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Deepening scandals may make the Vice-President an electoral liability, writes Marian Wilkinson.
Any Nigerian Government investigation into a bribery scandal would usually be dismissed in Washington with outright guffaws, especially if one of the potential witnesses was reported to be the second-most powerful man in America, Vice-President Dick Cheney. But not today.
When the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission announced two weeks ago it was joining the Paris public prosecutor's office in probing $US180 million ($A227 million) in secret payments allegedly paid to Nigerian officials, Cheney's political enemies took note.
The controversial US defence contractor Halliburton owns one of four foreign companies accused in the scandal. The company, MW Kellogg, was bought by Halliburton in 1998 when Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive.
The Nigerian investigation is just the latest controversy swirling about both Cheney and Halliburton. "We've had the Halliburton scandal of the week for a good five weeks and this is the next big one. If you look over the horizon, this is the one that's coming," says Pete Singer, who investigated Halliburton for his new book, Corporate Warriors, which delves into the grey world of private military contractors.
"It's political campaign season and blood is in the water, so you're going to hear about it."
Cheney and Halliburton, the company he led from 1995 until he ran for Vice-President in 2000, are now the target of so many accusations that some political analysts are openly asking whether Cheney has become a electoral liability for President George Bush.
What makes the Nigerian case so sensitive is the publicity it is generating in France. A French investigating magistrate, Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke, has been examining the payments behind closed doors since October. His inquiry grew out of the massive corruption scandal surrounding French oil companies in Africa. But bribery allegations involving Halliburton only surfaced recently when a French executive turned state's evidence.
After French newspaper Le Figaro finally published the Halliburton connection, the company was forced to disclose the investigation in a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in New York on February 6.
"A joint venture in which a Halliburton unit participates is under investigation as a result of payments made in connection with a liquefied gas project in Nigeria," the company statement reads. "The Paris prosecutor's office is probing whether the payments were illegal. The US Department of Justice and the SEC have asked Halliburton for cooperation and access to information in reviewing these matters and are reviewing the allegations in light of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act."
The statement adds: "If illegal payments were made, this matter could have a material adverse effect on our businesses."
Cheney's office has referred all questions on the Nigerian case to Halliburton. So far there is no evidence the Vice-President personally knew anything about the payments, which were apparently washed through tax shelters in Portugal and Gibraltar. The scheme was first set up several years before Halliburton owned the company involved.
But French and US reports indicate the payments did not stop after the takeover when Cheney was CEO.
The Nigerian investigation is one more blow to Halliburton, just when the company is reeling under daily attacks by the Democrats over corruption, kickbacks and favouritism in its Iraq contracts handed out by the Bush Administration.
But every attack on Halliburton by the Democrats is also squarely aimed at Cheney.
Back in November, Halliburton was basking in the glory of feeding American troops their Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad when the President dropped in for a visit. Last week, it was forced to announce it would temporarily halt all billing for all meals fed to the troops in Iraq and Kuwait after admitting that it had over-charged the Pentagon $US34.5 million for catering.
The company was also forced to re-pay $US6.3 million after it was caught overcharging for fuel imports into Iraq. Two of its employees received kickbacks from their local Kuwaiti fuel supplier.
This scandal has also engulfed the Kuwaiti oil minister, who this week also announced an investigation. The Pentagon's own Inspector-General is conducting its own probe into the fuel contract.
As each new scandal unfolds, the Democrats on the Hill are calling for an urgent bi-partisan investigation into Halliburton. The Republicans, not surprisingly, are resisting but are, no doubt, watching nervously as Cheney's poll numbers keep falling. Just before the Iraq war, his approval rating was over 60 per cent. Now it has sunk to just 45 per cent.
Cheney repeatedly beats back any attempt to link him with the current Halliburton scandals by saying he severed all his ties with it before the last election.
But Halliburton's lucrative contracts with the Bush Administration in Iraq have become symbolic of the "special interests" in Washington that are increasingly raising the hackles of many voters.
When the US Army Corps of Engineers admitted that on the eve of the Iraq war it had awarded a no-bid $US7 billion contract to Halliburton to re-build Iraq's oil infrastructure, Cheney's former relationship with the company became an easy target for the Democrats.
"I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of, in any way, shape or form, of contracts led by the (Army) Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government," Cheney told Meet the Press when questioned about Halliburton.
While this may be true, Cheney was the original architect of the relationship between Halliburton and the Pentagon. A report by the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington points out that when Cheney was Defence Secretary under George Bush snr in 1992, he moved aggressively on plans to outsource military logistics in conflict zones.
The company chosen to draw up those plans was Halliburton, which, in turn, won the first major contracts under the plan, in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and Rwanda.
Three years later, after Cheney gave up his own bid to run for president in 1995, he was hired by Halliburton to be the company's new CEO.
"Anyone who says these jobs being given to ex-government people isn't about connections is just lying," Singer told The Age.
Cheney got the job "because of who he knows and the doors that he was able to open".
By the time Cheney left Halliburton to run as Bush's Vice-President in the 2000 election, he had earned $US35.1 million from the company. He still gets a deferred salary from Halliburton and owns $US18 million in stock options, but he has pledged this money to charity.
Politically, Cheney is vulnerable on two fronts. His old company is one of the chief financial beneficiaries from the Iraq war. And he was also the Administration's most strident advocate for the war, often exaggerating the evidence for Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Until recently, Cheney maintained a cool detachment from the attacks on him, his office and Halliburton. Even now, while he occasionally chooses to respond to criticism, he remains surprisingly unaffected by the storm clouds gathering over his head.
Cheney gives no indication he is planning an early retirement. A survivor of four heart attacks, Cheney says he is in excellent health. He also knows his exit from the White House would, at this point, only fuel the attacks on Bush's credibility and energise the Democrats.
For now, Cheney brushes off questions about his public image.
"Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?" he asked jokingly in a recent interview with USA Today. "It's a nice way to operate, actually."
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MAHLER: Lieder
Among the interpreters of Mahler's music in the late twentieth century, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Daniel Barenboim stand out for their various contributions.
The Requiem text has brought out the best in many composers. Requiem settings by Mozart, Verdi, and Fauré are among the most beloved works among singers and listeners alike, and there are equally wondrous settings by Berlioz and Duruflé, as well as composers from before 1750, notably Jean Gilles.
