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Investigators say a man with a history of drunk driving killed a pedestrian and then ran.
Christopher Vogt is in the Richmond County jail tonight under charges of vehicle homicide in the first degree, DUI and hit and run.
Wednesday night's hit and run happened on Greene Street.
Investigators say 45-year-old William Eichner was walking when he was hit and killed.
They say the man who did it was driving drunk...and as News 12 uncovered, this isn't the first time.
Take one look at the car involved in the hit and run death, and it's easy to see where a body knocked the windshield Wednesday night.
The car is what gave away the suspect.
Investigators say Christopher Vogt of North Augusta was driving drunk on Greene Street when he hit Eichner.
Accident marks on the street show the body flew about 100 feet from where it was hit.
But you won't find skid marks there...a sign that Vogt didn't hit the brakes.
Major Richard Weaver says after the accident, Vogt kept driving.
But witnesses saw everything.
"Witnesses on the second described a white new vehicle that had left the scene," says Maj. Weaver.
About half an hour later, deputies found the car about a mile away.
They say Vogt saw them, and turned himself in.
Investigators say Vogt told them he knew he hit something, but didn't know it was a person.
They say Vogt smelled strongly of alcohol.
This wouldn't be the first time Vogt has driven drunk.
Maj. Weaver says he was convicted of DUI in 1998.
"You would think people would learn," he says. "But it happens and we just have to deal with it."
Eichner had a Michigan driver's license on him.
Investigators believe he might be homeless.
Richmond County alone responds to 70 or 80 hit-and-run cases each month, or 2 to 3 a day.
That includes hitting pedestrians, other vehicles, and even structures.
The punishment for the first offense is 1 to 5 years behind bars and a fine of $300 to $1000.


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They may not be able to vote, but they can write and draw. If you ask Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, they're a pretty good indicator of how Mississippi elections will shape up.
"Quite frankly I think they've only been wrong one time in the last fifteen years so they've pretty much picked every election," said Hosemann.
They're part of the Promote the Vote program, put on by the secretary of state's office to get young minds motivated and excited about voting. Monday morning, many of them even got awards for their work in showcasing the process.
"They do better than their parents sometimes. They actually read all the material about the candidates. They actually talk about the issues and discuss it between themselves. We find them to be very well educated," said Hosemann.
More than 120,000 students from all 82 counties cast their ballots last Fall. From the three voter initiatives to statewide races, Hosemann says their results were right on track with how Mississippi politics look now. One of those students was Meredith Arthur from Brandon Middle School who won first place for her essay on elections.
"It's not just casting your vote, it's really more taking a stand for what you believe in and your country," said Arthur.
Too often Hosemann says a stand is not taken, which was a main reason the program began in the first place. Hosemann says voting in Mississippi has decreased with only about a third of folks showing up at the polls.
By getting students like Meredith involved, the hope is to show voting isn't just a responsibility.
"It's a privilege and we need to exercise that privilege and exercise the responsibility of voting each and every time," said Hosemann.
Promote the Vote will start up again this fall, with eyes on the presidential election.


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Nearly 10 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks spurred a boom in the sale of American Flags, many of those flags are starting to fade and tatter.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Wal-Mart stores are working together to provide a way for residents to properly dispose of those worn flags.
There are specific procedures for displaying and disposing of American Flags.
Until next Monday, customers can visit any Wal-Mart, Sams' Club, or neighborhood market to drop off their used flags for proper disposal by participating VFW posts.
American Flags and poles on Front Street in Marietta also accept worn flags.
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's tennis team will play the first Southland Conference match of the year on Wednesday, traveling to Arlington to face the UT Arlington Mavericks. The match is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start at the UTA Tennis Center.
The Islanders sit at 7-9 overall on the year, but have yet to play a Southland Conference match. The team was scheduled to play Nicholls earlier in the month, but weather forced the rescheduling of the contest to April 18 in Houston. UT Arlington is currently 10-9 overall, with a 1-2 mark in league play.
The match on Wednesday will begin the quest for a fifth-straight Southland Conference Championship in the regular season. Last year, the Islanders went 5-0 in the regular season to claim the title.
The team also won the Southland Conference Tournament, and along with it, a berth in the NCAA Championships. The Islanders have made the NCAA Tournament each time they have been eligible for postseason play in the last four years.
It will be a tall task this season, as the competition in the league is at the highest level since Director of Tennis Steve Moore has returned to coach on the Island. In addition to the Islanders, both Nicholls and UTSA have been ranked this season in the ITA Tennis national rankings.
The last time the two teams met in 2011, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi claimed a 5-2 victory over the Mavericks in Corpus Christi.
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Hey, ya gotta make hay while the sun shines, or in this case, you've gotta use up that zucchini before it spoils. My freezer is already filled with baggies of shredded zucchini so these late summer zucchini must be dealt with or die. Besides, I was having a Martha moment if you couldn't tell by the little wrap job I did on these mini zucchini bread loaves.
Actually, I was waxing nostalgic (and now feeling dreadfully geeky for even using that term) because the ribbon I used to tie up these little beauties is the same ribbon I used two years ago in making the favors for my son's wedding. One hundred and thirty CD's were burned by yours truly, then beautified with ribbons and silver hearts and name cards.
This recipe can be made into muffins or a regular full-size loaf. Adjust baking time accordingly.
Mini Zucchini Banana Bread Loaves
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray three mini-loaf pans (5 3/4" X 3" X 2") with cooking spray.
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup oat flour
3/4 cup Splenda (or sugar)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
Whisk above ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
1 egg
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup canola oil
1 cup mashed banana
1 cup shredded zucchini
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp banana extract
1/2 -3/4 cup mini chocolate chips (how bad's your chocolate craving?)
Whisk together above ingredients except for chocolate chips. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir just until thoroughly combined. Do not over mix. Stir in chocolate chips.
Distribute batter between loaf pans. Bake in preheated oven for 40-45 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool on rack for 10 minutes before removing loaves from pans to cool completely on rack.


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I reported on the Issues site, but I post it here too:
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... il?id=1419
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install version 1.52 and try to play an .mkv with external subtitles
What is the expected output?
See the subtitles
What do you see instead?
No subtitles
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.52 (Works with 1.50.1). Gentoo.
mediaserver pms-linux # mencoder
MEncoder SVN-r34709 (Gentoo)-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
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Exiting... (error parsing command line)
mediaserver pms-linux # mplayer
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Solar Group puts an aesthetic twist on its solid line of wall mount mailboxes with the Solar Group MSK00000 Extra Large Security Wall Mount Locking Mailbox. Large capacity dimensions with a much improved look and a reasonable price, it's no wonder this quickly became the top seller on retail giant Amazon for lockable mailboxes.
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Glitch Seen in Senate Plan for Long-Term Unemployed
Updated at 6 p.m. ET with more reaction, comment from Reid.
WASHINGTON – The people who administer state unemployment programs have thrown a wrench into a congressional effort to reinstate an emergency lifeline for the long-term unemployed: They say a Senate plan might prove unworkable.
