text: A group of Plymouth State University alumni have donated $2,000 to this year's PSU Thanksgiving Basket Project, which has provided food to needy households in the Plymouth area for 40 years. This is the fourth year the non-profit group, 27 Highland Ave., Inc., has donated money to the project, bringing their total contributions to more than $9,000. PSU Thanksgiving Basket Project organizer Kathy Tardif of PSU's Catholic Campus Ministry said the generous donation will make the Thanksgiving holiday a little brighter. "We are thrilled this group of alumni have such concern and interest in the community that hosted them when they were in college," Tardif said. "Thanks to their incredible generosity, we have been able to expand the project to meet the increasing needs of community members in these difficult times." 27 Highland Ave., Inc. is composed primarily of military veterans. The group also packs and delivers the Thanksgiving baskets. PSU's United Campus Ministry and PSU's food service provider Sodexo also sponsor the Thanksgiving Basket project. In photo, left to right, Steve King, Kathy Tardif, Andy McDonnell, and Grace Burson. King and McDonnell represent 27 Highland Ave., Inc., who raised $2,000 for the PSU Thanksgiving Basket Project. Kathy Tardif and Grace Burson gratefully accepted the donation, which will help feed hungry families in the Plymouth area this Thanksgiving.


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Austin, Tex. — The Convention of Stations on Nov. 5 [1997] created a Forum for public TV's national decision-making, opening the way for new cooperation in the fragmented field as well as new varieties of bickering.
The new Forum may find itself locking horns with PBS's board, for instance. Several backers spoke of the Forum as a means of giving guidance to PBS and reallocating functions in the field.
The Core Working Group that proposed the Forum is now planning to hold elections as soon as December for the 13-member Council that will operate the Forum. One of the Council's first tasks will be planning for the Forum's first meeting, already scheduled for March 22, just before the annual APTS Capitol Hill Day, in Washington, D.C.
Station chief execs voting in person or by proxy at the day-long convention in Austin voted 85 percent in favor of creating the Forum. Soon afterwards, 62 percent agreed to join the Forum. Additional licensees that supported the idea through proxies are expected to sign up; many of those were included in the 22 percent that abstained on joining immediately.
The percentage results were very much the same when stations' votes were weighted by station size, using PBS "purchasing power" data, indicating no obvious skew toward large or small stations in the voting.
Forum leaders have a big job ahead: selling the rest of the stations on membership. Out of a total of 179 licensees eligible to join, just 117 were present for the ballot on joining and only 73 immediately voted to join. But if the remaining stations vote to join in the same 10-to-1 ratio as those present, the Forum could have up to 170 member licensees.
To vote in the Forum, stations will have to join it and pay dues. But the convention tried to minimize that hurdle, approving a budget that would need estimated dues ranging from $693 to $3,464 per station, depending on the station's size. The budget of $260,000 is less than one-tenth of APTS's $2.8 million budget.
While the convention did try to hold down dues, the majority did not accept the major proposed anti-bureaucracy amendment of the day, which would have put the new Forum "under the aegis" of APTS. The amendment, proposed by Judy Stone, executive director of Alabama ETV, also would have given the APTS Board most of the seats on the smaller elected Council that will guide the Forum. The amendment failed in a 65-42 show of hands.
The idea of hooking the Forum to APTS, Stone had said, was that it would save money by avoiding duplicative staffing and by consolidating meetings to avoid travel costs. Opponents said tight affiliation with APTS could create conflicts of interest and isn't necessary to save money — the Forum also could contract with APTS or other existing groups for staff services and fiduciary responsibility. "We're not anticipating a staff and secretaries when you come in the front door," said Core Working Group member Allen Pizzatto of WSRE, Pensacola.
Part of Stone's amendment — simply to put the Forum "under the aegis" of APTS — failed again a few minutes later by a narrow 51-48 show of hands.
In the spirit of Stone's amendment, however, the convention did change the proposed formal name of the Forum's parent corporation. Instead of being an "Association," it became "the National Forum of Public Television Senior Executives." Bill Reed, president of Kansas City's KCPT, proposed the name change but later said he wouldn't vote for the Forum.
Though Stone had spoken for changes in the charter, she told Current later that she expects to enroll Alabama PTV as a Forum member. She respects the democratic process that was followed and can live with the expected dues, she said.
The convention also adjusted the Forum's rules for passing "resolutions" — decisions that member stations will be honor-bound but not legally bound to abide by. Amendments made it slightly easier for the Forum to consider a resolution and fairly hard to pass. A quorum of at least 51 percent of members must be present for a resolution vote, down from 67 percent in the draft charter. But the convention clarified the charter to state that passage of resolutions will require 75 percent votes of all members, including proxies, by both methods of tallying: by one-station/one-vote and by financial weight of stations.
By 4 p.m., after six hours of work, the convention had heard numerous proposed amendments and disposed of few of them. Station executives had already swept out of the room at one point, requiring a break in proceedings, and now they were thinking about their airline flights home. Eric Douglas, the consultant who had facilitated the Core Working Group for many months and was moderating the convention, suggested that minor charter amendments be handled by a transition committee.
With amendment piled upon amendment, "we occasionally got awfully close to chaos," Douglas said later. He had been "walking a fine line" between speed and the openness necessary to give people comfort with the outcome, he explained. Some observers, including core group members, said Douglas had spent too much time on the earlier amendments.
The convention sped through a couple more amendments. It rejected a change in representation on the elected Council, which would have given smaller stations more proportional representation. And it adopted an amendment about resolutions that affect existing national PTV organizations: the council will meet promptly with those organizations and request a response in "a timely and agreed-upon manner."
In debate on the charter, Peter Morrill of Idaho PTV, Pat Fitzpatrick of WBGU in Bowling Green, Ohio, and Donn Rogosin of WMHT in Schenectady questioned the need for a Forum, saying that the stations should reshape their existing organizations if they need new functions performed. APTS is the stations' organization, said Fitzpatrick — "let's have them do the Forum."
Core Working Group members pointed to a fondly remembered ad hoc meeting that station executives called last January, without PBS or APTS leaders. "This is the next step," said Pizzatto. The Dallas meeting "operated in a somewhat data-free environment," pointed out Mark Erstling of WPSX, University Park, Pa.
After 5 p.m., the convention voted to create the Forum: 90 "yes," 16 "no," and 7 not present (in the halls, perhaps). Weighted by size, the vote was 86 percent "yes," 10 percent "no."
By 6 p.m., the ensuing budget discussion had moved quickly to the low-cost option and adopted a first-year budget of $260,000 instead of $471,500, with dues assessed in three categories, depending on stations' amount of nonfederal fundraising.
Then, as hotel workers laid out dinner in the hallway, the convention took a roll call on joining the Forum: 73 licensees voting "yes," 7 voting "no," 37 abstaining or out of the room.
"It was over faster than I thought it would be," core group member Bryce Combs recalled last week. "We got to where I thought we would be. I was very pleased."
The convention concluded the Countdown 98 project launched last year by APTS to give public TV a nimbler and more coherent way of making national decisions. APTS spent $550,000 on BMR Associates consultants to study the options and facilitiate meetings; CPB laid out tens of thousands more for related travel. Since June, the 13-member Core Working Group of station execs had worked 80 hours in face-to-face meetings, held 19 hour-long conference calls and made hundreds of other calls, said Erstling.
Chief advocate of the project, Joseph Traigle, a Baton Rouge businessman on the APTS Board, said he hopes Nov. 5 "will be known as the first day of the new world of public broadcasting."
"This not about a new organization at all," he said. "This is about convening an organization that has been in existence 30 years. It has been somewhat dormant."
Two days later, Nov. 7, was the 30th anniversary of President Johnson's signing of the Public Broadcasting Act — a 30-year mark for CPB funding of the field.


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SAN JOSE -- Turns out there is plenty of interest in a high school football all-star game in the middle of basketball season.
The stands at San Jose City College were close to full Saturday night for the first Northern California Literacy All-Star Classic.
As for the game, it was a competitive mismatch, as the North all-stars, comprised of players from San Jose on northward through Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, dominated in a 42-7 victory.
The south all-star roster included players from the south end of the Central Coast Section north through Morgan Hill.
And while there was sloppy play, as well as glitches, such as a nonfunctioning scoreboard, there was a lot more effort put out than is likely to be seen in Sunday's Pro Bowl. A number of players viewed it as an opportunity to audition for college recruiters.