Kathleen Ferrier Remembered, from SOMM Recordings, makes available on CD archive broadcasts of British and German song. All come from BBC broadcasts made between 1947 and 1952. Of the 26 tracks in this collection, 19 are "new", not having been commercially released. The remaining seven have been remastered by sound restoration engineer Ted Kendall. Something here even for those who already own the complete recordings.
Matthias Goerne Schumann Lieder, with Markus Hinterhäuser, a new recording from Harmonia Mundi. Singers, especially baritones, often come into their prime as they approach 50, and Goerne, who has been a star since his 20's is now formidably impressive. The colours in his voice have matured, with even greater richness and depth than before.
La Jacquerie—here recorded for the first time—proves to be a wonderful opera, bringing delight upon delight.
Good news for lovers of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro: the famous Living Stereo recording, a co-production of RCA Victor and English Decca, is now available again, well remastered, on Urania.
In May 2016, Opera Rara gave Bellini aficionados a treat when they gave a concert performance of Vincenzo Bellini's first opera, Adelson e Salvini, at the Barbican Hall. The preceding week had been spent in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, and this recording, released last month, is a very welcome addition to Opera Rara's bel canto catalogue.
Jonas Kaufmann Mahler Das Lied von der Erde is utterly unique but also works surprisingly well as a musical experience. This won't appeal to superficial listeners, but will reward those who take Mahler seriously enough to value the challenge of new perspectives.
A new recording, made late last year, Morfydd Owen : Portrait of a Lost Icon, from Tŷ Cerdd, specialists in Welsh music, reveals Owen as one of the more distinctive voices in British music of her era : a grand claim but not without foundation. To this day, Owen's tally of prizes awarded by the Royal Academy of Music remains unrivalled.
The Feast at Solhaug : Henrik Ibsen's play Gildet paa Solhaug (1856) inspired Wilhelm Stenhammer's opera Gillet på Solhaug. The world premiere recording is now available via Sterling CD, in a 3 disc set which includes full libretto and background history.
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Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto was the composer's fifteenth opera, and the ninth to a libretto by Giovanni Faustini (1615-1651). First performed at the Teatro Sant'Apollinaire in Venice on 28th November 1651, the opera by might have been sub-titled 'Gods Behaving Badly', so debauched are the deities' dalliances and deviations, so egotistical their deceptions.
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Félicien David's intriguing Le désert, for vocal and orchestral forces plus narrator, was widely performed in its own day, then disappeared from the performing repertory for nearly a century.
This well-packed disc is a delight and a revelation. Until now, even the most assiduous record collector had access to only a few of the nearly 100 songs published by Félicien David (1810-76), in recordings by such notable artists as Huguette Tourangeau, Ursula Mayer-Reinach, Udo Reinemann, and Joan Sutherland (the last-mentioned singing the duet "Les Hirondelles" with herself!).
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Among the interpreters of Mahler's music in the late twentieth century, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Daniel Barenboim stand out for their various contributions.
Fischer-Dieskau is known for his work with Lieder, which includes live performances and recordings as a singer, as well as his teaching, in which he has perpetuated his musicianship to the next generations of musicians. Barenboim's work as a conductor, most recently with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has involved performing as a pianist. This CD makes available recordings both performers made together in 1978, in which Barenboim accompanied Fischer-Dieskau on 35 of Mahler's approximately 50 songs. Included in this two-CD set are the entirety Mahler's Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, the cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, the set of Fünf Rückert-Lieder, and twelve of Mahler's settings of texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
While no longer actively performing and recording, Fischer-Dieskau remains an authoritative voice when it comes to Lieder, and those who wish to grasp his approach to Mahler's songs may find an excellent representation in "Ich ging mit Lust," one of the Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit. In this song, Fischer-Dieskau has taken a slightly slower tempo than some singers use, and this gives him the opportunity to bring out the melodic line and also to express the nuances of the texts. The diction in this song and the others in this recording is as clear and idiomatic as occurs in his recordings of Lieder by Brahms and Strauss. With the tempo fitting the text so well, Fischer-Dieskau makes the most of genre, which requires such a mutually expressive approach to exceed the limitations that occur when poetry is recited or melodies simply played. Likewise, Fischer-Dieskau brings out elements are sometimes passed over, such as the braying lines JKJKJKJK that Mahler accentuated more broadly in the later setting of "Lob des höhen Verstandes," one of the songs in which he used texts from the anthology Des Knaben Wunderhorn. At the same time, Fischer-Dieskau sensitively allows poetic meter to modify the agogic accents of the melody in the song "Selbstgefühl." It is this very sensitivity to the text that makes Fischer-Dieskau's interpretation of the third song of the cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, "Ich hab' ein glühend Messer" memorable for the drama and intensity often approached but rarely executed so well.
Hand in hand with Fischer-Dieskau's vocal mastery is the expert pianism of Daniel Barenboim, who added nuance and color to the accompaniment without either exaggerating anything that is already present in the composition or adding elements that are not in the scores themselves. Pianists can take cues from the Lieder that Mahler orchestrated, which is in itself not only fair, but something that should be expected. In fact, it may be that knowledge of the orchestral version of such a powerful song as "Um Mitternacht" forces some pianists to emote unabashedly in that song, while Barenboim stops short of such overstatement.
Yet such delicacy is also part of Barenboim's performances of Mahler's earlier songs, which convey a freshness that sets this set apart from others. More than competent, Barenboim has set a standard from which other performances can take a cue. The sheer energy he exhibits at the opening of "Scheiden und Meiden" sets the tone for the singer to use in expressing the opening lines of the text. In other places, Barenboim defers to the voice by supporting it carefully, such that it is Gestalt of voice and piano that emerge in this uniformly fine set of recordings. Barenboim's talent in the intimate setting of Lieder cannot be overestimated, particularly with regard to the details that are at the core of Mahler's music.
When it comes to the settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the versions of the songs with piano accompaniment clearly deserve a place in the concert repertoire. Mahler intended both scorings for performance, without one superseding the other. The Orchesterlied was an idiom that Mahler used to fine effect in his music, yet he was not alone in writing for this genre, which includes works by Liszt, Wolf, Richard Strauss, and others. In pursuing works for this idiom, though, Mahler made use of the symphonic aspects of the orchestral accompaniment to set his scores apart from some of his contemporaries. While some of the Wunderhornlieder may be perceived immediately as symphonic because of their connection with his symphonies, the accompaniments of others contain scorings that resemble some of the passages in his symphonies. In executing these songs with piano accompaniment, though, it is too much to ask the pianist to emulate the orchestra, when the purpose is to support the vocal, which Barenboim does with finesse.
