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Andi Ball. [Source: White House]Laura Bush, the president's wife, and her entourage are driven from Capitol Hill to the Secret Service headquarters in Washington, DC, for their own security, but their journey is slowed by the heavy traffic. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 17; National Journal, 8/31/2002; Kessler, 2006, pp. 136; Bush, 2010, pp. 200-201] Bush has been at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, where she was originally scheduled to testify before a Senate committee. [CNN, 9/12/2001; Woodward, 2002, pp. 16-17] Her Secret Service agents have said they are going to take the first lady and her staff to a secure location. [Kessler, 2006, pp. 136] After the Secret Service emergency response team arrived for her, Bush was escorted out of the Russell Senate Office Building and to her limousine (see (Shortly After 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001). Bush and those accompanying her leave Capitol Hill at 10:10 a.m., according to Noelia Rodriguez, the first lady's press secretary. Agents with Guns Drawn Protect Motorcade - Secret Service agents protect Bush's motorcade with their guns as it heads to the secure location. Ashleigh Adams, the first lady's deputy press secretary, will later recall, "It felt like we were in a war, because the Secret Service was driving next to the motorcade and they were hanging out of the windows with their machine guns out." She will add that she has "been around the agents" before, but has "never seen them with their guns." Motorcade Delayed by Traffic - However, the motorcade is slowed by the heavy traffic. Bush will describe, "Outside our convoy windows, the city streets were clogged with people evacuating their workplaces and trying to reach their own homes." Rodriguez will say, "In the car, we seemed to be going in slow motion." [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 200] "The traffic was so bad that everything was stopped," Andi Ball, Bush's chief of staff, will recall. One of the Secret Service agents escorting Bush and her staff will later say a car sideswiped them during the journey. Secure Location Is Secret Service Headquarters - The "secure location" that Bush and her staff are being taken to turns out to be the Secret Service headquarters. [Kessler, 2006, pp. 136] The Secret Service headquarters, according to journalist and author Ronald Kessler, is "an anonymous nine-story tan brick building on H Street at Ninth Street NW in Washington." [Kessler, 2009, pp. 23] It is located a few blocks from the White House. After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995) it was reinforced to survive a large-scale blast. Bush and her entourage arrive there through an underground entrance. [Washington Post, 8/23/2009; Bush, 2010, pp. 200-201] Journey Reportedly Takes 45 Minutes - The exact time they arrive at is unclear. According to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, "In the traffic jam from the Capitol, it took 45 minutes to get [Bush] to Secret Service headquarters." This would mean the first lady arrives there at around 10:55 a.m. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 17] However, Bush will write that she watches the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsing "live in front of my eyes," on a screen at the headquarters. [Bush, 2010, pp. 201] If this is correct, she must arrive at the headquarters sometime before 10:28 a.m., when the North Tower comes down (see 10:28 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 311] White House spokespeople will refuse to disclose where the first lady has been taken to, only saying she is at a "secure location." [Associated Press, 9/11/2001; CNN, 9/12/2001; CNN, 9/11/2002]
Entity Tags: Andrea Ball, Laura Bush, Ashleigh Adams, Noelia Rodriguez, US Secret Service
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Laura Bush, the president's wife, and her entourage arrive at the Secret Service headquarters in Washington, DC, where they will remain for much of the rest of the day, and where they make phone calls to their relatives and watch television coverage of the terrorist attacks. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 17; National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 201-203] Bush and her staff have been brought to the headquarters for their own security by members of the Secret Service. The building, located a few blocks from the White House, is strengthened to survive a large-scale blast. Bush and those accompanying her were driven there from the Russell Senate Office Building, on Capitol Hill (see (10:10 a.m.-10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Associated Press, 9/11/2001; Kessler, 2006, pp. 136; Bush, 2010, pp. 200-201] They are initially taken to the office of Brian Stafford, the Secret Service director, which is on an upper floor of the building. [Draper, 2007, pp. 143; Bush, 2010, pp. 201] First Lady and Staff Call Their Families - Bush tells her staffers to call their families. Noelia Rodriguez, the first lady's press secretary, will later recall, "Mrs. Bush told us, 'Find phones, get hold of your families, and let them know you are okay.'" Bush calls her daughters, Jenna and Barbara, and her mother (see (Between 11:00 a.m. and 11:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 202] She will also talk with President Bush while at the headquarters (see (Shortly Before 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Bush, 2010, pp. 132; Bush, 2010, pp. 202-203] First Lady Moved to Basement - After a time, the first lady and her staff are moved from the director's office to the basement of the headquarters, apparently after they have made their phone calls. Ashleigh Adams, the first lady's deputy press secretary, will recall, "[W]e took turns using the telephone and then we went to another floor where there was a large-screen TV." Journalist and author Robert Draper will note that Bush's Secret Service agents move the first lady after realizing that, in light of the day's attacks, having her on an upper floor is "perhaps not such a hot idea." [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Draper, 2007, pp. 143; Bush, 2010, pp. 201] In the basement, Bush and her staff go to the William Wood Conference Room. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 17] The windowless room has a large display screen across one wall, showing a constant TV feed. "For a while," she will recall, Bush sits "in a small area off the conference room, silently watching the images on television." According to Adams, "Mrs. Bush didn't want the volume up, so we just sat there watching the TV like a silent movie." First Lady and Staff Lack a 'True Sense' of What Is Happening - Bush will describe the "chaos" regarding the attacks that she and those with her experience, writing: "It got so that we were living in five-minute increments, wondering if a new plane would emerge from the sky and hit a target. All of us in that basement conference room and many more in the Secret Service building were relying on rumors and on whatever news came from the announcers on television. When there were reports of more errant planes or other targets, it was almost impossible not to believe them." According to Adams, "Because the TV was on, but we didn't have volume, it was hard to have a true sense of what was going on." Bush and her staff will remain in the conference room for several hours. [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 201-203]
Entity Tags: Noelia Rodriguez, US Secret Service, Ashleigh Adams, Laura Bush
President Bush and Laura Bush with their dogs, Barney and Spot. [Source: White House]Laura Bush, the president's wife, is told by her Secret Service agents to be prepared to leave Washington, DC, for several days, and members of her staff then go to the White House to fetch some of her belongings. [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 203] Bush is at the Secret Service headquarters in Washington, where she was brought for her own safety (see (10:10 a.m.-10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Kessler, 2006, pp. 136] At the headquarters, there is "a debate over what to do with [President Bush] and what to do with me," the first lady will later recall. Her Secret Service agents tell her "to be prepared to leave Washington for several days at least." To help her prepare, several members of her staff briefly return to the White House and collect some of her belongings. They are escorted there at about 1:30 p.m., according to Noelia Rodriguez, Bush's press secretary. Sarah Moss, Bush's assistant, collects some of the first lady's clothes. John Meyers, Bush's advance man, collects the Bush family dogs, Spot and Barney, and the family cat, India. While they are at the White House, the first lady's staffers also collect their own purses and keys. The Secret Service agent with them instructs them: "Be fast. Run. Get your things." The staffers then return to the Secret Service headquarters. However, Bush and those with her at the headquarters subsequently learn that the president will be returning to Washington today (see (4:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001 and (4:33 p.m.) September 11, 2001). It will therefore be decided that the first lady can stay in the capital. She will be taken to the White House at 6:30 p.m. (see 6:30 p.m. September 11, 2001). [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 203]
Entity Tags: Laura Bush, Noelia Rodriguez, John Meyers, Sarah Moss, US Secret Service
Brian Stafford. [Source: Publicity photo]President Bush reportedly had begun his video conference call with the National Security Council (see (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001) by announcing, "I'm coming back to the White House as soon as the plane is fueled. No discussion." [Clarke, 2004, pp. 21] Toward the end of this meeting, around 4 p.m., Secret Service Director Brian Stafford tells Bush, "Our position is stay where you are. It's not safe." The Secret Service reportedly wants to keep the president where he is, at Offutt Air Force Base, overnight, and—according to some later accounts—indefinitely. To Stafford's surprise, Bush ignores his advice and tells him, "I'm coming back." Leaving the meeting, Bush tells his staff, "We're going home." [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 123; Woodward, 2002, pp. 28] Bush adviser Karl Rove later claims that, around this time, there are concerns that several planes still remain unaccounted for (see (4:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001).
