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One of the exciting and innovative things about Android has always been its use of widgets, which, to the uninitiated, are best described as little live apps that are embedded into your Home screens.
You can have an animating photo frame that pulls out a selection of pics from your phone's gallery, a serious news ticker, constantly updating share prices, annoying social network status updates from people you hardly know - there's a widgetised version of pretty much any type of mobile app you can think of.
What is an Android widget?
Widgets can cause a bit of confusion among newcomers to Android, as they don't open like normal apps from your phone's big list of applications. Instead, widgets are activated by long-pressing on a space on the Home screen, then installed into the nearest available slot.
There are big widgets, wide widgets, little ones that only take up one standard icon slot, and there are also some absolutely terrible spam ones that look a complete mess. So here are our top 20 Android widgets to brighten up your Android phone's workspace.
1. AudioManager
It can be a little confusing delving through Android's numerous menu screens to try to find the particular setting to adjust the ring tone volume - so have it all presented as a nice widget instead.
AudioManager is nice looking, it lets you see what volume everything's at, and pops up adjustment slide bars when pressed. You life will get 0.01 percent easier with it.
2. Quick Battery
A teeny tiny one-by-one size widget, Quick Battery isn't particularly glamorous - but it does a better and prettier job of representing your phone's battery status than anything else. Plus, when installing the widget, you can choose what you want it to link to - so pressing it can open up the power settings page or... Angry Birds. Anything.
3. Extended Controls
The standard Android power strip is a useful widget that lets you quickly turn off Wi-Fi, adjust the screen brightness and toggle GPS, Bluetooth and data syncing, but Extended Controls adds more. Loads more, from one-touch USB tethering to airplane mode and even switching your phone's vibration keyboard settings on or off. Plus it's visually customisable, too.
4. ColorNote Notepad Notes
Everyone loves the classic Post-It note style of thing, and that's what ColorNote brings to your Android Home screen. Tiny post-its, one icon square, each linked to either a text note or a simple to-do list. They look cute and you can change the colours for an extra adrenaline rush.
5. Evernote
The excellent Evernote comes with a lovely little widget. While it's not visually that impressive, it adds very convenient shortcuts to your Home screen that make using the data-syncing, scheduling app even easier to use. Instant access to notes, searches, voice memos and more. Just don't judge it by its looks.
6. HTC Bookmarks
One for all the HTC owners out there. Its bookmarks widget is an excellent way to put one of your empty Home screens to use, with it giving you a full-size, scrolling list of bookmarks right there in front of your fingers. It's so useful, it's easier to quit the browser and select a link from here than navigate HTC's own in-browser bookmark system.
7. Facebook for Android
While the Android Facebook app seems to be a little slow in development and still misses several key features, its Home screen widget is a lesson in simplicity and elegance. It has a clean look, comprising of only a text box for your latest amusing thought, and a scrollable list of recent status updates from your chums. White, clean, stylish and nice.
8. Moon Phase Pro
If you live in a place where you're not constantly illuminated by council street lights, you might be aware of the Moon. It's a sort of massive rock in the sky that's nice and relaxing to look at. It also changes shape depending on the time of the month.
You can keep track of these changes with the Moon Phase Pro widget, so you'll always have something to talk to Sir Patrick Moore about, should you happen to bump into him in your local supermarket. It also makes a very nice live wallpaper.
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9. Fancy Widget
There are quite a few apps out there that copy the iconic HTC Sense clock and its animating weather system, with one of the finest being Fancy Widget. It wins because it's free, offering a more traditional Android-style digital clock option, customisable text colours, alternate skins, transparency effects and more. There's also a Pro version for a couple of quid, if you need even more options.
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10. The Weather Channel
If you are old, or a gardener, and therefore have a serious interest in the weather, there's no better app than the Weather Channel app. Its widget isn't particularly beautiful, but you do get reliable data and a selection of widget shapes to suit your Home screen layout. This is also one of the few apps that's been optimised for Android 3.0 tablets, so is worth checking out for that reason alone if you're a tablet owner.
11. Aix Weather Widget
If you want a more modern take on seeing if it's raining in a place you're nowhere near, try Aix Weather Widget. It presents its results in a very sexy (yes, sexy) four icon wide bar, that displays a lovely timeline of temperature and condition fluctuations.
You will never be short of an observation about the weather with this to hand. Look at how quickly the temperature dropped off at 16:00 hours in Oslo!
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12. Touch Calendar
Google's built-in Calendar app is excellent, but it's widget is a little on the simple side. If you want massive, full-page, data-rich Calendar action, Touch Calendar is a great option. The free version doesn't include widget support, sadly - so if you like its style, paying £1.45 for the full version brings you the massive widget.
13. S2 Calendar Widget 2
If you want more choice when it comes to the design of your Calendar widget, S2 Calendar Widget is a good choice. You can edit fonts, background colours, change the default action for when you press it and much more. Makes you wish you had more things to do to put on it.
Best Android contacts widget
14. life.contacts.beta
Developed by Sony Ericsson, this one works on all Android phones running version 2.1 of the OS or higher. The life.contacts.beta widget automatically pulls in photos of your most contacted contacts, generating picture icons from any associated images it can find - whether that's on your phone or via Facebook. Very simple and stylish.
15. Picture Dial
Most Android phone makers include their own photo-based dialler shortcut widgets, but if yours doesn't there's always Picture Dial. As well as creating a nice widget with photos of your contacts, you're able to specify a default action for what happens when you click on someone's lovely face - avoiding the modern embarrassment of phoning someone you usually only ever text.
16. Last Call
Last Call adds a live widget that updates with the details of the last phone call you made. Ideal for phone pests, you can set it so that a press dials the person - or not, if you'd rather avoid the possibility of accidentally calling people.