The warning provided ammunition for House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), who in a blog post on Wednesday suggested he is unwilling to advance the plan because the problems identified by state administrators are a "cause for serious concern."
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said that the concerns were "resolvable" and that he expected Mr. Boehner come "to the table to find solutions" instead of waking away from unemployed people in his home state of Ohio.
Shortly before a congressional recess, a group of 10 senators divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans rolled out an agreement to restore federal jobless benefits for five months, with the benefits retroactive to Dec. 29, 2013. It represented a breakthrough in the partisan Senate, where legislating tends to be challenging because the Democratic majority currently needs the support of at least five Republicans in order to get around procedural hurdles.
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies said in a letter that the Senate plan would be so difficult to implement that some states "might decide such changes are not feasible in the short time available" and therefore would considering declining to operate the federal program. According to the letter, a majority of states concluded that implementing the legislation could take from one to three months due to a combination of factors, including antiquated computer systems and problems paying for the administration of the program if federal funds could not be spent to determine eligibility.
Another problem involves how to retroactively award financial benefits to the long-term unemployed while at the same time satisfying a requirement in some states that recipients actively look for work. The group wrote that backdating claims for federal jobless benefits "would make it nearly impossible in many cases" to apply the work requirement and thus avoid improper payments to people who are ineligible.
Sen. Jack Reed (D. , R.I.) replied that benefits had been extended retroactively before and that outdated computer systems and finding finds to administer the benefits were problems that could be worked through.
"The real question is will Speaker Boehner allow an up or down vote on this bipartisan compromise?" Mr. Reed said. "Congress should focus on passing this responsible, temporary reauthorization instead of looking for excuses not to help job seekers."
Still, Mr. Boehner's statement offered little sign that the legislation had a path forward in the House.
"We have always said that we're willing to look at extending emergency unemployment benefits again, if Washington Democrats can come up with a plan that is fiscally-responsible, and gets to the root of the problem by helping to create more private-sector jobs," Mr. Boehner said in a blog post. "There is no evidence that the bill being rammed through the Senate by Leader Reid meets that test."
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AVON -The Walking Mountains Science Center will host the Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour on Sept. 14 and 15 in Avon. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year with a collection of films from the annual festival held the third week of January in Nevada City, Calif. Wild & Scenic focuses on films that speak to the environmental concerns and celebrations of our planet. "Films featured at Wild & Scenic give people a sense of place," said tour manager Lori Van Laanen. "In our busy lives, it's easy to get disconnected from our role in the global ecosystem. When we realize that the change we need in this world begins with us we can start making a difference. Come watch and see."The Wild & Scenic Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in 2003. The festival's namesake celebrates SYRCL's landmark victory to earn "Wild & Scenic" status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999. With the support of national partners, the festival reaches an even larger audience by touring venues coast to coast. Films on the tour feature topics such as the impact of plastic, the education of "today's child", land ethics and 21st century ecological challenges, impact of the mountain pine beetle, and more. The event at Walking Mountains will also offer plenty of activities for adults and kids alike. The event on Sept. 15 will include a family fun fair with outdoor (weather permitting) kids films, science experiment stations, food and family fun. Adult program highlights include "Mother Nature's Child" and "Green Fire" films. "Mother Nature's Child" is an extension of the discussion sparked by Richard Louv, author of "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle," offering a thought-provoking overview of the benefits of unstructured outdoor play, risk-taking, the use of technology and what it means to educate the "whole child." "Green Fire" is a film about Aldo Leopold, conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer and outdoor enthusiast. The film provocatively examines Leopold's thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges. Kids will be inspired by "Nico's Challenge," a film cataloguing the journey of a 13 year old boy who climbs Kilimanjaro on one leg, raising money to bring wheelchairs to handicapped people in Tanzania. To see the full film program or purchase tickets, visit www.wildandscenicvail.com. For more information about Walking Mountains events, visit www.walkingmountains.org.
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State College of Florida baseball team gets two wins to remain alive
Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 5:42 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 5:42 p.m.
LAKELAND — State College of Florida remained alive in the state junior college tournament with two wins over the weekend at Joker Marchant Stadium.
On Sunday, the Manatees (43-12) collected 17 hits in a 12-6 win over Hillsborough CC. Jarred Smith was 4-for-5 and Dalton Busby went 3-for-5.
Ben Ancheff tossed a three-hit shutout in an 8-0 win Saturday over Miami-Dade College. The Manatees scored all their runs after two outs, with only one run being earned.
The Manatees play at 1 p.m. Monday against the loser of the late Palm Beach SC-Seminole SC game.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Stanford junior swingman Anthony Brown scored a career-high 30 points Saturday afternoon, and he also scored points with his coach at the defensive end of the floor.
"He defended very well," Johnny Dawkins said after the Cardinal's 69-56 victory over Washington State. "He did a great job against (DaVonte) Lacy, one of the best players in our league."
Lacy, who scored a career-high 39 points Wednesday against Cal, went scoreless in the first half (taking only one shot). He finished with 13 points on 4-for-12 shooting.
"Stanford is a good team," Lacy said. "They're really long."
Brown tied his career high of four 3-pointers in the first 7 minutes, 24 seconds. He made his first six shots and wound up 8 for 10 from the field, 4 for 6 on 3s and 10 for 11 at the free-throw line.
"He was magnificent," Stanford guard Chasson Randle said.
"He really put on a show," WSU coach Ken Bone agreed.
Bone was similarly impressed with Stanford's defense. WSU, easily the worst offensive team in the Pac-12, shot just 31.4 percent from the field. That's a season low for a Stanford opponent.
"They're very quick, athletic and long," Bone said.
The Cardinal (16-8, 7-5 Pac-12) moved into a fifth-place tie with Colorado. Four of Stanford's remaining six conference games are at home, starting Thursday against last-place USC.
"I feel good about our position," Brown said.
The Cardinal never trailed the Cougars before 3,054 fans at Beasley Coliseum. Stanford led 39-24 at the half after shooting 63.2 percent from the floor, but the Cougars (9-16, 2-11) twice pulled within five points midway through the second half after Stanford missed 11 of 12 shots to open the half.
"They just came out with more intensity," Brown said. "I felt like they were a little more aggressive than us."
Brown, who averages 13.3 points per game, set his previous career high of 24 points Jan. 12 at Oregon. Lacy was just one of many WSU defenders who could not control Brown, who had 20 points by halftime.
"My first shot was wide open," Brown said. "I hit it. My second shot was wide open. Once you hit two, the basket starts getting real big. They just kept leaving me open."
Randle, the only other Cardinal with more than nine points, scored 14. Josh Huestis added seven points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
Dwight Powell had nine points and seven rebounds but failed to score in double figures in a Pac-12 game for the first time this season.
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If anyone knows how hectic life can get – WE DO! That's why we have created the Autism Speaks Weekly Whirl to fill you in on all of the highlights of the week! The last thing we want is for you to be left out of the loop! Please share with friends and family to spread the word about all of the exciting things going on in the autism community. Keep in mind, these updates aren't limited to Autism Speaks — we will be featuring news from across the community.