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Brian L. Stafford, US Secret Service
Members of Laura Bush's staff who are with the first lady at the Secret Service headquarters in Washington, DC, go to the White House and then head home. [National Journal, 8/31/2002] Most of Bush's staffers are with the first lady at the Secret Service headquarters, having been with Bush for her scheduled appearance on Capitol Hill this morning. (Bush's other staffers stayed behind at the White House.) [ABC, 9/18/2001 ] They were brought to the headquarters for their own safety (see (10:10 a.m.-10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Kessler, 2006, pp. 136] Some of them briefly returned to the White House earlier in the afternoon, to collect some of Bush's belongings (see (1:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001). Members of Bush's staff now leave the Secret Service headquarters and go to the White House a final time. There, they have to show a Secret Service agent their IDs. "Then," according to Noelia Rodriguez, the first lady's press secretary, "it was time to go home." The first lady will head back to the White House at 6:30 p.m. (see 6:30 p.m. September 11, 2001). [National Journal, 8/31/2002; Bush, 2010, pp. 203]
Entity Tags: US Secret Service, Noelia Rodriguez
This photo of Bush speaking to Cheney shortly after leaving Offutt will later be used for Republican fundraising purposes.
[Source: White House]President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for Washington. [CNN, 9/12/2001; MSNBC, 9/22/2001; Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; Washington Times, 10/8/2002] He calls his wife Laura on the phone and tells her, "I'm coming home. See you at the White House. Love you, go on home." [Sammon, 2002, pp. 123; Woodward, 2002, pp. 28]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush
Laura Bush, the president's wife, is driven, by members of the Secret Service, to the White House from the Secret Service headquarters in Washington, DC, and is then escorted down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) below the White House. [Bush, 2010, pp. 203-204] Bush was brought to the Secret Service headquarters this morning for her own safety (see (10:10 a.m.-10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (10:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Woodward, 2002, pp. 17; Kessler, 2006, pp. 136] First Lady Reassured that No More Attacks Will Occur - There, she spent much of the afternoon "like most other Americans, glued to the television," according to Us Weekly magazine. Bush was, however, "perhaps more at ease than the average American because her [Secret Service] agents were receiving news before it was reported on television." Bush will later recall: "[A]fter some time, we started hearing from our agents that most of the planes [in US airspace] had been accounted for, fairly early in the day, I think, before they really started announcing it on television. So at some point we started feeling reassured that [a terrorist attack] wasn't going to happen again that day." After Bush and those with her learned that the president would be returning to Washington today (see (4:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001 and (4:33 p.m.) September 11, 2001), Bush's Secret Service agents decided that the first lady could go back to the White House. First Lady Arrives at White House - At 6.30 p.m., she will recall, Bush gets into a Secret Service motorcade and is driven to the White House by Dave Saunders, one of her agents. [CNN, 9/11/2001; Us Weekly, 10/15/2001; Kessler, 2006, pp. 136; Bush, 2010, pp. 203] It is a short journey, as the Secret Service headquarters is just a few blocks from the White House. [Washington Post, 8/23/2009] Bush is driven along the deserted streets and then her vehicle goes at full throttle through the gate of the White House. She notices "[h]eavily armed men in black" swarming over the White House grounds. She then gets out of the vehicle, preceded by her Secret Service agents. First Lady Taken to Underground Conference Room - Bush is "hustled inside" the White House, she will recall, and taken "downstairs through a pair of big steel doors that closed behind me with a loud hiss, forming an airtight seal." She then walks along the hallway below the White House to the PEOC, and is taken into the conference room adjacent to the PEOC's "nerve center." Those already in the room include National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House counselor Karen Hughes, and deputy White House chief of staff Josh Bolten. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, are also there. Lynne Cheney comes over and hugs the first lady. She then whispers into the first lady's ear, "The plane that hit the Pentagon circled the White House first" (see 9:34 a.m.- 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). This information, Bush will comment, causes a "shiver" to "vibrate down [her] spine." [Bush, 2010, pp. 203-204] President Bush will join the first lady in the PEOC at 7:10 p.m., after he arrives at the White House (see 7:10 p.m. September 11, 2001). [Bush, 2010, pp. 137-138; Bush, 2010, pp. 204-205] Staffers who were with the first lady at the Secret Service headquarters went to the White House and then headed home at around 4:30 p.m. (see (4:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [National Journal, 8/31/2002]
Entity Tags: Joshua Bolten, Dave Saunders, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, US Secret Service, Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush, Karen Hughes, Lynne Cheney
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The topic of the day is the Book of Revelation. Herbert Pins, Catholic chaplain at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, looks around the table at the inmates in his religious discussion class. The Revelation of St. John, he tells them, was written in jail.
"He is writing as a prisoner, and in order to get his message out he needs to sneak it out under the noses of the Roman guards," Pins says.
St. John crafted the Book of Revelation as a drama, he tells them, to be acted out and read symbolically. One can read Revelation as an optimist or a pessimist. Read it as an optimist, he says, and the message is comforting: "Be strong, have courage in your faith, and God will see you through."
One of the inmates smiles.
"It makes a lot more sense now," the prisoner says. "That's one part in here I've never thought of. He's basically predicting the fall of the Roman Empire."
The prisoner, who is serving a life sentence, has been coming to the class nearly every week for years.
"I've got a birthday coming up, three years," he tells Pins before the class.
"That's right," Pins replies. "Your baptism."
The man is one of eight prisoners whom Pins has taken through a full course of baptism to become Catholic. It is one of his proudest accomplishments at Deer Lodge because all of those men came to him.
"I'm not here to proselytize," Pins says.
In his four years at the Montana State Prison, Herbert Pins has gained a reputation as a religious unifier. A motorcycle-riding, cowboy-boot-wearing, magic-trick-performing Zen practitioner, Pins spent most of his life ministering in hospitals. When he made the switch to prison work, he felt like he was going back to his roots. He often speaks of how he is the product of the '60s, a time that produced a whole generation of socially-conscious priests.
"I feel like I'm doing the work of justice here," he says. "Like I'm dealing with the guts of Christianity."
