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COL. GARY KECK (director, DOD Press Office): Well, good morning, everyone. Glad you could make it in on this rainy, drizzly day here at the Pentagon.
And we are privileged to have with us today Colonel Tom James, who's the commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division, and his brigade is operating as part of Multinational Division-Center. They've been there for about three months now, and this is his first time coming back to brief you in the Pentagon via this format. He is currently at Forward Operating Base Kalsu near Iskandariyah, and he'll give us the normal operational update and what's going on. And then will take questions.
So with that, let's turn it over to you, Tom. Go ahead.
COL. JAMES: Well, thank you very much, Gary. I appreciate that introduction. I'd like to start off with an initial statement and then answer your questions.
First off, good morning. I'm Colonel Tom James, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division based out of Fort Stewart. First, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today about our operations in AO Vanguard which we're really proud of.
Task Force Vanguard consists of over 3,000 tremendously talented soldiers. We assumed responsibility of our area of operations from 4-25 Infantry out of Fort Richardson, Alaska on 1 December 2007, and have conducted full-spectrum operations for the past 83 days. Our operation encompasses North Babil province and stretches from the Euphrates River Valley in the West to the Tigris River Valley in the East. Our area spans just over 40,000 square kilometers, an area roughly the size of Switzerland, and contains approximately 625,000 Iraqis. The decisive point is the town of Iskandariyah because of its Shi'a-Sunni balance, its location along the major southern avenues of approach into Baghdad and its large industrial complex. We also have transition teams and contingency plans that cover operations south in Karbala, Najaf and Hillah.
Our mission is to secure the population, interdict accelerants moving towards Baghdad, defeat extremists and neutralize resistance groups, primarily focused on defeating sectarian violence, and build capacity of the Iraqi security forces, government institutions and economic programs. And our last task is focused on transitioning security and local development tasks to the Iraqi security forces and local governments.
The current security situation is stable, and I am optimistic about the future. Sunni extremists are severely disrupted. They no longer find sanctuary and support from the population. We attribute the current security situation to three major reasons; reason number one, our COIN strategy adjustment and the surge deployment; reason number two, Iraqi security force capabilities have incredibly increased, or extremely increased; and the third is the Sons of Iraq program and the population standing up to defend their neighborhoods.
I'll expand on each of these three reasons for a second. First, we are living with the population. The five-brigade surge gave coalition forces the resources required to concentrate combat power in extremist-dominated areas. They allowed us to occupy key terrain in these areas to avoid enemy reoccupation.
Our brigade permanently occupies 15 distributed positions -- five patrol bases, coalition forces with Iraqi army; three joint security stations, coalition forces with Iraqi police; and four military transition positions, which are coalition forces that are partnering with Iraqi brigades and Iraqi battalions in the 8th Iraqi Army Division; and we also have two forward-operating bases. These locations facilitate partnership with Iraqi army and police. They provide greater maneuver flexibility and allow us to receive and process more intelligence and link in with the population. When the people know that coalition and Iraqi security forces are living with them, they feel more comfortable providing information on extremist activity and they feel more secure in their neighborhoods and homes.
Secondly, the Iraqi security force has proven -- is improved significantly. The difference between their capacity during my last deployment and now is truly amazing. We partner with four Iraqi army brigades, two Iraqi army battalions and, as well, 15 police headquarters. Most of these organizations are capable of processing intelligence and executing precise independent operations. We still have some equipment issues, but we continue to work this hard, and I see positive momentum in this area.
Thirdly, the Iraqi population is tired of their families being terrorized by extremists and have stepped up to secure their neighborhoods.
The Sons of Iraq program employs local Iraqis to secure their neighborhoods under the supervision of local tribal leaders and overwatched by Iraqi security forces. We use these static security positions to thicken our security lines in areas where we cannot fully commit coalition or Iraqi security forces. We currently have just under 8,000 SOIs in our area that man 552 checkpoints. This includes both Shi'a and Sunni SOIs.
To this point, I have focused on the Sunni threat. We also have a Shi'a extremist and criminal threat in the southern portion of our area of operation. The Shi'a threat is neutralized, based on precise intelligence-driven operations executed by Iraqi police and Iraqi army.
The brigade combat team also conducts numerous operations focused on extremists and criminals over the past two and a half months. In December we conducted Operation Marne Roundup, a successful combined operation to clear AQI in the Euphrates River Valley west of Iskandariyah, in the vicinity of the town of Khidr. During the operation and with assistance of SOIs, or Sons of Iraq, and local citizens, we killed approximately 18 extremists, captured 25, found and cleared 51 IEDs, and found and cleared 43 caches. We established Patrol Base Kelsey, named after a soldier that gave his life during this offensive operation.
Since we established the patrol base, 100 families have returned to their homes. We initiated numerous projects, to include rubble removal, school refurbishment and electricity repair, just to name a few. We also organized a local sheikh council to capture the needs of the people, as required.
Just south of Khidr is the town of Jurf al-Sakhr. Four months ago, it was a war zone dominated by extremists. It is now a secure community with positive governance and economic growth. An active police station and Sons of Iraq program secure the area, and over 40 businesses are growing, based on small-business education and microgrant stimulation.
This is a model community concept that will be adopted throughout our AO. Just the other day, I was at Jurf and witnessed a government-funded road crew paving a once war-ravaged street.
We continue relentless pursuit of the enemy and denying extremist sanctuaries throughout our AO. Over the past 83 days we conducted over 70 combined operations, both coalition and Iraqi security forces. We captured over 50 high-value enemy targets, cleared over 100 caches and cleared over 70 IEDs.
With the security window opened, we continue the exploitation phase, focused on governance and economics. We have an embedded reconstruction team resourced with governance and economics experts. Mr. Van Franken (sp), our EPRT leader, has a team, and as his team is an essential part of our brigade combat team, we include them in all operational planning and execution.
Under economics, they focus on developing small businesses, agricultural associations, poultry and fish farms and reconstruction projects. Under governance, they focus on local governance training, governance linkages and beladiya assistance, which are the public works and the essential services for the people.
Looking to the future, we will conduct Operation Marne Rugged next month. This operation is one in a series of operations in the Task Force Marne AO focused on clearing AQI from the Tigris River Valley. Operation Marne Thunderbolt, focused in Arab Jabour, to our northwest, is one operation. Marne Grand Slam is focusing in Salman Pak, to our northeast. Then our operation, Marne Rugged, will focus on the Tigris River Valley between the Samma (ph) jungle and a town called Suwayra.