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Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Long-term objectives. The brain serotonin (5-HT) system plays an important role in cerebrovascular and neuroendocrine control. These systems have been implicated in migraine. Migraine is a low 5-HT syndrome and attacks may be triggered by a massive release of 5-HT acting on sensitized receptors. This proposal will elucidate the association between the phenomena of decreased 5-HT neurotransmission and altered cerebrovascular and neuroendocrine responsiveness. Focus will be on 5-HT receptors recently implicated in migraine pathogenesis and/or prophylactic treatment (5-HT1A, 5-HTT, 5-HT2s and 5-HT2c). As a key activator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the role of the brain angiotensin II (Ang II) system will be addressed. The proposal intends to shed light into the pathophysiological mechanisms of migraine, and the mechanism of action of migraine prophylactic 5-HT and Ang II drugs. Specific aims. The following hypotheses will be challenged: 1) A decreased 5-HT transmission in the brain will cause sensitization and/or up-regulation of 5-HT receptor subtypes in the cerebral vasculature and the HPA axis; treatment with a migraine prophylactic compound that target these receptors will restore 5-HT receptor function and/or expression. This may be a useful animal model for drug screening in migraine prophylaxis. 2) The response to stress, which involves sequential activation of the brain Ang II and the HPA systems, will lead to decreased brain 5-HT levels, up-regulation of 5-HT receptors, and/or amplified neuroendocrine and cerebrovascular responses to 5-HT receptor activation; treatment with an inhibitor of Ang II synthesis will restore serotonergic function. Design. 1) Cerebrovascular and neuroendocrine responses to 5-HT agonists, and expression of 5-HT receptors in the cerebral vasculature and the HPA axis, will be determined in control and 5-HT-depleted Wistar rats. It will be determined whether chronic treatment with a migraine prophylactic 5-HT antagonist restore 5-HT receptor function and/or expression. 2) Brain 5-HT content, expression of 5-HT receptors in the HPA axis, and neuroendocrine and cerebrovascular responses will be determined in control and stressed (acute and chronic isolation and restraint) Wistar rats. Reversal of stress-induced changes in these variables will be attempted by chronic treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, lisinopril (i.e. a migraine prophylactic agent). In vivo cerebrovascular reactivity will be assessed by laser- Doppler flowmetry (cortical blood flow) and the 4-iodo-[N-methyl-14C]-antipyrine method (regional cerebral blood flow). In vitro cerebrovascular reactivity will be analyzed with an arteriographic chamber system. The hormonal response (ACTH, corticosterone and prolactin) will be measured by radioimmuno assay in blood samples and 5-HT receptor expression will be determined by quantitative receptor autoradiography in tissue sections. 5-HT content will be measured by HPLC in brain homogenates.
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This is Project Humanbeingsfirst's response to many people's idea of "write-in" independent candidates as an alternate means of creating a third choice in these facade of elections when one is not content choosing from the "lesser of two evils" paradigm.
It is greatly disturbing that some very conscionable peoples of the press are still crying hoarse of "election theft" and "voter fraud" when their entire country has already been stolen. It appears that all within the United States comprise only "the crowd of simpletons and the credulous." As Hitler had put it,
"Nowadays when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor; the decision lies in the hands of the numerically strongest group; that is to say the first group, the crowd of simpletons and the credulous."
The master propagandist who had in fact learnt this art-form from the Americans and the British themselves, had further gone on to explain the positive role of the press in "informing" the public according to the wishes of the real rulers "when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor":
"It is an all-important interest of the State and a national duty to prevent these people from falling into the hands of false, ignorant or even evil-minded teachers. Therefore it is the duty of the State to supervise their education and prevent every form of offence in this respect. Particular attention should be paid to the Press; for its influence on these people is by far the strongest and most penetrating of all; since its effect is not transitory but continual. Its immense significance lies in the uniform and persistent repetition of its teaching. Here, if anywhere, the State should never forget that all means should converge towards the same end. It must not be led astray by the will-o'-the-wisp of so-called 'freedom of the Press', or be talked into neglecting its duty, and withholding from the nation that which is good and which does good. With ruthless determination the State must keep control of this instrument of popular education and place it at the service of the State and the Nation."
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And we can observe that the systems of governance in the United States have stolen a page from the Third Reich (well one among its many pages), and astutely led its gullible peoples to actually believe, from the day they are born, that the elections are empowering to them. A fuller excerpt with more context for the role of propaganda and indoctrination for manufacturing both consent and dissent when "when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor" can be gleaned in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report: "Weapons of Mass Deception – The Master Social Science". It is shocking how much has been learned from the Third Reich. It is, almost as if, the Third Reich was merely an advanced laboratory testbed for the Fourth Reich.
The myth of elections being anything useful, has been so craftily cultivated over the past two generations that none are able to see through the fog of indoctrination that something else entirely, "a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive," such that people only whisper in hushed voices "when they speak in condemnation of it", runs the United States with the elected Representatives merely as its front faces.
President Woodrow Wilson, after being naively railroaded into agreeing to support the creation of the Federal Reserve System and because of which he had initially won the backing of the oligarchs as an unknown non-politician professor from Princeton, and after signing off on it as President on Christmas eve despite his better judgment since the bill had not actually been debated at all in Congress – in fact even less discussed than the trillion dollar banksters' bailout bill passed just two weeks ago as most of the people's Representatives had left for their home during that Christmas week in 1913 – was stricken with the usual belated disclosure-disease post fait accompli upon leaving his high office and stated:
"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are of afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breadth when they speak in condemnation of it."
The evidence for this secretive power was once again witnessed when the Congress, despite its popular opposition, was arm twisted into passing the trillion dollar banksters' bailout legislation (including an additional 600 billion dollars in appropriation for the Pentagon which none of the legislators thought fit to mention). Which power "so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive" arm twists them so trivially? Former President Bill Clinton's professor, Carroll Quigley, exposed that power in his 1966 book "Tragedy and Hope - A History of the World in Our Time":
"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Why does the press not explain all this to the American peoples? Why are respectable dissenting journalists like Greg Palast, appear no different than any mainstream journalist when it comes to the core axioms that really need exposing? They all dutifully and unquestioningly retain them, and create a facade of providing a choice of sources by debating all the corollaries and other derivatives built upon the doctrine of keeping the axioms intact.
So they will energetically debate whether or not it is better to enforce economic sanctions alone, or combine it with 20 bombing runs of nuclear first-strike, or 20000 of Daisy Cutters, but not what right United States has of doing any of it when she herself possesses more than 20,000 atomic weapons of all nomenclature and is the biggest war monger on the planet. They would never remind the American people as the retired and/or serving Generals are paraded before them on television arguing this and that option, of the 1967 words of Martin Luther King: "my country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today". Watch this principle in operation with astute wordsmithing in the conversation between Henry Kissinger and Charile Rose on PBS. Of course, in that entire hour long conversation, Charlie Rose did not think of asking Dr. Kissinger whether he had uttered the following famous statements at the secretive Bilderberger meeting, or whether they were merely fiction:
"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
Similarly, the press all pretty unanimously agreed, both the mainstream, and dissentstream, the "left" and the "right", that 911 was an invasion from abroad, fully parroting the White House and the Pentagon version of events as gospels of truth. They still retain that very axiom.
