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By Tabitha Korol
The Jewish community is silent again, just as it was in 1938, when Hitler youths and brown-shirted thugs marched in the streets against the Jews, just as they smashed the windows of Jewish-owned stores on the night now known as Kristallnacht. Now the anti-Semites of all stripes have announced their intent to join the Israel Day parade on June 3, and they must be stopped. They do not come in peace.
Why are we silent? Should we concede that the UJA, Federations and Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) have been duped by the groups with names such as New Israel Fund, B'Tselem, Partners for Progressive Israel and Rabbis for Human Rights, the groups with misleading names that might as well be the modern-day Hitler Bund? These pro-Palestinian groups that feign peace support the BDS events, work to erase the only Jewish state in the world, Israel, and hope to destroy the global Jewish community. The information is widely known and on the websites. Are our leaders so incomprehensibly ignorant of their political agenda, or are they surrepticiously complicit?
Freedom of speech is the ruse they use to push their evil agenda and to obstruct the march. The imposition of these pro-Palestinian anti-Zionists will be a form of intolerance, an act of suppression and a show of strength. This will be a call to action by these hate groups to do what they do on campuses – interrupt, riot, prevent the celebrants from following their planned agenda and from speaking to the crowd. The original celebrants have no obligation to include them, and have every right to keep the marchers safe, and the Jewish leaders are seriously betraying our people. Have the NYPD and news media been alerted to the possibilities of trouble because we won't let them Occupy and Disrupt the Israel Day parade the way they Occupied Wall Street?
We must not tolerate the interlopers.
TOLERANCE OF EVIL IN THE NAME OF PEACE IS COMPLIANCE - and submission.
* If the interlopers were espousing hate against Islam, our leaders would be working to prevent their joining the June 3 march, and standing for the rights of terrorists.
* If the interlopers were espousing hate against African-Americans, our Jewish leaders would be working to keep them away and beat off the KKK.
* If the interlopers were espousing hate against the Palestinians, our Federations would no doubt have them removed from the premises and distributing humanitarian aid to Israel's sworn enemy.
But when the hate is directed at the Jews, even our own people turn tail and run; they remain quiet and, indeed, insist on our obeisance. How dare the Federations open the door for these enemies of Israel, permitting the anti-Semites to have their way? If the Federations want to continue to be victims of anti-Semitism and hatred, claiming the moral high ground, then that is not the moral high ground. Standing up to Nazis, Jew-haters, and anti-Semites is the only moral high ground.
Will they also allow banners of Death to Israel, Apartheid Israel, Boycott Israel, and Death to Jews, in the name of freedom of speech? If there's one speaker at the podium, speaking on behalf of Israel, will our fearless leaders be quiet as he/she is heckled into oblivion.
TO THOSE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, KNOW THIS... We are in the early-to-mid stages of spreading the Islamic hatred of Jews in America, using the Palestinian propaganda of victimhood as their sword for destruction. You were quiet when Occupy Wall Streeters espoused their hate of Israel. You were quiet when the week of Israel Apartheid accusations took place throughout our universities. You said nothing when the Jewish and Christian presidents of the Universities (U of California, U of Penn, Harvard, Brandeis, etc) invited speakers to boycott Israel's products and endanger the Jewish students, and quiet when Farrakhan ranted at UC Berkeley. When will you speak? When it's time to raise funds for yet another memorial?
We ask every Federation to stop these purveyors of hate from joining the Israel Day parade. We ask every Hillel leader to lead his students to bravery and pride in our heritage and our people. We must not allow the event to be distorted in America, lest this become a Germany. This is the home of the brave and the land of the free. This is the sanctuary of the world for peaceful coexistence among all people. And, as Jewish Americans, we cannot permit this hatred to take over our land. What good do you do if you do not support our very survival? Jewish leaders, if you don't want to stand with us, you're in the wrong parade.
The real tragedy is that these hate groups are diverting us from the ultimate action we must now take to protect America and Israel – to demand that the President of the United States represent his citizenry and the Constitution by immediately bombing Iran's infrastructure – the threat to civilization. The signs that should be carried at the Israel Day parade should say, "Obama, why are you making Israel fight a global threat by herself, when this is America's responsibility!"
I hope that you also call your Jewish leaders and say we need thousands and thousands of signs to be held by those who are marching and those who are watching so that we get media coverage, embarrass this President's inaction for our ally, and support Netanyahu when he asks us "Why does Israel have to face Iran alone?"