Take, for example, "Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt," a piece that is known in at least contexts by the composer himself – a song with piano accompaniment, an orchestral Wunderhornlied, and its adaptation in a symphonic milieu as the Scherzo of Mahler's Second Symphony – with a further use of the song by Luciano Berio as part of his Sinfonia. Given the resonances that come to mind with this song, Fischer-Dieskau and Barenboim deliver the Lied well with piano accompaniment, with the accompaniment idiomatically pianistic. Barenboim follows the score and avoids evoking orchestral effects that would, indeed, distract the listener. Yet in the intimate setting of the piano accompaniment, Fischer Dieskau treats the setting with subtlety and grace. The assonances that occur with the verb endings that conclude many lines in the first part of the poem help to reinforce the images of the various kinds of fish intermingling, as one word intersects another, yet remains clearly enunciated in Fischer-Dieskau's precise phrasing.
Another familiar Wunderhornlied, "Revelge" may be familiar from Fischer-Dieskau's earlier recording of the orchestral version (with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf), and yet the setting with piano accompaniment remains a convincing and effective performance of the piece. Sustained in mood, more like a dramatic scene than a typical example of Lieder, "Revelge" is not an easy song to perform because of the demands Mahler placed on the singer. In this interpretation Fischer-Dieskau and Barenboim interact well to create the mood and to draw on the musical and textual tension that is at the core of this piece. Other examples from this collection of settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn are also effective for the masterful approach both musicians took to the music.
Fischer-Dieskau and Barenboim recorded these performances in the Siemensville Studio, Berlin between 5 and 10 February 1978, a necessarily brief to capture so much music and, thus, to achieve an interpretive focus. The recordings were digitally remastered in 2005, thus achieving a good quality of sound. Nevertheless some aspects of the sound are reproduced here, which includes a fine sense of the piano and the nuances Barenboim delivers. At the same time, the placement of the microphone by the voice gives a clear image of Fischer-Dieskau's instrument. Yet from time to time the baritone sound overbalances the ensemble and sounds somewhat forward. It is never strident, but can be a bit ringing. As with any recordings, though, the ear can compensate for such unintended results, just as it is able to hear past the noise and static of inferior recordings, which this is clearly not. Yet it helps to put the sometimes highly present sound of the voice into the perspective of the recording and not allow its liveliness to affect the assessment of the model performance by both musicians. The reissue of this set of recordings is welcome for making available some fine performances that continue to merit attention.
James L. Zychowicz
Madison, Wisconsin


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A four year old and professional illustrator combine their talents in this mother-daughter collaboration.
Professional illustrator and graphic designer Mica Angela Hendricks recently acquired a new collaborator when she reluctantly gave in to her four year old daughter Myla's request to add to her half-finished sketch in a brand new notebook. The happy accident resulted in a continued collaborative effort that has led to a full series of whimsical prints (currently available on Society 6) in which Hendricks contributes the sketched faces and her daughter completes the drawings, adding bodies and backgrounds. Hendricks then finishes off the pieces using acrylics.
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"Experts" & The Decline of the American News Media
Probably nothing is more annoying to me than the plethora of "experts" who have infested the modern American news media in the last decade or so. It seems in fact that the corporate
GOP mainstream media has substituted talking-head in-studio "experts" for the honest professional investigative journalists who used to root-out of the truth and report it. Here's an
During one high-school-shooting-hostage crisis last year; both CNN and FOX News had "hostage negotiator experts" giving a live play-by-play account, with an accompanying live action-cam trained on the school and police. They speculated about every possible variance of outcomes and police strategy. The live-camera looked like a still-photograph, since nothing actually happened for hours, and the "experts" began to discuss the possible mental illness and mental state of the kidnapper shooter(s) not knowing if there was more than one, and what the police were thinking, their strategies etc., saying things like "This is what the police negotiator would be thinking.....this is what the hostage-taker would be thinking....., so the negotiator will want to calm the perpetrator by offering food and try to find out the condition of the hostages blah blah blah etc etc"......well I wasn't the hostage-taker or the police....or the "expert"....but as I listened with fascinated
dread I wondered: What if the kidnapper(s) had the TV on in there? Mightn't an "expert" speculate they could get really pissed at being called mentally ill and having their head shrunk on national TV and maybe lose it and shoot a few people, particularly if they were unbalanced? Could the "experts" be tipping them off to what police do and don't do? Was the
video more valuable to the kidnapper/killer than the viewer? The "experts", never mentioned or imagined, nor evidently did CNN and FOX, the possibility that such actions and words by
them could trigger further violence....Jeeeezus!!!
Dr Joyce Brothers, who was Johnny Carson's Tonight Show house head-shrinker for years,would rank up there among the first TV "experts". Of course she was an entertainment joke.
The modern media "experts" cult really got traction with Phil Donahue, Oprah and other such nonsensical made-for-TV mass therapy-gossip-tabloid programs. They taught Americans that
they are a country of dysfunctional families and manic-depressives, and to prove it, the list of
bullshit-artists, con-artists, "psycho-anal"ysts, moralists, evangelists and snake-oil salesmen, collectively called "experts", that these talk-shows stuffed down the gullet of the gullible public was endless. They're still trotting them out by the dozen today. Many "experts" who started out back then came to have TV and radio shows of their own, wrote books and/or
went to Congress. I found it absurd and perplexing that anybody could listen to their crap for more than two minutes without busting a gut laughing...but laughing is good therapy ...and
it's just entertainment after all...right? Right.
But is journalism/news just entertainment?
Little did I suspect those 15-20 years ago that before long all the heretofore serious news networks and press would increasingly rely on "experts" to report the "inside scoop" of
every news story, scandal and person that came over the news-wire. Incredible (or is it uncredible?) stuff!
No longer was the reporter out there in the field risking life and limb, digging for the truth, asking the tough questions and finding the real story. It was all right there in the studio.
Together with the "think-tank"( whatever in hell that is?) intellectuals, and the compliant stupid "newsreaders" these charlatans took control of the national dialogue.
What any of these people actually ever did to deserve the title of "expert" is rarely explained, except occasionally, as with the likes of FOX News "law-enforcement expert" Mark Ferman,
who helped blow the OJ murder case, or Tom Delay, an "expert" on Congressional corruption if ever there was one, their notorious experience automatically qualifies them.