Similarly, here too, for these elections, they all tend to pretty much agree that there is something useful in the way members are elected into the ivory halls of Congress and the White House, and the methods by which they govern, and therefore the integrity of that process needs to be worried about. But they mainly focus on the actual act of balloting and counting or not-counting of the votes, often rehearsing the famous line of Joseph Stalin on "who counts the vote". So that is great journalism – look, also quoting Stalin!
But do they ever bring to light that the contestants have already been pre-filtered in secret oligarchic meetings at the Bilderbergers and the Council on Foreign Relations? Or that those so anointed are subsequently run in the races with one side artificially pitted against the other, with careful exclusion of any realistic challenge to the 'chosen ones' from all other quarters through fully financing their campaigns and giving full media prominence and editorial support (as all the private presses too are owned by them)?
Obviously that can't come to pass – or they would be out on their bum! So it goes without saying that the press will never uncover how these elected officials are subsequently so cleverly kept on their co-opted short-leash by means "so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive," just as the world witnessed during the bailout bill proceedings.
Project Humanbeingsfirst has analyzed that bailout magic in its report: "Why Bluff Martial Law?" and Press Release "This may be a psy-op! Response to Wayne Madsen's 'FEMA sources confirm coming martial law' October 09, 2008". More about media and indoctrination can be read in my book "Prisoners of the Cave". There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the entire system itself has been corrupted and co-opted to its very core. In that entire coverage of the financial crisis, and still on going, I have still not the heard the American newsmedia give sustained prominence to the distinguished name of David Rockefeller, to the Council on Foreign Relations, to private banking, to money as debt which is needlessly paid by the American tax payer to the bankers making them more and more wealthy while simultaneously strangulating the majority of the public in their debt-trap, and to the pernicious planning of these oligarchs to get rid of nation-states altogether in favor of a world government that is run by them. In fact, if any one wanted to, they could simply open up David Rockefeller's Memoir and read the following out to any audience – be it C-Span with energetic Congress folks making their Floor speeches, or newsmedia trying to figure out what's going on:
"Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it"
If there is any mention of any of this at all, like journalists Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs and Congressman Ron Paul occasionally seem to dabble in wondering out loud about the North American Union or the financial crisis, or it being orchestrated, it remains all isolated and unconnected, without any cohesive analysis and overarching perspective brought to bear by connecting the widely disparate dots and events which President Kennedy had demanded of the press in 1961 (fuller excerpt follows):
"And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment. The only business in America, specifically protected by the Constitution. Not primarily to amuse and entertain. Not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental. Not to simply give the public what it wants. But to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers, and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate, and sometimes even anger public opinion."
I am still waiting for any of them to even mention David Rockefeller in the context of the import of his monumental words "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order", and link it to 911, and to the subsequent "imperial mobilization" of Zbigniew Brzezinski as a baby-step to North American Union by first bankrupting America and crashing the dollar while simultaneously using its might for beating the rest of the world into submission as the lone superpower! I am still waiting for them to connect all that to these 1992 words of Strobe Talbot, President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
We won't even go into Rockefeller's agenda for population control and his family's significant role in the UN as their private instrument for orchestrating coercive policies which are inflicted upon the third world nations. His minion, or perhaps personal friend, Henry Kissinger constructed NSSM-200 for President Gerald Ford's National Security Council in 1974. See its detailed analysis in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government". See the 2003 6-part description of the Rockefeller systems of governance which America has become, with his counterpart bankster family, the Rothschilds, controlling Europe and the UK, in Will Banyan's, "Rockefeller Internationalism".
Who connects any of this, as not just the American press, but also the global press (in this age of globalization and international multinational corporations with interlocking ownership and presence on the board of directors of parent companies) mindlessly rehearses "Bin Laden" and "War on Terror"? And now they have one more thing, the global financial collapse, to scare the American people's with, in order to lead them, with incremental baby-steps that are fait accompli once taken, into the desired direction of the North American Union and the Amero!
To borrow a graphic and unflattering description of the bewilderment of the masses, from the late Israeli Defense Minister Raphael Eitan who had famously uttered it to describe the endgame which he thought was the destiny of the valiant Palestinian peoples, the United States peoples too are also being primed to mainly "scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle" in trying to figure out their predicament as they rudely get awakened too late from their "American Dreams". Like David Icke pointed out in "Turning of the Tide" in 1996, the secret conspiracy for world government has to break surface in order to finally affect it, because, as the philosopher-theologian of world government had correctly observed in his classic book "Impact of Science and Society" in 1950:
"There is, it must be confessed, a psychological difficulty about a single world government. The chief source of social cohesion in the past, I repeat, has been war: the passions that inspire feeling of unity are hate and fear. These depend upon the existence of an enemy, actual or potential. It seems to follow that a world government could only be kept in being by force, not by the spontaneous loyalty that now inspires a nation at war."
Does 90 percent of voting public in the United States know anything about this backdrop as they are being repeatedly told elections are being stolen as if they were meaningful to start with? When they are meaningful and a loose canon ends up on the gun-deck of the White House, or when an earlier anointed patsy refuses to follow abhorrent directives as his eyes open up from the seat of power, he is trivially assassinated.
On April 27, 1961, assassinated American President, John F. Kennedy gave a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria to the American Newspaper Association. Time magazine of May 05, 1961 observed in its article "The Meaning of Freedom", the following statement of JFK who had expounded upon a commonsensical role for the press in the backdrop of the ideological Cold War challenges facing the world:
"This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern to both the press and to the President—two requirements which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril."
Below is my transcription from an excerpt of that amazing JFK speech because it precisely underscores what Hitler had tried to inculcate in the Third Reich and what a supposedly free nation and free press had to avoid in order to not get where we are today. Please be advised that the speech was transcribed from this narration1, and verified against this narration2, as I have been unable to locate the official recording, or its official transcript. I have discovered that many enterprising rebels have extracted out of context segments from this speech, and concocted it into something far more sinister than what JFK was ostensibly referring to.
However, these portentous words of JFK seem to also accurately capture the descent of America into its Fourth Reich state today. It is, as if, JFK might as well have been talking about America of today, 2008. However, back in 1961, he had the Cold War upon his mind.
I use these portentous words of JFK, in the context that he originally conveyed them, to make the nuanced point, that the American peoples have been indoctrinated into believing the facade of elections primarily through the deliberate errors of commission and omission by the press and all its newsmedia outlets in order to deliberately keep up the pretense of democracy (watch these courageous American youngsters of wearechange run around exposing far more than the American press ever did, but lending an ominous import to Raphael Eitan's unflattering description of their efficacy).
