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His personality has changed as well. Once the rich snob kid soon twisted in and out, Loyalty. As a soldier and a personal to the InGen team... He bears the faith and allegiance to the nation and it's own heritage. Duty, Accepting one's responsibility for your own actions and those entrusted to your care... Never accepting defeat to of other's and his mission at hand. Respecting his elders and upper command, both personally and professional.
Selfless service leads to organizational teamwork and encompasses discipline, self-control and faith in the system. To do what's right, legally and morally... Willing to do what is right when no one else is looking, it's our -Moral Compass- and the inner voice within Isaac. The ability to face fear, danger, or adversity, both physical and moral courage... Would by the Personal Courage Isaac has within him. This is what he lives by... Honoring the Army Values! Besides the seven values... Isaac is the less feared, a lover yet having that short temper. He could snap at any moment... Trying not to get into that situation he tries to stay relaxed and calm. His trust is easily given at the same time torn away like it was nothing. Earning it back is something else.
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His frail figure soon enters a small room... His right hand pushing open the security door as his deep amber hues looked around. His hands were tucked within the lab coat, the faint smile curled within his lips "Yeah?"He voice echoed. His British accent clearly heard... "This is stupid" He soon spoke out as he reached for the metal chair twisting it around. Moment later he pulled out the pack of camel lights from his pockets, placing one between his lips as he lit it smoothly to take a deep drag. He threw the lighter and pack against the metal table "Where should I start?"He spoke out then as he looked at the mirror glass. A quick shake of his own head "My parents, Charlie and Hope Montgomery" He smiled more and nodded "My mother a nurse while my father was a judge"
He took another drag from his cigarette as he pulled out away from his mouth "They twisted my childhood up... We were rich. To be honest" He blew the smoke out while he continued to talk. "Yet I never saw them... I was home schooled until the age of seventeen, transferring to a private school until I graduated" He laughed historically "I ruined it all though, they thought I was going to become what they were... Never" Placing the butt once more between his lips as he nodded. The cigarette itself bounced lightly "I shattered there dreams, once I turned eighteen I joined the military" Standing back up as he sat correctly... Though his propped his feet up against the metal table. "Is this a interagation... Why would I join the military?" He shrugged as he took another long drag.
The smoke escaping from his nostrils as he continued talking "Because... I wanted to become something they didn't want me too" He nodded and smiled gracefully. "Yeah yeah. Military, what branch did you say.. United States Army, I'm a Grunt" That graceful smile soon turning into a devilish grin "74Delta - Chemical Operations Specialist" The half burnt cigarette was soon put out. "Where did I go? Hmm. That's a good question, Fort... Well that's not important at the moment" He nodded and continued speaking "I graduated with flying colors moved to Ait training another three months of hell" Leaning back within the chair as he sighed gently. "After all that I finally started my job, moved around all over the country.
Once my six year contract was up I left the Army and soon went back to school, this time I wanted to try something else." Reaching over to grab his pack placing another one between his lips yet untouched by the flame "I spent another four years in school for Botany, the study of Plant life... Yup I turned into a geek, somewhat" He laughed and nodded. "Only to know that InGen needed one... International Genetic Technologies, Incorporated" His fingers soon ran through the shaggy jet black hair that laid atop of his own head. The soft yawn escaping his parched lips as he shook it off "With my Military background, I was perfect for the job. Who hired me? Well John Hammond" He reached for the lighter as he lit another one up "He said he created it a year or two ago.
Did I believe him? No, but I needed a job" He took a deep long drag and he smiled "It pays the bills... Only to know that John Hammon also re-created the so-called Dinosaurs, I laughed." The soft chuckle only escaped his lips "Well I felt stupid... Thirteen hours later I was there, flown in by helicopter" Nodding "The first one I saw... It was huge, I felt stupid for laughing at the guy it was a common mistake. Isla Nublar located a hundred and twenty miles off of Costa Rica... It was beautiful, my job there was to study the plant life from plants to fungi... Anything and everything" He kept the dull facial expression "The first few days... Were all good, until the power grid failed, they had escaped and terrorized the whole park, evacuated out.
That's the last time I heard from John Hammond, what about my money? I got it... But he's also found another island, UN-touched by humans and the beasts roam freely" Thinking slightly before he ashed his cigarette "I thought I was crazy... Well I am but still, I took his offer and now it's another long flight to Isla Sorna." He put the cigarette out and soon stood up shaking his head "I'm done... And tired" He shook his head and grabbed his things. Isaac was soon gone... Walking through the hallway and never to be seen again.
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Chains Introduction
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It's a story handed down over two hundred years of generations, told in books, history classes, movies, and songs: the story of the thirteen British colonies who went rogue and changed the world forever.
We know how it all went down—the tea tax protest that literally left the British all wet, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the war that determined whether the Americans would henceforth be known as heroes or traitors. We also all know how the story ends. (Spoiler alert: we win.)
Hold your horses, though, Shmoopers, and kill the inspirational, patriotic victory music just a minute. No matter how many times you've heard this story, it's not as simple as it looks. In her 2008 historical novel, Chains, the first book in her Seeds of America series, Laurie Halse Anderson shows how the idea of freedom was a lot more complicated than we often think. The early Americans may have been fighting for liberty, but there was one pretty large group left out of their cause: the enslaved people who served their households.
But wait. If our country's founders owned slaves, does that mean they were talking the talk, but not walking the walk? Pretty much. And while there were certainly some people who faced this dilemma head-on, most didn't, which means this is definitely a sticky situation instead of just a shining bright spot in our country's history. It also means that this isn't something you hear about very much.
And that, dear Shmoopers, is where Chains comes in. This is the tale of Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl who is enslaved by a Loyalist during the war and begins to ask some tough questions about her identity—and the American Revolution—as a result. By hanging out with Isabel as she mucks her way through this tricky, and often terrifying, terrain, Chains reveals a side of the Revolution that is frequently untold, a more complicated version of this fight than any Fourth of July fireworks display we've ever seen.
Why Should I Care?
Imagine being owned by another person and owning nothing for yourself—not even your name. If this is tough to picture, it might be because in 21st century America we're fortunate to live in a culture where the dividing wall of prejudice has been mostly demolished. We elected the first African-American President, children of all races attend school together, and people are generally cool with interracial marriage.
Although racist attitudes definitely haven't been totally wiped out, equality is such a mainstay of our society at this point that we often forget that there was once a time when the thought of any of these things happening was unthinkable. And this is what makes Chains such an important story: It takes us back to a time when discrimination was a socially acceptable and even economical practice. And this time, of course, is the foundation of our country.
It's a painful and at times brutal past to confront, and it's easy to understand why we usually hear tales of glorious victory instead of the more complicated and hypocritical truth about the birth of our nation. But in order to really appreciate what we have today—and the importance of protecting these gains—it's important to dig deep into the mud of our nation's past. Otherwise, you know, history just might repeat itself.