The widget's background colours are customisable, as are the fonts, although you'll have to pay for the premium version if you'd also like it to show your last SMS data as well.
Best Android news widget
17. Google Reader
Google's simple Reader app has a fantastic customisable Home screen widget, letting you pick any individual element from your RSS feeds and have it pop up as a single widget. It's not the best looking thing, but if you're a heavy RSS user it's great to have a constant ticker of your most-read feeds.
18. News & Weather
For a simpler and more mainstream curated selection of news, Google's own built-in News & Weather app offers a simple and attractive little widget. If you don't mind seeing the occasional Daily Mail headline appear, it's a nice little ticker.
It can be set to show just the weather, just the news or - wait for it! - the news and weather. So versatile. Comes pre-loaded on Android 2.1 phones or higher.
19. Pulse News
Another RSS reader, only Pulse makes a good attempt at pulling in the images that accompany stories to give it a more visual, magazine like feel. The Android widget pulls this off too, popping up an illustrated, scrollable box dedicated to any particular channel you've imported. Can also sync with a Google Reader account, too.
Best Android Twitter widget
20. TweetDeck
The official Twitter client has a nice, simple widget, but TweetDeck offers three separate options depending on your screen layout. There's a simple text box for posting, a more complex horizontal box for keeping track of messages and replies across multiple accounts, plus a whopping great vertical box if you take Tweeting way too seriously.
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>> does without. Without root privilege, it will download package
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> I have a script for this job (which only updates the subdirs I need,
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I run my UPDATE.sh script daily from an unprivileged user's crontab, and
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weird green graphical problemPosted Wednesday, 20 February, 2013 - 23:36 by Metaldemon in
Hi, I've started using opentk after microsoft pretty much gave up on XNA. I like it so far but there is one problem that I've been coping with for 2 days now.
So basicly I want to make some basic lighting by putting some colored and transculent quads over textured quads.
However, all the colored quads are greenish! but I never specified that in the code.
Here is what I mean:
I don't understand why everything is green.
Here is the Sourcecode that handles the drawing in the game.
Edit: I think the link above doesn't work so I have the link here too: http://pastebin.com/Jjh3xMxS
A lot of code to soak in, but have you had any more luck with it? Perhaps you should set some breakpoints and inspect the values you are tossing in, you may have made some assumptions that are invalid. Also, have you double-checked your blending equations?
It looks like your LightTiles are going from transparent white to solid black. From what I see, I suspect they aren't responsible for the green color. Comment out the contents of LightingTile.Draw and post a screenshot. My suspicion is that everything will be green and you won't see the fade to black effect.
GL.BlendEquation(BlendEquationMode.Min); is responsible for the loss of texture when blending the darker tiles with the textured grass. It also ignores your GL.BlendFunc when you use Min. You probably want BlendEquationMode.FuncAdd...
Not 100% sure, but you might have to call GL.Enable(EnableCap.Blend); *before* setting blend equations and functions.
A little more info here: http://www.opentk.com/doc/chapter/2/opengl/fragment-ops/blending
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An active chamber and orchestral musician, she has performed at Ozawa Hall, Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, among other venues in the states. She has also traveled to and performed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan and China. While at Juilliard, Kathryn performed with the Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble, and AXIOM Ensemble. At Harvard, she performed with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Bach Society Orchestra and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. She was a soloist with the Bach Society and Mozart Society Orchestras. She is the former second violinist of the Vinca Quartet.
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By Jen Rodriguez (Brooke Army Medical Center)May 15, 2009
(FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas) -- A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held April 30 at Brooke Army Medical Center for the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research's Tranquility Room, which specializes in caring for the caregiver.
Brig. Gen. James Gilman, commanding general, Great Plains Regional Medical Command and BAMC; Col. Kathryn Gaylord, director of the Provider Resiliency Program; USAISR Commander Col. Lorne Blackbourne and Col. Kimberly Smith, chief nurse of USAISR Burn Center, joined together to open the doors of a room geared towards helping staff to enhance relaxation and decrease stress.
"Sooner or later, the love of work begins to tell on you," said Gilman. "When we show concern for our staff; it enables them to be better at warrior service."
Developed over a nine-month period at BAMC, the Tranquility Room is one piece of the 'Caring for the Caregiver' Provider Resiliency Program.
"The intent of the program is to provide interventions to assist the clinical staff with stress management," said Gaylord. "The outcome of taking care of the caregiver is to decrease compassion fatigue and burnout, while increasing compassion satisfaction.
"Research has demonstrated that providing a better work environment will increase retention, decrease burnout and increase patient care and satisfaction. The long-term goal is better patient outcomes," she said.
Blackbourne explained there's a concern at the Army Medical Department Center and School for the people working here through trying times.
"It starts to wear down on you through the days, months and years. We wanted to get the people back to provide the best possible care," he said. "We want to make sure that we optimize the care of the wounded warriors and the civilians who care for them."
Smith said the room is dedicated to caregivers; everyone who works so hard to take care of our warriors.
Since the war started, compassion fatigue has been recognized throughout the Medical Command military training facilities, said Gaylord.
"Army Medical Department Center and School was given the task of training, and USAISR was given the grant to develop a program that could be copied for all AMEDD staff," she said.
In the past, staff members seeking relaxation, went to a staff psychiatric clinical nurse specialist that USAISR had for three years. The nurse specialist provided education, counseling and referral for staff members.
In September 2007, a request for ideas was sent to all regional medical centers for program proposals to treat compassion fatigue, during Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock's tenure as acting Surgeon General. Research revealed that big businesses such as Google, Nike and Honda had similar programs.
