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American Geological Institute (AGI), Alexandria, VA: Earth Science World. Images from the Earth Science World Image Bank, geoscience books, information on careers in the geosciences, and more. Go to: Interactive Geological Time Scale.
BBC News: Geological time gets a new period. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 million years ago to about 542 million years ago.
BBC Earth timeline.
Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Web Lift for Geological Time. See also: The Geologic Time Scale in Historical Perspective.
Simon Biggs: Fossil Collections of the World. Check the rubric Geology Time Scale. Not updated for a long time.
Goran Bogicevic, Department of Regional Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Mininig and Geology at Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Boggy´s Geolinks. Scroll down to: "Stratigraphy", e.g. Triassic.
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol:
Your Planet Earth.
A library of talks on earth sciences and evolutionary topics that may be of interest to earth sciences and education professionals as a basis for engagement and outreach shows in schools. Go to:
The History of Life. Powerpoint Presentation.
Geological Time. Powerpoint Presentation.
The British Geological Survey (BGS): BGS Education, The BGS Geological Timechart. Colourful reference material, for use in schools, colleges and the home, setting out the geological timescale and geochronological terms, used at the British Geological Survey. ety
Laurie Cantwell, (Montana State University), The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College: Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Geologic Time. This website highlights animations, images, interactive graphics and videos used to teach the concept of geologic time in an introductory geology course. Visualizations cover the specific topics of earth history, relative age dating and life through geologic time.
CHRONOS (Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa). The CHRONOS System provides a platform for modern, innovative Earth history research, hosts and develops educational resources, and gives access to the general public to new knowledge of Earth science facts and issues.
! CHRONOS (page hosted at Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa). CHRONOS's main objective is to develop a network of databases and visualization and analytical methodologies that broadly deal with chronostratigraphy. Go to: Time Converter. The CHRONOS project has created a web site for converting between Berggren et al. 1995 and Gradstein et al. 2004.
ES Designs: Geologic Time Scale. This geologic time scale provides a directory of links to web pages for each time interval.
Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany: Stratigraphic Table of Germany 2002. Order conditions. See also here (in German).
! Geological Society of America: Geoscience Initiatives, Geologic Time Scale.
Geology.com: Geologic Time Scale. A printable time line for the geological sciences.
! F.M. Gradstein et al. (2012): The Geologic Timescale 2012. Poster, in PDF.
S.R. Gradstein et al.(2012): The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Google books, see also here (Table of contents, Elsevier).
! F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg (2009): The geological time scale. PDF file, In: S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.): The Timetree of Life (see here).
S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (2009): Discovering the Timetree of Life. PDF file, In: S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.): The Timetree of Life (see here).
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Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
ICS (within the International Union of Geological Sciences)
is the only organisation concerned with stratigraphy on a global scale.
One of its major objectives are the establishment of a standard, globally
applicable stratigraphic scale. Go to:
! International Chronostratigraphic Chart v 2013/01. Downloadable in PDF or JPG. Excellent!
Susan E. Lewis, Kristen A. Lampe and Andrew J. Lloyd (an ActionBioscience.org original article): Once in a Million Years: Teaching Geologic Time. Helping students understand the magnitude of geologic time.
LithStrat (supported by the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften). A lithostratigraphical database. Provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine. Go to: Richtlinien zur stratigraphischen Nomenklatur. A guide about stratigraphical nomenclature (in German). From Steininger & Piller (1999), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 209.
A. Lugowski (Computer Science Dept., Univ. Calif. Santa Barbara) and J. Ogg (Dept. Earth and Atmos. Sci., Purdue University): TimeScale Creator This is a free JAVA package to explore and create charts of any portion of the geologic time scale from an extensive suite of global and regional events in Earth History.
Andrew MacRae: Radiometric Dating and the Geological Time Scale. Circular Reasoning or Reliable Tools? This TalkOrigins site (a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins) discusses the way radiometric dating and stratigraphic principles are used to establish the conventional geological time scale.
! NORGES, Network of Offshore Records of Geology and Stratigraphy. Go to: The 2004 Time Scale. F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, A.G. Smith et al.: Geologic Time Scale 2004. Cambridge University Press. See also: Time scales through history. PDF file.
! Jane Orbuch, San Lorenzo Valley High School: Geological Time Hotlist. A link directory.
Jeff Poling, Dinosauria On-Line: Geologic Ages of Earth History.
Sue Rigby, Geology, Geophysics, Environmental Geoscience, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh: COURSE MATERIALS. Go to: GEP COURSE MATERIALS, The Geological Time Scale. PDF file.
! Robert A. Rohde, International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS): GeoWhen Database. GeoWhen Database is an attempt to sort out the mess that man has made of the geologic timescale. This project aims to reconcile the international stratigraphic standards with many of the regional and archaic naming schemes that appear in the literature.
Steven M. Stanley (W. H. Freeman & Company): Earth System History. An online companion for the student and the instructor (interactive exercises, key terms, review questions, web links).
U.S. Geological Survey:
Geologic Time. Go to:
Major Divisions of Geologic Time, Etymology of geological time units.
! U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA: Geolex. Geolex is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, VA: The Learning Web. A site dedicated to K-12 education and life-long learning. Go to: Mud Fossils, Major Divisions of Geological Time.
US Geological Survey and the National Park Service: USGS Geology in the Parks, What is Geologic Time?
USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington: The Geologic Time Scale.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Radiometric dating.
List of geochronologic names.
Age of the Earth.
! Geologic time scale.
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.
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KENNEBUNK – The Kennebunk Savings Customer Ballot has long been a point of celebration for local nonprofits. Since 1994 Kennebunk Savings has asked customers to have a say in how it distributes a portion of its corporate giving program.
This year, Kennebunk Savings will give away $150,000 through the Customer Ballot. Organization officials will be out delivering checks to the top ten vote-getters over the next few weeks, and began with a check delivery to the Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk.
Bradford C. Paige, President and CEO, spoke about the emphasis Kennebunk Savings places on giving back saying, "Our customers are passionate supporters of many area nonprofits. We're thrilled to be able to match their passion with our corporate giving. It's just part of how we show our commitment to the community."
Over the last 10 years, the Animal Welfare Society has received the most votes, and this year is no different. The Animal Welfare Society received $15,750 through the ballot.
Kennebunk Savings Customer Ballot donations range from $200 to over $15,000 with more than forty organizations receiving checks over $1,000. This year the top recipients include:
Animal Welfare Society, Safe Haven Animal Shelter, Another Chance Animal Rescue, Kennebunk's Community Food Pantry, the Center for Wildlife and the York Community Food Pantry among others.
Based on customer votes, the funds being distributed through the ballot program will go to organizations within five categories: 38 percent to civic organizations (such as libraries and animal welfare), 34 percent to human needs, 13 percent to environmental organizations, 11 percent to the arts, and four percent for educational purposes.
The 2014 Customer Ballot contribution of $150,000 is part of over $770,000 Kennebunk Savings will contribute to non-profit organizations through its 2014 Community Promise commitment. Since 1994, the Bank has donated more than $9 million to York County and seacoast New Hampshire nonprofit organizations. Kennebunk Savings is proud to have been the first and only bank in Maine to pledge 10 percent of its annual earnings back to the community and the first to offer its customers the ability to direct a portion of the commitment through a customer ballot.
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One common question raised during the risk assessment exercise was how to account for the controls that mitigate risks.
Several speakers stressed that the effectiveness of controls should never affect how one ranks the severity of a potential harm. "Severity rankings are dependent on harm only," said Joe Siemiatkoski of Biogen Idec. "You should never lower a severity score by taking credit for controls."