Tabitha Korol
Tabitha Korol, who began her political writing with letters to the editor, earned an award from CAMERA (Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) "in recognition of outstanding letter-writing in 2009 to promote fair and factual reporting about Israel." Her op-eds have appeared in Arutz Sheva (Israel National News), and she posts at Right Truth, NewMediaJournal, RenewAmerica, JewishIndy, NeverAgainIsNow, and others. She also does proofreading/editing for a monthly city newsletter. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she composed the music for the Alma Mater, her early career included fashion and fabric design. Once she and her family moved from New York to Ohio, she wrote customer service correspondence for two major manufacturing corporations for a combined 25 years, and obituaries/lifecycle events for a specialty weekly newspaper before her retirement and entry into journalism.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "Shamoon" virus that attacked Saudi Arabia's state oil company, ARAMCO, was probably the most destructive attack the business sector has seen to date, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday.
Addressing business leaders in New York, Panetta described the virus as sophisticated and noted that a similar attack days later struck Qatar's natural gas firm, Rasgas.
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While most people were picking out green outfits, drinking lots of beer or otherwise wasting time on St. Patrick's Day, one select group of folks were bracing for potential fame and fortune as hopeful members of the 2015 Maine Legislature.
The deadline for wannabe state representatives and state senators came and went at 5 p.m. on March 17.
Given the impacts of last year's legislative redistricting and Maine's term limits law, voters will be faced with a healthy crop of fresh faces.
But you can always count on a few perennial candidates: those who think the next campaign will be the magic campaign, the Wonka Golden ticket that will admit them into the strata of being really important and somewhat relevant. Such is the case in Biddeford, where Perry Aberle — undaunted by two consecutive and somewhat epic campaign failures — has once again tossed his hat into the ring seeking to capture a legislative seat that eluded him two years ago by a hefty margin.
Now that he has tossed his hat into the ring again, hopefully, someone will toss him back a working razor.
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He ran for the state legislature two years ago and was crushed by incumbent Paulette Beaudoin, the proverbial little old lady who cleaned Aberele's clock by garnering nearly 64 percent of the vote (2,585-1,471).
A year later, Aberle brushed himself off and decided to challenge Biddeford Mayor Alan Casavant. Despite a much larger pool of voters in a city-wide election for mayor, Aberle's vote total shrunk by more than half, and he finished a distant third in a three-way race that also included former mayor Joanne Twomey. Casavant easily won re-election with 2,377 votes, compared to 720 for Aberle.
Today, Aberle is again running as a Republican for the Maine House of Representatives in District 12, which includes the central and downtown portions of the city. He will face Biddeford businessman Martin Grohman, a Democrat, in the general election.
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A four-day series of free concerts is presented on a stage built right on the beach at 30th Street. Evening shows on Thursday and Friday give way to a full day of entertainment on Saturday and more daytime concerts on Sunday. All performances are free to the public. The festival atmosphere is enhanced with beer and food served in tents on the sand alongside a sea of beach chairs and dancing couples! Boardwalk sponsors and vendors overlook the beach, luring visitors from the boardwalk into the fun of Beach Music Weekend!
A giant 20-foot inflatable jukebox on the beach keeps a "watchful eye" as festival-goers kick off their shoes and dance their cares away on the sands of Virginia Beach.
Entertainment Schedule:
Thursday, May 14 – Craig Woolard Band (7:30pm)
Friday, May 15 – Legends of Beach (7:30pm)
Saturday, May 16 – Main Event (Noon); Magnificents (2:30pm); Bill Deal's Rhondels (5:00pm); Swingin' Medallions (7:45pm)
Sunday, May 17 – Coolin' Out (Noon); Band of Oz (2:00pm); Chairmen of the Board (4:00pm); The Entertainers (7:00pm at 31st Street Park)


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NEW YORK — The NHL and the locked-out Players' Association are talking again, and a return to the bargaining table could happen soon.
After a few days to cool off following an epic collapse in negotiations, the league and the union have been in touch with each other in an attempt to restart conversations that could save the hockey season.
"Trying to set up something for this week, but nothing finalized yet," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly wrote Sunday in an email to the Associated Press.
Negotiations broke down Thursday night after three straight days of talks at a New York hotel. Moments after players' association executive director Donald Fehr said he believed the sides were closing in on a deal to end the lockout, he was back at the podium to announce the NHL had rejected the union's latest offer.
Commissioner Gary Bettman followed him and angrily stated that the sides weren't close and added he didn't know why Fehr thought they were.