"The USAISR team put together a proposal with several options," said Gaylord. "We were selected and given a grant to create the Process Improvement Program, which began Oct. 1, 2007. The project complements the Provider Resiliency Training Program instituted by the Army Medical Department Center and School."
Additional funding for the completion of the room was provided by MEDCOM and supporters of Operation Comfort, a local nonprofit organization with a primary focus of helping wounded servicemembers and their Families at BAMC.
The first of its type in a military training facility, the Tranquility Room incorporates lighting, sound and movement to create a tranquil atmosphere. The walls, ceiling and floor are painted dark brown. Stones at the base of the wall symbolize a river. Aromatherapy and battery operated candles also create a sense of relaxation.
A Symmetron chair moves in waves, synchronized with binaural music. There is also a massage chair, a waterfall, and a TV with specialized relaxation tapes. The highlight of the room is the blue glass lighted wall that resembles water.
Although, the original grant was intended to create a program for the clinical burn staff of the USAISR; multidisciplinary clinical burn staff have priority over using the Tranquility Room. Additionally, USAISR staff working in the research building and BAMC staff may use the room by appointment only. Persons are limited to eight to 10-minute sessions.
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Materials 2014, 7(7), 4896-4929; doi:10.3390/ma7074896
Plasma-Enabled Carbon Nanostructures for Early Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Diseases
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AbstractCarbon nanostructures (CNs) are amongst the most promising biorecognition nanomaterials due to their unprecedented optical, electrical and structural properties. As such, CNs may be harnessed to tackle the detrimental public health and socio-economic adversities associated with neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). In particular, CNs may be tailored for a specific determination of biomarkers indicative of NDs. However, the realization of such a biosensor represents a significant technological challenge in the uniform fabrication of CNs with outstanding qualities in order to facilitate a highly-sensitive detection of biomarkers suspended in complex biological environments. Notably, the versatility of plasma-based techniques for the synthesis and surface modification of CNs may be embraced to optimize the biorecognition performance and capabilities. This review surveys the recent advances in CN-based biosensors, and highlights the benefits of plasma-processing techniques to enable, enhance, and tailor the performance and optimize the fabrication of CNs, towards the construction of biosensors with unparalleled performance for the early diagnosis of NDs, via a plethora of energy-efficient, environmentally-benign, and inexpensive approaches.
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Yesterday I had a discussion about the logic of Jesus. Like I do.
One of my friends, who is an atheist, texted me to question my use of the word "sacrifice." For context, I'd posted this online: "When love is demonstrated in sacrifice, it cannot ever again be synonymous with control, guilt, and expectations."
"Proposal: you can't be a humanist and believe in the concept of sacrifice in any way. I don't think you actually believe in sacrifice, because you don't live like someone who does."
I consider this girl to be a very good friend and I trust her, and we both know it's okay to be antagonistic when we hash out a disagreement. It's not an attack, it's honest questioning. We demand logic from each other. So I asked her, "What is sacrifice?"
She said it was basically net loss.
I had to talk to myself for a few minutes, wondering if I was wrong to use this word. Then I went to an online dictionary, and it said sacrifice is "the act of giving up something that you want to keep, especially in order to get or do something else, or to help someone." (Oxford commas mine.) The second definition was more traditional – giving up something to please a god or gods. In other words, sacrifices are always made with the belief in net gain.
It's used as a business or investment term on MarketWatch and in The Wall Street Journal to indicate costs now for later benefits. I asked her why, then, she thought of sacrifice as a net loss. I love how she phrased this problem we were both raised with in the Christian world:
"God sacrificed his son for you and shouldn't you be grateful because he gave his spotless son for your filthy worthless self and it wasn't worth it but he did it for some reason and now you need to spend your entire life groveling in revisitation of that sacrifice. He shouldn't have done it, your net worth is zero and his is infinite, but he did. So be grateful."
I can't even deny that this is exactly what some people teach children. I'd like to quickly note, I wouldn't say the following to an atheist unless she started the conversation and asked for my opinion. I'm not a fan of proselytizing, and that's not what I was doing. I was explaining for the purpose of reasonable analysis, not to convince her to become a Christian.
"That comes from the mentality of religious power," I said. "Of keeping people in line. What do you do to keep people from questioning? Make them doubt themselves, their own worth, their ability to ask questions. What that teaching totally fails at is even considering why God would bother with net loss. If it's a net loss, Jesus was stupid, whether or not he was God. If it's a net gain…that means humans are worth it. Power-hungry people had to hurry up and get that out of religion ASAP if they wanted to keep their power. Of course it's not in mainstream Christian rhetoric. If God does things pragmatically, then humans are worth a payment of God, at least to God, because according to economic/spending theory, we don't pay for things unless it's worth it to us."
I continued, " 'Shut up and be grateful' allows for overlooking gaping holes in logic like, 'Hey, maybe God isn't dumb enough to go through hell for something that he doesn't think is worth it.' "
She said my use of the word "sacrifice" might communicate what I don't mean – as if I'm promoting net loss, or people-pleasing, or even Stockholm syndrome, in the name of so-called love.
I think God thinks we're worth whatever the sacrifice was – and he thinks of us as a net gain.
I'll be linking back to this post for clarity whenever I use the word "sacrifice," because yeah, it's safe to look for logical reasoning in what God does. If it's not logical, stop believing it. Don't believe people who say you have to "have faith" or that you're incapable of understanding God's "infinite wisdom."
Those people have sacrificed their own intellectual honesty for cognitive comfort. Is it a net gain for them? Only if they have followers, so you and I have the power to make their sacrifice futile with our questions.


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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger;
I want to return to something Manssor Arbabsiar's attorney, Sabrina Shroff, said the other day. "If he is indicted, he will plead not guilty."
