaboration between the London Symphony Orchestra and interactive design studio Sennep has been specifically directed towards schools and students as an educational tool to teach kids about the make-up of a classical orchestra. Which I guess means we're just a bunch of big kids over here as we've spent a fair bit of time playing with it and getting to know the orchestra that little bit better.
What do Whale Trail (a game where you pilot a grinning whale through the clouds), Rando (an app that lets you anonymously share photos around the world) and the new Hudl tablet from Tesco have in common? Very little to the untrained eye, but each is the product of digital design agency ustwo™. We loved Whale Trail, it cost us a lot of precious hours in the studio, and we thoroughly enjoy using Rando, which leads us to believe that the Hudl is going to be right up our street too, even if we're still struggling to get our heads round the concept of a Tesco tablet.
Digital art aficionados will be descending on Spitalfields Market in London next week for a celebration of terrific technology-driven creativity. Following a successful launch in New York earlier this summer, the Experience Intel tour hits these shores and they are working with top amazing digital practitioners to show off their talents using the brand's wares.
Today's music video is a little later in the day than usual – so that we can bring you an exclusive first look at a brilliant new video from Moniker. Somewhere between music video and video game, Do Not Touch invites the viewer to use their mouse pointer to complete various tasks, from staying in a certain area of the screen, to avoiding a naked model and being the opponent for a scantily clad boxer. Beautifully simple and super effective as we've come to expect from Moniker – and I'm sure Dutch band Light Light are suitably thrilled. Get touching.
Rafaël Rozendaal hasn't updated his portfolio of interactive web artworks for a while now, presumably because he's been too busy coding, creating, opining at conferences and generally shaping the future of the internet. No big deal. But true to form he's recently returned with a new site that allows you to play God with the weather. Lookingatsomething.com lets you adjust the power of rain, the chatter of birdsong and the clapping of thunder with the simplest of flicks of your cursor, transforming a perfectly pleasant day into a torrential downpour in the blink of an eye. Once again Rafaël provokes us to question our relationship with the web and, as ever, we can have terrific fun as we do it. We're thrilled to have Rafaël talking about his work at Here 2013, our creative symposium.
How much YouTube do you think you watched this year? A lot probably — over four billion hours of video are watched each month according to these alarming YouTube stats which we have no reason to doubt. About time then for a bit of fun to be made out of the format we now know probably better than our loved ones' faces, so join Publicis Groupe in this utterly genius hack of one of the most well-known sites on the internet (big shout) by altering the volume, quality, screen size and play button to your heart's content — you won't be disappointed, just don't make Maurice angry. Get going here.
There's nothing I like better than a good old swing session, and now there's a perfect excuse to slap on a smile and shoot through the air in innocent ecstasy! This kind of wild excitement derived from such a simple pleasure is something often lost on adults as they grow up to experience the more 'serious' pleasures dirty minds may have thought I was alluding to, but Ann Hamilton's The Event of a Thread installation, currently on display in New York poses a serious question; who says swings are just for kids?
We all love a bit of colour in our lives, right? It's the spice that can turn the drabbest of life experience into a wealth of vivid wonder, taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. Carlos Cruz-Diez has been exploring the kinetic movement of colour in his celebrated works, creating interactive manufactured chambers that lures visitors to rethink their perceptions of colour in their everyday lives.


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You'll Never Guess Which Pretty Little Liars Star Is From Africa! (PHOTOS)
The Pretty Little Liars ;guys and gals all sound American when they're strolling through the halls of Rosewood High, but in real life, one of them is putting on the American accent because she was born in Africa. Want to know who it is ? Click to the next slide to find out! ;


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Holiday hardships
Kids may have to go without since toy donations down this year
CORPUS CHRISTI - Toys For Tots needs 9,150 toys for Catholic Charities alone, but the drive has collected only 7,876 toys for the entire Coastal Bend area, which needs about 50,000 toys.
Even Santa would have trouble meeting that demand.
And it's not the only organization that provides for children at Christmas that faces telling hundreds of parents it can't help them. It's hard times so far for several local holiday charities, as donors feeling the financial pinch rein in their giving.
"It's going to really be difficult to have to tell parents and grandparents there's not enough toys," said Linda McKamey, director of Catholic Charities, the Corpus Christi coordinating agency for applications and toy disbursement for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots 2008 program.
Catholic Charities is one of three major Corpus Christi agencies supplied by the Marines' toy drive. Toys they collect also are distributed in Beeville, Ingleside, Aransas Pass, Driscoll, Robstown, Bishop and area colonias.
As of Thursday, Marines had received 7,876 toys, enough for about 3,500 children, said Gunnery Sgt. Leonardo Palma, assistant coordinator for the Corpus Christi area drive. His 14 Marines are bent on delivering -- with perhaps a baby doll, teddy bear or toy truck -- a message of hope to needy youngsters, he said.