The tone has changed a bit since then. Whether it has shifted far enough for the sides to come to an agreement soon remains to be seen.
On Friday, Daly said he was at a loss how to get the bargaining process back on track.
"I have no reason, nor any intention, of reaching out to the union right now," Daly said in an email to the AP. "I have no new ideas. Maybe they do. We are happy to listen."
All games have been canceled through Friday, and more games surely will be wiped off the schedule soon. Bettman said Thursday that he won't allow a season to be played that contains fewer than 48 games per team — the length of the season that was played after a lockout ended in January 1995.
Fehr repeated Saturday his feeling that the sides aren't all that far apart.
"My comments from a couple of days ago stand on their own. I think we were very close," Fehr told reporters after addressing a Canadian Auto Workers council meeting.
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Crude oil tumbled the most in eight months after China raised benchmark interest rates, potentially crimping demand in the world's biggest energy-using country, and the dollar rose against the euro.
Futures dropped 4.3 percent on the first increase in China's key lending and deposit rates since 2007 following an acceleration in inflation to the fastest pace in 22 months. The dollar advanced versus the European currency on speculation the Chinese move will reduce economic growth. A rising greenback curbs investor demand for raw materials.
"The surprise Chinese rate hike has sent the dollar higher and that's pushing oil lower," said Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions LLC in Houston. "It's a double whammy, this could cause weaker demand along with strengthening the dollar."
Crude oil for November delivery fell $3.59 to settle at $79.49 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the biggest drop since Feb. 4. The November contract expires tomorrow. More-actively traded December futures slipped $3.64, or 4.3 percent, to end the session at $80.16.
Prices declined from the settlement after the American Petroleum Institute reported at 4:30 p.m. that U.S. crude-oil stockpiles increased 2.32 million barrels to 364.8 million. November oil was down $3.62, or 4.4 percent, to $79.46 a barrel in electronic trading at 4:35 p.m.
Gasoline for November delivery tumbled 10.32 cents, or 4.8 percent, to $2.0483 a gallon on the Nymex. It was the biggest one-day decline since July 8, 2009. November heating oil fell 8.68 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $2.1893 a gallon.
A report on Oct. 21 may show that China's inflation quickened to 3.6 percent in September, highlighting overheating risks that have prompted the government to curb credit.
Slower Growth
"Tightening of Chinese monetary policy is weighing on crude oil and the entire commodity space," said Jason Schenker, the president of Prestige Economics LLC, an Austin, Texas-based energy consultant. "Increased lending rates and deposit requirements will reduce available liquidity in the market and could engender slower growth, adversely affecting demand."
The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 commodities dropped 1.9 percent to 292.98. Fourteen of the commodities declined and five gained.
The Chinese announcement helped send equities lower. Stocks also declined amid concern that banks will be forced to buy back soured mortgages. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 1.8 percent to 1,163.97 at 3:50 p.m. in New York, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 1.7 percent to 10,956.86.
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The U.S. currency rose for a third day, surging 1.5 percent against the euro to $1.3722. The dollar is heading for the biggest gain since Aug. 11.
"The dollar is rocketing higher at the moment," said Stephen Schork, president of consultant Schork Group Inc. in Villanova, Pennsylvania. "That is also putting a lot of pressure on the market."
An Energy Department report tomorrow will probably show that U.S. crude-oil stockpiles climbed 1.5 million barrels last week, according to the median of 15 analyst estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. That would leave supplies at the highest level since the week ended June 25.
In France, unions have stepped up pressure on President Nicolas Sarkozy to retreat from a plan to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60. Truckers blocked highways and police were deployed to prevent strikers from stopping fuel deliveries.
Market 'Oversupplied'
"The U.S. is oversupplied for the moment," said Eugen Weinberg, head of commodity research at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. "I don't think the effects of the French strikes are positive for the market. It might lead to lower demand because these refineries are not asking for crude."
Total SA, Europe's biggest refiner, said about 1,000 of the 4,000 service stations it operates in France are facing shortages of one or more fuel products because of the strike.
Christine de Champeaux, a spokeswoman, said by telephone that protesters also demonstrated in front of at least three fuel depots today.
Brent crude oil for December settlement declined $3.27, or 3.9 percent, to end the session at $81.10 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. It was the biggest drop since June 4.
Oil is likely to trade in the low-to mid-$80 range next year, Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS-Cambridge Energy Research Associates, said today at a conference in Naples, Florida. One of the biggest influences on prices in the near term may be currency movements, said Yergin, who was speaking at the Global Financial Leadership Conference, presented by the CME Group.