The "experts" took deep root in the news-media with Clinton and the media/right-wing conspiracy to scandalize him over sexual trysts and other trivial nonsense. That marked the true beginning of tabloid politics and the "experts" came out of the woodwork. After all, everybody's an "expert" at gossip, otherwise known as talking-shit. They all marched through the networks, straight-faced, soberly speculating that Clinton's perjury, (a lie about a blojob in lawsuit without merit), would destroy the American justice system if he wasn't impeached and
Of course they were waaaaay off wrong as they mostly are. George W. Bush, his many lies, Guantanamo Bay, Constitutional abuses, the Patriot Act, habeas corpus, spying on Americans etc. destroyed the American justice system. It's funny how none of these same "experts" have ever made that simple observation these past seven years.
They're all still around. And some of the GOP hypocrite sexual deviants who voted to impeach Clinton and conducted his prosecution wound up being media heroes, professional "experts" or news network journalists themselves. What a pathetic testament to the state of today's mainstream news media.
FOX News Network, the love-child of Tabloid King Rupert Murdoch has led the way. If you think I'm full of it just flip on FOX News and wait a couple minutes....an "expert" is guaranteed
to show up before you can get the pop-corn popped. I swear, last year, there must have been at least 2,000 "experts" who appeared on FOX News network (that's 5 a day so maybe I'm
being too conservative? What!!?....me?...conservative?!....good heavens!!..look what they've done!!) ...and that's besides their resident "experts" like "the judge". Jeeezus!! FOX has a
goddamned mercenary army of "experts" rivaling Bush's private security army in Iraq !
For example, Bill O-Reilly's "body-language expert" Tonya Reiman asserted that Hillary Clinton exhibited "evil laughter" during her recent Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace. This is an "expert" paid by FOX News to "take out of context", by their physical movements, what people who are speaking (or even laughing) are actually saying....serious people like Presidential candidates and Senators. And BTW, the victims of this "body- language expert's" observations(?) are always, always.. liberal Democrats, feminists etc.; people toward whom FOX News is hostile. And Reiman's conclusions are always negative.
Needless to say, the number of "experts" who pontificated about every phony, dreamed-up threat from Iraq in the lead-up to the invasion is practically uncountable and certainly remain.... un-accountable. Depending on each other's drivel, and the actual testimony of a few Bush-supplied anonymous-sources, (exiles who hadn't been in Iraq for years, and had personal vendetta against Saddam), and because they never dig up any facts or see anything for themselves, this huge gang of "expert" sock-puppets built a case for war that convinced
even the most skeptical Americans (Not me I'm proud to say!) that Iraq had to be invaded. They wrote dozens of books and got paid big money for op/eds,TV appearances etc.
I'm no expert like them, but it was perfectly obvious to me that Hans Blix and the UN inspectors (true experts) were doing a fine thorough job, and Saddam, who couldn't fly a frigging airplane off the ground, if he'd had one, was a threat to nobody.
One commonly hired "expert" is Steve Emmerson, an "expert on terrorism"; firstname.lastname@example.com. He wrote an article in the NY Post about the upcoming visit of Iran's President..saying he
had "chutzbah" and is a "monster"...well here's my email to this turd which explains things.
"Hi Steve:
Read your interesting NY Post article on Ahmadinejad's proposal to visit "ground zero".
Do you imagine that using a derogatory Jewish phrase and the word "monster" to describe a violent delusional Islamic extremist who probably does have some WMDs, is somehow
helpful to the tense situation with Iran? In what way?
Why don't you friggin "terrorism experts" who want to "stop terror" address things like:
Junior Bush has armed Islamic Pakistan, birthplace of the Taliban and Islamic Jihad, to the teeth, with billion$ in state-of-the-art weapons including jets capable of delivering "nucular" weapons which they already count in their arsenal. Only the tenuous regime of Masharraf stands between those weapons and this fantastic arsenal falling into Islamic Jihad's hands And his relationship with Bush/USA is growing more strained and uncertain daily besides.
Is it because you "experts" forgot that Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr, Ollie North and the GOP corporate oil/arms cartel aided, financed and armed the "terrorist states" of Iran, Afghanistan
and Iraq?
Did you forget that Reagan/Bush handed the Mujahadeen victory in Afghanistan?
Did you forget that Reagan/Bush traded arms for hostages to Iran?
Did you forget that Bush Sr. supplied WMDs to Saddam Hussein, including the gas he used
on the Kurds?
Aiding Islamic extremist states has been a cornerstone and hallmark of Republican foreign
policy for 25 years.
Besides all that Junior Bush himself allowed plane-loads of Saudi Arabians to leave America, without question, on 9/12/2001. And the hijackers were Saudi Arabians.
So what will you shit-for-brains "experts" say when these things come back and bite America on the ass?
I'll tell you Steve, with experts like you and Bush around America really is in trouble.
Now I'm no "expert" but just a day later I had to send him another email thus:
"Dear Steve:
When I wrote you earlier, I didn't even know about Bin laden's new tape and the fatwah of Jihad against Musharraf.
You experts would do well to pay attention to your betters."
These "experts" are a menace to the truth in reporting and a blight on news-journalism and what it used to be.
And they are abusers of the 1st Amendment and the special rights accorded the free press.
But worse they are a scourge to "the people" who rely on the news networks, newspapers and magazines for the in-depth truth about what's really going and the people involved.
Why the media and the American people keep buying into this mass of ignorant, lazy and mostly wrong (am I being too kind?) loudmouth idiots after their record of overwhelming failure is beyond me.
The next time I see a make-up-wearing-$1000-hair-cut -"expert" expound on how a politician's make-up and $1000 haircut reveal his true hidden agenda...and what that agenda is..... I'm
gonna puke.
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When you look at just how degenerate the American news media has become over the last 25 years or so, it's helpful to keep a few things in mind.
First of all, we had the rampant deregulation of the media, which began under Reagan's watch, continued under Senior Bush, and came to its ultimate conclusion when Bill Clinton, AKA "Slick Willie", gave Corporate America carte blanche to accumulate as many media properties as they wished when he signed that media deregulation bill in the early '90's.