Collections are so significantly down that the Marine organizers are concerned.
"Kids shouldn't do without because of the mess our economy is in," Palma said. "Everybody's hurting and nobody's donating like past years. Our donation boxes are empty compared to past years when we haven't faced telling any parents 'no.' "
Today the Marines hope to fill a semi-tractor trailer with new, unwrapped toys from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the H-E-B plus! on Saratoga Boulevard. "If we can't get it filled, we're going to have to tell hundreds of parents there aren't toys for their children this Christmas," Palma said.
Donations also are down for other area Toys for Tots campaigns. "We're down about 25 percent this year," said Lisa Bockholt, coordinator for the Kleberg and Kenedy counties Toys For Tots program. Last year they helped 1,016 children, and by Wednesday this year, 585 families had applied for toys for 1,242 children.
Other programs that are expanding their provision to meet the growing need in the Coastal Bend are finding children are the motivated givers, but it's not enough.
The YMCA's Shoes For Kids project will provide new tennis shoes for more than 50 Evans and Oak Park elementary students on Thursday, with help from their corporate sponsor Flint Hills Resources, said Lindy Burns, Youth Outreach Manager for YMCA.
The tougher task for Burns has been collecting and funding extras: socks, sweaters and school supplies for youngsters this Christmas, she said. Most of the goods collected have come from student groups she meets with at seven middle and five high schools, she said.
"We need a lot more extras for needy kids, and while my school group kids are always interested in helping other kids, we need a lot more than they have provided."
Shop With a Cop Inc. is facing shaving some youngsters off its shopping spree list, organizers said.
The Fraternal Order of Police program has fallen short this year for the first time in 11 years, said co-chairwoman Tara Mylett.
The nonprofit has enough money to take about 150 Corpus Christi children Christmas shopping with local police officers, significantly below the 233 children they took shopping last year. The goal this year was 300 children, but with businesses cutting their sponsorships in half, the organization needs about $5,500 by Dec. 22 to keep from turning youngsters away, Mylett said.
"We desperately need to get the money to keep all the kids already on our list," Mylett said. "We're hit hard like everybody else."
The 2008 Caller-Times Christmas Appeals campaign is nearly $10,000 below where it was at this time last year, said Robert McCarty an accountant for the drive's accounting agency, the United Way of the Coastal Bend.
The campaign has raised $75,850 compared with $85,639.50 last year at this time, McCarty said.
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Just one of the Legacies of 9/11
by Kevin Fenton Boilingfrogs
Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn't know they were here, until it was too late.
The authorization I gave the National Security Agency (NSA) after September the 11th helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities. The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time.
-President Bush, December 17, 2005
In the aftermath of 9/11, reams of newsprint were given over to discussing the CIA and FBI failures before the attacks; the agency had some of the hijackers under surveillance and allegedly lost them, the bureau was unable even to inform its own acting director of the Zacarias Moussaoui case. However, the USA's largest and most powerful intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, got a free ride. There was no outcry over its failings, no embarrassing Congressional hearings for its director. Yet, as we will see, the NSA's performance before 9/11 was shocking.
It is unclear when the NSA first intercepted a call by one of the nineteen hijackers. Reporting indicates it began listening in on telephone calls to the home of Pentagon hijacker Khalid Almihdhar's wife some time around late 1996. However, although Almihdhar certainly… Continue reading
by Kevin Fenton
Introduction to Chapter 15 of Disconnecting the Dots , for publication at 911Truth.org :
In January 2000, several high-ranking al-Qaeda operatives, including alleged Flight 77 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, held a summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was monitored by the CIA and a local Malaysian service, although the agency reportedly failed to exploit this opportunity to learn what bin Laden's organization was planning. In addition, the CIA deliberately withheld information about the two men, in particular that Almihdhar had a US visa, from the FBI. The agency then allegedly suffered the misfortune of losing Almihdhar, Alhazmi and another al-Qaeda operative in Bangkok, Thailand. The surveillance of the Malaysia summit was run by Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, its chief Richard Blee and his deputy Tom Wilshire. On January 12 and 14 Blee gave his superior, Cofer Black, incorrect briefings about what was happening with the surveillance. Chapter 15 picks up the story on January 15.
Chapter 15
I know nobody read that cable
After the CIA allegedly lost Khalid Almihdhar, Nawaf Alhazmi, and Khallad bin Attash in Bangkok, it asked the Thais… Continue reading
It's front page news today that :
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World paper tried to access the mobile phones of 9/11 victims, a former New York City police officer claimed on Monday.