I've suggested Shroff may have reason to believe Arbabsiar will get a plea deal before this ever goes to the grand jury. Which would mean no one would ever challenge the government on the many holes in this case [oh hey! that's me at Atlantic.com]: the claimed lack of taped conversations, the explanation why Arbabsiar cooperated, some holes in the government's money trail (at least as it appears in the complaint), the remarkable coinkydink Arbabsiar just happened to ask a DEA informant to help him kidnap the Saudi Ambassador, and some perhaps incorrect interpretations of existing tape transcripts.
It would be very convenient for the government if this never went to trial.
But think, for a moment, about the government's actions in this affair. It rolled out a splashy press conference. Joe Biden has declared no options off the table; Susan Rice is "unit[ing] world opinion" against Iran. And if that doesn't work, Hillary Clinton will make personal calls followed by onsite teams to persuade allies that this whole plot isn't a bunch of bupkis.
We have rolled out a giant campaign to use this plot to do … something … with Iran.
But it has yet to pass the ham sandwich test.
Our government has had eleven business days now to subject its amended case to the scrutiny of a grand jury, it had two and a half months to subject its original case to the scrutiny of a grand jury, and it hasn't yet bothered to do so. We're sharing our case with the rest of the world before we're subjecting it to the most basic level of oversight enshrined in our Constitution. Instead of using the legal process laid out in our founding document, we've gotten the signature of a Magistrate Judge and run off with it to the rest of the world. And while I have no doubt of the competence of Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger, the judge who signed the complaint in this case, that's simply not the way our judicial system is supposed to work. Average citizens are supposed to review the work of the government when it makes legal cases, not just Magistrates.
All of which ought to raise real questions why our government has decided to share these details with the rest of the world, but bypassed the step where they're supposed to share them with its own citizens.
Well, EW, what would you do if your poll numbers were in the low 40's?
Besides, the troops will be home by Christmas.
Now, `if the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy'
to takedown BoA and Citi, that's something many of us could get behind.
But isn't that a tactic we've seen for the last ten years? Go public with allegations and, when pressed, duck behind the skirts of, We can't tell you that; it's classified. Which is why the government spends ALL of its energy preventing the legitimate working of the judicial machinery, not prosecuting cases. DOJ is now just another marketing channel of the US foreign policy/national security apparatus. It simply is there to give a veneer of legitimacy to things — we're a nation of laws, not men, after all — in the same fashion that legal memos among Executive Branch lawyers rationalized torture. All meaningless, of course, but by the time that the Judiciary has a chance to weigh in, the bombs will have been dropped. That's what the White House, enabled by DOJ, is counting on. That and the fact that, by the time serious questions get asked, the public will no longer be able to recall what fuss was about.
@GKJames: Yes.
@GKJames: I am awaiting the news from Israel that they have captured/killed Iranian terrorists, determined to kill civilians, entering Israel through Palestine.
We can thus rid ourselves of the threat of Palestinian statehood and can support the Israeli bomb attacks on Iran.
What? Our government is conducting activities in a manner perhaps inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution?
Oh. But then again, and sincerely: thanks for noticing — it's important to mention again and again and not glibly to accept it.
I haven't read the Complaint, but since it is being filed in NYC, I'm guessing it only has federal charges – is that right? If so, how have they gotten away with filing the Complaint with no Grand Jury Indictment?
I don't do litigation, much less fed crim, but back in olden times the way I learned it is that for a fed felony, a prosecutor needed an indictment to file the Complaint (unlike lots of State practice). Are there defendants in the Complaint other than Arbabsiar that ARE indicted? Did anyone ask Arbabsiar's attorney if he waived right to GJ indictment?
Seems awfully odd to me, but my experience is nil and my "booklearning" was long ago and maybe I'm not remembering correctly anyway.
ot but related on the "holes" front:
orionATL in a prior thread links to info on Arbabsiar's home being foreclosed upon in 2010, while Arbusto in another thread says Juan Cole mentions that Arbabsiar has 2,000,000 in Iran and that DOJ says this whole thing was well funded.
@Mary: Oh well, if CIA 'consultant' Juan Cole sez it, it must be true. After all, that Libyan thingie is working out so well for him.
This makes me think of my stepson. He could come up with the most amazing stories and interpretions to support his position. Then he couldn't figure out why his mother and I weren't buying.
His mother tried to cut off one of his whoppers once. The look he gave me when when I said "No, let him go on. Ths one is interesting and obviously took some thought to create" was classic.
Boxturtle (I wonder if he's contracting with ObamaLLP…)
I hadn't seen this Juan Cole post – but it's kind of interesting
He lists several things that might point to Arbabsiar being a little off the mental rails or had delusions of grandeur and if not, that he at least had a well recognized short term memory issue, a well known string of failed businesses and a well known alcohol problem. JC highlights that that if nothing else, some of these issues may have at least contributed to Arbabsiar's suggestibility by the informant (and left unsaid, by others who have since interrogated or handled him).
Psst – when do we get this as a headline:
Iraq/Iran Recently Sought to Purchase Yellow Cake/Diplomatic Assassinations From Niger/a Mexican Drug Cartel
@Mary: By well funded, it appears to be maybe $30,000 to Arbabsiar and $100,000 for the plot. That's not well funded.
If Arbabsiar has $2 mill in Iran, then I'd say the US definitely got him for drug sales and flipped him to go after his cousin. And if he was already selling drugs, it is not unreasonable for his cousin to ask him to broker an opium deal.
did the israelis have a hand in this plot against iran? it's entirely reasonable to think they might have.
did the saudis have a hand in this plot against iran? it is entirely reasonable to think they might have.
both isreael, a nation where religious fanaticism controls government,
and saudi arabia, a nation where religious fanaticism controls gov't,
have a strong dislike and fear of iran,
a nation of 60 million people where religious fanaticism controls govt.
iran by right and might, should be, along with egypt, the dominant power in the region.
oh, and did i mention that the u.s. is a nation where religious fanaticism exercises an inordinate and inappropriate control over national (and state) govt policy.