Second, the corporations which have invested a lot of money in those media properties they bought, are determined to make sure they're successfully generating the millions which they spent to buy these media properties. Therefore, they watch the American people's moods and attitudes closely to see what's going on. When they see that Americans don't have an interest in international news, they cut back on reporting international news under the guise of "budget cutting", and claiming that the audience isn't "interested in international news". They then tailor the news to what they think will get the biggest audience, which is why the most sensationalistic, shocking and gossipy "news" fills the airwaves, newpapers and magazines. Catering to the lowest common denominator is more profitable to these moguls than aiming for the highest common denominator, and the media moguls will do whatever it takes to generate the most cash, even if it means perpetually "dumbing down" the American people, so they can't act effectively to improve present conditions and human society.
Third, the media moguls who'd spent millions accumulating a staff of "reporters" -- most of whom either barely passed their journalism school classes, or who started out as models and actors, and decided to get into the news business so they could be "taken seriously" -- didn't want them going out to actually report the news, because it might be too "dangerous" or "hazardous". Instead, they rely on so-called "experts" to do all the research and legwork for them.
Finally, the corporate media moguls share a distinctively neo-conservative/pro-oligarchical outlook with the Wall Street/Anglo-Dutch oligarchical banking interests. So, they are going to put people on the air who will propagate their pro-oligarchical worldview and outlook. Thanks to the poor quality of education which the American people have had to endure over the last thirty-odd years or so, most Americans have no clue about what's happening to them, and if they do have a clue, an "expert" immediately appears on TV to tell them that what's happening to them is "normal", and that they shouldn't get all worried about it. They should simply deal with it, and accept the oligarchical agenda which is being presented to them... and unfortunately, many Americans have fallen for (and wholeheartedly embraced) the oligarchical agenda hook, line and sinker.
The American people have been told that having a dysfunctional family and being a manic-depressive is part of "normal life", and because there things are a part of "normal life", they should learn how to make the best of it, and the way to make the best of it is to take a pill to make dealing with these things easier. Perhaps that's why we see so many commericals for anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications, and sleeping pills are aired during these "infotainment" programs disguised as "news" and "talk shows".
The American people keep buying into this mass of "experts" who are lasy, ignorant and usually wrong, is because there's a nasty streak of intellectual laziness among the American people. It's too difficult, too time-consuming and too hard to actually think for one's self or dig deep to find the in-depth truth, so an "expert" comes in and does all of that "hard work" for you. Of course, that "expert" is often a total idiot, but who cares, as long as that "expert" tells you not what you must or need to hear, but what you want to hear which will justify the agenda and outlook you've already accepted.
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Hogg, R (2005) Policing the Rural Crisis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(3), pp. 340-360.
Based on empirical research in a number of rural communities in north-western NSW, this article explores the dynamics of rural crisis as it is manifested in and through popular attitudes and campaigns around law and order. There is no denying that crime rates in many rural communities are high, often very high by national standards, or that local crime disproportionately involves Indigenous offenders (and Indigenous victims). However, the views expressed in interviews with established White residents, in local media and in organised campaigns around law and order are suggestive of a much deeper sense of threat and crisis. This, it is argued, can be explained in relation not simply to crime rates but the way in which crime is experienced at the local level and the manner in which it is connected to other unwanted change that is seen to threaten the integrity of these communities. In order to understand these anxieties it is necessary to explore historical patterns of settlement, the economic structure and the culture of rural communities. Indigenous Australians have, at best, occupied an ambiguous and fragile position in relation to membership of these communities, a form of 'passive' belonging, 'conditional' on deference to dominant White norms governing civic and domestic life. Local Indigenous crime can be a source of deep anxiety not only because it causes harm to person and property but because it is interpreted by many Whites as a repudiation of the local social order, a signifier of larger threats to the community and on occasions as a harbinger of social breakdown. The article explores some of the key themes emerging from interview material that characterise this sense of crisis and relates them to the larger pattern of change affecting many communities: economic decline, changing government policies and priorities, the growing relative economic and political power of Indigenous people, debates about native title and so on.
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At last! 100 percent of Aspen, Snowmass ski terrain open
February 19, 2013
ASPEN – All of the regular terrain at Aspen Skiing Co.'s four ski areas was finally open for the first time this season Monday when Snowmass received nine inches of snow and added the trails Baby Ruth 2, West 1 and 2, and Adios Bowl and Upper Ladder to the mix, the company reported.
Snowmass has all 3,362 acres open, including the 230 acres that was added on Burnt Mountain, according to spokesman Jeff Hanle.
The other three ski areas hit the 100 percent open mark slightly earlier in the year, Hanle said. Aspen Highlands reported 1,028 acres open on Monday, while Buttermilk/Tiehack has 470 acres.
Aspen Mountain reports 675 acres open, but there are additional shots, steeps and gullies that boost the amount even higher. Those trails aren't included in the skiable acreage figure because they can't regularly be opened, Hanle said. So, in a strict sense, Aspen Mountain is more than 100 percent open.
It's been an uphill struggle to get all the terrain open. The snowpack at the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River east of Aspen is only 55 percent of average, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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On occasion I meet up in the Lower Westheimer district and flout around with friends. Specifically my fashionable beau, BooBoo...well I mean Brent! We ended up having lunch and hanging out at Cecil's Pub and then to Texas Art Supply because I really wanted to buy a canvas.
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Ok this post could be slightly irrelevant to some but I love it! Theatre Junkie/Drama Club kids like myself really do appreciate these Random acts of theatre where a group of individuals go to public places and freeze or sing or even dance. Houston's Performance Art Lab has a little schtick they do called "Sexy Attack" where the perform a routine from Eric Pyrdz "Call On Me" music video. I'm glad we have something like this in Houston! Can I join?
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I really think Team Away With Film did a great job! Kalvin is great director and I see epic films in his future! Geaux team!
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Last night I saw The Helio Sequence and Dri in concert here in Houston at Rudyard's. The show was crazy good! I hope many of you guys check out The Helio Sequence as they tour through your towns, you won't regret it. They're really nice and approachable. One of the reasons why I dig indie artists. They were hangin out downstairs in the bar with the common folk. When I met Dri she said, she saw me at the bar and thought I was pretty, I think she might have mentioned my hair but my ears failed me after the show. I really dig artists with down to earth personalities and great music is always a plus. Here's a clip of Dri's music ...Passion Pit concert tonight by the way!