It's also front page news today that the new Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that American soldiers are in Iraq because of 9/11 , even though AFP notes:
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.
(see this for details).
But a more important story – and one which might focus on a more appropriate country than Iraq – is that the co-chair of the Congressional Joint 9/11 Inquiry (Bob Graham) today alleged a cover up by the U.S. government of state assistance by Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 hijackers.
Graham is no flake. He was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years (including 18 months as chairman), member of the CIA External Advisory Board, chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 18-year U.S. senator, two-term governor of Florida, co-chair of the national commission on the BP oil spill, and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Graham writes today in the Daily Beast:
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The first two hijackers who entered the United States did so through Los Angeles International Airport in mid-January 2000. Within days they were urged by a shadowy man, already described in an FBI report as an "agent" of the Saudi government, to relocate to San Diego with promises of extensive support–promises on which he promptly delivered.?
May 20, 2011
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder's potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer.
The lab data, contained in more than 9,000 pages of files that emerged a year after the Justice Department closed its inquiry and condemned the late Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator, shows unusual levels of silicon and tin in anthrax powder from two of the five letters.
Those elements are found in compounds that could be used to weaponize the anthrax, enabling the lethal spores to float easily so they could be readily inhaled by the intended victims, scientists say.
The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of tracing purchases of the more than 100 such chemical products available before the attacks, which might have produced hard evidence against Ivins or led the agency to the real culprit.
But the FBI lab reports released in late February give no hint that bureau agents tried to find the buyers of additives such as tin-catalyzed silicone polymers.
The apparent failure of the FBI to pursue this avenue of investigation raises the ominous possibility that the killer is still on the loose.
A McClatchy analysis of the records also shows that other key scientific questions were… Continue reading
June 7 2006
FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11″
Reread this full article, reprinted at 911truth.org from Muckraker (no longer available online) here:
No Hard Evidence Connecting bin Laden to 9/11
Courtesy of The Muckraker Report
June 6, 2006 — This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through Internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (Winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist web page for Usama Bin Laden.[1] (See bottom of this web page for Most Wanted page) In the e-mail, the question is asked, "Why doesn't Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted poster make any direct connection with the events of September 11, 2001?" The FBI says on its Bin Laden web page that Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. According to the FBI, these attacks killed over 200 people. The FBI concludes its reason for "wanting" Bin Laden by saying, "In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorists attacks throughout the world."
On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden's Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough answer is that the failure of the US air defenses can be traced to a number of factors and people. There were policy changes, facility changes, and personnel changes that had recently been made, and there were highly coincidental military exercises that were occurring on that day. But some of the most startling facts about the air defense failures have to do with the utter failure of communications between the agencies responsible for protecting the nation. At the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), two people stood out in this failed chain of communications. One was a lawyer on his first day at the job, and another was a Special Operations Commander who was never held responsible for his critical role, or even questioned about it.
The 9/11 Commission wrote in its report that — "On 9/11, the defense of U.S. airspace depended on close interaction between two federal agencies: the FAA and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)."[1]
According to the Commission, this interaction began with air traffic controllers (ATCs) at the relevant regional FAA control centers, which on 9/11 included Boston, New York, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. In the event of a hijacking, these ATCs were expected to "notify their supervisors, who in turn would inform management all the way up to FAA headquarters. Headquarters had a hijack coordinator, who was the director of the FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security or his or her designate.…Continue reading
by Sibel Edmonds Boiling Frogs
Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org
Last week John Young's information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission's report on my interview (the infamous Sibel Edmonds Case), and aptly titled this particular file as "Sibel Edmonds Censored Yet Again." Once you read the PDF document you'll quickly see the reason for Cryptome's appropriate label. The entire report, by that I mean the entire report, is blacked out (actually, whited-out;-). It took me less than one minute to scan the entire document; basically, scrolling down the white pages-one white page after another. Initially, I was not a bit surprised. Hey, I've been declared the most gagged and classified person in US history, after all- State Secrets Privilege invocation twice, gagging the entire Congress for the first (and only) time in US history, hundreds of pages of blacked out DOJ-IG report… So, as I said, I didn't find it a bit surprising. However, after the minute it took to go over these blank pages, I started clicking and scanning all the other files (interviews by the 9/11 Commission), and that's where I was truly surprised:
Despite some redactions here and there, and in a few cases fairly extensive redaction, there were no interviews where the entire interview (and the report on the interview) was blacked out in its entirety. Mine was the only one… Continue reading
By Nathan Diebenow
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
A Time Magazine 'Person of the Year' argues WikiLeaks serves the public good
A member of a group of former intelligence professionals that has rallied behind WikiLeaks suggested in a recent interview with Raw Story that the world would be a different and better place had the online secrets outlet come into existence years sooner.