Based on the success of the two operations to our north, we envision up to 30 AQI fighters will cross south of the Tigris River in an attempt to blend with the population between the Samma (ph) jungle and Suwayra. Operation Marne Rugged is a combined operation focused on clearing these extremist elements from the Tigris River Valley, establishing a combined patrol base on extremists' avenue of approach, and developing actionable intelligence through engagement with the local population.
We'll also assist with the Iraqi security force governance and economic systems capacity building in the area.
The force organization for the operation will include two Iraq army battalions and one coalition battalion. We estimate about 30 days to clear the area and establish the patrol base. We have already started setting the conditions through engagement with the Iraqi security forces and local tribal leaders.
In conclusion, our ultimate goal, of which we share with our Iraqi security forces, is a free, safe and secure area of operation, with a strong representative government that enjoys positive economic growth. We share this with our Iraqi security partners. We know we have a great deal of hard work ahead. But I can report tonight that our campaign is on track, and we will continue our relentless pursuit of the enemy.
I cannot close without mentioning the superb work of our outstanding soldiers, and especially the sacrifices of their wonderful families. Their ability to adapt rapidly to extremely complex situations never ceases to amaze me.
I want to thank you again for this opportunity to speak to you today, and that completes my opening statement. Standing by for your questions. Thank you very much.
COL. KECK: Okay. Thank you, Tom. We appreciate it. So let's begin.
Mike, go ahead.
Q Sir, it's Mike Mount with CNN, and I suppose I'll ask this kind of obvious question that always gets asked of you folks.
You had mentioned that the surge troops were part of one of the elements that is kind of keeping security in the area. What would happen, do you think, if surge troops in your area are pulled out? Do you think the security forces there are strong enough, and the Sons of Iraq are strong enough to hold? Or are the surge troops a really strong, key element in your area?
COL. JAMES: Good question, Mike, and that is a question that we often receive, and it's a good one.
As you think about the security forces, as they've developed over time, we have focused on the surge force coming in and buying time.
It's a bridging strategy to allow the Iraqi security forces and government to develop over time, while concurrent with that, we reduce the capability of the enemy force. And I've seen just in my short period of time here that that has been extremely successful.
You know, we are not a surge brigade, but our division is a surge division, and the other brigades within the division were surged. We were, like, on the six of the five that deployed, so we ended up rotating in and backfilling 4-25, as I mentioned earlier. But as we fall in, we see the enormous success that has been traded by the surge force. See, our area is not occupied by a surge force, but those that surround it, those to the north of our area are, and we've seen how they've reduced the enemy force that we've had to deal with. And as they've done that, the Iraqi security forces have built up and gotten better and better, and now they -- as the force starts to transition out, they can handle the threat at hand and the government institutions can also help with that as well.
COL. KECK: Jeff.
Q Colonel, Jeff Schogol with Stars and Stripes. The most recent progress report on Iraq said that the Iraqi government was reluctant to hire the Iraqis then known as concerned local citizens, now known as Sons of Iraq. Is that something you are dealing with?
COL. JAMES: I am dealing with the SOI program. We have just under 8,000, as I mentioned earlier, in our AO, and we help the Iraqi government and Iraqi security forces in screening those SOIs for potential employment into the Iraqi security forces, and we have done some of that. Recently, we screened 663. We have put their packets together, and we have pushed them up to the reconciliation cell in Baghdad. We've also had a confident -- correction -- a conference last, where we had positive momentum related to that. So I envision over the next couple weeks we could see positive momentum with those 663, and I envision over time they will be integrated as Iraqi security forces, specifically Iraqi police, in the North Babil province. So I have seen some of that. That is just the Iraqi security force portion.
We're also working economic opportunities and employment for SOIs as well as they transition out of the program to other opportunities as we see that their security function is no longer needed, and we constantly assess that.
Q What I meant to say was that the Iraqi government appears to be reluctant to take over the contract for the SOI.
Right now they're being paid by the U.S. military. Is that something you have noticed?
COL. JAMES: Okay. Right. I have just -- the contracts that we have paid and that we work, I am familiar with. We have not tried to pass those particular contracts that we work over to the Iraqi government at this point. What we have worked to do is transition them to government institutions, and they receive the pay that way.
Now, we do have some security forces that we have gained contact with to our east, that we are working through the MOI and government -- a government institution, obviously, to help process them as we develop them. And we're working their paperwork, so that that could potentially happen. So we are working through the MOI to potentially get some of our SOIs funded. But that is in our new area that we just recently, at the beginning of the month, operated in. So we continue to work that. So I am working with some of that.
Q Colonel, it's David Morgan with Reuters. Can you talk a little bit about your relationship with the Iraqi security forces and Iraqi police, to give us an idea of where you are in terms of this transition of mission toward -- away from combat and toward oversight?
COL. JAMES: Absolutely, David. That is a great question and one that I deal with on a daily basis.
We have a unique situation in Task Force Vanguard, where we are a brigade that is partnered with an entire Iraqi army division. All four of the maneuver brigades of the 8th Iraqi Army Division, we partner with in MiTT teams. And we also have two additional battalions that we cover down with MiTTs as well, and at the end, the transition teams that are imbedded with the Iraqi army.
So I deal with them on a regular basis. Every one of those brigade commanders I meet with two to three times a month. And I meet with General Othman, the division commander, once a month. And we also have three district police headquarters that we deal with and also deal with the Babil police chief, Major General Fadil, twice a month, as well. So I'm fully engaged with them, and I'm extremely impressed with what's going on.
We have three battalions that operate within north Babil proper that we coordinate offensive operations with. We do not do an operation that's not combined. Our Iraqi army and coalition forces are hand in hand. And whenever we plan an operation, we coordinate with the brigades and the battalions. We conduct joint rehearsals or combined rehearsals. We conduct combined planning, and we conduct combined operations. And every one of them has been done that way.
We learn a lot from our Iraqi partners. The Iraqi army has really improved over time. They understand how to process intelligence. They're really good at collecting HUMINT, human intelligence, and they're really good at executing operations in their area that they're extremely familiar with. So we've had a very positive outlook on that. And the police, much the same.
Q If I can follow up for a moment, does that mean that the Iraqi security forces are in the lead position in these operations, or are your forces in the lead positions? And how much of your operation's resources and time is spent on what might be described as civil affairs operations, like the provision of services or support for governance and things like that?
COL. JAMES: Okay. The Iraqi security forces are doing extremely well, as you can see. Could you please ask your first part of that question first?