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SAN ANTONIO (March 14, 2012) -- Army Family member Seymone Cohen-Fobish expects to launch a modeling career after completing her stint on "America's Next Top Model."
"I know that I'm not done," said Cohen-Fobish, 19, who is not allowed to reveal how long she will remain on the television series that airs Wednesday nights on Bravo. "This is the very, very beginning for me. Like, I can't wait."
Seymone is the daughter of Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 John Fobish, a power systems technician for Installation Management Command, and Army Reserve Capt. Tondra Fobish, a nurse at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio.
Seymone, who was born at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., journeyed as a youngster to Atlanta for several commercial tryouts and modeling ventures, many of which led to callbacks.
"She has been in and out of modeling since she was a little girl, since we moved to Georgia in 2000, when she was 7," John said. "We traveled to different states to put her in shows and we would always get callbacks, but it never really led to anything. Being in the military, it was very difficult for our schedule to take her all over the states, especially with her being a student in school. So a lot of times we weren't able to make those shows."
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Seymone was one of seven Americans selected for the show, which features a "British Invasion" of seven models from Europe, one of whom was eliminated two weeks ago from the opening show.
The third episode is scheduled for March 14.
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The models were basically kept in seclusion from the time they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport until whisked away in a van with blackened windows, to a hotel, where they were not allowed to leave the room, to a house, where the windows were shuttered, Seymone said.
"The house was so big," she said. "We were only like in the middle portion of it. There was an upper level that we weren't allowed to go on. And there was a lower level that we also weren't allowed to go on. We were only allowed in the back yard and in the pool area.
"We didn't even get to see the whole house, and the part that we were in was huge. They had like 50 rooms in the middle level that we were on, and they had those blocked off so we couldn't go in them, either. The house was huge."
Adhering to the gag order, Seymone could only say: "I spent the amount of weeks in the house that it was meant for me to stay in the house. They don't send people home when they go home."
"She won't even tell us, man," John chimed in. "The world will have to wait, along with us. But needless to say, we're really proud of her. All the times that I shared with her that we traveled to different places for her to enter shows and to do photo shoots, it seems like it has come full-circle."
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With nearly half the precincts counted, Shea-Porter had 53 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Republican Jeb Bradley.
With the economy dominating headlines this fall, the two focused their campaign on taxes, fixing the lending crisis and cutting federal spending.
Bradley criticized Shea-Porter for voting consistently with the Democratic Party. Her votes to reverse the Bush tax cuts and support big spending bills went against New Hampshire's fiscally conservative values, he said.
Shea-Porter said she didn't follow the Democrats blindly, but voted for programs her constituents wanted, including increasing the minimum wage and protecting veterans' benefits. During Bradley's two terms in Congress, federal spending and deficits soared, Shea-Porter noted. She supports pay-as-you-go spending, which requires Congress pay for new programs without borrowing.
Polls had showed Bradley with a small lead this summer, but Shea-Porter closed the gap and pulled ahead in September.
Shea-Porter, who lives in Rochester, was relatively unknown when she upset Bradley in 2006. She ran a low-budget, grass-roots campaign that focused on the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq. Bradley, who supported the war in Iraq, blamed his defeat on the national rejection of GOP candidates that year.
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Lawrence Michael Dillon
In 1945, Gillies and his colleague Ralph Millard carried out the world's first sex-change of a woman into a man on the young aristocrat, Michael Dillon.
Born on the 1st May 1915 in London Laura Maud Dillon, daughter of Robert Dillon of Lismullen, County Meath, was anatomically a healthy female child. Her mother died two days later and her father rejected her and sent her with her brother to his three unmarried sisters in Folkestone, England. In 1925 her father and grandfather died and her eleven-year-old brother became Sir Robert Dillon, eighth baronet.
She was educated at an exclusive girls' school and at St Anne's College, Oxford, winning her rowing blue in a women's crew and graduating in 1938. She spent her Summer holidays with a housekeeper on the family estate in County Meath.
Facial hair and a deep voice confirmed her feelings of being physically and emotionally a man, and she took a job as a garage hand, living in loneliness and anguish for four years.
A Doctor Foss agreed to give her male hormone pills, she had a mastectomy in 1942, and in 1944 she had her birth certificate amended, changing "daughter" to "son" and "Laura Maud" to "Laurence Michael". Sir Robert reacted with disbelief and horror and cut him out of his life.
Michael, as he now called himself, entered medical school in Trinity College Dublin in 1945 under his new name. During the long holidays he had protracted and painful operations at the hospital of the plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillis to complete the physical changes.
Sir Harold Gillies, internationally renowned as the father of modern plastic surgery, played a pioneering wartime role in Britain developing pedicle flap surgery.
What is not so well known is that Sir Harold was also one of the pioneers of sex-change surgery. He later performed surgery on the United Kingdom's first male-to-female transsexual, Roberta Cowell.
In 1945, Gillies and his colleague Ralph Millard carried out the world's first sex-change of a woman into a man on the young aristocrat, Michael Dillon.
Michael is also believed to be the first woman to have taken the male hormone testosterone in order to look like a man.
Within months of starting testosterone, he had grown a beard and was living as a man. It was the dramatic transition in his appearance that finally persuaded Gillies to operate.
Michael later showed his amended birth certificate to Debrett's Peerage, who agreed to change their entry, thus acknowledging his claim to the baronetcy as the next male in line after his childless brother. The editor assured him that changes in Debrett were automatically followed by Burke's Peerage.
He won his rowing blue, this time as a man, graduated in 1951, and became a ship's doctor, serving on voyages to Asia, Australia, and America.
Burke's Peerage failed to change their entry, and the discrepancy with Debrett's was discovered in 1958 by the Sunday Express, which investigated further and publicised the change of sex.
Michael was devastated at this revelation of a secret he had sedulously concealed, and he fled to Calcutta, then took refuge in a Buddhist monastery at Sarnath, Bengal.
He was ordained a monk of the Tibetan order, taking the name Lobzang Jivaha, and spent his time studying Buddhism and writing. He gave what money he had to help struggling students.
The hardships of life in primitive conditions, made worse by the meagre vegetarian diet required by Buddhism, took their toll. His health failed, and he died in hospital at Dalhousie, Punjab, on 15th May 1962, aged 47.
Two books by him were published in London in 1962: The Life of Milarepa, about a famous 11th Century Tibetan yogi, and Imji Getsul, an account of life in a Buddhist monastery.
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Edited from Wikipedia: Laurence Michael Dillon was born in Ireland in May 1915 in Ireland, his mother dying of sepsis ten days after giving birth. Dillon, then physically female and known as Laura Maud Dillon, was raised with his brother by their aunts in the town of Folkestone, Kent, England. He received his undergraduate education at Oxford and after graduating he took a job at a research laboratory in rural Gloucestershire.