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Amsterdam-based Industrial Designer Satyendra Pakhalé completed his Degree in Engineering and a Masters in Design from India, and studied Advanced Product Design in Switzerland. He later worked at Philips Design – creating innovative products in the areas of digital communication and transportation. In 1998, he set up his own design practice in Amsterdam. His clientèle include renowned companies and organisations such as Alessi, Bosa, Cappellini, Colombo Design, Erreti, Magis, Moroso, Tubes (Italy), Hästens, Offecct, Väveriet (Sweden) and Material ConneXion (USA). Satyendra works in a wide range of disciplines, bringing to his design a set of fresh perspectives and a diversity of innovative cultural connections. His work is showcased in many respected public collections like Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Of Indian Origin caught up with Satyendra for a chat.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, what made you become a designer and how did you start your career?
Satyendra Pakhalé: I was born in the heart land of India and grew up in fascinating and lovely country surroundings, with lots of exposure to ancient sculptures to contemporary poetry. Then I went to study technical stuff and discovered the industrial design profession. One thing led to another, my curiosity took me from one place to another. Perhaps that's what made me a designer, it's been a long journey, but indeed a fascinating and rewarding one.
What is your design philosophy?
Satyendra Pakhalé: I do not believe in a dogma, a fixed notion of any sort. I believe in creating human design, design that has warmth like a human being, as we are surrounded by designed objects and environment all over on our tiny planet.
Can you tell us about the most challenging product that you have designed?
Satyendra Pakhalé: The most challenging project is the one I am working on right now.
What has been your best communication project and why?
Satyendra Pakhalé: Every project is a unique journey, so I would not know which one is the best. All I can say is the window architecture I designed for Tod's, the Italian fashion brand was so well received that they took my design which was specified for their New York Saks 5th avenue flagship store, and used it for all of their flagship stores on our planet. But the one I had most fun with was the Urban Cityscape I designed for Ittalla, Finland.
What do you think about the upcoming design talent in India?
Satyendra Pakhalé: I think there is a lot of talent all over India, but most often people hardly get the possibility to hone their talent. In any creative profession, it's a long journey and one has to believe in it.
Is there a huge difference in the way design is perceived between India and the western world?
Satyendra Pakhalé: Of course there is a difference, it is mainly the awareness. Design could be often misunderstood as style. In fact design is a fundamental quality of life and how a designer goes on addressing those fundamental needs in the best possible manner in a given situation. We, in India, ought to make use of design methodology in every aspect of life as we have the huge benefit of creating system solutions in the 21st century and learn from the mistakes done elsewhere.
How much is sustainability a factor in your design process? Is it a tough act balancing form and design with sustainability?
Satyendra Pakhalé: Sustainability unfortunately is an over used word. For me it is a fundamental aspect of any design project, so there is no question of balancing anything. I have often said, I really hope there should never be any trend related to sustainability. As we all know, trends come and go. We simply cannot afford to have sustainability as trend. It ought to be an integral part of our living.
What do you envisage to be the next big product/industrial design trend?
Satyendra Pakhalé: As I said trends come and go, industrial design ought to have lasting quality and address human needs. I do not believe in trends, but I am keen on innovation of all sorts in every industrial design project that I undertake.
Whose work do you admire the most in the design world?
Satyendra Pakhalé: The thing I admire most in life is the possibility to exercise one's freedom to create – and particularly in the design world – to create projects in all directions possible from industrial to cultural arena and everything in-between. The names that come to my mind right now are Frederick Kiesler, Shiro Kuramata, Ettore Sottsass, Tapio Wirkkala and Isamu Noguchi but there are many more.
Thank you for the interview. One last question, what is the next big project you are working on?
Satyendra Pakhalé: At a given time there are several projects in a process. For me each project has it's significance, irrespective of its size. But the one that captivates me most at this point of time is the futuristic project for outer space.


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I don't mean yachts or ferries, but proper working ships: cargo and container and bulk and gas and oil, the ones we no longer see.
cargo holds are still stocked with munition, though the weaponry sunk with the ships is still considered dangerous.
Pressurization exerts forces on any potential weak point, and that includes doors and cargo hold latches.
In one story, a grandmother awakes to find herself on a cargo ship devoid of crew but full of other confused grandmothers.
As a result, his bank accounts were frozen, despite his claims he was merely operating a cargo airline servicing African hotspots.
It was no easy matter to transfer the cargo from the submerged boat.
At last, satisfied with his estimate of the cargo's valuation, he turned.
In a few days the Packet received her cargo, consisting chiefly of tobacco and molasses.
There was no manifest, for there was no cargo to be invoiced.
If you will lend me money enough to buy a pair of oxen I will begin to team a cargo of nitrate down myself.
1650s, "freight loaded on a ship," from Spanish cargo "burden," from cargar "to load, impose taxes," from Late Latin carricare "to load on a cart" (see charge (v.)). South Pacific cargo cult is from 1949. Cargo pants attested from 1977.


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CNET Reveals Top 100 Stories of 2012
Ever year CNET releases a list of the top 100 people, products and stories that changed our life. CNET editor-at-large Brian Cooley speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about this year's top choices.
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iRiver has been a little quiet of late but its suddenly back with a rather quirky new PMP...
Yes, yes we know the argument: MP3/PMP it is all dead as the smartphone runs riot (it was the primary frustration with the Zii powered Creative Plaszma) but these markets will be here for some time yet.
Consequently we get the 'E200' (successor to the E100) which while not the prettiest device we've ever seen is certainly a flexible unit with MP3, WMA, Ogg, ASF and FLAC audio support plus RMVB, Xvid Mpeg4, WMV9 native video playback. You'll get a large 2.8in screen too, it isn't touchscreen but there are love/hate touch sensitive navigation buttons.
Elsewhere you'll find an FM tuner (with FM recording), integrated speakers and SRS HD WOW sound enhancement technology along with a choice of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB versions plus a microSD expansion slot. At just 9.9mm thick the E200 is also particularly pocket friendly and the UI looks a cut above anything iRiver has come up with previously.
Yes, you can't make calls on it and there's no web browser or app store but if you just want to a PMP to be a PMP (and avoid an 18/24 month sign your life away contract) then the iRiver E200 may just fit the bill. UK pricing and availability are expected soon.
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Wrestlers strength
I have heard on UFC i believe from Joe Rogan ( take it for what you will) that wrestlers who wrestle at a young age develop generaly stronger joints tendons and over all strength compared to someone of a comparable size and build. Is this a common held fact or just a comentator filling in empty air space?