Oil volume on the Nymex was 784,724 contracts as of 3:40 p.m. in New York. Volume totaled 677,631 contracts yesterday, 1.2 percent below the average of the past three months. Open interest was 1.45 million contracts.


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I write in homage to mischief.
Growing up where the thumb meets the index finger on the mitten that is Michigan, we had a special night to make trouble.
Each year on Oct. 30, we dressed in our darkest clothes, armed ourselves with bars of Ivory and rolls of Charmin, then disappeared into the leafy darkness.
Devil's Night involved "ding-dong- ditch-it," the act of ringing doorbells and then bolting. It entailed TPing trees and Silly Stringing the bikes of our favorite neighbors. For neighbors we liked less, it meant strategically placing Laughing Cow cheese cubes so that squirrels would gnaw through their jack-o'-lanterns.
The spookier the home or the more curmudgeonly its residents, the lower we stooped.
Empty-nesters known to be empty- handed on Halloween would get shampoo in their mailboxes. The dentist who handed out floss would find Crest on his doorknobs. And raw eggs would appear mysteriously under the mat of one Boo Radley type who didn't bother answering our rings.
The best part was that our otherwise law-abiding parents — just like their otherwise law-abiding parents before them — encouraged the tradition (though they insisted on not knowing details). My dad offered tips from the Devil's Nights of his own boyhood. And Marvin Aronovitz, the father of my best friend, Margie, would spook us in the woods around their house.
"Greenbean? Oh, Greenbean . . .," he hollered at me through trees that seemed haunted.
Devil's Night was wonderfully scary, at least for Margie and me, roaming the neighborhood with our flashlights. It was a time of rebellion and reckoning with darkness (if not also petty vandalism).
If only once a year, we needed our wild rumpus. It was relatively harmless as pagan rituals go.
That is, until my junior year in high school when a few bad eggs set fire to more than 800 buildings in Detroit and ruined the fun for the rest of us non-arsonists.
The city imposed curfews and dispatched volunteers to patrol neighborhoods. Officials tried turning Oct. 30 into Angels Night. But for kids, UNICEF soliciting doesn't have the same appeal.
That's how Devil's Night ended. The fires were like a razor blade slipped into a caramel apple: Kids were taught never to accept anything unwrapped again.
Not that the tradition wouldn't have eventually faded with the anti-bullying movement or with the criminalization of childhood pranks. Post-Columbine, making trouble now seems much more troubling.
Besides, Christian conservatives no doubt would have crusaded against Devil's Night, down as they are on Satan.
And so we're left this Friday with no more trick before the treat. We're left with old stories about a dead holiday that now seems so much older than one generation.
These days, wild things come with PG ratings. Rumpuses still happen, though highly supervised and in brightly lit inflatable bouncy spaces for which parents pay hourly and waive rights to claim legal liability. Kids don't roam freely in dark places to make mischief of one kind and another.
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StarForge is a sci fi survival sandbox. Hunt to eat, dig for resources, craft many items, build a fort, and fight enemies in order to survive! Do this alone, or with other players, in a fully infinite procedural world.
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Over the last couple months we've been making major revisions to the physics driving our character animation in StarForge.
Our brand-new movement model is designed closely around the real biomechanics of biped locomotion; it can simulate jumping, running, climbing, wall jumping, wall running, crawling and pretty much any other behavior all without the use of any state driven code. The result is a more human look and feel, and a character that is equipped to intelligently react to dangers far beyond what conventional movement code was designed to handle.
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looks amazing as always! :D
Are you planning on adding some form of animation for falling? Or Ragdolls?
Having that kind of movement.. amazing =D
This is pretty cool and innovative.
Don't know if you guys know about the Overgrowth project, but in there they've made some pretty amazing character movement behavior and is well worth to study.
The algorithm look pretty advanced and I'm sure in takes all kinds of parameters like kinetic energy etc. into consideration. If I were to put the finger on something, for me the character leaning seems a bit odd. It's like you have a section of code in there that takes the ground normal into consideration and apply the inverse rotation of the delta between the normal and direction up. Maybe that's how we bipeds tackle uneven terrain, but in this case I think the algorithm overcompensates. Dialing that effect back a little would look better IMO.
Thanks for the very thoughtful comment. :> I'm happy to see people are interested in how it works.
There are a lot of factors involved in the movement code, indeed.
I think it might be worth mentioning that "up" is never referenced once in the movement code, nor was the direction of gravity, and the purpose of this was to not give special treatment to ground surfaces. This way any given surface could potentially be used as a floor.