For example, if a given harm, such as bioreactor contamination, is considered high, say 9 on a scale of 1 to 10, that severity ranking should not be lowered just because numerous measures are in place to prevent contamination. Instead, those controls would lower the ranking number assigned to the likelihood that such a harm would occur. Then, when the total risk is assessed by multiplying the severity and likelihood scores, its overall risk ranking would not be high, and thus additional controls may not be warranted.
Dan Weese of Amgen explained that this approach is important for documenting the potential risks to any given unit operation. "You may have a risk where you are confident that a later step will take care of it, but what if a later step is removed?" he said. "You need the risk to be flagged as severe in the earlier unit operation, so you don't lose your record of it."


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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
AIKEN, S.C. – The nationally 20th-ranked and top-seeded University of South Carolina Aiken men's basketball team defeated the third seed, Barton College, 82-75, in the 2013 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship.
The victory allows the Pacers to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. The Pacers will travel to Freedom Hall in Louisville, Ky., to begin the Elite Eight on Thursday, March 28. USC Aiken will face Midwest Region champion Drury in the Elite Eight at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 28.
The game was tight throughout with nine ties and six lead changes in the contest.
The Pacers never trailed in the second half of the game after taking their final lead with nine seconds remaining in the first period from a 3-pointer by All-Regional selection Ronald Zimmerman. The three gave USC Aiken a 39-37 lead going into the break.
Barton tied the game for the final time with 10:02 remaining in the game at 57-57 off of a steal and layup by Jon Hart.
USC Aiken answered with a 10-2 run over the next almost three minutes to take a 67-59 lead with 7:03 left to play in the contest. Santoine Butler scored six of the 10 points in the run.
The Bulldogs would cut the lead to three points with 40 seconds left, but a Zimmerman dagger from long range with only 10 seconds remaining would push the lead back to six. The Pacers would add a free throw to post the final at 82-75.
Zimmerman (Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley HS) would lead four Pacers in double figures with 24 points in the victory. The nation's leader in 3-pointers made per game, Zimmerman was 8-for-10 from long range to tie his career high for made 3-point field goals in a game.
Butler (Augusta, Ga./Gardner-Webb) chipped in 16 points by shooting 7-for-10 from the field. Butler also grabbed a game-high nine boards to finish just shy of a double-double.
Region Most Outstanding Player Re'mon Nelson just missed out on a double-double as well with 13 points, nine assists and three steals. Nelson (Columbus, Ohio/Canal Winchester HS) added another award to his shelf to go along with the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year and Peach Belt Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player awards.
Nelson also became the program's second-leading scorer all-time in the game, passing Chris Commons. Nelson now has scored 1,235 points in his Pacer career. He also owns the school's all-time steals record and the Peach Belt Conference all-time assist record.
Paul Larsen (Mooresville, N.C./Mercer) was the final Pacer with a double-figure scoring total for USC Aiken, chipping in 10 points. Jesse Seilern (Innsbruck, Austria/Kapfenberg HS) stuffed the scorebook again with eight points, six rebounds, three assists, one block and one steal.
All-Regional selection Gerald Boston led three Bulldogs in double figures with 23 points and nine assist. Boston was the leading scorer in the Southeast Regional, and shot 7-for-15 from the floor and a perfect 6-for-6 from the foul line.
Another All-Regional selection, Keith Manley scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds. Hart was the final Bulldog in double figures with 13 points and seven boards.
The Pacers started out shooting poorly, missing seven of their first nine shots to put them at a ten-point deficit, 17-7, at the second media timeout.
USC Aiken was able to turn it around by making nine of their next 12 shots to tie the game at 35-all at the final media timeout with 3:37 left in the first half. The tie came from a trey by Nelson with 3:54 left in the half.
Boston was the only player in double figures in the first half, scoring 14 points. Zimmerman led the Pacers at the break with nine points, and Nelson had seven points and five assists.
USC Aiken finished the game connecting on 54.7 percent (29-for-53) of their shots from the floor. The Pacers shot 52.4 percent (11-for-21) from long range and 72.2 percent (13-for-18) from the charity stripe in the victory.
Barton shot 47.5 percent (28-for-59) from the field in the game, including 50 percent (8-for-16) from 3-point range. The Bulldogs finished shooting 64.7 percent (11-for-17) from the foul line.
NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Southeast Region All-Regional Team
Most Outstanding Player: Re'mon Nelson, Guard, USC Aiken
Ronald Zimmerman, Guard, USC Aiken
Gerald Boston, Guard, Barton
Keith Manley, Forward, Barton
Odell Turner, Forward, Wingate
2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Southeast Regional Official Website: http://www.pacersports.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/releases/southeastregional


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This movie isn't quite acceptable for children under 14 years of age.
Although I have seen it and it shouldn't be appropriate for children my age it is a good story. I had to watch it especially since it told the story of my favorite past time celebrities Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. This move does contain alot of drug and alchohol abuse people can relate and they can also understand Edie's addiction. They can also learn more about the famous Andy Warhol. There was alot of sexual intercourse in this film but it seemed to me that was needed to be included to show the intensity of Edie and Billy Quin's relationship.
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I think this movie was a pretty good movie :]] It had some *iffy* moments. It's not like i havent seen this type of thing before though. Overall it was a good fun movie :D:D .Xo.Monicaa-->.&|
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i think it is a must see because there are 14 year olds who can handle this type of movie. there are a lot of worse things that i have watched.
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Spectacular cautionary tale about the empty promises of being famous
This movie does not glorify the lifestyle of its real-life characters. It's a cautionary tale about the meaninglesness of being famous for fame's sake. I appreciated this movie because I watched it at a time when I was studying postmodern art, and the total meaninglessness of Warhol's art was apparent, as well as his total lack of loyalty. What makes the movie so good are the breathaking and Oscar-worthy performances of Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce, who consumed their roles with an authenticity and passion that was wonderful to watch. The movie ends with a mash-up of poignant flashbacks, with Warhol and Edie contemplating how the world would remember them. It is a sad, regretful little movie, about sad, regretful people, and how they can be swept away in the false promises of being famous, and all the decadence that comes with it. It remains a sad cautionary tale that rings ture on the consequences of being famous. I recommend it for ADULTS ONLY. The sex, nudity, drug content, and profanity is pervasive throughout.
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European Indexes Mixed
M&A news and a positive start in New York provided some uplift Tuesday
From Standard & Poor's European MarketScope
European indexes traded closely mixed Tuesday morning. Wall Street started the day modestly higher as oil fell to US$64.26/bl.
UK: The FTSE 100 index traded higher at mid-session, helped by Vodafone (VOD)(+4.36%) and supported by M&A activity. The pound was at US$1.9865.
Among earnings, Vodafone posted core profit of £11.960 billion, up 1.6%. The EBITDA figure came in lower than expectations of £12.4 billion. However, the shares jumped as the dividend payout of 6.76p, up 11.4%, impressed. Also, renewed talk of a possible AT&T (T) bid at £2.20/share added to the gains.
Moreover, British Airways (BAB) (+4.56%) flew after Goldman Sachs suspended its rating and target on the stock temporarily. The investment bank also raised its stake last week to 5.1% from below 3%, according to a regulatory filing. In M&A news, Rio Tinto (RTP) (+0.22%) has reportedly hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible US$27 billion bid for Canada's Alcan. Xstrata (+0.69%) extended until June 7 its offer to buy the outstanding shares of LionOre.
Among banks, the consortium, comprising Royal Bank of Scotland (-0.18%), Fortis and Santander, unveiled a €71.1 billion, or €38.40/share, offer for ABN Amro (ABN). BP's (BP) (+0.53%) attempts to save its joint venture to exploit Russia's Kovytka gas field suffered a fresh blow when a Siberian court threw out a legal challenge that might have preserved its license, The Times reported.