"It was a good chance to show something I didn't get to show that much at Serra,'' Kazakoff said. "I'd love to continue to play, but I don't know where.''
"He's a great athlete,'' Kazakoff said. "It was nice to have someone to throw to who could go up and get it.''
When Valenzuela got his first carry -- a 7-yard run for a first down that set up the second North touchdown -- his rooting section erupted.
"I thought the kids did a great job coming together,'' Machado said. "It was a chance for kids from different schools and different leagues to come together and unite for two weeks. I love these guys. We molded as a team.''
For more on high school sports, see the After School blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/highschools. Contact Glenn Reeves at 650-348-4345 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/GReeves23.


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NASCAR Weekend 2012 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway will feature the Stratosphere Pole Day (March 9th), the Sam's Town 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race (March 10th) and the Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race (March 11th).
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10 Rules for Human Beings
I woke up in a reflective mood today. I do that sometimes. Maybe it's the fact that it is a lazy Sunday and maybe it is the fact that I feel the need sometimes to remind myself of my goals in life and, since I am constantly tweaking them, look at what I have accomplished and what I still think I need to accomplish (and sometimes what I really have outgrown). I cannot, for the life of me, remember where I found these lessons but wherever it was, they have my undying gratitude because, when I found them today while looking for another file (funny how God puts what you need to see in front of you), as I read them again, I thought these were the exact rules I needed to hear at the moment as I am not loving my developing "whale body" of a triplet pregnancy, worried about making mistakes as a mother, and having a struggle waiting for the "there" instead of being grateful for the "here".
The Ten Rules For Being Human.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, 'life'.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The 'failed' experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately 'work'.
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. 'There' is no better a place than 'here'. When your 'there' has become a 'here', you will simply obtain another 'there' that will again look better than 'here'.
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
-Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott, If Life is A Game, These Are The Rules
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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Monday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
Recommended reading from around the Web:
Air-power expert Eliot A. Cohen says that no one, including President Barack Obama, should think that a few cruise missile strikes in Syria in response to the country's alleged use of chemical weapons will decisively change the course of the civil war there, for a desperate regime "can weather a couple of dozen big bangs." Still, he argues, doing nothing would be worse. [Washington Post]
Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper says in an editorial that Mahmoud Abbas has made clear that the Palestinians have a pragmatic leader who is offering Israel a chance at peace that is not to be missed. [Ha'aretz]
If Bashar al-Assad survives the civil war in Syria, the regime that emerges will be more oppressive and anarchic than the brutal yet stable one that existed before the war, predicts Andrew Tabler (@Andrewtabler) of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. [Foreign Affairs]
David Remnick reports on the lives, tragedies and hopes of the 120,000 Syrians now living in a refugee camp in Jordan. [New Yorker]
The irony of the Affordable Care Act, says Jonathan Bernstein, is that if it works, a lot of people who get insurance from the exchanges created by the law will say that they have private insurance and aren't getting any benefit from unpopular Obamacare. [American Prospect]
Richard Vedder, who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, says the way to improve college affordability is for the government to disinvest in higher ed and wean students from subsidies. [WSJ]
Microsoft retiring CEO Steve Ballmer, in one of the few interviews he did last week, tells Janet Tu (@janettu): "I'm not a stock price focused guy. I¹m a person who focuses in on: Do we have the right technologies? Do we have winning products? Are we making money?" [Seattle Times]
Christine Toretti, former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee's finance committee, plans to launch a political action committee, Women Lead, to raise $1 million to $10 million to support conservative women running for office. [Politico]
What We're Writing
By nearly every available economic metric, writes David Wessel, African-Americans are better off today than earlier generations were. [Charts]
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted
The number of African Americans in the U.S. has roughly doubled since 1963; the number with bachelor¹s degrees has increased 14-fold. [WSJ]
The Williams Institute, a UCLA think tank, estimated in a 2011 study that there were about 700,000 self-identified transgender adults in the U.S. [Washington Post]
The value of CEO Steve Ballmer's shares of Microsoft stock rose $625 million Friday on news that he plans to retire in the next 12 months. [Quartz]
More than 30 former Obama administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the health-care law have set up shop on K Street since 2010. [The Hill]
An anthropologist working for Adidas mailed dozens of women disposable cameras and asked them to photograph the thing that made them work out: 25 of 30 who responded sent a picture of a little black dress. [The Economist]
Twenty one of the top 25 counties ranked by government transfers as a share of total personal income went for Mitt Romney in 2012. [Civic Analytics]
"The Butler" was the best-attended movie for the second weekend in a row, grossing $52.3 million so far. [WSJ]
The number of IPOs in the U.S. could hit 200, the most since 2007. Just 16% of new U.S. listings this year have been technology or Internet companies, according to Dealogic. [WSJ]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.


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Drafting a Solution
Have you seen this keg? That's a question many wholesalers, retailers and brewers will be asking on the Brewers Association's new website KegReturn.com. Launched at the beginning of this year, the website's goal is to help the industry get back all those misplaced kegs.
Over the past four years or so, the association has also been working on a practical solution to this problem.
"The issue of keg loss and keg theft is a perennial problem," says Chris Swersey, technical brewing projects coordinator. "It's very costly."
Through the formation of a sub-committee of the Association technical team, they have been able to tackle how to better understand the problem and come up with a solution. Brewers Association members were surveyed early on in this process and it was discovered just how much monetary loss brewers suffer from disappearing kegs.
Keg loss costs craft brewers between $0.46 and $1.37 a barrel of annual keg production. To put that into perspective, if a brewer sells 1 million barrels in one year that amounts to a total capital charge of $460,000 to $1.4 million a year.
"That's an extraordinary amount of money for a small business to have to eat. That's another unintended tax almost," notes Swersey.
KegReturn.com will serve as a database of sorts where brewers, wholesalers and retailers would be able to upload information onto the site about their companies and their kegs including contact information (they're encouraged to list a point person as opposed to a general info email or phone number) and photos that could be searched by individuals who have kegs or scrap yards that end up with misplaced kegs.
The process is straightforward and takes minutes to search and send an email to a party that could be missing a keg, says Swersey. "It's a very complex issue," he says. "We are not sure of all the exact places that kegs go when they disappear, but we do know that they end up in some amazing places."
Causes for loss could be attributed to a number of different things: theft, misplacement and misconceptions among consumers or home brewers.
For instance, Swersey explains that paying a $30 deposit on a keg doesn't convey ownership of that keg. (A keg costs between $140 and $160, he estimates.) The deposit is designed to incentivize returning that keg. "There is a misconception that with the deposit you are buying that keg. You are not. That keg always remains the property of the brewery," he says.
He adds, "We are learning as we go and we are hoping that our members are able to get some of their kegs back. We don't see this as the (end-all) solution. It's a first step. What we'd really like to do is raise awareness of the issue, get some kegs back to their rightful home and make this part of an ongoing industry conversation."
There are technologies and programs out there offered by companies that can assist in this issue as well. Whether that's renting kegs or tagging them for tracking purposes or other innovative programs, the conversation has started and will continue.


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In an interview with ET Now, C. Rangarajan talks about the disappointing IIP numbers, adding that quick action on the data-gathering process is important for effective policy-making.
We have again had a fairly bad set of IIP numbers. It has come in at -3.5% for March. Your first reactions?
The IIP numbers are very disappointing. One would have thought that growth may not be that strong but not expected a negative growth rate. Once again, it appears that the capital goods sector has shown a very sharp decline. This sector has been very volatile during the past several months. One needs to take a very close look at the numbers again. But on the whole, it is disappointing and it will obviously affect the overall growth rate of industry production during the year.


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Cheapskate Readers Respond: Home Disasters
My Cheapskate column last week generated a bunch of emails on home-improvement efforts gone awry. Here are three gems.
One reader tried to save a $200 handyman bill by installing an attic fan himself. It ended up costing him $4,000 in shoulder surgeries.
"Everything was going just great (think 'Clark Griswold') until I lost my balance, and dropped like a ton of bricks from the rafters, dangling through the dining room ceiling.
"Good news: I broke my fall by throwing my arms out, stopping hard on the floorboard joists, leaving me dangling over the dining room. 'Honey, what's that loud noise?' my wife called, as she was on the phone with her mother.