Pins is not only a resource for Catholic prisoners, but a spiritual leader for inmates who practice any of the 20-plus religions found within the walls of the Montana State Prison. There are two Protestant chaplains who handle the needs of the prison's majority of Protestant inmates, but Pins is the contact for the jail's Native Americans, Wiccans, Buddhists, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many others. He even procured a hammer and medallion for an inmate who practices the Norse religion, Asatru.
"He's not just for the Catholics," says one inmate. "I've got a Satanist friend. Father Pins helped him out and got him his religious materials."
Pins again points to his background and his generation's progressivism as his inspiration for assisting inmates on their spiritual journeys, regardless of their religion.
"Any faith here needs to be supported, even if I'm totally opposed to it," he says.
With interfaith unity, he tries to help the inmates channel the often contentious religious conflicts that arise within the cellblocks into something constructive.
Not everyone on the inside shares that approach.
The class discussion soon turns to how the inmates deal with their fundamentalist peers. The blocks are full of heated religious debate, the inmates say, and plenty of them are strict biblical literalists.
Pins has brought along an article by a professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where Pins studied in the 1960s. The proof that one cannot interpret any single part of the Bible absolutely, the article says, is in the book's many contradictions. For example, he says, one should "ponder the fact that Paul teaches that a person is justified by faith in Christ alone [Romans 3:11-5:11], while James writes that 'faith without works is dead' [2:26]."
This can be useful ammunition in your cellblock debates, Pins tells them. Quoting from these passages can be "a wonderful thing to do if you're confronted, that would put a literalist right up a fence."
The inmates laugh.
"We can laugh at that, but they won't laugh at that," Pins says. "I have people coming into my office, telling me that I'm going to hell because of how I interpret Christianity."
"The reason I was laughing was because I was thinking of that old joke," says the prisoner with the baptism anniversary approaching. The joke is about the sort of "instant Christian" who becomes a cellblock fundamentalist. It involves a criminal who has never been religious being caught by the police. All of a sudden Jesus Christ is sitting next to him in the squad car.
Finding a delicate balance
Pins comes to work in Deer Lodge three days a week. He lives in Warm Springs, where he works two days as a chaplain at the Montana State Hospital. The mental institution was built by prison labor from Deer Lodge in 1919. That was back in the days of the old prison, a medieval-looking structure in the middle of town that is now one of Interstate 90's most venerable tourist attractions. The new prison, built in 1974, sits a few miles outside of town and houses 1,300 inmates.
On a typical Saturday, Pins comes in early to go through and respond to kites. (When inmates have a request, whether it is for time with the chaplain or a religious book or object, they must file a form, or "fly a kite.") He leads his discussion class in the early afternoon, and then conducts two Masses, one for the Low Side inmates and the other for the High Side. The "sides" are based on an inmate's crime and his behavior in jail; low siders have more privileges. Pins spends the last few hours doing paperwork and visiting inmates in their cells. He leaves by six, so he can catch Garrison Keillor on the radio.
After four years, it has all become routine. "I certainly had my trepidations and certainly had my anxieties when I started," Pins says. Time passed, though, and "what was abnormal became normal."
Still, he must constantly grapple with the uncertainty of his role within the prison. How does a chaplain fit into the unique power dynamics of a prison? How can he be a religious figure trusted by the inmates and at the same time a loyal state employee?
"My identity is always in flux," he says.
For example, if Pins is seen as being too strong an advocate for inmate concerns, it could put him into opposition with the Department of Corrections (DOC). Yet if he is seen as just another staff member by inmates, they will not trust him. Pins recently had a conversation with an inmate who said there was still concern among the prisoners about how a former chaplain had behaved during the 1991 prison riot. That the incident is still being discussed in the blocks shows "that the inmates monitor us, too," Pins says.
One experience in particular helped Pins draw a line.
In his first month at the prison, an inmate approached him after Mass and asked for a favor. The inmate wanted Pins to make a phone call for him. Pins pushed the man on what the call was for, and the prisoner told him a female relative needed to know that he was all right. Pins took the information to the command post, and prison officials told him the woman was not who the prisoner said she was. What they told him came as a shock.
"He was going to have me call his victim and tell her that he was OK," Pins says.
Now the priest only makes calls if there is a death in the family.
The progressive spirit
Pins came to Montana to return to his rural roots. He was born in Iowa, near Dubuque, in 1944, and decided in high school that he wanted to be a priest. He spent a total of nine years in seminaries, earning two Masters degrees.
The turbulence of the 1960s imbued many in the Catholic church with a progressive spirit. Liberation Theology took shape in Latin America among priests who fought against underdevelopment and oppression. In the United States, young priests saw Scripture as a starting point for concrete action to help the impoverished. The philosophical underpinnings for much of the renewed social consciousness came from the Second Vatican Council in 1965, which inspired freer interpretation of Catholic doctrine and increased communication with people of other faiths. It also helped draw Pins to the teachings of eastern religions.
"The greatest mentor in my life was Thomas Merton," Pins says. "I've always felt a spiritual closeness to him. He was the one writing those far-out books on Buddhism in the '60s and '70s."
Merton's book, Mystics and Zen Masters, published in 1967, suggests that Western monastic orders and Oriental mystic traditions have much in common and much to gain through mutual study and understanding. The book was the starting point for Pins' Masters thesis on Zen Buddhism.
After his training, Pins chose to go into hospital work. He spent 10 years in Pittsburgh and 15 years in Seattle, ministering at two hospitals in each city. The work was intense, often involving late nights, and Pins' candor in speaking to the local press in Seattle about his job and its role in the hospital hierarchy caused some friction with his superiors.
In the summer of 1996, he moved to Montana. He has some family in Havre, and he had come out for Thanksgiving every year.
"I needed a change. I felt burned out by hospital work," he says. Fly-fishing and deer hunting were his ulterior motives.
After a year at a cathedral in Helena, an opening came up at the State Prison, and the Bishop called on Pins to take his place. He came to Deer Lodge at the beginning of 1998.
Challenges to the faith
The lifer with the baptism birthday coming up points his finger at Pins across the table.
"I'm not tootin' your horn," he says. "But since you've been here there's been more unity because you work with all the groups."
The inmate says he has been meditating with the Buddhists. "It makes you have a better outlook on insects," he says. "I used to just crush them."
Pins tells the inmate it's all right to crush insects, so long as last rites are administered. There is laughter, but then he gets serious.
"They have a discipline which we have lost in Christianity," Pins says of the Buddhists. "I have practiced Zen now for 35 years. It's something we all need."
Rowan Conrad comes into the prison every month to lead a meditation session. Conrad, who is a member of the Open Way Sangha in Missoula, says that Pins "knows what's important is that these men find some way to make their lives work, not just his way." Pins' openness to other faiths is rare, Conrad says.
"I have encountered prison administrators and prison chaplains who create every obstacle they can find because if you're not a Christian you're an agent of the Devil, and you're misguiding these already misguided men," Conrad says. "You can't fault them for it because it's their deeply held belief that they're protecting these men."