France: The CAC 40 index (-0.15%) traded a touch lower at mid-session. Renault (+2.79%) led the gainers after a Les Echos report showed French car producers moving more production abroad: PSA (+0.22%). France Telecom's (FTE) (+0.31%) Dutch Orange unit could be bought by Deutsche Telekom (DT), with the latter handing over Spanish Internet provider Ya.com and €1 billion, according to La Tribune, citing a source close to DT.
Among losers, Sanofi (SNY) (-1.04%) fell as Ypsomed fiscal sales revealed slowing growth of the former's insulin. In energy, Direct Energie has filed a complaint against competitor EDF (-0.96%) to the competition authorities, wrote Les Echos. Financier and EADS (-0.68%) stakeholder Arnaud Lagardere will face questions from the AMF today as part of the latter's insider dealing investigation.
In the wider market, Eurotunnel resumed trading after management's share swap plan won the support of 87% of shareholders last Friday. It traded at €0.74 vs. €0.37 before suspension. In broker news, ADP (-4.08%) was downgraded to underweight by JP Morgan, which believes a state sale is not immediately forthcoming. Safran (+1.38%) was lifted by a Goldman Sachs upgrade to neutral - the broker sees potential in a tie-up with Thales (-0.81%). Gemalto (+6.48%) jumped after a Citigroup upgrade to buy.
Germany: The Xetra-Dax index (+0.4%) traded comfortably higher at mid-session. Vodafone's numbers were interesting for the likes of Deutsche Telekom (DT) (+1.64%). CEO Rene Obermann, in the mean time, told FAZ that Deutsche Telekom is on track to reach its full-year earnings target.
Elsewhere, E.On (EON) (-1.0%) probably won't hand out an extraordinary dividend as it seeks to expand into new markets, Euro am Sonntag reported, citing Vice Chairman Hubertus Schmoldt. E.On is, for instance, among four firms that have placed offers for a stake in Russian power generator OGC-5. There is talk of Acciona considering buying Solar World (+4.38%), noted Spanish website Negocio.
On the German earnings front, Colonia Real Estate (+1.57%) reported first quarter net profit of €5.18 million and raised its profit outlook. MAN (+1.02%) has reached a £250 million legal settlement over a fraud claim with DCX's (DCX) (-0.68%) Freightliner division over a unit bought by MAN in 2000. Lower Saxony has bought more shares in VW (+1.69%) in order to keep the state's holding above 20%, reported Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Goteborgs Posten wrote that Ford is planning to sell Volvo. The Swedish paper reckons BMW (+1.91%) could be a possible buyer.
Elsewhere: Piazza Affari made mixed progress in mid-session trading.
In Zurich, the SMI index (+0.16%) remained modestly higher.


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When Tula Plegsai was growing up in rural Thailand, he dreamed of building a strong home for his family. World Vision child sponsorship helped him gain the education to pursue a construction technician career.
In the village where Tula Plegsai grew up in rural Thailand, rows of small, elevated wooden houses line a narrow dirt road for as far as the eye can see.
As a child, Tula wanted to provide the comfort of a stronger home for his family.
"I dreamed of [being] a home builder," he says. "I wanted to create a comfortable home for my parents."
Tula's parents worked a corn field, reared animals, and often sought income as day laborers around Sanmakleua, a small village in northwestern Thailand. Their earnings went to buy food, and they struggled to pay bills or school fees for Tula and his three siblings. They didn't have much, but even as a child he could appreciate the value of having a loving family.
"It was such a good experience being in a family where you're living in peace, although we were living in poverty," he says.
When he was 12, Tula became a World Vision sponsored child. In addition to receiving financial help throughout his middle school and high school years, he also got assistance with tangible needs.
"I am physically a big person," he says. "It was hard to find second-hand clothes that fit me. If I bought them, they would be expensive. World Vision helped by giving me a uniform, bags, books, sweaters, and school fees as I studied in high school."
Tula's sponsor often wrote and encouraged him. "It motivated me to complete my studies and not give up easily," says Tula.
Following his childhood dream to build a home for his parents, he chose to study construction in college.
"I want to build a building with security standards, so anyone can use it in happiness," he says.
After graduating from Lampang University, Tula got a job as a technician overseeing construction. He loves his job and hopes to someday own his own construction company and continue his education by studying construction law.
Tula is also grateful to World Vision and his sponsor for helping him reach this point.
Sponsorship through World Vision "is like a gift to underprivileged children," says Tula. "I think education can provide better opportunities. Then there are more possibilities for them to grow up to be good adults."
World Vision child sponsorship applies a holistic approach to fighting poverty, providing benefits both to an individual child and his or her entire family and community. World Vision team members meet with members of the community to determine the greatest needs — like food security, clean water, access to medical care and education, economic development, and more.
Over time, World Vision equips the community to become self-sufficient and able to meet its own challenges. The long-term goal is freedom from poverty, both for individuals and for the community as a whole. As their basic needs are met, children like Tula have a chance to pursue their dreams and their God-given talents.
Read a blog post about World Vision's approach to community development and how child sponsorship is the foundation.
Thank God that Tula has a chance to follow his dream. Pray that his work would be a blessing to many others.
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It's goofy little things like this that restore my faith in humanity. Melanie Coles, a 22-year-old student in Vancouver painted a 55-foot mural of the habitually missing Waldo on a rooftop, in hopes of eliciting a few smiles among happily surprised Google Earth users.
Coles runs a Wordpress blog, where she has chronicled her exploits and collected an impressive spread of press clippings, including selections from publications such as The Vancouver Sun, The Telegraph, and MSNBC.
"I think that it's within the spirit of the state of the Web now," she told The Sun. Everything is a free-for-all, and I think the more Waldos, the better,"
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It was the summer of 1965. I had just turned 12 years old.
My good friend and next-door neighbor, Eric Oddi, and I spent our days doing what boys our age typically did - going to the beach or Seaside Lagoon, riding our bikes, Flexible Fliers and homemade skateboards (shopping cart wheels screwed into a discarded piece of Formica), having a game of catch, or shooting hoops on the outdoor courts at Redondo Union High.
Then one day, with one simple sentence, our entire focus changed. As we were walking home from the basketball courts, one of the older boys in the neighborhood came up to us and excitedly said, "Did you guys know that you can see half-naked ladies in Palos Verdes?"
What? Are you sure? "Yep," he said. "I've seen them."
Well, that was all the validation we needed. Our priorities changed immediately. Forget about skateboarding. Forget about baseball and basketball. We were on a mission. We had to see this incredible opportunity for ourselves.
We soon learned, of course, that he was talking about the King Neptune statue and fountain in the Malaga Cove Plaza, a replica of the original King Neptune Fountain in Italy. Even so, we didn't care that the women were made of stone. And we didn't care about King Neptune, cherubs or dolphins. Getting a glimpse at topless mermaids was our singular, driving goal.
So we hatched a plan.
We (correctly) determined that we stood a better chance of being granted permission if our stated objective was viewing a local shipwreck, and not to simply satisfy our adolescent curiosity.
With hesitant approval from our folks (our bike rides up to that point had been limited to our neighborhood or to the beach), we packed our lunch, jumped on our Sting Rays and headed north. Prospect Avenue to Pacific Coast Highway, then the long incline up Palos Verdes Boulevard to Palos Verdes Drive West.
Finally, as we neared the plaza, we were winded and our legs were aching. But our anticipation for what we about to see erased all of our physical complaints. As tired as we were, never once did either of us suggest that we abandon our plans and turn around.