"'Oh, it's only me', dangling, broken drywall and insulation bits everywhere.
Another reader recalls rigging up his rock-climbing gear and leaning backward to change bulbs 12 years ago on a high-hanging chandelier.
"It strained my abs so badly that I developed a hernia shortly thereafter. I had to have the hernia repaired, which is a perfectly miserable 4-inch incision in your abdomen. Not good."
Yet another lent his powered snake to a neighbor trying to clear a stuck toilet. Instead of snaking down the sewage drain, the snake came up in a neighboring bathroom and smashed up the toilet and walls.
"The walls looked like an early Jackson Pollock masterpiece in progress. The vanity was scarred and the mirror had taken a few cracks of the whip. It was one unholy mess."
Wallet readers, does this sound like you, or have you learned to trust home repairs to the professionals? Let us know in the comments, below.


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Author Max Brooks hosted Avatar publisher William Christensen at a Thursday panel during Comic-Con International in San Diego. They detailed Avatar's forthcoming slate of comic books including a series written by Alan Moore that the acclaimed writer described as "The 'Watchmen' of horror" according to Christensen. The two also discussed Garth Ennis' "Caliban" and "God is Dead," among other titles.
Introducing himself as actor Jon Cryer, because he bears a strong resemblance to the "Two and a Half Men" actor, Brooks unspooled a series of compliments regarding Christensen's obsession with publishing comics the right way. At one point, Brooks even accused Christensen of bragging about their paper stock. "It's like slightly better than mildly absorbent toilet paper, much like their books," Christensen said regarding the paper quality of other major publishers.
RELATED: Legendary Options Max Brooks' "Extinction Parade" for Television
Brooks himself is best-known as the author of "World War Z," and released his newest title, "Extinction Parade" at Avatar earlier this year. "Extinction Parade" follows vampires as they try to survive in a post zombie-apocalypse world and functions as something of a coming-of-age story for vampiric society. "We, as humans, were the dominant species on the planet, but we didn't start out that way," said Brooks, comparing the human role on earth to that of vampires. "We started out in the middle of the food chain."
As for zombies, Brooks thinks even less of them. "I'm not into zombies. I'm really not," Brooks said. "For me, zombies are a plague. I have no sympathy for them."
Earlier this year Avatar also released Brooks' "Harlem Hellfighters," the story of an African-American unit that fought in the First World War. Brooks said he also doubled as the book's visual researcher, compiling a stack of reference materials for artist Caanan White. The goal was to accurately reproduce World War I down to the badges worn by soldiers.
Another solid performer for Avatar is the "Crossed" series created by Ennis, which Brooks and Christensen described as ultra-violent and visual. "'Crossed' made Chuck Palahniuk throw up," said Brooks. "It is the deepest, darkest homicide porn you'll ever see in your life." Art is already in for issue #100, written by Garth Ennis and the series will welcome new artists in the near future.
The seven-issue "Caliban" is Ennis' answer to the "Prometheus" and "Alien" films, and will be collected and released next year. Christensen said Ennis, "having seen 'Prometheus' and been sorely disappointed," came up with the concept for the story. "It's more creepy than 'Explodo.'"
Avatar used the panel to announce a new limited series from comic book legend Alan Moore called "Providence." Christensen was scant on details about the series, offering only that it falls within the horror genre and is a labor of love for both Moore and the editorial staff. Not only did Christensen say it was a gargantuan effort to draft Moore into the Avatar fold, but working with the writer can be difficult. Apparently, Moore still uses a fax machine and has been loathe to adhere to digital advances in communication.
NYCC: Gillen and White's "Uber" Unveiled
Another curent Avatar series is Kieron Gillen's "Uber," which reimagines World War II. In this fictitious retelling of the war, the Germans have developed a new breed of superhuman and are using these soldiers in combat and to change the course of world affairs, yet they are still depleted of resources and could face defeat at the hands of the Allied Powers. "We're getting the next wave of different powered folks coming out," said Christensen, who cautioned not to build expectations in line with real history. "It still gets turned on its head." The series is currently slated to run 60 issues.
Gillen also has "Mercury Heat" in the works at Avatar. The sci-fi series is set on the planet of the same name and every character featured must constantly outrun the heat of the sun lest they be melted by the planet's extreme changes in temperature.
SDCC: George R.R. Martin on Avatar Adaptations, Comic Influence
Ennis' "God is Dead," the series about a world in which other deities have replaced the Judeo-Christian god will continue. The similarly titled but completely different (and unrelated) "Dark Gods," about the return of ancient beasts to do battle with one another, marks Justin Jordan's first original title at Avatar. Christensen called Jordan a creator to watch. "Justin has a different voice from anybody else I got here. That'll start in November," he said. That title hits the shelf in November.
Christensen also mentioned more "Absolution" is on the way from Christos Gage, plus titles from the ubiquitous George R.R. Martin, whom Christensen began working with prior to the "Game of Thrones" television series on HBO.
"We need to tell new stories, we need to be pushing the medium forward," said Christensen as the panel ended.
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Without a doubt, the coolest thing I've ever seen is a bowling ball being shot out of a homemade cannon. It goes so high that you lose sight of it — a half mile up into the wild, blue yonder — then, as it returns to earth, you can hear the finger holes whistling before you see it hit.
Paul Stone is the creative mad scientist who built the cannon and shoots it at a firing range on the outskirts of Creede, Colo. He is, among other things, a licensed pyrotechnician and is well known for his major fireworks shows on the Fourth of July. He went to Creede as a theater set designer and has maintained a living in the quirky little town of 400 as a carpenter, welder, handyman, pyrotechnician, sculptor, custom avant-garde furniture designer, bowling ball cannoneer and performance artist.
A few years ago, he submitted the lowest bid to demolish and remove an old house in town. He bid $50. He then got a crow bar and took the house apart one board at a time, then reassembled it on a lot overlooking the town. He did the foundation work, carpentry, plumbing, electrical and finish-out. He then moved into his nice $50 house. In my book, he is a genius.
There are a couple of videos you can watch to visually understand his wacky, creative personality, here and here.
A few weeks ago, I took my church youth group for our annual mission trip to Mineral County, Colo. Once again, we hired Paul to shoot the bowling ball cannon. In addition to our 15 Dallasites, there were almost 100 others who came to see the show. I saw Park Cities faces like John and Ann Delatour; 90-year-old Bill Campbell and his bride, Ginger Ray; Joan Germany; Alan Thomasson; and several others.
Word had just spread through town that Paul was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.
The entire town of Creede and the hundreds of Dallasites who spend summers in Creede were shocked by this diagnosis. Paul's friends, led by local actress Christy Brandt, have created a fund to help Paul with his medical expenses. To learn more, go to gofundme.com/clp5ms.
"Paul has brought so much joy and laughter to so many people over the years," said Christy. "We all want to pay him back by seeing that he has what he needs now that he is sick with this terrible disease. We invite everyone to join us in thanking Paul by doing what we can to make his burden a little bit lighter."
I saved the email Paul sent to his friends earlier this month. It says, "ALS is confirmed in Denver, but at least I get to keep my hot tub."
When folks are diagnosed with a challenging disease, they can count on friends and family for support. Paul is unique in that he also has an entire community that is surrounding him with love. And that includes his summer Creede family, many of whom live right here in Dallas.
Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer. Contact him at email@example.com.


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One mile is not very long. To convince yourself, consider taking some
link loss measurements prior to designing in equipment. You can
compare the power received to the minimum power requirement listed in
the GBIC datasheet. Give yourself some margin (~20% ?) You can use
single mode lasers on multi mode fiber as well. This will provide you
much better power density and less dispersion. I would still verify the
power at each end of the link.
I am a fan of not connecting SANs together via E-Port over distance. I
would opt for the Cisco/VSAN/FCIP or McDATA/iFCP route. Both are great
solutions and should be considered.
McDATA has a 4 port box (2FC & 2IP) and is packed full of features. It
is a little cumbersome to set up but will provide you the domain
isoloation you are (should) be looking for. The product is the Eclipse
Cisco has an IP services blade but requires you to purchase a 2 blade
chassis. I'm not sure if they have made a small appliance like McDATA.
It may be a little more expensive up front but may be a fit if you
have some expansion ahead.