Q Just wondering whether the Iraqi security forces are in the -- whether the Iraqi security forces are in the lead position or whether the U.S. forces are in the lead.
COL. JAMES: Right. In our AO, coalition forces are in the lead position. We are partnered with the Iraqi security forces; they execute operations in AO Vanguard. So we are in the lead position now, but I see the capability of the Iraqi security forces to conduct independent operations in the not too distant future.
And then you asked -- did that answer your question? Can we move on to the civil affairs?
Q Thank you.
COL. JAMES: Yes, we work very hard with civil affairs operations. We have civil affairs teams with our three ground maneuver battalions, and as well, the EPRT works hand in glove with the civil affairs as well. And we go out and we work projects, we work governance and this has been an extremely successful operation. One of the things we really focused on is linkages, making sure that local governments are representative of the people, and then they're ranked through higher governments so that we can process, prioritize and resource the people that need things. And we've seen some success in that lately.
A town of Kidda (sp) that I told you about with our Marne round- up operation, now we have a hundred families that have returned there, and just the day before yesterday we had 20 families that received 5 million dinar per family from the Iraqi government to help them sustain themselves until we can get their houses repaired and infrastructure fixed in their area.
So that's a good example. We're constantly engaged in civil affairs operations because the security window is open now, and we're maintaining that and we're seizing the window of opportunity to work the governance and economic pieces of this.
Q Colonel, I'm Carl Osgood. I write for Executive Intelligence Review. You probably know that Muqtada al-Sadr announced today that he was extending his cease-fire another six months, cease- fire of the Mahdi Army. I'm wondering, how does that -- how do you see that in terms of your outlook for the security situation?
COL. JAMES: I see his announcement as very positive to the security situation. You know, in our AO we have 468,750 Shi'a, based on the last census, so we have a large Shi'a population in AO Vanguard.
Now, not all of those are particularly close followers of Muqtada -- correction, Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, but in the conditions that exist with this, this is a very positive situation because al-Sadr understands that a peace and establishing peace in the future is the way to success in Iraq, not violence. And with the senior position that he holds, that will influence an enormous amount of the Shi'a population in AO Vanguard, and we see that as being a very positive step in securing the security situation that we have now so that we can continue to exploit other things.
Q Can I follow up?
COL. KECK: Go ahead.
Q Just to follow up on that, some of Sadr's people have complained over the last couple of months that they've gotten nothing in return for the cease-fire. What is your interaction with the -- or do you have any --with any of his people or with the Mahdi Army?
COL. JAMES: You know, what we deal with is Iraqis. And we have Iraqis that are of Sunni background to the north, and Iraqis that are of Shi'a background in the Musayyib and Sedda area. And we continue to work with them. We work projects just as hard there as we do in the northern portion, where the Sunnis are. So we just look at it in the lens of Iraqis, and we've been pretty successful with that.
And I can only really focus on AO Vanguard when it relates to that, but I do see a very positive trend here in the future related to this cease-fire and the fact that he went forward and established this wanting peace as the direction. And we've seen that since I've been here, and I believe we'll see it continue in the future.
Just one more point on that is there are some factions of his followers that don't necessarily agree with extension of the cease-fire, and we continue to track those very closely. And as we have to, the Iraqi security forces will deal with them and we will partner with them in that effort.
Q Sir, it's Meredith MacKenzie with Talk Radio News. You mentioned there were some equipment problems or shortages in the Iraqi security forces in your area. Can you expand on what exactly is missing and what could be done to improve it?
COL. JAMES: Absolutely.
Most of -- the majority of the equipping issues with the Iraqi army that we work with in our AO deals with vehicles and logistics-type items. And so what we have done is, we've identified all these. We've scrubbed them with our MiTT teams, and we have lists of these, and we push them up through the MOD, and with the police, the MOI, to try to get these assets to those that need them bad.
And we're starting to see positive momentum. We've gotten weapons recently for both the police and the Iraqi army, and we're starting to get some vehicles as well. But as you build the force, there's always equipping issues when you start trying to build these battalions. And so we continue to work those hard.
And I think that our biggest play in this is getting the visibility of it to the right places, so that it can be resourced. And I've seen positive momentum in that area.
Q Can I just follow up? Just to clarify, sir, there's a lot of alphabet soup in that answer. Is that coming from the United States or the coalition forces or the Iraqi government that's supplying these weapons?
COL. JAMES: It's a combination. We're working through the MOD and the MOI for the majority. We're also working through MNSTC-I, and working through MNSTC-I, we're getting some of these resources for the Iraqis to assist with them, because they do have some humvees, and we continue to try work the humvee issue with them.
But we also try to work other things. For example, the structures for their company CPs and barracks for their soldiers -- we are getting those through the Iraqi system. We're having them prioritize, and they're pulling those through their manufacturers, and we're helping them establish them in areas where they're conducting company-level operations. That's very positive as well.
COL. KECK: Just one more. Go ahead, Mike.
Q Sir, it's Mike Mount again, with CNN. If I could ask another equipping issue -- but this time with U.S. forces, it was alleged last night in one of the political debates that U.S. forces are going to battle in some cases short of troops because they're being divided among two different wars, and short of ammunition, short of weapons. Have you seen any of this in your units or heard of any of this going on in any units around Iraq, also where troops have had to confiscate or have taken enemy weapons because they've been short of weapons?
COL. JAMES: Mike, absolutely not.
Our organization is fully resourced, fully trained, and executing magnificent operations every day, and they never cease to amaze me, what they can do. And they do that in partnership with the Iraqi security forces.
And I think one of the key things to emphasize here is this partnership between us and the Iraqi security forces, because our soldiers understand every day that they're setting the example for their counterpart Iraqi security force. And so we continue to work that very hard, and good order and discipline and doing the right thing is constant across the board. And so we enjoy sharing that with our Iraqi partners, and they're following the same way.
So it's been a great relationship, and I haven't seen any shortage of anything. We're looking really good.
COL. KECK: Colonel James, we appreciate your time with us this morning. We would like to provide you with the last opportunity to give us any closing comments or thoughts that you may have.
COL. JAMES: Well, thanks, Gary, and thanks to all of you for those questions. You know, I always jump at the opportunity to talk about what's going on over here, because it's extremely positive. And I want to make sure that the world sees it, especially with our magnificent soldiers.
First off, I'd just like to make the comment that 2008 -- we've referenced and we've done this with our Iraqi security forces -- is the year of opportunity. It all goes back to this window of security being opened, and being able to exploit that window of opportunity, through governance and economics and building the capacity of the Iraqi security forces. And this has all been enabled because of the surge and because of other things.