"If there had been a mechanism like Wikileaks, 9/11 could have been prevented," Coleen Rowley, a former special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview.
Rowley and her colleague Bogdan Dzakovic, a special agent for the FAA's security division, explained this position in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times in October. However, they admit no claim to the original idea of an established pro-whistle-blower infrastructure. It's purely the US government's, she said.
"That's not even us," she told Raw Story. "That's not our personal opinion. We're really reciting the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission
that attributed the failures of 9/11 to a failure to share information not only inside agencies, not only between agencies, but with the public and the media."
"People have forgotten that that was the main conclusion of the 9/11 Commission," Rowley added.
"The 9/11 Commission was based on four other major investigation inquiries," she continued "One was called the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry. That started in Jan. 2002. It went on for well over a year. Then I testified to the Judiciary Committee, and… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
Foreign Policy Journal
Just after September 11th 2001, many governments began investigations into possible insider trading related to the terrorist attacks of that day. Such investigations were initiated by the governments of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monte Carlo, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and others. Although the investigators were clearly concerned about insider trading, and considerable evidence did exist, none of the investigations resulted in a single indictment. That's because the people identified as having been involved in the suspicious trades were seen as unlikely to have been associated with those alleged to have committed the 9/11 crimes.
This is an example of the circular logic often used by those who created the official explanations for 9/11. The reasoning goes like this: if we assume that we know who the perpetrators were (i.e. the popular version of "al Qaeda") and those who were involved in the trades did not appear to be connected to those assumed perpetrators, then insider trading did not occur.
That's basically what the 9/11 Commission told us. The Commission concluded that "exhaustive investigations" by the SEC and the FBI "uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions." What they meant was that someone did profit through securities transactions but, based on the Commission's assumptions of guilt, those who profited were not associated with those who were guilty of conducting the attacks. In a footnote, the Commission report acknowledged "highly suspicious trading on its face," but said that this trading on United Airlines was traced back to "A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda." 1
With respect to insider trading, or what is more technically called informed trading, the Commission report was itself suspect for several reasons.…Continue reading
An Open Letter to Terry Allen, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, David Corn, Chris Hayes, George Monbiot, Matthew Rothschild, and Matt Taibbi1
by David Ray Griffin2
July 6, 2010
According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, some of its central claims, especially about the destruction of the World Trade Center, show its members to be scientifically challenged. In the opinion of some of these critics, moreover, claims made by members of this movement are sometimes unscientific in the strongest possible sense, implying an acceptance of magic and miracles.
After documenting this charge in Part I of this essay, I show in Part II that the exact opposite is the case: that the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center implies miracles (I give nine examples), and that the 9/11 Truth Movement, in developing an alternative hypothesis, has done so in line with the assumption that the laws of nature did not take a holiday on 9/11. In Part III, I ask these left-leaning critics some questions evoked by the fact that it is they, not members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, who have endorsed a conspiracy theory replete with miracle stories as well as other absurdities.
I. The Charge that 9/11 Truth Theories Rest on Unscientific, Even Magical, Beliefs
Several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, besides showing contempt for its members, charge them with relying on claims that are contradicted by good science and, in some cases, reflect a belief… Continue reading
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
BoilingFrogsPost.com (Sibel Edmonds' Blog)
Recently released FBI documents prove the existence of highly sensitive National Security and criminal investigations of "Turkish Activities" in Chicago prior to September 11, 2001. These documents add further support to many of the allegations that former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has claimed, in public and in Congress, since 2002. The documents were released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request into an organization called the Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA), an organization repeatedly named by Ms. Edmonds as being complicit in the crimes that she became aware of when she was a translator at the FBI.
The documents released under FOIA are almost completely redacted, but they do support many of Edmonds' claims, including:
There were a number of very serious FBI investigations into "Turkish activity in Chicago" involving a number of targets, including TACA
These investigations were related to "National Security" among other things.
These investigations were regarded as so sensitive that no files were to be uploaded to FBI's computer system.
Congressional corruption was involved.
The FBI repeatedly conducted actual "physical surveillance" against Turkish and American targets.
Some of these investigations were shut down in 2001.
The documents comprise primarily of internal FBI ECs (Electronic Communications) between FBI offices. Most of the ECs are titled "Turkish American Cultural Association" although one from Feb 2000 is titled "Turkish Investigations in Chicago" which indicates that there were at least seven different pending investigations into Turkish activity in Chicago, and another later document from July 2001 indicates that there were at least ten investigations into TACA alone.…Continue reading
by James Corbett The Corbett Report
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds joined The Corbett Report last Friday to discuss the deplorable state of whistleblower "protections" in the United States, including S.372 , a bill making its way through the Senate that would allow the FBI and other "national security" agencies to dismiss whistleblowers' claims without any form of oversight.