Dillon had long been more comfortable in men's clothing and felt that he was not truly a woman. In 1939, he sought treatment from Dr. George Foss, who had been experimenting with testosterone to treat excessive menstrual bleeding; at the time, the hormone's masculinizing effects were poorly understood. Foss provided Dillon with testosterone pills but insisted that Dillon consult a psychiatrist first, who ultimately gossiped about Dillon's desire to become a man, and soon the story was all over town. Dillon fled to Bristol and took a job at a garage. The hormones soon made it possible for him to pass as male, and eventually the garage manager insisted that other employees refer to Dillon as "he" in order to avoid confusing customers.
Dillon suffered from hypoglycaemia, and twice injured his head in falls when he passed out from low blood sugar. While he was in the Royal Infirmary recovering from the second of these attacks, he happened to come to the attention of one of the world's few practitioners of plastic surgery – at the time, a rare specialty maligned by most physicians. The surgeon performed a double mastectomy, provided Dillon with a doctor's note that enabled him to change his birth certificate, and put him in touch with the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies. Gillies had previously reconstructed penises for injured soldiers and performed surgery on intersex people with ambiguous genitalia. He was willing to perform a phalloplasty, but not immediately; the constant influx of wounded soldiers from World War II already kept him in the operating room around the clock. In the meantime Dillon enrolled in medical school at Trinity College, Dublin under his new legal name, Laurence Michael Dillon.
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Skip to comments.Martin Fierro passed away [no, not the Freeper by the same name]
Posted on 03/16/2008 7:57:50 AM PDT by LouAvul
3/13/08: Martin passed away This afternoon in Marin County, CA after a short battle with cancer. Our legendary Meester was surrounded by his family and loved ones and left in peace.
What a shock. RIP.
OMG - Is that the FReeper that always had that unique emoticon for his signature?
Whew! I had to click the source link. Glad it's not "our" Martin!
No. But I thought it was too.
This is a big shock.
RIP, Martin Fierro.
Bummer. I really enjoyed his posts.
an early days sparing 'partner' Freeper.
May God rest his soul and comfort his loved ones.
Supposedly, it's not the FReeper.
I was gonna say...he just posted early this morning (or late last night..depends on your perspective!).
Aw, nuts. Surprised here.
Yikes, the title needs to be clarified that it's not our Martin!
Yes, I agree. I just hit abuse & asked them to change it.
FReeper Martin Fierro!???
OMG! Prayers for him and his family.
Respects and regards to his family.
Wow... What a shock!
RIP to one of my all time favorite dudes...
Wait, did I jump the gun here?
That proves it's not our martin... unless he's come into cash recently ;)
Delay that...
Just realized it's not FR's Martin... Sorry.
Sounds like a false alarm.
Someone please check and fix the headline to make it unmistakably clear.
I said out loud "What!"
I see he was posting just after midnight. Whew!
Martin: It would appear that reports of your demise are a bit premature. Please confirm at your earliest convenience, or at least after you've sufficiently enjoyed reading your obituaries. And yes, we will be greatly relieved to hear that you are still with us. ;-)
Now Martin knows how Bob Hope felt.
Ok, I am off for the guilty pleasure of seeing Doomsday
Good call.
Thank goodness it is not "our martin"!
But......... oh boy martin is going to have fun with this!
(there will be no living with him now) :0)
Well they did say it was a short battle with cancer.
Note to all my FRiends: If any famous person with my name ever happens to die, I just want a short memorial service. Donations may be sent in my name to my bank in Southfield, Michigan.
Extremely short, apparently.
That's even more of shock. Gee. I was thinking, "man, I'm gonna be nice from now on. You never know when a FReeper is gonna die."
I thought, "gee, did I ever dice him up with my deft handling of the sword of rhetoric?"
Boy, do I feel had.
Is he gonna quote Mark Twain for us?
Will Do Larry!!
Nothing so prosaic as that... I get the feeling he's going to wait three days, arise, and be insufferable.
GLAD for that!
(there will be no living with him now) :0)
= =
Was there ever? LOL.
Hey Martin, since you won't be needing it anymore, can I have your bandwidth?
Well they did say it was a short battle with cancer.
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It took McClatchy 21 paragraphs to illustrate why it was such a big conflict of interest for Director of National Intelligence General Counsel to lead negotiations over how much of the torture report would be declassified, as he currently is doing.
According to reports in The Washington Post, Litt previously represented a CIA analyst, Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, who played a central role in the bungled rendition of Khaled el-Masri. El-Masri, who was revealed to be innocent, claimed to have been tortured by the agency.
As the rest of the article explains, Litt reviewed his role brokering the declassification process with ODNI's Ethics officer — who is his subordinate — and she approved his participation.
But it still probably conflicts with Litt's promises, made during his confirmation process, to recuse himself from matters affecting his former clients. And given the centrality of CIA's absurd demand to hide even the pseudonyms making clear that the same woman who got El-Masri tortured also went out of her way to watch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tortured (among a fairly substantial list of other things — here's a reminder of details on how she got promoted after the El-Masri debacle), it is a problem that Litt is brokering this process.
Don't worry, National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden insists (fresh off insisting it's a good thing that the White House cybersecurity czar doesn't have a technical background), Bob Litt — the same guy hiding known dates in Internet dragnet documents, almost certainly to avoid legal repercussions — is one of the administration's strongest proponents of what it calls "transparency."™
"Bob Litt is one of the administration's strongest proponents of transparency in intelligence, consistent with our national security, and he and we are fully committed to ensuring there is no conflict of interest as the administration continues to work to see the results of the committee's review made public," Hayden said in a statement.
Calling Bob Litt a proponent of "transparency"™ is itself cause for concern.
WaPo has a biting profile of Robert Litt, ODNI's General Counsel who made one more failed attempt to rationalize James Clapper's lies to Congress last week.
One of the most newsworthy bits is that WaPo published the name of Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, the analyst who got Khaled el-Masri kidnapped and tortured by mistake, for the first time.
A far more subtle but equally important detail comes in its description of why House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers banned Litt from appearing before the Committee last summer.
Some lawmakers have found Litt's manner off-putting at best. Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made clear to the DNI's office last summer that Litt was no longer welcome before his panel.
"The committee has not found Bob to be the most effective witness to explain complex legal and policy issues," said a U.S. government official familiar with the falling-out. Rogers was also bothered that Litt faulted the committee for not doing more to share information about the surveillance programs with other members, unaware that doing so would have violated committee rules. [my emphasis]
For what it's worth, I suspect Rogers is not worried as much about Litt's honesty (Rogers hasn't objected to James Clapper or Keith Alexander's lies, for example, and has himself been a key participant in sustaining them), but rather, for his usual candor and abrasiveness, which the article also shows inspiring members of Congress to want to repeal the dragnet. Litt couches his answers in legalese, but unlike most IC witnesses, you can often parse it to discern where the outlines of truth are.
But I am acutely interested that Litt blames Rogers for not "doing more to share information about the surveillance programs with other members."