But the three things that I see as very important is, the opportunity exists because of very competent Iraqi security forces, both Iraqi army and Iraqi police. We have a population in our AO that is hungry for freedom, and you can see that in their eyes as they stand point as part of the Son of Iraq. Or you see a family member, be it a mother or a daughter, walking to market. You can see all the activity.
Right now we're in the middle of the Arba'een festival time period, and you can see their women and children walking down these highways to that celebration. And there's a great example of how security is holding, and what the population thinks about the security situation.
I also want to put in a plug for the local governments. We've structured those very well, or the Iraqis have structured their governments very well, at the local level now.
And they're seeing the priorities of the people, and they're starting to push them up. And we're building this local capacity, and we're really starting to see that take off.
And then the last one that I wanted to talk about was our magnificent soldiers, the coalition force that's full of competent warriors that execute across the spectrum of conflict, be it lethal to non-lethal, and doing it simultaneously and with good order and discipline, and doing it with the Iraqi security force partners.
And the last thing I'd like to comment on is the families. The families make enormous sacrifices every day. They're back home, they're keeping the homefront; they're supporting their soldiers as they're forward deployed, protecting our nation and preserving peace for all. And I just want to thank you all again for the questions and look forward to doing this again some time. Thank you very much.
COL KECK: Thank you again, Tom. And hopefully, we'll see you again soon.
COL JAMES: Okay, thanks, Gary.


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FIJET Golden Apple 2015 To DUBROVNIK
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FIJET Congress Antalia 15-20 octobre 2015
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Belconti Resort Hotel, is located in a tourism center Belek, 35 km east of the Antalya Airport. Having a beautiful garden with fabulous views of nature, a private sandy beach, and pools with water slides together with its cheerful staff, Belconti Resort Hotel aspire to make its customers feel special. In terms of its architecture, natural beauties owned, and service provision Belconti Resort Hotel works with environmental responsibility. Belek, is an ideal starting point for sightseeing of historical places around. Besides it is a paradise for golf fans, with many modern golf courses in compliance with international standards.
Fijet national association will receive very soon all detailed informations and the quota dedicated to each association.
FIJET congress: meeting with the Wali of Antalia
President Tijani Haddad and Bernadette Roux had a vey fruirful meeting with the Wali of Antalia. they were accompnied with the two "Hakans": one is the very friendly General manager of "BELCONTI" Hotel and the other one will be the coordinator of the congress in presence of the representative of Antalia Chamber of commerce. The young and dynamic Wali welcomed Fijet congress to be held in Antalia and promised to actively contribute to the success of this big event. He pointed out the importance of Tourism both in Turkey and in Antalia and the importace of its role in the national economy. 12 Millions tourists visited Antalia last year and 37 Millions are the total number of Tourists in Turkey. President Tijani Haddad explained that Fijet has been during the last 61 years the Media corner stone for promoting international and inclusive Tourism, Tourism without frontiers sharing the universal cultural heritage as well as the combat against pauvrety in the world.
On the other hand Tijani and Bernadette had otherRead more >>
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(See below the program) Our National Associations are kindly asked to aciticely participate in this Fijet annual event.
Serbia welcomed Fijet Directors
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Taleb Refai in Tunisia:
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Tunisia will also host the 5th edition of the UNWTO Tourism and the Media Conference during the last quarter of 2015.
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Fijet congress in Morocco:Ubjet travel book
It is a great pleasure for me to inform all of you that the presentation of the new ABUJET Book "The Kingdom of Morocco" – Country of Travels" passed with great interest in the Moroccan residence in Sofia. The event was attended by the Ambassador Her Excellency Mrs. Latifa Aharbash, representatives of the Moroccan National Tourist Office (MNTO), the General Director of the Bulgarian National Radio – Mr. Radoslav Yankulov, many journalists, representatives of the Bulgarian intelligentsia and artists` society and other honored guests. The Book was presented by H.E. Mrs. Latifa Aharbash and the President of ABUJET Mr. Maxim Minchev, General Director of the Bulgarian News Agency. They both expressed their satisfaction with this project, realized thanks to the mutual efforts of the Embassy, MNTO and the Bulgarian association of travel journalists and writers – ABUJET. Mr. Khalid Mimi, Director for Eastern Europe of the Moroccan National Tourist Office, expressed his hope that that sort of successful projects are going to increase the interest to Morocco.
"The Kingdom of Morocco – country of travels" is part of very interesting series of books, dedicated to journeys in different countries, realized by ABUJET members after FIJET congresses. For the moment "Never-ending China" and "Zoom Turkey" are published.
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Croatian Marco Polo 2014
A prestigious ceremony took ploace in Zagreb under the auspices of the Croatian Fijet association during which Marco Polo award delivered to our Fijet member from Fijet Spain Luis Nunez Ladevez. for his reportage on Morocco during Fijet conngress in Casa Blanca and Marrakech. The ceremony was attended by Dr. Daglas Karaca, Croatian deputy Minister of Tourism. Tijani Haddad President of Fijet, Antonio Ponte father of Tourism films festival in Europe, the Past and the actual Presidents of Cratian Journalists association, Fijet members guests from Croatia, Slovenia, France, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Italy. Special mention to both Tina Cubilo and Rebic Marijana for the tremendous efforts to make the big event a great success.Read more >>
GOLDEN APPLE 2014 for Târgu Jiu – City of Constantin Brâncuşi
Capital of Gorj county (South-Western Oltenia region in Romania), Târgu Jiu dates back to the Dacian period. The town was first documented in 1406, and its name comes from the fairs organized on the banks of Jiu river. Yet, the borough became well known in modern times due to the Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuşi. The artist is considered the most important sculptor of the XX-th century and among the most talented artists of all time. Brâncuşi created in Târgu Jiu his only outdoor monument ensemble, unique not only in Romania, but worldwide – Hero's Way Monument. Built between 1937-1938, this symbol of Gorj county spirituality and Romanian genius consists of three main works – Table of Silence, The Gate of Kiss and The Column of the Infinite, popularly known as The Endless Column.