The following is what David Rockefeller admitted of the complicit role of the press in his planning and orchestration towards his version of the new world order at a Bilderbergers Meeting in 1991 (why the press never asks him about it and even offer him a chance to deny it should not be surprising):
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications, whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
JFK uttered the following prescient words in 1961 – it is unremarkable how the same truthful and un co-opted words, sometimes, can become so enormously clairvoyant that they begin to speak across time and space. This is the ordinary power inherent in any truism. What is actually remarkable however, is the Time magazine's footnote to the opening sentence of JFK: "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant, in a free and open society." Time wrote in its coverage:
"*To more than 20 million Americans, the word "secrecy" is not as repugnant as all that. They are the members of U.S. secret and fraternal societies, which include, besides student fraternities, such respectable organizations as the Masonic orders, the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Loyal Order of the Moose. Of the U.S.'s 34 Presidents, 13 have been Masons. President Kennedy himself is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic counterpart of masonry."
I have deliberately ignored this "secret society" BS line of reasoning in this analysis. The low hanging fruits of empirical reality is sufficiently self-validating as noted in the "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government". Here is JFK singing a timeless tune:
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant, in a free and open society.
And we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
We decided a long ago, that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment, of pertinent facts, far out weigh the dangers which are cited to justify it.
Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society, by imitating its arbitrary restrictions.
Even today, there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation, if our traditions do not survive with it.
And there is very grave danger, that an announced need for increased security, will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning, to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
That I do not intend to permit, to the extent that it's in my control.
And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight, as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public, the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covet means, for expanding its sphere of influence.
On infiltration, instead of invasion. On subversion, instead of elections. On intimidation, instead of free choice. On guerillas by night, instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted, vast human and material resources, into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised.
No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For, from that scrutiny comes understanding. And from that understanding comes support, or opposition. And both are necessary.
I am not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task, of informing and alerting the American people.
For I have complete confidence, in the response and dedication of our citizens, whenever they are fully informed.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers, I welcome it.
This administration intends to be candid about its errors, for as a wise man once said, an error doesn't become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it.
We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors, and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive.
That is why the Athenian law makers [unintelligible] decried it a crime, for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment. The only business in America, specifically protected by the Constitution.
Not primarily to amuse and entertain. Not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental. Not to simply give the public what it wants.
But to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers, and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate, and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news, for it is no longer far away, and foreign, but close at hand and local.
It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news, as well as improved transmission.
And it means finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation, to provide you with the fullest possible information, outside the narrowest limits of national security.
And so it is to the printing press, to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent."
Well, that did not transpire. American public remains the most ignorant on the planet. Even Henry Kissinger disingenuously and openly admitted that failing (or success) on PBS to Charile Rose as he pitched his WMD mantra to the American peoples in the drumming up of the propaganda warfare, before the actual "shock and awe" warfare was visited upon the poor souls of Iraq.
Now the American public is seeking to vote-in their new crop of leaders – to cement the final touches to the precipitous transitions now on their exponential path of fruition. Therefore, the oligarchs still need the pretense of "election" and "democracy" for a while longer. And they will likely continue to use it in the world government as well in order to defuse any prospect of the majority mainstream actually fighting back with any efficacy.
I predict that new faces will adorn the White House because the police-state is not ready to overtly break surface just yet, and people still need to be given the illusion of choice less they revolt before they have been fully enslaved and microchipped. Since you people seem fed up with the taste of vanilla for 8 years, we shall now give you chocolate! And wouldn't that be a revolutionary step for America?
And therein lies the immediate power today for those able to think on the Grand Chessboard scale and mobilize their troops effectively.
Force the 'ubermensch' hands by creating an extremely low voter-turnout to show the world that the American public, by denying any legitimacy to these elections, finally voted YES to NOT grant its co-opted system of elections and its governance, any further credibility whatsoever.
These elections are the American public's final peaceful chance to make a shocking statement to the world – just as the Congress had its great alignment of stars and blew it two weeks ago.
A 5% voter turnout, as opposed to the 40% that is minimally expected, can potentially, significantly alter the loci of control on the Grand Chessboard by disturbing its causality planning in a very macro way.
The people who started Cleansweep2008.org, based on a son's concern for his country, have the correct idea in principle. That principle being, repeating it once again for emphasis, to create a useful third option that is beyond the pale of the staid "lesser of two evils" paradigm being forced upon the American peoples in this election. The following is Project Humanbeingsfirst's response to: http://cleansweep2008.org/blog/2008/10/22/clean-sweep-them-all/
October 22, 2008.
Is this "I" bit realistic?
If so, any conscionable person who realizes that both the major parties are merely the two-headed deception dialectics of the same philosopher, two sides of the same imperial coin minted in the same factory, would be hard pressed not to pursue it.
Since this is such a commonsensical approach to cleaning the house, why don't people actually pursue this obvious path? Its history in prior elections would be indicative of the real issues that corrupt the American system behind the scenes.
What are the actual implementation pitfalls? Do those votes count? How is one assured that one's vote to a "write-in Independent" is counted? How is one assured that the new Independent does not make the old "dependent"?
My own limited thinking is along the following lines - that the system itself is corrupting, co-opting, and that despite the good intentions of many who serve within its ambit, it cannot be corrected by the process of elections, by the process of what has become the biggest game show in town, called Congress.
I don't think it is the peoples. I believe it is the system and those who corrupt it. If you only remove those who get corrupted, and keep intact the corrupters and their intricate web of how such corruption is done, it will keep on corrupting.
The first step towards this reform, is to reject the corrupt system itself.
So with that as the backdrop, while your thinking is entirely wholesome that since the "Lesser of two evils" paradigm in life still sticks one with an evil (never mind that in this election which is "lesser" remains rather un-obvious and an arbitrary partisan choice at best), therefore, not choosing any evil at all makes rational sense, my humble thinking is as follows:
Reject them both by withholding one's vote from both sides, by NOT voting in the elections, period, in order to have the lowest turnout in election history. Not through apathy, but through deliberate calculated political-science based purpose.
That is the way to get the third option pushed into the consciousness of the world - that the American public rejects the entire imperial coin minted in the banksters' mint. Not only do they reject the coin, but the whole concept of banksters running the United States of America as their own backyard and using its military might to usher in their long dreamed of world government.
This world government itself sees the destruction of sovereign nation-states, and that included the United States of America. A North American Union is under construction, like the EU, and both parties are complicit in its planning and execution as the front faces of the oligarchs.
Not-voting is the only Constitutional, legal, and supremely astute political-science based political option left to the peoples of the United States when that vote only selects, regardless of who counts it, which pair of socks the "Rockefellers" will wear the day after the election on their way to business as usual.
Very loudly deny both pair of socks any legitimacy in the world's most audacious democracy that is out to teach the rest of the world how to live.
Please compare these two approaches rationally, and pick the one with most realizable efficacy towards really finding a curing protocol for the systemic disease that your son has been worried about. You have already taken the first courageous step, of rejecting to choose from "lesser of two evils".
Not-voting is a legitimate political act. Voting is a privilege, not a right, and it is not mandatory, such that if you didn't vote you'd go to jail, or fined, or denied some rights - at least not yet. But that may happen if the system endures under its 'white man's burden' to control the world.
In order to adjudicate on this political-science driven matter by people more believable, perhaps you could enlist Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, and other prominent members of Congress whom you think are good peoples, like those who actually spoke out against the trillion dollar bailout bill and made a great show of dissent on C-Span, to discuss this concept of systemic disease in their public appearances by getting them to focus attention on the system itself. Ask them – the point raised here.