Listen below:
Or watch the YouTube video in the player below:
The details of Edmonds' experience blowing the whistle on the FBI–where, in the wake of 9/11, she worked in the Turkish language division of the Washington field office's translation department–are by now fairly well known amongst followers of the alternative media. The revelations that have emerged from her case have been explosive: that foreign operatives working within the translation department tried to recruit her for their operations; that there exists a nuclear spy ring aided and abetted by high ranking U.S. government officials selling America's nuclear secrets on the black market; that foreign language intelligence directly pertaining to 9/11 was deliberately withheld from FBI agents in the field; that Osama Bin Laden had an 'intimate relationship' with the United States government right up until 9/11. Perhaps the only thing more remarkable than the information she has revealed is that she ever got to… Continue reading
Posted at the History Commons Groups
by Kevin Fenton
We have found the famous "What Do I Do Now?" memo drafted by 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow on March 2, 2003. The memo advised staffers newly hired by the commission what they should do after starting work.
The memo was found by Erik at the National Archives and uploaded to the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd.
Philip Shenon's The Commission highlighted the memo and one controversial section in particular. The section says:
Interactions with commissioners can be helpful to you and them. If you are contacted by a commissioner with questions, please contact Chris [Kojm, Zelikow's deputy] or me. Consulting with the Chair and Vice-Chair, we will be sure that the appropriate members of the Commission staff are responsive.
Shenon called this provision, channelling contacts between the staff and the commissioners through Zelikow and his deputy, "unusual" and "worrying to the staff." He added:
It occurred to several of the staff members, especially those with experience on other federal commissions, that Zelikow was trying to cut off their contact with the people they really worked for–the commissioners. Democratic commissioner Jamie Gorelick saw a copy of Zelikow's memo and was furious. Through an arrangement with her law firm, she intended to spend nearly half of her work week on commission business, and she was not going to have Zelikow telling the staff that they could not speak freely with her–that they had to wait to get his… Continue reading
November 25, 2009
[Story Updated 12/2/2009 at 911truth.org with reviwed material from www.911.wikileaks.org.]
From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
The messages were broadcasted "live" to the global community — sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message was from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.
Text pagers are usually carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center.
The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.
Twitter users should refer to the hashtag #911txts. We will give status updates at twitter.com/wikileaks.
Observations may be posted to posted here.
Please remember to protect and support our work.An index of messages released is available here.All pager messages released can be downloaded here as a single compressed text file. RELATED: 9/11 Text Messages Released: Wikileaks Publishes Intercepted Government Pager Texts As They Were Sent November 25, 2009 Government employees… Continue reading
9/11 Text Messages Released: Wikileaks Publishes Intercepted Government Pager Texts As They Were Sent
November 25, 2009
Government employees… Continue reading
November 4, 2009
Kevin Fenton
History Commons Groups
New details of a NORAD exercise called Amalgam Virgo 01-02 have been found in a document at the National Archives. The exercise involved a suicide pilot attacking a military installation in the US. It was run in early June 2001, just three months before 9/11.
The document was found in the 9/11 Commission's files at the National Archives by History Commons contributor Erik Larson (a.k.a. Paxvector) and uploaded to the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd. Some information about the exercise was revealed at the History Commons Groups blog in June, when we publicised a commission document summarising a group of military exercises designed to help the military deal with suicide hijackings. However, the newly-found three-page scenario provides more detail.
In the scenario, a Haitian AIDS sufferer named Reginald Montrose forms an alliance with Columbian drug lords. This link-up is inspired by funding the Columbians have provided to treat AIDS patients in Haiti. Montrose plans to crash a Cessna into the headquarters of the Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS) in Florida. Its destruction will draw attention to the Haitians' plight and "allow the drug cartel to flood the US with flights of aircraft and to increase their market share in the US drug market."
The exercise starts with a call from a local airport manager to SEADS saying that they have found a suicide note in a suspicious car, and one of their small aircraft is missing. Another call then… Continue reading
Complete 911 Timeline
Open-Content investigative project managed by matt , Paul , KJF , blackmax
This is a news item pertaining to the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website.