Others, however, says this ecumenical spirit has its drawbacks. Alexandra Witkin New-Holy, an assistant professor at the Center for Native American Studies at Montana State University, has been a vocal critic of religious discrimination against Native Americans in Montana's prisons. With Native Americans making up 17.6 percent of the prison population at Deer Lodge, she says that their access to religious worship is less than proportional. New-Holy, who issued a report last years on Native American religious rights in the prison, says that, for example, American Indian prisoners don't have enough access to the worship room because of all the other religious groups using it.
"It's great that Father Pins is integrating other religions into the prison, but it shouldn't be a zero sum gain. It shouldn't be at the expense of the Native American prisoners," she says.
New-Holy's report, based on inmate correspondence, accounts instances of sacred items being searched or confiscated, maximum security inmates being denied access to worship, and rituals being complicated by restrictions on tobacco and medicinal herbs.
Although the report does not mention specific chaplains, and New-Holy has never met Pins, the report objects to Christian or Catholic chaplains supervising Native American religious activities at all.
"These denominations, with a few notable exceptions, have conspired with colonial and federal governments for hundreds of years to eliminate Native religious practices," the report reads.
"Reading the report felt like "a slap in the face," Pins says. "I felt affronted because she never came to talk to me, and I think I was doing a decent, good job responding to whatever needs there were."
New-Holy acknowledges in the report that she did not contact any prison staff or officials. "I knew the kinds of responses I was going to get," she says.
DOC spokeswoman Linda Moodry says the prison is making progress toward facilitating Native American religions, although it is going slower than some prisoners would like.
Pins regularly participates in the sweat lodge and talking circle ceremonies, and he distributes the tobacco and medicinal herbs. One of the complaints of some maximum security American Indian prisoners relayed by New-Holy is that sacred objects have been delivered less frequently lately to the highest security areas.
According to Moodry, Pins "does go up there and he tries to accommodate as much as security will allow in those areas." New-Holy, who accuses the DOC of having a "smokescreen strategy" of trying to deny its own inadequacies, says she does not necessarily blame Pins, and that he has been supportive in the past, though she "would not be surprised to find out he's relatively powerless."
However, echoing her report, New-Holy does not think he is the person best suited to handle Native religious needs.
"What is really needed is a full-time staff person, preferably Native American, who can mediate between the institution and the inmates and the tribal entities," New-Holy says.
The DOC would be open to such a position, says Moodry, although there is currently not enough funding for it.
Most of the incidents in New-Holy's report involve maximum security prisoners. The Low- and High-Side inmates, who have regular access to the sweat lodge and other ceremonies, are more content but are still not satisfied. Several declined to judge the situation one way or the other until a meeting among inmates, state representatives, and DOC officials is rescheduled. The meeting, meant to address various concerns of Native American inmates, not just religious ones, was cancelled because of security concerns regarding the number of inmates who insisted on attending.
While Pins is dismayed by some of the specific incidents cited by New-Holy, and security measures do sometimes keep him from facilitating worship, he believes real progress is being made. There are legitimate spiritual concerns, he says, but in some cases, individual issues have to be understood in the larger context of prison power dynamics. Some complaints are ultimately about "bulldogging," the prison practice of getting the upper hand and forcing someone to concede something. When dealing with authority figures, bulldogging sometimes takes the form of pushing legitimate concerns like religious rights. It is another hard line to draw.
Hard time realities
As the day winds down, Pins wraps up his first Mass, and prepares for the second. There is a college football game on television, which always brings down attendance. Low side Mass draws 18 people. One of them, a young man who also went to the discussion group earlier in the day, is getting released soon. His family was religious but he never was. Now he attends the class and services regularly.
"It took being locked up," he says. When he is free he wants to be an engineer.
The DOC considers religion a vital part of rehabilitation, part of "a cycle of treatment," says Moodry. Studies have indicated that recidivism rates are much lower among inmates who engage in regular spiritual practice.
"Now, does that say something about spiritual practice or people who are serious enough about their lives to include spiritual practice? I don't know," says Conrad.
Pins believes in religion as a "healing art," but he is not naïve about recidivism.
"I'm a realist," he says. "I think the majority [of inmates] have been horribly malformed before they got here, so the odds are already against them."
Asked to relay a positive story from the inside, Pins creases his brow and stares up at the ceiling for a while. A long while. What he offers is not positive in the traditional sense.
Pins was very affected by a man who served a long time because of a drunken driving accident which killed several teenagers. He was consumed with grief over what he had done.
"He was leaving here profoundly changed," Pins says. "The incredible brokenness of that human being was a very positive story." Pins also speaks of a prisoner on death row whom he visits regularly.
"When I talk to him I'm fully aware of the evil that's been part of his past, and while I can't exonerate him for what he's done, I can see how he's very typical" in terms of his extremely abusive childhood and tormented past.
"I see in this man a lot of growing since he's been condemned to be executed," Pins says.
The man's time may come up in two years. As a Catholic priest, Pins is a natural opponent of the death penalty, and he has written fiery articles and speeches on the topic. However, talking about the possibility that he will witness the execution and administer last rites to this inmate whom he calls a friend, Pins is not angry but somber. "I may be in the most uncomfortable spot I have ever been in," he says.
The end of Mass approaches, and the inmates offer their special prayers. Today they pray for a sick mother, a sick niece, a daughter who is turning 18, for all the soldiers fighting for the United States in Afghanistan, and for each other.
The men are all standing, their choir stalls angled in so that everyone is very close together. It is afternoon, and a misty light comes through the worship room windows. There are no bars and no guards. There are no striped suits, only dark blue shirts and jeans. If they weren't all wearing the same clothing, this could be any service, anywhere.
They finish by singing a hymn, with Pins leading them in his husky and melodic voice.
"In beauty of the lilies,
Christ born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
That transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy,
Let us live to make men free,
While God is marching on."
When the song is done the prayer books are stacked in cardboard boxes and the choir stalls pushed to the corners of the room. The inmates weave through the room, shaking hands and wishing one another peace, before returning to their cellblocks.


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FastCompany has a good piece making the point that Anonymous doesn't have to plan revenge attacks, at least against the media, following the ouster of Occupy Wall Street from its spot Occupying Wall Street.
Anonymous has already attacked the media – and largely won, through a mixture of chutzpah, heavy marketing, social networking and flat-out propaganda.
Much of the propaganda is from wannabes; most of the organizing and target-setting is from a core of committed leaders, according to FastCompany.
It's not that the fringe members don't matter; it's just that they're all free to go on YouTube and make their own threats, call for their own campaigns or just show off the wicked sexy mask.
Even the core leadership group isn't above using a little subterfuge to put their enemies off guard.
The fearsome universal attack tool #ref#ref, for example, "does not exist" according to the usual first source in these stories – an anonymous guy at a protest who said he's a hacker and member of Anonymous with knowledge of its next-generation attack tool.
The Dept. of Homeland Security believed it existed, according to FastCompany.
I did, too, and wrote about it.
It's basically impossible to have a single tool that attacks every type of enterprise database successfully, according to Josh Shaul of Application Security, Inc., who was quoted in the FC story. The protocols are too different.
Anonymi on Twitter have been agreeing, including AnonymouSabu, who may or may not be the Sabu who led the LulzSec attacks this summer.