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EUROAL 2014 in Torremolinos 3 to 6 June
More than 40 countries gathered at the ninth edition of the International Tourism, Arts and Culture ' EUROAL 2014 3 to 5 June at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Torremolinos. Euroal edition 2014 focussed on Costa del sol , Andalucia and of the international tourism industry, both in the field of institutional, professional, marketing and global tour operating. The ninth edition of Euroal is itself a milestone in the history of tourism. The Palacio de Congresos in Torremolinos witnessed the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the institution declared in the same enclosure (in 1979) by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) the ' World Tourism Day. The Mayor of torremolinos, the Director of the fair Luis Callejon Directo and many Tourism stake holders, as well as a delegation of the International Federation of Journalists and Travel writers (FIJET) attended the opening ceremony.Read more >>
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Postonja cave receives Fijet award; Golden Apple
Postojna, 19.5.2014 Company Postojnska jama, the operator of famous Slovenian underground Postojna Cave on May 15received the Golden Apple Award, which has been presented by FIJET - World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers since 1970 for excellent achievements in tourism and preservation of important natural and historical heritage. During the spectacular ceremony in the Concert Hall of Postojna Cave the Slovenian opera singer Irena Predan and ensembleofhorn playerJoze Setnicar performed and it culminated whenthe statuette of Golden Apple was brought from under the cave ceiling to the platformby caver. Tijani Haddad, FIJET president and Saso Dravinec, vice president of FIJET Slovenia presented the award to Marjan Batagelj, the chairman of Postojna Cave management. The speakers at the ceremony were Tijani Haddad, FIJET president, MSc Marjan Hribar, director general of the Slovenian tourism and internationalisation directorate and Saso Dravinec, vicepresident of FIJET Slovenia. Numerous guests attended the ceremony, among themRead more >>
The President of the republic of Lebanon meets with Fijet President
Tijani Haddad, Fijet President, accompanied by a Fijet délégasion from several countries were received by the President of the Republic of Lebanon at Baabda Palace. The occasion was the attribution of Fijet award "the Golden Apple" to the city of Byblos. An exceptional ceremony was held at the UNESCO square under the auspices of hus Excellency Michel Pharaon, Minister of Tourism of Lebanon. The Golden Apple was handled to Mr. Ziad Haouat, President of the Municipality of Byblos. In addition, the Fijet delegation had the opportunity to visiting the cultural remains of the city, a legacy of six civilizations that succeeded on the land of Lebanon with a pleasant and perfectly organized program thanks to George Younes, President of Fijet Lebanese Association and the most active members of this association.
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FIJET Golden Apple Award to Byblos –Lebanon 5 to 9 May 2014
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Lebanon the small land lying on the eastern Mediterranean shore, Develops eternal communication with the blue sky and horizon, throughout his reliefs, mountains, plains and air. Lebanon is predestined to embrace 8000 years of continuous and solid civilizations that sprouted an exceptional country with awesome values.
Lebanon is bordered by abrupt peaks of Mount Lebanon, Cedars in the north and Sannine above Beirut and Barouk above the shouf in the south, the Fertile Bekaa plain runs parallel to the coast and ends in the foothills of the Anti – Lebanon mountains at the limit of Syria
Frederic Ratzel stated "this region of the world has sustainable potent values all over the history". This is the only country of 10452 sqKm, that encloses about 3100 touristic natural sites and disclosing more than 2000 Lebanese monuments and ruins in the museums.
The National museum holds more than 1326 archaeological relics, 5 items per 10 sqkm, and most were found in Byblos. Lebanon is considered the first country in terms of cultural, civilized and humanitarian patrimony.
The mild weather of Lebanon combined to a geostrategic location on the Mediterranean shore, influenced the main cities and continuously inhabited for more than 8000 years. Fedrico Mayor the UNESCO president wrote in "Archaeology International Magazine" about the Martyrs square in Beirut in 1995 as one of the biggest and unique civilized field of ruins in the world. "Le Monde" the French magazine placed Beirut discoveries under the title of the most important archaeological sites in the world owed to: the unearthing Canaanites wall dated back to the Bronze period, 6 meters deeper the Phoenician city defensive wall topped with the Persian bastion and the remnants of crusader palace.
In the east Precinct the ruins of Hellenistic Tower, ottoman cave, another one belongs to the Abbasids time, Mamluks remnants, Romanian Mosaic and Hellenistic tools.
All that Means that Beirut was occupied continuously since more than 5000 years, and witnessed a succession of different civilizations, besides the National Museum is the only Museum in the world that nestled the monuments of his own country.
Lebanon owed his cultural stature to the Phoenicians invention of the Alphabet Letters. During the first half of the 2nd century BC, appeared the alphabetic writing which is a standard set of letters based on decomposing the phonemes tones (basic significant sounds) into its simplest components and represent them by spelling letters, and to draw these limited tones in conventional intangible symbols. Ever since the Alphabet delivers the moral from the sensory and segregates between: the name and the named, the drawing and the one designed.
Byblos: a Unesco haritage
The origin of Byblos name is Phoenician Canaanite, called "KBN" in Egyptian in the Tell el- Amarna letters, and in the cuneiform text "Goubla" and " Goubly" in Assyrian or " Goubal" In Greek named "Byblos" for being the city through which the import of papers took place. The old Testament mentioned the name "Gebal" and its inhabitants "Gebaleiin " , during the Crusades time was known "Gibelet"Finally the name is a composite of two syllabuses "Jb" means house and « El », the Supreme god of Byblos Pantheon which means the House of God. Byblos was reputed for the strong relation with Egypt, the construction of Phoenician ships built out of Cedars wood and the pottery production. Actually Close relationships were maintained with the Pharaonic dynasties right up until the New Kingd. Maritime trade was the city's primary source of income; merchants from Byblos traded asRead more >>


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The Dallas Observer reports that, yesterday, former Big Star bassist Andy Hummel passed away at his Weatherford, Texas home. He was 59.
Hummel's camp has yet to release a statement, however, several media outlets and musicians are confirming the news. Yesterday, Posies frontman Ken Stringfellow tweeted "Another sad loss for Big Star fans as Andy Hummel passes away after long illness." Stringfellow was part of Big Star's most recent lineup and played at the South by Southwest memorial set for Hummel's former bandmate, Big Star singer Alex Chilton, who died in March.
Big Star producer John Fry told Memphis' Commercial Appeal that Hummel had been undergoing treatment for cancer until he went into a hip operation where doctors informed him that the disease had spread and that his condition was terminal. "At that point," said Fry, "[he] elected to accept hospice care and spent the last couple weeks at home with his family. It's been pretty devastating."
Fry, who engineered the band's 1972 #1 Record, added that Hummel kept his cancer under wraps until last fall. "That was Andy," said Fry, "he didn't want to worry people with his problems. I'm terribly glad he got to live long enough to see another chapter in this very unlikely story of 40 years or people discovering this music that he had a big hand in making. Andy was a beautiful guy."