That refers, of course, to Rogers' failure to make the Administration's notice on the phone dragnet available to members in 2011, before the PATRIOT Reauthorization. As a result of that, 65 Congressmen voted to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act without full notice (perhaps any formal notice) of the phone dragnet — a sufficiently large block to make the difference in the vote. In spite of that fact, the Administration and even FISA Judges have repeatedly pointed to Congress' reauthorization of the phone dragnet to explain why it's legal even though it so obviously exceeds the intent of the Section 215 as passed.
Apparently Litt blames Rogers for that. And doing so got him banished from the Committee.
Frankly, Litt is right in this dispute. Rogers' excuse that committee rules prevented him from sharing the letter the Administration stated they wanted to be shared with the rest of Congress rings hollow, given that just one year earlier, Silvestre Reyes did make the previous letter available. If committee rules prevent such a thing, they are Rogers' committee rules, and they were fairly new at the time. (Ironically, by imposing those rules, Rogers prevented members of his own party, elected with strong Tea Party backing, from learning about intelligence programs, though he may have just imposed the rules to increase the value of his own special access.)
So it is Rogers' fault the Administration should not be able to claim Congress ratified the FISA Court's expansive understanding of Section 215.
And Rogers and Litt's spat about it make it clear they both know the significance of it: claims of legislative ratification fail because Congress did not, in fact, know what they were voting on, at least in 2011.
Unsurprisingly, that has not prevented the Administration from making that claim. Litt himself made a variety of it before PCLOB in November, months after he had this fight with Rogers.
[NSA General Counsel Raj] DE: So in other words, and some of this is obviously known to you all but just to make sure members of the public are aware, not only was this program approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court every 90 days, it was twice, the particular provision was twice re-authorized by Congress with full information from the Executive Branch about the use of the provision.
MR. LITT: I just want to add one very brief comment to Raj's in terms of the extent to which Congress was kept informed. By statute we're required to provide copies of significant opinion and decisions of the FISC to the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress and they got the materials relating to this program, as we were required to by law.
Now, Litt's intejection here is particularly interesting. He doesn't correct De. He shifts the claim somewhat, to rely on Judiciary and Intelligence Committee notice. But even there, his claim fails, given that the Administration did not provide all relevant opinions to those Committees until after the first dragnet reauthorization in 2010. Litt probably thinks that's okay because he didn't qualify when Congress got the materials.
But it's still a blatant lie, according to the public record.
More significantly, the Administration repeated that lie to both the FISC and, more significantly still, the 3 Article III Judges presiding over challenges to the dragnet generally.
The Administration keeps running around, telling everyone who is obligated to listen that Congress has ratified their expansive interpretation of the phone dragnet. It's not true. And the fact that Litt and Rogers fought — way back in the summer — over who is responsible makes it clear they know it's not true.
But they still keep saying it.
Although many people have been long familiar with her name and career, there seems to be new buzz about the [possible] identity of the female CIA operative lionized in the bin Laden killing and talk of the town movie "Zero Dark Thirty".
The Twitters are abuzz this morning, but this article from John Cook at Gawker last September tells the tale:
Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and, according to independent reporters Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, she is a CIA analyst who is partially responsible for intelligence lapses that led to 9/11. The two reporters recently released a "documentary podcast" called "Who Is Richard Blee?" about the chief of the agency's bin Laden unit in the immediate run-up to the 9/11 attacks and featuring interviews with former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, former CIA agent Bob Baer, Looming Tower author Lawrence Wright, 9/11 Commission co-chairman Tom Keane, and others. In it, Nowosielski and Duffy make the case that Bikowsky and another CIA agent named Michael Anne Casey deliberately declined to tell the White House and the FBI that Khalid al-Mihdhar, an Al Qaida affiliate they were tracking, had obtained a visa to enter the U.S. in the summer of 2001. Al-Mihdhar was one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77. The CIA lost track of him after he entered the U.S.
Bikowsky was also, according to Nowosielski and Duffy, instrumentally involved in one of the CIA's most notorious fuck-ups—the kidnapping, drugging, sodomizing, and torture of Khalid El-Masri in 2003 (El-Masri turned out to be the wrong guy, and had nothing to do with terrorism). As the Associated Press' Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo reported earlier this year, an analyst they described only by her middle name—"Frances"—pressed for El-Masri to be abducted even though some in the agency weren't convinced he was the terrorist that Frances suspected he was. Instead of being punished or fired for the error, "Frances" was eventually promoted to running the Global Jihad Unit by then-CIA director Michael Hayden. According to Goldman and Apuzzo's story, "Hayden told colleagues that he gave Frances a pass because he didn't want to deter initiative within the counterterrorism ranks."
My, my, the CIA does have problems keeping secrets lately, don't they? A point saliently noted by Marcy in relation to both Matt Bissonnette and the Mexican "trainers" who were involved in in an ambush. I guess the de rigueur Obama Administration leak prosecution will be along any second.
It is fairly amazing Bikowsky's name has been kept out of the real limelight surrounding [speculation on] Zero Dark Thirty this long, considering her known involvement in the other issues, especially the one about gleefully horning in on the torture show viewing [which Bikowsky did in regards to KSM]. An attitude that speaks volumes as to Continue reading


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Re: Aikido does not work at all in a fight.
I have trained in Aikido for a year now and I soon learned that static gripping during training is great for Ki Cultivation. Many people I know have critisized the Aikido mainly because of the way people train.
My instructor has done Aikido for over 30 years and he is living proof that channelling Ki to perform various techniques will work without resorting to physical strength.
If you use physical strength to perform a technique it is clearly NOT going to work against somebody who is either the same strength or stronger than you are. I admit that I still need repetitive practice to eventually get a good grasp of Ki and this will take years and I plan to stick with it.
Finally my instructor keeps mentioning that you must be in the form of relaxation to effectively channel out Ki. I enjoy this martial art more than Karate and kickboxing as these two arts are very forceful from experience. Not saying that these arts have no merit, they are just not my thing.
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It makes sense that the person whose personal style we stalk all day on Instagram would be an executive producer on a style competition, right? Enter Rihanna, who is building her presence in the fashion world. Her second line for River Island on is the way, and now she has an official air date for her fashion reality show competition, Styled to Rock. The Style Network announced yesterday that the show, executive produced by the singer, will debut Nov. 5 at 8 P.M.
The show will have 12 designers from around the country competing against one another to design for big names in the entertainment biz. Along the way, the contestants will be mentored by Pharrell Williams, model Erin Wasson and Rihanna's stylist, Mel Ottenberg.
If you're wondering how this show differs from other fashion competitions, here's Styled to Rock's surprising twist: Midway through each design challenge, mentors will evaluate all 12 designers and decide if their work is good enough for the celebrity guest. If it's not, the work won't be presented and those designers who don't make it past this point could be eliminated. Intense.
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It's great to be back from vacation! I am well-rested and that's a good thing because we're in a more active pattern now than when I left.