Anonymous' practical guide to surviving a riot
On the other hand, Anonymous and OWS have created a pretty decent set of manuals and guides on how to conduct a long-term protest, survive outside, organize a march and keep the damage to yourselves and others to a minimum if it breaks out into a riot.
This protester-resources page has guides to everything from politics to group-organizational logistics to manuals on surviving in the outdoors. (It's worth checking out, if only to see "Feminist theory for anarchist men,"(PDF), "Blockading for Beginners" (PDF) and the "Anonymous Riot Guide" (PDF) all on the same page.
Sample recommendations (paraphrased):
Break into protest-management teams with different roles, wearing colors to identify each: Runners (white) – carry messages to HQ and other teams
Documenting (green) – pix, video, stay back and post, post, post
Observation (gray) – posted in high places to watch for police or other issues, relay info via walkie-talkies or smartphones
Front (black) – confront (non-violently) law enforcement
Medical (red) – administers first aid to wounded, marked so even police can ID the medics
Base (no color) – set up headquarters and coordinate activity of teams in the field.
March and riot in groups – buddy system, just like in kindergarten, scuba diving or combat. Form teams of no more than six, who stay together, keep track of one another, help protect one another, help pursue the goal. Larger teams are too slow; smaller ones don't have enough muscle to keep everyone safe or together.


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Here at 103GBF, we're always looking out for ya. So, I wanted to let ya know that the police agencies in Indiana are ramping up the 'Click It Or Ticket' campaign is ramping up again! Beginning May 20, officers from more than 260 state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Indiana State Police, will begin conducting high-visibility patrols to detect motorists who fail to buckle up. I've gotten two tickets for this violation in the past, but it's been a couple of years since I got my last citation, so I've gotten with the program. It just makes sense to. I can be rebellious when I'm 'NOT' in the car! Drive safe y'all!


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Virtually everyone has a family history that includes a chronic illness such as heart disease, diabetes or cancer. You may be concerned that you carry a genetic predisposition to one or more of these diseases. But recent science has shown there's much you can do to prevent disease, starting with nutrition. The good news is that with proper nutrition, including dietary supplements, you can rewrite your life story with a happier ending.
So why are so many people still unaware of the importance of taking vitamins? Which vitamins do you need and what are the best multivitamins to take? Why are drug companies and doctors often opposed to nutritional supplements? Why is there continued debate over vitamin safety and dosages?
We've used nutritional supplements and dietary changes as medical therapies for over 20 years. To this day, we recommend that every woman take a pharmaceutical-grade multivitamin. Yet we agree there are reasons to be concerned about how multivitamins are marketed and used. So let's talk about what we advocate when it comes to dietary supplements and how we answer women's questions about the vitamin controversy.
The link between nutrition and chronic diseases
The increase in chronic illnesses is one of the major health stories of our lifetime. Today seven out of ten Americans will die from the complications of a chronic disease, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, metabolic and digestive disorders (including heartburn and acid reflux), rheumatoid arthritis, fibroids, and osteoporosis, just to name a few. Acute diseases, by contrast, are characterized by rapid onset, are usually treated with antibiotics or surgery and are time-limited.
Why the dramatic increase in chronic diseases? Clearly we are living longer and under greater stress, both of which contribute to degenerative conditions. But only recently has the role of nutrition begun to be given its due.
Conventional practitioners treat chronic diseases with an ever-growing array of expensive pharmaceuticals that may temporarily relieve the painful or uncomfortable symptoms, but do nothing to resolve the underlying cause — and may actually cause other serious problems. That's because conventional medicine is focused on disease screening and drug treatment — ignoring the more powerful approach of disease prevention, especially through nutrition.
What about the role of genetic factors in causing disease? In our view, genetics rarely determine definitively that someone will develop a disease. Instead, you may inherit a genetic predisposition — a kind of vulnerability — that when combined with other factors results in disease. Nutrition is arguably the most important of those factors.
Many of our patients at our medical practice are surprised to learn that their chronic condition or disease can so often be traced to a nutritional deficiency. But the linkage is clear enough. Nutrition affects our immune system, organ function, hormonal balance and cellular metabolism. The nutritional deficiency comes first, followed some years later by symptoms, which lead in time to disease. To make things worse, the whole downward spiral is accompanied by accelerated aging.
Multivitamins and hormonal balance
Our bodies require micronutrients for the non-stop process of synthesizing hormones from simpler molecules. It is simply impossible to achieve and maintain hormonal balance without such support. We have found it helpful to describe hormonal balance to our patients as a kind of symphony in their bodies in which the instruments of the orchestra play together to create health. When some of the players aren't there, it doesn't sound right — and you don't feel good.
Remember that our hormones fluctuate with our circumstances. It is important to understand that cortisol and adrenaline levels rise and fall as we work out stressful situations. Stable insulin levels provide the framework that allows all of our major female hormones to communicate with one another. If nutrients are low or missing, the balance of this communication is undermined. To remain flexible and strong, especially when approaching menopause, we all need to give our hormones the wide array of nutrients they need.


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who rebuild them or how and where do I get the O rings etc
Walker jacks have changed ownership and name about 4 times over the last 20 years. Currently they're sold under the Hein-Warner name. You might contact them to see if they still supply repair kits for the Walker jacks. There are some seals in those jacks that you WILL NOT find in any sort of regular industrial supply house.
Another option is to take the jack apart and take the seal parts to a hydraulic seal shop if there's one in your area.
If there's no one local, you could likely match the parts up online at http://www.herculeshydraulics.com
Based on work I've seen in the past, I'd have to have some good recommendations from prior customers before I'd take a jack to the typical hydraulic jack repair shop. I own a machine shop and do some hydraulic repair work, and the worst messes I've ever worked on were ones where some jack repair yokel had "fixed it'. I've seen pieces of PVC pipe used in place of plastic piston bearings, cut up wheel cylinder cups used where a U-cup seal should've been, and more other examples like that than I've got time to list. Not saying they're all bad, but I'd want a reference from someone who'd had work done that has held up for at least several months before I'd turn one of 'em loose on anything of mine.
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"good morrow, dear brother Albert," she said, in a tone full of sweetness.
good morrow, dame, I mean not any libel, But in your dwelling have you got a Bible?
"A good morrow to you," returned the butcher, civilly enough.
She undrew the curtain, wished her good morrow, and kissed her.
The diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good morrow.'
If otherwise, a slight reverence and scarcely a good morrow is vouchsafed.
good morrow or good day was considered proper only before noon, after which good den was the usual salutation.
good morrow, Monsieur de Blenau, said Chavigni: you seem in haste.
As I still wore my Frankish dress I was used to that, and only smiled at him, and nodded a good morrow.
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Applicants must achieve a minimum academic profile to be considered for an invitation to interview. You should achieve a minimum of:
- An earned bachelors degree in any subject prior to enrollment
- A 2.7 cumulative grade point average from all coursework from all institutions you've attended
- A minimum Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) composite percentile of a 50
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Cumulative GPA: 3.4-3.5 (on a 4.0 scale)
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The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy uses the Pharmacy College Application Service (PharmCAS) for the processing of transcripts, test scores and letters of recommendation. We encourage students to begin this process 12-18 months prior to intended enrollment date. The pharmacist application opens for each new cycle in early-to-mid July of each year for student seeking admission for the following autumn. The first Monday in February is the PharmCAS application deadline to be considered for the next cohort, which begins at the start of autumn semester.