It is easy to walk on flat surfaces as opposed to vertical ones because gravity is counteracting the upwards thrust our legs exert each time we step. If you try to walk up a wall, the force you'd need to apply against the wall to gain sufficient traction would also push you away from it - unless something was pushing you and the wall together. Perhaps a strong wind, an explosion, the wall is rapidly accelerating towards you, you were thrown into the wall, etc.
This approach opens up a lot of opportunities that most movement frameworks leave unhandled. The moment our algorithm detects a surface - even if that surface belongs to a peice of flying debris, or a wrecked vehicle rolling towards you end-for-end - you'll be able propell yourself off of it. Like a ninja.
(Continued...) The specific problem you are mentioning, I think, relates to acceleration leaning in some cases. This is a bug I've recently fixed, but when you command your legs to accelerate you forwards, they'll lag behind you quite a bit. This was an easy fix that I overlooked.
Otherwise, sometimes what happens is when a steep slope is suddenly encountered, the legs get pressed back via a collision. So it's almost like he is tripping over the slope. It takes a bit for the legs to force themselves under the player's center of mass after this happens. I've created two fixes for this to minimize the effect, and other possible fixes are planned for testing.
I've tried the Overgrowth movement and I am impressed by the extreme degree of polish he has put into it. A lot of interesting tech has been used there, especially IK. I always admired games which had perfect foot planting with no skating or sliding. It has a solid design and I couldn't find any problems with it.
Nonetheless, while I draw inspirations from Overgrowth I am taking a different approach more akin to physics sandbox games. Eventually, I hope to not use animations at all and have everything bone in his body driven by physics - but for now, I'm using a simplified approach which doesn't "snap" in and out of ragdoll.
Good to hear you're on top of things.
I admire your vision of omitting animations all together and rely solely on physics.
Having some physics programming experience I know it's pretty hard to get it working exactly the way you desire. Plenty of odd cases where you find it necessary to lend a leading hand to the simulation. If you manage to strike out a good blend there I see this working out pretty damn good.


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A TRADITIONAL belief about rural credit markets, particularly agricultural credit markets, is that small rural banks have limited access to sources of funding and limited opportunities to lend outside their immediate communities. Rural banks' ability to meet local loan demand, so the theory goes, is constrained by a relatively inelastic supply of local deposits and insufficient access to nonlocal or national credit markets. Moreover, such institutions tend to experience deposit outflows during periods of high seasonal loan demand as individuals with a seasonal need for funds (like farmers) draw down their deposit balances. To meet the seasonal loan demand of such industries as agriculture and tourism, many observers argue that rural banks must keep a relatively high proportion of their assets in low-interest-bearing, highly liquid securities during other times of the year.
The Seasonal Borrowing Privilege (SBP), one of three Federal Reserve discount window programs, was designed to address this problem by permitting banks with strong seasonal patterns in loans or deposits to obtain funds from Federal Reserve Banks. Although the program is highly popular among participants, some observers have questioned a key historical feature of the SBP, as well as the program's justification itself. Noting that seasonal loans were made at a below-market rate of interest (the discount rate), critics have argued that the lack of credit availability, even if it were a problem, was no reason for the Fed to step in and provide credit at a subsidized rate.(1) Other critics, citing the tremendous innovations in financial markets since the program began in 1973, have questioned whether rural banks continue to face funding constraints today or whether they are still the only source of credit for their communities.(2) The criticism has increased with the volume of lending through the SBP.
This article describes the seasonal borrowing program and examines its usage by banks in the Eighth Federal Reserve District from 1984 through 1990.(3) The Eighth District has a large number of agricultural banks; in some years, District banks have accounted for as much as one-third of all borrowings under the SBP. A key question to be addressed is the extent to which the program has fulfilled the objectives set out by the Federal Reserve Board in 1973. The article then presents an analysis of the program's continued necessity.