The morning upper air maps are showing the eastward progression of several low-amplitude disturbances across our area. Even though the air near the ground is cool and stable, there is warm air advection a few thousand feet above the surface. The combination of these two elements is creating a broad zone of lift, which is responsible for the rain this morning. The balloon launch from Tallahassee depicts a completely saturated column between the surface and about 10,000 feet, but the air above that is starting to dry out. This drying trend is more pronounced in the mid and upper layers of the atmosphere at Jackson, MS and Birmingham, AL. In order to introduce ice crystals into a cloud, the atmosphere typically needs to be saturated at temperatures colder than -10 degrees Celsius. Since the air will be gradually dry out in the middle troposphere (where the temperature is colder than that -10C threshold), precipitation processes in the cloud will be significantly inhibited and all of the models agree that most of the significant rains will come to an end by early afternoon. We will just see pockets of drizzle or light rain thereafter. Temperatures should get no higher than the lower or mid 50s and it's entirely possible that a few locales will fail to breach the 50-degree barrier today.
The clouds will break up from northwest to southeast tonight and skies ought to be mostly sunny on Sunday. Despite a northwest wind between low pressure off the Mid Atlantic coast and high pressure building in from the west, temperatures should have no problem reaching the 60s under the abundant sunshine.
The weak high pressure is expected to build overhead Sunday night, so the skies should be clear and the winds will become calm, leading to ideal radiational cooling. Lows will plummet to around 30 degrees by sunrise and we are looking for a 1 to 3 hour light freeze away from the coast and downtown. The overall airmass is not particularly cold, so additional sunshine on Monday will cause our temperatures to rebound well into the 60s. We could even be near 70 degrees by the time we get to Tuesday.
The pattern gets awfully interesting (to say the least) between Tuesday night and Friday. We will be watching two weather systems. The system bringing the tremendous rain and snow to California this weekend is expected to kick out into the midwest on Tuesday and the Mid Atlantic and Northeast U.S. by Wednesday. The trailing cold front should barely be able to make it through here between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Since the strongest dynamics will lift to our north, the front will probably just produce some showers for us. It's the second system I am very concerned about. The global models and their ensembles are in outstanding agreement in forecasting a strong middle and upper-level trough swinging from Texas and Mexico on Thursday into the deep south on Friday. The ECMWF model -- the most reliable in the extended period -- is the scariest. The surface low pressure is expected to track from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico to the Tennessee Valley region. Very strong lift and intense deep-layer wind fields are predicted by the numerical models. Provided adequate instability, a significant or even major severe weather outbreak would be anticipated. It's certainly possible the models will change their minds between now and then, but confidence is higher-than-average about this scenario unfolding somewhere in the deep south. We may be implicated in this. As details become clearer regarding instability, we will begin to refine the severe threat and hopefully get a better idea as to which areas will have the best threat of dangerous weather. Stay tuned.


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BERKELEY — With Cal returning its entire starting defensive line and secondary this season, the only position featuring a true battle on the defense this spring is at linebacker.
Although departing linebackers Zack Follett, Worrell Williams and Anthony Felder each should be in an NFL training camp this fall, two of Cal's linebacking positions appear to be pretty solid. Mike Mohamed, who backed up all four linebacker positions last season, has found a home in the middle on the weak side. Eddie Young returns at the outside strong side position.
That leaves Devin Bishop, Mychal Kendricks and D.J. Holt as primary contenders for the two open positions. Each saw limited playing time last year. So far this spring, Bishop has been playing strong side middle with Kendricks on the outside weak side.
"There's no doubt three quality players that are probably going to play in the NFL have departed," Cal coach Jeff Tedford said. "But we have guys there right now that got some playing time last year. They're not completely new to it. Even though those three guys did leave, I feel like we have quality guys."
Cal defensive coordinator Bob Gregory said he'd like to look at Bishop and Kendricks on both the outside and inside. Holt, who has been playing on the inside with the second team, "is having a really good spring so far," according to Gregory. Holt also has been playing through a minor shoulder injury.
"It's up to us to find those guys a home that they can best excel," Gregory said.
Gregory was encouraged by Bishop's play near the end of last season and Tedford said he came to spring practice in excellent shape. Bishop appeared in 12 games last season and made 13 tackles.
"It feels good to be a part of something more," Bishop said. "Last year, I was a big part of the defense, but I feel like I have a more crucial role now."
Not only do the Bears lose the talents of Follett, Williams and Felder, but they will miss their leadership, too. Bishop's older brother, Desmond, was a well-respected leader during his years as a linebacker at Cal, and it appears Devin already has embraced that role as well.
"Being a vocal leader is very important and something we need," Bishop said. "It's good to lead by example, but sometimes it's even better to hear a strong voice. Sometimes that's what people need. I did it a little bit last year, even though I didn't play that much. It's just my personality."
The picture at linebacker will become more complex in the fall when the Bears welcome junior college transfers Ryan Davis, Jarred Price and Jerome Meadows. Price is regarded as a top-notch rush linebacker who could compete for playing time right away.
"I think eyes are going to be mostly on us to see if we can fill the shoes of the guys who left," Bishop said. "You're supposed to be better than the guys before you."
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Kicker Giorgio Tavecchio was back at practice Thursday after missing Tuesday's practice to visit family in Italy. Tavecchio arrived back in California on Wednesday night. ... The Bears will hold a closed scrimmage on Saturday.
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The former Norway boss (pictured) insists the Scottish champions are favourites to reach the group stages but does not think his side have to take a lead to Glasgow for the return game to have a chance of upsetting the odds.
Hareide pointed to the third qualifier against Slask Wroclaw, where Helsingborg went through 6-1 on aggregate after an impressive 3-0 first-leg win in Poland, when claiming a clean sheet against Neil Lennon's side was imperative.
"The most important thing is not to let Celtic score an away goal," he told Press Association Sport. "That is the key to the tie. If they do score it will be very difficult for us.
"We don't necessarily need to take a lead to Parkhead. We had a good experience in Poland in the second qualifier, we did really well there and we defend well when we stick together.
"Celtic are favourites, they are a big club with good players. But expectations are high in Helsingborg with regards to Europe and the fans will be behind us at home.
"We have a good record there, I think we have only lost one game in two years, so we are strong and we played very well in our last home game (a 7-2 win over Kalmar).
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Carly Brooke is the creator and proprietor of The Featured Creature, a website which highlights some of the world's lesser-known and stranger animals. Just about every day you can visit and see something new there, ranging from the eyebrow-raisingly bizarre to the throat-lumpingly cute. Carly, a self-described nature obsessive, agreed to take some time to tell us a little bit about herself and what she's up to. And for those of you who could care less and believe the only good animals are the ones that come marinated in Hoisin sauce, luckily she is also in no way at all painful to look at.