A founding member of influential Memphis outfit, Hummel provided the low end for such Big Star classics as #1 Record and 1974's Radio City. His final appearance with the band came at the aforementioned Chilton tribute concert during last March's South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
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By sweeping underground and opening to the daylight with a angular façade, Isuuru Architects [5] made a workplace and visitor center that does not compete with the original palace's sensibility. Built in the late 19th century for Spain's royalty to escape to, the palace served as Dictator Francisco Franco's summer retreat. Now home to the Human Rights Institute, the expansion serves to correct not only the condition of the palace, but also the intention.
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The clean interior is all about contemporary space, made even more pronounced in relation to the neo classic palatial details which were so lovingly restored. A stark white interior in the expansion helps daylight [8] penetrate deeply into the sunken space. The complex becomes a study in relationships of architecture between the centuries and of how to succinctly add high green design to classic buildings.
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Victoria Defrancesco Soto: Romney needs some Latino support in swing states such as Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico and cannot come out in opposition to the president's plan.
E-Verify Gets It Wrong, Again
Michele Waslin: Those inaccuracy rates are huge because they mean that U.S. citizens and other legal workers are losing their jobs because E-Verify made a mistake—and, consequently, that unauthorized workers are working because E-Verify made a mistake. Of course, many more unauthorized workers are working "off the books" and never getting checked by E-Verify.


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President Alice Gast has been elected to the Board of Directors of Chevron Corporation and will serve on the company's audit committee.
Gast said she would apply her experience in higher education, chemical engineering and research policy to the governance of Chevron.
"I look forward to working with an exceptionally talented group of directors, and I have been impressed with Chevron's leadership, vision and governance practices. I will gain knowledge and perspectives that will be valuable to Lehigh in furthering our mission of teaching, research and service," she said.
In a news release, Chevron Corporation chair John Watson said, "Dr. Gast has tremendous technical and industry expertise that will be a valuable asset to our board discussions."
Brad Scheler, chair of Lehigh's Board of Trustees, commented: "The election of President Gast to the board of Chevron brings additional and well-deserved distinction to the university and to President Gast.
"The recruitment of Alice by Chevron, a multinational business enterprise, provides further confirmation that Lehigh students and faculty are actively engaged in addressing global challenges. With energy as one such global challenge, Chevron will benefit greatly from Alice's knowledge, experience and wise counsel. I am confident she will fulfill the duties of her directorship with utmost distinction."
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Many young believers find church 'boring and irrelevant', says Cambridgeshire priest John Pinder
Posted: April 11, 2014|
Young people see the church's take on morality as "alien", a Cambridgeshire vicar has said.
Rev John Pinder, of St Andrew's in Stapleford, has questioned why attendance has dropped so suddenly among the younger generation, while belief in God has not gone down very much.
Writing in the Stapleford Messenger, he said: "Many who would still claim to be believers simply find church boring and irrelevant. There has also been a paradigm shift in moral values. Even among young Roman Catholics and evangenicals, many take it for granted that sex is no longer confined to marriage, contraception and abortion are standard interventions, cohabitation is the norm and those who are gay should have fully equal rights and the opportunity to marry. This group therefore sees the traditional church's teaching on morality to be alien."
He added the younger generation is "not indifferent to religion", pointing out that alternative churches such as "atheist churches" and "church-planting hubs" are springing up, particularly in student areas.


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Selections for August 2007
No Angel by Penny Vincenzi (2004)
The term potboiler has a clearly negative connotation (according to the website wordnet.princeton.edu, it's defined as "a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)." I'd never defend poor quality, but I have no objection to a book written quickly to make money. (It can't make money unless it's an entertaining read, which is certainly a good thing, in my view.) In any case, I tend to use the term more to describe those sorts of books in which you're so engrossed in the problems and successes of the characters that you don't notice the time passing or the teakettle whistling; used thusly I can't think of a better term than potboiler to describe Penny Vincenzi's No Angel and its sequels, Something Dangerous and Into Temptation. Vincenzi, a major bestseller in Great Britain, has never quite reached that level of popularity in the United States, but once begun, it's hard to imagine many women being able to put these books down. What happens with me is that I sigh with regret as I finish one of her books, and have to resist (or not) opening another as quickly as I can lay my hands on one. Vincenzi writes old-fashioned sagas in the sense that the pleasures of each particular book are rooted in the strength of the story-telling about the lives and loves of its characters. No Angel is the tale of a strong-willed and hot-blooded upper-class young woman in England just before and after World War I. (And there's nothing like strong will and hot blood to make a good saga.) Lady Celia Beckenham decides to go against the wishes of her parents and marry the lower class Oliver Lytton, who actually works for a living at his family's publishing company. (Her parents accede to the marriage when she informs them that she is pregnant.) Once she gets the parenting thing down pat (with the help of servants), she decides to go to work in the Lytton family business. Complications ensue - not least the outbreak of World War I, which takes Oliver out of England for four long years. In addition to following Celia's story, readers are also made privy to the lives of a variety of secondary characters, including Oliver's sister; a dreadfully poor family whom Celia befriends; and the author with whom she desperately falls in love. The two sequels, equally as transporting as this book, focus on the next generation and carry the story through the twentieth century.
American Chica by Marie Arana (2002)
I have to admit that I have a love/hate relationship with memoirs. I think self-indulgence is quite possibly the eighth deadly sin, and it's one that many memoirists fall prey to. Everyone's life is a story, of course, but does everyone have to get it published? I don't think so. However, I was reminded of how interesting and enjoyable a really well conceived and written memoir can be when I read Marie Arana's American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood. Arana, editor of the Washington Post Book World, explores the difficulties of growing up with parents of differing cultures - in her case an aristocratic Peruvian father and an American born mother. Arana's sense of being a hybrid, never to fully belong to either culture, is touchingly described. The deep cultural differences between her parents show up most clearly in the years the family spent living in Peru, where Arana's mother found it nearly impossible to fit in with her Latin in-laws. Arana's examination of her parents' marriage - they were seemingly unable to live together and unwilling to live apart - is quite moving. Of great interest, as well, is the Peruvian history Arana incorporates into the book. This is a lyrical, thoughtful memoir that would be a good choice for book groups.