Additions as of November 4, 2009 Source URL: http://www.historycommons.org/news.jsp?oid=140393703-933
One of the main focuses at the 9/11 Timeline recently has been the destruction of a tape of FAA flight controllers' recollections. The tape was made at the FAA's New York Center about an hour and a half after the attacks ended, despite worries about the procedure by a union official and the controllers. However, when New York Center forwarded evidence about the attacks to the FBI the next day, it did not provide the tape , and its existence was not reported to superiors . The controllers then prepared written statements without reviewing the tape , and a union official was concerned whether anyone had heard it. One of the controllers later asked to listen to the taped statement he had made, but his request was denied . When New York Center submitted a formal accident package, the tape was again absent . Although the Center had been told to retain 9/11 evidence , the tape was later destroyed. Following the tape's destruction, the manager who destroyed it was suspended , but did not face criminal charges.…Continue reading
October 23, 2009
The Real News Network
Former FBI agent Colleen Rowley discusses still unanswered questions about the lead up to 9/11. Coleen Rowley is a former FBI agent and whistleblower. Rowley jointly held the TIME "Person of the Year" award in 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnLMAzUIb5M&feature=player_embedded


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Part 1: Domestic Adoption Nightmare, a Birth Mother Changes her Mind
Ilyssa, 28, and her husband Ben knew even before they got married four years ago that they wanted a big family. After trying to get pregnant for over a year, the couple began investigating international vs. national adoptions and decided to explore both options.
Ilyssa, who asked that her last name not be used, comes from a very special adoption background in that her parents took in literally dozens of foster kids during her lifetime, sharing meals, playtime and love in their home.
After briefly exploring an Ethiopian adoption and realizing the wait is nearly four years for a healthy newborn, the New Jersey couple shifted gears and began filling out paperwork for a domestic adoption.
They were interested in newborns. "We decided to try the domestic route, so my home study agency recommended an Alabama agency to initiate a domestic newborn adoption with a birth mother," says Ilyssa today. "We were open to sibling groups too."
"I come from a family of foster children and my parents took in dozens of transracial kids over the course of our childhood, and we received many priceless and amazing experiences" says Ilyssa. "We thought we'd get matched pretty quickly."
They flew through their paperwork, parenting training classes and home study in six months. Ilyssa also has a secret weapon in her adoption arsenal: Her sister Dr. Lori Ingber created adoption software that pairs newborns and awaiting parents. While Parentmatch.com didn't directly help Ilyssa, her sister was a fountain of adoption knowledge and has adopted herself.
"We were quickly matched to birth mother in her final month of pregnancy. We spoke for hours, at least five times, and the birth mother seemed ready and eager to be through with it. We drove south in January, when the baby was due, and bought the mom groceries and clothes, paid some bills for her, and she even asked me to be present with her in the delivery room so that I could cut my son's umbilical chord."
Ilyssa and her husband blew through about $2,000 those last few weeks in addition to hospital bills, hotel bills, adoption application fees, etc. But the cost proved far greater than the monetary devastation.
"After waiting two weeks in our hotel room, we got a call in the middle of the night from our social worker, who was crying in frustration, saying the birth mother had changed her mind." In fact, the birth mother was already in labor and the birth mother's own family (her sisters and mother) swept in and took the baby away.
"We never got to see him," says Ilyssa.
"I remember lying on the bed of the sterile hotel room, watching my husband sob like he was dying, I'll never forget that vision," recalls Ilyssa. We gave away all our new baby things to strangers in the lobby of the hotel and drove back to New Jersey, devastated."
Tune in on Friday, when Ilyssa tells us in Part 2 how she wound up with not one, not two… but three babies!
Updated: We've removed the family's last name, photo, and some other details from this post in order to respect their request for greater privacy.Add a Comment
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by CMC
On August 27, 2011 at 5:37 pm
sorry but ttc for 1 year and then going down the adoption route. If you aren't pregnant by then you go for tests not the nearest adoption agency!!!! They were purely lazy people who wanted a family now and not do as most of use do try try try again. Adoption is for the people who have tried every avenue, not some Brad & Angelina or Madonna wannabes. I am glad the original mother decided to keep her baby. I bet they wouldn't like to be separated from their own child. My brother and his wife are going through ivf now. You can't really adopt newborns unless you are 30 in Ireland as a result this story makes me mad. Why did they have to adopt newborns are toddlers not worth adopting?
by Adoptive Parent
On August 28, 2011 at 9:16 am
To the person who commented above – aka "CMC". That is the most ignorant comment I have ever read. How about this… Go f*ck yourself! Adoption is for everyone. There is no correct age or situation. It is not only for people who can't conceive naturally. And it's certainly not uncommon for a families 1st choice to adopt a newborn so they can experience what it's like to care for a newborn child. Seriously, I had to explain this??????
by Emily
On August 28, 2011 at 9:18 am
CMC, you don't have a clue as to what you're talking about! Just because you "go for tests" does NOT mean that you'll get pregnant! Also, there are plenty of people, in the US & not just Ireland, who have adopted newborns, and they are nothing like Brad & Angelina. Obviously you've never waited your whole life for something you wanted so badly, only to be devastated in the end. Maybe then you'd have a lot less anger and a little more compassion. I hope you never have to experience such loss.