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Article: The most appealing new cars
I thought this was an interesting article. It highlights desireability of specific brands. I thought Cadillac scored pretty well coming up just behind some of the big hitters.
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Kudos to Cadillac--glad to see the high regard I have for the brand is shared by many owners!
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Nice! Hopefully we'll see Caddy continue to climb over the years. Lexus looks like it could be a vulnerable target. The Germans will likely stay on top. Audi's really kicking ass; I think we've seen the peak of BMW's glory days.
Shocked that Lincoln ranks above Infiniti (though I always thought Infiniti was a bit of a smoke-and-mirrors brand). I bet Acura will start falling unless they do something drastic, and fast -- they are quickly becoming the New Oldsmobile in my opinion.
And LOL at smart.
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They also seem to be insistent on their platforms. They continue to stay completely with a FWD platform where most of the luxury automakers offer at least one or two RWD models.
Exception being Audi and Lincoln.
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I am surprised Lincoln is higher than Acura or Infiniti to be honest. I guess Acura has the same issues as Lincoln (all FWD) but the RLX absolutely kills the MKS. The MKS is a Town Car replacement and my head hits the roof, and it's not even close. So that brand is basically dead to me right now. I can at least sit in a BMW 3 series which is a smaller car -- I can't see overhead red lights, and the titled headrests of the 3 make it rather uncomfortable, but I can sit in it nonetheless.
I finally got to try an Infiniti G37, a car that's had my eye since they came out and I have to say it was all-around disappointing. But again, it has much better room than the larger MKS, and faster even than the Ecoboost. And then there's the M series too...
I'm looking at an AWD CTS, since I just bought a house on a hill and RWD will no longer cut it. It might be the only sedan that will work.


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KNOXVILLE - The Lady Vols put up a season-high 103 points behind six double-digit scoring efforts in a 103-64 thrashing of Troy Saturday afternoon in front of 11,358 people at Thompson-Boling Arena.
The 103 points were the most since a 110-45 victory over Alabama on January 6, 2011 while the six players with 10+ points marked the first time since March 8, 2013 vs. Florida in the SEC Tournament.
With the win, the Lady Vols improve to 9-0, the first time the UT has begun the season winning the first nine games since 2009-10. Tennessee has now won 12-straight home games.
The Lady Vols are now 1-0 all-time vs. Troy winning the inaugural meeting between the two teams.
Meighan Simmons and Bashaara Graves led the way with 16 points each, while Cierra Burdick, after tallying just two points in the first half, finished with 15, Isabelle Harrison had 13 and Nia Moore and Mercedes Russell each had 10.
Moore, Harrison, Burdick and Jasmine Jones each finished with double-digit rebound efforts tallying 13, 12, 10, and 10 each as Tennessee recorded the second-most rebounds in school history with 74, the most since 1988.
Harrison recorded her second double-double of the season, eighth career, Burdick notched her first double-double on the year and seventh career and Moore had her first career double-double on the night.
The three double-doubles by Lady Vols marked the sixth time in history that Tennessee has achieved the feat, the last coming vs. Florida on Feb. 26, 2006 when Candace Parker (34 pts, 15 rebs), Tye'sha Fluker (22 pts, 16 rebs) and Shanna Zolman (22 pts, 10 assts) did so.
Tennessee finished the game with a season-high 28 turnovers, the most since recording 31 vs. Kentucky last season.
The Lady Vols started the game off hitting a free throw off of an administrative technical foul as Troy did not get their line up in time and never looked back.
UT began the game on a 15-2 run fueled by five points by Isabelle Harrison and finished out the half on a 12-3 run thanks to four points each by Nia Moore and Meighan Simmons
Tennessee took a 49-28 lead into the locker room at half time scoring a season-high 49 points at the half, besting their 44 scored against Georgia Tech. The Lady Vols also took down a season-high 40 boards before halftime (33 vs. GT).
The 49 points were the most since the Lady Vols put up 49 vs. Alabama on Jan. 20, 2013.
However, Tennessee also turned the ball over 18 times, a first half high on the year.
Both Simmons and Graves tallied 10 points before the half while Harrison netted nine. Simmons notched her sixth double-digit effort of the season and 85th of her career while Graves tallied her fourth of the year, 34th career.
Harrison hit the double-digit mark on the first basket of the second half and less than three minutes into the second she completed the double-double, pulling down a defensive rebound.
Troy came out fighting in the second half, but the Lady Vols matched them point for point, eventually pulling away with less than 10 minutes remaining using a 16-0 run holding Troy scoreless for over five and a half minutes from 9:46- 4:01.
After scoring 16 today, Meighan Simmons now needs 12 points to move into 14th place all-time among UT scorers.
Tennessee has still not allowed an opponent to shoot better than 38% from the field this season as Troy finished with a 33.3 % shooting percentage.
The Lady Vols will continue their run of three games in eight days when they return home vs. Tennessee State on Tuesday at 7 p.m. followed by a trip across the country to face #6/4 Stanford on Dec. 21 at 4:30 p.m.


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With Turner, Arena's Ambitious 'Mother Courage' Is Epic
As Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith reminds us, the play now at the Fichandler at Arena is called "Mother Courage and Her Children"—not just "Mother Courage," as it sometimes is—implying that the character played in gruff operatic style by the great Kathleen Turner is motivated primarily by her maternal instincts.
That may be true, but there's no solace for the audience or for Mother Courage in Bertolt Brecht's astonishing epic, which the author of "The Three Penny Opera" and a host of almost tribal theatrical jeremiads against war, greed, militarism, big business and corporate interests began writing in 1938, on the eve of World War II, and only two decades after World War I, when "the war to end all wars" ended.
The play—hugely theatrical, casting a wide net—almost always has a way of looking both specific and humanly abstract. Certainly, that's where Smith is going. She means to connect Mother Courage, her three children, a camp follower, a minister, a chef and sundry scoundrels, brutal soldiers, camp followers, and civilians from the Thirty Years' War to the present and our own times and country with the presence of soldiers in present-day uniforms.
The suggestion that we're always in some sort of Thirty Years War isn't wrong, but given that we've conducted our winding-down and current war and most recent war in a way that our populations are disconnected from them in a way that the protagonists of this play are not, the idea is not as searing as it should be. The mix of present-day clothing and weaponry, not to mention contemporary colloquial profanity, does bring us closer to the characters that populate the Fichandler in-the-round stage, which looks like a bombed out-pit of debris from wars coming and going.
The problem with the ironically nick-named Mother Courage is that she tries to balance what she thinks is her astute business acumen with her love of her children. That acumen is mostly greed, driven by fear. She is fiercely neutral, without ideology, with a burning passion to save her children and her cart of goods, a kind of moving canteen that she and her children carry across the battlefields of central and western Europe. They skate just barely by, never sure, never safe, in a particularly savage war which ruined what was then Germany for decades.