Purpose of the Program
The seasonal borrowing program was established in April 1973 by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (hereafter, the Board) to help member banks meet seasonal funding requirements. The program was adopted as part of amendments to Regulation A, "Advances and Discounts by Federal Reserve Banks," which became effective April 19, 1973. Under Section 201.2 of the revised Regulation A, "General Principles," the Board outlined its rationale for the program:
Extending credit to member banks to accommodate
commerce, industry, and agriculture is a
principal function of Reserve Banks.... Federal
Reserve credit is available for longer periods
(than adjustment credit) to assist a member
bank that lacks reasonably reliable access to national
money markets in meeting seasonal
needs for funds arising from a combination of
expected patterns of movement in its deposits
and loans.(4)
The Board's decision to establish the SBP was based in large part on the findings of a 1971 Federal Reserve study of the discount window. In evaluating the sources and uses of funds at small rural banks, the study found that
the available information supports the view that
small rural banks, concentrated in the sixth
through eleventh Federal Reserve districts, have
serious disadvantages relating to their organizational
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12 Minutes of Freedom in 460 Days of Captivity
"When I describe what happened to me on Aug. 23, 2008, I say that I was taken. On an empty stretch of road outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, out of the back seat of a four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi by a dozen or so men whose faces were swaddled in checkered scarves. Each one of them carried an AK-47."
Behind the Cover Story: Sara Corbett on Collaborating With Amanda Lindhout to Tell a Harrowing Tale
"When I describe what happened to me on Aug. 23, 2008, I say that I was taken. On an empty stretch of road outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, out of the back seat of a four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi by a dozen or so men whose faces were swaddled in checkered scarves. Each one of them carried an AK-47."
Behind the Cover Story: Sara Corbett on Collaborating With Amanda Lindhout to Tell a Harrowing Tale
"They told me their God was 'Aqua Buddha'"
Jack Conway, a candidate for United States Senate, is catching flak from Democrats and Tea-Partiers alike, for airing an attack ad against his opponent, Rand Paul that brings up some bizarre dirt published in GQ a few months back. At a debate between the two candidates Sunday, Paul refused to shake Conway's hand at the end. Today, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a response to the Aqua Buddha ad. [more inside]
The Director, the Actress, the Dictator, and the Monster who was Hungry for Iron
Shin Sang-ok (1926 - 2006) was a Korean movie writer, director and producer, who studied film in Japan and returned to South Korea, where he gained fame and became the uncontested leader of the film industry in the 1960s, in a time when regulations on the industry limited other studios. In the 1970s under the Fourth Republic of South Korea, the film industry was even further limited, which lead to Shin's studio being closed. Things went from bad to worse, when "the Orson Welles of South Korea" was kidnapped by request of Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The reason? Kim Jong Il wanted the nation's film industry to promote the virtues of the Korea Workers' Party to a world-wide audience. After being imprisoned for four years, Shin was reunited with his ex-wife (who was also a captive of North Korea) and the given relative freedom, producing seven films in North Korea. While setting up a distribution deal to share Kim Jong Il's vision with a broader audience for a Godzilla-like monster movie, Shin and his wife escaped and sought political asylum in the United States. Their freedom was possible because of that last film for Kim, entitled Pulgasari. But Shin's life in movies was not over yet. [more inside]
Hey, you look familiar!
Age progression compositing (or forensic composting) is the process of taking a photo of a child and creating a composite image of what they might look like years later. It has been used to great success in the recovery of kidnap victims, and most recently in the case of Jaycee Dugard.
Austria asks: How did this happen again?
"The whole country must ask itself just what is really, fundamentally going wrong." An Austrian pensioner has admitted holding his daughter captive in a basement for 24 years, during which time he fathered seven children with her. [more inside]
US to allies: "Suck it, haterz!"
US has right to kidnap any defendant, anywhere, anytime, says it's UK lawyer. Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects. The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. [more inside]
Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt
Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt. It's current, it's for real, and each paragraph is weirder than the last.
In 1992, Maureen Dabbagh's ex-husband kidnapped their daughter and fled to Syria. Now Maureen was about to step into a universe she had no idea existed: the covert world of the "snatchback industry." She would go on to become a snatchback agent herself, to help other "left behinds."
Also, How to kidnap your children and get away with it.
Also, How to kidnap your children and get away with it.
Jill Carroll update
CSMonitor's Jill Carroll update As there isn't really much news about Jill Carroll, this blog has become mainly about the issues surrounding the Carroll abduction. What is Islam's perspective on foreigners? How does rampant kidnapping effect journalists? The last 'update' is about a poster of Carroll hung from Rome's city hall. Which makes me think two things: there isn't much news about Carroll's situation; why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?
We can finally joke about beheadings...