I doubt any of them will bite. And that is why the system will linger on towards what now appears to me to be a well orchestrated fait accompli – it has been a long time in the making.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
P.S. For more detailed analysis of some of the statements made above, please see the following:
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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Comments (3)
Rod789 said:
True citation ?
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order" Rockefeller
Can anyone prove this quote is true? Rumors circulate too easily on the Internet. Give me a valuable source.
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org said:
Re: True citation ?
Speech at United Nations Business Council, September 14, 1994. Should not be too hard to track down the transcript - contact the UN.
The full quote appears to be: "This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
Rockefeller incidentally, is a Harvard BA, London School of Economics MA, University of Chicago, Ph.D Economics 1940. He also was in the Army Engineering, Military Intelligence training, North Africa as an Intelligence officer, and Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, 35 years at Chase. As I note in "Monetary Conspiracy for World Government" and "Monetary Reform: Who will bell the cat?", economics gibberish is a key component of controlling the world system of governance - see "Monetary Reform Bibliography" - and some very intelligent and highly accomplished peoples are working assiduously at it. Rockefeller is the boss of them all. Both Dr. Kissinger and Dr. Brzezinski work for him. Some call him the uncrowned emperor of the West, he and the Rothschild brothers. Everyone in power bows before them. Literally. See the bibligraphy for evidence. Here is Charlie Rose doing the same (starting at minute 28) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcNGZAqVAk
This quote of David Rockefeller is not inconsistent with the political science notion articulated by David Ben Gurion "What is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times". The idea of using "crisis" is well known, indeed, as old as mankind, and the last time it was uttered to my knowledge was just in the last month at the European Union by Mr. Barroso, the European Commission President:
"In the financial crisis, Europe is leading the way to a global solution. Today Europe can propose the principles and the rules that will shape a New Global Order. It is the kind of occasion where the crisis calls into question all certainties, and minds are more open to change! These are very special moments. The goals should be to devise a system of Global Financial Governance, adapted to the challenges of the twenty-first century." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk
Indeed, "minds are more open to change" during "revolutionary times". See http://print-humanbeingsfirst....raphy.html
The quote is not just on the internet, but shows up in published books as well. Here is one by Harry Kawilarang
http://books.google.com/books?id=mXMiQ_jfWCoC&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq="We+are+on+the+verge+of+a+global+transformation. +All+we+need+is+the+right+major+crisis+and+the+nations+
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky also cites the quote with the same attribution in "The Criminalization of the State"
But I'll see if I can track down the UN transcript for you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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Thanks a lot Zahir for your answer. It is very important to prove everything what we can prove. People always say we are crazy... People NEED proofs, they need to see them, to feel them, to accept facts. If you can track down the UN transcript it would be great. This quote is very important today. I live in Europe and I already tried to search UN archives in libraries, but without success. Perhaps in US you will find it ?
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Giant Asian Dodder: A New Invasive Plant Detected in Texas
By Kim Camilli, Texas Forest Service, Oak Wilt Coordinator, Austin, TX 78761 - 7/23/2002
from Texas Forest Service web site at http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/shared/ article.asp?DocumentID=370&mc=urban
An exotic parasitic plant known as giant Asian dodder has recently been introduced into Texas and threatens a variety of trees and landscape plants in Houston. Giant Asian dodder (Cuscuta japonica Choisy) is often cultivated in Asia for medicinal products and may have been intentionally introduced into Houston for similar purposes. The problem is that it has recently escaped and invaded street trees and landscape plants in several Houston neighborhoods. First detected by City of Houston crews in August 2001, dodder has since been found in half a dozen neighborhoods, primarily in southern residential districts of the city.
Giant Asian dodder is a yellow-green vine that resembles spaghetti. It is able to parasitize a wide range of hosts including many agricultural crops (alfalfa, tomatoes, and onions, among others). Giant Asian dodder has been observed parastizing 20 host plants in southern Texas ranging from herbaceous plants to woody ornamentals (such as live oak, crape myrtle and Ligustrum).
Dodder is usually considered an annual plant, but in Texas, especially in the southern regions, dodder is believed to survive for more than one year. Dodder plants are hardy to a temperature of 9oF. Temperatures below 9oF will effectively kill the dodder plant. Temperatures in southern Texas rarely reach 9oF, though frosts do occur. When these frosts take place, the exposed foliage of the dodder plants is affected, but the entire plant is not killed. As a result, it will be able to continue to grow and parasitize its host when warm weather returns.
Dodder is yellow in color and lacks chlorophyll, thus it requires a living host in order of obtain the nutrients needed for survival. The dodder plant obtains nutrients from the host plant by producing specialized structures called haustoria, which attach themselves to the host plant. The dodder withdraws sugars, amino acids and certain nutrients from the host at the site of contact. This parasitic action drains the host of vital resources needed for healthy growth and may weaken and eventually kill it.
Giant Asian dodder grows at a rate of 6 inches per day and can rapidly spread from one infected plant to another nearby host. It can spread to a new area by two other methods. One method of spread involves seed production. In the spring, the dodder plant produces flowers and, if fertilized (usually by self fertilization or, rarely, by wasps or other insects), the flowers yield an abundant amount of seed.
Giant Asian dodder seeds are the size of coffee grains and have thick seed coats that are impermeable to oxygen and water. This allows the seed to remain viable until suitable conditions are present for germination. Dodder seed can remain viable in the soil for a period of 10-20 years. Usually most seed that is produced will germinate the following year.
Dodder seedlings have been reported to emerge from depths of 4 inches in the soil, although usually most seedlings originate from seeds located at a depth of ½ inch or less. Once the dodder seeds germinate, a rootless and leafless seedling is produced. The seedling absorbs water initially from the soil, in a manner similar to a root. The seedling uses the soil as an anchoring point for finding a nearby host to parasitize. Giant Asian dodder seedlings can survive for a period of several weeks without a host plant. In this time period, the seedling extends in length and rotates counterclockwise, seeking a host for a source of nutrients and water. If the seedling does not find a host within a few weeks, it dies.
The second method of overland spread is by fragmentation. This occurs when sections of the dodder vine itself are removed from the main plant and become established on another host. Haustoria are produced from these fragments, establish a connection to the host to obtain necessary nutrients, and continue to grow.
The methods used to control or eradicate dodder consist of post-emergence herbicides, pre-emergence herbicides, injected herbicides, roguing, and eradicative pruning.
Using the control methods described above, efforts are currently underway to eradicate giant Asian dodder from known sites in Houston, before this invasive plant can become established over a wider area. If you find giant Asian dodder within the City of Houston, contact Cynthia Heintze, Integrated Pest Management Coordinator with the Houston Parks and Recreation Department (Phone: 713-742-1413; e-mail email@example.com). For more information on dodder and its control, contact Kim Camilli, Texas Forest Service, Austin, Texas (e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Like most people around the world, I have to work to earn a living. And again, like the vast majority of these people, often my work requires me to carry out tasks that I might otherwise find ethically problematic. As a supporter of free culture, I have often found it difficult to reconcile my own convictions on issues such as copyright and DRM with those of my employers. In my current job, this has not been a regular problem. However, I have to confess that in the past I have worked for a subsidiary of one of the 'Big Four' record labels, and therefore an active campaigner for extension to copyright term and DRM anti-circumvention legislation, and a track record of extorting money from alleged p2p file-sharers.