Arrival at last. There they were. Bare-breasted mermaids as an integral part of an amazing water display. It was everything we had imagined. We tried (in vain) to be somewhat discreet, but instead we just stood transfixed, admiring this great "work of art."
When it was time to leave, we realized we didn't have enough time to continue on to the Dominator. Time was running short, as I needed to be home in time for my afternoon Daily Breeze delivery route.
We would have to save the shipwreck for another day, which we did later that summer. And it just so happened that we had to pass by the statue again on our travels. An added bonus!
It was a boyhood adventure to remember. And the best eight-mile bike ride I ever took.
Steve Gray grew up in Redondo Beach and was a staff writer for the Daily Breeze from 1976 to 1979. He now lives in Old Torrance.
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Good Evening State of Hockey legion, and a Happy "Tell A Fairy Tale" Day to all of you. In honor of this very special day, I'd like to start out this live in-game commentary presented by Sun Country Airlines with one of my favorite fairy tales of all times: Ahem..."Once upon a time, there were two hockey players named "Steve" and "Kurt." Steve and Kurt couldn't have been more different from each other. Steve had red hair and was an energetic forward. In his spare time, he loved to wear white shorts and white polo shirt when playing Ping Pong and also mocking the toothless Colorado Avalanche player named "Cody."
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Kurt was a little more mild-mannered until he had the puck on his stick. He would launch that puck with his super-powered slap shot at speeds upwards of 500 miles per hour.
Both Kurt and Steve found themselves playing hockey on the same team in a magical land called "Minnesota." They were a part of some very good teams, but couldn't quite accomplish the ultimate goal. Kurt suffered a terrible leg injury that almost ended his career. Steve tried to become his own agent in the offseason, and that almost ended his career. Both players left Minnesota and we thought we might never see them again.
But a wizard named Chuck whipped a concoction that brought them both back to Minnesota. In their first game back, they both scored a goal to help the Wild beat the San Jose Sharks. From there, the Wild went on a tear, made the playoffs and won the Stanley Cup. Everyone lived happily ever after."
Every time I read that one, I get a little weepy. The San Jose Sharks are going to feel the same way in about two and a half hours when the Wild runs them out of this building. I'm pretty sure about this because Niklas Backstrom got pulled from his last start, and we all know when that happens, he comes back with a performance for the ages.
I'm sure Backy is as excited as all of us to see some familiar faces in the lineup today. Kurtis Foster and Stephane Veilleux are back in the fold, and we can also extend a warm in-game commentary welcome to Nick Palmieri, the power forward of the future (no pressure). Those guys are all in, while Mikko Koivu (undisclosed), Mike Lundin (lower body), Clayton Stoner (lower body), Guillaume Latendresse (concussion), Pierre-Marc Bouchard (concussion), Jarod Palmer (concussion), Nate Prosser (healthy scratch) and Matt Kassian (healthy scratch) are out.
Currently, the good guys are wearing their camouflage jerseys for pregame warmups to support Defending the Blue Line. Prior to faceoff, they'll change into their red sweaters. The Sharks are in their road whites trimmed in black and teal with the stick-eating fish on the chest.
Jim Kleinsasser, everybody's favorite fullback/tight end combo, gets us going with the "Let's Play Hockey" declaration. Let's do this, y'all.
Period 1
18:38 - MIN 0 - SJ 1 - Not the start we were looking for, but in every fairy tale, there is an obstacle to overcome, like Cinderella's wicked step sisters. Jamie McGinn and former Miami University Redhawk Tommy Wingels are those step sisters. McGinn wins a race to a puck behind the Wild net. He quickly throws a pass to the front of the net for Wingels, who jams it in between the legs of Backstrom. And the silence is deadly.
16:39 - MIN 0 - SJ - 2 - The obstacle is slightly larger now. After Backstrom stops a long shot that is tipped by Patrick Marleau, a the puck is laying in front. Jumbo Joe Thornton pounces on it like a leopard on a weak antelope and throws it into the gaping net. The Sharks have two goals. The Wild is looking for its first shot.
11:08 - Palmieri offers a glimpse of what the Wild was looking for in the trade. Behind the San Jose net, he grabs the puck and muscles his way through a pair of Shark defenders before trying for a wraparound that Thomas Greiss stops with the paddle of his stick.
10:47 - MIN 1 - SJ 2 - There we go! Cal Clutterbuck gets the monkey off his back with a text book shallow angle bounce shot. Skating wide on the right side, he fires a shot that bounces off the stick of a defending Colin White. The puck skips like a rock across water and that fools Greiss, getting the Wild on the board. That helps.
7:57 - Clutterbuck and White converge again in the right corner. This time, Clutter is lining him up for a monstrous hit. White sees him at the last second and the collision is extreme. Clutterbuck is the one that ends up on the ice, but White certainly was taken aback as well.
5:51 - What is Marleau doing? While jostling with Foster in front of the Wild net, he spins around and cross checks Foster deliberately and right in the face. Inexplicably, he's only getting a two-minute minor for highsticking. Absolutely ridiculous that he's not going for longer.
3:51 - The penalty to Marleau is over, but the Wild power play does everything but score a goal. A very good job by players getting shots to the net and causing problems out front. If they can keep that up, the next time a Sharks player cross checks one of our guys in the face, we'll be ready.
0:48.0 - Interesting move here by Yeo. He takes a timeout with the Sharks buzzing around quite a bit and the Wild players gassed after an icing.
0:00 - The first period is in the books as Jared Spurgeon launches a slapper from his own end that is on goal.
Period 2
18:42 - I mean, I can't believe this. Neither can Dany Heatley. A shot from the point hits traffic on the way to Greiss. After a scramble, the puck pops to Heatley standing all alone at the side of the crease. He appears to have a lay up, but Greiss lunches back and gets his arm down to glove it just before it gets to the goal line. Unbelievable stop.
18:17 - MIN 2 - SJ 2 - Don't hurt 'em Hammer! The Wild converts on the power play after a blast fro mthe point by who else? Nick Schultz gets the puck at the point and crushes a shot toward the net. The puck hits something and deflects up and past Greiss. We've got a tie hockey game.
17:45 - There's an eerie silence in the building right now due to what appears to be a very serious situation on the San Jose bench. Players and Sharks staff are huddles around somebody, and that somebody is Head Coach Todd McLellan. I'm not sure what the issue is, but he is down for a few minutes. Fortunately, he's helped up and he walks to the locker room. Let's hope there is nothing serious he's dealing with.
16:04 - Greiss now has not one, but two jaw-dropping, highlight reel saves. Two of the new guys - Veilleux and Palmieri - generate the chance. Veilleux fires one from the slot that Greiss knocks to the side. That's where Palmieri is, and he's got an open net, but Greiss knocks his shot out of the air by reaching back, and I think getting it with the paddle of his stick. Ol' Brent Burns is also sliding across, and he may have gotten a piece of it.
10:42 - On a San Jose power play, Burns turns the puck over at his own blueline to Matt Cullen. The Moorhead Spud walks in all alone on Greiss and tries to slide a backhand through the five hole, but the Sharks keeper holds it out, trapping it somewhere underneath his body. Clutterbuck crashes the net looking for a rebound, and Burns pulls him down from behind. When Clutter is finally allowed up, he is fuming and starts yapping at Burns. Those two go back-and-forth for quite a bit before finally going their separate ways.
8:47 - Word from downstairs is that McLellan was hit in the head with a stick. He is alert and responsive and is currently being treated by Wild doctors.
5:15 - Phew! A bad Wild line change leads to a two-on-oh opportunity for San Jose, but Thornton's lead pass is a little late getting to Logan Couture, and the Sharks are in offside.