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that I'm a huge fan of Ms Brooke's. I've found The Featured Creature to be an invaluable resource in my neverending search for disconcerting wildlife — an obsession of my own that's led to many of the articles I've done for Cracked over the last couple years. I got to know her a little bit recently, and we even collaborated on an article of our own. Anyway, enough with my yapping, here's Carly.
[Thanks to Alexis Morgan Photography for the images.]
Man Cave Daily: Tell us about yourself. Were you raised by apes? I heard the reality of that isn't as great as the media makes it out to be.
Carly Brooke: Sadly, I wasn't raised by apes. I say sadly because wow would that have been an incredible experience! Okay, okay, maybe I wouldn't want to have been raised by apes, but hanging out enough to where we trusted each other on a "family level" would be so cool. But anyways, instead of hailing from the Congo I grew up in a small beach town in Massachusetts where nothing particularly exciting ever happens. My dad's a dentist and my mom has her own PR firm and I have two younger sisters. I moved to Los Angeles to attend college at UCLA and never went back — because I definitely don't want to be monkeying around with cold weather anymore.
MCD: Coming to Southern California must have been a dream come true, what with all the rattlesnakes, tarantulas and scorpions right there in your backyard. Not to mention all the potential cougar maulings. Have you always been obsessed with animals?
CB: Obsessed is putting it mildly. One of my favorite memories is when my family went to Key West for a vacation. Instead of building sandcastles with my sister, I opted to catch lizards (Brown Anoles, I learned later on in life). And not to brag or anything, but damn was I good at catching those guys. I got hooked on learning about animals after that. Owned about every kind of animal it was legal to own in my tiny town: hedgehogs, lizards, geckos, turtles — both soft and hard-shelled — frogs; you name it I had it. I don't particularly advocate owning "exotic" creatures anymore, but that's another story…
MCD: Exactly. Nobody wants to be on the news because a chimp gnawed your face off. How many varmints do you share your home with right now?
CB: Currently I live in a one-bedroom apartment in L.A. so space is limited. I have my two kitty roommates and that's it. Really though, I prefer to see animals in their natural environment and wouldn't want to keep any locked up in my house, no matter how decked out the enclosure would be!
MCD: Do you have any formal training in zoology, biology, husbandry or whatever?
CB: Nope, nothing formal. I went to UCLA for psychology with the idea of being a lawyer and came out thinking I'd like to venture off the map a bit before heading down that route (if I really wanted to go, law school would always be there). Since I was always so fascinated with animals I decided it might be fun to start up a website dedicated to showcasing some of the more unusual and less widely known species. That's when The Featured Creature was born and it's been a wild ride ever since. I literally spend hours each day researching, writing, and learning about animals, though, so I do feel like I've almost home-schooled myself on the subject!
MCD: What's your proudest moment from your work on it?
CB: This is tough. There have been so many fantastic moments — from being asked to write as a guest blogger on the Huffington Post to meeting wonderful people — I've really enjoyed every second of working on TFC. However, there is one moment that stands out and that's when I received a special message from one of my readers. It was from a mother whose son suffers from autism. She spoke of what an impact my site has had on him and told me how he "lights up" when he sees my posts. Every night they sit and read about the animals I post and he just eats it up. It meant a lot to me that my site was so cherished by this family and that she took the time to tell me as such.
MCD: Thanks for completely eliminating any chance of me making a joke here. Anyways, what's your favorite animal of the moment?
CB: Three words: Namaqua. Rain. Frog. If you haven't heard about this absolutely adorable amphib by now then you're truly missing out. Not only is it a cute, round little blob of a frog but the sound it makes to defend itself literally sounds like a squeaky toy. It cracks me up that this is supposed to be frightening. They spend the dry season in the Namaqua desert underground and only come up to breed during the rainy season so you have to be on your game if you want to find one.
MCD: What animals, if any, creep you right the hell out? You're not one of those weirdos who likes spiders, are you?
CB: I have to admit, I'm still a little iffy on spiders. Some of them don't scare me at all — in fact, they're cute to the point where I want to cuddle them. Jumping spiders are harmless and fluffy, with big eyes that look at you all like, "Hi friend!" so those are cool. But then of course there are those ones with big, black, spindly legs that I'll find in my closets every once in a while that will scare the hell out of me. So yeah, it's a love-hate thing.
MCD: Honestly, what animal could we probably do without? I mean, do we really need all those fish? And would anyone really notice if all of a sudden there weren't any more armadillos?
CB: Um…I would notice!! All animals are essential; each has its unique place in the food chain that keeps the world working. That being said… if mosquitoes weren't entirely necessary (like keeping bats around, oh man do I LOVE bats) then those could go for me. That's mainly because I'm very, very allergic to their bites. While a normal person would just get an itchy red bump, I get a huge red mass that tries to take over my entire body — and I'm barely exaggerating here. One time I had to bandage my entire arm so that I would stop from scratching a single bite that ended up creeping from my elbow to my wrist. Sorry mosquitoes, I'm really not a fan.
MCD: Don't worry about it. We don't have a large pro-malaria readership here. So do you have any aspirations to become the next Animal Planet sensation? There seems to be a definite lack of female representation over there.
CB: That's the dream! I would absolutely LOVE to have a show one day (Carly had a video pitch all set to go for that new Jobs That Bite show, but the job went to some snowboarder doofus.) I want to be able to actually interact with the creatures I write about on a daily basis. Trekking into the jungles of Borneo on the hunt for leaf-mimicking katydids, diving along the Great Barrier Reef in search of the infamously poisonous blue ring octopus, and combing beaches for bizarre nudibranchs would make for the best life ever. And you're right — there are no females on TV doing this sort of thing! Where are they? Women can get just as down and dirty as men. Well, at least I know I can!
MCD: Where else can we go to get more Carly?
CB: You can catch all my crazy creature antics on The Featured Creature, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube is next on my social media to-do list. I have tons of videos in the works, so stay tuned for those! You can also reach me by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
So there you have it. We'd understand her not being able to host her own show due to her having a voice like Chris Tucker doing a Fran Drescher impression. Or if she always had to face towards her left to hide a tire-sized goiter or something. However, our research has yielded no such anomalies.
Feel free to friend E. Reid Ross on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and check out his supple body of work over on Cracked.com.
ERR bit off more than anyone would chew with Delicious Food or Horrifying Animal? but if anyone could do it, it's these Teen Girls Way Tougher than You.


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ASPEN " Buying a duck for the Aspen Ducky Derby may well have helped children in Guatemala avoid death and go to school for the first time, according to members of the Aspen Rotary Club.
Members of the club, which annually puts on Ducky Derby Day in Aspen to raise money for its charitable work, are finishing up a campaign to bring clean water to several villages in Guatemala.
According to information provided by Aspen Rotary member Terri Caine, the nation's villages suffer from a high child mortality rate that is blamed in part on a lack of clean drinking water and sanitation, and resultant cases of diarrhea and related illnesses.