After by Jane Hirshfield (2006)
The poems in After, Jane Hirshfield's newest collection of poetry, reflect and refract on her Buddhist practice of many years. In these gorgeously wrought poems, each word somehow feels as though it were handmade for the particular purpose of being part of that particular poem. How we experience ourselves, how we experience the world around us, the actual sensations of being in the world, the language we use to describe our experiences, the death of friends, the very lives we choose to live - all these become part of Hirshfield's poems, transmuted, through her quiet genius, into something very close to wisdom. Start with the first poem, "After Long Silence," and the last, the luminous "It Was Like This: You Were Happy," which begins
It was like this: you were happy, then you were sad, then happy again, then not.
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Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened. Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons.
Four Days to Glory: Wrestling With the Soul of the American Heartland by Mark Kreidler (2007)
Presidential caucuses aside, the state of Iowa is known for two things: corn and wrestling. In Four Days to Glory: Wrestling With the Soul of the American Heartland, Mark Kreidler explores the latter, and takes us into the lives and times of Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere, two high school seniors who, in 2006, are seeking to become state champions (in different weight classes) for the fourth consecutive year. In the more than 80 years of the existence of the Iowa State High School Wrestling Tournament, only 14 young men have won four individual state championships, and only once before have two wrestlers achieved that status during the same year. Being a four time champion ensures the kind of mythic status in Iowa that most people can only dream about. As one would expect, Kreidler gives us exciting descriptions of various matches Jay and Dan participate in during the season, culminating in those of the championship tournament itself, but this is, as is invariably the case with the best sports books, about more than the specifics of particular athletic contests. It's also about coaching and recruiting in high school and college sports, the challenges of being the parent of a young athlete who aspires to a championship level, and the culture of a sport that's defined by pain (both inflicting and receiving) and a sometimes fanatical self-discipline and willingness to accept deprivation, where success can be dependent on the luck of the draw, foregoing that order of fries at the drive-in, or not getting the cold that's going around, and in which, one false move, can, quite literally, lead to defeat. And finally, as a kind of extra added attraction, there is the fascinating presence of Dan Gable, the legendary Olympic gold-medalist who wrestled for Iowa State and coached the University of Iowa to 15 NCAA wrestling titles, whose reputation, long after he's retired from coaching, still plays a vital part in the lives of the boys on the mats who want to emulate his success.
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles (2007)
Paulette Jiles's brilliantly evocative Stormy Weather takes readers deep into the heart of central Texas during the 1920s and 1930s. Mayme, Jeanine and Bea Stoddard, along with their mother, follow their charming and ne'er-do-well father Jack as he follows the oil strikes from one small town (Ranger to Conroe to Mexia to Manahans to Kilgore and on and on) to another. Jeanine, her father's favorite and gentle enabler "understood that her father slid from addiction to addiction, a shape changer, and nothing would hold in one place for long, and she knew this with a childlike combination of disillusion and forgiveness." He both shares with her his dream of one day owning a great racehorse and uses her as cover on the many evenings that he's out gambling, carousing, and drinking. When Jack Stoddard dies in jail, Elizabeth takes her daughters back to her long deserted childhood home near the Brazos River. Their resolve to stay and reclaim the wreckage wrought by time and weather is tested daily by their poverty, severe drought, and the fierce dust storms ("a deliberate, hurtful wind"). But in a novel that is essentially a tribute to the strength and resilience of its female characters, those challenges fail to break the spirits of the Stoddard women, or their determination to wrest success from disaster. Read this splendid novel in tandem with Tim Egan's The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.
The Time It Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazurus Dean (2007)
Like many kids growing up around Cape Canaveral in the 1980s, with parents employed in one capacity or another at NASA, Dolores Gray is obsessed with space travel. For years, Dolores has kept notebooks filled with information about the various space programs, especially anything connected with her idol, Judith Resnik, one of the first women to train as an astronaut. As the shuttle program heats up and then falters in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, Dolores encounters disaster in her own life: her parents separate. Her mother moves out of the house, leaving her father, her younger sister Delia, and 13-year-old Dolores to fend for themselves. Dolores is determined to understand the reasons behind both these events, the public and the private. Margaret Lazurus Dean's beautifully written first novel, The Time It Takes to Fall, successfully blends the personal experiences of the Grays with the public tragedy of the Challenger explosion, and in the process gives us an appealingly sensitive narrator in Dolores, and a peek behind the scenes at NASA.
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil (2002)
The Grand Complication, Allen Kurzweil's clever and often laugh-out-loud funny second novel, is ostensibly about the search for a watch supposedly made for Marie Antoinette. The main character is Alexander Short, a reference librarian in Manhattan who carries around a notebook tethered to his waist, just as the monks of old used to carry their journals around. His attachment (literally as well as figuratively) to girdling - obsessively writing notes on everything that occurs to him - is described by his "shrimp" (as Short's French wife refers to his therapist) as "a buffer against shame, offering the precarious semblance of order to an emotionally blocked, obsessive young adult male." Despite (or perhaps because of) being obsessive and blocked, he's hired by Henry James Jesson III, a wealthy bibliophile and aesthete, to research the whereabouts of the aforementioned watch. The search wreaks havoc on his relationship with his wife, who doesn't trust Jesson at all. The Grand Complication is an intellectual romp, filled with delightful wordplay, hilarious scenes set in the library (including a contest, "Class Struggle," to see who can attach the correct Dewey number to the most obscure subjects - the winner is invariably the building's janitor), a real life mystery (re the actual watch in question, which disappeared in Jerusalem in the 1980s and has never been found), and some wickedly entertaining characters. A must read (and perfect gift) for anyone who loves books, and most especially anyone who has lately despaired of finding an intelligent and humorous novel to read.
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman (2004)
It's hard for me to imagine anyone not being immediately drawn into Mark Salzman's engaging and touching True Notebooks, the story of his experiences teaching creative writing at a detention center for "high risk" male juveniles outside Los Angeles. Many of these young men, who are in the detention center for serious crimes - robbery, rape, and murder, among others - are likely headed for a life lived largely in prison. Originally not thrilled about taking on this volunteer project (what could a white, middle-class writer offer to these young men of color? he hated the movie Dead Man Walking, despite never having seen it, etc.), Mark is convinced to do so by Sister Janet Harris, who coordinates the Inside Out Writers Program and is a tireless advocate for the young and incarcerated population at the center, as well as by the fact that he needs some background information to flesh out a juvenile delinquent character in a new novel he's writing. Readers come to know the young men who participated in Mark's writing group through their own words, and we also learn much about Salzman himself - someone who is humane, compassionate, and possessed of a great sense of humor. This is one of his best works yet, and a good stepping off point for checking out this always interesting author.