The kidnap videos in Iraq are suspicious. Some say they are fake. Some make their own... what do you think of this one? A rare bit of humor from Al-Jazeera. [.wmv]
Aristide Says He Was Kidnapped
Aristide Says He Was Kidnapped From Democracy Now: Aristide says he was "kidnapped" and taken by force to the Central African Republic. Congressmember Maxine Waters said she received a call from Aristide at 9am EST. "He's surrounded by military. It's like he is in jail, he said. He says he was kidnapped," said Waters. "He did not resign.... He was abducted by the United States in the commission of a coup." Robinson says he spoke to Aristide on a cell phone that was smuggled to the Haitian president. Will this revolution be televised? (Accounts in ogg and mp3)
This seven-year-old girl
This seven-year-old girl escaped from her kidnappers and was helped by 2 young boys. Yesterday in Texas, a 13-year-old boy put his hand through a car window trying to stop an abduction. These teens stabbed their abductor with a bowie knife while trying to escape. Is the culture of violence that spawns school shooters also making kids into heroes?
Sony's latest ad campaign
Sony's latest ad campaign has been pulled from the networks for being too edgy. It's certainly got an edge that I doubt children would understand, but they're still pretty funny (part 2 and part 3). Is this what happens when we have to protect everyone from anything remotely racy? Do you agree with the decision to pull them off the air?
Something just a bit different in a kidnapping: the victim suffers from polydactyly. If someone you know has suddenly come up with a newborn baby with one extra finger on each hand, let the FBI know. (No joke.)
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Charging stations, police staffing, and the B&O tax: Fact-checking the Bremerton mayoral race
BREMERTON - The Bremerton City Council voted to cancel plans to install four electric vehicle charging stations on Pacific Avenue by the downtown post office. So why did electrical infrastructure still get installed recently?
That's what Bremerton mayoral candidate Todd Best asked incumbent Mayor Patty Lent during an online radio forum Sunday night.
"They did it on the downslide," Best asserted.
The council did indeed vote not to install charging stations — and the conduit that would run to them — in June. And junction boxes for electricity have, in fact, shown up at the four spots once slated for charging stations.
"Mayor, did you know anything about this?" he asked.
Lent responded that the city did put power in, but that none of the infrastructure for charging stations went in. The mayor, who Best pointed out owns a Nissan Leaf, said the city administration would be "absolutely remiss" if it did not put electricity under the ground there for possible future use.
"Callow has been torn up four times and it still doesn't have electricity," Lent said.
It was on Sunday night, during an Outlaw Radio Network program with the candidates, that Lent asked Best why he didn't go into Starbucks. He explained it was due to a confrontation with an employee; Starbucks has since banned him from their stores.
Here are some other claims made by the candidates on the campaign trail:
Best has stated during the campaign that three to five Bremerton police officers are on patrol at any given time.
"We're a social services hub of the county," Best said during a debate before the Kitsap Sun's editorial board Sept. 3. "And we have three to five police officers at one given time."
Lent said there are "at least five," at the same debate.
Bremerton Police patrol Capt. Tom Wolfe said at least four officers and a sergeant are one duty at all hours of the day. Between 2 p.m. and 3 a.m., at least five officers plus a sergeant are on duty. The lower staffing after 3 a.m. is the result of fewer calls.
Best has been vocal about getting rid of the city's business and occupation, or B&O, tax. He proposes to eliminate it in four years; the city's current plan would slowly raise the income exemption for those who pay it.
But Lent said at a July Bremerton Chamber of Commerce forum that the $2.7 million generated by the city's business and occupation tax goes to the city's fire department.
Becky Hasart, the city's finance director, said the B&O tax goes into the city's general fund.
The city's total budget for 2013 is $113 million. But Lent maintains that the police and fire department budgets, at around $10 million and $8 million respectively, take up a big enough chunk of the pie that they need some "backfilling." Police have been able to get grant funding to help, and she views the B&O tax as doing the same for fire.
On the campaign trail, Best has said the parks department has only 10 maintenance workers. He has argued that the parks department could be merged with public works to save money. Lent has argued that there are more than Best says, and told the Outlaw Radio Network there are "double that" in the summer. She believes parks should remain a stand-alone department as it has a different role and a culture of caretaking.
Wyn Birkenthal, Bremerton Parks and Recreation director, says parks staffing is complex. For one, it swells during the busy summer months.
There are 12 year-round parks maintenance staff members, he said, but if you count summer part-time hours in the aggregate, it brings the total up to 14.
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EFF in court to challenge Zuma, IECComment on this story
Pretoria - Rain-drenched members of the EFF sang and danced outside the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday morning as the party took President Jacob Zuma, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor and Independent Electoral Commission to court.
The Economic Freedom Fighters is seeking an interdict against having to pay a deposit when submitting a list of candidates for the national elections, spokesman Mbuyiseli Ndlozi said in a statement.