by Cmc
On August 28, 2011 at 9:28 am
It is my opioion sorry but in some parts of the world people have no choice in what age child they can adopt. my friend would love to adopt a newborn but the law won't allow her. There are lots of children in orphanges who need a loving family too.
by ARC
On August 28, 2011 at 9:42 am
Ithink everyone should consider adoption. There are way too many kids out there(of all ages) who need a good loving home. It shouldn't be just a last resort for ppl who can't have kids.
by Michael Raskind
On August 28, 2011 at 10:44 am
It is generally a safe guard for birth mothers to change their minds as adoptive parents can change their minds. The law allows for such things, based on the state. I agree that there are numerous children hoping for a loving family. I am sure the adoptive parents will find a great match.
by Les
On August 28, 2011 at 11:03 am
Adoption should not only be as a last resort, regardless if a couple can conceive or not!
@cmc possibly you mean couples should consider adopting all ages, just not newborns???
Either way, adoption is a blessing for many, and I am glad to hear of couples of all dynamics adopting children of all dynamics!
by Early
On August 28, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Adoption is a way to grow a family, and every other detail(age, location, nationality) is utterly ancillary. Opinions like those above function only to perpetuate the myriad nasty and small minded stereotypes about how a modern family can function. Personal judgements such as, "they were purely lazy…" illuminate obvious empathetic defects, and directly undermine any attempt at an actual discourse on the subject. Trolling a subject like this is beyond pathetic.
by Lindsey
On August 28, 2011 at 5:39 pm
While I personally TTC for 1.5 years before getting pregnant, that does not change the fact that this couple chose the best option for them. Furthermore, that's all that matters- not my or anybody else's opinion.
by Louisiana
On August 31, 2011 at 7:19 am
I am always happy to hear when a nice family decides to adopt and it is that parent or parent's choice whether it is a newborn or toddler, but it would be nice if there were more couples or singles wanting to adopt older foster children.
These older kids are in such need, I am a CASA "I work with foster kids as a volunteer" and all these kids need is love, but sadly most people want the new baby, which is understandable.
How sad for the THOSANDS of adolescents who need a home.
by Shan
On September 8, 2011 at 1:11 pm
It bothers me that they even brought up the "monetary devastation"….. that should be irrelevant to the situation and by bringing it up are you implying she should have stayed with the plan because you forked out two thousand dollars (and if two thousand dollars is monetarily devastating you are NOT ready to start a family) I went through the same thing 27 years ago with a birth mother changing her mind after she gave birth. I had an empty nursery and broken heart but I didn't care about the costs I incurred, just the lost opportunity. By the way, I went on to adopt four children after that.
by ERC
On September 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm
blew through about $2,000 those last few weeks in addition to hospital bills, hotel bills, adoption application fees, etc. So it was an estimate. They did all this stuff for this person and for it not to work out, it sound like it was frud or something. It doesn't mean they are not really to be parents do to the word that was used in this article. It didn't even say if their was a nursey put together and for a fact that cost way more then 2,000 bucks these days. Its great that you did go on to adopted kids, that was just poor word choice.


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April 4 was just an ordinary day for Dirk Moffatt. The Eagle River resident was driving with a friend and co-worker on the stretch of highway between Mirror Lake and Thunderbird Falls. Then, in an instant, his life changed. In fact, it momentarily halted.
Cathy Tilton, a local advocate and successful businesswoman, announced her candidacy to replace Rep. Bill Stoltze (R-Chugiak) in the upcoming election. Tilton is a lifelong Alaskan and long-time Valley resident, having first moved to Big Lake from Anchorage in 1980. Since the mid-1980s she's lived in the Fairview neighborhood of Wasilla.
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I realize everyone is now into summer and things that are green, but I'm still catching up on some late-winter outings, one of which was a memorable ski March 19 across Carter and Crescent Lakes on the Kenai Peninsula, in Chugach National Forest.
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a few things to keep in mind. assuming RC's claim to GOAT is legit (itidn't)(he was juiced) RV is making a very serious run at unseating him. as these bikes get more refined each year there will always be a gifted few who can ride them to some significant degree of their potential. him and a handful of others are on another planet. when RV went down in turn one at SW and proceeded to pass half the field or more in 2 laps he wasn't doing it by virtue of his superior conditioning program. we are seeing possibly the fastest rider ever the guy is greased freaking lightning. yes his condition gives him an edge. so does fuel injection and so do fresh tires but when the gate drops he's the one signing the check. it's like getting to watch Rembrandt or Michelangleo but they took months and years to ply their trade RV lays it all down in 30 minutes plus two laps. and if you get bored watching him the supporting cast aren't exactly slouches either. these guys are collectively the best there ever was if by nothing else based on the bikes they are blessed to have available to them. some of the past greats might still bust it big on skyshot but they won't do it sideways and upside down like Barcia does and he's just a damn kid.