3:30 - Marc Edouard Vlasic hauls Cullen down and gets called for holding. Vlasic then delivers a cross check to Cullen's hip as he skates away. The refs could do the right thing and tack on an unsportsmanlike minor, but how often do you expect the refs to do the right thing?
0:00 - The Wild evens it up in the second, and we've now got a huge 20 minutes coming up after this little respite.
Period 3
18:52 - A nice penalty kill in progress for the Wild here. Clutterbuck wreaks havoc in the San Jose end, driving a hard slapper on goal and forcing Greiss to hang on for a rebound in his own zone.
17:27 - Palmieri darn near has a hatty tonight. Greiss carelessly plays the puck behind his own net and lollygags back to his crease. Palmeiri comes steaming in to grab the puck and he nearly wraps it around on the other side, just losing control at the last instant.
14:32 - Former Boston College Eagle Benn Ferriero makes a steal in front of the Wild net and has a chance to stuff one in, but Backstrom comes up with his biggest stop of the night.
11:15 - MIN 2 - SJ 3 - That wasn't Burns scoring was it? Yes. Yes it was. He cranks a power play shot through traffic and Backstrom doesn't have a prayer because he's got three people standing directly in front of him. He finds the far side, and the Sharks get the lead back.
5:27 - MIN 3 - SJ 3 - Don't think he's going to get credit for the goal, but I'm going to go on record right now and say I really, really like this Palmieri character. Shortly after he puts a shot off the side of the post, he goes to the front of the net as Marco Scandella sends a shot toward the cage. Cullen tips it out of the air, and Palmieri is right there too, getting that big body in front of Greiss, who lets it get by.
4:13 - MIN 4 - SJ 3 - Oh my! How do you like this one Wid fans? The good guys get their first lead of the game, and it comes off a beautiful tip from former Shark, Jed Ortmeyer. He deflects a shot from the right point by Spurgeon, and this place is going loco. What a game this has turned out to be after those first five minutes disappeared.
1:20 - Greiss is out of the San Jose net.
0:00 - Now that's a happy ending in a fairy tale of a game. What a comeback for the Wild, who refuse to give up on the postseason. Still 20 games left. Plenty of time friends.


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The Pledge of Allegiance is meant to evoke patriotism, remembrance and loyalty.
Students across the nation speak the phrases before school each day, many placing their hands over their hearts, but the memorized words have become routine and meaningless for some. An initiative at McPherson Middle School this year hopes to rekindle a sense of pride in and connection to the country's military.
The Flag of Honor initiative was started this fall by social studies teacher Beth Wash. Every morning before the Pledge of Allegiance, a student announces over the intercom a featured military person. These individuals, who are either currently serving or have served in the past, are directly connected to MMS students.
Listed are their names, ranks, where or how they served, and their relationship to McPherson, whether that be a sibling, cousin or grandparent. As they turn toward the red and white stripes, the students' pledges are in honor of that military personnel.
"I've noticed they're pretty attentive," Wash said. "The point is they're making connection to a specific person in the community. I think they take the pledge a little more seriously because they can make that connection."
Students, faculty and staff have been submitting names throughout the semester, so much so that Wash has had to explain it might take time for their featured individual to be announced.
"It's been an overwhelming response," she said.
One family responded with the name of their relative who was serving in Afghanistan at the time. Martha and Tim Leaf — whose children are sixth-grader Maggie and eighth-grader Paxton — honored Martha's cousin, Scott Barr, a member of the Air National Guard.
When Barr heard about the Flag of Honor project at MMS, he was so touched that he asked to fly a flag in honor of the school. It was flown aboard a U.S. Air Force A-10C Warthog on Sept. 11 at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. When he returned to the states in October, he surprised the Leafs with his own flag of honor.
The flag, which is expected to be displayed at MMS sometime this year, is a visual symbol of the connection the middle school students are making to real people.
"What touched me is our kids in McPherson are so into the superstardom of performers and athletes, that this was a different turn to honor a group of people that, as a whole, are really humble folks doing a really important job," Martha said. "It's not only stories they hear about on the news, but real people who are involved in the protection of the U.S."
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My latest post on the Jeffrey Sterling trial notes that the same guy who called Sterling's performance "extremely sub-par" is also the guy who set up the NYPD's program profiling Muslims.
On Friday, former high ranking CIA officer David Cohen — who headed up the New York office while Sterling was there — described how he removed Sterling from the Merlin case because he didn't believe Sterling was performing well at his job (an opinion neither his deputy, Charles Seidel, nor Bob S shared, at least according to their testimony). "His performance was extremely sub-par," Cohen testified. Cohen also seemed to disdain what might be called political correctness, which if true may have exacerbated Sterling's increasing sense of being discriminated against for being African American.
That would be consistent with the action for which Cohen has received more press in recent years: setting up the New York Police Department's intelligence program that profiles the area's Muslim community. In the wake of 9/11, Cohen moved from the CIA to the NYPD. In 2002, he got a federal court to relax the Handschu guidelines, which had been set up in 1985 in response to NYPD's targeting of people for their political speech. Handschu required specific evidence before using informants to investigate a group. But, as an article from the Pulitzer Prize winning AP series described it, "Cohen told a federal judge that those guidelines made it 'virtually impossible' to detect terrorist plots." After getting the rules relaxed, Cohen created teams of informants that infiltrated mosques and had officers catalog Muslim-owned restaurants, shops, and even schools. "Cohen said he wanted the squad to 'rake the coals, looking for hot spots,'" the AP reported in 2011.
At almost precisely the same time as jury selection for Sterling's case started, theThird Circuit Court of Appeals heard a challenge from those targeted under the program, who claim they had been discriminated against on the basis of their religion.
While the agencies involved are different, it seems notable that the primary person to find fault with Sterling's performance at the CIA — which Sterling claimed arose from problems with his race — is the same guy who started a program targeting Muslims across the New York City area. But that detail won't be presented to jurors at all during the trial.
Click through to see how the Russian involved in the operation invoked Valerie Plame to describe his concern about his name leaking, just weeks before it started to become clear that Vice President Cheney probably ordered that leak.
I'm used to fearmongering out of NYC and especially out of the NY Post. But this article is remarkable.
Having read it, I'm convinced the headline should be,
NYPD admits its Counterterrorism squad can't even track peaceful protestors operating publicly, to say nothing of terrorists operating in secret
Instead, three journalists repeated apparently verbatim a bunch of bitching from cops without exhibiting an ounce of skepticism.
Here's how it described the NYPD's concern that there will be protests in the wake of the Eric Garner verdict.
Tech-savvy anarchists ran rings around the NYPD during last week's Ferguson-related protests — and cops are now on edge over what the renegades may be able to pull off after a ruling in the Eric Garner case.
"Anarchist … renegade," the Post describes people peacefully availing their First Amendment rights.
But it's the "tech savvy" that is all the more ridiculous. Before I look at what the anonymous sources told the NYP about tech, though, consider the implications of this:
Last week, activists armed with untraceable "burner phones" used social media and online bulletin boards to stay one step ahead of city cops and create mayhem after a grand jury cleared Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The sources at least suggest they're tracking the communications, if not wiretapping, protestors. That is, they're using some electronic means to track protestors; they're not doing it all manually.
Nevertheless, the NYPD is just helpless in the face of high tech like … WiFi.
A "technology gap" also favors the activists, many of whom have the newest electronic gear, sources said.
"A lot of these anarchists are from the Occupy Wall Street group. They are little rich kids, little techie brats,'' a source said.
"They get their money from Mommy and Daddy. And they travel from the West Coast to the East Coast and everywhere in between to disrupt events that involve corporate America, world summits, civil rights and especially those that involve law enforcement."