You should be ok with either of these solutions. I would not consider a
pure tunneling solution.
Reno wrote:
> I'm installing another SAN in a remote office to mirror the data from
> my main corporate SAN to the remote office. I only have to go about 1
> mile and wondered, could I use my existing Multi-mode dark fibre (300m)
> with repeaters to extend the distance to the other builiding? I could
> then connect a fibre port (GBIC) on each side to create an ISL
> connection between the two switches. This seems rather simplistic, so
> I wondered if others could share their experiences with remote site
> mirroring. What worked, what didn't? What would be the optimal
> equipment on each end to mirror the data for Disaster Recovery? SCSI
> routers?


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Political Perspectives: Michelle Obama, Ann Romney Hit the Trail
The presidential campaigns ramped up the intensity this week as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney deployed their most reliable and popular surrogates. Michelle Obama and Ann Romney each went solo, amplifying their husbands' messages and generating their own headlines.
Both women have made a number of appearances on the campaign trail with and without their spouses, but they upped their visibility in recent days as they struck out on their own. Mrs. Romney tackled topics ranging from tax returns to her health in an interview that aired Thursday on ABC's Good Morning America. On Friday, she will head to Michigan for an event while Mr. Romney campaigns in New Hampshire. And while the president is stumping in Florida Friday, Mrs. Obama will be rolling out her own grassroots initiative, dubbed "It Takes One."
From the campaigns' perspective, there is plenty of upside to dispatching the candidates' spouses to the trail. Both Mrs. Romney and Mrs. Obama are well liked; polls have shown that their husbands have higher unfavorable ratings than they do. And the campaigns can cover more ground when the candidate and his wife are rallying voters on separate stages.
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Also appealing is the fact that the first lady and Mrs. Romney can strike a somewhat more positive tone, standing apart from some of the bare-knuckled punches that have been thrown in recent weeks. The campaigns have been on the attack, with Romney team accusing the president of lying and the Obama camp suggesting that the former Massachusetts governor may have committed a felony if he misrepresented his role at Bain Capital on official documents. When the Romney campaign sought an apology for that assertion, the answer was a flat "No."
Apparently, when the wives are involved, though, there are limits as to what's deemed acceptable. The Democratic National Committee recently used video of the Olympics-bound dressage horse co-owned by Mrs. Romney to suggest that her husband was dancing around the issues. But after Mrs. Romney reminded that her equine hobby had helped ease her multiple sclerosis symptoms and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty threw in a "shame on them," the DNC backed off and even expressed a degree of regret.
Still, Mrs. Romney and Mrs. Obama aren't entirely off limits when it comes to public scrutiny. They occasionally face unsolicited critiques of their wardrobe choices. And, much like their husbands, they can't afford even a modest verbal misstep, a fact that was underscored Thursday when Mrs. Romney's interview was broadcast. A small dust-up ensued after she emphasized that the campaign won't be releasing any more tax returns. While the audio wasn't entirely clear, some thought she said, "We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation."
For these rival campaigns, the challenge during the next few months will be to play to each woman's strengths. The goal will be to humanize their husbands, highlight key themes and build enthusiasm among the party faithful while limiting the possibility of straying too far from the script.
As the busy travel schedules of Mrs. Romney and Mrs. Obama make clear, both campaigns consider the candidate's spouse a key to victory.
Below, top Wall Street Journal reporters discuss President Obama and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns:


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I could listen to this piece on a loop. It's Santiago de Murcia's "Tarantela," performed by noted lutist Rolf Lislevand. The instrument he is playing is as important as the music and his artistry; it's an extremely rare Stradivarius guitar called the Sabionari. While tarantellas more commonly feature additional instruments and percussion like tambourines, this instrument is stunning by itself.
You can learn more about the Sabionari at Open Culture, a site I highly recommend for all manner of educational and exploratory content.
And now to dance the tarantella we call Monday.
Bad News (Media)
Just for the heck of it, consider a lunch read/watch on a recent theory: World War 0. Sounds plausible to me, but this theory seems pretty fluid.
Catch you here tomorrow morning!
Standard Bank reported it had lost 300 million rand, or USD $19.1 million to the attack on Japanese ATMs. First reports in South African media and Reuters were roughly 11 hours ago or 9:00 a.m. Johannesburg local time. It's odd the name of the affected bank did not get wider coverage in western media, but then South Africa has a problem with disclosing bank breaches. There were five breaches alleged last year, but little public information about them; they do not appear on Hackmageddon's list of breaches. This offers a false sense of security to South African banking customers and to banks' investors alike.
Japan Times report attribute the thefts to a Malaysian crime gang. Neither Japan Times nor Manichi mention Standard Bank's name as the affected South African bank. Both report the thefts actually took place more than a week ago on May 15th — another odd feature about reporting on this rash of well-organized thefts.
On January 30, I noted how the varied history of Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim had seen him on many different sides of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His history depends on whoever is describing it, but it is clear he spent time at Guantanamo, where leaked documents said that he was "substantially exploited". He was released from Guantanamo and held for at least some time in Afghanistan's notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison. Many reports put him serving on the Quetta Shura of the Afghan Taliban at a later point and getting quite close to Mullah Omar. Most recently, he was said to be an active recruiter for the Islamic State and perhaps even serving as the IS governor of the region.
Multiple reports today state that Rauf has been killed by a US drone strike in Afghanistan. From the Reuters report:
A missile-firing drone killed six people in Afghanistan on Monday including a veteran militant believed to have defected to Islamic State (IS) from the Taliban, Afghan officials said.
The senior militant, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mullah Abdul Rauf, was killed in the violence-plagued southern province of Helmand, officials there said.
Police chief Nabi Jan Mullahkhel said Rauf was travelling in a car when the drone attacked. The other casualties included his brother-in-law and four Pakistanis, Mullahkhel said.
More details from the area:
Afghanistan's main intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said in a statement Rauf was in charge of IS in southwestern Afghanistan and he was killed just after mid-day in "a successful military operation".
Helmand's deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, said Rauf's membership of IS could not be confirmed but his associates were dressed in black outfits often worn by IS members.
"It is too early to confirm that he was Daish but his people were wearing the same clothes and mask," Rasulyar said, referring to IS.
It is hardly surprising that the CNN account of his death would open with the recidivist angle:
He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.
He was killed in a drone strike Monday, two officials told CNN.
And, as with seemingly all stories of this type at the early stages, the possibility that Rauf escaped has been presented. Khaama Press relays the same reports of Rauf's death, but adds this to their story:
However, Pacha Gul Bakhtyar, Security Officer of Helmand Province had told Khaama Press earlier in the afternoon that Mullah Abdul Rawouf Khadim sustained serious injuries while four of his fighters were killed in the attack.
He said that Mullah Abdul Rawouf Khadim was traveling along with a group of his people in a Saracha vehicle when their vehicle was targeted, leaving Khadim seriously wounded and four of his people killed.
He said that Mullah Abdul Rawouf has escaped in wounded conditions.
So, while Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security states outright that Rauf was in charge of IS recruiting for the region, the Ministry of the Interior was insisting as recently as Sunday that the presence of IS fighters in Afghanistan was nothing more than a publicity stunt:
Rejecting the infiltration of the Islamic State (IS) fighters to Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has said the rumors about the sightings of theses fighters were nothing more than publicity.
MoI spokesman Sediq Sediqqi at a press conference on Sunday in Kabul said that the security agencies were aware of the movements of all enemies of the country.
He warned the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) would suppress all rebel groups whether they were operating under the name of IS or other brands.
As a final note, the case of Rauf and his constantly changing sides should be seen as the rule for areas where the US military has engaged in its misadventures rather than an exeception. Other stories in today's news note disputes over Afghan police with ties to the Taliban and Iraqi militias operated by a member of Parliament attacking Iraqi citizens at the same time they pursue ISIS.
So, of course, the US should promptly arm troops in Ukraine, as well, so that we can have another region where US arms raise the stakes the rapid changing of sides in a conflict.
All of the ladies attending the ball
Are requested to gaze in the faces
Found on the dance cards
Please then remember
And don't get too close to one special one
He will take your defenses and run
So we change partners
Time to change partners
You must change partners
Lyrics by Stephen Stills
When last we left Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, only two short weeks ago, he had suddenly appeared on the scene in Afghanistan as a recruiter for ISIS. That was after he had spent time on the Taliban's Quetta Shura as one of Mullah Omar's top advisors. That was after he escaped from Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison. That was after he had been transferred to Pul-e-Charkhi from Guantanamo, where he was "substantially exploited".