I don't think this about starting a war with Iran. It seems to be more about diplomatic leverage. One of the first things we did was to send the Sec. of State to the U.N. to make a lot of noise about the Convention on the Protection and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons. I'm not sure if we just want to make it hard for Shakuri to travel internationally or we want to use this as leverage in the U.N. Security Council for more sanctions.
@Mary: Arbabsiar's mental status and character profile is a material question in these national security/terrorism cases. The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit examines their pigeons before they deem them ready to fly. Consider the now classic Squillacote case.
From the transcript of the Dec. 2000 60 Minutes episode that covered this case:
WALLACE: (Voiceover) So the FBI listened as [Theresa] Squillacote unburdened herself to her psychiatrist, and they came up with a plan to catch her in an act of espionage.
Mr. ROBBINS: And they sat in a room with all of these tapes, and this group of men and women sat and devised the perfect undercover operation, tailored to this woman's psychiatric difficulties.
WALLACE: What you've been saying is what I read, effectively, in the FBI's behavioral assessment of her.
Dr. GENOVSKI: It–it was remarkably accurate. I mean, here, they had data that no clinical or forensic psychiatrist ever has.
This is not a government that you would ever want to trust.
Btw, congrats, Marcy, on The Atlantic article. Superb work.
i believe it was mad dog the other day who was focused on the money.
good point.
where did it come from, other than iran. our-bob, we are told by the govt, "caused" the money to be sent to the u.s. (to an fbi/dea bank account).
@William Ockham: Has nothing to do with "diplomacy." Here' Flynt Leverett, one of my idols, who has not yet developed feet of clay. Wikileak state dept docs show that all the U.S. is doing is checking off boxes on the "diplomacy" front on the leadup to military action, so that USG can claim (drum roll for one of the many familiar themes) that it "has done everything possible to avoid war but the Iranian govt just hasn't cooperated."
@eCAHNomics: I don't buy it. War with Iran would be stupid. Lots of things I don't like about Obama's administration but they haven't really shown the propensity to do truly stupid things.
@William Ockham: Yes, but they're getting stupider by the day, at an accelerating pace.
@emptywheel: It's not as if the U.S. isn't interested in the selling of drugs. Increasingly, it's become clear that they only want their networks and clients to have that franchise. The others are pursued. We see this now in Mexico. We saw this with Noriega in Panama, with the Contras in Nicaragua, U.S. taking sides with KMT-backed groups in the "Golden Triangle", etc.
Robert Parry, in a current article revisiting the Letelier assassination in D.C., in the wake of this supposed D.C. assassination plot, note that Pinochet's son was protected in his cocaine smuggling to the U.S.
Other potential avenues for understanding Pinochet's covert role in supporting anticommunist strategies in the Reagan-Bush era also opened in 2006, as former DINA chief Contreras turned on his old boss.
In a court document filed in early July 2006, Contreras implicated Pinochet and one of his sons in a scheme to manufacture and smuggle cocaine to Europe and the United States, explaining one source of Pinochet's $28 million fortune.
Contreras alleged that the cocaine was processed with Pinochet's approval at an Army chemical plant south of Santiago during the 1980s and that Pinochet's son Marco Antonio arranged the shipments of the processed cocaine. [NYT, July 11, 2006]
Drug smuggling is intimately tied to teh spook world, especially as a source of funds, money laundering, and guns, not to mention intelligence/informants.
I'd say if this were about the drugs, then it was about protecting U.S.-controlled drug smuggling into and out of Iran, which is associated with their intel ops.
@Jeff Kaye: [Caveat: I'm not a doctor, don't even play one on TV] Arbabsiar's symptoms sound more like a really bad case of ADHD or possibly a bipolar disorder.
@William Ockham: Oh, and one thing I would point out from the McGovern interview (link at 8), is that now that Petreaus is head of CIA, McGovern finds out from his contacts there, that Petreaus is fixing the intel around the war. No one has ever accused Petreaus of being smart. And last major push toward "military action" was stopped by forget-the-general's name, and he was summarily dismissed, and there's no one in the military who will take that kind of stand again.
@Jeff Kaye: Good one. I hadn't thought of that connection.
I remember a year or two ago on FDL book salon, there was an author who scoffed at the notion that U.S. used "illegal drugs" to fund its undercover ops. Can't remember author's rationale, nor even who it might have been. But I exited the book salon thread at that point.
Here's the link to the original McGovern article at consortium news. Link at 8 is to McGovern's interview by Scott Horton.
@Jeff Kaye: Well, and don't forget the govt presumably had all the SIGINT they wanted on this guy from well before he met Narc. They said clearly in 2002 they were going to do FISA wiretaps to gather evidence of crime from people they wanted to recruit, He'd be a perfect candidate.
That's the second time today I've seen "bupkis". It's Yiddish for "beans", and should be spelled with the Yiddish "-es", "bobkes" or "bubkes".
@Jeff Kaye: And, as bmaz and I have been discussing backstage, two top Zetas members just got rounded up. Any $$ that Narc was one of them, now to have his docket sealed and be sent off to some resort where no one will ever get to him to ask what really went on with this op?
@William Ockham: I think both you and eCAHN could be right. If this is a US op, it means it is a US-Israeli or US-Saudi op. We don't want to go to war. Both the Israelis and, to a different degree, the Saudis want to send us into war.
I've been told that my skepticism and that of the actual experts in this field makes it more likely there'll be war (yeah, I don't get it either, but just go with me on this).