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell (2007)
Gertrude Bell has been called both the female T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) and the woman who invented Iraq. Both descriptions, as we learn from Georgina Howell's riveting biography, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, are justified by the facts of this remarkable woman's life. Born in 1868 to a wealthy British family, she had a life full of firsts for her gender: she was the first woman to achieve a First in Modern History at Oxford; the first to win a prize from the Royal Geographical Society; and the first female British Intelligence Officer. After graduating from Oxford she visited Tehran, and, much as T.E. Lawrence did, fell in love with the Middle East. She ended up devoting a good portion of her life to understanding its complexities and shaping its future. (She was also an intrepid mountain climber - there's a pulse-pounding account here of one of her ascents in the Alps - organized the care of the wounded in France during World War I, and, somewhat surprisingly, spoke out passionately against women's suffrage in England.) She taught herself to speak and read Arabic and Persian, and, in the years leading up to World War I, explored the desert terrain by camel, always accompanied by a devoted group of servants who toted along everything that might be needed by a proper British lady on such a journey, including pistols, a canvas bath, tea sets (one imagines they were Spode, or Wedgwood), evening gowns, fur stoles, and Zeiss telescopes to serve as gifts to the tribal leaders she met along the way. Following the War to End All Wars, she drew up, on behalf of the British government, the boundaries of a new country to be carved out of the sands of Mesopotamia, and picked Faisal, son of a tribal chief from Mecca, to be Iraq's first king. Howell, who clearly fell in love with her subject while she was researching and writing this book, has given us a compulsively readable (and information packed) account of the life of one of the most fascinating women of the last 150 years. It can be highly recommended for biography fans, history buffs, or any reader with an interest in the deep background of events playing out in the Middle East today.
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson (2006)
Sometimes the first line of a book just opens the door a crack - you have to jump right into the novel before it totally grabs you. Tanglewreck, Jeanette Winterson's enthralling first novel for kids eleven to fourteen, begins this way: "At six forty-five one summer morning, a red London bus was crossing Waterloo Bridge," - a fairly bland first line, at best. It isn't until you read on a bit that you get to these lines, the ones that grabbed me and wouldn't let me put the book down: "The bus and its passengers were never found. It was the first of the Time Tornadoes." What the reader soon discovers is that Time is behaving very strangely in London - it's slowing to a standstill and then speeding up crazily; the tornadoes (and disappearances) are happening with increasing frequency and intensity; and a wooly mammoth, long thought extinct, is seen near the River Thames. What - or who - is behind these unusual occurrences? Eleven-year-old Silver, whose parents and sister disappeared years before, lives with her cruel guardian, Mrs. Rokabye, in an ancient, sprawling mansion called Tanglewreck (which holds powers and secrets of its own). She discovers that an ancient and mysterious clock, The Timekeeper, is somehow at the heart of the time distortions. Whoever controls the clock, controls Time itself. And - to her peril - she realizes that two evil adults - Abel Drinkwater and Regalia Mason - are both desperate, for nefarious reasons of their own, to find the Timekeeper. Along with her new friend Gabriel, whose father had a long ago connection to The Timekeeper, Silver faces terrible dangers and difficult choices. Fans of some of the classics, old and new, of children's fantasy (Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, for two) will enjoy this as well.
Dingley Falls by Michael Malone (2002)
One of my favorite novels was written more than a quarter-century ago, and yet each time I reread it, which I do every couple of years, I fall in love with it all over again. Michael Malone has written many terrific novels, including Foolscap, Time's Witness, and Handling Sin, but for some reason it's Dingley Falls that I go back to, time and time again. For me, Dingley Falls is the über soap opera as novel or novel as soap opera, take your pick. (This makes a lot of sense since for many years Malone was one of the writers on that über television soap opera, One Life to Live.) It's one of those novels in which you're immediately drawn into the world the author has created, so that when the book ends - and it's not a short book by any means, thank goodness - you're left feeling bereft, as though you've somehow been banished from a familiar and well-loved place. The seemingly bucolic Dingley Falls, Connecticut (the sort of town in which being a nut and an egghead are nearly synonymous, the author tells us), is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the year of its founding, and strange events are occurring. Love is on everyone's mind, as are a series of very nasty anonymous letters, strange lights in the sky, and an uncommonly large number of deaths from heart failure. Evil is afoot in Dingley Falls, and no one is quite sure what to do about it, except, perhaps, for sixteen-year-old Polly Hedgerow, who's wiser than her years might indicate. The novel's a bit racy in places, with some scenes of somewhat raunchy sex occurring both behind both closed doors and in the woods surrounding the town, but Malone's descriptions are offered in such affable humor that it's all simply irresistible. And how could you not love a book that begins not only with a map, but also a four page alphabetical listing of all the characters, with short identifying phrases: Sidney Blossom - Town librarian and former hippie; Louie Daytona - Gorgeous bisexual sculptor and ex-convict befriended by Tracy Canopy; and Polly Hedgerow herself - a bookworm, gossip, and amateur sleuth.
In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers by Deborah Reber (2007)
Teens thinking about their future (or, for that matter, adults looking for a career change) shouldn't miss Deborah Reber's In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers. (Full disclosure: I am one of the women profiled in Reber's book - talking about the joys of being a librarian - but received no money for my participation or from sales of the book.) Through informal, chatty interviews, Reber offers insights into and highlights of the career choices and careers of an impressively diverse group of women. Even though all the subjects are women, their choices extend far beyond the "traditional" female careers of librarian, teacher, nurse: there's an architect, an educational psychologist, a museum curator, a director of a non-profit organization, a video game programmer, a firefighter, a yoga instructor, a sheriff, and a lieutenant in the Coast Guard, among many others, which makes this is a good selection for young career seekers of either sex.


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Weezer (Green Album)
by Weezer
Released: Apr 1996
Label: Geffen
After five years off, Weezer comes back with their second self-titled album, if only to push the restart button after 1997's Pinkerton turned its back on their clean-cut geek-is-cool image by thrashing through 10 dark and spiky songs. Here the band enlists the help of former Cars front man Ric Ocasek to help them return to the joys of sunny power pop. And it works, kind of. But it's more interesting for the pendulum swing from the big melodies of "Photography" to the anxious paranoia of "Hash Pipe."


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49 CFR 233.9 - Reports.
Not later than April 1, 1997 and every 5 years thereafter, each carrier shall file with FRA a signal system status report "Signal System Five-year Report" on a form to be provided by FRA in accordance with instructions and definitions provided on the report.
[61 FR 33872, July 1, 1996]
Title 49 published on 2014-10-01
no entries appear in the Federal Register after this date.