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Cold War Crisis v1.5 build 477 (Mac Version)Sep 18, 2009 Full Version 12 comments
Mac version of Cold War Crisis v1.5, build 477, ported & packaged by super_kev. It comes with the installer & launchers to allow the mod to be...
CWC is a C&C Generals Zero Hour Total Conversion and also works with "The First Decade". It takes place from 1980-1989 and it features realistic units from the 80's.
We want CWC to be a mixture of realism and fun. CWC is more realistic than vanilla Generals, with real life weapon systems and side specific characteristics.
CWC offers 2 factions: Russia and USA. The Russians tend to use tanks and artillery (for example: T-72 / T-80, BM-21, 2S1 only to mention a few) while the USA rely on aircraft and high tech units (for example: F-15, F-16, F-117, A-10 etc.).
Also we have a lot of infantry in the game, not all of them are just cannon fodder. So engaging a T-80UK with a US Rifleman won't be a good idea. Other infantry units can be a real pain in the ass to armoured units though. We want the players to use more infantry than in regular Generals, where infantry wasn't the big deal. In CWC Infantry can be very useful, even against tanks if you have LAW/RPG-Soldiers.
For more information visit our Homepage at www.cold-war-crisis.de where you can get snips of information and brand new pics and downloads.
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Ten years ago the Cold War Crisis Mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour was revealed to the public. How did you like the first decade of Cold War Crisis. Tell us your greatest Cold War Crisis stories in the comments below.
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Map.ini and map.str files for the secondary objective introduced in version 1.3.
The final version of CWC including all twenty patches since our original 2008 v1.0 release and the 2005 demo mission now re-packed as v1.5! Still requires...
This is the v1.3 update for the Map Development Kit (MDK) for CWC. It adds scripts for another type of secondary objectives.
This is the v1.2 update for the Map Development Kit (MDK) for CWC. This update is REQUIRED and must be applied to the original MDK as well as to maps...
This is the v1.1 update for the Map Development Kit (MDK) for CWC. This update is REQUIRED and must be applied to the original MDK as well as to maps...
wow.. just wow..
Keep it up!
holly crap awsome mod cant wait
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@Sticky: Nope, it's a Singlepalyer-only mission. There is no AI or Skirmish support in the Demo.
On the demo, does Skirmish work with functional AI and units?
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friggen commys thats the only problem too many commys support it great mod btw CAPITALISM RULES!
This is the best mod ever!! I mean, just look at the models or the movies... It's just undeniable
I've also been on CWC for allmost a year.
And its just great! Cant wait to the Demo! :)
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This mod is how Generals should have been. The quality of the work done in CWC is remarkable. I followed this mod ever since I first saw it in 2005, the first things that caught my eye was BMPs floating on water, just like in real life. The only game I had seen that in was Operation Flashpoint. So began a long wait, I visited the CWC website every week looking for updates, and every time there was an update it gave me a smile. I eventually registered at the CWC forums and posted a few posts. My…
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Khan is back with another action-packed entertainer 'Kick'. The brand new poster of this much-awaited movie has been released, giving the audience a sneak peek of the actor's look in the film. The actor is seen sporting a French beard and looking irresistible in his all new Devil avatar.
The poster was launched with a unique digital innovation, where the makers hid three posters in three different locations across the country. Fans were given the link to a Google Map, and were asked to tweet using #KickTrailerOn15. With each tweet, the map zoomed in slightly to finally reveal each location, the lucky fans that were the first to reach got to look at & keep the poster of Kick, before the rest of the world had even seen it! The activity was a resounding success, the hashtag was trending throughout the day and there were almost 15,000 tweets around it.
With excitement at its peak & the trailer of the movie all set to release at a mega event in Gaiety, Bandra, this movie has already set new heights for anticipation & excitement. After this super fun digital heist innovation, we're looking forward to a lot more exciting things from this movie!Directed by Sajid Nadiadwala, 'Kick' stars the ultimate Khan of Bollywood 'Salman Khan' along with Jacqueline Fernandes, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Produced by UTV Motion pictures and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd, 'Kick' is slated to release on 25th July 2014
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What Does a Concert Promoter Do?
Concert Promoters are responsible for organizing a live concert or special event. The promoter makes an offer to a particular artist, usually through the artist's agent or manager to perform at a specific event, by submitting a Talent Offer Sheet. If that band or artist is available, the promoter and agent negotiate a performance agreement, containing all the terms and conditions such as agreed compensation, contract riders, merchandising split, backline, meals and travel arrangements.
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