Today, Pakistan's Express Tribune is reporting that the Mullah Omar of ISIS, none other than Abu Bakr Baghdadi himself, has named Rauf the head of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, which, in ISIS-speak, is now known as the Khorasan Province of the Islamic State. Khorasan also includes Pakistan and selected other surroundings according to ISIS.
That is a very interesting development, especially since earlier this week, there was a report that Rauf had been arrested by the Taliban. Here is Adam Weinstein, writing at Gawker:
The Taliban, bane of America's post-9/11 Afghanistan operations, said Wednesday that they captured Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, a renegade insurgent and ex-Guantanamo detainee who was in Afghanistan recruiting for the Islamic State, the latest parry in a messy internecine conflict between violent Islamist regimes.
The independent Pajhwok news agency of Afghanistan reports that Khadim—who had previously been identified in the media as an ex-Taliban footsoldier who sought revenge against the U.S. after his detention in Gitmo—was arrested, along with 45 armed followers, after attempting to turn local militants against the Taliban and win their allegiance for ISIS's attempts to build a global caliphate.
However, not everyone was convinced of that report. From Thomas Joscelyn, writing at Long War Journal, also on Wednesday, we have this:
Still, Khadim has been an effective commander and the Khorasan province is already active in southern Afghanistan. There have been skirmishes between Baghdadi's followers and their rivals in the Taliban, which is clearly gunning for Khadim. One report says that the Taliban has captured Khadim and dozens of his followers, but that has not been confirmed.
Today's announcement of Rauf as governor of Khorasan marked a rather rapid promotion for him, as a report by Joscelyn on Monday noted that Rauf had been named deputy governor.
Oh, and while you're trying to sort out just whose side Rauf is on, or whose prison he is in this week, you can get even more confused about funding for ISIS and where it is coming from. Iran seems to be enjoying that particular tidbit.
Many outlets are reporting on the disclosure earlier this week that there appears to be active recruiting for Islamic State taking place in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Here is AP as carried by ABC News:
Afghan officials confirmed for the first time Monday that the extremist Islamic State group is active in the south, recruiting fighters, flying black flags and, according to some sources, even battling Taliban militants.
The sources, including an Afghan general and a provincial governor, said a man identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf was actively recruiting fighters for the group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
The article notes that the Taliban is not taking this development lightly and that there are reports that up to 20 people had died up to that point in skirmishes between the Taliban and those swearing allegiance to IS.
But Mullah Rauf is not just any random figure in Afghanistan. As the article notes, he was once a prisoner at Guantanamo.
In their profile of him this week, the Washington Post had this to say about Rauf:
Rauf is also known as Abdul Rauf Aliza and Maulvi Abdul Rauf Khadim. According to a military document released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, he turns 34 in February and was listed as detainee 108 at Guantanamo Bay. He was transferred to Afghanistan's control in 2007.
The report on him released by WikiLeaks said he was associated with several known Taliban commanders, but claimed to be a low-level soldier. In interviews with U.S. officials, he was cooperative, but his responses were vague or inconsistent when asked about the Taliban leadership, according to the report. Nonetheless, Rauf was assessed not to be a threat, and was recommended for transfer out and continued detainment in another country.
That Wikileaks document on Rauf can also be read here at the New York Times. This particular paragraph in the report caught my eye:
The document from which this is taken is dated October 26, 2004. The parenthetic note from the analyst begins "Detainee is substantially exploited". In the context of Guantanamo, the issue of prisoner exploitation is a very important topic. A groundbreaking post by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye in 2011 provides crucial context by what this aside from the analyst means for Rauf's detention: Continue reading
Since the release of the summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on torture, I don't think we've seen a return of the fawning press pieces over John Brennan where we see reverent mention of his moral rectitude. That's a good thing, since the hummus incident in the report would suggest that those he leads at the CIA display something more like moral rectaltude. Sadly, though, it seems that outgoing Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is the lone voice in the wilderness calling for Brennan to be fired. Here he is on Wednesday, in the Senate, disclosing more information from the Panetta review on torture and calling for Brennan to be fired over his continued lies to Congress and the American people (at 3:09 of the video, "In other words, the CIA is lying."):
As Udall notes, Brennan has continued to cover for CIA lies and misrepresentations to Congressional overseers. He also has mostly claimed that CIA torture saved lives, although yesterday he did engage in some semantics over that point, presumably in response to Udall's Wednesday speech.
But besides Udall's point about Brennan needing to be fired over his failure to clean house over torture or even to fully recognize it, there is another, stronger, reason to call for Brennan's removal. Brennan has demonstrated, multiple times, that he will allow political vindictiveness to drive his actions. And he has done so in the worst possible way: in his previous counterterrorism role and then at CIA in his control of drone strikes. As I have noted in this post and this one, drone strikes in which Brennan would have played a controlling role can be seen as being driven by political retaliation rather than security.
A man who has used drone strikes as political retaliation tools has no business running a CIA that is once again under siege for its crimes. Even though few in the US are calling for prosecutions, calls for prosecutions have now come from more than one UN figure.
Also, don't forget another event that will factor into Brennan's anger over calls for prosecutions and/or his removal: he undoubtedly feels that the anti-torture crowd caused him to have to wait to take his rightful role as head of CIA. Recall that he withdrew his name for consideration in 2008 due to his association with the torture program and has been director now for less than two years.
How can Barack Obama leave in office a man who has used lethal drone strikes in the past to score political points to remain in office when the organization he leads is under siege for its demonstrated breaches of international law? Brennan makes the case for his removal even more urgent when he says that a return to torture is simply a question for future policymakers rather than something that is clearly illegal.
Both NBC and Reuters are reporting that the US has closed its prison at the Bagram air base that was used to house non-Afghan prisoners. After many fits and starts, the US had ceded control of (mostly?) all Afghan prisoners to Afghanistan last year. As far as I can tell, the last time we had an accounting of the foreign prisoners held at Bagram was in February, when the number sat at 49, although Adam Goldman noted that the US was busy trying to reduce that number.
There was a report of two Yemenis being transferred out of the facility back in August and Russian prisoner Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin was brought to the US for trial in November, but even as recently as earlier this week, when Latif Mehsud and two of his guards were repatriated to Pakistan, Dawn still reported that conventional wisdom put the number of foreign prisoners held at Bagram in the dozens. The Dawn report relayed a statement from the US embassy that the population was being reduced:
The US Embassy in Kabul said the three prisoners had been held at a detention centre near Bagram airfield.
The facility is believed to house several dozen foreign prisoners who the United States will no longer be allowed to keep in Afghanistan when the mission for the US-led force there ends later this month.
"We're actually just going through and returning all the third-country nationals detained in Afghanistan to resolve that issue," a US embassy spokeswoman said.
Note especially that the spokeswoman said "all the third-country nationals". That stands out because Hamidullin was not the only prisoner held at Bagram who was expected to be brought to trial. Goldman's report in February said that the "number of people being looked at for prosecution is in the single digits". Are more of these prisoners already being held in the US in preparation for the filing of charges? Are they held elsewhere? Or were they repatriated instead?
But there were also some prisoners who can't be tried but are still deemed "too dangerous to release":
And bringing some of them to the United States for trial in a military commission, an option being considered by the Obama administration, could run into political opposition or may be stymied by a lack of court-ready evidence.
What happened to the prisoners whom the US deemed too dangerous to release but who lacked "court-ready evidence"?
The US prison at Bagram and Defense Department operated prisons throughout both Afghanistan and Iraq have a long, checkered history of lies and misdirection about facilities and their population. Further, this facility at Bagram has been used to house prisoners who were tortured. It seems likely that most of the 49 foreign prisoners known to be there in February have been repatriated without public announcements, but what about those who had been slated for indefinite detention? We now have a number of prisoners who were deemed dangerous and have disappeared in the last several months. Will their status ever be clarified? Will we be forced to concoct more crazy theories on where they went?