Needless to say, even as someone who at that point was only vaguely aware of digital rights issues, this left a very bad taste in my mouth. As I gradually became more and more aware of what my employers were up to, I, not surprisingly, found it less and less difficult to reconcile my burgeoning awareness of the importance of digital rights with the fact that I was directly supporting a company who was dedicated to trampling all over them. Sooner or later I began to look for new employment, because (among other reasons, admittedly) I was unhappy with compromising my principles in this way.
This may be a comparitively extreme example, but there are many situations in which reconciling our duties as employees with our individual ethical principles can become a dilemma - and, for supporters of free software and/or free culture, I would expect (for most people in jobs like mine, at least) this to be a very common occurrence. From developers working at a company that enforces software patents, to GNU/Linux users who simply have to log on to an MS Windows desktop every day at 9, employment often entails sacrifice in this respect. The question is, how best should we reconcile these ethical dilemmas?
Crosbie Fitch has written about this issue both on his website and in comments on slashdot, suggesting the formulation of a 'Hippocratic oath' for artists working in the free culture community, and developers who object to software patents. While I am extremely enthusiastic about this idea, I assume that a 'critical mass' of artists and/or developers would need to have sworn this oath before it had any tangible practical effect. Also, given the trend for outsourcing in IT, and the notorious overcrowding and competitiveness of the so-called 'Creative Industries', I suspect that it might take a while to reach that critical mass, at least while less scrupulous employees are readily available.
On the other hand, it could, I suppose, be possible to treat this conflict as an opportunity to evangelise on behalf of the free software community. Preaching to the converted is a pointless activity, so what better place to extol the virtues of free software than in a company or department that exclusively uses proprietary software? Admittedly, a reasonable level of seniority might be required to do this effectively - CTOs are likely to be more succesful than helpdesk staff if the goal is to change company policy.
So, for discussion: do you find that a commitment to free software or free culture conflicts with your working duties? and how best should we reconcile these dilemmas?
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Changes from within
I can understand this being an ethical dilemma. However, maybe you didn't look closely enough at what you may have accomplished from within. Look at Microsoft. There are daily reports showing their desire to start working with the Linux community. I have no delusions of an OpenWindows initiative, but due largely to employee Linux use, Microsoft is looking at the Linux community and seeing the potential in various areas. The movie and music communities will need intelligent employees to overcome the issues with piracy and DRM. If all the employees who want to see the system change leave the company, all that will be left is close-minded fools. These "fools" only know to file lawsuits to recuperate lost revenue streams. Neither the lawsuits or the piracy is helping the industry, the artists, or the customers.
Safe zones
There's no point in having a world full of "ethical" but unemployed artists. I think the important thing is to establish more and better safe zones for free arts, more than to make rash oaths about what you will or will not accept from existing employers. There's not much point until you have a way to make the system you want viable in itself.
We probably need various levels:
NOVICE - Some of my work is or will be published as free culture.
ACOLYTE - All my spare-time work will now always be free culture.
JOURNEYMAN - All my self-employed/freelance work will now also always be free culture.
PURITAN - All my permanently employed and other work-for-hire work will now also always be, free culture.
ASCETIC - I also will never again attempt to use, purchase, promote, perform, nor benefit from non-free works.
HERMIT - Until copyright, patents, and other restraints on the public are dissolved I shall remain isolated and self-sufficient to avoid even any indirect benefit from anyone else's exploitation of non-free culture.
I think I make it to the Journeyman level. The Puritan level for me would be like becoming vegetarian having not eaten meat for a very long time: not exactly difficult, and whilst ethically agreeable would be quite a commitment nevertheless. It could happen soon though...


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A dangerous railroad crossing off Old Mike Padgett Highway has neighbors worried about what might happen.
They say drivers who are unfamiliar with the area are getting stuck on the tracks.
The warning signs have been tossed aside, and the deep divots in the road are a hazard for anyone driving, especially at night.
The tracks are located off Highway 56 just before the Burke County line.
It's a dangerous crossing with no warning signs, and neighbors say it's been that way for at least a year.
A dead-end sign almost a mile away is the only warning to drivers of what might lie ahead.
It's not until you're almost on top of the tracks that you realize there's a problem.
This is not a graded crossing. In fact, there's a big drop-off.
And the loose gravel takes the front end of your car and leaves it wedged against the track.
"You hit this loose rock right around here and sand, even driving slow 'cause you don't know where you're at, and you're not going to be able to stop in time before you hit the tracks," says John Jenkins, who lives near the tracks.
And that's exactly what happened when an out-of-town driver headed down Old Mike Padgett Highway.
The skid marks show exactly when he realized he was about to fall in.
"He see he wasn't going to stop so he hit the gas and it bounced him on over," says nearby resident Johnny Lee Bush.
And there's nothing out here to block off the road.
We did find the debris from a wooden blockade that once stood here to warn drivers.
"Children had come and threw it on the railroad tracks and had the train hit, you know, just run over it. It's splintered down all over the other side of the tracks out there," says Alesia Logan, who lives nearby.
"You can see right there where they tried to back up and it just spun the gravel out."
It's the second time in a month Logan has seen it.
"A young woman and her father come through, live near here, they came through and tried stopping and it was raining that night, and they slid on into the tracks," Logan says.
With trains rolling along these tracks four to six times a day, neighbors worry someone will get stuck...maybe even killed.
"If it hadn't been for our truck and chain, they would've been on the tracks at 9 o'clock when the train came through," says Jenkins.
Fortunately for that driver, the train was running late that night.
The crossing is obviously not safe. The locals know to avoid it, but others can't see the danger until it's too late.
News 12 will be contacting Norfolk southern and Richmond county engineers to let them know this is happening.
We'll let you know what they decide to do.
One neighbor told us they've only seen one vehicle make it across the tracks...but the car's suspension and exhaust didn't.


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People of all ages can join a special ceremony honoring his works. It will be held at the St. James Greater Catholic Church in Eau Claire.
It will on January 21st and will start at 6pm will look back at his famous speeches, videos and photographs. Students from Lakeshore, Locust Lane and Putnam elementary schools and DeLong Middle School in Eau Claire, along with UW-Eau Claire
students and community members will participate.
There will be music during the event, and it will be done by the Delong Middle School Orchestra, members of University Lutheran Church and St. James the Greater Catholic Church, the Klezmer band Klezmazel, UW-Eau Claire's Black Student Association and more.


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You couldn't blame a newlywed for being nervous - committing to another person for the rest of your life is a huge responsibility. But Josh Turner isn't one bit scared.
"I don't have any fears," declares the singer of the current Top 25 hit "Long Black Train."
"There is no fear in love."