But you've got the Obama Administration WAY ahead of itself on this front, believing it is using the op as a way to up the ante. But are they really accomplishing it?
It's sort of how the Iranian-tied Chalabi tricked us into the war w/Iraq (yeah, Bush's folks wanted to be tricked). I think the same might be going on now.
@William Ockham: Unlike the FBI BHU, I don't attempt to make diagnoses from a distance, I'm only suggesting that one possibly was done.
@eCAHNnomics: As regards the drug trafficking-intelligence ops link, there are by now many books and articles on this. An old standby classic, and one that initially made his reputation, is Alfred McCoy's The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. The other classic is, of course, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.
Another more recent history is Douglas Valentine's The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs.
Berkeley historian Peter Dale Scott has also written a tremendous amount on this.
Really, when we hear about drugs these days, in this kind of context, we should have as a leading hypothesis that some kind of dirty business between drugs and intelligence networks or operations is going on. The opium deal in Arbabsiar's case is a red flag that this is more than it might seem (among the other anomalies Marcy is pointing out).
@emptywheel: Yeah. This case didn't fall from the skies. From that 60 Min. interview, vis-a-vis FISA:
[MIKE] WALLACE: There have been thousands of cases in the 22 years since the FISA court was established, yet no judge has ever allowed a defense attorney to see the basis for granting a wire tap or a search warrant.
That's very interesting re the Zetas arrests. Of course, we know from the F&F debacle that the Zetas were most likely the cartel that was on the outs. Celebrations in the Sinaloa HQ. Maybe they'll shoot off into the air a bunch of ATF guns…
@emptywheel: Yes. I thought it was frigging insane for U.S. to invade Iraq, and in fact, that's exactly how it turned out. Everything was worse than the wildest anti-war imaginations thought in advance.
I remember hyperventilating about it in a dinner with an acquaintance shortly before the invasion. He looked at me calmly and said: Well, get used to it, it's going to happen.
He was right.
I'm still ambiguous in my own mind about whether a military action (like bombing, instead of outright invasion, which is unlikely) will or won't happen. Just trying to take in evidence, which more & more, esp given the proven track record of the people who have the say, is looking likely.
@eCAHNomics: I think Bob Baer's comments on this are the most apt: he says Obama has unleashed something he can't control.
@William Ockham:
Two reasons, actually. One is to deflect questions away from Fast and Furious, a well deserved DOJ/ATF black eye that Obama's WH owns. The other is to create a war with Iran which is very ill-advised in my view, since we are already stretched beyond sustainable capacity in personnel and material in the wars we already have. I doubt we have the minesweeping capability in the Gulf to prevent closure of the Straits of Hormuz by mines which are much more sophisticated now.
The reason they don't go to the grand jury is because it might fail the laugh test.
@nomolos: True, though more likely is an allegation that the offender — Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, what have you — was financed or trained or inspired by Iran. Of course, this assumes that Israel even still bothers with a rationale for an attack on Iran. Only Washington remains wedded to appearances, to the perpetuation of the myth that the US is still a law-based state, a republic as the term's traditionally been understood.
@emptywheel: There was something kind of odd in one of the articles I looked at that was going over some prior issues with the law and mentioned, without a date, something about a charge (maybe controlled substance?) in TX where the county had some odd response, along the lines of it being a "mistake" and not really a prior charge.
I think, like going into Iraq, you aren't going to find "The One" reason all this is being sold. Different people have different interests. The FBI and Holder need a distraction from Fast & Furious. Obama needs (his advisors and he think) to look more like a Bush tough guy for his polling, not only has there been a distraction from fast & furious, but also the US assassinations of US citizens dropped off the pages (and Brennan is trying to sell this op as Obama earning his Weebelo Law and Order badge) and no one is talking all that much about the US cave on Iraq – deciding it can't win the "let us stay with immunity for crimes and war crimes" pitch. So for the Iran hawks, whether you are going to rattle sabers at Iran or actually try to pull something off, it's more effectively done when you aren't in process of leaving Iraq with your tail between you legs. As a matter of fact – nothing to unify segments of Iraq and Iran than seeing the SOFA die and troops leave. And while that is happening, the Saudis are propping up Yemen and the US is brokering an immunity deal there for the guy who gave them the thumbs up to carry out assassinations in Yemen and no one is looking too closely at that deal either, or asking the US if the immunity is a feature in part to sterilize US operations in Yemen.
What is really funny is watching DiFi, who couldn't live without Kappes at CIA, and who never got a clue on there being no WMDs in Iraq or torture or disappearances and who hasn't asked many public questions on US citizen assassinations or "collateral damage" deaths and who (imo) never saw a soldier she wasn't willing to sacrifice for a "war-like use of military force" that might generate a profit for her spouse's industry – is out there as the oh so serious face, as the scintillating intellect of unquestioned principles, to tell us all to shape up and quit questioning Our Fearless Leader.
BTW – looking at some of the info on Arbabsiar's Iranian assets, it seems that the term "net worth" is sometimes used for the 2 mill instead – having a 2 mill net worth, with illiquid assets, is vastly differnt than having 2 mill, so I need to amend on that.
"Maybe they'll shoot off into the air a bunch of ATF guns…"
or new ones purloined from the LA SWAT team, where the thieves cut out the middle man and just stole the guns from right under their noses.
@Mary: Do you have some links on his assets? I'm still busy weeding the complaint. I must have 3 more posts before I can move onto what's out there.
@emptywheel: Great short version. I've been looking for a compact way of summarizing what I've been listening/reading on this subject.