Update: It should be noted that both of the stories linked at the beginning of this post state that the last two prisoners transferred out of the US facility at Bagram were handed over to Afghan authorities. This represents a huge change in policy for Afghanistan. Under Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan was adamant that no foreign prisoners would be held in Afghan jails. With this move, it is clear that Ashraf Ghani has changed the policy. So perhaps Afghan prisons are where we will find all of the prisoners the US had slated for indefinite detention without charges?
Emmerson opens by noting the delay in release of the report's summary:
I welcome the belated publication of the summary report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the crimes of torture and enforced disappearance of terrorist suspects by the Bush-era CIA. It has taken four years since the report was finalised to reach this point. The Administration is to be commended for resisting domestic pressure to suppress these important findings.
In my 2013 report* to the Human Rights Council as SpeciaI Rapporteur, I called on the US Government to release the report without further delay, and to ensure that it was published in full, without excessive and unnecessary redactions.
It seems a bit strange to me that Emmerson would commend the "administration" for "resisting domestic pressure to suppress these important findings". We can only presume that "administration" refers to the Obama administration. It has been clear that in many instances of the struggle by the SSCI to release the report, the Obama administration has come down more on the side of the CIA than the committee. Only if the committee itself is included in Emmerson's view of the "administration" does the comment make sense.
Emmerson then gets down to business:
The summary of the Feinstein report which was released this afternoon confirms what the international community has long believed – that there was a clear policy orchestrated at a high level within the Bush administration, which allowed to commit systematic crimes and gross violations of international human rights law.
The identities of the perpetrators, and many other details, have been redacted in the published summary report but are known to the Select Committee and to those who provided the Committee with information on the programme.
So we know that crimes have been committed. Further, the committee also knows who is responsible for those crimes. What to do about it?
It is now time to take action. The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today's report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes.
The fact that the policies revealed in this report were authorised at a high level within the US Government provides no excuse whatsoever. Indeed, it reinforces the need for criminal accountability.
Note the language here. Emmerson doesn't say that those responsible for the crimes should be brought to justice. He says outright that they MUST be brought to justice. Emmerson further points out that being authorized at a high level in the government gives no protection. Further, he notes a "conspiracy" to carry out the crimes.
Emmerson then goes on to destroy Barack Obama's "look forward" bullshit and John Durham's coverup disguised as an investigation:
International law prohibits the granting of immunities to public officials who have engaged in acts of torture. This applies not only to the actual perpetrators but also to those senior officials within the US Government who devised, planned and authorised these crimes.
As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice. The UN Convention Against Torture and the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances require States to prosecute acts of torture and enforced disappearance where there is sufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction. States are not free to maintain or permit impunity for these grave crimes.
Obama, Holder and Durham simply cannot grant immunity for these crimes. International law forbids it. More specifically, the Convention Against Torture, to which the US is a signatory, prohibits it. Similarly, the Convention on Enforced Disappearances also comes into play in the crimes committed by the US and also prevents the granting of immunity that Obama has tried to orchestrate.
Emmerson's conclusion reiterates those points and provides a warning to those guilty of these crimes:
It is no defence for a public official to claim that they were acting on superior orders. CIA officers who physically committed acts of torture therefore bear individual criminal responsibility for their conduct, and cannot hide behind the authorisation they were given by their superiors.
However, the heaviest penalties should be reserved for those most seriously implicated in the planning and purported authorisation of these crimes. Former Bush Administration officials who have admitted their involvement in the programme should also face criminal prosecution for their acts.
President Obama made it clear more than five years ago that the US Government recognises the use of waterboarding as torture. There is therefore no excuse for shielding the perpetrators from justice any longer. The US Attorney General is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible.
Torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction. The perpetrators may be prosecuted by any other country they may travel to. However, the primary responsibility for bringing them to justice rests with the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General.
Emmerson specifically calls out those who planned and authorized the torture as deserving the "heaviest penalties".
And they need to be careful. Even though they are facing no punishment in the US for their crimes, these criminals can face prosecution should they travel abroad because torture is a crime subject to universal jurisdiction. Under universal jurisdiction, other countries would normally defer to the US for prosecution of crimes carried out by citizens of the US. However, once it is clear that no such prosecutions will take place, other countries are free to act.
Although I'd like to see them inside cells of much smaller dimensions, it appears that for now those who designed the CIA torture program and ordered its implementation are now imprisoned within the borders of the US because they are at risk of real prosecution while traveling outside the borders.
Barack Obama faces a huge amount of pressure during the current meltdown of Iraq because he withdrew all US military forces from the country. As I have pointed out in countless posts, the single controlling factor for that withdrawal was that Iraq refused to provide criminal immunity to US troops who remained in Iraq past December 31, 2011.
A very similar scenario is playing out now in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai has refused to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement that will provide criminal immunity to US troops remaining beyond the end of this year. Both Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani have stated that they will sign the BSA immediately upon taking office, but the recount of their runoff election remains mired in dysfunction over how to eliminate fraudulent votes. John Kerry has visited twice to get the candidates to cease sparring, but dysfunction has quickly ensued after both visits. Meanwhile, the clock ticks ever closer to expiration of the current agreement providing immunity.
All along, the US framing for insisting on criminal immunity for troops is based on avoiding the chaos of soldiers facing false charges that might be brought through a court system that lacks the safeguards of the US court system or even the US military courts. But a report (pdf) released Friday by Amnesty International provides solid evidence that the US has failed, on multiple verified occasions, to take any action to pursue those responsible for clear war crimes in Afghanistan. That stands out to me as the real reason the US insists on criminal immunity.
Amnesty sums up their findings in the press release accompanying the report:
Focusing primarily on air strikes and night raids carried out by US forces, including Special Operations Forces, Left in the Dark finds that even apparent war crimes have gone uninvestigated and unpunished.
"Thousands of Afghans have been killed or injured by US forces since the invasion, but the victims and their families have little chance of redress. The US military justice system almost always fails to hold its soldiers accountable for unlawful killings and other abuses," said Richard Bennett, Amnesty International's Asia Pacific Director.
"None of the cases that we looked into – involving more than 140 civilian deaths – were prosecuted by the US military. Evidence of possible war crimes and unlawful killings has seemingly been ignored."
The description continues:
Two of the case studies — involving a Special Operations Forces raid on a house in Paktia province in 2010, and enforced disappearances, torture, and killings in Nerkh and Maidan Shahr districts, Wardak province, in November 2012 to February 2013 — involve abundant and compelling evidence of war crimes. No one has been criminally prosecuted for either of the incidents.
Qandi Agha, a former detainee held by US Special Forces in Nerkh in late 2012, spoke of the daily torture sessions he endured. "Four people beat me with cables. They tied my legs together and beat the soles of my feet with a wooden stick. They punched me in the face and kicked me. They hit my head on the floor." He also said he was dunked in a barrel of water and given electrical shocks.
Agha said that both US and Afghan forces participated in the torture sessions. He also said that four of the eight prisoners held with him were killed while he was in US custody, including one person, Sayed Muhammed, whose killing he witnessed.
Of course, the US claims that while it wants troops immune from prosecution in Afghanistan under trumped up charges, crimes will be investigated by US authorities. The Amnesty report puts that lie to rest. Again, from the press release:
Of the scores of witnesses, victims and family members Amnesty International spoke to when researching this report, only two people said that they had been interviewed by US military investigators. In many of the cases covered in the report, US military or NATO spokespeople would announce that an investigation was being carried out, but would not release any further information about the progress of the investigation or its findings – leaving victims and family members in the dark.
"We urge the US military to immediately investigate all the cases documented in our report, and all other cases where civilians have been killed. The victims and their family members deserve justice," said Richard Bennett.
Yeah, I'm sure the military will get right on that. Sometime in the next century or two.
The report provides three recommendations to the government of Afghanistan:
Create a credible, independent mechanism to monitor, investigate and report publicly on civilian deaths and injuries caused by the ANSF, and to ensure timely and effective remedies. This mechanism should include detailed procedures for recording casualties, receiving claims, conducting investigations, carrying out disciplinary measures including prosecutions where warranted, and ensuring reparation, including restitution, compensation, and rehabilitation.
Ensure that accountability for civilian casualties is guaranteed in any future bilateral security agreements signed with NATO and the United States, including by requiring that international forces provide a regular accounting of any incidents of civilian casualties, the results of investigations into such incidents, and the progress of any related prosecutions. Such agreements should exclude any provision that might infringe upon Afghanistan's obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Continue to press the US and NATO authorities to take meaningful steps to enhance civilian protection, investigate reports of civilian casualties, and prosecute violations of international humanitarian law that result in civilian casualties.