My real question is if anyone thinks this holds true beyond wrestling. I have been doing BJJ and after 4 classes they let me roll, well to my shock my first 5 minutes rolling i got the guy in a RNC ( the only reason i new a RNC was i had watch the trigg hughes fight a few times) the guy was same size as me 170-175 lbs and had been in the class a few months) he ended up calling me a lier and saying that i was covering up that i used to wrestle. Does anyone think that doing hard manual labor (mason tending/farm hand) at a young age (started at 12) could lead to wrestle like strength?
He didn't mean you had the strenght of a wrestler, he probably meant that you knew how to get out of different positions and keep moving. Most people when they start BJJ forget to keep moving andjust lay there.
Yes strangth could help alot but in JJ thats not everything.
that guy that you rnc is a young minded bjj player that talies a win loss record in practice. and when his plans do not follow through he must come up with some sad ass reason he got tapped... when he should look at it as practice, he made a mistake and "what can i do to improve my game to not get caught in that again"... terrible teammate and mindset for the mat.
and about the maual labor aspect i do belive doing it gives muscle strength and endurance over the adverage. i do not touch weights, but my job requires me to be on very physical(construction, street removal & digging.). i hear all the time how strong i am, but i use leverage, and before class i burn myself out anerobicly to force myself to use technique over strength or my speed. forcing myself to this disadvantage gives me the advantage if an opponet and i was to both be fresh or we are both tired.
sure...wrestlers build up that strength over the years compared to somebody not doing it as long. Matt hughes is a farmer....and wrestler and check out his strength! gymnasts are also excpetionally strong
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yeah i had a buddy in high school who was a gymnist. He was only about 5'5 and 145 pounds but very strong.
not saying that gymnist are not strong, because i know it takes strength to preform as they do, but i did not give yoga it due credit until i tried it.... have you ever tried yoga?? may move as a gymnist would do, but they move slower and hold poses at the hardest time, using felxibility, metal strength, SINGLE muscle control, and the sretching and breathing you talked about.
i think you should try this, do 10 pushups fast and clap at the top. then try to do 10 push ups in ten minutes taking 1 minute on each push up, moving real slow... if you do you will see what i am talking about. both take strength but one takes more focus and muscle control to do
YouTube - Duncan Wong Yogic Arts
yeah...that is good but almost all of those poses are done in gymnastics....
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and little kids can do those...years of training
I wouldv'e loved to learn gymnastics. I was gonna take it when I was like 7 but there was no place around that wasn't only girls.
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"It is crazy," Christian Habermueller, who offers horse and carriage rides to tourists in Vienna's city center, told Reuters. "Completely idiotic."
The fan zone will accommodate up to 70,000 locals and visitors, but the mood in Vienna is subdued two weeks before the start of the tournament.
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I think there should be a tab for bundles, where there will be all kinds of bundles
It will make it easier for the buyers to find them and also might boost the sales as bundles are cheap and attracts many buyers
A great idea. +1
it would be a lot helpful, for us and the buyers
Good Idea Bro
Sounds like a great idea!
Hi Shahriyer! That's an interesting idea! Are you talking about our official Envato Bundles or packs of files on GraphicRiver that contain multiple items? The reason I ask that is because we've had Music Packs on AudioJungle for quite a while now and they're really popular!
Why not both?
Actually i was talking about the bundles we give… for example, i have a timeline bundle…
Now i know as it's a timeline bundle it should be in timeline category… but they aren't just timelines, they are bundles… cheap and loaded with stuffs!
I think it should have a different category up in the menu… Its like a discount item, buyers are getting all 5 of my timelines for 5$ and not 10$... the lesser the price the more they attract
So you see, if there is a bundles tab, the buyers won't have to go hours of searching files to get a nifty bundle, they can just go to that category!
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Pair of homers propel A's to series win in Seattle
Pair of homers propel A's to series win in Seattle
Yet four of those hits were home runs, and the final two that came in Wednesday's series finale from Coco Crisp and Yoenis Cespedes were enough to lift the A's to a 2-1 victory and series win over the reeling Mariners.
The long balls accounted for Oakland's only two hits of the day, and such an offensive showing won't cut it in Texas, where the A's head next for a four-game set with the division-leading Rangers, while sitting two games below the .500 mark and 9 1/2 games out of first place.
"That's a team that you gotta be hitting on all cylinders to win, especially at their place," manager Bob Melvin said. "You gotta be on it in that ballpark because you know there's probably going to be some runs scored, and you have to be patient. It's a team that's deep, not only offensively but in the rotation, the bullpen."
The A's can only hope, then, that their starters maintain their incredibly dominant stretch -- they've given up just 16 earned runs over 83 1/3 innings for a 1.73 ERA over the past 13 games -- while they gain back the offensive groove that has helped them to a 15-10 record in June.
On Wednesday, it was Jarrod Parker who kept the A's in the game, allowing just one run -- on John Jaso's second-inning solo shot -- and three hits with four walks while striking out a career-high nine over seven innings.
"I think everyone wants to continue doing better than the night before," Parker said. "We all want to go out and throw a quality start and give the team a chance to win and obviously limit the hits and runs and keep the defense on their toes."
It marked the sixth time in his past seven starts in which Parker allowed one run or fewer and the ninth time in 13 career starts. Dwight Gooden (1984) is the only other pitcher since 1918 to accomplish the latter feat.
"That's a nice stat," Melvin said, smiling. "It says he's got great stuff, and he can do it in whatever venue. It really doesn't matter to him. When he's throwing the ball over the plate and he's mixing his pitches, he's just a tough guy to square up. We're not even to the halfway point, but we're very pleased at what he's doing. Now did we expect him to be able to pitch games like this? Absolutely."
"I try to go into every game and give up one per three, and I think that's pretty good, to cut the game in thirds," Parker said. "That's what I've been taught to do, and if you're giving up one run per three in this game, that's pretty good. It simplifies it a little bit."
Seattle starter Kevin Millwood, who lasted just 2 2/3 innings before exiting with a recurring right groin injury, was responsible for Crisp's leadoff homer in the first, while Hisashi Iwakuma offered up the one to Cespedes -- his second in as many days and ninth of the season -- in the seventh.
"Everybody knows I have that kind of power, but when I'm up there, I'm just looking to hit the ball hard," Cespedes said through interpreter Ariel Prieto. "I'm not thinking about hitting home runs, just making contact and hitting the ball hard."
Cespedes, for one, said he had never been part of a win -- which was capped by Ryan Cook's sixth save of the season -- that featured just two hits, all home runs.