Aspen resident Skip Behrhorst three years ago "initiated a plan to bring clean water to three Guatemalan villages," Caine said. The plan was timed to coincide with the United Nations' proclamation of World Water Day, which began in 2006 and falls on March 22 every year.
Berhorst teamed up with a nonprofit foundation called Behrhorst Partners for Development (BPD), started by one of his relatives, as well as Rotary International and a half-dozen Rotary Clubs around the United States, to install clean wells, pumps, filters, latrines and fuel-efficient stoves to the villages of Chipila, Chiuleu and Santa Teresa.
Previously, according to Behrhorst, the kids of the village had the job of bringing fresh water in buckets, walking a mile and a half to get to the water. The task took most of their day, leaving them no time to attend school.
Now that bringing water is not the job of the children, he said, the kids can go to school.
Caine reported that the combined population of the three villages, roughly 1,380 people, live in a region accessible by unpaved roads some 39 miles from the state capitol, with scant public transportation to markets and other destinations.
"It's been a long but very rewarding project," Behrhorst said. "We started working on this grant with BPD and Rotary on March 19, 2006, just before World Water Day 2006. Now, three years later we are completing the physical project just in time for World Water Day 2009."


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My study abroad experience was hands down the best experience of my life. The combination of travel, academia, and professional development is what every potential study abroad applicant should seek. We studied in Dublin, Ireland for just under two weeks yet it felt like an entire semester. Although I knew nobody on this trip when I stepped off the plane, I knew everybody by the time we returned home. We had the amazing opportunity to visit historic sites throughout Ireland including Trinity College, The City of Belfast, and the ancient monastic site of Glendalough. My only regret is that I did not journey on a study abroad venture sooner than now. I thank the College of Staten Island and the entire The City University of New York for making this experience possible.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Top 5 Things To Eat In Seoul According To This Wannabe-Foodie by: Jonathan Saquisili
SeolBing (설빙) - Mango Cheese Bingsu with Garlic French Toast
Budaejijigae (부대찌개) - Army Stew
Army Stew originated during the Korean War with leftover foods from the U.S. Army facilities. This stew is very hardy and filling. Some typical ingredients you'll find are ramen, scallions, sausage, spam, kimchi, tofu and other ingredients. This soup does tend to be on the spicy side, so be sure to let the waitress know that you want little pepper paste if you don't do well with spicy foods. The spot I visited for this stew was in Dongdaemun.
ChiMaek (치맥) - Chicken + Beer
Thanks to the hit drama My Love From the Star, Chimaek (chicken and beer) has become very popular in South Korea. Restaurants that serve this meal can be found all over the place. This is a great meal to have with friends after a long week, enjoy by the Han River or even in your apartment. This is a very addictive meal as the chicken is not prepared like in the US; there is something very unique to the taste that I have not seen replaced in NYC's K-Town.
Kup Bap (컵밥) - Cup Rice
Isaac Toast
Finding something for breakfast can be pretty difficult if you are used to sausage, egg and cheese on a bagel. Thankfully, in Sinchon there is a place called Isaac Toast which serves a variation of toast sandwiches. The one I ordered was the Ham Special, ham, cheese, cabbage, sweet sauce and egg. One of the best things about this filling sandwich is that this comes in at less than 3,000 KRW.
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Amanda Ciaramella - Second Time's the Charm: Feeling at home in Florence
This year, I had the privilege of returning to Italy for a second study abroad experience. I also studied in Florence last year, but as my first experience on my own in a foreign country, I had difficultly feeling comfortable. After reentering Florence for the second time this past June, I was hit with a gust of nostalgia. I remembered where my favorite gelato shops were, and I knew my way around confidently. By the end of my trip, I did not want to leave! Last year, I had felt very homesick, and although I loved Italy, there was no place like home. This year, Italy became my home, and now, I desire even more travelling around Italy and the world.
Cinque Terre, or "Five Lands," consists of a beautiful beach and scenic view. This is one of my favorite sites; I highly recommend taking the hike to experience the full beauty!
I was reunited with my friends whom I met in Florence last year! It is so exciting to hang out with local Italians!
I LOVE Venice! There's just something about being surrounded by water that feels so Italian to me! The gondola ride is cute, but make sure to have a group of five or six since the boats are expensive.
When in Rome! The Coliseum was probably my favorite part of Rome.
I also went horseback riding in Tuscany! Unfortunately I could not get a picture of myself since I was too focused learning how to ride a horse for the first time!
I was reunited with my Art Restoration professor from last summer! He was like everyone's adopted Italian grandfather!
Lastly, here are my creations from my Sculpture class this year! I took one of the cups home with me. Unfortunately everything was very heavy so I was unable to bring it all.
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Location: Florence, Italy
Michelle Kushnir: 3 weeks in Copenhagen, Denmark!
The main reason I wanted to go to Copenhagen was for its nickname, "Europe's most eco-friendly city". The city is known for its public transportation, where travelling by bus, train, or bike is supported while travelling by car is discouraged. Biking, specifically, is very popular in Copenhagen and wherever you go in the city, there are bicyclists everywhere. They even have huge parking sections for bikes because they are used so much. It gives the city a clean, spacious feel due to the little use of cars. Another way Copenhagen is eco-friendly is the creation of the many parks in the city. I went to so many different parks while in the city, and every time I felt like I was transported somewhere else. The people of Copenhagen really enjoy these parks, which preserve various amounts of nature so the city doesn't turn into all concrete. This eco-friendly culture was pushed in order to make Copenhagen better, and it was successful, since most Danes are on board with preserving their city's nature and enjoy the use of biking. Overall, my experience in Denmark was amazing and I cannot wait to go back.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Summer Snowfall in Morocco ~Joseph Perillo, Ifrane, Morocco
Going to Morocco for the summer was definitely the most significant, life-changing thing to happen to me, and I truly mean that. I didn't even think that I would like traveling, but once you get a taste for it, you get the travel bug and you want to explore the world. The program I ended up choosing wasn't actually one that CSI ran specifically, it was part of the College Consortium of International Studies (CCIS). It sounds complicated but the process was really simple. There's this book of countries all over the world, and study abroad programs in each of them that you can participate in for a multitude of projects. I opened up the book, came across Morocco, and I was settled. For a short time I thought that the Thessaloniki program that CSI offers was for me, but Morocco seemed so interesting and foreign, and the thought of learning Arabic and having that under my belt was just too tempting to pass up.
Morocco itself was an amazing country. Al-Akhawayn, the university I studied and lived at for two months, was a fantastic place. Everyone in program was bunked up with a Moroccan student taking summer classes, and I had the pleasure of having the son of the program director as my roommate. We were as thick as thieves and hung out a lot in the local city of Ifrane, which is actually in the hinterlands of the Atlas Mountains, and it actually snowed when I was there in the middle of the summer. The program scheduled us two field trips, one to Marrakech, the famous historical city in Morocco with winding alleyways in its Old Medina, and the other to Merzouga, which was an oasis in the middle of the Sahara desert. While those two trips were indeed fun, I had my more memorable experiences on the weekend trips I planned with the friends I made there. Chefchauen, the blue city, was by far my favorite place there. I enjoyed it so much that I went twice with two different groups of people just because it was such a fascinating place.