Those recommendations are terrific, but they are completely meaningless when applied to what is really happening in Afghanistan. None of the good things in that list have any chance of even making it into the language of the already negotiated BSA, and even if they did, no enforcement of it would ever be allowed. After all, the US is the country that even has passed a law allowing use of military force to "rescue" any citizen facing charges in the ICC. It doesn't matter whether George W. Bush or Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief, the US military will go wherever it wants, kill whoever it wants, and allow the vast majority of its crimes to go without consequence.
That is the particular freedom they hate us for.
Torturing on behalf of the United States appears to be a career move that results in a comfortable lifestyle after moving on from government service. Jose Rodriguez, who both ordered up torture and then personally destroyed video evidence of it, now profits from those events through book sales. James Mitchell, who was integral to the design of the torture program, now lives quietly in Land O'Lakes, Florida and until very recently didn't even have to bother talking with reporters, let alone crime investigators. Of course, if you choose to expose US torture, it's prison for you, as John Kiriakou has demonstrated.
But the disgusting free status of Rogdriguez and Mitchell pales in comparison to the level of depravity in the known history of personal involvement in torture for Haji Gulalai and how it was revealed yesterday that Gulalai is now living a quiet, comfortable life just outside Los Angeles. [Just as a bit of life advice, never piss off Julie Tate, as her work in finding Gulalai is perhaps the best bit of investigative journalism in the US in decades.]
Even very early in the US misadventures in Afghanistan, Gulalai was a favorite for the US and its press. Here is a bit from CNN in December of 2001:
Despite intelligence reports indicating the location of Mullah Mohammed Omar, a senior Afghan official said going after the Taliban leader is not a priority.
Haji Gulalai, Kandahar's intelligence chief, said information suggests that Omar is in Helmand province, west of Kandahar, in a district called Baghran.
He says the priority of officials in the Kandahar region is to rebuild the country and the city of Kandahar first, not chasing after Omar.
Gulalai played a special role in development of the Afghan government, eventually becoming, as described in the Post article, Afghanistan's "torturer in chief":
Since its inception, the NDS [National Directorate of Security] has depended on the CIA to such an extent that it is almost a subsidiary — funded, trained and equipped by its American counterpart. The two agencies have shared intelligence, collaborated on operations and traded custody of prisoners.
Gulalai was considered a particularly effective but corrosive figure in this partnership. He was a fierce adversary of the Taliban, officials said, as well as a symbol of the tactics embraced by the NDS.
"He was the torturer in chief," said a senior Western diplomat, who recalled meeting with a prisoner at an NDS facility in Kabul to investigate how he had been treated when Gulalai entered unannounced. The detainee became agitated and bowed his head in submission. "He was terrified, which made sense," the diplomat said. Gulalai was "a big wheel in a machine that ground up a lot of people."
In setting up the torture program for Afghanistan, Gulalai was paid directly by the CIA:
"It was chaos; you had to start from scratch," said a former senior U.S. intelligence official involved in the effort. The agency equipped the NDS with a fleet of vehicles brought up through Pakistan, delivered office supplies to a Kabul building that the Taliban had trashed and provided a stream of cash to cover payroll. "Money would come in on aircraft, we'd put it through a counting machine and distribute it in duffel bags," said the former U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the CIA's role.
Gulalai distinguished himself particularly for his torture in Kandahar: Continue reading
By now, you undoubtedly have heard about Matthieu Aikins' blockbuster story published yesterday by Rolling Stone, in which he provides a full description of war crimes carried out by Special Operations forces in the Nerkh District of Maidan Wardan province, Afghanistan. [If not, go read it in full, now!] I began following this story closely back in February when Hamid Karzai demanded the removal of all Special Operations forces from Maidan Wardak because of the crimes committed by this group. As more details of the crimes slowly emerged after that time, it became more and more clear that although several members of the US Special Operations A-Team participated in the crimes, a translator working for them, going by the name of Zakaria Kandahari, was central to the worst of the events. It eventually emerged that Karzai had demanded in January that the US hand Kandahari over for questioning, but the US eventually claimed that Kandahari had escaped. I had viewed that claim with extreme skepticism. Details provided by Aikins at the very end of his article provide justification for that skepticism, as it turns out that while Kandahari was "missing", he appears to have used Facebook to stay in contact with the Special Operations team of which he had been a part.
Back in May, the New York Times carried an article detailing some of the charges against Kandahari and providing a description of his disappearance. Note especially the military's multiple claims that they had nothing to do with the disappearance and did not know where he was:
Afghan officials investigated the events in the Nerkh district, and when they concluded that the accusations of misconduct by the team were true, the head of the Afghan military, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, personally asked the American commander at the time, Gen. John R. Allen, to hand Mr. Kandahari over to the Afghan authorities.
According to a senior Afghan official, General Allen personally promised General Karimi that the American military would do so within 24 hours, but the promise was not kept, nor was a second promise a day later to hand him over the following morning. "The next morning they said he had escaped from them and they did not know where he was," the official said.
The American official said the military was not trying to shield Mr. Kandahari. "The S.F. guys tried to pick him up, but he got wind of it and went on the lam, and we lost contact with him," the official said. "We would have no reason to try to harbor this individual."
And a spokesman for the American military, David E. Nevers, said General Allen "never had a conversation with General Karimi about this issue."
That "we lost contact with him" is just one of the many lies put out by the military about this entire series of events. Look at what Aikins uncovered, just by finding Facebook traffic from the A-Team involved (but note that this moves Kandahari's disappearance back to December from the previous accounts that put it in January): Continue reading


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Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 for information on the robbery of Cash America Pawn, 906 E. Hwy. 67 in Duncanville at 9:30 a.m. on June 11, 2011.
Surveillance photos:
Suspect #1: Black male 30-35, glasses, black baseball cap, LS blue T-shirt, blue jeans.
Suspect #2: Black male 30-35, blue baseball cap, LS blue T-shirt, blue and white plaid shorts. Birth mark near his left eye, tattoos on the back and right side of his neck.
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Am Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:20:44 +0100 schrieb Adam Lipscombe:
> Currently my company production server is a fedora linux box with administrative access allowed from
> 4 fixed IP addresses. The 3 administrators all work from home and have access from their fixed IP
> addresses via DSL.
> We are considering moving the server authentication to SSH2 RSA and accessing it via the open source
> secure shell client.
> I have concerns that SSH2 RSA may not be as secure as fixed IP addresses, both in real terms, and in
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> How secure is SSH2 RSA?
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umbrella pine
1 another term for stone pine.
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- Carter is a great believer in the Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens stricta), found all over Tuscany, and the umbrella pine, its constant companion.
- The vegetation, especially the characteristic umbrella pine set before the beautiful bay, indelibly marks the Mediterranean location.
- A beautiful umbrella pine is silhouetted against a yellow sky, and the bay indicates human presence with several jetties.
2A tall Japanese evergreen conifer related to the redwoods, with leaves growing in umbrella-like whorls.
- Sciadopitys verticillata, family Taxodiaceae.
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- By the later first century AD, many farmsteads were cultivating coriander and opium poppies, and trees such as cherry, plum, and perhaps umbrella pine were grown.
- The town has two great woods of umbrella pines which give welcome shade at midday.
- Japanese umbrella pine is a living relic predating the age of the dinosaurs.
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Bigg Boss 5: Will Mahek Chahal kiss Siddharth Bhardwaj?
Bigg Boss has assigned the the housemates to become kids and parents for a week. Siddharth Bhardwaj is a kid, while Mahek Chahal is his mother. Sid asked a kiss from Mahek in Wednesday's episode, but she politely refused to do so. It should be seen whether she will kiss him in coming days.
However, Siddharth Bhardwaj was asked by the Bigg Boss to nominate two names for the election of next captain. Sid nominated Pooja Bedi and Shonali Nagrani for captaincy after consulting with other housemates. Meanwhile, Bigg Boss has asked Amar Upadhyay to convince Sid to change his selection. If he is successful in convincing him, Amar will be made the captain for next week.


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The Day is Done
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This is a little odd, but fun too: a silent educational film from the 1920s about Longfellow's life. Kind of like an old-timey filmstrip.