"They have their little MacBook Air computers, their Wi-Fi, their smartphones, and they're off to the races. We're reacting to these situations, which means we are not fully in control of them," the source said.
I mean, if the protestors did have smart phones, it's highly unlikely they're using burner phones, as the two are fairly incompatible in terms of security and cost considerations. But seriously. The cops want us to believe that human beings organizing with smart phones exceeds the tech they have available to them?
If I were a NYC taxpayer, I'd call for the CT squad to be shut down right away. Partly because of the insubordination in the face of people peacefully protesting. But just as significantly, because of this claimed helplessness in the face of a far easier target than they're ostensibly paid to pursue.
The AP correctly captures the jist of Judge William Martini's rejection of a lawsuit against the NYPD for spying on Muslims.
The core of his logic is that Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo have injured NYC's Muslim community by providing them proof of the spying targeted at them.
The ruling also singled out The Associated Press, which sparked the suit with a series of stories based on confidential NYPD document showing how the department sought to infiltrate dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds in New York and elsewhere.
"Nowhere in the complaint do the plaintiffs allege that they suffered harm prior to the unauthorized release of documents by The Associated Press," Martini wrote. "This confirms that plaintiffs' alleged injuries flow from the Associated Press's unauthorized disclosure of the documents. … The Associated Press covertly obtained the materials and published them without authorization. Thus the injury, if any existed, is not fairly traceable to the city."
But it doesn't expose the other part of his shoddy logic clearly enough. Martini said all this spying was cool because it was designed to find Muslim terrorists hiding among Muslims.
The police could not have monitored New Jersey for Muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the Muslim community itself. While this surveillance Program may have had adverse effects upon the Muslim community after the Associated Press published its articles; the motive for the Program was not solely to discriminate against Muslims, but rather to find Muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary, law – abiding Muslims.
As I emphasized here, when it was first reported, NYPD wasn't hunting for Muslim terrorists in places where the 9/11 terrorists were known to hang out — cheap hotels, gyms, cybercafes, and a bunch of other businesses catering to anonymity rather than Muslims. Rather, the NYPD was hunting terrorists in schools in Newark, including the one above teaching girls in fifth to twelfth grade, and another teaching first through fourth graders.
The NYPD was hunting terrorists in a girls school.
And Judge William Martini thinks that makes a whole bunch of sense.
Margaret Talbot has a piece at the New Yorker comparing COINTELPRO with Snowden's leaks (and implicitly, the theft of data that lies behind both disclosures). Here's the key paragraph of the comparison:
In most respects, the National Security Agency's collection of domestic phone records which Edward Snowden revealed is nowhere near as disturbing as cointelpro's activities. It is neither ideologically motivated (the N.S.A.'s actions were initially ramped up in response to a real attack; Hoover's were intent on destroying perceived enemies) nor thuggish (it entails surveillance but not infiltration or harassment or blackmail or smear campaigns). Yet in one regard—its technological prowess—it is worse. As the U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon wrote last month, in an opinion that strongly suggests that the metadata collection could be found unconstitutional, "Records that once would have revealed a few scattered tiles of information about a person now reveal an entire mosaic—a vibrant and constantly updating picture of a person's life." Leon noted that the government did not cite any instances in which the data collection proved necessary in preventing an imminent attack, and concluded that, when weighed against the "almost-Orwellian technology that enables the Government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States," the N.S.A.'s rationale was simply too weak. [my emphasis]
There's a lot I might quibble with in this paragraph. The government considered the anti-war effort part of Communism's "attack" on the "free world," whether or not that was true, in the same way it sometimes considers many critics of US policy in the Middle East — if they are themselves Muslim — to be inspired by al Qaeda, not opposition to crappy US policy. And the NSA has itself analogized its targeting of certain people in the US as terrorists with Project Minaret, the SIGINT targeting of largely anti-war activists; if the NSA makes this comparison, who are we to question it? Further, there's evidence (albeit still very sketchy) that NSA targeted people associated with the Iraq War, not just terrorism.
But I'm particularly concerned by Talbot's claim that none of this dragnet entails infiltration. The government itself told the FISA Court that it uses the phone dragnet to find potential informants — it is, according to the representations the government has made to get the FISC to approve the program, one of the primary purposes of the dragnet.
From the very start of the FISC-approved program, the government maintained the dragnet "may help to discover individuals willing to become FBI assets," and given that the government repeated that claim 3 years later, it does seem to have been used to find informants.
When you unpack the possibilities of using metadata including the phone records of all Americans to find people who might narc on their community, it becomes very scary indeed. Because the dragnet would allow the government to discover details about people — their 3 degrees of separation from people suspected of terrorist ties, sure, but also extramarital affairs or financial problems — they can use to harass or blackmail potential informants with to convince them to inform, something they've suggested they do with their SIGINT.
One of the only reasons why we don't know more about this is because we're seeing just the NSA side of these programs. The government is thoroughly redacting any details about what FBI or CIA do with the data that gets churned out of the dragnet (all while boasting of its transparency), so we can't yet explain what happens between the time the data gets crunched and some kid gets caught in a sting or some American loses her right to fly.
But we do know what the end product of infiltrating the Muslim community looks like, both in the way FBI informants push young men until they press a button they can be arrested for, the descriptions of the extensive spying FBI's (and NYPD's) informants conduct, largely targeted at mosques, and in the effect it has had on the discourse that takes place within those mosques.
African-Americans in the heart of Michigan's auto industry built the mosque I attended as a child.
Our African-American imam took turns with others to deliver the Friday khutba (sermon). We witnessed oral traditions accented from around the globe and across the road: the khateebs(deliverers of sermons) were lyrical and inspired, awkward and soft-spoken; the congregants received the khutba differently too, from active talk back to a silent receptive posture. While varied in style, the khutba routinely offered global context and critical content. The khateebs would remind us of the poverty in Detroit's neighborhoods and the death in Baghdad's streets. They would preach about the importance of the Muslim ummah (global community) and the duty to speak out against injustices small and large. The khateeb would regularly call for civic engagement as he also reached for religious inspiration.
These days, when I stop in a mosque, I am struck by the new normal: no politics, no world, no nimble movement between religious ethics and social context. Today's khutbas present the congregation religious teachings in a void. Khateebs speak of the importance of honesty, forgiveness, humility and remembrance. They ignore Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantánamo and drones, informants and surveillance. They tell stories about Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, Mary and Jesus but leave out the universal themes of poverty, inequality and injustice.
From mosques to Muslim Student Association offices, American Muslim community spaces have been emptied of their politics, leeched of their dynamism as centers for religious and political debate. This new normal is the result of ten years of post-9/11 scrutiny combined with our government's more recent embrace of "counter-radicalization" and "countering violent extremism" programs, which subject Muslim communities' religious and political practices to aggressive surveillance, regulation and criminalization.
It's easy, I think, for elite non-Muslim commentators to consider the infiltration of a political tradition they or their associates had personal involvement in, the anti-war movement, to be worse than the infiltration of mosques. I'm not sure they're in a position to judge. But at least from what I've seen and heard, the infiltration of America's Muslim communities seems designed to "enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox," just as the FBI's efforts targeting the anti-war and African-American communities aimed to do.
The NSA has told us the dragnet involves infiltration. That the NSA hands off the data it collects so the FBI can carry out the infiltration should not confuse us that it does, in fact, play a role in infiltrating communities and sowing paranoia.
I have always been a huge fan of what Thomas Perez has done in DOJ's Civil Rights Division. But this sentence, from Adam Serwer's query on what happened to DOJ's review of the CIA-on-the-Hudson, ought to give pause.