Despite incessant rain, a crowd wearing red EFF regalia gathered at Church Square, opposite the court, where they sang and chanted anti-Zuma songs.
When the court proceedings started after 10am, Judge Joseph Rauling apologised and adjourned the matter because there was no stenographer.
He said the case would resume when the stenographer, who operates the court's recording equipment, was available.
Several EFF members, some wearing red berets, were inside the court.
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The EFF contends such a high deposit is unfair to new entrants and is unconstitutional. - Sapa
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"I saw the best minds of my generation...."
Today, June 3, is the birthday of beat poet, Allen Ginsberg who was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Known as the founder of the Beat Generation, Ginsberg wrote his first major poem, "Howl" and tilted the windmill that blew in the political unrest of the 1960's. It covered not only the anger he felt for an intolerant society but introduced new unconventional forms that reflected his embrace of experimentation. Ginsberg was a champion of the unrepresented in society, whether disenfranchised African-Americans or closeted homosexuals. With fellow beat writers, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he birthed a generation of artists who were not afraid to question the status quo.


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SALTA, Argentina (AP) — Stephane Peterhansel won the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally on Friday to increase his overall lead in the cars competition, and a French motorcyclist became the third person killed in connection with this year's race.
Peterhansel now leads by 3 minutes, 14 seconds in his Mini, ahead of Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar as the car category shapes up to be a two-man race. Third-place Giniel de Villier is 44 minutes behind the leader.
In bikes, Kurt Caselli of the United States won the high-altitude stage across the Andes with Olivier Pain of France keeping the overall lead.
The stage was overshadowed by the death of French motorcyclist Thomas Bourgin, who collided with a Chilean police car. The accident comes after two people died when their taxi collided with a Dakar Rally support vehicle late Wednesday in Peru near the border with Chile.
Race officials say the incident occurred as 25-year-old Bourgin was travelling from Calama on the Chilean side of the Andes to the start of the seventh stage in Argentina. They say the police car was going in the opposite direction.
The victory was Peterhansel's 61st stage victory in the famous rally, which he has won 10 times.
Caselli, meanwhile, picked up his first stage victory by finishing the high-altitude trek 1:23 ahead of Francisco Lopez of Chile and Olivier Pain of France.
Pain kept the overall lead in bikes. He is 6:06 ahead of Lopez and 6:37 in front of fellow Frenchman David Casteu.
Defending champion Cyril Despres of France finished 13:18 off the pace and slipped into fifth place in the overall bike standings.
"It's good, I mean, today was easy," Caselli said. "It was just roads, there was no off-track or anything - pretty easy to follow. … Everything for me was fine. I'm learning the navigation better and I can understand it. This is my first Dakar so I'm just learning a lot. I didn't have any idea what to expect when I first came here. It's fun and I'm enjoying it. The race is great and the people are too. I'm having a good time."
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Apple\'s future: Mac sales growth, subscription model?
updated 12:45 pm EDT, Fri May 13, 2005
ML reiterates Buy on AAPL
Apple's future is more than iPods, according to one analyst who believes that recent earlier this week.
Merrill analyst Steven Milunovich said that smaller competitors such as Real Networks and Napster may see more of a direct negative impact by the launch of Yahoo's service. The firm believes that Yahoo's entry into the increasingly crowded digital music space may push Apple to offer its own subscription service later this year, but that Yahoo's service may have its own drawbacks, including Yahoo's use of advertising, the lack of interest in current WMA-supported music players, and a possible backlash when its introductory pricing ends.
"Apple could flick the switch on a subscription model. Yahoo clearly is a problem for Real Networks and Napster, but will it hurt Apple? We do think Yahoo's entry could cause Apple to offer iTunes as a subscription model later this year, especially if there is evidence of share loss. Subscriptions are about 15% of the legal download market with iTunes over 70%," according to the research note.
The research firm also said that Apple's management is seing more evidence of the halo effect, although it did not provide any further details. Merrill "conservatively" estimates that the effect could drive "sustainable growth rate" of Mac revenue by 15-20 percent, based on its model.
Merrill said that a influx of perceived negative news impacting Apple was mounting--citing Bill Gates' recent declaration that mobile phones will replace the iPod as customers' preferred listening device (in addition to the recent Yahoo launch). While news has been affecting
Apple is working to protect iPod profits, according to the firm: "Although we think the iPod franchise is safe for at least the next year, the driver of the stock increasingly will be Mac sales." Merrill reiterated its "Buy" rating with a price target of $51 per share.