These are a really big fad on the internet, although we're not exactly sure why. A little creepy, but it's a good reading of the poem.
A nice painting of a youngish HWL.
A photo of the poet as an older man, looking a little cranky.
Here's a scanned version of the anthology in which "The Day is Done" first appeared. It's worth a look through to see how this poem looked in the original.
A web version of a museum exhibit, filled with cool facts and images form Longfellow's life.
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After disembarkation from the Navigator, we decided to book the Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise on our own. We took the 8-1/2 hour cruise which included dinner on Fox Island and a visit to the The naturalist/narrator on our cruise was outstanding and knew when to talk to enlighten us and when not to talk to let us enjoy the sounds of wildlife and the calving of glaciers. During the tour we observed a number of sea otters, Dall purpoises, humpback whales, increasingly rare stellar sea lions and harbor seals. The bird life observed was extensive and included tufted and horned puffins, common murres and many others. The highlight of the tour included a stop at the Aialik tidewater glacier which provided an up close observation of glacier calving. It's hard to describe but you first hear the loud cracking of the ice and then almost instantly see the ice fall into the sea. It's quite an impressive and memorable experience.
We stayed one night at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside. This hotel has seen better days and we are somewhat surprised that Regent Seven Seas features this hotel in their pre and post-cruise lodging option. It is near the cruise port facility but there are certainly better hotels nearby that would be more appropriate to the Regent's luxury image. In any event, our stay at the Renaissance was comfortable and the service was excellent so we had no major complaints other than the hotel is dated and could use a major renovation. It was raining in Vancouver so we limited our activities to a stroll around the shopping areas near the hotel and a visit to the quaint and historical Gastown area.
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IN THE past few weeks, China's state-controlled media have given Apple a bruising. Last month CCTV, the national broadcaster, pilloried the firm for its warranty-repair policies, which are not always the same in China as in other countries. Then the People's Daily, a party organ, denounced it for its arrogance. Other attacks followed in Xinhua, the official news agency, and through celebrity mouthpieces on social media.On April 1st Apple apologised. Tim Cook, the firm's chief executive, posted a letter on its Chinese website acknowledging that "some people may have viewed our lack of
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So don't ask yourself what people want. Ask instead, What is true? What really inspires me, excites me? What will really help people and take away their confusion and suffering? It's sort of a funny, crazy way to go, but I think it's the only way to bring water to the wasteland Joseph Campbell described. When I read something truthful, something real, I breathe a deep sigh and say, "Fantastic - I wasn't mad or alone in thinking that, after all!" So often we are left to our own devices, struggling in the dark with this external and internal propaganda system. At that point, for someone to tell us the truth is a gift. In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness.
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I am the ultimate witness. I see many things. Sometimes I want to run away from all these things. I think it's too hard, it will never change, never, never, never change. It's too much because I see all the small, little things that go unobserved. The little looks in the eyes, or the sarcastic tone that comes up between people. I pick up on all of it and I say, "Oh so sad," because unfortunately they do not even realize it themselves. They are living their lives in complete reactivity. They are not really living life but being lived by life. So this is why meditation is very important. It leads you to become a witness in the physical world so that you can perfect your character. Then you can be of service to the world by being a creature who is acting in love, compassion and kindness in the world all the time. Try it. Step out of yourselves in public and just witness; see what you see of yourself. Learn from it and challenge yourself to be a greater person today than you were yesterday by behaving from a place of complete conscious awareness and not ignorance.
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The part of a country's economy concerned with the provision of services.
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- Given these incentives, every person who gains employment in primary industry or property improvement of any sort generates four more job opportunities downstream in secondary and tertiary industries.
- In addition to the 850,000 strong workforce directly employed in the industry, it has also created 1.15m indirect employment opportunities in tertiary industries such as transport, catering, security and housekeeping services.
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Solana Beach Library to host Friends Night Out event April 5
The Friends of the Solana Beach Library invite the public to its Friends Night Out event on Tuesday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature a presentation on "Free Flight, Our Local Exotic Bird Sanctuary."
Free Flight is located on Jimmy Durante Blvd in Del Mar and was opened by Dr. Robert Stonebreaker as a sanctuary that saves, nurtures, rehabilitates, and places exotic birds in their ideal environment.
Our Friends Night Out program will be presented by Sarah Booher, who is the outreach coordinator for Free Flight. At the program attendees will be able to learn more about Free Flight and also meet and interact with some of the unique birds which make up the Free Flight Flock.
This event is free to the public and will be held at the Solana Beach Library, 157 Stevens Avenue in Solana Beach, (858-755-1404).


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Shabbat cholent: the ultimate slow food
Cholent takes hours to cook and puts you to sleep for the afternoon. But Saturday would not be the same without it.
The French have a passion for cassoulet, Lancastrians revel in hot pot and the Irish enthuse about their stew, but none of these holds a light to a hearty, steaming bowl of cholent. That, at least, is my opinion, although I accept that it can be an acquired taste.
Picky sophisticates are unlikely to appreciate its heady aroma or its thick consistency. Indeed, to get the best out of it, an appreciation of basic folk-lore food and a big appetite is required.
One fan of the dish was the German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. He was so impressed that he penned a poem expressing his passion for its qualities. Cholent, he wrote, was "a ray of light immortal, the very food of heaven which on Sinai, God himself instructed Moses in the secret of preparing".
Now whether Moses actually cooked a cholent is perhaps a matter for debate but certainly its roots are ancient and deep. The Ashkenazi-style version was, according to one expert fresser, first mentioned in 1180 by the epicurean Rabbi Yitzhak of Vienna and some say its history can be traced to Second Temple times. Today it remains as popular as ever and is considered to be not just a food but a tasty tradition beloved by balabustas around the world.
One such is Sadie Hirshorn of Wanstead, East London. Now in her 90s, she vividly recalls how in her East End childhood she would take a pot of cholent to the local baker on a Friday morning and, for tuppence, he would cook it in his oven overnight, ready to be taken home piping hot after shul.
Mrs Hirshorn still cooks cholent for her family, who are all enthusiasts. She uses a recipe handed down by her mother, which can be served either as a vegetarian or meat version. It is based on stock, into which are poured carrots, butter beans, barley, onions, potatoes, flour, margarine, brown sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Added to this is a big piece of kugel and, if it is the meaty version, brisket or top rib of beef.
Simmered for hours, Mrs Hirshorn's cholent is a joy to behold. It is also, she says, a fine substitute for sleeping pills. "After a plate or two of cholent all the men dozed off for a Shabbat shluff."
Cholent is becoming positively fashionable in Israel where connoisseurs have taken to frequenting restaurants specialising in "Jewish" food. Even the Israeli Foreign Ministry carries a cholent recipe on its website. Highly popular in Israel is the Sephardi version known as Hamin, the Hebrew word for "hot". This is a reference both to its temperature and its flavour.
Cumin and hot peppers add zing to the pot along with eggplant and zucchini stuffed with ground beef, rice, chickpeas and meat or chicken.
Hamin typically includes unshelled eggs which turn brown as they are cooked on top of the mixture.
The flavour of Hamin varies widely. For instance, Iraqi Jews make a version with a whole chicken stuffed with rice. Moroccan and Spanish Jews use a wide range of spices including garlic, cinnamon, ginger and pepper.
While the health and safety police occasionally question it — one critic has described cholent as an artery-blocker — demand shows no sign of fading. Many kosher butchers even sell it in frozen blocks and it has also gained recognition outside the Jewish community.
Celebrity chef John Torode, the star of MasterChef, together with the cooking duo the Jewish Princesses, have produced a fine recipe that serves eight.
It calls for 2kg of stewing beef cut into cubes, six large potatoes, six onions, 175g of pearl barley, 2 bay leaves, 235g of canned cannelloni beans, 235g of canned butter beans, 235g of canned borlotti beans, a 400g tin of chopped tomatoes, a pinch of black pepper, two teaspoons of salt, two teaspoons of brown sugar, three chopped carrots, two beef stock cubes and two eggs.
Preheat the oven to 200˚C and put the ingredients into a heavy, oven proof dish with the beef in the centre and the unshelled eggs on top. Add enough water to cover and cook in the preheated oven for one hour.
Finally reduce the heat to 150˚C or gas mark 2 and leave in the oven for seven hours — or even longer at a lower heat. Enjoy!
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