So Josh said "I do" to wife Jennifer on June 14 outside of Atlanta, in front of about 400 friends and family. "I know who I am, I know who she is and vice versa," he reports. "We agree on the most important things in life, and we're committed to each other and to God."
Religion plays a big role in Josh's life - he and Jennifer are both devout Baptists - and that attention to spirituality is reflected in his music. Indeed, his "Long Black Train" is pretty much an all-out gospel song, a warning against sinful temptations.
There's victory in the Lord, sings Josh. Cling to the Father and His holy name, and don't go riding on that long black train.
"I don't feel like it's unusual to have a spiritual song in the country genre," he says. "My earliest musical memories were of listening to my grandmother's vinyl records of gospel quartets and bluegrass gospel, like the Osborne Brothers and the Stanley Brothers. I think 'Long Black Train' fits right into that tradition."
Some listeners might have thought that any singer with a voice that deep must have at least 50 years or so of living tucked into his belt - but not so. Josh only recently turned 26 - and he looks even younger, especially in person.
Josh was in his late teens when he left his hometown of Hannah, S.C., to come to Nashville, where he studied music at Belmont University. That's where he met Jennifer, who went on to earn a master's degree in music from the University of Georgia. She now teaches private lessons in piano and voice.
Josh's music, on the other hand, is anything but private - his debut album, Long Black Train, is now on sale everywhere.
"I can walk into one record store and see the album, and then go into another record store and see it there, too," he explains. "But I don't think I can comprehend the fact that it's in every store, nationwide. It's a little surreal."
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A school must be doing something right when its students consistently choose to return there for careers.
Kylan Kottenstette, Sam Bartlett and Cory Benson all graduated from Eagle Valley High School and currently work there as teachers and coaches.
"Supportive community" is a phrase repeated among them when asked why EVHS appeals to them.
"I'm excited to come back and give to a school that gave me so much," said Kottenstette, a 2006 EVHS graduate who is now in his second year of teaching physical education and coaching football. This year he is also teaching mechanical classes and will coach wrestling.
"I remember playing football and feeling like the community was just as involved as the coaches and parents were," he said. "I felt like I was part of something bigger than myself."
Bartlett is a 2002 EVHS graduate and the school was his first choice as a career job prospect. He is now in his fourth year teaching English and coaching girls basketball.
"Small mountain towns are a great place to grow up," he said. "I'm rooted here and jumped at the opportunity to come back. I've always enjoyed the Eagle/Gypsum community."
Benson teaches PE. She graduated from EVHS in 1998. Her mother, Cathy Strickler, is a registrar at the school. Strickler worked there when Benson was a student and now enjoys seeing her daughter as a colleague.
"I love being back as a teacher," Benson said. "I've seen some good changes."
Kindra Stiles is another EVHS alumna who works at EVHS. She graduated in 1983 and ended up working as a part-time secretary for the counseling office while her three children were students in 2004. Her parents are also Devils.
"My dad graduated in '65 and my mom in '63," she said. "I kind of always had my hand in here. I was a preschool teacher and volunteered at my children's schools during my off days, and I basically worked my way into a job."
Assistant Principal Eric Mandeville has been at the school 15 years and in his current position for seven years. He knew Kottenstette, Bartlett and Benson when they were students.
"It's been interesting to be part of the hiring committee," he said. "It's been very satisfying."
Kottenstette fondly remembers being a student of John Ramunno, a PE teacher and head football coach, and enjoys working next to him.
"I did my student teaching here under Ramunno and Susan Scott," Kottenstette said. "They both have 30 years of experience. It's been neat to be a teammate and learn from them and get to know them better as individuals."
Kottenstette said he hopes to see his own students come full cycle some day.
"I'm looking forward to seeing kids grow up during their time here," he said. "I hope I get to teach my students' future children."
Mandeville said teaching is in Kottenstette's blood - both of Kottenstette's parents are teachers in the school district. Not only that, but Kottenstette is a natural teacher.
"He loves kids and believes in EVHS," Mandeville said. "He used to be a camp counselor for the Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation District and had my oldest daughter as a camper."
Mandeville had Kottenstette as a history student and also coached him in football.
"I could tell right away he was a leader in class and on the field," Mandeville said. "He was articulate and confident, a young man I could immediately trust."
Kottenstette said he knew he wanted to be a PE teacher since fifth grade.
"There's a tile on the wall somewhere in this school that I made then about my wanting to be a PE teacher," he said.
The biggest thing he wants to instill in students is a sense of character.
"I want to give kids a sense of pride in what they do and a strong sense of character - someone who does the right thing regardless if someone else is watching," he said.
Bartlett's name came up last minute during a conversation with Mandeville about the school's alumni teachers, which is why the Enterprise missed an opportunity to include photos of him.
Mandeville immediately started dialing numbers and put Bartlett on speaker phone for a quick interview.
"He's very passionate about the kids and giving them a quality high-school experience that extends beyond the classroom," Mandeville said. "He was very involved as a student here and is a valuable member of our team."
Bartlett said he returned to the valley in 2006 after earning an English degree at Colorado State University.
"My parents own a construction company and I was working there and as a part-time substitute teacher at our rival school, Battle Mountain High," he said. "I felt like I wanted to move in a direction of teaching and coaching. That's when I was notified of a permanent substitute position at EVHS in 2008."
That turned into a permanent teaching job and soon after he was asked to coach girls basketball.
"I had never coached girls and had grown up with brothers, so I was unsure at first," he said.
Bartlett said the climate at the school is a good one.
"Eagle Valley is so open and friendly," he said. "I think there is a lot of transparency."
Like Kottenstette, Benson earned her teaching degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She originally pursued a career as a physical therapist, then realized how much she loved working with kids.
"I always loved athletics and then I discovered how much I enjoyed working with kids while coaching and doing youth programs," she said.
She and a younger sister moved back to the valley around the same time. In 2007, her mom and sister had jobs at the school when Benson started teaching cognitive needs and PE part time.
"I moved back not knowing if I'd get a job right away," she said.
She started teaching PE full time the following year. She also met her future husband that year and he happens to be a permanent sub at EVHS.
"Cory works to offer a similar experience that she had as a student to our students," Mandeville said. "She believes in academics, athletics and activities as a means to educate the 'whole child.' She, and her husband, Eric, have recently stepped up to work with our student leadership to further guide our school."
The main thing Benson aims to impart to her students is appreciating their health.
"I want them to value being healthy and get them excited to live a healthy lifestyle," she said. "There are some students I see, especially some girls, who don't like to sweat. If they become parents someday, though, they need to be healthy."
Benson's sister eventually quit her job at the school to be a full-time mom but Benson still sees her mom, Strickler, every day.
"I pop in her office all the time," Benson said.
Strickler said it's fun.
"When we get together for meals we end up talking a lot about school stuff," she said. "My poor husband!"
Strickler is a 1976 graduate of Battle Mountain High School.
"The rival," she said with a grin.
Benson said her favorite thing about working with teenagers is seeing them emerge as adults.
"It's great to help them with big life decisions and build a relationship that can come full circle," she said.


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CAMPOBELLO, SC-- Clement Mack Riddle, 75, of Campobello, died Friday, May 3, 2013, at his home.
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