Since taking office, the special litigation section of the civil rights division has investigated more local police departments for unconstitutional policing than ever before, but never on behalf of American Muslims profiled by law enforcement.
But the rest of Serwer's piece barely touches a big missed opportunity — and, potentially, an explanation for why DOJ has slow-walked its investigation of the profiling of Muslims in NYC. Serwer notes that Brennan complimented the program, in contrast to Eric Holder's stated concerns about it.
Although Holder referred to the reports of the NYPD's actions as "disturbing," that's not the view of everyone in the Obama administration. CIA Director John Brennan, formerly a top White House counterterrorism adviser, praised the NYPD's surveillance program in April 2012. "I have full confidence that the NYPD is doing things consistent with the law, and it's something that again has been responsible for keeping this city safe over the past decade," Brennan said.
Brennan is not just the former White House counterterrorism [and homeland security] czar, but he's also the guy who, when CIA-on-the-Hudson was being set up in the days after 9/11, was in charge of logistics and personnel at the CIA. Which means there's a pretty decent chance he had a role in dual-hatting the CIA guy who operated domestically to help NYPD spy on Americans.
But Brennan's role in finding a way to use CIA tactics domestically barely came up in his confirmation hearings. As I noted, he was asked whether he knew about the program (and acknowledged knowing about it), but he was not asked — at least not in any of the public materials — whether he had a role in setting it up.
Sort of a key question for the guy now in charge of the entire CIA, whether he thinks the CIA should find loopholes to get around prohibitions on CIA working domestically, don't you think?
Serwer names several House Democrats — Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Judy Chu — who have been asking about this investigation. Obviously, they didn't get a vote on Brennan's nomination. But it seems the nomination period would have been a very good time to ask questions about how and why, at a time when Brennan played a key role in logistics and personnel at the agency, the government decided to set up this workaround. Asking at that time might have clarified why it is that the Administration seems uninterested in investigating this program.
As it is, we're now left with a guy who publicly applauded such work-arounds — and CIA involvement through cooperation in fusion centers — in charge of the entire CIA.
This story — about how Occupy Wall Street protestor Michael Premo beat an assaulting an officer charge when his lawyers found video evidence to disprove the NYPD's claims — might make you believe in justice.
Except for this. Premo's lawyers first went to the cops for video, knowing they had tons of officers deployed with cameras during the protests. They found the cop who had relevant video. And … he apparently lied in court about whether he had that video.
Prosecutors told them that police TARU units, who filmed virtually every moment of Occupy street protests, didn't have any footage of the entire incident. But [Premo's lawyer Meghan] Maurus knew from video evidence she had received while representing another defendant arrested that day that there was at least one TARU officer with relevant footage. Reviewing video shot by a citizen-journalist livestreamer during Premo's arrest, she learned that a Democracy Nowcameraman was right in the middle of the fray, and when she tracked him down, he showed her a video that so perfectly suited her needs it brought a tear to her eye.
For one thing, the video prominently shows a TARU cop named Bosco, holding up his camera, which is on, and pointing at the action around the kettle. When Premo's lawyers subpoenaed Bosco, they were told he was on a secret mission at "an undisclosed location," and couldn't respond to the subpoena. Judge Robert Mandelbaum didn't accept that, and Bosco ultimately had to testify [Correction: Bosco didn't take the stand; he had to appear at the District Attorney's office for a meeting with Maurus and prosecutors. Judge Mandelbaum accepted that Bosco would likely say on the stand what he said in the meeting, and didn't require him to testify.] Bosco claimed, straining credibility, that though the camera is clearly on and he can be seen in the video pointing it as though to frame a shot, he didn't actually shoot any video that evening.
Bosco almost certainly lied. The NYPD clearly lied, repeatedly.
And yet there's no hint they'll be charged with obstructing justice.
While you're reflecting on that, remember what the cops were doing (funded, in part, by JP Morgan Chase $4.6 million donation to the NYPD Foundation). They were making sure that a bunch of hippies could not continue to engage in a highly visible challenge to bank power, and certainly not in the banks' turf around Wall Street.
Sure, OWS did not present as significant a financial threat as preventing banks from foreclosing on homes they did not hold the proper paperwork on — the threat that robosigners lied under oath to combat. But they did present an ideological threat to the banks.
And here we are, again finding people — cops! — lying in court to protect the banks. And here we are, once again, finding those liars go unpunished.
I'm sure I could grill John Brennan for hours. But after a lot of thought, here are the five questions I believe most important that should be asked of him Today.
1) Do you plan to continue lying to Americans?
You have made a number of demonstrable lies to the American people, particularly regarding the drone program and the Osama bin Laden raid. Most egregiously in 2011, you claimed "there hasn't been a single collateral death" in almost a year from drone strikes; when challenged, you revised that by saying, "the U.S. government has not found credible evidence of collateral deaths," even in spite of a particularly egregious case of civilian deaths just months earlier. On what basis did you make these assertions? What definition of civilian were you using in each assertion? (More background)
In addition, in a speech purportedly offering transparency on the drone program, you falsely suggested we know the identities of all people targeted by drones. Why did you choose to misrepresent the kind of intelligence we use in some strikes?
2) What was the intelligence supporting the first attempt to kill Anwar al-Awlaki?
The US government's first attempt to kill Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone strike was December 24, 2009. WikiLeaks cables make it clear that Awlaki was a primary target of that strike, not just intended collateral damage. Yet the Webster report makes clear that on that day — that is, until the Underwear Bomber attempt the next day — the Intelligence Community did not consider Awlaki to be operational. Thus, the strike seems to have been approved before he fulfilled the criteria of the white paper released the other day, which authorizes the targeting of senior operational leaders of groups like AQAP. What was the legal basis for targeting this American citizen at a time when the IC did not believe him to be operational? (More background)
3) Will your close friendships with Saudis cloud your focus on the US interest?
In a fawning profile the other day, Daniel Klaidman nevertheless laid out the following points:
In addition, recent reports have confirmed that the drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki was launched from Saudi territory.
Were the personal entreaties you responded to from Yemenis or Saudis (or both)?
What role did the Saudis have in the Awlaki strike? Did they have an operational role?
As someone with such close ties to liaison sources, how have you and will you manage to prioritize the interests of the United States over the interests of friends you have from two decades ago?
To what degree is your intelligence sharing — especially with the Saudis — a stovepipe that creates the same risks of intelligence failures that got us into the Iraq War? (More background)
4) What role did you have in Bush's illegal wiretap program?
The joint Inspector General report on the illegal wiretap program reported that entities you directed — the Terrorist Threat Integration Center in 2003 and 2004, and the National Counterterrorism Center in 2004 and 2005 — conducted the threat assessments for the program.
What role did you have, as the head of these entities, in the illegal wiretapping of Americans? To what extent did you know the program violated FISA? What role did you have in counseling Obama to give telecoms and other contractors immunity under the program? What influence did you have in DOJ decisions regarding suits about the illegal program, in particular the al-Haramain case that was thrown out even after the charity had proved it had been illegally wiretapped? Did you play any role in decisions to investigate and prosecute whistleblowers about this and other programs, notably Thomas Drake? (More background)
5) Did you help CIA bypass prohibitions on spying domestically with the NYPD intelligence (and other) programs?
In your additional prehearing questions, you admit to knowing about CIA's role in setting up an intelligence program that profiled Muslims in New York City. What was your role in setting up the program? As someone with key oversight over personnel matters at the time, did you arrange Larry Sanchez' temporary duty at the NYPD or CIA training for NYPD detectives?