OT – some interesting things are going on in Australia re investigation into GWOT torture complicity in government
@emptywheel: About to leave, but here's what I can get quickly
"Arbabsiar had $100,000 wired from a third country to what he thought was the Mexican drug gangster's account. The money did not come directly from Iran. Even if it originated there, there is no reason to think it was government funds. Arbabsiar was himself worth $2 million in Iran; for all we know, as he got lost in his fantasy land, he began being willing to spend his Kermanshah inheritance on the crazy scheme."
If true, the $/worth are linked to an inheritance, but several of the stories I saw link back to this Juan Cole statement, which isn't well supported with a link. Otherwise the source that I have seen that doesn't go back to Cole (and is likely where Cole's info is coming from) is the WaPo story:
"Arbabsiar is originally from the city of Kermanshah, near the Iranian border with Iraq. He continued to have substantial property holdings in Kermanshah, which Hosseini said were worth about $2 million and which provided Arbabsiar with a steady income. "
Which is also coming from a source who might not have good first and info- just may be reporting something he was told.
(mom's publishing in the Atlantic?! OK folks, we're gonna have to be extra vigilant: at the first sign of chardonnay sipping or cocktail weenie consumption, we stage an intervention)
(seriously, congrats ew. and the Atlantic articles can be like Cliff Notes for our security state minders now, handy for clipping & forwarding to their bosses – "Here, THIS is what's she's been writing about")
i do not believe president obama would take this country to war againsr iran.
it makes no political sense, no strategic sense, definitely no military sense. it might help the economy, though that seems questionable.
these comments come from one who has been a persistent and extremely harsh critic of the prez.
i just don't read his personality as one who would take such an irresponsible action.
i've frequently called him "amoral" with respect to his internal (american) politic actions and policies, but i do believe he had for himself the goal of being a competent, "good" president – as he sees matters.
the worst that could come out of this would be support for an israeli strike on iranian nuclear, but israel has big priblems of its own making, e.g., turkish defection, egyptian "revolution" and only has a few free passes for attacking arabs left, before the u.s., europe, and the world in general get completely feed up with israeli militarism.
I think it depends on how much he's trapped in Beltway groupthink. You see it in his continuing attempts to revive the Catfood Commission to fix the nonexistent problem. AIPAC is very influential, and the Jewish vote is courted by all sides, for influence as well as ballots, and AIPAC really wants this war since THEY aren't going to be fighting it.
@emptywheel: V.P.Nixon setup the BayOfPigs op, "knowing" he would be elected in 1960 and the op would happen with him as pres. He lost the election and his plans mightily frustrated. I got from a darn good source that JFK truly was trapped because the op was too far progressed to stop [he was even "let-in" on it in the run-up to the election…rather suckered].
S/g similar here. This seems at least a prep to establish the option to go to war quickly, perhaps after the election regardless who becomes next pres. Any newbie Pres' decisionability would be overwhelmed by an immediate "crisis" [where his only sources of Natl Sec info stampede his wits, a la Johnson/GulfOfTonkin, JFK/Cuba, Bush2/9-11, etc.].
@eCAHNomics: If an op doesn't make sense, then there is vital missing data. Same is true for any observation.
Once upon a time making a case to the grand jury was the start of a prosecution. Now, the government seems to want to avoid it completely. Is it not time for Harvard to rethink its award of a law degree to a man who so clearly and cleverly thinks so little of the law?
@Jeff Kaye: Yes, thanks, a dramatically underreported feature of our national and national "security" policy. We run drugs and assist major drug smugglers in laundering the funds flow as well as the profits. A lot of top banks are almost certainly implicated in that, in New York and the City of London, not to mention quite a few lawyers and accountants. It's not a perspective that gets much press when it comes to an analysis of our "war on drugs". Much more vital to tell fundamentalists about the untold millions spent forcing Californians and citizens of 18 other states from smoking their legally medically prescribed marijuana.
I was aware of one, as it was in the LA Times. I guess 'Narc' is the other.
That's going over so very well, too. I think I'd rather vote for Mitt: at least I'd know what kind of president I'd be getting before the election. Mr Alleged Constitutional Lawyer is looking more and more like an expert mostly on bait-and-switch.


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On Thursday night, Mike Willie took a hit that snapped his helmet backward, crashing it into and bouncing it off the Soldier Field turf. Bears linebacker Jon Bostic clenched a fist and beat his chest in celebration, as Willie, for a short distance, crawled on all fours.
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This game wouldn't be the first time he had gotten knocked down only to pick himself back up.
While Bostic made highlight reels and YouTube channels with a third-quarter flattening that forced an incompletion, the recipient built his case for making San Diego's 53-man roster. Willie proceeded to catch a pair of second-half touchdown passes in a 33-28 Chargers exhibition loss.
"He just woke me up," Willie said Friday.
In high school, the classroom gave Willie a wake-up call.
He'd been juggling recruiting interest from what was then the Pacific-10 Conference, programs like USC, California and Oregon. San Diego State also was close, Willie said, to offering him a scholarship, but the interest from Division I schools subsided once word spread about his academic transcript.
Willie had been told grades were important. Now, he had to tell his mother, uncles and other family and friends they couldn't watch him play Div. I football on Saturdays.
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The stumble rerouted him to Cerritos Community College.
There, while Willie was productive on the field, head coach Frank Mazzotta and offensive coordinator Dean Grosfeld were among the mentors monitoring his development off it. He partook in tutoring programs and gained eligibility to eventually transfer to Arizona State.
With 12 more units left, Willie said he plans to complete his degree in the offseason. First, he can finish what he's started with the Chargers.
Opportunity exists for a young wide receiver to push for a 53-man roster spot out of training camp, given a season-ending knee injury this month to Danario Alexander. Furthermore, veteran Robert Meachem's roster spot is in question. He has a fully guaranteed $5 million base salary, but as a build-up speed receiver, he makes a poor fit in a passing offense predicated on the ball leaving the quarterback's hand quickly.