Turner's Mother Courage has a kind of gruff passion. She has verbal size and distinction. She knows the values of goods and her own shrewd self. She has the survivalist courage to take on whatever's coming down the pike, which is always unexpected , unfair, unsavory, and unpleasant. She and her children—a big, tough strapping boy Eilife, played with a strong presence and even stronger voice by Nicholas Rodriguez, the vulnerable but numbers-wise boy she calls Swiss Cheese, played with pathos by Nehal Joshi, and Katatrin, solemn, quickly moving and silent, played with astonishingly loud silence by Erin Weaver—stagger across the muddy fields, cratered and shell-serenaded landscape like watchful wayfarers.
Mother Courage is a part that can be done with scurvy, sexy humor—or it can plain done in, without humor. Turner is, at turns, funny and calls on her gift for sexuality when it is appropriate but with ease, and the love for her kids—a really tough love—is nevertheless self evident. It seems to blind her when it's hitched to her greed. She's like a con man who thinks war is just another mark she can outwit.
As an experience, this production, which features gloriously thrift-shop costume designs by Joseph Salasovich and a spectacularly beat-up war set by Todd Rosenthal, is almost overwhelming. It's like being parachuted into a place you've avoided all your life. It's a dangerous place. It has the unkempt odor of religious passions which can turn murderous in a second. It's full of loss and constant change—one day you're a camp follower, the next day, you're a colonel's mistress, which is what happens to a Grisabella-like Yvette played with loud charm by Meg Gillentine.
The production also has the gifts of David Hare's tough translation, which knows the different between honest colloquial grief and polemics, and new music composed by James Sugg. Turner sings in the key of knock-you-over, when she's doing "Mother Courage's Song" and straight from the torn heart with "Lullaby." Rick Foucheux displays a fine, touching voice in "The God Who Was a Man" as well as putting on a display of complexity in his role as the chaplain. The music is presented like there's a circus band of gypsies and jazz men following the proceedings.
In the end, of course, everything Mother Courage does puts her children in danger, and they fall or disappear one by one, as she nevertheless hangs on to her cart. Those last images remind you of any war, of Lear, of great, imagined losses. And when the production does that, why that's a kind of courage in and of itself.


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The Trojans continued to grind at day three of spring practice earning a much needed break for the next week as the players will get a few days off for spring break.
- The Trojans will enjoy a few days of relaxation while also taking a step back to process everything they've learned from the first three practices. "I'm proud of these guys. It's been physically and mentally grueling for them. We've put a lot on them in three days," said head coach Steve Sarkisian. "When we come back, we'll go right back to day one installation and really start focusing on the fundamentals, techniques and details of those calls."
- Saturday's practice focused a lot on learning different schemes on both sides of the ball and giving all the players opportunities to make plays. Though the quarterbacks are still learning the system, Coach Sark said he did see some positive glimpses from them; however, he is still not close to choosing a starter. "When it feels right, when it looks right then I'll probably wait one more practice and then we'll make the decision," said the head coach.
- Last year's starting quarterback Cody Kessler did say that he finally felt like the fast tempo was becoming more natural for the offense even though it's still early and everyone is trying to figure out timing. "The thing with the offense is that there's no set positions so the guys have to learn every single route. They can't just learn one position," said Kessler.
- Senior LB Hayes Pullard said after the first week the one thing that has stood out to him the most is the entire defense. "Everyone's embracing this playbook. They're just coming in and everyone on this defense is taking the initiative to go out there and just play every snap," said Pullard.
- The Trojans' young backfield also got a lot of work in at practice with defensive backs coach Keith Heyward even running some of the drills with the players. In order to develop these young players, especially cornerbacks like Kevon Seymour, Heyward said they have to have tremendous attention to detail. "Cornerback is a very technical position and you have to be a master at your technique," said Heyward. "As a corner, you're out there on an island and any one mistake you make can be a touchdown."
- After the first week with his new players, Heyward said he can't get over the athleticism, football knowledge and football IQ of these guys also mentioning that the competitive nature of the USC players is unparalleled. "All of these guys want it a lot and it's good because now the intensity gets up and it makes the competition level as a team rise," said the defensive backs coach.
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The DVD camcorder used to command a premium. But now you can pick them up for a similarly low cost to DV models. The Canon DC201 is one of the most economical we've seen yet. Coming in at under £200, it's virtually pocket money by camcorder standards. Only a few models from Samsung and Hitachi are currently cheaper. So what is the DC201 missing to allow its keen price?
Based around a single 1/6in CCD with 800,000 pixels, the DC201 is very much a budget specification. Such small CCDs invariably entail poor performance in low light. The tiny sensor does have one advantage, however. Because it's so small, the lens is able to provide a large optical zoom. In the DC201's case, it's a whopping 30x - much larger than the usual 10-20x found on consumer camcorders. If you like video pixellated, you can add digital zoom for up to 800x, too, although we would always recommend you don't bother.
The DC201 records to 8cm DVD-R and RW, but also supports dual-layer media. Three quality levels are available - XP running at 9Mbits/sec, SP at 6Mbits/sec, and LP at 3Mbits/sec. In the top XP mode, a single-layer DVD will hold just 20 minutes, but a dual-layer one has almost twice the capacity (2.6GB versus 1.4GB), so will fit a more respectable 35 minutes. Nevertheless, this is still the format's most major drawback now that hard disk-based and SD models (with a large enough memory card) can hold hours of footage.
As this is a cheap camcorder for consumers, the DC201 is not surprisingly low on enthusiast options. It has no accessory shoe, microphone input or headphone output. But hardly anyone would buy a camcorder in this class for these things anyway. It is at least small and comfortable to use, and a convenient switch on the side opens the built-in lens cover, rather than having a dangling cap.
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Digestion Q&A by Dr. Lee
I just had a colonoscopy and they found two non-cancerous colon polyps and one non-cancerous lipoma (no previous polyps prior), when should I have my next colonoscopy?
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Lipomas (benign tumors consisting of fat) are benign, that is, they are not cancerous. If the pathologist (the doctor who examines the polyp) is confident that the polyp is a lipoma, no further tests or surveillance will be necessary.
When to perform the next colonoscopy after removal of two non-cancerous, non-lipomatous polyps depends on several issues:
For example, if one or both polyps were large and not completely excised, your doctor may ask you to have repeat colonoscopy within weeks to months. On the other hand, if the polyps were small (less than 1 cm), completely excised, and did not have significant atypia, the doctor may ask you to have surveillance colonoscopy in five years.
If the colon preparation was poor and there was too much residual stool in the colon for good visualization, the doctor may ask you to have a repeat colonoscopy to make sure there are no more polyps.
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Clearing the way to get us all to Tulla on time
Published: January 7 2013 - 3:00AMOf planes, trains, buses and cars and the big money grab.
B ACK in 1992, in the dying days of the Kirner government, the cost of a rapid rail line linking the city to the airport at Tullamarine was said to be $500 million. It had already been 34 years on the drawing board - or the fantasy wish-list - by then, but at least it had been elevated to prominence as the city's second most important project. Even the Labor government, though, admitted the rail link faced one big hurdle: ''The private sector has got to be convinced there's a dollar in it.''