Have you been involved in any similar effort to use CIA resources to conduct domestic spying on communities of faith? You said the CIA provides (among other things) expertise to local groups spying on Americans. How is this not a violation of the prohibition on CIA spying on Americans? (More background)
Update: I realized that I have left out a caveat in Brennan's drone lies — he was talking in the previous year. I've fixed that.
There's one question I haven't seen anyone ask but which seems utterly critical to John Brennan's fitness to be CIA Director.
Back when the AP was first exposing how the CIA set up a spying program for the NYPD, they asked John Brennan about it. He professed to be "intimately familiar" with the program.
President Barack Obama's homeland security adviser, John Brennan, who was the deputy executive director the CIA when the NYPD intelligence programs began, said he was intimately familiar with the CIA-NYPD partnership. He said that agency knew what the rules were and did not cross any lines.
As the program got more attention last year, Brennan even went to NYC to personally give the domestic spying program his seal of approval.
The White House added its stamp of approval a month later when President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan visited police headquarters.
"I have full confidence that the NYPD is doing things consistent with the law, and it's something that again has been responsible for keeping this city safe over the past decade," he said.
Remember, this program is offensive not just because it spies on so many Americans and in such incompetent fashion. It's offensive because it involved the CIA in training NY Police Officers in CIA spy techniques.
These operations have benefited from unprecedented help from the CIA, a partnership that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying.
David Cohen arrived at the New York Police Department in January 2002, just weeks after the last fires had been extinguished at the debris field that had been the twin towers. A retired 35-year veteran of the CIA, Cohen became the police department's first civilian intelligence chief.
Cohen had an exceptional career at the CIA, rising to lead both the agency's analytical and operational divisions. He also was an extraordinarily divisive figure, a man whose sharp tongue and supreme confidence in his own abilities gave him a reputation as arrogant. Cohen's tenure as head of CIA operations, the nation's top spy, was so contentious that in 1997, The New York Times editorial page took the unusual step of calling for his ouster.
Among Cohen's earliest moves at the NYPD was making a request of his old colleagues at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. He needed someone to help build this new operation, someone with experience and clout and, most important, someone who had access to the latest intelligence so the NYPD wouldn't have to rely on the FBI to dole out information.
CIA Director George Tenet responded by tapping Larry Sanchez, a respected veteran who had served as a CIA official inside the United Nations. Often, when the CIA places someone on temporary assignment, the other agency picks up the tab. In this case, three former intelligence officials said, Tenet kept Sanchez on the CIA payroll.
When he arrived in New York in March 2002, Sanchez had offices at both the NYPD and the CIA's station in New York, one former official said. Sanchez interviewed police officers for newly defined intelligence jobs. He guided and mentored officers, schooling them in the art of gathering information. He also directed their efforts, another said.
There had never been an arrangement like it, and some senior CIA officials soon began questioning whether Tenet was allowing Sanchez to operate on both sides of the wall that's supposed to keep the CIA out of the domestic intelligence business.
The AP reports that 6 soldiers and 3 Marines responsible for burning Qurans in Afghanistan and for urinating on a corpse, respectively, will receive Administrative punishment (the punishments for other Marines involved in the urination incident have yet to be announced).
If NYC's Muslims plan to talk about the adequacy of Administrative punishment for the defilement of a corpse, they should be aware that the NYPD finds such conversations legitimate topics for spying. As Adam Serwer noted last week, one of the things (incompetently) redacted in the transcript of NYPD Intelligence Chief Thomas Galati's deposition was that officers were recording Muslims' reaction to the treatment of a New Jersey Transit worker who had burned a Quran.
The improperly redacted conversations cited by the NYPD official, associate police chief Thomas Galati, in fact consist of Muslims discussing discrimination against Muslims after 9/11. The conversations contain no evidence of terrorist ties. In one of the redacted conversations, an Urdu-speaking man says, "This is unbelievable, that New Jersey Transit Worker who got fired for burning the Holy Quran by Ground Zero was rehired last week."
As I noted, the NYPD justified recording such conversations because–Galati claimed–they indicated where terrorists might be comfortable.
So it's probably safe to assume that NYPD's spooks will head out to cafes in Pakistani neighborhoods so they can eavesdrop on the response to this punishment.
It's bad enough that the NYPD continues its Muslim spying program in spite of their Intelligence Division Chief's admission that they have not derived a single lead from it. But look more closely at the astoundingly stupid rationalizations that Thomas Galati gave in his deposition for the program.
Galati imagines that if NYPD were ever faced with an imminent terrorist threat, the demographic mapping they had already done would allow them to figure out right away where the terrorist might go.
When we are faced with a threat or we have information about a threat that is present and we need to go out and we need to try and mitigate that threat, we have to be able to, at our fingertips, find what is the most likely location that that terrorist is going to go to and hide out amongst other people from the same country.
Let's consider how this worked in practice the single time it might have applied.
When the FBI alerted the NYPD that Najibullah Zazi was heading back to NYC with the intent to blow up some subways, the NYPD knew exactly who to go to. They called Zazi's Imam, Ahmad Wais Afzali, who not only knew him but had taught him and some of his accomplices. So that part worked.
What didn't work is that Afzali promptly tipped off Zazi and his father, making it more difficult to develop a case against Zazi's accomplices.
Media reports quoting anonymous FBI officials have suggested the NYPD botched the case when it showed a picture of Najibullah Zazi, the Denver shuttle-bus driver at the heart of the investigation, to Ahmed Afzali, a Queens Imam and sometime police informant. Afzali, the reports say, first called Zazi's father Mohammed, then Najibullah himself, alerting them to the probe. The FBI, which had been monitoring the calls, was then forced to move immediately to arrest the Zazis — much sooner than it had planned.
When Zazi traveled to New York ahead of the anniversary of 9/11, the FBI as a precaution alerted the NYPD. That's when officers from the NYPD's intelligence unit consulted Afzali. "It looks like they did this on their own initiative — they really trusted this Imam," says the law-enforcement official. "But if they'd consulted with the bureau first, they'd have been told not to talk to anybody."
So far Galati's logic works if you want to make sure terrorists are tipped off by their close associates.
But it gets worse.
Central to the Galati's explanation for the NYPD's retention of the content of conversations about events–such as a Quran-burning, in the passage below (or, presumably, opposition to a drone strike)–is that it provides insight into whether a terrorist would be "comfortable in" a particularly environment.
Q I think you've told me that the fact that at this particular location where there are Pakistanis speaking Urdu, the Zone Assessment Unit heard two men complaining about the [redacted-Quran burning] That fact alone, their complaint expressed to each other doesn't make it more likely that this is a place where a terrorist would go?
A It doesn't make it more likely or less likely. It's a tool for us to look for that person that we're looking for that has that same characteristic that's going to hide or recruit within a place that he or she is comfortable in.


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The Dec. 20 article "Utilities panel approves 12.1 percent rate hike for National Grid electricity" came as no surprise. As usual, the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission serves its masters by rubber stamping a rate increase for National Grid.
Attributing the increase to the cost of natural gas is just a smokescreen to cover up the real reason, greed! The members of the commission should be ashamed of themselves for so obviously failing in its purported mission, protecting the public interest.
It is well past the time the public took back both the commission and the utility. National Grid needs to go, and the PUC should just say "No!"
Peter J. Bonacich
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Give Credit Where It's Due
Published: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 10:07 p.m.
It seems that many want to hold Lakeland Police Chief Lisa Womack responsible for the sordid behavior of several members at the Lakeland Police Department.
However, in looking at the timeline, this started long before Chief Womack came to the police department. She was correct to request an outside agency investigate the matter.
I'm shocked that members never reported this to Human Resources long before Chief Womack came to LPD. Shame on them for letting this go on as long as it did.
Chief Womack did the right thing. Give her credit for that.
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