Willie was on the Chargers' practice squad last season as an undrafted rookie. He has one more year of squad eligibility left and two games to prove, one, he can provide the receiver depth the team needs and, two, that they can't afford to cut him, given the risk another team can swoop in and claim him off waivers.
Bostic's hit Thursday could have knocked Willie from the game.
Instead, with two exhibitions to go, he's very much in it.
"It's a great example of a guy making the most of his opportunities, which is great to see," coach Mike McCoy said Friday. "He had a couple opportunities to make some big plays in the red area, and he did that. His number was called one play when the defense only had 10 guys on the field initially, and it was great awareness by our quarterback (Brad Sorensen) to get the score. That's what the game is all about: make the most of your opportunities."
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Seyi Ajirotutu signed with the team Friday, a source said. The wide receiver and former Fresno State teammate of Ryan Mathews has been a Charger on-and-off since arriving in 2010 as an undrafted rookie free agent.
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Both had college scholarship offers to play quarterback. Berry chose to play defense. Haden did not. He ended up in the secondary by default.
"I went to Florida with the dream of playing quarterback," Haden said. "But they had a guy there by the name of Tebow."
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Haden set the state of Maryland prep record with 7,371 career passing yards and had scholarship offers from Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Georgia, Virginia, Boston College, North Carolina, Rutgers in addition to Florida to play quarterback. But his days on offense faded into a memory in Gainesville. He changed positions his first spring on campus.
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"Coach [Urban] Meyer asked me how I felt about moving to the defensive side of the ball. I just wanted to play. I came [to Florida] in the spring so I had plenty of time to make the adjustment. Coach [Chuck] Heater told me as long as you go hard and tackle with some toughness, you can play for me. That's what I did."
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Nan Harvey's life revolved around the University at Buffalo. Beginning as a two-sport athlete in the 1970s to her role in coaching and finally as an athletic administrator, Harvey contributed greatly to the success of UB.
Even after she was diagnosed with cancer, the disease that eventually took her life, Harvey not only made an impact until the end, she left an inspiring legacy at the school she loved.
"It was hard to keep Nan down,'' said Bob Arkeilpane, the former UB athletics director. "If there were meetings or things she was supposed to be at, no matter how she felt, she would just keep on forging ahead. She never quit, she never gave up."
Harvey, who died in 2003, is one of four contributors honored posthumously as "Pride" selections. The others are baseball players Wally Schang and Stan Rojek and boxer Lou Scozza.
Schang, a native of South Wales, began his 19-year major league career in 1913 as a catcher with the Philadelphia Athletics. The switch-hitting Schang hit better than .300 six times, and played for three different World Series champions: the 1913 Philadelphia Athletics, the 1918 Boston Red Sox, and the 1923 New York Yankees. He finished his career with a .284 average, 59 home runs and 710 RBIs in 1,842 games.
Born in North Tonawanda, Rojek was a shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1942 and 1946-47), Pittsburgh Pirates (1948-51), St. Louis Cardinals (1951) and St. Louis Browns (1952). He helped the Dodgers win the 1947 National League pennant and finished 10th in voting for the 1948 NL MVP after leading the league in games (156), at-bats (641) and singles (150). When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, he took a locker next to Rojek.
Scozza fought as a middleweight and a light heavyweight in a career that spanned 1925-34 and included more than 100 bouts with 79 victories. Scozza fought light heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom seven times, winning three times, and took fellow Buffalo native Jimmy Slattery the distance in a title fight in 1930. One of only two men in the world to ever knock out James J. "The Cinderella Man" Braddock, Scozza did it in six rounds in San Francisco in 1932. Joe Louis did it in eight rounds in 1937.
Harvey, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000, lost her battle with the disease on Sept. 2, 2003, one week before her 47th birthday. Harvey was UB's senior woman administrator, a title she accepted in 1996. In that position, Harvey supervised 15 of the athletic program's sports while working closely on all issues regarding gender equity and Title IX.
It was one of many roles Harvey held at UB, dating back to her undergraduate days in the late 1970s.
"Nan was a student-athlete at Buffalo, she was a coach at Buffalo and she paved the way as the Senior Women's Administrator and was a role model and a mentor for other women who were on the staff,'' said Arkeilpane, now the deputy director of athletics at Cincinnati. "They eventually worked their way into more significant roles and Nan was a pioneer in that way. She left her mark in all three capacities.''
The Cheektowaga native and Cleveland Hill High School graduate received her physical education degree from Buffalo in 1978, after starring in volleyball and basketball. A year later UB finally offered her first love as a varsity sport: softball. In 1983, Harvey took over the program.
She recorded 38 victories over the next three years, earning SUNYAC Coach of the Year honors in 1985 after guiding the Bulls to a 19-9 record, a national ranking and an appearance in the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament. Harvey also enjoyed an outstanding softball playing career, which earned her an induction to the Western New York Softball Hall of Fame in 1991.
"I'm very proud of the fact that I played major fast-pitch softball in Buffalo at a time when fast-pitch softball was huge,'' Harvey told The Buffalo News in 2003. "I played for the Buffalo Sunbirds, which were archrivals with the North Tonawanda Shamrocks. It used to be just knockdown, drag-out battles to see who would win the regionals and win the right to go to the nationals. I got to play in the national championships four times. I have a great sense of fulfillment from that.''
Four months prior to her death, Harvey bequeathed $200,000 to the UB athletic department from her retirement funds and the school renamed its softball facility Nan Harvey Field. After part of four decades dedicated to the school, it was time for UB to give something back to Nan Harvey.
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