One of the most intimidating prospects of studying abroad is getting into a program and funding it, but there are plenty of opportunities for one to get grants or scholarships. The CSI Center for International Service has plenty of scholarships and grants available to students for the programs they host; however, there are plenty of other funding opportunities outside of the CUNY system that they can get information for you on and assist you in applying to. The Gilman International Scholarship is one in particular because it is the one that I was awarded and allowed me to participate in this adventure. The application process was very straightforward; if you're a Pell Grant recipient, fill out a few pieces of information about yourself and write relatively short essays about why you think you should be awarded the grant to study abroad and your proposed follow-on project.
Studying abroad changed my life, so much so that I have not stopped spreading the news about it since I came back. In fact, during the 2014 fall semester, I helped a classmate get information on studying abroad as well as do research for scholarships and grants, and she is currently studying abroad in Paris, France for the 2015 spring semester. Studying abroad is something every student should have the opportunity to do, and when in doubt on whether or not this is for you, remember that you only live once, so you might as well make it interesting.
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Labels: Morocco
Location: Ifrane, Morocco
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Don't Fret, You Haven't Left Yet ~Study Abroad Peer Advisors, 2014-2015
Taking this trip you won't regret, here are a few things you shouldn't forget. Fear not, family and friends will be there for they love you most. Anticipate making new memories and friends along the coast! Whether it's Italy, China or Ecuador, remember when packing – less is more! Be prepared before you go, you'll never know if it's rain or snow.
Soon enough you will leave, now we are en route overseas! It is time to go on a long flight, be comfy when you go, wear something light! Things will be different, from language to people – and keep in mind the currency will not be equal. Learning from a different perspective is major; study, work hard & good grades you will savor.
Do your work & it will pay off, travel with friends on your day off. From the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall, to the Royal Guards that stand tall – the sky is the limit, you can see it all! Be aware of your surroundings and you'll be fine, don't put yourself in danger because you've drank too much wine. Moderation is key to having a good time, stay with your friends, don't get lost in sublime. Taking this trip will change your life, take the leap, don't think twice. If you've read this far, you're certainly wiser - Bon Voyage from the peer advisors!
Steven Arriaga, Paris, France (summer 2014)
Thomas Giordano, Thessaloniki, Greece (spring 2014)
Amanda Ramos, Florence, Italy (winter 2014)
Alexis Rizzica, Florence, Italy (fall 2013)
Jessica Schoberl, Florence, Italy (winter 2014)
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Definition of permissive in English:
1Allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour: a permissive parent the permissive society of the 60s and 70s
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- We seem to be living in a much more permissive society than our parents and grandparents did.
- We live in a society today far more permissive than the one my parents grew up in.
- Two men, you might argue, played a much greater part in creating the permissive, liberal society, and neither of them were baby boomers.
liberal, broad-minded, open-minded, non-restrictive, free, free and easy, easy-going, live-and-let-live, latitudinarian, laissez-faire, libertarian, unprescriptive, unrestricted, tolerant, forbearing, indulgent, lenient;
2 Law Allowed but not obligatory; optional: the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory
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- The legislation is permissive, not mandatory.
- It is, however, to be noted that the power under s.14 is permissive and discretionary.
- The courts have held that, where the applicable legislation is permissive, an employer's right to take a contribution holiday will be determined by the provisions of the Plan.
2.1Denoting a path available for public use by the landowner's consent, not as a legal right of way: using permissive footpaths, you can visit meadows on both the banks of the river
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- The complete route is along public rights of way, permissive paths and in an open access area.
- After a day of gentle climbs there is the need to get back up the top of Cawthorne Bank which is done via a nice permissive path up through woods.
- Ignore the first gate but go through the second and follow a permissive path which leads straight along the river bank.
3 Biology Allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur: the mutants grow well at the permissive temperature
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- Incubation was at permissive temperatures for 3 days.
- Cells were grown at a permissive temperature to midlog phase and then shifted to restrictive temperature.
- Cells incubated at the permissive temperature demonstrated the typical 'hill and valley' appearance.
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- A permissively raised 'me' generation that was brought up to think only of itself is bringing back the rule book now that it has children of its own.
- If powers are precisely rather than permissively formulated, procedures to render visible occasions of use are constructed.
Late 15th century (in the sense 'tolerated, allowed'): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- 'allowed', from the verb permittere (see permit1).
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MUMBAI: Promoters of the Kerala-based Lord Krishna Bank (LKB) are sounding possible strategic investors to divest a part of their holding in the private bank.
Investment banker DSP Merrill Lynch, which has been hired for the job, has made presentations to a few foreign players, including GE. The Puris hold 63% stake in the bank, while the Burmans of the Dabur group own another 5.4%.


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Hello crafty people, and welcome to the weekend – my favorite time of the week. It's also time for a new Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge. Are you ready to play? Let's get started.
I took a little creative license with this week's sketch and did a flipper-roo for my project.
It's a pretty simple card with minimal embellishments. After stamping the journaling block from Victorian Fripperie, I used Victorian Alphabet to stamp the word "hello" and using the stem from the Pic-Nic Patterns set, I created a flower, which I embellished with dots of Liquid Pearls.
I wanted to add ribbon, but felt that if I added a bow or wrapped a ribbon around the card it would compete for attention with the fun striped panel that I created from strips of patterned paper, topped with a Daisy Scallop Border Punched trim, so I just went with a little lace along the bottom of the sentiment.
Now it's your turn. Using Waltzingmouse Stamps is not required to play along with the challenges, but it would be awesome if you did. Just create a project using the sketch design above and then upload your project to your blog or online gallery (please use the keyword/tag of WMSC5 when you upload to a gallery or your blog) and then visit the Waltzingmouse Stamps Challenge Blog and leave a post with a direct link to your project. You have until next Thursday, July 15 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time to post the link to your project. Occasionally Claire will offer prizes for an especially creative project, but you never know when that week will be. To make it even more fun, three of you will be awarded the Top Mouse Award, and be given a blinkie to proudly display on your blog! I hope you are inspired to play along.
I'm so happy you decided to look in on my blog today! Have a great Saturday.
|Stamps: Victorian Alphabet, Victorian Fripperie and Pic-Nic Patterns (all Waltzingmouse Stamps)
|Papers: Pure Luxury Ivory, Brook Patterned Paper (Crate Paper)
|Inks: Coffee Bean (Vivid), Celadon (Colorbox Chalk Ink)
|Accessories: Pearl White and Mint Green Liquid Pearls (Ranger), Corner Rounder, Lace (Jo-Ann's), Daisy Scallop Border Punch (EK Success)