Melvin couldn't recall one, either, as it happened to be the first time in A's history the club has won a game with only two hits which were both homers.
"Good teams find a way to win games like that," he said. "We've been pretty good in June offensively, and for some reason we didn't swing the bats well here at all. But you come out with two wins, you can't be mad about that."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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2012 Michigan Men's Soccer Roster
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Sixty-Four Wolverines Garner Fall Academic All-Big Ten Honors
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Michigan Falls at No. 1 Akron in Second Round of NCAA Tournament
Men's Soccer Falls at No. 1 Akron in NCAA Tournament Second Round
Week #12: Michigan to Face Northwestern in Big Ten Semifinal
Men's Soccer at Northwestern for Big Ten Tournament Semifinal
Postgame Notes: Michigan 1, Michigan State 0
Postgame Notes: Michigan 1, Michigan State 0
Men's Soccer Reclaims Big Bear Trophy
Adam Grinwis posted five saves and the shutout, while Kofi Opare headed in a Fabio Pereira corner kick at 69:49 for the match's lone score as U-M topped Michigan State, 1-0, to reclaim the Big Bear Trophy.
2012 Men's Soccer Season Preview
The Wolverines begin the Chaka Daley Era this season.
At Michigan ...Ranks fifth all-time in matches played (80), fourth in matches started (75) and third in minutes played (6,700) ... Team tri-captain (2011-12) ... Academic All-Big Ten (2010) ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement Award (2009-10) ...2012 Academic All-Big Ten.
Senior (2012) ...Played full match on 18 occasions ... Fired one shot against Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament (Nov. 11) as well as one shot during the regular season against Bowling Green (Oct. 23) ... Had one assist to Tyler Arnone in the 2-1 loss against Wisconsin (Oct. 13).
Junior (2011) ... Started 19 of 20 matches on the season, with the lone exception being Senior Night against Northwestern as he gave way to senior Jarrett Kerr ... Second on team in minutes played with 1,748. playing entire match on 15 occasions ... Lone shot on goal of season came on header off corner against Michigan State (Oct. 30).
Sophomore (2010) ... Academic All-Big Ten (2010) ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement Award (2010) ... Played and started in each of U-M's 25 games on the season ... Recorded three points on three assists ... Anchored the U-M defense to a 3-2 overtime win over No. 3 Maryland (Dec. 4) to send the Wolverines to the 2010 NCAA College Cup ... Recorded his third assist this season in U-M's 4-1 win over Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament Final ... Tallied his first shot of the season, on goal,in U-M's 3-2 win over Wisconsin (Oct. 10) ...Picked up double assists in U-M's 2-1 win over Oakland (Sept. 15), his first points of the season... Played in both of U-M's season-opening games against Detroit (Sept. 1) and Drake (Sept. 3) as a starting defender... Has started every game this season.
Freshman (2009) ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement Award ... Saw action in 15 games with 10 starts ... recorded one point with an assist against Bowling Green (Sept. 23) ... Posted nine shots on the season and have five shots on goal... Made his collegiate debut against Wright State (Sept. 11) ... Made his debut in the starting lineup against Western Michigan (Sept. 19) ... Recorded his first point with an assist in U-M's 5-1 win over Bowling Green (Sept. 23) ... Recorded one shot on goal in U-M upset victory over Northwestern (Nov. 1).
Prep ... Livonia Stevenson (2009) ... ESPN Rise High School All-American as a senior ... Named to the national high school soccer all-region team as a senior ... Earned a spot on the MHSAA Dream Team as a senior ... Earned MHSAA All-State first team honors as a senior and was a member of the second team as a junior.
Club/Junior Team ... Derby County Wolves ... Served as team captain from 2006-09 ... Five-time Michigan State Cup Champions (2004-08) ... Helped club to USYSA Region II Championship (2007) ... USYSA National finalists (2007) ... Four-year member of the Region II ODP regional team ... Has participated in several international ODP events (Italy-2006, Argentina-2007, Austria/Germany-2008), also participated in several interregional events.
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Mechanical Versus Alcohol Epithelial Debridement During Hotorefractive Keratectomy (PRK)
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In this prospective randomized clinical trial, confocal microscopy was used to evaluate the effect of mechanical versus alcohol-assisted epithelial debridement during photorefractive keratectomy (PRK)on corneal cellular elements. Sixty-six eyes of 33 subjects with a spherical equivalent less than -4.00 D who completed all follow-up visits were evaluated.
|Refractive Error Myopia
|Procedure: Mechanical debridement Procedure: Alcohol-assisted debridement
|Phase 2
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Mechanical Versus Alcohol-Assisted Epithelial Debridement During Photorefractive Keratectomy: A Confocal Microscopic Clinical Trial
Further study details as provided by Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Corneal cellular elements.Confocal microscopic findings of corneal cellular elements.
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|July 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2010
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Mechanical debridment
In this arm, corneal epithelium was removed during PRK using conventional mechanical method.
Procedure: Mechanical debridement
For mechanical epithelial removal, an 8.0-mm optical zone marker was applied to the cornea, centering over the entrance pupil. A hockey spatula was used to remove the central corneal epithelium.
Experimental: Alcohol-asstisted debridement
In this arm, corneal epithelium was removed using ethanol 20% during PRK.
Procedure: Alcohol-assisted debridement
For alcohol-assisted debridement, 20% ethyl-alcohol solution was instilled into an 8.0-mm well and kept in contact with epithelium for 20 seconds (being careful to avoid spillage over the areas not being treated). It then absorbed using a dry cellulose sponge followed by copious irrigation with BSS. The epithelium of the central cornea was removed using a blunt spatula.
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|20 Years to 40 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- spherical equivalent ≤ -4.0 D
- cylinder ≤ 1.50 D
Exclusion Criteria:
- history of ocular trauma or surgery
- any corneal and ocular pathologies
- central corneal thickness < 500 µm
- scotopic pupil diameter > 6.0 mm
- any abnormalities in corneal plain or elevation topographies favoring keratoconus or other ectatic disorders
- the presence of systemic disorders such as collagen vascular diseases
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00918697
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00918697
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Keywords provided by Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences:
photorefractive keratectomy
alcohol-assisted debridement
mechanical debridement
confocal scan
confocal microscopy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Refractive Errors
Eye Diseases
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Anti-Infective Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Finally did the whole car. Hopefully no more snow. Inside and out. And added a different plate frame.
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