The priority project was a $1 billion-plus plan to join freeways in the south-east with those in the north-west, and when the Kennett government came to power it scrapped the rail link idea and focused instead on widening the Tullamarine freeway into an eight-lane tollway. It was a vast project, one that brought in private tollroad operators to build and operate the upgraded freeway and its network extensions, including a new bridge at Docklands (the Bolte Bridge) and the Domain and Burnley tunnels.
One of the features of the Tullamarine upgrade was a dedicated lane for buses, taxis and limousines to ensure the swift passage of commuters who were prepared to leave their own cars at home. That lane still exists, although the restrictions are rarely enforced. Now there is a tentative proposal for the privately owned bus company that runs the city-airport bus service, SkyBus, to commandeer the left-hand emergency lane of the freeway as a way of speeding up its journey. SkyBus also would join the myki public transport ticketing service. The notion of reducing delays for everyone is admirable, although why the existing express lane is not sufficient is not entirely clear. And how SkyBus is expected to navigate safely across fast-flowing traffic exiting the freeway's off-ramps is anybody's guess. Nevertheless, we get the point.
This latest airport bus rapid transit proposal is being put forward as an interim measure while studies continue into the feasibility of a rail link. The Age very much looks forward to seeing the results of those studies, as we have for years - no, decades. We understand the rail link must stack up financially, but this city has developed rapidly in the past 20 years and if we want public amenity and economic productivity improved, then serious consideration must be paid to a fast, efficient rail link.
Access to a clear road lane, however, would allow SkyBus, which currently ferries about 2 million passengers to and from the airport each year, to run a service every 1½⁄ to three minutes in peak periods. At that rate, SkyBus could carry about 1200 passengers an hour.
Melbourne Airport now handles 29 million passengers a year, and in 15 years it is expected to handle about 50 million. Getting all those people to and from the airport is going to need more than extra lanes on a road network that is already tested at peak hours.
More importantly, The Age believes the public interest should not be held hostage to demands for compensation by monopolist operators of the airport and freeway networks, Melbourne Airport and Transurban, which are intimating that even the simple addition of an express bus lane (which is, in fact, already in place) will deprive them of revenue. That really is a cynical grab for profits against the public interest.
Enough is enough when it comes to lining the pockets of these privately owned companies. We understand they invested heavily to upgrade and maintain the networks, but excessive profiteering is unseemly. Melbourne Airport already rakes in a profit of 93 cents in the dollar from carparking, and it expects one-fifth of its revenue this financial year will come from carparking.
The state government needs to reconsider these private contract arrangements as it assesses how the travelling public will be serviced in the future. There is a genuine problem with public access to airports - in road congestion, in delays to passengers and the flow-on effect to airlines, in the exorbitant charges being levied. Both federal and state governments have an obligation to ensure the gateway to Australia's second biggest city remains accessible and affordable, not only now but in decades to come. Fees and charges on users must be appropriately pitched, but if monopoly operators charge usury rates or seek to stymie public development with claims for compensation at every turn, the government must resist and protect the public interest.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/editorial/clearing-the-way-to-get-us-all-to-tulla-on-time-20130106-2cb2p.html


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I heard it last night. The melodic sound of a can popping open. (Whatever happened to can openers? I hear it once in awhile but it's never for me). Anyhow, I heard a can pop open. We all ran into the kitchen and found mom dishing us out canned food.
I pushed my siblings out of the way so I could get the first bite of the tasty morsels. She took forever with dishing out our food. I meowed until I was horse. I even got up on two lets and leaned against the counter. Well, finally mom served us the special treat. I gobbled it down in record time. Chole, as usual, didn't even finish hers. So, after she left I went to her dish and did her the favor of cleaning up her dish (she's a lightweight).
After having a full belly, dad got out the brush. I ran up to him and presented myself for my brushing. Those bristles get through my thick fur and scratch my back. I didn't want dad to stop. At one point he tried to stop, but I scratched at him with a horse meow. Dad's a sucker and gave in for a couple more minutes.
Food. I want food. I don't care if the bowl is filled. I want the food that's in the bag. I'll scratch at the bag. Mom and dad will surely know that I want that food. Not the food in the bowl. The food in the bowl had been drolled on my my brother and sisters. I want my own food. I want the food in the bag. I think I will go and scratch the bag some more. My claws should be able to puncture it. Then I'll have all the food to myself.
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New Year's blessings from the Rainbow Bridge to all my friends.
It would have been my eleventh birthday today. Mummy says she would like me to share another memory, so I'm going to talk about my friend Digby.
Digby was a huge Abyssinian that used to live in the block of flats where I first went to live with Mummy. He was very outgoing and friendly. He would visit our flat and we would romp and play. One day we were playing hide and seek, and Digby hid behind the door and leapt out at me. I got such a fright my fur puffed up and then went down again a second later when I realised it was him. Mummy still remembers it, she'd never seen a fat tail come and go so quickly!
When Mummy was registering her details at the RSPCA to pick me up, she asked if they knew what my name was. Yes, she was told, her name is Tar. Mummy stared at them. "Tar?" she said. "You mean like in, road tar? The stuff you drive cars on?"
That's right, they affirmed.
"Well, that's just an awful name for a cat", Mummy thought to herself, but in case I was used to it, she decided to change it to something similar, and she thought Tara was much prettier.
(BTW we apologise to any actual Tars on Catster, and we know there is at least one. The funny thing is, Mummy often used to call me "Tar" for short!)
Mummy couldn't take me home from the RSPCA straight away, I had to be spayed first. (When I was surrendered by my former owners, I already had a litter of kittens. They were surrendered too.) She went to pick me up a couple of days after she first saw me, and the staff at the RSPCA said "Are you sure you want this one? She's very timid. She may never go outside, is that a problem?" Mummy said no to the last question; not if she is happier that way. They opened the carrier for a last peek, and said what beautiful fur I had, and then I was in the car riding to my new home. Naturally I was terrified, and when I was released I bolted straight behind the washing machine and stayed there for about 2 hours. Every so often I looked up to see this strange human face peering at me, so I made myself really, really small. But after a while I got hungry and uncomfortable. Then I heard a kind voice speaking to me, and I smelled cat crunchies! Cautiously I came out towards the human that was offering me the kibble. I sensed that she was going to take care of me, so I rubbed my scent on her and ate some kibble. Hooray, I had a home and a human of my own!
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Abstract72192S03-I Future high field (15+) dipole magnets will require superconductors with high current density and lower cost. These objectives could be accomplished by increasing the current density and lowering the fabrication cost of NbSn subelements. The Phase I project will develop technology for lowering the cost of fabricating Nb/Cu filaments for subelement extrusion billets, for increasing the Nb/Cu ratio of the filaments for subelement extrusion billets, and for providing a more uniform diffusion of Ti into each filament of the subelement extrusion billet. After inserting tin in the center of these extruded subelements, they will be drawn down, restacked into a billet, and then drawn down to final strand size. The final strands will be characterized for critical current density Jc, alternating current loss, and Sn and Ti diffusion. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by awardee: The largest market for the technology should be for accelerator and fusion magnets. However, high field magnets (above 5 tesla) can be used for MRI, NMR, high gradient magnetic separators, and superconducting magnetic energy storage applications.
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